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Does anyone have any weird favorite smells that aren't just like gasoline or sharpie? I do like those but I want to dig deeper. I love the smell of frozen cardboard and brand new hardware
So far the replies on this seem to be either "old books and libraries.... Moss..... Rain..... I'm so weird I know" or "actual rotting garbage"
2026 I Will Not Obsessively Ruminate On Stupid Bullshit That Makes No Sense And Is Not Real
do you perhaps like hawlucha at all
no
Marisa you live in touhou stupid. Its only girls.
🥺 do they make touhou but for BOYS??
READ THIS IF YOU PLAN TO BOYCOTT YOUTUBE LONG-TERM
get an invidious account. it is an alternative front-end to youtube, allowing you to make an account, subscribe to channels, make playlists, and all the other things you use youtube for; all without giving the company a single cent. swearing off youtube long-term is a tall ask, so you can use this to still follow the creators you want to keep up with while continuing the youtube boycott. it has a built-in adblock and anti-tracker, meaning that you can really keep fucking them over.
it doesnt interact with the API at all, it scrapes the metadata to make sure they get as little as possible.
Some ya’ll who are younger need to google Frank Serpico and read about his time in the NYPD and what the cops did to him and attempted to do to him up until the late 90′s. He literally had to go into hiding in Italy and Switzerland and multiple times people tried to kill him. He only came back to America after the mafia (who hated the NYPD a lot, obviously) said “you’re under our protection.”
Damn, NYPD is so bad, Mafia started protecting good cops
I was a police officer for nearly ten years and I was a bastard. We all were.
👆Really really good article by the way. Feels like a good piece to show to folks you know who are still on the fence about things like police or prison abolition. Plus the pseudonym the author uses is hysterical, and he's really quite a good writer.
extremely good article, please read it. at the very least read the "how to be a bastard" section, it outlines a lot of the ways cops will try to trick you
my relationship with gender? we're divorced
We have this interesting situation where we basically no longer have privacy nor the expectation of privacy, but we also don't have community or meaningful connection with others, so we're all simultaneously both completely exposed and absolutely alone, and please understand that when I say this situation is "interesting", what I in fact mean is that it's "nightmarish and I wish I could wake up"
marcia lucas with her oscar for achievement in film editing for “star wars”, accompanied by her husband george, 1978
imagine cloth mother and wire mother in family court competing for custody of the baby monkey
I Have Softness For You
i have milk for you
Stop.
Cut the baby monkey in half
ik this aint the twilight but
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do we know the names of any months in star wars i need one for a fake tweet
Star Wars lore says they have 10 months in a year:
1st month: Elona
2nd month: Kelona
3rd month: Selona
4th month: Telona
5th month: Nelona
6th month: Helona
7th month: Melona
8th month: Yelona
9th month: Relona
10th month: Welona
If you’re interested, here’s the Galactic Standard Calender!
1 week: 5 days
1 Month: 7 weeks/35 days
1 year: 368 days
1 year: 10 months + 3 Fete (festivals) weeks + 3 holidays
And here are the days of the week:
Primeday (first day of the week)
Centaxday (second day)
Taungsday (third day)
Zhellday (fourth day)
Benduday (fifth/last day of the week)
THANK YOU this is hilarious. oh my god. perfect
I had no idea any of this existed, I just took 6d12 psychic damage
Fun fact but those aren’t actually the galactic standard month names! The days are right but the months come from Tapani calendar which was established in the role playing game and I don’t think anywhere else - there are no official names for the galactic standard months
While adapting to the modern Galactic standard calendar, the Tapani kept the names from their own calendar even if the timings were adjusting slightly and holidays made to fit in - it should also be noted that the Tapani calendar has different names for the days (Atunda, Katunda, Satunda, Datunda and Natunda) which are far more boring than the galactic standard lol
Despite this, I very much still use these as the month names lol - the canon they’re from is so so loose that it’s frankly easier and I don’t have the creativity to come up with something new haha
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I want you to remember:
The fascists hate you too and they just will pretend otherwise until after they've killed the rest of us, before they turn on you.
Thanks to whoever tried, but I knew they'd never allow it.
Let's do it the old fashioned way. Spread it far and wide.
Reminder: you can't be the whole wall against stopping fascism by yourself. Nobody can. But you damn sure can be a brick.
There's a lot of good comments and tags in the notes, but this one is very important, I feel like it deserves some emphasis.
Part of how authoritarianism works is telling you that you can't stop it. And you can't stop it by yourself. But it wants to stop the train of thought there and let you fall into despair.
You need to remember the next part: you don't have to stop it by yourself.
You're not alone. Take care of your community and let your community take care of you. Supporting each other is so vital.
Actually rex's acceptance of cut is interesting because we see that Rex is okay with breaking the status quo as long as there's some other status quo that's being supported, which I feel is more a result of authorial bias and presumption than commentary on rex's values
Or maybe its equally both. But basically what I'm asking is if Rex had found cut and cut was alone, no wife or kids or even a pet or a nice humble Traditional job, would Rex (the authors?) have come to the same conclusion, that Cut should be able to desert and live his own life?
If Cut wasn't ultimately defending his Home and (nuclear!) family from Invaders, would Rex have been as charitable? Is not the bachelor cut as worthy of freedom as the Happily Married Picket Fence cut?
