Beautiful and Terrible as the Cheesecake Factory

this machine makes forks in a really weird way Another rat leaving the Twitter boat. Indie RPG designer, former podcaster, full-time technical writer, one-time journalist. Once was too poor to join a cult. he/they. Games at https://understory.itch.io/

[miniaturize]

the concept of a site that doesn't even allow porn requiring age verification for mature content. you gotta give us your legal id or else we'll hide random posts that were incorrectly flagged from you

[atelier-tamamoland]

[ryebreadgf]

girlhood this girlhood that. woman you are 26

[ryebreadgf]

I got a message about how this is supposedly mean. I am holding your hand when I say that refusing womanhood and clinging onto girlhood will not save you from the realities of adulthood. I am not saying you are not young. 26 is incredibly young. you are free to love the concepts and media associated with girlhood but there is much to love about womanhood that you are not seeing. there is something to be said for being free of the shackles of girlhood and childhood. you are an autonomous being. you have power over your life and the paths you will take. it is easier to see the paths when you start taking yourself seriously instead of waiting for others to do so. no one is saying you have to be serious. womanhood is joy too. a different shade of yellow

[newtypezaku]

Big mood

[depsidase]

[theinstagrahame]

Elon Musk says he will donate $6 billion if the World Food Programme proves to him that amount would solve world hunger - London Daily

Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, challenged a United Nations official’s claim that just a small percentage of his wealth could help solve

The World Food Programme is an org within the UN. I know he'd tweeted out that he'd make a donation, I don't think I realized that he'd challenged them directly before.

They came back with a full plan and prospectus for how the money would be used, within a few days. It would have ended it for a few years at least.

Elon fucking ghosted them.

I guess instead he donated a bunch of Tesla stock to his own foundation?

Let's never forget that he challenged the WFP to show him how they'd solve world hunger, they did, and he walked away from an opportunity to do it. He was the world's first trillionaire, and he walked away.

[rosewattastone]

Hedron Crab

[sunflowers-and-scales]

“this character did not act in the most objectively logical way possible!” is not ! actually valid literary criticism

[sunflowers-and-scales]

i have trust that the media literacy enjoyers will find this one idk

[acceptableduraz]

[theinstagrahame]

Characters acting logically is boring anyway.

"I would have done it differently if I was there." Okay. You're a different person.

"I can't relate to them because they do things differently." Alright, are you listening to yourself? Because that doesn't sound great ...

[occidentalist]

Every time Israel throws another pinkwashing spectacle, every time the west uses LGBT rights as a pretext with which to slaughter people indiscriminately in our region; it does not only go to endear that genocidal colony to or manufacture consent amongst western queers, who famously have no moral backbone to speak of

It also goes to further entrench the very concept of queerness with imperial aggression until they are inextricable from one another in the minds of most imperialised subjects. Pinkwashing does not only aim to obscure and justify imperial crimes, it also very materially makes our lives as sexual minorities in the imperial periphery more dangerous and the uphill battle for our liberation even more insurmountable by linking our existence to the aggression of the enemies of our people.

[occidentalist]

And by ‘our liberation’ I mean our liberation as sexual minorities of the imperial periphery. I do not include you in this.

I’ve long made peace with the fact that as western LGBTs you are more than content knowing that the price of the advancement of your rights is silence when the symbols of your movement are used to justify the murder of my people and my neighbours and comrades across the globe.

Contrary to the popular saying, I no longer believe “our liberation is connected.” My liberation will only come with the liberation of my people and the death of the empire of which you are a willing agent.

[ernestsewell]

“What, to the American slave, is your 4th of July? I answer; one day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. To him, your celebration is a sham; your boasted liberty, an unholy license; your national greatness, swelling vanity; your sound of rejoicing are empty and heartless; your denunciation of tyrants brass fronted impudence; your shout of liberty and equality, hallow mockery; your prayers and hyms [sic], your sermons and thanks-givings, with all your religious parade and solemnity, are to him, mere bombast, fraud, deception, impiety, and hypocrisy – a thin veil to cover up crimes which would disgrace a nation of savages. There is not a nation on the earth guilty of practices more shocking and bloody than are the people of the United States, at this very hour.”

— Frederick Douglass (1818-1895), from a speech given at Rochester, New York, July 5, 1852.

[captain-price-returns]

Oh wow the 250th Fourth of July parade has been cancelled lol

[captain-price-returns]

Fun fact: the DC area will be hotter than 99% of the earth tomorrow!

[captain-price-returns]

Also I get the sense that very few people in DC are aware that federal officials wrote detailed analyses warning of the air quality health risks of the enormous 850K fireworks set to go off — and that the admin did not release those findings to the public

[captain-price-returns]

It's not just that they're doing corruption, but they're doing the kind of corruption that is basically "guy hands over a cartoon money sack with dollar signs on it" corruption.

[petewentzisblack1312]

was anyone gonna tell me mitch mcconnell collapsed in his office and has been in the hospital for weeks. wouldve been a nice pick me up.

[petewentzisblack1312]

edit it WASNT in his office it was at HOME. oh well im not that picky.

[petewentzisblack1312]

his aides are being really cagey and the governor is pissed because if hes dead he needs to appoint someone but he needs to know hes dead to do that. typical mitch blocking a democrat appointee. he maybe died doing what he loved i guess.

[beemovieerotica]

remember when this was the craziest thing politicians ever said

[evilwizard]

this could work. we never tried it

[theinstagrahame]

Here's my thinking:

They keep getting gunmen at the White House. Big lawn.

Wolves could keep it safe.

Two year pilot program.

[mini-wrants]

Outdoor in sun perfec t place for president to do speech! Outdoor very warm very soft put old man on green lawn under sun. Put old man in warm sun. no problem ever in warm sun because good view and audience can see long speech. Nice podium outdoor sunny perfect place for old president can trust warm sun to give nice view to President good luck to President. friend sun.

[dissociatingdumbass]

[bi-polarbear]

[sandmandaddy69]

[sooooootiiireddd]

I will not hide this

[hikari-ni-naritai]

In Japanese, they don’t say “moon,” they say “tsuki,” which literally translates to “moon,” and I think that’s how language works.

[rainbowgod666]

Hey its been at least 9 years anything changed?

[hikari-ni-naritai]

nope! all quiet on the linguistic front. i am a girl now though

[kirikomamura]

staff killed her for this

[angmallen]

WHAT she got nuked??

[resetium]

Trans people existing violates community guidelines

[resetium]

I wasn’t kidding

[heyitslucky]

[cityelf]

this poem is about being nonbinary.

[sacred-portal]