#oh america

[i-just-like-commenting]

(when you clearly had no Native Americans on your writing and editorial team)

[sillyguy-supreme]

white americans when you tell them that the idea of climate change as an impending disaster is a reductive first world perspective because it’s a tangible reality for many in the global south already:

[thedeadhandofseldon]

H.L. Mencken, the great Baltimorean journalist: "Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard."

[elizabeth-karenina]

Y’all, I just had a meal fit for a queen. I live in a very crowded and expensive area of America, but my goodness! I’m surprised we haven’t had a French Revolution-esque uprising in this country yet!

What I just ate was fit for millionaires, no joke. I must’ve eaten 7 different types of meat cut for me right off the bone. It was a “chain” restaurant, but it was hella expensive for a chain!

[berrygoblin]

It boggles my mind that things that are standard almost everywhere else is real breakthrough in America

Midwestern Democrats are on fire recently. Over the last few weeks, the Minnesota legislature has passed measures which would turn the state into one of the closest things the US has to a social democracy. They have passed bills:

creating universal paid leave

codifying abortion rights

legalizing weed

making public college free for families earning under $80k

universalizing free school lunches and increasing public education funding

creating plans for 100% carbon-free energy by 2040

investing more in public housing and homelessness prevention programs

creating a new child tax credit to cut child poverty

creating a refuge for those seeking trans healthcare

instituting automatic voter registration

expanding voting rights to former felons

banning anti-gay "conversion therapy"

creating a new tax to fund public transit

banning worker non-compete agreements

strengthening anti-trust rules in healthcare

creating new labor protections for gig economy drivers, teachers, construction workers, warehouse workers, and more

investing in efforts to prevent chemical pollution

creating billions in bonds for public infrastructure and lands

strengthening gun purchase background checks

indexing the gas tax to inflation

creating a public board to regulate pharmaceutical costs

increasing support for public defenders, and

expanding access to health insurance and drivers licenses for undocumented immigrants

and still more!!!

Extremely, unfathomably based

[maigetheplatypus57]

Do you think Evbo learned how to do those jumps and thought "oh this is so sick what's the best way I can show off my parkour skills"

[chick-it-out]

whoag... parts of the US deep south/southwest got the bronzed cowbird

he's so leveled up.....

he is Approaching

[biathelstan]

summer days

[gallnerkyle]

DINNER IN AMERICA 2020 ― dir. Adam Rehmeier

[hellish-cruelty]

Killing Eve (2018 - 22)

[lostwhump]

"Желание... Ржавый..."

@whumptober | Day #22: "Oh that's not good" Captain America: Civil War (2016)

[bubblyernie]

Bro was rent asunder. Thanks for all the requests guys!! We're SOOOO BACK

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[dosthoeyevsky]

in light of recent news, one of my favourite tiktokers is here to slap some sense into every american with progressive leanings and a pulse.

[abracazabka]

ppl complaining about the writers strike are weak & lame for obvious reasons, but also bc of their reliance on new/current shows. like...develop an unhealthy & isolating hyperfixation on a 20+ years old television show like the rest of us...

[yourheartinyourmouth]

it’s always been presented as just a mini trash can. wtf????

I was explaining to my friends yesterday that one of my pet peeves is that not very many people know how to use the modesty bags (wax paper bags in the women's room) and this leads to them being stocked incorrectly and also used incorrectly- resulting in potential biohazards.

I don't blame people for not knowing. The circumstance that of the four people at the table who menstruate, only one person knew what I was talking about... is what makes me mad. Because no one told them. And no one told the people who were supposed to tell them. And everyone somewhat assumed you already knew how to use them so no one reinforced the process. And the culture of shame surrounding menstruation means no one talks about it. And the people stocking the bathrooms typically don't know it- so they get stocked incorrectly. And so the cycle continues and I'm scraping the biohazard up off the bottom.

There's supposed to be a stock of them in the box. A nice, generous handful of them. 20 or so.

You're supposed to take one, put your pads or tampons in the bag.

Then take the bag and throw it in the trash can outside.

This process is meant to reduce the amount of people touching bodily fluids.

Every place that I've worked where I've had the duty of cleaning bathrooms, the people who stock it only put one in the box as a single liner. This causes that bag to become overflowing. It becomes smelly, unsanitary, and in the case of outdoor place like park shelters- attracts bugs or animals.

When I told the guys that work the opposite shift as me that this is the proper process, they said 'I thought it was just like a little trash can' which is a logical conclusion to make when everyone else before you only put a single liner in.

But I noticed that when I stock them correctly, people are more likely to use them correctly- I see less beer cans or gum wads or diapers in the receptacles.

Anyways- if you work in maintenance and see this problem, its real easy to explain that this is how its meant to be used and most people will believe you because no one told them how to do it properly.

This has been a psa.

[beautifulstorms]

Wakaba Higuchi, FS Nature Boy / Running Up That Hill • Skate America 2024