Prince of Eyebrows

25, he/him/his, mostly just bad jokes

[uptownthots]

“it isnt something you have to read critically” well 😭

[uptownthots]

this technically is true but I think this also perfectly encapsulates why I am inherently distrustful of like. “”cozy”” “turn your brain off” fiction lmfao. like okay WHO gets to turn their brain off and who has to suffer through bigoted caricatures of themselves while everyone else is having cozy silly no brain time 😐

[estrogenesis-vaporeongelion]

"art should comfort the comfortable! what do you mean 'the disturbed?' ...i don't know.. that's scary"

[artbyblastweave]

I think there’s been some ambiguity lately regarding my exact politics so I’m going to get ahead of all that by saying right now that I’m an unreconstructed Orthodox Badist. I believe that we should do and say and support exclusively bad things and only cause bad things to happen to people

[artbyblastweave]

If you’re an average political operator it’s likely that your main exposure to badists are those fuckass Reform Badists who claim that it’s actually acceptable to do some good things instead of bad ones, as long as this would later lead to even more bad things happening. I disavow these people. These are Entryists. They are adopting electable views to bait moderates and they lack the courage of their “convictions.” This will not be a surprise but I think that bad things should be done to them

[smbc-comics]

I started reading in population ethics recently and let me tell you there is undug philosophical gold.

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[prokopetz]

Worldbuilding exercise #137: imagining how answers regarding mildly obscure trivia about your setting's culture, geopolitics, and history would be phrased on a hypothetical episode of Celebrity Jeopardy (which for the purpose of this exercise exists in that world in precisely the same form as it does in ours).

[cappadocius]

[elventhespian]

Best dialog

[polutropos-puppyboy]

i have for a while been using stepping on somebody's toes as a metaphor for misgendering. and i genuinely think that it's kind of a good one.

[polutropos-puppyboy]

if you keep stepping on somebody's toes for a long time at minimum they're probably going to start really hating you and at maximum you might cause them lasting damage.

if you do it on purpose you're a dick. if it's on accident but you keep doing it that person is still going to be mad at you because you don't care enough to try not to step on their toes

[polutropos-puppyboy]

if you give a grovelling begging apology after accidentally stepping on somebody's toes one time you're going to make the whole thing awkward, but not giving a quick "sorry" before moving on is still kind of rude.

[awkwardexxodus]

oh man the painting on this drawing is insa- fuck do you mean #minecraft build

[awkwardexxodus]

the specific build in question btw

[parchmentengineer]

I looked up some of the artist's other builds and they're all just absolutely incredible

[caressthosecheekbones]

nasa is using a 3D world graphic for the solar eclipse thingy today where germany is still devided in east and west adjfglkafdhgadfg. buddies, it's been almost 40 years.

[chthonion]

So I showed this to a physicist and they were like "Oh! Yes! It's a figure from Fred Espenak's very old paper where he did a bunch of eclipse graphics! I've been looking at these my entire internet life, basically, for every solar eclipse! They called him Mr. Eclipse. He just passed away recently 🥺"

Anyway apparently Mr. Eclipse made 5000 years' worth of solar eclipse graphics, which you can find the simpler versions of here

So now instead of laughing at NASA for their outdated graphics I'm emotional about Mr. Eclipse and his hard work

[deadgenerations]

What an incredible use of very subtle framing here that can really only be intentionally done and which I can only describe as willfully deceptive, in calling Karelia a territory in northern Russia.

I won't comment on the historicity of these atrocities or concentration camps (because I cannot do so with authority, and it isn't consequential to my point) and this should not be read as defense of Finnish actions during WWII.

However I am specifically pointing to the framing of Karelia itself. It's subtle, but it's there:

"the territory of Karelia, northern Russia." Even at the time of the events described, Karelia was NOT legally part of Russia!

