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straight up broccoli
okay but op's right. that tree Does in fact look like Straight Up Broccoli
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Ok, to prove to my husband that this is more a European device than a U.S. device I am going to need more non-US people to reblog this.
Do not reblog for science. No science will be happening. Reblog to help me prove a point!
(If I am right I will show him this poll. If I am wrong he will never know this happened)
I am from the U.S. and I know what it is BUT ONLY BECAUSE my wife was raised in Europe!!!
fun fact: when I first owned one of these it was in a climate that was too hot for it to work. I have one now that works great, though.
I’m from the US and WANT one
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“The Guardian has announced it will no longer post content on Elon Musk’s social media platform, X, from its official accounts. In an announcement to readers, the news organisation said it considered the benefits of being on the platform formerly called Twitter were now outweighed by the negatives, citing the “often disturbing content” found on it. “We wanted to let readers know that we will no longer post on any official Guardian editorial accounts on the social media site X,” the Guardian said. The Guardian has more than 80 accounts on X with approximately 27 million followers.”
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Your move, rest of the media.
This is a good start. Keep going, decent people of the world. Leave that fascist pile of shit behind and watch it die.
Come on, Player Four! Who’s gonna be Player Four?
Source: theguardian.com
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stop telling your teenage daughters who say they don't want kids that they'll change their mind
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reblog the shit outta this
I haven't been a teenager in over a decade. Mind has yet to change on the subject.
- At 14, I told my guidance counselor that I didn't want kids. He chuckled, patted me on the back, and informed me that when I got a little older, and I was with a guy, I would change my mind.
- At 16, my grandmother nearly had a heart attack because of her three granddaughters, myself and the youngest agreed we didn't want to uave babies. Ever.
- At 17, my father asked about my life plan. I told him: graduate high school, get my college degree, do some traveling and writing, go for this particular job I wanted, retired around X age, take month-long vacations to places I wanted to spend time in, etc. He asked, "What about a husband? Children? Normal things a girl is supposed to think about?" My response- a husband if a man came along that could share an adventure with me, kids were a No Go. He assured me I would 'grow up' qnd change my mind.
- At 19, I shocked my former babysitter who had known me since I was a toddler, when I confirmed the rumour she'd heard that I didn't want kids. She patted my mom's arm and reassured her in a sweet voice that, "Don't worry, girls say a lot of silly things before they meet the right fella, and wise up. She'll give you grand babies"
- At 22, I was talking to a college professor who chuckled at my making a comment about how, "thank goodness I'm never going to have to worry about juggling child rearing eith marriage, work, and life", then she realized I was serious. She asked if I was alright, thinking I could-not (not didn't-want) kids. I told her the truth, could have but didn't want to. She was aghast, then told me that I'd change my mind when my husband wanted some kids.
- Well, I'm over 30, still have absolutely no desire to give birth, adopt, raise, or have much of anything to do with children. I don't hate children, I don't think people who have them are crazy (more power to you, to create and/or care for another person), and I don't think it's impossible to have a life AND have children. I recognized at an early age that I don't have that biological imperative to procreate, I don't have the patience to deal with children (something that has shown very little improvement as I've gotten older, in fact it might be getting worse), and I don't feel my life is incomplete without creating another life- I am good with living my own and doing my best to enrich the lives of those I care about (I try my best to be a good friend, to be a good sister, good daughter, good pet-owner, and a good person in general).
So please, please stop telling girls (or really kids at all, but especially girls) that they will change their minds. Please don't tell them that meeting 'the right guy' will make them suddenly feel broody, that their potential future husband's desire to have children will make her reconsider and see things his way. For one, a couple should have had that conversation and decided if it was a deal breaker, LONG before they got hitched. For another, it's her body that gets to grow and birth another human being- her husband's desire to be a father doesn't supercede her autonomy.
Please, let girls make their own choices? Girls are forced to mature too fast as it is and are bombarded from all sides with SHOULD (you SHOULD be a size 2, you SHOULD wear this dress, you SHOULD have a boyfriend to be a normal teen, you SHOULD always smile), they don't need another judgement from someone who hasn't walked a mile in their particular shoes. Respect teenage girls and their ability to look at the world, themselves, their situation, and their future, and make an important choice.
*gets off soap box, slides it back under the sofa, lets out a sigh*
Thanks for attending my TED talk. G'night.
Also, normalize your children saying they want kids and then changing their mind about it.
I was raised Mormon, so I was told that I wanted kids. Not I said I wanted them, I was told from the time I was eight that I wanted them. For a long time, I believed that I did want them.
Then my sister started having kids.
That was when I realized that, no, actually, I did not want them. I had been told for over twenty years of my life that I wanted kids. I saw my sister go through pregnancy and birth and realized that nope, I loved my niblings, but being a mom wasn't for me.
And that is totally valid!
One of the things I was always told (if my desire for no kids was taken seriously) was "But what if your husband wants children?"
At first I said 'If he wants kids that badly he sure as hell wouldn't be marrying ME' but one day I blurted out 'then he can carry them himself' and my dad choked on his beer.
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Context:
The original video, for anyone who hasn't seen it:
And the relevant album cover:
Sessler was a teenager when "We're Not Gonna Take It" it was on the charts. Probably had MTV so he saw the video.
No fuckin' idea how he thought it was in support of "traditional American values."
Never not reblog. Dee Snider is iconic and queer as fuck for a cishet man.
-fae
No one disrespects my man Dee in this house.
Never forget when he sat in front of a congressional hearing about Lewd Music Corrupting the Youth and completely shut that shit down in the most professional manner that no member of that committee expected from a hair metal musician. They thought they'd get easy points off of a dumb metalhead and this man not only knew exactly what the fuck he was talking about, he tore their arguments apart.
