Folly Oliver

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[follyoliver]

A Farewell to Arms - For those on the ramparts of the world's sole superpower, the digital winds are blowing an icy chill through the triump

This article is from 1997, and it is wild to read right now in 2021. I was attempting to watch 2007’s “Live Free or Die Hard” and it came up in the opening credits “based on an article...” and I thought that was a weird thing for the opening credits of a Bruce Willis action movie, so I went and looked it up. They mention a website called “InfoWar.com” (it’s missing an “s” and Alex Jones is nowhere in sight!) and at one point they seem to be projecting that Al Gore will be president one day. I guess that’s not an unreasonable thing to think in 1997 but it’s still weird to read. The past is another country. Even the past I was alive for.

It’s just so clearly written before 9/11, before the Patriot Act, before the Russian interference in the 2016 elections, and yet it points toward all of that, so I guess we really are just living out the dystopia we already knew was coming. I did not sit down to be this bummed out! I sat down to watch an aging action star power thru a fourth installment in an increasingly preposterous film franchise. Also, one of my favorite fanfictions (helenish’s “Pre Existing Condition”) is based on this movie so I thought I should probably see it at some point.

[sawasawako-archived]

“It is very tempting to take the side of the perpetrator. All the perpetrator asks is that we do nothing… The victim, on the contrary, asks the bystander to share the burden of pain. The victim demands action, engagement and remembering.”

– Judith Herman

[kafk-a]

I think about this poem all the time.

[doc-cochran-deactivated20210609]

[vo-kopen]

Big mood.

[thefingerfuckingfemalefury]

The best part is how you can see he’s trying SO HARD not to laugh here

[fullofowls]

Tim Curry: I’m escaping to the ONE place that hasn’t been corrupted by capitalism! [shaky breaths while trying not to smile] sssPACE

[marisatomay]

happy “the great gatsby is now in the public domain” day to all who celebrate

[synebluetoo]

LET THE SLASH COMMENCE!

[wolvesandwerewolvesbaby]

[wizardnuke]

I'm gonna figure it out hold on

[wizardnuke]

PFFFHHHBTBBHT

[wizardnuke]

I'm 90% sure that there's just one change. it's in one of the later chapters. a straight, undeniable change to the canon. I'm absolutely baffled

[wizardnuke]

yes okay this is word for word accurate to the book aside from ONE paragraph and it hit me like a TRUCK

[mrspockify]

For anyone who doesn’t want to search for it in ch. 7:

[throwherinthewater]

[feeli-manning]

This is Susan Robinson, one of the last people in the country who can preform late term abortions after the murder of Dr. George Tiller. This is from an awesome documentary called After Tiller, about the last 4 late-term abortion practitioners in the country.

This documentary is so so powerful and also available on Netflix! I highly recommend it

[blacbird]

[follyoliver]

Sometimes that’s all you need

[djklmnx]

Source

[follyoliver]

I love/hate this kind of advice because I try very hard to follow it and there are times when it is just......a very bad idea to do so. Step number 8 does not always work.

[teaboot]

Every person in a position of political power should have their daily needs matched to the lowest class of their country.

[teaboot]

You make $6 an hour now, Mr. Congressman, and you’re not allowed to sit down or take breaks during your 7.5 hour daily shift. If you don’t like that, then you’re welcome to make some changes

[betthearm]

This.

[norcross]

i’ve never understood being able to enact laws that will never impact you

[phinarei]

It legitimately works. When politicians chose to live on the food stamp budget for their state they worked to increase the allotment after only a week of living that way.

And honestly? It should include having to spend time living on disability, navigating their district in a wheelchair, and taking public transit.

These people should have to live with their choices the same way they force us to live with them.

[meshkol]

[allothersweretaken]

there is something inherently shitty that people in positions of power have to physically do the same things as people who are less fortunate than them to be able to empathise with them and make a change.

[hideunderthe-bed]

It's the last month of 2019 so I'm gonna say it: what the fuck was that

[follyoliver]

It's the last month of 2020 so I'm gonna say it: what the fuck was that

[keplercryptids]

one of breonna taylor's murderers was charged with wanton endangerment for firing into her neighbors' apartments. not for murderering a young woman in her home. but for property damage. no other charges were filed.

if you can, now would be a good time to donate to the Louisville bail fund. hundreds of protesters are currently marching with a long day ahead.

black lives matter.

[onlybluetalk]

don’t forget that florida voted to return voting rights to felons in 2018 (by 64.5%) and then the state legislature & DeSantis signed a bill deciding that, despite it not being in the language of the original amendment, they would have to have all of their fines and fees paid in full before having voting rights returned. you can donate to a fund run by the Florida Rights Restoration Coalition to help those who still have outstanding fees here

[wheelspiration]

[thegreenmeridian]

That 4th one.

How many of us have had ‘don’t let them kill me’ conversations with our next of kin? How many of us have had to help our spouses research legal options or come up with scripts in the event that we’re deemed to be low priority if we get covid and end up needing a ventilator?

[neurocrat]

I wrote in The Fandomentals about my new favorite TV show, Los Espookys. Feel good mystery comedy for the now times, with lots of queer rep, in Spanish with English subtitles. Watch it! https://thefandomentals.com/los-espookys-brings-light-to-the-darkness/

Los Espookys brings a little light to the darkness

Remember how much you loved Scooby Doo as a kid? Despite its intense, feverish dumbness? What if you could have a modern Scooby Doo, updated

[thejingshi]

Well, I don’t know. I mean… I mean, for me, I could love someone even if I, you know, wasn’t paid for it… I love you, and… you don’t pay me. My Own Private Idaho (1991) dir. Gus Van Sant

[ampervadasz]

[everythingfox]

The wolf is so done with the fox’s bs 😂

[evilkillerpoptarts]

Foxes are cat software being run on dog hardware.  Clearly this fox is operating on the Kitten OS.

[misselaineofoz]

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog

[unfollovving]

Mozilla FireFox @ Internet Explorer

[deepestfirefun]