A Lousy Scouse and a Shitty Brit

Two swedish individuals looking for adventure in London

[grumfy]

yeah actually we removed the big bad wolf from the little red riding hood story because portraying violence against minors is really messed up. yeah. yeah also the wolf narrative was really predatory and had had some icky grooming vibes and a fable meant for literal children shouldn’t have implied p*do shit and grape so now little red riding hood goes into the woods and nothing happens and she goes to grandma’s house. don’t worry our kids will still stick to the path and know not to follow to wolves implicitly because we told them to and children should always do as their told. just like little red riding hood does now.

[imsobadatnicknames2]

I want slower packages delivered by transportation workers who are paid more to work less and I'm not kidding

[theparadigmshifts]

@mortuarybees​: #i think its deeply important for all of us to come to terms with the fact that its actually fine to be mildly inconvenienced

[guerrillatech]

[lierdumoa]

"If stuff was just handed to me I'd have no motivation to do anything! That's human nature!" No, babe, that's depression. Psychologically healthy people are still motivated to do things even when their survival isn't being actively threatened.

[dramaticowl]

[Image description: tweet by Roxi Horror @roxiqt on March 30, 2022 at 11:13 AM: “’Oh, so you think everyone should just be handed enough money to live?’ lol. lmao. yeah.”]

[ruinedrainbowpooka]

okay so like, we all know that housekeeping in a hotel is a Shit Job, right?

I worked with a woman who was independently wealthy. But she liked working housekeeping. So she did. And if the manager got bitchy with her, she’d just shrug and be like “Okay, I can quit.”

Like the manager treated her like a human being because she knew she had to because otherwise she’d lose one of her best workers.

Yes, everyone should be just handed the money to live.

[actualaster]

I worked with a lady who’s husband made more than enough to support them both.  She just did the retail to have something to do with herself part-time.

There’s a lot of people who’d happily do the same sort of thing.  Honestly?  A lot of the jobs we consider “shitty” jobs?  Are shitty because the employees are treated like garbage.

If employees weren’t being screwed over by people higher up the chain constantly or being forced to kiss the asses of customers currently shitting all over them, those jobs would by and large be a whole lot more bearable, and appealing to more people!!

[amuseoffyre]

Plus rich people are just handed a lot of money, whether they earn it or not, and no one questions that. Only poor people getting money gets interrogated over and over and over again.

[giantgayratthatmakesalltherules]

I’d like to add a footnote to this thread that the US gives more money (by way of the income tax reduction) to homeowners than it does to poor people who need subsidized housing.

[hulking-godless-child-beast]

My best teacher in high school was the guy who had previously made a ton of money that he could’ve retired at like 30. Man just wanted to teach teenagers.

If people as a whole were handed enough money to live on, maybe more people like him wouldn’t be put off by the poor salary teachers make. (also teachers should be paid a lot more)

[atopfourthwall]

There's also this assumption that if people were just handed enough money to live that they'd do absolutely nothing, as if they'd be satisfied being completely bored all the time. They'd still buy food. They'd still buy video games. They'd still go out and get coffee and put money into the economy even if they didn't want to work because they still want to LIVE. They'd buy movies. They'd go DO stuff. I review comic books on the internet and I love doing it, but I often have to compromise on some things because I just can't afford to do otherwise and I stress out about stuff because I need to earn money.

[largeplateofstromboli]

[cryscal]

"Psychologically healthy people are still motivated to do things even when their survival isn't being actively threatened."

Speaking for myself, I would be even MORE motivated to do things if my basic needs were guaranteed met. IJS

[nimona-antifa]

👆🏾👆🏾👆🏾👆🏾👆🏾

[kedreeva]

What I think some people miss about stuff like UBI (universal basic income, the idea that everyone gets a staple amount of money that could cover basic housing and food needs) is that... It doesn't really need to be a lot of money. The idea isn't "give everyone so much money they're now rich and can do whatever they want forever." The idea is to provide enough for their most basic needs (food water shelter). It's enough that if your job mistreats you, you are safe enough to leave it without the threat of becoming unhoused or starving. This, in turn, forces employers to treat their workers better because if they don't, then they don't get workers.

