Once again to be a hater on main, but Punchline as a character that exists just…

It feels like she was created in a lab specifically to turn me into a Red Lantern.

“After the joke comes the Punchline!”

No, actually.

After the joke comes the response.

After the *set up* comes the punchline.

Because the punchline is part of the joke.

……

Tell me you don’t write comedy without telling me.

“we need to stop the stigma towards drug users and addicts” and “we need to challenge the idea that being sober makes you boring” and “we need to stop acting like binge drinking to the extent you’re doing medical damage is fun and normal for young people” are all ideas that can and should coexist.

just so we’re clear, the threshold for “binge drinking to the extent you’re doing medical damage” is waaaay lower than you think.

I work in an obstetrician and gynaecologist’s office. we have to tell patients on a regular basis that they are binge drinking weekly when they think they are simply consuming a normal amount of alcohol on the weekends.

having more than 3 drinks in a single sitting if you have an estrogen based endocrine system is a binge that is medically significant.

having more than 5 in a sitting is a medically significant binge for someone with a testosterone based endocrine system.

every time you do this, it significantly impacts your risk of getting breast cancer, and damages your liver. it takes time to recover from that liver damage. if you’re having a 3-5 or more drink binge on a weekly basis, you are an alcoholic, medically speaking, and your liver is not recovering.

again: the bar for what binge drinking is, medically, is so much lower than what you think it is.

alcohol is a really toxic substance and not something you should fuck around with.

again: if you have an estrogenized hormone system (common for most women), then 3 drinks is a binge. if you have a testosteronized hormone system (common for most men), then 5 drinks is a binge.

anything above that number, consumed as frequently as weekly or more, and you’re medically a binge drinking alcoholic.

also, if you’re drinking any quantity of alcohol 6 days a week or more, that’s another threshold at which, medically speaking, you meet the definition of alcoholism. your liver needs more days without alcohol in your system than just one a week to recover and be healthy.

I don’t say any of this to shame anyone—to me, alcoholism or substance use disorders aren’t a sign of weakness or moral failing. and most of us genuinely don’t know this stuff.

rather—I point this out because it’s important to reduce harm, and find ways to live healthier, happier lives. there is a life outside of constant binge drinking. it’s not always easy to find it. but it’s out there. you deserve a life where your emotional needs are met by something other than alcohol, and a life in which your liver is healthy, and the ways you cope and celebrate and find joy don’t put you at increased risk of cancer.

also–even if alcohol is the only way you can self-medicate, or if you choose to go on with your alcohol usage anyway regardless of other options–you still deserve to know what it’s doing to your body.

information is key. you don’t have to stop drinking, but the utter lack of education on alcohol + the normalization of binge drinking in current society leads to many people drinking without any idea of what it’s doing to their bodies.

addicts deserve accurate medical information regardless of what they decide to do with it. for some people, losing liver function is worth the benefits they get from binge drinking, but they can’t make that choice if they don’t know what the consequences are to begin with.

addicts deserve accurate medical information regardless of what they decide to do with it.

Can someone tell me the definition of one drink in this context?

Because a vodka shot is not the same as (idk, some low alcohol percentage alcohol.)

So, what does 3 (or 5) drinks mean.

0.6 ounces of alcohol is a standard drink. Examples include 12 ounces of 5% alcohol beer, or 1.5 ounces of 40% alcohol liquor.

if you are like me and numbers slide off your brain like water off a ducks back, you can use this Standard Drink Calculator to out how much you are drinking.

Dance of the fairies by Anna Kronik

the fact em forster lost his virginity at the age of 37 and then was too busy having gay sex to write…inspiring

like he literally said this

people want the super cousins to be different, so they take all of their character traits, put ’em in a bowl. then they take all the flaws and give them to kara, and all the heroic traits and give them to clark.

but the difference between them isn’t about one having the flaws and the other having the virtues. it’s about where their motivations come from (and hint: it’s how krypton’s destruction affect them).

there’s a reason clark’s motto is “truth, justice and a better tomorrow”, while kara’s is “hope, help and compassion for all”.

clark strives for a better tomorrow. he sees how many people are struggling, and he wants to build a world where that struggle doesn’t have to exist. krypton, to him, is an idea. he never knew it, never lived there. it’s a tragedy he inherited rather than one he experienced. he channels his grief into an ideal — the hope that by building something better, he can prevent another loss like that from ever happening.

kara’s focus is different. she wants people to know that even if tomorrow will be better, they don’t have to face today alone. she’s there with them. it’s more personal for her, because she remembers krypton. she remembers the people. the fear. the pain. what it felt like to be helpless while everything was lost. so she makes sure no one else ever has to go through something like that without someone standing beside them.

