[wasturbatress]

I think Ford speaks for all of us in that.

[vortexsophia-deactivated2022110]

yep

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

tumblr ask me about mlm skeletons

[escaped-cryptid]

I’m asking

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

your co-operation is noted and will count in your favor when the Great Tally arrives. Presenting:

straight skeletons

straight skeletons

gay skeletons

three seemingly-similar wikipedia articles, and yet:

(this post is part of a series critiquing biased wikipedia writing. you can request more on ko-fi)

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

TLDR

*male & female skeleton found in grave*

archeologists: “this is LITERALLY Romeo and Juliet. she died of a broken heart. i am in TEARS”

*male & female skeleton found in grave*

archeologists: “holy shit ya’ll they are SPOONING. they are SPOONING and the boy is the big spoon just as jesus intended.”

*male & male skeleton found in grave*

archeologists: it’s problematic to romanticize these things

[ancientmoderntimes]

literally it doesnt matter if you're going to trash isr/el song and make some posts about how eurovision sucks if you're still going to watch it and support it, the show got hosted in israel in 2019, pretends to be an apolitical space and when some contestants protested with a free palestine banner they got silenced and removed from the competition

[fresh-and-hot-tiktoks]

dystopian YA novel vibes

[senor-abuelo]

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

“These pomegranites are a metaphor” I’m dying

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

Ok this wikipedia article is pissing me off so much 

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

yeah i’m gonna re-write this fucker

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

goddamn. there is so much bias in the first paragraph alone:

this is an EXCELLENT example of the way word choice and tone can be used to create bias and transform the truth to suit the writer’s purposes.

Here’s my re-write: 

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

i got rid of the passive tone (which distances Profumo from his actions), and changed the photo. notice how the original writer chose a photo taken before the scandal, portraying Profumo in a respected position of power, a powerful man seated at a desk. I chose a photo taken in the aftermath. Which would you say more accurately reflects the context? 

some other changes:

“denied impropriety” like he’s some maiden aunt clutching at pearls. No, what he actually did was:

oh, and he wasn’t

he was, in fact

after lying through his teeth. now here’s my favorite bit:

what does that MEAN? what the hell does that MEAN??? oh boo hoo hooey the Prime Minister’s self-confidence was damaged, how dreadful for the poor dear. the poor sweet man…

fuck that. in fact, Profumo’s actions

of the government, and rightly so.

oh, and the young woman in question was a model, not a “would-be” model. But ultimately her profession has no relevance here–what is relevant is that a middle-aged man in a position of power slept with a 19-year-old. I wonder what motive the original author could have had, to choose to emphasize her career over the fact she was still a teenager…

Words can be used to bend anything. Pay attention to tone. Pay attention to authorial intent. Pay attention to what is included and what isn’t. Question everything. But especially question the language used to describe historical and current events. Every writer has an agenda–look for it. Above all: 

Read critically.

ko-fi / paypal

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

#this is not a commissioned post (it’s a ‘fuck you you bastard’ post) but i wish it was #Someone gimme 4 bucks I spent a spite-fueled 80 minutes writing to this

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

#spite is a renewable resource #I am absolutely flooded with spite #my spite runneth over

[aeshnacyanea2000]

You inspired me to try my hand at a cross stitch pattern. Free to use for anyone who wants it.

[ra-assputin]

@biggest-gaudiest-patronuses

I did it! it took me a bloody long time and I gave up on doing the outside because I I didn’t want to. Here she is!! completed out of spite :) thanks for the pattern @aeshnacyanea2000

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

HOLY SHIT SOMEONE ACTUALLY DID IT

[itzbatz-deactivated20240722]

[maherschelaali]

Gonna reblog this every time it pops up on my dashboard.

[instructor144]

The go-to response of assholes everywhere: “I don’t like it.” As if that somehow imposes some obligation on the rest of us to change because they “don’t like it.” When I see and hear that kind of pouty snowflake weakling bullshit attitude, all I can think of is

[kuttithevangu]

Someone I know not well enough to voice my opinion on the subject said something like why didn’t God make potatoes a low-calorie food so I am here to say: God made them like that because their nutrition density IS what makes them healthy. By God I mean Andean agricultural technicians. Potato is healthy BECAUSE potato holds calories and vitamins. Do not malign potato

[w1zrad]

For all evolutionary history, life has struggled against calorie deficit… So much energy goes into finding food that there is no time for anything else. Our ancestors selectively bred root vegetables to create the potato, so that we might be the first species whose daily existence doesn’t consist of trying to find the nutrients necessary for survival. One potato can rival the calorie count of many hours of foraging… Eat a potato, and you free up so much time to create and build and connect with your fellow man. Without potato where would you be?? Do not stand on the shoulders of giants and think thyself tall!!

