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charlesoberonn

This post today is more than twice as old as Tumblr itself was when this post was originally made.

dialogic

Retcon arm in the homestuck pilot talk about ambitious

#Homestuck #Homestuck pilot

sweetsnap

ficklefandoms

oh no, here we go again

#homestuck #homestuck pilot #upd8

underachievement

Pyramus' Thisbe

Pyramus' Thisbe Loves in a feud who she hears through a hole in a wall Risking it all.

Love is a finder Seeking a rift or a crack through to breathe in a dream Gods' eyes agleam.

Oldest story living the root of all pop songs. Oldest story living how do we fight these wrongs?

Handsome Pyramus Chooses his fate and escapes to a mulberry tree Waiting for she.

Watching and waiting Spotting a veil nomore pale sees it's now stained with red Mourning bloodshed.

Oldest story living the root of all pop songs. Oldest story living how do we fight these wrongs?

Pyramus' Thisbe Finding remains and heartbreak so she weeps from her soul Loss takes its toll.

Leaves of mulberry Weeping new tears to the spheres of the recently dead Fruit chooses red.

Oldest story living the root of all pop songs. Oldest story living how do we fight these wrongs?

#filk #parody #the beatles #eleanor rigby #pyramus and thisbe #ovid #metamorphosis

emmaklee

Hannah Streefkerk

crocheted & embroidered lichen installation

#art #crochet #embroidery #fiber art

tanadrin

fascinating to watch society increasingly work itself into contortions about how to make a principled distinction between boy tits (pedestrial!) and girl tits (taboo!) because even as the rigid gender binary is slowly chipped away, we can’t handle the fact someone somewhere might be turned on

some breast cancer survivors have breasts but no nipples; are their chests nsfw? if they have their nipple transplanted to their forehead, must it be covered? if i have my nipples moved to my forehead but then later acquire tits via hrt or breast implants, then are they nsfw? why is a trans man’s chest post top surgery sfw but not pre? why is a flat-chested woman’s chest never sfw? what if someone refuses to disclose their AGAB? must they wear Schroedinger’s Sports Bra at all times? if someone transitions, has top surgery, then decides to go back to identifying as a woman, does their chest become NSFW again, or does it remain SFW?

so many philosophical questions! and what a waste of human brain power and technical ability to spend it all on arcane points of content moderation. at what point does this all become such a drag on our economy, that we have to jettison our hangups or else permit innovation to grind to a halt?

justsomeantifas

them: SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST MEANS HUMANS MUST BE INDIVIDUALLY SELF-SUFFICIENT AND COMPLETELY INDEPENDENT

biologist:

systlin

Like literally the only reason we didn’t go extinct is because we are aggressively social creatures who community organized and helped each other when faced with disasters that drove other species over the brink.

(Like we’re so aggressively social that we looked at APEX PREDATORS and went ‘they look soft! Friend????’)

(The answer was yes because wolves are also aggressively social and they adopted the strange tall not-wolves just as eagerly.)

kelssiel

humans @ wolves: holy shit these things are so cute i wonder if they’ll let us pet them?

wolves @ humans: holy shit these things are so cute i wonder if they’ll pet us?

aztechnology

Just in case people want source, here you go: humans are compelled to help each other in disaster situation, humans feel an innate urge to help others. We will help strangers too, not just family, and it has been tested.

boxingcleverrr

Also we’ve always taken care of our elderly and disabled. When life was literally “hunt and gather every day to live”, we saw value in taking care of those with disabilities.

apparentlyeverything

reblog to make a libertarian mad

#society

whaile

late summer / early fall thoughts

#poetry #climate change

perfect-cecilos

Some of these Night Vale tweets get deep and I love them for that

#happy pride

lewdmangabey

maybe i’m a goddamn bleeding heart hippie liberal but i’m totally down with paying an extra .50 cents for a thing of fries if the person who makes me those fries doesn’t have to work 3 jobs just to survive.

failfemme

most studies show that prices would only have to go up by 1 to 3 cents in order to raise employee wages significantly

or, you know, the ceo’s could take pay cuts but that would be so hard for the poor multimillionaires

septmilleneurones

As a working class consumer, that comment is really important. I see a lot of liberals who mean well but unfortunately have this kind of saviour mentality that doesn’t allow for the fact that poorer consumers don’t have as much leeway to make the kind of sacrifices they’re volunteering consumers as a whole to make. It’s really important to show how completely moot that conversation is and how easily this problem could be solved if we as a society stopped allowing the wealth to hoard such a massive amount of our resources.

