*panic rising*

I never saw the word slop used except to refer to gross food (usually food produced to feed a lot of people very cheaply with little regard for flavor or nutrition, like in schools and prisons) and now it's literally everywhere and frankly, I find that very suspicious considering the combination of rising antisemitism, the spread of alt-right and far right terms through social media, and the existence of the word "goy-slop." I think we could all do to be more critical about the language that we use and we should really be asking ourselves where popular slang is actually coming from, who started saying those words in the first place and why.

And honestly, it would be considerably less suspicious if it was JUST the word slop but it's not. It's usually "[word]-slop" like het-slop or AI-slop and I cannot stress enough that that has very clear and blatant origins in antisemitic conspiracies about Jews poisoning the world. That may not be your intention when you use terms like that, but there is a reason why antisemites and other bigots try so hard to normalize their language and memes, because that helps them blend in and normalize their beliefs.

Not to brag but what a time to be childless

There are multiple chapters that are set in hospitals where the characters are attempting to recover from injuries that never fully heal. I must once again stress that my experience in WWI was perfectly normal.

There is a giant horrible mudplain full of unrecoverable and perfectly preserved dead bodies that the characters have to walk through in a land where the air is poisoned gas, and on a compLETELY UNRELATED NOTE: WWI WAS TOTALLY FINE AND NORMAL!!

“but what if you abort the baby who’ll cure cancer?!” sir the baby who will cure cancer is an organic chemistry major who works at a Home Depot because you use AI to go through your resumes

"I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops." - Stephen Jay Gould, The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History

one person does not cure cancer. teams of scientists who rely on funding from the government cure cancer. one person's singular novel ingenuity is not what is stopping us from curing cancer; fucking CAPITALISM IS.

the absolute best thing you can wear out on the town is three bracelets. three bracelets is the best possible accessory. three bracelets is the tops

[ID: Six watercolor illustrations. The first illustration is of a white cat standing in a room with a fish in its mouth and its eyes closed. While the cat is in a simplified style, its surroundings are realistic. The second illustration is of raspberries on a bush. The third illustration is of small wild strawberries hanging off a plant alongside purple flowers with bell-shaped petals. The fourth illustration is of the white cat in a plant pot. The fifth illustration is of the white cat lying in a grassy patch with its eyes closed and a four-leaf clover on its forehead. The sixth illustration is of a basket of red fruits sitting in a patch of grass. End ID]