Elitscholastikos

he/they Professional Absentee | wannabe critic | does it still count as a gap year if you take it FREQUENTLY

[elitscholastikos]

Just got reminded that the very first flat I rented had this ugly Waterloo-esque red rug covering the whole floor of my bedroom, what’s worse is that the main light source was this massive chandelier on my ceiling

[elitscholastikos]

By Waterloo I mean the gay pub on Argyle Street (Glasgow), not the place in London

[elitscholastikos]

And by ‘getting reminded’ I mean I just came across this old poem I wrote in ‘24 about that time I walked from Argyle’s tube station trying to get to Saltspace, and it took me like two bloody hours

[elitscholastikos]

Saltspace is amazing tho, the exhibit that day was ‘Abject Bodies’ by Ames Truscott (they/them) and Maya El Nahal (they/she).

(These are photos by me, I can’t find the official photos, but you can probably find them on Saltspace’s Instagram page)

[odd-maid3n]

[knight--error]

[therobotmonster]

[whencartoonsruletheworld]

did i tell u guys i got into an argument on twitter bc i said foxes are dogs and someone tried to bring up their actual fuckin. classification or whatever and i just said “foxes are dogs cause they are fluffye” and they kept arguing with me. the entire time i was like “you will not survive the immigration to tumblr you are lucky we are not there right now”

[neopolitanfox]

This is especially funny because they aren’t even right. Foxes *ARE* dogs.

[trojanhorse8-2]

No they aren’t.

[supreme-leader-stoat]

yes they are. because they are fluffye.

[trojanhorse8-2]

OK yes they are.

[mr-deep-downer]

Dog

[jooshthepunished-deactivated202]

Dog

[utah-mountain-drifter-deactivat]

Different family, but same order as @pictures-of-dogs

[zarabithia12365-deactivated2022]

No, they are the same family. They are the same kingdom, phylum, order and family. They separate at the genus.

They’re a dog.

[birdsareblooming]

yeah they’re fluffye

[dacavendishtime]

theyre literally not dogs theyre not even fluffy. can we get science tumblr over hear or what!?

[birdsareblooming]

checkmate athiests

[ajarofpickledtears]

fluffye

[pa-pa-plasma]

okay but they literally are dogs, for those who are confused

[stele3]

If foxes are dogs, then so are wolves, coyotes, dingoes, jackals, and several other extant and extinct species.

Behold! A dog.

[lemon-badgeress]

of course it’s a dog you buffoon. it’s fluffye.

[findingfeather]

Why on earth would someone think “BUT IF THEY’RE DOGS SO AR -”

Like yes of course wolves are dogs, where have you been. Jackals are excellent doggies! So are coyotes. Why is this confusing.

[theknightlywolfe]

I love that this is literally two completely different arguments running simultaneously.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

That guy up there who said they’re not even fluffy was thinking of sharks

[thebelovedlion]

sharks are also dogs. ravenous water dogs, but still dogs

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Sharks can NOT be dogs they are SMOOTH

[porcupine-girl]

Tags via @jenroses

[gabyluvsxena]

sharks are smooth dogs

[grubby-gerblin]

BEHOLD, a SHARK

[bamboozled-bumblefuck]

17 clown car pileup 84 injured 193 dead

[elitscholastikos]

Comments & analysis: A POEM IN THREE CANTOS / Canto I

Do people not read Joel Barlow anymore? Why can’t I find a collection of his works from even the largest archive online

By which I mean help, I need an epub

[warmfigure]

@cityfawns shes well loved

[badassdemonsword-deactivated202]

[elitscholastikos]

[mxjackparker]

If you're at work in a retail or hospitality environment and you see a sex worker with a client... no you didn't.

If your boss asks you if you think that person's a sex worker, you tell them you do not believe that. You don't report their presence to anyone. You don't joke about it with a coworker. You don't eavesdrop or bother them.

We're working the same as you are. Leave us alone!

[mxjackparker]

Some examples of situations where you might need to keep your mouth shut about a potential sex worker:

You see someone you don't recognize walk past reception at your hotel to head directly for the stairs or elevator or towards the rooms without acknowledging you at the reception desk. Yes, this includes when the person is wearing revealing clothing or a nice dress and heels. This is not your business.

You notice multiple men going to the same hotel room during the same evening, each only staying for an hour or so at a time. This is not your business.

You seat two customers for dinner and work as their waiter/waitress for the night. You see one give an envelope of cash to the other. Yes, this includes when there's a huge age gap between the two and they're being affectionate. This is not your business.

