i noticed there aren’t any transparent gifs of the minecraft parrots (to my knowledge) so i made my own! (feel free to use without credit- please don’t take credit though!!)
You don’t have to keep giving this company your money, just saying.
Also reminder that they’ve removed the option to delete your account and locked out authenticator after one attempt, saying “Your account had been locked out due to too many attempts.” The only verification left is a ticket with a picture of your government-issued ID.
If pre-ordered Warcraft 3 Reforged, refund it. If you bought CoD, refund it. If you’re subscribed to World of Warcraft, unsubscribe. It’s not just an issue of “Oh they need to comply because China is a big source of income!”, Blizzard and Activision have never, and will never, care about people. It’s in their games, it’s in their writing, it’s in their actions. They don’t care about people and you shouldn’t care about them.
lower-income people tend to be “hoarders” and richer people are able to do more “minimalist” living spaces. if u don’t have much, you will hold onto any little thing that comes across your way. you got a new tv, but you still keep the old tv because you know things can break. you keep extra boxes of macaroni and cheese lying around because there will be a week when you don’t have money for groceries. you hold onto your stacks of books and clothes for dear life. those are your assets. physical evidence of where your money’s gone. it’s hard to get rid of it. the bare wall is terrifying when you don’t have much.
Fuck. This makes so much sense and explains so much about me. I must have inherited this from my mum.
so I’d normally put this in the tags but it’s kind of a lot so just reblog this from OP to skip my commentary. But I dogsit for a family who is clearly LOADED. Their house is immaculate. High, vaulted ceilings, wood flooring, two chandeliers in one room. These things are fancy, right ?? I really don’t know, anything that isn’t tile or 30 year old carpet seems fancy to me. It also so… bare. Everything is organized perfectly, they have no excess. Their decor is extravagant and yet minimal - it is carefully and precisely executed. Nothing that doesn’t match the aesthetic sits in their living room. I tried to replicate some of it, but it’s just not possible. I have every book I’ve ever owned, my mom keeps papers upon papers, VHSs in a dresser, how do you just get rid of these things when you know you may not have the opportunity to buy them again? How must it feel to live in such orderly quarters where everything is replaceable?
This really locked into my brain when I was reading one of the declutter your space things and it suggested getting rid of duplicate highlighters and pens. /Pens/. It suggested that you needed one or two working pens, so if you had extra you should get rid of them. That was when I realized minimalist living was /innately/ tied to having spare money, because the idea was, of course you just went out and bought the single replacement thing whenever the first thing broke. You obv. Had the time and money to only ever hold what you needed that moment, because you could always buy more later.
there’s a nice article titled “minimalism is just another boring product wealthy people can buy” by Chelsea Fagan which i feel addressed lots of my problems with minimalism, you can read it [here]
god today i ID’d an old dude buyin booze and he pulled out a fake ID with an elvis pic, then laughed and pulled out a matching one but with curly from three stooges on it, and im like okay please and he finally pulled out his real license and his legal name was steve sinner
that was the devil
One time I ordered pizza at 1:00am, pizza place closes at 2:00am, didn’t get my pizza until 3:00am, and the man that delivered it was an old-ish man I had never seen before with a really bouncy attitude and salt-and-pepper slicked back hair and goatee, and as he handed me the pizza, he said, “Hi, my name’s Lucifer! Sign right here, please,” and handed me the receipt. Pretty sure he wasn’t lying, he even had a Domino’s nametag with Lucifer on it, and I’ve never seen him since despite regularly ordering pizza late at night
My guilty pleasure is typical angel designs where it looks like a human with bird wings - I love the idea of the “human” part just being a shell/cocoon hiding the REAL angel.
During the 1980s, more gay men died in New York City during the AIDS crisis than all recorded deaths of American soldiers in Vietnam. You need to know that.
448,060 vs 58,220 btw
That’s a goddam order of magnitude
Reality: The AIDS epidemic resulted in far more American deaths than the Vietnam War.
Public school: THE VIETNAM WAR WAS A MASSIVE TRAGEDY (& sometimes the gays get sick and die)