both of their motivations still come from krypton — and its death — just in different ways. to clark, krypton’s fall was a tragedy caused by the failure of its leaders, and that loss drives him to build a better world for others. to kara, krypton is the place where people she loved lived and died. for her, it will always be deeply personal, and she prioritises helping people know they’re not alone.

to his core, clark is deeply afraid that what happened to his first home could happen to his adoptive one. just as kara is deeply afraid that someone else out there in the universe might have to feel the same loss she did.

that’s why they help people in slightly different ways. they both protect others, and they both want a better tomorrow. one just prioritises the tomorrow, and the other prioritises the people living through today.

clark fights for the oppressed so tomorrow can be better.

kara protects them so they can survive today with hope.

This sounds like the kind of question that would’ve been on a Philosoraptor meme, but like…

Why does every Red Hot Chili Peppers song sound just like every other Red Hot Chili Peppers song?

like bell hooks basically sums up the issues i’ve noticed wrt feminism & the idea that “feminism has always said the patriarchy hurts men!” yet that idea not materializing into feminists investing in men’s liberation:

It was difficult for women committed to feminist change to face the reality that the problem did not lie just with men. Facing that reality required more complex theorizing; it required acknowledging the role women play in maintaining and perpetuating patriarchy and sexism. As more women moved away from destructive relationships with men, it was easier to see the whole picture. It was easier to see that even if individual men divested themselves of patriarchal privilege, the system of patriarchy, sexism, and male domination would still remain intact, and women would still be exploited and oppressed. Despite this change in feminist agendas, visionary feminist thinkers who had never been antimale did not and do not receive mass media attention. As a consequence the popular notion that feminists hate men continues to prevail.

The vast majority of feminist women I encounter do not hate men. They feel sorry for men because they see how patriarchy wounds them and yet men remain wedded to patriarchal culture. While visionary thinkers have called attention to the way patriarchy hurts men, there has never been an ongoing effort made to address male pain. To this day I hear individual feminist women express their concern for the plight of men within patriarchy, even as they share that they are unwilling to give their energy to help educate and change men. Feminist writer Minnie Bruce Pratt states the position clearly: “How are men going to change? The meeting between two people, where one opposes the other, is the point of change. But I don’t want the personal contact. I don’t want to do it…. When people talk about not giving men our energies, I agree with that…. They have to deliver themselves.” These attitudes, coupled with the negative attitudes of most men toward feminist thinking, meant that there was never a collective, affirming call for boys and men to join feminist movement so that they would be liberated from patriarchy.

Reformist feminist women could not make this call because they were the group of women (mostly white women with class privilege) who had pushed the idea that all men were powerful in the first place. These were the women for whom feminist liberation was more about getting their piece of the power pie and less about freeing masses of women or less powerful men from sexist oppression. They were not mad at their powerful daddies and husbands who kept poor men exploited and oppressed; they were mad that they were not being giving equal access to power. Now that many of those women have gained power, and especially economic parity with the men of their class, they have pretty much lost interest in feminism.

As interest in feminist thinking and practice has waned, there has been even less focus on the plight of men than in the heyday of feminist movement. This lack of interest does not change the fact that only a feminist vision that embraces feminist masculinity, that loves boys and men and demands on their behalf every right that we desire for girls and women, can renew men in our society. Feminist thinking teaches us all, males especially, how to love justice and freedom in ways that foster and affirm life. Clearly we need new strategies, new theories, guides that will show us how to create a world where feminist masculinity thrives.

^^ that last part is why anti-transmasculinity theory is so important. what is the goal but new strategies and theories that guide a new understanding of feminist masculinity (more of the quote under the cut, read the book here)

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‘you can smoke whatever drugs you want idgaf’ and 'apartment building etiquette is such that i should not be able to instantly smell your rank-ass weed stank through our shared wall’ are two sentiments that can both be true

I had to block some pothead over this in a previous version of this post before the screenshotted tags were added, they had apparently never encountered the concept of “your right to swing your fist ends at my nose”. If you’re gonna smoke that loud in a building with paper-thin walls, your neighbors are gonna have Opinions. It’s the same type of annoying behavior as stompy upstairs neighbors or farting in a crowded elevator. As a human, I would hope we can all have a bit of grace and not create these situations for each other. As an ape…

‘you can smoke whatever drugs you want idgaf’ and 'apartment building etiquette is such that i should not be able to instantly smell your rank-ass weed stank through our shared wall’ are two sentiments that can both be true

