Achillean Angst

22. It/he. Slowly turning into a horny dark-academia blog.

[rat-mlm]

Fuck it, this blog is going full horny, no more half assing it. I’m gonna be posting again. Would love some new moots.

[heraldic-thunderbolt]

men with active tumblr blogs are ran through

[rat-mlm]

I caved and showed big brother my id to continue using the nsfw side of tumblr. the selfie didn’t work bc of course it didn’t, a 22 year old is almost indistinguishable from a 17 y/o when ai is making that judgement.

This is the first time I’m actually showing my id since the law was introduced, and I feel such a deep sense of ickyness and violation. kier starmer must’ve lost a large part of the gen z vote through this. There is not a single gen z adult who is forced to show their id to look at Wikipedia pages or raunchy tumblr posts that thinks “wow, the children are so protected now”, no, we just feel intruded upon and angry at the step in the direction of authoritarianism.

There is not a single major party in the uk that is not operated by reactionary pensioners, and we have to choose whether we want the pensioner that’s reactionary over immigrants, or reactionary over the internet to lead.

SIGH

[rat-mlm]

The UK’s stupid age verification rule finally hit tumblr too 💔

[phumblr]

daily reminder

[rocketbirdie]

[chriswasoffline]

"I asked chatgpt" well I asked Phil Lester and he completely misinformed me with a smile on his face.

[steveyockey]

if you’re someone who has to wear glasses every day that makes them basically the most important item you own which means you really gotta show those fuckers who’s boss just toss them everywhere and knock them off things and roll over them in bed at least twice a week

[aropride]

im so glad romance is only real for tv shows. If people were doing that in real life it would be fucking crazy

[buddie-romance]

thank you ao3 for being an archive and not an algorithm. thank you for letting me like things without consequences, thank you for being free with no ads, thank you for having lawyers to defend our freedom of speech. thank you tag wranglers. thank you to all authors and thank you ao3

[rakiloslov]

Can't wait for the uniqueness of the holocaust to be a topic of importance in a political campaign in america in 2024. That's how it should be. That's normal

[gsirvitor]

It's true, the Holocaust isn't unique, it holds the largest impact because it is the most recent one, at least for jews, given time other genocides will overshadow it, and it should be taught in the same vein as other historic atrocities.

There was the Effacer le tableau.

The Hutu massacres of the first Congo war.

The Rwandan Genocide.

The Bosnian Genocide.

The Isaaq Genocide.

The Anfal campaign.

The Gukurahundi.

The Cambodian Genocide.

The East Timor Genocide.

The Ikiza.

The Bangladesh Genocide, which may have a repeat very soon.

The Holodomor.

The Great Leap Forward.

The Armenian Genocide.

I can go on.

To limit education to but one atrocity, when all of these happened in the same century is an attempt to reframe or even hide these atrocities, for instance I have seen many socialists defend both the Holodomor and the Armenian Genocide, it does those being educated a disservice by treating the Holocaust as unique while surrounded by a myriad of other heinous genocides.

[unpopularly-opinionated]

I will say context is important, and I don't know the context here, but yeah he's right to acknowledge the many other genocides that exist.

[brazenautomaton]

I mean the context in the screenshot provided is obviously correct and vindicates what Walz is saying. Someone screenshotted that as proof Walz was wrong because they could not read the words in it, just that it somehow disagrees with them.

He fucking says, right there, "to exclude other acts of genocide severely limited students' ability to synthesize the lessons of the Holocaust and ability to apply them elsewhere," that's the quote that this thread's OP and Twitter OP both looked at and got enraged by without reading! Guess what? If you teach people the Holocaust was completely unique and unprecedented and unrelated to any other patterns of behavior, the take-home lesson is that it might as well have been done by space aliens and there's no reason to be concerned with what humans are doing!

[cookingwithroxy]

and by divorcing the Holocaust from all other genocides, it also allows people to not have a framework of other mass atrocities, which surprisingly enough seems to make them believe that the holocaust could have actually NOT happened, considering how they don't have a framework about how often atrocities happen.

[starfieldcanvas]

the follow-up here is that when walz taught his class of sophomore high school students about the holocaust, he had them extensively study other genocides and the social conditions that preceded them. the class wrapped up with a group project trying to predict where the next genocide was most likely to take place

(this was in 1993)

and where did they collectively conclude the next genocide was most likely to happen?

Rwanda.

if, like me, you can't remember the date of the Rwandan genocide off the top of your head, it kicked off in April 1994.

So ... when Tim Walz says that studying the Holocaust as part of a pattern is vitally important, he is not talking out of his ass.

[explorerrowan]

I think it's important to mention that while the scope and industrialization of the Holocaust was unique, to act like nothing like that has had the same impact to the victimized community or that it could never happen again only serves people who want to do genocide with less scrutiny.

Nation-states actively committing genocides will kill and starve tens of thousands of people, kill aid workers and journalists trying to help, and then turn around and say "well, it's not really genocide because we didn't round them up into camps and exterminate them like the Holocaust." Comparison to the Holocaust has been a favorite tactic for burying press about genocides every since.

[cranberrylimes]

The left image as a rug and the right image as a ceiling poster

[desaturate-worlds]

this on the bedspread

[str8aura-no-not-that-one]

This as every wallpaper

[cranberrylimes]

Wow guys, we’ve really come together to make this House MD into a Home MD 💙

[elevenssonicscrewdriver]

[mothermara]

what if orpheus was butch and she unclipped her carabiner and held it out behind her and then eurydice clipped it onto her belt loop and then orpheus didnt have to look back because she could hear eurydice jingle jangling behind her. follow me for more dyke solutions to famous tragic literature

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[seven-oh-four]

needs an em-dash at the beginning and/or end, otherwise the first or last letters will be right next to each other

[pixelartpeach]

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[bees-official]

Cursed amulet necklace that doesnt have a cursed amulet its just the phrase cursed amulet

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[xx-emowarz-xx]

I think the marketing failure around Jennifer's Body is an enormous part of what makes it such a brilliant master class film. You market this film with these male gazey shots of the current Hollywood sex symbol, you make it seem like a pseudo lesbian soft core porno, you then bring all these men who just want to goon to Megan Fox into the theatre. You sit them down. They're ready to watch the extended cut of her scene in bad boys. And instead you subject them to what rape feels like for women. You force these misogynistic straight men who came to the theater to get their rocks off to watch Megan Fox get shoved into the back of a van, taken to a remote location, and ritualistically sacrificed in a way where any idiot can tell it's a metaphor for sexual assault but which no one would find sexy, and then you make them watch her go to her best friend's house and throw up black bile all over the place. You make her gross and unsexy and in pain. And then you make it gay for real in a way that straight men have a hard time comprehending let alone fetishizing.

If you're a capitalist it's a terrible marketing decision but if you're a feminist and a troll it's the most brilliant move anyone has ever made.

[stars-z]

no words for how much i am loving dnp being commanded by these two gen z woman producers. leila driving them around in her tiny little fiat 500. amelia getting them to do tiktoks like theyre bugs in an observatory. this is incredible content and i hope to hear them laughing in the bg of many podcasts to come