duvallon:

enoughtohold:

voting for candidates is about choosing the best available enemy

#it’s less like loving a celebrity and more like setting the difficulty for a boss battle

giantambushbeetle:

There’s a lot of things I wanted to do in my 20s but “mentally grappling with the reality of living through a worldwide fascist insurgency” wasn’t one of them

zomblequeen:

thegestianpoet-archive:

• Hot cocoa in a Styrofoam cup but
  there’s not enough room in the cup for a full packet of hot cocoa so it’s
  either too strong or too weak
• A piano that hasn’t been played
  since the 1980s
• A room that’s always closed and
  has adults talking behind it but you’re not quite sure who they are or if they
  ever leave
• Donuts that you’re not allowed to
  eat
• Scented markers and multicolored
  craft sticks in an old basket
• Veggie tales on VHS and two
  rolling tvs on ancient tv stands
• A room behind another room that has christmas decorations in it
• This table:

• that one bitch who’s always always wearing tights and a dress even though the basement never gets above like 55 degrees 
• Dusty ass bibles and one lone dusty ass hymnal
• Old programs for concerts, baptisms, events, and VBS printed with black ink on colored 8.5″x11″ paper folded in half 
• Little acrylic bead craft projects in the shapes of lizards or cats that some girl made at church camp and forgot to take home 
• Glitter but not in the joyful gay way
• Moms in fleece 

This opened my third eye and threw sand into it

radicalposture:

when im in a bookshop or library and im trying to read the titles of the books on the shelves

quomododragon:

quomododragon:

So one of our new vocabulary words is “malus”, meaning “bad”, and I asked my students if they could think of any English derivatives, telling them that just about any English word that begins with M-A-L is going to mean something “bad”.

I’m expecting stuff like: malice, malcontent, malnourished, or even malware or Maleficent.

Instead I get this one girl in the back of the room say “male” with the most dead-eyed expression.

This has the same energy as two years ago when another student said she remembered “vir” meant “man” because “it looks like virus, and men are a virus”.

digivolvin:

exphautaz:

asgardian-viking:

digivolvin:

men in greek mythology? scoundrels. just terrible. woeful social skills. murderers. kidnappers. violent misogynists. most of them… never described as handsome so we have to assume they were ugly. 

narcissus? unproblematic. beacon of transformative self love. king of the swerve. gay icon. couldn’t recognize his reflection but neither can my dog, we aren’t holding that against him.

Narcissus wrote this

I refuse to believe Narcissus could read.

i’ve been thinking about this response for the better part of 2 hours and it hasn’t gotten less hysterically funny to me

judiciousimprecation:

kropotkhristian:

I can’t believe this needs to be said, but the rich are not doing you a service by employing you. They require you. Everything they have is contingent on the fact that you work for them and do what they say. Without you, the rich have literally nothing. Workers have power over the entire economy.

It is actually workers doing a major service to their employers by not unionizing and not starting a revolution, since literally the only thing workers need to do to grind the entire economy to a halt is put their hands behind their back and stop working. That is it. Workers could crash the entire machine in one moment if they wanted.

Stop calling them “job creators.” They aren’t. They literally require you. But you dont require them. You are wealth creators. And you have the power to take it back whenever you want. You just have to organize.

One of the most useful insights my father ever gave me was that “your employer owes you money”.

At any given moment, you have done work that your employer has not yet written you a check for. They owe you money, and you owe them nothing