[supermariomamafucker]

just told him about the miasma (bad air) and now hes trying to escape 😂

[gunsandfireandshit]

[gyrovagi]

the problem with employment is it gives you money to purchase video games but it takes away your time to play video games. Mao spoke of this

[sparks-and-such]

Marx himself!

“The less you eat, drink, buy books, go to the theatre or to balls, or to the pub, and the less you think, love, theorize, sing, paint, fence, etc., the more you will be able to save and the greater will become your treasure which neither moth nor rust will corrupt—your capital. The less you are, the less you express your life, the more you have, the greater is your alienated life and the greater is the saving of your alienated being.”

[validblogname]

one fight at a time

[lizardlicks]

Black Hills drilling project canceled after backlash from tribes

A South Dakota mining company has canceled a drilling project in the Black Hills after opposition from Native American tribes and local grou

[wizxrdpendrxgon]

The backlash was a major lawsuit from 9 tribes alongside other lawsuits from advocacy groups like NDN Collective. You can support NDN Collective by donating to them here.

[fella-lovin-fella]

"they kept him in a dark place like a cheese" is such a good sentence youd think it came from a shitpost. WRONG A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

[vintageeurope]

Helsinki 1920s

[karvoja]

[twerklina]

Vintage Valentine’s Day Cards

[cleaningouttherooms]

did anybody else notice that sometimes it is a bit difficult to fall asleep

[segamascott]

[probablyasocialecologist]

Skinniness Isn’t About Beauty — It’s About Control - Women’s Media Center

It is time to reject the skinny ideal.

Becoming skinny requires eating less. It sounds simple. But what does eating less actually do to a person? It reduces energy, concentration, and stamina. These physical consequences don’t just affect your body, but they also shape how you are able to live your life. When your energy is low, your performance at school suffers. Your ability to focus at work decreases. Your social life becomes harder to maintain. You are more tired, more irritable, and less present. In other words, eating less limits your ability to fully participate in your own life. It limits your ability to go after your goals. To get your dream job. To show up fully in your relationships. And consider that, structurally, women already face more barriers than men do to achieving those things. It is often harder for women to be promoted, be taken seriously, and to receive the same recognition as men. Now imagine having to work twice as hard on half the energy because you are trying to meet an unrealistic body ideal. Constantly thinking about food and your body takes up a lot of mental space. Counting calories, watching the clock to see when you are “allowed” to eat again, planning how to go to a birthday party and avoid eating a slice of cake — all of that uses mental capacity. That is a mental capacity that could have been used for creativity, ambition, or just living freely. A friend once told me, “A woman who counts her almonds can never become president.” That line has stayed with me. Not because it is literally true, but because of what it captures. When so much of your attention is directed toward shrinking your body, there is less space to look outward, to question systems, to lead, to imagine something bigger. So we have to ask: Who benefits from a skinny ideal? Because it is not women. A system that encourages women to be smaller, weaker, and more preoccupied with their appearance is not a system that is building women up. It keeps them contained. It reinforces old stereotypes: that women should be delicate, dependent, almost childlike. That they need protection rather than power. That they should take up less space, literally and metaphorically. Skinny is not just about aesthetics. It is political.

1 June 2026

[roscolux]

need to beam this tweet directly into everyone's minds right now

[389]

[bobbs]

[closet-keys]

also, re: the transmascvoicesproject shit

the idea of any project soliciting people’s experiences of sexual violence that deliberately excludes accounts in which someone experienced that violence from men is just statistically going to be ruling out the majority of survivors.

even if that blog actually limited it to only transmasc stories (which it doesn't), imposing a rule about how participants can only share their experience if they were assaulted by a woman (classic MRA thing btw, excluding male survivors of sexual violence and partner abuse whose assailants were men) is just so transparently not giving a fuck about survivors at all.

literally every TME trans person I’ve ever met has experienced sexual harassment, violence, or abuse from a man at some point in their lives. so claiming you care about transmasc experiences with sexual violence and abuse while erasing the most common experience of it is just audacious.

mask-off transmisogyny with utterly implausible deniability. an insult to all survivors and to all trans people.

[desolationlesbian]

I don't want to buy mass-produced garbage from a big box store so I go to etsy but half of etsy is now dropshipped mass-produced garbage or AI slop so I go to the local arts and crafts street market but a ton of those booths are also selling the same generic plastic objects or identical stickers or 3D printed dragons so WHERE do I buy real trinkets and art from sincere freaks

[odinsblog]

The country is in the midst of a nationwide outbreak of explosive diarrhea caused by a parasite the CDC stopped surveilling at the federal level in July 2025.

That's around the same time the Trump administration began haphazardly attacking and defunding federal health and science agencies under the guise of “government efficiency,” with Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. separately also pushing out critical federal scientists and researchers.

Prior to that date, a collaborative CDC program called FoodNet helped federal and state regulators track eight foodborne pathogens.

Among them was cyclospora, a heat-loving spherical parasite that's sickened 1,000 people in an ongoing outbreak in Michigan (the state's worst), with similar illnesses cropping up in 28 other states.

In addition to cyclospora, surveillance of campylobacter, listeria, shigella, vibrio and Yersinia was cut. FoodNet now only regularly monitors two diseases: Salmonella and Shiga toxin-producing E. coli.

A CDC spokesperson at the time downplayed the cuts to NBC and suggested state health departments could pick up the slack.

Colorado, one of the participating states, said that absent funding it would correspondingly cut back its surveillance. The state is now experiencing a cyclospora outbreak of its own.

“I wouldn't wish this on my worst enemy,” Reba Pousma, a Denver resident who likely has cyclospora, told CBS. “I'm on day five now of going to the bathroom over 40 times a day, and nothing has been solid.”

Craig Hedberg, PhD, a professor in the Division of Environmental Health Sciences at the

University of Minnesota, disagreed with the CDC's claim that FoodNet was duplicative.

“The disturbing thing about cutting FoodNet funds is that it normalizes the idea that foodborne disease surveillance is expensive and unimportant,” Hedberg told the school's Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy. “In fact, it is the foundation of our food safety system, and needs further investments, not restrictions.”

In addition to the ongoing cyclospora outbreak, Trump administration cutbacks made under the guise of “government efficiency” also brought back a flesh-eating parasite that favors cattle, accidentally fired scientists managing the bird flu outbreak, accidentally fired the FDA's medical device reviewers, and pulled research funding to protect pregnant women from domestic violence, among other things.

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[yourrottingwife]

SIMPLE GUIDE:

Body Horror: Things that cannot happen in real life. EX: The Thing, stomach mouths, eyes on hands, etc

Gore: Fresh injuries, often severe. EX: Severed leg, gutspill, deep gashes, etc

NEITHER: Healed injuries and burns, congenital differences, missing appendages, etc. If I could theoretically go to the store and see that character browsing the isles- It isn't body horror or gore. That's just a person. *AND the amount of people that tag, not just fictional characters, but real human beings as body horror is staggering. Its not solely a fandom issue, ableism and bigotry against anyone that looks sufficiently "different" is prevalent in real life and has devastating consequences.

(Modified) from my comment left on this post.