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Today, 27 April, in South Africa is Freedom Day, commemorating the day in 1994 when the country’s first post-apartheid elections were held. When the country’s post-apartheid constitution was ratified in 1996, it South Africa became the first country in the world to constitutionally outlaw sexuality-based discrimination, in no small part thanks to the world of gay anti-apartheid activist Simon Nkoli.
To hear Simon’s story, check out our podcast!
Hey does anyone want to explain to me why Ryland Grace is shipped more with Tom Ryder, an asshole from a whole different movie, than Carl, who he LIIIIITERALLY made a baby with? Quickly?
Just Jewish Things: seeing people refer to something they obsess over as "my roman empire" for literal years before you realize they mean it in the sense of "autistic special interest that they love learning and talking about"
and not, like, "a thing which no longer exists but nevertheless holds a place in my mind akin to the one Moby Dick does for Captain Ahab, an obsession I constantly wonder about what life would be like without and which I blame for three quarters of my problems"
I thought my roman empire meant like the bane of my existence lmao
Happy pride everyone <3
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The formerly-Catholic Society of St Pius X triggered the schism by consecrating bishops without the Pope’s approval, a key part of the ceremony for Catholic believers.
The group has fought with the broader Church for decades on Vatican II reforms. This included things like “Mass should be offered in languages other than Latin” — but SSPX is generally seen as mostly being opposed to Vatican II’s attempt at building peace between Catholicism and people of Jewish & Muslim faiths.
Finally! I have been trained for this since childhood by a generation of nuns who absolutely positively chainsmoked and stopped wearing habits post Vatican II and are still angry to this day that Rome continues to insist God doesn't call women to become priests, but not quite angry enough to become Anglican. Oh this is going to be a good time. I CAN'T WAIT.
There are so many theories about Columbo’s wife not being real (she’s a complete fabrication, she’s secretly his boyfriend, he’s actually talking about a very opinionated cat, etc) and I love all of them but tbh he really gives off major “out of touch but super supportive straight man with a trans wife” vibes.
His wife was one of his guy friends for a while and when she finally came out to him he was like “Oh, wouldja look at that! This is VERY convenient. See, I’ve never been into guys myself. Nothing against fellas who like that, just not my cup of tea. So I’ve been trying to figure out for ages why I want to ask you out on a date. Confusin the heck out of me. Again, nothing against it, just never something I’ve been into before. I was having a whole identity crisis over it, Yknow. But I guess that clears all that up! Whaddaya say to dinner?”
Using Marie Skłodowska-Curie to shill your AI garbage is, uh, certainly a choice.
On one hand, keep her name out of your mouth
On the other, this shit is kinda the “ let’s put radium in everything!” Of the moment
YES! I HAVE BEEN SAYING THAT THE AI TREND IS THE RADIUM CRAZE ALL OVER AGAIN! similar to then, we probably won’t see meaningful regulation/limitations on it until it kills a high-profile rich guy
june is over... goodbye pride month, hello disability pride month!!
let's all be disabled this month... together 🤝
if you're not disabled yet: no need to worry! i can help. come closer.
Look, this is something I'm extremely passionate about, so indulge me for a minute and let me tell you how this should have been done.
The RIGHT way to do this would have been to have a month-long event that went to twelve different cities, with Philadelphia hosting during July because that was our capital (insofar as we had one) in 1776; the other eleven stops could have their own significant-in-the-Revolution days (for example: Washington crossing the Delaware on 25 December, the start of the First Continental Congress on 5 September), and you could get commemorative items from your stop's specific event.
All fifty states AND FIVE TERRITORIES should have been invited to attend, not charged for it. And we should have done it Colombian Expo style: respected thinkers and educators speaking, concerts, "come look at our wild new inventions," and cultural events. If I was in the Oval Office my first thought for this would be to contact ethnic leaders to see who wanted to tell their story. Tribal leaders. Civil rights leaders. Local arts groups. Let us celebrate your food, your art, your dance, your place among our people; and let us also recognize that the flip side of the coin of amazing inventors and economic prosperity on a global scale has been devastation and exploitation. You can't tell the story without both. It's not fair to leave out things we've done for good (Mark Twain! Jonas Salk! Airplanes! Comic books! Musicals!), but it's equally unfair to leave out the lives we've taken and futures we've destroyed. We can't do better if we don't look at these things and say "no. Not again. Not on our watch."
The state fair format is extremely American; I think that was a good choice, I'll give credit for that where it's due. But "that was a good idea" is as far as it goes. Because this doesn't look like a state fair. It looks like a church revival on the third day when all the tents are out of food and everyone is hot and tired and wants less Jesus and more air conditioning.
It could have been so good. My only hope is that we have a Democratic president in 2037, and that they take the opportunity for a Constitutional Celebration Year (it'll be the 250th for the Constitution that year, and ours is the oldest constitution in continuous use in the world), and do it right.
That would be a very cool format! I would suggest that, instead of all 12 locations being significant to the revolution, they be aignificant to US in general. (montgomery alabama, for wxample).
