shinonart:

SUNMOON POKEDDEX DAY 20 - Favourite Alolan Pokemon: Dugtrio

Hands down the best Alolan form. I laughed so much when I first saw it and it still manages to make me smile. It’s such a meme honestly. I also like it how the hair that seems like a completely nonsensical thing has a very good explanation. It’s based on Pele’s hair, thin strands of volcanic glass that look like hair. So cool. I also love it how the Dugtrio has such fab hair AND it is now a steel type. I used one in my Sun Blindlocke and I loved it. It didn’t make it, however. It was a sad loss.

I based this design on my old Dugtrio design and just slapped some Pele’s hair on it. Maybe Alolan Pokemon have some kind of need to appear as fab as possible so Dugtrio wears Pele’s hair out of vanity.

yugiohslav:

country roads, take me home
to the place i belong

moonisneveralone:

someonekillpewdiepie:

laurdlannister-kingslayer:

lord-kitschener:

What dumb shit did JK r*wling do on Twitter this time

She said the Jeremy Corbyn is an anti semite for calling out bankers, but he didn’t say anything about jewish people…. she thinks all bankers are Jews….. which makes her the anti semite.

cough cough Harry Potter goblins in gringotts

hawkeye1964:

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richietozierhateblog:

i went to the met today

Just an fyi cobalt is currently the most toxic oil paint usually. Older oil paints from old masters are also most likely made with lead.

So the death via oil paint isn’t impossible tbh

i can’t die but thank you :) im sure this information will be useful for someone who can

lostinspaceandmeaning:

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kadara-skies:

midclown120boos:

radailurophiles:

midclown120boos:

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midclown120boos:

okay i just had a bad epiphany but corporate interest’s influence on the internet is going to become so much stronger now that generations that are internet naturalized have grown up and starting working as “social media consultants”. advertising is going to become so much more subtle, manipulate your behavior to a greater extent, and completely pervade every aspect of our lives the more we rely on the internet for everything from entertainment to social validation. 

what im saying is its scary that corporate twitter accounts are getting good at twitter. to have the same avenue a human would to express themself. its like, an extreme anthromorphism of a brand, and that brand representing a corporate interest, and successfully passing itself off as a sentient entity on twitter, thats really weird to me.

like this is so fucked up. it doesnt immediately read as an advertisement, conceptually it executes the levels of irony and deconstruction that usually make for successful memes in this genre or whatever. its almost subverting itself, but ultimately it still succeeds as an advertisement. it makes me sick. for every misfire of corporations trying to relate (pepsi protest commercial), theres another company getting better at it

okay but like my thing about this is… who is actually eating at these places because shit like this? yeah it’s funny but i never go to wendy’s because a meme, if i go to wendy’s it’s because i want a gross burger and a frosty, same with taco bell and mcdonald’s and wherever the fuck.

i really think that you’re blowing this out of proportion and having very little faith in people’s ability to decide what they want for themselves. it’s just not that deep.

It’s not about the effectiveness of the ads in question, but their complete omnipresence in every aspect and moment of life, and how bizarre and sophisticated the mechanations of advertising have become. If people don’t call attention to these things, they become normal.

The effectiveness of marketing isnt one-to-one, like, “ad says burger is good, I think burger is good, I eat burger.” That was 50 years ago. Y'all, since then these multi-million dollar corporations have been hiring psychologists and sociologists and anthropologists to study how best to get under consumer skin and theyve figured out it’s not about making you WANT a burger,

It’s about creating a Brand Identity - an anthropomorphized personality that your brain fits into an established schema (system of thought) so it’s easier to just drop into the background of your everyday life. It’s not about making you want a burger, it’s about making it so, when you DO want a burger, the first place you think of is Wendy’s, because their ads have made you think about them five time already that day. And most importantly, it’s about making sure you dont realize how often they make you think about them, so you don’t resent how pervasive they’ve become. They do that by tricking your brain into thinking of them as just another human-like personality. Your Funny Meme Friend Wendy’s. Wine Aunt World Market. Woke Jock Nike. Even your Endearingly Unhip Uncle Geico.

