[dogpuppy]

[squirrelly-13]

they got married btw

[visit-me-here-in-wonderland]

oh you’re not kidding

[mollylele]

OK but was he really the bass player in Alvin & The Chipmunks The Squeakquel??

[wonderfultriggers]

[mitchipedia]

I can’t get over J.D. Vance correcting the Pope on Christian ethics. That’s some grandmaster-level mansplaining there, J.D.

[wonderfultriggers]

It gets so much better. JD Vance's argument that the pope's statement didn't match catholic theology was based, in his words, on the catholic doctrine known as Just War theory. Just War theory was first described by St. Augustine like 1500 years ago. Why is this important, you may be wondering. Pope Leo, before his elevation to pope, was the leader of the Augustinian Order, which is based on the teachings of St. Augustine. His dissertation is specifically about how priests in the Augustinian Order can follow St. Augustine's teachings. Additionally, on the day that Vance was lecturing the pontiff on his singular area of expertise, Leo was completing a pilgrimage to the ruins of St. Augustine's home in Algeria.

This was a world historic level of mansplaining.

[sistertaxon]

[sistertaxon]

[sistertaxon]

[sistertaxon]

[teaboot]

I need to start using other sources for news

[wonderfultriggers]

[darkwood-sleddog]

I am still trying to formulate my thoughts after what happened in Vermont a few towns over from me on Wednesday.

If you're unaware, on Wednesday, ICE agents surrounded a house near an elementary school without a warrant and the community took action. Our contact chain to get people to the scene worked. Really well. Protestors formed a human chain, blocking ICE from the house and getting a toddler to a safe location. Protestors held for six hours straight, requesting that a warrant be produced, until our city and state police assisted ICE by teargassing and brutalizing protestors and eventually entering the home. They arrested protestors and three immigrants. NONE were the individual ICE had a warrant for, he wasn't even in the house. The people taken into custody were here seeking legal asylum.

Vermont is one of the whitest states in the country and has some of the lowest % of immigrants. Just throwing that out there for reasons...

I don't know what's going to happen over the next few days. I'm trying to formulate my anger at what happened and the pride i feel for how effective our community response was together. Just know that VT is small, but takes this shit so seriously. They don't call us the Brave Little State for nothing. We threw JD Vance out in like a day in 2025. We should be boiling sap right now. But we have time for this too.

"We owe no allegiance, we bow to no throne, Our ruler is law and the law is our own; Our leaders themselves are our own fellow-men, Who can handle the sword, or the scythe, or the pen." - The Song of the Vermonters, 1779.

[rostekhorn]

The fact that these stories always end with "and then the cops came and assaulted the protesters because all that talk about how much cops hate ICE was always bullshit." Even though ICE refused for six hours to produce a warrant, meaning the only lawful reason for the police to be there should have been to tell them to disperse.

Police departments in blue cities and states are literally red state armies of occupation. They have been for several decades, but most blues still refuse to wake up to it.

[unbearable-lightness-of-ink]

dear smut writers,

to lave means to wash/bathe/lap at, and it's in basically every sex scene ever

a lathe is a machine that smoothes a spinning piece of wood or metal by cutting thin layers off it, and it's also in an unfortunate number of sex scenes

so when you say things like this:

I am imagining things like this:

[cephalon-sancti]

Lathe perfect size and shape for put penis in for comfort! Put penis in lathe. No problems ever in lathe because good of shape and support for penis. A lathe yes a place for put of penis can trust lathe for giving good time to penis. Friend lathe.

[wonderfultriggers]

Good news! Spinning someone fast enough that you can lathe their penis would almost certainly be fatal after a few moments, so they will not suffer when you begin removing material to achieve your desired profile.

[whydidisavethistomyphone]

[relevant-wikipedia-articles]

Crumple zone - Wikipedia

[librarychair]

The amount of safety features incorporated into modern cars is unreal. I've seen crashes where the car flipped over and the occupant only had minor injuries. My dad was t-boned by someone speeding off the highway and walked away with a broken arm. The car was completely smashed except for the passenger compartment, which was curtained on all sides with airbags. That one manufacturer has decided they are exempt from implementing all these advancements disgusting and terrifying

When I was going through driver's ed I was taught that the steering column would stab through your chest if you crashed head on and that was just the way it was. We do not want to go back, not even a little

[foone]

The point of car safety features is that the car is supposed to die in an accident so you don't have to. Your car should be a pile of smoking rubble after an accident, and you should be fine.

