Val's Blog

I like cool stuff.

[vedurnan]

today at work i rung up a customer and the total was 12.30 and i said “12:30, reminds me of a clock :)” and they kind of smiled at me with confusion and i was like “like the time on a clock, just reminds me of it… 12:30” and they said “i have no idea what you’re talking about…” with an expression of supreme pity and gentleness. after that was finished i turned to my coworker next to me and said “i just bombed so hard with this clock comment” and then realized the customer hadn’t moved and was still standing right next to me. if my fate continues down this path, the customer will probably read this tumblr post as well

[enki2]

[raan-miir-tah]

You motherfuckers yes I hate Kamala too but when she is announced to be the Democratic candidate we are all going to shoot fireworks and go to the goddamn polls

[raan-miir-tah]

GRIPPING EVERYBODY’S SHOULDERS SO TIGHTLY RIGHT NOW. YOU WILL VOTE FOR HARRIS. YOU WILL RECOGNIZE THAT THERE IS NO MORAL WAY TO BE PRESIDENT OF THE US AND YOU WILL STILL VOTE TO STRATEGICALLY PROTECT YOURSELF AND OTHERS.

[raan-miir-tah]

YOU ARE THE REALEST MOTHERFUCKER ON THIS SITE!!!

[flyer9550]

[beanchristine]

this being the first thing the that popped up when i opened the destiel tag for old times’ sake single-handedly obliterated me

[carfuckerlynch]

genuinely the dilution of be gay do crimes drives me crazy. that phrase was coined by an anarchist who genuinely like. meant it. it's by io bumlung. guys they meant real crimes. I know annoying queers have co opted it into meaninglessness and it has become a sign of like. liberals who want to pretend they're radical while being scared of poor people but that is for real not where it came from or what it meant

[beanchristine]

i am begging. for the love of god, please let the gays and the fanfic writers find the boys. there are so few fanfics for a show so heavily laden with homoerotic tension, loss, and slow burn potential !!!! y’all are telling me that you’ve watched hughie choose butcher over annie time and time again, without fail and always with forgiveness, and you don’t think they’re in love ???? y’all watched butcher give up his only chance of getting becca back to save hughie’s life and just said “yeah that’s something a bro would do—he’d give up his entire raison d’être (getting closure and vengeance for his wife, which is the ENTIRE plot of the show) for this scrawny little guy he met a year or so ago. that’s normal!” please. they’re so murder husbands coded i can’t stand it.

also, almost everyone i know who watches this show is so right-leaning, and i literally cannot fathom how they’re watching this show. the boys is one of the most scathingly leftist, political, satirical shows i’ve ever seen. homelander is the BIGGEST allegory for donald trump, and somehow none of the conservatives that watch this show have realized it. it is so genuinely laughable. they just keep watching.

so please. if you’re interested in blatant homoerotic tension, superheroes, and critiques of the american political system and its capitalist foundation, watch the boys. fair warning about the extreme amount of gore, and sex, though. actually, just attach any cw or tw you can think of to this show.

end rant.

[queer-as-city-folk]

Me trying and failing to flirt: hey did you know that adding lanes to roads actually increases traffic and so to decrease traffic we actually need to invest in alternative means of transportation like public transit and bike infrastructure and remove freeways since the natural bottlenecks they crate mean traffic will only get worse as they grow so if we want to fix our cities and make them more livable we need an end to the American automotive dependence

[queer-as-city-folk]

Suburban sprawl is inherently unsustainable and the only reason we continue to build it is because the wealthy have a vested interest in it as the automotive dependence and atomization it creates directly lead to corporate profits at the expense of community and human health

[cleopatrachampagne]

shocked bystander at sydney, australia’s annual mardis gras pride parade (1994)

[3dmonstermaze]

For those who give a shit about it, this is a staged photo, the woman on the left is a drag queen doing a bit. Here's a few more photos of her taking in the beautiful sights and sounds of the parade:

(by Mervyn L. Fitzhenry)

[inkedbbg]

not having to question someone’s intentions and how they really feel about you is attractive. being loved openly and clearly, is everything.

[veryfunnymemes]

[mistybox051]

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[blackxmansxhaki]

Fr? Lemme check this out

[ms-demeanor]

Here’s the link to all of the free online classes offered by Harvard:

https://www.edx.org/school/harvardx

But TBH I prefer the MIT Open Coursewear approach. Feel like taking a class on the policy and economics of nuclear engineering? MIT’s got you covered:

https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/find-by-topic/#cat=engineering&subcat=nuclearengineering&spec=nuclearsystemspolicyandeconomics

In fact they’ve got  you covered with A LOT of their courses, everything from fine arts to immunology.

Have fun :)

[cherrydisposablevape]

[zoglin]

What you can’t see is me with the controller panicking and yelling

[luxlightly]

So, there's apparently research coming out now about microplastics being found in people's bloodstreams and the possible negative effects of that and I feel the need to get out ahead of the wave of corporate sponsored "be sure to recycle your bottles!" or "ban glitter!" campaigns and remind everyone: It's fishing nets. It's fishing nets. It is overwhelming fishing nets It always has been fishing nets. Unless regulations are changed, it will continue to be fishing nets. The plastic in the ocean in largely discarded nets from industrial fishing. The microplastics are the result of these nets breaking down. The "trash islands" are also, you guessed it. Mostly fishing nets and other discarded fishing industry equipment. Do not allow them to continue to twist the story. Do not come after disabled people who require single use plastics. Do not come after people using glitter in art projects and makeup. These things make up a negligible amount of the issue compared to corporate waste, specifically in the fishing industry. Do not let them shift the blame to the individual so they can continue to destroy the planet and our bodies without regulation.

[elodieunderglass]

Industries are incredibly resistant to taking responsibility for their own waste, to the point where “consumers are responsible for industrial waste” is somehow considered a sensible, ethical, worthy sentence.

It is actually perfectly reasonable to say that “industries are responsible for industrial waste” and “the effects of industry can, should and must be fixed by industry” and “Industry can, should and must be held responsible for its impacts on the commons, such as air, water, oceans and land.”

[dragkingandreweldritch]

[jaigeye]

[00000000000000z-deactivated2022]

happy Mother’s Day to these two queens

[deaddolin]

im always thinkjng about that one time i was on register for like 4 hours straight and said over mic "someone blease take over register i am about to become the joker." and they came to relieve me faster thab ive ever seen anyone relieve me before

[marvelsmostwanted]

Saw a tweet joking about gathering enough money from the public to buy back Twitter from Elon Musk, so let’s just consider for a moment that even if you got every single Twitter user, including the inactive ones, to donate $5 to a GoFundMe, we would only be able to raise 6.5 billion dollars. Which is 37.5 billion dollars less than Elon Musk just paid for Twitter. If every single user donated $25, we would still be 11.5 billion dollars short. Anyway if this doesn’t convince you that billionaires needn’t exist and we should tax the hell of them, I don’t know what will