Everything Perfect for Everyone Forever

I made this tumblr to follow improv nonsense. What's your excuse?

[millennial-review-deactivated20]

[pechebeche-deactivated20201125]

After this episode I am actually scared to go to bed. Call your representatives: Brennen’s gonna kill me

not with those rolls he isnt

[brennanleemulligan]

Absolutely devastating.

[rabdoidal]

some of my fav npc gals from fantasy high

✨ kofi link in bio if you’re feeling generous ✨

[jq37]

Brennan: Stop hugging! I’m trying to run an evil campaign!

Also Brennan: You all have epiphanies about self worth and friendship which I will lavishly describe that literally give some of you extra powers.

[brennanleemulligan]

For the record: This is the most powerfully I have ever been roasted in my entire life.

[the-elf-has-had-enough]

[basicincomehive]

Universal basic income is essential if we want to build a bright future in the age of automation. 

[fittingoutjane]

Seriously. The 40-hour work week was codified in 1940, before computers did anything. Per-hour productivity has more than quadrupled since then, but we’re working even harder, to live not all that much better. It’s absurd.

No, it’s not absurd, it’s deliberate. The ruling class wants us to work as hard as possible, so they have profits to skim and pile up.

[lesbianshepard]

stupid leftists and their belief in *checks notes* the intrinsic value of human life

[feministism]

[tsg2k19]

I can’t imagine being that rich and not just throwing my money at the ills of the world.

[fandomsandfeminism]

Humans are a communal species that have banded together and cared for their sick, disabled, and elderly since before we were ever modern man. Resources were shared even as skills specialized. 

Capitalism isn’t natural. A community should not have members dying of starvation or exposure while there is an abundance of resources. That isn’t how it works. That isn’t how it’s supposed to work.

[g-taire]

ok so my roommates are anthropology students and their favorite example for debunking the ‘survival of the fittest’ bs is shanidar 1. (x, x, x)

shanidar 1 is a neanderthal who, at a pretty young age, was hit in the head hard enough to blind him. this also led to that side of his brain shutting down and withering his right arm, and possibly crippling his entire right side. not only that but his skeleton also shows that at some point, he broke a bone in his foot and, in addition to the other factors, resulted in a noticeable limp. there are some sources which say he likely had degenerative diseases. (arthritis was really common in neanderthals) 

going off of widespread ideas of “”primitive”” (no longer the word used in anthropology/academia to describe early-modern humans) societies, shanidar probably died really young, deliberately abandoned or killed. i mean, he was severely crippled, blind, etc., he couldn’t contribute anything, he would have been a “”burden to society””, right? 

except he lived to be between 40 and 50 years old. (about ~80 in human years)

this means that his social group had to have taken care of him for a minimum of two or three decades without his ‘contributing’ anything significant to the group. this discovery (and Shanidar III’s) was huge because it basically proves that early humans had a concept of hospice. early modern humans cared for the sick and the elderly, greatly extending their lifespan, simply because they cared. 

tl;dr: the concept of someone needing to be ‘’useful’’ or ‘’’productive’’’ in society in order to be valued and cared for is a very modern concept and our quasi-predecessors would be ashamed 

[ekjohnston]

Also, Shanidar I was buried with flowers. They cared about him after he was dead, too.

[meatthawsmoth]

This is cool information but I have to say even if capitalism was natural that wouldn’t be any reason to accept it

[petermorwood]

Care while alive, flowers after death. We should all hope for that much.

[justsomeantifas]

them: SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST MEANS HUMANS MUST BE INDIVIDUALLY SELF-SUFFICIENT AND COMPLETELY INDEPENDENT

biologist:

[systlin]

Like literally the only reason we didn’t go extinct is because we are aggressively social creatures who community organized and helped each other when faced with disasters that drove other species over the brink. 

 (Like we’re so aggressively social that we looked at APEX PREDATORS and went ‘they look soft! Friend????’)

(The answer was yes because wolves are also aggressively social and they adopted the strange tall not-wolves just as eagerly.)

[kelssiel]

humans @ wolves: holy shit these things are so cute i wonder if they’ll let us pet them?

wolves @ humans: holy shit these things are so cute i wonder if they’ll pet us?

[aztechnology]

Just in case people want source, here you go: humans are compelled to help each other in disaster situation, humans feel an innate urge to help others. We will help strangers too, not just family, and it has been tested. 

[boxingcleverrr]

Also we’ve always taken care of our elderly and disabled. When life was literally “hunt and gather every day to live”, we saw value in taking care of those with disabilities. 

[apparentlyeverything]

reblog to make a libertarian mad

[taragrimface]

social darwinism is a concept exclusively employed by people who are both evil and pseudointellectual, 100% of the time, & is basically always code for upholding white supremacy and patriarchy

[khealywu]

there may be a day that i don’t reblog this post, but it’s not today

[creaturey]

this is a real quote from an actual pdx queer housing post

[arnikas]

[margbarcis]

can you imagine denying an LGBT person housing because of their fucking astrological sign…..

[regularlesbian]

domming the household

[khealywu]

This is truly the dumbest thing that’s ever happened

[brennanleemulligan]

Truly so important to remember that astrology is only fun if you don’t actually believe in it.

[mizoguchi]

He was a master storyteller, and a master baby whisperer, having rocked my 7 month old to sleep in the middle of shooting our episode of @PartsUnknownCNN in #Gaza. I wasn’t sure what to expect of him, but upon first setting foot in Gaza where we met, the first thing he said to me was that he was absolutely dumbfounded at what he’d witnessed in the West Bank and Jerusalem. “That is something seriously (expletive) up. And one has to see it to believe it. I told the Israelis-you are not gonna like the cake you’re baking-it’s only a matter of time before it implodes.” He also later confided to me that the episode almost didn’t air “We fought like hell, though, to tell the stories we did–best we could tell them and I’m, on balance pretty happy-though definite reservations. In any event, all the right people are infuriated.” The Peabody Awards describes him best when they said “He (was) irreverent, honest, curious, never condescending, never obsequious.” RIP @Bourdain 

Laila El-Haddad, author of Gaza Kitchen and Gaza Mom, who was featured in the Parts Unknown: Jerusalem episode (x)

[abloodymess]

David Lynch on directing with kindness. 

[left-reminders]

[profeminist]

[la-laborista-republiko]

[gamechangershow]

Dude, c'mon… you know Jerry’s mom is a Nosferatu.⠀ ⠀ Watch more nerdy trivia head-to-heads on Um, Actually, streaming now on DROPOUT! Free trial at link in bio!

[astrodidact]

[gostaks]

how the fuck did all of those renaissance dilettantes learn so much crap? Like they spoke 3 languages and were foremost in several branches of science, plus they wrote poetry, played the violin, and were master artists? And they still had time to be gay? 

[vassraptor]

none of them ever did any laundry at all

[lettherebedragons]

The emotional and physical labor necessary to maintain the lifestyles of Renaissance and Enlightenment polymaths was shunted almost entirely to their uncredited servants, slaves, wives, and daughters. 

Whenever we compare ourselves to the ‘genius men’ of the past, and wonder why we fall so short, remember this: their intellectual capacity, energy, and freedom was because there was someone else washing the damn dishes.

[cheesyradfem]

Rosalind Miles’ “Who Cooked the Last Supper?” is about how women throughout history provided critical services so men could have leisure time.

[radfemblack]

Fuck