Racecar time

M32. South Indiana. add me on snap. looking to find more internet friends. 👻: canadaarm3 379% post ironic sludge

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[facts-i-just-made-up]

The Only Known Photo of Mary Todd Lincoln

Best known as the wife of Abe Lincoln, Mary Todd’s past as a bandit in the American West prior to her marriage to the president is often hidden away and suppressed to showcase her puritan-approved married life.

Seen here at the Siege of Thunderdome in 1830s Nevada, Mary killed seven sheriffs to steal the fabled gold of John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt with her band of sisters, all of whom were literally her sisters. In the end she proved impossible to catch, so Abe married her to join their empires. She and her siblings proved critical in the civil war, destroying numerous Confederate forts, kidnapping Confederate President Jeff Davidson, and burning the South’s entire supply of gingham fabric.

Though she remained more quiet during Abe’s life, her spirit couldn’t be held down after his assassination, upon which she tackled John Wilkes Booth, ripped out his eyes and testicles, and ate his entire trachea on the spot. They won’t teach this is American History class of course, but the photo shows her true vibrant spirit.

[facts-i-just-made-up]

It too is a Lincoln.

[despazito]

every redpill dudebro who thinks life was better and more “traditional” in the 50s needs to be sentenced to eat 50s food for the rest of their lives

[despazito]

they want a happy housewife but what will happen when she serves them this

[jokers-coffee-scented-booty]

Excuse me but what the fresh hell

[shadovvlurking]

Do not get me started on 50s food and their obsession with fucked up jello molds and fruit

[vivalafaerie]

why were the 50s so weird. it looks like what aliens imagine human food to be. if you told my grandma, who has never even seen cooked meat in her life, “This is what American food is”, she’d believe you and be confused forever by America. 

[lunetta-suzie-jewel]

I wanna say there was some kinda food revolution, like preservatives had just been invented or something, but I’m actually not sure |D it sounds like the sort of thing @pargolettasworld might know about?

[pargolettasworld]

As it happens, because I am a dyed-in-the-wool cultural geek … yes, there was some kind of food revolution!  More accurately, several mini-revolutions.

First, you had a lot of commercially prepared products like Jello and Spam (Spam, Spam, Spam …) and things like that being available to the general public for the first time.  A lot of these recipes come from ads for processed foods; they’re “serving suggestions” writ fancy.

Second, the Jello molds in particular are a democratization of an old-fashioned and very upper-class way of preserving perishable foods, which was to encase them in a meat jelly called aspic.  The aspic would preserve the food by preventing bacteria from getting at it.  It took time and effort to make an aspic, so it was rich-people food, prepared by cooks in big houses.  Jello (in its more savory flavors) could do the exact same thing, except that one lone housewife could make a Jello mold cheaply and easily.  I’m not saying that aspic was necessarily the most appealing food out there, but it was high-status because it was associated with Fancy European Aristocrats.

Third, more people had refrigerators, not just iceboxes.  A lot of these dishes need to be chilled, so here’s a way to use one of your fancy new kitchen appliances.

Fourth, this is not everyday food, for which we are all grateful.  It’s Fancy Food, meant to show off.  You’d serve it at a party (and then, presumably, your friends would retaliate by holding another party and serving something else equally revolting).  So this is food that takes careful preparation, lots of time, and lots of effort.  You, as the Middle-Class Fifties Housewife, are showing off your new postwar prosperity.  You have the skill to make food look … um, “attractive,” you have the money to buy all these ingredients, you have the kitchen equipment and appliances to prepare them, and because your husband works a comfortable middle-class job, you have the time to stay at home all day and construct something like this.  This kind of food is the physical manifestation of Thorstein Veblen’s theory of Conspicuous Consumption.

Fifth, if you’re a housewife making this in the 50s and 60s and even into the 70s, there’s a good chance that you were born in the 20s or 30s, and that you grew up during the Depression and WWII.  You might have grown up poor, not having access to a wide variety of food, or not having time or a place to prepare it.  You might have seen fancy food in magazines, but not a chance that that kind of eating would ever trickle down to you!  And then … voila, it did!  I think a lot of this sort of thing is just a grownup way to play with food, to experiment with all the neat new things that technology, processing, and a new tax bracket could bring you.  These are adult mud pies; who cares how it tastes?  We can make it look Really Cool!  We don’t care all that much about specific nutritional value; we’re just so happy to have all this food, and sufficient calories, that we’ll just play with it and try it in weird combinations and enjoy it.  (Or, I suspect, “enjoy” it.)

