#NONE OF IT GOOD

[ashes-in-a-jar]

Ahaha it happened again 🫠

[coffeewithcalypso]

I was reading an article about AI and how AI creators think it will replace jobs (but let's put aside the whole debate of whether the digital, daydreaming toddler can become competent or not) and the thing that I don't really understand is why do they want it?

They know it will create unemployed people. All these tech bros are just Conservatives pretending to be Libertarian (because Libertarians are just Conservatives pretending to be Libertarian). Conservatives hate when people don't work. They're currently trying to pass a bill to make the sick and elderly go back to work! So why are they trying to actively create more unemployed people?

The thought process is fewer employees, higher profit. But they know there aren't jobs for people to move to. No jobs. No money. No spending. No profit. I do not understand how their logic breaks down.

[jezabelofthenorth]

❝Isabel was highly preoccupied with her daughters’ moral and religious education and, if her library is a guide, they would have spent time studying the lives of saints and other devotional works. The Carro de las donas, by the Franciscan monk Francesc Eiximenis, was one of a number of ‘how to raise your daughters’ manuals that sat on the royal bookshelf. Eiximenis was relatively progressive in that he did not consider women intrinsically – or even in imminent danger of becoming – envious, greedy or gossipy. That did not prevent him from displaying many of the prejudices of the time. He firmly believed, for example, that sparing the rod was spoiling the child. Bad girls should be beaten. ‘Punish them and wound them on the back with some switch rather than on the head,’ he advised, in an attempt to minimise the damage. Girls should carry rosaries and spend a part of each day praying. Contact with boys, Jews or Moors was bad for them, and they must refuse food offered by non-Christians. Girls, the manuals generally agreed, were to be discreet and contained, and exercise self-control. Weaving, sewing and prayer were appropriate pastimes. Their greatest enemy was ‘the madness of love’. Catherine learned little, therefore, about the opposite sex. Her mother was a stickler for decorous behaviour. The queen was determined to protect both her own reputation and that of Catherine, her other daughters and her ladies. Isabel’s former sister-in-law, the scandalous Queen Juana, was held up as the model of all that a woman should not be. Apart from her own marital infidelities, Juana had also been infamous for her bawdy ladies-inwaiting. These carried daggers, displayed deep cleavages and had a tendency to ‘accidentally’ stumble when dismounting their horses, thus exposing large amounts of thigh painted with fashionable white make-up.

Catherine of Aragon: Henry's Spanish Queen, Giles Tremlett

[sophisticatedswifts]

Apparently there’s a website called Public Square where conservatives register their businesses to identify themselves as “anti-woke” so other conservatives can find them. I just thought I would share in case anyone wanted to put their zip code in and learn which local businesses to avoid.

[shortbcofkoffee]

Batfam bodyswap but all of them have insane chronic pain in different places.

Jason, in Tim’s body: Yeah, your hands and waist should not feel like this.

Tim, in Dick’s body: Shut up, it's normal. But Dick all of your joints are fucked. What is wrong with you?

Dick, in Damian's body: Nothing. Jesus, Dami, I want to peel my ribs out of my chest.

Damian, in Jason’s body: Todd, I don't think the pit healed you at all...

Duke, in Bruce’s body: ow

Bruce, in Cass' body: I, for one, feel amazing.

Cass, in Duke’s body: I'm going to go OD on Advil. That probably won't be enough for how much my head hurts.

[dexteritymisdirectionsuggestion]

"Why are all my coworkers incompetent?" I ask, knowing full well that the low wages and piss-poor upper management mean that anyone hired who is competent won't stay here long.

[batcavescolony]

Katniss is such an unreliable narrator. She says "Then something unexpected happens. At least, I don't expect it because I don't think of District 12 as a place that cares about me" girl you deliver strawberries to the Mayor, you hunt and trade for the district, when you fell at Prim being chosen someone caught you, when you went to Prim people parted for you, when you volunteered EVERYONE stopped. Idk how to tell you but I think you're a pillar of the community.

[zerorock41]

This is hardly a fair comparison. Kaworu did something interesting and dynamic with the main protagonist in the one episode he had.

Wouldn’t be a Khara production if we didn’t get a white haired character hyped up, fans fall in love, just to get killed after one episode lmao.

[noodles-and-tea]

Superman

[corrodedaphroditus]

I love the idea that Bill’s manipulation tactics are horribly obvious but Ford is so socially inept that it works on him perfectly

“He was a masterful manipulator.”

No bestie he was just nice to you and you folded like a house of cards

[essektheylyss]

"must a story have conflict?" yes. hope this helps <3

[quicksweetdreamer]

The way Sakura laughed and the WHOLE CLASS stopped talking and stared at him in amazement???

And then how they started fucking around twice as much to make him laugh even more???????

That shit is straight out of a fanfiction and I’m SO here for it.

[many-gay-magpies]

i think my favorite thing about the old guard was how much and how obviously they all LOVED each other. like. the baclava scene. those first hugs between andy, nick and joe. andy cradling booker's face while she begged him to wake up, and the tender forehead-touch when he did. how they all (barring andy, who i assume was taking a guard dog-like position) slept so closely together in the church. how quick they were to all surround andy when they found out about her mortality. how KIND andy was, even when coming out to tell booker what his punishment would be. how they waited and looked to each other in relief every time they died—and how the first thing they thought of when they felt nile's presence was that they had to help her, because they all knew how scared and alone she would be feeling right then. hell, even booker's motivation for his betrayal wasn't the typical scheming double-crosser's motivation; he just wanted to help, to try and give the rest of the guard (mainly he and andy) a means of control—a way to REST. to decide when to stop on their own terms. they weren't just a team of badass immortal soldiers dedicated to protecting the earth; they were friends, with relationships centuries in the making, and it showed. they were a family.

[melancholypolywog]

bill and ford comic! ft. bill being his usual attention seeking self.

[citruschemical]

📷.

[neapenning]

It'd be so embarrassing to join a group after trying to kill their members and losing