an incomplete taxonomy of christmas music

crisp glass of water moodboard

i might be telling on myself regarding my age but i’m old enough to remember when Obama said this to the bank CEOs back in 2009 and i’m beginning to think he didn’t appropriately communicate the stakes. they’d probably take the pitchforks at this point given the potential alternative.

putting this very gently because a lot of people are young or at least too young to remember Obamas presidency: this is not the based statement you think it is. this was an ally talking to an ally trying to bring them into check. this was not an implicit threat.

Obama let the banks dog walk him. then he utilized the FBI to infiltrate and destroy Occupy Wall Street. by the end of his 2nd term, he had an exceptional relationship with american executives.

please do not take mistake this post as a glaze of Barack Obama. the point is that provided invaluable cover for corporate CEOs during a pivotal point in time in a way that they still take advantage of today. the moment in history we are experiencing today was greatly delayed by Obamas presidency and that’s coming from someone who voted for him twice expecting something different.

im screaming this is an aesthetisized screenshot of one of the worlds earliest email worms and caused over US$5B in damages

before 2023 end anyone wanna tell me if they're the thing

I’ve been reading through the notes and I just have to say that I absolutely promise, promise, promise you that nobody in the dental surgery is there to judge you, and we’re certainly not mad at you. Cavities happen. Even to dentists. You think your dentist has a mouth full of virgin teeth? Unlikely! They’ve all visited eachother’s surgeries to get a quickie filling (ooh, saucy) between patients. They understand that life can get in the way of oral hygiene sometimes. They understand that life’s too short not to eat chocolate. They understand that you’ve got to live. I swear to you that everyone in that room is just there to help you. Please, please, please don’t stop going to the dentist because you’re worried they’ll be mad at you. It’s really not the case. They understand. It’s fine. It’s really, really fine. Please go to the dentist. I promise you it’s ok.

You would not believe how comforting this is.

My dentist and hygienist always reassure me that my soft teeth are not my fault, that sometimes genetics happen anyway. They didn’t judge me when we met, and I needed 14 teeth worked on. It’s truly okay.

Reading a Terry Pratchett book is literally just: Here's a funny little joke Here's something that you can tell is a joke but don't get and will only figure out five years later Here's a surprisingly cool fantasy concept Here's a unique and well written simile Here's a lil guy Here's something that has aged depressingly well into the modern day Here's something that has aged remarkably queer into the modern day Here's a character that you can barely understand what he's saying Here is the most terrifying and deeply disturbing concept you have ever heard, casually mentioned Here is the dumbest fucking pun you've ever heard but in the best way Here is a quote so profound that it makes you view morality and the world in a different way Here is a plot twist that you can't tell if it's genius or stupid Congratulations! You've finished the book! It has fundamentally changed you as a person and you will never be the same!

its really funny also how this guy hasnt even been charged with anything and journalists are literally already posting like his 10th grade essays. Me when my country's news media regulation isn't fucked beyond any hope of repair

usamerican jouranlistic ethics is being like "yeah i mean they arrested him idk" and immediately splattering the mans face medical history and gaming habits on every newspaper in the world

So it seems like there are two possibilities:

One possibility is that the person who did the shooting changed his jacket right before the shooting- but into a different jacket that was remarkably similar (a puzzling choice!), then executed a plan so well thought out that the police had pretty much no leads, but was then caught (with both the murder weapon and a manifesto conveniently on his person!) at a small town McDonalds five days later thanks to a random person recognizing him (and is a random McDonald's employee thinking you appear similar to a partial photo of a criminal enough to get you detained?)

OR

A police force with a budget bigger than many country's entire military, in a country notorious for having corrupt policemen who routinely lie and believe themselves to be above the law, realizing that it would be supremely embarrassing to have no leads, and likely facing immense political pressure to make sure the public doesn't think people can get away with this kind of crime, feeling motivated to peruse the many many records available to their giant counter-terrorism unit and using it to find someone who was in the vicinity, with an established online record of extremism, who has a jacket that is reasonably similar, and straight up planting some evidence on him so they can wrap this up with a neat bow and all of the ceo's who run the politicians who run our country can breathe easier?

As a random person on the Internet I will never find out the truth but some of this is not really passing the sniff test, and if there is one thing you can count on in this country it's that cops lie and cover their own asses. If he mysteriously dies in prison from "suicide" then we will know it's definitely not him

movies

Today I went to the movies. I went to see Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs. It was hilarious. The movie was about a guy named Flint and he wanted to be an inventor. He worked very hard. Then he made an invention that made it rain food. The food got way too big.They had a whoa whoa whoa I’m not gonna tell you anymore. You’ll have to find out and see what happens next.

I know people assign human traits to a lot of things but you really don't need to anthropomorphize books. People act like dog -earing pages is a slippery slope to book burning

"they are books not things" they are stacks of paper glued together. They are a medium for conveying information. I will eat your entire copy of the hunger games in front of you and you will be too distressed to stop me. How do you people have this much reverence for books and yet no literary analysis skills

NIИ | Burn BTS photos | Photography by Joseph Cultice | 1994

all fat people are butches and all skinny people are fems and nonbinary is a single type of person that you either are or arent attracted to and pink lemonade comes from pink cows

reminds me of this tweet

He would do numbers on tumblr

I kknow youre talking about if he had his own blog but I tjink itz important to acknowledge that this man is consistently doing numbers on tumblr. Liek fucking constantly

"It seemed to be a chronic disease. It was as if even the most intelligent person had this little blank spot in their heads where someone had written: "Kings. What a good idea." Whoever had created humanity had left in a major design flaw. It was its tendency to bend at the knees."

-Terry Pratchett, Feet of Clay