everyone who menstruates should get 5000 dollars per period just for living through it i think

british ppl are so funny man

am i missing something… or is this like…. a problem….

the english are weak

Okay but genuinely is there something missing here?? Because when I lived in Vancouver BC it was $5.25ish CA for a three-zone ticket to school and that was an hour and a half from A to B. Why is a 30 minute $5 ride an insurmountable task. What am I not seeing here

$5 is just under 4 quid and my fucking arse is that what it costs, it costs me nearly $20 and I get a discount because I have a disabled person's railcard

also I can tell you from experience that if it's for a gig, you'd either have to leave before it ended or wait around in the cold for fucking ages for the trains to start running again and get back in the early hours of the morning, which isn't very practical if you've got to go to work.

What weird website is that???

Here's National Rail, the actual UK train journey website with actual prices:

As Maia says, we're pushing £20 depending on time of day, AND you have to factor in return train times, too. The UK also has a cost of living crisis right now, featuring - among other things - the literal highest utility bills in the entire world. The gap between rich and poor is enormous, and getting bigger.

Lads... it really does become more and more obvious that whenever y'all want to make fun of the UK, you really are just trying to make fun of poor people.

I'm doing fair-to-middling financially, it's just me, no kids or pets, and I never stress about paying the rent. Just for context.

My living budget (for absolutely everything other than rent/internet/power) is £100 a week. An equivalent distance for me would be London. I can get to a cheap gig in London maybe four times a year, by saving hard and skipping stuff that isn't absolutely essential, like 'second-hand shoes from Vinted because my Converse haven't actually fallen apart yet so that's fine right', and making it worthwhile by spending All Day in London so I'm kind of exhausted before I even get to the gig. And I still have to get from Kings Cross to wherever the gig actually is. If I'm lucky and the trains are all on time, I might get home from a London gig just in time to have to walk two miles home from the station because the city buses stop running at midnight.

There are a lot of people - a LOT of people - worse off than my able-bodied self on my grad student stipend, and yeah, going an equivalent distance to this is a Big Trip for me.

I used to make that trip regularly for about £11(ish) off-peak ($15), so I can see thanks to the Economy™ that's doubled in price and then some. Checking now, a peak time train is £25 ($33), which many of you will be like 'uhh that's still not expensive though' but it is to those who live there.

Liverpool, a place I lived and studied in for 11 years of my life, is one of the poorest cities in the UK. There were kids from very poor areas who'd go on school trips to the museums in the city centre, a classic school trip for any child, who'd never been to the city centre before because their parents couldn't afford a bus ticket. A lot of kids go to school early for breakfast club because their parents can't afford to feed them. £25 ($33) for one person, for a return ticket to the next city, from a specific station, without factoring in travel from their home (bus/another train/taxi) which can be another £5-10 ($7-15), and without factoring in the cost of doing anything like eating/drinking/attending an event (anywhere between £20 ($27) (for a very cheap meal out) to £70 ($95) for a cheap concert ticket) or even another train/taxi/bus on the other side (another £5-10). You're looking at £55 ($75) for one trip at minimum (£115/$156 for the slightly more expensive - minus food before or after a concert for which you can add another £20/$27 on top) for people that don't have huge amounts of money to begin with. That is expensive.

Like the poster above said, it is becoming increasingly obvious that when the UScentric internet users dunk on the British, they're just making fun of poor people here. Wealth disparity is a huge problem here and making fun of someone for saying they can't afford it is just not a good look. Can that die already?

One of my pet peeves is when people describe cave-dwelling homo sapiens or even late hunter-gatherers with only names like 'grug' and 'ogg'. They're homo sapiens! They have the same brains and mouth and vocal cords that we do.

The earliest name we know from oral history is an Egyptian king named Iry-Hor, the earliest name we have written down is a Sumerian accountant called Kushim. The earliest known author is a Sumerian priestess named Enheduanna. Another name we have from that period is Enmebaragesi. I probably forgot some other beautiful names in this directly-from-wikipedia list. We can't look further back, but there is nothing to suggest that we were less capable of giving each other beautiful complex names.

Why does this matter? Because the idea that we as a species are constantly becoming superior is bullshit and is tied up closely with a lot of very harmful ideologies (capitalism, eugenics and fascism, to name a few). We're not becoming a superior species. We're passing on information and inventing more stuff and figuring out how to live longer, but those are social processes, they come from humans taking care of each other and valuing the preservation and free exchange of knowledge. They don't come from being fundamentally better than our ancestors, we're not.

This is true and you should say it.

@lichtenbug

Mermay 1-10 by Christophe Young

A true successor of Thomas Edison

surprise surprise

finally some good fucking salt over thomas eddison on this site

it’s also not even HIS money, it’s his father’s money, made from apartheid emerald mining. that money was made from the blood and suffering of countless poor people of color so the rich could wear pretty rocks.

elon musk has never done or made anything valuable or worthwhile in his life.

