hey not to be absolutely fucking morbid on main or anything but if we do reach a point where the rich try to escape extinction by fleeing earth to live on their secret mars colony or whatever my dying moments will be taking solace in the fact that a society comprised solely of the 1% of the richest people on the planet will tear itself apart in under a year
can’t wait for Fyre Fest 2 on mars
not to be overly optimistic on main but without the 1% we might stand a chance
PLEASE DO NOT THROW THE YA GENRE UNDER THE BUS it is filled with diversity that goes far beyond whatever makes it to the movies! Please give it a chance!
three years ago i thought i was straight and was dating a brony and now it’s my first pride with a girlfriend, and she grows herbs in her windowsill and wears pretty dresses and makes me breakfast burritos like………..it really DOES get better, kids
you say that but your url is what it is so can i really trust anything you say
listen bitch i made it in high school and now i have a brand to keep im not proud of it either
when people are like “the hunger games just stole the plot of battle royale” like listen everything steals from the plot of everything the lion king is just furry hamlet westworld is jurassic park but sexier lost is edgy gilligan’s island there are no original stories and the only good piece of media is jennifer’s body
Michael crichton wrote westworld and jurassic park tho so he just pirated himself
michael crichton keeps TRYING to tell y’all about the evils of capitalism impeding on the progress of science when will y’all LISTEN
Maybe he just doesn’t like theme parks
michael crichton in line for a roller coaster at six flags: fuck this
Look, sometimes murders of crows will blacken the sky at your coming and ravening wolves are gonna follow in your wake, and you’re just gonna have to deal with that, and everybody else in the Costco is just gonna have to deal too
cooking site, 10th paragraph of page titled “rustic pulled pork recipe”: my grandfather’s childhood was tough. every day he had to work the mines. he was only 6 months old when he held is first pickaxe. As he crawled into the mine elevator, just a little baby boy of one, he-
Hey so this story about the Trump administration “defining transgender out of existence” or whatever seems like a really panic inducing headline that’s probably meant to make you so anxious you feel like you have to click the link and read the article. I’m seeing it passed around on here talking about protections for trans people being removed from the civil rights act and info on moving to Canada and Ireland as a refugee and like.
First of all there is no federal civil rights legislation protecting trans people. Maybe in some states? Def not mine but idk. Federally it’s entirely legal rn for people to deny you housing or a job or healthcare or whatever for being trans. That’s just how it’s always been. There’s no protection from that, no laws against it. If you’re a transgender adult and you’re worried about this affecting you it isn’t.
Transgender students tho is who this is gonna hit bc this is regarding title IX of the education ammendments of 1972. Title IX is supposed to protect against discrimination based on sex in educational institutions that receive money from the federal government. That pretty much covers any school, private and public colleges, high schools, all the way down to kindergarten. The interpretation of title IX is left up to the president and Obama kind of extended these protections originally intended for cis women to cover LGBT students as well bc “sex based discrimination” is vague enough that he could get away with including gender and orientation based discrimination.
That’s very likely about to go back to just covering cis women. Which is a big setback and it is a big deal, not having any federal assistance when this kind of discrimination happens. But I know a lot of us have seen the stories of transgender students being forced to move to different school districts again and again and one student who was not even allowed to take shelter during an active shooter drill and for the most part I think we know that help from the feds was already not available any longer. This just puts it in writing that Trumps DOJ isn’t gonna interpret title XI likes Obama’s DOJ did but we already knew that.
That doesn’t mean progress can’t be made on this it just means you can’t depend on the federal government to help anymore but you can still agitate locally and getting these protections from school boards, from municipal and county ordinances, and from state laws is probably the best thing to demand right now to keep this policy from flipping every time the white house flips.
People don’t often look back on the early 1900’s for advice, but what if we could actually learn something from the Lost Generation? The New York Public Library has digitized 100 “how to do it” cards found in cigarette boxes over 100 years ago, and the tips they give are so practical that millennials reading this might want to take notes.
Back in the day, cigarette cards were popular collectibles included in every pack, and displayed photos of celebrities, advertisements, and more. Gallaher cigarettes, a UK-founded tobacco company that was once the largest in the world, decided to print a series of helpful how-to’s on their cards, which ranged from mundane tasks (boiling potatoes) to unlikely scenarios (stopping a runaway horse). Most of them are insanely clever, though, like how to make a fire extinguisher at home. Who even knew you could do that?
The entire set of life hacks is now part of the NYPL’s George Arents Collection. Check out some of the cleverest ones we could find below. You never know when you’ll have to clean real lace!
