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Honestly my dream life is just spending all day every day snorting things and shagging folks and the fact I can’t realistically do either of those things on a weekly basis is killing me. I need to move to a country with consistent dealers and shaggable people.
Remember in 2010 when Taio Cruz said "I throw my hands up in the air sometimes"? I appreciated his restraint. You can't just throw your hands up in the air whenever. There's a time and a place, and that time was 2010, and the place was the club.
boring take from real 21st century idiots: bdsm is bad because it's basically torture
interesting take from a fictional 14th century monk: torture is bad because it's basically sex
Shoutout to the nun who had other nuns tie her up and pour hot wax on her as she confessed her sins
I'm sure that's true, but something tells me googling "nun tied up by other nuns" "hot wax" "confessing sins" will likely get what you might call rather un-academic results
cats are genuinely fucking useless man
okay sure that’s progress i guess
WE’RE SO BACK
are you enjoying your One Cold Paw
Pet owners, what kind of name does your pet have???
A food-item (Waffles, Peanut)
A color (Pinky, Hazel)
A real-life person (Marilyn, Paris)
A fictional character (Eevee, Simba)
A type of flora (Rosie, Willow)
Animal-like (Kitty, Gator)
A trait (Lucky, Buddy)
Something else
If you have more than one pet, choose the most applicable listed (ex: you have three pets named Cookie, Cream & Rocky, so you choose the “Food” option). Also, would be interested if you reblogged your pet’s name(s) in the tags and the reason why you chose it ^^
Pet owners, what kind of name does your pet have???
A food-item (Waffles, Peanut)
A color (Pinky, Hazel)
A real-life person (Marilyn, Paris)
A fictional character (Eevee, Simba)
A type of flora (Rosie, Willow)
Animal-like (Kitty, Gator)
A trait (Lucky, Buddy)
Something else
No pet
If you have more than one pet, choose the most applicable listed (ex: you have three pets named Cookie, Cream & Rocky, so you choose the “Food” option). Also, would be interested if you reblogged your pet’s name(s) in the tags and the reason why you chose it ^^
call me a killjoy but if my "friends" drew swastikas on each other as funny jokes in a "social setting" they wouldn't be my friends anymore 🫠 wild.
(the Hudson Williams thing is a non-story, but this attitude about swastikas just being silly things young men do is crazy work).
the thread this was on in r/television was taken down, but all of the comments like this were equally disturbing and talking about how it’s just “drunk teenage fun” and social bonding behavior and only “zios” get offended by it.
the one empathetic, intelligent comment pushing back against that idea and saying we shouldn’t normalize this, and that it’s appropriate to apologize for a situation where hate symbols are involved, and that we should be more careful not to model this as a joke or as laudable, was downvoted to oblivion, and had nasty responses.
admittedly I don’t watch HR, and I’m not shaming Hudson Williams (it’s whoever drew that on him that made the bad choice anyway), but as the tags above say, this isn’t about him. it is, however, about how far too many people dismiss or diminish concerns about hate if that hatred is antisemitism. it is about how the Holocaust is so commodified, universalized, and even at times denied or justified, that people have no reaction to it other than an “lol boys will be boys.”
then the media pretends to wonder why these issues have gotten so bad, why extremism and white supremacy are on the rise, and why Jews are being targeted by hate crimes every day.
I don’t think the people writing comments like this wonder, though. they just don’t care.
When I was a teenager back in the 00s, me and the group of lads I used to walk home with found a swastika spray painted on a fence. Without even mentioning it, every single one of them lads spat on it as they went past.
And these weren’t smart lads or sensible lads. None of us were growing up to be future social justice activists. The lot of us used to sit in the woods drinking stolen beer and trying to turn Coke bottles into makeshift bongs. One of them got sick by trying to roll up his homework and smoke it as a joke. One of them got suspended on day one of year 11 for turning up covered in anti-climb paint. My favourite lad got done for stealing a Mercedes Sprinter van (he was very adamant we always mentioned it was a Mercedes and not a Ford Transit) and trying to drift it around a roundabout, all while blasting Goldie Looking Chain out the windows.
