[blog run by a bag of dirt]

Julian. 18. Asian. Gay/ or more. Genderneutral. Brooklyn.  Really love boys, poetry, and spaghetti.

[bathroomcube]

[courtesycalling]

[fernscare]

toni. how did you make toni

a tutorial

[fernscare]

I feel very strongly about those cheap hanging ghouls/ghosts that you get around Halloween, so I made my own! Her name is Toni. 

[fernscare]

thought I’d share her look from February

[fernscare]

Toni had her first birthday yesterday :)

[usermovies]

CLUELESS (1995) dir. Amy Heckerling LEGALLY BLONDE (2001) dir. Robert Luketic BOTTOMS (2023) dir. Emma Seligman

[under-the-universe]

i had a vision

[metrovirus]

got high and redesigned the nonbinary flag, no offense to Kye (original creator) but just imagined the colors hanging out in a field, and also made the yellow into golden yellow feel free to use idk, its the same thing but with rectangles > stripes

[skudarik]

boop

[my-random-fandoms]

[thetrekkiehasthephonebox]

Verified: Microsoft 365 gets massive 45% price hike — and it's all to do with AI tools (Tom's Guide - January 17, 2025)

[mothwizard]

oopsie i tripped and spilled my link to archive dot org's downloadable copy of Microsoft office suite for 2007, which features no AI tools and is a powerful word processor that still holds up just fine on windows 10!

[cadaverconsumer-deactivated2025]

odysseus tying himself to the mast but he's doing some proto shibari type shit to make his tits look really good and his crew isn't saying anything but it's kind of hard not to notice

[catboygirljoker]

i hate driving. here are the laws! if you break them there will be consequences! except youre also expected to break the law just a little bit. people will get mad at you if you dont. you dont have right of way but the person who does is waving you forward for some reason. here's the speed limit! it's not the speed limit, the actual speed limit is that plus ~5-10. the light is green but you're in the turning lane. can you go? should you have gone just then? the person behind you is honking at you. there's a weird noise coming from your engine; if you try to do the right thing and get it checked out, will you get scammed? you are driving a 1-2 ton metal machine rocketing at speeds unknown to humankind for most of history. around a million people die in car accidents every year; that's about one person every thirty seconds. if you take that seriously and try to drive safely then people get mad at you.

[dumbnojutsu]

[shadowbrightshine]

I love this thing.

[alexaloraetheris]

What the fuck you you mean these aren't identical sextuplets????

[bigolechompers]

my faceblindness was like, yeah ok boys will be boys until i saw that comment and reallozed they are not just six white boys

[hemlt]

Utterly baffling

[caesarsaladinn]

I missed most of the Iraq war due to being a baby, but every time I read about it I start wondering why we aren’t all talking about it all of the time

[caesarsaladinn]

it feels like the sort of unforced error that should be obsessively postmortemed for the next fifty years, a catastrophe that should utterly delegitimize the society that made it happen, but instead everybody’s like “oh yeah, that. lmao, that was crazy”

[septembriseur-deactivated202502]

I have to add to this because I was teaching a text about this topic to a bunch of post-2003 undergraduates recently and each time I do so I experience the same sense of disorientation.

This is a war about which the accepted, mainstream consensus is that no one is able to explain the U.S. decision to invade Iraq. The people involved in that decision are unable, in retrospect, to explain or justify it. In almost every postmortem of this decision, you will find some reference to the fact that Richard Haass, who advised Colin Powell at the State Department in 2001-3, has said that he “will go to [his] grave not knowing” why the U.S. invaded Iraq. George Packer, in The Assassins’ Gate, describes the invasion as “something that some people wanted to do.”

This is a war that destroyed a country. It created ISIS. It destabilized the Middle East. It killed a minimum of c. 200,000 people. It displaced millions more. It resulted in devastating losses to the cultural heritage of Iraq. And twenty years on, no one is able to explain why it happened.

It seems to me that there are several important lessons here.

[doubleca5t]

I feel like this response is kind of hiding the ball on the motives to invade Iraq. The reason for invading Iraq was simple: the Bush administration believed in expanding U.S. global hegemony. The reason that some of them, post facto, have decided that "no one knows" why we did it is because that's less humiliating than admitting the reality, which is that they flagrantly lied to the public in the interest of starting a war that killed hundreds of thousands of people, resulted in the torture of countless POWs, destroyed the country of Iraq, created ISIS, and didn't even accomplish the goal of expanding American hegemony, which was not even a good idea in the first place

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[skullingwaydraws]

Happy Halloween

pretty sure horror had a better year than most of us. here's some of my art about a few favorite films/releases (though sh2 is something i will draw forever until i die, but i love any excuse to be hype about it)

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[flowerbleedme]