where are those big bang theory memes where sheldon is saying random words instead of bazinga
Let’s bring those back
What the fuck am I looking at
Is this what a seizure feels like
Claire Keane

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DEAR READER
RMH
Xuebing Du
Jules of Nature
Today's Document
Monterey Bay Aquarium
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Janaina Medeiros
hello vonnie
ojovivo
Lint Roller? I Barely Know Her
Alisa U Zemlji Chuda
almost home

Product Placement
let's talk about Bridgerton tea, my ask is open
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Kiana Khansmith
i don't do bad sauce passes
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where are those big bang theory memes where sheldon is saying random words instead of bazinga
Let’s bring those back
What the fuck am I looking at
Is this what a seizure feels like
Age of Resistance – General Hux #1 | by Tom Taylor, Leonard Kirk HOLY FUCK, THIS REALLY IS A FIC COME TO LIFE. It’s not that the Hux backstory stuff is totally new, but they sure DIALED THE WOOBIE BACKSTORY UP TO ELEVENTY and then the snark with Kylo Ren and oh my GOD “How did we…? Did you…? Did you save me…?” “Not intentionally.” AND “Communications are out.” “Which means I have no choice but to talk to you instead of literally anyone else.” I AM DYING I CANNOT BELIEVE I JUST READ THIS, I HAVE READ LESS FANFICCY FANFIC THAN THIS. A M A Z I N G, I’M CRYING IT’S SO BEAUTIFUL.
«I promise I will end this tyranny by creating the Internet of the People, by the People, and for the People.»
Our current landlady is the very image of one of those landlords who’d be spared the guillotine.
She’s an older, polite, maternal (white, middle class) woman who just happened to have enough money to buy a spare house, and is renting it to top up her pension. She reads The Guardian and asks after my family and does the occasional repair when necessary. She’s not one of those evil landlords.
She also just repeatedly lied to our faces about our contracts to try to get us to forfeit most of the rights we have as tenants. She also visits frequently, criticising how we live and reminding us that our home belongs to her. She also condescendingly and unnecessarily explains to us how boilers and washing machines and carpets work.
She explains to us how renting works.
She explains it with an indulgent smile, like a grandmother talking to a child, as if she’s being terribly patient about correcting our misunderstandings.
And she lies.
She lies because as much as she wants to convince us, everyone else, and even herself that she’s a good person, our entire relationship is based on the power she holds over us. She uses her wealth and position in society to extort payment from us, who have nowhere to live. We sacrifice to her the majority of the income we spend our lives earning, just so we can have a roof over our heads. But any time we don’t show proper deference to her, she could have us out on the street in weeks or months. We’d lose our home, because to her it is merely an asset which in no way belongs to us, the people who live there.
Today she repeatedly lied to us about our contract, and about the law, because she wanted us to have the minimum legal power possible. If I didn’t organise with a local tenants’ union, I wouldn’t have known my rights. And if I didn’t have the security of being a member of that union behind me, I never would have had the guts to challenge her. My housemate had no idea she was lying, and would have trusted her, signing away what few rights we had under the law.
As part of this tenants’ union, I’m always fighting with the worst landlords - the ones who keep people living in squalor, the ones with a dozen properties, the ones who are violent and abusive. But today has reminded me that even the “nice” landlords are still scum.
A genuinely good person who has enough spare money to buy a spare house (which is a lot of money! they wouldn’t need more!) would just let people who need a home live there, not bleed them of their income for the privilege of a warm place to sleep.
Never trust a landlord.
But more importantly, join a tenants’ union, and take back the power they hold over you. It was one of the most empowering things I’ve ever done.
In London, I recommend London Renters Union.
In Scotland: Living Rent.
In the rest of the UK: ACORN.
