#reform fail

[newtsoftheworldunite]

Tragedies of patriarchy plus capitalist exploitation of labor. It can’t be reformed.

Did you know that after they switched to blind auditions, major symphony orchestras hired women between 30% to 55% more? Before bringing in “blind auditions” with a screen to conceal the the candidate, women in the top 5 major orchestras made up less than 5% of the musicians performing.

[navree]

Incorrect, the fact that Biden has dropped out and a candidate with history of supporting medicare for all and being more receptive to a ceasefire in the I/P conflict has made me go from "I cannot morally support the Democratic nominee" to "I am voting for the Democratic nominee despite the fact she isn't perfect in every respect." I'm really happy this played out. The Dems for the most part abandoned the old Obama platform and it feels like its possible an actual progressive agenda could come to pass in my lifetime.

Kamala 2024!

If you weren't going to vote Democratic in this election before Biden dropped out you're a dorkass loser who does not care about any of the issues you're yammering about here and also a fundamentally bad person, and I hope you get run over by a bus.

But you got one thing right in all of this gibberish, Kamala 2024.

[feygaleh]

hi so believe it or not america is a fucking huge country and the jewish cultures in america are pretty strongly upheld by the jewish diaspora and we as american jews can and do have our own traditions and observances that are formed by the jewish-american cultural melting pot

[good-morzan-inheritance-cycle]

Did anyone look for Morzan when he was stolen away?

Did anyone wander around at night where he used to play with Brom and his friends and wonder where he went?

Did anyone ever imagine how he may have cried for help on the night Galbatorix became the cruelest?

Did Oromis see the child under his care disappear and even bother with the thought that he might have been hurt?

Did Brom sit awake at night, a small child wishing for the boy he saw as his big brother to come home?

Were there friends who sat up until the late hours at their windows hoping they’d see his figure in the dark?

Were there dragons missing their friend in his nests and hoping they’d keep his young rider safe?

Was there ever a time, Morzan was as missed as a hurting child should have been?

Edit; I’m also adding on to here that this applies to him being an adult and in the AU when he’s taken earlier than in canon lol

[porcelainmortal]

Happy Friday! How about some firstprince and 🩵 Turquoise: Magic? 👀

Thank you for the ask @myheartalivewrites!! I am sorry this took so long, but, well... it is a bit long. This "ficlet" clocks in at 1100 words and I cut it down so many times, but alas. It's a fat ficlet. I hope you love it just the same!! 💕

Selena Martinez, in her little shop below a Jewish deli in the East Village, told a somewhat lost Alex that his dream job was in New York City. Not two months after finishing school in D.C. did Alex land the perfect job. And he hadn't even applied; a former professor of his had recommended him to a colleague in the city and they'd called and offered it to him. It was like magic.

Alex never believed in psychics – mediums, tarot cards, crystals, Ouija boards – it was all a bunch of bullshit in his book. But, he'd visited June in New York City two years ago and she'd brought him to a psychic she swore would change his life and fuck if she wasn't right.

So, now two years and two months after moving to New York, Alex is heading back to Psychic Selena, as he affectionately calls her, to ask about his love life. His time on the New York dating scene has confirmed exactly two things: 1) he’s definitely bisexual and 2) dating is exhausting. He intends to ask Selena where and when he might meet the love of his life.

Selena is exactly as he remembers; a thick Spanish accent, long, somewhat untamed hair, and lots of jewelry. She reminds him a bit of his great aunt on his dad's side. And Salma Hayek. She's a true Bruja, June says, and Alex trusts her. 

She greets him at the door and gets right down to business.

“I'll need a personal item,” she says, holding out a hand. He had to do this last time, too, so he hands her the key from around his neck again. Last time she had commented how it pulsed strongly with his energy and commended him on his choice. She doesn't dole out the same praise this time and part of him wilts a bit in disappointment. 

She steps over to a table against the wall and starts arranging some items. 

“You're not going to read my cards again?” He asks nervously. 

Last time she had just wrapped his key around her wrist, shuffled some tarot cards, and did a fairly quick reading. Alex had worried about how much June spent on it until it turned out to be worth every penny.

