Perseverance

"We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be." - Vonnegut

[theodysseyofhomer]

odysseus absolutely does present a threat to penelope if he perceives her as at all unfaithful, and i feel the unfairness of this, and i think people tend to undersell how much tension at least potentially exists between odysseus and penelope. but i'm also like. his reaction, all speculation aside, his actual reaction in the odyssey to her flirting with the suitors is delight, because he immediately ascertains that she is running a con. sorry that they're so in-sync in spite of the forces that try to drive a wedge between them, including their own misgiving hearts. sorry that they invented homophrosyne ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[strinak]

oh, you meant they literally did, ok

[theodysseyofhomer]

would i, tumblr user thee odysseyofhomer, lie to you?

[polyphemusthecylcops]

...

[theodysseyofhomer]

this is the only funny addition to this post

[nattousan]

ladies and gents may i present you with my favorite photo of Ella Fitzgerald ft. that guy

homie was down bad, and can we blame him?

[hopeless-eccentric]

that guy is jazz trumpeter dizzy gillespie! i think it was the smithsonian which just found a second angle of this moment and .

yeah, me too dizzy

[philosophybits]

“Always recognize that human individuals are ends, and do not use them as means to your end.”

— Karl Popper, The Open Society and Its Enemies

[magess]

These men just stole the personal information of everyone in America AND control the Treasury. Link to article.

Akash Bobba

Edward Coristine

Luke Farritor

Gautier Cole Killian

Gavin Kliger

Ethan Shaotran

Spread their names!

[saywhat-politics]

The Young, Inexperienced Engineers Aiding Elon Musk’s Government Takeover

Engineers between 19 and 24, most linked to Musk’s companies, are playing a key role as he seizes control of federal infrastructure.

[seabassapologist]

elon is really mad about this so it would be a shame if people kept spreading the names around

[lakemojave]

Ever since I was a little girl I dreamed of creating an account and verifying my email and enabling 2 step verification and downloading the app and opting out of targeted ads and signing up for promotional newsletters and unsubscribing and unsubscribing and opting out and opting out

[tgirl-thucydides]

[magnetic-dogz]

Anita Bryant just died and I haven't seen one crab rave gif on my dash yet... Come on people

[magnetic-dogz]

HOMOPHOBE DOWN!

[ace-robot-things]

Here’s the gif of her being pied :D

[messygoku]

writing a message on the bullet you're about to use to kill a billionaire who directly fucked millions of people through their health insurance makes you the coolest fucking person on earth I hope you dont get caught

[applejongho]

[porterdavis]

[hockpock]

ADHD time blindness be like "oh, today is the 30th? that's fine, December is still next month, that's forever away!

...what do you mean tommorrow?"

[hockpock]

happy 1 year anniversary to this post,

DECEMBER IS TOMMORROW.

AGAIN.

[harper-pfg-deactivated20241203]

I FIDN THAT SO CRAZY

[depsidase]

[pixielight-dee-foxfire]

Kamala Harris’s Record on Trans Rights Isn’t “Mixed”.

Kamala Harris’s public record on trans rights began the moment she stepped into elected office in 2003 as San Francisco’s District…

good news for trans women: kamala harris is not, in fact, a vicious transmisogynist. the actions of her office and of the california department of corrections were wrongly attributed to her and her alone by people who wanted someone else to win, and when harris did become involved in the cases, she rewrote the entire policy for dealing with trans inmates so that they would get the care they need.

[blueandbluer]

This is a good reminder, because I would not be surprised if people start trotting this nonsense out again 

[poststealer]

the article linked in the original post is a members only medium article. i’ve copied the contents of the article under the cut to increase accessibility

Keep reading

[victusinveritas]

My mom decided to weigh in on this, on the side of the Italian boxer, thinking I'd allow her to repeat bullshit talking points for some reason (never have allowed that shit, especially not from someone who raised me not to tolerate racism or anything that ends with someone being put down)...I made her stay on the line until she admitted she was wrong.

