Bodacious Harridan

@impiousjade

Zaftig GenX atheist feminazgul with no fucks left to give. Of historic interest, here's a link to the US' "Field Guide to Simple Sabotage":

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Bodacious Harridan@impiousjade· Jul 1

I wonder if we could start convincing these hypermacho right-wing authoritarian guys that having sex with women is gay so they should just start fucking each other instead.

A screen shot of a Bluesky post by user Aaron Rupar. Image shows a white male Newsmax host with an overgrown crew cut standing in front of columns and a balustrade in a Neoclassical building in Washington DC. Rupar quotes the host as saying "I'd like to talk about the Supreme Court ruling with transgender. The backdrop today is that President Trump is at the Teddy Roosevelt presidential library. We know how tough Teddy Roosevelt was -- biological man, real man's man."

Bodacious Harridan@impiousjade· Jun 17

And here's the seismograph generated by the event (known as the 'Beast Quake', after Lynch's 'Beast Mode' style of play. Those collections of black ink show intense activity from fan response to Lynch's run. So it isn't just natural events that can generate seismic shaking. Human events can too.

A seismograph generated by three seismometers near Lumen Field in Seattle. Graph consists of a framework of thin gray lateral lines marked at even intervals to show passage of time, with thick black fuzzy lines in between them from the actual real time seismic readings. About a third along the black lines from the left is a section of very black fuzzy readings indicating a period of intense seismic activity

Bodacious Harridan@impiousjade· Jun 10

A bunch of years ago, when the discussion to legalize same-sex marriage in the US was heating up (but well before it became reality nationwide), I put together an infographic on the subject. Here's the infographic.

A chart listing all the rights and benefits of opposite-sex marriage on the left side and the statement "some people just don't get it" on the right for same-sex marriage. Chart was created in 2004 and intended to demonstrate why obtaining marriage rights was and is so important to same-sex couples

Bodacious Harridan@impiousjade· May 4

A meme in two parts, top and bottom. in the top half is an image of Sir Alec Guinness as Obi-Wan Kenobi wearing his brown Jedi robes. His caption reads 'May the 4th be with you'. In the bottom half is an image of Ewan MacGregor in a screen shot from another movie in which he played a priest; he is wearing a Catholic priest's alb and collar and stands in front of a gilded church altar or screen. His caption reads "and also with you"

Bodacious Harridan@impiousjade· Apr 22

If that's hard to grasp, here's an illustration. It's from a French periodical of the time. I don't know the author or paper credit, so if someone does please let me know.

A French black-and-white pen-and-ink cartoon from the early 20th century showing a robust, strong man representing the Roman war god Mars kicking a globe representing Earth towards a weak, skeletal man representing the flu. Caption reads in French "el futbol tragic" and "entre la gripia la guerra... com l'han deixat, pobre terra!" English translations are "the tragic (game of) football" and "between the flu and the war... how they have left it, poor land!""

Bodacious Harridan@impiousjade· Apr 22

Right, sooooo the 1918 Influenza Epidemic likely began in an overcrowded UK military staging camp in France in 1916. There's good evidence that the virus responsible for the pandemic had actually been around for some years, it just didn't reach critical mass until 1918.

A screen shot from the New York Times with a picture of US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth standing at a podium addressing people with a US flag behind him. Headline reads "The Pentagon will stop requiring members of the military to get flu vaccines". Image credit Pete Marovich for the New York Times

Bodacious Harridan@impiousjade· Apr 15

Good lord, JD Vance is SUCH a fucking embarrassment. Who in their right mind thinks they can lecture *the POPE* on Catholic theology? Headline from the NYT today.

Headline from the New York Times reads: "Vance Says the Pope Should Be More Careful When Talking About Theology
The vice president, who is Catholic, took issue with Pope Leo XIV’s statement that disciples of Christ are “never on the side of those who once wielded the sword and today drop bombs.”

