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A “Buy Canadian” promotion from the Canadian Advertising Association in Toronto in 1958.

[Maw @TheEbonyMaw]

The implication videos like these always make is that if she was single & living on her own, she still wouldn’t clean up her own house, because that’s what maids do.

So she’s an irresponsible slob, & trying to dress it up as being a girlboss.

[Khyle. @khyleri]

Yuri things..

[Old Canada Series @oldcanadaseries]

212 years ago today - this is what happened to the White House.

[Lies of P @Liesofp]

A collector's piece worthy of any puppet.

Celebrate Lies of P: Complete Edition with our Lies of P ensemble poster, printed on high-quality gloss cover stock and designed to commemorate the reimagined dark fairy tale, where the line between puppet and human was never simple to find.

🎭 Get yours here: https://t.co/1MXJi0MrxC

[Useless Elf ✨Comms are open✨ @Useless_Elf]

If you see my art before - now you know the artist ✨

My name is Useless Elf ✨

[Leon Critiques @LeonCritiques]

“But think of the investors!” as though investor involvement in gaming hasn’t been a massive detriment for the entire industry

[Prideslayer @PrideslayerMMA]

everyone wishes they were @Odablock

[ɖʀʊӄքǟ ӄʊռʟɛʏ 🇧🇹🇹🇩 @kunley_drukpa]

No reason any country that has Anime Conventions can’t be ‘Basically Fine’. Latin American countries, most of which have Anime Conventions, won’t be cultural or economic powerhouses but CAN all be mostly crime free middle-income ‘Indonesia-tier’ countries with nice shopping malls

[Prideslayer @PrideslayerMMA]

Chaotic Longsword

[Nomos Events🌳 @NomosEvents]

Charlie Kirk is the Kurt Cobain of Neocon Grifting.

He was an American Neocon. A very basic GOP talking head. Turning Point is your enemy as his legacy has shown: nothing but centre right ziogrift & skin tight mourning pants.

Getting upset at Charlie Kirk jokes is WHY you lose.

[Spirit @SpiritDraws_S]

Finally fighting alongside the SEAF in full force in the void operation was so special! And I definitely never got a single one killed! I swear, officer. (Art by me, 2025).

[Possum Reviews @ReviewsPossum]

People were probably more normal in the past, at least in the sense that every stupid belief and fetish wasn't normalized by the internet and people kept them to themselves.

[𝓔𝓶 ♡ @emkenobi]

Despite being the literal face of the company she was paid extremely little for this and has never received any residuals or royalties. Columbia continues to use her face for their logo yet refuses to pay her.

[ɖʀʊӄքǟ ӄʊռʟɛʏ 🇧🇹🇹🇩 @kunley_drukpa]

Lee Kuan Yew on Immigration and Declining Birth Rates

Singapore has just announced two major new policies specifically to ‘combat population decline’ - increased payments for new families with children and slightly increased naturalisation of ‘ethnically comparable’ migrants.

On this problem of population decline, speaking in 2013, Lee Kuan Yew said:

“I cannot solve the problem and I have given up. I have given up the job to another generation of leaders. Hopefully, they or their successors will eventually find a way out.”

Lee very explicitly entertained these two policy proposals before, though he did not think they were actual solutions.

ON IMMIGRATION (of even ethnically similar migrants)

“Singaporeans have strong reservations about admitting immigrants, but we arrive at this option almost by process of elimination.

It is natural for us to feel uncomfortable with those who look, sound or behave differently from us. I like to see familiar faces. But are we reproducing ourselves?

Do we face up to reality and accept that some immigrants are necessary, or do we simply allow Singapore to shrink, age and lose vitality?

There are three limits to the immigration approach.

First, they have to come at a pace that is politically digestible or there will be a significant backlash from the population, which would be counterproductive.

Second, even if Singaporeans were to eventually increase their threshold of tolerance, there is still a level beyond which more immigration would be undesirable.

If the number is large enough, they may even be able to force changes onto the local culture. To be fair, some of these changes may be positive ones. But if we allow ourselves to reach that point, then we would have no control over which parts of the immigrant culture we want to incorporate.

For instance, new immigrants may come from a country which is more mono-ethnic and be unused to living with others from different races. The social attitudes they come with may, unconsciously, not fit in well with the social norms and practices in Singapore, and may lead to friction. We need to guard against such attitudes, which may inappropriately encroach on our way of life.

Finally, empirical evidence tells us that immigrants do not boost our fertility rates because they have as few children as Singaporeans do.

They replace the young adults that we are short of, but do not have enough children to replace themselves. Each generation of immigrants, therefore, represents not a permanent fix to the underlying problem, but temporary relief. A never-ending stream of immigrants is required.”

ON PAYING PEOPLE TO HAVE CHILDREN

“If I were in charge of Singapore today, I would introduce a baby bonus equal to two years' worth of the average Singaporean's salary.

The sum would be enough to see the child through to the start of primary school at least. Would I expect the number of babies to increase substantially? No.

I am convinced that even super-size monetary inducements would only have a marginal effect on fertility rates. But I would still go ahead and offer the bonus, for at least a year, just to prove beyond any doubt that our low birth rates have nothing to do with economic or financial factors, such as high cost of living or lack of government help for parents.

They are instead the result of changed lifestyles and mindsets.

…

Once women are educated and have equal job opportunities, they no longer see their primary role as bearing children or taking care of the household. They want to be able to pursue their careers fully just as men have always been able to.

They have very different expectations about whether or whom they should marry because they are financially independent.

There is no turning back the clock, unless we want to stop educating women.”

[Western Yokai 西洋妖怪 @WesternYokai666]

Tem um artigo muito bom no TV Tropes chamado "Seinfeld is unfunny" que explica isso.

Hoje em dia tem tanto jogo com ideias derivativas formando o gosto das pessoas que quando elas finalmente vao testar os classicos, elas simplesmente nao entendem o que tem de especial ali.

[Knight's Path @Knights_Path]

@FT Because knights are cool. It’s that simple. Nothing political about it.

[Possum Reviews @ReviewsPossum]

A knight is the embodiment of masculine strength and honor, represents fighting for what you believe in, is unique to Western culture, on top of the striking visual of a man clad head-to-toe in metal for up-close-and-personal combat.

It represents a long-lost romantic ideal.

[Wokal Distance @wokal_distance]

They want to borrow the moral credibility that comes with resistance to state censorship, so they pretend that parents thinking "Gender Queer is not an appropriate book for 4th graders," is the same as the Soviet Union making it illegal to print copies of "1984" by George Orwell.

[Harrison Faulkner @Harry__Faulkner]

NEW: Ontario Premier Doug Ford threatens to cut off critical minerals to the United States.

"I’ll cut them off. You won’t get a grain of sand out of Ontario."

"He wants to bleed out every single sector and bring them down to the U.S."

Source: Associated Press