vehicular manslaughter chappell roan be like you can hit a hundred boys with cars

entomologist chappell roan be like you can keep a hundred bugs in jars

nasa scientist chappell roan be like you can put a hundred probes on mars

rapper chappell roan be like you can spit a hundred fire bars

russian revolutionary chappell roan be like you can overthrow a hundred czars

scandinavian chappell roan be like you can fuck a hundred guys named lars

polish chappell be like you can eat a hundred bowls of barszcz

joan of arc chappell be like you can wage a hundred years of wars

straight up it should be illegal for a physical storefront not to accept physical currency, or for restaurants not to provide physical menus

I'm assuming the above is a normie opinion (as it should be) so i do wanna go a tiny step further and explicitly state any laundromat that requires digital payment should be burned to the fucking ground

if a business cooerces its customers to download an app, i should legally be allowed to set both the business and its board of directors on fire

Additionally, it should be illegal for a vending machine to not accept physical currency.

precisely!

though it should be noted that cashless vending machines do accept at least one form of physical currency:

blank version, please make this the new infodumping meme

blank version, please make this the new infodumping meme

living in a village of farmers is the fucking best i just left a party and the butcher was like hey i got some bones for your dog. your dog specifically because i like the cut of his jib. hell yeah

do you know how fucking great it is to get home tipsy as hell wake up your dog he is already exited to see you and you are like here you go a big bone for your majesty...my man thought he was damn heaven!! so good

his majesty himself

[ID: tags by @m-e-w-666 that read: #this blue dog is just like that green cat ///end ID]

now you know damn well my dog is not blue.

your dog is tumblr colored

my dad (Maori) works on a ship with all Maori/Tongan/Samoan fisherman- and one Aussie guy called Jake.

And that wasn't done on purpose just sort of how it ended up, but Jake recently got an injury so they put him on a Different boat just for a little bit (a sit in the wheelhouse and scout type of boat, instead of the main fishing one) and he only got back to my dad's ship today and he was apparently like Shaking. He was Traumatised.

Dad said Jake kept pulling him aside and going "They were all yelling on there, but in a MEAN way" "They didn't clean... Like at ALL"

Jake experienced what a boat full of old school Aussie fisherman is like. That is the norm Jake. You just happened to be on the all Island boy boat on your first go out. "It was time for dinner and they had FROZEN nuggets" Jake that's what they have on ships that are out at sea for months at a time.

On my dad's boat they are eating fresh fish and coconut milk Ceviche. They're grilling steaks on an open bbq on the deck that probably is not regulation. All the guys have their own special knives to prepare sashimi every couple days. Everyone is happily doing their own work so they can clock out early and set up a movie on the deck. Jake did you genuinely believe that's what every boat was doing.

Local Australian man is fed fresh juices and smoked fish for first time- refuses to go back to beef jerky boat life

jake that first night when they served a freezer tray tv dinner and not an overflowing plate of fish that's probably going for conservatively like $40-$80 bucks a kilo but the guys decided Eh we'll catch more let's just fry it up:

You’ve heard of Men Loving Men (MLM) and Multi Level Marketing (MLM) but I would like to propose a new concept wherein I date two men who each date two men who each date two men etc, which I like to call Multi Level Men Loving Men, or MLMLM

Step 2 is gathering together all the MLMLMs into a single monolithic syndicate referred to as a gathering of Multi Level Men-Loving Men Loving Multi Level Men-Loving Men, also known as an MLMLMLMLMLM

We will then perform a coup d’état against the greater Seattle polycule

if i had a dick i would love to have a disappointing orgasm in the shower while thinking of something or someone that i felt i should not be thinking about & then stand under the water with my forehead against a wall watching the proof of my guilt & shame go down the drain

The insight I get into the female mind thanks to this website is amazing.

not a female 👍

pause everybody take notes. real trans ally

KILL AI AND REBLOG AND CREATE ART IN 2026

Which American?

pizzas georg

working at a grocery store this is something i was so worried would happen, i cant stop someone from trying to feed themselves.

