Empress of okapis

I'm Eurovision trash above all. Alexander Rybak is a vampire. I also study history sometimes.

[kimreesesdaughter]

May you NEVER be in a position to not afford your rent!

Sending good vibes to everyone with rent, utilities and more bills than bills! Better days are ahead.

[footnoteinhistory]

[gayerthangrantaire]

its the cash Biden reblog in 30 seconds for money in your future

[donutmongoose-deactivated202104]

[eroscestlavie]

[toopunktofuck]

#WHICH ONE IS NOODLES#???!!!

[cumwitch]

[toopunktofuck]

VERY GOOD

[princesstigerbelle]

✨Curious Zelda ✨

[probablybard]

modern greek mythology adaptation where hades and persephone are played by john mulaney and his wife

[proseandpeonies]

She’s hades, he’s Persephone

[honey-sunny-bee]

Oh no, no. John Mulaney is 100% Hades.

Loves his wife

Is actually pretty chill except when it comes to stupid people

Can’t stand up for himself when others try to do him wrong

[hearthburn]

And from what we hear about her, she’s very Persephone.

Easy to underestimate

Knows her own mind

Will cut you

[appendingfic]

“So, I meet this wonderful lady. Just fantastic, my heart does that thing where it’s skipping beats, and I - all of you think I’m going to talk about how I suavely asked her out, and that is not what happened. 

“I ride up in my chariot, and the first - this is literally the first thing I say to her is ‘do you want to meet my dog’?

“And this - I - this is a sign that this woman is my soul mate - she looks at her friends hanging around and says, ‘sure, catch you later, guys’.

“I’m going to skip forward here a couple of dates - no, don’t - this is not the story of how my wife met my dog - and her mom - her mom - finds out she’s seeing me. Now I know everyone jokes about how a girl’s dad is this big, hulking - going to hunt you down if you’re dating his daughter and he doesn’t like you. But if you say that, it’s because you’ve never had some girl’s mom glaring up at you from like - her mom’s like two inches taller than her, so this little furious glare from around my chin area, saying her daughter’s not allowed to come see me anymore.

“And this - okay, this is when I knew I was going to marry this girl, she looks at her mom and, cool as anything, says, ‘Too late, mom. I met his dog, ate dinner over here. I’m staying’.”

[teathattast]

[cybergata]

Kittens, raised with rabbits, have learned to imitate the rabbits’ behavior by hopping about.

[megurashkarchived]

wow

[muja-bunny]

Th-th-th-

THEY HOP

[angelwarm]

i hope that one day i will finally be ok….i’ll make a cherry pie when it is all over

[angelwarm]

today is the day

[joshpeck]

reblog the cherry pie to be ok

[fandomsandfeminism]

Thought: I do NOT think that 50% of the world’s billionaires should be women. I think there shouldn’t be any billionaires at all.

[cranberrybogmummy]

So you are saying 0% of the world should be billionaires?

[fandomsandfeminism]

Yes.

[caosdth]

Why shouldn’t their be billionaires? That makes no sense.

[fandomsandfeminism]

Because the existence of billionaires is predicated on the exploitation of human labor and unsustainable environmental harm.  That level of wealth hoarding is harmful to economies, as it reduces the amount of money in circulation. No one person, no family, could ever conceivably even SPEND a billion dollars anyway, and  it is inherently immoral to accumulate wealth so narrowly while so much of the world lives in abject poverty.  

Better then to create a wealth ceiling, a point at which all wealth over a certain point  is taxed at or very near 100% to incentivize people to actually spend their money rather than hoard it, stimulating the economy and bettering the lives of far more people. Better even still to create and regulate economic systems that protect workers and the environment in a way that such extreme levels of wealth accumulation aren’t even feasible. 

[aflawedmind]

The problem with this is that it reduces the incentive to actually do fiscally well. What’s the point of starting a business if you can’t become wealthy?

[fandomsandfeminism]

There is a very real difference between “reasonably wealthy” and A BILLIONAIRE

[twodotsknowwhy]

No one is saying you shouldn’t have a nice house, we are saying that having multiple really, really ridiculously nice houses while your employees are either homeless or at serious risk of becoming homeless is immoral.

[whenandwhereienter]

I’ll never understand why this concept is hard for people. I think it’s because they can’t actually fathom how much $1 Billion is.

[fandomsandfeminism]

Seriously.

