one curiousity search on ebay to see if people are still going nuts over beanie babies has led to getting a strong contender for the funniest email ever
When your doctor prescribes you the generic
As [Mikoyan] declared in a January 1936 speech: “I am a great supporter of the production of ice cream. Certain comrades believe to this day that ice cream is merely a children’s treat, and is of no use to grown-ups.” At this point Mikhail Kalinin, who was in attendance, exclaimed, “But everyone loves ice cream!” Mikoyan replied, “They love it, but some shun it out of hypocrisy, because they believe it’s just for kids. The production of ice cream needs to be expanded as much as possible. I am lobbying for ice cream, because it is a very delicious and nourishing food.”
important soviet discourse
the image of this guy going “but everyone loves ice cream” is driving me insane
12,000 PEOPLE KILLED IN TWO NIGHTS. FOR NO FUCKING REASON AT. ALL. FUCK THE IRGC FUCK KHAMENEI FUCK THE IRANIAN ISLAMIC REGIME. FREE IRAN!
To be clear this happened THURSDAY AND FRIDAY. It is now TUESDAY. Who fucking knows what has happened the past three nights. If it's continued at this rate that would be 30,000 dead.
damn mutual I don’t engage with that media you’re into but my congrandolances on the situation
ImmigrantJustice.org has tips about what to do if confronted by ICE btw
ImmigrantJustice.org tiene consejos sobre qué hacer si ICE se confronta contigo.
[someone gave me a more appropriate wording to the Spanish translation.]
Don't forget that even non-citizens have rights and protections. You don't need to be a citizen for this info to help you.
Apparently ICE now has agents posing as utility workers to get into people's homes. The electric and gas companies have posted information on how to tell if it's one of their workers, and numbers to call to confirm whether they've sent someone to do utility work on your house.
Stay safe, friends.
an aging newspaper cartoonist is drawing dilbert arriving at the pearly gates as we speak
an actually funny version of this would be st peter rejecting scott's application and telling him he's not a good culture fit
just watched this guy fumble two does in a row
rude post
"Why would this character be jealous of their friend's romantic relationships? Clearly they're in love with them" I don't know if you guys have ever Had Friends but it's actually pretty common for people to feel jealous if their best friend suddenly has less time for them and is prioritising someone they just met over them. That's not inherently romantic, that's the general human desire to be valued by the people you value.
do you like my repetitive and outdated music taste
"Friends outside of Minnesota please read. I'm sharing a post written by a personal friend and medical doctor: Friends outside MN, you need to know what is happening here. Everyone knows that ICE shot and killed a woman here on Wednesday. But that’s not the only thing that’s going on:
- ICE agents are cruising areas with immigrant-owned businesses, and kidnapping patrons and employees alike. Yesterday they abducted two US citizen employees at a suburban Target, one who was begging them to allow him to go get his passport to show them.
- ICE is going door to door in immigrant-heavy neighborhoods, asking residents where their immigrant neighbors live. Read that again. If it sounds like something out of your high school history textbook, that’s because it is.
- ICE is targeting schools and school buses. They pepper sprayed teenagers and abducted two school staff members at the high school up the street from me on Wednesday. Police are literally escorting school buses to ensure children can get to school and home safely. The Minneapolis Public Schools have moved to virtual learning for the next 4 weeks because it’s unsafe for children or teachers to physically come to school.
- They are targeting hospitals and clinics. Patients are scared and are cancelling their appointments or just not showing up. Kids are missing their checkups and vaccines, folks aren’t getting their cancer care, etc.
- They are smashing windows in cars and homes.
- ICE is increasingly picking up Native Americans—again, targeting folks based on skin color alone.
- They are arresting and beating legal observers. A friend of a friend had her arm broken yesterday. Folks are showing up at local hospitals, brought in in ICE custody, with severe injuries that are absolutely inconsistent with mechanism of injury reported by ICE. (Think: patient appears to have been beaten unconscious, while ICE agent says he slipped and fell.) I can’t emphasize enough that these ICE agents do not have warrants. There are 2,000+ agents here and they are simply hunting for anyone that’s not white. It doesn’t matter if you’re a citizen or a green card holder, they will kidnap you first and ask questions later. But the community is fighting back.
- Protests are happening every day.
- Community groups have been leading know-your-rights sessions for months, often to packed venues.
- Whistles are being distributed by the thousands, carried on keychains and worn on coat zippers, always at the ready to be blown in warning if ICE is spotted.
- Drivers are following ICE vehicles, blaring their horns in warning.
- Businesses are locking their doors even while open to keep employees and customers safe. As I type this, I’m standing guard at the locked door of our neighborhood burrito joint while I wait for my takeout order, so the employees can focus on their jobs. The place is packed with neighbors supporting this small business.
- Anti-ICE signs are posted everywhere. The community is making it crystal clear that ICE is not welcome here.
