“kill them with kindness” WRONG. FISH🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟
wheezing okay just so everyone knows. I too love semantic drift but that’s not what’s happening here. This is in fact a deliberate joke about semantic drift. this is not a scene from a 1940s film noir this is a scene from the 1995 sitcom The Nanny. This is on purpose!!
i have the opposite of that “everyone is an npc” mentality people have embraced where i’m instead like. the person next to me in line has someone they can’t wait to go home to, the person picking up their mail has felt devastation before, everyone in this grocery store is doing their sunday shopping, maybe the person that just honked at me is having the worst day of their life, my neighbor has doctors appointments and favorite foods and a song they can’t stand to hear anymore… you are all fully realized complex people and that is overwhelming me on a spiritual level…
People debating the ethics of “killing” those robot police “dogs” and whether or not they should be considered benevolent tools versus violent weapons when real life police dogs already exist as non-benevolent tools and violent weapons
“Well we just don’t know what they’ll be used for.”
Idk bro probably the same way cops use guns and tasers and mace and tear gas and water cannons and noise machines and riot shields and clubs and batons and beanbags and rubber bullets and paintballs and bicycles and motorcycles and cars and drones and any other blunt item they can get their hands on, and oh yeah, also dogs. So like, not nicely?
A few people have said things along the lines of “exactly, they aren’t even alive!” The issue isn’t whether it’s a hunk of metal or a living thing.
Police dogs are living things, police HORSES are living things.
I love dogs! I love horses! My affinity for either goes extremely out the window when it comes to police dogs and horses because they are not pets, they are not cute little animals, they are now weapons.
I feel sad for the animals, and it is sad when they are killed, but as far as I am concerned, every cop dog and cop horse death is the fault of the cops, and not anyone else, no matter what happened to them—which, to be fair, is often they were killed by their own handler spraying and praying—because they are out there to be weapons.
I will never fault someone who kills a cop dog sent to maul them. I will never fault anyone who hurts a cop horse pulling the rider off when the purpose of the horse is to TRAMPLE dissent.
It’s not a dog, it is a weapon. It’s not a horse, it’s a weapon.
Cops are human people, but they are not your friend, not your ally. They are brute thugs. They are a weapon of the state.
Any destruction of a weapon sent to brutalize is self-defense and you cannot change my mind.
People debating the ethics of “killing” those robot police “dogs” and whether or not they should be considered benevolent tools versus violent weapons when real life police dogs already exist as non-benevolent tools and violent weapons
“Well we just don’t know what they’ll be used for.”
Idk bro probably the same way cops use guns and tasers and mace and tear gas and water cannons and noise machines and riot shields and clubs and batons and beanbags and rubber bullets and paintballs and bicycles and motorcycles and cars and drones and any other blunt item they can get their hands on, and oh yeah, also dogs. So like, not nicely?
A few people have said things along the lines of “exactly, they aren’t even alive!” The issue isn’t whether it’s a hunk of metal or a living thing.
Police dogs are living things, police HORSES are living things.
I love dogs! I love horses! My affinity for either goes extremely out the window when it comes to police dogs and horses because they are not pets, they are not cute little animals, they are now weapons.
I feel sad for the animals, and it is sad when they are killed, but as far as I am concerned, every cop dog and cop horse death is the fault of the cops, and not anyone else, no matter what happened to them—which, to be fair, is often they were killed by their own handler spraying and praying—because they are out there to be weapons.
I will never fault someone who kills a cop dog sent to maul them. I will never fault anyone who hurts a cop horse pulling the rider off when the purpose of the horse is to TRAMPLE dissent.
It’s not a dog, it is a weapon. It’s not a horse, it’s a weapon.
Cops are human people, but they are not your friend, not your ally. They are brute thugs. They are a weapon of the state.
Any destruction of a weapon sent to brutalize is self-defense and you cannot change my mind.
