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nice bum, where ya from? // 🧿

[scribefindegil]

Everyone is so weird about people who cry easily. Fellas, is it evil and manipulative to *checks notes* have an involuntary stress response?

[bluishorange]

actually a coworker of mine said something interesting about this. I was saying that I truly can’t help how easily I cry, and I hate when people assume I do it on purpose.

and he paused for a second and then said, “when you’ve been taught from a young age that crying is weak and you should train yourself never to cry for any reason, you assume that everyone else has trained themselves too, so anyone who cries has to be doing it on purpose. it took me a long time to realize that wasn’t true.”

listen we’re never gonna run out of ways the patriarchy hurts all of us.

[charl0ttan]

"just set a reminder!" I Cannot Stress How Much I Am Aware Of The Thing That Needs Doing

[politijohn]

Source

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[uprightbat]

I like that this implies that it's a difficult thing for employers to do and that it will take two years to roll it out. Like just write it down girl

[halfmachinegirl]

[dungeon-bitch]

[aletheyass]

when the blind man shows frankenstein’s creature the pleasures of life he shows him cigarette and music. notice how he doesn’t show him linkedin and email

[vamptits]

I can't keep having the same conversations about love languages, mbti, iq, bmi, "brain fully formed at 25" and shit over and over again...

[vamptits]

these things exist on a spectrum from untrue to straightforwardly racist btw. so if we could retire them forever that'd be nice.

[hareofhrair]

“Love Languages” are just common couples therapy techniques mangled and repackaged by an unqualified homophobe. Relationships generally need all 5 love languages to be fulfilled, which is to say, everybody needs to communicate with, spend time with, and do things for their partners, and that’s got nothing to do with any special way you communicate affection.

MBTI has been proven completely ineffective at predicting anyone’s success at a particular job, and half the people who take it twice will get different results. Reputable psychologists do not recognize it, and the company that owns the rights to it uses it to scam people. People don’t adhere to strict binaries in basically anything. Very few people are going to be exclusively introverted or extroverted. It’s just astrology repackaged as pseudoscience. Shockingly enough, you can’t boil the complexity of the human experience down to a dozen Types of Guy.

The concept of IQ is flawed from the start— “intelligence” is an abstract concept that encompasses many different skills, from social intelligence to emotional intelligence to the very narrow kind of problem solving intelligence IQ tests generally measure for. It cannot predict how fast you learn, how much you know, or how logical and well read you are. It mostly measures how good you are at solving puzzles. Coincidentally, it’s also a pretty good predictor of income and education level, take a guess why. Most people’s IQ will change throughout their lives, because it’s inconsistent bullshit we’ve only held onto this long because we’re still kinda hoping we can breed the ubermensch. IQ tests and the way they attempt to categorize people are explicitly eugenicist and racist.

BMI was developed by a man known as the grandfather of eugenics, who first of all was a mathematician, not a doctor, and second never intended the formula to be used to categorize individuals. It’s intended to give a rough estimate of obesity in populations, and it’s not even good at that. It hangs around because of fatphobia and insurance companies who want it as an excuse to charge fat people more.

The study which determined people’s prefrontal cortex was still developing at 25… stopped measuring at 25. Evidence suggests your brain probably never stops developing. Stop infantilizing grown adults. This is a branch off from the larger mess of misinformation surrounding fMRIs.

If you haven’t put together what all these things have in common yet, here’s the moral of the story: STOP TRYING TO CATEGORIZE PEOPLE. STOP TRYING TO PUT PEOPLE IN A GODDAMN BIOLOGICAL HIERARCHY. EUGENICS IS BAD, AND WILL ALWAYS BE BAD, NO MATTER WHO’S DOING IT.

