Institution of Marriage I hate you with my whole heart

Marriage is a more toxic, damaging kink than public BDSM but because of tradition gay people asked to larp as straggots instead of abolishing the nuclear family. We could be exploring the stars by now but we gotta die here so Jim Bakker can sell more slop buckets to your stupid scared aunt

a lot of modern right wing grievance politic is being upset that you didn’t have the perfect fun childhood that 80s movies promised you. they are ao fucking mad about getting yelled at in 7th grade that billions must die

God, I hope that high school isn’t the best time of my life. That would be fucking depressing

One of the biggest myths I remember ppl not shutting the fuck up about when I was a teen was High School being the best time of your life. This framing RUINS so many Americans. Adults forever stunted into recapturing that.

Charlie Kirk if he was a decent human being

you guys

turning your son in for $1.5 million from someone who will 100% welch on the deal is the most American shit ever. no omérta in this country, can't let the young eat the old

64. When making a health complaint to a doctor of healthcare professional, focus on how the situation prevents you from doing your job. They don't care about your quality of life or pain levels. They do care that you're not making rich people richer.

41c. ADHD is different because a diagnosis can give you access to meds, which do make a difference, but if you're old enough to be reading this, an autism diagnosis won't help you.

63. Many doctors choose their line of work because it's prestigious and confers them intellectual authority. When you suggest a diagnosis or treatment, they see you as encroaching on that authority.

Us storming Bluesky HQ

I’m just not sure a week of artists not posting is gonna do anything but satisfy the guards and reduce income for the artists. Trans women launched a whole ass petition asking for one transphobe to be appropriately moderated, backed by multiple mass followed celebrities… and bsky never said a thing

That's by design. They want us to do all of "our" "writing" with their AI chatbots because then they can curate what thoughts go into our "writing." They want "our" "music" made with AI so they can curate what ideas are in the lyrics. Same with visual arts, etc. They don't want us spreading ideas.

Can’t help but feel that we are living in an era of overwhelming anti-intellectualism on every front, with AI being the corporate vanguard of this cultural emptiness.

While nice to see people standing up for art it’s incredibly disheartening that we couldn’t get the same reaction when Palestinians were being banned. Ultimately, people only care about their own material circumstances. Not anyone else’s.

DO YOU REMEMBER

I would go to Mastodon if anyone was on there but unfortunately many of the instances I’ve checked out are completely dead

Why do you tremble? What you fear the most is only a taste of a sweet nectar.

it's better to think of the useless centrist 'expand the tent but only rightwards' media people & politicians as blockers paid to occupy space that could otherwise be utilized productively by a serious person. their opinions are pre-approved by their donors and will never change

I love you Tubi, never change

studios handing extremely rare tv series and movies to tubi but only on the condition that they keep their absolute dogshit UI where you can't even organize stuff by alphabet

yeah we've not only had the original reel this whole time but we've even had already digitized versions of this extremely rare 1973 movie that people have been going totally mad trying to find. you can put it on your streaming site that also has the partridge family in the future cartoon i guess

sometimes you see shit on tubi that you'd normally have spent like years waiting to pop up on soulseek or torrent sites to no avail and start wondering if networks just hand you archivist bait shit if you say you're starting a streaming service. "you guys actually want this? fucking whatever"

Do you remember?

All flower drawing tutorials are of 4 leafed flowers, roses or tulips. This isn’t helpful because I want to draw more complicated flowers like these (photos by Tavin on Unsplash.)

There’s no tutorials on how to draw the type of flowers I want to depict.

Why are some writing professors allergic to teaching their students about oxford commas, em dashes, and other conventions?

🌙Artists, QRP with you favorite portrait you've drawn!🌙 Liv Lisa Fries as Charlotte Ritter, 2020

Artists, QRP with you favorite portrait you've drawn! (pay to go draw naked people. draw your friends instead) #art

It's an incredible accomplishment to take a notoriously annoying man and make him even more annoying in death. Political alchemy

When it comes to music I’m really bad at separating art from the artist. This is probably why I always feel sad whenever I listen to songs by the band Her’s (they were a group that tragically died in a car accident just as their music was becoming super popular.)

i think about the band her's in the same way that men think about the roman empire

Reviewing some of the Qanon bullshit it's clear that the animosity towards CPS instead of ICE and the idea of a "cabal" instead of techbros, it's more Protocols nonsense, settler anxieties, "BLAAAARGH VICTIM OF DIVORCE COURT" white people refusing to introspect about abuse and rape

This platforms moderation is currently unable to tell the difference between artistic/non-sexual nudity and explicit pornography How do you expect them to be able to differentiate between consensual and non-consensual?

opened an incognito window and the website loaded fast and stopped fucking giving me errors. lmao. i don't even have adblock turned off on it. the hell

the xfinity website being as consistently busted and slow as it is feels like it has to be some shit to push people towards using an app on their phone that can better collect data, right

The D4vid case makes me so sick

Looking for freelance illustration work. Hire me to draw something cool for you!

A Black man and a homeless man were found hanging from trees in Mississippi yesterday, for those who haven’t seen yet because it’s barely made it out of local news.

journalist and editor friends: can you please please please reach out to this person? can you please cover what has happened this summer to so many women protesting ICE in Portland? they are targeting native women, they are targeting trans folks, they are targeting POC activists w/ violence.

If a publisher won't commit to human editing, art and translation, the deal is not worth having. They're signalling how little they care about the final product, which comes with your name attached. This is the right place to push back. Having an agent here helps.

Look, it sucks when some jerk swipes a ball from a kid at a baseball game, but I also don’t think her life should be ruined for it, or that we should see other videos of her acting up in public. There are levels of being a bad person, and a bad decision shouldn’t ruin someone’s life.

we should have never normalized filming strangers in public and posting them as content

My advice is call them up, tell them your vacation is postponed until they pull their heads out of their asses, and then never actually go back. My most impossible dream for the future is that Disney World closes and is re-overtaken by the wilderness.

IOS has a throwing up emoji 🤮 why don’t they make a pooping emoji too? 🤔

I frew up 🥺

"And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed."