that would actually make a difference
Yeah, no, this sort of thing is why I’m actually in favour of Sanders
Category: Tumblr crossposts
Crossposts from tumblr (for posterity)
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A New Advocacy Group Is Lobbying for the Right to Repair Everything
A New Advocacy Group Is Lobbying for the Right to Repair Everything
Very, very, very, very important!!
If you can’t open it, you don’t own it.
it’s my God-given right to fuck up the repairs on anything I buy with my own money
fucking right it is
Damn straight.
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President Cruz would repeal all of Obama’s executive orders. Including all of the ones that expanded the rights of #transgender people. Rubio has pledged to do the same. The fact that so many people are willing to vote Republican is frightening enough… but Sanders supporters who say they’ll “never vote for Hillary” are willing to sacrifice people like me to maintain their own sense of moral superiority.
I feel the same way with many of the Hillary supporters that I know who say they will vote for Trump before they vote for Sanders. :(
This is the first I’ve heard of anything like that. What could possibly be their argument?
Their logic is mainly flawed, but much of it stems around Bernie pushing for single payer health care and affordable secondary school. They seem to think these things are unachievable pipe dreams of a lunatic. They threaten to vote for someone who would set the entire country back like Trump or Cruz if Bernie is nominated. Honestly, I think most of it comes from being butt hurt that Hillary isn’t the guaranteed nominee that they tried forcing on us. Personally, I would gladly vote for her but my preferred candidate is Bernie. I guess that makes me a reasonable person. *shrugs*
Anyone threatening to vote for Trump if Clinton isn’t the Democratic nominee is a) probably lying and b) definitely an asshole.
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JK BrownTurns Scrap
Metal Into Incredible Animals
Today we want to show
you really amazing sculptures made from metal by JK Brown. “I live in
rural West Wales. This peaceful part of the country is known for being a
precious habitat for its native wildlife, which is of constant
inspiration to me. For as long as I can remember I have loved to watch
animals (especially in the wild) and for as long as I can remember I
have been drawing, making and creating as a way of celebrating the
beauty of nature. Often when I’m out walking I pick up fragments of
metal that have been thrown away. Sometimes fly-tipped or washed up on
beaches, I patiently reassemble these pieces into monuments to the
natural world around me: a habitat that is becoming increasingly
fragmented. I find that my own process of reversing this fragmentation
is, for me, a calming antidote to the madness of endless consumption.” Source: beautifullife -

Home: Love, Music, Books, Good food. on Flickr.
Since we got here we’d started to accrue more books, we’d got back to cooking for ourselves and today we brought music back in.
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Tumblr Code.
If I ever see any of you in public, the code is “I like your shoelaces”
that way we know we’re from tumblr without revealing anything
I’m just going to say this to strangers until i find a tumblr person

must keep reblogering!! Im going to be so suspicious if any one tells me this now!
Remember the answer is: I stole them from the president.

