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POV: when the algorithm game incentivizes a race to the bottom

via @/compassionco on instagram

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We are often told that the poor are grateful for charity. Some of them are, no doubt, but the best amongst the poor are never grateful. They are ungrateful, discontented, disobedient, and rebellious. They are quite right to be so. Charity they feel to be a ridiculously inadequate mode of partial restitution, or a sentimental dole, usually accompanied by some impertinent attempt on the part of the sentimentalist to tyrannise over their private lives. Why should they be grateful for the crumbs that fall from the rich man’s table? They should be seated at the board, and are beginning to know it. As for being discontented, a man who would not be discontented with such surroundings and such a low mode of life would be a perfect brute. Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man’s original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion. Sometimes the poor are praised for being thrifty. But to recommend thrift to the poor is both grotesque and insulting. It is like advising a man who is starving to eat less. For a town or country labourer to practise thrift would be absolutely immoral. Man should not be ready to show that he can live like a badly-fed animal. He should decline to live like that, and should either steal or go on the rates, which is considered by many to be a form of stealing. As for begging, it is safer to beg than to take, but it is finer to take than to beg. No: a poor man who is ungrateful, unthrifty, discontented, and rebellious, is probably a real personality, and has much in him. He is at any rate a healthy protest.

— Oscar Wilde, "The Soul of Man Under Socialism"

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I’m bored and nosy. Please reblog this with the book you’re currently reading.

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A card for @virusq of Sigrun from Dragon Age: Origins Awakening!

I'm a little behind on cards right now due to a few things, but I'll be back on top of things soon! If you're interested in a card, check out my commission form here:

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would you beat him brutally

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New post, gonna use this to document my journey as a trans woman

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Daria and Jane and being gay in the 90s

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The Knight of the Flowers, 1894, by Georges Rochegrosse. Detail and photo by Paul Perrin. Edit.

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the difference in the way alex shelley and chris sabin use social media is so goddamn funny, the photos shelley posts of himself are all like:

but the photos sabin posts of himself are all like:

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bleep

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Today George the Pallas's cat the son of Zelenogorsk – the most brutal, grumpy and fluffy resident of Novosibirsk zoo – celebrates his birthday! He turned six years old! 🥳

We wish our beloved manul abundant health, strong paws, luxurious fur, beastly appetite, be surrounded by affectionate manul-ladies, and the most comfortable summer hammocks! 😁 Happy birthday, grumpy fluffy rock! We love you very much! ❤️

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Today, the gorgeous gang of Eve's kittens is celebrating their first birthday! These fluffy little guys have turned 1 year old! Hooray!!! 🎉

All five of them have successfully made it through their first winter and now enjoy the spring sunshine 🥰. Look how fluffed and manuled our young heroes have become!

All three boys still live together,and being serious (but curious) humps, they like to sit on top of their houses, climb trees, and observe their surroundings. The girls also live together but prefer to sit right next to the entrances of their houses (it's safer :), but sometimes they don't mind talking to visitors 😜.

Happy birthday, fluffies! 🎈 We wish you to be the happiest manuls in the world, always stay active, curious, and live long! 🙌🏻

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[image ID: a sketchbook page spread.

on the right, a ballpoint-pen portrait of Hayata. he is facing the right in three-quarters view, and wearing a neutral expression. the hatching is thin, dense, and layered, creating soft and detailed shades. through the lines, a loose sketch in light red paint is visible, reinforcing the contours. the middle of the page, also showing through the pen layer, is covered by a light blue blot.

on the left, a blue-pen portrait of a nubian ibex. its face is tilted to the left, such that it is nearly horizontal, and faces directly forwards. a small part of its body is also visible. the lines are quick and the hatching dense. the background is left blank. /.End ID

approach the subject cautiously.

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this. creature