I had to block some pothead over this in a previous version of this post before the screenshotted tags were added, they had apparently never encountered the concept of “your right to swing your fist ends at my nose”. If you’re gonna smoke that loud in a building with paper-thin walls, your neighbors are gonna have Opinions. It’s the same type of annoying behavior as stompy upstairs neighbors or farting in a crowded elevator. As a human, I would hope we can all have a bit of grace and not create these situations for each other. As an ape…

Oh no

It occurred to me that if I didn’t specify I was basing it off this image, this would be a really baffling post

the article i just read about lou alcott (louisa may alcott, author of little women) was wild because it was literally like “he preferred being called lou and his whole family always called him that. he never identified with girlhood or liked feminine things and said he had a boy’s spirit and longed to be a boy and believed he was a man’s soul put into a woman’s body. he loved dressing up as a man and passing for a man and being flirted with by people who thought he was a man. he called himself a gentleman and a father to his adopted children and his own father once lamented sending "his only son” to war when he enlisted in the army as a nurse.

…calling her a trans man is reductive and misses the point of her work though lol she was obviously a cis woman who was speaking figuratively because women in the 1800s weren’t allowed to wear pants!“

Peoples biggest defense is always ‘we don’t know how they would identify in this day’ which IS true but I find it interesting how they have little problem ‘justifying’ Lou’s feelings by calling him a cis lesbian or a nonbinary person or a tomboy.

There’s also so much terf rhetoric towards this subject of Lou’s identity that I’m almost certain it’s just discrimination…

“She was confused”

“She didn’t understand the world properly”

“She was trying to escape oppression”

I don’t know why people are so convinced trans men/mascs existing is anti-feminist but it’s not, people literally parrot misogynistic points just to take away their identity and that should say enough.

We don’t know how he would have identified today, however; we DO know how he preferred being referred to in his daily life and how he saw himself in the past. I think he is owed that much.

I saw a tiktok the other day where somebody laid out all of the points the first half of this post, and proceeded to use she/her pronouns and then defend that usage with a disclaimer basically saying "I acknowledge [ridiculous amount of evidence to Lou being a trans man who just didn’t have the language to articulate that identity], but she didn’t directly say it in the exact words we’d use today, so I will not refer to her with any other pronouns. She used Lou with friends and family and I am neither, so I’m not going to use that name to refer to her, either”

someone in the comments remarked, “this is the trans equivalent of "they were just close friends” for lesbians", and I think that really succinctly explains how I feel about it all. like. I’m gonna wager a massive guess and say hey. maybe the reason Lou was only comfortable being referred to as Lou by friends and family, was because those were the only accepting people???? wild thought.

I reblogged this post already but it’s fascinating to me that people will say that trans men/mascs haven’t made any significant contributions to history or culture and yet when we bring up examples they say “oh well we can’t know if that person would identify with contemporary gender labels” oh ok so you simply want to erase us got it

So, what do we think?

Do you have to lose your sense of ethics to become a manager and up?

Or do you become a manager and up because you never had one in the first place?

tim’s peak gay look in the 90s vs tim’s peak gay look in 2016. beautiful.

Someone should just make a collection of Tim’s wardrobe history, it’d be spectacular. It’d all look like this.

never forget mister sarcastic

Do I know what A/B/O is? Of course! I’m very well-versed in trends of The Internet:

• AskJeeves
• Bebo
• Omegle

My Chemical Romance is what they would call Breaking Bad if it were a yaoi manga

I’ve been he/it

I Now Pronouns You Dead

and wife

An incomplete list of things that employers commonly threaten that are 100% illegal in the United States