[a-teacup-of-golden-cracks]

[elalmadelmar]

I totaled my first car. Like, the car itself just stopped where the windshield met the dashboard. Ahead of that point, there was no more car. It was gone.

Me? I had some really spectacular bruises and a lil friction burn on my nose from where Mr. Airbag and Ms. Glasses had a disagreement. That's it. That's it.

I was driving a little tiny coupe and went more or less head-on with a pickup truck. The entire engine and hood of my car was twisted rubble that was not connected to the rest of the car afterward. I sat down on the verge, about twenty or thirty feet from the accident, while I waited for the cops and EMTs to work their way through the traffic backup to get to us, and found that I was sitting beside one of the headlights of my car. The whole entire headlight, bulb and reflector and cover and frame and all.

All I had were bruises and that little friction burn. That's it.

Crumple zones save lives. So do seatbelts and airbags; half the bruising was the exact shape of my seatbelt in livid crimson and black on my torso. It was and remains the most insanely intense bruising I have ever experienced in my life. BUT IT WAS JUST BRUISING!! Unpleasant, sure, but eminently survivable and didn't even require much treatment beyond not wearing a bra for a few days. But all the force that created that spectacular bruising was force that wasn't flinging me through the windshield or impaling me on the steering column. My car crumpled and crushed and dissolved but it held me safe and secure and protected.

Crumple zones save lives. You do not want your car to look undamaged after the accident, because that means it made like a Newton's Cradle and passed every bit of the impact straight through to your soft and highly crushable body.

[wonderfultriggers]

The Newton's Cradle metaphor is apt. A cop who specialized in accident investigation used to be a regular at a bar I worked at, and he explained it like this: A car accident isn't one collision, it's three. The first is the obvious one, the car hitting something. The next is your skin and skeleton hitting the interior of the car. And the final is your organs hitting the inside of your skeleton. The second one can be very bad, but the third one is generally the one that maims or kills you.

Modern safety features mean like 90% of the energy is absorbed in collision one and whatever's left is absorbed in the second collision.

Those of us who are a bit older remember the videos they used to show in Driver's Ed of how bad collisions can be. Modern safety features are a fucking miracle. Musk ignoring them (probably because he thinks FSD makes them unnecessary) should be considered tantamount to negligent homicide.

[portraitoftheoddity]

My favorite part of youtube is the part of it that is middle-aged-to-old guys with zero production value who have made a simple, low-quality video on their phones about how to repair the exact fucking appliance that has been giving me grief so I can fix that fucker myself instead of spending hundreds of dollars to hire someone.

These men are all my honorary uncles and I love them.

[ashlgcostumes]

Quite frankly if a cis woman wants he/him pronouns a. Good for him and b. So much the better for everyone else. Enough biological linguistics, everyone needs to get a little weird with it

[wonderfultriggers]

Everyone needs to be weirder/hornier on main if we're gonna reverse the trends that brought us to this shit-ass version of society. It's hard to label anything degenerate when we're all fucking weird or weirdly fucking.

[sadhoc]

i hope isabel fall is ok. i hope she transitioned again already. i hope she is surrounded by love, by people who love her and know her as the woman she is. i hope she's writing again, under a different name that nobody knows is her, and that she can be secure in that her writing is loved for its merits without being tied to her victimization. i hope she's doing better than any of us could imagine.

[depsidase]

[mollylele]

A "Democratic strategist" said this to MSNBC 👏to👏day:

We are so cooked.

[screampotato]

Suddenly struck with a need to explain to you how boat pronouns work (I work in the marine industry).

When you're talking about the design of the boat, you say "it".

When the boat is still being built, your say "it".

When the boat is nearing completion, you can say "it" or "she".

When the boat is floating in the water you probably say "she", unless there is still a lot of work to be done (e.g. no engine yet) then you say "it".

