the mill

🌌 bisexual media enjoyer

[ambidisastrous]

every major structural social problem right now is basically "we don't have enough skilled workers on the ground" and the reason is always "well we've been intentionally underpaying and understaffng them for decades to increase corporate profits" and somehow the news always just mentions the "shortage" without digging into the cause

air travel is a mess? shortage of air traffic controllers - for some mysterious reason

logistics a mess? shortage of truck drivers - for some mysterious reason

public transit can't meet demand? shortage of bus drivers - for some mysterious reason

We even mysteriously have shortages of doctors, nurses, teachers... FOR SOME MYSTERIOUS REASON

FUCKING PAY PEOPLE AND HIRE ENOUGH STAFF

[moniquill]

Yes and: Make education more affordable and achievable!!

[resumbrarum]

The destruction of public and higher education and the degradation and subjugation of workers has been an active part of conservative policy for more than fifty years.

Related: when conservatives say "no one wants to work anymore", what they mean is "no one wants to give up a substantial portion of the fruits of their labor in order to enrich an idle capital-holding class".

[prohaloplayer-deactivated202601]

honestly for me this situation isnt drawing a single bead of sweat first i grab the tiger's jaw with both hands and pry it open, quickly bandaging the wounds i received (didn't hit anything important) and pushing the tiger away while simultaneously falling into my grizzly bear stance and watching as the tiger scurries away with its tail betweens its legs at the sight of my massive shoulder humps. i roar defiantly and catch three dozen salmon at the river

[thefleetingflashofa-sword623]

I'd summon twin scythes

[prohaloplayer-deactivated202601]

really cool

[pinene]

Every millennial owned restaurant in LA is called “Bitch.. It’s Giving Burgers” the buns are pink and a combo is $31 unless you download the app and sign up for rewards points. But the custom neon sign is sooooo cool guys

[shamebats]

You know how some married couples cheat on each other constantly and don't break up over it but they'll still insist they're strictly monogamous and they probably have some really bigoted views towards poly people too? Most western parents seem to be doing the same thing but with communal child-rearing. They're already actively outsourcing the majority of interactions with their children to teachers & devices but if you suggest anything that would make it so other people have a say in how their children are raised, they'll want you dead. But they'll still send their children to school expecting the teachers to do everything from potty training to teaching them how to do their taxes.

[shamebats]

#It's because they don't see these people as fellow villagers but servants (especially teachers because taxes or what ever) #You know that old chestnut about how some people vote like they're temporarily embarrassed billionaires? #Some act like disposed or soon to be recognised royalty

[thepenguinpress]

Vladimir Nabokov’s note card, c. 1969.

[lonesomedovepdf]

“[March 21 1951]

Student explaining to me (after getting 55) that when reading a novel (’Ulysses’ in this case) he likes to skip ‘passages and pages’ so as ‘to get his own idea, you know, about the book and not be influenced by the author’.”

[weirdplutoprince]

Reading Alien Stage fics is so tough when no one thoroughly considers the implications of the setting

[weirdplutoprince]

Ivan would not know what an apple is

[tall]

[binturong-of-the-day]

The binturong of waking up mama way too early in the morning

[swarnpert]

*right clicks on you*

[swarnpert]

*views your properties*

[gummiehell]

[karinyosa]

people will be like how come everything always comes back to race/gender/class/capitalism/imperialism with you well that is called living in a system

[imsobadatnicknames2]

We should popularize more hispanized phonetic spellings of classic character names like we did with esnupi

[imsobadatnicknames2]

Citripio y Arturito

[lesbianboyfriend]

the best part about having a job is being able to go through doors other people aren’t allowed to use the worst part is everything else

[cikero]

when men get too jacked they start looking like crash bandicoot

[narcissistcookbook]

"i've got no qualms about it" meanwhile i'm over here making qualm chowder

[maxknightley]

"it would be so good if it was good" will haunt you but "it's extremely good, except for the one or two parts which are so bad it's genuinely kind of insulting" will straight up drive you insane

[maxknightley]

one has you making posts like "okay but if the author UNDERSTOOD the POLITICAL IMPLICATIONS of the story they were telling, and leaned into it, it would actually be a really interesting exploration of..."

the other has you pacing your bedroom at one in the morning going "why. why would you ever in a million years do it like that. genuinely what possible thought process was involved. was the writer possessed by a fucking ghost or something."

[s-aint-elmo]

an interest passing feels like being abandoned by the evil spirit that had taken possession of your body

[s-aint-elmo]

pulling out hanks of grass and sighing listlessly. i kind of miss being posessed. isn't there an evil spirit somewhere that wants to possess meeee

[dogposts]

he's all ears