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i need feminism because when jesus does a magic trick it’s a goddamn miracle but when a woman does a magic trick she gets burned at the stake
fabulous
i mean they did also kill jesus. that was a pretty significant thing that happened. like i understand where you’re coming from here but they very much did kill jesus.
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I think that Elon Musk is an object lesson in moral philosophy.
Like, he's the epitome of self-interest; the closest thing real life can produce to a Randian hero. And by any reasonable standard, he's won at life! He's the richest man ever to live, and he's getting richer; he controls the channels of information and communication; the government of what remains the world's only superpower waits on his command. If capitalism had a victory condition, he would surely have achieved it. And yet...
He's empty. He's an absolute sucking void of neediness. His own children hate his guts. He pays professional gamers to run up impossibly high scores in every game under the sun because the pale glow of being praised by epic bacon chuds online is the closest thing that he can feel to love.
Like. I can't tell you what a soul is, but I think you neglect it at your peril.
#He has such a vile anti-personality that even CONVICTED PEDOPHILES thought him insufferable
He has such a vile anti-personality that his own children would rather forego half a trillion dollars in inheritance than maintain a relationship with him.
I never really thought about it until this tweet but I think Oates clocked him completely. He spends all day on Twitter posting and NEVER talks about anything he enjoys. He has an enormous family and infinite money and yet he seems entirely joyless.
I actually have come around to the series being called Knives Out instead of named for Benoit in any way. Because Benoit isn't truly what ties it together, it's the consistent social commentary themes. And do you remember why it's called Knives Out?
"You're a pack of vultures at the feast. Knives out, beaks bloody."
THAT. That has not stopped being true. THAT is the heart of each movie.
It isn't named after the first movie. It's named after the line. It's named after the disregard of morals in the name of greed.
What do you mean you can’t find a job? Have you looked on Indeed? What about Linkedin? You should try Upwork. How about Rise? Have you tried Jobera? Take a look on Dribbble. You GOTTA be on Jooble, dude. Get on Jooble. Jooble has it for you.
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sometimes you need to give up committing to the bit when someone genuinely can’t tell if it’s a bit or not and is getting distressed about it :/ sorry
sometimes all u need to do is take one second to say "(yeah this is a bit)" if someone is genuinely asking because they genuinely can't tell, and then you can continue with the bit. i just feel like refusing to acknowledge someone saying "i cant tell if youre joking or not" and you just continue, or even say, "im not joking" then you're not being very funny, you're just being kind of mean, i think.
obviously there is nuance to this and if you know someone really well sometimes going in harder on the bit will make them get that it's a bit and that's fine if you know them. but just be mindful, yknow? not everyone can pick up on stuff like that, and pushing harder on a bit by saying "im serious" when someone asks if you're joking or not can be harmful in some situations.
I’m not gonna platform this idiot but I saw somebody reblog a post from a radfem I think by accident. But the post claimed that men who hire prostitutes are “rapists who buy their victims silence”
I don’t think I need to explain to y’all why this is wrong but in case I do, buying a service from someone and following their rules as a client is not a breech of consent.
A lot of the danger that comes from being a prostitute has to do with its illegality. If a client breaks the rules and the service provider can’t file a complaint without risking imprisonment of themselves and/or their client, that’s not a safe work environment.
The idea that nobody would willingly sell sexual services unless they’re desperate is just false. There’s also a lot of other jobs people do when they’re desperate and they don’t like doing. For me it was working retail.
The difference between me pretending to be happy for clientele while working retail and someone pretending to be happy while selling sexual services to clients is that while I was working retail I at least theoretically had sick leave, health insurance, and a way to file a complaint if a customer assaulted me.
Sex work isn’t inherently any more degrading or miserable than any other kind of work. The issue is the lack of protection and workers rights.
“We’d’ve made Harris president if she could only have promised not to send arms to Israel” well done my good bitch. Now we have Jared Kushner planning to raze Gaza and build resorts on top of mass graves, and an estimated 500,000 children have died since USAID was shut down. Didn’t want to be “complicit in a genocide”? too damn bad, you are. Btw there are still strikes on Gaza ongoing despite the “ceasefire”. https://apnews.com/article/gaza-rafah-hamas-israel-war-2-4-2026-a3726ab659321430bf3ca73cae50936e#
“but there wasn’t a primary” yes there was. Biden won it. Did you volunteer for the campaigns of more progressive candidates? Did you phone bank for them? Did you pay attention to them at all?
“but the DNC -“ stop. People voted for Biden in the primaries. That’s how the Biden/Harris ticket went to the general. The DNC got hella problems but voters picked Biden in the primaries.
“votes should be earned” great, my friends scared to leave their homes with ICE killing people in the streets are thrilled to hear it. Learn what harm reduction is.
