littlealiengirl:

c0ntemplations:

nothing says you’re in your early 20s like a good ole’ fashioned panic attack about your life choices and the fact that every move you make is extremely critical to what path you’re going to go down for the next 5 or 10 years but i mean it’s whatever

My first thought upon reading this was “I can’t believe I haven’t aged in ten years.” Then I read the notes.

And I really appreciate that the only person who seems to have their life together in the notes has the url realmarysue. Only mary sues get their lives together. The rest of us are stuck in a cycle of mess and panic.

Anyway, if it’s any comfort, you’re not actually stuck with the choices you make in your early 20s. The choices you make have impact on the rest of your life, sure most of our choices do to an extent, but you can change course in a lot of ways.

That doesn’t mean panic about big choices will magically disappear, of course.

ig-86-ska:

“But for the people who want to be there, it’s perfect.”

Source: ig-86-ska

Source: cat-memes-only

imgetting2old4diss:

Me but with lots of books around too

Source: cat-memes-only

GiveDirectly: Send money directly to the extreme poor

the-real-seebs:

sptrashcan:

Give Directly is a charity I support. I hold the belief that poor people are poor primarily because they don’t have money, rather than due to deficiency of character or because they don’t know what’s good for them. I can’t say for certain whether that belief is correct, but I’m happy that they’re testing it.

Now they are trying to gather $30 million to fund a rigorous real-world study on universal basic income. They have raised over $25 million but their deadline is coming up. I know that there are a lot of worthy causes and people in desperate need out there, but if you happen to have some money and are looking for a way to do good, please consider donating.

My experience is that it’s certainly true in a whole lot of cases.

Source: monica-geller

prokopetz:

I think it’s kind of laughable how some radical activists think they can pin everything that’s wrong with the activist community in liberal ideologies. I’ve been involved in popular activism for a long time, and in my experience, radical ideologies are not particularly less prone to buying into mainstream prejudices and bigotries than liberal ideologies are. Radicals just tend to have better-practiced arguments for why it’s totally okay for them to throw other oppressed groups under the bus.

disgustinganimals:

martininamerica:

sirspookers:

zedigalis:

martininamerica:

Mozzarella does her best impression of a sausage.

I just love how after he asks if it’s a sausage, it looks down like “oh shit! I am a sausage :o”

“Are you a sausage?”
“*cats looks down and back up* yah”

My cat is more internet famous than me at this point

it can’t be helped. your cat does better voice work.

and you’re not bad.

State repeals almost 6,000 obsolete laws

dduane:

Also: “A reward for the capture or death of the “arch traitor” Earl of Tyrone Hugh O’Neill is no longer available, after the 1601 proclamation offer was finally revoked more than 500 years later.”

State repeals almost 6,000 obsolete laws

marmoset-marmoset:

pervocracy:

Look, I appreciate that progressives are compassionate and empathetic people, who aren’t content to cheer on “winning,” but want to make sure they’re acting ethically and towards worthwhile goals. If we didn’t have these qualities, maybe we really wouldn’t be much better than the opposition.

But for God’s sake don’t let people hijack your empathy entirely towards a Nazi or a Klansman going “oh no you’re making me feel intimidated,” and away from the people he’d murder if he got half a chance.

This isn’t theoretical. The far right murdered most of my family in the 1930s and 40s. And now they’re trying to stage a comeback, with the approval of the fucking President. In the face of that, I think it’s justifiable to be a wee bit impolite.

The already worrying “is it okay to punch a Nazi” discourse is sliding into “is it okay to make a Nazi feel bad?” discourse, and FUCK YES IT IS. IT IS ENTIRELY OKAY TO DO THAT.

So many nerdy Internet people are psychologically stuck in how all their classmates thought they were weird and it made them feel bad and nobody respected their ~original unpopular thinking~, and project that in a silly and self-centered way all over serious political issues. When your Geek Social Fallacies lead you all the way to sticking up for crying Nazis, it’s time to address your own issues and seek help, not project your fear of social exclusion all over people’s opposition to violent far-right movements.