JWW

Pan panda panicking (he, they)

[catchymemes]

[anxiouslittlecarrot]

I want everybody who’s calling Ken a Trophy Husband to know that he’s actually a Trophy Boyfriend, because when Ruth Handler invented Ken in the 1960s, she was adamant that he would never marry her and instead be her “handsome steady”, so that Barbie remained a figure of independence for the little girls and was never put in the position of housewife.

Her house is hers. She bought it and furnished it with money she made in her own job. In STEM, in politics, in healthcare, in fashion, in academy, in customer service. Her credit card is in her name (women in the US couldn’t have their own regardless of marital status until 1974). And it’s all pink and fashionable because femininity and badassness aren’t mutually exclusive. No matter who you are, you can be anything.

That’s why Barbie’s slogan is “you can be anything”. Teaching these ideals to little girls is why Barbie was created. Empowering women and empowering femininity is the original meaning of the Barbie doll. It’s not that you have to be all this to be a woman, but if you are all or some of this, you too are awesome.

And somehow pop culture deliberately changed that narrative. Sexualised, bimbofied, and villainised her, when she actually isn’t responsible for the impossible beauty standards — people are, she’s just a stylised, not-to-scale toy like most others.

Men are frothing because he’s just Ken and I guess they were expecting her to be just Barbie, but that’s exactly what Ken is. Canonically. A badass woman’s himbo boyfriend.

This movie has the potential to change the way we collectively see Barbie radically into what Ruth Handler’s intended, I’m so very excited

[special-lucky-chosen-one]

a tiny problem

this probably hasn't made the news in other countries - huge mining company Rio Tinto managed to lose this little capsule (8 x 6 mm) somewhere in West Australia:

it's caesium-137, the stuff that has made Chernobyl uninhabitable, and you don't want to be standing within 5-10 meters of it, because it's blasting out beta and gamma rays. you REALLY don't want to pick it up, because it'll give you radiation burns.

what's nuts is it seems to have somehow escaped from its "secure" container and fallen out of a bolt hole while being transported, and then nobody noticed for TWO WEEKS.

anyway there are fire fighters on their sixth day of scouring 1,400 km (!) of desert road right now, but it's so small that it may never be found (I think the detection radius with the equipment they're using is maybe 20m). it's so small that it could have stuck in a car's tire treads, or been picked up by an unfortunate bird or other wildlife. it has a half-life of 30 years, which means it'll be dangerously radioactive for centuries.

it's just an incredible fuckup on so many levels.

[special-lucky-chosen-one]

here's an article on this:

Radioactive substances expert perplexed at how dangerous capsule 'has fallen off the back of a truck'

One expert calls for tougher radiation safety measures as an urgent warning remains in place over the disappearance of a highly radioactive

"At the moment, I don't think anybody can quite believe that something that's highly radioactive has fallen off the back of a truck"

[anais-ninja-bitch]

sir

sir, you do not belong there

[cipheramnesia]

he has a permit, leave him alone

[anais-ninja-bitch]

he does, in fact, not have a permit to be in the cat food pantry. i know this bc i issue those permits, and i have issued no such permit to this particular gentleman. if he might be so called.

[cipheramnesia]

i promise you he filed the paperwork with my office and he is just waiting for it in the mail

[anais-ninja-bitch]

how did you get authority to give my cats cat crime permits?

[cipheramnesia]

This woman assured me I am authorized:

[anais-ninja-bitch]

my friend, this is a very common scam. this woman is well known to authorities for cat crimes, especially fraud.

[cipheramnesia]

that's what I thought ma'am but her lawyer assured me she was legitimate:

[anais-ninja-bitch]

so trustworthy in appearance, and yet so duplicitous! you are the victim of a worldclass bamboozle! please, consult your insurance policy. you should have some financial coverage, but i am afraid your reputation may never recover.

[cipheramnesia]

what reputation

[anais-ninja-bitch]

fair enough. as you were.

[nothing-more-than-hot-leaf-juice]

Iroh: so Toph, what are your goals in life?

Toph: I’ve been banned from every major city’s transportation system except Omashu

Toph: I don’t know what their limit is but I will fucking find it 

[probsjosh]

King Boomie, having exactly zero limits:

[theotheristhedoctor]

Unstoppable object meets immovable force

[gaangarang]

[Toph eventually slips up and is captured by the city guard force. Instead of being imprisoned or exiled, Toph finds herself being given audience with the King of Omashu.]

Bumi: Well, well, well. It seems I have finally met the troublemaker who has been causing such chaos with my rail systems.