(hey also if you want dozens of terrifying examples of what I mean, just type ‘brand identity schema’ into Google like I just did and take a gander at all those scholarly articles discussing how best to acquire consumers, like we’re a fucking commodity)

one time i said i didn’t like the wendys twitter and got called classist for hating retail employees 

this shit works. it makes people like Brands. gets under their skin and in to their minds. when i said i didnt like the wendys twitter i personally offended people that viewed wendys as a friend, that viewed the wendys social media manager as a friendly individual that they respected.

the wendys social media manager is not your friend. they don’t even really exist. there’s no one person that writes the tweets for wendys. there’s a team of 20 something year olds that casually observe the latest meme trends and crank out mspaint memes because they know they’ll get retweeted if the memes are relevant.

they trick you in to thinking that Wendys is a hip friendly young person, and they manipulate you in to thinking that disliking marketing is somehow a “problematic” “un-woke” thing to do. 

and it works. 

install ublock origin. on mobile, block every promoted tweet you see. don’t let them convince you that this shit is normal.

prismatic-bell:

mapleseeds:

mapleseeds:

mapleseeds:

i think the worst thing to come out of this site are the ‘NAZIS ARE TERRIBLE. they WILL KILL ALL JEWS in COLD BLOOD, LET THEIR FAMILIES DIE IN FRONT OF THEM, and start the HOLOCAUST 2.0!! also reblog to make a jew feel safe.’ formatted type posts

ways to make a jew feel safe and comfortable:

-let them celebrate their holidays openly around you and encourage them to express themselves religiously. if they invite you over for a holiday, go!! they’re making an effort to let you learn more about them.

-consider any different diets they might be on (ex. kosher or even if it’s passover) when you have them over at your house. a little goes a long way with this one

-if christmas is around חנוכה that year, feel free to send them a חנוכה card!! it’s not really as big of a holiday for us but we do appreciate the effort put into making us feel included :)

-educate any of your friends that might make antisemitic jokes. even ‘grammar nazi’ jokes. standing up for jewish people goes further than when theyre just around. antisemitism isnt something that only exists when a jew is in the room.

-understand that, if they practice judaism, their beliefs arent like yours, and that that’s ok! a lot of people forget that not everyone is either a christian or an atheist whenever the topic of religion comes up. (but also remember not every jew practices or believes in judaism!!)

-if they tell you to warn them before you talk about nazis, do it. It’s really easy just to give someone a heads up before you talk about people who want them dead, especially if they’re openly jewish or a holocaust survivor descendent.

ways NOT to make a jew feel safe and comfortable:

“NAZIS are EVIL. they will KILL ALL THE JEWS. that’s just BAD. they will MURDER EVERY SINGLE JEWISH FAMILY. NO JEW IS SAFE. anyway reblog to make a jewish person feel safe and loved 🤗”

also if you can goyim reblog. and if you’re jewish and want to add on feel free!

hey by ‘if you are a goy reblog if you can’ i meant ‘i highly encourage you to reblog this because i have seen too many posts that make me and other jewish people very uncomfortable and they are, to be honest, entirely surface level and exhausting to see over and over again. not only that, but they are also annoying to us because they dont make us feel safe at all, and reblogging posts about how bad nazis are isnt actual activism or showing real, substantial support for jews. if youre serious about being there for your jewish siblings actually take part in their lives. make sure they’re comfortable. make sure you make casual antisemitists uncomfortable. dont just reblog posts about hating nazis, your posts dont do shit. supporting your jewish friends by even doing something as simple as what i listed above does have an affect of us. your posts about you hating nazis mean absolutely nothing unless you care for and acknowledge Actual Jewish People’s problems and challenges. otherwise, they’re surface level bullshit and do not contribute whatsoever to improve our safety.’ :) :) :)

I would add one more point because I see people on my dash do it a lot and I really genuinely love it:

When someone who isn’t Jewish says some bullshit about “Judeo-Christian,” or something where you’re pretty securely sure it’s wrong but you don’t know enough about Judaism to correct them, the following phrase:

“Maybe you should ask an actual Jewish person before you claim that.”

There are four or five goyim I follow who I’ve seen this from, and it always makes me feel like I am surrounded by people who actually have my back—they’re calling out antisemitism without adding more misinformation to the mix. (And 100%, you use this phrase, a Jew WILL be by shortly to confirm or correct what’s been said.)

chloeniccole:

chloeniccole:

Me starting a business meeting: Hello and goddamn,

raburine:

deco nico nico nii

lgbtlaughs:

tumblr: hey we flagged some of your posts :) just ask us to review them if you think we’re wrong :) no we won’t link you directly to the post we’ve flagged :)

me, who has been running this blog for 9 years: 

nmntkt:

砂塚あきらさん。

sevenmoths:

polishwife:

honoredmatre:

black mirror episode: twitch chat watches you in your real life

me: trips down the stairs

twitch chat:

*kisses my gf*

twitch chat: