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The honestly surprising thing here imo is that even for *very* rich people apparently unbridled capitalism that makes them as rich as possible apparently doesn't buy them the same satisfaction as it can in places with less inequality.

You'd think (and every second temporarily embarrassed millionaire will argue) that if you can command a private limo, public transport doesn't matter. But apparently the systems that result in good public transport also result in amazing holidays for people so rich they wouldn't even consider using it.

If everyone can afford a nice coffee in the morning, there's a cute little cafe every 100 feet to serve it to them; if there's only 100 people in town that can afford that habit they're all going to have to hop into their swanky limos and haul their groggy asses to wherever the exclusive Coffee Club is located to get their fix.

If there's no public transit or bike infrastructure, your swanky limo is stuck in traffic behind 120 beat up Honda Civics.

If there's workers rights and public healthcare the barista there wants to have a nice little chat with every customer, because that's the human default way of greeting people in the morning. If there's not they straight up don't have the spoons and you get the dead-eyed Gen-X Millenial Gen-Z stare while you order.

No amount of individual expenditure will buy you what living in a healthy society gives.

Kitten and puppies and bunnies are All best Friends And eat cotton candy together and frolic in The fieldd

I will roboticize them all

Robotnik ass reply.

I gotta start reading URL's.

you know i don’t think we often talk about how difficult it actually is to suddenly realize that a belief you thought was good and moral and correct was actually really fucking toxic. how you have to look at something and go ‘oh shit, oh i fucked up. oh this is going to take probably years at minimum to deprogram from my brain because of all the little ways this shit pervaded the rest of my beliefs’

so. to all the people picking up all the pieces of a recently shattered world-view and trying to figure out what is safe to keep and what has to be thrown away and started over

to all the people having to relearn how to even listen to other people

to all the people putting in the work to do better while struggling with the guilt that comes from finding out you were the asshole

i’m proud of y’all.

it’s hard to admit being wrong and even harder to change in the aftermath. just keep doing the best you can and just know that the effort is appreciated. everyone can change. everyone can do better. keep fighting.

you could never make me hate magitech/scifantasy settings. fantasy and scifi are two beuatiful women to me and they are kissing with tongue.

it is. sincerely really weird that 2016 nostalgia is a trend. like i knew this day would come but not for specifically 2016. the meme that year was about how this was the worst year ever for most people

Ode to Mitski by William Fargason

context according to instagram:

original image from the magazine:

Found a scan of this issue on the Internet Archive (it's the back cover). This scan is 4000x6000 for all your high resolution needs!

The caption reads: "Defeated by roses. Near Turin's Lingotto station, along a lonely path, Miss Guida Concetta Rinino, 28 years old, who was bringing a nice bunch of roses to a relative, was accosted by an unknown young man. The young woman, rather than losing heart, defended herself with extraordinary energy, using the bunch of flowers as a weapon. So it was that the scoundrel, his face all scratched up, had to flee. (Drawing by Walter Molino.)"

“masculinity is-“ talk to a butch woman. now. do it. ask her about her experiences. ask her how the patriarchy has rewarded her.

i implore you. especially if she can be mistaken for a dude on first glance.

hi i literally went to a school where it was basically against dress code for a girl to wear pants on chapel days

i was ostracized by half the girls in my grade for trying to wear khakis and a button-down instead of a skirt or dress

even if you did wear pants to chapel or church there were other feminine gender norms you were expected to follow (i.e. hair, accessories, makeup, etc.) to maintain a certain level of femininity

when i was on the worship team at my church i absolutely could not have my butchest days on the same day i was singing in front of the whole church

and even though im mentioning Christianity, this is still very much a problem outside of that realm as well

i was actively forcefemmed for most of my life. you don't get to tell me it's not real, because I LIVED IT.

I’m not allowed to cut my hair or wear masculine clothing because my mum wants to forcefully detransition me and thinks allowing me to dress and act masculine will fuck up my brain and turn me into a perverted loser! The next person who says “forcefem doesn’t exist irl” will be curbstomped because I can’t keep fucking doing this shit 😃

I think a pretty significant win for western feminism that is ongoing has been making it normal for women to not be forced into specifically dressing and painting themselves into a feminized archetype every day of their lives? Like, being allowed to wear pants? Etc.?

wise liberal voice: imperialism is bad but i think we should have a say in other countries' choice of leaders

wise liberal voice: genocide is bad but that doesn't change the fact that a single ethnicity deserves their own country

Heated rugby match -for @indieninja92

do you guys ever like forget you’re interested in something until you start engaging with it again and you go “oh wait i’m like crazy crazy about this yeah”

Oh to be eleven years old and finding a life-changing obscure paperback in the library

*whispers* holy shit people are amazing.

*whispers* holy shit. he’s done it again.

*yells* THIS IS THAT TIME HE DID IT WITH POTTERY AND IT FUCKING RULED.

the floating head of wisdom

Please don't fall victim to internet misinformation. There is no floating head. It's a regular horse, it's neck is just hidden due to the position of the camera. I made an image to help you understand the what's actually going on.

Thank you for the clarification

Talked to a Somali man today who said his mosque last night was surrounded by neighbors ready to protect them against ICE if needed. Made me feel proud to live in this city.