the stars are the same as ever

i have crossed the face of the universe, i poison it to match my grief 27 - she/her - nonbinary butch lesbian 🏳️‍⚧️

[thisaintasceneitsfob]

[crowboy-bebop]

oh my fucking god

[greatdumbking]

pierrefonds on colour film

[what-even-is-thiss]

I think that people on both sides of the political spectrum thinking that the government doesn’t do anything for them is unfortunately a product of people not noticing things when they work well.

[what-even-is-thiss]

Sure you notice when the government works badly. You notice the lines at the dmv, lawmakers getting nothing done, taxes being overcomplicated, lack of protections on this and that, hurting this or that people group, not punishing companies enough n

And that’s all worth criticizing. Absolutely.

However, it also does a lot of stuff you don’t notice. Making sure companies don’t take more out of your bank account than they should, forcing your boss to pay you, maintaining the roads, building a new gym at your kid’s high school, making sure there’s no lead in your coffee, stopping random soldiers on leave from breaking down your door and stealing your Cheerios, standardizing nutrition labels, making sure your house won’t collapse during your local natural disasters, getting internet to people, putting fluoride in the water to protect your teeth.

There’s a million things every day that governments do that people just don’t seem to understand. And they can absolutely be better.

Most governments are messed up in their own special way. But claiming that they do nothing is like saying “we don’t need to hire a guy to clean kelp off the beach because the beach is always clean” when the beach is always clean and free of rotting kelp because the local government hired a guy to clean it.

[hylianengineer]

Hi! I make sure your drinking water doesn't give you cancer via high radiation levels! Did you know that's a thing you'd have to worry about if my job didn't exist?

Me neither, until I got this job.

I also make sure your local nuclear power plant isn't leaking. Sure, they have their own lab for that, but I make sure their lab can't fake their results and hide a leak because I am the objective third party confirmation.

And if there's ever a radiological accident or other emergency in my area of jurisdiction, I will make sure emergency responders get the information they need to save lives.

There are thousands of people in my field and hardly anyone knows we exist because the only reason you'd notice is if something goes wrong - but if we weren't here, people could die. Please support your local, regional, and national obscure government employees today and every day.

[omie-wise]

I’m 46 & the DMV situation is vastly improved from how it used to be because the DMV figured out ways to be more efficient because that’s part of the job of running the DMV & providing service. It takes far less time & is much easier.

It’s also something that’s really easy to not notice.

(Also the parks district here literally hires people to clean the beach. There’s big machines that churn the sand & pull up cans & glass bottles & dirty diapers etc. Like a Zamboni but for keeping sand safe to walk on. My taxes pay for that, and also for fencing around a beach sand pipers nest at, to keep them safe.)

[captain-price-returns]

[quasi-normalcy]

I don't understand how this is even a defence in the age of drone warfare.

[graham-folger]

Or even like... Cannon warfare.

[quasi-normalcy]

Yeah, the Ottomans could have taken this in the fourteenth century.

[biglawbear]

One siege tower and that shits cooked

[smeagles]

WHAT THE FUCKKKK HUMBUG???

[dragongirlsweetie]

it's always so funny how insistent people are that war "isn't inherently political" like you would be hard pressed to find something more inherently political

[evilscientist3]

people from different countries actually just kill each other with guns for several years at a time for no reason

[dragongirlsweetie]

need everyone to understand that this is not some kind of obscure online discourse iceberg. this is the median american voter

[sport-news-daily]

trotskyite vs maoist game ofbeach volleyball has begun

[martial-art-world]

inour coverage of the world communism games cutting overto the freestyle wrestling event, 'Layla Pinksweet' represrnting Luxembourhist has been disqualifiedfor employung the fobridden "triple leg takedown"

[sport-news-daily]

in other news, the stalinist team continues to dominate at Gorodki

[muttsandmustelidae]

🍉

[silvermoon424]

This tweet read me to filth

[nepenthean-sleep]

wall signs getting replaced with tvs and electronic screens is such a big issue that i think no one gives a shit about lol

[nepenthean-sleep]

like okay for example. the library at my school just replaced the maps on each floor with two lcd tvs that display the EXACT same graphic (but also the date and time!). this building has not changed layout in decades. this building is ten floors. like you literally replaced 20 paper signs with 20 bigass televisions that do the exact same thing. genuinely what in the energy consumption are you doing

