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labelleizzy: “allthesepurplelights: “an american coming face to face with universal healthcare ” This right here, is exactly why propaganda in the United States fights to convince people that universal healthcare is shitty. Because if Americans...

allthesepurplelights

an american coming face to face with universal healthcare

labelleizzy

This right here, is exactly why propaganda in the United States fights to convince people that universal healthcare is shitty. Because if Americans legitimately realized how good universal health Care would be for them, they’d stop letting all the healthcare companies rake in billions of dollars in profit every damn year

Feb 25 2022 • 46,146 notes

unpretty

my two categories of anime rec are “it’s okay if you don’t really like anime, you’ll probably like this” and “this will not make any goddamn sense to you if you have not wasted years of your life on trash”

unpretty

y’all took about five minutes to turn this into some kind of contentious madoka post when i was just sitting here innocently contemplating the spectrum from miyazaki to the bread anime

iamthedukeofurl

Okay, so, I feel like I should explain the greatest invention of the modern age…that was produced by my apartment. 

We call it, the Weeb Ass Shit scale, after our traditional method of asking what anime somebody was watching (”What Weeb Ass Shit is this?”)

It grades a given Anime from 0-10 on three different methods: Weeb, Ass, and Shit. An individual will have different degrees of tolerance for various levels on the different scales.
0 is low, 10 is high. 

Weeb is the degree to which the show assumes a familiarity with japanese pop culture or anime tropes in general, not only in terms of the actual content of the show, but occasionally at a conceptual level. Hyperspecialized high schools with all-powerful student councils, for example, add a couple points to the Weeb scale. Same goes for the presence or use of tropes that would be bizzare and off putting if you weren’t used to seeing such things in other anime. 

A zero on the Weeb scale could be enjoyed by somebody who doesn’t even know that Japan exists, a 10 assumes the audience possesses a PhD in japanese cultural studies with a focus on animation. Something like Cowboy Bebop comes in at a 1, while I’d put Kill-La-Kill at a 6. Anything of the form “These Girls are anthropomorphic versions of something else” rates at least a 7 in my book. 


Next comes the Ass Scale. Put simply, how much Fanservice is in the show. busty character design, male-gaze camera angles, skimpy outfits, hot spring episodes, character A tripping and landing in a compromising position on top of character B, all that nonsense. 
At a 0, you’ve got something you would watch with your Grandmother after church (Miyazaki’s stuff comes in at a 0). 

Finally, the Shit scale, which covers general overall quality. A 0 indicates that the show is flawless, a 10 holds that you would rather sandpaper your own face than watch it. It should be noted that the Shit scale should be judged independent of the others. Too much T&A shows up on the Ass scale. 

Proper use of this scale is in the form W/A/S. 
For example, Shokugeki no Soma (Aka Food Wars) would come in at W 4/  A 6/ S 3

friendlytroll

I am taking so many fucking notes

Feb 20 2022 • 75,018 notes

exhaled-spirals

« Suppose that, at a given moment, a certain number of people are engaged in the manufacture of pins. They make as many pins as the world needs, working (say) eight hours a day. Someone makes an invention by which the same number of men can make twice as many pins: pins are already so cheap that hardly any more will be bought at a lower price. In a sensible world, everybody concerned in the manufacturing of pins would take to working four hours instead of eight, and everything else would go on as before. But in the actual world this would be thought demoralizing. The men still work eight hours, there are too many pins, some employers go bankrupt, and half the men previously concerned in making pins are thrown out of work. There is, in the end, just as much leisure as on the other plan, but half the men are totally idle while half are still overworked. In this way, it is insured that the unavoidable leisure shall cause misery all round instead of being a universal source of happiness. Can anything more insane be imagined? »

— Bertrand Russell, In Praise of Idleness and Other Essays

Feb 20 2022 • 10,223 notes

peachpitandpomegranate-deactiva

Tell me this ain't Nicky and Joe. I dare youuu

ground-zoro

I have never seen Islam shown so humanized, so relaxed, so innocent and pure. That’s brilliant and funny. 

