Misanthropy Made Me

Stimlord. BernieBrony. Hobgoblin of small minds. Tag misplacer. BLM is pro-white, radfems are conservatives, tankies are Taylorists, capitalism is collectivist, sex aesthetics are all equally shit, maximized cynicism is indistinguishable from confidence. For more information inquire here: https://discord.gg/Ph4fNB9

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[deadpowol]

[tahthetrickster]

[penny-anna]

This is what I would do if I was Count Binface and I actually won:

Resign from office on the grounds that I only ran for the bants, triggering a further by-election

Immediately announce my candidacy for the by-election.

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[tepkunset]

Since Canada is currently trying to sell itself as an "ethical alternative" to Iran's oil, I would just like to remind folks / share some quick information:

More than 50% of Indigenous communities in reserve areas in Canada are at high risk of pipeline spills. When there is a spill, reserves are disproportionately impacted.

The National Energy Board and Supreme Court of Canada has a history of declaring the "public interest and economic interests outweigh Indigenous and treaty rights." Basically, Indigenous peoples don't count enough as "public" to matter.

Pipelines are built without proper consent from the Indigenous Nations they choose to occupy. Keep in mind I say choose, because this is the case even when alternative pipeline routes are suggested that could avoid reserve land. This is a direct, constant, and often violent threat to Indigenous sovereignty.

The MMIW crisis is funded by the oil industry through the creation of worker's "man camps" near reserve land. These "man camps" are nothing but pits of sexual violence and human trafficking of Indigenous women and girls. I am not exaggerating; this is well studied and well documented.

Resources & Sources:

To become an ‘energy superpower’, Canada wants to bulldoze Indigenous rights (START HERE!)

Indigenous Resistance to Alberta Oil and Gas Development Report

When the environment is destroyed, you're destroyed: Achieving Indigenous led pipeline justice

First Nations Consent Ignored as Canadians Asked to Subsidize LNG Expansion

Oil pipelines and food sovereignty: threat to health equity for Indigenous communities

Is Violence against Indigenous Women in “Canada’s interest”? Liquified Natural Gas in B.C., Sexual Violence & Narratives of Terra Nullius

The colonial playbook never ended, Canada’s pipeline deal proves it

Stand together: Alberta's First Nations and non-Indigenous unite against Big Oil

[heyfruitcake]

Now that everyone is discussing Nolan's Odyssey movie, I feel like it's a good time to let non-Italians know that the production dumped plastic props into the Italian sea. Weirdly enough I could not find any article in English about it but it's a fucking problem nonetheless.

I might translate this article later today. This one was the most complete one, even in Italian news it's not talked about that much.

L'Odissea di Nolan tra "scheletri spazzatura" e relitti: Arpa al lavoro in Sicilia, che succede

Non è la prima volta che la produzione solleva un vespaio in Sicilia. A Lipari una squadra di sub sarebbe però già impegnata a bonificare i

[ignitelimelight]

They dumped plastic skeletons in environmentally protected areas, against the literal contracts they had to sign to get the permits to film in environmentally protected areas. Like they not only did a bad ecological thing that freaked out some divers, they literally broke environmental protection laws and their contract with the Italian government

[fuckyeahdavidandyonatan]

They also filmed in illegally occupied territories in western sahara

'Cultural parasites': Calls for boycott of The Odyssey over filming in occupied Western Sahara

Sahrawi filmmakers criticise Christopher Nolan for complicity in Moroccan exploitation of Sahrawi land

[dyingroses]

[cheeseanonioncrisps]

“A kiss may be grand, but it won’t pay the rental, on your humble flat, or help you at the automat.”

Like literally the most famous song about how much girls love jewellry is just explaining the importance of getting jewellry for when your partner leaves you penniless and alone.

[ohheyheyitsjj]

The founder of Girl Scouting in the US, Juliette Gordon Low, funded her first troop by selling her pearl necklace, which was her only belonging after her husband died and left everything to his mistress.

She founded Girl Scouts to teach girls self-sufficiency so they wouldn’t have to go through what she went through when her husband died and she didn’t know how to take care of herself.

[penrosesun]

While we’re on the subject, let’s please also remember that historically disenfranchised communities who had to worry about frequently being run out of town often bought expensive jewelry with their limited funds not because they were greedy or tacky or classless, but rather because you can’t sew a real estate investment into the lining of your coat, and the powers that be can’t freeze a diamond necklace the way that they can freeze a bank account.

[psychic-waffles]

We're at the "JK Rowling is personally funding litigation to try and destroy AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL" stage of rabid UK terf brain.

Screenshot via Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net on bluesky

Tldr Amnesty International, global human rights organisation, published a report called 'A growing threat: the anti-rights movement in the UK'. In it is detailed, amongst others, a whole bunch of transphobic groups and organisations, including Beira's Place, JK Rowling's trans exclusionary sexual violence support service. JK Rowling threw a shit fit and got Amnesty to take the report down by threatening libel. This was obviously not enough, because you can't appease a fascist, so now she's going to bankroll a bunch of lawsuits anyway through the JK Rowling Women's Fund.*

You can read an archived version of the report here, please save it and share it.

