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The Spaniards are always talking about how they don't have to apologize for colonization because they brought civilization here and it's their fucking fault Mexico city is simultaneously flooded every year and also doesn't have water because their ignorant asses didn't understand how the water infrastructure worked.

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im so fucking stubborn

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This is the fight I have where I live, a completely different country than op's.

Teenagers who can't drive and have friends or family in a neighbouring village, women who don't have a driving permit and work cleaning houses (there's plenty of them), families that only have one car but one of the adults took it and the other one needs to go somewhere,... Anyone who doesnt' want to drive. It's not even a matter of skill or possibility. Literally, anyone who doesn't want to benefits from this.

The idea that rural communities wouldn't benefit from public transit of some form is so fucking stupid. There was a guy in my hometown who would hitch hike 15 miles to the grocery store because he was blind that everyone knew and knew to offer rides to if they saw him. You know what else would have fixed this, been more efficient, and helped other disabled people, seniors, and people whose cars got repoed?

A fucking bus.

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I think the thing to understand about the Addams family is that they would complete the Lament Transfiguration to invite the Cenobites over for tea and nod understandingly when they discuss the horrific experiences that are beyond pleasure and pain and commiserate about the people who summon them expecting regular kinky sex and whine when the Cenobites flatten out their penises or whatever

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Helping ducks cross the road

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the whole 'nobody would miss me if i were gone' line of reasoning is so completely and mindblowingly false, it's almost laughable if you take a couple steps back. there's a lady at work who has been there for maybe two or three weeks and has only talked to me a handful of times, ask where the necklace i usually wear went. another person asked where i was cause i wasn't scheduled for about a week. i regularly think of friends who have deactivated their accounts or who i've lost contact with and what id tell them. i still think about people i haven't talked to for years even though i didn't know them well. people still think about you even if you're a passing specter on the street. and that's not even holding a candle to how much the people who are personally involved in your life care. people do notice and care. all the time. it might be hard to see it or remember it but people do care. ily.

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There's a book that we had in our house growing up that I was obsessed with as a kid. It was just called "PAKISTAN: PAINTINGS BY LIN YONG AND SU HUA" and it was an art book of 100+ paintings/sketches by two Chinese artists who travelled thru Pakistan in 1978 and 1981, a sort of travelogue of their trip, and to little-kid me, it was some of the most beautiful things I'd ever seen. I have no idea why we had that book, but I would stare at it for hours, and it made me wish I could draw/paint/do whatever it was that these artists had managed to do.

Anyway, we've moved house a bunch of times and I lost track of the book and haven't seen it for probably two decades now. But I think about it now and again, and had struggled to find it over the years, but I finally, finally got my hands on a copy of my own and i want to cry haha

I was afraid that maybe the art isn't as good as I remembered, being just a kid and all, but I cracked it open and nope, it hits me just the way it used to. Maybe even more now. It's so fucking pretty. Have some random pages:

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Someone asked for a visual of how I prep yardages of fabric for washing, and I went, "Sure, I have work I need to procrastinate from anyway." 😅

In case it's useful:

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art by @niochemblyat

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Being ugly is not an excuse. Most people are ugly. I’ve fucked ugly people and they weren’t virgins. They were whores. All things considered there probably is someone 5 minutes away dying to fuck you.

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Scientists at UC Riverside have demonstrated a new, RNA-based vaccine strategy that is effective against any strain of a virus and can be used safely even by babies or the immunocompromised.  Every year, researchers try to predict the four influenza strains that are most likely to be prevalent during the upcoming flu season. And every year, people line up to get their updated vaccine, hoping the researchers formulated the shot correctly. The same is true of COVID vaccines, which have been reformulated to target sub-variants of the most prevalent strains circulating in the U.S. This new strategy would eliminate the need to create all these different shots, because it targets a part of the viral genome that is common to all strains of a virus. The vaccine, how it works, and a demonstration of its efficacy in mice is described in a paper published today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.  “What I want to emphasize about this vaccine strategy is that it is broad,” said UCR virologist and paper author Rong Hai. “It is broadly applicable to any number of viruses, broadly effective against any variant of a virus, and safe for a broad spectrum of people. This could be the universal vaccine that we have been looking for.”

Continue Reading.

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Growing up in a Catholic country but in a non-religious family is funny because I know many Catholic things but mainly through osmosis.

And now, I find myself going to a cemetery with a 6 year old who is also being raised quite god-less and answering to questions about why different people have the same guy in a cross, or saying things like "this baby here is this man in the cross here" or, my favourite so far, part of a conversation we had regarding this man in a church:

"Who killed this man?"

"The Romans"

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Walter McClintock’s powerful photos of Blackfeet life.

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how do i say "horror novels these days are too woke" without sounding like a right winger. what i mean is: this one is about a woman serial killer who kills Bad Men, that one is about ~anticapitalist activists~, this one is ~queer~, that one is about *spins wheel* someone dealing with the ghosts of their immigrant roots, all of them are about intergenerational traumaaaaa. okay. cool. but is it good though. is it fucking scary

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wow

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I do like men and I have to say that what both have in common is that nothing is left to the imagination, and when they are wet even less so. So I'm all for it. Aesthetically at least.

Let us all remember that most of this are made of wool, which is good for isolation and quick drying but gets heavy when wet.

i cannot speak for the male population bcus i am lesbian but i find this is not true. sure there were fuggo swimsuits in the 20s but there have been fuggo swimsuits in basically every era.

like cmon many of these r cute u guys just lack imagination. & i’m a girl who actually prefers 1910s or 30s fashion to 20s. open ur eyes & see the truth