mature mild-mannered catastrophe

wow. fantastic baby

[pmamtraveller]

UNHELD — Lina Poluna, 2026, Oil on canvas

[lamignonette]

[arrodete]

i will take good care of you

midnight cowboy (1969) dir. john schlesinger / mean streets (1973) dir. martin scorsese / the deer hunter (1978) dir. michael cimino / mikey and nicky (1976) dir. elaine may

[kosmogrl]

I will get my spark back no matter how long it takes

[dungeonlust]

Art by • Milivoj Ceran

[lafcadiowluiki]

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[kiralimee]

Lets talk about this im. Deadly serious.

[genderisareligion]

If you watch Harry Potter youre supporting trans genocide but if you watch porn that says nothing about whether or not you support misogynistic violence and human trafficking :-)

[spitblossoms]

[lovecrumbss]

🍄*.✧✯ 💮

[ginnie-darling]

what is Elric of Melniboné if not a pinup boy for goths and metalheads

[retrocatastrophy]

[vans-drop]

Anyways, *drifts into imagination*

[junglejim4322]

So embarrassing but who cares. But so embarrassing but who cares but it’s so embarrassing but also who cares but it really is embarrassing but really who cares BUT it’s so embarrassing though probably nobody cares but it’s embarrassing asf and nobody cares but

[inqilabi]

Whenever I see people deny the relationship between porn and misogyny, I think about how Dr. Donnerstein, who is perhaps one of the last researchers to have been able to conduct experimental research on porn before it was curtailed for its potential harm by ethics boards, stated that the relationship between porn and subsequent aggression towards women is much stronger statistically than the relationship between smoking and lung cancer.

I remember that when researchers first established a causal link between smoking and lung cancer in the 1950s, AMA rejected it and said it was correlational only. AMA was being funded by the tobacco industry. The 1985 AMA president also happened to owned a farm where tobacco was grown [1]. Today rejecting that smoking causes lung cancer would be denial of empirical knowledge.

And yet, despite the abundance of empirical evidence on the harm of porn, people are still in denial. Forget establishing a causal relationship, people are unwilling to admit that there is even a correlation.

Donnerstein actually had to create sexually explicit material that was not violent for his experimental studies. He said that he could not find any material that was non-violent, didn’t have unequal power between the man & the woman, and where the woman was not depicted enjoying the violence against her. This was in the 1980s so imagine the porn of today. Donnerstein also testified at a civil rights antipornography ordinance that the findings from early experimental studies on porn were so compelling that research ethic boards restricted them and required that the male subject population be below the normal range of aggressive traits [2]:

 The National Institute of Mental Health and the National Science Foundation and our own subjects committee will not allow us to take hostile males and expose them to this type of material because of the risk to the community. They obviously know something some of us do not.

When people regurgitate that ‘catharsis’ theory saying that women find catharsis in watching porn or participating in bdsm, I think about this testimony from Dr. Pauline Bart on how social scientists refer to an established learning model when studying general violence. But pull stuff from thin air when that violence is against women, i.e., that violence is porn:

There were two [reports] that came out the same time, one on violence and one on pornography. The one on violence was based on ordinary learning theory, which is a substantial theoretical perspective inside psychology. And the theory is, the more you see, the more you do. 

The one on pornography, however, came out with a different explanation, the catharsis model, which was, the more you see, the less you do …. [T]here is absolutely no data for the last analysis

[steveyockey]

can everyone tell me something they are looking forward to in the tags

[luulapants]

25 ways to be a little more punk in 2025

Cut fast fashion - buy used, learn to mend and/or make your own clothes, buy fewer clothes less often so you can save up for ethically made quality

Cancel subscriptions - relearn how to pirate media, spend $10/month buying a digital album from a small artist instead of on Spotify, stream on free services since the paid ones make you watch ads anyway

Green your community - there's lots of ways to do this, like seedbombing or joining a community garden or organizing neighborhood trash pickups

Be kind - stop to give directions, check on stopped cars, smile at kids, let people cut you in line, offer to get stuff off the high shelf, hold the door, ask people if they're okay

Intervene - learn bystander intervention techniques and be prepared to use them, even if it feels awkward

Get closer to your food - grow it yourself, can and preserve it, buy from a farmstand, learn where it's from, go fishing, make it from scratch, learn a new ingredient

Use opensource software - try LibreOffice, try Reaper, learn Linux, use a free Photoshop clone. The next time an app tries to force you to pay, look to see if there's an opensource alternative

Make less trash - start a compost, be mindful of packaging, find another use for that plastic, make it a challenge for yourself!

Get involved in local politics - show up at meetings for city council, the zoning commission, the park district, school boards; fight the NIMBYs that always show up and force them to focus on the things impacting the most vulnerable folks in your community

DIY > fashion - shake off the obsession with pristine presentation that you've been taught! Cut your own hair, use homemade cosmetics, exchange mani/pedis with friends, make your own jewelry, duct tape those broken headphones!

Ditch Google - Chromium browsers (which is almost all of them) are now bloated spyware, and Google search sucks now, so why not finally make the jump to Firefox and another search like DuckDuckGo? Or put the Wikipedia app on your phone and look things up there?

Forage - learn about local edible plants and how to safely and sustainably harvest them or go find fruit trees and such accessible to the public.

Volunteer - every week tutoring at the library or once a month at the humane society or twice a year serving food at the soup kitchen, you can find something that matches your availability

Help your neighbors - which means you have to meet them first and find out how you can help (including your unhoused neighbors), like elderly or disabled folks that might need help with yardwork or who that escape artist dog belongs to or whether the police have been hassling people sleeping rough

Fix stuff - the next time something breaks (a small appliance, an electronic, a piece of furniture, etc.), see if you can figure out what's wrong with it, if there are tutorials on fixing it, or if you can order a replacement part from the manufacturer instead of trashing the whole thing

Mix up your transit - find out what's walkable, try biking instead of driving, try public transit and complain to the city if it sucks, take a train instead of a plane, start a carpool at work

Engage in the arts - go see a local play, check out an art gallery or a small museum, buy art from the farmer's market

Go to the library - to check out a book or a movie or a CD, to use the computers or the printer, to find out if they have other weird rentals like a seed library or luggage, to use meeting space, to file your taxes, to take a class, to ask question

Listen local - see what's happening at local music venues or other events where local musicians will be performing, stop for buskers, find a favorite artist, and support them

Buy local - it's less convenient than online shopping or going to a big box store that sells everything, but try buying what you can from small local shops in your area

Become unmarketable - there are a lot of ways you can disrupt your online marketing surveillance, including buying less, using decoy emails, deleting or removing permissions from apps that spy on you, checking your privacy settings, not clicking advertising links, and...

Use cash - go to the bank and take out cash instead of using your credit card or e-payment for everything! It's better on small businesses and it's untraceable

Give what you can - as capitalism churns on, normal shmucks have less and less, so think about what you can give (time, money, skills, space, stuff) and how it will make the most impact

Talk about wages - with your coworkers, with your friends, while unionizing! Stop thinking about wages as a measure of your worth and talk about whether or not the bosses are paying fairly for the labor they receive

Think about wealthflow - there are a thousand little mechanisms that corporations and billionaires use to capture wealth from the lower class: fees for transactions, interest, vendor platforms, subscriptions, and more. Start thinking about where your money goes, how and where it's getting captured and removed from our class, and where you have the ability to cut off the flow and pass cash directly to your fellow working class people

[angelicdewdrop]