The thing you have to keep in mind about Moby Dick is that it’s an explicitly anti-racist text written by a white guy in the 1850s. So you end up with stuff like Ishmael spending an entire paragraph complimenting a Polynesian guy on his skull shape.

it would be cool if websites let you be an adult on them. the advertisers and payment processors need everything to be Family Friendly though and their definitions of family and friendly are absolutely fucked. but since they're in charge of the Internet now, no one is allowed to be an adult. tiktokers say things like "unalive" and "seggs" because they know death and sex are too adult for online. online is for idiot babies only now because they're easier to market to

oh im sorry you're a trans adult? super ban. you are super banned for life. you have upset Visa's feelings. Mastercard is throwing up in the corner. how could you do this to Google Ads?

My contempt towards a brand is directly proportional to how often they interrupt my playlists.

My late father was the one who taught me to be cynical about advertising, for all that putting up ads was literally his whole job. He taught me from a very young age that advertising is expensive, and they tack that cost onto the price. That if something is heavily advertised, you can count on the fact that there's an identical product out there, usually even manufactured in the same factory, that's cheaper because they don't spend all that money on advertising.

A German friend walked me through Lidl, turning over items to show the factories where the items were manufactured and what expensive brands they correspond to, we did taste tests on some of the more pricey food things later and they were the same product. learning about food manufacturing was a hobby for her.

European glasses and sunglasses are made in the same Italian factories that make the luxury ones, they have the same quality control and warranty. You are paying €100 for a logo.

Some things cost more because they are actually made with better quality materials and where the workers are properly compensated, others are the same product as the off brand version with the brand name markup. It takes a lifetime to learn the intricacies which is why consumer advocacy associations and legal protection by (truly) independent agencies is crucial.

Why Name Brand Products Are Beneath You: The Honor and Glory of Buying Generic 

This is a pet peeve, I am sorry.

It's just that the "made in the same factory" thing is such a ridiculous red herring. All it means it's a factory which has the equipment to make X thing, so they make X thing all the time, that's sort of the point of factories. It does not mean that they're made out of the same ingredients or to the same recipe. You know, the parts you actually care about. My partner worked in a pizza factory way back when, they made pizzas for all sorts of companies, weren't made out of the same stuff though. For one thing pizza comes in lots of varieties, there's not like a Hawaiian pizza factory and a meat feast pizza factory, that's (one reason) why a lot of your food says things like may contain traces of blah blah, because they also make things that contain that ingredient. Sometimes stuff made in the same factory can be identical or near identical. Try the lower priced brand, it's probably fine! But "made in the same factory" means nothing whatsoever, it's what grandmas say to sound smart as they give you some dusty biscuit which was made of sawdust back in 1967.

Hi lads,

I know the world's on fire at the moment but the Dutch government is planning to cut 1 billion Euro in education funding and, as always, the ones who are going to be hit the hardest are going to be small departments. Most important to my interests is the Celtic BA program at Utrecht.

I've been to Utrecht, I've met the students in this program, I've seen the high quality of work that this department is capable of producing, the training that it gives its students, and how far the Dutch government has already fallen behind with regards to its support of Celtic Studies as a field. If this is allowed to happen, I am worried that it might functionally obliterate the presence of Celtic Studies in the Netherlands, when Celtic programs around the world are already constantly under threat of elimination or merging.

I urge everyone who can to sign the international petition here -- I don't have high confidence in the matter due to years of seeing other Celtic programs fade away, but anything that can be of use.

Reblogging with the official petition to save the BA Celtic Languages and Cultures! I cannot understate how important it is to sign such petitions, and how devestating of a loss it would be to lose such a specialized and unique program.

Celtic Studies in Utrecht has just had its centenary last year, and is the only BA on offer that teaches medieval languages and culture in the Netherlands. There simply is no comparison. Please sign, as we have seen petitions like this be fruitful for other institutions, and know that the amount of signatures will send a clear message to the university board.

The petition to save the program is at 3.8k signatures -- for every 200 signatures more we can get from now on, I'll post pictures from my trips: Landscapes. Historical sites. Abbeys. Castles. Cats. Beaches. All with a blurb giving a little introduction to it, including some locations that are very out of the way, things that most tourists (and quite a few people living there) would not get to see. If we can reach the next goal and get it to 5k, I'll do a companion post to my "Do you wanna study Irish Mythology?" post for Irish folklore.

かぼちゃにくわれてるかんの　あるがぞうと

家主がジブンでウケているのです

My landlady is laughing by herself to take this movie that I am being eaten by a pumpkin

そもそも　このボウシのなまえは

「オレをくう　かぼちゃぼう」なのよ😑

Originally, the name of this hat is..."the pumpkin hat eating me"......

Happy Haboopeen!

no wait i just said it out loud

*me lowering the foam paw and raising a foam dildo*

I went in the code again and saw the new Boop paws were vectors this time, so I converted them into some good sized pngs that are a little easier to work.

Save and share to boop your people later!

Halloween at the x mansion but it’s just everyone wearing starfleet uniforms. Charles does Not think it’s funny.

Bonus:

IT'S BAAACK!!!

Okay, important question because I missed this part on April Fool's: how do I Evil Boop? I know Super Boop is hover over the button until it spins but what about Evil?

Yeah wait how DO you Evil Boop?

You hover (or I guess hold it down on mobile ???) until it does a flip three times.

BOOBS ARE BACK

BOOPS. I MEAN BOOPS. AJSJSJSJSJSJSJSJSJSKASKSJKSSKSKAKKSKSKSKSJSSSJSJSJSJJSSJ

@official-boob-posts

boobs are back!

is christmas kink problematic? *gets EXTREMELY defensive when you ask me to explain what that even means*

Elaborate???????

That's not a fetish, that's just good taste.

The train fiend herself

Missing some important shenanigans:

When police went to detain the pizzeria manager at his apartment, the 36-year-old reportedly threw a bag of drugs out of the window, which "fell right into the arms of the police officers", Düsseldorf police said.

Police found 1.6kg (3.5lb) of cocaine, 400g (14.1oz) of cannabis and €268,000 (£223,120) in cash in the apartment.

The restaurant manager was released by police a few days later, and he reopened his restaurant and continued to sell the drug and pizza combination.