Don't let the bastards get you down

[emeritusprofessorofnothing]

Genuinely, all the people who are like, "I'm such a monster, no one will ever love me 🥺" are so fucking boring. Ugh. Wah wah wah. Is there anything more tiresome than someone who just sees you as a perpetual sympathy machine. Vom.

[emeritusprofessorofnothing]

Do you guys ever think there is an extra hour between noon and one and get surprised at how fast 1 shows up? Like, it turns out there is only 2 hours between 11 and 1 despite what my brain tells me all the time.

[emeritusprofessorofnothing]

Are black Americans trolling with the smoke detector thing? I won't tell anyone just please let me know because there is no way.

[emeritusprofessorofnothing]

Multiple Prides being canceled because they didn't get corporate sponsorships is fucking crazy. How are you going to say, unabashed, that you are sponsored almost entirely by corporate money. I thought Pride was about homosexual people being out and proud. What do you need the money for? Why do you need money to walk down the street?

[lamignonette]

[homunculus-argument]

You know you've fucked up when you go to a doctor and the thing you have wrong with you has been named after an occupation that isn't a thing anymore. Like imagine a doctor looking at you and going "yeah you've got ox-drawn ploughman's disease. We don't even test for that anymore. Yeah the reason you've never heard of it is because the last known case was in 1927 and happened to some guy who was like 98 years old and didn't believe in modern medicine of the time. What the fuck have you been up to."

[vidrig]

Here in Sweden we have a pretty active larping community and many of them have a historical setting. I remember a story of a really awesome WW2 larp where, unfortunately, one of the participants hadn't removed his boots for three days straight and it rained the whole time. His feet suffered so much that he had to be taken to the hospital, which was a sight to behold. See, this guy covered in mud and wearing authentic WW2 gear had managed to get an incredibly historically correct case of trench foot. From a trench.

[a-bed-of-moss-deactivated202605]

Peer reviewed! Too good to leave!

[charseraph]

[asteroidtroglodyte]

When I got Gout and the doctor told me the diagnosis I laughed so hard the doctor then asked me if I was on any psych meds. I was just like “wait so I got Old Timey Rich Person Disease?”

Roughly paraphrasing his response: “well by your own admission you live on a diet of shellfish and wine, and you came into my office dressed like a vampire. Like. Yea man you gave yourself Gout. You want me to check you for Consumption while I’m at it? Go eat some vegetables, please.”

The most modern of medicine is no match for a Human who insists upon recreating the behaviors of their ancestors, it would seem.

[femalegothic]

[mini-wrants]

If you bite the chocolate bottom out of a cone I’m trying to share with you, I’m immediately squashing that cone on your forehead and then possibly filing for divorce.

Toddler antics.

[letterful]

[radfemme-rage]

it pertains to everything, to so much messaging sent out to young women and girls today

“hot girls read”, “hot girls go on walks”, “hot girls work out”

as if the most aspirational thing a woman can be is hot

as if the enjoyment and benefits from reading, from walking, from working out comes from the “hotness” it attributes the woman, and not from the intrinsic act itself

[senatortedcruz]

I hate Elon musk so fucking much

[senatortedcruz]

Exactly!!!!!

[maryfitzroy]

as joyce carol oates once said, “the poorest persons on twitter may have access to more beauty & meaning in life than the ‘most wealthy person in the world.’”

[logophilestudies]

this is the article:

Women Who Use Drugs

"Female drug use exists in diametrical opposition to male drug use: with different causes, motives for use, experiences, treatments, and pre

[hugewoman]

I have never seen a clearer argument for female drug addiction as an intentionally weaponized gateway to being sex trafficked

I could not more strongly recommend reading the entire article, it’s absolutely devastating but it’s a very important read. It’s a chilling indictment of the way drug addicted women are horrifically mistreated, exploited, and so often forgotten about if not further victimized by the very people who claim to want to help them

[itdoobielikethat]

Some of you are too young to remember this, but Amy Winehouse's husband/ex husband would habitually film himself shooting her up and then share the videos online. There was one circling before her death of Blake and another man injecting Amy while she was passed out. They were laughing.

[female-uncle]

oh ok I'll make sure to remember that 👍

[hating-alison-ashley]

Noone can actually say anything worse about them than they just say themselves.

[society-with-men]

TIL: unless you clarify otherwise, when you say "pedophile", you're saying "trans-woman". 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔

[dragon-hoard]

if you are going to need some kind of sedative for 4th of july fireworks for your pets NOW IS THE TIME TO SCHEDULE THOSE APPOINTMENTS TO ASK FOR THEM

NOT WHEN ITS 2 DAYS AWAY

[alex51324]

I feel like to really get this circulating as it should, we need it superimposed over the picture of the turkey going in the fridge. (I can't do it I'm on my phone.)

[amaditalks]

[figtreeandvine]

With the 250th anniversary it's likely to be especially bad this year!

[chrisweedpiano]

one of my favorite posts of all time

[caffedorzo]

[emeritusprofessorofnothing]

I wish someone had succeeded in killing Andy Warhol, not Solanas though because I heard she felt bad about the whole situation.

[arthistoryanimalia]

#WorldSeaTurtleDay :

Harry Rogers (Australia, 1929-2012)

Qantas: Pacific Islands, c.1960

colour lithograph poster 50 x 36.5cm

https://www.mutualart.com/Artwork/PACIFIC-ISLANDS--Qantas/9E373BE42736B3F54CEB0611DB620956

[arthistoryanimalia]

Resharing for #WorldSeaTurtleDay

[workingclasshistory]

On this day, 17 June 1971, construction workers in New South Wales initiated a "green ban", refusing to build luxury houses over Kelly's Bush, the last open space in a suburb. Local women had been campaigning to save the park, and eventually they approached construction workers and their union, the Builders Labourers Federation (BLF). The workers agreed to boycott the work, in a move which became known as a "green ban". Despite a management threat to use scab replacement workers, the builders and residents won, and Kelly's Bush remains an open public reserve today. A wave of green bans subsequently began which stopped billions of dollars of harmful development over the next four years. Wildlife and historic buildings were protected, as well as working-class and Aboriginal housing, and bans also took place in defence of women's and LGBT+ rights. We tell the inspiring story of the green bans in our podcast episodes 47-48: https://workingclasshistory.com/2020/10/30/e47-48-green-bans/