Still Figuring This Shit Out At Thirty-Six

Trying to do right while not having a total breakdown.

[artmagine]

The beautiful art of Thomas Blackshear II

[jamjarblues]

remembering the time i saw a post on reddit discussing some scheme put on by the uk government (i think it was the pensioners heating bill one?) and all the americans in the thread were super offended the headline was calling it a ‘scheme’, saying it was deliberately putting a negative light on it. no babes we call everything a scheme here. thats just the word we use when the government does something - which i realise for people not familiar with the terms makes it sound like parliament is full of supervillains rubbing their hands together thinking up ways to ruin the ok post cancelled thats exactly what parliament is

[nosimpincurly]

[rhytmrocket]

shoutout ppl w tooth gaps btw. or overbites. or underbites. or crossbites. or uneven teeth. or other dental conditions. and also ppl who don’t want to/can’t afford to get that stuff changed/"fixed". ily

additive edit from rbs n replies: also ppl with discolored teeth, and broken/damaged/decaying teeth, and missing/no teeth

and i'll probably keep adding stuff as i think of it. just know i love ur teeth and/or lack thereof. ur cool n ily

[depsidase]

[quasi-normalcy]

also note how readily transphobia acts as a Trojan horse for rolling back all women's rights

[decompose1]

like do you not understand that this is just eugenics. and so fucking many of you parrot shit like this all the time

[permanententophy-deactivated202]

yall just have a problem with this idea because if it was ever implemented like 99% of white people wouldn't be able to have kids

[decompose1]

This is an incredibly cruel & tone deaf thing to say about a eugenicist idea that disproportionately harms Intellectually/Cognitively/Developmentally disabled people, but if you wanna talk about race? sure! let's talk about race. This topic actually has a lot to do with race.

Because this has always been done in Denmark.

And guess who was affected most? Native Greenlandic people! Something like 5% of native Greenlandic children were stolen from their loving & competent parents because they were native and the test was biased for White Danish culture & language (native Greenlanders that speak Kalaallisut were not provided interpreters so the test was flawed & biased& made them seem "incompetent" over a language barrier that had nothing to do with their parenting) and the Native people who fell outside that perfect white Danish mold were the ones who unfairly lost their kids! Do you seriously think these tests will punish abusive white parents at all? Do you not realize that these tests will be heavily biased in favor of white american culture & will punish anyone who falls outside of that mold, like Native American families, Black families, etc? I am Native. do you not understand that even our oldest cultural traditions w/ kids are constantly being threatened by white ass governments & "parenting guidelines"? do you not realize that there are ALREADY Native mothers who are punished for sleeping with their children or using cradleboards & traditional carriers or even just raising their children in Native culture that defies colonial American culture too much? Are you living under a rock? Do you actually think anything our governments have ever done was for the good of people of color over whites? What world are you living in? Why the fuck would you comment this shit on an intellectually disabled native woman's post? Jesus christ.

[mankillercalledbunny]

The answer to "How did these Ancient People do this????" is basically always

1. A lot of dudes. Just a ton of fucking people from beginning to end of the process.

2. Ancient people weren't stupid, they just figured shit out the same way we do: fuck around until you find out.

3. We're gonna plan this out and it's gonna take ten fucking years, and you will cope.

4. Sticks and string are surprisingly versatile and can be used for a variety of purposes, like moving stuff and making sure things are even and go in the spot you wanted to put them in!

5. I want to make this easier and more efficient to move. If I put this on the round thing and push, it will move. If I put this in water, it will move. If I get some animals and rope and have a whole bunch of them drag it, it will move. All of these things are a better option than one guy trying to pick the whole fucking thing up.

[mankillercalledbunny]

"I'm not calling the people who believe in this conspiracy theory racist" I am. They're racist. Maybe not out of malice, but the fact that they believe in this is in itself racist. These conspiracies are always about brown people. Machu Pichu, the Pyramids, Göbekli Tepe, Easter Island, it is ALWAYS POC. It's never the Parthenon, it's never the Colliseum, despite the fact that these were built around the same time as some of the other sites these conspiracy chucklefucks like to throw around, it's never something fucking European. It's always "primitive people" with "stone tools" and "no understanding of modern engineering" so "clearly someone must have taught them this or given them the technology because CLEARLY they were just too Primitive and Savage to figure it out themselves." Fuck off with that shit.

[cryptotheism]

If staff reformed the ban system to stop banning trans women and used the resulting good will to re-introduce pornography, this site would become a juggernaut. It would swallow Twitter whole.

[queer-as-city-folk]

Repost if you would like a trolley in your city

Or want to throw bricks at cops

[definitely-quicktrip-deactivate]

>:]

[firesub-houseway-real]

can I name the trolley "bricks" and throw it at cops???

