knowlegable, powerful and fucking furious

24 she/her

[shamebats]

Since there is a wave of anti-birth control propaganda, this is your reminder that the birth coontrol pill was responsible for 30% more women graduating with college degrees between 1970-1990

[cwicseolfor]

Also a whole lot of people need it to hold down a job or stay in school regardless of reproductive risk: it offers menstrual control. It can be the difference between debilitating, bedbound periods and normal function. It’s medicine. It’s also very cheap to produce and returns soooo many thousands of dollars to the economy for every dollar it costs, so don’t let anyone make a false financial argument about it.

[gaytriarch]

[dykeferatu]

i’m not even that much of a pervert i can just find the eroticism in anything. doesn’t get me bricked up necessarily i just like to appreciate it.

[redstonedust]

some people like to get mad at disability benefits because they think its unfair people who dont work get a payout from the government while they have to work 50 hours at the human suffering factory every week. but if you tell them "yeah that sucks i think you should also get a universal allowance and not have to work 50 hours at the human suffering factory every week" thats apparently the wrong answer.

[yayculture]

let's all have fun because it's better than not having fun

[ispyspookymansion]

[dramatic-dolphin]

i love declining birth rates 🥰 "what a horrible problem! society will collapse!" oopsie it looks like you're gonna have to make having children worth it 😊 teehee you're gonna have to improve society in order to fix this problem, or it will all collapse. oh noooooo. how horrible. :3c

[weirdthingifoundonline]

[theconcealedweapon]

[knowing-smile]

Vintage EPA photos reveal what US waterways looked like before pollution was regulated

In the years after the US Environmental Protection Agency was founded, the agency dispatched photographers to document pollution and contami

What was food like before the FDA?

Formaldehyde, brick dust, lead, and borax once made grocery shopping a minefield.

Shit used to be wild, and this is just what I could find that had decent sources, I've heard a lot more horror stories.

I'm not excited to live in a word without regulation. 🙃

[bogleech]

"Regulations don't exist because governments enjoy them" is an important statement here. The government has to spend money and labor to enforce regulations. The government has to be begged for years and sometimes threatened by the American people into even creating the regulations. The people with the money want you to believe regulations are "BIG GOVERNMENT INFRINGING ON OUR FREEDOMS" so you'll help them undo the regulations your grandparents had to force that same government to install in the first fucking place. They count on you being ignorant of the past so they can make another round of dirty money by poisoning you all over again.

[cannibalchicken]

[icedoatmilkmatcha-deactivated20]

also

[yeahokayillreblogthat]

Yeah okay Ill reblog that!

[aggressivelybicaptainamerica]

Not a scholar at first, but the guy who wrote Jaws hated that people used it to justify hating sharks so much he dedicated the rest of his life to shark research and advocacy.

[ruffboi-mags]

The woman who popularized gender reveals wishes she hadn't, afaik.

[fall1ngfeather]

(afaik- the woman who popularized gender reveals did so because she had a long history of miscarriages. The reveal was a celebration of the fact that one of her pregnancies had gotten far enough that there WAS a physical sex to reveal. It was never intended to be like... *gestures at modern gender reveals* all that. That same kid later came out as trans and yes, the family had a second gender reveal for that lol.)

[p00pym00py]

This whole thread is so beautiful to me that I can explain it

[my-random-fandoms]

[pouncequick]

K-Cup coffee pod creator wishes he'd never thought of them | CBC News

The man who invented the K-Cup coffee pod almost 20 years ago says he regrets doing so and can't understand the popularity of the products t

[celestial-bat]

Man Who Helped Invent Modern AI Is Now Wracked With Regret

Yoshua Bengio, who is considered to be one of the three "godfathers" of AI, feels "lost" over his life's work.

[fatphobiabusters]

More people need to think about the fact that chatting about weight loss is considered neutral, mundane small talk that everybody can and should relate to. Fatphobia and diet culture are so normalized and accepted in this world that talking about the hideousness and immorality of a normal human body type is believed to be as trivial as talking about the weather. People even say diet culture shit as small talk to their employees, patients, clients, strangers. You can be in a grocery store looking at products and a stranger will make small talk with you by lamenting about how many calories are in a goddamn fruit smoothie.

Do you understand what that says about how we treat fat people in society?

Do you understand?

-Mod Worthy

[quinnception]

[deadgenerations]

brexit is easily the dumbest political and economic decision anyone has made this century. way stupider than the Iran war. trump could pull out of NATO tomorrow and it would be less disastrous than brexit was. complete economic suicide and it's amazing how remain was not just vindicated but things are worse than they said they would be. and there was even more migration after than before!!! they didn't even win on racism. and it was the willing choice of a huge part of the British population, directly from popular democracy. the English are not an intellectual people, to put it mildly!

[roboco-san]

the distortion of "there is potential profit we did not earn" as "there is money we lost" is fascinating and disgusting to me. "megamediaconglomerate lost $1,000,000,000 to piracy this year" is a flat out lie. it is not true. they did not have a billion dollars, that they now do not have. they felt entitled to one billion dollars, that they did not have, and still do not have. it's an infuriating perversion of the truth

[bananonbinary]

cant believe i lost $1000 when i told some guy at walmart to give it to me and he said no

[sandandglass]

The Muppets s01e01

[le-sad-demiurge]

Fozzy getting hit on by lots of twinks

[cheshireinthemiddle]

Happy Pride Month

[comicgeekscomicgeek]

Ten years later, this bit still slaps. They made a great pun and realized they could be nice/inclusive with it too.

[luminouslumity]

[thenaiads]

[andhumanslovedstories]

Can’t believe my job makes me do my job on the days I am scheduled to work my job what the fuck

[closet-keys]

The genocide of Palestinians continues every day in Gaza. Israel traps Gazans in a smaller and smaller area with no escape, and abducts and incarcerates adults and children in prisons rampant with torture and sexual abuse. They launch active military operations on a daily basis, using airstrikes and shelling to destroy lives and essential infrastructure. Israel maintains blockades on food and medicine to slowly break down people's bodies. Do not look away from this.

[closet-keys]

Even though they are living through a genocide and have no means if income, my friends in Gaza must pay for everything you and I pay for at steep prices. They have to pay hundreds of dollars in rent, $60 for a water truck delivery, $50 for a cooking gas cylinder, $30 for mobile internet access. All this before even accounting for the costs of food ($40 for a 25kg bag of flour, let alone anything nutritious). All this before the costs of medicine or healthcare bills.

[closet-keys]

My friend Mahrah (@freepaleatine955) lives in Gaza, taking care of her elderly parents. My wife (@cannilyuncanny) hosts their family's fundraiser (vetted by 90-ghost and shared by fairuzfan) and wires transfers of donations directly to Mahrah. The money that we are able to raise is the entirety of their budget for the bare essentials of survival. Please donate if you can afford to. Keep them in your thoughts.

[leninisms]

good by 2007 hello 2008!