Let’s say you have a badass job. A great job. You make $100 AN HOUR. You work 10 hours a day ($1000 A DAY), 5 days a week ($5000 a week!!!), every week ($20,000 A MONTH), thats $240,000 Every Year.

It would take you 4,167 years to make a billion dollars.

[fandomsandfeminism]

Keep in mind then, that if you got paid $1000 an hour, 10 hours a day, five days a week, every week, all year, it would still take over 400 years to make a billion.

You want to make one billion in a human lifetime? If you made $10,000 an HOUR, 10 hours a day, 5 days a week, every week, all year, it would take you 41 years to hit a billion.

(And that’s not counting, ya know, money you spend to stay alive on food or rent or anything. )

Jeff Bezos currently has 140 billion dollars.

[blindbee]

[avodaco]

me when i get my student loan

[g8dtier]

this is the money cat. reblog in 30 seconds and you will find yourself with more wealth

[strikercorbie]

#this is the only money cat i will reblog because it’s actually doing the manekineko pose151,646 notes (via lolwhutninja)

OMG YOU’RE RIGHT

[nonespark-blog]

and it has its right paw up! the correct paw for this. and from the markings on its ears, it looks like it might be a calico cat. which is the luckiest kind!

[carrionbeast]

extremely lucky cat

[ladynorbert]

I don’t even care if it actually works, I’m mostly reblogging because it’s freaking adorable.

[sweet-cherry-fairy-deactivated2]

cute cat and need money, good post, 10/10

[allthenamesilikearetaken]

in case anyones interested in the other versions

http://www.namaii.com/manekineko/maneki-neko-types.html

[mmusclechan]

Y’know I reblogged this a bit ago and was saved from financial probation and getting kicked out of school because of it, just mere months from graduation. Got a call from the financial aid advisor telling me that they made a mistake with filing my account (or some other sort of clerical error) and said that, basically, they owe me money. Welp.

[winjennster]

Last time I reblogged the money cat, I won two $100 gift cards at work.

[mayorowly]

Give me some money moneycat 🐱 please please 🙏

[luna-mistrunner]

I’m fairly certain America hinges now on propaganda that everything is okay and we’re still a first world nation when actually, our country is slipping further and further, and we’re really just. The best third world country out here. Not even comparable to most first world countries, so we fucking aren’t one anymore

Sounds like we live in a police state where the rich tax the poor not to feed or protect them but to fund programs and legislature that defunds their resources and encourages them to die. The rich get richer and the middle class shrinks and suffocates while the entire country falls apart because corporate power greed refuses to see the consequences of their actions.

I wish I had the faith to believe what goes around comes around, but I think it’s time to understand that we’re the ones that need to come around and take action. The rich aren’t going to do jack shit for us anymore. Even the rich that care about people on the bottom don’t have the courage to help people en masse

[shindetsuku]

Economically speaking, one of the foundations of a 1st world country is a strong middle class (source, my BBA in Economics and International Business), and it’s been abundantly clear that America’s middle class has been shrinking.  Wages have been stagnant since pretty much the 1970′s, American CEO’s wage disparity is the highest in the world when compared to the average of their workers.  

Basically, the us *isn’t* a first world country anymore.  Our economy may still be one of the highest (I’m not sure if China has overtaken us yet), but our infrastructure is crumbling.  Roads and school and bridges are in dire need of repair, our education system is laughable when you see how much money we have available for it.  Military spending is out of control, often on things the military doesn’t even need or want.  All in the name of continuously soaring profits for the highest echelon of society, who never needed it to begin with.  

[waennsch-daennscho]

Here’s some expresses from a recent article about a UN official investigating poverty in the US:

“A United Nations official investigating poverty in the United States was shocked at the level of environmental degradation in some areas of rural Alabama, saying he had never seen anything like it in the developed world.

“I think it’s very uncommon in the First World. This is not a sight that one normally sees. I’d have to say that I haven’t seen this,” Philip Alston, the U.N.’s Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, told Connor Sheets of AL.comearlier this week as they toured a community in Butler County where “raw sewage flows from homes through exposed PVC pipes and into open trenches and pits.”

“Some might ask why a U.N. Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights would visit a country as rich as the United States,“ Alston said. “But despite great wealth in the U.S., there also exists great poverty and inequality.”

