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straight up, i think we need to start unironically using the term megacorporation

amazon, disney, pepsi, pretty much any company that owns enough subsidiaries that you’re probably touching five of their products at any one time without realizing unless you know very well where everything you buy comes from

that’s a megacorporation

and it’s bad, todd

doolallymagpie

WE LIVE IN AN OLIGOPOLIC KLEPTOPLUTOCRACY AND NOBODY SEEMS TO CARE

natalunasans

we care, it’s just hard to spell

cistematicchaos

This one’s for the “autism’s not a disability because I’m autistic and not disabled!” crowd.

Here’s the thing: you can have a disability…and not be disabled. Sounds wild, I know, so let me elaborate with examples. I have an older sister who has asthma, which is a disability. But she doesn’t have to take medicine for it, it only bothers her sometimes when the weather changes and it’s never really that annoying, she just has it.

One of my other sister’s also has asthma and she can’t really run, has to take medicine regularly, gets attacks and cannot be around smoke of any kind. She is disabled. My other sister is not.

Disability as an identity isn’t just important for the obvious reasons many assume, which is accommodations but for community as well. And when you claim autism isn’t a disability because you personally aren’t disabled by it, maybe you think you’re outsmarting our oppressors. Maybe you think you’re helping yourself, separating yourself from the “dumb” autistics.

But you’re not. And you’re not.

Because when you try to un-tether a disability from the disabled community, you’re just isolating us more than we are already and you’re directly harming our goddamn community. You’re trying to prove you’re one of the good ones and shoving down and shutting up the ones of us who DON’T fit those qualifications.

So if your autism isn’t a disability, then you need to shut the fuck up and listen to the other people in your community because so many of you are harming us even though you’re some of the few people who are supposed to give a fuck and I’m sick of it.

sunfortune

katniss in book 3: my childrens playground is built on dead bodies and bones, i never wanted children but peeta convinced me, i will never heal from what happened to me. the end

me reading that shit at 15:

prettypinkdork

I mean, she did explicitly want children. She was just determined to never have them because she didn’t feel it was fair to have kids who might be forced to enter the Hunger Games and after her involvement in the games she feared kids would be used against her. Her having children at the end means she thinks they can have a future.

Edit: The Hunger Games are about a world where violent revolution was nessecary and justified but the war was not glorious and caused pain and trauma to people involved. In having children the epilogue tells us that Katniss believes the revolution made things better even though she will always be scarred from the experience.

kingtulip

Reblogging this vers bc ppl in the notes have the coldest fucking takes the ending of mockingjay was Susan Collins realizing what you, the reader, needed to see was the fact Katniss’ trauma doesnt just magically heal or go away Katniss doesn’t just get the perfect life with a husband and two kids but rather her and Peeta spend years healing and working through their traumas and helping each other recover in a very realistic way and then she chooses to have kids because she finally feels like not only will her and Peeta have futures but that their kids wont be in danger merely from existing. Hunger Games has such a good and realistic portrayal of heavy topics and shows a great deal about handling depression, anxiety, and PTSD and the ppl in the notes somehow missed these fact the end knows you don’t want to just see everything be magically okay. Like if you want a shitty epilogue that doesn’t acknowledge that recovering from something like this isnt perfect and takes time just go read Deathly Hollows again lol

proceduralbob

I needed to record this because r/perth is having a regular one today

smoooothbrain

do you ever think about how if you dive into the ocean and go deeper and deeper you will pass through layers of darker and darker blue until everything is black and cold and the pressure will be so intense that it will kill you without protection but if you keep going you will find little glowing specks of light, and if you go up into the sky and go higher and higher you will pass through layers of darker and darker blue until everything is black and cold and the pressure will be so intense that it will kill you without protection but if you keep going you will find little glowing specks of light

riverdoge

#the universe is a fractal endlessly echoing itself in all directions

identityarchitect

there are like five rules to life and those rules are

1. eat 3 meals a day

2. always have a non alcoholic drink with you

3. never trust anything you think about your life after 8-9pm

4. do a little something for urself every day

5. interact with a Beast at least once a day (human, feline, canine, lizard, bird, etc)

and the secret 6th rule:

6. if you can't do all of those rules, just do the ones you can

hollowtones

basically, i think the general rule of thumb is: if someone REALLY wants the blood that’s inside of your body, and they’re like… a vampire, or a dracula, or some sort of mansquito, then that’s probably okay. a dracula and a mansquito are made for removing things like blood and swords from inside your body. that’s basically fine.

if something wants to get at your blood, and they’re, say, some kind of murdersaurus, or maybe a really big frog, that’s where the problems start to arise. a really frog is not made for removing blood, and your blood knows this, which is why it is so vehement about wanting to stay IN your body instead of coming out.

unfortunately this will not deter a really big frog, because a really big frog is full of things like prizes, and value, and quite a lot of hatred, and it would REALLY rather like to replace any and all of those things with your blood, and basically by any means possible.

fidefortitude-deactivated202011

These words scan with a fantastic degree of confidence considering that together they make no sense at all

world-heritage-posts

world heritage post

dat4l0re

oceanchemgirl

Data is going to fuck shit up!!!

datastartrek

Data really said ‘maybe violence IS the answer’

foone

My boy data realized that debate was not going to work and saved the lives of over 15,000 people by blowing up an aqueduct with a handheld weapon.

