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no one remembers abu ghraib except the middle east

There was literally an entire infamous case of a woman, Lynndie England, who took pictures of herself humiliating torture victims at abu ghraib. Bolivia has a cis woman fascist dictator literally right now who is engaging in wholesale massacres of indigenous protestors. vladtheunfollower remains completely deranged and i feel that by 2021 her blog will be melting down about how the penoid males are creating roko’s basilisk in the basement of a D.C. pizzeria.

Every so often, I remember that like 80% of Tumblr (myself included) was completely enraptured by a show where the big twist was that the main character forgot his childhood friend was murdered by his sister, and for some reason only remembers his childhood friend ever existing as a dog.

And in that same episode it’s revealed that the same sister…..like…..hypnotized (?) the main character’s arch rival into hating him by, like, staring at him for a few minutes.

In our collective defense, this is when we all decided “hey we should probably stop watching Sherlock”

The flip side of “cleanse diets don’t do anything” is that if you tried a cleanse diet and you did experience a notable reduction in fatigue, joint pain, and general blarginess, you need to talk to an allergy specialist, because there’s nearly a 100% chance that means you have an undiagnosed allergy to some component of your customary diet.

This is an excellent point and I’d imagine there’s a lot of quack diets that continue circulating and getting press based on this exact principle.

Absolutely – a great many diets of the “stop eating everything except these three foods” variety are 100% trading on the fact that they’re practically guaranteed to generate some positive testimonials by virtue of coincidentally cutting somebody’s undiagnosed food allergy out of their diet.

i didn’t take refuge in “not like other girls” thinking as a kid — i was too laser-focused on trying (and failing) to be normal — but i was mercilessly bullied for being different, a wrong kind of girl. and i know that sure, we all agree bullying is wrong. but i virtually never see that behavior identified as misogynist. i don’t see popular internet posts asking women to examine why they mocked and shunned other girls in school for being the wrong kind of girl, and what that might say about how they view women. i very much doubt anyone has ever sat down one of my bullies and said of their bullying, “your internalized misogyny is showing.” i had and have internalized misogyny too; we all do. i just want to see as much attention to the “you’re not like us” form as i see for the “i’m not like you” form.

Ah yes. The Great Cotton Candy Desert. The dryest place on Earth. When it does rain, the entire spun-sugar landscape melts into deadly rivers of syrup that can drown unwary travelers, and the ecosystem must slowly rebuild itself over the next decade. Local fauna is adapted to these conditions and will enter a dormant state until geysers blow the groundsugar up through the surface of the Earth to create the fluffy cotton candy peaks so beloved by postcard photographers. This strange and delicate system is threatened by the encroach of industry, and many of the once-powerful geyser fields seem to be shifting and weakening.

oh BABYYYY if I were the person that had to deal with all the ways y’all found to be ugly and racist over the last four years……there is no publicist, no pr manager, no force ON EARTH and no divine force in heaven or hell that could stop me from popping the fuck off on the star wars fandom every single opportunity I got.  when I tell y’all disney/lucasfilm would have to FORCIBLY remove me from the press tours.  talking bout some goddamn “jOhN bOyEgA iS sO uNpRoFeSsiOnAL”.  it’s actually become increasingly obvious (based on the way y’all jump out the fucking window with the clown town behaviour every other week) that the star wars fandom has no idea just how easily they’ve gotten off with such an easy-going principle actor.  more than anything, some of y’all need to be desperately grateful that John Boyega has as much class and good humour as he does because it’s the only reason your scalp and sense of self-esteem are still intact

i feel like the way all of you care about little women has to be a prank

employees should be allowed to steal, actually