That would allow for a greater location spread. More expensive to move, but would allow people across the country an easier/less expensive travel to get there.
No, no, I mean every location would have a significant date they could build their experience around. It wouldn't be "well, sorry, Seattle, but you're getting June, not July, so no big holiday for you." It'd be "hey Seattle, you're in June! That's Washington taking the army and the Battle of Breed's Bunker Hill!" Then Seattle could choose to, say...have an image of Washington inspecting his troops as their "and on our commemorative STUFF we have...." image.
Otherwise everything would be in Boston, New York, and Philly. That ain't gonna work. The Big Day should be in Philly, tho.
As someone who remembers 1976, the Bicentennial, this is all very pathetic.
In 1976, the Bicentennial was everywhere. There was merch. You could decorate your home with it. In the city where I lived, the Girl Scouts were asked by the city to go around painting all the fire hydrants red, white, and blue. American history was the hot topic in publishing and people were buying history books and even talking about them. One of the TV stations used commercial breaks to air "Bicentennial Minutes," 60-second spots in which actors from current shows (I specifically remember Loretta Swit from MASH and Nancy Walker from Rhoda) told us little snippets of social history, like the state of garbage collection in the Colonies, with appropriate visuals like political cartoons and paintings from the time period. High school proms had Bicentennial themes. You never saw so many people put flags out. Every town worked hard on their firework displays and some had more than one.
Yeah, we all knew it was overblown and a bit tacky but also people were into it. The energy rose for months to the climax and lingered into the next school year -- I remember all my pocket folders for that year were glossy prints of classic patriotic paintings, The Spirit of '76 and The Declaration of Independence and so on.
For the 250th, nobody cares. Because it doesn't feel like we're living in the United States of America, where freedom was for everyone and our freedoms were expanding every day and history was a vital living force.
You can't celebrate history without teaching it.
You can't expect people to celebrate freedom when we're losing it.
Also b/c orgs that had put nearly a decade of planning towards it were hijacked by Trump's Freedom250 group (named to confuse people that they were still America250, the real bipartisan group, like with the arists who all backed out from performing on the Mall once they realized the difference) within the last year and essentially told "give us your funding and go pound sand." And then tried to throw together their own MAGA celebration and make money off it and it was SUPER obvious.
People were protesting stuff during the bicentennial too! DC had a Potomac Tea Party to protest only having a non-voting representative on Congress. The American Indian movement held multiple large protests! People mocked the commercialization by calling it the "Buy-cenetennial"! But the main planned events still occurred so that's what people mostly remember!
My guess is this year people are mostly going to remember the states' various celebrations because the federal one has been SO screwed by grifting and mismanagement. They have somehow made it so there is almost NO ONE on the national mall during PEAK TOURIST SEASON. You have to use specified entry points, there's armed national guards everywhere, and the electricity powering things like the ferris wheel and food booths has broken down multiple times already.
How The Battle Over America 250 Turned The National Mall Into A Ghost Town State Fair - The National Mall in Washington, D.C. should be buzz
Freedom 250 is calling crowd critics "Negative Nancy skeptics" as DC News Now reported sparse attendance at the Great American State Fair.Pr
The Great American State Fair has failed to impress the president’s own voter base.
Yeah a lot of the problem is that the actual congressionally created publicly funded America 250 has been sidelined by trump so he could do what he wants with corrupt private donations through freedom 250, which has done squat. He's cared more about the UFC fight. DC is bleak and empty. There's nothing there right now except some flags.
Also it's 1000 fucktillion degrees out and nobody wants to be on the national mall with no shade or food or water or restrooms
Yeah, I'm not sure people realize how long major events take to plan? Like there was that whole drama about the FIFA Pride match on Seattle being the Iran/Egypt game, but like, Seattle has been planning for FIFA for years. That has been part of the plan since long before that matches were set. No one was trying to mock Muslim beliefs, it's just that Pride is on June 26th, what do you want? Washington literally changed liquor laws for this, we didn't start planning in 2026.
Imagine dissenting to the plain language of the 14th Amendment and then pretending you’re not an activist judge.
I hate it when you’re reading smut and you can’t figure out what position they’re in.
sometimes it just ends up being something like
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Y’ALL NEED JESUS
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This post made my water break
In honor of my daughter’s first birthday next week, I’m sharing the post that made me laugh so hard that it broke my water.
WHAT
God, I love this accursed website.
Hey internet, the girl that was born from this post is 4 years old today (July 2 2021) also, the gif still makes me laugh. Happy Birthday, Marceline!!
