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They gave us a big glass butt plug for being so good at politics we kept 300 people from eviction this year. Also I got to laugh at glen jacobs

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big fan of inversions of symbols of power. the leash claims ownership over the one who holds the chain as much as the one who wears it. the one who places the crown upon your head can also take it from you. with age comes experience but with youth the superior physical strength to overpower you. the sword is double-edged and cuts both ways.

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This shit is why I can’t take the libs too seriously when they come out of their hole to protest again every 4 years. Tennessee has been under these conditions for YEARS under a Biden presidency. Where was the outrage for us? People are dying here and have been since 2022

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I just found the earliest email I ever sent from my email address, and it’s the funniest goddamn thing I can possibly imagine a fourth grader sending her teacher:

(Context - my fourth grade teacher was on maternity leave, and the state of the classroom fish tank was dire under the substitute teacher’s tyrannical rule. The class convened at recess, and decided to inform our (24yo, new mother) former teacher of the situation. I was selected as the duly appointed representative for this solemn communication.)

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I need to be as clear as possible that I’m not being smug or saying I told you so when I say this, but what every solidly pro-Palestinian analyzing the Harris campaign said would happen in Michigan happened. I’ve been saying it for months. She completely alienated her voter base of Arabs and Muslims in Michigan, dismissed them at every turn, communicated that they didn’t matter to her, and she still expected them to line up enthusiastically to vote for her. This was entirely avoidable if she’d made even token efforts to gain their support instead of openly disregarding them

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Maybe if a democrat had a popular platform and actually kept it for once…. Maybe if she had pledged to end the genocide…. Hell maybe if she even tried to pretend…

Capitalism will produce its own gravediggers

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will yanqui liberals pretend to oppose genocide now that the other team is the one in charge of running the genocide machine

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i can never take it seriously when usamericans talk about "authoritarianism". you people have HOAs

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If you live in Tennessee, like me, vote for Claudia de la Cruz and Karina Garcia under independent. Reject the two party system, and it’s never ending racist war machine. Fight fascism with the only movement that can. Vote Socialist 2024 and join a Party for Socialism and Liberation branch in your city at pslweb.org/join

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New Orleans implies the existence of Old Orleans. What did they do with it?!

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I saw this and felt like it should be shared here too

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Today marks 30 years of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine! Here's an appreciation post featuring some more episode artwork I've made over the past few years.

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One of the most important lessons I ever learned about art was when I became a late addition to the editorial board for the literature part of my high school's lit/art magazine, which nobody ever read.

Because I realized after a couple of meetings that my moments of baffled distress during them were centering around a pattern of our votes electing by majority to reject most of the good, interesting stuff and agree to publish the very bland.

So I was looking around this room of people I mostly liked or respected if not both, trying to figure out what the fuck when there was no reasonable way of asking, until the day we by majority vote sent definitely the best thing submitted all year back pending 'revisions' which of course would not be made, because the poet would definitely either become demoralized or know for damn sure she was too good for our stupid journal. I have no idea which it was; it's a question of mindset, and the submissions were anonymous.

This good poem was rejected for two reasons, both of which were actually manifestations of it being good. One was that it had made a couple of the board uncomfortable--not by having any shocking subject material, mind, just by provoking emotions with unusual descriptive language and indirectness--and they'd transmitted that uneasiness throughout the group during discussion.

And the other, seized upon as an excuse in light of the first, was that by being complex in terms of both structure and notion it had drawn several of us in, interested enough to engage critically and respond in depth, and so we'd marked it up with lots of places we thought a word choice could have been a little stronger, a line break had been a little odd; ways we thought it could have been a more excellent version of the poem we perceived in it. None of them ways it was actually bad. Just places we felt it could have been better.

At the same meeting, we voted to accept a poem that was an utterly tepid rectangle of predictable nothing-in-particular, because no one could find anything in it to object to.

It wasn't good. It wasn't noticeably bad, either, though; it was one consistent level of mediocrity clear through, and thus no part of it stood out as a weakness, and therefore the committee found it more acceptable than the poem that was superior in every way, but which by being daring and interesting had left itself covered in vulnerable places.

The understanding I reached as a result of this experience was multi-layered and difficult to articulate, but the most important part, I think, to share is that the value and quality of a work are not, in fact, very well measured by how many negative things you can find to say about it.

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They increased the prices of groceries to account for the extra added listeria. You're getting more bang for your buck now and you're dumb if you think that getting free listeria with your groceries was ever going to be an option

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Gul dukat is so fucking funny dude he had an entire cult of people worshipping him as Jesus and he would have gotten away with it if he hadn’t let Kira spread dissent amongst his followers but he literally cannot help himself from showing her whatever fucked up thing he��s been doing and then begging her to fuck him