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They have something like 20 alive greys at area 51 and they have already gotten all they can from from them so they just make the the poor lil fellas fight. Im talking bare knuckle weak little noodle arms slamming into those huge noggins. Really sick and twisted stuff.
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Hopping on Tumblr for the first time in 7 years feels like stepping out of a bomb shelter and seeing that life has indeed found a way.
Hello, as many writers are, when you were young did people tell you not to quit your day job? Or discourage you in similar ways?
Writing was my job. My dad wanted me to get a real job, and talked me into agreeing to go to a job interview as someone who showed prospective customers show houses. (”You’ll have plenty of time to write between people,” he said cheerfully.)
I took a very long bus trip across North London, and sat in an outer office for a few hours, and then, about 6:15 pm, the secretary apologised to me as they hadn’t yet managed to see me. I took a very long bus journey home, and that was the end of my Day Job.
Oh to be rich, male, and/or white enough to actually have this be an option…
I’m sure people would have told me not to quit my day job if I’d had a day job.
My day job, night job, and only job, was writing in 1984. It was how I made my living, put a roof over my head, and fed myself. I wrote and sold articles as a freelance journalist, to anyone who would buy them. My rent back then was 25 pounds a week – a tiny bedroom in a distant relative’s tiny flat in North London. I had no financial resources, no academic qualifications, and no contacts. I didn’t even go on the dole, as I was scared they’d try and make me take an actual job that wasn’t writing, if I did. There was nothing else I wanted to do. I figured the only way I’d get to be a good enough writer to sell novels was if I wrote, a lot… and I had no other skills. So I would come up with ideas for articles and get on the phone, and talk to editors, persuade them to commission something, and if someone bought an interview for £300 I’d get to eat and pay my rent and pay for my bus or tube travel that month. If they bought an interview and an article, then I’d be able to go to the pub without being scared of having to buy a round of drinks.
My dad was worried that I’d starve, and thought that my making a living from writing was not possible, which was why he tried to get me to take an actual job. (See above. The guy never saw me.)
I don’t know if what I did would be possible now – when I started out I crossed my fingers and lied to editors about previous credits to get them to take me seriously, which wouldn’t be possible now (they could Google, or ask me to send PDFs, or just ask for links to what I’d done). But it was possible then. (I was ashamed enough of this that I then made sure that, over the next five years, I had written for every magazine I said I had written for, so that I was not lying, only temporally challenged.)
Year one as a writer I made about £3,000, and that was what I lived on. By the end of year two I had made about £6,000 writing, as I’d sold two non-fiction books – but had a wife and a baby and we needed somewhere to live. I was writing and reviewing, too. I’d sell the review copies of books after I read them, sell the publicity stills for movies I reviewed to a store that took them, review for anyone, write for anyone, anything to keep us fed.
The next year I was offered a job by one of the magazines I’d written for, to be their features editor. A real job, that paid like a real job, and there was another baby on the way. But I also knew that if I took that job, I’d be on a different path to the one I was on, and wouldn’t be a writer any more. And I wouldn’t be this writer, any more. So I bit my lip, said no, and kept writing.
And it worked out. And now, almost forty years later, I’ve written more books than I can count offhand, and, more importantly, I’ve made books and comics and drama that made people happy. And I’ve been lucky. I’ve seen lots of people with the same talent I had, or the same amount of determination not make it, so I would never make the mistake of telling people that if they are determined and keep going and do the work they will be fine. On the other hand I’ve seen people who could have made it go off and do other things, which kind of guaranteed that they wouldn’t make it. I’m glad, and relieved, it worked out for me.
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We settled with Biden. but if you decide to vote third party or not vote instead of supporting Biden... fuck you. You have to see that this is bigger than choosing the “best” candidate. This is a fight for the soul of our nation. Settle for Biden. Settle because if you don’t hundreds of thousands of people will die. People. will. die.
To the people in the notes saying they refuse: what are you actually going to do to change the system?
Because voting third party as it stands right now is NEVER GOING TO WORK. I understand that you want a further left candidate. By GODS I understand. But right now? It's either you vote blue and the fascism boulder stops rolling quite so fast, and maybe we get a chance to stop it and even start trying to push it back up the hill; or you vote third party, support an actually good candidate that doesn't stand a snowball's chance in hell of winning, get your warm fuzzies from not voting for the centrist, and THE FASCISM BOULDER GETS BIGGER. And anyone who tries to stop it gets crushed. And anything we were building to slow it down has a worse chance of stopping it.
