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late capitalism nightmare

oh my goodness, one of dian fossey’s first close up observations with gorillas happened when she was trying to climb a tree to see them better, but so badly that by the time she’d gotten up the entire group had come out of hiding to look at her: “Nearly all members of the group had totally exposed themselves, forgetting about hiding coyly behind foliage screens because it was obvious to them that the observer had been distracted by tree-climbing problems, an activity they could understand.”

argumate

hello, fellow apes

spitoutthedaisyhoratio

The lead up to that sentence is gold:

pascalcampion

Weak? I had NOT drawn those guys like this in a while! Feels good to get back to it. #pascalcampion

butchmime

mckitterick

this feels relevant

mckitterick

art from Outbreak, by Bryn Barnard

mckitterick

found this new term over at Urban Dictionary

mysharona1987

boy-obsesed-barbie

Trump and the GOP are wanting poor kids to die while their kids who go to private schools are safe because those schools aren't opening. Trump and the GOP are fucking monsters.

ingridverse

Strike

hellcatblues

It’s not just a lack of care if children die. It’s the long-game Republicans have been playing for decades. It’s the destruction of public education. Parents that have the time and money will pull their kids and home school them or they’ll find a way to send their kids to a private school that’s doing distance learning. School funding is dependent on the number of students attending. Significant drops from home schooling, switching to private schools, to students getting sick and being out for weeks maybe even months will crush public education. The GOP is aware of the devastation a pandemic would release on public education and they’re fine with that. They encourage the destruction.

rox-and-prose

I think a common mistake people make about puns is that they often believe puns are meant to make people laugh. This is not so! The emotion that puns are meant to elicit isn’t joy, it’s rage.

herbertwest

Puns are meant to inflict punitive damage

swarnpert

i think we should just be able to use counterfeit money. like who cares

studentlifeproblems

midnight-spectrum-again

She was right

veerletakino

blackqueerblog

Also: don’t stigmatize HIV+ individuals because they all have different circumstances and might’ve gotten the virus from a variety of sources (sex, occupational, birth, blood transfusions in other countries).

HIV-related stigma remains a huge barrier to preventing HIV, and is linked to a low level of people testing for HIV.

The bad news is that Trump is cutting America’s spending on HIV year after year. He has taken steps to weaken the Affordable Care Act since coming to power.

soupboyx

prep is preventative, pep is what you take after initial exposure

orangeresearcher

In Capitalist America, sex education is on twitter and tumblr!

On PrEP for about three years now and my master’s degree focused on HIV, so if you have ANY questions about PrEP or HIV please DM me and I’ll be happy to chat. It doesn’t matter where you are in the world, let’s chat about sex and HIV.

kaedien

americans think ABSOLUTELY NOTHIN of driving 7 hours. they’ll drive 7 hours just for dinner. they’ll drive 7 hours just for chips and dip

roarykooper

i went to england to visit the family of this boy im dating in birmingham. one of his sisters lived in manchester and his whole family kept being like we wish lila was her you would love her blah blah blah lila would just lobe you blah and I was finally like well why couldn’t she make it? everyone was like lol as we said she’s in manchester??? that’s it. i looked up the distance and it’s like less than two hours away and when me and my dude went to grab a beer later that night I was like so does Lila not get along with your parents like what’s up? again, he’s like babe I told you she’s in manchester. I was like are the villages at war????? he goes “it’s too far. this isn’t holiday.” I was like babe we’ve drivin 4-5 hours for weekend trips to the beach Im just confused- and he cuts me off and goes “that’s American me. We don’t do that here”

awed-frog

Met an old teacher today and we got talking about ‘the good old times’ and ten minutes into the conversation I jokingly said the one regret I have from middle school is that I never won anything at her magnificent tombolas? Because, like, she used to hold this game about once a month so we’d learn the numbers in French and it was never big prizes, but as a 12-yo I desperately craved them - a cactus-shaped eraser, a bright blue notebook with slightly larger-than-usual squares, a set of coloured pens - and never ever got a single one of them.

(Actually spent a good few months thinking I was genetically unlucky and researching ancient family curses with my grandma.)

So today I don’t know what I was hoping for - nothing, really?

(I mean, that part of me that’s still twelve was probably expecting this sweet old woman to have a set of glitter stickers in her purse and just go ‘You know what, you’re right - I’ve been saving this one for you all these years, here you go’ but I’m a solidly rational person and I know that’s stupid.)

No, I thought we’d just laugh and it would be a good shared memory and that would be it. Instead, my teacher got flustered and a bit embarrassed and explained the game was rigged. It was never about learning French at all. She’d just noticed some kids couldn’t afford even basic stationery, so she’d buy a few half-fancy items every month with her own money just for them. She didn’t want them to feel different or left out. And obviously the way she used to walk around in the classroom, looking over our shoulders - it wasn’t to prevent cheating. It was because she was cheating herself, wanting to see which number a particular child needed to get a Minnie Mouse pencil case.

Guys - the world is fucked up, but so many people out there are just good and kind and humbly heroic it honestly gives me hope.

It’ll be alright, you’ll see.

bingomann

ok but imagine a roomba that’s programmed to react positively when being scratched or petted

bingomann

#or a roomba that’s programmed to recognize their owner and drive up to them for no other reason than to be petted

bingomann

roomba company, please make this happen

fire-is-her-water

I have a Neato Botvac that has an optical sensor to find its way around (Roombas just bump into things and derps off in a random direction) and yesterday it did its “dee-dummm” sad noise while under the couch, stopped what it was doing, and hummed over to me and stopped beside my chair, with its error message saying, “Please dust me off so I can see.” I wiped it off and sent it on its way, and it did its “doo doo do doooo!” of happiness and finished the living room. It’s never done that before, but I like to think that I’ve gained its trust over the past few months, and it knows it can come to me for help.