You overhear one customer ask another how much they charge for a night, whilst making drinks for them. You heard nothing. This is not your business.

I do not care what kind of retail or hospitality setting you work in. If you see a sex worker, no you didn't!

[astra-the-dragon]

if the cops get involved, you know who gets punished? not any of the clients, only the sex worker. not a pimp, not the hotel manager, only the worker; and the cops are liable to sexually assault them as well.

if you have any qualms about sex work, you can start by improving workers' rights as a whole. demilitarizing police. increasing comprehensive sex ed for all ages. battling misogyny in the workplace. under the boot of capitalism, we all suffer - the most vulnerable, such as sex workers, suffer worst. leave them be.

[mxjackparker]

@sparrowofsong You seem to be missing the point of the post with these tags.

The training you got is bad. The second point here, about not reporting someone because multiple men go in and out of a room, is not a sign of trafficking and traffickers do not generally use hotels as a base - they rent commercial buildings or flats. Multiple men going into a room is far far more likely to be an independent sex worker, and when we get kicked out of places where we can work alone we're more likely to seek out managers and brothels and be exploited.

Training about how to spot sex trafficking is fear mongering intended to make you into a spy for the surveillance state against sex workers. Do not comply.

[karpad]

This Black History Month, reflect for a moment on the fact that George Washington Carver, famously "the inventor of peanut butter and more than 100 industrial uses for peanuts" wasn't, like, Doc Brown fucking around in his garage because he really liked peanuts but was specifically trying to introduce larger use of a nitrogen fixing legume into crop rotations against cotton monoculture which was destroying yields, livelihoods and the biosphere, and how most agribusiness farming now just destroys that topsoil on purpose and continues to grow a cotton monoculture (or soy or corn or whichever local monoculture is profitable) using petrochemical derived fertilizer, which is one element driving climate change

Daniel Hale Williams performed the first successful heart surgery. He also founded the first nonsegregated hospital in America because he was keenly aware of disparate health outcomes by race which is still a problem today.

WEB Dubois was a part of the delegations for the birth of the UN. His proposal to include in the charter that "the colonial system of government … is undemocratic, socially dangerous and a main cause of wars" was not adapted for the final draft. We might see inaction against colonial violence to this day as part of the failure of others to heed his warnings there.

I feel like so often when we look at Black History Month so much of it is driven by factoids but when taken as history in context its about a direct line from decades and centuries to what is happening right now.

[writing-prompt-s]

Long ago before they went different ways an elven and a human child made a promise to marry another in a thousand years if they didn't find anyone else they love. Now a thousand years later the unmarried elf knows that humans can't life that long, but the lich still came to keep their promise.

[elitscholastikos]

Bukowski capturing the ‘authentic’ LA living experience

[elitscholastikos]

Just got reminded that the very first flat I rented had this ugly Waterloo-esque red rug covering the whole floor of my bedroom, what’s worse is that the main light source was this massive chandelier on my ceiling

[elitscholastikos]

By Waterloo I mean the gay pub on Argyle Street (Glasgow), not the place in London

[elitscholastikos]

And by ‘getting reminded’ I mean I just came across this old poem I wrote in ‘24 about that time I walked from Argyle’s tube station trying to get to Saltspace, and it took me like two bloody hours

[elitscholastikos]

Just got reminded that the very first flat I rented had this ugly Waterloo-esque red rug covering the whole floor of my bedroom, what’s worse is that the main light source was this massive chandelier on my ceiling

[elitscholastikos]

By Waterloo I mean the gay pub on Argyle Street (Glasgow), not the place in London

[elitscholastikos]

Just got reminded that the very first flat I rented had this ugly Waterloo-esque red rug covering the whole floor of my bedroom, what’s worse is that the main light source was this massive chandelier on my ceiling

[whoscoxon]

#mycollection

[ivan-fyodorovich-k]

I wish to purchase goods and services without entering a blood covenant that entitles the provider to email and text me forever and also store a bunch of my personal data that they’re going to apologize for exposing in a breach in the next five to ten years

[speedlimit15]

grocery store mission barely accomplished took massive damage to the hull and all internal systems. shield repair could take days

[leche-flandom]

Tumblr went down but then I checked out the comment section at downdetector and there as so much gay chaos* it was like I never left.

*and barking. and LIES

[soviet-wizard]

@the-stew-goblin Seasoning and pairing suggestions for a lair stew?

[the-stew-goblin]

Oregano and arsely