Anyone Who Has Ever Worked For A Company That Was Bought Out By PE Firms Knows Just How Disastrous It

weird as fuck living in a culture where it's considered more impolite to speak up and defend yourself against someone treating you unfairly than it is for someone to be rude to you in the first place

Whoever conceived and animated this moment, I hope they're doing well and thriving. This is S-rank romance stuff here.

Thinking about that one Wendy Carlos video where she's boymoding and has the big fake glued on sideburns and the suit, but with beautifully shaped eyebrows and that t-girl voice, and shes completely and utterly unconvincing trying to pass as a man, but also shes just so excitedly infodumping about moog synthesizers and batting her eyelashes its hard not to fall in love with her.

for no reason whatsoever here’s a reminder that if you consider yourself a leftist/punk/abolitionist/anarchist/radical in any sort of way and get called into jury duty, you are to become the most square person on earth during the jury questionnaire!!!

don’t be that guy who says fuck the police in the jury questionnaire! that just gets you sent home! if you want to generate change, interact with the case and use your jury vote for good! ESPECIALLY if it’s a high profile case!

Things it's okay to do because you don't find someone attractive:

Refuse to date them or have sex with them.

Refuse to let them touch you, or reserve certain types of touching for those who you find attractive.

When choosing between hanging out with them or someone you find attractive, choose to hang out with the person you find attractive.

Want your friend group to include people you find attractive.

Put more effort into your connections with people you find attractive.

Things it's not okay to do because you don't find someone attractive:

Tell them that you don't find them attractive when they're not doing something that requires them to be attractive.

Treat them differently in professional settings.

Expect them to be less visible in public.

Treat them like they're objectively unattractive as opposed to just not attractive to you personally.

Judge someone for finding them attractive.

Recruit others into disliking them.

Single them out. (For example, invite everyone to an event except them.)

Expect them to be grateful for anyone showing interest in them and to never reject anyone.

Strictly limit all of your social interactions to only people you find attractive.

Allow people who you do find attractive to get away with abuse.

Go out of your way to find something wrong with them so you can feel better about not being attracted to them.

if sinners (2025) taught me anything, it's that it IS actually always about race.

you can be oppressed, and still promote and maintain the very same systems of oppression onto other marginalized people. being oppressed in one dimension doesn't allow you to be exempt from oppressing in other dimensions. the "villain" of the movie, remmick, being from the time period of the english colonization of ireland, all the while wanting to take a piece of sammie's own culture from him, use him for it. and this plot point coming after remmick witnesses the significance of sammie's playing within his culture, for his ancestors and how it would shape Black culture in the future.

even in today's society, ive noticed that people treat Black people like a commodity. our worth is only as much as other people decide it to be, and that's usually dependent on how much the oppressor can take from us. for example, the controversy of"internet slang" and how it is blatantly just AAVE with a bad disguise on

do you listen to Black musicians? do you watch Black movies? do you engage with Black creators? do you defend the racist tendencies you notice in your friends, in your family, or do you stay silent? do you listen when Black people tell you you've said or done something racist? do you actually care about not being racist, or do you just not want to look like you're racist?

i just think people have a very specific take on what racism is, and that if they're not committing KKK-levels of violence on people, then they're not racist. or if you've experienced oppression in one form, you cannot possibly be engaging with oppression in another form. but the ways in which we interact with other people and the world will always be through the lens of race, because that is simply what it means for oppression to be systemic, especially in the US and our current political climate

anyway 10/10 movie. highly recommend

I remember during puberty talk in 6th grade they handed out permission slips for parents to sign if they didn’t want their kids getting sex ed and like five students ended up having to wait in the library while the rest of us learned about puberty and health stuff.

Afterwards during lunch recess almost everyone in class spent our time telling those five kids what we learned and showing them our handouts.