They were dumb boys, they probably still are. I sure as hell am. But we bonded over silently spitting on swastikas, not drawing them on each other.
Goodreads review complaining that Jews Don't Count by David Baddiel "lack intersectionality"....you read all that about how antisemitism doesn't really matter to leftist/progressive types and Baddiel repeatedly says it doesn't mean that other oppression, especially racial oppression, doesn't matter, it just would be nice if antisemitism were taken as seriously, and you're still gonna say it "lacks intersectionality" ??
that person simultaneously missing the point, probably not even understanding intersectionality, and ignoring that criticizing the way the left ignores antisemitism due to Jews’ perceived White privilege is kind of inherently an intersectional critique.
I think at this point, for many many people “intersectionality” means slapping Especially Black Trans Women onto the end of every sentence. These types of people get very upset when you don’t do that.
every june I get extra defensive about being jewish simply because the queer community and antisemitism are now so inherently intertwined. it's a time of year where we're all supposed to gather and hug and dance in collective joy and unite in our care for each other but that's now impossible when the vast majority of the community explicitly hate jews. I'm not going to write the 10000th post detailing how and why. we've been doing that for years and the community still don't care. all we get is anger and denial and being pointed to tokenistic antizionist jews and being told be more like them. accept it and be quiet. we will not tolerate your existence otherwise
and honestly I don't wanna hear any well-intentioned apologies or stories of allyship. if you're not demanding from a queer org why someone is allowed to sell 'globalize the intifada' art at their pride event then nothing is going to change
antisemite thought they could hide in the comments
Woken up by my cat aggressively sniffing my eyeball
Which Sbubby meme is the funniest? - Donkin' Dunnts: Amurica Runn No Dundun - Sbubby: eef freef - Weedy's Old-Fashioned Hurgusburgus - Bubger Kirg - Have It in a Way - Taco Baco: Tinkle Outside the Binkle - Applebapple's Nehhborhor Grib & Bib - Inoot-Ut Brubge - Mcnaldo's: I like the it™ - A&A AAAAAAAAAA
Which Sbubby meme is the funniest?
Donkin' Dunnts: Amurica Runn No Dundun
Sbubby: eef freef
Weedy's Old-Fashioned Hurgusburgus
Bubger Kirg - Have It in a Way
Taco Baco: Tinkle Outside the Binkle
Applebapple's Nehhborhor Grib & Bib
Inoot-Ut Brubge
Mcnaldo's: I like the it™
A&A AAAAAAAAAA
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obsessed with the fact that the welcome to night vale guy thinks he invented "welcome to [blank]" and gets really indignant and thinks other people who use that phrase ripped him off. its amazing. its a level of confident i aspire to be.
Icelandic local elections were today and my town’s voting station had this amazing flag up
The Eastern Building at night is nothing short of magic #artdeco #walkdtla #DTLA #losangelas @artdeco_la 📸:last night
Lol and indeed lmao at Icelandic people as a group.
It’s Icelandic council election day which in small towns means 1/3 of the town is on the ballot.
And we have:
A) local woman who spends most of her free time socialising with immigrants and faggots running for the far-right anti immigrant and anti faggot party
B) her dad running for the same party who keeps posting photos of a mini rainbow flag on his porch with captions like “in case anyone was confused”
C) several Icelandic men in my pub crew who mostly spend their time with immigrants throwing a big tantrum about non-citizens being allowed to vote
D) all the SAHM women from big money families that don’t have to worry about jobs ever running for the “no tourism and also no salmon farm, sorry we don’t know what else we can do after the one factory in town closes but defo not the two actual options available” party
I am fully only in this country to get citizenship and get a euro passport again. I have the right to stay but I want the right to LEAVE. Today is only making that stronger.