He was all “you see that shit? I’m just one dude and I destroyed the only source of water your colony has with a PISTOL. The fucking Sheliak are on their way and you really want to fight them? They won’t even need to send a robot down here with a phaser. They’ll just bomb you from orbit. Now do you want to stick to your ‘we’ll fight them off!’ plan or do you want to START PACKING AND GET OFF THIS ROCK BEFORE THE ANGRY ALIENS MAKE IT RAIN LASERS AND ANTIMATTER BOMBS?” and the colonists are like “well when you put it that way… Maybe we should get ready to move.”

Meanwhile Picard is playing some 4D diplomatic chess so they’ll have time to get the colonists off the planet, and he pulls it off brilliantly. The Sheliak are deadset on colonizing in 4 days and if they find any humans on that rock, they’re killing then. It’ll take weeks to evacuate them. Picard is looking through every line of the treaty, looking for loopholes, and finding nothing. The Sheliak are a race of lawyers. They don’t make mistakes. But Picard thinks outside the box.

He calls up the Sheliak. “hey, we’re having a disagreement, right? We want you to delay a few weeks, you want to colonize this planet, we can’t reach an agreement. Well the treaty says that we can get a third party to arbitrate this problem, can we do that?”

The Sheliak are like “yeah sure but they’re gonna rule in our favor, that contract is perfect.”

And Picard smiles his ass off and goes “OK GREAT for the third party I’m picking the Grizzelas.”

And the Sheliak lose their shit. The Grizzelas are a race that hibernate. They’re gonna be in hibernation for SIX MORE MONTHS. But according to the treaty, Picard gets to pick who will arbitrate the disagreement.

Picard’s like “I see you’re not happy about my choice. How about I agree to skip arbitration for a small favor? How about… Three weeks to evacuate that colony?”

And the Sheliak are like “OK FINE YOU WIN, SHINY-HEAD. YOU GET YOUR THREE DAMN WEEKS.”

I just love the episode. Data saves the day by realizing that sometimes debate isn’t enough and you need violence. Picard saves the day by rules-lawyering a race of lawyers and avoiding violence.

atopfourthwall

Ensigns of Command really is damn good on a number of levels. In addition to all the stuff stated above, we also get: -In an era of technobabble solutions to problems, Geordi was ordered to try to find a way to bypass the radiation that was preventing them from transporting the colonists up. After Picard resolves the situation, at first it implies he’s found the solution… aaand then expectations are subverted when he admits “Yeah, no, this is impossible we’re not going to tech our way out of it.” -The leader of the colony, upon admitting defeat, somberly admits to Data that he really was willing to fight and die to protect what they’d built, but Data sums up an important message that can apply to a lot of stuff in life: “This is just a thing. Things can be replaced. Lives cannot.” -First proper attempt at a Data romance. Obviously not going to go anywhere with the love interest of the week, but rather cute regardless.

when-the-blood-comes-home

somethoughtseeds

bauliya

everyone's like wehhhhh why doesn't doctor house gets suuuueeed! like my man. literally every patient he sees is someone that's been trying to find a diagnosis for ages. i could live with a little medical malpractice if it were coming from someone ready to break into my home to look for allergens and not simply half heartedly listen to me before suggesting I lose weight and take ages of back and forth arguing to order a single test

bauliya

"it's medical malpractice" have u ever been a doctor? most medicine is malpractice. let the man limp around chewing vicodin doing 50 invasive tests please

clodiuspulcher

Once Taub (derogatory) derisively said about a patient with unexplained chronic pain “7 doctors couldn’t find anything wrong with him, what does that mean?” and House replied without even thinking “it means they’re idiots” and proceed to work his ass off to diagnose the patient Taub wanted to write off as a faker or something. If a doctor had said that when that patient was ME, I wouldn’t dream of suing them in a million years

kryptonians

Did not expect House discourse in This Year Of Our Lord Two Thousand and Twenty-Two.

knightsf

drowning-moonlight

vader: who tore the warning sign off of this wampa cage?? storm trooper: security footage shows it was removed by a golden protocol droid vader: LOL

drowning-moonlight

Vader in RotJ: wait the Alderaan princess is my daughter?? don’t know how to feel about that.

Luke: she strangled Jabba the Hutt to death with a chain.

Vader: OH HELL YEAH

steampunk-sorcerer

why would you hide this in the tags that’s hilarious

the-prince-of-tides

melissa-benoists

just felt like i should add this comment i found on this tik tok

archdemonsblood

We don’t say this often enough (though I think most of us know it) but men who can’t write women are bad writers. It doesn’t matter how perfect their pacing is or how many awards they’ve been given by other men. If they have fundamentally misunderstood the nature of 51% of the world’s population, they are bad writers, and nothing they have to say about the human condition could possibly be valuable.

teaboot

If a dude can do the research and tell you exactly what breed of goat his 12th century shepherd would have managed on the hills of whereverthefuck then he should be able to find out if breasts ‘swell in excitement’