#thanks america

[meikofigureoftheday]

❤️Today's Merch Is...❤️

Light Acrylic Stand (Cocollabo)!

[frostbytemyrik]

Fuckin Loud Noise came 2 minutes early

[johannestevans]

me: wow, this last month has been really great for book sales and sign-ups, august is gonna be the first really comfortable month i have for money in ages!

(the value of the dollar plummets, which means that my USD royalties drop in value by hundreds of pounds)

me:

[raziraphale]

noooooooooo

[crunchity-munchity]

I'm missing my grandpa's funeral because I have college finals so my grades BETTER be good

[flickerbit]

So I might be moving to the uk 😳

[lordgroose]

having worked retail my entire adult life, i wasn't prepared to be working a job where i get paid holidays off

i have no idea what to do with myself today lmao

[mixtap3w0rm]

hows the mind so filthy for being brainwashed🐐

[markthekng]

Fun fact: The freedom of speech and press means that you can publicly voice your opinions, protest peacefully without police interference, write articles discussing anything within reason, and not have to worry about losing your job or being blacklisted because of an opinion.

So if you live in a country that claims to have freedom of speech but won't let you speak up when you disagree with war or genocide, you can't protest peacefully with police showing up and hitting you with tear gas or just straight up hitting you, articles written about said genocide get you blacklisted in the writing industry, and you could be fired or blacklisted for speaking up about said genocide, perhaps it's time to stop saying we have free speech and start questioning if they're trying to brainwash us into believing we do so we have to agree with their opinions.

Anyways here's a silly cat illustration that's definitely not related or anything.

[therainbowwillow]

hbomberguy’s latest video on plagiarism has made me completely rethink literature and writing. I have never once so much as considered intentionally plagiarizing anyone or anything, but I think there’s something more that has come out of this: the names of the people who created the works Somerton (and others) ripped off.

Plagiarism isn’t only bad because it is lazy and disrespectful, it’s bad because it buries the truth. If you can’t find a source, the conversation is over. Somerton’s sources are fairly easy to find by simply searching his plagiarized lines, but that isn’t true in most cases. Most of the time, the line from statement to source is a lot less clear.

Today, I was writing a report on English Ivy, which is an invasive species here in the US. I wanted to know when it was introduced and I at last found a source claiming it was introduced to the Americas “as early as 1727” on a .net website that seems quite reputable (it has multiple major universities credited in its home page), but there is no citation for where this date came from. I dug deeper and found a pamphlet created by a city government in Virginia that made the same claim, only to discover the first source linked in their bibliography. Another website (a botanical garden’s page) gave the same date with the same source hyperlinked. Of course, I have classes to attend and things to do and probably not enough time to follow the lines back to where this 1727 date came from, but if I had not just watched this video, I wouldn’t have given that date a second thought.

Of course, it doesn’t matter in the long run exactly what year hedera helix was introduced to the Americas, but it makes you wonder how many facts have been so vaguely attributed that it becomes completely impossible to figure out where they originated (and further, whether or not they’re true at all).

[smolbasilboy]

Do I have covid or am I just tired? The world may never know (all my tests are expired so the suuuuper faint line I see isn’t believable enough for me I guess) and it doesn’t matter anyways bc my boss told me to just wear a mask anyways and come to work

[cuntvonkrolock]

reminder that trans men also fought for your rights and refusal to acknowledge this is tantamount to denying historical fact

[anabundanceofblue]

ways to decrease the true value of something by adjusting the price or give out incorrect information concerning the product

ways to decrease the true value of something in using perspectivism & social value (what other people personally regards as important or valuable); to someone who appreciates art and beauty, you can easily do this by lowering someone else's or something else's value by making them ugly or appear ugly , to someone who appreciates status you can easily do this with advertising which humiliates the subject and lowers their status and in effect the product they represent, to lower something with value entirely you can do this with market fluctuations, in using borrowed money to buy and sell as giant conglomerates & have pricing plastered on important websites to generate public interest / hype while withholding valuable information concerning the true nature of the product whereby the public is made to believe one thing while the opposite is actually true. this contradiction is an opportunity to profit. buy low sell high etc. another example is high risk 'gambling' where essentially something like a war or heightened paranoia about an event can trigger enormous profits simply because people will react with their money in a predictable way whereas those without the typical emotional responses will have the advantage of knowing when to utilize it. like betting even higher.

the advantages of being emotionally stunted is super helpful in terms of detecting emotional responses in others and what other people want, their likes/dislikes and when to take advantage of their emotions

again without the burden of emotions, faster reflexes can be utilised to detect slight movements in emotions, for e.g. pity when you see a picture and is associated with an event/person, the 'pity' which is detected is immediately utilised by an adjacent / succeeding offence which the user has previously done to offset the memory links and refreshes the slate essentially to allow for future use. the trust bond / trust relation between one individual to another is also not absolute, it can shift and vary depending on the time and severity of event.

