Welcome To Rental World, You Will Own Nothing

I was Cartoonsloot, I got hacked and lost my 13-year-old account 🎉 Ashton | 27 | Some exhausted He/They looking for trouble. I consistently need alcohol and a nap. my bloodstream is mostly bourbon and coffee. If purchasing isn't ownership piracy isn't theft. Sometimes crime is a civic duty. Send me cool stuff about Nazis getting their shit beat in. Or niche fandom stuff, share love too ✌️ Yes, message me anytime about anything

[theslootiest]

more like the tootiest or the fruitiest. the tooth tooth fresh and frooty https://youtu.be/vUc4FPG4Wck

Literally the first ask I've gotten in 10 or 11 years and it's a link to schizo Lo-Fi music about creamy garlic risotto, not even a RickRoll smh

[mercining]

[voltaspistol]

[mercining]

[fatliberation]

I don’t have time to unpack my full thoughts on the whole argument of ‘you shouldn’t be a burden to the healthcare system’ but I would like to chime in on it:

so, all athletes should immediately stop playing sports. construction workers, anyone with jobs that put them at risk, they need to find different employment. people with uteruses shouldn’t ever get pregnant, either. actually you know what? don’t enter a car or vehicle at all! and don’t even get me started on old people. what age do we think they should just give it up & throw in the towel? 50? 60? after that they become way too burdensome. it’s a problem.

sweet baby eugenicist, your anger is misplaced. they want you to blame yourself instead of their crumbling system. you should be asking, what kind of a fucking healthcare system is it if it can be burdened by the very thing it exists to provide? which is healthcare?!

[theconcealedweapon]

[fruiitlins]

the perennial child

[jakebakingbaconpancakes]

I love you, Alex

[ryan-sometimes]

This makes me feel like such a boomer, but I hate it how all media has been TikTok-ified and algorithm primed. Songs are shorter, designed for short viral clips rather than a full listening experience. TV shows and movies are sloppier, dragging on and on, assuming you’ll be on your phone and have it only in the background. Even books have been chewed up and spat back out as easily consumable tropes, with bite-sized chapters and mannequins for characters. This late stage capitalism hellscape we’re in has made art into something you snack on rather than savor.

[ryan-sometimes]

The way songs no longer have bridges and give you the interesting parts right up front. The way books don’t let you sit with characters, let them think about something for longer than one paragraph, much less have long conversations with each other. The way shows will reiterate the same points over and over, in case you were watching TikToks on your phone the first time around. Everything is shallow and inefficient yet nothing is enjoyable

[butchdemiurge]

in 2026 let’s start actually noticing and taking seriously the true scale and impact of jkrs transmisogyny and how she’s been funneling decades of royalties and ip owner cash directly into anti trans lobbying thats been making the uk hell while gradually worsening conditions elsewhere through impacting the zeitgeist

[butchdemiurge]

[aceinthetrap]

Dynasty Flowchart (Extended) – Nüwa Hanfu

An ultra extended flowchart for identifying dynasties! Even identifying sub-periods of each dynasty. As always, this is a general guide ther

does the makeup look sad or happy? >>> goth & sad >>> middle tang dynasty [lmao]

[our-trans-punk-experience]

Birmingham is antifascist !! Shout out to the counterprotesters who rallied against the Britain First demonstration. We must remain resilient and vigilant in the face of ever encroaching fascism.

[anarchopuppy]

Everything that is typically rented can and should be collectively owned instead. Not in some hypothetical “post-revolution” but right damn now

[anarchopuppy]

People who already rent or would like to collectively own pool their resources, either (preferably) the material goods in question or else money to buy them

The goods are collected and, if need be, stored somewhere for use by the customer-owners

If fees need to be collected (for maintenance/repair/replacement, or fuel, or to pay off loans that were taken out to buy the good) they are managed by the customer-owners democratically. Any excess profit is either used to expand the offered services or donated to other local orgs (e.g. Food Not Bombs, community gardens, etc)

This model has been applied to everything from tools to cars to housing and it works great. And if money needs to be collected (rather than surviving solely on donations), the rates are much, much lower than conventional rental services because none of it is going to line the pockets of some bourgeois whose only contribution was having the money to buy up something that people need

[iteration-dave]

[isuggestalibraryofthings]

i have a suggestion

[isuggestrevolution]

this is my suggestion

[northern-punk-lad]

I hate the uk government for making me agree with Elon musk

[a-cheetosandroid]

[torchickentacos]

it's immensely funny to me to imagine Justin Timberlake alone in the studio recording the backing vocals for cry me a river. he was in there just making random noises for two hours

[the-quasar-hero]

Very generally speaking, when you see a black man in a piece of media, be it tv show, movie, video game, etc. there’s something you often see a lot of writers do. To go against the stereotype of black men (and black people in general) being dumb and lazy, you’ll see this black male character being smart and an achiever. 

The Black Nerd. A common character type, the nerd will always be very interested in all things nerdy: science, video games, mathematics, etc. In an continued effort to combat stereotypes, the Black Nerd will be lack athleticism, probably being asthmatic (the nerdiest of conditions). The Black Nerd will dress smartly, suspenders and bow ties. They’ll always talk smart too, using proper English with complex words.

Now, I don’t have a problem with a black character being a nerd, indeed black people are a people; we aren’t all the same and we all have varying personalities. The problem I have is that too often we see a distinct disconnect between Blackness and the Black Nerd. The Black Nerd doesn’t listen to hip hop or rap, only classical music. The Black Nerd only has white friends, the only other black characters are into not nerdy stuff. The Black Nerd never ever uses AAVE at any time in any context.

And again I must say that Black people, not being a monolith, there are no hard fast rules to being Black. I’m more than sure there are Black people like what I’ve described above, I’m not saying it’s impossible; what I’m getting at is that the only Black Nerd we see. There are Black Nerds that play basketball, that bump Kendrick Lamar, and use AAVE since it’s an ever changing dialect. I’m just saying there’s no one way of being a nerd and no one way of being Black.

[hedwig-dordt]

I think it was W. Kamau Bell that introduced me to the notion of 'blerd' - that is: there's no line between his Blackness and his nerdness.

I am so serious, you can be a nerd about AAVE, hiphop, dance ALL OF THAT

I was going to note something in the tags about 'writing what you know' - and that's when I realised what OP was trying to say.

[queeranarchism]

I am re-stating what is already implied in the posts here, but just in case anyone needs it spelled out very clearly: The Black Nerd not speaking AAVE, not liking hiphop and rap, etc. is deeply racist because it is saying "if a Black person is smart, they wouldn't speak like a Black person, they wouldn't like predominantly Black music, they would sound white and they would read white books and listen to white music because white things have more value."

[hayz08]

Freddie Mercury posing on his car