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new critical thought: is the celebrity that everyone is calling a ““fashion icon”” really that fashionable or are they just skinny and rich?

It's emphasizing that in order to be important you have to be born already important. That if your parents were nobodies then you will also be a nobody. If your parents were abusive you will also be abusive. It is a denial that you have a choice in your own fate. It is also propagating white purity, with white people being "pure" and you know... a lot of what literal fucking nazis and hitler said about being aryan. It's bullshit. It says that anyone born outside of this small blessed group is impure at best and demonic at worst, which is some pretty fucking racist ideology.

Now, a skirt that's too long will be harder to work in--skirts brushing the floor may look elegant, but is also a tripping hazard--but that is not a problem with skirts in general, it's a problem with that particular skirt not being suited to being worked in. Skirts are very practical. You can hike them up if you're hot or need more freedom to maneuver (this is called "girding your loins"). If you need to carry something, you can lift up your hem and make a pouch just like the person in yellow in the bottom picture above. If you need to handle something hot, a skirt generally has enough material you can hold it out from your body to use as a hot pad. (Tight skirts were only used by people who didn't need to work/move until the invention of elastic fabric.)

I am so pleased at how many notes are some version of “I don’t fear the science, I fear the corporations who control it” because that is EXACTLY the attitude you should have. GMOs can save us. Monsanto will kill us.

what people fear about GMO- ‘theyre gonna make frankencarrots that crave human flesh and cause diarrhea ’ what GMO actually is- ‘we made rice crop that is both drought resistant and flood resistant which will prevent about 20% of major famine disasters, also it now makes vitamin A because vitamin A deficiency in poverty stricken areas is a major killer of kids as most vitamin A rich foods dont grow there’ what people SHOULD be upset about- ‘i made all crops sterile so all farmers have to buy the seed from me in perpetuity and i will sue anyone who tries to go back to crops that produce their own seed’

^^^ THIS

the uncanny valley between “this academic article doesn’t make sense because i’m an idiot” and “this academic article doesn’t make sense because the author is an idiot”

Little girl: “So if I gave a wasp pink and purple paper… it would build a pink and purple nest!” Me: “Yes it would!” Little girl: “I want a pet wasp!” Me: “I sympathize, but there are… there are a lot of reasons that wasps do not make good pets.”

Don’t do that. There’s captive bred mantises you can have delivered and it’s illegal to take them from the wild. They’re good pets though and there are tons of resources on the internet about caring for one if you look, 

everyone’s out here acting like Zuko is the “bad boy” of the show but y’all are disrespecting the real bad boy Avatar Aang ??? this boy was out here sassing the entire fire nation army, making fools out of everyone, illegally riding the mailing system of Omashu as a slide, telling his first waterbending master to go fuck himself for being a sexist ass, illegally entering the fire nation, helping to blow up a factory because he thought eco terrorism would be fun and fresh, pulling the mr steal your girl card while pretending to be a fire nation student, and grabbing the fascist asshole Ozai by his goat beard and then whipping his ass???? what a King 👑

my man is 12 and has full body tattoos

a fucking PUNK if you ask me

Top 10 sentences that make you burst into tears.

Ok I can’t stop laughing at Scat Cat Butthole

most of these are functionally indistinguishable from what people actually call their cats

I’m obsessed. “Scarlet Be Thy Coat” and “Bones Of The Master” are especially fascinating. 

This blog and all forms of naming warrior cats is hereby replaced with this AI. Clan leaders are obscolete

I am deadass naming a cat Mr Sinister someday or so help me

Hamilton is this decade’s version of Hetalia & I don’t ever want to hear about this disturbing genre of racist historical figures or administrations as funny little characters interacting, sorry not sorry.

in the uk the census category is grt (gypsy roma traveller); most ppl seem to use either traveller or roma tho Do you happen to know if the UK census is retaining a term that people who can claim that category actually find offensive, or is this an example of the terminology in the UK just being different? Like, at least to the extent that there’s intracommunity debate but some folks are fine with or actually prefer “gypsy”?  I’m also curious about terms in all the non-Anglophone countries with Roma populations ...

Thanks very much for the information! Regardless, it’s not a word I’d use to refer to a person or group of people (unless someone who is actually Roma specifically requested it, but that seems unlikely, at least in the US), but I like to have a sense of variations across region and some idea about what kind of intracommunity discussion is going on. 

Thank you enormously!

fucking around for three days and then making a herculean effort on day four that restores your average progress to what a moderately inept person would have achieved with consistent effort, that’s what it’s all about.

i told my family about the rabbinic definition of a “wall” as “a barrier that impedes the passage of goats” and my mother was so delighted by this that weeks later she showed me a photo of a baby goat squeezing itself under a gate and was like “this is NOT a wall!” 

@creekfiend 

If the baby goat had to squeeze through, that may suffice? Impeding can mean slowing down or delaying or making more difficult, so if the gate posed enough of a challege, it may be a wall.

A wall that does not stop goats is not a kosher wall but the rabbis, IMO, define it too narrowly, as they say a wall two handsbreadths off the ground will stop a goat and admittedly I have kind of big hands but I’ve seen goats get through a smaller space than that on many occasions

My neighbor has a goat farm with a cattle grid instead of a gate on his driveway. It seems to contain them, to my surprise. Does a cattle grid count as a “barrier”, and if so, could a goat-stopping cattle grid be considered a wall?

If it doesn’t stop a goat it’s not a wall, but if it does stop a goat it isn’t necessarily a wall

Love the joke, but I would hardly constitute a bullet as a barrier.

ITS A VERY SMALL BUT VERY QUICK BARRIER

not to be a bitch but it shouldn’t take someone literally telling you to not call people with facial d*formities ugly for you to think twice about it. people on this website really have never considered the possibility that we ACTUALLY exist and arent just a tiny minority of a minority

actually reblog this listen to me when i say ive spent my whole life being told im ugly by doctors and adults lmfao. im sick of always being talked over or ignored about this- listen to actual disabled people when they tell you to shut the fuck up and consider the impact of what you say

but…. but…. profit motive! infinite houses!! this doesnt fit in my narrow victorian framework for understanding human nature!!

@thebibliosphere @vaspider

Oh. Oh dang. I know several people who this could help.

Link’s broken, so here’s the website: http://www.optikey.org/