- Parents and neighbors are standing guard outside schools, organizing carpools, and escorting kids to and from school on foot.
- Parents of kids in Spanish-immersion daycare (there are a LOT of these daycares here!) are keeping their kids home so the teachers don’t have to take the risk of coming to work.
- Churches and community groups are holding fundraisers to buy and deliver groceries to families who don’t feel safe leaving home.
- Mutual aid money is going out to folks who can’t make rent because they can’t work or because a breadwinner was abducted, or who need a warm place to stay after their home’s windows were smashed. THAT is what is happening here. This fight is ongoing and it’s horrifying to watch. But we are not backing down. To my friends in other cities and states, don’t think for a minute that this won’t happen in your town. It will. Be ready. Learn from us, as we have learned from Portland and Chicago and New York. Fight back. Don’t let us get to the last line of Martin Niemoller’s poem.” -Grant Boulanger
Here's an AP news brief with a little more info. It's limited in the way major news outlets are right now but provides context that supports the personal account shared.
As someone living this-other things that happened within this week included ICE breaking down the door to a family’s home, with an administrative warrant (not the judicial warrant needed to enter a private space) and kidnapping a resident from it: https://www.mprnews.org/episode/2026/01/13/warrantless-ice-entry-in-minneapolis-heightens-fears-amid-statewide-enforcement-surge.
My coworker’s wife just documented her neighbor being taken. Friends have started patrolling outside of their kids schools to keep kids safe; white friends are picking up BIPOC kids to bring them to events since their parents might not be safe. Minneapolis and St Paul are now offering distance learning because people just aren’t leaving their homes because it’s not safe. ICE is all over-and not just in the large metropolitan areas, but in smaller cities too. And they’re ramping up their tactics against legal observers-one observer had said she was in her car and ICE ran her license plate and then drove to her home. And ICE can do blatantly illegal things but they nail observers for every minor infraction.
However, thousands across the state are protesting, doing mutual aid, creating hyper local groups to show up and observe ICE wherever they are so they can’t just silently disappear our neighbors, and so much more. If you want to donate, I highly recommend doing so to Unidos MN, who are doing a ton of good right now.
I am mainly on this app as a way to escape this dystopic bullshit for a little bit so you probably won’t see much more from me on this, but it’s just getting so so bad.
is it bad if I read non-con despite never having been raped before? Like if I read it for enjoyment, am I a bad person? I'm worried there's something wrong with me
I love writing and reading non-con, and I was never raped before. (most of my fics are about my favorite fictional characters getting raped.) I also write about murders and cannibalism, but I was never murdered or cannibalized before, nor have I ever actually consumed human’s flesh.
with all due respect, this “purity mindset” is both hilarious and sad. let yourself enjoy fucked up things in fiction. it’s okay. thought crimes are never real. no puppy is being kicked and no one in real life is being harmed because you read a silly fanfiction about a fictional character getting brutally raped. jerk off to it if you want to. romanticize and glorify it if it makes you happy. as long as it stays fiction and fantasies—as long as you don’t actually go out there and rape anyone in real life—it’s completely fine. it’s also normal for humans to seek enjoyment in things that are disturbing, or else there would be no horror movies. stop applying moral values to art, fiction and fantasies. stop being your own cop.
THIS IS ACTUALLY DISGUSTING YOU PEOPLE ARE DISGUSTING???
BEING DISGUSTING IS HOT. REBLOG TO BE MORE DISGUSTING TOGETHER
prev tags by @chiisana-sukima
#look. the real answer is what OP said. thought crime is fake and you don't need any justification to play pretend.#BUT. if your moral ocd needs an excuse: if it's okay for rape victims but not for anyone else then that means either rape victims need to#be silent or disclose. so everyone else please be aware that in addition to it being fine anyway you are also helping us maintain our#privacy while healing.#you know how many lgbtq events are “lgbtq plus allies” in part so people don't have to come out to attend? well all of y'all out#there reading and writing rapefic with no rape history are our allies now.#purity police out there being exactly like the real police: making life harder and more isolating for victims and providing cover for#perpetrators.
i think if any part of your ideology contains "we can and should kill all the bad people and we can easily know what people are ontologically evil" then you're not just a reactionary but a danger to marginalized people. Your "kill every pedo" stance is very easily manipulated into wanting trans women to die. It's fundamentally no different from like, supporting the death penalty and wanting every criminal ever to suffer, wishing death upon drug addicts. it's basic fucking reactionary dogshit. It not only misunderstands why harm happens but actively gives you a pass on enacting infinite torture to a group against which you've decided no harm inflicted is too great. We just need to kill all the bad people. and when we've done that, we'll finally have gotten rid of all the bad people.
THIS GUY IS DEFENDING PEDOPHILIA
so you just make really bad and loud comments on everything, huh