It's Whatever

 I'm just a 28 year old college grad, majored in digital design. Likes league of legends, WWE, and Roosterteeth.

[anime-omen]

Mystery Solved

https://twitter.com/NikFTime/status/1117747337185693696

[mostlywrestlingstuff]

this is so adorable BYE

[hardiacarrest]

THIS IS THE MOST WHOLESOME THING IN THE WORLD

[transfemininomenon]

“what do you want to do with your life?”

[bob-belcher]

[arirna]

[hungry-joe]

What school threats and lockdowns are doing to a generation of children

Schools across the country are facing the possibility of security threats. Many have plans in place and run drills to prepare for the unthinkable. But lockdown drills and the constant discussion of danger can confuse an traumatize children. And it doesn't necessarily make them safer.

just a totally normal thing for a literal fucking 7 year old to do. not at all like america is a complete nightmare for everyone living here

[sarahbatistapereira]

“In 2010, Brenda Chapman was fired as director of “Brave” and her film was given to a man, a move that some employees perceived as proof of the studio’s deeply ingrained gender bias. This double-standard reality was later echoed in my own experience with several articulate, impressive female leads whom the Pixar whisper network vilified as “bitches.” A female lead in my department once begged her male bosses to support her with a team to complete a challenging production project. Her male superiors repeatedly ignored her requests, until the stress of the job led her into a state of psychological and physical breakdown. When she went into sabbatical to recover, her male replacement was given a team of half a dozen artists to help him complete the same task. When I received a perplexing performance review after finishing my fourth production, it felt I’d never be equally recognized as a valuable asset by the company. The lengthy negative column listed things like, “designs too many options; seems like she’s trying too hard; asks too many questions.” When I shared the document with my candid male mentor, who openly acknowledged the culture of sexism at Pixar, he said, “If you were a man, every one of those negatives would be in the positive column.” Physically and mentally burnt out after years of bumping up against the glass ceiling, I left Pixar at age 30, hoping to find a workplace where I could genuinely thrive.”

—

Cassandra Smolcic, “ How Pixar’s Open Sexism Ruined My Dream Job”, Variety

In honor of a recent reblog of my Isle of Dogs piece, where someone asked why can’t we just enjoy the cute movie, must we infuse everything with social justice to the point of “boringness”.

[eco-socialism]

Capitalism is violence. Open-source the commons.

[lunar-pantheon]

man like. being lgbt kind of ruins time with relatives in a very specific way that cishets will never truly experience. like family time can be rough tm but theres a special brand of discomfort that lgbt people face and it’s kinda wild

[andthwip-deactivated20220219]

Brie Larson on the impact of Captain Marvel.

[ihatecispeople]

Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa Mosque burns at the same time as fire engulfs Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris

A fire broke out at the revered Al-Aqsa Mosque compound's Marwani Prayer Room in Jerusalem just as flames ravaged the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris.

Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem, built 1035 C.E (the first recorded holy building on the site built in 705 C.E) has also been a victim of fire today as the Notre Dame in Paris burns. 

[ihatecispeople]

It’s important to note that the Al-Aqsa Mosque is the third holiest site in Islam, so I beg you to keep Muslims, especially Palestinian Muslims in Jerusalem, in your prayers (and if you’re not religious, keep Muslims in your thoughts). 

[ziyal]

I don’t watch the Bachelor but I’m really glad i know people who do so that I can be informed that on tonight’s episode the current bachelor took off all his recording equipment jumped over a fence and ran away into the forest

[gremlinkisser]

holy shit?

[happyendingsong]

youtube link for international viewers

[penguinated]

According to Colton, he actually expected a producer or someone from the team at abc to be on the other side. When he realized he was truly alone for the first time in weeks he just took off into the Portuguese countryside. Now keep in mind, he’s a former football player and super athletic in general so they had to get in trucks to catch him.  

[0kkvlt]

I don’t give a cold fuck about the facts of what happened or didn’t here, I’m just in awe of this description making it sound like this dude was a fucking raptor busting out of Jurassic Park with handlers racing against the clock to Bring Him In Before He Kills Again™

[rad-roach]

I don’t wanna be That Bitch™ but if we’re gonna (rightfully) classify loot boxes as gambling then we need to have a similar discussion about how roughly 60% of the current toy market is blindbox gimmicks. Not only is this shit usually aimed at even younger kids than lootboxes, but the prices have seriously been creeping up over time. $3-$5 is one thing, $10-$15 begins to seriously raise eyebrows, but shit like the full sized Hatchimals where you’re dropping $50+ on a maybe? At the very least, “surprise” toys should be required to print accurate odds somewhere on the box.

[littlemisspipebomb]

I thought they did print odds on the box? Most of the one’s I’ve seen say “this common is 1:24 but the gold version is 2:352” or whatever

[rad-roach]

The only blindbox I’ve seen recently that prints odds is the Funko Mystery Minis (And bc of the way the casepacks are set up, they’re inaccurate odds.). LOL dolls and the small Hatchimals, two of the most popular “surprise” toys right now, don’t have any indication of how hard it is to pull a rare. Hell, some toys now don’t even tell you which figures are rare until after you’ve bought one and pulled out the collector’s list inside.

[spiroandthelacktones]

You’re absolutely right op

[anime-omen]

Trading Card Games. 

[anime-omen]

Mystery Solved

https://twitter.com/NikFTime/status/1117747337185693696

[edwordsmyth]

“Bill Gates is one of the richest people in world history. His net worth, at $100 billion, is greater than that of the annual GDP of the 138 poorest countries when considered individually. In early April 2017, he and his wife Melinda issued their annual public letter, which told of great news: the fight against global poverty is being won, as those living on less than $1.25 a day (the UN’s definition of extreme poverty) have been halved since 1990. But there is an extensive scholarly consensus that the threshold for poverty should be $5 a day, in fact the US Department of Agriculture concluded a decade ago it is the bare minimum needed for people to simply maintain homeostasis. In adjusted terms that means today the poverty line should be $7.40 a day. Using this well-founded revised number, 4.2 billion people are living in poverty, more than 60% of humanity. But Marx’s immiseration thesis is such that it requires the variable of time in order to be proven correct. Has the number of people living on less than $7.40 a day decreased over time? Unfortunately not. Over 1 billion more people fall below this line than they did 35 years, meaning that global poverty is actually increasing. This fact stands in direct contradiction to the self-congratulatory proclamations of the supranational organizations and billionaire “philanthropists” like Bill Gates (who lives in a 125 million dollar mansion).”

— Gabriel Palcic, The Actuality of Marx’s Immiseration Thesis in the 21st Century (via probablyasocialecologist)

[probablyasocialecologist]

[plum-soup]

I’m not a Jesus freak so I don’t get this post

[gunsandfireandshit]

Prosperity gospel is basically a bastardization of Christian doctrine that encourages a belief set that’s basically “if I’m well off that’s God’s Plan and the better I believe the more God with give me”, it’s really big with megachurch freaks and other off-the-rails protestants and there’s a lot of unspoken assumption baked in that poverty is a divine punishment. All the bible verses are like, Jesus saying rich people can’t go to heaven and that sort of thing.