But the other side of this coin is that ONLY a person's basic needs are covered. As someone above said, people still want to do fun stuff! Fancy coffee and vacations and doing leisure activities like movies or bowling or whatever. Keeping pets. Having get togethers. If someone wants the extras in life, THAT'S the stuff they "should" be working for. That's the "well if they don't want to work then they don't get [whatever]!" that is the consequence of not working. Are some people gonna be fine not doing any extra stuff and just living basically? Sure! And that's okay. But most people DO want extra stuff and will work for it if they can (and if they can't they should still get extra basic income! Humans deserve enrichment!)

But "You don't get the vacation" is not the same consequence as "you don't get to live in a home or eat food today." The consequence of not working should NEVER be no longer having your basic needs met. And it's absolutely ridiculous that so many people have normalized that you work or you perish. We live in a society! We invented civilization to make it easier to care for one another and ensure everyone's basic needs get met! Human civilization began when we decided it's not "survival of the fittest" on our watch, but "survival of everyone we care about." We have lost our way if we cannot protect each other.

[soy-celeste-deactivated20230905]

Her name is Katalin Karikó. Hungarian. Daughter of a butcher. Her thesis work became the basis of the mRNA vaccine technology. Read the article here.

[jbthegift]

It’s a fascinating article.  So thankful for Dr. Kariko, and the tons of unsung, underfunded scientists like her!

[kiran-wears-science-blues]

YO SHE GOT THE NOBEL PRIZE THIS WEEK! (October 2nd, 2023)

[luntfontanne]

jesus fucking christ

[luntfontanne]

"i wish i could do something 😔 / i wish the wga had a kickstarter or a gofundme, i would throw money at it" good news! it's amazing how you can literally go onto the wga strike website or the wgawest linktree from their twitter and find links to support writers and other workers affected by the strike

Groceries for Writers — Humanitas

THE SNACKLIST: Support Entertainment Workers!

I just contributed to THE SNACKLIST to support Entertainment Workers!

[lesb0]

please be the hot new trend for next year. Please

[obstinatecondolement]

I might just be incredibly tired, but hot take: Michael Bublé's cover of Santa Baby "Santa Buddy" is the closest he has come to making an artistic statement. Like. He doesn't write his own solos: someone else writes them and he learns them off and as such he's widely disparaged by jazz musicians. But at least in Santa Buddy... he's saying something original. What he's saying is "I am absolutely Not fucking Santa" but it's something. It's a take on the work that is his own. And it makes me absolutely furious, which is An Emotional Response To Art. Which is more than I can say about any of the soulless saccharine pablum that usually drips from his grinning maw. Thank you for coming to my Ted talk.

[obstinatecondolement]

Reblogging in honour of hearing Santa Buddy played in McDonald's the other day and once again becoming obsessed with the artistic choices of Mr. Michael Booby.

[kadoore]

I really wish we'd teach about seasons based on where the kid lives and not on this midwestern/northeastern ideal of spring/summer/fall/winter.

My kiddo is learning about leaves changing color and falling off trees while she lives in Florida. She asked us when the leaves would fall here and I had to break it to her: never.

What I wished she'd learn instead, and which she will:

Autumn isn't falling leaves in Florida -- it's hurricanes and wildflowers. We tend to the monarch butterflies passing through and don't clear out the brush lest we clear out their chrysalises. We reclaim the evenings from summer's last grasps and await every cold front.

Winter isn't snow and ice here -- it's enjoying the beauty around us, exploring the woods, going outside without risking exsanguination by mosquito. Winter is our season of bounty, of relief. And sometimes, yes, we have to cover the plants to protect them from frost and we leave footprints on the grass in the morning. Here is our season of abundance, of frost-kissed oranges and lemons, of strawberries picked with your breath clouding your hands, of blueberries gathered in skirts. Kale and lettuce, beets and greens, it's all here for us in winter.

Spring isn't the season of hope it is up North. It's an end, a swelling of heat so sudden you swear by it. Florida kids need to know it's lovebug season and every bug season, it's gator baby season, it's beach before tourists season, and it's also fire season. The air is sticky but the trees are dry and an early thunderstorm could ignite it all, so be careful. Be careful.

Summer is our winter and it's shit. You step outside and you melt. It's hurricane season, but not really. More like hurricane preparatory season. They should teach kids here to check their supplies and how to chart a hurricane's movement. Summer is about wearing a jacket inside, because everywhere has the a/c cranked up. Kids need to learn how to cover themselves head to toe in insect repellant and sunscreen.

Instead of learning all that, my kid's gonna come home this week sad again that we don't have snow.

