I've been gone for a while and that's okay.

I've been gone for a few years. I think 4. I've changed a lot but this place me happy. I missed it. Thank you.

[mostlysignssomeportents]

Republican lawmaker who dared AOC to come visit coal miners in his constituency gets scared, withdraws offer

Late last month, Rep. Andy Barr [R-KY] “invited” Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to visit the coal miners in his Appalachian district, by way of rebuttal to her brilliant response to the charge that the Green New Deal was a rich, city-person’s luxury, taking no account of working, poor and rural people.

AOC took him up on the invitation, saying “It’s a complete injustice the cancer levels that a lot of these communities are confronting. We have to plan a future for all of our communities, no matter what. Failure to plan is planning to fail and I feel like we’ve been failing Appalachian communities for a very long time and it’s time to turn that ship around.”

Now, Barr has rescinded the invitation, blaming it on her defense of Rep Ilhan Omar, who has been smeared by Republicans and establishment Democrats with the racist slur that she supports Islamic terror. Barr said he was dismayed by her “lack of civility.”

In response, AOC tweeted: “GOP’s getting scared that up close, their constituents will realize I’m fighting harder for their healthcare than their own Reps .”

https://boingboing.net/2019/04/17/andy-barr-coward.html

[noandpickles]

The one detail that seems to be left out of all these headlines, which is perhaps the most important in understanding Barr’s decision, is that there are no coal miners in his district. He made up complaints from people that don’t exist, then panicked when AOC agreed to meet them.

[adrenaline-revolver]

The thing that made me tear right up is she immediately cut to the heart of the problem. While there aren’t coal miners in Barr’s district the entire Appalachian region has been riddled with cancer for years. Children get it and you can see that certain school districts have it worse than others. 

I’ve never even heard people from my own state talk about it. 

No wonder they took away her invitation. It’s hard to keep up the outsider lie when the outsider is the one who wants to know why your children keep getting tumors in their blood and bones.

[mabe1pines]

how is trump alive?? like hes rlly gone thru his whole life like That …. and no one has ever just fuckin decked him?? gave him the ole one two? knocked his lights out??? incredible

[valla-chan]

sorry to improve your day without much notice but 

[glyxiebear]

NEVERMIND REBLOGGING AGAIN BECAUSE THIS IS WHAT WE ALL NEED

[nonbinarydave-archived]

This is cathartic

[bogleech]

People just becoming politically aware are never going to appreciate just how fucking hated this guy was before he was in politics. He was hated for over half a century. Everyone aware of him mocked and derided him as a cheating, greedy corporate asshole and mindless bully and this is by far not the only time anyone clocked his ass but it is probably one of the only times it got caught on video. Hatred of him was bipartisan all my life and it just goes to show how easily right wingers can be suckered by anyone who kisses their collective asshole on their pet agendas.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Never forget that the reason Trump seems like an over-the-top stupidly villainous antagonist from a 90s movie is because half of them were based on Trump and making fun of him.

The reason The Simpsons and a handful of other comedies ‘predicted’ the Trump presidency was because he kept saying he wanted to run and nobody could think of anything funnier than a President Trump.

[lileggyboi]

We are living in the worst timeline

[camewiththeframe]

[taiga-saejima]

I’m a pregnant Latino trans guy and I need help moving out of a harmful environment

I’ve been living with my fiance since January this year, and things have been okay for the most part. His family knows I’m trans, and they were using my correct names and pronouns. I’m 12 weeks pregnant currently.

But recently, my future mother-in-law found out my deadname, and when she found out I was pregnant, refuses to call me a man and has been buying me feminine clothing and products. She calls me by my deadname, out in public, when the place we’re living in is not friendly towards Latinos. She also is extremely mentally unstable, refusing to get help despite her having multiple breakdowns and threats of suicide/homocide a week. This only happened a couple of months ago, so it’s a shock to my fiance as well. 

And now, my fiance’s dad has become hostile towards me. Saying shit like “I can’t wait for when your tr*nny ass dies giving birth”, “Hey that baby better not come out a darkie (in reference to my black grandfather)” and other heinous shit. I brought this up to his wife, but she only dismissed him because “he’s veteran have some respect (deadname)!”

We need to move out, ASAP. 

My fiance’s job pays only around $1500 a month, and it’s only monthly pay, not biweekly. The places nearby that we have to pick from are all expensive and will take half of my fiance’s paycheck just to move in.

Here’s what we need money for:

Groceries (for when we move out so we can have food)

Furniture (if the furnished apartments aren’t that much costly we’ll probably go with that but this is still a likely necessity)

Utilities (only electric and internet)

And anything else if we’re not able to grab everything in time before his parents come back from a trip.

