back to the 70s

[olympain]

[western-woods]

[rattle-my-stars]

[oveliagirlhaditright]

@mademoiseli

[imissthembutitwasntadisaster]

@lady-merian

[hayleywiiliams]

You said, “I remember how we felt, sitting by the water And every time I look at you, it’s like the first time I fell in love with a careless man’s careful daughter She is the best thing that’s ever been mine”

[radicalgraff]

Vandalized US military billboards in Louisville, Kentucky

[anexperimentallife]

Looks to me like all the "vandals" did was make the billboards more honest.

[butchfagminotaur]

this guy posted this video called “unethical money making hacks” and was like “i’m selling bullshit art!” and he was buying prints from kmart and covering them in joint compound and making interesting shapes in the joint compound and then selling it as “textured wall art” like sorry bro that’s just regular art you made art i know it feels like bullshit but you’re actually just making art rn

[butchfagminotaur]

i know it feels like bullshit because you spent five minutes on it and you don’t think it looks like real art but i regret to inform you you made real art and you’re just being an artist rn and if someone is willing to pay you $200 for it it’s not a scam that’s just what art is like

[butchfagminotaur]

that guy with the urinal is laughing his ass off at you rn sorry bud

[dustbowl-es]

[ ID: A picture of a piece of art hanging on a wall. It is a white rectangle with raised, textured lines making an abstract design. End ID ]

[sjdsjkdlskdas-deactivated202012]

adhd is so funny it's like being possessed but with myself

[welpnotagain]

me, desperately: can we please get something done?!

my inner demon, who is also me: IF YOU LIKE PIÑA COLADA

[dark-scape]

Please enjoy Zohran Mamdani and his wife Rama Duwaji in line to vote, having the absolute perfect reaction to learning Dick Cheney died:

No mourning because he was evil and no crab rave because he lived in luxury to an old age. Just immediately moving on.

Source: Chris Sommerfeldt on bluesky

[chilewithcarnage]

no amount of budgeting will make up for the fact that we simply do not make enough money

[raddagher]

no amount of therapy will make up for the fact that we simply do not make enough money

[moss-wizard]

no amount of working will make up for the fact that we simply do not make enough money

[annacaffeina]

I'm stealing this from Twitter

Here's the link

I am a high-definition gateway drug body double!

[queenangst]

idk if this is a young fan thing or new fandom culture but some of yall think fics are abandoned way too quickly. a few months or a year or two is not unusual to go without a fic update. sometimes fics take longer to write, other times writers have rl events, or maybe there's multiple fics and one gets more priority. there are tons of reasons for fics not to be updated every week or every month. it also isn't uncommon for people to come back and update fics after a number of years—ive read updates that took five, or ten years. people's lives change, but they still want to tell their stories. personally, i never consider a fic abandoned unless the author has said so; though if it's been a few years i manage my expectations. but a last update being a year ago is... generally not a sign that a writer has abandoned their fic

[liladiurne]

That! Exactly that!!! Writers have lives and writing is hard! It takes time. Stop assuming fics are abandoned!

[heywriters]

Original fic usually goes through this same process before being commercially published. Readers just don't know that bc they aren't receiving it in bite-size chunks online. Large periods of stagnant writing are historically just another Monday for most writers.

[holylulusworld]

This☝️.

[danandblair]

♫ with you, i’m brighter, my eyes like lighters ♫ GG: “Sometimes there’s a way to candy-coat the fact you’re all alone.” DAIR REWATCH ⇢ 4.15 It-Girl Happened One Night

[zombiesenelghetto-3]

The Gun Club, No-mag magazine, photos by David Arnoff, 1984

[hellenhighwater]

Well those are allllmost done

[codebreakerblue]

question. why do you have 7 featureless grey monoliths in your driveway

[hellenhighwater]

There's eight actually but the last one is still in the garage

[jackfromthefairytale]

question. why do you have eight featureless grey monoliths

[hellenhighwater]

They're actually a really dark purple

[fishofthewoods]

question. why do you have seven featureless really dark purple monoliths in your driveway and an eighth in the garage

[hellenhighwater]

Some of them do have features though. There's holes and hinges and stuff, so I can put secrets in em

[nobodywasneverhere]

question. why do you have 8 really dark purple occasionally featureful monoliths

[hellenhighwater]

The heart wants what the heart wants

[fred-the-dinosaur]

this reads like a muppet sketch

[fred-the-dinosaur]

see? See!??!