but it literally hasn't happened. people steal fried chicken and pack steaks into a duffel bag. or they have me write on cakes for their coworkers birthday and run out the door with it. they eat chicken and dump the bones on a shelf they pay for the rest of their "groceries".

i've never once seen anyone steal bread, or fruit, or vegetables, or cold chicken

Same

We have free purified water but no they steal soda

so you’re saying it people are trying to feed themselves

How dare poor people eat things they enjoy rather than bland staples, the only thing they deserve

A little disappointed that this didn't become a site-wide week-long discourse topic/meme fodder because it's a discussion we're way overdue to have

Like, let's set aside the practical concerns, like how "unhealthy" food has more calories while taking up less bag space, people can't survive on nothing but bread and water, many poor communities are food deserts where fresh food isn't even available to steal, and many people (including the explicitly unhoused man in the meme) don't have a way to prepare frozen chicken. Let's set all that aside, because poor people aren't required to justify every single action to you specifically

Instead let's talk about the sheer undisguised hatred of the poor on display here. "The fried food at the grocery store is for me, because I'm a good special boy with money, if the filthy poors want to steal they can steal the dried gruel powder because that's all they're good enough for. Or they can have meat, I suppose, but only if it's frozen meat that they'll have to go heat up themselves to prove to me that they've earned it. And make sure they grab some raw vegetables that they'll have to chop and cook themselves too, that'll be a good use of their bountiful time and energy. If they wanted not to be miserable, they should have tried not being poor, like me!"

There is literally no justification for this shit. If you believe that stealing bread from a chain grocery store is a justified act that hurts no one, why the fuck would you feel different about steak? Why are you even thinking about this shit? Why are you sitting around fuming at the thought of poor people having anything that makes life worth living? What does it fucking matter to you?

How can you be heartless enough to look at a society where people have to steal in order to feed themselves and their families, and your biggest concern is about policing what they steal?

"They only steal the expensive stuff, then they go and PAY for the cheap stuff???"

Gee I wonder why that would be...

I wonder why you’ve never seen someone with no house steal raw chicken before. There are just some mysteries that can truly never be solved

For the record, I was homeless for a while - or at least, I lived in a motel by the highway. And luckily I had access to a mini fridge - and it was the kind of motel where people just *lived*, which I discovered when they served Thanksgiving dinner in the lobby to everyone and asked us if we’d like to come down for it. (I cried. A lot.)

That mini fridge was a miracle, but I didn’t have anything like a hot plate or a way to prepare food - just a pot for coffee/hot water. Mostly what I ate was peanut butter and jam sammiches, apples, and lunch meat and cheese if I could get it, because it was expensive. I never got to the point of stealing… but it wasn’t because I thought I was too good to steal. The smell of the fried chicken in the grocery store deli was murder. I just didn’t think I could get away with it.

If I didn’t have that mini fridge or a way to keep my food cold and safe… yeah, I’d probably be stealing that fucking chicken.

So as a retail worker who has five years of experience, I'd like to put my two cents in. While most people advocate stealing if you can't buy food(which I do understand and completely empathize with), you must remember that you aren't just stealing from the corporation, you are in fact stealing from the employees themselves. So many times I've asked for overtime and have been denied it bc our shrink is too high. Ever wonder why there aren't enough cashiers? Cutting hours bc we need to recoup on our shrink. Also, on another note, the things I see people usually steal are high value electronics(like $70 fans, tvs, earbuds), makeup, and like $50+ toys. So while I empathize, please don't steal. You are literally taking money out of employees paychecks, and depending on the corporation itself, you could actually get them fired for not catching when people steal.

actually very easy to believe some people are shitty

@flower884 and everyone else in retail, I'm sorry, but you're misassigning blame here.

The people stealing from your corporate overlords aren't the ones choosing to understaff your workplace, cut your hours, pay you empoverishing wages much less than true value of your labor, nor fire you because they think the store's shrink is too large: Your corporate overlords are the ones doing that and they blaming John val John hoping you and everyone else believes them so you don't organize and demand concessions: and you've swallowed that pill like a potassum supository.