[spaci1701]

Even in places where we get all 4 of the seasons, the way they're presented is so misleading. They aren't 4 equal seasons, fall and spring are normally the short ones, sometimes lasting only a week between scorching, muggy afternoons and 'I think there's snow in that rain'. Other years you wear a light jacket to your New Year's party because your backless dress is a bit drafty at 2am.

Some springs rush in on a windstorm and wash winter away in a quick blast, turning to summer heat while the students are still stuck in classrooms meant to stay warm, other years you desperately add up the days it hasn't rained in July, trying to convince yourself that you've actually seen this mythical sun all the movies tell you about.

Teach kids the actual world around them, not some fake ideal that carefully follows dates in a calendar.

[dat4l0re]

[oceanchemgirl]

Data is going to fuck shit up!!!

[datastartrek]

Data really said ‘maybe violence IS the answer’

[shittybrit]

Some of the best photos ever taken of the two of us, in my honest and humble opinion. Again, a work of the beautiful, the astounding, the incredible Cheyenne Rae Bruneau.

The 29th of December 2014 by Camden Lock.

[shittybrit]

The 29th of December 2014 by Primrose Hill park. Photography by the incredulous Cheyenne Rae Bruneau.

[shittybrit]

Portraits by Cheyenne Rae Bruneau taken by Camden Lock. The 29th of December 2014.

[shittybrit]

For a couple of weeks during the holiday period we had the pleasure of having the lovely Cheyenne Rae Bruneau staying with us. Originally from Canada, she now resides in her beloved Paris. A photographer by trade, a filmmaker by education, and a rock’n’roll blues mama by passion, she takes the most wonderful pictures, gives the most sound advice and makes the most compelling music with her friends under the name Miss Rae and the Midnight Ramblers. Above all that she is a true child of light, sensitive, sensible and infinitely wise. We three came together and properly dolled ourselves up for a swinging New Years party arranged by my longtime favourite event company; Bourne & Hollingsworth. The raver was being thrown in the old railway arches in Southwark, that previously had been used as air raid shelters during the Blitz in 1940, and everyone was dressed according to that times fashion, boys in uniform and girls in swinging dresses. There were live jazz bands, confetti canons and authentic air raid alarms and seeker lights flashing across the brick arches. We danced, drank, and flirted, underneath the stark contrast of the olden world, and the Shard lighting up the night sky quite closely by. It was a night of revel and to say we did little the day after would be to under exaggerate.

You can find Cheyenne here: http://www.missraemusic.com https://instagram.com/soulstress/ https://www.facebook.com/CheyenneRaePhotography/timeline

[shittybrit]

That handsome fellow on the right is the incredible, the indescribable, the one and only Rowan John. He is our second housemate, and one of those people who are destined to do something big. What precisely is still unsure, as he’s got a lot of talents. Professionally he’s a hairstylist (which results in a lot of playing around with everybody’s hair, pictures to follow) but mainly he’s a musician. And a great one at that. On top of everything else he’s an amazing, spiritual, bubbly, energetic being of light, who is insanely good at mimicking accents and has a penchant for improvising characters and stories that makes us clutch our stomach in laughter. He might sing (or play Cheryl Cole) so loudly that the whole flat vibrates, but his pure joy at dancing through life is impossible not to get swept away with.

https://twitter.com/rowanjohnmusic

[shittybrit]

This is one of the few friends in our limited circle and undoubtedly the sweetest. Her name is Linnea. Yes, she bears the same name as our dear linenea, so to prevent any mixups we’ve given her a nick name. You see, she lives in Stoke Newington in East London, therefore she is Eastside.

Photos taken by the incomparable Cheyenne Ray Bruneau https://www.facebook.com/CheyenneRaePhotography

[shittybrit]

That time we had one of the nicest guys in the northern hemisphere sleeping on our floor and eating churros with us at Winter Wonderland in Hyde Park. Basta is the cats pajamas, and one of quite a few people that has come to visit the city and with it us.

[shittybrit]

That night we joined as many forces as we could; housemates, swedes, acquaintances and flirts and gathered for a night of socialising in the heart of Shoreditch.

Pictured left: Dan, Amalia, Eastside, and aforementioned acquaintances. Pictured right: Amalia and one of the best housemates you could ask for, Tai. Below: Strongroom Bar and Kitchen at its best, in the summer and when we’re not there.