This Too Shall Pass

Hunt you are loved 9/30/1955-2/14/2015

[jalapeno6]

I’m just a fucking idiot

[jalapeno6]

if there was even just one day I wasn’t crying in the bathroom at work it would be a miracle

[dankmemeuniversity]

[zerosocialskillz]

Today is the only day you can reblog this meme, everyone

[thefallenbibliophilequote]

Happy 22/2/22 day!

[niuniente]

Not to mention that today, 22/2/22 Pluto has finished its trip around the sun which started in 1774.

[twoheartsoneclara]

people on this website loves days and dates. you could make a post that says “it’s sweet fat of the hog tuesday” and people would go nuts reblogging it every tuesday

[cool-dad-deactivated20240526-de]

happy sweet fat of the hog tuesday

[bimbosofficial]

[hootersasuke]

father when can I leave to be on my oooowwwnnn

[mamoru]

Their Bionic Eyes Are Now Obsolete and Unsupported

These early adopters found out what happened when a cutting-edge marvel became an obsolete gadget... inside their bodies.

yet another horrifying story about disability tech companies taking the money of disabled people and then abandoning them. this one is about $150,000 eye implants. company went bankrupt, many patients are now without vision again and unable to remove the implants without risking their health, but having the implants in is also extremely dangerous and makes it impossible to get life saving MRIs. the company responsible did not even think to contact its patients when it was going out of business and ending support. people have devices in their brain that now do nothing except potentially kill them. there is nobody who offers replacement parts for these devices, any maintenance, and people are having their implants break without any support to fix or remove them.

fuck these companies. fuck this shit. it keeps happening. these fucking companies make products for disabled people, offer them hope, take their money, then bail. even if bailing can fucking kill people and if they used up all their money

this is why tech startups cannot replace healthcare overhauls, better benefits, more funding, and more studies. expensive, temporary technology is not the answer to accessibility. it is not feasible and it is not safe.

there is zero accountability and shit like this is always happening.

[grenade-maid]

I think like, the death of Vine and Rabbit, Wikipedia constantly needing to beg for money, Discord depending so heavily on venture capital, Facebook turning towards spying on users to generate a return on all the venture capital that got them started, Adobe creative suite turning into a subscription rather than a single product you buy, the strangulation of streaming entertainment as every company pulls their content and makes it exclusive to their service, are all great examples of how like, it really doesn’t matter if something is legitimately useful, efficient, or beloved, it is next to impossible for a service to exist if it doesn’t make shareholders increasing amounts of money year after year. Which may seem like a “no duh” type of statement, but it’s a very simple window into how the profit motive makes products and services worse, not better. And how that’s not just a matter of certain companies or ceos being bad and greedy on an individual level, but is an inescapable factor of an economy where existence is dependent on generating capital.

[kabaks]

sometimes i think about gay people who lived centuries ago who thought they were all alone who imagined a world where they could live openly as themselves who met in secret spoke in code defied everything and everyone just to exist and i’m like..i gotta sit down. whew i gotta sit down

[l2g-deactivated20240513]

this is why this sappho fragment hits me so hard

[doomedvoyages]

[phantom-tail]

If this little book should see the light after its 100 years of entombment, I would like its readers to know that the author was a lover of her own sex and devoted the best years of her life in striving for the political equality and social and moral elevation of women.

“The Great Geysers of California” by Laura De Force Gordon, 1879, unearthed from a 100-year-old time capsule in San Francisco, 1979.

[levourdalak]

“Wouldn’t it be wonderful if all our letters could be published in the future in a more enlightened time. Then all the world could see how in love we are.”

Gordon Bowsher to Gilbert Bradley, 1940s

[homoslovenc]

reading these fragments always makes me cry

[bug-gif]

[537avianway-deactivated]

the gender fluids...

[libertarirynn-deactivated202006]

This blew my damn mind

[glowin-theshark]

[d-eadnam-e]

I fucking KNEW there was a difference between address and address!

