I picked up a pen,

I wrote my own deliverance.

[falsedetective]

who votes for ted cruz?

[falsedetective]

ok

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

conservative politics are built on the idea that people have to ‘earn’ the right not to suffer

[halorvic]

BONE?!

[rangerbatgirl]

@spocksbeard

[light-brights]

SO I JUST GOT A SHOT OF A RAINBOW AND LIGHTNING IN THE SAME PICTURE????!

[rosebramblewolf]

thor supports gay rights pass it on

[bob-belcher]

[geekandmisandry]

It’s about time a woman had this role! Now let’s not be divisive and make this about race mwuah 💞

[rangerbatgirl]

Mars!

Mars just did its opposition thing. And this poem was supposed to be sort of published elsewhere, but there was some miscommunication. But anyway, if you’ve ever thought, “there is no way the concepts of the uncanny valley and living on Mars could be combined,” well, you thought wrong. 

Mar's Uncanny Valles

The uncanny valley: originally a robotics concept stating that as a figure or object becomes more familiar and humanlike our affinity for it increases, until it is too close and we switch to discomfort.

When we aim our telescopes at Mars

sometimes we hear,

"Oh, it's just that little dot?"

Yes. This shining pinpoint

dirty brown between smudgy grey ice caps

is supposed to be the god of war,

be familiar and habitable

and start a war between worlds -

our first possible extraterrestrial residence.

Didn't you see your new neighborhood?

Down low in the valles and basins

up high in the volcanic extremes?

Can you not picture

your new house among oxidized red:

Where we will be almost-home on almost-Earth,

but you'll be one third of your heavy self

(until you pull the protective gear off)

and half as old as you were

(until we rethink it all).

You'll certainly feel the chill

(don't go out at night)

as you try to pretend it's just winter

and these new habits are familiar. Earthly.

What you do not see

is that Mars holds all the times we will fail

we will lose, and break

because we dared to reach past Earth.

But there is also the one time we might succeed

Out of desperation

resistance

and marvel

living uncanny lives.

[screenageralex]

Being 18-25 is like playing a video game where you’ve skipped the tutorial and you’re just sort of running about with no idea how anything works

[rumbutt]

Being 25-30 is like later on in the game when you’ve figured out how things work, but have made poor leveling decisions along the way and are now horribly underpowered for what you’re supposed to be doing.

[tastefullyoffensive]

[wingedcorgi]

maybe it’s…. subtle.

[systlin]

I honestly always find the term ‘spinster’ as referring to an elderly, never-married woman as funny because you know what?

Wool was a huge industry in Europe in the middle ages. It was hugely in demand, particularly broadcloth, and was a valuable trade good. A great deal of wool was owned by monasteries and landed gentry who owned the land. 

And, well, the only way to spin wool into yarn to make broadcloth was by hand. 

This was viewed as a feminine occupation, and below the dignity of the monks and male gentry that largely ran the trade. 

So what did they do?

They hired women to spin it. And, turns out, this was a stable job that paid very well. Well enough that it was one of the few viable economic options considered ‘respectable’ outside of marriage for a woman. A spinster could earn quite a tidy salary for her art, and maintain full control over her own money, no husband required. 

So, naturally, women who had little interest in marriage or men? Grabbed this opportunity with both hands and ran with it. Of course, most people didn’t get this, because All Women Want Is Husbands, Right?

So when people say ‘spinster’ as in ‘spinster aunt’, they are TRYING to conjure up an image of a little old lady who is lonely and bitter. 

But what I HEAR are the smiles and laughter of a million women as they earned their own money in their own homes and controlled their own fortunes and lived life on their own terms, and damn what society expected of them. 

[bunnyduckcucumberpatch]

I hope this a shit post cause that’s not even close to being true.

[systlin]

“Steeples fingers”

I would be very interested to see your sources. 

But first, mine

http://www.bahs.org.uk/AGHR/ARTICLES/35n1a1.pdf

http://knightsofthepaintable.com/blog/2011/05/30/medieval-life-106-spinsters-and-spinners/

http://www.oxfordscholarship.com/view/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199270606.001.0001/acprof-9780199270606  (You’d have to read the book itself (I own a copy) but here’s a link to it.)

“Women in medieval English society”, Mavis E. Mate (https://books.google.com/books?id=YUVXsG5CaywC&pg=PA47&lpg=PA47&dq=medieval+spinster+independent&source=bl&ots=Vmxe4vjXJ4&sig=Ej-Z3q9KwBnWi0VMeBb4l5NTqSQ&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj3_PGXutjaAhVS3WMKHb2uA5M4ChDoAQhBMAg#v=onepage&q=medieval%20spinster%20independent&f=false

http://www.medievalchronicles.com/medieval-people/medieval-tradesmen-and-merchants/

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-economic-history/article/wages-of-women-in-england-12601850/80FBE8313B63D174E2F71DCEAE6D7EBE/core-reader

https://econpapers.repec.org/paper/nufesohwp/_5f145.htm

https://www.economics.utoronto.ca/munro5/L08MedTextiles.pdf

http://www.jstor.org/stable/25012124?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents

Please. I am very curious as to why you think I am incorrect. 