with high severity you can wait a bit longer for the emotions to cool down and memory to fade, on top of high level gas lighting such as the aforementioned offend -> trigger happy / pitiful emotions -> clear previous offense by either minimizing event (making it humorous or justifying it in someway like stacking it on top of something the accused has done recently negatively for e.g. one time i liked a comment on facebook about the leaked nudes of actresses way back in grade 10 or so about them not taking nudes or something i dont recall the details therefore my own private photos sent to one singular person deserve to be exposed; they have a really strange way of "teaching you a lesson" like a warped form of karma but with motive and 100% involves money -- the way of making money is basically make you look bad and extract your value through force, intimidation, fake news / propaganda, like okay i regret saying it? can i have my life back? ), essentially events and actions can also be catalogued in such as way such the time is not a linear formation but continuous interchange of new event -> new responses -> old event -> new responses. the constant shifting between old events and new emotional responses (human emotions and goodwill is an endless pit which can and will be taken advantaged of) leaves a lot of room for adjustment and rehashing.

although this technique is often not very viable in real life because there is a face attached to the person doing the offense, it's generally better as a group of people witnessing the event

as you can see with a singular head viewing on top of untapped & unlimited access to anonymity and online tampering creates unlimited time for shifting and editing events and perceived truth. often the emotions triggered at the time of event occurrence is entirely blanked due to the highly abstract nature of an 'emotion'.

imagine an event such as viewing a loved one die, this intensity of emotion can be triggered again and again, those who do not understand or comprehend or event felt a loved one die is unable to empathize with the victim & once upon reflection you begin to type about the pain of losing a loved one, words are inadequate in describing this sort of emotion. also depending on the subject the emotional levels experienced are also variable. not even has the same level of emotional intensity, and not everyone feels the same sort of emotions towards something as other people so the only only subjective experience someone feels is the emotion they feel.

in capitalising on this subjectivity, offenders can get away with very severe offences without any evidence to back it up simply because emotions are fleeting, abstract and without any tangible form. however the psychological damages & financial damages may be much more severe than a broken leg or lost life.

in using these more subtle forms to subjugate your victim, you are sitting at an enormous advantage, with no moral inhibitions , untapped advertisement (both online & offline with no legal repercussions) , targetted solely at a singular subject who is then associated with a money bank you can see how dangerous this is. on top of the soul binding phenomenon whereby you can activate the other persons thoughts, memories, emotions and even speech, to essentially control them entirely.

there is also an aspect of memory clearance which i will write about next where you can have your mind cleared and feel positive emotions depsite trauma,

so you have most of the world divided into racial groups, like segmented united groups trying to improve their quality of life through doing normal activities like agriculture, trade, maintaining good international relations and then you have companies / conglomerates multiple wealthy & intelligent men with stature erected simply to game the 'singular' head with the intent to cause as much emotional damage as possible, never giving the chance to exit , propped up alive with artifical feelings of peace and calmness every 2 days interspersed with sleep deprivation, electromagnetic waves (im assuming? to cause deafness) -- this lasted 7 hours at one time), harassment (i have people following me around with their babies because i watched some anime i found on 4chan one time), calling me ugly & fat, making fun of my already established insecurity, sitting inside my head (thanks again buffet) to make it spin and tilt in certain directions where the noise/static is at the most severe which can then be scapegoated onto me (and people who look like me).

do you see how one paragragh cant even begin to articulate what 1 year of emotional and psychological trauma can do ? you can say yeah i sat there and cried almost everyday because theyre stalking me through my house and sitting inside my head so i cant sleep and making jokes about weeding the plants but is that all?

[artschoolglasses]

Americans not giving a shit about the wildfires burning down forests and homes in Canada until smoke starts spreading across the border. Meanwhile Indigenous communities across the country are far more likely to be impacted by the fires and I’ve seen all of one link to a charity and about nine million memes. 🙃

[zwoelffarben]

Edit: A writer's strike has not started. The Guild's membership has just authorized one in the cause that Guild reps and studio executives cannot come to an agreement on the contract.

Don't pull out the spirit holloween banners yet, is all I'm saying.

Edit 2, circa May 1, 2023: The studios have refused to negociate with the writers' guild in good faith, leaving the guild no choice but to strike.

A WGA STRIKE HAS BEGUN.

[gaytorade720]

Bout half way through my “History of Rock and Roll,” class and surprise surprise, the majority of what I’ve learned is that white people are really good at ripping off Black artists.

The only other thing I’ve learned is that, even though he’s from Seattle, Jimi Hendrix was marketed as a u.k. Artist. The more you know 🌈⭐️