bethanythebogwitch

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Stop demonizing my wet babies

#shark #sharks #marine biology #marine biology shitpost

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I know people are (rightly) horrified at the US's stance on the Convention on the Rights of the Child, but have you seen the Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women?

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I am begging the VTM Bloodlines 2 devs, on my knees pleading with them, to bring back the dancing animation from the original game

I don't care how shitty the game is, I will buy it if it means I can see this with modern graphics

#vampire the masquerade #vampire the masquerade bloodlines #Vampire the masquerade bloodlines 2

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“I wish ancient people preserved their writing and artifacts better” I write in electronic signals on a piece of hardware that can’t retain its efficacy for more than a few decades.

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I genuinely believe that some people could encounter a button that says “if you push this button everyone in the world has the opportunity to live a better life and your life remains exactly the same” and they would not push it.

They’d be like “well that button’s not fair to me, though,” even though there’s literally no other buttons around and nothing newly bad would happen to them if the button was pushed.

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I think a lot of like discourse of what to focus on with this or that thing gets the end goal and things to ease newcomers into your ideas confused with each other.

Like yes perhaps the end goal is to get UBI going but if your Uncle Jerry is currently struggling with the concept of taxes maybe get him to understand the cost of road maintenance first before you start trying to get him onboard with free preschool.

Also just because someone is explaining the concept of taxes to Uncle Jerry doesn’t mean they don’t believe in free childcare.

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the Columbia University arrests are worse than they seem. They're arresting protesting students for trespassing. It goes without saying students cannot meaningfully "trespass" in the common areas of a university they attend. So Columbia University has suspended all student protestors from their institution, in the process revoking their access to housing, their belongings, and most crucially damaging their academic futures. We are witnessing full scale silencing and removal of anyone of conscience from the next generation of academia.

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the idea that restrooms, locker rooms, etc need to be single-sex spaces in order for women to be safe is patriarchy's way of signalling to men & boys that society doesn't expect them to behave themselves around women. it is directly antifeminist. it would be antifeminist even if trans people did not exist. a feminist society would demand that women should be safe in all spaces even when there are men there.

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actual criticisms of academia:

cost of education acting as class barrier

exploitation of graduate workers

colonialist past and present

ties to military industrial complex

danger of power structure entrenching and justifying orthodox views on social issues

criticisms of academia that get made:

those damn ivory tower academics are wasting money learning about things

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The oldest known instance of the "Cool S" symbol, a sigil of unknown origin, found on a Viking runestone dated to the tenth century AD.

This glyph has persisted through millennia and is still widely seen today. Scholars believe its origin is unrelated to the letter S, and that it may have originally been part of a religious ritual.

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Out-of-Context "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea" Quotes to Put on Shirts:

-> "To be frank, I think that we're seeing things here that God wished to hide from man's eyes."

-> “Terrible avenger, a perfect archangel of hatred.”

-> “I declare it is easy to lead a snail's life.”

-> “I will not be eaten without protest!”

-> “The human mind enjoys impressive visions of unearthly creatures.”

-> “This precious carnivore, hunted and tracked by fishermen, is becoming extremely rare."

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I cant believe this tweet is how I find out

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People are getting really really fascist about peaceful protesters and it’s getting scary lol

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Basil Wolverton

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yoo