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Love havelock vetinari bc he’s introduced as a terrifying tyrant that will cut off your finger if you wave it at him and is inhumanly calm and collected but then you realize he’s actually just LARPing as a villain. He asks to be handcuffed so he can be arrested properly. He disapproves of his aunt’s cat because it’s not the kind you can pet sinisterly while waiting in the dark. He tries to do “tis but a scratch” about a fucking gunshot and collapses on the spot.
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grant us a Pope who doubts 🕊
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“Workers brought up in the countryside were used to the rhythm of the seasons, to short periods of intense labour interspersed with longer periods with opportunities for relaxation. They would not only take Sunday off but also, if they could, Monday (known as ‘Saint Monday’ in England and ‘Blue Monday’ in Germany). Breaking such habits became an obsession for the factory owners. The machines had to be worked from sunrise to sunset, and longer still once the invention of gaslights made night work possible. Clocks installed in factories were there to hammer home the new saying, ‘Time is money’. Human nature itself had to be changed so that people would come to think there was nothing strange about spending all their daylight hours in a closed room without seeing the sun, the trees and flowers or hearing the birds.”
— Chris Harman, A People’s History of the World (via probablyasocialecologist)
#it's in fact possible to not idealize the past while also acknowledging the toxic standards set by the unchecked greed of#the industrial revolution
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My contempt towards a brand is directly proportional to how often they interrupt my playlists.
#temu is a great way to figure this stuff out the hard way (aka through blunt force effort)#some things are cheap and good some things are cheap and bad#a great learning tool for the necessity of consumer protection agencies for people who cant distinguish that
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Cigarettes give you cancer, alcohol gives you cancer….. what’s next? the fire retardant in my ceiling that I like to inhale for good luck???
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#even setting aside everything that happened after 1945 (which is SO FUCKING MUCH) i genuinely and with utmost seriousness#think most americans do not understand how utterly devastating ww2 was for Everybody Else.#or they have a very skewed viewpoint that's just of Marshall Plan countries so for all the non-Marshall countries the structural issues#caused by this DEVASTATING CATASTROPHE are written off as moral/ideological failure#'not understanding the consequences of ww2' can be applied to the broad umbrella of us-global relations#but I'm assuming that if someone doesnt know about ww2 then the cultural revolution isnt even on their horizon
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Also, it's only available for a limited time so don't miss out.
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the problem with me is that I want to have fun and enjoy life
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