man sometimes friendship really is just "I saw this and knew it would give you psychic damage. please respond with agony" and then they do. and it's great
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man sometimes friendship really is just "I saw this and knew it would give you psychic damage. please respond with agony" and then they do. and it's great
not everything is getting worse. at least you don't hear high hopes by panic at the disco every day anymore
I thought of this meme during adoration and am very comforted by it
Yes yes yes I love it you get it!!! And also:
this every time I receive the Holy Communion (especially if it's y'know, on hand) 💗💗💗
what the hell is going on
i believe in you Binface. you can do it. this could be your moment.
Please god it would be so funny
there is no downside to voting for Count Binface. its not taking away from other candidates bcos they aren't any and the more votes he gets the stupider Farage looks.
for people out of the loop:
Nigel Farage is the leader of Reform UK, a far right party who are currently in the process of a serious bid to become the UK government. they are just straight up evil.
Count Binface is an intergalactic space warrior with a bin on his head. he likes to run as a novelty candidate in general and mayoral elections. a big thing he likes to do is run as a candidate against the incumbent prime minister:
(Also pictured: Boris Johnson, Elmo)
Anyway, in brief:
Nigel Farage is currently in the midst of a big scandal about his finances
He has decided to deal with this by 1) making a show of nobly resigning from parliament and then 2) immediately running in the resulting by-election
He has stated that he is letting 'the people' judge his actions and implied that if he wins that will prove that he has been exonerated in the court of public opinion
His goal was presumably to get a big resounding win over the other parties, proving that The People still love him.
the other parties have thus far decided that this is a 'vanity election' and, well, there is one very easy way to ensure that he will not beat any of them, and that is simply not to play.
and as a result the only person who has so far confirmed they are running against him is Count Binface. no matter the outcome this makes Nigel Farage look like, u know, a fucking clown.
So what happens if Count Binface actually wins? Does he join Parliament? Does he have to take the bin off his face?
I've seen some people saying he would have to give up his title but it would seem that is no longer the case as of 1999; so, no, he can keep his ceremonial bin if he wishes.
Important to note also that Count Binface is the alter ego of comedian & political satirist Jon Harvey who seems to be an intelligent individual with reasonable politics. As I said no real downside.
The no hats rule clearly does not apply to him. He is not wearing a hat. It's a bin.
My favourite part of this so far is that, owing to the BBC's charter of neutrality, they have to interview Count Binface and his representatives (he has none) on equal terms to Farage. So he has appeared on a very serious, very straight laced British News Show.
The two 'earthlings' in this video, Justin Webb and Nick Robinson, are known for being impeccably well read and well researched, for giving politicians really harsh, uncomprimising interviews, for reporting unflinchingly on massacres of civillians in Gaza, Sudan, and Iran, for speaking truth to power. And today they interviewed Count Binface. There are two possible outcomes here: 1) Farage wins and his investigation by the commons standards comission gets immediately reopened (and there's a motion in parliament at the moment to continue the investigation while Farage isn't an MP, and of course he didn't turn up to argue his point), and we're back where we started, or 2) Farage loses to a fecking bin. And I'm honestly not sure which is funnier
Ich hab vorhin schon einen Port dazu reblogt, möchte auf diesen Link aber nochmal aufmerksam machen. Der offene Brief wird diesen Freitag vor der Abstimmung an die Abgeordneten verschickt. Bis morgen Mitternacht kann man noch mitzeichnen.
Ein Änderungsantrag soll mit der Streichung der Angemessenheitsprüfung die wirtschaftliche Grundlage psychotherapeutischer Praxen vernichten
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Back when I was a redditor (😔) I realized a strange phenomenon. No one cares about your original posts, but if you make the post on another site and screenshot it, people assume it’s a tweet from someone who is known/is funny/etc and the post would do way better
Ich hab in nem Land mit Sonntagsöffnung gelebt und dabei hab ich vor allem eins beobachtet: Das passiert auf dem Rücken derjenigen, die sowieso schon nicht viel verdienen und nicht viel auf ihrer Arbeit zu sagen zu haben. Die Leute, die gut verdienen, haben sonntags frei - sonst würde das ja auch gar nicht funktionieren, wenn alle anderen auch auf Arbeit wären.
