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I Fuck like a Truck ~ I groove and shmoove ~ Catch my hands n ill hold yours ~ im gonna walk the path ~ come join me

[ducissatenebrarum]

Memento Mori silver ring, English, 1700s

[witchofanguish]

[mahead-ithurt]

Always remember that the EU did a study in 2013 about the effects of piracy on media publishers and found that there is no correlation between piracy and sales! (And then they tried to hide that study bc that's not the result they wanted)

So piracy is at worst not even a problem, and at best it's free advertisement.

Source: (the link to the actual study is in the article)

EU withheld a study that shows piracy doesn't hurt sales - Engadget

In 2013, the European Commission ordered a €360,000 ($430,000) study on how piracy affects sales of music, books, movies and games in the EU

[playstationpark]

Boosting In Space ‘Omega Boost’ PlayStation

[kaylmao]

Real Life Patch Notes:

Remaining Caffeine effect time now rolls over to next waking period

Updated friends' voice lines to more clearly indicate "Sarcasm" tone

"Little Treat" mood buff now lasts twice as long

It is now Good to pick at your skin all the time

Added ability to mute Annoying Coworker

Added 14 new species of frog

[socialistexan]

French-Iranian author Marjane Satrapi, author of 'Persepolis', dies of 'sadness' at 56

French-Iranian author and illustrator Marjane Satrapi, best known for the book and film “Persopolis”, has died of "sadness", members of her

This one hurt, her work had such a profound effect on my life, thoughts, and politics.

May her memory be a blessing

[touhouweed]

I think about this image every fucking day

[notjusthespongenextdoor]

I'm coming to realize how vital it is to keep a running list of shit you did in the past few weeks so that you can participate in small talk. It's literally not anything to do with them being interesting at all it's just having Something to say to give people even the barest thing to hold on to. It's so you don't get into the "what have you been up to" "nothing much what about you" "yeah same" trap. Literally just say something.

What have you been up to? Um well it's getting warmer so I've been having to brush my cat every day.

Like no it's not that interesting of a thing to say. But now they can respond to it. They could say, man yeah it really is heating up, I've been trying to think of things to do inside more often. Or, oh you have a cat? What's their name?

Like. It's Something. All you need is Something. And if you're like me and your brain immediately goes blank upon entering small talk then keeping a list will help you remember things to say.

[depsidase]

[derekachoy]

the cycle

[fforsythiaaa]

Once when I was in undergrad, someone described something as “problematic” in class and our professor was like, “That’s cool, but ‘problematic’ doesn’t really mean anything. It means that the thing you’re describing has a problem, and in and of itself that’s not bad. Art, especially, should always have problems, or else it’s not interesting and not art, either. It sounds like you’re trying to say that this is bad, but you don’t want to say ‘bad.’ Is that right?”

So from then on whenever one of us called something problematic, he would make us talk it out until we could name the “bad” thing we were hinting at. In this particular class, 7/10 it was some type of oppression, and the remainder was like, “I’m uncomfortable because this is very new/confusing/pushing boundaries that made me feel safe.”

Once we stopped calling things “problematic” and stopping at that, class got way more interesting and... we all had to say, like, “that’s racist” or “that’s misogynistic” or “ew capitalism gross” out loud, which a lot of us had never done in a classroom before. Or we had to be like, “Uhhh... I’m not sure what’s so bad?” and confront our own beliefs and that was maybe even more useful.

Anyway. Whenever I see the word problematic, I can’t help but think of this professor being like, “Good starting point, now let’s get specific.” I think when we have to commit to saying “that’s ___” it requires a lot more careful thought about the truth and impact and complexities of whatever we’re claiming. Sometimes there really is some bullshit afoot, and also sometimes it’s art, and it should be full of problems, because that’s what art is.

