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i thought the earth remembered me, she took me back so tenderly

[pawjob]

when people screenshot a tiktok and crop out everything except the caption its like really funny to me because 100% of the time the joke is fully intact. like the video format really is doing nothing for that app

[mousemilf-deactivated20250508]

middle aged women giving compliments will be like hey i like your jeans :-) when i was your age i couldve worn jeans like that but now im an old fat ugly worthless sack of shit i hate my body so much i should just kill myself right dont you think i should just kill myself.

[greater-than-the-sword]

Full offense but I don’t ever want to have to communicate with a machine by speaking to it. Verbally speaking to a machine just feels icky and degrading. I don’t want to describe what I want into the phone prompter. Just let me press 1. I don’t want to address Alexa by name. I don’t even want to waste my precious human language on a chat AI. It is a rock. It is a piece of electrified metal. Do not command me to address the rock with the conceit that it is a human being

[golden-x-mage]

a dude i follow on twitter has been on an absolute spate of empath posting recently and they’re all so good

[golden-x-mage]

[classicslesbianopinions]

we need to stop the fandomification of greek myth. we need to

[hieronymouscock]

the greatest crime of the karen meme is that now teen and college aged boys working in retail can make derogative comments about middle aged women and be celebrated and validated and encouraged to think himself oppressed by them

[myothercarisauhaul-original]

I literally saw a video of a high school boy who called a girl a slut and made really sexually derogatory comments about her and when her mother (understandably) lost her fucking mind at him, he just laughed at her….the video description was him getting attacked by a “Karen”.

Working in retail and food service is awful. Customers are awful. But I will never get behind this shit as long as it’s aimed solely at women for this reason. For every woman who got mad and demanded a manager over an expired coupon…there was a man sexually harassing the female workers, a man screaming and using slurs against our workers, a man trying to bully our workers into doing something outside of policy (through more than asking for a manager), a man physically threatening and intimidating workers, etc. And since there is no name for a “male Karen”, the root of this “joke” is too clear.

[hieronymouscock]

my friend works at a grocery store and when we talked about this recently she told me that while women can be snobby and entitled, they’ve never compared to her male customers in bad behaviour. a man once brought something without a barcode to check out and when she told him it was missing a barcode but that she would go and get him another one he rolled his eyes and left the store.

[senatortedcruz]

I worked in a grocery store for 6 years and both male and female customers have been assholes that have made me cry but the actual worst customers were the men that we had to hide some of my coworkers from because they came in to stalk and harass them. 

[thisistemporaryiguess]

I’ve worked in various customer facing jobs the entirety of my adult life and have never been physically threatened by a woman but have been by several men.

[apparentlyeverything]

tbh every job I’ve had working with the public has involved far more men being assholes than women. I once had to help hold down a guy who literally tried to attack our receptionist when she wouldn’t tell him whether his girlfriend was in the clinic being treated. I assume it’s that people don’t even register men doing this kind of shit as unusual, it’s just like the weather

[soso-surprise]

[puttingherinhistory]

[zdf-deactivated20251121]

[purified-zone]

the internet is a perpetually burning library of alexandria

[ladybug-stims-deactivated202106]

[theunitofcaring]

An important piece of how well-off you are, which measuring income isn’t really going to catch, is how much shock absorption your community has built in. 

Some people don’t have an in-person community, of course, and so the shock-absorption available to them is just whatever is in their own savings account and how much credit they have access to and maybe the knowledge that in the worst case they could move across the country and sleep on a friends’ couch for a few weeks but not longer because the friends’ landlord is strict about subtenants.

On the opposite end of the spectrum, upper-class communities have tons of shock absorption - if your home burns down, you probably have a friend who has a vacation home or an in-laws suite or a guest room where you can stay, if you lose your job it was the kind of job for which you get unemployment and you know someone who can get you an interview for another one, if you have a medical crisis you have lots of friends who can bring food and help out, and they all work jobs that let them take off on short notice in the middle of the day.

I’ve been helping a friend recover from surgery this week, and I’ve been thinking about this a ton. I could work from home for three days to be with her; her girlfriend had a spare bed where she could sleep for two because she was supposed to be near the surgery center and her house was an hour away; her girlfriend’s boyfriend could come over to help when girlfriend had to go to work; when her doctor’s appointment was changed to a time when I couldn’t drive her, another friend could take three hours off to do it. That’s a community with shock absorption.

It’s a class thing, but it’s not just a class thing. Doing this sort of thing is one of the things religions do. When I describe what I value about my community, my religious friends tend to go “oh, so, like what my church does”. A poor community where a dozen people from church will bring meals and support after surgery or after a loss or during cancer treatment has vastly more shock absorption than a same-income community where people have no way to coordinate that (and I think the decline of religion has been particularly costly in poor communities for exactly this reason).

And lots of money can’t fully substitute for a community, because lots of disasters (like medical emergencies) are of the kind that make it hard to advocate for yourself and independently arrange all the things you’re going to need.

I don’t know how you increase shock absorption. Lowering the cost of housing does part of it; a spare bedroom is a particularly critical kind of shock absorption that protects lots of people from homelessness. More leisure time increases shock absorption, and cutting the expected work week has been at least partially successful some places. My impression is that Social Security dramatically increased shock absorption, by giving elderly people (who often end up needing community support to remain independent or survive) more financial resources; it’s much easier for poor families to take someone in if they will get regular money towards housing and expenses. UBI would do it too, of course. 

[weareallfromearth]

If you’re looking for research on this from a sociological perspective, you’re searching for the phrase “social capital” among other things.

[capitalism-and-analytics]

[sarellacat]

direct action

[biladal-sham]

Iran. Tehran. Women in colorful chadors celebrate the end of the fasting month or Ramadan with the Fitr prayers. They read from the Qur’an. November 2006. A. Abbas 

[exitwound]

i hope you live. i hope we both live

[hecth-ledger]

heartbreaking doctor who moments ♢ vincent hearing his worth

I just wondered, between you and me, in a hundred words, where do you think Van Gogh rates in the history of art?

[quasarkisses]

i d in alt text

[lightupthenigth]

[dontliveinthefuture]

thinking about this again

[nicefieldsfm]

From the leaked LiS remaster trailer

[yepperoni]

Microsoft in talks with Discord over $10 billion-plus acquisition: report

Could Discord be moving to the home of Xbox?

[cereal-from-the-film-hackers]

[dcbicki]

There is no defeat in death, Master Bruce. Victory comes in defending what we know is right while we still live. BATMAN & ROBIN (1997), dir. Joel Schumacher