Time to purge my phone of memes. This one is my favorite, but I'm setting it free. Time for someone else to watch over it for a while  

#StarTrek #DS9 #DeepSpace9

Bodily autonomy for all
By any means necessary
Manly men fight #fascism
Technically not a meme, just a thing of beauty. Remember 2020? I know our elites do. #ACAB
Confidence is ALL you need
The Reagan series
Story of my life

#ACAB includes the label police. If you've never encountered the label police, you lucky duck, I've included an example.

#queer #LGBTQIA+

Oh, misandry-mermaid. We had no idea how scary it would be.

(Yes, this was me, no I didn't coin it.)

Meet the new subcontractor
DEEP down
There are so many feminisms but liberal feminism is among the worst
Oil pipelines are often symbolized as black snakes FYI
#KeepItInTheGround #NoMoreOil #FossilFuels #DownWithPipelines
Cats make everything better
SMASH! (Maybe the antifascist bodybuilders upthread will lend us a mallet)
Bad wolf
Good wolf
Young wolf

Never talk to cops

Art by @nobonzo

Look, he's having fun, ok?
Warning: earworm incoming
Star Trek double header
#StarTrek #StarTrekMeme
Meme from my dad:
Meme from my mom (my dad's are better, generally)
All horses have names, you just have to ask
We live in a society
It's 2024 and you're still saying "spirit animal"? Embarrassing!

Butlerian jihad, anyone?

#AI #LLM #NightmareOnLLMStreet

I love that thanks to the They Can Talk cartoon, geese have become the internet mascot for appropriate skepticism towards the plausible deniability of strategically ambiguous statements
New meme from my mom
#feministAF
omg I found this! It's one of my favorite comics, but it never got super popular, so it was hard to find. I ~think~ it's less topical now, but that may just be because I don't encounter guys who do Thing much anymore.

Ah, the classics

#feminism

NO GODS

NO MASTERS

LOTSA HONKING

You're not a capitalist. You're just a bootlicker.

#Capitalism

TYVM to Jack Mendo in replies for the anime ID!

This one's from my sister

#MemesFromMyFamily

New meme from my dad, who's laid up recovering from surgery right now
Pops also sent this. I looked up the ASL alphabet so you don't have to

These are a few of my favorite memes, holiday edition:

The Wreath of Khan

"Khan" just puns with so many things
#HappyHannukkah

Fresh authentic dad joke memes just in

#ScienceJokes

Now that my parents are retired, he and my mom do the folk music circuit with their prius. They afford it by volunteering, either as medical first responders or janitorial/maintenance, so they get in for free.
#MusicJokes #DadJokes

Time for some new (to me, and maybe to you too) memes! Mostly not from my parents.

#trees (it works both ways!)

Guide to lesbian flags. Tag yourself, I'm "nananana"
ooh sushi my favorite
@SallyStrange Yay! I am ready for some new memes!
@ClimateJenny it's a holiday meme-icle! (don't try to make that make sense)
@SallyStrange What about the Shamash for Spock?
@flyingsaceur Well, I found a couple things. This silly cartoon, and a rather sweet story about Amanda teaching young Spock about Hanukkah: https://archiveofourown.org/works/151063
Shamash - igrockspock - Star Trek (2009) [Archive of Our Own]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

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🎶 You don't need "Deck The Halls" or "Jingle Bell Rock"
'Cause you can spin a dreidel with Captain Kirk and Mr. Spock, both Jewish
@SallyStrange There it is! I remember you posting this last year. Thank you for continuing this seasonal tradition.
@SallyStrange so different to BSL, had me confused
@SallyStrange I will have to get this.

@SallyStrange I'm gratified I can still remember the fingerspelling I learned in middle school, though I never got any farther with ASL.

I'm going to have to ask my mom how to actually say the obscenity in ASL, though I'm a little afraid of what it might look like 😬 (ftr, no one in or close to my family is d/Deaf, my 87 y/o mom just loves learning languages and expanding the world of people she can talk with)

@callisto Aw that's nice! My dad learned some ASL while working with disabled residents of a state home for adults, back when I was little. He taught us a few words too, but I never learned the entire alphabet
@SallyStrange I know zero ASL, but I still guessed what it said before I even looked at the alt text. A sad but true indicator of my current state of mind.
@SallyStrange @Tamami Here’s another way to say it.

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I totally agree
Being capitalist means owning means of production.
And I get the fact that this is about people who do not own any means of production and yet adhere to the ideology and the whole situation.

What's following isn't necessarily on the spot. I'm 100% sure you don't need being reminded all non capitalists don't hold the same position in social hierarchies. I guess I'm just reformulating stuff I've read...

All this being said I feel like this makes too big of a group for "non capitalists".
Take for example managers or marketing agents, doctors or university teachers. In French we'd call these "Cadres" I think it's more or less "executives" in English. They don't necessarily own means of productions (stocks or whatever) but they do have a (short term self-centered) direct interest in capitalism and for most of them they very much enforce it. One way of understanding this is to see that they are paid way more than the actual value they create. So where does the extra value come from ? In part from other workers who are paid minimum wage (just enough to be in good enough health to keep working), underpaid or worse, in other part from all kinds of wealth transfers (not taxed much) and in other other part (however you make lists in english haha) from exploited beings whom we deem valueless (athough value generating human work is necessary to extract them) : mainly other animals, plants, and nature (include whoever dominant people want to exploit freely).
Now when you think of it, people that are paid above their actual contribution to value production and therefore have an interest in the exploitation of a whole bunch of other beings is larger than : only capitalists, or only executives. The middle class is there as well. And the middle class also has a set of cultural references and norms, ideological traits etc. of its own. In France this means sending one's child to one school rather than the other, like or disliking this or that etc. All of these values, cultural traits etc. are also exclusionary towards lower class people. A good example of this are teachers below university level. They don't have a salary as high as those of university people yet higher than minimum wage. And structurally they very much play a role in orienting (which includes exclusion) differently children on a class basis.
(Of course this train of thought also applies to other oppressed groups).
I guess I'm saying this because in France a large part of vocal leftists are middle class and above (mainly above granted) are like "we the people" when they actually represent a very narrow segment of non direct capitalist members of society. Which again I'm not saying your post is an example of !

@SallyStrange the anime´s name is FLCL/Fooly Cooly/Furi Kuri

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Dang, that one good looking bike... 🚴🏽‍♀️🚴🏻🚴🏻‍♂️

@SallyStrange awww, like this except on a Tshirt?
@SallyStrange the best part of this is that most likely his mom would have had no issues with the word spelled out, but the abbreviation confused her.
@SallyStrange @sashag This made me laugh out loud with joy

@purplepadma @SallyStrange @sashag I am old. This made me duckduckgo AF.

Then it made me laugh out loud with joy 🤣

@SallyStrange Hee hee. This post makes up for daylight saving. Ok, almost, but! 😅
@SallyStrange Sally, thanks for sharing these!!! They are awesome!!!
PS: Your parents seem really cool.
@veirling They're great. I feel lucky to be spending so much time with them these days.
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Society is what nature invents when it cant get a data capture via a black hole, for universal time loops.
@SallyStrange sometimes psychology is kind of like a religion
@SallyStrange well fuck if that ain't it
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They should clearly go see their doctor to find out if Xanax is right for them.
@eniko