You address a person by their name.

You give someone your address.

[nyanbinyuri]

i hate this god damn bastard language

[dankmemeuniversity]

[okujo-deactivated20210225]

I believe this only works if you live in Arizona (correct me if I’m wrong) but please spread so people can email the senator to stop this

[astrofruit]

i live in texas and put in my actual address, it worked just fine for me!

[kitsungari]

This is a US senate bill, it works for anyone in the US (I put my Utah address and it sent to the Utah senators.)

[bonersniper]

This post is only 2 weeks old!

[8lottie8]

Original post 10th August 2020

[brainstatic]

An aspect of gun control that other countries practice that doesn’t come up in America a lot is ammunition control. In Japan, if you’re one of the privileged few allowed to own a gun (and only shotguns and rifles are legal), you have to return all your spent cartridges if you want to buy any more. In Israel, after you’ve purchased the one gun you’re allowed to own, you’re given a box of 50 bullets, and that’s it. You can’t buy any ammunition anywhere, that’s your lifetime supply, although a shooting range will provide you with more, but only for use at that range. Even in countries with more relaxed gun control laws, like Switzerland and Serbia, buying ammunition requires all the same paperwork as buying a gun (mental health records, criminal records, etc) and you can only buy ammo for the gun you own. Gun control advocates in the US should consider placing an emphasis on ammunition control in addition to everything else.

[mousathe14]

God that actually makes a lot of sense

[ambientwitch]

[phantomsteed]

“do you rodents think you can handle a semicircle” is making me lose my damn mind

[shoelace-and-friends]

This mouse is absolutely gay 

[lavendermuseums]

[happyunicornjet]

Columbia University Student Will Drag Her Mattress Around Campus Until Her Rapist Is Gone

“I think the act of carrying something that is normally found in our bedroom out into the light is supposed to mirror the way I’ve talked to the media and talked to different news channels, etc,” Emma continues in the full video which you can watch here.

So, I just want to go into HOW MUCH Columbia and the NYPD has failed, and revictimized, Emma Sulkowitz.

What I really love about this ‘mattress performance’ is that other students helped her carry her mattress across campus.

All those people reminded her that she didn’t have to carry that weight alone. That’s amazing.

[katie-and-her-fandoms]

this is her at her graduation

[schiwalker]

At her fucking graduation. God damn.

[femalecharacterthatyouhate-deac]

I’ll never not reblog this

[matchabrookie]

This is about ten years old. Wonder what she’s doing now

[catlogicdefiesall]

Performance art and anti-rape campaigning, according to her Wikipedia article.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emma_Sulkowicz

[satwcomic]

YOU get some dignity and YOU get some dignity

Finland explained himself in the comic, but in 2010 Denmark started giving heroine to drug addicts for free and it was such a huge success that it has continued until today. Because of this Norway has started experimenting with it too. It’s a lot cheaper for society because the addicts commit less crime, they don’t have to spend money on drugs so instead they spend it on things that are more healthy for them so they don’t end up on the hospital as often, they have to take the drugs in special clinics so there’s no chance of them taking an overdose or using dirty needles and spreading diseases among each other, there’s always staff ready to help them if they want to get off the drugs, and it’s a lot more effective way to help more people because addicts come into contact with professionals who want to help them before they even think about getting help themselves. Nobody wants to be homeless or an addict. Though they often end up getting involved in criminality because of their situation, the act of being homeless or an addict is not a crime in itself and the people deserve help like anyone else.

My website: https://satwcomic.com/

[timemachineyeah]

It also gets money out of mafia/crime communities. Really hard to base your business on selling drugs people can get safer for free. Really hard to spend that drug money on weapons or other dangers if you never made it in the first place.

[swan2swan]

I check my pockets as I lock the door behind me.

“I got my keys. My wallet. My phone. My bags. Is that everything?”

I stop. I look up with horror.