#the GALL of those people

[the-bibrarian]

I remember watching Last Week Tonight’s episode about Turbotax and Intuit and the other vultures who had managed to dilute and circumvent a law that was supposed to help taxpayers, to instead line their pockets by lying to people and scamming them… I remember being so sad. It was a comparatively little thing, not life threatening, but knowing that the entire system is built this way– I don’t know, it was so stark.

Given the choice, tax-prep companies, healthcare insurances, “energy” corporations, even academic publishing… they will scam, steal, wreck the environment or leave people to die, if it means they can make a cent. It’s not all equivalent of course, but it’s the same principle of profits before people.

And if someone tries to regulate or legislate, they will mobilise all their considerable ressources to ensure the law doesn’t pass or is sufficiently mangled so that they can continue scamming, stealing, wrecking or even killing.

All perfectly normal, day-to-day business.

Source

We deserve to live in a society where companies like Intuit cease to exist

[leroibobo]

really do not think people understand the extent to which palestinian sites/landmarks (especially muslim ones) were destroyed, beginning in 1948 until now, even in cities. the oldest extant mosque in jaffa (al-bahr mosque) was built in 1675, even though islam came there in the 7th century

[variksel]

youtube ads becoming first one 5-second ad then two 5-second ads in a row or one 15-second ad then a million unskippable ads in the middle of videos instagram quietly inserting one ad in-between every 5 or 10 ig stories then 2 in-between 4 ig stories not to mention the new reel- and explore page ads. a quiet tumblr ad banner at the top of your dash then photo ads in-between posts then video ads then video ads in-between every 3 or 5 posts that play audio automatically while youre trying to read a textpost. the most popular, paid subscription, news apps adding ads between their articles, then in articles, then paywalling new articles further with a new "news +" subscription and putting ads in those as well. once every 15 tweets there being an ad, then every 5, then theres also an ad if you scroll to the replies. you cant look at tweets without logging in anymore, theres just no option for anon scrolling. facebook ai mining on instagram, facebook ai profiles hyping up ai generated photos im fucking going insane ai temu ads and gallery app ads and printer app ads and higher subscriptions while still seeing ads and i cant fucking do this anymore!!!!! its fucking shameless and worst of all its silent and nobody talks about how half the things we see anymore are fucking ads and we dont own a single thing we pay for and companies can just randomly raise their prices through the roof and nobody says anything about it

[fujii-draws]

OKAY! Chatot rant in tags below! Read at your own discretion.

[shattered-earth]

Some of my favorite in tape designs!!!!!! (That I designed.. lol)

They are all "stamp" type tape, i even paid the factory extra to get custom molds for these because I love the differing lengths and shapes of real stamps as well as amore delicate line of circles vs the default molds with huge circles.

There was a little drama at some point because the factory was letting people use my mold that I paid for but I cleared it up @_@;;

Anyway I don't go to cons anymore so I will probably have to stop selling washi tape cause they don't do so hot online especially for the price we have to sell them at to make it worth it for these complex designs + foil etc. No regretti tho, to see them in person is worth it.

All my washi tape (there's more than this too lol) are buy 4 get 1 free~

[asgardian--angels]

you know it's bad when tumblr's being the more mature social media site when it comes to rancid takes on izzy's death

[josephsaturn]

I’m 100% convinced that strobe lights were invented by shitty bands to keep the attention of drunk people so they feel like they’re better than they are

[thedivinemechanism]

One more comment about how I would "blow away in a stray wind" and I start killing hostages.

[gothicprep]

like idk i'm very blackpilled on the subject of abuse. i feel like the term is often invoked dishonestly or as a way of obscuring the complexities of a situation and i'm less trustworthy of it than i should be per my moral principles. this isn't me saying that it's always a false claim or that it's never something that happens, but that i've run into enough situations where, upon asking follow-up questions, it was just a matter of standard-issue conflict, for me to have more of a critical eye here. i understand that the suspicion reflects poorly on me, but you also shouldn't lie, dude.

i guess the most consequential example here is that time i was hashtag cancelled by an old friend group bc i didn't think a mutual friend's under-medicated bipolar freakouts constituted abuse. and they acted like if i engaged in cordial conversation with him at all, this was some kind of massive betrayal. what a fundamentally stupid way to look at the world. i wouldn't call myself envious of them.

am i engaging rationally? is the example provided enough of a core memory to blind my judgment? who knows.

[folklorianhaze]

I'm so glad that moschinodorito guy is getting his ass handed to him on TikTok right now because I've hated that man ever since he started posting his dogshit takes on Taylor Swift. Garfield ass looking motherfucker

[honeysunchild]

Libraries are just about the punkest places in existence and ppl wanna be transphobic in them? Not on my watch fuck you very much

[main-character-moment]

Just back from pride and there was a concert and some lovely performances (unfortunately there were many I couldn’t stick around for)

But as the opening act was doing the final song, a group of Palestinian protesters barrelled up onto stage with their banners, and while all the performers held their own well for the most part and were able to finish the performance, it still knocked everyone off balance.

They then stayed onstage and interrupted the next segment to talk about Palestine and how it’s a genocide. How many of the organisations funding pride this year were supporting Israel. And while I know that’s so important and needs to be talked about, it made everyone uncomfortable. No one forgot Palestine at the parade! As far as I could see (considering I missed some of it), nearly all of the groups and floats marching had at least one Palestine flag, and many were chanting and had banners supporting Palestine. There was a lot of support for Ukraine as well, which no one is talking about as much (as far as I’ve seen) since it’s been overshadowed.

It was lashing rain. Everyone was soaked and there was little shelter or seating available, and it was taking a lot from people to stay at the celebrations in th weather, and the mood immediately dropped.

If it wasn’t for the amazing drag king who came on after they were finally ushered off giving an inspiring impromptu speech about the topic and tying it back to pride, I don’t think the choir that came on after would’ve been able to recover the mood on their own.

[ink-asunder]

The way Dragon Age kneecaps the possibility for sentimentality will always make me furious tbh

[leatherbookmark]

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[administer-distractions]

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[crossthread]

What people without anxiety don't understand is that I'm constantly walking around feeling like I'm in mortal peril, and sometimes the feelings are right