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florenciaatria

alivemaybe

You ever been so angry you feel like tearing your own skin just to get away from it

whitepeopletwitter

greengay

I had another dream about Billie last night. We shared a cigarette while sat on the floor. Honestly the most romantic thing to ever happen to me. And it was just a dream sksjskssmkdkkd

DIDN’T ME OR JULIA @fecktrecool OR SOMEONE GET AN ANON where it was like…..,..someone’s aunt was at a party with billie in the late 80’s/90’s and they spent the night smoking and just talking about life and the universe or smth

greengay

@rennnny YEAH…..god i love that anecdote djsjdjsjsjs

airlesscell-deactivated20151002

Up in the club like

My stomach is not feeling well can I have a ginger ale please

otto-wood

urbanlegends

rslashrats

what the fuck

titleknown

Blogging this tweet because this explains SO MUCH about the mindset of pretty much all the folks I’ve known who’re against single-payer, it’s not even funny…

hopesterling

This….

This never occurred to me. Not once. That Americans are against Health Care because they think it actually costs tens of thousands of dollars for a broken arm, hundreds of thousands for a complicated birth, millions for cancer treatment.

Because they’ve never known anything different. The idea that a broken arm is only a couple hundred bucks; a complicated birth a couple thousand; cancer treatment only tens of thousands; all easily covered by existing tax structures.

withasmoothroundstone

This explains a lot. And it’s a good example of what I was talking about in my post on scarcity being used to prop up ableism – always question the idea that a resource is genuinely scarce. Even if it seems obvious that it is, quite often that’s the result of careful manipulation and misconceptions that you’re not even aware of.

And never think you’re too smart to be fooled by that kind of thing, it doesn’t work like that. Similarly, don’t think people who are fooled by something are stupid. Nobody can have all the information about everything, and nobody has the time and energy to investigate and put together conscious conclusions about every piece of information they’re given. It doesn’t take being stupid, or even just gullible, to believe something like this.

lizardtitties

I currently live in a country without free medical care and still, it’s enormously cheap compared to the USA. An American expat wrote a piece for our English language paper about how she paid more for parking at the hospital than giving birth to her baby that’s pretty interesting:

https://grapevine.is/mag/articles/2016/01/06/healthcare-in-iceland-vs-the-us-weve-got-it-so-good/

thebibliosphere

Yesterday I had to go to the hospital cause I injured my eye, I’m frankly dreading what the bill is going to be, but what made me balk was being told in the pharmacy that my insurance was denied for the antibiotic eye drops and it’d be over $100 out of pocket. So I didn’t get my eyedrops.

I’ve had these same drops before living in the UK. They cost me seven GBP.

It’s the exact same drug, same steroid, same strain of antibiotic. But somehow the US gets away with charging $100 for a generic non brand version of a drug which is easy to create and widely used. It’s downright robbery, but also a form of eugenics through poverty and class warfare. You keep the poor poor by making sure basic necessities remain unattainable and then you make it seem like the norm so no one fights it.

The rest of the world is not like this.

Eat the rich. Resist.

flyingfishtailoutpost1

It’s downright robbery, but also a form of eugenics through poverty and class warfare.

THIS. THISTHISTHIS. THIS IS WHAT I KEEP TRYING TO TELL PEOPLE.

carolxdanvers

for the record:

The US is expected to spend about $3.8 Trillion on health care this year. The UK paid £129B, total, for healthcare costs in 2018/2019, which is roughly $170B. The UK’s population is 66.4 million; the US’s population is 327 million. That’s a little less than five times the population of the UK. $170B times 5 — rounding UP at every stage — is $855B. Less than health care spending as it currently stands. In fact, we’re currently paying 440% more than that, out of pocket, and that’s with 20% of us currently going WITHOUT health care.

socialistexan

Here’s what’s even more wild, conservatives and centrist Democrats love to talk about how Medicare for All would cost $34 trillion over 10 years (assuming costs don’t go down and that we’re still charged hyper-inflated prices), but what they fail to mention is that if we keep our private for-profit system Americans will spend $52 trillion over that same time period.

But since the it’s not called taxes, it’s automatically better.

leandra-kinard

I live in Germany. My dad was privately insured, which means you have to pay the bill yourself, then send it to the insurer and get refunded (minus a deductible, depending on your tarif). He had cancer treatment the last year, including multiple surgeries. I don’t know how much it was in total, but the highest individual invoice I saw was 21k, which, I think, was for one of his longer hospital stays including some surgery.

I honestly don’t know what American hospitals and doctors do. They charge their patients about ten times as much (or more?) than in EU countries. I assume that’s because they’re all privatised and there are no cost controls. In Germany, all treatments are subject to a cost regulation. You cannot simply demand more for a service than what all doctors take.