Alston also pointed out that the U.S. “has been very keen” on other countries being investigated by the U.N. for civil and human rights issues. “Now, it’s the turn to look at what’s going on in the U.S.,” Alston said. “There are pretty extreme levels of poverty in the United States given the wealth of the country. And that does have significant human rights implications.”

“The idea of human rights is that people have basic dignity and that it’s the role of the government—yes, the government!—to ensure that no one falls below the decent level,” he said. “Civilized society doesn’t say for people to go and make it on your own and if you can’t, bad luck.””

http://www.newsweek.com/alabama-un-poverty-environmental-racism-743601

[yungcrybby-anonymousbosch666]

people in america buy into the “first world” myth so hard they claim the poor and disenfranchised are just lazy. it’s such a fine machine. american poverty is real. and the differences in amenities across states is very real.

like there are black and latin@ people in the southern states with no power and no water. 

[katjohnadams]

Flint still does not have clean water and Puerto Rico remains without power.

(May Day, 2018)

[whereintheworldiskamalakhan]

the myth of the american dream

[gif87a-com]

[oncelerfucker69-deactivated2019]

me getting up at 3 am to consume water

[terrapincentury-deactivated2018]

really good post if you ever drink water

[mintedwitcher]

S L O R P

[pleatedjeans]

[megamindmutual-deactivated20191]

if you’re lgbt and a transmisogynist like i’m really sorry you’re an idiot and don’t realize trans women literally created this community cause that’s really sad, like we wouldn’t have a community without them. you waving your pitchfork and incomprehensible rhetoric  to thank them is sad. and all i’m gonna feel in response is utter secondhand embarrassment for how stupid you are. like you’re dumb bye

[megamindmutual-deactivated20191]

don’t just like this, reblog it! let trans women know you love and support them in this community!

[okapiempress]

My favourite thing about the Danish dub of Moana is Tamatoa singing “Die, die, die” at Maui

[ruinedchildhood]

[ruinedchildhood]

Daniel Radcliffe on a normal Tuesday morning walk

[6slut]

you ever see girls that are so pretty that you don’t know what to do with yourself

[debrides]

i made a pretty girl laugh w/a silly joke and i got so flustered that i apologized

[androginking]

this pretty girl told me my hair was cute and touched it briefly and I couldn’t form full sentences for a solid 10 minutes.

[q4fy8g3ho9t-deactivated20240516]

at a football game a pretty girl told me i was cute and she also called me kiddo and i couldnt play my instrument right for the rest of the night

[priestessamy]

every girl I see is pretty, I am in a constant state of paralysis

[bella-likes-nutella-and-aca-blog]

this pretty girl offered to teach me how to longboard and when she was teaching me how to balance she put her hands on my hips and I felt my soul leave my body

[bella-likes-nutella-and-aca-blog]

one time a pretty girl called me “gorgeous” and I was so shocked and flustered that I literally cried right in front of her

[alectually]

today a pretty girl walked me out of class and i was surprised when she kept walking even though we reached her bus stop and i asked her where she was heading and she said “oh i just wanted to walk you to wherever you’re going” and we both blushed

[batmanisagatewaydrug-deactivate]

at work this summer there was a pretty girl who came in multiple times a week and every single day she showed up I would lose the ability to form coherent sentences for at least ten minutes

[emiliusthegreat]

A pretty cashier at the campus store told me I was pretty and I got so flustered that when I went back to my room I had to lay down for half an hour and my roommate was starting to get concerned. 

[hexaviolet]

There’s a REALLY pretty girl in my band class and she’s three chairs away from me and every time I even glance up at her she looks back and smiles at me and I forget how to read music

[wlwesque]

This entire post just added 10 years to my life and soul

[wheeloffortune-design]

Once I was getting off the bus and there was a girl so beautiful next to me that I tripped and walked into a bus pole.

[damaramegido]

honestly me every time i see my gf, like holy shit, but also once in college i ran across this weird gothy/pseudo-victorian girl and she was so painfully pretty that i died

[blackkatmagic]

Once I met a girl so pretty I lost all ability to differentiate between languages and gave her my coffee order in three different ones mashed together. (She laughed at me, but that’s okay, because she married me two years later.)

[things-are-looking-up-oh-finally]

This thread ended in the best possible way. I hope y'all stay pure

[bidootdoot-deactivated20190601]

Once a pretty girl called me her sunshine and winked at me and I died.