HAHA LETS REMOVE LIGHT MODE BC DARK MODE IS BETTER OOOOH LIGHT MODE BURNS MY EYES HAHA LOOK IM SO RELATABLE LOL ROFL LMAO
i need some of you motherfuckers to understand that many of us use light mode not bc we like it more, but bc we suffer from visual conditions that make dark mode actually more eye straining than light mode to the point some ppl might find dark mode straight up unreadable, removing it is not some quirky funny little thing, its literally removing accessibility options
i feel like the “this too is yuri” meme is genuinely healing the tumblr fandom ecosystem. i’ve seen more posts about lesbian ships and wlw memes on this app in since i first saw the meme surface than i have in my entire history of using tumblr. peace and love on planet women
Can all the tumblr homosexuals agree to stop buying chick fil a. It’s so depressing that across the board lgbt people and supporters are indifferent to chick fil a and feel fine buying it. Can we at least stigmatize it here
For those who actually like chick fil a sauce and refuse to boycott because of that:
It’s ranch dressing, honey mustard, and barbecue sauce. Now free yourself
Fuck Chick-fil-A. That homophobic chicken isn’t even that good, y'all are literally simping over chicken that tastes like it was made at a White cookout
Whatever thing you love at chikfila you can make yourself fairly trivially (if! you are able to cook! which I know not everyone can).
Simply look for a “copycat recipe” for the item, eg, “chikfila copycat chicken recipe.”
There are literally thousands of extremely dedicated food bloggers out there who have long ago perfected there at home versions of stuff.
Chik Fil A contributes to groups who think trans people should be forcibly sterilised
No chicken is that fucking good
The founder is still, like, actively spending his money to block the Equality Act, just in case anyone was under the impression they donated to homophobic legalized torture organizations, got called out, and stopped being homophobic somehow.
u know whats wild. everyone on here like 20 and when i first joined everyone was like 14 15. u ask anybody n they been here for years. nobody new on here. staff locked the doors n were all Stuck Inside
Tag your current age and how old you were when you joined Tumblr
Nothing boomer about this. It’s another thing that forces you to rely on specialized accessories. Plus, the wireless headphones are easier to lose or damage. And they’re often more than double the price of a pair of wired earbuds.
New technology should always be an option, not a requirement. Bluetooth is great - as an option. Digital currency is great - as an option. Electric cars are great - as an option.
Plus, if the only way you can get people to adopt new tech is to make it the only thing available, or require it by law, one has to wonder how great said tech really is.
Its like the way everything requires a constant internet connection and a smartphone app. I struggle to find a game I like on gog because I hate Steam’s policy of “you own nothing, peasant!”.
I have a game called Rise of Nations. It was designed as standalone, but the rewritten to make it dependent on steam.
The other day, my access to it was blocked and it took a struggle with their tech support before I was allowed access again.
And even the vacuum cleaner my relative bought can be disabled remotely. The scandal recently was that they were taking footage of children changing etc and auctioning it off on the dark web.
Why the fuck is internet access mandatory for a vacuum cleaner?
Listening to a podcast discussing conspiracy theories and deconstructing the ideas behind them and it’s reminded me of the coolest practical lessons in critical thinking I ever got, both in high school, both from the same teacher. One was a month long project on who killed jfk in which we could basically present any theory as long as we cited all our reasons and it got us really excited about research and interpretation, but it was the follow up that I liked best.
Our next project she brought us into class and showed us a documentary claiming the moon landing was faked. Gave us worksheets to do that sided with that stance. And at the end of class a bunch of us were like miss wait this doesn’t seem right?? and she said okay, we’ll discuss that next week. The next lesson, she showed us a mythbusters episode countering all the claims of the original documentary and gave us worksheets for that, and another bunch of people went wait miss you can’t teach us two opposing things, which one is right? What do we put on the exam??
