beleques' bean bag of mysteries

I just post things that are on my mind; maybe writing related, maybe completely different...

[queeranarchism]

A lot of the satellite footage of Gaza and Lebanon that you see in the media looks like this

And while that is obviously horrifying to me, I think people ho are still in deep denial can sort of pretend to themselves that there must have been a very big battle there, or a massive fire, or one really big bomb. The 'oh we were fighting Hamas/Hezbollah' bullshit can somehow be wielded to stay in that deep denial.

So I think they should be showing more shit like this:

Like, this makes it pretty clear that it's every house. Systematically. Can you convince yourself that Hezbollah was in EVERY house? For real? Or is it time to start facing that the IDF is deliberately going from house to house destroying a civilization?

[omtai]

there is nothing lemon squeezy about any of this

[graffitinight]

When you try to talk about enshittification, it sounds like conspiracy theories. (I'm not crazy)

Amazon made their service worse, to force people to pay for Prime.

Nowadays, if you order from Amazon, there is a week long delay before your package is shipped. (on purpose)

I remember when orders would ship out the same day. (I remember - it was real)

YouTube didn't used to have ads. Now, ads play in the middle of videos. (it's worse than TV ever was)

The best can opener I have owned is over 40 years old. Modern ones just don't hold up as well. (The ones I bought new broke ages ago)

The bread machine my mom got for her wedding lasted 30 years. It's been replaced twice in the last 5 years. (How can you fuck this up?)

The cardboard tubes in the middle of toilet paper rolls have gotten larger. (This too?) Companies increasing the price of the product while selling you less. (REALLY?)

It sounds crazy. (it's the truth) When you talk about it, YOU sound crazy. (it's true)

Even when people believe you (do they really), all they can say is "it sucks". (it's too big) Because the problem is so big, so pervasive, what can we even DO about it???

To get the necessary laws written and passed, we need politicians, to get the politicians elected we need information campaigns, to fund campaigns we need money, and all the money is being hoarded by the people profiting from enshittification. (it sounds so fake)

So I talk about enshittification (it sounds crazy), so people don't forget that things have been made worse on purpose (it's true), even though I sound crazy. (maybe I am)

[stoptheantisemitism]

Of Zionists are absolutely going to purposely misread and misinterpreted that last ask as you saying converts aren’t real Jews full stop

Zionists misconstruing something to fit their narrative!?!? No way they never do that ever /s

I want Zionist converts to know that in my eyes they are absolutely not Jews. If your Judaism is tied to Israel then you're not a Jew. You're a white supremacist that is willing to accept that Palestinians lives don't matter.

And no you can't discuss Zionism is some kind of vacuum. There is no hypothetical Zionism anymore where you can say "Zionism means the right to a homeland for Jews"

Israel is a practiced form of Zionism and there are no longer any hypotheticals. Zionism means supporting Israel. Supporting Israel means accepting the genocide and violent occupation of Palestinians. It means allowing Palestinian children to starve and freeze to death.

So yeah I don't really care what Zionists think and I especially don't care what Zionist converts like @wild-aspen think. I know what you are and you're a modern day Nazi

[stoptheantisemitism]

@ophidiomyces this was too good of an addition to leave in the comments

Converts who choose to prioritize a genocidal ethno state over actual Judaism are not Jews. Womp womp

[segamascott]

[aquaheartgirl]

[argent-sz]

[bananonbinary]

havent you ever heard not to bite the hand that adds the garlic

[tamamita]

lol come on

[tamamita]

[qsycomplainsalot]

Love how Tucker Carlson is on there not for being a huge racist asshole bigot but because he expressed mild criticism when people he interviewed were glazing Israel.

[tamamita]

These are the same people who didn't bat an eye at Musk doing the Nazi salute, but of course, the woman who believes that children deserves to live is a greater threat to the settler state.

[stoptheantisemitism]

Just so we're all clear about Zionist logic.

The man who gave a literal Nazi salute on stage is not on this list. But Ms Rachel is an antisemite because she said it's bad to kill kids.

