can I get uhh...

interested in sociology because humans operating on brutish dominance hierarchy instead of ethical disciplines threw me through a loop, seeing as the last planet I was on was not structured like this...

[professorbussywinkle]

Me talking to grown men on Omegle in 2008

[thememedaddy]

[nyxelestia]

I mean that's not exactly an opinion, that's a scientific fact. That's the academic understanding of the fundamental causes of labor movements. Capitalism is a philosophy of extraction until the thing you are extracting *from* is completely extinguished, and in the case of people this mean extracting as much labor as possible no matter how damaging it is to the people. We are not meant to be this busy, in that we are literally being socially trained to artificially enter or stay in crisis and survival mode because that's the only way to output enough labor to satisfy the demands of our economy. The plethora of commodities that turn into addictions are literally all coping mechanisms meant get our brains through tough times...and they become addictions because the need for comfort never ends because that crisis time never ends.

[pissvortex]

I think I just found the only reasonable exchange involving two people with opposing views on porn to ever exist on this website

[elfbymoonlight]

actually so based

[fullmetalfisting]

confession: when i was in high school my best friend used to steal a ton of clothes from the busted-ass target in town and then walk across the street and sell them at plato’s closet and she called it her job. i’d be like “where are you?” and she’d be like “at work” and i’d know she was just robbing a target blind lmao 

[brucebocchi]

[cosmicretreat]

[transmascmarypoppins]

why is this post completely broken in every way imaginable

[cecilsrandomeverything]

Broken notes… deactivated account… removed image….

Finally, we have them all.

[spacefinch]

In addition: OP’s name is just… gone. No “[insert username]-deactivated[insert a bunch of numbers]” as is the standard for deactivated blogs.

Just the world “deactivated.” Look upon their post, ye mighty, and despair.

[chatblancofficial]

It’ll be almost impossible to find this post unless it wanders across your dash.

[tah1u11ah-reb1ogs]

@hellsite-hall-of-fame

[creature-crow-deactivated202512]

brb trying this

[hyenangel-deactivated20241224]

[blue-the-flyingpyrochef]

[chromegnomes]

[our-queer-experience]

[mysticorset]

Alleviating gender dysphoria, not with binding or packing, but a secret third thing (padding your waist and ribs until they are the same size as your breasts)

[knittingserpent]

I’m sorry but this comment is sending me

[gorillaz-and-cupcakes-fan-deact]

[inthefallofasparrow]

Not like that film was a one-off either.

[mxtomituck]

I would like to add The Birdcage (1996) to this list of drag queen movies (mind you, it's based on a French stage play from 1973).

Which starred Nathan Lane as a drag queen just two years after he had voice Pumba in "The Lion King":

And we ESPECIALLY need to remember Victor Victoria from 1982 (during the REAGAN administration) which is SET IN THE 1930S and stars everyone's favorite curtain-sewing nanny as a struggling soprano who decides to pretend to be a boy doing drag (DOUBLE THE DRAG FOR YOUR MONEY). I mean look at this photo:

Count Victor Grazinski isn't putting up with your transphobia (or you being a dick to Robert Preston).

Unfortunately, the representation of drag and female impersonation (as it was often called pre-Stonewall) is scant in mainstream American cinema due to the Hayes Code. There are definitely more, but these are biggest, "family-friendly" names I can think who have starred in major motion pictures as drag performers.

[asparklethatisblue]

can I add another?

Some Like It Hot (1959), it got in trouble with censors and still went ahead, but it featured a lot of Gender and a character getting really into this whole “being a girl for real” thing, as well as the implication of a a gay engagement being on the table

but like? It has Marilyn Monroe in it and banger music and it’s a classic! I only know from my mother bringing it up and also a tiny bit of exposure to russian tv channels, but I think it was also popular in the Soviet Union? So she’d seen it as a child and loved it so much she watched it with me when I was also just a child.

(not to mention big traditions of children’s theatre with drag performance)

[roseworth]

careless whisper fucks so insanely hard and i will never forgive the internet for making it a "meme song." tonight the music seems so loud i wish that we could lose this crowd maybe its better this way we'd hurt each other with the things we want to say. if you even care.

[tinsnip]

[shredsandpatches]

Today in truly unfortunate URLs. Like, I feel like they have to have noticed and decided it was amusing but. MOIST LOUIS

[segamascott]

[gemsrevenge]

17 years ago today.. the biggest rockstar move in history.

The look of satisfaction says everything

[transgenderweed]

Oh wow who woulda thunk

[confield]

You cannot say that a top grossing artist is "feral" or making you "feral." You are listening to the Billboard Top 40. You are very domesticated.

[breadcunt]

Stupid ass take. The fame of the artist doesn't define how it makes you feel. Do you not see me go hogwild eating potatoes, easily one of the top 5 most well known vegetables

[confield]

We're like shooting stars you and I

[urbancripple]

If You’re Gonna Make Something Wheelchair Accessible, Don’t Make it a Thing

Here’s some examples awkward accessibility being a thing:

Your at a hotel that has a lift to get you from one sub-floor to another, but the lift can only be unlocked and operated by one specific person that the hotel now has to go find. Sure, they’ve made the entrance to the sub-floor is accessible, but now it’s a thing.

The buses are wheelchair accessible but the driver has to stop the bus, take 30 seconds to lower the goddamn ramp, move passengers out of their seats, hook up the straps and then secure you in the bus. Sure, they’ve made the busses accessible but now it’s a thing.

The restaurant has an accessible entrance, but it’s past the trash room and through the kitchen. Sure, the restaurant is accessible, but now it’s an insulting thing.

Here’s some great examples of accessibility not being a thing:

The train to the airport pulls up flush with the platform. I board with everyone else and sit wherever the fuck I want. Riding the train is accessible and not a thing.

In Portland, I press a button the side of the streetcar and a ramp automatically extends at the same time the door opens. I board in the same amount of time as everyone else. This is not a thing.

I get that it is difficult to design for wheelchair accessibility, but folks need to start considering the overall quality of the experience versus just thinking about meeting the minimum requirements.

[urbancripple]

7 years later and it’s still true.