You've been in retail for five years; do some fucking organizing, form a union, fuck your boss's wife, and don't be the snitch that gets John 6 years hard labor for stealing some bread to feed his family.

It's not that hard*, just do what Chris Smalls do: he led a win against Amazon. FUCKING Amazon. Successfully unionizing, or even failing to unionize but scaring the shit out of the corporate overlords that you might succeed will have a lot larger, more positive effect on your material conditions than bitching on the internet about poor people wanting necessary or nice things they can't comfortably afford.

*Don't misunderstand me, it's hard work, organizing. Chris Smalls fought for over two years and a wrongful termination to acheive the win for fellows, but you'll more likely to find success in unionizing even against the most notorious union buster than you are to baulk even one person from theft of either necesity or pleasure on the basis of, in my opinion, a critically flawed moral argument**.

**I view the so-called property rights of corporations as illegitimate***, so 'stealing from a store' is to me morally nonsensical even as I'm forced to recognize its legal reality. The point of this footnote being that I don't think there is anything morally wrong with freely taking what ought be freely available to you, and you'd never convince me against 'shoplifting' using a moral argument, least of all the consequencialist one you're making because, as previously stated, you're misassigning blame. Again, unionize and fuck your boss's wife, yeah?

***As a property abolitionist, I also view a lot of 'property rights of individuals' as illegitimate too, but that's outside the scope of this discussion.

Also; what? It's very sweet, actually, to steal a cake for your coworker 💖

Also-also, corporations have a budget explicitly to handle stolen product. All the poor people stealing food so they can not starve are not running them dry to the point that they have to fire employees. If they were at that point, they would already be shutting down so they didn't go bankrupt.

Tl;dr:

i worked at ross dress for less for a year or two. they checked our bags at the end of every shift. a girl was fired for allegedly stealing some makeup.

they made us do half an hour of cleanup after we’d all clocked out or we’d be penalized for not ‘clocking out on time’ but also ‘not finishing facing’. half an hour of work at minimum wage was about 3$, multiplied by 5-8 employees per shift, multiplied by about three shifts. per year. forever.

they’d hammer on and on and ON at us about loss prevention and shrinkage, while skimming off 45$-72$ from their own employees in wage theft. every day. plus the hours of free work managers put in. but whenever we were denied raises or bonuses or pizza rewards or whatever it was always because of ‘all the shrinkage this quarter’ and they’d blame thieves, for their shitty secondhand crap they bought in huge remaindered job lots anyway.

my manager cried in her office once, for a company that extracted hundreds of dollars worth of free work off its employees every month, and then blamed the poor for our abuse.

you’re not being overworked and underpaid because your grocery chain is being robbed blind by filthy savages and fucking walmart or wherever needs to pinch some pennies. your bosses are fucking you over specifically because they can.

As a retail worker, if you blame other poor people or homeless people for your low wages, you're a fucking bootlicker riddled with propaganda.

A corporation is not a person, the people stealing even expensive things are living, breathing people.

You want to know why people steal non-food items? Because we live in a society that operates on profit. Electronics like TVs and Headphones, expensive jewelry, shitty brand expensive clothing, etc. Are all valuable items that can be sold. That money can go to fresh meals, phone bills, campsite fees or hotel fees, or a common one is Fines, because it's rare to be homeless and not have a cop cite you some bullshit, hundred dollar violation for something like sleeping on a bench, or your car having a missing brake light, and thats if you're lucky and said cop doesn't beat you or steal what you have on you.

Corporations are not people. Corporations are a infinite money glitch cycle so some rich fucks can horde money like fucking Smaug and convince the employees that oh we could pay more if Homeless Susan didn't steal that $25 package of diapers.

If you are a retail worker, you are closer to being that homeless person stealing a bucket of security cameras than to even your District Manager, and yet the rich have you convinced that you are somehow better than your fellow humans.

As a retail worker, you are not allowed to be punished if someone steals in front of you and you don't stop it. In fact, and actual retail workers will tell you this, we are advised to literally let people walk out because if we jump in we could open the Store up for lawsuits or workman's comp claims, so they'd rather eat the shoplift than pay for the medical bills of an employee who got hurt.