“but I don’t like Newsom/Harris/other possible candidates” bitch 2028 is YEARS away and there will be primary elections, and there are primaries ONGOING for this year’s midterms. What are you doing? Are you helping platform better candidates? Are you knocking on doors or joining phone banks? Are you volunteering to be a poll worker to help prevent ICE scaring voters away from the polls? Are you calling your representatives and demanding that they push your preferred policies?
Barack Obama was not a frontrunner for the presidency in 2005-2006. He also hesitated on gay marriage for years and later moved to openly endorse it. This kind of thing happens because of years’ worth of work on the part of activists and campaign workers. Enough with the helplessness. You want “better candidates”, find them, help them win primaries & generals, and then push them to enact policies you want.
reposting this because it seems timely for the people who refused to vote because “Harris was a warmonger”.
Iran has carried out strikes against Israel, across the Gulf and against a British base in Cyprus in retaliation.
“No one is coming to save you.” I disagree ! I believe many people made up of many small moments come to save pieces of you , even if just briefly. The mentor who believed in you . The friend who said they’re proud of you. The family member that makes you laugh . The random person who held the door for you out of nothing but kindness. The teacher who took extra time to help you understand. The person who smiled at you when you walked into a store. The little kid who looks up to you. The person who randomly complimented you. Being “saved” isn’t about being whisked away and all your hardships gone, it’s about the people and things that remind you life is not all hardships, it is kindness, love, gentleness, softness, care, thoughtfulness. It is many moments made up of your lifetime that keeps you going and showing you the world is still beautiful, and will always be. Despite.
After shoving Hansel in the oven, the witch turns to Gretel - who is currently fending the witch off with a gingerbread chair - and says:
“I can’t believe you thought a trail of breadcrumbs would save you. I mean, honestly, this is a forest! It’s full of animals. Honestly, the very idea that a dumb shit like you thought you could get the better of me is absurd.”
Gretel hits her in the face with said chair. To be fair to the witch, she takes the chairshot like a champ.
“Ow!”
“Did you know,” says Gretel, “that crows are capable of facial recognition?”
“Eh?” Says the witch, clambering to her feet and pulling a candy cane sledgehammer off the wall. “What’s that got to do with anything?”
“Not only that,” Gretel continues, “but they can remember both friends and enemies. And they’ll often follow people they remember as friends.”
The two fence with their sugared weapons for a moment, before the witch knocks the chair out of Gretel’s hands.
“Enough with the bird facts! Honestly, this whole attempted escape has been utter clownshoes. Get in the fucking oven!”
She seizes Gretel by the collar. Gretel immediately sandbags, letting her whole body go limp. This eminently practical defense forces the witch to try and deadlift her. Which is hard, as the witch often skips leg day.
“For example,” Gretel says, as the witch struggles and grunts, “if you feed crows a lot of breadcrumbs, they’ll probably start to see you as a friend and follow you in the hope of more food.”
The witch stops. Outside, she hears the thunder of wings.
“They’ll even bring you shiny things they find as presents!” Says Gretel, as a corner of the gingerbread ceiling is suddenly cut away by a large crow with a knife in its mouth.
“Oh shitballs.” Says the witch, as the crows descend. “I hope you know this is a great unkindness.”
“Technically,” Says Gretel, “It’s a murder.”
more people need to give themselves permission to write and draw pornography
it is virtuous and necessary that you write, draw, and distribute pornography
can we start with not conflating "erotic/sexual art or writing" with pornography
no lmao
@thoughtscout "Erotica" was first coined by people wanting to get around censorship laws that would ban pornography under the legal classification of Obscenity, but would not ban romance novels, or Literature, as that was "of artistic worth" and therefore protected speech. Here is the USA Legal definition, pulled from Wikipedia, of "Obscenity":
United States obscenity law deals with the regulation or suppression of what is considered obscenity and therefore not protected speech or expression under the First Amendment to the United States Constitution. In the United States, discussion of obscenity typically relates to defining what pornography is obscene.
It's important to understand that key idea, that "obscene" is a legal classification that marks something as not protected by Freedom of Speech, The Press, and Free Expression, which is the First Amendment.
There are several ethical problems with having a way to exempt something from protection, and therefore censor it. It encourages people who want to censor things to try and get them legally classed as exceptions to any Freedom of Speech laws on the books. Now, with art, there are exemptions that should exist--art that harms people in the making of it, for example, which is what Child Sexual Abuse Material is, and why we call it that. We also classify filmed evidence of murder done for the film's sake as an exception. But the way people define the word "obscenity" is extremely different depending on who you ask, and because definitions in this country are set by precedent, i.e. judges ruling on court cases, the definition of things like "obscenity" keeps changing.
In 1873, for example, the Comstock Act said that birth-control information and condoms were "obscene" and banned sending them through the mail, which meant a lot of people were cut off from being able to learn about birth control (because nobody was learning about it in school--most people at the time didn't go to school after learning basic reading skills, if that; children worked, just like their adult relatives, to support their families). Do you think a book like this one that educates about puberty and sex, including birth-control, is obscene and pornography? Well it was, at one time, and BANNED. And I don't tell you this so you can go, "Well people were backwards then, we're Enlightened now, we'd only ban the RIGHT things" People have always been people, just as wise AND just as foolish as we are now, and progress has never been a straight line.
