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This is the most cursed video I’ve seen 10/10

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Mariusz Lewandowski

Mariusz Lewandowski (1960 – 2022) , Polish Surrealist, whose artistic vision is a a perfect blend of light, space, and contrast and are replete with symbols and thought-provoking details that encourage individual interpretations. Interestingly, while the artist provides titles for his pieces, he never offers any translations, allowing each viewer to form their own understanding. Today, as the chill of November sets in, and prepares us to embrace the energy of the final supermoon of this year's cycle, in a rare series of three, known as the full beaver moon — a time to build inner strength for the colder months ahead, this work feels, a vibrant link between our reality, and the protective presence of the underworld.

They have something like 20 alive greys at area 51 and they have already gotten all they can from from them so they just make the the poor lil fellas fight. Im talking bare knuckle weak little noodle arms slamming into those huge noggins. Really sick and twisted stuff.

Haha fuck yeah mixed martian arts

René Magritte

La lunette d’approche (The Telescope), 1963

Oil on canvas.

fuckboy jobs 1950s

milkman

ice cutter

switchboard operator

elevator operator

soda jerk

wandering farm foreman

breaker boy

A fresh new toy mouse next to three others our cats have been playing with

Sure why not

Responding with visible exhaustion as the tech entrepreneur mentioned yet another of what he considered must-play titles, President-elect Donald Trump reportedly nodded vacantly Friday after Elon Musk rattled off his 10th consecutive video game recommendation. “Uh-huh, so I should try, what was it again, Elon? Elden Ring? No, I haven’t even heard of that one,” said a depleted Trump, who merely added “absolutely, they’re all fantastic” when Musk asked him if he thought he would rather play as a spellcaster or bandit, and who then sighed and stared into the middle distance. Full Story

A 22 yr old in my org got drunk tuesday night and kinda shit on the fact that I'm running a community cleanup for our chapter. Said something along the lines of "i didn't join up to pick trash." Which really bothers me and it took me a while to figure out why. The whole point of the community cleanup is that we're returning to the neighborhoods where we knocked doors for A4 to help clean up their streets and provide material improvement for free in an effort to build inroads with those neighbors.

Like... if your socialism doesn't include picking uo trash, I'm guessing it also doesn't include doing the dishes, babysitting, or anything else that is important but not prestigious. Idk man, fuck off with that shit. You'll pick up trash and you'll like it until you understand why picking up trash isn't anyone's job but your own. I hate that attitude. If helping and doing activism was always fun and visible and impressive, everyone you know would already be doing it.

It’s so frustrating watching transmascs and transfems start fights with each other on tumblr when in my experience irl hanging out with transfems is like hey what’s up how was your weekend

Trans ppl on tumblr: I’m the most oppressed and you need to shut up

Trans people I know irl: Hey did you know this bar has gender neutral bathrooms

Saint Jellyfish Exhorter by seok young choi

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Alex Jones is livestreaming rn and for the first and only time in my life it's appointment viewing. He got evicted from his studio mid-stream and they had to cover for him when he popped up in his "satellite studio" (a room in his house I assume) devoid of the Infowars branding. He's talking about how "tens of millions" of people have watched his final broadcast & you can literally see he has far less than a million viewers in the bottom corner (and this is on Twitter, which inflates views of videos ever since Elon had to convince people anyway gives a shit about Tucker Carlson's livestreams). He's currently whining that they chose not to sell his site back to him at auction, so he could keep doing the crimes that are why he was selling his website.

I didn't see this personally but he's apparently read out the Onion's announcement, which is a fake article by a fake corporation, out loud several times as if it was real. Anyway it should be noted how screwed he is, bc...

...while he can livestream under his own name, they own his warehouses of dubious supplements. He has nothing to sell but t-shirts protesting that his show is going down. Since Infowars was, first and foremost, a lifestyle brand, this leaves him, scientifically speaking, "totally fucked". He doesn't have ads, that's the only way he makes money

He just promised that he will "win the information war" which. You were sued into oblivion for lying about the parents of murdered children & lost your platform so hard you don't even have a studio anymore & your brand was seized by a rival to make fun of you. I didn't think the Infowar was a real thing you could lose, but I'm not sure there's a more definitive way to lose the information war. Anyway he's now ranting about fluoride

Tips and ideas for how to respond when someone is being rude to you

For personal reasons I won't get into, I have a history of just freezing when some is rude / hostile / aggressive / condescending / patronizing / etc. It's obviously not something I'm happy about at all, most people who freeze or fawn aren't happy about it and would change it if they could.

