let me count the ways

“MONTERO (Call Me By Your Name)” is not at all my type of music but it has been so much fun watching prominent social conservatives try and pick a fight with Lil Nas X over it just for him to just be like “I fucked your dad”

Lil Nas X playing whack-a-mole on Twitter

engrave the entire contents of yahoo answers onto a new golden record and launch it into interstellar space. the aliens deserve to know what they’re getting themselves in for.

It would be just as effective as a full on strike, without risking their jobs in anti union states. Especially if they made public newspaper announcements that this is what they will ALL be doing.

This is called “Work-To-Rule” (a form of malicious compliance), and is a very useful and effective tool in labor organization!

My dad did this! He’s a high school teacher, and he and all his colleagues refused to write college recommendation letters - which was dozens of hours of unpaid labor not in their contract - until they got a renegotiated contract, and it worked in like less than a week cause parents went apeshit. The education system would fucking collapse without unpaid teacher labor, and that’s a huge source of leverage

thinking about how orpheus turning to look back at eurydice isn’t a sign of mortal frailness but a sign of love

“Eurydice, dying now a second time, uttered no complaint against her husband. What was there to complain of, but that she had been loved?” ― Ovid, Metamorphoses

If anyone's wondering the context, the guy is a professional lock picker and was trying to get his wife interested in lock picking too LMAO

Now that plague doctors are cultural icons I want these to be next and I hope we arbitrarily decide that the two are somehow rivals.

why would they be rivals, they're dating and bop their masks together to kiss

The birds and the bees

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