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Yanno, when I wanted to travel for a living I simply got a certification for international tour management and became a tour manager and tour guide. Because you know what that job allows me to do? Travel and see things and do things with people who consented to travel and not fucking destroy families.

Seriously, there are other options out there if you wanna travel

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I think venus flytraps should be intelligent and ambulatory. I think they should get into the cupboards. I think they should purr when you pet them.

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GOD. still the funniest transition in the show bar none

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MEMPHIS, Tennessee — Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company is belching smog-forming pollution into an area of South Memphis that already leads the state in emergency department visits for asthma. None of the 35 methane gas turbines that help power xAI’s massive supercomputer is equipped with pollution controls typically required by federal rules. The company has no Clean Air Act permits.

Every time somebody pushes back with "well actually, AI doesn't use any more resources than playing video games!" I think about this fucking AI facility in Memphis that's got 35 unlicensed gas-turbine generators running 24/7.

Oh, and it's also killing people.

All so that users can ask cute questions of Musk's AI child, Grok.

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I’ll be real, though: I love the wall kiss. I love that Stede, who talks so much, cannot speak. I love that consent is all in their body language, and their deep understanding of each other. I love how Ed turns from the window to look at Stede with such overwhelming love. I love that Stede closes them in, and closes the viewer out. I love the intimacy that belongs to them alone.

I’d rather have a longer scene, and one without Izzy singing over it, but what there is, is so profound.

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Anton Chekhov, from The Complete Works of Anton Chekhov; "Platonov,"

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Enough about favorite books. What’s a book you read and absolutely hated? The book you’ve got a bone to pick with.

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“Anti-prostitution feminists and even policymakers often ask sex workers whether we would have sex with our clients if we weren’t being paid. Work is thus constantly being re-inscribed as something so personally fulfilling you would pursue it for free. Indeed, this understanding is in some ways embedded in anti-prostitution advocacy through the prevalence of unpaid internships in such organisations. Equality Now, a major, multimillion-dollar anti-prostitution organisation, instructs applicants that their eight-to-ten week internships will be unpaid (adding that ‘no arrangements can be made for housing’). Such posts are common: Ruhama advertises numerous volunteer roles that could easily be paid jobs. In 2017, a UK anti-slavery charity came under fire in the national press for advertising unpaid internships. In 2013, Turn Off the Red Light, an Irish anti-prostitution NGO consortium, advertised for an intern who would not be paid the minimum wage. The result of these unpaid and underpaid internships is that the women who are most able to build careers in the women’s sector – campaigning and setting policy agendas around prostitution – are women who can afford to do unpaid full-time work in New York and London. In this context, it is hardly a surprise that the anti-prostitution movement as a whole has a somewhat abstracted view of the relationship between work and money.”

— Molly Smith. “Revolting Prostitutes.”

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natasha

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GUYS THIS IS HUGE. 

THIS IS ACTUALLY REALLY HUGE. IN A VERY GOOD WAY. 

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Floor Shapes

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love crime

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