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gen z is not falling for media propaganda because we have alternate independent sources of information! look at this video:

[2 minute tiktok full of conspiracy theories, racism, and history distorted like a pretzel]

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This is single handedly the funniest Pokemon clip of all time.

The Pokémon company, sitting at a round table reviewing the episode before it airs:

“You know what, fuck it. I don’t give a shit anymore.”

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the tradwife movement is the same as it has always been - back in the kitchen, back to breeding - it just has better branding.

when i was younger, i hated pink. i was not like other girls. this is now something i'm embarrassed of - this was not me being a "girl's girl."

but it was expressing something many of us felt at the time: i literally wasn't what girlhood was supposed to be. this is a hard thing to explain, but you know when you're not performing girlhood correctly. it isn't as easy as "i liked x when girls liked y" - because there were other girls that liked x, too - but i never figured out exactly the correct way to like x, or to be interested in y.

now there is the divine feminine. this is the same rhetoric it has always been: women are biologically driven to like pink and ribbons and submitting to our husbands.

the problem is that the patriarchy found a better PR team. because yes, actually, i want every woman to have the choice to be a homemaker. i also want her taken seriously for her legitimate home-making labor. i want her to be recognized as also having a job, just unpaid. i want men to have this opportunity, too.

but it is no longer "i made this choice and I love it." instead it is a sixteen-paragraph rant about how selfish it is that my generation isn't having kids. instead it's long videos about how if you feed your children processed foods, you're going to kill them. instead it is "this is what womanhood is supposed to be. i feel bad for any other choices you're making."

the shame spiral is just prettier. it is large houses devoid of personality. it is the implication: if you don't have this, you aren't happy. the solid, everlasting assurance: women are actually supposed to be submitting. this is the default. this is the natural state of things. all other attempts inflict suffering.

but you can no longer say i'm not like other girls. you can no longer reject this image completely. you cannot find it revolting, even if you know that the underbelly is toxic and festering. sure, it is the same repackaged patriarchy. but the internet does not have shades of grey. you should support and reward other women! your disgust is actually internalized misogyny. not because you are seeing a vision of yourself the way they're trying to train you to be. not because you feel her ghost pass within an inch of your earlobe. not because your father will eventually ask you - why can't you be like her?

because they figured out how to make it beautiful: women will sell other women on this idea, and we will find the singular loophole in feminism. sure, she's shaming you in most of her videos. sure, she implies that a different life is obscene. but she just wants you to be happy! you'd be happier if you were listening!

and the whole time you're sitting there thinking: i'd actually just be happier if i had that kind of money.

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There's an open pit in the middle of our office plan that drops down into a bunch of very sharp spikes that kill you instantly. This is bad. People keep falling in there and dying. Someone put a sign up, the other day, all bright yellow so you can't miss it, that says "Beware!!! Spikes!!!"

The office immediately split into two factions over it. One says that if anyone falls in the spike pit it's their own fault for being so stupid and not watching where they're walking, so we should remove the sign. The other says that the sign is an insult, there shouldn't be a spike pit in our office at all, and having the sign up like that is just normalising the existence of the spike pit, so we should remove the sign.

We ended up removing the sign. Probably for the better. Still... for a while there it looked like it might have worked...

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no, spotify, i don't want to use ai to "turn my ideas into playlists". i already fucking do that with my brain and hands and i do it for fun. what, should i get ai to pet my cat for me? to play my silly games for me? to spend time with my beautiful wife for me? how about i rend you asunder

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thinking about creatures.

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I talk a lot about how much Steph hates her dad and how #relatable that is, but do Not ever forget how much she also loves her mom

from Robin #69 (nice) (1999)

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Fun fact: in the 80′s the Dutch Unemployed Union held ‘fridge raids’ to protest against poverty. 

They’d find out when a politician of big boss who upheld poverty and starvation wages was speaking at some public even, then they’d carefully break into his house with a LOT of people and they would eat EVERY piece of food in his house and leave the empty dished behind without taking anything else. 

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i wish every engineer a “try going around your building in a wheelchair”

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i am on my knees tears running down my face knuckles raw and bleeding and BEGGING people to learn the difference between sentient and sapient

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As a trans woman I think it's really important that we make the switch from gendered washrooms to unisex single occupancy ones so that adults who still live with their parents because housing is unaffordable can meet up and suck and fuck eachother at coffee shops.

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Lemon.

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going up to a character i enjoy and being like "i'd like to award you the highest honour i can bestow" and the honours in question are like. bad at sex. undiagnosable mental anguish. loser's temperament. actual body horror shit. nicotine addiction.

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anyway (as i said in the tags) as much as i enjoy utrh as a revenge tragedy & the general broad narrative of jay going insane with grief (and grief being ugly and cruel), i think it's crucial to always acknowledge that the post-res narration is deeply rooted in a classist caricature of what his character was originally supposed to be. jason becoming a villain and being a villain in any capacity at any point is already loads of bullshit in regards to whom he was introduced as. and i don't want to be anyone's killjoy, but being against jay becoming softer and kinder is such a wild sentiment to me bc his love has always been the most radical and novel part of his story. idk how to explain it to you but making poor characters cynical and angry is actually rarely ever interesting or tasteful, and as i said, i'm not saying it in a tone-policing nor moralistic way, i'm saying it because revolution should be motivated by love and not just plain resentment, and because forgiveness has real value too. call me a naive fool but how about dc writes something true and beautiful

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the problem with ordering food is that you’re immediately like I shouldn’t have done that…….i shouldn’t have spent that money…….but then the food arrives and is so delicious (and GOOD FOR YOU!) and you live to smile another day.