Designated Driver

[edwardashley]

what is the funniest fic tag on ao3 and why is it „workplace injuries” for HBO’s Chernobyl

[holyfuckingshitbatman]

Example 4,305,108 of Alfred being an absolute savage

Batman: The Long Halloween Part 1

[chaosticloki]

I would 100% do this tbh

[huffy-the-bicycle-slayer]

I haven't seen dancing pumpkin guy ONCE this year, are you guys okay?

[huffy-the-bicycle-slayer]

FINE! I'll do it myself

[romcommunist]

"honeymoon phase" i am literally healthily insane and obsessed for the entire duration of the relationship. skill issue

[astriiformes]

The polar opposite of corporate accounts trying to come across as hip and super friendly are the ones for libraries, aquariums, parks systems and the like, that are basically just trying to get people excited about learning and the wonder of history/science by posting things like this:

[mangopatch]

[demonladytakkuri]

You know how much I would lose my mind if I was at an aquarium and turned a corner to see a wild ass heron staring at a fish tank

[mrsmills]

sometimes I feel as though I've been punked by once upon a time. like you're joking that regina and emma aren't lovers fr. it sure looks like there are two women in love sharing a son on my tv...

[whitepeopletwitter]

[sleepy-bebby]

Top left clockwise: Keith groover, Jordan Simons, Bret Crow, Harry Hansen

[brandyllyn]

[andywarnercomics]

In honor of Day of the Dead, here’s a repost of my comic about the San Francisco Columbarium and the man who spent 26 years restoring it.

This comic originally appeared on Medium at The Nib. Go check out my other work there.

[true-me-snafu]

Emmitt and the Columbarium.

[ifellinthefandom]

Reading amazing fanfiction, then forgetting to bookmark it

[aphony-cree]

enter this into the Google search

site:<url of site where you read the fic> <a line you remember from the fic or character names plus a unique detail>

for example:

site:http://archiveofourown.org/ Todd Margo pedicure

Google will search only AO3 and tell you which pages contain the words Todd Margo and pedicure.

[kristenconner96]

REBLOG TO SAVE A LIFE

[navydream]

THIS IS TOO IMPORTANT FOR MY SANITY

[rosenkranz-does-things]

Dana Scully's iconic moments

[cloverture]

there’s a website where you put in two musicians/artists and it makes a playlist that slowly transitions from one musician’s style of music to the other’s

it’s really fun

[cloverture]

lady gaga -> napalm death takes a weird detour through epic rap battles of history

[lordpudi]

[emiliascorner]

[drinkingisgoodforyou]

[thealmightylandlady]

This is actually really useful for finding music that’s in between genres that I wouldn’t know to look for.

[dukeofbookingham-deactivated202]

This has nothing to do with books but it’s COOL

[lyrslair]

I feel like this could be useful for trying to slowly pull yourself away from your depression music to something more uplifting without it being jarring…

[will-o-the-witch]

Exactly what I was thinking?? I love this???

(Edit: Accidentally reblogged this to my main so now I gotta make it witchy lol. But imagine the potential uses for this in a ritual setting. Rags to riches? Sad/nervous to empowered/confident? Mourning a loss to celebrating life again?)

[hailqiqi]

For some reason Deserts Chang to Pablo Lopez hits up Grease and the Doc McStuffins Theme Song on the way.

[elierlick]

I think about this a lot.

[is-the-post-reliable]

requested by anonymous:

RATING: RELIABLE

Source: ‘The math checks out. In 2019, the median annual earning for women was $47,299. For men, it was $57,546. Averaged together, that’s about $52,423.The cost of the average home in the same time was $377,700. That is about 14 percent of the median salary.’

[hamletthedane]

As of Oct 2022, the median annual earnings for women in the United States was $50,492 (extrapolated by multiplying weekly earnings by 52 weeks). For men, it was $60,528. Average together, that’s about $55.640. The average purchase price of a home in the United States during Q3 of 2022 was $542,900.

The average salary in the US is now about 10.2% of the cost of a home.

[hamletthedane]

But that’s not even the whole story, because “income earned” means pre-tax income, and mortgage payments are not tax deductible unless you itemize (which people w/ average salaries do not do bc it’s usually less than the standard deduction).

In 1936, following FDR’s income tax hikes, the median annual salary for a single person was $830, taxed at 4% Income + 1% Social Security. The take-home median pay was therefore ~$790. The average home value was $4,766. So take-home pay was about 16.5% of home cost in 1936.

In Oct 2022, taxes are a bit more complicated. Assuming you take the standard deduction, file single, and only pay federal income tax, the take-home pay from a salary of $55,640 is about $51,584.

(Using H&R Block’s 2022 tax estimator)

So really, the average take-home pay is now 9.5% of the average home price.

Meanwhile, the person earning $2M/yr in 2022 would end up taking home at least $1,289,600. He is taxed at 35.3% of his earnings. The person earning the inflation-adjusted equivalent of in 1936 (~$95,000) would be taxed at 60% of his earnings.

Tl;dr: It’s an even more dire situation than that tweet suggests. Taxes on the middle class have skyrocketed, taxes on the ultra-rich have been slashed in half, and housing is nearly twice the ratio to income earned that it was in the middle of the Great Depression.

[bixbiboom]

It’s Thursday…

[catchymemes]

Drunk me be like…