[fandomsandfeminism]

You see, if he retires, the depression will catch him.

[gehayi]

Here's the teaser trailer for The Boy and the Heron!

[quantum-dragon]

I don’t think it’s depression. I think it’s that he has a career and a vision that keeps him going lol.

I hope everyone finds a job like that honestly. Work you enjoy and find meaningful and that you keep coming back to. They say that once you retire, your health declines faster actually.

No shade to people who work to live of course and plan to retire! But having a fulfilling life and career you can keep coming back to is a real treasure that you should hold onto when you can.

[fandomsandfeminism]

Look, I'm not gonna seriously arm chair diagnose world renowed animation directors over here. But some of the documentary footage of Miyazaki (especially in 10 years with Hayao Miyazaki and the Kingdom of Dreams and Madness) shows him...really struggling at times, especially between projects. He's described himself as "manic depressive" in interviews as well. He smokes a lot, has a difficult relationship with his family, and generally seems to have an intensely cynical view of life.

Which seems wild, given how gentle and hopeful his movies tend to be. But I think that's kind of the point for him. He uses his films to find comfort and joy in a world that he knows can be painful and difficult. Making hopeful and joyful films is a calling and a distraction, it's aspirational.

It's why we get memes like this-

He's also exactly the embodiment of this-

[foone]

Playing Doom on a pregnancy tester.

why? because. 

[reboot-the-dog]

That pregnancy test has… bluetooth? Wha- wait, what does “Win” do? Isn’t there a key on the row with the spacebar (meta)? SO MANY QUESTIONS!

[foone]

The keyboard is not part of the pregnancy test. I had to add that in order to have enough buttons to play doom, as previously the test only had two inputs:

* pee on it

* pee on it while pregnant

And this would have made it difficult to play doom, not being enough keys and taking a long time for each input.

[hit-tab]

[gaycop]

The elves:

[ink-the-artist]

Love the contrast between the Americans’ “Apollo” and the Soviets’ “Sputnik.” You got the Americans naming their rocket after a Greek god trying to communicate the grandness and importance of this rocket. And you got the Soviets naming their rocket “fellow traveler.” Like a friend you go on an  adventure with together. This rocket is our little friend lol 

[burntmetalbastard]

And they were gay for each other

[ink-the-artist]

And they were gay for each other.

[ink-the-artist]

DHCJCNDBJWJDJk3@2

[accessible-tumbling]

ID: Tags: #and this too is yuri. yuri gagarin. end ID.

[emililyqueer]

Actually the equivalent craft might be Soyuz, seeing as Sputnik was a teeny tiny ball of a satellite. The US equivalent was Explorer I. Soyuz means Union - a reference to the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics so uh, it’s kinda political?

However, we did get this, which is very gay:

Apollo–Soyuz - Wikipedia

Apollo–Soyuz - Wikipedia

[stackslip]

the most sordid aspect of FIDE banning trans women from chess competitions is that in the previous weeks there seems to have been a reckoning in terms of sexual abusers still being allowed in chess competitions and many women (including multiple trans women) spoke up and were fighting about it. and FIDE's response was to call trans women the greatest threat to women's chess which is so telling lmaoooooo

[stackslip]

it was literally initiated two weeks before by an open letter first signed by 14 female chess players in france (including yosha iglesias, a trans woman) and that has now been signed by more than a hundred of them. a shitton of people responded by claiming they were infected by "wokism" and "gender ideology" for pointing out sexual violence and misogyny in the chess world. FIDE responded on august 11 claiming to be against sexual violence and misogyny..... and then banned trans women four days later, to the acclaim of transmisogynists who didn't actually give a shit about sexual violence or misogyny in chess lmao. this edict has also absolutely fucked over yosha iglesias, already the victim of horrifying harassment over speaking out about sexual violence at all, and now doubly so over the fact that she is unsure she can even participate in the french women's tournament which is days away. it's calculated and cruel in ways i can barely stand.

[stackslip]

one piece of good news: the french and german women's chess federations have refused to comply with these rules and said they would stand their ground and defend trans players' right to play in women's chess competitions, as well as refuse to mark any trans player's record. yosha iglesias is able to participate in her tourney and has won her first match

[kropotkindersurprise]

July 27, 2023 - A tripwire takes out a full squad of riot police who were on their way to evict a squat in Brest, France. [video]

[noirandchocolate]