Firstly, because Karelia has at almost no point in it's history been solely within the borders or Russia or the Soviet Union, including in 1940 and 1946. Secondly, because Soviet Karelia was NOT a part of Russia! It was it's own Soviet Socialist Republic, with all the rights and legalities that entailed, and a Karellan national identity had been forming with an officially recognized ethnicity within the USSR. Karelia was as independent, de jure, as Kazakstan and Georgia, not a part of Russia. De facto, however, it was effectively under the direct administration of Moscow at this time.

Karelia, until after 1945, had always been a provincial region and site of border skirmishes between Swedes (and other Scandinavian peoples) to the west and Russian/Rus/pre-rus peoples to the east, with shifting borders and levels of integration for centuries. This has been going on for the previous thousand years, more or less.

Framing Karelia as Russia can only be read as apologia for greater Russian chauvinism, and as a means of obfuscation.

Notably, it also fails to mention that the majority of the Karelia SSR at the time had only come under Soviet occupation a year or two prior after the Soviet Union invaded Finland during the Winter War in 1939. This means that this territory was only recently Soviet, and prior to the treaty of moscow in 1940 had been recognised as part of Finland as a nation by both the USSR and Czarist Russia. The winter war also took place during World War II, and resulted in a few hundred thousand Finns and Karelians being expelled from Karelia. Obfuscating this subtly helps solidify the framing of the events described in the screenshot as some special anti-russian act of aggression. Obviously this doesnt excuse any mistreatment of civilians or soldiers by Finland during the occupation/war.

In reality, the Winter War and the Soviet invasion of Finland was a project to return the former sovereign republic (which had succeeded from the USSR as was it's explicit, recognized and granted right in the constitution of the USSR) to the fold in the chaos of 1939 when there would clearly be no risk of attracting international consequences as had just been so aptly demonstrated elsewhere in europe. One can quibble about the exact motivations for this invasion, but I think it is important to note two facts.

Firstly, that the Finns had unleashed white terror upon the socialists in Finland post succession, and had committed atrocities against it's own people to stamp out Soviet sympathies in the newly sovereign nation. That this occurred after the Fins had been allowed to succeed peacefully might have been seen in the USSR as a betrayal of the purpose of the succession clause: to allow for the self determination of a nation.

Secondly, Karelia forms the borderland between Finland and Russia, and occupies nearly the whole of the territory between St Petersburg - the second largest and most important city in Russia - and Finland. St Petersburg in 1938 was perilously close to the border with a staunchly anti-soviet (albiet weak) state, and there had been various expeditions into Russia/the USSR during the civil war by other powers, which was well within the memory of the Soviet state. To say that securing this border was of vital interest to the Soviet Union would not be an exaggeration, and Karelia was especially difficult terrain for an attacking army to traverse.

It would be better then to understand the Finnish invasion as a revanchist project designed to retake recently lost territory and to extend their borders and opportunistically claim the portions of Karelia which had never been under Finland (at least in the last few centuries). The Fins undeniably invaded and occupied territory beyond what the Soviets had recently annexed. It would be reasonable to suppose that their motivations in part mirrored the Soviets in the Winter War - create a buffer zone between your heartland and a hostile state.

Like the soviets used the chaos of 39 to attack finland, the finns used the cover of the nazi invasion of the soviet union and russia proper to their own military advantage. Ironically, both leveraged fascist warmongering to their own ends.

A final note would be that the Karelian SSR would become an ASSR within the Russian Federalized Soviet Republic in the 50s - a constituent part of Russia and iirc the only SSR to be become an ASSR. Notably, without the right of succession. A note to that note is that Karelia was an ASSR before the winter war, and it was probably the Winter War that saw Karelia become an SSR, because I have actually been carrying on a little deception of my own: It was actually called the Karelo-Finnish SSR! I won't speculate as to why except to note again that this upgrade and addition of Finnish to it's title came after an attempted annexation of Finland itself in the winter war. There is a ton one could jabber about regarding Russification vs indigenousation in the first ASSR period, the relation between the local leadership and moscow, the changing composition of that leadership etc etc, but it isn't really relevant except to point out that this was a poorly integrated and divided border province that eventually was decided needed to be more solidly Russian.

