Howdy, I’m Beetle.
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I’m a black nonbinary person
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Sinless monsters made me who I am today
Does anyone have an update on where things are at with the writers strike? It's disappeared from my various feeds and algorithms.
A lot of the guides I've seen don't actually seem to understand how reddit works in comparison to tumblr so
Hello, I really didn’t want to do this but I don’t have another choice, I lost my job today, literally any donation is appreciated, any amount will be used for rent and food, I just need help for a little bit while I start a new job (I already have two possible jobs lined up but I lost my job without any funds to hold me over until I start in either of the new places). Thank you so so much to anyone who donates.
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Naming the female razor brand Venus is so personally offensive to me....you think Venus the goddess of love and sex and beauty was shaving her PUSSY? Go kill yourself
[ID: Thread of two tweets by bessbell, transcribed below:
"I'm striking because once in a general meeting a studio exec got interrupted by a FaceTime from her decorator and was asked to choose between two different tiles for the floor of her pool house and I looked up the tile and it was $90 per square foot.
"The place I was renting at the time was a (lovely!) converted garage behind my landlord's house. My fridge was outside and the sink was a mini sink. When it was too hot in the "house" during the day I would sit in my car with the AC on. That year I was nominated for an Emmy!" /End ID]
Harvey slayed his GLAAD Awards hosting gig in not one, not two, but three stunning outfits.
For those who haven't heard Harvey's mariposa story that inspired his red carpet look by Christian Siriano, he shared it again with Cosmopolitan:
My fucking car got stolen. Walked out of my building to leave for work, and my car is nowhere to be fucking seen. 3 phone calls and 1 breakdown later, I find out it was recovered in the next city over and is currently being held in impound. Now, I have to pay $170 to get it Out of impound, plus pay to replace the back window the thief/thieves smashed in so they could joy ride my car.
If anyone could spare some cash for the fee, the repairs, or the gas/Uber money to get to the impound, I'd greatly appreciate it. My cashapp and Venmo are ser3nitycpt21, and you csn DM me for my PayPal link.
you can switch to firefox you can install ublock origin you can learn html you can delete tiktok you can read wikipedia just for the fun of it you MUST kill your google brand loyalty where it stands before it can harm you more. the internet is such a beautiful place if only you learn to see and use it right
So, Dove soap and Lizzo are endorsing KOSA, in the name of "social media is bad for teens' self-esteem" (even though that's bullshit) and I am mad.
If you don't know, long story short KOSA is a bill that's ostensibly one of those "Protect the Children" bills, but what it's actually going to do is more or less require you to scan your fucking face every time you want to go on a website; or give away similarly privacy-violating information like your drivers' license or credit card info.
Either that or force them to censor anything that could even remotely be considered not "kid friendly." Not to mention fundies are openly saying they're gonna use this to hurt trans kids. Which is, uh, real fucking bad.
Given that in terms of their actual products they don't have a direct stake in it, it might be possible to get Dove to rescind this (can't find contact info for Lizzo sadly), if you want to contact Dove about this, here's their contact page.
And, as per usual, I urge you to contact your congresscritters, especially given that as of now (Thursday, 4/13/2023) they plan to re-introduce the bill this Monday, and we're going to need a flood of people saying this is awful to kill it.
Reblogging to mention, along with the other Stop KOSA stuff, Fight for the Future has started a petition to tell Lizzo to rescind her support for KOSA.
So, if you want something to sign...
protesters in Atlanta just got hit with $700k bail for two people who were arrested at the night of rage for Tortuguita. if you guys could donate to the Atlanta Solidarity Fund and spread the word that they need funds, that would be really helpful to the local scene, including the forest defenders who are still mourning their murdered comrade.
someone in the notes on that “stop fetishizing old houses” post commented that builders before the 1970s were too concerned with elegance and grandeur, and that was all really just wastefulness
and I think about my apartment, a duplex from 1912, surely built for a middle- or working-class family. spartan, really; quite basic and no-frills. not much to look at from the outside. just like a thousand buildings of similar provenance in the Boston area.
there are flowers molded in the chunky, cast-iron radiators
there’s a design of concentric circles in the carved door-lintels
many buildings of this type have a little stained-glass window somewhere
I think about ornate door hinges in the staff wing of a country estate from 1878. think of patterned wallpaper in a mansion’s kitchen, from 1797. I think about purely functional spaces someone looked at and said, “this needs beauty”
the past was certainly guilty of waste in many ways. but I cannot call making a house more than just a box to live in one of them