Nothing is going to fix this country immediately. And your cynicism is fully understandable. But jesus FUCKING christ people, just voting third party is going to do LITERALLY NOTHING to fix it. It's not a "cry to fix the system", or at least it's not gonna be heard as one. And not voting is just as bad.
So tell me. What is your actual plan? What are you going to do to dismantle the two-party system, what are you going to do to stop fascism in its tracks, and what are you going to do to put an actual leftist and not a right-leaning centrist into office?
Because if you can do that, hallelujah! Let's HEAR IT! Let's DO IT! I support you 100%, I'll get the megaphones, the guillotines, I'll help draw the coup plans, whatever we need.
And if you can't? At least don't stop the rest of us doing the best we can. We can at least make an ATTEMPT to push Biden left. We cannot do the same for Trump. They are not the same.
And we are not 'settling' for Biden. We're not going to sit down and stay there and be like "oh no this is fine right where it is." But we have to take the first step to go anywhere and this is the best shot we've got, a hell of a better shot than voting for a candidate that's probably not even on some of the ballots. Because when Trump wins, the right won't settle either. They are going to keep dragging it further and further and we are going to be completely drowned out.
And you're giving them ground.
Seriously, get Biden in and flip the senate which matters even more than the presidency.
Would you rather have a fascist who wants you dead in office or do you want someone who might be able to be swayed to help you?
I know I can't handle 4 more years of Trump. I can manage with Biden and continue to do distro work and the like. But we shouldn't become stagnant after voting Biden in. We still need to work for universal healthcare, to dismantle prisons, improve our schools, make childcare free/affordable, making voting day a holiday, etc. We have a long way to go and have to continue dismantling the ability for white nationalists to survive in this country.
Also, I'm going to be honest here. Trump has already said that he won't peacefully transfer power. We might have to fight either way. Things might get ugly.
I am also saying this from a side of selfish endeavors since I hope to run for city council and then aim higher after I finish with college. If we leftists make a habit of giving up on voting then I won't be likely to be elected and serve as an ally for those who need it. I won't be able to pass legislation to give housing to the homeless. I wouldn't be able to pass measures to hold police accountable. I wouldn't be able to hold weekly or biweekly meetings with local activists to come up with concrete ideas on what needs to be accomplished. I want to make the world a better place and that can't be done without some help.
And remember to vote blue ALL THE WAY DOWN THE BALLOT.
Educate yourself on your local legislation and who's on this year's ballot. (BallotReady.org can help.) Then make sure you vote for those local roles when you go to the polls, from Congress on down.
We've only got one chance at this. If we screw things up like we screwed up with all that apathy and troll bullshit in 2016, we are FUCKED. There won't be a second chance. There won't be anything to stop this bus from hurtling straight off the goddamn cliff it's headed for.
However you slice it, it's going to be Trump or Biden. If you think anyone else has a chance of actually winning, you are fucking fooling yourself.
Biden may not be perfect. But getting him into the White House and a lot more blue votes into Congress is our best chance at a step in the right direction, which is all we can do right now.
And make no mistake - the alternative is four more years of steadily-worsening fascism helmed by a blithering egotistical xenophonic maniac. We will not survive that.
Sure the current administration is going to try to cheat. Sure they're going to immediately question the results if they don't win. So let's make sure it's undeniable.
If we go down, we go down swinging.
Literally anyone who’s read the results of any other time this experiment has been tried. Why are we still trying to prove the concept?
Here’s the link if anyone wants it!
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2242937-universal-basic-income-seems-to-improve-employment-and-well-being/
Finland’s two-year test of universal basic income has concluded that it doesn't seem to disincentivise working, and improves recipients’ men
We’re still trying to prove the concept because in the West, Big Business and their owners, The 1%, are screaming at the thought of having to give up a little money so everyone can get universal income that supports life - meaning jobs either have to pay you to put up with the literal shit or people can walk away from them without becoming homeless.
Our entire system is basically based on people being so afraid of homelessness and starvation that they’ll accept any shit job for shit pay.
I laughed at this for a solid minute because I thought the implication was that this sentient cartridge of Super Mario 64 wanted to see your ass.
