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[tongue-twists]

"old people are usually bigoted" isn't necessarily true, I know some old people who aren’t, but I think a lot of folks forget that *most poor and working class people die younger* and if someone is 70+ there is a higher chance that they're independantly wealthy and, you know, since we live in *this motherfucking system* there's a higher chance that they're white, cis, straight and very comfortable in their privileges. "old people are usually bigoted" is not true but "the people with the most privilege usually live longer" is.

[wovi]

[cheaphalloweencostume]

im trying to go to sleep but i cannotttttt stop thinking about this and laughing

[thestarsaredown]

Listen, we have to keep this thing circulating on the internet for at least another two decades, because I have to believe that one day that little girl will be grown enough to stumble upon it and She Will Explain

[holy-muffins]

We’ve made it 5 years folks

[knightshade86]

[captain-price-returns]

These are probably the first kids he never shot on sight

[cyberpunkpavlichenko]

Generative AI and the artist discussion is such a distraction from AI’s military and police applications or its role in automating hiring discrimination.

[oneheadtoanother]

[tongue-twists]

age gaps are actually not a problem in themselves (as long as both participants are adults blah blah you know the drill). the potentially harmful dynamics between two partners with a big age difference arise from other factors that are associated with age. more wealth. more stable life situation. a big gap in relationship/dating experience. this is of course worsened if you add gender and/or racial dynamics to it. age in itself doesn't create this imbalance, we just exist in a system where older people are more likely to have other forms of privilege over their younger partner.

if you're both 30 but one of you has a job and owns the apartment in which you both live, that is a lot riskier than if you're 20 and 40 but both have independent income and housing. ya know?

[microsff]

Every morning, the queen asked her magic mirror to show her the most beautiful person in the world.

The mirror replied "To whom?"

"The miller who made the flour for my bread," the queen would say, or "Whoever spun the thread my shawl was made of".

The mirror would show her, and she'd be amazed.

[nullen-void]

The first time, she says "To me," and the mirror dutifully shows her her reflection. And she is pleased.

The second time, she says "To the King," and she is pleased to see herself once more.

The third time, she says "To the Royal Advisor," and is once more satisfied to see herself.

The fourth time, she says "To the scribe who takes the King's letters." She is shown the man's wife. And she seethes, but quiets herself, for it is only right that a man loves his wife.

The fifth time, she says "To the Court Wizard," and is shown the man's departed mother as he remembers her from his youth, radiant and smiling and warm and larger than life.

The tenth time, she says "To the Stable Master," and is shown the fastest horse in the stable, majestic and free as the wind even in captivity

"To the baker," she is shown the man's daughter, young and adorable and full of joy and laughter.

"To the artist who did my portrait," she is shown a painting of a woman done by the man's teacher, who he still looks up to now that he is well established himself.

"To the Royal Knight," she is surprised but not displeased to see the castle's entire guard force in the middle of doing drills.

The one hundredth time she asks the mirror, and it asks her "to whom?" she once again says, "To me." And she does the same the one hundred and second, and again and again and again.

It is a different person each time, and they are all beautiful.

[riseofthecommonwoodpile]

you make one fucking post where the point is “women are encouraged to develop disordered eating from a very young age and that impacts how we view the ‘natural’ size and shape of women” and too many reblogs later i am being accused of saying short people wouldn’t exist if they ate better growing up. i’m sorry but if you genuinely think i was saying that you are just a buffoon. i cannot and will not sanction your buffoonery.

[faithmitchells]

Kara Young as Racine IS GOD IS (2026) dir. Aleshea Harris

[natalieironside]

So the secret police are executing people in broad daylight with alarming regularity, one major political party thinks it's awesome and wants more secret policemen to perform more summary executions, and the other major political party is just sorta pretending nothing is happening. That's about where we're at on the whole "roving bands of secret policemen brutalizing and murdering people" business.

Bad times friend ahead

[ozempicofficial]

[loveridden1999]

what are white gay men going through

[gaslit-dipshits]

Another war for oil.

This time it will be run by a guy even more incompetent and stupid than Bush was!

[jilli1205]

[gaslit-dipshits]

Not since the Republican supermajority took over 20 years ago.