So she split the class in two and told us each to present a case based on each side, and to explain why our source was or wasn’t the more reliable of the two. Got us to debate each other directly and use additional sources to back us up and explain why those sources were reliable and should be believed. And because they were randomly assigned there was no guarantee you’d agree with the stance you were presenting, but you had to present it like you did. At the end of the project she asked us all which stance we found more convincing and why, and the majority of us basically said “we think that the moon landing is real because most of the arguments against it seem like someone reacted to a confusing thing without testing it, but when you test it and ask the person running the test to explain the science it makes sense once you have more information. Also, one documentary was made with the help of scientists with qualifications and experience and the other was made by people who don’t have that but like to write mystery books, which looks like a less reliable way to get an answer. But we still dont understand why you showed us both if one is wrong.”
And she was like excellent. You’ve done exactly what you should do. At high school level, we as teachers are expected to filter for the reliable sources for you, so you know to repeat that to pass an exam, but if you want to be historians on your own, I won’t be your teacher any more once you graduate. Lots of people have opinions and theories and research about times in history, and it’s your job to learn how to look at them and decide who you want to trust. This won’t be on the exam, but I need you all to know it. You all did a great job following the school’s instructions to repeat information you were given, but for some of you, that information wasn’t on a reliable foundation. I know you all know how to pass an exam. You’re smart and you’ve been trained to follow these instructions. What you deserve to be taught is how to use all this once you don’t have to do exams any more.
And then as a reward for us doing a good job at figuring out the value of checking your sources’ sources she let us watch Bush get hit in the face with a shoe before we had to go to maths. Shoutout to you Ms Hannah you were a good'un I hope you’re doing well ten years on from that class
if I wrote a dystopian novel where the corrupt evil megacorporation that controls society has a fucking smirk for a logo, my editor would tell me to use a less heavy-handed metaphor
and yet
I love this because if I were to write a literary novel in the Western cannon that described the image of an apple with a chunk bitten off, any high school English student would tell you it is a Bible reference meant to represent the source of all evil and downfall of humanity and YET
Alright, if y'all are so smart, what’s the evil symbolism behind this?
ok.
So sorry to do this to you I-say-OK but I lost so I must admit
Fun fact: I associate loss with the game. You just lost.
That’s enough money to give every homeless American24 THOUSAND DOLLARS
That’s enough money to give 43 dollars to the ENTIRE U.S. POPULATION.
That’s enough to fully treat ~95,000 Cancer Patients for FREE.
This is where your tax dollars go.
NOT schools.
NOT Protection.
NOT Healthcare.
NOT Homes and shelter.
NOT Science and Medicine.
NOT the potholes in your roads.
NOT your retirement or your future.
You are being made to pay for Genocide while your own people die.
Yeah. I literally don’t know what the deal is with the whole “just because the other guy wants to commit two genocides doesn’t mean we should forget about the genocide that is happening because of the first guy” yeah but trump isn’t going to stop the genocide in Palestine either.
Also it should be mentioned that Trump is literally calling his political rivals “vermin”. Dehumanizing is one of the first steps in a genocide. He’s literally worse.
everytime i see someone being “so obviously fucking wrong” about something online and i want to correct them, i think about this comment and it helps me remember the futility of it all. thank you u/YARGLE_IS_MY_DAD you are like the patron saint of online patience to me
the most “fucking, fair enough i guess” response ive ever gotten to something i said was in the ER
me: hi, i need a rabies shot triage nurse: oh? why’s that? me: i got bitten by a bat triage nurse: what were you doing that you got bitten by a bat at 3 in the morning? me: removing a bat from my bedroom
im given to understand that it generally takes a lot to leave ER staff speechless, but it sure was a good 5 seconds before she thought of anything to say to that
@solipseismic i am FASCINATED to discover that you are a real person and not a fictional character because this has been tagged about you often enough that i assumed it was a fandom thing. is your story any more interesting than mine or did it just make a disproportionately massive impression on your fiend group?