*Not so friendly reminder there is no way to engage in the wizard books without enabling this shit.

[tall]

[argumate]

good time to rewatch Austin Powers now that it's been 30 years since 1997 and 60 years since 1967

[eightyonekilograms]

It's really not. I rewatched one of those recently and they do not hold up. There are occasional decent one-off gags like the stuck car (which still get dragged out too long), and some of the Dr. Evil stuff is funny, although genre-aware meta-gags about supervillains are now more common than just supervillains played straight, so even the good Dr. Evil bits have since been done much better by others. And meanwhile everything else about those movies is just painful now.

[argumate]

since the Austin Powers movies came out after the Pierce Brosnan reboot of James Bond it ended up being less about the 1960s and more about nostalgia for the very silly Roger Moore (!) era of movies from the '70s and '80s, which were practically self-parodies and inspired most of the spy movie parodies that came afterwards, while riding the Britpop wave of the '90s (and Tony Blair's New Labour) which was also gesturing at the '60s in a cargo cult kind of way; perhaps this whole thing is just Britain finally accepting its decline as world power and finding ways to commercialise its history instead.

[official-kircheis]

what’s that quote about the daniel craig bond movies being a reaction to austin powers killing campy bond the same way Airplane! killed airplane disaster movies?

[misanthropymademe]

it falls in the same category as Who Framed Roger Rabbit? (1988) in that its biggest lasting cultural impact is probably the sexual awakening its femme fatale character(s) gave to many people

[misanthropymademe]

final confrontation with the entirely rational villain, who spouts off a grandiose monologue, but gets increasingly angry as the hero tries his hardest to use de-escalation tactics reserved for people having a mental episode

the villain gets defeated and curses the hero with his last breath, while the hero shakes his head in mourning, saying this all could have been avoided under a better healthcare system

[the-technicolor-whiscash]

Tumblr is the reason why I have something I call the cashier test which is, if i told this to a random cashier at the grocery store, would they think you're crazy at best or at worst would they be warranted in leaping over the counter and beating the shit out of you. Karl Marx mpreg is crazy, but not beating the shit out of you crazy. The cashier will probably talk about you to their coworkers and it might even make their day. Telling someone they're complicit in their own oppression by working a minimum wage job at a grocery store makes them warranted in leaping over the counter to beat the shit out of you.

[the-technicolor-whiscash]

If you're wondering, yes, I've already gotten anon hate over this from people with bad reading comprehension. No, I am not actually telling a cashier at the grocery store about Karl Marx mpreg. The cashier is virtual. Imaginary. Hypothetical. They do not exist.

[misanthropymademe]

talking to someone about what in their eye could be bizarre sexual shit could very well make the uncomfortable or spooked to such a degree that they feel harassed

whereas your basic "all participants in the system uphold it" spiel, if told non-judgementally, will have them nod along more easily cos it sounds like a generic stoner truism

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Russians receive a physics lesson courtesy of a Mi-24’s 12.7mm rotary machine gun.

[captain-price-returns]

A YakB produces about 1.4 tonnes of force when firing, which coupled with a rotating turret where the barrel’s axis is offset by turret’s axis of rotation, creates a merry-go-round effect but much much deadlier.

[zoobus]

Average Manhwa about Female Bullying: You will never fully understand why this happened. Those who hurt you will never fully grasp why they did it. They might take your place at the bottom one day, but that temporary schadenfreude won't change the scars left from the knife they dragged through your brain every day. They might feel guilt and regret, but you'll never be privy to that. Violence will not save you; anyone who says otherwise won't stop once it's over. There will be no catharsis. The only peace for you is the one you build after escaping this nightmare called adolescence.

Average Manhwa about Male Bullying: In a sick society called South Korea, where powerless teachers have been banned from caning their thug students, one man says enough is enough. It's time.... to beat up teenagers. Read Bully Concusser now!

[afeelgoodblog]

Why hasn’t this been done before?

[autisticexpression]

You know why.

[petrosapian]

Mind the Gap: a handbook of clinical signs on black and brown skin

Second year medic, Malone Mukwende, has been working with staff members as part of a student-staff partnership project looking at clinical t

[missmixx-a-lot]

Cause racial health disparities…

[xmagnet-o]

I hope this gets published

[algorizmi]

It is available for download as a pdf from their website. www.blackandbrownskin.co.uk/mindthegap

[imperatorsapphiosa]

Hey, if anyone’s curious, this IS making a serious impact — this handbook was taught as standard practice for my EMT license course, as well as several other programs. A lot of new providers are being taught this as a matter of course.

[dogpuppy]

[quasi-normalcy]

John Boyne surely must be the most financially successful example of an author who does absolutely no research at all when writing about a hot-button issue and then plays the martyr when called out on it.

[misanthropymademe]

ah, this moron