And even if you get a talk down from your manager, I'd say that's better than living with yourself knowing you just helped the Cops arrest a starving person who was just trying to get some food, clothes, or money so they could live another day.

Corporations aren't humans, they have no loyalty. That homeless person who just stole a flat-screen is more likely to give you support if you can't pay your rent and find yourself evicted, than a Corporation. A Corporation will not show you the loyalty you show it, a Corporation will throw you on your ass if your performance suffers due to illness, disaster, grief, disability etc. Because a Corporation is. Not. Human. And they will not be there when you fall.

Don't let the King convince you that the peasants are holding him back from paying you better. The only thing holding him back is greed. You will never see a share of his gold that you protect so loyally.

fuck it guess i'll throw my hat in the ring

i work at autozone, and i'm assigned to part sales, which means i'm almost always at a register at the very front of the store. sometimes i'll do other jobs when it's needed, but for the most part, i am at a register, so i get to look at everyone entering and leaving the store. which means that if anybody steals anything, i get to see that, too. autozone of course doesn't sell food, apart from some snacks up by checkout, so anything that people do steal are tools or car parts or fluid.

and when i see somebody pocket a pack of headlights, or a wrench, or a bottle of brake fluid?

i keep my fucking mouth shut instead of being a class traitor.

seriously, nobody WANTS to steal things, more accurately nobody wants to be in the position where they have to steal things. we don't even sell stuff people need to live, and i still shut up about it, because i don't know what they're going through. especially because while you don't need to to fix your car to survive, you do need it to have a half decent existence out here, and if it's got an out headlight you're gonna get pulled over by the state funded terrorist group patrolling the streets and at best they'll suck away half your paycheck in fines, at worst they'll just shoot you dead on the spot when you reach for your id.

"well then don't drive it!"

they need to get to work, don't they? what happened to getting a job?

"well then walk to work!"

lol, lmao. it gets to -3 fahrenheit in the winters here and sometimes it'll rain so hard the sidewalk floods, and in the summer you'll fry like an egg.

"well then bike to work!"

again, unsheltered

"well, take public transit!"

don't have any

"well what about the employees when they steal?"

most places don't dock hours for shrink, if they do, fuck em, unionize.

also, back to the topic of food theft, if you think people should only steal fucking gruel and oats, go fuck yourself. being against people who can't afford it taking the stuff that's actually half enjoyable to eat is the exact same shit as telling poor people who have a few luxuries to just sell them; you think enjoying life is something you should only be allowed to do if you can afford it, just fucking say that. people will take soda and prepacked food for the same reason they won't sell their playstation for that food, it's fucking depressing to live with the bare minimum.

No fuck the small businesses. They're some of the worst offenders because Walmart has people actively watching for blatantly illegal behavior. Small business owners think they're too small for it to matter.

Ma and pop stores are the worst about issues like understaffing, wage theft, overworking, and overpaying because they have to compete with places that out price them like Walmart. The small business owner I currently work for is every bit as selfish as Jeff Bezos. He just operates close enough that the community thinks he's different.

So hi I'm the pronoun having liberal living off of government aid that all the conservatives hate. I make less than $1000 a month with my disability income and food stamps combined and have noticed first hand something that no one has brought up.

That fried chicken that everyone keeps bringing up, as well as any hot food items at grocery stores, they cannot be purchased with food stamps.

Just a couple months ago I was really struggling. I had ~$20 in my bank account, ~$20 in my EBT account, my fridge was empty and a few weeks to go before I would get paid next. So I'm looking online for coupons and deals and doing the math to see what I can get for cheap that will last me until the first of the month. That's when I remember the local grocery store has a cheap chicken deal where I can get an 8 piece for $7. I figure that with some deli sides it will be plenty to fill my fridge and I can keep the money in my bank account for gas and other necessities. Only for my EBT card to be denied at the register.

You know what else you can't get on food stamps?