[hellenhighwater]

You're not wrong

[hellenhighwater]

This post is less than six months old.

[zwoelffarben]

Sometimes posts just, have olde tumblr post energy. And ya gotta live wit dat.

[anexperimentallife]

A lot of folks don't understand, so I'll break it down: It's not just, "bad man get shot so left laugh." We're laughing because he died of the thing he specifically endorsed. This guy said the 16,576 gun deaths in 2024 (with 5,151 CHILDREN wounded or killed) in the US were "necessary."

"But his childr--" He also specifically said kids should be forced to watch public executions, HE laughed when a six-year-old little girl was shot over three hundred times, and said empathy for ANYONE was bad.

And get this--he was shot WHILE DEFENDING GUN VIOLENCE. THAT'S what makes it funny.

Like, if he'd died choking on a chicken bone or something, sure, we'd still rag on him, but the WAY he bought it just... It's like if RFK Jr. died from measles or Covid.

Oh, and the response from the far right desperately trying to link his death to "trans ideology," "the Democrats," and "The Radical Left," and calling for attacks on those groups, then when it turned out to be one of their own (who decided a guy literally calling for a race war wasn't extreme enough), it was suddenly a "lone, disturbed gunman" situation. If I wrote this stuff into a novel people would classify it as a "dark comedy."

[inkskinned]

they will need to whipstitch the wound closed, but embroidery is a "woman's" task. they will need to eat and clean and mend clothes, but why learn basic things when you can have a woman measure out your life in beads. he will be the "head" of your house, but if you want him to act accordingly, you must assign him a list of all applicable activities. you will be otherwise constantly in charge of almost-everything; so he will lead the house he is absent from.

in movies and books, the "cool" girl will be more-like-a-man. she will be "less boring," more "fun". she will have masculine ideas and masculine talents, which means a man doesn't have to change in order to find her fascinating. she will disdain of something as simple as stitching. how boring!

she will kick open the door of a car and quip what, girls can't drive? and flip her long hair down one side. she will grill and shoot a gun and skydive. be a guy. she will be sexualized.

somewhere, working on computers becomes a masculine task, and now on tv a gen-z disney character throws her hands up in the air. i can't be a computer science nerd, i'm a girl! in the real life, she will be unable to sit through some of her classes, shivering when she realizes she is the only woman present in several of them.

how many times have you read this book and seen this show and watched this movie. the singular woman is allowed 5 lines because she's not just smart! she's also pretty! she is surrounded by 20 average men, but she is stunning. she is the exception to the bland, pale lives of women-at-home, who will never be shown. she likes dirt and motorbikes and blood and shows up in a tiny dress during the final scene, rolling her eyes at our male lead's incredulity - just because i like motorcross doesn't mean anything. i'm still a woman, okay? i actually like shopping.

it is almost never reversed, and you think about that often. it is vanishingly rare to have a single man in a cast of women. the male love interest does not show up at a feminist march and sardonically squint at our leading lady - what? you thought only women care about human rights? he does not know how to balance a checkbook or kickbox because i grew up with three sisters.

when he cooks he is a chef, which is sexy. when he cleans, he's being kind, genteel. when he nurtures his family, confetti rains from the ceiling. when she does these things: it is her duty and her identity. what do you mean she has other passions and hobbies? isn't her hobby and passion homemaking?

the other day a friend embroidered a seam closed on your jacket into the shape of ivy. every time you touch it, you think of her.

something about women's hobbies and art and skills. something about women's work.

[waterbugsanonymous]

hi, this is your gentle reminder and PSA: there are ELECTIONS happening in November 4th. PLEASE GO VOTE. Trump is the most unpopular he has ever been, but does that mean your average independent, or republican will vote for a dem this time around-likely no- they probably will just skip the process entirely if they don’t have a candidate they feel strongly about. this is why i’m asking YOU SPECIFICALLY to make sure to go vote. and i don’t wanna hear any doomerism shit about how voting is a waste of time bc of whatever, guys voting is the last of anything we have it is clear most of these people who represent us do not actually care, HOWEVER trump currently has the house, senate and courts and making it even slightly harder to do anything or having a large enough group to speak out against what he’s doing will help hundreds of thousands of people in the US. now more than ever is it important to make sure that they know that we do not stand for this

[mikkeneko]

If you're looking for something to do between now and November 4th to feel like you're making some progress, might I suggest checking out Vote Forward's letter campaigns?

