Somehow, I'm still cringe.

geeses:

reblog to diminish the horrors from the person you reblogged from

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felagund-fiollaigean:

manifesting the scene where logen realizes the named men are alive (and vice versa) for btah

brendanicus asked:

Tell us about the wellness to fash pipeline tho

cryptotheism:

Here’s a recent piece from the guardian on wellness communities and Qanon, so don’t take my word for it.

“Wellness” is not just alternative medicine, it is essentially a theory of the body which posits if something makes you feel better, you are better in some meaningful way. I would argue it one of the most commonly held nonreligious magical beliefs in the modern world.

Wellness as a concept has its genesis in the 1950s with “workplace wellness” programs, a sort of budget alternative to offering employee healthcare benefits. This was an era soaked in itinerant business preachers offering classes on things like “hypnosis at a management level” and “yoga to improve leadership abilities”. I am exaggerating for effect, but not by much.

The capitalist medical system regularly abandons people. We’ve all heard stories of profit driven pharmaceudical companies holding the ill hostage for extreme markup on life-saving medicines. People have real, legitimate, reasons to mistrust medical professionals.

Let’s say you have chronic pain, and everything your doctor offers you is either ineffective, expensive, or addictive. You are desperate for literally any release, so you start looking into other solutions. You will find an OCEAN of snake-oil salesmen willing to sell you “the secrets doctors don’t want you to know.”

What is frustrating, is that pain is actually partially psychological. Some wellness techniques may have an actual, medical, benefit on some patients. The worst thing a conspiracy theorist can have is a point. So now you actually do kinda feel better, and you have a sense of loyalty to the grifter selling you 300$ Sumerian Cock Oil Pills. These people are the core of the wellness industry. They are the examples that everyone else points to and says “Well it worked for them!”

Reactionary thought blooms in environments like this. If the medical industry can’t be trusted, what else can’t be trusted? At any given time, you are two clicks away from “vaccines cause autism.” Three clicks away from “Cavemen were 15 feet tall because they only ate meat.” And four clicks away from “The medical industry is controlled by The Jews to drain our wallets and keep us sick.” Echoes of Nazi attitudes towards German-Jewish doctors are a common backbeat.

Wellness itself is relatively harmless, (compared to the things it is adjacent to) but it acts as a sort of idealogical airport that exposes the curious to a deluge of potentially radicalizing communities. The longer you spend in communities like this, the higher the chance you’ll come across something that meshes perfectly with your own biases.

If y'all wanna learn more about wellness and pseudomedicine grifters, I highly recommend the podcast Maintenance Phase.

dubiousdisco:

the kiss pics of goncharov from the uncensored brazilian screening

there was also briefly a musical, they kept the kiss

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citrusmillie:

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glittergothgirlie:

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doodlin-moons:

this is the stupidest thing i’ve ever made

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jikkybytt:

unhonestlymirror:

When I was a child, my mom taught me how to speak russian correctly, to the tiniest details. I remember how she laughed, “No, "Japoniya” is a Belarus way. You have to say “Jiponiya”. I remember how I was confused because why can’t I say “in a Belarus way”? Why do I have to say in russian, while living in Ukraine?

My mother’s language was taken from me because of Great Russia. Accent even. Because “Great Russians” made her leave her land, took her home away, and promised to kill her whole family. My mom had to start a completely new life without being able to see her family in DECADES. My mom already forgot her own language. Teaching me russian, my mom hopelessly believed it would save me from Great Russia. It didn’t.

My father didn’t even have the chance to teach me Ukrainian because he worked on multiple jobs. I couldn’t see him in years.

And despite my family being extremely loving and supportive, my siblings and I didn’t avoid domestic violence. That’s what happens when your parents are genocide victims. Because of Great Russia.

And now Great Russia invaded my homeland, kills and rapes people, erases cities, erases whole families, and makes hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians become the same as my own parents.

Great Russia destroyed my whole fucking life from the very beginning. Great Russia made my family like this. My hatred to Great Russia is limitless. Till my own death, I wish Great Russia to Burn In Hell For Eternity.

Didn’t get the Япония part. In russian it’s Япония, which Is Yaponia, not Yiponia

In russian, it’s written so, but is pronounced as “Yiponiya.” In Belarus, they pronounce the same way they write by opening mouth widely (like Ukrainians). You may not hear the difference, but it exists.

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yellenabelova:

Finally some good fucking food

It’s currently available for a limited number of titles, but will become available on more later this year.

Heartbreaking: the worst streaming service you know did a very cool thing

It’s nothing new - DVD players used to have an audio setting called night mode, i.e. if there was a movie with lots of sfx it would boost the dialogue but not the sfx and you could turn your volume low and still hear it. It’s about time streaming services caught back on. What’s weird to me is that this is now only available for specific titles instead of just an audio setting you can turn on the app itself to apply to literally any title. The technology has been around for decades. Maybe individual shows are getting specific sound mixing adjustments but still don’t let Amazon fool you into thinking they invented this concept.

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storybookprincess:

put your number (0-20) in the tags!!!!!! i think i got 14!!

anyone who comments that finding ways to enjoy the brief time we have on this bitch of an earth is cringey will be blocked ^_^ <3

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