The Mirandas lobbied HARD in Puerto Rico for adoption of a shitty U.S. oversight board for the national budget (La Junta) as well as convincing Monsanto to buy up private farmland in the wake of Hurricane Maria ie they helped sell Puerto Rico by piecemeal to the U.S. in the name of "helping Puerto Ricans"
It really pisses me off watching white liberals talk about Puerto Rico as "Lost potential democrat votes" and not thinking about the people who fuckin live there. Puerto Rico doesn't need fucking statehood! It needs liberation! Go to hell!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hey so you guys know "alternative" is literally a marketing demographic developed for commercial radio, right? So many people use that phrase as though it's a real thing with any kind of actual cultural legacy that I want to be sure you all know it's meaningless. It has no ethos or human history. It's a marketing demographic reforged into an identity to be sold to you so you can buy some semblance of gratification through consumption. It's a word that sounds edgy to make people feel punk-rock-adjacent without needing to actually be involved in any kind of subversion at all. You are being sold the fantasy of rebellion as a discrete packaged unit, and it's only "alternative" in the way a waitress asks "is Pepsi okay?" You really should develop an identity based on what you do instead of what you consume.
someone working on this comic is really good at tarot. i normally read the 5 of swords as a repetition, being caught in a toxic cycle because of your beliefs. but traditionally this guy is only holding 3 swords.
the fact that it's 4 changes the meaning of the card.
all the cards are connected and tell a story. simplifying it way down, the 3 of swords is about betrayal, the 4 of swords is about isolation, and the 5 of swords is like getting your lick back after the betrayal. but it never goes how you expect it to. because the two swords left behind are your intuition and good sense. and then you start the cycle over until you learn the lesson.
the guy on the card holding 4 swords emphasizes the self-betrayal that's happening. because the 4 of swords is about being alone. the one sword on the ground is a new idea or way of doing things, but he'd rather be alone. anyway (from speed force 2023 #5)
When public services are affordable and convenient, people will always choose those resources. They are not supposed to be a capitalistic profit-seeking initiative, they are developed for the benefit of the people, for a better life, just as government resources should be used. (tweet)
there's an app called "No Thanks" that scans barcodes and tells you whether a company supports israel or not if anyone is interested! it should be available on most app stores!
Haruhi fujioka really is the character ever. Going by any pronouns in 2006. Big beautiful brown eyes like a baby cow. Constant deadpan delivery. Getting bitches constantly. Reacts to romantic advances with a thousand-yard goldfish stare. Perfect flawless protagonist 10/10
I finally get to post this because they got it! This was a gift for a friend who likes Columbo.
Shoutout and thanks to @kidkinobi on Pixilart for the picture of Columbo I transcribed square by square into a cross stitch pattern by eyeballing the colors. They had no socials I could tag.
i watched one (1) video on how to draw hands that changed my life forever. like. i can suddenly draw hands again
these were all drawn without reference btw. i can just. Understand Hands now (for the most part, im sure theres definitely inaccuracies). im a little baffled