icantspellthings:

People in the Omegaverse are probably writing Betaverse fanfiction where there is no A/B/O dynamics and everyone just falls in love with eachother’s personality instead of pheromones and hormones controlling their desires.

elliottkay:

WA State residents!

The legislature is looking at a bill for requiring age verification for “adult content” online. We all know what garbage this is. These things never really protect kids, and they always wind up restricting much more than actual pornography. Tumblr’s stupid effort to ban “porn” should show us more than enough about how this plays out.

Every rational person wants to protect kids online. Measures like this don’t do the job. It doesn’t even come close to an honest conversation about what protecting kids means.

If you want to tell your reps this is dumb, make a comment here. It doesn’t even have to be long. Just tell them you’re against this move.

mikkeneko:

olderthannetfic:

I was at a meetup, and someone was bitching about thrift shopping. They wanted somewhere where clothes are like five bucks and not total trash, etc. etc. I found myself more annoyed than it really warranted. The villain here isn’t them, but the total straight faced “Recommend me somewhere that has the 90s thrifting experience” as though people had just not given them the right rec yet was so headache-inducing.

Wake up! It’s not the one thift shop you went to! The entire sector has turned to shit as other things have and for the same usual reasons of economic hardship, new clothing production all being rancid trash so that nothing good is even available to become secondhand clothing, and a thousand types of social media-driven side hustle where people instantly snap up the good shit and either resell it online for 5x the cost or chop it up for fugly upcycles.

The 90s US thrift shopping experience is dead. If you want to recapture it, you have to look very hard for the right shop, probably not somewhere super accessible and convenient, or you have to explore the vast quantity of local yard sales run by people who don’t know what they have. I’ve seen Shein trash offered for $20 at my local thrift store and cashmere sweaters in the free box at the curb. Most of my wardrobe came, for free, from somebody’s dead grandma’s closet after the official estate sale was done and they just needed everything gone. The landscape is simply different now.

In other news, I’m reknitting the cuffs on my Halloween/fall sweater, and we’re having freeeezing weather that makes it not only finally wearable but one of the most useful pieces of clothing I own.

This is why I feel people really need to understand that thrifting, while worthwhile to do for a number of reasons, is not and cannot be a systemic solution to the problem of high clothing costs/meeting clothing needs for low-income populations.

The secondary economy depends on the primary economy. If no one is buying new clothes, no new clothes will go into the thrift pool. If clothes are poor quality enough that they disintegrate within a few years of manufacture, then the clothes in the thrift pool will not be wearable quality.

You cannot ‘just thrift it’ your way out of manufacture collapse.

copperbadge:

geekerypeekery:

mobilis-in-mobili:

qsycomplainsalot:

*breathes deep breath* *slams reblog button*

@copperbadge

I have seen the arrow of my ways. No point to any of it.

I don’t know, I think it’s pretty pointed and edgy.

jumpscart:

Sometimes you will be a lesbian to your parents and a straight man to your partners parents and a gay man to your partner and a woman to your grandparents and out to your friends and stealth to your classmates and a nice young lady to the cashier at the coffee shop and then people on your computer will ask you to choose which of these identities you ACTUALLY are and which you are Appropriating The Oppression Of because don’t you know they contract each other. You can only be one thing solidly forever

anarchistmemedistro:

ash-rigby:

ash-rigby:

some additions 👊💥

ALT

badwolfdogbutch:

transfemme-turtlebug:

transfemme-turtlebug:

being a woman isn’t a feminist action btw

being a lesbian isn’t a feminist action either. It’s just a thing

There is nothing inherently evil or wrong about how masculine or feminine you are and I wish people would stop acting like one is better than the other. The way you act and speak as a person says more about what kind of person you are than your gender presentation. There is plenty of people capable of being horrible people and there are plenty of people that are capable of being good people. It’s a choice, gender has nothing to do with it.

officecyborg:

grawly:

every time I think about Dilbert I think about this comic and how the question being asked is Not Stupid and its answer is genuinely interesting and arguably very important information anyone using a computer should know

winter-wise:

Started watching Leverage and this is Eliot Spencer I think:

dovesndecay:

yesornopolls:

Joe Rogan compares Trump's ICE to Hitler's Gestapo: 'Is that what we've come to?'

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