Uglyville

Kaien|he/him|28|bi|autistic|DID system host.

[sabertoothwalrus]

buff middle aged women in white tank tops

[sabertoothwalrus]

AND NO BRA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[blignick]

[bunjywunjy]

this is actually HILARIOUS because both domestic rabbits and domestic cats practice dominance-related social grooming but for wildly different reasons.

if you're a rabbit, the boss rabbit is the one who gets groomed by its subordinate rabbits.

but if you're a cat... the boss cat is the one that grooms the other cats.

BOTH these idiots are going "aw yeah, it's good to be on top >:) "

[grison-in-space]

Holy shit: 90 local organizations have signed on for Friday's ICE OUT general strike in Minnesota, including the entire state AFL-CIO chapter. We might actually have a shot at this if we can get our organizing together in time.

[grison-in-space]

250+ local businesses will close on Friday in solidarity with the strike.

Local folks, we're going to remember the names on this list, right? I know I have got to try out that empanada joint, and I have been delighted to see many of my local yarn stores and bookshops among their number.

[grison-in-space]

For some historical context, the last city wide general strike was in 1946. There has never been a statewide general strike in US history, and there has never been a general strike with demands aimed at the federal government.

We are living in real interesting times, folks!

[what-even-is-thiss]

“Well you wouldn’t be discriminated against if you just hid everything about who you are from everyone”

Hey. Hey. Listen. Come close. Closer. Yeah. Listen.

*blows an air horn in your ear*

[what-even-is-thiss]

You know as a trans person especially it’s wack to hear gay people make this kind of argument.

“You could just not transition” or “You could just stay stealth”

And you could just pretend to be straight forever and cheat on your spouse that you never loved in the first place and die of stress and alcoholism related causes in your 60s. But you know that that’s generally not a good time so you’re not doing that. Connect the dots, bitch. I’m not the enemy here.

[what-even-is-thiss]

“I don’t understand the whole trans thing”

And a lot of people don’t understand the whole gay thing so why don’t why don’t you shut the hell your mouth up

[hottestthingalive]

rip to you guys but i love assembling ikea furniture its so fun its like legos

[hottestthingalive]

people complain about how confusing assembling ikea furniture is and meanwhile i rise above their understanding and exist beyond their pitiful mortal comprehension as i spend a wonderful day assembling two twin beds with nothing but two hex keys, hope, and a whole lot of screws. 10/10 experience would do again

[subjectverb]

if i were a dead wife i would want my husband to fag out kinda. i would be fujoing out from hell

[subjectverb]

im am SO obsessed with this beautiful beautiful scene you conjure youre getting peer reviewd holy shot

[wintersoldierfell]

I love that this emoji is recognizably an homage to "unless ☝️ you eat a lemon"

[wheeloffortune-design]

hey i'm just gonna rant about that trope in fantasy worlds where everyone speaks "common" or a default language.

it's a very english-centric way of thinking and there's sadly many people, many writers of fantasy, that don't see what they're doing.

people will use the language of the culture that colonized them.

if a specific culture invaded several other ones, it might result in those colonized cultures using that same language for communication, commerce, and travel.

we use English because of the fucking British. Others have used Latin because of the fucking romans. we don't speak "common".

The concept of "common tongue" or "default language" is so drenched in colonization people don't even see it anymore.

Thank you for listening to my rant about racism and colonization tropes in fantasy. Next week we'll discuss how fantasy evil races, like orcs or goblins, are actually just anti-Black and anti-native colonialist racist bullshit.

[wheeloffortune-design]

nope we're discussing it now.

you're telling me there's races in your fantasy world that are like humans, they're sentient, can speak, they have clothing, and language, and music, and jewelry

(and it always looks so "savage". so primitive. loincloths and teeth necklaces. war drums. painted bodies.)

(dark bodies)

they're like humans but not really humans

(and let's not forget you have other races in that world that are not human but are good, and smart, and capable, and pale, and civilized. elves, dwarves, hobbits.)

(eurocentric)

but the orcs? the trolls?

oh no, those are pure evil. no kindness, no family units, no maternal love, no empathy.

they have to be eradicated. kill a hundred of them with your magic blade. a thousand. a million. they don't matter.

they're the bad guys, can't you see how they look? those dark savages.

(and when they're not depictions of colonized Black or Native people, they're antisemitic caricatures, like goblins.)

those fantasy tropes are European medieval aesthetic used to carry European colonialist mentality.

[psychotic-gerard]

as a smoker one of the fastest way i dissuade people from smoking is i go you know how your headaches suck. imagine a permanent headache that slowly gets more and more expensive to cure and also you cant stop coughing in the middle of all of this. yeah? this sucks.

[psychotic-gerard]

i have said this before but end stage liver failure did not dissuade me from starting opiates. what dissuaded me was someone telling me "do you want to be itchy for the rest of your life? this is how you be itchy for the rest of your life."

[psychotic-gerard]

people in the tags keep bringing things that are terminal, and i need you to understand some thing critical here. people do not conceptualise what they've not experienced properly and the 'inconvenient' side-effects come faster, and are far more likely than the Big Scary Ones. "dont start cocaine because your liver will fail" -- means nothing to me, have never experienced liver failure, also it takes forever for me to get to that stage. "do you want to know what cocaine shits are" -- paying attention, do not alter my shits habits.

[ericvilas]

The ultimate question of life, the universe, and everything, is "what the fuck is 6 7"

The computer, sadly, misinterpreted the space as multiplication.