Feb 26 2021 • 151,570 notes
invisiblefoxfire: “maybe-it-was-all-a-lie: “thefingerfuckingfemalefury: “ middleearthorcseeksspaceorc: “ scootsenshi: “ weeelllp: “ rsbenedict: “ kaijutegu: “ roachpatrol: “I WOULD PAY TEN TIMES AS MUCH FOR CHOCOLATE IF IT MEANT REDUCING THE AMOUNT...

roachpatrol

I WOULD PAY TEN TIMES AS MUCH FOR CHOCOLATE IF IT MEANT REDUCING THE AMOUNT OF SLAVES IN THE WORLD? HOW IS THIS ANY KIND OF PROBLEM. 

kaijutegu

good news, you can! the company’s called Tony’s Chocolonely and their entire purpose is to make slave-free chocolate and reform the chocolate industry.

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https://tonyschocolonely.com/us/en

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony%27s_Chocolonely

Whole Foods carries it. If you don’t want to support an Amazon-owned company, World Market carries it. You can also buy it directly from the company. 

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It’s the best chocolate I’ve ever had and it’s 100% slave free. Tony’s Chocolonely works really hard to push for transparency within the chocolate industry and actually has and is following an action plan to eliminate slavery within cocoa production. They’re good people who make good chocolate.

rsbenedict

A list of slavery-free chocolate companies:

weeelllp

Crazy how the main three chocolate companies in the US are all terrible

scootsenshi

Makes sense

middleearthorcseeksspaceorc

Sign me up for this.

thefingerfuckingfemalefury

Chocolate companies that deserve support here <3

maybe-it-was-all-a-lie

Reblogging cuz I love chocolate and hate slavery.

invisiblefoxfire

I get Seed and Bean chocolate, it’s a UK-based company. Good stuff, all compostable packaging, fair trade, slavery-free, and not even much more expensive than any other brand of good chocolate.

Feb 26 2021 • 344,772 notes
postmarxed: “ postmarxed: “ bitchface—mcgee: “ postmarxed: “ gaycholita: “ sickly-momo: “ postmarxed: “ gaycholita: “ postmarxed: “ postmarxed: “ postmarxed: “ postmarxed: “ postmarxed: “ postmarxed: “ moosers: “wh………. ” Hey uh if you go to that...

moosers

wh……….

postmarxed

Hey uh if you go to that blog


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And click that link


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The binary in the image from the blog post translates to the password you need here which gets you this


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And that url takes you here


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I don’t have any idea what the code on the t-shirt is supposed to be tho

postmarxed

Okay it’s a decimal code that translates to tumblr godknowsnone?

postmarxed

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On that blog there’s like a captcha image and a long binary string. Stay tuned!!

postmarxed

Okay that binary translates to ascii code


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Which then translates to this


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postmarxed

So when we log in to that email account


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There’s not much there except this vimeo link in the drafts folder


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postmarxed

The video is just 19 seconds of a very windy kind of woodsy area with a pond and a shortened url displayed over it


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gaycholita

so that link takes you to this youtube video

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and if you scroll down theres only one comment

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click on the user and they dont have any videos, but their about page has a link

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the link takes you to this freetexthost page, but im not sure what this text is code for

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postmarxed

“check it out then go way back”

if you go way back to the original blog @nn17gkn

“cbg juj uk fb? Ouppx obpx pbfxc 7xfpb uo jbq? bap” is the first post

using this cypher that post translates to:

You did it now Gimme some money venmo is docworm

sickly-momo

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ok but they posted something new.

if you use the same website from before, it converts to

“Thanks for playing how about round two this is a gays only event hettys need not apply“
(first of all fuckin amazing)

but then the link leads you to this picture

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which honestly idk what to do with, someone continue this.

gaycholita

thanks for adding this!!!!! i started looking into it

so if you brighten that image super high theres a link on the left side

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that link takes you to a freetexthost page with this vimeo link: https://vimeo.com/277172453

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the way the camera focuses in this video is morse code and me and @bitchface—mcgee translated it to: tmdlrrecurring17

we have no idea what this means and we’re stuck, if someone knows what this could be pls add on !!!!!

postmarxed

It’s still going y'all!!!!

postmarxed

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I might be wrong but I think y'all might’ve mistranslated the Morse code. It might say tumblr recurring17

postmarxed

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WE GOT FUCKING PLAYED AGAIN DKCNFSLXKFNRMDCKFNDMXKCNXNFJSLSSJ

Feb 24 2021 • 271,894 notes