Our point is that pornography is an important thing to make, and to fight for, and to CALL "pornography". It's important to hold the line and not let people begin to call WRITTEN and DRAWN things the same as PHOTOGRAPHED and FILMED things. For MANY DECADES, people have been trying to ban and censor pornography that has involved no one but the author or artist in the making, and is therefore HARMING no actual human beings. A photograph involves real, live, breathing human beings; a drawing involves a piece of paper and a pen and the artist.
Whatever you think is "just erotica" or even "not erotica at all" is going to be called porn and obscene by a malicious and controlling person like say Warriors For Innocence, who successfully scared LiveJournal into banning a whole lot of writing and drawing and also queer and survivor support communities and users in 2006. These same folks are behind the Purity/Anti culture on Tumblr, and members successfully lobbied to pass FOSTA-SESTA and the subsequent "Titty Ban" on any website that relies on an app. FOSTA-SESTA, btw, has made human trafficking and harm to sex workers WORSE, not better.
So you need to start fighting WITH pornographers who are fighting censorship, because the people you think are on your side about only banning and censoring "the REAL bad stuff" are going to turn around and call YOUR stuff just as bad. They're already calling queer people obscene just for existing. They are calling us child abusers again, just for breathing. I don't think you want to be on the side of that rhetoric, because it will come for you and call YOU obscene and worthy of arrest, in the end.
also there is no moral deficiency to writing porn versus writing erotica. it's the name you give to the thing. and i rather like the comedy factor of saying i write porn.
Important! Please be aware and let your friends, family, and neighbors know too. Ring cameras enable ICE and that puts us all in danger
if you want a doorbell camera, I can recommend ones from Reolink. I installed one recently for a disabled pal who needs to let delivery people into their apartment without physically going to the door. I blocked it from contacting the internet in their router settings, and it has been happy to carry on functioning with local network access only.
if you already have a Ring one, see if you can do this - I honestly have no idea how they'd respond.
I wonder if sometimes people are afraid to have certain talks with their kids because it feels like they need to protect other people from their kids.
I think it’s hard for a lot of people to accept that their family could possibly be a problem. My kid wouldn’t have unprotected sex so I don’t need to get them that shot. My kid wouldn’t sexually assault someone so I don’t need to have that talk with them. My kid wouldn’t get arrested so I don’t need to tell them how to survive a confrontation with the cops.
Problem is though that a lot less of these things are intuitive than you’d think and you and your family are not immune to making stupid decisions.
There’s this campaign (that I think is good) to get parents to talk to their boys about consent instead of talking to their girls about being modest.
However to do that, you kind of have to admit that in a way you are protecting people from your son. Which implies that your son is capable of being a perpetrator, which is uncomfortable to think about. That this person you nursed and tried to teach to be a good person has the potential to be awful.
They do though. We all do. And I guess part of being human is learning how to confront that.
Also almost every country has laws restricting or outright banning disabled people from immigrating. They explicitly state we're "burdens" they don't want to shoulder. When everyone was joking abkut moving to Canada I had to sit there knowing I am trapped in a place that wants me dead (trans and queer) and no country will help me because they'd rather I die then burden them with my care.
"Immigrats who can contribute" is phrased to exclude disabled people :/ if we dont contribute by being smart or whatever the fuck we aren't worth helping.
I wonder if sometimes people are afraid to have certain talks with their kids because it feels like they need to protect other people from their kids.
I think it’s hard for a lot of people to accept that their family could possibly be a problem. My kid wouldn’t have unprotected sex so I don’t need to get them that shot. My kid wouldn’t sexually assault someone so I don’t need to have that talk with them. My kid wouldn’t get arrested so I don’t need to tell them how to survive a confrontation with the cops.
Problem is though that a lot less of these things are intuitive than you’d think and you and your family are not immune to making stupid decisions.
Happy birthday, Joshua Colley!!!
We're wishing the happiest of birthdays to the vivacious Joshua Colley, who plays our beloved Monty! 🎉
It's evident from all the stories shared by castmates that Joshua brought light and joy to the DBD set! 💙
If you have a second, send him lots of love! 🎂
caption by @/ashleytheebarroness on tiktok: People reach for the Gestapo comparison because it sounds extreme and foreign. It lets white Americans pretend this kind of policing came from somewhere else. But ICE looks closer to slave patrols because that's our history. Local enforcement. Racialized suspicion. Vague authority. Taking people first, justifying it later. Gestapo is a warning. Slave patrols are a mirror.
You know I hadn’t made this exact connection at first but something in my gut told me that people comparing ice to the gestapo didn’t quite feel right. This comparison does fit a lot better.