[alleesaur]

doodling a bunny vs doodling a hare

[alleesaur]

a few more quick doodles, for fun

[alleesaur]

mythical duo edition - jackalope and wolpertinger

[omegaverse]

I didn't sleep at all but I feel amazing I can feel the dragon energy coursing through my veins

[omegaverse]

[fairyuniverse]

[vampiregirlestrogen]

mentally im always like that kitty on the beach looking out at the sea longingly

[vampiregirlestrogen]

like this

[poetrylesbian]

people are so insane about chappell roan like who gives a fuck who her uncle is 😭

[duncebento]

this makes much more sense if you understand they’re thinking of roan as “person i’m considering worshipping as a patron saint” and not “person who sings pop music”

[melonflavored]

I really dont want to have to go into work today and tomorrow and wednedsday and

[whitepeopletwitter]

[queen-mihai]

Reblogging this again now because DON’T GODDAMN FORGET

[flock-of-cassowaries]

As a recovering Capitalism True Believer, and a former aspiring economist… this one hurts.

[waterless-calamari]

As a late Capitalism True Believer and an economist, THIS IS IT. Don’t fall for “x country isn’t doing capitalism correctly, so it’s suffering”. It’s not a few bad apples, the roots have always been rotten.

Capitalism is a system we created, consciously or not. If we created, we can change it. People treat it as a force of Nature, but it’s a social construct. We get to decide how society is organized. Are you telling me humans can go to the moon, build quantum computers and pursue gene editing, but we cannot change something we made up???

Never forget:

WE MADE IT, WE CAN CHANGE IT

[covid-safer-hotties]

For a long stretch of time we had UBI because of covid. We had free covid-related healthcare. We had weeks of paid sick leave. We had systems of delivering necessities to high risk people without contact. PCR testing was free and widely avaliable. Covid vaccines were free and uptake was INSANELY high. The government actually did something *for* us for about 2 years, and y'all were so ready to get “back to normal” that y'all applauded Biden for making Trump’s dreamed covid policy (if we tested less, we’d have less cases) the standard. They took away all those good things that helped people out of poverty and made sure they were taken care of. Even after seeing and experiencing all the good that can be done with your tax dollars, you still wanted to go “back to normal” in the middle of a continuing (and worsening if you follow the big data) pandemic? We went from “No one is safe until everyone is safe” with a side of socialism to “mask bans will reduce crime” and “It’s just a cold: you can’t live in fear of a virus” in less than 4 years.

We could have kept making things better, but that would have been effort*.

*that effort is placing a strip of special cloth over your mouth and nose in public, testing when you feel sick, and avoiding others (and masking) if you do get sick. It’s not much effort.

[iminthetunnels]

ur future nurse is using chapgpt to glide thru school u better take care of urself

[lucyaudley]

Yep. This is terrifying. I’ve caught nursing majors, engineering majors, architecture majors relying on ChatGPT to do their homework. These are people who need to know their field well to ensure people don’t die and they’re letting a glorified algorithm cheat them through school. It’s so dangerous

[furryprovocateur]

piracy would probably be extremely popular in america if most americans understood how creatives and such are compensated (or not) for their labor

[furryprovocateur]

"if you pirate this movie then you're taking money from the crew who worked on it!" is such a bizarrely common take, as if they ever see a fraction of the revenue that movies make and instead are usually exploited in their labor via predatory contracts and crunch.

[imsobadatnicknames2]

a few years ago (like 2017-ish) I saw some disney adult dipshit make a super high-horsey post about how, paraphrasing, "yeah, we all agree that disney as a company sucks, disney executives suck, but what pro-piracy people don't understand is that when you pirate you're not taking money away from the company and the bigshot executives you wanna hurt, you're taking it from the employees who actually do all the work to make their movies" and to this day it legitimately astounds me how someone could so confidently say literally the wrongest thing anyone has ever said about anything. Like that's literally the opposite of how it works.

By the time a movie comes out, the only people whose paycheck is affected by how many sales it makes are the executives and studio heads, they're generally the only ones who stand to make money from it at that point. The cast and crew who actually did all the work on the movie? They already got paid. They've already made as much money from that thing as they're ever going to make.

[sadpugreblogs]

We're literally seeing creatives advocate for pirating their work. For many of them, there's no legal alternative left cause studius rather eliminate the product of their labor than bay residuals to the people who made it.

[actuallygodzilla]

Sorry for commenting “nightmare blunt rotation” on your Facebook photo album from your baby shower