It's Time to Begin, Isn't It?

[jesterjamz]

see now THIS is how you do an introductory google form

edit: alt text provided by @/wytchcore. thank you!

[catchymemes]

[831209214411212-deactivated2024]

Hey, don't cry. A single thread in a tapestry, though its color brightly shines, can never see its purpose in the pattern of the grand design, ok?

[feministfandomforever]

Lol. Couldn't place this until I read

Then it all came back to me

[ladylingua]

people are fighting over tipping culture in america on twitter and so many europeans are trying to explain why stiffing your server is praxis, actually

and it reminded me of the time I was working outside the 9/11 memorial and a european tourist came up to yell in my face at like 8am that we should all be ashamed of ourselves for charging admission to a museum of a national tragedy and when I said we depended on the money to stay open he screamed some more in my face about what a shameful disgusting government I had that wouldn’t subsidize the museum as though I personally set it up that way, and I had to eventually respond “sir, I haven’t been able to afford to see a doctor in 10 years you think I like this system???” and he just stomped away still yelling me I was a shameful person for this, the ticketing system I had no say in and also thought was outrageously expensive

anyways, just want to throw out there that if your only means of protesting an unjust system is to shit on the victims of that system then you’re not a moral crusader you’re just an asshole dressing up your assholery, pretending your cruelty is for a greater good. Tip 20% (or more!) when you eat out in america, it’s really that simple.

[quark-nova-deactivated20260116]

Yeah, as an european myself: if you go to the US, please tip your server. Tipping culture is fucked, but we shouldn't make the servers literally pay for it.

[darkmacademia]

alignment chart: bookmark edition. tag yourself i’m scrap paper

[blobbynfriends]

Surprise! 😆✨

[drilsouls]

(x)

Miyazaki: “[the horniest shit you ever heard] but it wasn’t my idea to give her a rockin set of honkin badonks”

[drilsouls]

@ everyone who thought this was about the Ghibli Miyazaki and not the Dark Souls Miyazaki: why did you just, like… accept that?

[hellsite-yano]

[alwaysbewoke]

to be clear the first one is the original. i just riffed on it because it’s a powerful message.

[alwaysbewoke]

MLK day is just a few days away. You’ll hear NONE of these quotes.

[edwinizm-deactivated20250813]

they don’t want us to know MLK was radical

[alwaysbewoke]

absolutely not

[neurodiversitysci]

Knowing he was radical AND nonviolent makes me respect him more.

[i-just-like-commenting]

“I am convinced that capitalism has seen its best days in America, and not only in America, but in the entire world. It is a well known fact that no social institute can survive when it has outlived its usefulness. This, capitalism has done. It has failed to meet the needs of the masses. […] I am not saying that there is a conscious move toward socialism, not even by labor, the move is certainly unconscious. But there is a definite move away from capitalism, whether we conceive of it as conscious or unconscious. Capitalism finds herself like a losing football team in the last quarter trying all types of tactics to survive.”

[ursiday]

🐈‍⬛📦

[justspilledcoffee]

Hey guys did I mention I live on a fucking weird island and sometimes land crabs with 8-inch claws try to get into my house

[tamascotchi-deactivated20190101]

cute puppy what breed is he

[purified-zone]

sideways

[wolverinequeen]

Unusual cat gene that seems to occur naturally in Poland and Romania. This gene is called Karpati. More can be read here 

[haaarpb]

i deliver pizzas & sometimes funny things happen

[memeuplift]

[duckdotcom]

wearing sky-colored shoes to hide from the devil. earth colored hat to hide from god

[ancient-debris]

Iron breastplate to ward off fairies, Fishnet leggings to ward off cod.

[socialistexan]

Guess who got their name and gender marker change done just in time for that to happen.

They're is literally making a list of us! I'm fucking scared. These kinds of lists don't get compiled for no reason, especially when they've spent the better part of a decade targeting us and it has only ramped up and gotten more severe.

Maybe it's the fact that I grew up in a Jewish family surrounded by Holocaust survivors, but when I hear that a state is putting together lists of their a group of people they're openly demonized, I start to get that "run the fuck away" senses going.

[andiest]

Here's the full article (not behind a paywall):

https://www.texastribune.org/2022/12/14/ken-paxton-transgender-texas-data/

I'm usually the person saying "This is not a reason to panic, do what you need to avoid anxiety keeping you from doing your day to day life stuff" when it comes to news about the state government of Texas and trans people. While it's been bad, it's been very public government actions that were taken to court and decisions that have often been appealed and struck down. This is different and it seems like an obvious escalation. For the first time I'm like, "OK, we need to be putting together networks to alert each other to an emergency and a plan for leaving the state on no notice."

No, we shouldn't have to consider leaving our homes. Yes, cis people should be taking this news VERY SERIOUSLY and work harder to get the specific people doing this out of office and away from state power. Because right now they have too much power, billions of dollars backing them, and they increasingly don't seem to give a shit about the legality nor the consequences of what they're doing. They could do so much damage before enough people who could stop them realized what was happening.

Be safe, make plans that hopefully none of us will ever need.

[majflodder]

Touching grass isn't enough I need to move to the shire and live in a hobbit hole

[whitepeopletwitter]