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unfortunate truth of reality is that oftentimes 15 year olds will say/do/believe some stupid bullshit because they are 15 but telling them that they believe that because they are 15 is probably the most counterproductive thing in the entire universe
and if i said nolan's odyssey starring no greek actors and with no recognizable aspects of greek culture or involvement by greeks, is the direct legacy of white supremacist colonialism that treated ancient greece as not just the pinnacle of ancient culture, but of an artificially created "european" culture, which white western europeans and their settler descendants, as the new pinnacle of culture, were the sole spiritual inheritors of.
^^^ PEOPLE ARE STILL THERE. There's a metro station across the street from the colosseum where i found a hair in my pizza slice. We drove by ruins of an amphitheater next to a motorway in greece once. It's literally just real places where real people live and have lived. It's not mythical perfect lands that once existed. I went to Itacha in 2023 and there was not enough parking space.
here's two articles about how JK Rowling just posted on X an upskirt photo of Freda Wallace, a transgender woman, after deadnaming her and misgendering her repeatedly online.
The wealthy author escalated a social media spat that resulted in posting a photo from a 2023 event at the Institute of Economic Affairs in
Rowling posted the picture taken from below because the trans woman, she said, was "refusing to debate me."
Thank you for posting without the fucking destiel meme
free use is kind of a funny kink bc it relies on the idea that everybody wants to touch you and have sex with you but what if they don't. what if you tell everybody at the party you're free use but they all ignore you and mind their own business
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repeat after me. humans are not inherently evil humans are not like a virus on this earth humans do not “deserve” to go extinct or anything like that. we are living breathing animals that deserve space just like every other creature on this planet. there’s just a tiny amount of us that have a fuck ton of money and power and they really suck
[Image ID: The Destiel confession meme edited so that Dean answers 'JK Rowling posted upskirt photos of a woman on Twitter' to Cas 'I love you'. /End ID]
No one doing this should be allowed to call themselves a feminist.
The wealthy author escalated a social media spat that resulted in posting a photo from a 2023 event at the Institute of Economic Affairs in
Let's not beat around the bush: Children's author JK Rowling sexually harassed someone. In some jurisdictions, this would count as sexual abuse. JK Rowling has committed a sex crime against a woman and fell back on the old rape apologist standby of "she was asking for it".
I hope your nostalgia is worth it
country where most people vote left wing most of the time for 100 years and still the home counties get everything they want forever
If you don't understand the UK at all, please start by looking at the big round outcropping of the map that contains Clacton-on-Sea (Farage's constituency), King's Lynn, Southend-on-Sea. This part is just insanely racist and almost entirely farmers and old people who have retired to the beach. It is the Florida of the UK
Then look to the west from there and you'll see the area between Oxford and Cambridge. I hope you've heard of Oxbridge before, we use that portmanteau because almost every British Prime Minister (and broadly British politicians actually throughout history) went to either Oxford or Cambridge. The area around London there, but not London itself are characterised by being 1. very very very white 2. very very very conservative and 3. representing some kind of core "englishness" which is why they're called the "home counties". These people have had a chokehold on what happens in the UK for hundreds of years and for a couple of hundred years there they had a pretty strong say in what happened to essentially the whole planet.
When yankees talk about "British people" but are clearly referring to English people from one of these two areas, it drives me absolutely fucking insane. Even if you just said "English" instead of "British" it would be a massively ignorant thing to say, but it would be so much better than generalising the attitudes and politics of these areas onto, for example, Northern Ireland, a literal occupied territory oppressed by precisely these people. Please start directing your hatred appropriately toward the English and specifically the southern English.
Footnote: Everything southwest of the second map is also historically occupied territory and the further into Cornwall you get the more you will meet people who historically wouldn't call themselves English. If you die without a will in Cornwall all of your belongings default to ownership of the Crown, because again, it is an occupied territory.
Okay yankees thank you for coming with me on the magical mystery tour of why you need to hate the English and specifically the Southern English, it's time to talk about the North.
