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…what in the ACTUAL FUCK

this is gonna be my favorite new time waster, isn’t it.

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I used to think that folks AirTagging their kids were kinda wild but I’m ngl if I lived in the USA right now, that might be a solid choice

When men's workload is automated, it's genius; when women's workload is automated it's a character flaw and morally questionable.

Everything being dialed back to the aughts EXCEPT black music is exceptionally rude to me personally. Give me a new Missy Elliott and Destiny's Child immediately. How else am I supposed to cope?

SERIOUSLY. only my fast reflexes have prevented countless would-be accidents. (since i drive for work, i see allll the bad behavior, all the time.) tons of folks driving around in the dark, no headlights… meanwhile the city is just putting up new parking meters for extra income & ignoring the rest

THANK YOU. i’ve been saying this for years

the latter bit is ESPECIALLY rude.

the thing about depression sleep is you have no control over it; wake up to missed appointments and opportunities and just as much exhaustion as you had before you slept

…whatever stage i’m in, tbh

Out: Vote Blue No Matter Who

In: PRIMARY THAT FUCKER OR YOU'RE A SUCKER

What's scary about this story is the surveillance it hints at. This trans woman had changed her name, legally, but chose not to change her gender marker. She was apparently flagged in the DMV system as trans and her license was invalidated under a law that supposedly only concerned gender markers.

the HPV vaccine is fucking incredible, period end of that's it

Decided to become an influencer

THANK YOU, this drives me bananas!!

and then getting judged hard as fuck when you can’t get everything sone because “you barely work, why can’t you keep the house clean?”

fuck i am so exhausted

ah, a classic!

Some conservatives here think that secular young Iranians would be happy if America would come and liberate them. What would you say to them? Democracy, contrary to what they try to tell us, it’s not a paper that you hang on the wall and then you have a democracy. Democracy is a social evolution. It is something cultural. Iranians, they have become much more secular, and they are ready for democracy, but they have to fight themselves for democracy, and the only thing that other countries can do is to understand their fight and help them in their fight. They [America] talk about the human rights in Iran … how is it that the United States makes the biggest deals with China, and China is far from respecting human rights? What about Saudi Arabia? If you want to talk about an inquisition, the Iranian regime is far from being an inquisition. We have almost a free press, people leave, women have the right to study, they drive, they work. Saudi Arabia, they don’t have anything like that! Talk about human rights in Saudi Arabia! Why doesn’t anyone go and put a bomb in Saudi Arabia and kill the king?

Do you think it’s ironic that, in the face of American threats, you almost find yourself defending the Iranian regime? Absolutely, but if we want a democracy, the Iranian people have to do it themselves. The Americans say they want a democracy in Iran, and at the same time, when the Iranians wanted to become democratic in 1953 with [Mohammad] Mosaddeq and to nationalize our oil, the CIA came and made a coup d’état in my country. Why do you want me to believe that they want to come and make a democracy? We have to make our democracy! There are many things that I wish for in my country — I want my country to be free, I want my country to be democratic, I don’t want any journalists to go to jail because of an article they wrote in my country. But if the United States of America attacked my country, no matter what, I would be against the United States.

Do you see similarities between the Christian fundamentalists in our government and the mullahs in Iran? They’re the same! George Bush and the mullahs of Iran, they use the same words! The mullahs of Iran say we have God on our side; he has God on his side, too. Both of them are convinced that they are going to eradicate evil in the world. But when these words come out of the mouth of a mullah, it’s normal. It’s a shame that the president of the biggest secular democracy in the world talks with the same words as the mullahs. It’s extremely scary.

Do you have any advice for secular Americans who are faced with living in a country that’s increasingly governed by religious fundamentalists? If I have any advice, it’s that every day that you wake up, don’t say, “This is normal.” Every day, wake up with this idea that you have to defend your freedom. Nobody has the right to take from women the right to abortion, nobody has the right to take from homosexuals the right to be homosexual, nobody has the right to stop people laughing, to stop people thinking, to stop people talking. If I have one message to give to the secular American people, it’s that the world is not divided into countries. The world is not divided between East and West. You are American, I am Iranian, we don’t know each other, but we talk together and we understand each other perfectly. The difference between you and your government is much bigger than the difference between you and me. And the difference between me and my government is much bigger than the difference between me and you. And our governments are very much the same.

The full 2005 interview it's from is well worth a read btw. Sadly just as relevant today as it was 20+ years ago—moreso, in fact. www.salon.com/2005/04/24/s...

"There are many things I wish for my country . . . But if the USA attacked my country, no matter what, I would be against the US."

Picture of Marjane Satrapi alongside a quote from her. The quote reads: The world is not divided into countries. The world is not divided between East and West. You are American, I am Iranian, we don't know each other, but we talk together and we understand each other perfectly. The difference between you and your government is much bigger than the difference between you and me. And the difference between me and my government is much bigger than the difference between me and you. And our governments are very much the same... - Marjane Satrapi, Iranian-French graphic novelist

Thinking about this quote from Persepolis creator Marjane Satrapi again.

a mourning

this is the part that reminds me that many people are good, but rich people almost universally are not.

so many of us have come together to help when the cost of doing so means deprivation in our own lives, so that people who will never know deprivation can make fake numbers go up even higher.

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that pooftail is MAGNIFICENT

"Because it's always the same. When you fire that first shot, no matter how right you feel, you have no idea who's going to die. You don't know whose children are going to scream and burn. How many hearts will be broken! How many lives shattered!" -The Doctor

Illimat is really fun! it’s a 3+ person game tho

elder millennial, but boy do i relate to this. god. and i’m still working and ruining my body

hard same. i had such a “bright future” when i graduated. i am currently living in poverty with no end in sight & no way out unless a fucking miracle happens