Es sorgt damit eben dafür, dass ganze Bevölkerungsgruppen nie nen gemeinsamen freien Tag haben, und dass man sich dann vielleicht eben auch noch sonntags Gedanken über die Kinderbetreuung machen muss.
Und das alles, damit man mal sonntags bisschen was einkaufen kann.
"everyone should get more aromantic" can appeal to tumblr's sensibilities but I genuinely think everyone should also get more asexual. I don't mean everyone stop having sex, what I mean is
Sex is not essential. You can live without it. Full stop.
Not having sex isn't shameful or a sign of failure. It also doesn't make anyone boring.
You are not entitled to having sex with anybody and nobody is entitled to having sex with you.
Sex is not what makes someone an adult.
Nobody's worth is defined by how much sex they have or don't have.
Sex is not equally important to everyone.
You can have fulfilling and happy relationships without sex.
You should only have sex on your own terms, not because you feel like you owe it to someone, or because you feel like you'd be incomplete without it.
Know your boundaries around sex and be firm about them. Know how to respect other people's boundaries.
The previous point also applies when it comes to discussing sex. If someone doesn't wanna talk about it or hear about it you have to back down.
Anything can be sexual but not everything has to be sexual.
Firmly convinced the world would be a better place if we started treating sex the way we'd treat any other mundane preference in life, like what kind of chips a person likes to eat with their lunch.
Ok so, I just remembered how people in the comments of a tiktok video were being assholes, and I want to rant now :3
The video showed two wheelchair users at a train(?), who had just arrived to their stop to find nobody was there with a ramp so they could leave the train. One of them blocked the door so it wouldn't close, and this lasted for 15 minutes. The train was stopped for said 15 minutes. There was a button by the door, that said that it'd contact the driver when pressed. It didn't. People offered to go find the driver, and they came back with the news that there were no people in the platform to put the ramp. In the end, passengers had to go out, and place the ramp themselves, before the train could carry on. The wheelchair users had warned they were coming, and asked to have the ramp put there so they could get down. The platform turned out to have workers, they all just ran away because they'd never encountered the situation in which they needed to do this simple task.
Because of the workers' negligence, the train was forced to stop for 15 minutes.
Everyone's comments?
"Why did they block the doors and stop the train? So selfish" Selfish were workers who refused to do their job.
"What if someone had needed to get to their stop urgently? They shouldn't have stopped the train" It wasn't the disabled people's fault, it was the workers who were negligent.
"Why didn't they just wheel themselves down those steps?" They shouldn't have to risk their (expensive) chairs just because people didn't do what they were paid to do.
"If I had been in that train I would've been pissed, how dare you stop it" And you probably wouldn't have even thought about fixing the problem yourself, would you?
"Entitled assholes" Ok I'll leave you stranded in a train with everyone who could help you get down outright refusing to. Let's see who's an entitled asshole now.
If someone fights for accessibility, as much as it might be a bother for you, you do not have the right to be mad at them. If someone fights for accessibility, it is exclusively the fault of a world catered exclusively for able-bodied people.
So next time you think, "hey the consequences of these disabled people fighting for their rights bother me", instead of blaming them for this, help them solve the issue. This way, next time they will not have to fight at all.
Able bodied people, go out and fight for a fucking accessible world if you're not an asshole.
[ Able-bodied people are encouraged to reblog this post, but try not to derail ]
“What if someone had needed to get to their stop urgently?” What if the fucking disabled people had needed to get to their stop urgently?????
