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mew, mew, mew, mewmewmewmew. Hello, i’m petal (it\its pronouns), and this is your average run of the mill queer tumblr account. Side blog is @petaling-my-way-downtown

[kaijuno]

So small update: I’ve been in the hospital and unable to do much of anything. They don’t know what’s wrong with me and I’ve seen at least 3 specialists .

I have to pay rent and buy gas and I can’t because I’m stuck here and no one seems to know what’s wrong with me and if I can’t pay the bills, I won’t have a place to go home to and idk what else to say

Im freaking out. I’m scared. I’m stuck alone in a hospital for hours at a time. No one will give me a solid answer. And the longer I stay here the worse all of my real world problems get and I’m just rambling now but I don’t know what to do

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[queer-as-city-folk]

I like cities, I like technology, I like women not having to spend their entire waking lives on labor, I like things being made on economies of scale so less labor is needed to produce things, I like disabled people not dying preventably, I like the industrial revolution and it's consequences!!!

[question-why-not]

The industrial revolution had good outcomes, but it isn’t enough. We can’t keep going the way we are right now. If we don’t have another revolution in how we do things, most of humanity will die by the end of this century.

Unfortunately, global industry the way it currently operates is not sustainable, meaning it can’t go on forever. It can’t even go on the way it is now until 2050.

Thanks to overfishing, we’re going to run out of fish by 2050. Modern farming relies on synthetic nitrogen fertilizer made from fossil fuels, that are going to run out. Thanks to modern farming and industrial practices, 95% of Earth’s usable soil will be massively degraded by 2050.

All of this isn’t even mentioning catastrophic climate change and its consequences.

If we don’t find a middle path, that allows us to use our industrial technologies and economies of scale to create a sustainable, circular, fixed-size global economy, without endless “growth”, most of us are going to die by, what, 2060?

Basically… we’ve enjoyed a brief period of heaven compared to the vast majority of life’s history. But that heaven is built on waste and overuse, and it will collapse entirely within our lifetimes. We are going to face a disaster and human suffering of scales never before seen.

That’s not to say industrialization can’t be done in a sustainable way. But what we had thus far isn’t it. And as a result, this brief glimpse of relative leisure described in OP’s post, is about to blink out of existence in the most violent and horrific ways imaginable.

I can’t stress this enough - if we don’t go sustainable, we’re all going to die before the end of this century.

Confronting the polycrisis

We are facing multiple existential crises not just climate and all are symptoms of overshoot. There is no economic or techno-fix, ending gro

[nighterwriter]

The minute anyone says that Jason had a part in his death because he went after the Joker, I have to automatically assume that you either haven't read A Death in the Family or have absorbed the information from a post.

Here are a couple of true statements that you would know if you read ADITF:

Jason didn't know the Joker was in the warehouse.

Jason didn't go into the warehouse to save his mother from the Joker, she told him to come with her so they can talk about what the Joker wants with her.

Jason was told that the Joker wasn't in the warehouse, that he had left a while ago.

Jason was given faulty information and his only sin was believing his mother.

And here are the panels:

Jason sees the Joker going into Sheila's tent and gets worried for her safety.

He says, "this is a job for BATMAN and Robin" not JUST Robin. He wanted Bruce's help.

Bruce tells Jason not to handle the Joker alone and to wait for him.

You could say that this is the page where he disobeyed Bruce, but all he does is want to talk to Sheila about the predicament she's in. Again, he doesn't look for or go after the Joker.

Sheila moves them into the warehouse so they can talk privately.

HE IS EXPLICITLY TOLD MY HIS MOTHER THAT THE JOKER HAD LEFT A LONG TIME AGO. And that turns out to be a lie.

So all of this happens without Bruce's knowledge and what does he think in minutes of coming back?

(Sorry for the blurry picture)

"I warned you not to take the Joker on by yourself." He didn't.

"I begged you to wait Jason, but of course you didn't."

"You never listen. Why. WHY?" He has multiple times.

Bruce has no idea what happened, but automatically assumes that it was Jason's fault. Even when Sheila tells him with her dying breath what happened, he still calls Jason reckless.

She tells him how much of a hero he was in his last moments, and instead of telling people that, Bruce basically tells anyone that he meets that Jason was disobedient. He has essentially erased what happened in the warehouse - the part that he knew - and replaced it with a completely different narrative that makes Jason his scapegoat.

[escuerzoresucitado]

[oifaaa]

When i tell you my enjoyment of comics went up when I accepted that they are soap operas which is also something I think the people writing comics need to accept

[oifaaa]

You cannot convince me that the lex is Kons other father isn't a story like that could be ripped straight out of a weekly soap like coronation Street

[daisymaestinkus]

Most beloved beast

[tiktoks-for-dead-pope]

[lilacblossoms]

this kills me EVERY. TIME. I WATCH IT.

Her deadpan delivery is just... *chef's kiss*

[pronouncingitwang]

at some point in your life you will be boiling fruit, water, sugar, and lemon juice in a pot to make a syrup or jam. the instructions will tell you to simmer for a certain amt of time. your timer will go off and you will look at the pot and go, "hm, this doesn't look thick enough. maybe i'll let it go for another 10 minutes." this is the devil speaking. it's only so liquid right now because it is at boiling point. it will thicken when it cools down. learn from the follies of my youth and do not let this happen to you

[yokowan]

at some point in your life you will be making a sauce or a stew in which you need to add cornstarch to thicken it. and you will prepare a slurry of starch in cold water and think "this looks like way too little starch to thicken this amount of liquid." this is the devil speaking. cornstarch instantly polymerizes at 95°C and if you add too much it will turn into an impossibly thick goop.

