#this quote it from the people article

[mikereads]

“I mean, I wouldn’t say no to the opportunity and cash prizes! Yes!” March said when asked if she’d ever return to the series helmed by Mariska Hargitay.

[micamicster]

Point Break (1991) dir. Kathryn Bigelow

If desire is the differential between need and demand, desire always exists outside of the corporeal wants and wishes that have a pressing agenda all their own--desire becomes its own project, indeed yanking at the sometimes wayward, resistant body to which it's tethered in the effort to fulfill its unfulfillable, limitless agenda... Desire floats and fluctuates above, below, beyond us, always goading us, never revealing, satisfying, or fulfilling us.

-David Greven, Contemporary Hollywood Masculinity and the Double-Protagonist Film (2009)

[carriesthewind]

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[batwynn]

Sooo I’m watching an entire facebook group full of trump and cop dick suckers lose their entire minds right now.

Everyone in my very red area just went from “blue lives matter” circle jerking to “maybe we should not have given the local police 7 billion dollars” veeeery quickly when it came out that one of them just straight up killed a guy everyone liked and almost got away with it. 🤔 Wild how fast the opinion changes when it’s them murdering a likable white guy who didn’t qualify for the “oh he’s just a druggie” apathy special. It sure feels like something.

[outfoxt]

"For many lesbians and gay men, blood family represented not some naturally given unit that provided a base for all forms of kinship, but rather a procreative principle that organized only one possible type of kinship. In their descriptions they situated gay families at the opposite end of a spectrum of determination, subject to no constraints beyond a logic of 'free' choice that ordered membership. To the extent that gay men and lesbians mapped 'biology' and 'choice' onto identities already opposed to one another (straight and gay, respectively), they polarized these two types of family along an axis of sexual identity."

-Kath Weston | Families We Choose: Lesbians, Gays, Kinship (1997)

[ratatatastic]

reading an old ekky article and feeling a certain way about it...

[britneyshakespeare]

Arthur T. Demoulas is like a New England folk hero

[chronomally]

Reading a paper from 2023 that cites the success of Waymo self-driving cars and thinking about the article from 2024 that *I* cited about the two Waymo cars that hit the same truck minutes apart

[medicinemane]

It's amazing how quickly you can make someone turn on your company by making a stupid and insulting move

Force me to go through the front door and scan my card when I have backdoor business that never needed a card before (what? ...I was going to somehow... sneak in and... purchase things with a borrowed card? ...which I totally can't do from the front door after scanning it?)

Or like... twitterify your layout right after your users give you a bunch of money just cause they like you, and then refuse to walk it back

...or all the other things companies do that just kinda piss people off and then they refuse to acknowledge maybe it sucks and is stupid cause "hey, the customers didn't leave"... yeah... yet

[paperlovesadness]

I'm sorry I'm just so obsessed with this concept

[wizardnaturalist]

the thing I keep thinking of, constantly hearing zionist arguments everywhere, is when they say, "jews deserve a place of safety, to not be threatened or discriminated against, and that is why we need israel." this idea that all the nations of the world were so moved by the horrors of the holocaust that they had no choice to craft for themselves a new jewish space. that world leaders at last recognized the depths of prejudice that exists against jews, and were filled with the noble need to ensure something like this never happens again.

why then, was there no effort to solve antisemitism within their borders

[nataliescatorccio]

I'm curious what you meant in your tags under that likes/reblogs ratio post - about creators insping their friends not the og idea? Is it bad to insp a post that was inspired by someone else? (Feel free to rant of course.)

for me, an insp should be to give credit to the person who came up with the idea you are using. for example if you are using a layout someone else came up with, you use an insp to give the credit back to them. what seems to be happening in giffing circles is that someone will use another creators layout and insp them, but then people credit that instead of the original. it creates this strange treasure trail of insps to actually find the gifmaker who came up with the idea. i personally just find it really frustrating cos i'm like 'wow! who came up with such a creative concept i wanna check out their stuff!' and then i have to go through like 20 blogs to find the usually smaller creator whose idea actually isn't directly credited to them. this isn't to say you can't insp the post you saw that made you think of using the idea in the first place - i totally understand that the og post may not be the one that crossed your blog! but if that post has an insp to another and you can see it's the same layout/concept, you should also credit them, it's super simple to include two links. it just feels like people trying to get out of giving credit where it's due? and again just adds to this feeling that creators don't always support other creators here.

[beezlebutch]

Women in environmental studies are some of the smartest, most community thinking people you'll ever meet

And men in environmental studies will make you wonder how hard is it really to get into a college

[queershakespeare]

do you ever get one too many annoying comments in the notes of one of your posts and have to white-knuckle yourself out of getting in a fight with strangers online who have misunderstood your original intention

[james-stark-the-writer]

just found out that the co-founder of the company (Warhorse Studios) that developed one of the games I'm currently playing (Kingdom Come: Deliverance) and enjoying so much that I was willing to consider it one of my favorite games I've ever played is a Gamergater™. please don't buy Kingdom Come Deliverance. do not pay that man any money. the game is genuinely great, still one of the best things I've ever played but dear god, it feels so bad to have not done my research before buying the game. like, I really need to get into the habit of just looking shit up at this point. adore that Czech people found representation of their history in the game and there's a lot of good shit in the game that I still love and the man also wrote another one of my favorite games (Mafia 2) which has similar issues with some stuff as KCD so like just. find alternative ways to play the game. it's genuinely a phenomenal game in so many ways. I just wish I knew before I made him any money.