The Ohio State University history department was even told last year that they can not teach Ohio/American history that predates the arrival of Europeans or else they will lose state funding. Not that they really need it since the football program brings in billions and the university has been illegally raising tuition rates for decades.

The last University President, who abruptly quit after getting caught having an affair with a right-wing crypto scammer (and whose first act as President was to bypass the University committee in charge of determining graduation speakers so that he could have his good friend and crypto investment partner be the speaker) forced the universty to ban all student groups that he considered to be DEI; sorry ladies, you can't have support groups for abuse and rape!

That's just at OSU which itself has more political pull in this state than just about anyone. Smaller state universities never had a chance.

And now Vivek Ramaswamy who is running for governor on a pro-datacenter, pro-grift ticket has publicly said that he wants to close all but four state universities and colleges because, "we don't need them."

That's an indication of how fucked we are.

[kibumkim]

The patriarchy won lmao

[disgracedmilfman]

Evergreen

[jaxdaws]

Actually this made me so fucking mad I had to go look it up.

The statement being made here, and the implication of it (that women who do not wear makeup might be 'psychopaths') is both a steaming pile of bullshit and an actively dangerous idea to be promoting.

Let's debunk first:

She's likely referring to this study published last year in which the relationships between cosmetic use and personality traits were measured in, and I quote:

1,410 Brazilian women (Mage = 29.9, SD = 10.35), who completed online Big Five and Dark Triad personality measures, reported their usual makeup usage habits, and detailed their makeup usage across different social scenarios.

Bold and italic emphasis mine.

To be perfectly clear: 'Psychopath' is not a clinical diagnosis and has not been a clinical diagnosis for 45 years now. People may be diagnosed with 'antisocial personality disorder' but no one is getting formally diagnosed with 'psychopathy' in 2025.

But that doesn't matter because the study isn't even about that!

That's right: The study is not looking at clinical diagnosis at all, the study is not saying "women who are clinically diagnosed with antisocial personality disorder are more likely to forgo wearing makeup than women who have not been diagnosed with antisocial personality disorder" at all.

The study is saying "There is a correlation between reporting as not wearing makeup, and receiving a result on a Big Five or Dark Triad personality test that ranks highly for 'psychopathy'."

Personality tests like Big Five, Dark Triad or the more well-known Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) are extremely controversial in psychology on matters of accuracy, ethics and utility. They are regarded by many psychologists as pseudoscience, and they are absolutely not a diagnostic tool.

Debunking out of the way, let's talk about why it's dangerous:

Correlation is not causation. Correlation is not causation.

Even if we assume that the original video maker was actually factually correct, and the statement "Women who are diagnosed with antisocial personality disorder are less likely to wear makeup than women who are not" is categorically true, pushing that viewpoint as the be all and end all is going to get so many other categories of women thrown under a bus.

There are a whole bunch of categories of women who might be less inclined to wear make up that has nothing to do with them having ASPD.

Like. Butches Autistic women Women in poverty People who are not women but you may mistakenly believe are women based on their appearance such as AFAB trans people incl. nonbinary and gnc folks.

Women with other disabilities that prevent them from wearing makeup on a day to day basis like: Disabilities that inhibit fine motor control; disabilities that impact eyesight; disabilities that impact energy levels; disabilities that impact their ability to hold certain positions like having their hands up to their face

You know. A lot of fucking people.

Also including women who just don't want to wear fucking makeup leave them alone Jesus Christ it's not some kind of secret psychopath conspiracy you utter ghouls

[martian-garden]

Also, again, even assuming the statement was true: ASPD women deserve love and respect, too. ASPD is not Inherently Bad Person disorder, it is an often-trauma-based *disorder* that makes it hard to connect to people in the way that's socially expected. Cluster B disorders deserve dignity and love and respect. The fuck is wrong with some of y'all.

[arctic-hands]

[Image Description: first image: screenshot of a tiktok by ButFckMeRight, showing a white woman (wearing makeup), sitting in a car and looking troubled. The caption says "Friendly reminder that female psychopaths often don't wear any makeup". The video description says "Men aren't the only predators walking around [eyes looking left emoji]..."