“A British bookshop chain held a vote to find the country’s favourite book. It was The Lord of the Rings. Another one not long afterwards, held this time to find the favourite author, came up with J.R.R. Tolkien. The critics carped, which was expected but nevertheless strange. After all, the bookshops were merely using the word favourite. That’s a very personal word. No one ever said it was a synonym for best. But a critic’s chorus hailed the results as a terrible indictment of the taste of the British public, who’d been given the precious gift of democracy and were wasting it on quite unsuitable choices. There were hints of a conspiracy amongst the furry-footed fans. But there was another message, too. It ran: ‘Look, we’ve been trying to tell you for years which books are good! And you just don’t listen! You’re not listening now! You’re just going out there and buying this damn book! And the worst part is that we can’t stop you! We can tell you it’s rubbish, it’s not relevant, it’s the worst kind of escapism, it was written by an author who never came to our parties and didn’t care what we thought, but unfortunately the law allows you to go on not listening! You are stupid, stupid, stupid!’ And once again, no one listened. Instead, a couple of years later, a national newspaper’s Millennium Masterworks poll produced five works of what could loosely be called ‘narrative fiction’ among the top fifty ‘masterworks’ of the last thousand years, and, yes, there was The Lord of the Rings again.”

— Terry Pratchett, “Cult Classic” (A Slip of the Keyboard) (Still burning mad that at least one critic did the same exact kind of carping about Pratchett’s body of work being praised by its fans, shortly after his death.)

[iesika]

I stumbled on an article last night where some douche was ranting about how mad he was that, in the wake of Terry’s death, people were mourning and calling him a great writer when they should have been reading something sublime like Bukowski.

In the first paragraph he said he’d never read anything by Pratchett and never intended to, which is pretty typical of that kind of angry elitism.

As someone who has been deeply impacted by Terry’s ideas about character and storytelling, that article made me so mad. Livid. Terry Pratchett levels of righteous fury.

Can I tell you how happy and unsurprised I am that Terry himself wrote such a lovely takedown of that snobbish, splainy mentality.

A thing being popular doesn’t automatically make it bad, and fantastic elements don’t make a work of literature into not-literature.

[fandomsandfeminism]

Thought: I do NOT think that 50% of the world’s billionaires should be women. I think there shouldn’t be any billionaires at all.

[cranberrybogmummy]

So you are saying 0% of the world should be billionaires?

[fandomsandfeminism]

Yes.

[caosdth]

Why shouldn’t their be billionaires? That makes no sense.

[fandomsandfeminism]

Because the existence of billionaires is predicated on the exploitation of human labor and unsustainable environmental harm.  That level of wealth hoarding is harmful to economies, as it reduces the amount of money in circulation. No one person, no family, could ever conceivably even SPEND a billion dollars anyway, and  it is inherently immoral to accumulate wealth so narrowly while so much of the world lives in abject poverty.  

Better then to create a wealth ceiling, a point at which all wealth over a certain point  is taxed at or very near 100% to incentivize people to actually spend their money rather than hoard it, stimulating the economy and bettering the lives of far more people. Better even still to create and regulate economic systems that protect workers and the environment in a way that such extreme levels of wealth accumulation aren’t even feasible. 

[aflawedmind]

The problem with this is that it reduces the incentive to actually do fiscally well. What’s the point of starting a business if you can’t become wealthy?

[fandomsandfeminism]

There is a very real difference between “reasonably wealthy” and A BILLIONAIRE

[twodotsknowwhy]

No one is saying you shouldn’t have a nice house, we are saying that having multiple really, really ridiculously nice houses while your employees are either homeless or at serious risk of becoming homeless is immoral.

[whenandwhereienter]

I’ll never understand why this concept is hard for people. I think it’s because they can’t actually fathom how much $1 Billion is.

[fandomsandfeminism]

Seriously.

Let’s say you have a badass job. A great job. You make $100 AN HOUR. You work 10 hours a day ($1000 A DAY), 5 days a week ($5000 a week!!!), every week ($20,000 A MONTH), thats $240,000 Every Year.

It would take you 4,167 years to make a billion dollars.

[anti-stupidity-capaldi]

>The problem with this is that it reduces the incentive to actually do fiscally well. What’s the point of starting a business if you can’t become wealthy?

[adrunkensailor]

Uh-huh.

Take away billionaires and you just put millions or possibly billions of people out of work.

Glad to know you hate the working class.

[siryouarebeingmocked]

twodotsknowwhy >No one is saying you shouldn’t have a nice house, we are saying that having multiple really, really ridiculously nice houses while your employees are either homeless or at serious risk of becoming homeless is immoral.

Leaving aside the part where you made that up, what if your employees are all satisfied and happy? 

What if the employees are in trouble because of their own poor life choices? 

What if you’re using the houses to support your own family, or they’re in use as homeless shelters?

What if you’re a billionaire with just one nice, modest house? What does having a nice house have to do being a billionaire?