Man I miss free the nipple. Its getting warmer and we don’t even have free the nipple anymore
feminism has backslid so hard in recent years people don't even know what free the nipple means anymore
To clarify for those who don't know, "free the nipple" isn't about going braless, it's about going topless
No shirt, no bra, completely bare torso, just like cis men are allowed to
It's about desexualizing breasts and "female presenting nipples" and not being criminalized for our bodies if we want to go topless because it's a million damn degrees out. This was a popular growing movement that was still widely known a decade ago!
And the fact that not wearing a bra is so discouraged and stigmatized that people think the movement was about being able to go braless under your shirt in public rather than about being able to not wear a shirt at all says a lot about how far we've backslid in the past decade
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titanic
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uss enterprise
ever given (the container ship that blocked the suez canal in 2021)
captain ahab’s whaling vessel
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RYAN GOSLING "I'm Just Ken" wins Best Original Song at the 29th Annual Critics' Choice Awards (January 14, 2024)
had a dream that there was this new tiktok trend called "scrubbing" where people would take images of fictional characters and put them in images of bathtubs and drag around transparent pngs of soap and brushes with their tiktok art tablets and like liquify tool their hair down to mimic giving them a shower. and people would get into flamewars in the comments of every single video over the types of soap they picked and if the images had decently removed backgrounds and if they got soap in their eyes. and it got onto the news because it turned out everyone doing the trend was doing it compulsively like they physically couldn't stop and each video was a solid few minutes long because they were just collectively obsessively recording themselves fake-showering these fictional characters and arguing about it online
for the record I have never used tiktok and like explicitly in the dream I learned about it secondhand from a discord server so there's that also which is funny I think
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This damn site. If I described this site as accurately as I could, I would be unable to justify the time I spend here.
ok anyways. post this beast
I HAVE THE OTHER PART TO THIS PHOTO
Quelle: Aktionsbündnis Psychotherapie via Instagram
Die Bundesregierung plant ganz tolle Dinge mit der psychotherapeutischen Versorgung, also schreibt bitte eure Abgeordneten an!
Hier eine Mail-Vorlage:
Sehr geehrter [Name],
bitte setzen Sie sich dafür ein, dass Ihr Bundesland im Bundesrat den Vermittlungsausschuss anruft und das GKV-Beitragssatzstabilisierungsgesetz in dieser Form stoppt. Psychotherapeutinnen und Betroffene klaren seit Monaten darüber auf, dass die geplante Budgetierung psychotherapeutischer Leistungen bereits eine Katastrophe für die Versorgung ist. Sie gefährdet Therapieplätze, verlängert Wartezeiten und trifft Menschen, die dringend Hilfe brauchen. Doch jetzt wird es durch einen kurzfristig eingebrachten Anderungsantrag noch schlimmer: Die Mindestvergütung für psychotherapeutische Leistungen soll abgeschafft werden - also genau der Schutz, den das Bundessozialgericht seit 1999 entwickelt hat, damit Psychotherapie verlässlich und kostendeckend angeboten werden kann. Das darf nicht passieren. Wenn psychotherapeutische Leistungen schlechter vergütet werden, können Praxen weniger Behandlungen anbieten. Therapieplätze fallen weg, Wartezeiten werden länger und psychisch erkrankte Menschen bleiben ohne rechtzeitige Hilfe. Psychotherapie ist keine Luxusleistung. Sie ist medizinische Grundversorgung. Bitte verhindern Sie, dass dieser Schutz abgeschafft wird.
Mit freundlichen Grüßen [Name]
Hier eure Abgeordneten:
Eine Übersicht über die gewählten Abgeordneten des Deutschen Bundestages, die Wahlkreise und Informationen über Tätigkeiten sowie Einkünfte,
Hier ein paar Quellen:
https://www.psychotherapieverbund.de/todesstoss
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i think it's funny when a character is almost exclusively referred to by their last name by other people and this carries over into their internal monologue when someone writes from their pov. not even on a first name basis with herself