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The Sound of Music (1965) dir. Robert Wise
This gives me nostalgia of a time apparently since past where anti-Nazi sentiment was ubiquitous in American society but nowadays we would have half this country openly hating this guy for tearing a Nazi flag and another chunk of the country who would pretend to support this guy and then crack a joke that it should have been a Mahen David being torn up instead of a Swastika and may consider this movie pro-Genocide propaganda for not talking about the US and British Committing A Genocide against the Germans by bombing them, and really this guy's character is just as bad as the Nazis because he is a rich capitalist or something.
But that aside. I suppose there is not much to talk about with respect to this film and its place in the American political zeitgeist. This film is problematic because it is a story about the rise of Nazi power in Austria, and Jews are absent from this film entirely. Captain Von Trapp is vehemently anti-Nazi, but why? The answer doesn't seem to have much to do with Jewish people or the Nazi's treatment of them. Rather Von Trapp is a proud Austrian and the Nazis are just Authoritarians, and of the Wrong Kind.
The movie makes no mention of the Jew Hatred that was absolutely central to the Nazi ideology.
And so we have a lesson in a family/children's movie that Nazis are to be despised but it doesn't really directly teach what is so despicable about that flag that it needs to be torn up with distain.
This film is actually part of the problem of Universalizing the Holocaust. This is a movie where the wealthy white Catholic Von Trapp family is seen as the victims of the Nazi ideology, rather than primarily Jewish people, and so the non-Jewish American audience can relate to them.
But what this teaches is that "Nazis can be just any power I don't like", instead of the truth, which is "Naziism is a particular kind of authoritarian ideology that scapegoats Jews as the source of all of the world's problems and puts vast resources into the industrial factory slaughter of millions of Jewish people in an attempt to entirely wipe out that race in particular."
And so one could come away from this movie with the idea that "Nazis are just anyone whose flag I want to tear up".
And this has caused a lot of problems because antisemites have realized that if they just repeat "Jews are the Real Nazis" loud enough, people will believe them and ignore the fact that the Jew Hater is the one following Nazi ideology.
Meanwhile, the Jew Haters:
As long as you don't dress your Jew Hate up in a Swastika, you can Trojan Horse your Jew Hate into the brain of anyone Left, Right, or Center.
And those in 2024 who do, in fact ,wrap their Jew Hate up in a swastika, and other more dogwhistle-y Nazi-associated imagery......those guys have meanwhile won control of the entire US government. Meet the new Secretary of Defense:
Source: nick-nellson
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much better footage of the haka that shut down parliament today
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wenchyfloozymoo
Dr. Gachey with foxglove, 1890
Some of Van Gogh’s best work was done during a period of his life that he spent in a hospital being treated for his mental health problems. I could be wrong but I think Starry Night was among those.
This is consistently the case. Creators tend to do their best work when they are in a healthy place and receiving proper treatment and not being self destructive in their efforts to cope. Go figure.
All our experiences, good and bad, inform what we create, but suffering is not the price of great art. Suffering is what prevents artists from completing great art.
(I bring to mind this @tkingfisher / Ursula Verson quote about once a week <3)
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Ok, I've seen this sentiment before, but the amount of Kindle Unlimited ads I've been seeing is forcing me to repeat it-
Kindle Unlimited is offering two free months of unlimited ebooks. As a trial. Which will then become a paid subscription.
Your local library is offering unlimited ebooks all the time. Forever. No contracts, no predatory practices, no tracking of how long you spend on each particular page in the hopes that information about your habits can be sold for a profit.
Use your library. They want so badly to give you all of the things for free.
The Library Is
a Magical Place and You
Should Fucking Go There
Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.
I’ve been getting ebooks from the library (I have three local library systems that I’m entitled to get a card with, and I use all three) for a few years now, and I’m reading more and more widely, and discovering authors I then want to buy new releases from, and who’ve influenced my writing. Library ebook programs are great.
I use both. There are lots of books my library doesn’t have. And yes, I request everything, but I also read freakishly fast.
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HOBBES vs. TIGGER cage match TO THE DEATH say goodbye to your childhood because ONE! WILL!! DIE!!!!
Picturing two tiger plushies just kind of sitting there facing each other in Thunderdome
i am picturing it
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Some people say shit like "why would you judge someone for their political beliefs? Just because I support the candidate who ran on a platform of feeding minorities directly into a wood chipper doesn't mean I'm a bad person 🥺" and those people deserve to be shunned and ostracised in every aspect of their lives i hope this helps 🥰
Here's an example of a person who deserves to be shunned and ostracized in every aspect of their life
Nothing quite like the feeling of going to block someone and finding you've already blocked them.
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(There is a lot more. Rather than give you all the images, I've copied the full text below.)
- This is actually the most hopeful thing I've read since the election. It's hard to believe we'll all be okay just because we're full of spite or we're on the right side of history. It's easy to believe Trump and his administration is a pile of venomous bucket crabs in clownshoes.
- Take that part about grifters and amateur analysts on the left seriously. Scam artists take advantage of panic and desperation, and a lot of us are feeling panicked and desperate. Also, when people are panicked and desperate, their critical thinking skills suck and they don't necessarily come to logical conclusions even when doing their best. God knows I've fallen for scams and dramatic worst case scenarios. The most important thing is to check your sources and be suspicious of dramatic appeals to emotion (though dramatic appeals to emotion don't mean something is false, either).
- Isolation fries your brain. I know there are lots of ways to wind up trapped in an isolating situation, but reach out to other people- preferably multiple groups of other people- any way you can. Volunteering is a good way to do this.