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i want to go on a rant that's going to take me like 2 hours to type after reading some bullshit but i'm not going to waste my time about it

and i'm being so brave about it

#chirp.txt

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Goat

#mood #art #comic

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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

#EXACTLY EXACTLY THIS

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So, there's a lot of USians around who are very clearly fucking fed up with their political choices this election cycle, and planning to sit it out.

And I get it! What's the point of voting if there's no one to vote for?

The thing is, I'm Australian. In Australia, voting is compulsory. We don't get to sit out our elections, and I'll be real honest with you - we don't exactly get better choices than you lot. So how do you vote if there's no one to vote for? You find someone to vote against. And there's always someone to vote against.

Now, we have the pleasure of preferential voting in Australia - We get to rank every candidate from 1 to X, and I'll tell you, there's something so cathartic about putting the biggest bastard of the lot at the very bottom of your preferences. I understand that USians don't get that option - you get to mark one person, and that's it.

That means that you get one shot, so aim it at the biggest bastard of the lot. The candidate you most utterly detest. Put your vote in the worst possible place for them. Don't even think about who that vote's going towards, that's not the point. Remember, every vote is a vote against someone. Make sure you fuck up that someone's election day!

#u.s. politics

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"crochet can't be made by machines" went from being a cool fun fact to being a call to action of "so if you see mass manufactured crochet in Target, that was made by a person and they were underpaid and you should boycott it" which is true, it was made by a person, but EVERY item of clothing you own (that you did not purchase from a company using ethical labor) was made by a person being underpaid (at *best*.)

Sewing machines are operated by *people*. Knitting machines are operated by *people*. Yes lots of the process is automated but you cannot tell a machine "make me a t-shirt" or "make me a knit cardigan".

Higher awareness of fast fashion, and the true human labor and abuse behind it, is GREAT, but let's not pretend that the crochet hat in target is THE problem. Every article of clothing in target is the problem. "All clothes are made by people" is the jumping off point here into understanding this issue it's not just crochet it's the whole thing ahhhhHHHHHHHHHH

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"if you ship this thing it's because you're too naïve to understand that it's toxic and that you wouldn't like a relationship like this" actually it's because I see one of them as a mentos drop and the other as a bottle of coke zero and I want to watch the mess they'll be together

#fandom tag

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I will literally joke about how I'm a hater then remember people literally have whole blogs dedicated to hating people and media and actually maybe I'm a lover who happens to occasionally dabble on criticising the things i don't like.

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"stardew valley is a relaxing game" genuinely we are not having the same experience

#literally me aodjakdla #stardew valley

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the new American Gothic. // artist: Criselda Vasquez.

#art #illustration

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Spring is gonna be here soon! Perfect time to adopt one of my plushie sons.

Get the plush here!

Check out Crow Time here!

(Sadly, he doesn't come with the lil cape...someone gave me that for him. I do want to make little crow capes for the store one day tho!)

#omg the lil cape #if someone could direct me to the pattern i'd love to make one for mine!! #i've named him lil dewdrop. just dewdrop for short #anyway highly endorse getting a crow #they're so soft and cute and well-made #crow time #secondlina.tag

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i may not be gods strongest warrior but there is all sorts of bullshit that he makes me deal with and i hndle it not very well usually

#mood

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One gripe I have with the tma fandom is that they will not stop sexualizing Jon aka the ONE asexual character and then be like “Well asexuality is a spectrum! Asexual people can have sex!” Which yeah, true, but they say Jon doesn’t period. Literally the direct quote is like “Oh yeah Jon doesn’t at all.” AT ALL. Now stop writing/drawing that man having sex

#god i could go on about how i'm so tired of ppl tacking on 'but asexual ppl can have sex' or 'aexuality is a spectrum' #like yeah it sure is but i don't think you understand what that means actually #someone who is allosexual writing about an asexual person's experience PERIOD will be fundamentally different #bc we think differently #and i've read enough smut and fic with smut to know this #so yeah asexuality is a specturm #but you don't understand it on a fundamental level #tma #fandom crit #tma.jon

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i think literally constantly about kurt vonnegut saying he doesn't like to write about real true love because once you put that in a story it's all readers care about

#quote

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I just think people who clean public spaces should make no less than $100,000 a year

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#mood

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someone with a major in literature and/or poetry tell me what's so poetic about this that it captivated me because i have no idea honestly

#food mention #i love this #save this

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Tang San | Douluo Continent

#oh i love his hair #xiao zhan