[absentlyabbie]

[unicornempire]

I saw this spinster post and regretted not reblogging it, only to find this one that’s like ten times better with amazing sources and a hot’n’fresh moider for me <3

[yesterdaysprint]

Two wax figures melting from a heat wave, New Bridge Street, London, June 1929

[rangerbatgirl]

me today

[bob-belcher]

[evilrashida]

military worship in this country is out of fucking control

[daneedelion]

excuse me?

[evilrashida]

military worship in this country is out of fucking control 

[high-shawty-deactivated20180326]

Yea you’re right, we shouldn’t honor the people willing to risk their life to save ours and defend our country … oh

[evilrashida]

Military worship in this country is out of fucking control

[cadimonsignal]

I’m in the military and yes it’s out of fucking control. Most of the people I know in the military feel the same way. You civilians need to calm the fuck down. Most of us joined in our teens or early twenties. For a lot of us it was because we needed a job, and we didn’t see any other options, and this job has good benefits, especially for an uneducated young person in America. We get healthcare and education!! That’s some tempting fucking fruit. But this is a JOB. Some people in the military become heroes, that’s true. Jumping on grenades, defusing bombs, dragging a wounded person from the middle of a firefight. They usually end up dead in the process. Those people deserve respect, in my opinion. They give their lives for their friends, no matter whether or not you agree with the policies that put them there in the first place. But a lot of people in America reflexively claim that everyone in the military is a hero, full stop. This isn’t true and it lets people look the other way when something is actually wrong in the military, because it’s the military, they’re heroes, they can do no wrong.

We’re doing a job, and a lot of us are never really put in harm’s way. I work in a climate controlled lab for 8 hours a day, for instance. Really grueling. Such a hero. This fawning lip service of an infallible military doesn’t do us any good. I know people who have bought into it, who have heard so many people tell them that they’re heroes that they actually believe it, and they are the stupid and dangerous ones. Joining the military does not make you a hero, and calling us heroes might make you feel all warm and fluffy and red white and blue but it doesn’t do anything for the people that end up on the streets with PTSD or come home with life-changing injuries or in a box. We’re human beings, not some concept that you can just mindlessly adulate and then feel better about yourself.

[im-a-deceptikhan]

☝️🏽☝️🏽☝️🏽☝️🏽

[acquaintedwithrask]

oh boy just in time for the 4th of July

[ladyshinga]

Speaking as a disabled veteran: it’d be one thing if the fucking hero worship MEANT ANYTHING. But it’s a bunch of empty loud words about how Brave and Noble everyone in the military is (nah some of us are assholes) and then when it comes to, oh I don’t know, paying a soldier enough to feed their family without food stamps, or giving disability compensation without a NIGHTMARE fight with the country that claims to “care” so much. Plus the whole “sending us off to kill other people to make rich men richer while innocents die for it” thing. It’s not “defending freedom” to shove our troops into everyone’s business in countries that happen to have oil and such Military worship isn’t only annoying, it’s a hollow lie that’s basically dangerous to everyone

[babyanimalgifs]

[elliehopaunt-deactivated2025073]

worth watching for the end

[uglyassbinch420]

yo what tHE FUCK ¡

[catgirl9696]

Interesting fact these two are playing but they are using play behaviors of their own species so they dont really “match up”!

Dog - is “bowing” and using open mouth “bites” as forms of play

“Play fight with me!”

Cat - is giving the little paw bats they use when playing with kittens

“Cute kittens get booped!”

They are both trying to engage the other in a playful way but not understanding the others responce.

The dog is like “you smack so no play? but not hard smack and no bad noise so not angry?”

The cat is like “why you jump around? open mouth but no chomp? no hiss so is okay?”

And then they sort of settle with a kind of communal grooming gesture they both understand!

Dog: no play? okay i lay… we calm now friend!

Cat: sad? no play? is ok i luv u weird kitten!

[thetrippytrip]

Honor these 25 black women who died in police custody.

#SAYHERNAME

[ophidahlia]

Legitimate *pro bono legal services* don’t exist without a good reason. In a few of the exmormon groups I’m in you’ll see regular posts saying stuff like “Look what my lawyer sent me today!” with a pic of their resignation confirmation letter from the church.

You know. Just stuff that a normal average church that is definitely not actually a cult would do. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

🙄

[rnoonpie]

As an ex-mormon, I’m gonna look the fuck into this. I want nothing to do with the church that shaped so much toxicity about my self image and my sexual orientation.

[fierceawakening]

Not sure if any followers need this but if you do, here you go.

Everyone should be able to choose their religious beliefs and community, and leave any that they find does not work for them.

[this-seamonkeys-gone-to-heaven]

Ex mormon here - this guy’s legit. The Mormon holds your files for eternity, and when they find out that you’ve moved to a new area, they will send members and missionaries from that region to harass you. I know this sounds like dystopic bullshit, but they followed my father through three moves before he rejoined the church.

[criticalrolo]

Also ex mormon here who used this. It’s a ridiculously helpful service that is incredibly easy to use. They keep you updated throughout the whole process, and it’s totally worth it since the church doesn’t get to keep all your private information and pass it around once you resign :)

[leehama]

A tiny journal-ish gif-comic from a few tweets I made last night!  I believed this kind of stuff until I was 14 or so, which is pretty old in retrospect…

There used to be more but I accidentally saved over it :/

[leehama]

I did manage to recover one other page, though!

[leehama]

(the end!)

[trinandtonic-deactivated2022102]

this is my favorite thing that I have ever seen in my entire life

[rosemarywaterwitch]

Oh I Love this