Bought a bootleg copy of SUPER MARIO 64 from a yardsale BUT the cartridge is HAUNTED and the GHOST wants to know if I am CAKED UP
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I’m genuinely worrying about people whose main source of social development comes like 100% from these incredibly insular and entirely unregulated internet spaces. Like this isn’t even a “technology is bad and kids these days don’t learn how to talk to one another” post, it’s a “basic conflict resolution skills and the practical realities of interacting with human beings are the sort of things you probably shouldn’t learn in an unstructured environment, populated largely by antisocial weirdos, and when you do develop your interpersonal skills entirely in that environment, you’re going to have a fast and rude awakening when you finally do have to apply those skills outside the tiny toxic community you cultivated them in and find that they don’t transfer well to classroom discussions or dates or job interviews or having a roommate”
yeah i admit this is kinda me… this is one of the themes of us as a society transitioning from the age of pisces to the age of aquarius, Aquarius is very social but could also be the awkward loner, the outcast, the pariah, the maverick…
maybe this is a theme for people with personal planets in the 12th house? maybe the 11th house plays into it cuz that rules the internet.
children are being held back from social development because schools are now on Zoom meetings, they’ll miss critical markers in learning how to act during whatever age they currently are. i hope schools reopen this upcoming school year, we cannot do this to children!
anyone feel free to reblog with your thoughts.
See this is a great example of the sort of thing I’m talking about. Clearly, in your social space, all of this is considered a pretty normal and appropriate thing to say to a complete stranger, and not something that reasonably makes everyone who hears it go home and say “papa, today I met someone who made no sense at all and seemed to relish in it”
Warning Signs of Satanic Behavior. Training video for police, 1990
signs that your child is COOL as FUCK
Have i ever talked about my irrational fear of Jupiter?
I have that. It’s just so gigantic. I think about seeing it from Titan just devouring half of the entire night sky.
It’s just so big and it’s a huge ball of gas and storms. A failed and bitter Sun that has protected Earth through it’s gravity from all kinds of space debris. I have dreams that the earth is way closer to Jupiter. Still further away than the moon is, but it’s so gigantic that you cant even tell.
Hey gang. Deleted my twitter app for mental health reasons like a coward. How’s this place doing?
I know y'all did not read the books but Roald Dahl talks about this in the book. Charlie’s teacher points out the fact that unless you buy a shit ton of bars you’re probably not gonna win. Just like the lottery. Just like how all of the other winners of the tickets bought a shit ton of bars. Except Charlie, who just got lucky. And Charlie was originally black. Literally the whole point of the book was that wonka wanted to give the less fortunate a fair opportunity and it wasn’t fair because the system isn’t fair.
Stop the car.
Charlie was originally black?!?!
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He was and Mr. Dahl was forced to make him white. Also his widow has spoken and confirmed that as well.
https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/09/16/551528425/roald-dahl-s-widow-says-charlie-from-the-chocolate-factory-was-originally-black
Dahl's widow revealed the surprising scoop on the BBC earlier this week.
I live right by the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone in Seattle. For those reading from further away – it’s important to keep in mind what the past week has been like in this area.
Every night, the cops would attack peaceful protestors after it got dark. The violence was apparently pointless, was often completely unprovoked and massively disproportionate when provoked, and seemed almost perversely dedicated to eroding any remaining public trust in the police.
Day after day of events like
- “tear gas is wafting into nearby people’s apartments, it made someone’s baby wake up foaming at the mouth,” or
- “you know how, after people were furious about the tear gas, the mayor and police chief declared the police would not use CS gas for 30 days? well, it’s been less than 48 hours, and they just used CS gas again”
- “out of nowhere, a guy drove madly into the cop/protestor standoff and shot someone, and the protestors did more to stop and apprehend him than the cops” (see also here, etc.)
Events of this kind became almost surreally predictable, not in their details, but in their shape: no matter how badly the police are behaving, they’re going to hit a new low tomorrow. If they seemed indefensible today, they’ll somehow make themselves into even more clear-cut villains tomorrow. (Example: the night after the “tear gas ban,” they used OC gas, whereas technically the ban was limited to CS gas – and the night after that, they abandoned all pretenses and used CS gas again.)
No one understood why the cops did what they did. In press conferences and the like, the mayor and police chief contradicted themselves from day to day and sometimes seemed to be unfamiliar with the basics of the previous night’s news. The city council was baffled, everyone was baffled – the cops even found an odd, tangential way to piss off the Seattle School District in the process of doing all this other stuff.
When the cops left the precinct two days ago, all of that stopped. I don’t mean to sound like the protest isn’t important anymore, or something like that, but “a continuous peaceful protest is happening in your area” is … well, a lot more compatible with ordinary life and work than than “you now live in a warzone where the city attacks its citizens every night.”
Right now it doesn’t feel like some new group has come in and “taken over.” Really, it’s the opposite. The very unwelcome group that “took over” last week – “took over” in terms of their new aggressive behavior if not in terms of literal physical presence – is finally gone.
He's gotta go home now...
Talking about hard things is hard, but necessary. Please don’t be this guy. Take breaks when you need to, but keep the conversation going. Talk to your parents. Do what you can.
