techno bros being like "99% of jobs will be replaced by AI" bc they forget, like, real jobs that exist. like janitor. or. baker.

every show shld have a girl that loves to lie

she is literally right

[Photo ID: A comment on this post reading "arching the back during sex is a stereotypical involuntary pleasure response of cis women. If he wants to see his girlfriend express pleasure, then why is he not simply a more generous lover? Men ask for performances such as arching the back, curling the toes, moaning, crossed eyes etc because they want the ego boost of "being good at sex," but they're not willing to put in actual work to make straight sex enjoyable for women. According to the BBC, a 2017 study found that straight women report the lowest percentage of climax during sex at 65%, behind every other demographic surveyed. By contrast, straight men report the highest, at 95%. Why do men, who statistically receive the most satisfaction from straight sex, impose so many demands for extra labor on their partners? Why must straight women, who rarely even get to cum, perform as though they are cumming? Why must straight women shave their entire bodies, wear tiny uncomfortable clothes, moan and contort themselves, for a person whose enjoyment is already practically assured? For a person who can't even be bothered to do the minimal work of returning the favor? Straight sex comes across less as actual lovemaking and more like a masturbatory practice in which men use women's bodies like fleshlights. Forgive straight women if they are perhaps fed up. Mistreated people sometimes indulge in rude language as an outlet." End ID]

Today in Oscar Catchups I'm watching musicals. Wicked and A Complete Unknown. The only nominated musicals. Nothing else

Wicked is about an interracial college lesbian relationship that falls apart when the Black* woman becomes a communist and the white woman gets an internship at Lockheed Martin. (except also the CEO of Lockheed Martin is the Black woman's dad and she technically turned down the internship first)

Elphaba is radicalized in college after overcoming her self-hatred by having professors of color* and studying disability politics for her sister and getting in on an insane scholarship ride while Glinda is a legacy admission and their first argument is Glinda trying to argue that Elphaba is actually more privileged than her because she doesn't have to pay for uni while technically Glinda does

Glinda tops but she's awful at it and is super self-conscious about it so she pretends to be a pillow princess. But deep down she knows she'd be happy topping but, and again this is critical, she's terrible at it. She knows it. Elphaba is a bottom but in her first two years of uni she gets too deep in the weeds of left-wing theory and starts agonizing about whether it's Problematic of her to bottom because of the complex dynamics of her race and gender and then someone finally forces her to smoke weed in junior year and suddenly she's like "Wait all of that is stupid" so she's fine again

anyway now I'm home and luka is curled up next to me purring 🥰

this guy

they put me in a fucking LIVER now?

honestly. it was fine. the thing about livers is

1. they're big, but there's not many different surgeons so the surgeries always have the exact same supplies and go the same way every time. the scrub person is specially trained and knows everything about the sets and supplies, so you don't need to worry about that piece. and there's a ton of resources on the computer for us to check. and they always take AGES to get situated after being put to sleep

2. back when I was in training, I was put in many of these, many days in a row, with the assumption that I'd be doing them a lot, and I got to not only get the sense of the flow of the case and take excruciatingly meticulous notes, I got to really get to know the team and develop good relationships with them

so I had a lot to do, but a lot of of help, a lot of resources, and a lot of downtime. and also I called the coordinator like four times lol

with the way that economic sanctions predictably kill people, they should be viewed as weapons of war, like indiscriminate bombing campaigns. they're usually less dramatic on the news than bombs and special forces raids, making them easier to ignore, but they don't destroy lives and stop society functioning normally any less for that

when your country is cut off from trade, banking, and its own foreign reserves, its currency usually collapses. prices go up fast but wages don’t. food, utilities, rent, and medicine all become more expensive at the same time. if you're already living close to the edge, you end up skipping meals, delaying medical care, and choosing between heating and eating

healthcare is another major place you're going to get screwed over. even when sanctions technically allow medical goods through, hospitals often still struggle to get what they need. banks and payment processors refuse to put payments through, shipping companies don't want to deliver to your ports, and now there's much less money available to buy supplies. so spare parts never arrive. clinics run out of basic medicines. machines break and can’t be repaired. your chronic illness that's normally manageable becomes life threatening or much more disabling, and emergency care becomes less reliable. so more people die from conditions that, in other circumstances, wouldn't have been fatal

sanctions also damage the systems around healthcare that people don’t always think about. power cuts affect hospitals and refrigeration for medicines. when you can't import treatment chemicals or replacement parts, clean water systems fail. transport problems make it harder for you to reach care at all, especially for people in rural areas. all these things add up to kill people prematurely, and the people who suffer and die the most are the ones in the most precarious positions

a paper in the Lancet estimates that sanctions kill 564,000 people every year. it's like the US and its imperial core allies nuke a mid sized city in the developing world each year, and yet sanctions are often framed as peaceful alternatives to war. economic sanctions are weapons of war

As a reminder if you're wondering why Gundam has so many weird names for people and things, this is why.

every show shld have a girl that loves to lie

by Vladimir Ryabkov