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[elizabethrobertajones]

[homeboygirl]

theres bikes around the city you can rent but you have to use an app that needs your drivers license. theres buses that drive right to your destination, but if you dont have change you need the app. you can wash your car here if you sign into the app. you can go to the bathroom here you just have to unlock it with the app that needs your location on. you can order at this restaurant if you scan the code and download the app. im losing my freaking mind

[charlesoberonn]

[bearfeathers]

[catchymemes]

[theunfairfolk]

does everybody else open tumblr first thing in the morning like its a fuckin daily report or is that just me

[theunfairfolk]

you understand me

[micro-usb-deactivated20230625]

HAVE Z AND ALPHA NOT BEEN MADE AWARE? HAVE WE FAILED AT CONTINUING TO MEME THE HELL OUT OF IT? ARE WE, IN FACT, THE GRANDMAS BECAUSE WE ARE THE ANCIENT KEEPERS OF THE INCEST COFFEE KNOWLEDGE???

[fatsexybitch]

[lizardbeths]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

A fandom since 2011 guys

[quarra]

[marzipanandminutiae]

(If anybody is wondering “how could they write that and not anticipate the reaction?“ It’s because the sister was supposed to be much younger in the original draft. Like. An actual child. But they aged her up and never bothered changing the dialogue, so…)

[wemblingfool]

It’s honestly not the writing or the age, or even the acting that screams “incest.”

It’s the directing and camera work. It’s specifically the long lingering gazes.

[adulthoodisokay]

“You’re My Present This Year”: An Oral History of the Folgers Incest Ad

The best part of waking up is getting to read this incest oral history.

I’m begging you to read the oral history of this commercial. It features some banger quotes and also Timothy Simons, aka Jonah from Veep, who worked the camera for the auditions and callbacks.

[getvalentined]

Happy Folgers Incest Commercial season to all who celebrate!

[skipppppy]

Over 6 months in the making (mostly bc procrastination) but I finally compiled my Kanto Gym Leader Magazine series. I love the idea of an in-universe style fashion publication where they all do interviews about their hobbies and stuff

Want something like this for your own OC? My commissions are open!!

[juniperhillpatient]

“apologist.” “critical.” y’all are doing too much. when my favorite characters do evil reprehensible shit I simply don’t fucking care cause it’s not real

[forthegothicheroine]

via @maddie-grove

#a while back i saw a whole thing about how we needed to acknowledge something bad a character did#and after a point i was like why? is he real? is he running for senator?

[jelicatessen]

sometimes the narrative needs a character to do a bad thing and thats ok bc it makes the narrative better and also the narrative is fake

[adulthumanproblem-deactivated20]

Last week or so the girlies on Twitter were angry at David Tennant because he played a bad guy once. And one really said that “you can’t excuse his actions just because he’s fictional”

And like. Yes. Yes you can. Because he’s fictional. Not real. Just a story.

[fleshmonger]

Rotating Sandwich Mood Board

Rotating Sandwich Mood Board

[prince-sarah]

[rozecrest]

hey don’t cry. spiro the bald eagle failing at catching a crab, okay?

[mrsmarlasinger]

[p1ss]

[ejacutastic]

I DIDN’T LEARN ABOUT THIS IN DRIVING SCHOOL

[biszumletzten]

Stop says the red light, go says the green

Wait says the yellow light, twinkling in between. 

KNEEL, SAYS THE DEMON LIGHT WITH ITS EYE OF COAL  SAURON KNOWS YOUR LICENSE PLATE  AND STARES INTO YOUR SOUL

[demonsnakes-deactivated20160829]

THIS IS ALWAYS FUNNY

[brightlotusmoon]

@irritatedlifeguard I agree with your tags.

[unregistered-hypercam2-deactiva]

[puckish-thoughts]

THERE IT IS AGAIN!  THERE IT FUCKING IS!  i’VE BEEN TALKING ABOUT THIS PHOTO FOR YEARS AND NEVER COULD FIND IT!!  THE LAN PARTY WITH THE GUY DUCT-TAPED TO THE CEILING!!  BACK IN ANCIENT TIMES WHEN PEOPLE STILL USED CATHODE MONITORS AND WHEN COUNTERSTRIKE WAS THE NEW THING.  THIS SHIT IS REAL.  THIS IS REAL SHIT.  SHIT THAT HAPPENED.

[ladyimtolstoy]

A friendly reminder to USians: if you are planning to vote on Election Day, your mantra is "Nothing I see today convinces me not to go vote."

