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Air Himbo

Water Himbo

Earth Himbo

Fire Himbo

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i like working at plant store. sometimes you ring up someone and there's a slug on their plant and so you're like "Oh haha you've got a friend there let me get that for you" and you put the slug on your hand for safekeeping but then its really busy and you dont have time to take the slug outside before the next customer in line so you just have a slug chilling on your hand for 15 minutes. really makes you feel at peace with nature. also it means sometimes i get to say my favorite line which is "would you like this free slug with your purchase"

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I’m watching Splash (1984) which is a romcom about a guy who falls in love with a mermaid, and when she chooses a human name she chooses Madison and guy says “that’s not a real name, but alright” which seems to imply that Madison was not a name until at least the 80’s and all girls named Madison are actually named after the mermaid. thought you should know

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Seen someone say “I can’t die, I got graves to dance on that hasn’t been dug yet.” And honestly, that goes hard. We need to keep that energy.

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I got inspired by this post

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the black cravat in our flag means death as a symbol for the hold, negative or positive, stede has on the person who’s wearing it.

when it’s shown mary’s life after stede left, she has no black cravat at all. she’s free of him.

but then stede is back, and the black cravat enters the scene. mary is not free anymore, and she has a stede to deal with.

stede decides to stay. the black cravat goes higher, and tighter, mary’s neck. like she is suffocating. and she is.

stede fakes his death. he is gone for good. the black cravat gets down, mary can breath again. and soon, she will be free.

when edward has his first real interaction with stede, look who’s there too. the black cravat. stede clearly has a hold in him. he’s hung in stede.

then stede leaves. and different from mary, that freed herself when he did so, in edward’s case, it goes tighter up his neck.

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Spent two hours chanting at a Hands Off rally. No voice. But also no high. I used to feel *better * after an event

30 years of this. I’m getting old

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Absolutely fantastic turnout of protesters at the Chicago Hands Off! protest!

I love my city!

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Trump is all like "Australians sell their beef to us, but they won't buy any of ours 😡"

Which.... yeah? Of course???? Why would we import external beef from so far away when we produce more than enough to meet our own needs??

Not to mention that USA still has both mad cow disease and foot and mouth disease, but Australia doesn't -- AND America has increasingly lax commercial-level health and safety standards, meaning the risk of pathogens like MCD/F&M spreading through the US are significantly increased, and we don't have either here in Australia, so of course we don't want to import beef from a country that could conceivably spread the diseases to us???

But even aside from that. There are not that many Australians. But there are a lot of Americans. AND Australians eat an average of 23.4 kilos of beef per year but we produce 2.2 million tonnes. We produce WAY more beef than our population eats. So of course we don't import much????? And of COURSE it's not from America, which is both significantly further away than our current importers (primarily New Zealand and Japan), AND which has significantly lower health and safety regulations than we do????

Meanwhile, Americans average aprox 37 kilos of beef per person per year, but produces around 12.4 million tonnes. USAs population is 12 times larger than ours but only produces 5 times more beef than we do, AND consumes more per capita than we do. Of course USA imports large quantities of beef. Because their domestic production doesn't meet their domestic demand. Meanwhile Australia's production vastly outweighs our domestic demand, so of course we don't import American beef?????

Thats...... that's how imports and exports are supposed to work???? You export excess of what you have to someone who has less of it, and in turn, they export to you the produce/products that YOU don't have. This is fucking basic??????????

"Waahhh, Australia won't import American beef 😭😡" yeah???? Of course we don't????????

PLUS!!!!! Overall, Australia imports 34 billion dollars worth of stuff from America per year. Meanwhile America only imports $16 billion from us.

Putting tariffs on a country that imports more from you than they export to you is uhhhhhhhhh, FUCKIN' STUPID. If america tariff everything we send to them it's on all of $16b worth of stuff. If we tariff everything of theirs then we'll be slapping taxes on more than double what they can tax us.

Trump is such a fucking moron.

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The issue of bathroom access is so under discussed. It's a really clear marker of whose comfort/privacy has value. Service workers not getting breaks, manual laborers and contractors not getting bathroom access at work, unhoused people not being allowed into bathrooms, public bathrooms existing only behind a paywall. It's dehumanizing. Like no one wants to talk about it but having a private place to shit is a human right that needs defending

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I am the electric jello in my head

And the meat suit

And the 2 million bacteria in my gut

I am legion

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That time of year ...

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Shenanigans ensue

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It really is crazy how terfism has made people so suspicious of feminism as a whole. You can literally make a post saying something as basic as "it is bad when women are sexually assaulted" and some people will immediately start investigating you to see if you're a transphobe. terfs have successfully worked their way into people's minds and made them, either consciously or subconsciously, associate feminism with transphobia. They've convinced people that the only way to be a feminist is to be a transphobe as well, and that all feminists are therefore the enemy. It's almost impressive, for how terrifying it is.

Idk really what the solution to this is, because I do think it's important to be proactive in shutting down transphobic sentiments in leftist spaces. I have definitely seen posts that are very carefully worded and filled with the right buzzwords to slip under the radar, that nonetheless carry deeply harmful implications if you examine the trail of thought for too long. But I've also seen people get put on blacklists for not making their point perfectly clear, despite a long documented history of supporting trans people (or sometimes even being trans themselves!) Its just a really fucking tough situation to be in, I think

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