[le-jardin-inculte]

at some point in your life you will be making some sort of cream based dessert that requires gelatin to thicken it. and you will soak some gelatin sheets in water and think "this is too few gelatin sheets for this amount of cream." this is the devil speaking. it will thicken in the fridge and if you add too much you will end up with milk jelly

[shithowdy]

at some point in your life you will be baking cookies. you will take the sheet out after twelve minutes as the recipe instructs and the cookies will still be glistening and soft. "these don't seem cooked enough," you will think to yourself, "i should place them back into the oven until their edges are nice and golden." this is the devil talking. this is how you get dry, overdone cookies. the cookies will continue to bake on the warm sheet for several more minutes and then harden up after sitting on a rack for a while. trust the process. trust the process.

[whitachi]

at some point in your life you will be adding a small pasta to a soup and you will think "that is not enough small pasta." this is the devil talking. the pasta will absorb the stock and expand. this is how you end up with a soup that is a solid mass of soggy ditalini.

[araceil]

At some point in your life you will be adding garlic to a dish and you will think "that is not enough garlic." These are angels speaking. They are correct. Add more garlic.

[teathattast]

[patterns-pets]

When cats put their whole body into making a sound. Only to be squeak.

[kaijuyuri]

star wars fans really just make anything up

[byjove]

I’m not Glup Shitto-ing you. He has a sexstache and everything.

[starwarsheritageposts]

star wars heritage post

[tomthanx]

Happy Pride to Biggs Darklighter

[vivienvalentino]

THE FLY  1986, dir. David Cronenberg

[underwaterslopgirl-deactivated2]

White dads when you talk to them about mental illness

[inkskinned]

Every day I handle more money than I will ever make. Every day.

At the start of my employment, my boss showed me videos of people stealing, and we both had a chuckle about it. How silly they were! There was a camera overhead, and it’s not to watch the shoppers. See, we can’t actually stop shoplifters. They get away with it maybe nine out of ten times. But we, who are watched and tallied and witnessed? We are always caught.

At first it was hard to hold one hundred dollars bills. An amount I had never seen before. An amount that didn’t exist in my household. It’s normal now. Here is something that is not for me.

“What the hell, I’ll take another,” says the man, pondering our 200 dollar watches. What the hell. Total comes to 580 and not even a flinch in his face. I have been working for 11 hours today and made only 110 dollars. It will go to my rent. Today I work for free, it feels. When I get my check, I will have 35 dollars left for food and saving.

The six hundreds he hands me go into the cash register. For a moment, I imagine having money. Then I put it away, counting out his change.

I know for a fact we sell our products for double what they are worth. That I could be making commission. That they could hand me those 580 dollars and change my life and not even mark the difference in their checkbooks. He’s not the only sale they make today, but I am the reason they made it. He’s not the only one spending 600 dollars, but if I hadn’t spent two hours with him telling me about his life, he wouldn’t have spent any. I go home. I don’t own a watch.

I have watched and rewatched a video on how to make salmon four ways. My shopping list is always the same. Pasta. Rice. Tuna. If I can afford butter it was a good week. I dream of the world I will never walk in, where I can throw the best fish fillet in the cart with a shrug. I hold hundreds in my hand and look up at the camera. I put them under the cash drawer.

I go to work. I scrap together my savings. I eat my bowl of rice slowly. My manager takes a paid week off from work just for his birthday. He owns a yacht. 

I’m not worth the cost of a watch.

[inkskinned]

i wrote this while i was working at orlando’s walt disney world parks.

i was part of their college program. i moved to the state for it. they legally owned the building i was living in and still charged me rent. i ostensibly was being charged to work for them. it was a 2 bedroom apartment and they placed 6 adult women in it in forced triples.

as many as one in ten disney employees have experienced homelessness while working for the company. despite huge efforts to unionize, strike, or otherwise demand fair treatment; disney has refused to increase employee quality of life.

disney admits publicly that a good portion of their success is because the employees (“cast members”) are dedicated, passionate, and selfless. this is never reflected in pay. even “face” characters (ie those that are princesses etc) make barely above a minimum wage.

at the time that i worked there, i made $8.50 an hour. at one point i was asked to create a human shield around a bag because a bomb dog had alerted to it. for eight fucking dollars an hour.

i now work a very cushy office job. i have bought the salmon and cooked it all four ways.

i go to the store. i am nice to the person behind the counter. she looks up at the camera while she counts out my change. there is nothing fundamentally different about her and i.

we are both worth more than the watch, anyway.

[beemovieerotica]

[the-big-mood]

At Toba aquarium in Japan, after closing time, some clever little otter pups help their grandpa tidy up their toys. As a reward, he gives them ice cubes

[energyprison]

Im sorry i know its bad to post screenshots of ads but unemployedprofessors.com is really getting me

[viralfrog]

[storm-of-feathers]

yeah yeah rainbow capitalism is bad and whatever but like. when I was a child, being pro gay was not the popular or lucrative choice. I'm happy that times have changed.

[storm-of-feathers]

I miss rainbow capitalism. I do. I miss when it felt like public opinion was still pro gay. I understand it was always an empty gesture, but it mattered in a sense of knowing how socially acceptable being queer is. If that makes sense.

[raincitygirl76]

Rainbow capitalism is like the canary in the coal mine. When it stops, we know that we as a community are in trouble. Because many corporations have decided that pandering to bigots is more profitable than pandering to us used to be.