Going To My First Ever Mcr Concert Tonight, So I Decided To Dress Up Like A Vampire For It.

Learning about edible plants (and eating them) has given me a lot of insight into the problems with the USAmerican food system

It's incredible how a supermarket gives you the sense of being surrounded by immense variety, but it's just the visual noise of advertising. In reality almost everything around you is just corn, wheat, soy, and milk, repackaged and recombined and concealed and re-flavored using additives, over and over and over again.

okay i'm gonna say something and you all have to give me a chance. ready?

we need to stop making fun of poor american southerners who distrust the government. it's real easy to call them all conspiracy theorists and dismiss them, but half the time, its built off of a genuine feeling of being abandoned by the infrastructure meant to keep them safe.

in appalachia, a lot of people lost their homes because of coal mining operations. a lot of people worked in those mines, and then when the mines stopped being profitable, they got tossed out with the bathwater. a lot of appalachia is poor, malnourished, and i don't blame them for not trusting rich politicians who dismiss them as stupid and lower class.

if yall actually listened to half the things poor southerners say, you'd realize that a Lot of common leftist complaints are virtually identical to the rural grandma who doesn't hold with electronic money and politicians. it stems from a genuine feeling of abandonment and ostracization by the people who run the country. functionally, someone living paycheck to paycheck in the city in a tiny apartment has infinitely more in common with someone from rural appalachia than a politician. high rent, high taxes, food insecurity, feeling lied to by those in power, a general sense of frustration. it just sounds fancier coming from a city mouth than one with shitty teeth and a southern accent.

tl;dr stop dismissing southern people as stupid. they're absolutely right not to wholeheartedly trust politicians, because they've been fucked over by them time and time again, and honestly, id rather talk to a southern person who openly distrusts their representatives than someone from the city who wholeheartedly believes that Frederick Jamestown OldMoney III genuinely cares what people think and can be convinced to change his ways.

Splatoon 3 Fan Theory

So in the opening of Splatoon 3, during the customization & tutorial phase, we see the “Eiffel Tower..”

That much is obvious. But I propose a theory. This ISN’T the “Eiffel Tower,” more accurately, it’s not the French one.

Splatoon 3 is located on the same land mass as Splatoon 1, and Splatoon one has been confirmed to have taken place in Japan, specifically Tokyo, given the Turf War hubs resemblance to Tokyo Tower.

This is China. More specifically, it’s Tianducheng, a city in Hangzhou, China . It owns a replica Eiffel Tower, which would put it closer to the Splatoon Main Continent

That’s just my personal pet theory though. Feel free to believe whatever.

Sooooooo

Lemme get this right. We can’t house the homeless population in SF, Oakland, and other cities but we can build “nap shelters” for our poor exhausted eviction enforcers??? Is that right????

Trans Grusha icon for the newest Ice type Gym Leader!

The water ain’t the only thing that’s high in that image.

starting a collection

Since Splatoon is trending, I might as well post my recently finished Fanart!

AI art from the prompt: Teddy Bears shopping for groceries in Ukiyo-e style

I don't know why folk aren't immediately talking about this but. The "professors" aren't named after trees, are split into the game versions theme, and seem to have tie-ins aesthetically to the legendaries. Pretty sure they're the Scarlet/Violet villains unless pokemon is really changing things up