Totally Faboo

Where I micro/photo blog and stuff. Mostly stuff. Healthy trait is I block empty followers and other spam-looking accounts

[witchesversuspatriarchy]

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[allthefoolmine]

Reblog if you too do not want to share outside with them.

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Calvin and Hobbes - It’s July Already

[danielwaldorf]

since becoming a barista i have noticed a few very distinct typologies among my customers. such as:

the woke left: young and fashionable. visible tattoos. often enjoys matcha, lavender flavoring, oat milk, and cold foam. pretty decent customers.

sweet old man: drinks very sweet iced lattes, pays in cash, puts all of his change in the tip jar. sometimes orders hot coffee and i get scared that his shaky old man hands will spill it and he'll get burned but that has not yet happened and god willing never shall.

evil old man: only wants drip coffee and declares it ridiculous that any other form of coffee exists. some variants only want americanos and these variants are even scarier. watch out.

sweet old woman: might need her daughter's help to order but is very bubbly and open to trying new things. compliments baristas freely and frequently.

evil old woman: does not want coffee and only wants sweet tea or soda. will not tip even if she spends three hours in the shop repeatedly asking baristas to fetch things for her.

errand husband: either stiltedly recites an order to you or shows you the order in their texts/notes app. needs to step out of line and make a phone call if you ask any follow-up questions.

grindset girlie: always wearing scrubs, an apron, and/or a name tag. orders the exact same thing every day and knows the exact change she'll need to pay for it. her regular order is both extremely caffeinated and extremely sweet.

#mamabear: is actively wrangling two to four children while ordering. order changes repeatedly because the children cannot decide if they want a muffin or a cookie or apple juice or chocolate milk etc. for some reason these women are always wearing an article of clothing or carrying some personalized item that says "mama" on it.

schoolchildren: band of two to eight adolescents hanging out after school. extremely indecisive but generally quite polite and tip well.

amnesiac in love: grown adult who needs their partner to tell them what they like. gets asked a question about their own preferences and turns to their partner to answer for them. generally acts like a shy child looking to their guardian for behavioral cues if you try to interact with them and only wants to talk to mommy i mean their wife.

this of course is not an exhaustive list but those are just some of the most consistent Types i get. ok bye xoxo

[warmfigure]

i am massively overdue for a very very good week where not a single bad thing happens and everything is easy

[unlettered-heathen]

reblog to give prev a very good week where not a single bad thing happens and everything is easy

[glintglimmergleam]

Anyway, a lotta ink has been spilled about the lie of Ballerina Farm/Hannah Neeleman and her JetBlue-heir husband pretending that a small farm is financially viable without significant outside income. She sells that pioneer myth by actually selling something called bone broth hot cocoa at $46 a bag. (Gross.)

But in all the outrage about Neeleman, I haven't seen anyone compare her to the original tradwife liar, Laura Ingalls Wilder.

I'm not referring to the Little House on the Prairie children's book series, which were actually pretty open about how poor the Ingalls family was and how many times they almost died through illness/extreme weather/starvation on that homestead stolen from Native Americans. Those novels include plenty of nostalgia and manifest destiny and libertarianism, but Ma Ingalls clearly hates being out on the homestead isolated from their neighbors. That's not trad-wife content. Maybe trad-child content.

No, long before Wilder published her first children's book in 1932, she had a regular column in papers like the Missouri Ruralist and Farmer's Week in the 1910s/20s, where she would write 500-word pieces such as:

"The March of Progress"

"Classed as Illiterates"

"The Wanton Destruction of Trees"

"Kinfolks or Mere Relations?"

"Let's Not Depend on Experts"

"When Proverbs Quarrel"

"The Hidden Cost of Getting What We Want"

"Don't Call on The Government All of the Time"

"The Armor of a Smile"

Those are all real essay titles -- I've read them; you can too -- and the content is exactly what you'd expect: folksy, gently humorous, self-effacing, lite-Christian inspirational, suspicious of city life, glorifying backbreaking physical labor, full of housekeeping tips. Any single one of them could be easily repurposed into a Ballerina Farm IG caption or a TikTok voiceover with a quick edit: nothing new under the sun.

