as I often have said the only universal experience of womanhood is being told you're doing it wrong
It’s not a plot hole that Elmo has been 3 years old for 50 years. He was bitten by The Count, willingly. Elmo asked for the Dark Gift
Which sport is ailing you
Tom and I are off having a nice weekend away to celebrate our 25th anniversary, we’re staying at a little cabin, we went to a small town history museum, we went to a great restaurant and now we’re watching yet another historical drama about his hero Kim Philby
they teach officer trainees you cannot say "no quarter" and shit like this in the first couple of weeks of training. Because its a war crime.
Changed my politics group chat name to Islamic Revolutionary Group Chat
Narratively having Ever Given getting stuck in 2021 to set up Hormuz in 2026 is great foreshadowing. You want your audience to understand the basics of international shipping in a lower stakes context so you drop the real plot without a lot of saggy exposition about the minutiae of cargo logistics.
lmao let’s goooo
It’s good to see people learning that the world working (at all) is contingent on a lot of people agreeing and working together towards a shared vision because these diy plans for circumventing the strait of Hormuz really show that a lot of people had no idea about that.
Irish music group #Kneecap will join the solidarity convoy heading to #Cuba in opposition to the US embargo.
Don’t engage in any behaviours from an IASIP episode
Just a quiet word for anyone storing jerry cans of fuel in the garage: improper storage of fuel in quantity can potentially invalidate home insurance
BREAKING NEWS: Shit is Fucked and It’s Getting Worse
It’s 31km
I got drunk and complained about other leftists, that’s what pub is for
Fuck you hotdoc! Why did you cancel my appointment without telling me!! I drove to the other side of Canberra for NOTHING
This pro genocide Labor jobs for mates grifter ignores the fact his party punish people in welfare with unliveable poverty because of their neoliberal fundamentalism #auspol
Drunk! At the leftist pub!
Piece-work used to be a major source of income for women going back to forever. Lots of farmer's wives also had literal cottage industries for "pin money" like raising chickens, selling eggs, pies, etc. Work that women could do while minding children, so it didn't look like "work" to them.
Here's an example:
ABA therapy was first done to autistic children, pioneered by Ole Ivar Lovaas. He was a nazi.
In 1974 he pivoted to creating the Feminine Boy Project, applying these torture techniques to develop conversion therapy for queer children.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ole_Iva...
There are stages to any joke: the context, the setup, the punchline, the callback, and this, the mark of the true comedian: the prestige
I’m rereading The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe right now and hear me out, Aslan played by Jennifer Coolidge
They stopped using the marquee at the local gas station that used to read CAR WASH because local kids were changing it to WAR CASH every time they fixed it.
But we're going to crash the stock market and we'll be doing it very strongly. We're not going to have lines anymore [gesturing up and down] they go like this and you never know what the hell they'll do. So we're not having lines. But we'll be looking at State Capitalism and probably many things
Yesterday I saw a comrade at a bbq and we went off on our own to have a little debrief about some local nonsense and one of my other friends said the body language from afar was hilarious, we were pacing, sometimes one of us would kneel down with our head in our hands, sometimes we’d hug, etc
A lot of people come to organizing because they were hurt by something and don’t really fully process that organizing is not where you do therapy or work out your traumas
The motto of the modern tech industry is "You can just do things to people"
Matildas score late in see-sawing draw with South Korea as top spot slips away at Women’s Asian Cup
There’s been heaps of rain recently and the temporary wetlands part of our local stormwater management system is all full and soon there will be so many birds!!
