nothing is anything, just enjoy the cat

they/she/he 23 Chicago

[bearie]

tuck her in thursday

[robinade]

Ok, so I've read everyone's tags and notes on my previous poll. I've taken them into consideration and I'm now prepared to offer.…

Tumblr point of entry (version 2)

Recommendation from a real human person (WHY?)

Video gateway (YouTube or TikTok)

Artsy entry: Pinterest

Artsy entry: DeviantArt

Artsy entry: Instagram or Google Images

Enshittification escapee: Twitter

Enshittification escapee: Reddit

Ancient sins: MySpace, Google+, Omegle

The wordy option: LiveJournal, Wattpadd, AO3, or Wordpress

Meme discovery: iFunny, 9GAG, or We ❤️ it

Other social media migrant (Facebook, Amino, etc)

I've always been here o_o (baby's first social media)

Voting ended onFeb 5, 2024

[thottybrucewayne]

I hate that the "Gen Alpha can't read." conversation so much because people are taking this as a chance to call children stupid and their parents monsters instead of having a very real discussion about how the education system is flawed by design, covid fucked up everything socialization wise, these parents having little access to child care and more work hours leads them to lean on things like tablets and phones to watch their kids more and more, teachers are more overworked and underpaid than ever leading to them leaving the profession in droves and that's only like the surface level issues. There's a myriad of factors at play here, not just that "The kids are spoiled screen-addicted brats with no imagination and their parents are childish spoiled millennials who just let coco melon handle everything."

[catchymemes]

[jetix]

2010-06-09

[epilepticsaints]

[catsuggest]

thank youm for spendinge $24.99(HD) on pizza solely for me to lounge upon & no other purpose whotsoeverm !

[ao3cassandraic]

You are very welcome, catte.

Could you, um, let me know should you decide to, um, relocate?

[catsuggest]

perhams

[dynamohedron]

what the fuck is this thing.

[empathviv]

Ohhhh don't mind me... Ol' Turnip will tend the dust farm like he always has...

[aleatoryw]

i've started looking at weight and health the way i look at class and income and it really puts a lot of things into a new perspective.

let me explain: in america at least, the lower class have significantly worse health outcomes, even when accounting for other factors. just being poor is enough to make your overall health worse. we don't know that being fat makes your health directly worse, like the data just isn't there, but for a moment, pretend it does.

imagine going to the doctor with a health problem and the doctor looking at your chart and saying well, this problem will be less severe if you go up an income bracket. have you thought about becoming rich? it would really help. start by saving a little money every month.

ridiculous, right?? very few people successfully go from working class to rich, it just doesn't happen on a large scale in society. maybe for a time you pick up some overtime hours, spend a little beyond your means, and appear rich. but eventually you burn out, your car needs to be repaired, and you return to being working class.

we do have this data: only some people can successfully lose large amounts of weight, and only a tiny fraction of people who lose that weight actually keep it off for more than a year. telling people to lose weight for their health is just absurd because they almost certainly can't do it any more than they can double their income for their health.

and yet i see it everywhere. a little poster in my work breakroom tells me to improve my blood pressure by losing weight! a psa on the radio says you need to take care of your heart by losing weight! we can't even conclusively prove that weight is the cause rather than just correlated with a lot of these problems but here it is offered anyway: have you tried being rich?

[bumbledeefumble]

You hit the nail on the head. A lot of people tend to try and invalidate fatphobia as a form of oppression by saying its not an immutible quality like race or sexuality or gender. The old "you can lose weight, i can't become white/straight/cis" argument.

That's because fatphobia is a lot more like classism; i.e. it's a form of bigotry that is only TECHNICALLY changeable. They're both seen as a lot more changeable than they actually are, for all the reasons you've listed.

[meatmite]

"if you see someone shoplifting, no you didn't" no but like. i really didn't. i have never in my life seen someone shoplifting because i'm not watching anyone else in the grocery store..? how are y'all noticing things like that. my only goals are enter the store, survive, exit the store

[catsuggest]

he is simplé a little fancé man ...

livinge his fancé little life

[transorbitalperegrine]

elementary may have been copaganda but they were really onto something with their version of holmes he's autistic. he's a sub. he's canonically into bondage. he's a recovering addict. he keeps bees. he's tattooed AND hairy. his posture is insane. he texts in a near-undecipherable string of abbreviations and acronyms. he's the most irritating man in new york city. he's even aromantic

[dagny-hashtaggart-deactivated20]

I feel like a lot of people don’t quite get what a butler is. The role tends to get rounded off to ‘male servant’ pretty regularly in some media, whereas actually butlers are typically not just servants but chief servants. The butler was generally in charge of either all male servants or just all servants, period, in the household of an aristocrat or other very wealthy person. This meant that butlers have often been fairly powerful and influential people, and sometimes even had a manservant or two of their own.

(Also, fun fact: Mary Roberts Rinehart, the early 20th century mystery writer who is widely credited with popularizing the whole ‘the butler did it’ trope was nearly murdered by one of her own servants, a chef whom she had passed over for promotion to butler. He came at her with a pistol, but it jammed, allowing her chauffeur time to wrestle it away and restrain him.)

[voxette-vk]

You didn’t answer the key question things brings up: did she popularize the trope before or after the would-be butler tried to kill her?

[booksandchainmail]

according to wikipedia, before

[decepticonsensual]

There’s something glorious about the fact that the author who popularised “the butler did it” had a servant who a) failed to become the butler and then b) failed to do it.

[stele3]

If he’d been butler material, he’d have finished the job.

[sun-moon-stars-jedi]

[inthesensethat-deactivated20240]

[yesterdaysprint]

St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Missouri, January 4, 1897

[byjove]

I think Odysseus is the guy everyone else makes talk to the cops when they show up to bust the party.

[byjove]

I think he could do a really good “Hello officer, how are you?” if he had to.

[byjove]

YEAH EXACTLY

[byjove]

Athena is standing behind him whispering the bylaws into his ear.

[emptyheadmybeloved]

hold on i need to look this up

[byjove]

it’s been 15 minutes have you finished reading the Odyssey yet?

[tanadrin]

conservative think tanks will be named something like "the american educational initiative," and you read their policy proposals and it's like "let's repeal the thirteenth amendment and send slavery back to the states." meanwhile liberal think tanks will be named something like "the foundation for the redemption of america's soul," and their policy proposals are "a 5% increase in capital gains tax over the next ten years, but you don't have to pay it if you submit a note from your doctor saying it makes you sad."