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Dashiell Hammett, who basically invented the noir genre (think: The Maltese Falcon, The Thin Man) hung out enough in the queer scene in San Francisco in the 20s-30s that he picked up some contemporary queer lingo that he folded into his stories. In The Maltese Falcon, there’s a scene where the wildly gay-coded villain shows up at a meeting with a skinny little blonde with a bad attitude and a gun in tow, and detective Sam Spade tells him to “leave the gunsel outside” — gunsel being contemporary gay slang for a young, effeminate man who probably bottoms (from the Yiddish gansl, meaning gosling). Basically, he’s saying “I’m here to talk to you, not your twink.”

However, a lot of writers mimicking Hammett did not know gay lingo or Yiddish, saw the word “gun,” and assumed “gunsel” meant “scary bodyguard with a gun.” They took off with a word they didn’t understand and spread it so fast that it’s now basically impossible to read a noir story written between 1930-1960 without someone accidentally being called a twink at least once. Look out for it next time you’re reading Raymond Chandler or his ilk, I guarantee you’ll find it.

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Labour’s homelessness minister threw out her tenants and then increased rent by £700 a month.

Now that’s what I call Labour🥀🥀🥀

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Candide and Scrundle (click for better quality <3)

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The thing about those posts I’ve seen about Tumblr users having an odd habit of using other people’s posts criticizing a(n applicable) bigoted behavior as a confessional to try and cleanse them of their sins is like. They’re all missing the part that they objectively should be embarrassed about the behavior in the first place.

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Delicious. We love to see it.

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Reblog to kiss a tgirl cause she needs it rn lol

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loml, the libby app

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sports bra and boxers can be lingerie if you're enlightened and impure of heart

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Endlessly diabolical how you can't say words like rape and suicide uncensored without either being criticised by idiots or punished by conglomerates.

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elon musk is a white supremacist because he benefits from white supremacy + because he grew up in an environment that embedded those belief systems in him + because he’s rich and powerful and that goes hand in hand with white supremacy. elon musk is not a white supremacist because he’s autistic. I can’t believe I have to say that

can autism influence the way people frame the world? yes. can autism create rigidity in the way you think about things? also yes. but first and foremost, people who benefit from white supremacy will have fewer incentives to not do that, and the rich and powerful benefit from it more than anyone. tying this back to autism is suspect as fuck. stop doing that

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These guys have GOT to go. Palantir (the company) talking like supervillains in an earnings report

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it's just me and my horrible reputation (friend sent it to me)

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Are Americans supposed to just suffer and die if the country collapses

You'll figure it out.

So far for the entirety of your country's existence you've made others in the rest of the world suffer and die for your wealth, and they've had to just figure it out too.

Maybe once you guys collapse into civil war and get too busy with your own shit to interfere in the rest of the world we can start building a world without the CIA slaughtering everybody who wants to build a society without capitalism.

If you ever read ANYTHING about the left in ANY country you know how destructive the USA has been. You have brought nothing but death and destruction, and while it sucks for the people living there currently, it can only be a positive thing for the world if America perishes.

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normalize having favorites. in fact, normalize me being your favorite. normalize loving me more than you’ve ever loved anyone else. please please please please please please