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This is why I have no sympathy whatsoever for anti-intellectuals who complain when discussion posts use too much academic language. "You can't expect me to whip out a dictionary every time you post—" BITCH I LOOKED UP "AHEGAO" FOR YOU. OUT OF THE GOODNESS OF MY HEART.

l3irdl3rain

extremely casual and normal way to relax

jestermolester

Brief moment of horror at work bc I forgot what I named my phone for a sec

smiggles

I forgot I was trans and just started talking to a girlscout today about how I used to sell girl scout cookies all the time when I was a kid

And their smiles disappeared as they went

discount-supervillain

depsidase

enjeru

IT’S

oldmanlogan

can we talk about the ups strike can we PLEASE talk about the ups strike

oldmanlogan

i know since writers and actors are already striking thats gonna take up most of the news space on social media but like. ups has until july 31st to meet the teamster's demands and if not then theyre going on the biggest strike against a single corporation since the early 1900s. the uaw (auto manufacturers union) contract is up this fall, and i believe the alu (amazon labor union) is as well. there's a huge possibility that they might strike as well, depending on how long the ups strike lasts.

im seeing a lot of talk about hollywood going down but i want to see more talk about labor rights and working class solidarity across the board... like A Lot of shit is about to go down

we're about to see a lot more propaganda by more than just hollywood, we're about to see a lot of bullshit political moves on local, state, and federal levels. dont fall for it. workers have power.

socialjusticeinamerica

theconcealedweapon

Ruby Bridges is 68. This is not ancient history. Not even close.

neil-gaiman

I know Ruby. She's a really nice person. The idea that they would try and write what she did as a girl out of history is shocking to me on so many levels, the simplest of which is just, but don't they know how lovely she is?

lastoneout

People don't like to admit it bcs cringe or w/e but Homestuck really did revolutionize the webcomic as a storytelling medium and I am endlessly frustrated that before webcomic artists could really stretch our legs fucking webtoonz swooped in, set a new, more restrictive standard, and then monetized and monopolized the ever living fuck out of the concept of The Webcomic until it drove away anyone who couldn't be a professional quality manga artist for free, and now the only webcomics that actually feel like spiritual successors to Homestuck are so obscure they're basically cult classics that you have to beg people to read.

Like it's just so wild to be in high school and see Homestuck be like "we're using like fifteen different artistic mediums to tell this story bcs we can" and be really fucking inspired by that, only to grow up and see basically every webcomic ever have to conform to One Single Standard or fucking perish.

lastoneout

Actually, I realized my real point here: we all need to make our art weirder. Please make weird art. I want more stuff like Prequel Adventure and 17776 and MyHouse.wad and I want it now. Capitalism thrives on conformity. We must be weird at all costs.

tastefullyoffensive

A novel. By Beef Biltong.

sirfrogsworth

You know Elon probably saw this and was super mad he still can't fire Halli.

thefrogman

I've already had one person in the notes claim dropping the bombs was the "only option" to end the war.

No.

Shaun has a wonderful breakdown of all the nuances surrounding the Japanese surrender.

If you do not have 2 hours to spare (or you can't watch it at 2x speed), I will give you some bullet points.

Several American leaders of the time felt the bombs provided no assistance in ending the war.

Japan was already defeated. They wanted to surrender but were stubborn and wanted conditions.

Their only concern was their god-like emperor stay in power and not be executed.

That was their concern before the bombs. That was their concern after the bombs. Nothing changed in their minds.

They didn't actually care that the bombs killed people. It took them several days to even have a meeting after the first bomb dropped.

The idea that dropping the bomb would save millions of casualties was invented *after* the bomb was dropped and was pulled out of someone's ass to cover said ass.

There was never going to be an invasion.

People think we dropped the bombs and the Japanese leadership was like, "Oh shit! We give up!"

But in reality, we dropped the first bomb and they were like, "I'm busy tomorrow, can we have the bomb meeting on Thursday?"

We dropped the bombs to show the world we had the bombs.

Japan was a convenient and timely excuse to that end.