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]

[afloweroutofstone]

>landlord of my building changes >new online portal for paying rent >required to set up an account with Bilt Inc. >Bilt will add $10 a month to my rent if I pay it using my debit card >look for ways to avoid this fee by paying directly through my bank account >required to set up an extra account with Plaid Inc. >Plaid demands the password to my bank account (!!!!!!!) to connect, after which their terms of service will allow them to monitor all of my financial activity and sell that data to the highest bidder >look for a way to set up my account through a regular ACH process without taking this massive security risk >download the Bilt app on my phone because it's the only way to directly contact their help desk >realize that the Bilt app has an ACH option for connecting my bank account that is available on the app but completely unavailable on their web portal (illegal?) >finally enter my routing and account numbers like a normal human being >app still tries to redirect me towards giving away my bank account password >avoid this again >Congratulations! Your account has been set up! >doomed to a future of both email and physical mail spam from Bilt trying to pressure me into a Bilt Rewards credit card that allows me to earn 4% of my spending back in Bilt Cash that can be redeemed at qualifying establishments, terms and conditions apply >this is considered an efficient mechanism for transferring money between two accounts

Nuke the entire financial industry.

[smoothjazzdigit]

Have you guys seen that clip

Go off Kermit

[juliathefacesofevil]

we're just normal men

[oddjoblin]

Why the heck is this dude trying to confirm if the frog puppet is hetrosexual???

[karnalesbian]

assessing the situation before he shoots his shot

[defilerwyrm]

Happy Pride to Kermit the Frog, questioning king

[whatthekoi-deactivated20260510]

“can’t believe women fought to work!! i don’t wanna work!!” women have Been Working they fought to get Paid you know that right ?

[charl0ttan]

the main issue with problems is how bad they suck. but what if there was a app that let you bet on child surgeries

[transmutationisms]

what are your thoughts on space exploration? I got curious bc of your anon on nasa

i'm not inherently categorically opposed to it but it's deeply unserious how many people, even nominal communists, presume it to be socially salubrious or enlightening because they simply don't think about 1. the extraction of resources, which is obviously no different to extraction for any other industry and should be treated the same way analytically and 2. the relationship between national space exploration programs, military technocracy, and nationalism. wrt nasa specifically this is of particular import because of the sheer size and global hegemony of the us military, and to be clear, nasa has always been tasked with sharing its technologies with the department of defence, and has worked jointly with dod on a great many very expensive projects, to the extent that changing nasa's budget typically has a noticeable inverse effect on us military expenditures. refusal to acknowledge or interrogate these facts in favour of a positivist narrative of space exploration as some kind of heady accumulation of knowledge for the good of the species is naïve.

[deepseasmetro]

the masses only care about the girls starving themselves when its not something they can ignore anymore; ariana grande used to be "just naturally petite" - only now once they can see her skeleton does anyone feel the need to express their concern. and, of course, the fattest of us will starve ourselves constantly, months at a time, for years of our lives, and the only thing we ever get out of it is a congratulations. starvation is ugly, but thinness is chic - i mean, ariana grande wasn't even actually fat before! her mind is sick so she just thinks she's fat. she's starving herself wrongly. thin people are not supposed to starve. only fat people!

[deepseasmetro]

our suffering is simply our rightful punishment for the crime of being fat

[nepenthean-sleep]

half of the other posts on the butch subreddit (the ones that are not non-butches being annoying and treating butches like a type of exotic pet) are like "um is it... normal... to be a butch... and to be attracted to other butches..." like how did we gay so hard that people are getting internalized homophobia when they're already gay. this is crazy.

[nepenthean-sleep]

our age of neoliberalism is collapsing

[eskildit]

reading through my usual terrible substacks and its all them complaining about how ridiculous all the criticisms of the odyssey are meanwhile on tumblr im scrolling through the 199743940th our age of ____ is _____ meme post in a row

[real-uwu-hours]

Yall when I found out rich people have special therapists to help them cope with the guilt of hoarding money I literally considered throwing away all the morals I never had to become a psych major for like an entire day like I would have emotionally damaged them so badly

[feastofsnakes]

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From an article about these "therapists"

[anarchistmemedistro]

Call it Rich Asshole Syndrome—the tendency to distance yourself from people with whom you have a large wealth differential.

[mychemicalraymance]

Schluub = the americana parody counterpart to Draag

[trangoldin]

I'm ngl it kinda kills me that the thing that is killing Hank Green and making him go through mass cancellation is him saying that he sometimes uses AI for research.

Like not the horrible video on hrt, no of course not. Loudly and proudly declaring "we don't hire transfems here at scishow"? Nobody gives a shit!

But say "i used Claude as a search engine for academic articles" and every creator on youtube takes turns shitting you as you go into fucking witness protection.

[trangoldin]

There is a connection here with that post I saw the other day about how being performatively anti-AI can be a way to loudly declare one's commitment to "good values" without actually having to care about uplifting any marginalized communities

[tolovaj]

THANK YOU

[dykepuffs]

Friendly unfriendly reminder that "Ovulation is like an animal being in heat and makes you stupid" has been a keystone of western misogyny pretty much since Europe worked out what periods are.

[nepenthean-sleep]

straight white people making a romance movie: haha what if it was illegal to have sex? wait what's lawrence v texas. wait what's mclaughlin v florida. wait what's loving v virginia

[fromkenari]

Don't forget their "Wouldn't it be wild if there was thought police?" or "Wouldn't it be wild if there was a ban on doing things that make you happy?" movies, and then they get really mad when you start talking about the lives of disabled and impoverished people and people of color, like these things don't already fucking exist and don't need Tom Cruise and Christian Bale to make them Real Issues for people. Yeah.

[eskildit]

our of of the is is

[nepenthean-sleep]

you can write a post on tumblr that's like "it sucks how this situation affects both queer people and black people" and people will be like "oh yeah its so bad for queer people it really sucks for the gays it's so bad for lgbt shit this is really hurting queer people" ten thousand times over in your notes