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[liberalsarecool]

#QuietQuitting sounds like capitalists complaining about their waning exploitation.

[useless-englandfacts]

a lot of people (esp. americans) make fun of british cuisine and most of the time it’s fair, but a lot of the time the food they’re making fun of is poverty food or working-class food… so really the joke’s on them because our terrible terrible peasant food is gonna come in real handy with the current cost of living crisis!!!

[crazybooksandplantslady]

Poverty didn’t force you to name your food “spotted dick”

[useless-englandfacts]

[mrspider-deactivated20221213]

sooooo can yall help me determine if this is a fireable offense

[mrspider-deactivated20221213]

a lady just came in asking if we have oat milk and we dont so i said “our soy milk is pretty good though, thats what i use in my drinks!” and she looked at me and went “yknow soy milk lowers a mans sperm count” and without thinking i just went “cant lose something you never had”

[mrspider-deactivated20221213]

youre laughing. i got called a soy boy and youre laughing

[mrspider-deactivated20221213]

okay to the people confused by this allow me to shed a little light on the subject

[mrspider-deactivated20221213]

icant fucking breathe

[squirrelstone]

[knitmeapony]

letter from a mother of a gay man. sent to ONE magazine, 1958.

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This post was flagged as adult content and the original poster was deactivated so I'm bringing it back.

[traycakes]

A supportive parent in the 50s ran a boarding house for gay men and hosted dinner parties for her son and all his friends and people think that's adult content.

[thisblurbisanerd]

Info dump time:

This magazine. This shit is such a cool piece of history. This is a letter a woman sent to the guest ever openly gay and lesbian magazine in the US. ONE was revolutionary, and so many people wrote to them! From all over North America. And those letters are archived and an amazing person named Joshua Irving Gershick compiled an array of these letters into a script called Dear ONE:

It's a phenomenal piece of queer history. Straight supportive parents, closeted queers, 17 yr old looking to meet men, worldly bisexual polyamorists, stealth trans folk, dishonorably discharged gay veterans, cishet threats letters (anon hate), happily "married" gay people, letters from Black and other POC describing their intersectional experiences, and so much more. This collection is like touching the thoughts of queer people I'll never get to meet, but that I know. These letters are incredibly humanizing and one if the big steps towards are wider connected queer community in the 50s and 60s. This magazine gave people advice and legal help for being persecuted by systemic homophobia.

Im.so glad to see this in circulation. When this play and playwright (!!!) came to my workplace I was lucky enough to stage manage the shortened production that toured in middle and high schools (in spring 2022). It was pretty amazing to watch young folk connect to these letters. Not to mention getting to sit and chat with the playwright as a trans queer elder.

Anyway that's why queer archiving is so so important and valuable. Its connects us to the pieces of queer history that we lose connection to, because of active queerphobia and erasing of history, and because of the culture gap left by the AIDS crisis.

Dear ONE: thank you for being the safe space our elders needed. Thank you for being bold and helping our community.

[funnytwittertweets]

[sindri42]

Bees choose to live in the box where they know damn well that a large fraction of the honey will periodically be removed, instead of simply leaving that place like they are perfectly able to do, because the human box comes with an invulnerable titan to guard them against all threats. The bees consider the payment offered to this colossal mercenary to be a pretty good deal.

[intjint]

Bees know about supply and demand

[urbanfantasyinspiration]

Protection money

[stitch-n-time]

Protection honey

[jayden-stormblessed-deactivated]

serious post. start combating any misinformation you find. monkeypox is not an sti. monkeypox spreads through *any form of contact*. it is not exclusive to queer people, and it is *not* queer people's fault. we can not let history repeat itself. don't let flashy headlines take the place of medical facts and information.

conservatives are already itching to start a witchhunt against LGBT people and monkeypox is something they are going to latch onto.

don't let them. don't let this turn into a repeat of the AIDS crisis.

[kaijuno]

[misguided-matchmaker]

@aroacedavestrider my dude i cannot in good faith accept these useless geography facts on account of them being iconic, actually

[ruffboi-mags]

oh my god nothing in my imagination could’ve prepared me for market island.

or for this review on google maps:

[aroacedavestrider]

im glad to know my horrible facts are making their rounds and im here with more horrible facts

- the most secluded inhabited island in the world is a place called tristan da cunha. its in the middle of the atlantic ocean at a whopping fucking 1500 miles away from the closest inhabited location (south africa). people just fucking live out there??