I was explaining the numb white scars on my right index finger, and someone asked "but why would you put your finger against the blade of a hand mixer" and the entire chat repeated "intrusive thoughts" and "call of the void" immediately and almost in synch. And people started talking about how they've injured themselves that way, and a few people said they learned a genuine lesson.
yikes. I've almost never had that with anything -- but I have felt the siren call of the Hobart Dough Hook
This is an industrial stand mixer (often it has a grating attachment to that round top port sticking out like a pipe end on the top left of the pic) and Hobart is a very popular brand for these machines, which are often nearly as tall as a person
the thing hanging from the mixing arm into the bowl part is a dough hook
it looks like this and spins around mixing the dough
Here is a smaller one, but you can see what it looks like when it goes
So one of my first kitchens, everyone who got shown how to use the enormous 5ft tall Hobart we had, they got some variation of this speech:
"DO NOT reach into the mixer while it's on. I know, you think that now, but you're going to get comfortable around it, it's going to seem like it's moving slow, and you're going to feel like reaching in there to check the dough or something without turning it off. DON'T. DO THAT. One guy a couple years ago went to the hospital with every bone in his arm broken and a dislocated shoulder and it was from reaching into this exact machine we're using today. You're going to feel like you can reach in real quick without stopping the machine, and I'm telling you, turn it off first."
I got that speech too, and sure enough, there came a day when I felt the urge. Which i resisted. But then. Then there started to be reasons to reach in there.
Like maybe the person using the grating attachment hadn't cleaned the port good enough and a couple of strips of grated carrot fell onto the dough, where it would stay sort of oscillating on the top of the dough ball for a little bit before getting sucked down to be kneaded deep into the dough. It's a single button to stop the machine, but, for some reason it just seems like such a hassle, and you've always wanted to do it, c'mon, look how slow it's moving...
So i did. And it was fine! Altho i could see why people get it wrong, what seemed like about a 3 second window actually turned out to be less than a full second once you got your hand down there, and there really wasn't as much space as it seemed like there was, and the angle you had to go at did slow you down just a little... But now that i knew all that, i should be fine to do it as long as i was careful, right?
Then one day it happened. I must of brushed ever so slightly against the metal of the dough hook. It is shaped and moving in a way designed to draw material in toward the center and down and it tugged my hand ever so slightly in and down.
Which would have been fine but I was already touching the dough, so it tugged my fingers into the dough just enough for it to get the slightest grip on them, which tugged my hand in just enough to get caught between the hook and the dough which gripped it surprisingly hard and yanked my hand down and in a circle like having someone hold your hand tightly and spin in a circle and all my joints locked up against each other painfully so fast!
Luckily I was able to get my arm out before I suffered more than a sore shoulder, hurt elbow, and sprained wrist and sprained finger... but things went from totally fine to sheer panic faster than anything i've ever experienced.
Even so, only a week later and barely recovered, I caught myself just before i reached my hand into the dough bowl while it was on, the siren call of the Hobart singing strongly still.
So many people felt it. I heard so many close call stories. Some models like the Hobart 660 comes with this wire cage safety guard now, and I guarentee it is 100% because no matter how you warn people, they can't resist reaching in while it's running
tags: #hobart is perfect size for arm of person perfect safe for to put arm in
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This was inevitable. Thank you.
I swear to god, moving machinery is so entrancing and once you get used to it, it can be sooooo tempting to go "oh, I can totally stick my hand in and Do The Thing, that will definitely be faster and easier than stopping production" and you might get lucky for a while but eventually, you will learn:
PLEASE DO NOT THE MACHINE, IT WILL BITE
- PSA from someone who spent 5 years in a factory operating heavy machinery
I've reached a few times into the cutting machine to see if the blade did cut through the stickers or if i have to stop everyting to change the pressure settings. I can attest to the speed being way more than you expect even after dealing with and looking at it work very closely for almost 5 years.
Also have a few guillotine cuts, can tell you that a paper cut from a 200g paper corner is way worse than a 70g one and that it does happen way more than you'd want or expect it to, and that you should never, ever, disable the safety stoppers.
Remember, if you dont take your hands off the machinr, the machine will take your hands off. It is always thirsty for blood, do not feed it.
See this?
This is what happens when your employer decides it's cool to make you ignore safety protocols and reach into a moving conveyor belt guard to clear a jam.
It took three months to close and another year for the scars to heal to the point I got full range of motion back.
Another two cm to the right and I would have lost a finger.
Don't fuck with moving machinery.