•tampons/pads

•paper towels

•toilet paper

•pet food

•medicine/vitamins

•ANY FOOD THAT IS 'HOT' AT POINT OF SALE (taken straight from the USDA website)

So yeah of course those are going to be things that are stolen. Because food stamps doesn't cover everything people need on the daily.

If I hear anyone freaking out about people stealing shit 1. you are not a socialist 2. You are a bootlicker 3. I am going to yell at you like a angry parrot until you leave Like you know what I hear if co-worker is freaking out about stealing shit? "Oh I will never unionize with you, and even if I did, I would sell you out for a pizza party" that's what I fucking hear, and you may go "oh no not me" but you have already told me that you don't have morals. You are a wannabe cop for corpos because you think they will pet you and give you cookies. You are the people who break the working class. You are the people who turn on our Black siblings because you got yours after the boss gives you a raise but not them. YOU ARE MORE OF THE PROBLEM THEN ANYONE STEALING

"no one NEEDS art supplies so why steal that?"

honey why do people BUY those things?

WHY is the only thing the underclass allowed mere HOMEOSTASIS?

WHY is being of an upper class the thing that makes you DESERVE joy? DESERVE self expression? why are these things gatekept by class privilege?

just speaking as my welfare recipient 4 times homelessness survivor self: why would I want to stay alive without art??? art is breath to me. it is somatic therapy that welfare insurance won't cover.

I think about the unhoused artists of my city who have sold their art on the streets and died in them. The bootstraps you expect the lumpenproletariat to pull ourselves up from get used as a noose by those complicit in our deaths.

this whole “sorry about your blog, just log off” stuff is a very important reminder that the average tme person fundamentally believes that trans women are exaggerating or flat out lying about the difficulty of our daily lives

when a tme person hears something like “i am suicidal every day” they will translate that to “i am suicidal some days, but not often”

if they hear “i am unemployed” they will imagine you have a source of easy income outside of employment

if they hear “i am homeless” they will imagine that you must have a place to stay even if it’s not your own

They De-Tumblrized Ms. Frizzle

@transfagsculine​

#how do yall whitewash a white woman 

why would you leave this in the tags lmao

Allow me to explain:

Everyone dropping this pic

And talking about how the new frizz her is her niece, allow me to do a direct side by side instead

These are STILL not the same woman. Where is the icon fashion, the earrings (the chameleon, which might be in the new show idk I haven't watched it), the prominent hooked nose, the broader shoulders, the volume to her hair, the LIFE IN HER EYES

This frizzle looks like she's been called into the school board for inappropriate behavior and dress one too many times and has been broken.

Also others have said it before me but I couldn't find it in the scroll backs but they whitewashed all the kids too. They same face syndromed everyone to either be easier to draw or be more ambiguous so as not to offend or both or something, and it just makes me sad

Fuck it I did the digging cause I'm still mad

And that’s not even to mention what they did to the bus itself.

The old bus had a personality and life and fun and now it’s just… a bus.

HOW DO Y’ALL WHITEWASH A BUS?!

It's gives "anti abortion Jehova's Witness cartoon" now

Vector puppet animation and a shocking drop off in investment in kidvid is largely at fault, but international marketing is also to blame.

What's important to remember is that the whitewashy approach to character design in kidvid is a backslide.

Representation in cartoons had generally been on an upswing since the 1980s, even though efforts were often minimal, clumsy, or badly executed. Diversity helped sell action figures in the lucrative US/Canadian market and it was recognized as a prosocial value on the production side.

"Prosocial messages" are a major part of kidvid TV pitches and development, nearly every show has specific prosocial lessons the narrative themes are intended to work around, even if its an action-figure ad. These range from sincere expressions of the creator's intent (Gargoyles, OG Magic Schoolbus, OG He-Man (no, for real)) to the entertainment equivalent of carbon credits.

Slight aside. Actual ink-and-paint animation tended to lock characters down into more distinct tones because there were only so many standard paint colors. Which is why Kwame from Captain Planet, Roadblock from GI-Joe, and Tim from OG magic schoolbus all use essentially the same pantone.