Why does FAF assume the billionaire is not circulating the money? Most billionaires have their wealth invested or in assets.

Everyone above the poverty line in a first-world country should be giving most of their money to charity, right? Even if they can barely keep the lights on and food on the table?

[akornzombie]

FAF probably thinks that a billionaire has actual billions of actual currency in their bank accounts.

[fandomsandfeminism]

FAF knows that nonliquid assets are still assets. Gasp.

[feminists-against-feminism]

When you talk about yourself in third person, I’m going to think you’re talking about me

[fandomsandfeminism]

Thats an odd thing to think, especially given the context

[radicalgraffiti]

Limiting wealth doesn't go far enough, what is needed is remove the means by which they became billionaires in the first place. We have to abolish privart property, the idea of one person owning entire factories or more houses than they can live in should be seen as the obscenity it is

[miiriya]

[fuocogo]

Ok but also no access to their assets and connections for additional money or food, and they have to pick a place and have enough money to pay its rent by the end of the month otherwise they lose.

[closet-keys]

and if they lose, their bank accounts are drained and all their assets are divided among their workers

[workingclasshistory]

On this day, 16 August 1848, the last armed working class uprising on British soil was planned in Seven Dials, London. Thousands of Chartists – fighting for universal male suffrage – were due to assemble and launch a rebellion at the junction in Covent Garden demanding the right to vote, however the plan was foiled due to heavy police infiltration. This is a short history of the events: https://ift.tt/2P9ffFA https://ift.tt/2MOAWJr

[asspostate]

miss me with that ‘weapon accuracy’ shit. im shooting everything. im laying down cover fire. im shooting the walls. im shooting my teammates. im shooting myself. my accuracy is 100% yall just dont know what im aiming at

[foxnonny]

I didn’t even read the rest because I’m still laughing at “miss me with that ‘weapon accuracy’ shit” like I’ve never read a more perfect phrase in my life

[kropotkindersurprise]

[video]

[lynati]

I see this and all I think is, “We want zero protections for those who are struggling the most, rather than overhauling and contributing to a system in which everyone in our society gets the support they need. Fuck the concept of organizing on a level that allows us to take care of anyone outside of our family and immediate circle of friends. It doesn’t matter how good it *could* be for everyone; you can’t make us give a shit about the lives of people we don’t know participate. We simply refuse to.” I mean, I doubt that’s what they’re trying to say, but that’s what’s coming across to me. “Don’t try to fix our horribly broken system or aid anyone who is- utterly abandon it! …and with it, anyone who is dependent on some form of collective aid to stay alive.” 

[johnskylar]

I just assume anyone trying to discourage voting or unity is a foreign agent or under the sway of one these days. There are actors out there who want the US divided and weakened, and they’re loving all the infighting.

[kropotkindersurprise]

Finally got my first accusation of being a Russian psy-op, lads!

[radicalgraffiti]

[closet-keys]

you know that dumbass Forbes article advocating for Amazon stores to replace public libraries? It was taken down cause the author got dragged so hard by like everyone who has ever entered a library in their life & now Forbes released a statement basically calling the author of the original op-ed “deeply misinformed” lmao

“Libraries play an important role in our society. This article was outside of this contributor’s specific area of expertise, and has since been removed.”

[i-hate-chick-fil-a]

#SayHerName

Nia Wilson 

This is 18 y/o Nia Wilson. Tonight she was stabbed and killed in a random ambush attack by a suspected white supremacist male in Oakland Ca

Nia Wilson 

Nia Wilson 

Nia Wilson 

Nia Wilson 

Nia Wilson

[askiathedickhead]

[serpentease]

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.businessinsider.com/channel-4-finds-facebook-not-deleting-child-abuse-and-racism-2018-7

[gif87a-com]

[whothebuckisfuckybruh-deactivat]

me realizing my experiences with sewing have been a lie this whole goddamn time:

[fuzipenguin]

I don’t know about human surgeons, but that’s a suture pattern I use to close skin all the time and you can see why.

[cappucino-commie]

I forgot vets existed for a moment and that comment made me wonder what Cryptid had gotten a doctorate and was performing surgery.

[boethiah]

please look up the canberra centennial sky whale. its a $35,000 hot air balloon commissioned for the city’s hundredth birthday and it looks like a whale with eight massive dangling titties 

[boethiah]

it flew over the whole city

[boethiah]

massive flying eight tiddy birthday whale 

[piglii]

[thexlizardxqueen]

That blue balloon to the left seems equally as surprised as we do

[wigglyflippingout]

TAKE ME DOWN TO CANBERRA CITY WHERE THE GIRLS ARE SWEET AND THE WHALES ARE TITTY