Please, I don’t normally do these kinds of posts but I’m genuinely fearful for my life and my baby’s life. I stay upstairs all day hiding from them, trying to keep out of their way. I only come downstairs when my fiance is home, because I know they won’t do anything to me in front of him. This isn’t a life.

Here’s my paypal link (it’s got my deadname so please ignore it): x

Thank you for reading this, and if you can’t donate, please spread this around.

[emjineer]

So my boss once robbed a museum to prove a point and honestly, I think she is my new role model. 

[emjineer]

If this gets notes I’ll tell the full story

[marry-and-mirthful]

Storu

[emjineer]

Many years ago, my boss was working at this museum and they had these original Churchill documents on display. These documents are worth millions of dollars… The only thing separating the public from these documents was a sheet of glass secured with 4 philips head screws. Seriously. No security guards in the room, no cameras, just an easily removable piece of glass. 

My boss pointed out the security concern, but she wasn’t taken seriously, so she took matters into her own hands. 

She bought a ticket and  pretended to be a guest. She entered through the main entrance with a huge drill clearly visible on her belt, went straight to the documents and opened the case with the drill. (While  wearing gloves,) she removed the documents, put them in a folder, reattached the glass, and walked out the main exit.  Literally no one even questioned her.

 She immediately went around to the back of the museum, entered using the staff entrance and went straight to her boss’s office.  She dropped the folder on his desk and said “I just stole these in 15 minutes“

Once he was done being mad at her, he listened and the museum increased security. 

[communistbard]

LITERALLY ACTUALLY STARVING

Hey all! I’m Rab! I’ve had a shit year! I’m queer and disabled struggling to get id, and I work online but it doesn’t pay for much.

I HAVE NOT EATEN FOR 2 DAYS

I HAVE NOT HAD MEDICINE FOR 3 DAYS

RENT IS DUE IN 6 DAYS

I’m feeling panicked, and to top it off, I’m REALLY FUCKING BROKE:

PLEASE HELP ME PLEASE HELP ME GET FOOD AND MEDS…. I’m begging y’all. I realize how desperate this sounds but that’s because it IS.

Paypal: [email protected] (LINK) Cash: cash.me/$RDonation (LINK) Venmo: @RHelpers (LINK)

[communistbard]

I have eaten! I haven’t been on because I’m seriously so sick, my guts feel like shit.

I HAVE NOT HAD MEDICINE IN 5 DAYS RENT IS DUE IN 4 DAYS

[celtic-pyro-deactivated20230725]

Kinda thinking of that post that’s saying the Pokemon in Detective Pikachu are good because they’re “cartoony” when in reality they’re pretty realistic, but keep a good balance between their cartoonishness without the creepy hyperrealistic renderings we’re used to seeing out of edgelord artists. Ironically, the people who did this movie took a lot of cues from an artist on Deviantart who did hyperrealistic-looking Pokemon.

I dunno, these look pretty realistic to me. The key is they render the cartoony elements (like Majikarp’s eyes and the shape of his fins) pretty accurately so it doesn’t just look like a rat hauling a weird fish, you can tell that’s a Pikachu and a Majikarp.

They also did a good job keeping most of the cute Pokemon looking fairly cute,

although you can still get moments where Aipom and Jigglypuff appear legitimately creepy and threatening when angered.

Then there are Pokemon who are odd-looking because they were always meant to appear odd-looking

And the ‘scary’ Pokemon actually look like dangerous, powerful monsters!

What I like about these designs is that they’ve got a good balance of traits that make them instantly recognizable enough that any Pokemon fan can name them at a glance, but given just enough nuance and realistic elements that presumably wouldn’t render very well in a cartoon. (For example, the little hairs on the inner part of Jigglypuff’s ears, Pikachu’s fluffy fur, and Charizard’s rough, dinosaur-like scales).

You can tell the people behind the design choices are really passionate about Pokemon and wanted to create characters you could easily suspend your disbelief to accept and also fully enjoy with the original ‘flavor’ of Pokemon as a long-time fan.

And anyway I just wanted to talk about how cool that all was.

[mrbenibo]

They didn’t just take cues from him. They hired him.

[dikdikrising]

People over the age of 25 being allowed to exist on Internet spaces and not be shamed for having normal hobbies: good

Minors being able to exist in Internet spaces without being harassed or groomed by creepy assholes twice their age: also good

These are not conflicting viewpoints!

[dikdikrising]

And seriously if you’re under 18 PLEASE don’t hesitate to block any adult that gives you the slightest amount of unsolicited attention or makes you uncomfortable. I’ve been on the internet since I was a kid and this is the kind of advice I really could have used early on

[wahtdahel-blog]

This is so powerful and courageous. Police all over the country are pulling this despicable shit. They’re supposed to be protecting and serving. Monsters. 