Bodacious Harridan@impiousjade· Apr 1

Here's the crew of Apollo 11 when they did their walkout. (Photo credit: the Associated Press). Neil Armstrong is in the lead, waving; behind him is Michael Collins, & Buzz Aldrin in the rear.

the crew of NASA's Apollo 11 mission walk down a ramp out of a set of gray double doors. They are wearing white space suits with clear helmets. Various personnel surround them. The door of a transport van can be seen on the right

Bodacious Harridan@impiousjade· Mar 7

Hot damn, Nancy Mace is a royal C U Next Tuesday. Jesus.

a man representing Jesus Christ leans into frame from the left towards the caption "I had nothing to do with this"

Bodacious Harridan@impiousjade· Feb 23

Is this real? I really want this to be real. Can someone in London (or elsewhere in the UK) confirm this is real? 🤣🤣🤣

An NHS poster allegedly posted on the side of a bus shelter in London entitled "Know Your Parasites" includes three boxes, one with ticks, one with worms, and one with billionaires

Bodacious Harridan@impiousjade· Feb 18

Joined my union today.

Vintage pro union poster shows a crowd of women in Edwardian clothing carrying signs with pro labor slogans

Bodacious Harridan@impiousjade· Jan 28

I found this image floating around in my files. Might be of interest. Y'know, as a historical thing. For folks interested in political history.

Infographic from the Hong Kong protests of 2019. A Chinese person stands in the middle of the image. They are dressed mainly in black, with yellow heat-resistant gloves, a yellow hard hat, shatter-resistant goggles, a gas mask respirator, elbow and knee pads, a backpack, and a face covering. The chart lists all these items as things Chinese protesters wore during the protests, along with carrying loose change for subway fare (to avoid being tracked by electronic passes), an umbrella to defend against pepper spray, and a back pack to carry everything. Image source is Sasa Petricic from the CBC.

Bodacious Harridan@impiousjade· Jan 28

Are... are those his real ears?

Marco Rubio sits behind a table in a chamber of the US Congress building with a number of other people sitting behind him. His ears look like Vulcan ears

Bodacious Harridan@impiousjade· Jan 27

Sooo today this pulled into one of the ports near my hometown. It's a bunch of shipping containers arranged to spell the word "Renee".

A stack of shipping containers on a cargo ship are stacked to read the name "Renee" using different-colored containers

Bodacious Harridan@impiousjade· Jan 26

Sent to me by BFF today. Tickled my nerd bone, sure; but the meat is in the comments underneath: you can't "go about your business" when there's a need to protest, because NPCs aren't heroes.

Image describes protesting roles in terms of DnD classes such as tank, warrior, rogue, and bard. Below someone asks why there is no option for those who chose to go about their business on the farm & stay out of the war. Someone else responds "because NPCs aren't heroes"

Bodacious Harridan@impiousjade· Dec 2

Gillam, B. (1883). Protectors of our Industries (The Puck, Ed.) [Review of Protectors of our Industries]. courses.bowdoin.edu/history-2203... A political cartoon published in 1883. The more things change, the more they stay the same.

A late 19th-century pen-and-ink and watercolor political cartoon entitled "the protectors of our industries". illustration shows four men in top hats and suits sitting on top bags of money labeled "millions". they are surrounded by an ocean labeled "hard times" with a circular levy around them made out of different types of work industries shouldered on the backs of workers.

Bodacious Harridan@impiousjade· Nov 23

There's a lady who's sure All that glitters is gold And she's buying a stairway to Heaven When she gets there, she knows If the stores are all closed With a word, she can get what she came for Oo-oo-ooooh, ooooooh oo-oohoo, And she's buying a stairway to Heaven

Bodacious Harridan@impiousjade· Nov 20

I'd really love to be able to say that widespread misogyny is "not all men", but yeah fuck that, it might as well be. See the attached graphic for how it really is.

Diagram of how men think a gendered social environment is vs. how it really is. Men's POV is a bar on the top, mostly white labeled "good men" with one end bright red labeled "crazed evil men". Below that is a gradient ranging from white to the same red, with points along the gradient labeled as follows (from left to right, white to red): Heroic men who will intervene; well-meaning men who underestimate the issue; men who think predation is an unfortunate fact of life; men who think certain women deserve it (but aren't active predators); men who passively enjoy/consume/encourage predation; textbook predators we're all aware of; monsters so cruel we can't even fathom

Bodacious Harridan@impiousjade· Oct 30

Gary Larson captured this phenomenon back in the 1980s with this cartoon. I've used "my brain is full" ever since, whenever I've reached a mental limit of what I can focus on & my brain is just DONE.