#labor politics

ryebreadgf

How do you process grief?

by running from it until it finds me in the middle of a sunny street on a beautiful day

grongleboy

prev had extremely beautiful and profound thoughts i had to share

#therapy #grief

cocainesocialist

Trade unions are looking to the past for inspiration in how to mess with their exploitative employers.

The 23rd of January was meant to be another strike day at the Ministry of Justice. Just like the day before, an anti-strike workforce of cleaners, receptionists and security guards had been brought in to keep the building running. Early in the morning, Purma and the other strikers turned up to form a picket line. But then, all at once, they walked inside to do their jobs like normal. Rather than continuing the protest, the workers had secretly coordinated to go back to work a day early.

The unexpected non-strike meant that all the outsourced staff turned up for work and needed to get paid, and so did the anti-strike scab workforce. Someone was going to have to pay a double wage bill.

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Deliveroo and UberEats riders, however, are masters of the mindfuck. Because they’re technically self-employed, the laws on strike action and trade unions don’t apply to them. That means that the slow bureaucracy of postal ballots and turnout thresholds designed to prevent workers from taking collective action goes out the window. Instead, these workers can just do what makes sense to them. The result has been an explosion in militancy, as the platforms try to cut their workers’ already-low wages. Strikes are now breaking out every couple of weeks with little or no prior notice. They’re organised through complex networks of encrypted messenger chats which are completely invisible to platform bosses, meaning that all their standard management techniques need to be rewritten.

#labor politics

feargender

This just in: men are good. Masculinity is good. Being a man is good. Yes including cis men. Especially including trans men. If you’re someone who loves men, that’s good. Male love is good: the way men love each other, the way men love themselves is good. You should not be ashamed of loving men or of being a man, you should not shame others for loving men or being a man. Maleness is not a threat or an evil or unsafe.

#masculinity #healthy masculinity

roycohn

it's been talked about plenty but it just continually blows my mind how many people are completely fixated on social justice at a macro level while totally incapable of showing basic decency to the people around them.

ktempestbradford

Story Time!

Upfront: I am a Black Woman. I currently live in Portland, OR.

In 2020 I had been living here permanently for about a year with a roommate who I didn't know before I'd moved in. She was a white woman, younger than me by over 10 years, who was very left and self-identified as someone who cared about social justice.

As you might know, in the summer of 2020 there were major protests here in response to police violence and murder. One day I was chatting with the roomie and it came out that she had been going to those protests (I wasn't aware). I was very agitated because, well, covid. When I mentioned that going to the protests put her in danger of catching it, she said:

Who cares about getting covid when the police are killing Black people?

Friends. FRIENDS.

My brain froze because I just could not fathom how she could make that statement.

She knew that I didn't have health insurance. She'd heard that there were worse outcomes for Black people. And at this point -- before vaccines or any other protections beyond masking and hoping you didn't get it -- if she caught covid it meant I would certainly get it, too.

In arguing about this with her she claimed that it wasn't that dangerous and that really only elderly people and the immunocompromised were really in danger. When I yelled: I AM IMMUNOCOMPROMISED she apologized for not knowing that.

But she still wanted to keep going to the protests. Even though I stated that I needed her to not.

Because Black Lives Matter is important, you see.

Not my Black life, though. Not as much.

I ended up having to move out. In the middle of a pandemic. I no longer speak to her.

#covid 19

eggwraith

opens box that reads "i wanna draw again". inside lies a note. the note says, "mental illness and difficult circumstances have taken years of interest, accessibility, and skill away from me. i want to forgive myself for that. i want to heal my relationship to my hobbies. i want to feel connected to something that once made me feel good, but the cyclic discouragement is difficult to overcome." i turn over the note. on the back it reads "wannta drawe sexy bodies awooga"

ficklefandoms

fUuuuuu-

#gpoy