So here we have Liverpool, Manchester, Leeds, Sheffield and York, five of the most populous cities in the UK. Those together are well over (about twice) the populations of Edinburgh and Glasgow put together. This area contains some of the most shocking natural beauty in the country and also was relentlessly targeted by capitalists for internal colonisation and industrialisation within Britain in the 18th & 19th Centuries.
Workers from this area and from each of these cities have at various times throughout British history been massacred by people from the South in a centuries-long conquest that establishes the South as the UK's centre of power and the North as the UK's generator of power (I mean this quite literally because factories, power plants and coal mines are all quite notoriously concentrated in the North). These bouts of open violence by the Southerners are just the visible eruption of physical violence against the North, usually against workers' uprisings, but are part of a slow burning eternal obliteration of the Northern working class.
The area I've shown is the most commonly agreed conception of what "The North" is, but because this socioeconomic history defines what people understand the North to be some people will feel intuitively that Birmingham, which is firmly in the Midlands, is part of the North as well. The uniting political reality of the North is being used for other people's political ambitions with no real voice whatsoever. This is why Andy Burnham former Mayor of Manchester becoming PM tomorrow is supposed to be a big deal, because he's promising a devolution of power from London, but we'll have to see if that really happens at all.
If you want to understand the tension between London and the rest of the UK but especially the North, this map of Gross Regional Product is pretty useful. You'll notice that they have included two colours on this map that are just for London. This is because, and I cannot stress this enough, London is completely unlike the rest of the country in basically every way.
Firstly, London is huge. If you add up all the other cities I just mentioned above, Manchester, Liverpool, Leeds, York, Sheffield, Birmingham, Glasgow and Edinburgh, you would have roughly half the population of London. Secondly, London is rich and horribly unequal. If you look at the table above, you will see that GRP per capita for inner West London is over five times the national average. Bear in mind that average is divided by such an enormously higher population than other regions, AND that most of the people living in London are still poor as hell. That should give you a picture of how unequal London is.
But this is actually a much better picture of how unequal London is:
Grenfell tower, where a fire killed 72 people, is in the Royal Borough of Chelsea & Kensington which also contains: Kensington Palace, Lords Cricket Grounds, Notting Hill (from the Hugh Grant film Notting Hill), and Westfield London.
The Grenfell fire, a product of unsafe cladding that wasn't replaced despite being flagged as dangerous because the landlord didn't want to spend money, is a perfect demonstration of London's inequality because in the same borough as all these obscene displays of wealth dozens of working class black and brown people burned to death because their safety was too expensive. There are tonnes of towers around the UK that still have the same kind of cladding by the way, and since the fire the number of MPs who are also landlords has consistently gone up and up and up.
But Sophie you're talking about London, I thought you said we needed to talk about the North! Great point reader, thanks, but to understand the North and moreover understand which British people are deserving of international loathing and capital punishment for crimes against humanity we have to understand London. I hope it's obvious enough to point out why the Scottish, Welsh and Irish in particular don't deserve to be lumped in with the English, but within England there is a stark divide between the realities of people whose families have been in the working poor or the monied gentry for generations and generations, and that divide is mostly regional. In the North there is extreme deprivation, in the home counties there are a tonne of rich white people who make horrible decisions on behalf of millions, and in London there are both.
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you people aren't CASTING
say hello to the hanged chorus! this is the beautiful balor i played in one of my lancer games before my current stint as GM
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also, here's a transparent version as well for an extra good look at the details:
That comment is spot on AND sciatica stretches are legit. The best treatment for sciatica is get stretchy.
Signed: Willem Defoe fan with sciatica
For anyone who doesn’t know, Sciatica is pain due to compression of the sciatic nerve, which runs from your buttocks down the back of your leg. The reason this stretch is helpful is because the sciatic nerve, after leaving your spinal cord, immediately runs just underneath - and may get compressed by - the Piriformis muscle deep in your buttcheek, which helps you externally rotate your hip. (If the muscle is super tight, your toes on that side might actually point further out when you lie down compared to the toes on your other foot, jsyk).
If the above stretch ain’t compatible with you for reasons like having bitch ass knees, here are some alternative and amazing stretches for the muscle in order of easiest to hardest (but imo least to most helpful) to perform:
However, just keep in mind that none of these stretches will help you if you have a herniated disc, which compresses the nerve roots that protrude from the spine itself! For that you’ll for sure need some different medical intervention.