+ there are tenants’ unions all over the world, and housing co-ops where everyone who lives there part-owns their home and there’s no landlord to answer to
Here are various links to tenants’ unions and solidarity networks involved in tenant organizing and support around the US:
Nationwide
Homes for All / Hogares Para Todxs [national org, unsure of locals]
California
Tenants Together [statewide]
Alameda Renters Coalition
Berkeley Tenants Union
Center for Community Advocacy [Monterey and Santa Cruz Counties]
Los Angeles Tenants Union
Isla Vista Tenants Union
Oakland Tenants Union
Pasadena Tenants Union
South Pasadena Tenants Union
San Francisco Tenants Union
Mountain View Tenants Coalition
San Diego Tenants United
Santa Cruz Tenants Association
Protect Culver City Renters
Glendale Tenants Union
Sacramento Tenants Union
Colorado
Colorado Springs Tenants Union
Florida
Miami Tenants Union
Palm Beach County Tenants Union
Georgia
Housing Justice League [Atlanta]
Iowa
Ames Tenants Union
Iowa City Tenants Union
Illinois
Autonomous Tenants Union [Chicago]
Metropolitan Tenants Organization [Chicago]
Indiana
Bloomington Solidarity Network
Louisiana
New Orleans Renters Union
Massachusetts
City Life / Vida Urbana [Jamaica Plain]
Tenant and Housing Association of Worcester
Springfield: No One Leaves
Minnesota
InquilinXs UnidXs por Justicia (Tenants United for Justice) [Minneapolis]
Mississippi
Cooperation Jackson
Nebraska
Lincoln Tenant Action
Omaha Tenants United
New York
United Tenants of Albany
Crown Heights Tenants Union [Brooklyn]
New Settlement Apartments – Community Action for Safe Apartments [Bronx]
The Greater Syracuse Tenants Network
Oregon
Portland Tenants United
Southern Oregon Tenants Union [Jackson County]
Springfield / Eugene Tenant Association
Pennsylvania
Philadelphia Tenants Union
Pittsburgh Tenants Union
Texas
Texas Tenants Union [Dallas]
Houston Tenants Union
Tenants Union of San Antonio
Virginia
New River Tenants Union [Christianburg]
Washington
Tacoma Tenants Organizing Committee
Tenants Union of Washington State [statewide]
Washington, D.C.
DC Tenants Union
Vermont
Burlington Tenants Union
I used to look up at space with hope and wonder in my eyes. Until space looked back. Invader Zim, evil alien soldier of the Irken Empire, sent by his diabolical masters the Almighty Tallest, to infiltrate Earth and prepare it for the coming invasion. Disguised as one of us, he moved into my neighborhood, he went to my school, and with the help of his vile mechanic servants, plotted to destroy everything we have, everything we are. And then… he vanished. My name is Dib Membrane. I’m 12 years old. And I’m all that stands between Zim and the annihilation of the world.
Invader Zim: Enter the Florpus (2019)
I can’t fucking get over this oh my god
Mushrooms
It all came out over dumplings, as it should.
Style consistency went straight out the window, but I like it. My sister taught me that anything that makes you laugh is worth spending time on.
For your viewing pleasure, Good Omens as Frog and Toad. @neil-gaiman
“MY ARROGANCE KNOWS NO BOUNDS AND I WILL MAKE NO PEACE TODAY, AND YOU SHOULD BE SO LUCKY TO FIND A WOMAN LIKE ME” | Jenny Holzer, “Projections”
Important note : this is a projection by artist Jenny Holzer, but the text comes from a poem by Arab American writer Mohja Kahf, ’Ishtar Awakens in Chicago’. Holzer used Kahf’s work with her full agreement, I believe they’ve collaborated several times, but please check out the full context of the poem below.
My arrogance knows no bounds And I will make no peace today And you shall be so lucky To find a woman like me
Today neither will the East claim me nor the West admit me Today my belly is a well wherein serpents are coiled ready to poison the world, and you should be so lucky.
All I have is my arrogance I will teach it to lean back and smoke a cigarette in your faces, and you should be so lucky
No I will make no peace even though my hands are empty I will talk as big as I please I will be all or nothing And I will jump before the heavy trucks And I will saw off my leg at the thigh before I bend one womanly knee
I am poison And you will drink me And you should be so lucky.
And I will saw off my leg at the thigh before I bend one womanly knee
holy shit
What We Do in the Shadows
I love this trope so fucking much never gets old
not weird enough to kill his boner though
Horsewoman Selika Lazevski in 1891 by Nadar.
The Cottage in South Downs.