When all that is known, however, one cannot help but read the framing of 1940s Karelia as northern Russia as anything but an intentional political act of obfuscation.

[determinate-negation]

in the content of their propaganda/material, insipid reactionaries of the 1920s longed for a mythologized version of feudal society. insipid reactionaries of the 2020s long for… personal pan pizza?

[sam-keeper]

it's crazy that they're dismantling the free internet with the exact same playbook that ultraconservatives used to dismantle federal arts funding in the 80s and 90s, with the same end goal of silencing cultural dissent. show something scary and horny to middlebrow suburbanites; reap the rewards.

[todaysbird]

fun fact about me: When I was 6 years old I sent so much hate mail to the president (the second Bush) that the mail carrier had to tell my mom I needed to stop before we got FBI’d

[todaysbird]

I was COMPLETELY unaware of the US political scene or why the adults in my life hated Bush, but I knew I hated him because he let people shoot wolves from helicopters and that’s mean and shitty

[todaysbird]

I also had a poor grasp on how stamps worked, so given that I wasn’t allowed to continually throw money away by putting stamps on my presidential hate mail, a lot of the times I just drew squares with little pictures inside on the corner.

[fantasticait]

Love, love, love reading more proof that everyone should encourage the children in their lives to write to elected officials--it teaches them about citizenship and can also be very funny.

When I taught second grade, one of the options for students who had finished their work was to write a letter to the president. I would send all of the letters in a big envelope at the end of every month.

Watching my students get more and more frustrated with him (and concerned about his wellbeing) was not the result I'd hoped for when I came up with the idea, but it was kind of hilarious.

See, Obama had a standard packet with information and activities about his dog he'd send in response to letters from very young citizens...and of course his office sent one back to our class every single time we sent mail.

So eventually all of the letters looked something like this:

Dear President Obama, I am writing about the environment. I am sad that the Great Barrier Reef is hurt. Also the Amazon Rainforest. Can you help? PLEASE DON'T WRITE BACK TO TELL ME ABOUT YOUR DOG AGAIN. WE ALREADY KNOW ALL ABOUT BO. WE COMPLETED THE MAZE AND COLORED HIM IN. It is good that you love your pet a lot. But try to remember the environment. It is also important.

[ishipallthings]

[rockleaves]

during the writing process all authors should be asking themselves “does my character belong to a genre of character that exists in naruto?” and “am i executing said genre of character worse than kishimoto did?” and if the answer to both is yes they should do some revisions. this does not need to be legally or contractually mandated because the embarrassment of doing something worse than kishimoto did should be enough motivation in and of itself.

[enbyfication]

priest kink but midway through sex you find out he's one of those liberal protestant priests so it's like not even a big deal for him. and he just wanted to fuck you for normal reasons

[enbyfication]

and it didn't even symbolise anything when he sighed and unbuttoned the top button of his shirt and put his clerical collar on the dresser by the side of the bed. his neck was just feeling a bit tight

[milfstalin]

[yanderelesbian]

i am NOT letting this stay in the tags

[theirisianprincess]

they got married in 1843 never give up

[prokopetz]

Canadian bilingual packaging is fun because you get to see how various slightly odd idioms end up being translated by people who don't give a shit. I just saw a tub of double chocolate chip ice cream where the English label says "death by chocolate", but the French translates literally as "chocolate until death", which has a somewhat different vibe.

[prokopetz]

#there are so many cases i see when the english packaging has a pun for a tagline #and then the french is just a poor translation EVEN THOUGH an equivalent pun can be made (via @souplover13)

Occasionally it's the other way 'round, though, and the French is clearly the original pun. There's a brand of cheese sticks at the local co-op where the English tagline on the packaging is "cheesetastic!", but the French is "fromidable", which is so much better it's faintly offensive.

[xylophonetangerine]

What the fuck does that even mean??

[vivvy-of-the-lake]

deleting my blog and finding all my old mutuals as various documents because pdfs are the new tumblr