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26 | i will talk about my interests without warning

fuck i can’t believe i wasted my entire life being moved by art and beauty and the indomitable human spirit ugh i should’ve been making money through internet scams

does anyone else remember when michaels (art supply company) accidentally made omegle again

when they What

michaels added a feature for a while in sept. 2020 where shoppers could ask questions that would be answered live by other shoppers anonymously. which led to some good michaels interactions.

okay where are the henchwomen

Genuinely with how much we've memed feminine versions of masculine archetypes into existence I should be seeing so many more henchwomen at all times (that aren't goblins or some shit.) Girlbossness is not sufficient. The corporate environment does not provide adequate enrichment for evil women. She needs to kill people, directly, and look silly as hell doing it

You, almost exclusively among the many many many comments on this post suggesting examples of hypercompetent (usually hyperfeminine) girlbosses, see my vision

True equality

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

I think that media literacy step one for any video is "why is a camera pointed at this?" If there's no obvious reason for a camera to be pointing that way all the time, someone filmed the video on purpose. We aren't a fly on the wall, we're a deliberate audience.

Half of Australia lives here.

Source: reddit.com

this is so funny because the blue areas aren’t really distinct so it just looks like somebody has posted a picture of all of australia with the caption “half of australia lives here”

the other half of Australia is standing right behind you.

nothing personal, mate

Everyone in the notes saying stuff like “the white areas are empty no one lives there” or “the rest of Australia is shitty desert” you know that that’s white supremacist rhetoric right. The (false btw) idea that there was no people or land of value in Australia was literally the justification for the genocide the European (British Empire) colonists perpetuated against Indigenous Australia. The British Empire called Australia “Terra Nullius” so that they could claim that Indigenous Australians had no right to the custodianship of their land and Indigenous Australians are still fighting for their rights on land that was never ceded. You can make fun of Australia’s low population density without resorting to literal genocidal misinformation I think.

But even if we set that history aside, there are people living in rural and central Australia right now? Hundreds of normal, friendly communities that don’t deserve to be called shitty deserts or “full of venom and fangs” like I know some of you meant this in good fun but maybe think about what the words you’re saying actually mean.

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love is in repetition

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love is in doing the same things with people over and over again and never getting bored because you love the person you're doing them so much. love is in telling someone I love you 9 times a day and it being just as sweet every single time. love is in making dinner together every day and watching the same movie over and over again because someone you love loves it so much. I'm so normal about this

my favorite bisexual failgirl in the whole world. it was so hard picking just a few expressions to draw. I love her.

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