We need to stop allowing Zionists to be a voice when it comes to the conversation around antisemitism. They have ruined the meaning of the word

[spacemancharisma]

haven’t seen this on tumblr yet, and tis the season

[uranodioning]

[caption] driver, muttering: god damnit, it’s paul. driver, at full volume: mornin’ paul! paul, cheerfully: the world will be reduced to ash! driver, muttering again: jesus christ that guy creeps me out. [/caption]

[lauf-aiya-rson-deactivated20190]

[additionally the driver is brian david gilbert, paul is a skeleton sitting on a bench with its arm sticking in the air, and the voice of paul is also brian david gilbert]

[prideprejudce]

so today a public health official guy came into my class to give a lecture on disaster awareness and he was talking about house fires and mentioned that the reason people most likely die during a house fire is because they refuse to leave their pet inside or they go back to get their pet. and right when he said this my friend immediately turned his head and looked at me and in that moment I had the most complete and genuine acceptance take over my body. I would 100% in front of my family and Jesus himself walk straight back into some raging inferno that was once my house to go get my fat cat. I nodded back

[prideprejudce]

the best part of this post is reading all the tags from animal people who would also go back to save their pets. like no hesitation. walk backwards from heaven straight back into hell. someone even said they would go back for their fish. amazing

[sterna-hirundo]

If you are a person who would walk into a blazing inferno for your animal, and your pet has free movement around the house, here’s a training exercise that could help save you both:

1) Set off your smoke alarm or play the sound on your phone (if your home has no smoke alarms, pease get some!)

2) stand BY THE FRONT DOOR to hand out treats

Do this a couple times and then keep it up NO EXCEPTIONS. Accidentally set the alarm off cooking? Treats by the door. Smoke alarm sound on TV? Treats by the door. Changing your smoke alarm batteries twice a year like you’re supposed to? Give them a test run and your pets get treats by the door.

Most dogs and cats will clue in VERY quickly that hearing that specific sound means go to the front door and wait for treats.

If there’s an emergency and even if you leave by another way, you will still know the most likely place your pet(s) is and can direct first responders to help.

You can also do this for any other kind of emergency alarm. My friend had both her cats trained to go to the front door for a tsunami siren.

[televisionenjoyer]

NOOOO THE SIX ORGASMS PERIOD HACK GOT REBLOGS DISABLED JUST AS I TRIED TO REBLOG IT whatever. I'm trying that next period.

[televisionenjoyer]

Rescued media. Fuck it.

[ithelpstodream]

[enfranchisement]

[onethousandrbirds]

happy anniversary 

[princess-pathetic-112898]

[sacred-portal]

[cherryberg]

[a-sentient-cup]

[pyrobot1cs]

[tonysopranoproskater69420]

[raptorific]

I still think it’s hilarious that the reason nobody ever figures out Superman’s secret identity or where he lives or what he does when he’s not saving the planet, is because he already told them all the Kryptonian stuff that can’t be tied to any of his human friends or family. I guarantee you the in-universe wikipedia article on Superman lists his name as Kal-El and the “personal life” section says that he lives full-time at his private fortress of solitude at the north pole. Nobody in the world looks at Clark Kent and thinks “oh my god, maybe he’s superman!” for the same reason nobody ever starts to suspect that their coworker who looks KINDA like Barack Obama is actually secretly Barack Obama – They know who Barack Obama is and know what he does and they know their coworker Greg is Greg and not Barack Obama. They have no reason to assume Barack Obama secretly moonlights as Greg The IT Guy at their workplace even though they’ve never seen Greg and Obama in the same place. At best, “Greg is secretly Obama” would be a running joke at the office, and the same is true at the Daily Planet. “Kal-El of Krypton, who lives in a CRYSTAL PALACE at the NORTH POLE and whose dayjob is SUPERMAN, sometimes puts on a suit and pretends to be a clumsy reporter and lives in a one-bedroom walkup in Metropolis” is a ridiculous concept to anyone who doesn’t already know it’s true

[mousathe14]

[bigpastapete-deactivated2018060]

[From Max Landis’ amazing “American Alien” series about Superman.] SO GOOD

[detective-birdy]

SCREAM 👏🏻 IT 👏🏻 TO 👏🏻 THE 👏🏻 BACK 👏🏻 SO EVERYONE 👏🏻 CAN 👏🏻 HEAR

[logisticbumm]

His shit eating grin in the last one sells it

[reformed-roark]

I love the idea of Clark Kent turning up to every office Halloween party in an ill-fitting Superman costume from Target.

