One of the biggest power moves I have here in the midwest when someone is being racist, sexist, homophobic is that I tell them that I’ll pray for them so that god can grace them with empathy, or that “I feel sorry the devil has made his home in your heart” cause you have not felt joy until you’ve flipped the script on a suburban house mom or an old racist white man. The joy of watching their face in shock and confusion while they’re called out in Christian Standards the same way they try to cover for their homophobia is amazing. 100% suggest it, at the very least it gets them to shut the fuck up.
Frankenstein enters into a body building competition and finds he has seriously misunderstood the objective
FOR THE LAST TIME, FRANKENSTEIN WAS THE NAME OF THE DOCTOR
…a doctor who built a body.
For what is possibly the first time in the history of pop culture somebody actually really specifically does mean the doctor… and someone tries to correct them.
Just to be That Person…
Frankenstein wasn’t even a doctor bc he fucking dropped out of college to build a body
anyone who says “the bible is clear” about an issue, is 100% of the time wrong. the bible wasnt clear once. the bible couldnt be clear about how to make a table if it came in an ikea box
Exodus 25:23-30
well ill be darned
the only thing the bible is clear on is how to make furniture but only because jesus was a carpenter
Honestly, if you see an angel that’s all eyes and wings and wheels of fire, you should be worried. Like, not because it’s going to hurt you or anything, but because scripturally, angels invariably appear to ordinary people in human form. In general, they only show their inhuman true forms to prophets – which means if you’re seeing them like that, they come bearing responsibility.
In my former job, which was very well-funded, I had access to a lot of what I jokingly called Stalker Databases, where companies would scrape public records for data, compile it into dossiers on individuals, build networks of connected individuals, and then charge us grand sums of money for access. It was worth it for the work we were doing, but it wasn’t cheap.
My new employer is much smaller and doesn’t actually need a lot of those resources, so understandably we don’t pay for them. But it means that when I do need relational or employment data, I often turn to Facebook. I always think of the line from Person Of Interest where Harold Finch says, “There wasn’t enough data on ordinary people for the AI to digest and make use of. So I invented social media.” It’s amazing how much you can pull off the internet about a millionaire’s family because he has one dumbass nephew whose Facebook is 100% public.
But every once in a while, rather than just scooping up the information I need and moving on, I get sucked into someone’s Facebook, either because of FB Drama right out there on their public front page or because they’re just an interesting person.
People who post frequent public videos of their pets deserve to have a really nice day at least once a week.
We don’t have the stalker databases because uhhh I think it’s not actually legal in this country but yeah.
In our case, what usually happens is we get some sort of mystery ticket payment from someone or something and the events team are like “WELL, this guy was supposed to be paying – oh facebook indicates that this is his brother/husband/whatever. Must be for him!” And then we can put the money in the database and hopefully credit it to the right person and then not hassle them to pay for a ticket they were supposed to be paying for or fulfilling a pledge they made.
Forever conflicted because it’s creepy but WHY WON’T PEOPLE LIKE PUT A NOTE?!?!?! We always joke when one of us is having a tricky time of something like this “oh, didn’t you get the standard crystal ball when you joined the supporter care team?” but…yeah. That’s how it is.
Hozier and Florence Welch are just pseudonyms Hades and Persephone have taken on after haven taken music lessons from Orpheus for a couple thousand years and deciding going into the music industry and gaining “fans” would be a modern equivalent form of the worship that previously sustained them thanks for coming to my ted talk