A black and white cartoon by Gary Larson from his series "The Far Side". In a classroom full of students, one student raises his hand and asks the teacher, "Mr. Osborne, may I be excused? My brain is full."

Bodacious Harridan@impiousjade· Oct 21

I mean, it's not like they give a shit about beauty, history, the value of symbolic institutions, or letting trivial little things like *the Law* get in their way. They just do whatever the fuck they want, & nobody stops them. Permits? They don't need no stinking *permits*.

Bodacious Harridan@impiousjade· Oct 21

Surprise, surprise: I've been poking around in said database looking for a permit for the demo of the WH East Wing, to no avail. Here's a screenshot. The last batch of permitting paperwork appearing in the database is from Sept. 2024, for the building of media platforms for the POTUS inauguration.

Bodacious Harridan@impiousjade· Oct 20

I don't even know who this dude is (since I'm not up on my anime these days) but I'm digging his energy.

Bodacious Harridan@impiousjade· Oct 18

This is a statue of the explorer, William Clark (of Lewis & Clark fame). It stands near the beach in Long Beach, WA. Clark apparently made it all the way to what is now Long Beach. When he got there, he saw a big old dead sturgeon on the beach and was apparently really impressed. Hence the statue.

A bronze statue of Explorer William Clark standing next to a bronze statue of a large Pacific sturgeon in sand dunes near the Pacific Ocean

Bodacious Harridan@impiousjade· Oct 14

That owl looks like he's seen some shit. These two always crack me up:

A man carries a mussel shell with two people hidden in it. Their feet and legs stick out. There are three stylized pearls in the mussel. Image from the Garden of Earthly Delights by Hieronymous Bosch

Bodacious Harridan@impiousjade· Oct 14

I absolutely love it; the whole thing is full of absurdity. It always makes me wonder what the hell the inside of Bosch's mind was like, because holy shit it took some kind of wild imagination to come up with some of the imagery in it. I mean, just look at this weirdness right here:

A cropped image from The Garden of Earthly Delights by Hieronymous Bosch. Image shows a small brown owl standing on top of a stylized pink fruit with two people stuck inside of it with their arms and legs sticking out. They appear to be dancing and are carrying several red cherries and have a green vine with blue flowers winding around them

Bodacious Harridan@impiousjade· Oct 7

Here's a picture of protestors shielding themselves from tear gas canisters using umbrellas. (Photo credit Dale De La Ray, AFP, 2019.) This wouldn't work for situations where an LEO gets right up in your face with mace or pepper spray, unfortunately. But for other crowd control tactics, it helps.

A young Asian person in a yellow hard hat looks out from a clear umbrella in a cluster of open umbrellas

Bodacious Harridan@impiousjade· Oct 7

Here it is. Every item protestors wore or carried had a purpose: keeping them as safe as possible, so they could keep protesting as long as possible. (I don't know who made this graphic but if anybody does, LMK.)

A picture of a young Asian person wearing protest gear, including yellow hard hat, goggles, face covering, gas mask, backpack, black t-shirt, elbow and knee pads, loose change for subway fare, umbrella, and heat resistant gloves

Bodacious Harridan@impiousjade· Aug 12

This is how my dog is behaving today.

A small Baroque-style pet bed with a gold frame and headboard and pink velvet cushions

Bodacious Harridan@impiousjade· Aug 12

HOLY SHIT but dat ass tho'. This guy is never gonna be able to do stakeout or tailing work with them cheeks clappin'.

A close up of a man's very round butt in gray pants

Bodacious Harridan@impiousjade· Jul 22

Ok I gotta be honest, Talos the giant bronze guy always freaked me the hell out. The moment when he first moves his head is like - oh FUCK no. YEAH HERCULES YOU REALLY FUCKED IT UP NOW