Happy July 2nd, 2024, guess Marceline is 7 now
Happy July 2nd, 2025; she’s 8 now (5am for me)
Happy Birthday to my Marceline, 8 years ago today (July 2, 2025) she came into this world five days before her due date to see wtf was so funny 🤣 this post, like many other things, are on a long list of topics to discuss when she’s older lol
Happy 9th Birthday Little Marceline!!! (July 2 2026)
It’s July 2 2026 internet, help me wish a Happy Birthday to my brilliant and beautiful 9 year old, Marceline! I’ve shown her (most of) the comments and she says “thank u internet 😁😁”
Lately I’ve been really into being honest to people about my positive feelings towards them. I told my classmate that I’ve admired her creativity from the start and named a project of hers that I loved, and her face lit up! I took the train with a project partner the other day and told her that I always have so much fun with her, and it prompted an entire conversation about the difficulties of graduating from ‘classmates’ to ‘friends’ and both of our insecurities in this regard (and how we’re definitely getting coffee later). I express my gratitude honestly. I say what I feel if I’d be happy hearing it, myself. I remember details so that I can refer to them later. Once you realize how great you can make someone feel, all of those mundane moments become so special. It will maybe even create some lasting connections, something I think we could all use more of.
This is a great idea. Not just for building friends but for lifting up the people around you! What a wonderful way to interact with the world.
Maybe now is a good time for a summer psa about adderall increasing your sensitivity to heat!
....which I forgot about completely before blithely going out in it yesterday to walk to a doctor's appointment and then had to like, sit down with my head between my knees when I got there. I was fully hydrated, had a water bottle with me, wore a hat, walked in the shade, and still by four blocks I was feeling Unwell. It's been ungodly hot out, admittedly, but I have felt more sensitive to it this summer than previous summers and now PERHAPS I KNOW WHY. (My dose was raised over the winter.)
Remember kids: check your meds to see if they make you sensitive to heat, cold, or sun -- and heat and sun are different sensitivities, though of course they can be relational when, say, your Adderall reduces your thirst impulses and you go out in the sun already dehydrated. Know the symptoms of heatstroke -- flushed skin, rapid breathing or heart rate, lack of sweating, disorientation, nausea. Get somewhere cool, get help, and get wet!
phenomenom thats been bothering me that i could only express via an mspaint reverse boomer comic
I know "money can't buy happiness" is a bullshit lie meant to keep the underclass from demanding better things, but at the same time looking at people like Elon Musk and Mr. Beast who seem to have never enjoyed a single minute of their lives...I do think that while money can make you happy, being ultra-wealthy makes you uniquely miserable in some profoundly fucked up way. It's like AI psychosis, having all the people around you never tell you no and always talk you up but also being the kind of people who don't actually like you and instead just want something from you just breaks your brain.
Money can't buy happiness.
But it can fix a lot of the stuff that's making you un-happy.
These are not the same thing, so it really matters that we understand what the definitions are for what we're dealing with.
Being happy has both internal and external causes, and it also has both internal and external deficits. If you don't have enough nourishing and tasty food, you will almost certainly be less happy. This is an external cause. If you are being abused, you will definitely be less happy. This is an external cause. If you have a lot of time to spend with wonderful people who care about you, you will probably be happy. This is an external cause.
But at the same time, a lot of the causes of happiness are internal. If you are a spiteful person, you are probably not going to be very happy no matter what your life circumstances are. On the other hand, if you are a cheerful person, chances are you will be happy even in circumstances that are objectively not great. These are internal causes. They'll be the same no matter what.
And the thing is, money can affect some (not all!) of the external factors of happiness, but does almost nothing about the the internal factors. Money can buy good food that you like. Money can buy escape from an abusive situation. Money can fix terrible living conditions. Money can give you the freedom to quit a shitty job with a horrible boss. Money can buy you time to spend with friends ... but money can't buy actual friendships. Not ones that are solid enough to increase your happiness in the long run. Sycophants are not the same thing as friends.
As for the internal factors that influence happiness ... there is a little bit you can do with money to affect them. Money can pay for therapy, which can help with the internal factors, but only if you're actually willing to do the work ... and if the problem is "negative personality," 'willingness to do the hard work of changing your outlook' is much more important than whether or not you have a therapist. (Obviously, if it's an actual problem like a mood disorder, that's different, and you are more likely to need a therapist--and a doctor who can prescribe meds. But there are a lot of people out there who don't have any kind of mental health problem, they'd just benefit from an attitude adjustment.)
When people say "money can't buy happiness" they're assuming a default state of being safe and having all your physical and social needs met, or at least within shouting distance of being met. Your life doesn't have to be perfect, but you're not being abused, your job is no more than averagely bad, you've got a safe and secure place to live, etc. And once you hit that point ... adding additional money will not affect your long-term happiness. The things that will affect your happiness are things like your relationships and your attitude. Which is why so many rich people are absolutely miserable--they genuinely think you can buy happiness, that an extra mansion or a fancy car or surrounding themselves with sycophants who will kowtow to their every whim will make them happy. And it won't! It just won't. Momentary pleasure isn't the same thing.
But there is a point where money can buy happiness, and that point is when you don't have enough of it to fix basic problems of safety and food and housing, etc.
bucky has a disability??
he doesn’t have an arm.
happy almost ten years to my all-time favorite disability post on this braincell forsaken website
>#I love how this gag would be funny at any point since the third century BCE