Tesla was founded in 2003 by Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning.

I think it would be funny if this fun fact became common knowledge.

I am begging everyone who has ever bemoaned about Hollywood only making sequels and IP movies to go see Sinners in theaters. It has the creative team behind Black Panther working on it and their talent shines through in the cinematography, music, costuming, EVERYTHING. It's a completely original screenplay written by Ryan Coogler and if you want to support original movies, go see it in theaters.

the degree that parents of young children seem to think Baby Shark came out of nowhere astounds me. this is a DECADES-OLD camp song, that has spanned generations. 

i am not a parent of a young child but i worked at summer camps for years and let me tell you before it was ruined by parents of young children baby shark was the most fun camp song ever. kids went buckwild over baby shark. but then it had to be commercialized. you ruined it. yall motherfuckers stay away from the bear song or we’ll have words 

#part of the problem w/ commercializing camp songs#other than you know Everything#is that it canonizes a specific version#one of the best parts of baby shark was that every camp had slightly different versions#does the singer die and go to hell?#are they reincarnated as a shark?#are they left as a concsious severed head bobbing in the waves?#it was different each time it was sung and its fucking beautiful

I didn’t see this link in the reblogs but I love Mercury and she has a book out called “Safe & Sound: A Renter-Friendly Guide to Home Repair”. She is one of those beautiful souls who love to teach people new skills with compassion and joy, instead of putting down others for not having knowledge about (what others may consider basic home repairs and DIY.

I love this lady. She's like a friendly big sister here to show you how to do stuff.

She is also doing a charity 30-hour livestream starting at 6pm tonight benefitting Point Of Pride, which helps people access gender-affirming care. She does this every year for TDoV and given The Everything, it sure would be nice to get a good turnout this year. You can donate to the campaign here! The goal is to hit $1M by the end of TDoV.

evangelicals being like "god made men to do This and be like This and women to do That and be like That that's just how it is" and it's just a picture of a white man and woman following traditional gender norms makes me so insane like you boring fascist fucks. god made 2 million species of beetles. god made whales, ducks, humans, and 1500 other species capable of same sex behavior. god made fish and amphibians that change sexes. god made more than 30 different intersex variations in human beings. god, in his infinite curiosity. wake up!!! fuck!!

"god wants women to have perfect no-makeup makeup looks and stay at home not talking back and upholding capitalism" god??? that guy who made lizards that shoot blood out of their eyes?? that guy who made salmon do whatever the fuck that is?? are you fucking crazy???

Australian Cinema Appreciation → The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (1994)

I started using Head and Shoulders ten years ago for itchy scalp and dandruff, and then for ten years I have not had itchy scalp and dandruff, so I thought “why do I still buy shampoo to combat itchy scalp and dandruff when I do not have itchy scalp and dandruff,” so I stopped buying the shampoo for itchy scalp and dandruff and can you guess I have now? Can you predict what currently afflicts me? It’s alright if you can’t because apparently I fuckin couldn’t either

Cutting something out of your life because you think you don’t need it any more only to realize that it was in fact working as intended and preventing a problem that will return should you stop doing this is a good experiment to run periodically with something small like dandruff shampoo, lest you start to think it would be a good idea to do this with like let’s say public health and the social safety net and vaccines

I had a liver transplant when I was 14 and like six months later I was chatting with my surgeon and he said “there’s gonna come a time, probably when you’re a teenager, where you’re gonna think, ‘I feel great, why am I still taking all this medication? I haven’t needed it in years.’ and you’re gonna want to stop taking all this medication. Guess what’s gonna happen then? You’re gonna go into rejection and your liver is gonna start failing, and you’re gonna be dying again, and we’re gonna have to find you another liver. So don’t do that.” And I said “why the fuck would anyone do that?” and he said “people are stupid.”

every once in a while when I get annoyed by a pharmacy or don’t wanna get out of bed to do my drugs I think “ugh, this is dumb, why do I do this?” and that conversation slams into me like a truck and I remember that I am, in fact, stupid

#you are not immune to the recency bias(via@arrows-for-pens)

Every person on earth needs to read this post. It will make people’s lives a lot better and lessen the crises everyone faces in day-to-day lives.

cash me out, money cat!

Facts about your body after you turn 25, AKA things I wish someone had told me:

Join me on my journey to finally unbalance my hormones, toxify my body, boost my inflammation, maximize my cortisol and absolutely destroy my gut health.

I just realized it's literally just the fucking humors again. We've arrived back at the starting line.

Whoever wrote this, slayed so hard with all these statements, truer words have never been spoken

Abolish Tesla.

Elon uses his overvalued Tesla stock as collateral for all his loans.

If the stock price crashes, banks will ask for their money back.

The Twitter deal alone would break him - twitter has tanked in value, he couldn't sell it to pay off his loans.

Please, oh please. Not just well deserved karma, it would be so fucking funny.