The Un-Themed Blog

This is my everything blog. It's really unorganized and mostly for my own personal entertainment 👍

[equius]

Why do you even care about trans women? You're not even one of them.

[memory-is-treachery]

u heard him ladies

[dreamvisiongirlfriend]

so many mornings I need Dionysus to do this for me

[tastefullyoffensive]

via

[gaycommunist]

women’s voyeristic relationship with themselves and a lacking sense of self

unknown // alice notley “along a spectral trail” // sh/satler “fresh meat” // mitski “real men” // @penemily // beachbunny “cloud 9” // jennifer’s body (2009) // “shame is an ocean i swim across” mary lambert // suzanne rivecca “ugly, bitter, and true” // @leafsea // clarice lispector “the passion according to GH” // @bettersituation // mitski “brand new city” // gone girl (2014) // carrie lorig “the blood barn”

[gaycommunist]

terfs do not fucking interact with this or any of my content

[studentlifeproblems]

[turtle-named-sheldon]

My sister was working at the grocery store the other day and some guy tried to return a jug of grape juice because he couldn’t open it and she was just like “do you want me to open it???” And he was like “yes pls” then left with his freshly opened juice. AN ADULT MAN.

[socialistexan]

Give this woman her job back and a raise

[socialistexan]

Why are you booing? She's right!

[socialistexan]

Update: turns out the "berating" was apart of the previously agreed upon lesson plan revolving around role playing debate skills (he had 7 uninterrupted minutes of speech, this was in the question and answer portion, most college students could tell you is normal) that the student knew about before hand.

Ellis then took this completely out of context clip and ran to Conservative Grievance Circlejerk Media (Daily Caller, NY Post, Daily Mail, ect) to slander this professor to the point that she and her coworkers are now receiving death threats from unhinged reactionaries.

Also Ellis is known for making white supremacist gestures and harassing racial and sexual minority students on campus

In conclusion, if you sided with this kid over what was (if you watched the video) a perfectly normal debate exchange with a professor, then you might have some self-examination to take part in.

[hestia-x]

This is why we get people kicked out of their schools, discredited from their academic groups, fired from their jobs. This kid has a documented history that makes this action ridiculously predictable, &now people are literally in danger because of the natural progression of his actions.

This is why we out racists&bigots. This is exactly why.

[youthoughtiwasasleepdidntyou]

Help us protect Professor Faryha, organized by Maha Afra

At Cypress College, a student shared a classroom video of an adjunct professor (a Muslim Mi… Maha Afra needs your support for Help us protec

Here's a link to her gofundme. We know we're this fund raising effort be from the other side of this issue he would have raised thousands of dollars already. Can we please put our money where our principles are?

[memehumor]

Boycotting Whoever Annoys Me

[eloseeoh]

[playygrl-deactivated20221219]

People: What do you do for a living?

Me: What i want.

[candiikismet]

Oop

[elizabethgraves]

While acknowledging the truth of the original statement, sometimes it’s just cool to know what other people do. (I am a boring corporate drone, I am fascinated by people who aren’t.) That said, if you judge people as “less than” because of their job, you’re an asshole.

[papa-voodoo]

@elizabethgraves speaking the truth out here!!

I couldn’t agree more, you wouldn’t believe how often I get looked at like im trash cuz I work in the construction industry.

[so-very-cool]

Somebody on medium had a very interesting take on this question. They weren’t being fully serious, but the take was interesting nonetheless. The article was called “How to Be Polite”:

Here’s a polite person’s trick, one that has never failed me. I will share it with you because I like and respect you, and it is clear to me that you’ll know how to apply it wisely: When you are at a party and are thrust into conversation with someone, see how long you can hold off before talking about what they do for a living. And when that painful lull arrives, be the master of it. I have come to revel in that agonizing first pause, because I know that I can push a conversation through. Just ask the other person what they do, and right after they tell you, say: “Wow. That sounds hard.”

Because nearly everyone in the world believes their job to be difficult. I once went to a party and met a very beautiful woman whose job was to help celebrities wear Harry Winston jewelry. I could tell that she was disappointed to be introduced to this rumpled giant in an off-brand shirt, but when I told her that her job sounded difficult to me she brightened and spoke for 30 straight minutes about sapphires and Jessica Simpson. She kept touching me as she talked. I forgave her for that. I didn’t reveal a single detail about myself, including my name. Eventually someone pulled me back into the party. The celebrity jewelry coordinator smiled and grabbed my hand and said, “I like you!” She seemed so relieved to have unburdened herself. I counted it as a great accomplishment. Maybe a hundred times since I’ve said, “wow, that sounds hard” to a stranger, always to great effect. I stay home with my kids and have no life left to me, so take this party trick, my gift to you.

[drst]

This strikes me as an excellent trick for introverts, because it invites the speaker to vent about their job and keeps us from having to talk.

[warykhawary]

[blaiddaddy]

I attended a seminar on Legal Issues and the LGBTI community and one HILARIOUS side effect of same sex marriage getting legalised was in reality…horrible for estate planning and property disputes, but also sounds like an incredible fic premise

Before same sex marriage was legal a fair few gay couples got married in foreign countries; it had no effect in Australia but it was the principle of the thing. When it became legal, their marriages took effect in Aussie too.

This was wonderful for couples who were still together, but for couples who had broken up, and hadn’t bothered to go back to that foreign country to get divorced (and they rarely did)…they suddenly found themselves married again.

