[murraysiskind-deactivated202406]

Woman: My boyfriend is such a golden retriever

Me (trying to be open minded but clearly disgusted): Oh cool. I didn't know certain laws had changed

[sinkies]

whatever I'm out of here.

[folklorespring]

Amazing

[massmasher100]

War.

[smoothoperationz]

Pacific Rim

[folklorespring]

Fruit vendor in Tbilisi waiting for customers. 2005, Martin Roemers.

[pwhl-mybeloved]

help I just discovered ottawa’s waluigi

[elwenyere]

-- Ted Chiang, from "Why A.I. Isn't Going to Make Art"

[oldshrewsburyian]

I'm so glad they got Ted Chiang -- a wonderful writer of science fiction and thinker about technology, in my opinion -- to write this essay. My favorite line was this:

Generative A.I. appeals to people who think they can express themselves in a medium without actually working in that medium.

[sapphling]

hey dude, idk how much you remember from the party last night but- yeah, everyone saw your want. yeah no it was pretty late and winding down so it was quiet enough that every single person there saw it throbbing and twitching in your chest and so wet with hunger it was glistening under the kitchen light. they said it looked like it was reaching for something

[campyvillain]

if i think of baby swordfish again i’m gonna be sent into a coughing fit

[campyvillain]

best baby animal of all time. only the essentials (big funny snout)

[cuartosol]

christmas movie where a city girl falls for a cowboy but they're both horny lesbians

[worm-monger]

Desert Hearts (1985)

[sissa-arrows]

In France if you suffer from hair loss as a teenage girl and cannot afford a real hair wig the school will try and force you to go to class bald. The school will make you buy a chemotherapy turban, you will buy two different so that the school can choose which one they prefer and you will prove that they are chemotherapy turban and not hijab but once you wear it they will change their mind and say it looks too much like a hijab and insist on you going bald or buying a real hair wig that you cannot afford.

If your doctor makes multiple documents confirming that you suffer from alopecia because of stress and the medicine you have to take for your epilepsy and that wearing a bonnet or something is recommended for your mental health as you’re not ready to go out bald in high school as a teenage girl, instead of admitting they are wrong the school will accuse the doctor of lying and report him to the Ordre des Médecins (equivalent of the General Medical council). Your doctor will find himself asking you for a document stating that you are not Muslim in order to defend himself and prove that no he wasn’t colluding with you so you could wear a substitute for hijab.

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In France if you are a North African nurse at a public hospital and wear a fabric surgical cap they will try to make you remove it because apparently it’s a hidden hijab. They will accuse you of going against secularism and when you’ll argue that they are discriminating you by assuming you’re Muslim for a surgical cap on your head they will change their angle and claim that you should wear nothing on your hair because you wear the same surgical cap in multiple bedroom which is unhygienic apparently (which is a bullshit argument cause you wear the same scrub/uniform in different bedrooms as well). They will go as far as claiming that disposable scrub caps (you know the thin papery ones?) are not okay to wear in a hospital even if you change it regularly. And then they will fire you for a lack of hygiene because you wear a surgical cap.

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All of that will be done in the name of secularism and women’s right despite having nothing do with either quite the opposite.

The teenage girl’s story is also not just about racism and Islamophobia it’s also about ableism as the girl is convinced that the real reason the school is trying to push her out is because she had an epilepsy crisis in class and nobody knew what to do and the school nurse was absent. It could have ended badly had her best friend not known what to do to help. Apparently it was bad enough to cancel class for the rest of the day and the teacher was shocked to the point of ending on sick leave.

[rn-deliabusby]

flickr

[worm-monger]

It's still running! Different location and no bike shop. I go here for my haircut :)

[ft-rj]

[pierog]

[karis-the-feral-sideblog]

[lurker-lenore]

[clinticalthinkr]

For anyone wondering what Wild Rabbit could be writing about if not minotaur smut.

[sillystringpasta]

gun to my head, you show me the cover and tell me to guess the plot, I a) would never have come up with something as painfully non-horny as above and b) no actually i'm still stuck on point a.

[disco-dancing-in-the-desert]

[atyourservicetop]

that dorky butch will not only save you but will cherish you for everything that you are fyi

[pissvortex]

PFLP Poster commemorating the assassination of Israel's tourism minister Rehavam Ze'evi on October 17th, 2001.

From his Wikipedia page:

“Ze'evi later advocated the population transfer by agreement of 3.3 million residents of the West Bank and Gaza to Arab nations. He believed this could be accomplished by making life difficult, so they would relocate on their own, through use of military force during wartime, or by agreement with Arab nations.

In a radio interview in July 2001, Ze'evi stated that 180,000 Palestinians worked and lived illegally in Israel. He described them as a "cancer," and said Israel should rid itself of those who were not Israeli citizens "the same way you get rid of lice."”

The PFLP responded by shooting him in the head three times with a silenced pistol as he was walking to the elevator to his hotel room.