See, I don't think Rex would've let Cut go if he'd been on his own. I had a similar thought when watching this episode; the only reason Rex lets Cut go is because Rex translates Cut defending his family into something that he understands; i.e., the ideals of a soldier. Cut defends his family; Rex defends the republic. I feel like that comes across with the line, "You may be a deserter, but you're not a coward." Rex had to see that Cut was willing to fight and die for something in order to feel that Cut was worthy of any kind of autonomy or respect. Rex had to translate Cut's life choices into something he understood, before he accepted it. Which I think is SUPER interesting and thought provoking, and says a lot about Rex's thought process when it comes to his position in the war/the GAR. Kinda like you said, it feels less about Rex's ideals and honestly, to me, feels a whole lot more about what he was "programmed" to think about himself, his brothers, and who is/is not worthy of life. Because Rex literally was this close to turning Cut in throughout the whole episode, which would have ended with Cut's death. More so, he operated with barely restrained disdain when he figured out Cut was a deserter. I just think it's super interesting akjdghskdjgh
One thing I think about in regards to clones is that for the most part, even the most progressive clones will have a ridiculously hard time getting out of the mindsets and value systems drilled into them since childhood, and that it is genuinely rare for clones to truly break away from such values. In one of my fics (have not put it out yet), one chapter is dedicated to the idea that even if you deprogram a clone from the type of brainwashing they experienced on Kamino, there will be things that slip through the cracks or are very difficult to undo. Values and mindsets so deeply ingrained that you might not even recognize it's there. Things that might not even seem like problems at first, but are actually the root of some of their most toxic beliefs.
There was a moment I found really interesting in the show (unless I'm mistaken) where Fives, one of the most independent clones who is clearly the most likely to question the system, is criticizing some things related to how clones are treated, but also strongly clarifies that he is still deeply loyal to the Republic. It almost felt like part of that kind of programming. Even when most disillusioned (or close to it), there is still a need to stay loyal to the Republic because the Republic is good and just and etc. And I thought perhaps the loyalty would come from not wanting to betray their fellow clones (something I could write a whole other thing about), but it seems slightly different. It's near impossible for many to imagine not remaining loyal to the Republic.
I think the reason none of them (besides Slick) called their situation slavery was because of the writers, but I feel like even if one of them did actively acknowledge it as such, they would still have this sense of loyalty, almost obligation. Even though Rex has many reasons to be disillusioned at some point, he never really breaks away from the idea that the Republic is ultimately good somehow despite the oppression of the clones clearly indicating this system is deeply broken.
And even when Rex is able to acknowledge that Cut has a point, he still has to tie it into this specific, deeply ingrained value. It's genuinely fascinating.
One other thing I forgot to add that I think is important is that even if a clone becomes disillusioned enough to desert, they rarely truly turn against the Republic or try to do anything about the injustice. Even clones who know they are being treated wrong and are being oppressed do not seem to see true betrayal as an option. Not holding loyalty to the Republic is already difficult enough. Actively fighting against it is unimaginable.
Perhaps that's why Slick's betrayal is such a big deal. Not only because it negatively affected other clones (again, I could write a whole thing about how clones likely directly tie loyalty to the Republic as loyalty to clonekind), but because he did and believed something few clones have ever done: fight back.
I personally disagree with his assertion that the Jedi are to blame (he should be blaming the government tbh), but he's kind of right in the end, and he was being genuine when he said he was doing it for all clones. He probably saw it as legitimate rebellion, something the majority of clones can't easily conceptualize.
Not being loyal to the Republic is possible, but acting against the Republic? That is genuinely difficult to comprehend.
Perhaps that's why it would take so long for any clones to even remotely agree with Slick. Even if his statement that clones are slaves is something others could come to agree with, the idea that he was standing up to the Republic isn't even present. You can't fight the Republic unless you are a traitor and evil and wrong and bad. The Republic is good and just. Hating it means you hate fairness and democracy and equality (despite the fact that they are being enslaved). Slick attacked the Republic, and the Republic is good, so Slick is wrong.
Maybe Slick is wrong because his methods involved violence and fighting. But the crazy thing is, the clones have every right and reason to be violent in their rebellion. They are literally enslaved (and to an extreme degree). Is it truly wrong to want to shot or sabotage your enslavers? If they were to visit places like Tatooine, the clones would say no, it's not wrong. But when it comes to their own horrific situation, suddenly it's too extreme and bad.
Their programming is so deep rooted that not only is it difficult to be disloyal to the system that oppresses them, but it's next to impossible to conceive fighting back.
Sylvia Riveras powerful speech against the exclusion of transgender people at the Gay Pride Rally NYC, 1973.
Transcript:
Y'all better quiet down! I've been trying to get up here all day for your gay brothers and your gay sisters in jail that write me every motherfucking week and ask for your help! And you all don't do a goddamn thing for them! And they write STAR, not the woman's group! They do not write women, they do not write men, they write to STAR! Because we're trying to do something for them! But you all tell me to go and hide my tail between my legs! I will not put up with this shit! I have been beaten, I have had my nose broken, I have been thrown in jail, I have lost my job, I have lost my apartment for gay liberation, and you all treat me this way?! What the fuck's wrong with you all?! Think about that! I believe in the gay power, I believe in us getting our rights, or else I would not be out there fighting for our rights, that's all I wanted to say to you people. Come and see people at STAR House on Twelfth Street, the people that are trying to do something for all of us, and not men and women that belong to our white middle class club! And that's what you all belong to! Revolution now! Gay power! Know the gay power!
