"You shouldn't give homeless people money because--"

Have you considered that a human being is asking you for help?

Even if you don't have cash on you, share the time and energy it takes to speak to someone like a person

You might find that there is still something you can do to help that doesn't cost you a dime

a great part of speedrunning documentaries/docuseries on youtube on super niche/old games is the fact that, in most cases, the only people with enough in-depth knowledge to make the video in the first place are the top runners themselves. which results in really funny moments where the narrator is like "but in 2016, a new runner would blow the category wide open with a 3-minute time save... meeee :3 teehee"

another great part is how if you watch enough hour-long deep dives on the speedrun history of King's Quest V, the youtube algorithm concludes you are weapons-grade autistic about PC games and starts recommending you longplay videos with literally 0 views

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You love to see it. (Not the destruction of trees, obvs, but shitheads meeting their oncoming comeuppance at the hands of trees.)

What gets me is that they did this knowing full well they're gonna get fined millions of dollars for this, there's no way they didn't. Their disdain for labor is so high they're willing to spend millions to cause strikers physical pain for no purpose other than cruel self satisfaction.

my brother started calling our cat "doobie brother" which he then lengthened to "dubious brother" and has since morphed into "brother dubious" like he's some sort of fucked up little monk

brother dubious

Infighting only helps our oppressors.

Infighting only helps our oppressors.

Infighting only helps our oppressors.

Infighting only helps our oppressors.

Infighting only helps our oppressors.

You don't have to understand someone completely to respect them and fight for their right to exist.

One thing i have to add because it's a perspective that seems to be missing here:

I am a straight dude from a moderately conservative European 3rd world country. And i find the infighting in the lgbtq community incredibly stupid, for one simple reason. If any of you lived here, you would certainly be discriminated and shunned by most of society, probably disowned, and maybe, if you're especially unlucky, stabbed.

And to me the idea that ace people or bi people aren't "queer enough" is kinda laughable, since it's so obvious that all those people fight the same fight. And in places where it's partially won, and especially in queer echo chambers(which Tumblr honestly is), it's possible to forget that.

[“The poverty debate could do more to recognize the powerful effects of rejection on a person’s self-confidence and stamina. Applying for an apartment or job and being turned down ten, twenty, forty times—it can wear you out. Theories about neighborhood selection or joblessness often assume low-income people are more or less “rational actors” who recognize trade-offs and make clear choices. The reality is that many are “exhausted settlers” who accept poor housing in a disadvantaged neighborhood or a dead-end or illicit job after becoming depleted and disheartened from trying and trying and failing and failing. The shame of rejection not only can pressure people to accept undesirable circumstances today; it can also discourage them from striving for something better tomorrow.”]

matthew desmond, from evicted: poverty and profit in the american city, 2016

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