And just like Neeleman lies by omission about how their farm books are balanced, Wilder lied by omission about her own account books. Her husband Almanzo Wilder was partially paralyzed by diphtheria after their marriage and couldn't physically manage a farm alone. Caroline Fraser notes that Almanzo's parents (themselves wealthy farmers) had to pay off the mortgage on the Missouri farm or Laura and Almanzo would not have kept the property. Even with that financial help, they had a lot of rough years and it was Laura's side hustles -- selling eggs, clerking, writing columns lying about the rewarding joy of farming -- that kept them afloat. Eventually she started publishing full-length novels and their success finally put them in the black.

I don't expect every modern cottagecore critic to memorize the biographies of historical farmfluencers like Wilder. I do want an acknowledgement that social media is a new vehicle for a very old phenomenon. Tradwife farming content is part of the foundational myth of USAmerican culture, not late-stage capitalism brainrot or whatever. We have always been like this, and canceling Ballerina Farm or deleting TikTok off your phone won't solve it. We've got to address Christian patriarchal settler-colonialism at the root.

[sadclowncentral]

to me, the cruelest thing that eva stratt does is not the kidnappig itself. it's that she tells grace that he does not even have a dog. dr ryland grace, a man who dedicated his life to the greater good, first to science and then to teaching, does indeed not have a dog. and because of this, he has to spend his last precious moments on his home planet with the full knowledge that while he might be smart enough to save the world, he is not loved enough by anyone on it to be worth saving

[totallyfaboo]

You see, I really think that was for her own benefit more than Ryland's. It's okay that I'm choosing the possibility of millions or billions of lived saved by sending you to your death because you don't have anyone obviously depending on you.

This wasn't a concern for the other astronauts chosen - they have families. But they weren't conscripted. She can live with conscripting Ryland Grace for the mission because he has no dependents or future dependents who would suffer.

She's so locked in she can't see that the reasons she's made herself okay with the necessity are not the reasons Ryland can get behind to accept it.

More of your students will wind up dead if we have to wait, political will for the project is diminishing and every horrid thing we have done to buy ourself time will be wasted because it will become less likely we can launch. These are the arguments that could win Ryland Grace over. She's setting herself up to fail because she's in a hurry, out of patience, and ultimately not really good at interpersonal communications.

Ryland has done a lot of the work for her in their friendly work relationship - which she knows she's betraying. But he can't do the work for her here.

So she bulldozes her way past resistance like she has done for most of the rest of the project.

[sometiktoksarevalid]

[totallyfaboo]

PHM Headcannon

Dr. Ryland Grace's work on Astrophage in the early literature was mostly conveyed in footnotes.

The scientists who confirmed his findings published, and he may have been listed as one of the authors of the paper, or they referenced a white paper Eva Stratt had quickly written up on Grace's work.

However, every scientist who worked on Taumeba listed him as first author on their papers in the first round of work.

[morlock-holmes]

The Trump administration has, as one of it's projects, a sort of narrowing of morality and also in a way judgement just broadly considered.

I was thinking about this. The George W. Bush regime tended to justify torture by saying, essentially, yes this is a drastic step, but in a high stakes world it may be, regrettably, necessary.

Trump is currently threatening to kill as many Iranian civilians as he can if the government that was mowing them down in the streets a few weeks back doesn't do what he says, and... how can I put this?

This is presented not as a regrettable but necessary trade-off, but as not a trade-off at all.

It is wrong for a US President to care what happens to Iranian children and the question of how many babies we kill should not even be put in the "Con" catsgory when we put together the Pros and Cons of the war.

"A lot of Iranian civilians will die if we do this" is not a con, it's just... off the board. It doesn't belong as part of our thought process. It's not a con which is balanced out by some other pro, it's an irrelevance, not to be weighed at all.

You can find clips of JD Vance and Elon Musk very openly saying that their project is to narrow down the moral concerns of the nation, that the biggest threat we face is giving too much moral weight to certain people.

But I was also thinking about Venezuela.

Now, we absolutely are not allowed to question whether it is moral for us to demand that Venezuela use their oil reserves how we want them to under threat of violence.

But honestly you're kind of not even supposed to ask, "What benefit do I, the American tax payer, get from this?"

