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quaker oats is disgusting and I will go out of my way to never eat anything made by them again. they kept at least one factory so disgusting that when the FDA said Hey you need to actually follow health regulations (in response to a MASSIVE fucking recall due to contamination that made a ton of people sick, and anecdotally myself and several people I know got sick from food that was NOT recalled) they said actually it would be too hard to follow health regulations and SHUT THE FACTORY DOWN INSTEAD

AND THEY TARGET SO MANY OF THEIR PRODUCTS AT CHILDREN

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The Lagiacrus

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Pierre-Auguste Renoir - "Julie Manet with Cat (detail)" (1877)

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happy PRIDE i’m here i’m queer and i believe the land should be given back to the proper indigenous stewards.

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if you think too long about how the human body works it will completely rewire your ability to conceive of people as attractive going forward. that man isnt hot. he's dangerously underfed and dehydrated

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*dealing with the intersections of gender and plurality* I sure suck at this ‘being trans’ thing huh

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Man, when I was like 16 I got so sick of being made fun of for being the fat kid that I took an axe down inna woods, chopped down a tree, and started doing log-lifts all the time. I got strong as fuck, but I didn’t lose no weight. I actually got bigger.

Same thing happened when I got into fighting. I got even stronger, and I got *fast*, man, and nimble, like a cat. Still chubby.

Body-building culture is a bunch of crap, my dude. Functional muscle is not necessarily toned or lean. You can be swole as hell and still be heavy. And that’s cool.

Embrace your inner barbarian. And when fatphobic little gym twinks try to body shame you, you should DESTROY THEM with your MIGHTY AXE

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The occupation of Washington DC (17:54 local, August 14, 2025)

Black dots and lines are reported sightings of federal law enforcement on patrol, setting up checkpoints, harassing residents, etc. Grey dots are the approximate locations listed in a "leaked" patrol assignment list floating around on TikTok; its legitimacy has not been verified. Note that this list is biased by a) what has been recorded, b) what has been posted online, and c) locations I can personally identify based on the available footage.

The invasion of DC's streets by US state security forces [ATF, DEA, ICE, FBI, Marshals Service, National Guard, etc.] earlier this week was hardly noticeable at first, but that's changing quickly. Apparently they were training and going over plans, but now that they've finished they're out in significant numbers. The rumor/word on the street is that there will be mass clearings of homeless camps tonight; a few well-documented homeless sweeps already took place this morning. The government is doing very little to communicate their plans to DC's citizenry (this is intentional; they want us in the dark).

It's obvious that the feds are working in concert with the DC Metropolitan Police Department, which was taken over by President Trump on Monday. The supplemental manpower has allowed MPD and other local DC police forces to act more aggressively than they usually do, going more on the "offensive." DC Mayor Muriel Bowser got on a plane to Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts a few hours ago.

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i know that “don’t harass people for being weird, they might be autistic!” is a fairly popular take on here. but as a Certified Autist, i’d like to add that harassing allistic and/or neurotypical people for being weird is also bad, and should not be done

and before you come in with “yeah, you never know who is and isn’t autistic, and you shouldn’t force people to out themselves!” i want to say two things: one, i agree. and two, even if you could magically avoid ever harassing a single autistic person, it still wouldn’t be okay to go after NTs for being weird. they’re people, janice. they’re allowed to be really invested in naruto

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To put it very bluntly.

You will always make a better impact helping people who need it than trying to hurt people you think deserve it.

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Just make it exist first, you can make it good later

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I want to congratulate everyone who's been able to write, or draw, or be creative in any sense of the word under all the garbage happening everywhere.

You are heroes.

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There’s a fic on fanfiction(.)net that I’ve kept tabs on for years to see if it’s been updated or not. While I’m no longer even in the fandom it’s written for, it just has one of the greatest storylines I’ve ever read. Last time it was updated was 2011.

The other day, I decided to reread the entire thing and leave a very in-depth review of what I thought of each chapter. I also mentioned how I started reading it when I was 13 and am now 21, but always came back to see if it was ever finished because I loved it so dearly.

Today, said author sent me a private message saying that her analytics showed that the story was still getting views even after all these years, but no one ever bothered to leave reviews other than “update soon!!!”, so she never felt motivated enough to finish it. She said that me reviewing every single chapter with lengthy paragraphs made her cry and meant the world to her. She also mentioned that she felt encouraged to write the two remaining chapters needed to complete the story and that she would send me a message the night before she updates the fic.

I’m literally sobbing. I’m so excited :’)

Please always remember to leave a review when reading fanfiction!!! It means a lot to a writer.

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I don’t think most people have the same definition of sustainability that I do. I hear them talking about sustainable exponential growth while ignoring the fact that most of the world’s topsoil is now at the bottom of the sea. It is difficult to talk to people about the impossible physics of civilisation, especially if you are Aboriginal: you perform and display the paint and feathers, the pretty bits of your culture, and talk about your unique connection to the land while people look through glass boxes at you, but you are not supposed to look back, or describe what you see. But that First Law is still there. We need to be brave enough to apply it to our reality of infinitely interconnected, self-organising, self-renewing systems. We are the custodians of this reality, and the arrow of time is not an appropriate model for a custodial species to operate from.

Tyson Yunkaporta - Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World

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