shhh, naptime

dana, 26, she/her

[liberalsarecool]

Now this is how you forcefully push back on the Trump Admin’s white nationalism. Call it out directly, frame it as the small-minded pathetic ideology it is, and tell the aspirational story of America as the unifying idea it is meant to be.

Ossoff has the juice. #presidential

[anarchistmemedistro]

How much growth is required to achieve good lives for all? Insights from needs-based analysis

Some narratives in international development hold that ending poverty and achieving good lives for all will require every country to reach t

[sd-d0-l1y]

The conclusion, and one of the harder hitting parts of the article. Solving poverty does not require complex solutions and long timeframes.

[theunusualchameleon]

I'm reminded of that one part in Frederick Douglass's autobiography where he gets to the north for the first time and assumed, since they didn't have slaves, that everyone was about as poor as non-slaveowning white southerners. And they weren't! There were poor people, sure, but there were lots of people living very comfortably or in luxury.

He mentions how angry it made him, that not only were thousands and thousands of people suffering to create luxury for a few, but that slavery wasn't even necessary for wealth to exist. That's really stuck with me.

[mangedog]

First image description (edited from alt text):

screenshot of a tweet by @pot8um: “Does anyone have that recent study that determined all 8 billion of us could be easily housed and fed with only 30% of the current global labor output and that our collective suffering is manufactured by capitalism...”

reply by @jasonhickel: “Yes: sciencedirect.com/... [a url that is cut off in the screenshot]” and an attached image of text:

“With this approach, good lives can be achieved for all without requiring large creases in total global throughput and output. Provisioning decent living standards (DLS) for 8.5 billion people would require only 30% of current global resource and energy use, leaving a substantial surplus for additional consumption, public luxury, scientific advancement, and other social investments. Such a future requires planning to” [text is cut off here].

Second image transcription:

Poverty is not an intractable problem that requires complex solutions, long timeframes and large increases in production and throughput that conflict with ecological objectives. The solution is straightforward. We need to actively plan to shift productive capacities away from capital accumulation and elite consumption in order to focus instead on the goods and services that are necessary to meet human needs and enable decent living for all, while ensuring universal access through public provisioning systems. We have framed this work around the concept of human needs, following the recent literature. However it is important to underscore that this approach is ultimately about far more than just satisfying material requirements for human well-being. Achieving decent-living for all is critical to enabling broader human capabilities, individual and collective self-realisation, full participation in society and politics and, ultimately, freedom.

[windstalkerwolf]

[anarcho-mom-unist]

Transportation

[tamathena]

Okay but I love pictures of animals carrying their babies in slightly precarious looking ways, and the baby looks mildly concerned or displeased

[flying-potato2]

reblog if u wanna cuddle a trans girl right now

[malevolentcafe]

Now make your feminine lesbians dark skinned.

[nerdygaymormon]

[dunkthebiscuit]

This is why Pride is not just a party. It's a joyful celebration, but it's also a pointed and colourful two-finger salute to a world that stood back whilst so many of us died. And we'll never go quietly, never again.

[saltoncity]

work tomorrow is one of the worst things that can happen to you

[larval-tear]

do not, my friends, become addicted to touching. it will take hold of you, and you will resent its absence.

[gifs-of-puppets]

Bear in the Big Blue House (1997-2006)

[spiderbitesandvampirevenom]

can we bring back the term "fair-weather friend" bc I feel like if fair-weather friends got called that more this whole argument about whether or not you should be there for your friends when it's inconvenient/at what point of personal inconvenience it's ok to bail on your friends would kinda fall apart bc like. we literally have a word for "friend who's only there when you don't need something from them" because the baseline expectation is that a friend should be there even when it sucks. like we used to make fun of people for bailing on their friends.

[quartings]

Thanks for all the positive support on my other animorphs posts and sorry in advance, haha

[succulentul]

happy happy 30th birthday to the book series that changed my life!!!

animorphs is my all-time favorite piece of fiction and i’m in the middle of this huge painting for it, but figured i’d post this WIP anyways since its june 1! hopefully the full piece will be done by the end of the month :-)

[carlandrea]

They’re so yuri

[notbynary]

oh im gonna throw up

[cometcrystal]

rachel coded text posts from pinch rest

[thejakeformerlyknownasprince]

What do you think are the funniest character moments for the six?

Cassie: Responding to Marco’s speculation that “female hork-bajir get all weird around bugs and snakes” by casually tossing a live snake into his hair in #13.

Tobias: Getting stuck to a dolphin he’s trying to acquire in #15, followed by: “Yes, I am going to be sarcastic the rest of the day. I nearly drowned. Now I’m going to go become the thing that nearly drowned me. I will be sarcastic until further notice.”

Marco: Trying to wake Cassie up by tapping on her window, and then tapping harder, and then tapping harder, and then bickering with Tobias about whether “she’s out in the yard playing Hacky Sack” is a normal thing to say… and then tapping a little harder and shattering the window all over her (#30).  And the first thing she says on waking up is “Jake?”

Ax: The juvenile delinquency in #49: “I am a dangerous fellow and I am causing mayhem in this store” [rearranges the baby food display] “There. I have now shamelessly destroyed the symmetry of this shelf, undoing hours of labor by underpaid store employees. If you could see me, you would be frightened.”

Jake: The completely silent face journey we get in #33 as he hears fly-Marco get stuck in the fondue, human-Ax almost get arrested for eating too much cotton candy, bird-Rachel nearly drown in the chocolate fountain, fly-Cassie narrate Chapman’s bad hair day, and bird-Tobias try to salvage this all… and he’s sitting there as a human, having dinner with an entire table’s worth of Sharing full members, and can’t do a thing about it.

Rachel: Discovering that none of the now four human boys on the team can tie a tie, and then perfectly dressing Ax in a correctly sized three-piece suit and full Windsor in the time it takes Jake to pull someone else’s pre-knotted tie over his head (#21).

[Other people please add on ones I’ve missed!]

[church-of-crayak]

tiny #10 the android comic on a whim :)

the original excerpt!