#We have newspapers for this!

[deep-spacediver577]

I promised not to get political but everyone being in a funk makes it hard not to say anything...

Let me just say that moving is the worst mistake you can make if you're American (unless you are not born there I guess), I know you're not happy but dwelling and moping ain't gonna fix nor change life, as humans we adapted and improvise day to day.

But I'm serious! Moving can be more trouble than it's worth, Most of my family lives in Canada and let's just say housing there is terrible (unless you're filthy rich) not to mention everything is way more expensive like basic essentials. There is also health care which is "free" at a cost of waiting 7 to 16 hours in the ER just to be told off In some cases, not to mention getting a doctor is a chore and a half. And I'm not gonna even go on about wages...

I also might add that the moron who is in charge has been going strong for 8 years and can keep on running despite most of the population's hate for him. This mofo could stay for 20 years if he had his way, and voting does sh!t if you live on the western side of Canada. To put simply my Family what's him out, and moving to another country is something they can't nor want to do despite his rule.

Listen at the end of the day idiots run the world but leaving one situation/country over another won't help (unless you're in immediate danger), just trust me on that.

[inkedberries]

expanding on the thought of kudou getting the call sign 'hero' and afo getting irked by it for some reason

[marxistlesbianist]

Anarchists in a squat's garden shed made my HRT. My local communist party... Sold me a newspaper subscription?

Yes, this is why I said that US communists should take mutual aid more seriously. Communists in states like Cuba and China are making and distributing HRT on a scale that US anarchists can only dream of. The “communist” movement in the US is currently dominated by socdems and trotskyists with practically no connection to the masses—a more effective movement is both possible and necessary, and systematized mutual aid work will be an important step.

[cockroachesunite]

this is the image in my mind every time i read one of his letters btw

(Terror version)

[theghostinabadbook]

Poor Whitebeard, he doesn't deserve to be surrounded by so many crazy people

[vinnigami]

there’s a new da’at and instead of sand it’s full of crumpled newspapers. welcome to the newspaper dimension buddy

[bigcats-birds-and-books]

Books of 2024: WELCOME TO YOUR WORLD: How the Built Environment Shapes Our Lives by Sarah Williams Goldhagen.

[mothsintherain]

headcanon/au where once jon starts reading ANYTHING, not just statements, he can't stop. when jon and martin arrive Somewhere Else, it doesn't go away. on roadtrips, jon has to let martin drive and not look outside too much or end up reading every road sign around them out loud. if he picks up a book, martin has to forcibly close it and take it from him to prevent him from reading the whole thing in one sitting. he gets a text from martin in the middle of work and sneaks a look at it, forgetting himself for a second. "i miss you baby crying face emoji heart emoji" he says in a deadpan voice to the customer waiting at his desk.

[arbitrarycategories]

AND ANOTHER THING I really like how Princess and the Frog feels more grounded and realistic because of the web of people each of the protags are connected to! Classic princess movies feature very isolated princesses - in Cinderella it’s an extension of her abuse, in Snow White it’s a result of her circumstances, in Sleeping Beauty it’s an intentional measure intended to preserve her safety. Princess and the Frog manages to cut down the cast by way of magic, because nobody is taking their parents and friends on their impromptu bayou adventure, but when they’re in the city they both are shown with the people who are part of their daily lives. Tiana has a living mother and a father who died in the army. She also has a bestie, a rude boss, regulars she knows by name, and other friends who aren’t named but are close enough to invite her dancing and complain about her workaholic tendencies. Both of Prince Naveen’s parents are alive and we see his little brother in the final scene. It adds to the feeling of them belonging to part of a larger world!

[rosedosed]

Man obviously there’s a bunch of really unfortunate consequences to Elon’s mishandling of twitter but the thing that really got to me after a while was how lonely it feels to use the platform now. I only follow my friends and a couple of artists yet my whole dash is filled with total strangers and blue checkmarks trying to farm engagement. There’s an unblockable ad every three tweets (two if you’re counting the bots trying sell me something). There’s no lingering on interesting videos cause they all autoscroll tiktok style (with ads every 3 vids). Following someone means zilch so if I wanna see what the friends I use the platform for have been up to I have to manually go to their accounts & half the time the first tweet I see is an announcement that they’re leaving. It’s such a dead mining town of a website, but instead of dying because the mines just naturally dried out and people left for greener pastures, it’s dying because the newly appointed nepobaby Sheriff got really into building a 7-story mall in the middle of the desert without ever stopping to think what it’d do to the local economy and wildlife, or even if anyone needed an apple store and three taco bells in the middle of the outback.

[chiropteracupola]

so it goes in 1893 as it goes in 2025

[subway-boss-jericho]

Emmet and Ingo's Back Office from Steady Tracks Do Not Waver!

I've been holding on to this one to post on a bad day. guess who is learning how to 3d model. This bitch. my power is unlimited ST!Ingo getting hit with the 3D beam as soon as classes let up on me

more on the way soon (relatively)

Steady Tracks Masterpost

[chicago-geniza]

Ohhhh my gd. Prepared a simple but healthy dinner and ate it in my little floor chair at my little floor desk instead of hunched over like a raccoon at a dumpster as I usually do, and while I ate actually turned the lights on and listened to some early Scriabin and read my comprehensive academic monograph about Wiadomości Literackie 1924-1939 po polsku, and feel slightly more like a person and less like a quasi-sapient mold growing out of my mattress.

[princessanneftw]

Some lovely anecdotes in the comments of this Daily Telegraph article from yesterday:

[toxintouch]

Hyperspecific modern era Ais Headcanon:

He still collects physical newspapers. He likes to do the crosswords.

He knows he could do them online or buy a book of crosswords, but something about the smell and the feel of the paper and the morning routine...

Edit: Danger-Bird made art inspired by this! Check it out!

[underthehedge]

I'm having A Thought about cultural assumptions and how people often conflate their own cultural quirks and patterns as being either universal or Obviously Logical, based on seeing a post with someone's lock screen, because I have ADHD.

It was a simple example but a very neat one, and it's about how we write and speak about dates (as in the measure of time, not the fruit of the date palm or an intimate meeting). Americans write dates backwards, by the standards of nearly every culture (inc. other English speaking cultures). They write them MM/DD/YY instead of DD/MM/YY, this is known.

But the thing is, ok there is a good reason most people write the day then month but none the less, what a culture decides on is still just a little bit arbitrary, the point is it's a cultural agreement that This Is How It's Done. Earlier I saw a post with someone's lock screen, an American, and it displayed something like "Wednesday, December 12" and that caught my eye because mine obviously reads "Thursday, 9 March", because I come from the UK, where we use DD/MM.

And I was reminded of an American once telling me how MM/DD obviously makes more sense though, because you see, that's how you say dates in English! You would say "March ninth", so you write the month then the day! Except, well, that's not how we say dates here, we say "the ninth of March". But this guy had assumed that the standard phrasing in his culture was just how all English speakers would say it, therefore the date format they used was clearly the more natural and intuitive way, and of course you think in terms of the month something is happening and then when in the month it is!

To me, however, this feels like someone earnestly and confidently explaining that naturally you put your socks on over your shoes.

Obviously there's a bunch of examples of this kind of thing, and many with far greater importance, but it just seemed like a really very telling and concise example of how people will see features of their culture that result from specific quirks as universalities that make more sense than any other system.