And just remember … we mock the people who made this stuff, but the 1990s rolled around and brought us Lunchables, and the 2010s brought us molecular gastronomy.  Same shit, different decades.

[moon--mama]

Reblogging for this very academic explanation…stuff I never would have thought of concerning bananas and jello on top of meat lol.

Thinking of my grandparents, though, this makes total sense. So… TLDR; Savory jello meals in mid-century cookbooks are a result of the rise of the middle class following WWII, reacting to the Great Depression.

[gogogoat495]

[Image ID: First image looks to be shrimp in green jello, with a centerpiece of potato salad and served with shrimp and apple slices. Other images are a bunch of old recipe cards, including “Ham and Bananas Hollandaise” (exactly what it sounds like), “Crown Roast of Frankfurters” (a bunch of hotdogs propped up as the walls of some sort of shredded salad), “Perfection Salad” (salad in jello), “Sweet-Sour Chicken Mold” (chicken jello with a garnish), “Lemon-Nut Vegetable Mold” (exactly what it sounds like), and “Milk Chicken” (chicken dressed with milk and banana and served with vegetables and mashed potatoes) /End ID]

[kosmogrl]

[fucking-relax]

this is helpful to getting started on anything regardless of what you call it (from this post)

problem solving steps

IMPROVE distress tolerance skill

[blackbearmagic]

resources

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

sorry if this is a stupid and/or weird question but your response to that anon talking about people experiencing orgasms during childbirth made me wonder if there's a certain point in development after which it'd be weird for pregnant people to have sex or masturbate, since after a certain point the fetus(?) can hear? like, should people do it quietly or does it just not really matter? sorry again but i am genuinely clueless

should. should pregnant people have sex quietly so their baby doesn't hear?

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

okay even assuming your unborn child can hear you fucking. it's like having sex in front of your stuffed animals or your dog, dude. they have absolutely no understand of what is going on. they don't give a shit. at no point is any person who has ever or will ever be born going to go "oooooh man I think hearing my parents fuck while I was in utero really fucked me up actually" that's not how anything works. they're too busy going "mmm yummy amniotic fluid" they do not know or care that sex is happening

[rainbow-demoness]

I swear this is a consequence of the "life begins at conception" propaganda. Combined with the recurrent moral panic about "protecting children" (from knowledge).

Absolutely rancid combination of Christian morality with Christian morality.

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

I'm sad to say that the rise of fascism has been visible in my inbox for years as people become increasingly distrustful of their own bodies and pleasure. you see it in people's paranoia around becoming "porn addicts," their need for reassurance that a 24 year old isn't a predator for dating a 22 year old, their fears that they may have unwittingly committed assault by looking at another child's naked body when they were young, their insistence that consensual sex is impossible for anyone who has had a single drink or smoked a whiff of weed. people, especially young people, are doing a tremendous amount of work for fascism in terms of rigorously policing their own bodies and sexual expression, and they often don't even realize it.

[dogpuppy]

[victusinveritas]

[black-crested-jaybird]

I always think of the description I saw years ago: Self-imposed deadlines don't help me, because I know the person who set them, and they're full of shit.

[37q]

[antisocial-transfag]

tags by nothorses

[passengerpigeons]

do u ever think about corn sweat; and the fact that a large percent of corn grown in Illinois, iowa, etc is grown for ethanol and biofuel; and how solar power would be so many times more effective per acre than this; and how like 90+% of so many rare ecosystems in those states was drained for farm and suburbs (in many cases previously farms).

[passengerpigeons]

AND you could still have native plants around and even under the solar panels.

[passengerpigeons]

When you see what they did to the Midwest you'll want to fucking kill the corn lobbyists with your bare hands

[marvellegends]

[dalenthas]

Look y'all, this reveal means so much to me. So many times in movies these days there are big reveals for the audience’s benefit that mean absolutely nothing in the context of the story or to the characters in it. I’m talking the Thanos cameo in the Avengers’ stinger, I’m talking Benedict CumberKhan in Star Trek, I’m talking about every hackneyed “This character is actually this other character” when in universe nobody knows nor cares about their true identity.