Have fun!
So I do 3D modeling and printing as a hobby, and a few weeks ago I designed wheel guards meant to prevent office chairs from running over cables and clothes... or your pet's tail.
I got the idea from cowcatchers old locomotives used to have.
Anyways, yesterday I uploaded the model to Thingiverse, and just hours after uploading it, the Community Relationship Manager of the whole website left a comment suggesting I enter the model into a competition that's currently being held on the site.
So I did... and now it's in third place not even a day later. First place is $500, but the competition still has a month to go.
Then the Community Manager contacted me again, telling me they want to feature my model in an upcoming design promotion.
Just, what is happening? I mostly made this thing for myself in, like, an hour, and now it's suddenly super popular? This is all a little bit overwhelming 😵💫
Other models I worked on for weeks didn't get nearly as popular. I swear, it's impossible to predict what people will like.
Anyways, if you want to print the wheel guards yourself, you can get the model here or here.
I also made a quiet version you can stick furniture felt pads on.
People love simple, extremely practical things. I hope you win!
as much as everyone loves "the power of love won't save us, we need the power of incredible violence" i'm sorry to rain on your parade but we've actually tried that about ten million times as a species, and you'll be shocked to hear the power of incredible violence, without the power of love behind it, is just brutality. the power of incredible violence has been ruling (various parts of, and then the entire) world for the past 5,000 years. ours is not that damn special.
like yes use that gun you found but WHY are you using it? on who are you using it? what would make you stop using it? is your goal to live in a world where every problem is solved by violence, or is your goal to do the violence necessary to live in a world where that necessity is unthinkable?
#I'm a pacifist so I don't necessarily believe every word of this post but it actually makes an amazing point#everyone take a moment to think about this /light-hearted
on the subject of pacifism, if you are interested: i consider myself what i would call a preferential pacifist. i think we should always hold peace and non-violence as a moral preference, meaning we should always choose it when it viably leads to a better world, or the least-violent choice that is viable, and when we do choose violence we must make further decisions that allow us to eventually choose peace again.
i think sometimes violence is necessary to uphold greater moral values, including peace, but ultimately it should be something we are forced to do to some extent, and we should only do it while actively looking for other options.
Can anyone explain wtf is going on here especially a Korean speaker
someone on reddit explained 😭
That is one of the most astronomical fuck up translations I have ever seen.
I get in theory why people complain about het ships or whatever, I get wanting to watch queer media I really do, but I guess where y’all lose me is like. I saw some asshole on a post about Sinners complaining it was “hetslop”—this person was specifically doing so while also claiming Remmick was a queer character and thus they were justified in caring more about him than the Black protagonists. which is a whole other disgusting can of worms that has been well addressed by others at this point. but even in the absence of that part of the argument, like, no, i actually don’t think that a hunger for queer stories is an especially good excuse to deride and dismiss a piece of landmark Black filmmaking, especially as a non-Black person. I have a post that’s been going around encouraging folks to engage with more Native stories and characters, and I had someone come onto that post saying in the tags that they’d need these stories to be queer in order to care. and I just think that, you know, sucks! like obviously as a queer Native I also want to see more of those stories too. but idk how else to put it other than to say that Black people and people of color shouldn’t have to be like you in order for you to care about our narratives and experiences. and I think some of y’all are using this disdain for heterosexuality as a cover for your unexamined racial biases. it’s not okay to be racist to people just because those people happen to be straight, and you continue to be white before you are queer.
on an even more basic level than that, also, I simply just think some of y’all NEED to learn how to interact with media and storytelling without ships and fandom in mind. like if not being able to write fic about two men kissing is genuinely going to be a dealbreaker for you I think that’s actually something you need to work on within yourself because at that point I think you’re no longer really interacting with art and themes and narrative so much as just kind of playing with toys. which is, like, fine I guess. have fun. but it wouldn’t kill you to disengage from that from time to time. especially if would allow you to actually appreciate rich and deeply moving cultural stories from communities of color that you desperately need to learn how to see as human