[ericvilas]

Truly the best possible outcome this post could've had

[zoetropez-moved-deactivated2020]

Did I ever tell you all about the time I had a dream that Sapphire owned a YouTube channel that was just her playing horror games and she’d say ‘jumpscare’ 2 seconds before a jumpscare would occur and even then she wouldn’t react.

[stuffbrawl]

[t4tvampireisms]

Not that Renee Nicole Good doesn’t deserve justice, because every person murdered by the state deserves that, and more; but that’s exactly my point. It’s not lost on me that most of the general public only started to care about the public executions and kidnappings of citizens when a white woman was revealed to be the victim.

[t4tvampireisms]

I also personally don’t care for her death being compared to George Floyd’s. Especially since Black children like me were mocked and harassed in school for even remotely caring about his murder, while for the most part people take Renee’s death seriously.

[t4tvampireisms]

Think about how many immigrants are dying and/or are dead in ICE detention centers, and we don’t know about it. And if we do, it’s only because a family member or an insider has spoken up about it. The only times in which we hear about the extent of the state and ICE’s brutality is when an American citizen is killed.

The people who came here illegally, the mother without a green card, the father who waits in front of gas stations or Home Depot in order to find work because no where else will hire him, they don’t deserve to be killed either. They also deserve to go home to their families and have dinner at the end of the day.

[mariacallous]

[flintandpyrite]

Here are the 2024 vaccine recommendation schedules. They’ve already been wiped from the cdc site. Save them and share widely, especially to your friends with kids.

[teaboot]

Hi!!! One of my parents got meningitis when I was a kid.

They were in the hospital for nearly a month, the rest of us were all placed in medical quarantine, there were several points we thought they were gonna die, and even though they survived, it was a SUPER close call and they lost about two years of memories from the ensuing brain damage.

Like… a two-uear-long cookie-cutter pocket of thoughts and memories went missing right out of their brain. It’s an inflammation of the brain that cooks it alive.

I DIDN’T EVEN KNOW THERE WAS A VACCINE.

I WILL BE GETTING IT.

[monicadeola]

[problemnyatic]

the most valueable skill a white leftist can ever learn is how to take an L with grace.

[problemnyatic]

You gotta be able to take an L if your moral and ethical belief systems are to be capable of guiding you. Otherwise you just have an idealized self where you get really mad and scared when anyone points out it isn't actually you. How the fuck are you gonna walk the walk if you can't handle being told when you are not, in fact, actually walking it

[problemnyatic]

you cannot just socially transition into being a good person you are going to have to settle for being a messy human being who has to try and fail and keep trying to get better like everyone else. yeah even when it's embarassing and sucks for you a lot.

[livseses]

Ya gotta learn to earnestly and honestly say "Oh shit, my bad."

[tartrazeen]

And to then end the sentence there, not launch into a paragraph of explanation or panicked super-apology.

[muttsandmustelidae]

idk man i just think breed standards should be more about “hey so this is what a healthy dog’s back should look like”, “this is what a functional sled dog’s chest should be shaped like”, “this is the coat type a bird dog should have to keep warm in cold water” etc and not at all about “the dog needs to be APRICOT with NO WHITE SPOTS and FRIENDLY EYES or the judge will SHOOT YOU with a GUN so help me god”

[charlesoberonn]

Heartwarming story: Little girl doesn’t have to do anything to fund her dad’s surgery because his expenses are covered by his country’s universal healthcare.

[charlesoberonn]

Human determination: Man bikes 18 miles to work every morning because he wants to and not because he can’t afford a car and would be fired if he’s late.

[charlesoberonn]

Spirit of Brotherhood: Neighbors host housewarming party for elderly resident who doesn’t need help in paying rent because his pension is more than enough.

[hyperlexichypatia]

SO INSPIRING: Local middle school students bake dozens of cupcakes because their home economics class is doing a baking unit. Their school is fully funded with everything they need.

[blandandtasteless]

This feels like calibrating my normal detector

[storm-of-feathers]

we don't credit rebecca sugar enough for making the episode with the first gay wedding in a kids show extremely plot relevant so it could not be skipped or cut.

[emeraldspiral]

#rebecca sugar has gone on record saying that they knew from the beginning they wanted ruby and sapphire and they put every inch of planning#in to make sure that the studio could not take them out. sugar has said they’d compromised on hundreds of things they’d wanted for steven#so that they had the bargaining power specifically to keep ruby and sapphire’s relationship#and a number of ‘filler’ episodes were created just to establish counter-arguments that might come up when they pitched the wedding episode#the one that comes to mind is the episode about steven and connie getting lost in rose’s room steven’s central conflict about liking their#fave book series’ romantic ending was later weaponised when producer’s were like ‘oh but steven’s a boy he won’t be too interested in them#getting married’ sugar was able to be like ‘no. in this episode it’s established he loves romance and specifically weddings. and in these#episodes it’s shown how much steven cares about ruby and sapphire and their relationship and happiness. you cannot convince me this is not#good and necessary plot development#and they wrapped it up in the season finale and the big climactic point of the diamonds finally coming to attack earth to make the#episode integral to the series no skipping it without confusion. and had ruby wear a wedding dress because international censors took#advantage of her design to give her a masculine va#and sugar made certain that everybody knew This was a queer love story that an entire town supported and admired and that any child watchin#it at home would know they are not alone and that that support is waiting for them out there somewhere#sugar sacrificed the wider story they wanted to tell for that and it was a horrible decision to be given but they made the right choice