i had to take a moment to compose myself this (fandom thing) is possibly the funniest thing anyone’s ever said about me. probably not more interesting but like 200% more stupid and so accordingly has made a bit of an impression on most of the people who know me
>be me (freshman living in college dorm)
>go for a walk in the beautiful spring weather
>there is a bat on the sidewalk in the middle of the day
>sidebar to note that at this point in life my bat knowledge solely consists of “usually flying” and “only comes out at night”
>how terrible this bat must be disoriented by the bright sunlight (middle of the day) and fell from where it was ……………………… roosting (on the sidewalk)
>if i put this bat in a box with some water and then bring it back out at night maybe it will have recovered enough from the. sun
>text my roommate asking him to put a towel in a box
>i pick up the bat (on the sidewalk) (middle of the day) (no gloves)
>one bat in a box later i log onto tumblr dot com and post something along the lines of: does anyone know what to do in case of accidental bat acquisition
>mutual from area with many bats: you need to get rabies shots IMMEDIATELY
>i have no car (freshman in college dorms)
>surely it isn’t that serious
>thanks to google i now have 200% more bat knowledge and Boy I Fucked Up
>me to my mutual: it only bit me a few times and its teeth are so tiny it didn’t even break the skin i’m sure i’ll be fine :)
>i am of a curious nature so i google rabies symptoms
>oh! i need to get rabies shots!
so my ER experience was actually something pretty similar
me: hi, i need a rabies shot
triage nurse: oh? why’s that?
me: i got bitten by a bat
triage nurse: what were you doing that you got bitten by a bat in the middle of the day?
there are Shut It Down For Palestine actions planned for Friday, look for one in your area if you can. they’re not all registered on the Shut It Down website, so check social media as well as their list.
there are Shut It Down For Palestine actions planned for Friday, look for one in your area if you can. they’re not all registered on the Shut It Down website, so check social media as well as their list.
there are Shut It Down For Palestine actions planned for Friday, look for one in your area if you can. they’re not all registered on the Shut It Down website, so check social media as well as their list.
the only reason I didn’t get a blahaj the last time I was at ikea was because I thought it would be wayyy to awkward to carry a giant shark plushie on the train 😭
Are you alright, honey? You’ve barely put your blorbo in situations
Okay but back when I could afford a therapy my psychiatrist asked if I had written any fanfiction or planned any out in my head, and I was “nah, not really.” And she nodded and looked down at her notes and was like “so how do you feel about possibly trying Zoloft?”
I started laughing and she was like “I know it sounds funny but it’s been six months without you engaging in your favorite hobby and that’s a sign the depression is getting to a point where we might why try some treatments with meds in addition to therapy.”
So like. yeah.
So, babe, ARE you okay? You’ve barely put your blorbo in situations
I know this is my own post, but every single time this comes across my dash I am delighted. Every single time, I re-watch the video and laugh, and then scroll down and laugh more. What a truly excellent reblog chain.
I know that’s kind of the go-to thing to show that a vampire character is “one of the good ones” or whatever but it actually seems a little bit more fucked up for a vampire to steal blood from a blood bank than for a vampire to attack people for blood, at least as long as it’s not the kind of vampire where a bite is instantly lethal like it never stops bleeding.
People can recover from losing some blood but blood bank blood is constantly in short supply and is reserved for people who imminently need blood transfusion of a specific blood type or else they die.
I also hate the “I can just substitute human blood with animal blood” like the whole idea of vampirism sort of hinges on the fact the only thing you can feed off of are humans.
YOU get it
Once you start having vampires subsist on animals, well, like, so do humans. In fact the average human probably eats more animals per year than most of the animal-blood-drinking vampires I’ve seen depicted.
That’s not a vampire, all you’ve written is an immortal superhuman who subsists on…food, even if it’s a bit undercooked. That’s a fucking elf.
Some of y’all’s ideas of other options for “ethical” vampires is insane.
“Ethical vampires should feed on criminals.” So it is ethical for a person to get death penalty without trial and/or to be literally consumed by other citizens as punishment for a crime? That’s the prison-industrial complex.
I’ve been skimming John Francis Daley’s (director on D&D: Honor Among Thieves) twitter and I continue to be so completely blown away by the movie’s commitment to practical effects and/or minimized CGI where feasible. I mean holy shit look at all this
Practical effects mean that the creators were largely unionized.
ALT