[nepenthean-sleep]

wall signs getting replaced with tvs and electronic screens is such a big issue that i think no one gives a shit about lol

[ot3]

a couple of people on that last post are like 'i had to stop when i reached the point where i didnt know what was going on' and i always legit forget that insane shit happening that the audience can't understand yet is gonna be a turnoff for a lot of people. i have a real "lets see where the dog is going with this one" ethos in how i approach media and it has been nothing but a boon. how do you ever expect to find something that really blows you away if you tap out as soon as you're in uncharted territory.

[stephexmachina]

it's really is like there's a torture machine for women and everybody knows about it and it's called the Women's Torture Machine and everyone's like "yesssss let's put women in the torture machine" so they teach little girls to embrace the torture machine and they force every woman they can inside & every so often there's someone who isn't a woman but shares enough characteristics w society's constructed definition of womanhood that they're are like "close enough into the torture machine you go" & anytime a woman goes "it's unforgivably evil that women have to live w the threat of the torture machine" people on tumblr dot com go "ummmm actually it's not just women that get put in the torture machine are you a terf"

[bodyofdeath]

It’s important to learn to avoid people who are solely focused on destroying lives, when you find somebody who has interests outside of destroying lives you can do fun stuff like go swimming and visit a cheese cave. people who aren’t into destroying lives sometimes cultivate idiosyncratic personal interests and preferences for things like the different frequencies of bells ringing, because they haven’t been preoccupied with destruction

[puppygirllaika]

brutalism hatred over. let's get some hatred going for the intarnational styles. babygirl you didn't have to make everything into a panel.

[puppygirllaika]

"We have developed the technology to create hanging facades, where buildings can be made using interior steel frames with panels hanging off the sides, instead of those gross old buildings where their sturdy exteriors walls supported the structure. This has allowed us to achieve the ultimate dream of architecture, the most beautiful representation of form and function we can possibly imagine: Big Box. All buildings for the next 50 years will now be Big Box. Everyone loves Big Box."

[puppygirllaika]

Behold, architecture.

[charlizetheronsbush-official]

is this minoru yamasaki’s fault

[puppygirllaika]

i would strongly disagree with that. Yes, he designed one of the most famous building ever in the international style, the world trade center, but that wasn't until well into the development and adoption of the style across the architectural world. If anything, the main motif of his career is his arches, and he used them liberally at a time when the arch was well fallen out of favor specifically because of modernist styles like the international style that were obsessed with the advantages of the kind of squared off shapes that could be achieved with steel beams, with the architectural world moving away from more traditional arches. He did a lot of really cool and interesting things with them. it's why the bottom of the WTC looked like that. The man loved an arch.

[puppygirllaika]

oh, for reference:

Rainier Tower - Seattle, Washington, USA

Northwestern National Life Building - Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA

St. Louis Lambert International Airport - St. Louis, Missouri, USA

Dhahran International Airport (Now King Abdulaziz Air Base) - Saudi Arabia

Pacific Science Center / 1962 Worlds Fair - Seattle, Washington, USA

World Trade Center (Demolished) - Manhattan, New York, USA

[thotsoflore]

(Demolished)

[puppygirllaika]

(Demolished)

[fleshengine]

Why'd they demolish it? Anyone know?

[forgettableandtired]

I understand there were a number of criticisms, for one it was in international style.

[boringkate]

You listen to music regularly? Why? Have you even tried quitting? Could you quit? You get music stuck in your head? Wow. You're so ruined and music brained. I bet you make your partners listen to music with you when you have sex. Music addiction has really ruined a whole generation. You know it's not realistic to expect reverb in real life, right? You're probably so desensitized that you don't even feel anything anymore when you hear a bird singing that it wants some fuck.

[paradigm-adrift]

I don't have a problem with people listening to music per se, but I do have a problem with the music industry exploiting & mistreating artists.

Personally, I abstain from all music in order to keep my hands clean but really music should just be illegal outright to protect musicians from abuse.

[terramythos]

holy shit this person in the notes

[discodyke-dogthing]