[joekeerys]

friendly reminder that a character being nice and compassionate and forgiving doesn’t make them boring or less complex than characters who are exactly the opposite and there’s nothing wrong with loving characters who stay kind and gentle no matter what life throws at them

[bran-writes]

And double goes for good, non-toxic relationships. I think writers sometimes feel like they need to add a bunch of unnecessary drama to a couple’s relationship, especially after they get together post-“Will they, won’t they” arc-

Like no, let us see a good relationship where both parties communicate and work together to solve conflict that maybe comes from outside the relationship. Y'know, some healthy stuff

[joyriding-in-the-fandoms]

Did I meme right?

[joyriding-in-the-fandoms]

[onefishwhitefishpondfishfishfish]

Hi! Just in case you haven’t had your perception of reality shifted lately, next year is 2020. That means:

1950- seventy years ago

1960- sixty years ago

1970- fifty years ago

1980- forty years ago

1990-thirty years ago

2000- twenty years ago

Some cultural moments

This man was elected 12 years ago in 2008. He was replaced by a cartoon mascot after an election four years ago. IT’S TIME TO VOTE.

The LiveAid fundraiser happened THIRTY FIVE YEARS ago in 1985.

These gentlemen went their separate ways 50 years ago in 1970.

This man left us four years ago in 2016. His last album was released two days before his death, and his career spanned five decades.

This man was born eighty five years ago in 1935, began his career sixty six years ago in 1954, and died forty three years ago. He is still the highest selling artist of all time.

The greatest movie of all time was released twenty seven years ago in 1993.

Jennifer Grey had the time of her life when Dirty Dancing was released thirty three years ago in 1987.

And this man has continuously dominated midnight screenings around the world since 1975, forty five years ago.

That’s all I have time to put together this morning, feel free to add.

[owl-let]

NORTHERN SAW WHET OWLS. LITERALLY THE CUTEST FACKING THINGS YOU’LL EVER SEE IN YOUR LIFE.

JUST LOOK AT IT.

IT’S FACKING SMALLER THAN THE AVERAGE HUMAN HAND

SO SASSAY

LOOK AT DAT FACE

PURE JOY

AND JUST WHEN YOU THOUGHT ONE WAS TOO MUCH

CHECK OUT THESE BEAUTIFUL BABIES

DEM EYES CAN PIERCE INTO THE DEEPEST CREVICES OF YOUR SOUL

FRICKIN BUNDLE OF SLEEPY HAPPINESS

FRICKIN LITTLE BUNDLES OF FEATHERS SMOTHERED IN CUTENESS

WITTLE FLUFFY FEETIES WITH TEENY TINY CLAWS

DAT ASS

[should-be-sleeping]

It must have the most delicate hoot.

[somethingwittythiswaycomes]

It does!

[tinysaurus-rex-deactivated20240]

So glad tumblr finally caught onto my favorite species of owl.

[dandalf-thegay-deactivated20190]

@northern-giant

[petite-abeille-deactivated20201]

They’re so tiny and cute!

[butt-berry]

[who-am-i-hedwig]

I had this girl in my class and she was considered to be like really dumb. She’d ask a ton of doubts and questions in class, which everybody would consider to be “stupid"and “silly” and even the teachers would often taunt her but she’d never stop asking. But the thing was that she’d almost always top the class examinations and everyone was like???? They all thought she was cheating and stuff and obviously even the teachers were very biased because she wasn’t so ‘smart’ in class, and she was regularly accused of cheating. But nobody could prove that she was actually cheating but the whole class and teachers totally believed that she did. I’m pretty socially awkward so I never really talked to her, but she was leaving school this year and I was genuinely curious about how she was so good during exams and how she didn’t let everyone’s remarks affect her. She always used to sit and hang out with only one girl, and she told me that that friend of hers was severely socially anxious and she’d lag in studies because she couldn’t bring herself to ask doubts in class or ask for help from others. So they had this system where during lectures her friend would write down any question she had, and she would ask them for her. And I was just so touched??? Idk but it really changed the way I looked at people?? This girl endured taunts and jeers and borderline bullying for being “stupid” when she was actually really smart and could easily have refused to ask such doubts for her friend but she did?? And brushed off everything others would throw at her for her friend?? I was just, idk it just really changed me in some way.

[followthebluebell]

This is also a commentary on ableism and how hurtful it is. One girl was so afraid of being seen as “stupid” that it stopped her from learning. And, judging by how her friend was treated for asking those questions, she was right to be afraid.

[tuxedo-beanz]

Ya know, teachers always said “don’t be afraid to ask questions.”

But do you know what happened when you asked questions, at least at my school(s)? They would say “I just taught this, weren’t you paying attention?” So of course that made many of the students feel like idiots because they asked for help, like they should have understood right away.

This girl did something so many of us were afraid to do, and it wasn’t even for herself.

[jentlerein-blog]

[perfectpastelcolors]