You don’t have to answer this but who are you voting for if/when there’s an election this year? I’m so lost

i’m in the rather fortunate position of living in scotland and so i think i’ll be voting snp

if i were in england then i would be just as lost as you anon - and i’m sure many people feel the same way. keir starmer’s labour party is tory lite, the greens are fighting about trans rights, the lib dems are a joke and reform are right-wing nut jobs

there may be local independent candidates in your area idk? what i would say is that if you don’t want to vote for anyone then please spoil your ballot rather than not voting! not voting can be attributed to apathy whereas spoiled ballots are harder to ignore!

Asking for professional references is the most embarrassing thing on planet earth. "Hi can you tell people I'm smart and nice and pretty" what if we all just ran out into the streets and rent our garments publically

Me: "hey game developers, especially AAA ones, are getting laid off en-mass and it's awful for our industry" Gamer: "well I only play INDIE games and the problem with AAA games is they are creatively bankrupt"

Me, slamming my fists on the table like a baby: "WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT THIS IS ABOUT A BUSINESS PROBLEM PERPETUATED BY CAPITALISM NOT A STATEMENT ON CREATIVE DECISION MAKING"

ngl, I'm beginning to take issue with how in conversations about anti-intellectualism almost automatically, the face of girls and women will be slapped on the problem.

Saw a post about working class butches in physical labour jobs and wanted to make my own, so: I love you butches who do childcare or early education. I love you butch nurses. I love you butch house cleaners and janitorial staff. I love you service industry butches. I love you butches who do sex work. I love you working class butches who do “feminine” jobs you are cool as hell

I sometimes wonder what the IP situation for Homestuck actually looks like. Like, yes, on paper Andrew Hussie sold the rights to Homestuck outright to Viz Media in 2017, but what did he actually sell? What did they actually buy? Hussie famously made extensive use of uncompensated fan-labour in large parts of the comic's production, including labour performed pseudonymously and/or labour provided by minors, and definitely there's a conversation to be had about the ethical dimension of that – you can genuinely make an argument that Homestuck was built on the back of child labour law violations, which I bet isn't a sentence you were expecting to read today! – but I have to imagine it's also rendered the comic's IP situation a hopeless mess.

students in the social sciences can’t explain it either lol. “people in this country see no merit in studying any subject that cannot go on a resume” that’s because they go to school to get a job! I wonder what larger structural factors contribute to this widespread relationship people have to higher education. maybe this guy can use his big beautiful humanities degree to explain it to us

It's honestly frustrating how weirdly fucking tribal Labour are when it comes from agreeing with other parties. Just call for a ceasefire??? They're so fucking concerned about 'giving ground' to the SNP than actually doing the right thing.

Alan Alda, Wayne Rogers and Loretta Swit (also with Jack Klugman, Ricardo Montalban and Ralph Bellamy) participating in the 1980 actors' strike with then-separate unions, SAG and AFTRA.

Sources: 1, 2-6, 7

gonna be real, i literally don't give a shit whether charlie dies or not. he's only going to be replaced by his bald son and the monarchy will continue as it always has.

what i do care about is how this is going to be all over the news for the foreseeable even though tens of thousands of people are dying in a genocide our government is helping to fund, how people in our own country are suffering because of the cost of living crisis and the tories practically trying to tear the nhs (and many other public services) down.

and if he does die? we'll have to watch as this 'no money for the nhs' is funnelled into another state funeral and coronation. forgive me if i don't participate in the celebrations

“the economist, a journal that speaks for british millionaires”-vladimir lenin

I think it’s safe to say today it’s the american billionaire.

it's genuinely kind of horrifying how poorly made a lot of clothes are now. walked around the shops today and was nauseated by the look and feel of everything i saw.