[musicismylife120191]

[kneelbeforeclefairy]

I want to clarify, Angela Carini did not quit because she thought her opponent was trans, nor was she "forced" to quit. She quit because the first punch made her nose bleed and she couldn't breathe. She quit due to fear for bodily safety. She did cry and refuse to shake her opponents hand, but it had nothing to do with her gender, she was just upset she was injured and couldn't continue. She later admitted that she had shown poor sportsmanship in refusing to shake her opponents hand, and apologized to her and to everyone, and clarified it had nothing to do with gender, and if the Olympics said she can compete she can compete. Angela Carini is being used by terfs as a scapegoat and is not at fault for anything more than poor sportsmanship.

[victusinveritas]

Dead on. Thanks for adding this. Here's a thread from Threads with more background on Carini.

[miniaturecatmentality]

Transphobia are falling for a false narrative about Khelif, and tumblrites are falling for a false narrative about Carini. Carini was not wrong to cry, and to claim she's "weaponising white woman tears" or that she's responsible for the hate Khelif faced is to blame a woman for the actions of people twisting her story in a way that she's repeatedly disavowed. These women are not against each other, and the problem here isn't which one is right. Neither of them did anything wrong (except Carini was a little rude after getting injured in front of the entire world)

[thegentlewomon]

I can find no source on her being Filipino.

Also, the problem is absolutely about who’s right. The woman being dragged through the mud and called a man is absolutely in the right. The woman who has taken the brunt of this of horrific abuse while the world babies this white woman is in the right.

If Carini can’t step into the ring without being injured, crying about it and being rude to her (more talented) competitors, then it’s best she doesn’t return to the Olympics.

[anarcho-smarmyism]

“Popular culture portrays the 1920s as a fun time, with flappers and gangsters selling illegal alcohol in speakeasies. A booming economy meant automobiles in more driveways and new goods hitting the American market. But this facade of luxury and parties rested on the backs of impoverished workers. Steelworkers still labored an average of sixty-three hours a week in deadly factories, to provide just one example. In the face of the Red Scare that crushed the IWW, the nation’s employers and government turned sharply against even conservative unions. The American Federation of Labor made major gains during World War I only to lose them all in the 1920s. Seattle’s labor movement pulled off a general strike in 1919, but within just a few years, employers had cowed the city’s unions and reestablished dominance at the workplace. Between 1919 and 1923, national union membership fell from 5 million to 3.6 million. United Mine Workers of America membership plummeted from 600,000 to 80,000 after employers declared war on it, even using airplanes to bomb West Virginia miners marching after the companies murdered a sheriff who stood up to them.

… Many companies instituted company unions. These employer-dominated organizations enacted just enough reform as necessary to keep real unions at bay. Over a million Americans had to sign so-called yellow-dog contracts in the 1920s, making the refusal to join a union a condition of employment…Labor activists suffered a terrible defeat in 1923 with Adkins v. Children’s Hospital, in which the Supreme Court overthrew the minimum wage law for women that Congress had mandated for Washington, D.C. And when Congress passed a constitutional amendment in 1924 to ban child labor, the states overwhelmingly refused to ratify it. The 1927 execution of the anarchists Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti for a murder after an unfair trail and in the face of national and international protests demonstrated the continued lack of justice radicals received in American courts. Little in the 1920s went workers’ way.”

-A History of America In Ten Strikes, Erik Loomis

[tenaciouszombiearcher]

Knowledge is empowering

[fluffmugger]

you can literally get gender changers for like $3

[pkducklett]

And yes, that's literally what they're called.

[sensiblereblogifposts]

Reblog if you got a gender changer for like $3

[etirabys]

I deserve more credit for not picking stupid fights on the internet than a nice person who doesn't pick fights does, because I have an unpleasant personality and it's harder for me

[thelesbianpoirot-deactivated202]

"Stay at home girlfriend" You are a human pet to him, a cat he can fuck, I never see tiktok/youtube stay at home girlfriends writing novel, traveling and playing video games or any fun exciting leisure activities you can do without a job. They aren't taking advantage of these rich loser men, they are all cooking instagramable green meals, cleaning, exercising on treadmills like hamsters and performing lengthy boring beauty rituals. Girl you have a wealthy benefactor and you are unemployed, become obsessed with videogames, make a indie film on his dime, write a genius manifesto, and gain 50 pounds and see if he won't kick you out. He wants your life empty and curated around him. Soon you'll started being driven mad by that pesky yellow wallpaper.