“Soulmate magic is a bit more complicated.”

“Soulmate?” Alex asks. “That's a real thing?”

“Mhm," she nods, spooning loose leaf tea into a small teapot. 

“Does everyone have one?” 

“No,” she says, peering at him sideways. “But you do.”

Alex’s heart thuds.

“And you can help me find them?”

“If you're meant to. Seeking the unknown is a risk, and if it’s too soon, this won’t work.”

“Oh,” Alex replies dumbly. Knowing he has a fucking soulmate out there is not helping his impatience.

She stirs the tea in careful circles, murmuring in Spanish that's too low for Alex to hear. He waits, trying not to fidget anxiously. 

“Drink this,” she says eventually, turning to hand him a cup.

“I'm really more of a coffee guy,” he says, staring into the dark brew, which seems to almost shimmer like she'd dropped edible gold dust in it.

“I must read your tea leaves,” Selena explains with a wave of her hand, sitting down at the table opposite him. She takes out her tarot cards and begins shuffling. 

He drinks the tea, which surprisingly tastes pretty good. It's a bit earthy with a hint of something citrusy and almost grassy, like matcha. Alex hated matcha when he tried it once, as a way to curb his coffee addiction, because he thought it tasted like a freshly mown lawn, but this is more of a refreshing flavor. It brings to mind warm summer days at the lake and clear blue waters he wants to swim in.

He downs the tea quickly because Selena has now placed a bunch of cards on the table face down and is eyeing him with thinly veiled impatience. When he hands over his mug, she looks into the bottom of the cup. 

“Oh,” she says with some surprise. “This man is already in your life.”

“He is?”

“Mhm.” She puts the mug to the side and places a few more cards down on top of the other ones. She begins flipping them over, humming quietly to herself a bit before speaking. “You have worked with this man. He is likely tall, fair-haired–”

“So it's not Regé-Jean Page?” Alex jokes. Selena levels him with a look, shutting him up immediately. 

“I get the sense he is not American,” she continues as she flips more cards. “Perhaps descended from royalty.”

“I’m sorry, did you just say royalty?”

“Mhm,” she responds, not looking at him. “You don’t know him well but he seeks you out.” She taps a card.

Alex looks over the cards and recognizes a few from June’s dabbling – The Lovers, the Ace of Cups, The Sun – but Selena doesn’t explain the meaning behind each one. She points to a few here and there, talks about the symbolism of the suits and the body language of the characters, and Alex tries to keep up. She concludes the reading with a soft smile.

“You have a long and happy future with this person, if you commit to loving them. You are twin flames, made for each other in every way.”

“Wait– you said ‘him’ before and now you’re saying ‘them.’ Is it a woman or a man?”

“All signs indicate this is a male lover, but I can’t be entirely sure, you understand.” 

Alex nods, taking back his key when she holds it out to him and looping the chain around his neck. He gets up and heads toward the door, but something stops him. He turns around.

“You said I have a soulmate before you even started the reading.”

“I can sense it in your aura, your soul crying out for its other half.” 

It nearly makes him want to cry. Alex has never considered himself incomplete or missing something, but he has always wished for someone who could understand him and be his true match. Like Nora and June. He exits Selena’s shop and steps onto the sidewalk. 

“Oh, pardon me,” a voice says, as someone exiting the deli knocks into his right. Alex turns in surprise, his reply dying on his tongue as his eyes land on Henry Fox, someone he met briefly through work about a year before and has seen only in passing since then. Alex takes in the tall, blond, British man with eyes like a clear blue lake and– oh. Oh. He smiles.

[sistersorrow]

Something in 40k which I find interesting, very funny, and also both realistic but a really weird worlbuilding choice for a setting that is meant to be at least somewhat satirical is that the Imperial Cult of the Imperium of Man is in many ways more tolerant of heterodoxy than the real world Catholic Church

[eightyonekilograms]

Me: "Let's go out; I promise I won't get political."

Me, three drinks later, pounding on the table: "The Philippines need real comprehensive land reform, ASAP!"

