Since animals only ever have sex to procreate, humans are the only species who have sex for purposes of recreation and pleasure. I find this pretty interesting.
the premise behind this isn’t true. there are vast numbers of species that have sex for social and recreational purposes, with some having entire social hierarchies mediated by nonreproductive sex
Came across this older Reddit comment this morning:
I was at a shitty crustpunk bar once getting an after-work beer. One
of those shitholes where the bartenders clearly hate you. So the
bartender and I were ignoring one another when someone sits next to me
and he immediately says, “no. get out.”
And the dude next to me says, “hey i’m not doing anything, i’m a
paying customer.” and the bartender reaches under the counter for a bat
or something and says, “out. now.” and the dude leaves, kind of yelling.
And he was dressed in a punk uniform, I noticed
Anyway, I asked what that was about and the bartender was like, “you
didn’t see his vest but it was all nazi shit. Iron crosses and stuff.
You get to recognize them.”
And i was like, ohok and he continues.
“you have to nip it in the bud immediately. These guys come in and
it’s always a nice, polite one. And you serve them because you don’t
want to cause a scene. And then they become a regular and after awhile
they bring a friend. And that dude is cool too.
And then THEY bring friends and the friends bring friends and they
stop being cool and then you realize, oh shit, this is a Nazi bar now.
And it’s too late because they’re entrenched and if you try to kick them
out, they cause a PROBLEM. So you have to shut them down.
And i was like, ‘oh damn.’ and he said “yeah, you have to ignore
their reasonable arguments because their end goal is to be terrible,
awful people.”
And then he went back to ignoring me. But I haven’t forgotten that at all.
“we can still see that the events of January 6 and January 8 are part of a broader canvass, a global conflict between far-right authoritarianism and civic democracy with growing international associations, at least on the far-right authoritarian side of the equation. Trump’s erstwhile rabble rouser Steve Bannon has been pushing for a coup like this in Brazil for weeks. Same game plan: rigged election, stop the steal, etc. Defeated ex-President Bolsonaro, meanwhile, is holed up in Florida. One of his former ministers suspected of complicity in yesterday’s events is also apparently in the United States. Brazilian authorities want him back. Of course, the same conflict continues in the United States. Behind the drama of Kevin McCarthy’s 15 votes for speaker there was a simpler reality. The members of Congress who directly participated in the failed Trump coup forced McCarthy to cede control of the House to them. Beyond the atmospherics, that’s the reality of what happened. Last week’s drama was usually portrayed as an ideological conflict within the GOP. That misses the mark. It was more a conflict within the Freedom Caucus about the best strategy for running the House, either through McCarthy or someone else. They now plan to interfere and derail the investigations of and possible prosecution of the coup plotters using their control of key investigative committees. In other words, the attempted coup continues, now in a rearguard action to protect the perpetrators from accountability for their actions.”
I fear that this is the new normal, whenever Fascists are rejected by voters. It’s going to happen at every level, from school board all the way to national elections, with increasingly deadly violence.
u know i feel like something that would help w a lot of shipping discourse would be remembering that not everyone in fandom spaces is here to do textual analysis & people sometimes (often) ship characters solely because it’s sexy
like ur absolutely welcome to be critical of smutty fanworks (you can be critical of whatever you want go nuts) but occasionally i’ll see people like ‘why would you ship these two characters romantically don’t you see that their relationship being platonic is important to the underlying themes of the work’ and be like oh yeah for sure, you’re absolutely right about the Themes and stuff, however, i also think it would be hot if they fucked. i contain multitudes.
Nexflix’s subtitle was “cats sometimes make owners lonely” but what junho really said was not “owner”. it was “butler”. I don’t know about other country but in korea, cat “owners” jokingly call themselves ‘butler’ who work for their master, their cats. I think nuance is important. Junho would never imply that he is the owner of cat, (our youngwoo), or he wears the pants in this relationship. I would like people to know that he called himself a butler not an owner. Youngwoo replies that cats love their butlers too. I think it would have been better if the subtitle was “their humans” not “their owners”.
honest to god can’t stop thinking about this song about jeff bezos by philip labes (link takes you to his spotify). it’s such a good example of politically driven folk music.
Lyrics:
Jeff found a genie in a bottle Who said, “I can give you anything you ask” “You can have your wishes three And a million more for free It’s unlimited, just set me to the task.”
Well, Jeff thought a while, Said, “I want houses, “I want boats, I want fancy modern art, I want tickets to the Met, I want my own private jet, And a rocket into space just for a start.”
Well, the genie waved her arms and made it happen His every wish bolted from the blue And folks all over town grew enamored, gathered ‘round To admire the man whose wishes had come true
They said, “Let’s hear it for the man who has everything! By good fortune he’s been set so far apart.” “Yeah, let’s hear it for Jeff who has everything! ‘Cause his wishes are only at the start.”
Well, Jeff heard their shouts and he grew worried He said, “Everybody’s getting in my way.” The genie smiled as before, “You’ve got a million wishes more. You can even give a bunch of them away.”
Well, Jeff got confused and sorta quiet ‘Til he finally said, “I have just one wish more.” “I am satisfied, so I wish that you would die So you cannot grant wishes anymore.”
Well, the genie’s eyes got big and sad and shiny ‘Til she finally said, “Your wish is my command.” And with an effervescent sigh, she disappeared before his eyes And no wishes were ever granted there again
So, let’s hear it for the man who has everything! By good fortune he has set so far apart Yeah, let’s hear it for Jeff, who’s got everything! Every single fucking thing except a heart
truly the end goal is not “my close friends aren’t annoyed by me and it’s all in my head, they’re my friends and they love me”, it’s “sometimes I do annoy my close friends, just as the people I love most will also annoy me sometimes, because this is normal, and we will continue to stay friends, and they’re not going to want to immediately cut me out of their life if I do something annoying once in a while”
there needs to be more kink and gay sex at pride b/c a lot of you need the lesson that something making you uncomfortable doesnt mean that its bad or that it should be hidden away. your discomfort is not the end of the fucking world and i promise you will survive the harrowing ordeal of seeing a man in leather