always reblog tumblr identification
This is an absolute tumblr relic. I feel like an archaeologist right now. This is incredible that this is on my dash.
IT FINALLY CAME BACK.
LEARN THIS, MY NEW CHILDREN. THIS IS HOW WE FIND EACH OTHER!
(PS: I did this once on a trip to England, and actually got the proper response. It was glorious.)
NEVAR FORGET
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I know it’s wet here in the Pacific Northwest, but this is ridiculous. on Flickr.
I know it’s wet here in the Pacific Northwest, but this is ridiculous.
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American Pie and But I’m A Cheerleader were both released in 1999.
American Pie features:
- A pact between four straight high school boys to have sex by any means necessary.
- A male character masturbating into a pie.
- A humorous depiction of filming a high school aged girl in a sexual situation without her knowledge or consent, and broadcasting that to the entirety of her peer group and presumably the world. This tragically results in her humiliation and deportation, which means that the male character who filmed her will not be able to have sex with her in time to fulfill the pact (which is why it is tragic). (In a subsequent installment of the American Pie series, the girl returns and is not only not angry, but still amenable to a sexual relationship with said boy.)
But I’m A Cheerleader features:
- A satirical depiction of a traumatic and harmful practice known as ‘reparative therapy,’ colloquially ‘degayification,’ with special attention paid to the fact that it doesn’t really work.
- One sex scene between female characters, not fully nude, shot mostly using close ups on the actress’ faces. Everyone is consenting, and no one has lied in order to receive consent.
- One female character suggested to be masturbating, not shown.
The MPAA gave American Pie an R rating, without hassle.
But I’m A Cheerleader initially received an NC-17 rating. This rating was only lowered to R (thus opening the film up to distribution) when the director agreed to cut a scene featuring the lead female character masturbating. Through her clothes. While thinking about a person, and not a pie.
Female sexual pleasure is considered not OK for teens to watch. Male sexual pleasure is
Male sexual violence is more appropriate than women’s sexual pleasure.
^^^^^^^
Watch the documentary “This Film is Not Yet Rated” for more info on this double standard! The director of “Boys Don’t Cry” talks about how she couldn’t include a female orgasm without getting an NC-17/X rating, and yet the film was able to depict rape, violence, graphic murder and homophobia/transphobia and still keep an “R” rating.
Seconding the suggestion to watch “This Film is Not Yet Rated”! It’ll change the way you think about the film industry and MPAA.
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Who wants to hear how I rekted a straight boys ego in gym class today? Because in really fucking proud rn
*is waiting*
*cracks knuckles* okay nerds listen the fuck up.
So I’m in a special gym class for the swim team, so it’s coed with the boys and girls swim team for my school. It’s leg day, and I was setting up my rack for squats. Now I don’t usually go hard in gym because I don’t fucking care and I’m a 3 season athlete, I don’t actually need extra fuxking exercise. I only put maybe 10 pounds on the bar, and this fucking twig looking punk ass comes from fucking nowhere and starts laughing. Mind you I’m taller than fucking everyone in this class, I towered over this twerp. I ask him why he’s laughing, and he says, WITH A STRAIGHT FACE, “Women are so weak” and I almost decked his ass right then but I bite my tongue. For no fucking reason he decided to continue, “Why are women even in sports, they can’t do anything! What’s your max, 50 pounds?” And all his friends are laughing and telling him how cool this he is. So I challenge him to a squatting challenge, I want to see how much weight he can squat. He’s all reluctant now, saying how that wasn’t safe for me, how I might hurt myself, but my swim coach comes from behind and says she would like to see it so he’s like “Fine, whatever, if you get hurt it ain’t my fault.”
He proceeds to put fucking 100 pounds on, my ass is trying not to laugh because wow that’s “a lot”, and the whole time he is struggling, groaning and making gross ass male noises, and only got 4 reps in. He sets it back on the rack and looks at me with this fucking smirk, surrounded by his douche group, and omg I’m about to just drop kick his ass, and he does that stupid hand motion towards the rack.
I walk over and my team members ask me how much I want. I tell them to double it. Everyone stops and my coach is smiling cause she knows how much I can squat. My teammates are like “… Are you sure?” And I tell them how I’m fucking ready. So they put 100 more pounds on, making it now 200 pounds, and I tell them to back off. I then walk over and add 50 more pounds, the whole time looking at this white trash. He looks like a dead man, crusty lookin ass about to pass out. The bar now has 250 pounds, and I get 15 reps in. I set it down and I walk up to him, not having broken a sweat, and just pat him on the cheek before continuing on with my workout. My teammates are all freaking out, telling me how cool that was and how they never knew, but the boys team looks like they’re going to cry. I’m really fucking sore but I regret nothing.That’s the story how I went up in weight for my squat with the pure determination of breaking up fuckbois dreams @ask-elizabeth-holly-hamilton
Okay I was looking back on this because we were maxing today and my coach said that wasn’t my max and I’m like??? What, and I realized I never accounted for the bar, so that makes total weight was 295.
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There are moral dangers here. To take what might seem an “objective,” macro-economic approach to the origins of the world economy would be to treat the behavior of early European explorers, merchants, and conquerors as if they were simply rational responses to opportunities—as if this were just what anyone would have done in the same situation. This is what the use of equations so often does: make it seem perfectly natural to assume that, if the price of silver in China is twice what it is in Seville, and inhabitants of Seville are capable of getting their hands on large quantities of silver and transporting it to China, then clearly they will, even if doing so requires the destruction of entire civilizations. Or if there is a demand for sugar in England, and enslaving millions is the easiest way to acquire labor to produce it, then it is inevitable that some will enslave them. In fact, history makes it quite clear that this is not the case. Any number of civilizations have probably been in a position to wreak havoc on the scale that the European powers did in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries (Ming China itself was an obvious candidate), but almost none actually did so.
Debt: The First Five Thousand Years – David Graeber (via
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Like i think about this in relation to Pasifika history – we crossed the biggest ocean on the planet and. lived there. we didn’t leave a barren earth behind us like technocapitalised societies have.
(via anarchacannibalism)
