Blergh

so true

Official Wednesday post

It's Tuesday

how much does the aurora borealis weigh

it's pretty light

my name is detective sleeping and im about to get started on my toughest case yet. the pillow case

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Conservatives are going nuts oner this

Yeah. The unrealized gains tax would only apply to you if your net worth is 100mil+.

This is so good because it closes the loophole.

The standard argument against this is that stocks and property are stuff, not money. That until it turns into money again you don't know how much you made; you might think your stock portfolio is worth more or less than it is, but it's only worth what someone will pay for it, so it's only taxed when you sell it. And that's fair! That is entirely fair. That's a good fair capital gains tax- you sold a thing, you gained a lot of capital, you get taxed.

But.

It gets counted like money when it comes to getting loans, and this is how the ultra wealthy live. They don't sell stock to make money and then pay tax- they say to the bank, look how much stock I have. You know I'm good for it. Loan me the same amount of money as I'd get for selling this portion of my stocks, and when it comes time I'll sell the stocks and pay you back with interest.

They take out loans to pay the loans, usually. Because they get to keep all their stuff, and it keeps appreciating in value, they're still good for it.

Then, when they die, their estate includes all the stuff they own- including their stocks- and those stocks are used to pay off the loans, and crucially, they DON'T PAY CAPITAL GAINS TAX on that, because of how estates work.

This closes that loophole. If it counts as money sometimes, it has to count as money all the time.

holy moly, the amount of tax revenue this could bring in would not only pay for her great ideas about helping families and actual small businesses and first-time home buyers etc - it'll enable us to do big things like provide universal basic income, universal healthcare, childcare, housing for those who can't afford it, and more

because it'll finally free up all that hoarded capital billionaires have been taking out of the working class economy

please please please elect her, and also enough non-republicans for the House and Senate and in state legislatures so she can enact her great ideas

Prev these are some good tags

Those tags are LEGIT. Canada has gotten so bad in recent years because provincial governments are so confident overstepping in wake of Trump. I cannot stress enough how important it is that all Americans get out and vote.

I don't care how you feel more moral not voting because it matters so so so much and anyone trying to tell you otherwise is doing so to get Trump or someone like him back in power by using your non vote. It's bad for everyone.

Do not let them convince you not to vote.

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Important addition

I swear the way that some people talk about AI on this site sounds like those hysterical posts about programming being satanic with screenshots of programs telling people to "kill child"

Large Language Model AI and Image/Video Generation AI are the ones you hate. Don't confuse these with the AI that's being trained to spot early signs of breast cancer or identify early environmental signs of major disasters. They are not the same.

It’s with great pain that I must announce you were devoured by clowns.

Turn to page 14 to climb into the clowns jaws.

Turn to page 6 to turn around and walk away.

It’s with great pain that I must announce you were devoured by clowns.

It’s with great pain that I must announce you were devoured by clowns.

Over the Garden Wall 2014, dir. Patrick McHale

I truly hate the word "unalive." There are so many other euphemisms that fictional Italian mobsters worked so hard to provide you with and you just ignore them.

beautiful compilation from @orc-sign-language

"Joined the great majority" is a good one that I practically never hear.

"Approaching room temperature" is a personal favorite from the medical field.

"in witness protection"

"Joined the choir invisible"

"Sleeping under the strawberries"

"Permanently off the air"

In case any of you here also use X/Twitter.

Hey so seems like right now would be a really good time for any and all artists and writers still on this site to get the hell out.

It sucks to migrate sites if you’ve been in one place for years - I know; I’ve done it a couple times now when places went down over the years. But this is really scummy.

That is also "we can publish a Best of Twitter book and not credit or pay you for it."

Or, "We can publish a Best Science Tweet Threads book." Or whatever.

They may not be willing to publish fanfic or fanart - but original fic and art are fair game.

If you're still there, it's definitely time to leave.

Was talking with one of my very lesbian friends about body dysmorphia and how you can look at a fucking gorgeous woman who has a lot of the same qualities as yourself and not realize that the complement also applies to yourself. I asked her if she'd been watching Dancing With The Stars this season and she said no.

So i showed her a picture of Ilona Maher from this week's episode.

Her response:

"Thigh. Thigh. Thigh. Thigh. Thigh."

So anyway, the takeaway here is that one person's 'too masculine' is another person's 'thigh.'

These tags!!!

#please know that Ilona went to the designer and asked to be as naked as possible because she wanted to feel her best#she said all the other girls get to be in pretty revealing costumes and she wanted the same without worrying about her body type#she wanted to celebrate it the same way they celebrated the other girls because she loves her body and has fought her own dysmorphia#AND!! it was to celebrate with her teammates and the strength of athletic womanhood that often gets overlooked#if you struggle with dysmorphia she was thinking of you 💕

AND WE ALL SAID THANK YOU

its really telling where you learned about lapis lazuli. put yours in the tags

being self aware suuuucks like yeah this thought pattern/behavior is stupid and pointless and a symptom. i know this. [does it anyways

preforming my compulsions while rolling my eyes to show i know theyre irrational

An asexual and pansexual become room-mates and have wacky adventures

The show is called ‘All or Nothing’

Plot twist: the asexual is really super outgoing and is a huge flirt while the pansexual is extremely socially awkward and has trouble ordering coffee let alone getting a date.

my hand slipped

will reblog until this becomes an actual show

Like this??

AND THEN IT GOT FUNDED

”you are a lawyer he is a hamster” 😭😭😭😭

WE HAVE MILF IS A SLUR DISCOURSE I REPEAT WE HAVE MILF IS A SLUR DISCOURSE

hahahaha