Cianalas

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[nemfrog]

Fell asleep reading. The fireside sphinx. 1901.

Internet Archive

[liberalsarecool]

We are coming. Fascists beware.

Join the correct side of history.

Chicago:

[liberalsarecool]

Boston

New Orleans

[liberalsarecool]

Asheville, NC

[ymutate]

Wild Silence (2023) by British fine art painter and illustrator, Angela Harding (born in 1960).

Linocut print

43 x 37 cm, 17 x 15 in approx

[chimpanzeedotcom]

Being a bi guy quite possibly the funniest sexuality like dammmnnnn I know who John Waters is and jerk it to twinks in panties but I got a coffee date with Hetero Jessica from work at 3 thats her name heteroooo jessica thats her name folks thats what we call her hertero jessica

[corvid-language-library]

Remember that if you want to do more of something, you have to do less of something else. It's that time of year where people set goals for the new year and they have plans and hopes and it's always focusing on what they want to do more of. More studying, more exercise, more crafting, more socialising, more making things from scratch. Okay, great. What are you going to do less of in order to have the time and energy to do more of those things you really want to do?

[corvid-language-library]

And if your answer to this is "less doomscrolling" or "less bedrotting" then great, but please think about why you're doing those things. No one's doomscrolling or bedrotting because they don't have things they'd rather be doing. Actually, I'm willing to bet you have a lot of things you'd rather be doing and you spend your life internally screaming at yourself to do literally any one of the many things you want to be doing instead, but you don't have the energy for them all and you can't work out how to prioritize them, so doomscrolling spares you from making that decision. Or perhaps you're burned out from taking on too many projects and you need to rest your brain, so you lie in bed because you don't even have the energy to get started anymore.

This is going to be a really hard pill to swallow, but the truth is you might not be able to balance all your hobbies and all your projects the way you'd like. If you want to finish writing that book, you might have to reduce your daily drawing habit to a couple of times a week. If you want to do yoga every morning, you might have to accept not cooking from scratch as often. If you want to spend more time with your family, you might have to cut down on your yearly reading goal. I'm not saying give up on your hobbies; I'm be realistic with your time and your energy and be kind to yourself. Stop expecting yourself to do more and do better every single year. You don't have to constantly be growing upwards and reaching for the stars; you can be content with where you are, or even cut parts of yourself back to make space for other things in your life to bloom.

Think about what your priorities are and make peace with doing less of other things. Less is okay. Less is not failing. Less is self care.

[megapope-deactivated20220531]

this tweet goes from surreal to hilarious when you realize that she was the CEO of Reddit

[ms-demeanor]

Casual reminder that while she was CEO at Reddit she created a salary negotiation policy that evened the playing field for women employed by Reddit.

Not-at-all-casual-reminder that she left Reddit in 2015 after being forced to resign because Reddit lost its collective shit at her when the site banned 5 subreddits for harassment; not-at-fucking-all casual reminder that Ellen Pao was the CEO of Reddit when it banned revenge porn after The Fappening.

One of the subreddits that was banned that led to her resignation was r/fatpeople hate. The others were transphobic and racist.

In her time at Reddit Pao did more than the site had ever before done to fight harassment from its user base and for that someone started a subreddit calling for her firing and trying to make nazi and ISIS imagery come up in searches associated with her name.

If *anyone* in the tech industry knows what the blackpill subculture is like and how vile and toxic groups spawned in subreddits can be it’s Ellen Pao.

This isn’t someone who’s oblivious to the fact that her former company is a source of the problem, this is someone who is speaking from personal experience with online harassment campaigns orchestrated by people who want the freedom to post celebrity nudes who were *enraged* that she made it harder for them to do so.

(also basically the rest of her twitter is about #metoo, the need for labor regulation and worker protections, and salary transparency so maybe go check her out)

[artielu]

She also sued Kleiner Perkins, one of the biggest and most important venture capital firms in the valley, for gender discrimination. The steel spine and bravery she had to publicly take on KP… I cannot fully explain to y'all how powerful KP is in silicon valley. She knew that and she did it anyway.

Her lawsuit was one of the first in a wave that became known as #metoo. One of the first women to step forward and publicly throw herself into the fire in protest of sexism.

And she’s still speaking truth about how sexist and racist tech bro/VC/PE culture is.

Ellen Pao - Wikipedia

[biboocat]

[marvelsmostwanted]

Displayed on the Old North Church in Boston, MA on April 18, 2025, the 250th anniversary of Paul Revere’s ride.

Photo source: silencedogoodboston, the group behind this idea

[important-animal-images]

[parakeet]

You will not die at the hands of quicksand. Ask me how I know this

[bearthethirdwheel]

Please, how do you know this?

[parakeet]

quicksand does not have any hands

[frankensteins-mt-dew]

[notbeingnoticed]

150 meter aluminum sea serpent skeleton sculpture in Nantes, France. Artist Huang Yong Ping

[redscharlach]

Not only is this is extremely cool, but it also looks cool when viewed from Google Earth.

Just nibbling this beach, no big deal.

[ebookporn]

One of the greatest tragedies of the human race is that you can lead people to literacy but you can't make them drink.

[shadow27]

[verirosvous]

Here's a picture of him. That's the face of a man who doesn't care what the government says, he's gonna keep flying

[stillnoteinstein]

[caledoniaseries]

Twitch streamer Grimith plays through the weird new game, One Last Job!

[delicatethunders]

[alqchemiq-deactivated20250707]

lets get faded in the vaporwave mall🛸🪩✨

[midnightssea]

Excluding the crucial fact that office jobs pay you an income….if staying home to raise children and do chores and bake bread was really so much easier and more joyful than working in an office on some objective level, why aren’t men doing it? Why aren’t they chomping at the bit to be ~leisurely house husbands~ to a working wife? Why aren’t they stepping up to depend solely on someone else’s income in exchange for round-the-clock domestic labor, if it’s really as blissful and their propaganda suggests? Curious.