My old shop had a compressor dumpster for cardboard waste. Picture this but twice the size in all directions:
It was up against the side of the loading dock and the button to start it was round the other side of the machine. So you had to go down the stairs and back around the loading dock and the machine itself to start it.
Important to note the emergency stop button was also on the side with the start button.
Naturally, all of us thought it was perfectly sensible to shimmy across the lip of the machine right above the big gaping maw of it and crouch down to hit the button. The lip was about the width of my foot. And usually soaking wet with rain.
As someone who has overcome substance abuse, I find this decade’s framing of addiction incredibly insulting.
Somewhere along the line, we decided that any repeated behavior, any source of pleasure, any coping mechanism, any habit that isn’t monk-like and productivity-optimized must be labeled an addiction. You like scrolling art before you create? Addiction. You watch comfort shows after work? Addiction. You check your phone in line at the grocery store? Addiction. You drink coffee with breakfast? Addiction. The word has been stretched so thin it barely means anything anymore, except “a behavior I personally disapprove of.”
Addiction is not “I enjoy stimulation.” It is not “I have habits.” It is not “I seek input before I produce output.” Addiction is a specific, devastating pattern of compulsion, harm, loss of control, and often self-destruction. It dismantles relationships. It corrodes trust. It hijacks the reward system so thoroughly that survival itself becomes secondary. It is not equivalent to liking Pinterest boards or needing music to focus.
When everything becomes addiction, nothing is. The language gets diluted, and with it, the gravity of what actual addiction is. People who have clawed their way out of substance abuse know the difference between compulsion and preference, between destructive dependence and deliberate engagement. Collapsing those distinctions into a trendy moral panic about “dopamine” is not enlightened. It’s sloppy. Unserious, even.
There’s also something deeply puritanical about it. The 2020s seem obsessed with pathologizing pleasure. If something feels good, it must be suspect. If it captures your attention, it must be hijacking your brain. If it isn’t explicitly productive, it must be rot. We’ve replaced older moral frameworks with neuroscience-flavored shame, but the tone is the same: you are wrong for enjoying things.
What bothers me most is how casually the word is thrown around in creative spaces. If you gather inspiration through music, images, movement, conversation, suddenly you’re “stimulus addicted.” If you can’t brute-force a novel in a silent white room with no input, you lack discipline. Never mind that many artists throughout history have relied on immersion, community, environment, and cross-media inspiration. Now it’s framed as weakness, as though the only legitimate art is produced under self-imposed sensory austerity.
This framing flattens nuance. There is a difference between avoidance and incubation. There is a difference between doomscrolling to numb out and deliberately engaging with material that fuels your imagination. There is a difference between compulsively chasing a hit and consciously choosing input that enriches your work. But nuance doesn’t trend. Alarmism does.
There’s also a strange individualizing move happening here. Instead of asking why people are exhausted, overstimulated, underpaid, isolated, or burnt out, we zoom in on their coping mechanisms and label them addictions. Instead of examining structural monotony, economic precarity, and social fragmentation, we scold individuals for having “bad dopamine habits.” It’s easier to diagnose people’s scrolling than to confront the conditions that make endless scrolling appealing.
Calling everything an addiction also erases agency. It suggests that people are perpetually hijacked by their brains, incapable of intentional choice unless they purge all sources of easy stimulation. That’s not empowering. It’s infantilizing. Adults are capable of enjoying things without being enslaved by them. Adults can have rituals, comforts, and creative processes without it being pathology.
When I hear the word “addiction” tossed around to describe normal human behavior, it doesn’t sound like insight. It sounds like moral grandstanding dressed up in pop psychology. And for those of us who have actually lived through the wreckage of substance abuse and fought to reclaim control, it feels like watching something serious get turned into a meme.
We deserve better language. We deserve distinctions. We deserve a culture that can tell the difference between compulsion and preference, between harm and habit, between numbing out and nourishing ourselves. Not everything that holds our attention is a disorder. Not everything pleasurable is a vice. And not everything repetitive is an addiction.
Similarly, people really need to stop saying “using porn” when they mean “watching porn” or “jerking it to porn”. It’s always said the same way people say “using heroin”, with all that implies about the supposed addictive dangers of watching sexually arousing videos.
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