But here? This reveal? This is a Big Reveal for us, Peter B Parker, and Miles, all on different levels. We and Peter both know Doc Ock is a portly dude, not a woman. We know the name Octavius… Otto Octavius. But when she says her name is Olivia Octavius we’re clued in to the fact that Doctor Octopus is a woman in this universe. And she has Peter captive.

Miles, if he was paying attention in science class earlier in the movie, would have known her name was Olivia Octavius, but that doesn’t mean anything to him, why would it? Liv has apparently been very good about keeping her supervillainy a secret. She’s in educational videos shown in high-schools. So to Miles, the reveal here is this scientist lady, who he knew enough about to know was the head scientist at Alchemax, is a supervillain. He gets the reveal a second or two after Peter.

And the movie? It was dropping hints the entire time, confident in our expectations blinding is to the truth. Olivia’s name was partially visible when Miles got to science class. Her glasses are octagonal. The lights in her lab are octagonal. We know she’s working with the Kingpin. Why wouldn’t she be a supervillain? Because she’s hot? Hell, Peter even says he needs to reexamine his internal biases. Maybe he was telling us that we should too.

It’s a reveal for us, and for our heroes. It means something, both in-universe and out. And that makes it infinitely better than other similar reveals.

[rednines]

I’m not reading all that I want her to dissect me

[prettyinpinkcatgamer]

average tumblr interaction

[evergreen-femme]

had to share this

[wizardshark]

In every way this is set up to be a joke like any other short video, it even uses the trope of main character in a wig to represent their mom, but it isn't funny at all. It's just sweet and nice

[astral-icecream]

[batboyblog]

2026 Elections, you'd better Vote!

Yes, Election Day is less than 80 days away and it's the first time for Americans to vote on how they feel about Trump 2.0. How you feeling about it? bad? okay! lets do something!

here's a run down of Senate races, if you're able you better get out there, knock doors, make calls, text, send postcards whatever you're able to do!

Senate

Alaska

Mary Peltola

Alaska is usually a Republican state but in 2022 Mary Peltola won an upset victory to become the state's only Congressperson, the first Democrat in that office since 1972. Mary is the first and only Alaska Native to have served in Congress. She was narrowly beaten in 2024 when the state went to Trump by 15 points but Peltola lost by only 2. Now she's back running for the US Senate. Peltola is known for her slogan "Fish, Family, and Freedom" pushing to protect Alaska's fisheries, protect small businesses from huge corporations, and reign in an out of control politics in Washington. Peltola is running against Republican Senator Dan Sullivan who unlike Alaska's other Senator has been a rubber stamp for Trump supporting basically everything the second Trump administration has done not even offering fig leaf oversight and happily selling our Alaska.

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Georgia

Jon Ossoff

Senator Jon Ossoff dramatically won his Senate in a run off taking place just after the 2020 Presidential election. It was an incredibly narrow win in a traditionally Republican state. In his 6 years as one of Georgia's first Democratic Senators in a generation Ossoff has become a powerful voice. His cutting questions during hearings often nail Trump administration figures and offer some of the only oversight for this messy government. Ossoff has consistently fought to protect voting rights in the name of his mentor the late Congressman John Lewis. Going into this year it was widely believed Ossoff faced the toughest re-election of any Democratic Senator. Trump endorsed Republican Congressman Mike Collins is running to unseat Ossoff. Members of Collins staff have been linked to white nationalist groups and Collins himself is under an ethics investigation. Collins is also known for Trump levels of crazy posting on-line. Georgia has a choice between a smart, hard working, forward looking Senator, and a very on-line 60 year old troll. Vote accordingly.

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Iowa

Josh Turek

Gold medal winning Paralympian and State Rep Josh Turek is running to flip usually Republican Iowa. Since Obama's 2012 win in the state Iowa has made a major and massive shift from swing state to deep red. However Trump's tariff policy has been devastating to farm country leading to a 200% rise in farm bankruptcy. This looks like setting off an earthquake in Iowa politics with Senate, Governor and 3 of its 4 House seats in play. Before running for office Josh Turek was a professional wheelchair basketball player winning gold with the US men's team at the 2016 and 2020 Paralympics. In the Iowa House he's focused on disability rights, fighting to pass a bill to allow disabled Iowans to work while on Medicaid. He's also stood up for farmers and their right to repair their own equipment. He's running against Republican Congresswoman Ashley Hinson. Hinson in Congress has supported Trump's "Big Beautiful Bill" and voted against a War Powers act that would have forced Trump to stop his war with Iran.

