the changeless thing that lurks behind superficial mutability

I'm really just fucking tired of the perspectives of people from the US being prioritised over all others and treated like they're innately more valuable and worthwhile no matter how shallow or uninformed they actually are.

Everything in the entire world has to operate through a US specific frame of reference. Your entire life's context will be condescendingly repeated back to you by someone who skim read the Wikipedia article for it. They're from the US after all. That means they're right.

I learned in my political science class that all major famines in the 20th century and onward have been caused by oppressive groups or political situations restricting access to food, NOT natural causes like crop failure

This is literally the point that Indian economist Amartya Sen made that won him the Nobel prize in economics. As a child, he survived one of the several Bengal famines that were organised by the British colonisers in India. He developed his theory on famines, which is that they were more about distribution of food rather than production or availability of it

sucks that "incel" is just like a generic insult now synonymous with "virgin" bc if people had much of an idea of what incel ideology actually entails, we could have a conversation about radical feminism being quite literally, beat for beat, incel shit for girls

like radfems also get blackpilled. they fall down pipelines into the deepest darkest extremes of their ideology, and it's increasingly harder to get these people to reengage with the world specifically because their ideology posits that the world is corrupted and divided into Us and Them, and that the ingroup's victim status is biological and innate. it's a system that lends itself naturally to doomerism and blackpilling due partially to the social isolation that comes with it. and it's equally difficult as with incels to "break through" the isolation because these people do not want help whatsoever. they have been thoroughly conditioned to see attempts at helping as Active Victimization and further proof of the rightness of their beliefs

guy on a work call just accidentally said “have a nice freak-end” instead of weekend and now i desperately want that to be the new meme. have a nice freakend everybody

This is an amazing resource, not only for artists, but for writers too! I love this!

{ID - tweet from @/Iron_Spike that reads, “Black Hair for Non-Black Artists: a Cheat Sheet Thread. Hi, folks! Just spur-of-the-moment decided to put together some reference for folks who want to draw/model black characters in their work, but arent confident they won’t make simple, obvious mistakes w/r/t black hair. END ID}

you can’t separate transmisogyny from racism. the radical feminism movement is so overwhelmingly white because their idea of what a woman is is so thoroughly steeped in white supremacy.

non-writers will never understand the mental illness of writing an entire conversation in your head while doing dishes and then forgetting every word the second you open a blank doc

Why do you think conservatives try to cut funds for education? To keep people dumb.

Lovely to see we have spaces where you can gain access to so much literature!

I'm sure it's been added a million times, but that's not how you spell Gutenberg. Here's the correct link to Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/

I miss when it was “that’s photoshopped” instead of “that’s ai”

in case anyone didn't know, that bot known for reblogging posts and sending asks with threats of sexual violence is now operating in a new way. it follows you with many blogs that have urls containing the same threats.

The thing is, the Israeli government wants to collapse Palestinian resolve through extreme material pressure. All of these items are cultural touchstones for many Palestinians, whether for cooking, entertainment, or simply making life bearable. Restricting access to them is an attack on the basic conditions of everyday life, with the apparent aim of making deprivation so severe that Palestinians are pressured into turning against Hamas, or at the very least creating conditions in which informants and double agents can be bribed or recruited. It's sadistic. Sadistic. Sadistic.