When the boat is officially launched and operating, you say "she". If you continue to say "it" at this point you are not incorrect but suspiciously untraditional. You are not playing the game.

If you are referring to a boat you don't really know anything about you may say "it" ("there's a big boat, it's coming this way"). But if you know its name, it's probably "she" ("there's the Waverley, she's on her way to Greenock").

If you are talking about boats in general, you say "it" ("when a boat is hit by a wave it heels over")

If you speak about a boat in complimentary terms, it's "she" ("she's a grand boat"). If you are being disparaging it may be it, but not necessarily ("it's as ugly as sin", "she's a grotty old tub").

If she has a boy's name, she's still she. "Boy James", "King Edward", "Sir David Attenborough"? The pronoun is she.

If it's a dumb barge (no engine), you say it. But if it's a rowing boat (no engine), you say she.

I hope this has cleared things up so that you may not be in danger of misgendering floating objects.

[glitched-out-mess]

[wonderfultriggers]

This is not universal, btw. In some languages/cultures ships are generally treated as male, and in some they don't gender them at all. There was an interesting reddit thread about it some years ago.

[sanctuarytiktok]

🌈Frill_ on TikTok🕊️

[marlynnofmany]

#this is one of those 'oh yeah we're stewards of the planet' moments #the skill with which she grabbed that bird tho #apex predators who take it upon themselves to heal and repair little things…

[gardensofcanaan]

@a-rogue-god

[wonderfultriggers]

#this is one of those 'oh yeah we're stewards of the planet' moments

Yes, we are, but specifically: pigeons are not a wild species, they are the feral remnants of a domesticated species, and so we are even more so stewards for them.

[wilwheaton]

someone finally admitted it

[consistent-sincerity]

White supremacists: "All you inferior types are lazy and dumb, that's why we run the country and will always run the country."

Barack Obama, respected Constitutional scholar: "Now I'm your president."

White supremacists: "But... that's impossible! We've been cheating so hard!"

Barack Obama: "Well I just became your president again."

White supremacists: "Turn up the cheating to 11 and get our best guy in here!!"

Donald Trump, pedophile rapist and Russian asset: "covfefe"

[wonderfultriggers]

I have asked multiple conservatives on social media what was so divisive about Obama and to a one they all tell me that it was when he said Trayvon Martin "could have been my son".

Just showing compassion for an innocent victim of racist violence was enough to set them off.

[jellogram]

Johnny Eck was a performer from the 1930s who was born without any legs:

He's primarily known for appearing in the 1932 cult classic Freaks directed by Tod Browning.

However what I'm mostly obsessed with is this account of a magic trick he did with his non-disabled twin brother (text under the cut)

Like this is the funniest thing I've ever heard. Can you imagine

Wikipedia screenshot:

"In 1937, Eck and Robert were recruited by the illusionist and hypnotist Rajah Raboid, for his "Miracles of 1937" show. In it they performed a magic feat that amazed audiences. Raboid performed the traditional sawing-a-man-in-half illusion, except with an unexpected twist. At first Robert would pretend to be a member of the audience and heckle the illusionist during his routine, resulting in Robert being called on stage to be sawed in half himself. During the illusion, Robert would then be switched with his twin brother Eck, who played the top half of his body, and a dwarf who played the bottom half, concealed in specially-built pant legs. After seeming to have been sawn off, the legs would suddenly get up and start running away, prompting Eck to jump off the table and start chasing them around the stage, screaming, "Come back!" "I want my legs back!" Sometimes he even chased the legs into the audience. The subsequent reaction was amazing – people would scream and sometimes even flee the theater in terror. As Eck described it, "The men were more frightened than the women – the women couldn't move because the men were walking across their laps, headed for the exit." The act provided the perfect jolt by frightening people at first but then caused just as much laughter and applause. The illusion would end with stage hands plucking up Eck and setting him atop "his" legs and then twirling him off-stage to be replaced by his twin Robert, who would then loudly threaten to sue Raboid and storm out of the theater. Their act was so popular that they played to packed audiences up and down the East Coast."