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Maine

Troy Jackson

Maine was the most highly anticipated Senate race going into this cycle. Incumbent Susan Collins is widely understood to be the most at risk Republican incumbent this cycle. For decades Collins ran as a pro-choice Republican only to be the deciding vote for Trump's Supreme Court Justices who overturned Roe V Wade. While Collins makes a show of voting against Trump on key issues it always seems to come right after Senate Republicans already have enough votes to pass it without her. Troy Jackson is the former President of the Maine State Senate, having represented Republican leaning districts in Northern Maine in the State Senate and House. While State Senate President Jackson worked with Governor Mills and State House Democrats to pass laws protecting abortion rights, force insurance companies to cover contraceptives with no out of pocket cost, and ensure free community college for Maine students. If you volunteer to knock doors, who knows you might be knocking with me.

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Michigan

Abdul El-Sayed

Democratic Senator Gary Peters is retiring setting up a hotly contested open Senate election in one of America's most swingy swing states. Republicans have nominated Trump endorsed former Congressman Mike Rogers. Rogers was also the GOP's 2022 Senate nominee and was endorsed by Trump that time as well. Once a moderate Rogers as embraced Trump's election denial even putting people who took part in Trump's fake electors scheme in leadership roles in his campaign. Rogers has endorsed Trump's tariffs, a trade war with Canada, and Trump's ICE terror immigration policy. Abdul El-Sayed is a long time public health official in the Detroit area. El-Sayed came to national attention for his 2018 Democratic primary campaign for Michigan governor where he centered Medicare for All which is still a centerpiece of his politics in this run for US Senate.

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Nebraska

Dan Osborn

This is an unusual race in normally deep red Nebraska. Union organizer Dan Osborn is running as an Independent candidate but has been endorsed by the Nebraska Democratic Party. Osborn ran for Senate in 2024 making the first competitive Senate election in Republican dominated Nebraska in a generation. Osborn is running on a pro-Union economic populist message that endorses raising the minimum wage, lowering retirement age, and higher taxes for billionaires. Osborn also endorses a "Libertarian" get the government out approach to social issues like abortion. Osborn will face off against incumbent Republican Senator and former Governor Pete Ricketts. Ricketts is a multi-millionaire co-owner of the Chicago Cubs, who was appointed to fill the Senate seat in 2023 in a sweetheart deal appointed immediately after leaving the Governor's office. As governor he's best known for pushing for Nebraska's first execution since 1997. In the Senate the first 3 bills Ricketts sponsored were abortion bans.

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New Hampshire

Chris Pappas

Long time Democratic Senator Jeanne Shaheen is retiring setting up an open Senate seat in New England swing state. Congressman Chris Pappas is running to take Shaheen's place. Since New Hampshire has one of the latest primaries (in September) it's not officially official that Pappas will be the nominee but it looks all but certain. Pappas has represented New Hampshire's Republican leaning sea coast district since 2018. If elected Pappas would be the first openly gay male Senator in American history, and the first person in a same-sex marriage to serve as a Senator. Pappas is running on an aggressive anti-corruption platform to hold Trump and his administration accountable. Former Massachusetts Republican Senator Scott Brown is making his second try to become a Senator from New Hampshire in the GOP Primary. However it's much more likely Former New Hampshire Senator John E. Sununu will be the Republican nominee. Sununu's father and brother were both New Hampshire Governors and John served one term as a Senator back during the Bush Administration.

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North Carolina

Roy Cooper

North Carolina has been a swing state in every Presidential election since 2008 and 4 times its narrowly swung Republican. However this Senate election Democrats are hopeful to finally flip North Carolina blue. Democratic Former Governor Roy Cooper is running for the Senate. Cooper was first elected Governor in 2016 as part of the backlash against North Carolina Republican's bathroom bill which he helped overturn. Cooper fought for years against the Republican majority in the State House to expand Medicaid bring health care to over 600,000 low income North Carolinians. Republican Senator and sometime Trump critic Thom Tillis was basically bullied out of running for re-election by Trump. Trump's hand picked replacement is former Republican National Committee Chair Michael Whatley. Whatley only "qualification" is his support of Trump having never held public office and only ever worked for the Republican Party.