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

I nearly teared up reading “Andean agricultural technicians” bc fuck yes! these were members of Pre-Inca cultures who lived 7 to 10 thousand years ago, and they were scientists! food scientists and researchers and farmers whose names and language we can never know, who lived an inconceivably long time ago (pre-dating ancient civilizations in Egypt, China, India, Greece, and even some parts of Mesopotamia) and we are separated by millennia of time and history, but still for thousands of years the fruits vegetables of their labor and research have continued to nourish countless human lives, how is that not the most earthly form of a true miracle??? anyway yes potatoes are beautiful, salute their creators.

[cricketcat9]

There are approximately 4000 varieties of potato in Peru. I’ve seen an incredible variety of corn and tomatoes, and root vegetables I’ve never seen before, on the local farmer markets. Yet some expats insist on buying only imported, expensive American brands of canned veggies… 🤷🏼‍♀️ Peruvian potatoes 👇🏼

[i-just-like-commenting]

It is long since time for us to start viewing plant domestication as the bioscience that it is. Because while the Andeans were creating potatoes, the ancient Mesoamericans were turning teosinte into corn:

And then there’s bananas, from Papua New Guinea:

These were not small, random changes, this was real concerted effort over years to turn inedible things into highly edible ones. And I’m convinced the main reason we’re reluctant to call them scientific achievements is, well, a racist one.

[embroiderycrafts]

Borrowed a page out of Hannah Hill’s (@hanecdote) book for my second project. Happy Women’s History Month! by laurenlegends23

[catchymemes]

[k-itt--y]

this is real. absolute queen shit.

[eversoslightlybitter]

[moderatelyursine]

Finally a feel-good story

[randomfandomteacher]

Yeah…. no. It didn’t end well for her. It never ends well for anyone one person taking on the cartels in Mexico.

[spectrometrie]

[selavy]

the energy these have is like nothing I have ever seen

[cheeseanonioncrisps]

I know they probably mean ‘pull over first’, but they’re sure as hell not saying that.

[anarchismwillwin]

We are forced to live in a system that steals from us daily, Kill snitch culture.

[oppressionisntrad-blog]

Important things to keep in mind!

- never take from ‘mom and pop’ type store. Its likely you’ll actually harm them, whereas taking from a walmart wont effect much.

- never take items that a worker is assigned to monitor (usually super expensive items), theyll be in trouble for it. and its usually a minimum wage worker and usually they lose hours or pay, or they even get fired.

- similar to the above, never take things that are usually locked up for the above reason

- if its a store you know gives their near-expiration products to workers/charity, try to avoid taking the near expiration products.

- if youre taking clothing, avoid leaving hangers. it sounds weird, but itll make it seem like it was more likely an error in the computer than a theft, since the empty hanger sitting there will seem suspicious. 

- also for clothing, try not to take more than one item at once, as it will look suspicious if theres 10 medium shirts missing, and it won’t be written off as just a stocking error. and it will lead to workers being penalized

- basically just always consider ‘will this harm a worker’ and if the answer is yes then dont do it

like i was homeless for a while when i was younger and i tried to follow those guidelines to avoid doing harm to people who were probably not much better off than me while trying to get food for myself.

[tattoosfade]

Holy crap, is there like an unspoken thieves code or something?!

[admthrawn]

it’s a thing. I won’t even lie. I watched someone slip a nursing exam book in their bag at the store I worked at. She made eye contact with me and the blood drained from her face. I simply gave her a sympathetic nod and walked away.

I live in a small town and I knew she was a waitress at a hotel my sister works at, and people at that hotel don’t tip well during off season. Nursing exam books are 50+ bucks. Being a med student myself, I didn’t even breathe a word, and when inventory came up later and the book was missing, I suggested it was likely a mislabel, and the manager wrote it off.

Sometimes, thievery is a necessity. Don’t send people to jail over petty things.

[boychic-deactivated20230922]

theft for many is survival in this system and taking away from multi-billion dollar companies that are a part of the oppressive capitalist system

[vegan-lavellan-deactivated20210]

I love this post so much. Like, an unbelievable amount. 

[liamgalgey]

And they say there’s no honour among thieves.