One day I confided in my co-worker, a middle aged woman in her 50's, that this is something I struggle with. Considering how confident and assertive she always struck me as, I was shocked when she told me this is also something she's struggled with.

The advice she gave me is to just memorize and practice a few broad statements or reactions that you can pull out of your pocket so to speak when someone is being rude or disrespectful to you. It's not easy if you're someone who's been conditioned to freeze or fawn, but practice helps. Practice saying these things when you're alone. Put up a sticky note next to your bed or on your bathroom mirror with these phrases and practice them when you see them. Practice saying these with a partner or trusted friend, role-play scenarios where you might need to use these phrases.

Here's a few phrases that have worked for me. The nice thing about them is that they tend to shut down the situation rather than escalating, while still letting the aggressor know that you don't find their behavior acceptable.

"Are you okay?"

This works well in professional settings, because it's not like your work place's residential bully can run to HR about you asking if they're okay (but they might if you try to retaliate and give them a taste of their own medicine). However, it still effectively sends the message "I think there's something wrong with your behavior and don't accept it". It's also not likely the response they're expecting, so it'll likely throw them off and prevent further verbal aggression.

"Could you repeat that for me? I didn't catch what you said."

This one is most effective for people you believe to actually have a conscious and might regret what they said if they actually thought about it a little more. I find that often when I do this one, when people repeat the rude/snippy/patronizing/etc thing they either shamefully stumble over their words and show some remorse, or they change altogether what they say. In the off chance they don't regret what they said and end up repeating exactly what they said, this at least buys you some time to think of a better reaction since you're no longer caught off guard by a sudden rude and snippy remark.

"Can you explain what you mean by that?"

Similar logic to the last one. Often when people are being rude/snippy/patronizing/etc they're caught up in their own emotions in that moment and didn't think it through. This is a polite and civil way of putting their rude behavior in the spotlight and making them reconsider what they said. The other advantage to this one is that in case you did misread their intentions and they meant no harm by what they said or did, this gives them an opportunity to clarify that, instead of you just feeling bad over a statement or actions they actually had no ill intentions with.

If anyone has any further examples of reactions / responses / statements that have worked for them, I'd love to hear about them. I'm new to studying the art of how to civilly yet effectively shut down bad behavior from others, so I'm always open to hearing more suggestions.

Here's another one I recently learned from a friend when I was griping to her about things like, co-workers who are redpill/MRA types and always trying weasel their agenda into casual and unrelated conversations to impose their views on me, or co-workers who strongly feel their home country is superior to my home country so they try to weasel how much better their home country is and how awful mine is into unrelated conversations. You are actually allowed to just say:

"I am not interested in having this conversation."

Yes, you are actually allowed to just say that. No, it's not particularly rude especially if the other person is trying to impose a topic or conversation on you that you don't want to have.

I say not particularly rude instead of not rude at all because of course the chances are not zero that they'll still take offense and find it rude. But this is one of the more professional and efficient ways of shutting down a conversation that you find inappropriate and just don't want to have.

If they don't respect this, just keep repeating yourself until they stop. And if they still don't respect it, then you have grounds to go to your manager / HR about them not respecting your boundaries and repeatedly imposing a conversation on you that you made it clear multiple times that you do not want to have. That is of course, if you do have a good HR department and/or manager who you think will actually care and handle it properly and professionally. If not, I'm sorry and I hope you can find a new job soon.

The "question" responses work best when delivered with genuine confusion instead of antagonistic intent! If they're just having an off day, it'll point out to them that they're not being kind, and if they're genuinely trying to be rude, it'll call them out without making you look crazy.

"What do you mean by that?" when said as a question, comes off as asking for clarification. You force them to either say the quiet part out loud, or shut the hell up. You're additionally seen as the clarifier in the conversation; nothing you've done is negative, and no third party will interpret this as you being rude.

"What do you mean by that?" when said as an aggressive call-out, comes off as just that: aggressive. You've lost all plausible deniability you could have had and are now just That Guy Who Ruined The Fun By Taking It Too Personally.

When someone's being a Snide Sneaky Asshole, your goal is to have one of these responses ready so you can force them to be an Outright To Your Face Asshole. By social contract, you then are able to respond with anger, or by taking offense. You just need them to say the quiet part out loud.

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