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Ohio

Sherrod Brown

Over the last ten years Ohio has shifted from a swing state to a deep red state. However like in Iowa Trump's disastrous economic policies look like they're unleashing a political earthquake. Democratic Former Senator Sherrod Brown is seeking a political comeback. Brown was Ohio's Senator from 2007 till losing his bid for re-election in 2024. He was considered one of the most progressive Senators even as Ohio became a Red state. Through his whole career from his time in the US House to being a Senator Brown fought for universal healthcare, even refusing the Congressional health plan for decades till average people could get that level of care. Brown was often ranked along side Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren for his progressive stands on the economy and consumer protections. He's running against Republican Former Lt. Governor Jon Husted who was appointed to the seat when JD Vance resigned to become Vice-President.

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South Carolina

Annie Andrews

Usually Republican South Carolina's Senate election has been thrown into chaos by the death of long time Republican Senator Lindsey Graham. Even before Graham's death early polling showed an unusually close race. Democrat Dr. Annie Andrews is a pediatrician who ran against Republican Nancy Mace in 2022. She made the choice to run against Lindsey Graham when he voted to confirm FRK Jr as Health and Human Services Secretary. Healthcare and abortion rights have been major issues for Andrews' campaign. The Republican side has been thrown into a messy emergency primary by the death of Graham who had already won renomination in a normal primary before he died. He was replaced by his sister, Darline Graham, who was endorsed by Trump for the job. Many people did not expect Darline to run for a full term, but she is, and faced half a dozen other Republicans. Darline will face off with long time Republican Congressman Ralph Norman in a run off election who called for martial law in 2021 to stop Joe Biden from taking office.

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Texas

James Talarico

There was a time that Texas may as well have been a synonym for Red State, but starting in 2018 there has been rumblings of a shift. Democrats have nominated State Representative James Talarico. Talarico has centered his faith for a vision of a compassionate Christianity and progressive values. His idea of a more compassionate society includes expanding health care access, immigration reform, protecting LGBT rights, and even stepping away from Texas' traditional oil and gas only views on energy to help protect the planet. Republicans have nominated the most corrupt politician in America not named Trump, Texas' Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton. Paxton narrowly beat being impeached for his corruption by the Republican dominated State Senate. Paxton has also been the subject of a number of criminal investigations. Past his widely understood corruption Paxton is a raving right wing nut, using his office to harass doctors and hospitals in other states over gender-affirmative Care. Paxton also declared he'd defend and try to enforce Taxes anti-gay sex law even though it was ruled unconstitutional in 2003.

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Even if You don't live in one of these states, don't think that means you can sit this election out! Where ever you live there are key races, from School Board, City council, County commission, State House, Governor, and US House! Even if your Senate election doesn't look close, you never know, you lose every election you don't run!

AND! almost every single one of these candidates offers options to phonebank or textbank from anywhere in America for them! you can make a difference where ever you are.

and you can send post cards to voters, here's the organizations that do that

Postcards to Voters

Progressive Turnout Project

Center for Common Ground (focusing on the issue of voting rights and black voters

Activate America

If you plan on post carding, now is the moment, click that link right now and sign up!

And if you're not an American, I'm sorry, do us the favor of reflagging this so more Americans see it? I'll write up a Governor's one soon, good luck, vote, volunteer, fight!

[katmaibearfan]

ohhhhhhhh my GOODNESS 901jr is being ADORABLE right now!!!

[katmaibearfan]

GIRL HOW ARE YOU SO FLUFFY 😭

[katmaibearfan]

OH COME ON

[katmaibearfan]

glad to see that we are all being very normal about 901jr

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[rrondo]

[forcekenobi]

as a child being told "the moon controls the tides" with no additional explanation was like. oh okay. you want me to believe in magic? you're talking about magic right now? okay. fine

[forcekenobi]

sorry. only semi-related but i simply wasn't ready for "the sun is a distant gorilla". thank you NASA

[hyperchaotix]

[icarus-suraki]