[wilwheaton]

no purity tests

Voter suppression is very real, and it doesn't just show up as long lines, gerrymandering, and other physical barriers to putting your ballot in the box.

Voter suppression most frequently means demoralizing, discouraging, and other emotionally manipulative ways to convince people that their vote doesn't matter. One of the most common and effective tactics online is to work people up with purity tests, to convince people that, for instance, it's a good idea to kneecap the one guy who is currently the loudest and most effective voice countering Trump, because [fill in whatever the reason, usually that he's a lame centrist].

Newsom is my governor. He leaves a LOT to be desired for leftists like me, but he's a powerful, effective, unflinching and relentless voice speaking truth to Fascism. We need him. We need more voices like his.

So when you hear someone praising him for speaking up, when you see one of his clever posts skewering shitler, and you see people responding positively to his willingness to fight, and fight hard, just join in that celebration. And shut down anyone who does "yeah, but ..." because now is not the time.

We are all in this together. Fuck Trump, fuck Maga, and fuck everyone who supports them.

They are our enemy -- a word I don't use lightly -- and we need to remember that. Stay on target.

[wonderfultriggers]

No. No, no, no, no, no.

We are over 2 years away from the start of primary season. "Vote blue no matter who" logic is half the reason we're where we are right now but at least it sort of made sense in the general election when we're basically stuck with the candidate. We are not doing that shit years before the primary process even starts.

Gavin Newsom is fighting and that is good and should be praised so that other democrats see a positive response and hopefully figure out that fighting is how you get votes, but that does not change the fact that Gavin Newsom is amongst the worst democratic politicians on the national stage. A joke going around right now is 'Gavin Newsom hates homeless people and republicans, and he's all out of homeless people" and it isn't wrong - this man has on multiple occasions personally destroyed the belongings of unhoused people.

He started a podcast and his first three guests were Charlie Kirk, Michael Savage, and Steve Bannon, and he was buddy buddy with all of them - and more importantly, agreed with them on things like trans rights.

We are not letting this shit slide years out of an election. We can't. You let this slide now and by the time primary season comes along, you've basically conceded these points and this psycho is the nominee and we're stuck hearing about how we have to vote for the lesser of two evils again. We've done that twice in the last three elections and it's worked exactly zero times.

We are not going to minimize the things wrong with this piece of shit just because he's got some good coms people and he's not completely afraid of the moment. He's got multiple completely disqualifying faults and no one who has paid any attention to him over his career could possible believe he'd be the sort of president we need to start reversing the damage of this administration.

[kat-of-letters]

i know that “don’t harass people for being weird, they might be autistic!” is a fairly popular take on here. but as a Certified Autist, i’d like to add that harassing allistic and/or neurotypical people for being weird is also bad, and should not be done

and before you come in with “yeah, you never know who is and isn’t autistic, and you shouldn’t force people to out themselves!” i want to say two things: one, i agree. and two, even if you could magically avoid ever harassing a single autistic person, it still wouldn’t be okay to go after NTs for being weird. they’re people, janice. they’re allowed to be really invested in naruto

[blujayonthewing]

#stop playing the game of ‘who is it okay for me to hurt?’ #the answer is no one #the answer is ALWAYS going to be no one #none people is the correct number of people to hurt [X]

[wonderfultriggers]

One minor correction to the tags: It's not only ok, but encouraged to hurt nazis. It's real annoying that this is relevant currently, but it sadly is.

Everyone else is off limits, tho. Embrace the freedom of letting other people be, it's amazing.

[mortalityplays]

I Sexually Identify as an Attack Helicopter was one of the best works of sci-fi of our generation and one of the best works of transgender fiction ever written, and there are world renowned authors who still have successful careers after they publicly assassinated the nascent woman who wrote it. I don't think they should ever know peace.

[mortalityplays]

Isabel Fall is the patron saint of works unwritten and art unmade by a culture that cannot tolerate trans women

[mortalityplays]

I think this constantly and then I get angry for thinking it, because trans women should not have to be martyrs or saints to animate our politics and our art. that work should have been her debut, not her epitaph. I should be moved by her career, not her absence. I could spit.

[mortalityplays]

read it again

[3liza]