Whatever future savings from increased oil supply is being cancelled out by the pile of expenses Trump is throwing on us, but also... like... I don't get paid by Chevron? Various oil barons get to sell me somebody else's oil.

But the only metric you're supposed to use is "Did they get away with it?"

They wanted to kidnap Maduro and intimidate the Venezuelan government and they didn't suffer many bad consequences, therefore the operation was successful.

What it specifically was successful at doing is an irrelevant question.

[jkottke]

Measles Is Causing Brain Swelling in Children in South Carolina. 876 measles cases in the state so far, and some children have developed encephalitis. “Among children who get measles encephalitis, 10 to 15 percent die.”

[kimyoonmiauthor]

US Book ban on LGBTQIA books

The Nationwide Book Ban Bill Moves to the House: How to Take Action Now

The nationwide book ban bill, HR 7661, has progressed out of committee and into the House. Here's what you need to know to take action.

At least hit the shiny repost button if you're going to do nothing else. This should not stand.

Stop the bill dead in its tracks. LGBTQIA people have a right to be represented in books.

[bluetattoolove]

“They have called this day the eleventh of March! And whomsoever of you gets through this day, unless you are shot in the head or somehow slain, you will stand at tiptoe when e'er you hear the name again.  And you will get excited at the name March the eleventh! We happy few, we few, we band of brothers… our names will be as like… household names!  And those who are not here… be they sleeping or doing something else, they will feel themselves sort of crappy!  Because they are not here to join the fight on this day the eleventh of March!

Move out.”

-Sgt. Buck Frobisher, March 11, 1999

Due South finale “Call of the Wild”

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[haveyouseenthismovie-poll]

Have you seen The Death of Stalin (2017)?

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Haven’t even heard of this movie

Voting ended onMar 8

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[totallyfaboo]

This is the most privileged, brain-dead take on military service. People don't actually go into the military because they wanted to kill the "enemy" (as a whole). They may have had thoughts about serving their country as well as helping themselves in a vulnerable time.

As a rule people go into the military because they are poor, or disadvantaged, or lost, and it is the best socialist program in the country. All you need to do is be willing to kill people (or create/support the infrastructure to do so). And that recruiter really leans on the "you'll be creating infrastructure/getting on the job training that transfers to civilian life/money for college" angle.

Do I think the whole every day is thank a veteran day is over the top and wrong headed? Yes.

Do I think that our veteran worship wallpapers over the absolute fact that the average American is not served by our overseas wars - but several individual Americans and investor groups (hope to) get rich off the war/or their result. Yep.

Do I think we as a country actually disrespect veterans by fostering an economic system that further grinds people down that were ground down by their service? Yep.

Do I think the VA Hospitals are equipped to offer the best healthcare and supportive Mental Healthcare to our Veterans? Ha, ha, sob. No.

Because good people should stand in solidarity with workers who were lied to about what they would actually be doing/building and came out with nightmares and injuries that will surface years later in an MRI OR straight up lost limbs or their life.

Our stories tell all people (but especially young people) about the righteousness of the military of the country. In that atmosphere it is unsurprising that people choose the military when they need "to do something with their life" or find someplace to live because "when you are 18 you are out of the house" people do exist.

Good people can condemn war and support people who thought they were serving their country ( and/or get an education, support when they were kicked out of the house at 18, or lied to by a recruiter and pop culture).

You don't have to thank a Veteran, but spend your energy being an vocal anti-war advocate to your "rah, rah, the President can decide to kill people without an act of Congress" Congress Critters.

Leave the adult who was once a young man/woman trying to figure out how to leave the nest and thrive out of it.

Unless they came out of the experience with some deeply held racism. But then, that's a different moral problem.

[starrynet]

what’s your favorite dramatic moment from the olympics so far?

olympians used all provided condoms in only 3 days, breaking olympic record

canadian curler told swede to fuck off after illegal stone touching accusation

norwegian athlete won medal then, unprompted, confessed to cheating on ex-gf

ski jumpers injected hyaluronic acid into their penises to help them go faster

man who evaded italian police for 16 years arrested after returning for olympics

something else

Voting ended onFeb 21

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[totallyfaboo]

I am still learning how to do this well - is also a good re-framing for when it takes awhile to figure something out.

I haven't internalized the best methods for success in this yet. I'm still exploring this and experimenting.