[depsidase]

[dummy-dot-exe]

by mori_kuro （森＿黒）@mori_kuro_PP

[avakynx]

[caspercryptid]

I feel like not enough people realize that people under enormous strain act really really fucking Weird

[caspercryptid]

If someone is doing things that don't make Sense, try to understand that it is entirely possible that their brain is probably under an enormous weight and fracturing under the pressure. People who have been stabbed will sometimes talk a circle around the fact that they've been stabbed because stress and shock prevent you from recognizing the distress you are in and what you need to do to seek help for it. PTSD will do this also. You will find yourself repeatedly jamming a bag of frozen fruit into the same spot in the freezer where it doesn't fit and keeps falling, over and over and over, focused on nothing but that bag. You will decide that a beanbag chair is 10000% necessary to your life. You will lose your entire shit because you stubbed your toe on a table and that means the whole setup of your furniture is wrong. These are largely harmless examples. People under strain will also hurt themselves and others. Cornered animals bite. And it doesn't heal the bite to go "Hey, are you okay?" But it might get you to an animal that stops biting, so you can start to heal. And before you had an animal that bit, you probably had an animal that kept doing shit you didn't understand as stress signals

[depsidase]

[punkiefart]

Leaf your leaves on the ground (no, seriously.) They provide so much for bugs, places to lay eggs places to hibernate. This comic does a great job at showing WHY we don't see our little friends as often, because our systems and social expectations are anti-earth and anti-life. Don't eradicate your friends (maybe just that one) let the leaves lay

[crumb-crumblet-s-crumbington]

people keep reposting my comics without credit or permission so heres a dump of my comics frome my twitter @/cuptoast

do not my reposts my art, if u see one of my comics uploaded to here, it was not with my permisiions!

[greenapplegirl90]

learning things about the Texas prison system I do not like learning. Prison Abolition is the moderate position I am taking here

[greenapplegirl90]

I guess the main takeaways here are that the prison system in Texas, if not the USA in general, exists first to create a class of easily exploited and abused people, and second to maintain racial and sexual hierarchies, and any attempt at fixing or changing Texas* will require the wholesale dismantling of the TDCJ and the social classes that directly benefit from the existence and operation of these actually existing prisons and jails.

If you want to argue in theoretical favor of a prison system as necessary to society, go into hibernation and emerge after we've destroyed the last remnants of slavery in Texas, then we can talk.

[vaspider]

I am, in theory, so positive on criminal punishment of high-impact crimes (SA, Assault, murder, kidnapping, etc). I genuinely think the death penalty should be more used. BUT then I remember how racist and classist and homophobic/transphobic our system is and I’m immediately on the opposite side. The entire system needs to be abolished and then no white people should ever be allowed back in any position of power within the justice system. THEN I’m on the side of executing all rapists.

Okay, not to derail this post entirely but the state shouldn't murder anybody, actually.

If you can't understand that "the state actually shouldn't murder anybody" as a basic moral principle, and you can't get on board with the fact that it actually costs more to execute someone than to imprison them for life, so the "oh it costs us so much money" argument falls flat, then I need you to understand that death is final, and there will never be a system which has a zero percent error rate.

I have told this story about a million times, but when I was in elementary school, my father was on the second jury to convict a man of raping and brutally murdering Dawn Hamilton, a 9 year old girl. Dad told me much later that if it had been up to the jury, they would have sentenced him to death. The judge did so, but the sentence was commuted to consecutive life sentences.

For all of the things a person could say about my father, and there are many, he takes jury duty extremely seriously. It's a nearly sacred thing to him. If he tells me he believed they had evidence beyond a reasonable doubt, I believe that he truly, genuinely believed that.

And it's a really good thing the state didn't murder him & that his sentence was commuted, permitting him to live long enough for new technology to become available, because Kirk Noble Bloodsworth did not kill Dawn Hamilton. He was the first person in the US exonerated post-conviction by DNA evidence. In 1993, nine years after Dawn's death, he was pardoned by the governor of Maryland.

There will never be a justice system in such human beings do not make mistakes, so even if you don't believe that it's immoral for the state to murder people—which I clearly do—then believe that death is permanent, and no system will ever be without fault.