a million stairs and a million stares

How many woo-woo-to-fascism pipelines do we have to create before we accept that any system in which we agree to prioritize what makes people feel good and comfortable over objective, observable reality is inherently prone to radicalization. How many times are we going to act shocked that people who refuse to accept scientific evidence in regards to crystal energy and repressed memories then move on to refusing to accept scientific evidence in regards to vaccines and chemotherapy. How many times are we going to hold people's hands and tell them of COURSE it's okay to believe things just because they Feel Right and not because you have even a shred of evidence and then act shocked when they start believing the people who tell them that all their problems are caused by minorities?

In 2026 TdF starts on Saturday, July 4th!

For many of us that is tomorrow; got your fibre ready?

TdF runs from July 4 - 26 2026, with rest days (if you observe them) on Mondays the 13th and 20th.

idek why we're still discussing it

"[...] Gratisartikel bekommen... und ihn deiner Bestie schenken."

She was a 50 y.o. Siberian woman from 2500 years ago, living a nomadic lifestyle, and look at her tattoos...

Look...

by megs_bee

A new show opens at Milleflora Opera House, but each night someone in the audience falls asleep during the performance, dreams unusually realistic dreams, and dies by morning, leaving distraught ghosts behind. It should be a straightforward case….right up until it isn’t.

Edwin does not like coincidences—he believes the world simultaneously too random and too orderly—but he accepts that they do, on occasion, happen. But this morning brought a third ghost to their door in as many days, this time only minutes after the sun has even risen. A third ghost to have slept and dreamt and died before sunrise at the very same opera, well.

That is most emphatically not a coincidence.

Charles nods his agreement. “So we’re taking them all on, then. One big case.”

“Indeed.”

Words: 16032, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV)

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: M/M

Characters: Edwin Paine | Edwin Payne, Charles Rowland (DCU), Crystal Palace (DCU)

Relationships: Edwin Paine | Edwin Payne/Charles Rowland

And like there was no permanent cast, all these celebrities seem to have gotten a scene or part of a scene to do (i’m not sure exactly, I did not ever watch Quibi and thus haven’t seen this yet), and then they just… recreated it as best they could. At home. Under quarantine.

So like, you had Jennifer Garner in a blanket cape playing Princess Buttercup AND the Booing Old Woman with a crowd comprised entirely of stuffed animals:

Or Taika Waititi paying Westley off a badly-drawn Inigo on a piece of cardboard held in front of someone’s face:

And it’s all just delightful.

But my absolute favorite part of this thing that I’ve sadly never seen but assume is probably absolutely hilarious and a treasure and I want to find it some day and watch the whole thing… is that Carey Elwes is in it.

As Prince Fucking Humperdink.

Here ya go

The first poaster just has a bunch of hammer and sickles in their bio (of course, because we all know the USSR was big on helping the homeless, am I right?) so I don’t know where they’re from, but I know for sure the second fuck isn’t American (there needs to be a new DSM entry: “non-American obsessed with lying about another country’s liberal party on a dying micro-blogging website”)

I know I’m a broken record but I’m right: every tankie loser is a pathological liar because the only possible way you can justify kneecapping Democrats during the rise of right-wing fascism is to relentlessly lie about them. Debunking this post doesn’t actually matter because they’ve started with the conclusion of “BOTH pARtiES SaME.” Their entire ideology is dedicated to that lying conclusion, so pointing out the housing measures or free school lunch programs Democrats have supported or implemented is a total waste of breath. I am certain, too, that if you were to bring up how many schoolchildren have starved to death through Trump killing USAID, these same tankies would start screaming. None of this is based on reality, just the bizarre collective delusion the dumb shits on this site share so they can feel radical and self-righteous in their uselessness and fringe, asshole beliefs. It’s so deeply, deeply pathetic to do nothing but lie about liberals and be unpaid mouthpieces for the GOP to justify sitting back with your thumb up your ass for a decade while right-wing fascism rises (and again, it’s even more insane when your ass isn’t even from here but you’re as obsessed with shitting on Democrats as Tucker Carlson is). Seriously, going out of your way to lie about Democrats while Republicans kill people is...Republican behavior, actually

In Europe the people who suffered most on the heat wave were those that live in overheating homes in overheating neighbourhoods, those who have to work outside, families with children whose schools closed, old people... The list is probably quite similar in India. In both countries it's those that are disadvantaged in some way or other who suffer more than others.

There's some crucial differences though: one is that in Europe more people have access to mitigating measures like aircon or really good insulation. The other is that there are people who do stuff like putting gas heating in newbuilds, which needlessly contributes to global warming. Our governments could also make a globally relevant dent in carbon dioxide emissions but they keep putting it off with the argument that it's too expensive (imho it's more that people would have to change their habits, and that's why so many people are against more action against climate change and politicians are unwilling to put in effective measures, even though plenty of other people are mad at them for not doing anything).

But the thing is - it's not only people in India suffering when Europeans (and rich Indians) don't do anything against climate change, it's also plenty of Europeans that suffer too! Europe is the fastest heating continent outside the polar regions and if the AMOC collapses we'll be really fucked.