[local-redhead-bookworm]

This is near the end of Almiria’s screentime

And this is chronologically the earliest scene we have of McGillis’ backstory

Just two frightened children fighting for survival.

[vamptastic]

why do christians get mad about jews having 'loopholes'. did i miss something. do you guys strictly follow the 613 commandments to the letter. if you don't even believe you need to fulfill these obligations in the first place, then why do you think jews are wrong for fulfilling them in silly or nontraditional ways? always followed by some shit about us not going to heaven because of it like damnnn i wonder if maybe there's another reason jews believe that following our own laws is a good idea. maybe because we want to be good people on earth instead of only being a good person for the sake of earning a primo spot in the afterlife.

[new-haven-psych-ward]

i am plagued by visions. enjoy some geats sponsor-rider swaps

[ridiculus-mus]

Szenzáció a Jelenkor című folyóiratban, 1838-ból: négyes ikerszülés!

[constantlymisspelled]

Literally the entire plot of the Long Sunrise, summarised. The Space Wizard, Space Witch, and Space Warlord - a union too powerful for the Empire to handle. They would be too powerful as allies, so Disney kept them enemies...

[Worlds shortest image description - Cal and Merrin beat up an old man. Boba procrastinates, and then helps.]

[hairtusk]

btw the education system for disabled, neurodivergent and mentally ill students in england is so sub-par it makes me want to scream and cry every single day at work

[tomorrowusa]

Trump stages a campaign event at the border wall. It just happens to be a sturdy section of the wall completed during the Obama administration at Montezuma Pass, AZ.

You just can't make this stuff up. 😅

Trump event at wall Obama built highlights an unkept promise

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump came here on Thursday to heap praise on the structure standing to his right — “the Rolls-Royce of walls,” he called it — and lament the unused segments lying to his left. Joining him, Border Patrol union leader Paul A. Perez called the standing fence “Trump wall” and the idle parts “Kamala wall,” after Trump’s Democratic opponent, Vice President Kamala Harris. Those labels were inaccurate. This section of 20-foot steel slats was actually built during the administration of President Barack Obama. Trump added the unfinished extension up the hillside, an engineering challenge that cost at least $35 million a mile. The unused panels of 30-foot beams were procured during the Trump administration and never erected. “Where you were, that was kind of a joke today,” John Ladd, a Trump supporter whose ranch extends along the border, said while driving the dirt road along the barrier, the gapped panels making a flipbook out of the shrubby trees and grass on the other side. “Had to be in front of Trump’s wall, but you went to Montezuma, and that’s Obama’s wall.” The Cochise County Sheriff’s Office confirmed that the barrier next to Thursday’s campaign stop was built during the Obama administration. The Trump campaign and Perez did not respond to questions about the discrepancy.

^^^ emphasis added

Here is why Trump didn't visit sections of the wall built during his own administration.

1 ] The wind blew parts of the Trump wall down. This is from January of 2020 when Weird Donald was busy saying "we have it under control" about the COVID-19 pandemic which was already spreading in the US.

^^^ Scrawny trees on the Mexican side of the border kept some sections of the mighty Trump wall from completely collapsing.

2 ] Floods washed other parts of the Trump wall away. This is from August of 2021 – just seven months after Trump left office in disgrace.

The Trump border wall was just another failed Trump scam like Trump University and Trump Vitamins.

Trump's fascism-curious crony Steve Bannon is set to go on trial on border wall corruption charges after he's released from prison on an unrelated conviction.

Steve Bannon's border wall fraud trial set for December

If Weird Donald really cared about the border then he would not have ordered his stooge Speaker "MAGA Mike" Johnson to torpedo the bipartisan immigration reform bill in the House early this year.

Trump, House Republicans plot to kill border deal

[coochiequeens]

Yes their are many older children that need homes but who the hell approved adopting a traumatized teenage boy into a home that had 3 girls ranging in age from 6 still a toddler?

This sounds like a more extreme version of a family I know personally. The couple already had a girl was young, not sure the exact age, they adopted an older boy. So the girls had to adjust to not just a new sibling but a bigger and stronger male. If both families wanted a boy so they couldn't have adopted a younger boy.

[pyrosomatic-metamorphosis]

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