Ralphie gets skinny because not only fatphobia, but I suspect because he would need slightly different rigging and would add just a teensy bit to the budget adjusting his animations when they could just copy-paste from one of the other identically built kids. If they need to put them all in spacesuits or diving suits or whatever, they just make the one body and slap the heads on, eazy-pezy.

Decals on the schoolbus mean they have to be tracked, they have to use different versions of the bus in flipped shots, same with Mrs. Frizzle's clothing patterns. Wouldn't want to spend time flipping Ralphie's "R' around.

And with the marketing for everything now being global, there's an impulse to average everything down to appeal to all markets to a general degree. Making stories oversimple makes them easy to translate. Humor varies culture to culture, keep it slapstick or quick quips that can be localized easily. Everything that makes the Chinese censor boards happy also makes US reactionaries less likely to kick up a protest, the incentive is to keep everything:

ALSO: These characters have the same face. They probably use the same eye and mouth parts for character animations.

It's all to do it as cheap and broadly appealing as possible, as determined by business weirdos who know nothing about art and care nothing about kids, and they're more than willing to leverage racism (or just ignore that its happening) for the promise of a tenth of a percent more profit.

And what's galling is that this kind of animation software doesn't have to make crap. It can be used to make amazing stuff and still be vastly cheaper than traditional hand-drawn, but the same quality at 60% of the cost is never going to beat 1/2 the quality at 5% of the cost for the money-men.

The path of least resistance rolls over a lot of people.

Reblogging for "the path of least resistance rolls over a lot of people"

All of this, but I want to highlight @therobotmonster's point extra hard because I see people watch media from the 90s and get confused on the difference they see now. There was a massive, intentional push to diversify children's media to connect to specific communities that has been watered down in order to sell to an international market. Chasing after more money has robbed us of richer storytelling, and you can see it in not just children's media, but in what movies Hollywood decides to make.

And yet, when art is able to speak to and about those communities, it's very successful. Kamala Khan has been a breakout star of Marvel comics because of her Pakistani-American background, her connection to her community, and being a Muslim American. Sinners was one of the best movies of last year. Most of the best graphic novels I read last year (Big Jim and The White Boy, Hello Sunshine) were about specific challenges faced by specific communities and how to navigate them.

When you're creating art, an essential question you should ask is "who needs this the most" instead of how to make it appealing to the most people. If it is genuine, the audience will be there.

You don't even need to study for the Rorschach test, btw, it's super easy. All they do is show you a bunch of stupid pictures of your dad getting eaten by a horse

Do not share the answers with your classmates.

Yes Dr Rorschach

Sorry Dr Rorschach

people talk about how we need to bring back "don't feed the trolls" rhetoric for modern internet ragebait and I agree but also I think the most useful thing from the Old Internet that I miss is LURKING

be a lurker. just read things and think about them without feeling the need to weigh in or call out or disseminate everything you encounter. it's so nice and so freeing and it's a good way to learn things.

I have frequently regretted getting involved in shit that didn't involve me online but you know what I've never regretted doing? Lurking. literally lurk moar

every western movie ever made: The wild west is dying. theres no more room left for cowboys anymore…

me everytime: :(

every samurai movie ever made (both edo and bakamatsu periods): The bushido code is dying. there no more room left for samurai anymore…

me everytime: :(

A lot of westerns are remakes of samurai movies

those samurai movies were very often heavily inspired by 50′s and 40′s westerns

Cowboys and samurai are brothers separated by time and space.

Best duo.

I’ve got y’alls new favorite art piece right here.

According to Google, Samurai were abolished in 1868.

This means that at the same time that cowboys were reaching their end, so too were samurai.

Cowboys and Samurai were separated not by time, only space.

I’ve got something else to add to this: there’s also an extremely specific species of mushroom that can only be found in Texas and Japan. I’m serious.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chorioactis

The most ambitious crossover

Fantasy setting but it’s just Texas and Japan together at last

Mycelial portal between cowboys and samurai

@britonell your tags I’m dying xD