why am I still on this hellsite

Old. Whatever.

[imhereandhistorical]

OK, look it’s just-

The reference is going over SO MANY people’s heads on twitter and he doesn’t have to explain himself but it’s SENDING ME SO LIKE. 

Just in case you missed it, Bezo’s rich ass is going to be flying to space, on a rocket ship from his own company. That’s fine. That’s totally ok and normal. 

Jamaal Bowman, who is a congressman from/for the Bronx (so you know I like him more) is directly referencing a song by Gil Scott-Heron called “Whitey’s on the Moon.” Scott-Heron debuted the song in 1970 on his spoken word album Small Talk at 125th and Lennox. It was directly inspired by activist Eldridge Cleaver, who argued that the space program/space race was a way to ignore the internal issues going on in America at the time.  

I’ll put the video to the song below the cut, but Bowman has taken the lyrics from the actual song that read as the following, and plugged in Bezo’s name. Still works.

I can’t pay no doctor bill. (but Whitey’s on the moon) Ten years from now I’ll be payin’ still. (while Whitey’s on the moon)

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[beaky-peartree]

Du kannst nicht "Geschlecht" ohne "schlecht" buchstabieren

[beaky-peartree]

i would post this joke in english but it doesn't translate very well

[i-suggest-cdrw]

no i think it translates just fine actually

[cavernario-galindo]

"you're just racist"

[scottandhiskind]

Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it

[dacool66-deactivated-june-1-2023]

The history will be reborn under the reigns of chaos.

[vadergf]

[idezwitch]

and i oop-

[whatevercomestomymind]

Boost this. Malicious fucking compliance y'all. Tie up their legal system with tens of thousands of cases. Burn their state government’s cash on this issue. Force them to play by the Nth degree of this idiotic rule.

[silver-tongues-blog]

i love uncivil obedience. follow the letter of the law so close that it shows just how ridiculous and unfair the law is

[ivfhnyfubpx]

someone on twitter took dirt from a graveyard to curse people who didn’t like their favorite minecraft streamer. i wish i was making this up

[ivfhnyfubpx]

help

[testosteronetwink]

​this is amazing twitter is finally catching up with season 3 of tumblr with the “graverobbing witches” arc

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Ours stole actual human bones. Get on our level, twitter.

[oo0owo0oo]

tbf i believe we also had a graveyard dirt witch, the bone thief just got more attention

[leolove4ever]

[fazers]

[feralnumberfive]

I don't know what to say, but I will tell you that I'm jealous

[redcap3]

It is pretty fun, but you need to know the top vote-getter was “Abolish ICE” and they robbed us.

[mr-dalliard-ive-gone-peculiar]

[piratedykes]

It will forever haunt me that I cannot share this joke with everyone I meet

[motive11331]

[micro-usb-deactivated20230625]

When you’re super in touch with the city you’re running to be the mayor of.

[sovietshopaholic]

they did them dirty with these pics but they deserve it

[buns-of-men]

When is it sexist? - A Handy Chart

[tovakiin]

My favorite moment when playing FFXIV for the first time was seeing the men in the same ridiculous subligars as the women.

[perquisitemagnate]

In order:

World of Warcraft

Dark Souls

Final Fantasy XIV

[azothelement-deactivated2019010]

Seriously, Dark Souls is so good about this, I accidentally became female and didn’t even know about it until I was changing my gear.

[dracophile]

Sorry, that last bit is funny to me because I’m just imagining this knight changing and looking at a pair of breasts like “…Those are new.”

[anxietyproblem]

[memeuplift]

[leona-florianova]

I had a dream that there was a seal in our garden, which was not great for the seal so we went on an adventure to find him at least a lake

**this time posting all of the sketches.. also what I havent captured is that the seal swam through the green of our garden as if it was water.. but unfortunately there werent any fish… he also talked and was very polite.

[kuttithevangu]

Someone I know not well enough to voice my opinion on the subject said something like why didn’t God make potatoes a low-calorie food so I am here to say: God made them like that because their nutrition density IS what makes them healthy. By God I mean Andean agricultural technicians. Potato is healthy BECAUSE potato holds calories and vitamins. Do not malign potato

[w1zrad]

For all evolutionary history, life has struggled against calorie deficit… So much energy goes into finding food that there is no time for anything else. Our ancestors selectively bred root vegetables to create the potato, so that we might be the first species whose daily existence doesn’t consist of trying to find the nutrients necessary for survival. One potato can rival the calorie count of many hours of foraging… Eat a potato, and you free up so much time to create and build and connect with your fellow man. Without potato where would you be?? Do not stand on the shoulders of giants and think thyself tall!!

[roll1uptwice]

Pay them ppl man.

[20dollarlolita]

There’s a regular at the fabric superstore. She’s at least 80 years old, and she just got back into sewing after giving it up for 40 years. We’ll call her Irma.

I love Irma.

Irma is constantly surprised by the newfangled sewing gadgets our store sells. Today she bought some extra-fine glass-head pins and a magnetic pincushion. As I’m ringing her purchases up, she tells me very seriously, “did you know, if you’re careful, you can sew RIGHT OVER those pins? You don’t need to take them out!”

I told her that I liked that you can’t accidentally melt the head of the glass pins with your iron, and she nodded. “They used to all be like that, but times changed.”

I love old sewing machines and asked what kind of machine she has, and she goes, “Oh, it’s an old Singer Featherweight that my husband bought me when we were first married. It’s probably not worth anything anymore, but the thing sews fine. Have you seen the ones those girls over there–” indicating the sewing machine sub-store in my location “–have? Those things go in every direction and the needle always comes to the top when you stop sewing! Imagine how handy that is!”

I mention that I used to sew on my grandmother’s Featherweight but now there’s a intra-family war about who owns Grandma’s Featherweight and so no one gets to use it. It’s genuinely the best portable straight-stitch machine I’ve ever used.

I warn her to never let anyone tell her that Featherweight isn’t worth something. “I know, I miss my husband and it’s always going to have a place in my heart, just like your grandma’s.”

“I mean, Irma, there’s that, but they’re also worth a really notable amount of money. The Singer Featherweight is really financially valuable. I almost never see them for sale around here for less than about $400, and that’s in bad condition.”

“It’s a good thing my husband’s dead, honey, because if you told him that he managed to buy a sewing machine that’s worth more in 2021 than he bought it for in 1950, well, he’d be so smug that I just wouldn’t be able to tolerate driving home with him.”