[joshscorcher]

Still one of my favorite clips from Superman: The Animated Series.

[fidgetelftree]

This has gotten bigger since I last saw it ant that’s FANTASTIC

[thebaconsandwichofregret]

Henry Cavill literally once stood in Time Square, in a superman t-shirt, under a giant poster of himself and no one recognised him, even though he was actively trying to be recognised.

[advanced-procrastination]

I’ve never seen this post but it just became my favorite post on the internet

[mercy-angel-09]

Wanna know the kicker?

In the first chapter of JLA’s “Divided We Fall Arc” both Clark and Bruce reveal their civilian identities to the rest of the League. This is post “Tower of Babel” where nobody but Clark still trusts Batman, and in order to start building trust again, Clark urges Bruce to unmask himself to the rest of the team because Bruce obviously knows who everyone else is. Bruce agrees on one condition, Clark has to “unmask” himself as well.

When the big reveal goes down, Kyle Rayner says it best re: Clark being Superman: “He doesn’t…wear a mask. I never even…thought he had a…day job…”

That’s right, the canon reason why nobody makes the connection between Superman and Clark Kent is because nobody thinks that Superman HAS a civilian identity.

Also, with a really good actor, Clark Kenting is entirely possible, as Christopher Reeve demonstrates in the 1978 Superman film.

[thefingerfuckingfemalefury]

There was actually a story where a scientist at Lexcorp developed a computer program to analyse all available evidence and work out who Superman is

It figured out he was Clark…and Lex fired the scientist for wasting company resources because he COULDN’T BELIEVE that Superman would ever “Pretend” to be human because it would mean pretending to be “Weak”

90% of Superman’s disguise is everyone else doing the work for him

[ayellowbirds]

the best secret identity of all.

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

what @mercy-angel-09 said

[dc-comics-heritage-posts]

dc comics heritage post

[knives-in-the-dishwater]

after a thread of superhero analysis, “in the word of Keanu” hit me like a fucking truck

[prismatic-bell]

I feel like I need to remind everyone:

Did Dolly Parton Covertly Enter Look-Alike Contest — and Lose to a Drag Queen?

"They had a bunch of Chers and Dollys that year and so I just over-exaggerated," Parton told ABC's "Nightline" in 2012.

Dolly, according to her own account of this, didn’t just lose to a drag queen. SHE CAME IN LAST.

Dolly Parton came in last in a Dolly Parton lookalike contest.

Hugh Jackman Says He Dressed Up As Wolverine At Comic-Con And No One Recognized Him

No one noticed Hugh Jackman when he walked around Comic-Con as Wolverine.

And Hugh Jackman straight-up got dissed while cosplaying as Wolverine. Then there’s the famous story that Charlie Chaplin came in third (or second or twentieth or last) at a Charlie Chaplin lookalike contest in the 1920s. The story is considered unfalsifiable because of how many versions there are, but Chaplin did tell a version of it himself, claiming it happened outside Grauman’s Chinese Theatre. And, of course…

This guy.

[nabunapleasereleasepasdedeux]

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

love the phrase "perish the thought." so unnecessarily visceral. let the thought perish. let it curl up into the soil and decompose like a miserably rotten failed little seedling. return to nutrients beneath my heel

[oleannalovesbutches-deactivated]

i got the red ring in zelda 1 and i feel so powerful, i walked into a room of wizzrobes trying to die so i could save and it took them so long to kill me, im so excited

i also backtracked and got the magic rod and the master key and they're helping with death mountain a lot

[evilbuildingsblog]

Video game building IRL

[thisismud]

“Where do you work?”

*suspiciously* “Yeah? Where’s it at?”

Oh down by

[governor--megatron]

Me: “Hey darlin’, you wanna go to A Nice Restaurant to eat?”

Her: “Sure thing!  Where??”

Me: *prepares for a “Who’s On First”-esque conversation*

[posingasme]

True: I once waited tables for a high-end steak and wine place that was called The Strip Club. Whenever someone asked where I worked, it required some explanation. Especially when my dad asked.

[bestiolin]

maarten inghels

[tuulikki]

@sherbertilluminated, I love your tags

#i might be missing something but that looks very fine grained and thoroughly oxodized #so like #ferruginous mudstone #you used to be a floodplain maybe