[modernsuperhero]

There’s honour among honourable thieves. A thief is still a person, with the capability for good and bad, just like everyone else. The moment someone assumes either good or bad of someone, they perpetuate that belief into reality. 

[bluemoonlove518]

Never been a big part of this myself but I approve and shall pass it on

[theotherwomannnn]

Gonna use these cheat codes when I’m broke and on the streets @travalerray

[travalerray-deactivated20230723]

Good luck with that

[metalheadsagainstfascism]

If you’re white, realize that Black people are more closely monitored than white people in stores and use that privilege.

-far

[metalheadsagainstfascism]

Why Target Is the Worst Store to Shoplift From

If we were to give any tidbit of advice to any would-be shoplifters (aside from the Golden Rule that you never, ever steal from mom-and-pop

I forgot to add this last night. Don’t steal from Target. They’ll let you get away with the theft until they have enough to charge you with a felony, they keep track with what you steal between stores, and they have the most proficient loss prevention systems.

-fae

[answrs]

hi yeah reading the article and WHAT THE FUCK WHAT THE FUCK WHAT THE FUCK

In fact, Target runs one of country’s top-rated forensic laboratories, which specializes in solving “organized retail crimes committed at Target stores through video and image analysis, latent fingerprint and computer forensics.”

Scarier, though, is the methodical way in which Target goes about building cases against repeat shoplifters. In a 2016 Reddit post, a user named StiggyPop recounted his experience of being a drug-addict who made money by stealing and flipping Blu-Rays from Target. After four months, he was apprehended by a team of high-level LPs who knew everything about him, from where his apartment was located to the specific store he used as a fence

Other Reddit users shared similar stories. As it turns out, alongside their forensic team and top-of-the-line, in-store facial recognition technology, Target is known for actually letting shoplifters get away with their bounty…up until they reach the monetary threshold for a felony shoplifting charge.

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

if I wrote a dystopian novel where the corrupt evil megacorporation that controls society has a fucking smirk for a logo, my editor would tell me to use a less heavy-handed metaphor

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

and yet

[mortimermcmirestinks]

amazon workers: can we please have any human rights

jeff bezos: ‘,:)

[yourlocalautisticoverlord]

personally, I think it looks like a koi fish. voila:

and heres another koi fish and a friend (who is also a koi fish!) :

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

oh how dare you make the amazon logo cute. I am not immune to propaganda, this is adorable. i will tear jeff bozo into pieces and feed his corpse to these fishies

[demilypyro]

“here comes the sun” hits different when you remember the beatles were british

[starqueensterlexa]

Why leave half the post in the tags?

[bill-nye-official-blog]

“It seems like years since it’s been here” that’s because it has been years, george

[pr1nceshawn]

Survival Myths That Could Do More Harm Than Good.

[vdayucla]

You know how they say to reblog to save a life? This is one of those situations.

[charlesoberonn]

Shortstaffing should be illegall

[charlesoberonn]

"But what if I can't afford to hire more employees?"

If you have more customers than your employees can handle and you're still not making enough, then you need to sort out your finances. Raise prices if necessary.

Your overhead isn't worth more than your workers' health.

[goodboysandgirlswhoplaysmash]

“And if that’s not enough, then just buy more money!”

[dovewithscales]

Listen. If you cannot afford to pay all your employees a living wage and employ a number of people equal to the workload, then you are bad at business management and should consider exploring other career paths. Such as being a cashier.

[jumpingjacktrash]

y’all might be thinking that small businesses would get the short end here. but the thing is, all the small businesses i’ve ever worked for or been involved with, when they didn’t have enough employees to cover the time, the owner worked it themselves, or they closed early/opened late.

the places that consistently shortstaff are big franchises, especially fast food chains. they prey on desperate workers who can’t afford to say no, and use them up like they’re disposable. it’s disgusting and it should be as illegal as hiring 9 year olds or holding paychecks hostage.

[everythingfox]

“Scared cat gets saved by two French guys”

(Source)

[faded-coat-of-blue]

This is so adorable:

1) those two guys don’t know each other at all, they both stopped independently when they saw the kitten

2) they both come to the conclusion that it was abandoned, and seem really distraught and concerned as to how it ended up there

3) the biker says he’d take the kitten home himself, but he’s allergic, so the pink and grey shirt guy agrees to look after it instead

[chrome-blade]

Such wholesome goodness ❤️

[invisiblepie]

HOW DOES IT KEEP GETTING BETTER?