- the oldest lake in the world is (probably) lake zaysan in kazahstan. nobodys entirely certain yet but theres evidence that suggests that this is a 65 million year old body of water, meaning theres a lake that exists and can be looked at today that could have had dinosaurs drinking out of it at one point

-the lake immediately following that is confirmed to be at least 25 million years old and thats lake baikal in siberia russia. the bitch is on a continental fault that expands about 2cm per year and as of right now this lake is over a mile deep. the bottom however is FULL of sediment and the actual rift floor is NINE MILES DOWN. this monstrosity of a lake contains literally 20% of the earths nonfrozen fresh water, it has its own unique species of seal, and eventually in millions of years this thing is gonna be an ocean. lake baikal is a baby fucking ocean. its gonna split russias ass in two. i am 100% certain it is sentient

- there is not a single river in saudi arabia and that blows my mind for some reason

- theres whats now considered a lost “eighth continent” thats submerged in the south pacific ocean. the islands of new zealand are the highest peaks of the chunk of continental crust that we now call zealandia. its about half the size of australia and its also connected to other little archipelagos like new caledonia. we found it. old zealand

- the entrance to this fucking ancient bay lake in venezuela (lake maracaibo, over 20 million years old) is the most likely place to get struck by lightning in the world. it gets around 1.2 million lightning strikes per year 

- LAKE HILLIER AUSTRALIA FUCKIGN PINK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

- and finally. more enclave border bullshit. i told yall about baarle hertog. now look at india and pakistan. i present to you the one and only third order enclave

this . this was a piece of india, surrounded by a piece of bangladesh, surrounded.. by a piece of india….. surrounded by bangladesh . it has since been ceded over to bangladesh but the fact that we allowed this to exist is incredible

anyway do with all that what you will. raise your hand if you can tell this is a fixation of mine

[shitacademicswrite]

sooo….. THIS is Baarle-Hertog:

The wikipedia article names all the enclaves and tells you what the border runs through, including such gems as:

– H7, De Loversche Akkers: Boundary runs through two dwellings, including the middle of one front door (giving it two house numbers: Loveren 2, Baarle-Hertog / Loveren 19, Baarle-Nassau).

– H13, Boschcoven:  Boundary runs through about 20 dwellings.

– H16, Keizershoek - Oordelsche Straat:  Boundary runs through a house and three sheds, with three turning points inside just one shed.

[queer-crusader]

Fun thing about these spots on the Dutch-Belgian border: it was ridiculous during lockdown because our countries had different rules about going into shops. So people would be going into a shop without a mask and someone at the till would have to be like “excuse me, isle seven is in Belgium please put on your mask or I have to kick you out” it was so funny and stupid

[whats-a-bear]

“we should breed and ask our offspring what they think” has quickly become my favorite way to respond to someone disagreeing with me

[funnydwagon]

I disagree!

[whats-a-bear]

you know what has to happen now

[jame7t]

Jesus came back and said inflation is illegal

[nongunktional]

both kinds?

[jame7t]

…there’s two?

[horse-is-a-horse-of-course]

hang on let me google something real quick

[horse-is-a-horse-of-course]

we should all implode and die forever actually

[ajani]

[astraldemise]

i know tbh creature is the autism mascot but i think that endermen should also be one of our guys. they get it. love to hold object. purple. can teleport. direct eye contact is a sign of violence. they get it. theyre one of us

[dietspam16]

[professionalchaoticdumbass]

its 1:45 am but i had to do it

[veeranger]

happy 12th to the single greatest video of our generation

[colestyle-deactivated20231123]

sending people wikipedia articles is my favorite form of humor. one time a long time friend of mine asked why i was using a different name and acting different i sent him the wikipedia page for DID. ryder just asked me why its 108 degrees in nevada right now and i sent him the wikipedia page for global warming and the season of summer.

[colestyle-deactivated20231123]

i see you all in the tags going "this is so funny" you better not steal my fucking bit. im copyrighting this joke

[jrwiyuri]

Plagiarism - Wikipedia

[colestyle-deactivated20231123]

you cant do this to me

[grumpybear2001]

[saltyemrys-deactivated20240329]

This isn’t aesthetic this is a monument to the most painful age of waiting for the fucking computer to load that ever existed

[theconcealedweapon]

[punished-lincolnshire-poacher]

this is one of christians’ favorite things to ignore. quite possibly their all-time favorite thing to ignore.

[amygdalae]

i think “video games aren’t really the violent child-corrupting threat some parents worry they are” and “certain circles of gamer culture are incredibly toxic and can lead people down dangerous/hateful ideological rabbit holes” are ideas that can absolutely coexist

[aspiringwarriorlibrarian]

Artificial violence is not actually a corrupting influence but hanging out with assholes sure is.

[weaselle]

also, I think we could probably recognize that like… there is a difference between a game where you beat up a half demon alien cyborg or whatever, and a game partially funded by the US military that glorifies hyper-realistic military operations in a “middle east” coded setting, where everyone with brown skin is an enemy that needs to be gunned down. Like, those things are different.

[transgirl-link]

Somebody has learned I was keeping the paper towels on top of the fridge and then taught herself to jump on top of my cabinets so my paper towels are no longer safe

[transgirl-link]

[inthefallofasparrow]

[thoodleoo]

god i love reading about stupid drama in ancient greece. like there was an athlete named theagenes who was so good at every kind of athletic contest that when he died, one of his opponents would go to beat the shit out of a statue of him out of spite, but then one day the statue fell on the guy and killed him so the greeks took the statue to court for murder, convicted it, and threw it into the sea

[thoodleoo]

actually i left out the best part of this story which is that a plague then struck and when people consulted the oracle at delphi she was like "well you've pissed of theagenes" so they had to go dig the statue back up out of the fucking water