• “We’ll fire you if you tell others how much you’re making” The National Labor Relations Act of 1935 specifically protects employees who discuss their own wages with each other (you can’t reveal someone else’s wages if you were given that information in the course of work, but you can always discuss your own or any that were revealed to you outside of work duties)
• “If we can’t fire you for [discussing wages/seeking reasonable accommodation/filing a discrimination complaint/etc], we’ll just fire you for something else the next day.” This is called pretextual termination, and it offers your employer almost no protection; if you are terminated shortly after taking a protected action such as wage discussion, complaints to regulatory agencies, or seeking a reasonable accommodation, you can force the burden onto your employer to prove that the termination wasn’t retaliatory.
• “Disparaging the company on social media is grounds for termination” Your right to discuss workplace conditions, compensation, and collective action carries over to online spaces, even public ones. If your employer says you aren’t allowed to disparage the company online or discuss it at all, their social media policy is illegal. However, they can forbid releasing information that they’re obligated to keep confidential such as personnel records, business plans, and customer information, so exercise care.
• “If you unionize, we’ll just shut this branch down and lay everyone off” Threatening to take action against a group that unionizes is illegal, full stop. If a company were to actually shut down a branch for unionizing, they would be fined very heavily by the NLRB and be opening themselves up to a class-action lawsuit by the former employees.
• “We can have any rule we want, it’s only illegal if we actually enforce it” Any workplace policy or rule that has a “chilling effect” on employees’ willingness to exercise their rights is illegal, even if the employer never follows through on any of their threats.
• “If you [protected action], we’ll make sure you never work in this industry/city/etc again.” Blacklisting of any kind is illegal in half the states in the US, and deliberately sabotaging someone’s job search in retaliation for a protected action is illegal everywhere in the US.
• “Step out of line and you can kiss your retirement fund/last paycheck goodbye.” Your employer can never refuse to give you your paycheck, even if you’ve been fired. Nor can they keep money that you invested in a retirement savings account, and they can only claw back the money they invested in the retirement account under very specific circumstances.
• “We’ll deny that you ever worked here” not actually possible unless they haven’t been paying their share of employment taxes or forwarding your withheld tax to the government (in which case they’re guilty of far more serious crimes, and you might stand to gain something by turning them in to the IRS.) The records of your employment exist in state and federal tax data, and short of a heist that would put Oceans 11 to shame, there’s nothing they can do about that.

Roy Harper Reading

this has taken me three (3) years to complete due to school and just life, but I have FINALLY finished making a spreadsheet of all pre-boot appearances (with n52 and rebirth upcoming on the same spreadsheet).

As i said, this took me 3 years, and with all those starts and stops something might have gotten missed (or added which shouldn’t be there), so if you use it an notice a mistake, let me know! but i’m happy to post it :D i originally wanted to finish the n52 appearances before i posted it, but i want to work on some other characters and i can always finish it later. i would rather post it now then to never get it up.

without further ado…

All Appearances Document:

Every Roy Harper Appearance

Checklist:

The Ultimate Roy Harper Reading Checklist

i definitely think minecraft won’t be the game for everyone in the end and that’s just how things are no problem but i do think *some* people who don’t get the hype of it just need to play with their friends and build a house with them. its also for doing things like this.

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whatever i guess nobody’ve read that so imma just drop the screenshots

Tags are in.

@woopergamer

Ok yeah this is absolutely the type of thing I’d do given I had the time. I actually did do something similar on a server.

A pal had a really nice house and naturally I felt inclined to do some foolery. I went into their house and built an entire base UNDER their home. It was only accessible via breaking the floor above. There were crafting tables out of reach, doors leading to nothing, windows that just showed wool, cool stuff. There were blocks placed to look like furniture, but always in an odd spot. Then, I left a sign near the fake entrance that just said “In this house, we live laugh love.”

I later texted them saying “check your basement” and they said “I don’t have a basement” and I said “now you do.”

The kid next door (talking toddler age) is playing outside and just wiped out in his Fisher Price car, and I just heard the babysitter say, “oh no, your insurance premium is definitely going to go up!” And the kid who had only been mildly sniffling before made the most confused, but startled sound you’ve ever heard.

Just very clearly an attempt at saying, “my what?”

He straight up forgot about his scraped knee and is now worried about whatever the fuck an insurance premium is.

1947

kid had a great week

happy 77 years to the best week of this kid’s life

Have people heard of falling fruit? It’s a map that marks off foraging locations that are accessible on public land.

It’s global and crowdsourced and points you towards FREE FRUIT. (And herbs and nuts and things.) They have an app too but the app costs $2 and you can still pull up the map on your mobile browser for free.

Falling Fruit

This is how I found those park cherries!

I think I’ve added around 100-200 spots on here since I heard about it. Even put some of my own trees on it that overhange sidewalks. What’s great is not only does it help you identify the plant by telling you what to find where, what’s in season, what to spot through wikipedia and usda plant links. But practically any free resource you can think of you can either find on here or put on here like, good dumpsters to scavenge (for food or otherwise), water fountains, community orchards/gardens, fishing spots, little libraries / pantries, even bike pumps.

Just for those of us who are not yanks or living in US America: this map is worldwide and is available in 11 other languages

I’m going to start (one of these days) a collection of “things not to say in public” phrases that will be 99% MST3K quotes (my most frequent echolalia).

My hashtag VirgoDream is to make it sortable by episode, but like…. the list needs to exist first probably, lmao

Fleegle, Bingo, Drooper, Snork—They’re cops!

–MST3K, The Blood Waters of Dr. Z

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