Vote Forward

Vote Forward volunteers send heartfelt handwritten letters to unregistered and low-propensity voters encouraging them to participate in our

They've currently got two campaigns active, one for the PA Supreme Court and one for the CA special redistricting election. For the latter one, I can tell you that this is a weird proposition historically and many Californians don't really know what to make of it; it might be one where messages sent to voters could really help make up voters' minds.

You can sign up for as few as five letters to send out. Campaigns run through October 28th!

[anistarrose]

OP didn't specify which elections are happening this November 4th of 2025, so to be as clear as possible:

The elections this November aren't for the U.S. House, or the Senate, or any other branch of the federal government.

The elections this November are actually more important than the elections for the federal government.

They are a mix of state and local elections.

To break it down further: we have statewide elections in the following states:

New Jersey: Governor, State House.

Virginia: Governor, Attorney General, State House.

Pennsylvania: a retention election for the State Supreme Court. Three incumbent Democratic justices are up for retention votes, where a "yes" vote means they stay on the court, and "no" means they must be replaced (potentially with a Republican). Republicans are attempting to take back control of the court by unseating two or more Democratic justices, which could compromise the fairness of elections in this state in 2026 and 2028. There are also retention votes for several lower courts.

California: Prop. 50 aims to counter Republican gerrymandering in Texas by gerrymandering an equal number of U.S. House seats in CA, contingent on the TX map staying standing in court. If passed, the new CA map would last from 2026 to 2030 (inclusive).

Colorado: Funding free meals for kids in schools, including mechanisms to help counteract the federal SNAP cuts! (Essentially, a recent change to the ballot measure made it so any leftover money from the meal program could go to SNAP.) This is via Proposition LL and Proposition MM.

Maine: Two propositions. The first is a dangerous voter disenfranchisement proposal, which would decimate access to absentee voting and require photo ID to be shown at polls. Proponents of the measure tried to sue to stop the summary on the ballot from actually saying what it would do to absentee voting (they lost their case, luckily), so you know it's bad.

The second Maine proposition asks whether to implement extreme risk protection orders (red flag laws). For context, Maine currently has a weaker "yellow flag law."

Washington State: Proposition to allow the state to fund its upcoming, public long-term care insurance program, WA Cares, with stock market investments reminiscent of how the state can already handle pensions. This would arguably/ideally keep premiums lower; I won't claim to be an expert on this one but it's definitely worth reading more about.

Texas: Too many propositions to list. (Literally, there's 17). Luckily, Ballotpedia has already listed them for us.

There are also too many municipal (a.k.a. town-wide, city-wide, or county-wide) elections to list! These elections affect your community the most directly!

Most people know NYC is voting for mayor (don't let Cuomo make a comeback!), but don't let him distract you from city council elections, either. Wikipedia has a long list of the largest cities with municipal elections in 2025 (Atlanta, Minneapolis, and New Orleans are some examples), but if you live in a smaller town, be sure to google "[your town name] elections" to see if you have anything this November.

Lastly, there is a special election in Tennessee's 7th Congressional district that's happening after election day, on December 2nd. This district is Republican leaning, but a large enough Democratic over-performance could flip it — and constitute one of the only chances to whittle down the Republican House majority before 2026.

No reblog-guilting here, I'm not gonna judge anyone for not wanting to reblog a long politics post, but I'm sure it would help a lot of people make their plans if enough folks shared this list of what elections are happening this November (and this December).

[anexperimentallife]

Also--If you want better candidates in national elections, you have to vote for the leftmost candidate in every other election, even if the choice is between hard right and moderate right. Sitting out because none of the candidates are far enough left just sends the message to national parties that, "Oh, the left don't vote, so we need to appeal to conservatives."

The far right has been--for decades--pushing to get their people in any and every position possible, from dog catcher to mayor to whatever, and they vote for the furthest right candidate at every opportunity in every election, no matter how small or how local, even if their choices aren't as far to the right as they'd prefer. They're not sitting out because they don't like any of the candidates.

These factors are a big part of why the US now finds itself with two right-wing political parties dominating everything.

[trzpiotka]

in fact i'd like to know less about the US