Second image: tweet by d. @ CallHerDaria, from January first, Twenty twenty-one that says "i do not support all women. some of you bitches are very dumb!!!" End I.D]

[milkywayan]

tfw you see some stupid post that paints medieval peasants eating just plain grey porridge and acting as if cheese, butter or meat was too exotic or expensive for them, and have to use all your inner strength to not just reblog it with an angry rant and throwing hands with people. so i will just post the angry rant here

no, medieval people did not only eat grey porridge with no herbs or spices, they had a great variety of vegetables we dont even have anymore, grains and dairy products, not to mention fruits and meats, all seasonal and changing with the time of the year. no, medieval food was not just tasteless, maybe this will surprise some of you but you can make tasty food without excessive spice use, and can use a variety of good tasting herbs. if you'd ever tried to cook some medieval recipes you would know that. medieval people needed a lot of energy for their work, if they would only eat fucking porridge all of the time they would get scurvy and die before they could even built a civilisation. they had something called 'pottage' which was called that because it was cooked in one pot. you could leave the pot on the fire and go about your day, doing stuff and come back to a cooked meal. they put in what was available that time of the year, together with grains, peas, herbs, meat etc etc. again, if you would try to make it, like i have with my reenactment friends, it can actually be really good and diverse.

dont confuse medieval peasants with poor people in victorian england. dont think that TV shows what it was really like. dont think that dirty grey dressed people covered in filth were how the people looked like.

they made use of everything. too poor to buy proper meat? buy a sheeps head and cook it. they ate nettle and other plants we consider weeds now. they foraged and made use of what they found. hell, there are medieval cook books!

most rural people had animals, they had chickens (eggs), goats (milk and dairy), cows (milk and dairy), sheep (milk and dairy) and pigs (meat machine), and after butchering they used ALL THE PARTS of the animal. you know how much meat you can get out of a pig, even the smaller medieval breeds? the answer is a lot

if you had the space you always had a vegetable garden. there are ways to make sure you have something growing there every time of the year. as i said they had a variety of vegetables we dont have anymore due to how farming evolved. you smoked pork in the chimney, stored apples in the dry places in your house, had a grain chest. people could go to the market to buy fish and meat, both fresh and dried/smoked. they had ale, beer and wine, that was not a luxury that was a staple part of their diet.

this post ended once again up being longer than i planned, but please for the love of the gods, just actually educate yourself on this stuff and dont just say stupid wrong shit, takk

[milkywayan]

As this post is making the rounds again, let me just add some medieval cook books for all of you!

Here is a great collection of information about medieval cook books from all over europe with links! Here is another simple summary and some cook book links from the british library!

Here two books that I have myself and found great, and am soon going to try to remake some dishes:

The Forme of Cury: oldest known english cook book, compiled around 1390 for the english king (aka they put saffron into everything)

Das Bůch von gůter spîse: a german cookbook from 1350, part of the Housebook of Michael de Leone, a prothonotary (so no king this time). Way more down to earth recipes, and sometimes simple but still very creative with different foods and some sounding very tasty (I only know the middle high german version of this, so sorry)

It is also important to note that of course the food was VERY dependent on where you were living! Like wine and grapes were super normal every day food and drink for people where i come from (Vienna) where most of the economy was built on wine and the city (that is in a basin surrounded by low hills) is surrounded by massive wineyards, even today, going back over 1000 years. Where I live now (Norway) life and diet was fundamentally different! The ground is frozen most of the year, it is always cold, but you have a lot of access to fish (no wonder they went raiding).

To the many people on the notes asking over and over again (even though I answered it already) about the vegetables we don't have anymore:

Every modern vegetable used to look quite different, and we used to have a lot more variety of all of it. E.g. carrots: you are probably most familiar with the orange one, but that is just one vaeiation. Even today we have yellow and purple carrots, and back in the medieval period they had even more variants. There are a lot of things, especially salads that have grown 'out of fashion' and thus are not cultivated anymore like they used to be. There are a lot of kinds of peas dying out that used to be an important crop before we had potatoes in europe. Grains used to look very different (think of grain fields as high as corn fields). A lot of foods that need to be foraged also are out of fashion, sadly.

But I am happy so many people agree, and so many people enjoy learning how medieval food was really like instead of buying into hollywood/victorian era propaganda :D