[solarcat]

Oh, it gets better than that!! There was a panel on a similar topic at Lavender Law a few years back. In the US specifically, we had that time period where there were just a few states that had legalized same-sex marriage, and then Obergefell happened and it’s legal everywhere! Yay! EXCEPT. A very similar problem cropped up.

See, people had gotten married in Massachusetts when it legalized same-sex marriage, but then they broke up with that person and didn’t get a divorce because it wasn’t really real, right? So they got together with someone else, maybe moved in between, and decided to get married when California legalized. And then they broke up. And didn’t get a divorce. Because it wasn’t really real; it’s only in that state, right? (And no, there isn’t a good country-wide system to check these things.) So then they got together with someone else, and hey, it’s legal to get married in New York, we’ll do that! …and then they broke up. (Sensing a pattern yet?)

But then. Obergefell. Your marriage is recognized in EVERY state! Yay! Except… you have three or four marriages, actually. Concurrently. Which is, y’know. Illegal. AND one or more of your spouses could now be also married to yet another person, or people, if they did the same thing. Who could then also… (you get the picture).

Apparently there were a NUMBER of VERY BUSY family lawyers and estate planners untangling the absolute mess people created by getting married in multiple states to different people during that period.

So basically: Someone PLEASE give me the ensemble cast who are all, somehow, simultaneously married to each other. It is my dream, okay. XD

[feanor-the-dragon]

Hey so the trolley problem is dumb because the real person at fault for any of the deaths is the person who designed the trolley without an emergency braking system, the people who put in the purchase order for a trolley without an emergency braking system, the people who approved a PO for a trolley without an emergency braking system, the people who delivered a trolley without an emergency braking system, the organization that inspected and certified a trolley without an emergency braking system,and the operator who did not make a huge stink about being assigned to a trolley without an emergency braking system.

Whether you pull the lever is irrelevant, because a whoooole mess of people fucked up for you to be in that hypothetical situation.

Seriously, like, as a professional engineer, I find the premise of the trolley problem offensive. Cause like, so many safety regulations have been violated that it's just... insane.

[feanor-the-dragon]

"But, Cody, what if there was an emergency braking system, and it failed?"

Failure to perform regular maintenance and inspection. So, it's still someone else's fault.

"What if maintenance and inspections were done correctly, and it still failed?"

Some engineer somewhere failed to design a failsafe with the necessary redundancies. Again, it's someone else's fault.

"What about sabotage?"

The saboteur is obviously to blame.

"What if it's just a freak accident?"

Once again there's that engineer failing to place redundancies.

"What if it was just an act of God, and the engineer and everyone else did everything right?"

Then God is to blame. Duh. Not sure why this is so hard to get.

[animeengineer]

Any accident investigator will tell you that an accident is caused by a chain of incidents, and there were always several places the disaster could have been stopped.

Trolley problems are just philosophers being cruel to their audiences.

[ingridverse]

I would look at whoever is tying people to trolley tracks. That might be the issue right there.

[letmetellyouaboutmyfeels]

Maybe the real trolley problem was the OSHA violations we made along the way.

[ladybubblegum]

[onlytwitterpics]

[aphrobites]

culinary students, abt to cheat: i sure hope no one checks under my hat

[oopsabird]

the reason you were able to read more and do more activities in a day when you were a kid than you do as an adult isn’t because you got stupider, it’s because as a child you generally had your base needs taken care of and your schedule provided to you, so you didn’t have to use as much of your mental and physical energy on planning, life maintenance (ie food and administrative tasks), and general executive function. of course you could focus on reading a novel in two days, somebody else made your lunches and you never thought about phone bills and you didn’t even have to decide for yourself when to take a bath. c’mon

[cursed-and-haunted]

I know this is going to make me sound pretensions but I have to get it off my chest. I feel an unimaginable rage when someone posts a photo and is like "this picture looks like a renaissance painting lol" when the photo clearly has the lighting, colors and composition of a baroque or romantic painting. There are differences in these styles and those differences are important and labeling every "classical" looking painting as renaissance is annoying and upsetting to me. And anytime I come across one of those posts I have to put down my phone and go take a walk because they make me so mad

[cursed-and-haunted]

In case you're curious here's what I mean.

Renaissance(distinct lines, stability and the individual man):

Baroque (bold, chaotic, dramatic):

Romantic(romanticize the simple hard working life):

Do you see the difference?

[genderfluid-and-confuzled]

op is a vampire who painted works in all of these times

[cursed-and-haunted]

[snoopysfriendwoodstock]

deeply missing the rituals of elementary school

[snoopysfriendwoodstock]

same routine every day.... going to the library as a class... eating lunch with your friends... having a teacher read to you from the same book every day.. packing your little backpack... now what do i do? emails?

[hxhomo]

hm so psa bc i didn’t know this, it’s not common knowledge, and flu season is around:

apparently you aren’t supposed to take dextromethorphan (a common cough suppressant. it’s in stuff like cough syrup, mucinex dm, tylenol severe cold) with sertraline (aka zoloft, the antidepressant) bc it has the risk of causing Serotonin Syndrome, which is not as fun as the name suggests. i’m not a doctor but like, avoid drug interactions bc they can be serious.

remember to read labels guys aaa

[ursulaklegun-deactivated2024122]

Not just sertraline, any SSRI or SNRI. Serotonin syndrome can kill you. When I was younger and on a lot of medication, a dose of cough medicine landed me in the ER. Always check potential interactions here before taking anything with antidepressants, even if it’s over-the-counter.