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big if true tbh

looking it up, apparently this was an artist who made signs like this to parody the actual city council's signage, just told apart by his logo in the corner, "christchurch city confusion", and they had locals rly confused for a bit. my favorite is this one!

aquilacalvitium

@ominous-signs

egberts

yiké

just don’t do that

bbeelzemon

i just spent entirely too long on this

i-cant-think-of-anything-to-say

hunting down tumblr posts i see on pinterest part 1193

no-one-offical

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the-seelie-court-official

listen to me. listen. your actual job in life, and it sucks that your 5th grader teacher didnt explain this adequately enough, is to ask for help when you need it and to accept charity when it would take a weight from your shoulders. Otherwise you end up like Sisyphus- or even worse, Walter White

valtsv

who wants to see my favorite statue

valtsv

yes you do. it's a bulgarian statue called "the dragons in love" and it's a statue of 2 dragons and they're in love

love wins

galileosballs

The 'ingredients you can pronounce means it's healthy' line implies a world in which the kind of nutrition a person requires scales with their biology education and grasp of phonics. Which isn't true, of course, but sure would imply some interesting worldbuilding if it were

pjharvey

my best tip for anyone trying to get back into reading is to remember that you can read books to avoid other responsibilities in ur life and it can become a vice if you play your cards right

thesinlesssinner

My therapist always says “reading is a healthy hobby” and every time I’m like “girl not how I do it.”

agentofdeterioration

The Catalogue of Ships in the Iliad is, to a modern audiences, what classicists have called “boring as hell,” but I can’t help but think that if you were watching Homer recite it it would have been more like when comedians go, “anybody here tonight from Chicago?” and the Chicagoans in the back start cheering

Homer’s like, “and there were forty black ships from… LOCRIS” and the Locrians in the crowd start going absolutely nuts

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its so much and its dishonest work

illumineeti

employment

nevver

“He is always on the brink of suicide … because he seeks salvation through the routine formulas suggested to him by the society in which he lives.” — Umberto Eco on Charlie Brown

a-polite-melody

I’m absolutely fascinated by a claim that’s come out of TRF circles a few different times now, which is that “transandrobros” are the newest iteration of truscum.

I’ve seen the claim a few separate times now, and each time the only support that this claim has behind it is the “logic” that:

1. Truscum were a group of trans people with bad ideology

2. Truscum were almost entirely trans men (citation needed, even though I’m just going to take it as true for the rest of the post)

Who else (to the people making this comparison) are a group of almost entirely trans men with bad ideology? Transandrobros!

Which is… an interesting way to try to make a connection. Because if we look at what the ideology actually is, the fact that it’s just “bad” ideology, or ideology a particular person doesn’t agree with doesn’t exactly marry these two concepts together.

If anything, the people arguing against the idea of transandrophobia employ more of the tactics and follow more of the ideology traced out by truscum.

Truscum ideology was about defining who is trans by way of, basically, if they’re trying hard enough to become a stealthing trans person. If you weren’t trying to pass as a cis looking person of the opposite binary gender as to what you were assigned, then you weren’t really trans by this ideology. Nonbinary? By truscum ideology, that’s just a fake identity made up by cis people who want to feel special.

Where, exactly, does this mesh at all with what people are taking about when we talk about transandrophobia?

In my experience, as a nonbinary transmasc, who in arguing about transandrophobia existing has used my own experiences as counterpoints and counterexamples to people’s assertion that there’s male privilege given to all trans people who were AFAB…

I’ve been called a theyfab (a slur popularized by truscum)

I’ve been called a trender (truscum term)

I’ve been told I’m obviously not trying hard enough to pass (the definition of truscum ideology)

I’ve had my name mocked for being ambiguous instead of masculine (seeing the trend here yet?)

Are we seeing why I find it really fascinating that people are trying to say that I’m on the side of the truscum? Simply because trans man/masc + ideology someone doesn’t like must always be the same?

dittography-direwolf

Totally normal for a legitimate for-profit company to refuse to reclaim or stop running their products even after they're no longer being paid to do so. I'm sure it's very normal to just keep running your service for free when your contract's been terminated. Spending money to continue running cameras that supposedly no one is looking at is definitely not an indicator they are just run by the federal government to spy on everyone and only a wacko conspiracy theorist would think so.

#current events

homunculus-argument

Outfit concept: A backpack with a text on the inner side (the area highlighted in red)

and the text is as big as it can be and says

DO YOU SEE THE BACKPACK GUY?

and a shirt/jacket with a text on the back, in big matching letters, that says

WHERE THE FUCK IS MY BACKPACK?

number1mongrel

"You hear that? They're saying The Odyssey doesn't even have nobody!"

"They've got nobody in the Odyssey?"

"No I'm saying they don't got nobody."

"Nobody's there?"

"Nobody's not there!"

"So everyone's there?"

"Everybody but nobody!"

velvetvexations

Weird Fantasy (1950) #18 written by Al Feldstein and drawn by Joe Orlando, with editor Bill Gaines

velvetvexations

So he said it can't be a Black. So I said, "For God's sakes, Judge Murphy, that's the whole point of the Goddamn story!" So he said, "No, it can't be a Black". Bill just called him up and raised the roof, and finally they said, "Well, you gotta take the perspiration off". I had the stars glistening in the perspiration on his Black skin. Bill said, "Fuck you", and he hung up.

Al Feldstein, Tales of Terror: The EC Companion

iconuk01

Just to add context for those not aware of the impact of this story.

The reason it was so important for narrative purposes, was that the plot concerns the visit of the Astronaut, in his completely opaque spacesuit, to a planet populated entirely by self-aware robots (originally from Earth) who have built their own society and are petitioning to be allowed to interact with Earth again as equals.

They have a democratic government and free choice of careers etc. as the orange robot serving as guide tells the Astronaut.

The Astronaut notices that there are two different types of robot on this world; the orange ones, who are in charge, gifted access to all information and facilities. and the blue robots, who are seen as more limited in function, have less access to information and resources, and are not allowed positions of power or as wide a choice of employment opportunities. Even transportation is segregated.

The Astronaut investigates further and discovers that the blue and orange robots are actually structurally identical, there is absolutely no difference between their potential or capabilities, and it is only because the orange robots are instructed by their Educator system to consider themselves superior, that the difference exists.

The Astronaut tells the robots they are not ready for re-alignment with Earth, until they come to terms with their own unfairness, and how Earth had had to deal with this issue themselves. When that time comes, the robots will be able to ally with Earth.

Then he leaves in his spaceship, and it's only in that one final panel that we see the Astronaut is black.

Not subtle, nor should it be, but for 1950 this was a breathtakingly powerful statement, perhaps the first of it's kind in the genre.

The black character was not a caricature, or comedy relief, he was a main character in his own right, a human who "simply" was black.

assortedinsanities

Ok, but this story is sadly revolutionary even now. That is not just a human who happens to be black, as far as every other character in this story is concerned this is the most important, maybe even the only human they ever see, who happens to be black.

As depressing as that is, but a black person just casually representing the entirety of humanity is a breathtakingly powerfull statement even today, a quarter of a century later.