Toph:…

Bumi: I must say, I am thoroughly impressed with your earthbending abilities. You remind me of myself when I was a lad.

Toph: Get to the point.

Bumi: I see great potential in you, Toph Beifong. I want you inherit my title once I am no longer fit to rule.

Toph: Wait what the fuck

[out-there-on-the-maroon]

Why wasn’t this Toph’s future instead of becoming a freaking cop. This would have made so much more sense. 

[gallusrostromegalus]

My favorite part of this is “when I am no longer fit to rule” because

1. Implying Bumi was fit to rule at any point

1.1 except maybe in the sense that he was completely shredded

2. That he has no plans to die, (nor would death necessarily make him unfit to rule), but that he apparently intends to like. Tuck his arms and legs into himself and just roll off into the sunset.

3. Given that the Earth Kingdom has an actual ruling family that causes some drama in LoK, Toph continuing to cause monarchy confusion is both 100% in character and fucking hilarious.

[definitelynotaminion]

Toph takes over as King Bumi the second and everyone is like “no that’s not how inheriting works” and Bumi is like “No no she’s right, I did say “inherit my title!”

[aromantic-angel]

When toph is no longer fit to rule, she instills bumi (Aang’s son) as her heir and he is known as bumi 3.

[catflowerqueen]

Her first act as ruler is to ban herself from Omashu’s transportation system, thus fulfilling one of her life goals.

[i-was-today-years-old-when]

i learned of “Box beds” – cabinets with beds in them and, sometimes, lockable doors – were used for privacy and safety in parts of rural medieval Europe before individual bedrooms were common. They became fashionable even in homes with bedrooms and remained in use in Scotland into the 1900s (x)

[sator-the-wanderer]

I don’t want a swimming pool, I want a box bed/nook bed

[headspace-hotel]

Ohhhhhhh man this unlocks Primal Instinct

Nest!!!! Cozy!!!!!

[googlemenot-deactivated20230921]

[feminist-knuckles]

All universally loved shows have complex female characters. No, this is not a coincidence.

[k-dhd]

[imautistsick]

Being neurodivergent is all fun and games until neurotypical people want you to stop being yourself, then it's a game that you lose everytime and cant figure out why

[fanonical]

one time in minecraft i built myself a secret underground base because i was experimenting with redstone, i built a lighting system of redstone lamps, as well as an emergency self-destruct feature

i put the light switch and the self-destruct switch next to each other

can you guess what happened next?

[kitkat-the-muffin]

Yep

[anexperimentallife]

[seymour-butz-stuff]

[faggotryandpride]

King shit

[fuckyeahcomicsbaby]

Follow your dream

[callese]

[afloweroutofstone]

As someone who has personally had to take those calls, they do matter. It just doesn’t matter what you say in the call: the only way your calls actually reach the politician is a tally sheet of each call received on different topics. End of the day/week, the politician gets told “you had X many calls about people wanting you to do this, Y many calls about people wanting you to do this, etc.”

Individual calls matter little, but if they get tons of calls on one topic then they take it seriously. The example above was probably during a time where the office was flooded with so many calls at once that they took the phones off the hook, which actually means that calls are working especially well. When the phones are blowing up, everyone in the office notices.

The best call to your representative does not involve you making an impassioned and well-argued case, because you’re probably talking to an intern. The most effective call you can make takes 15 seconds: “I am from [place in your district] and I am very pissed about [topic].”

[socialjusticeissue]

OI. PEOPLE IN THE THREAD. CAN WE REBLOG THIS VERSION PLEASE. DON'T STOP MAKING CALLS.

But also as another person further up says, don't let your activism start and stop with phone calls either.

[wolframmathematica]

[hhawkeye]

btw ppl need to start seeing abortion as a good thing rather than like a Necessary Evil like. its literally a medical procedure there shouldnt be a fucking moral panic over it and im sick of “pro choice” people who go “okay yeah abortion is never someones number one choice” WHY NOT. LITERALLY WHY NOT. WHO CARES. WHO THE FUCK CARES

[phoebe-does]

a piece of advice my dad gave me and I’ve never forgotten is, “if you won’t worry about it in 4 months, don’t worry about it now.” saved me countless times, it’s a philosophy to adopt and help improve your life. Failed a test? ask yourself if you’ll think about this still in 4 months? Made a fool of yourself in public? I doubt even the people who saw it will remember it past today. Know you could have done better? Ran further? don’t beat yourself up over it, you can do better tomorrow. Don’t overthink things, a lot of negatives matter less than you think they do.