Exit polls suggest DT cannot be caught? YOU STILL GO VOTE.

Exit polls suggest KH has it in the bag? YOU STILL GO VOTE.

Pundits are saying the country is swinging overwhelmingly red? YOU STILL GO VOTE.

Pundits are saying the country is swinging overwhelmingly blue? YOU STILL GO VOTE.

Polls can be misleading (intentionally or not). The methodology can be biased (or simply poor). Early results may not reflect what the full count will show. There may be a red mirage. NOTHING YOU SEE CONVINCES YOU NOT TO VOTE.

The biggest Democratic win in swing states means nothing if democrats don't turn out everywhere to keep the reliably blue states blue.

VOTE. Wear appropriate weather gear if you think you may have to stand in a line outside (coat, hat, gloves, umbrella, sunhat, whatever, you know where you live). Bring water and a snack and something to do (book, game on your phone, podcast and headphones, whatever, you know what you like). GO VOTE.

NOTHING YOU SEE ON ELECTION DAY CONVINCES YOU NOT TO VOTE.

[mariacallous]

Leftists helping fascists in 2016: This will teach the Democrats a lesson and make them come crawling back to us.

Leftists helping fascists in 2020: This will teach the Democrats a lesson and make them come crawling back to us.

Leftists helping fascists in 2024: This will teach the Democrats a lesson and make them come crawling back to us.

[crafting-and-tea]

One thing I wish people understood about politics, is that building coalitions means treating coalition partners the way you want to be treated. You want a party to reliably work on issues of concern to you? You need to reliably show up for that party, and loudly say WHY you're showing up for that party. Otherwise you're not a coalition partner. You're an unreliable group that's not worth investing resources in.

And, honestly, a lot of the "leftists" have shown this year that they don't really pay attention to issues or what's going on or being done. Plenty of them have gone on twitter to announce that nothing NOTHING will make them vote for Democratic candidates. That's a one-way ticket to getting sorted into the same "waste of time" bucket as hardcore MAGA people and ignored.

Because people who are serious about making change don't throw public tantrums. They don't have constantly shifting goal posts. They're strategic. They are able to partner with people, even if they disagree with those people. They organize. They build coalitions. They constantly work on growing those coalitions. If that's not what you're doing, admit to yourself that, for you, politics is not about helping people, it's a hobby or something you do to try to get attention for yourself, and get out of the way of the people doing the work.

[unsoundedcomic]

Does the task of starting a whole new comic seem daunting? It's such a big job and commitment!

It is! But I'm always ready to give it my best shot, if circumstances allow for it.

And they might not, if I'm honest. If the Republicans take the White House, Trump will move to repeal Obamacare/the ACA like he did in 2017. John McCain is too dead to stop it a second time, so me and a lot of other independent artists will lose our healthcare. That could put an end to Unsounded pretty definitively, as I'd have to go out and try to find a corporate job to get insurance.

So, ya know, like art and artists? Like your ACA healthcare? Consider voting for Harris.

[what-eats-owls]

So there's something I want to say re: intentionally withholding your vote, and I want to do it without coming across as condescending or dismissive.

I've worked as a field organizer in two campaigns, 2010 and 2012, and my job was to help turnout the vote for Democratic candidates up and down the ticket. Technology may have changed, but people are still knocking on doors for specific voters the way they were 12 years ago.

If you say you're not voting/voting 3rd party, the campaign volunteer is supposed to mark that and move on. Their job, in the final month of the election, is to make sure the campaign's supporters have all the information and resources they need to cast a vote.

They aren't collecting data on why you're withholding your vote. They aren't submitting opinion polling results to the campaign. Something like 155 million people voted in the 2020 election, and if you say you're not voting, the campaign is not going to waste a volunteer's time and morale begging you to vote when there are literally millions of other voters to turn out.

Let me repeat that: The campaign does not track why you're not voting. They simply note your vote is not a priority for turnout and move on.

I say this because I see a lot of promotion of non-voting like that's a boycott, when the function is not the same. A boycott is a coordinated mass refusal to engage with an institution—which sounds similar if you see a vote as a good or service to withhold. Unfortunately, it's not.

A vote is a choice you're making as part of a community hiring committee. Your abstention doesn't prevent someone from being hired. It just lowers the threshold for the worst candidate to succeed.

All this to say: In my direct experience as an organizer, abstaining from the vote sends a message. That message is not "You need to try harder to win my vote." It's "Don't waste time on me."

[everythingfox]

He will as soon as he figures out his foot