Full capitalism with no social market control is just plain evil.

claudiamatossilva

Hilda by Duane Bryers

badkidgorgug

More Hilda!!

themockingcrows

in this family we love and support Hilda.

i-am-the-narwhal

Yes! Hilda!

luidilovins

What i love about this artist’s depictions of women is even the sexualized ones the woman is always genuinely happy and enjoying herself. Frolicking or making funny faces, she’s living her life and looking sexy while doing it, not sitting in a sexual pose for the audience’s view.

squish-this

I always forget about Hilda and am so pleased when she randomly shows up on my dash. Always makes my day

snailfarts

I love Hilda so much and I want her to be happy

smuttine

more Hilda!

agileo-101

I freaking love Hilda, there’s needs to be more art like this.

aspiringmonstergirl

I will never not reblog Hilda

stormwaterwitch

Be your own Valentines Date

You don’t need anyone else to love yourself Go buy yourself flowers Grab your favorite Chocolates Take an extra long Bubble Bath Drink some wine You don’t need anyone else to love yourself

mychemicalraymance

"This band WILL NOT save your life. This band will actively hunt down every single fan and execute them in the street. Even if you've heard just one song. Execution. No exceptions."

-My Chemical Romance (2005)

3cheers

tikkunolamorgtfo

I love it when people try to claim representation in fiction is being taken “too far” to the point where it’s no believable. They’re like:

“What’s next, a mixed-race immigrant on the autism spectrum?” Hi, my name is Rachel, also known as Rachna, and I’m a mixed-race immigrant on the autism spectrum.

“What’s next, a transgender Latino man with chronic pain?” What, you mean my former colleague, Marco?

“What’s next, a Black Jewish lesbian?” Bitch, I know I three Black Jewish lesbians, WHAT’S YOUR FUCKING POINT?

furbearingbrick

mijomii

Sometimes I say self loathing things to my therapist and he looks at me dead in the eyes before saying “You fucking moron.” and tbh same

mijomii

Me: I think I don’t exist.

Therapist: Listen, you do exist, and if you didn’t, someone would have to create you because the world would be a much sadder place.

Me: Jerome, how dare you saying something so sweet when I’m dissociating.

mijomii

Me: Honestly, (thing that is totally fucked up for any ‘sane’ person) is normal, right?

Therapist: No.

Me: Wow.

Therapist: You’re just a fucked up bitch.

Me: I do agree with the fucked up bitch part.

Therapist: That’s a start!

mijomii

Me: I guess he’s still my friend?

Therapist: Considering what you told me and how much you wanna beat him to death, he’s not. You pretty much hate him despite knowing him for years.

Me:

Me: Why did I need to come here to realize that.

Therapist: Because that’s my job to help you to understand some stuff. Also because you’re way too kind and you would let someone punch you in the guts and still consider them as your friend while they stab you.

Me: I don’t need that kind of call out, Jerome.

mijomii

Me: Hey, I brought you coffee. And croissants too, but I ate them. *puts Starbucks coffee in front of him*

Therapist: Oh that’s nice!!... Oh my name is on it!!

Me: Yeah!!

Therapist: It’s wholesome but... *very confused and silently*... How do I drink it?

mijomii

Me, not being able to come to my appointment and having to call him: I’m sorry, it’s all my fault, I’m so so so sorr-

Therapist: I dare you to say sorry one more time. I dare you.

mijomii

Therapist: Hey I wanna show you this super funny image I found the other day.

Me: What-

Therapist: *turns his screen and show me THIS*

Me:

Me: Jerome.

mijomii

Therapist: You went to the gaypride?

Me: Yeah, I went.

Therapist: Was it something you enjoyed?

Me: Mh. Yeah. Sorta.

Therapist: Did you see some bears?

Me:

Me: Jerome wh-

Therapist: That’s the only term I know outside of the LGTB one, I wanted to use it.

mijomii

Therapist: Are you sure you’re not becoming roommate with (name) because of pity? Kinda sacrificing yourself?

Me: No, I want it!!

Therapist: Finally, you’re not forcing yourself for the others! And you’re doing something you want! I’m proud of you!

Me: You’re more of a dad than my own father.

Therapist: That’s not very hard.

naaaaaaaaaah-deactivated2020112

this is peak chaotic good i need this in a therapist

sanders-sides-uncorrect-quotes

Best therapist ever.

lizardywizard

But now I’m wondering how all these facial recognition algorithms we’re coming up with now are going to take to the Bright New Transhumanist Future

Like, okay, we know Google can recognise dogs. But what about stranger things? Is anyone training these things on lizards?

Imagine basilisks specifically designed to crash these algorithms: abstract-blocks-of-black-and-white-for-heads that, like the QR codes of old, carry a hidden message in their patterning, only it’s a payload, a virus that shreds the system of anyone who tries to capture it on camera, the natural evolution of anti-face-detection camouflage. Imagine things that don’t even have faces, that don’t have an equivalent and easily-cataloguable part; people who deliberately wear mass-produced, identical android bodies, the Guy Fawkes masks of the future.