[queer-as-city-folk]

No, it's too heavy to throw, but you can throw bricks at cops from the trolley

[hamza-only]

I forgot to eat.I forgot to play.I forgot to watch a movie.“Let’s play! Let’s go on a trip!”That’s what happens to seven billion people… except in Gaza.Let us eat moldy bread.Let us look at pictures of my dead brother.Let us play in the rubble of our home.Let us go to my father’s grave.

[sticksandsharks]

grey wagtail

character from The Wildercourt, the graphic novel I'm very slowly but very persistently working on

[superpunch2]

[have--not-deactivated20160117]

i love this photo because at first you think that she was going to get married but instead her husband to be left her, or something like that. but actually its quite the opposite. i clicked on the source and it brought me to an article explaining the story behind this photo, and shes not crying, shes hungover. her and her husband went to a football game on their wedding day, and got extremely drunk and partied all night. they took the subway home because they couldn’t drive. so no, its not a sad heartbreaking story, its a crazy joyful one. which in my opinion makes the picture even more amazing.

[cardcaptorr]

CAN PEOPLE PLEASE REBLOG THE PIC WITH THIS CAPTION^ AND NOT THE ONE WHERE EVERYONE IS SAD AND ARE LIKE “POOR GIRL GOD BLESS”

[bigolechompers]

poor girls hungover, god bless

[butchscientist]

The mitochondria being the powerhouse of the cell is a fact which is often discussed on the internet. The Golgi apparatus, however, being the post office of the cell, has not gotten nearly as much recognition. This is in line with the years-long underfunding of the postal service, which provides a deeply important service to society yet does not get the recognition it deserves. In this essay I will

[lindleland]

"save me, substance abuse!" i cry. before you can moralize to me about the dangers of addiction, a noble and powerful steed gallops into the room - my horse whom i have named "substance abuse". you learn an important lesson about making assumptions. i snort a line off its back

[adeebobo]

this reminds me of me and my friend’s horse named Drugs

when i was in middle school me and my friends had a small yellow horse eraser we fondly named “drugs”. this lead to a lot of middle school tomfoolery around his name and saying shit like “Ma’am, so and so took drugs from me” and other dumb shit like that.

eventually, our english teacher, Mr. R, caught onto the joke. instead of writing us up or sending us to the principal though, he played along, making similar jokes like “(name), stop taking drugs.” “hey. you three. you need to share drugs if he’s going to be at the table.” “no drugs today, guys?” so on and so forth.

by the end of the school year it had become a very fond joke between us and this english teacher, so we decided since we were moving onto our freshman year, we decided to give our eng teacher this little yellow horse eraser.

so we go find our english teacher, Mr. R, who was setting up cornhole with our principal and other “big important people” for our 8th grade graduation party, and we hand him the little eraser.

to which he yells as loudly (and happily) as he can: “YOURE GIVING ME DRUGS?!!”

i actually went back to visit him before i left for college, and to this day he still has Drugs on his desk, and regularly tells his new students about me and my friends. ty op for reminding me about Drugs the Horse

[r0zeclawz]

i get so annoyed when people extend a word incorrectly. what do you mean you had a "hugeeeee" burger. dont you mean a huuuuge burger? are you saying "huge-eeeeeeeee" out loud huh??? you start buzzing like a damn mosquito? well i fucking kill those. so watch out

[r0zeclawz]

im getting a lot of heated comments on this and i just wanna make it clear: yeah this is a pet peeve of mine but its really not that big of a deal, so if you see anyone doing this maybe try screaming really loud and lunging at them and grabbing them by the throat and bashing their head in with rocks

[pussiesaregod]

once i beat the depression and the burnout and the anxiety and the loneliness and the exhaustion and the guilt and the awkwardness and the apathy and the low income and the chronic illness and the impatience and the vulnerability and the creative block and the capitalism and the cruelty THEN you'll see

[thatautisticadhdfeel]

One of the more rage-inducing things neurotypicals do is spend years drilling it into you to pay attention to what’s being implied instead of only what’s stated, but if you start to develop that skill and use it to point out when they’re being subtly shitty to you, they react like you’re just making shit up to slander them, doesn’t matter how thoughtfully you explain how you got to that conclusion, doesn’t matter how much benefit of the doubt you give them, the only response they will ever give is "but I did not say those literal exact words so obviously I could not have meant or been thinking anything like that. Stop putting words in my mouth"

[thatautisticadhdfeel]

They THOUGHT they wanted me to read between the lines and understand what they weren’t saying, but then they realized that what they actually wanted was for me for to simply behave in the ways they expected without having to communicate those expectations to me.

Understanding leads to opinion having, and they never like it when I have opinions on How They Do Things.