Author: theluminouscosmos

hestmord:

astrophobe:

aresnakesreal:

i hate monopoly it is like some old white guy was sitting around and then thought to himself, what if we could make capitalism fun? well you tried and you failed dipshit

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_board_game_Monopoly it was actually created by a Georgist to illustrate the principle that rent makes landlords richer and tenants poorer. She designed it to be incredibly not fun, to show that if you don’t own property you experience an inevitable foreseeable slow dwindling of your resources until you eventually go bankrupt. She figured that through Monopoly people would be so bored and frustrated that they would understand how terrible the system of rent is

Then Parker Brothers patented it, mass-produced it, people bought it because people have terrible taste in games, and the original creator experienced an inevitable foreseeable slow dwindling of her resources until she died impoverished and obscure

society is a horrific parody of itself

squeeful:

appearinghatless:

professorsparklepants:

roachpatrol:

redjeep:

retrogasm:

When they realized women were using their sacks to make clothes for their children, flour mills started using flowered fabric for their sacks. The label was designed to wash out.

1939 Kansas Wheat…

holy fuck that’s the cutest marketing scheme i’ve ever heard of 

‘buy our flour it’s going to make the nicest bread and the sweetest dress!’ 

yes thank you ok sold

There was also a chicken feed company that did this. My great-grandmother used to recycle the chicken feed bags to make dresses for my grandmother. That was also a pretty common practice; you can read about it in the Kit series of the American Girl books.

Okay but think about being a little girl wearing flour-sack dresses because your family can’t afford dress fabrics, and you’re always embarrassed because everyone else knows. And then one day you get to saunter into school showing off your cute little flowery dress. Because a company decided to add something to its product for a reason other than just making money for itself. Isn’t that great?

They made pretty nice clothes, too, as flour sack fabric has to be fine and tightly woven to prevent the flour from working its way through.

When WWII hit, it amped up and it wasn’t just children wearing them.  Apparel fabrics were rationed, but flour sack fabric wasn’t.  Flour companies started competing to see who can make the prettiest, most appealing flour sack flower print.  If you look at some 40s war-era patterns, they have interesting seam lines designed to utilize the narrower fabric widths of sacks instead of bolt yardage.

Help for HRT

benjiscloset:

jesstheloveabletrans:

Hello I recently was fired from my job because I live in a state where there is no gender identity discrimination laws and I reported to my manager that i received death threats from another employee and i was the one fired.  I ask for those of you who will please donate to my gofundme so that i can start HRT, i would really hate to have to try other means to get the Hormones i need but i am desperate after all this went down my Dysphoria has hit really bad and the next step is illegal means.  So please,please, share this link. http://www.gofundme.com/wv4hm3u

I got a message to reblog this, with the following statement, please support this lovely person by reblogging and donating. I’ve deleted some info for privacy reasons.

Could you please reblog this? With no one reblogging or donating she has already given up and will delete the go fund me soon. Please please please help us spread this around. She received death threats from an employee at her former job which she got fired from for bringing the serious situation up to her manager. I am our only source of income and with 13 hours a week and no help from anything or anyone I can’t even pay our bills let alone begin to help her transition. We may be homeless soon because I’m 2 months behind on rent. We aren’t asking for help surviving we just need help with hrt.