last christmas cover by carly rae jepsen. you agree.
i think it is unjust to deny a child their right to dig a hole motivelessly
when i was 12 i was out there with a shovel for no reason
When I was in elementary school they replaced the playground substrate from sand to bark, but to do that they literally just dumped all of the bark on top of the sand.
For some reason all of us children were livid about this and demanded the sand be brought back, so the kids all sat shoulder to shoulder on their butts and used their legs to kick all of the bark back, progressing through the playground with startling efficiency. There was even a "WHAT DO WE WANT? SAND!" chant going STRONG
3rd grade teacher runs out, near tears, begging us to stop, and this is where she FUCKS UP because she says
"I don't care if you dig a hole to China just stop DOING THAT"
well we stopped doing that, and immediately began construction on The Hole
Within 3 days The Hole was about a foot and a half wide, but The Hole was DEEP. a 5th grader would hop down and disappear entirely. A mob bucket was confiscated from the janitor to deal with the the rising water problem as the hole got deeper. The sheer display of cooperation and dedication we had to The Hole bordered on reverence.
It was the highlight of the day to go to recess and resume construction of The Hole
Eventually I'm pretty sure a second grader fell in and twisted their ankle and then they put a piece of plywood over the top of the hole and covered it with sand and bark. We all forgot about it immediately and I don't remember anyone ever bringing it up again
it's important to mock and belittle military and law enforcement to signal to others that these are not respectable professions, both to dissuade entry and to devalorize the institutions in the public eye
anyway i'm thinking about that fucked up metal slide that cop plinkoed down and how they straight up cordoned it off afterward to stop people from visiting it. it's a hero.
national identities were a hoax invented by Big Nineteenth Century to sell more fascism
richard -> dick so obviously we should start the charles -> cock process
how the fuck do you get cock from charles
you ask him nicely
The Richard-dick naming situation actually comes from a fad that existed back in I think it was the 17th or 18th century, can’t remember which. But the naming fad/convention of the time was for rhyming secondary nicknames for names that already had a 4 letter nickname. Ie: William-will-bill, Richard-rick-dick
so it’d be Charles-chuck-fuck
safety, health, liberation for the people of palestine……that is the goal. everything else is just noise.
it is easy to let ourselves fall into despair when reading these latest messages from bisan, from motaz, from saleh….the grief and hopelessness in their words is unfathomable, but it only means that the rest of us have to keep doing everything we can.
i saw someone talk about this on twt as well but once u engage with organizers offline it is clear that the movement is alive and well, that the fight will continue on…..let this grief sit with you and will us all into action, please.
It's annoying that these are the most commonly used images of Venus because neither one is remotely what the planet actually looks like to the human eye. The one on the left is a radar image of the terrain below the cloud cover and the one on the right is an infrared view with greatly exaggerated colours. In actual reality the planet looks like an almost featureless white disk. The photo below was made by the MESSENGER probe on its way to Mercury and it's the most accurate to visible light close-up view of Venus we have.
There's something very powerful about knowing that underneath this solid, featureless mass of clouds is a burning, crushing wasteland.
I used to go to a lot of shows at this one regional theatre where the director would cast himself in a small cameo role, usually in the ensemble. before performances he would always give this curtain speech about the show, what it was like directing, n he’d usually end with something along the lines of “I’m also in it! see if you can spot me in the background ;)”. this was a very well known tradition amongst theatregoers, everyone familiar with the company would play spot the director
anyway they did shrek a couple years ago n words cannot describe the experience being in the audience when before the performance, instead of the regular speech, they wheeled out a tv n played a prerecorded version instead. just this collective realization hitting us all of “ohhhh my god he Didn’t. there’s no fucking way”
to be clear: he very much Did
grabbing every 13 yo girl by the arms and yelling "YOU LOOK FINE !!!!!!! DON'T SPEND UR ALLOWANCE ON CONCEALERS GO SEE A BAD MOVIE INSTEAD !!!!!!!!!!! BEAUTY IS POETRY AND SONGS AND LAUGHTER W FRIENDS AND COLORFUL LEAVES !!!!!!!!!! GO READ A MARY OLIVER POEM AND YOU'LL BE OK!!!!!!!!!"
DO NOT FUCKING TOUCH YOUR EYEBROWS
It makes me sad that most people around me are so unbelievably burnt out from work and life that they are just truly emotionally unavailable and don't even wanna use their energy for anything beside going out partying once a weekend
It's like watching friends who you've seen be silly and have deep talks work jobs to the point of stress where they are incoherent and respond to messages like legit 6 days later and not in a rude way but genuinely they don't have the mental capacity to do shit anymore
Working jobs and paying bills shouldn't take everything out of people to the extent it really does
Even when I'm off work and I had a shorter shift most of the time I truly have nothing left in the tank after the combo of emotions and physical labor