In An Editorial Published In The Pittsburgh Courier On September 30, 1967, Baseball Legend Jackie Robinson

Okay, you need to make sure you play this game at some point. Maybe not today or anything, because you’ll need about thirty minutes and a serious willingness to understand how it works, but - it’s so worth it. It’s basically an answer to our occasional frustration - why do assholes always come out on top? - and the beautiful thing about it is that not only does it explain how that happens, but also how we can change it.

“In the short run, the game defines the players. But in the long run, it’s us players who define the game.”

Bokoblins posting on Tumblr dot com

throwing rocks at someone is such and underutilized attack

Such amounts of tumblr liberalism are unheard of in a single post

we got:

fandom url

moralizing violence

fandom screenshot set to make a point, added points for sarcasm and double that for being the good place

"leftists", "progressive"

giving a speech

hand-wringing about revolution, treating it as an impossible thing that has never happened and will never happen

utilitarian-like numbers game, toddler level understanding of how change happens under liberal democracies

surely voting will work this time, we just need to keep voting

we live in a democracy

usamerican

Thinking about how wild it is that enshittification starts as a way for the rich to squeeze the populace for more money but ends up infecting everything so even luxury products decline in quality. They’ve got more money than fucking God now and for what? Literally they can’t even buy fun nice stuff for themselves because they killed craft.

Anyway this post is about Dhaka muslin but it’s also about everything.

bbc.com

The ancient fabric that no one knows how to make

Nearly 200 years ago, Dhaka muslin was the most valuable fabric on the planet. Then it was lost altogether. How did this happen? And can we

Pensions sound so fake as a zillennial. You work for one place for decades (already sounds fake) and then afterwards you leave and they just. keep paying you. the same amount of money. to do nothing. for the rest of your life. if i wasn't already aware that this was something that readily and commonly existed during my grandparent's days then it would sound like some kind of socialist pipe dream

Jacek Yerka, Eruption 

www.artsytoad.tumblr.com

“Thirty Plates Illustrative of Natural Phenomena, Etc. with a short description annexed to each plate” (1849). Coloured wood engravings by J. W. Whymper (Whimper).

@quicherat

Illustration of the Works of Mercy, from Sarah Fuller, LA Catholic Worker. 

Keith Haring for Sesame Street