Surprised I hadn’t seen this cross posted over here
Liquid Death is renaming their Armless Palmer iced tea and lemonade to Dead Billionaire because Arnold Palmer’s estate threatened to sue for the use of the word Palmer. What a brand
If you think like that, please don’t ever have children.
Listen, my parents installed a lock on my door so I could lock everyone out of my room if I wanted to at sometime around 8 years old. They had a key of course for safety but they’ve never had to use it and they’ve never used it when they didn’t have to.
I was allowed full access to any books, movies, and internet I wanted fully informed about our family beliefs and practices but I was given no supervision once I reached about 13 because my parents trusted me to stick to the rules or not as I felt and come to them if there was anything that I had questions about.
As long as I said where I was going, who I was with, and when I was going to be back and then phone if anything changed I was allowed to do pretty much as I pleased from 13 onward.
I moved back in with my parents after university and the first conversation we had was my dad telling me that if I felt like they were treating me like a child to please tell them because they had no intention of doing so.
I still live with them and I’m comfortable here as an adult. When I eventually move out again, which I feel no rush to do because I feel respected and given more than enough elbow room, I will probably talk to them often if not everyday. Because they’ve always respected my privacy and my autonomy both physically and emotionally. If you want an independent and fictional child trusting them and giving them their space will do you many more favours than not.
meanwhile, my parents…
password protected my computer so i had to get permission every time i wanted to use it
put a passcode lock on our pantry so we couldn’t eat without permission
regularly checked our internet browsing history
shut off the internet at regular intervals, including when i needed it for university homework
did monthly checks of our bank statements and would confiscate money if they didn’t approve of our activities
in response, i went behind their backs and opened a new bank account, got a secret job, bought my own groceries, and used the wifi from the school across the street. they didn’t succeed in disciplining me. all they did was force me to distance myself from them.
your children are not your property. they are human beings, and they deserve basic human rights.
nothing in this world teaches you to lie and sneak around like a parent who doesn’t believe you should have privacy
My Dad was in a conversation with someone today, and my Dad said he wasn’t going to say if he was a good parent, or not. You can ask my daughter.
I said that I had the kind of relationship with my Dad were I trusted him, where not only did I not sneak around. But if I got into trouble I felt like I could go to him for help. Rather than make my situation worse.
I’m really shit at lying and sneaking around. I think because of lack of practice.
Everyone from a different culture seems strangely poetic and profoundly deep in their observations, but only because they speak whatever the common tongue is as a second language, and whatever they are saying is actually mostly just clumsily translated common sayings/figures of speech that flow much better in their own tongue, and make perfect sense to the people who understand the cultural context.
Someone who comes from a place where geodes are common will describe another person: “He is like a stone that seems to hold a treasure inside of it - you learn to know such stones by their shape and their weight - but once you split it open, there is no quartz, no amethyst, no sparkling and brilliant crystal you expected. Just solid rock, through and through. He is like one of those rocks.” Which vaguely makes sense, but they’re clearly frustrated about not being quite able to express what they’re trying to say.
The thing is, in their own first language, there’s a specific word for this kind of rock - one that outwardly seems to be a geode but it isn’t one after all. This word is also commonly used as an insult, to describe a person who is charismatic, convincing and outwardly seems brilliantly smart, but is actually dumb as shit.
human, speaking dwarvish to an dwarf: “this quest you’re on, it’s like… when the rains come, and the sun shines through the water in the air, and the raindrops form a prism through which sunlight casts a shimmering illusion of rings of colour across the sky, it’s as if the ribbons of light are indicating some great treasure that you can never find, because the coloured lights are an illusion. and pursuing the lights will just lead you on and on forever.”
dwarf: :o “that’s so beautiful…”
…
human, speaking humanish to a human: “his quest is like he’s looking for the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.”
I really need to do more studying and write an essay on how Americanism is a genuine folk religion which reveres capital and the vague concept of “the free market” as a god of providence to be pleased in order to lead a prosperous life, also that the founding fathers are prophetic, perhaps even messianic figures who basically gave birth to this god through the revolutionary war, and that the vast majority of conservative Christians in America revere capital more than the god they claim to serve in an ironic sort of golden calf situation.
There is a trend amongst depictions of the founding fathers to show them as literal christ figures, a trend that started very early in the nation’s life.
I’d also like to point out Washington & Lincoln Apotheosis, artist unknown, about 1865, the same year as lincoln’s assasination
The personification of America in the form of Columbia, a goddess of both the land and the concepts that America tends to inhabit. A pre-anime Hetalia. She was often used in depictions of Manifest Destiny, a religions ideal that stated that America, by God’s will, must go from coast to coast.
American Progress by, John Gast, 1872. Note the indigenous people cast in literal darkness, away from the light. The religions deification of America relies upon colonialism and white supremacy
Like, there are actual studies on this stuff. Look up “American civil religion” if you’re struggling for search terms. Or “American founder worship.”
Painted in 1865 by Constantino Brumidi, the Apotheosis of Washington in the eye of the U.S. Capitol Building’s Rotunda depicts George Washington rising to the heavens in glory, flanked by female figures representing Liberty and Victory/Fame and surrounded by six groups of figures.
christians & postchristians hate it when you talk about this
Yeah and this is just the overtly syncretic stuff that borrows christian imagery; a lot of the scholarship about American Civil Religion revolves around the smaller aspects of acr; the pledge of allegiance, the various rituals surrounding the national anthem, etc
A youtuber i enjoy, ReligionForBreakfast (he’s a religious studies scholar!) Has a cool video on the subject- im too tired to rephrase his cool thoughts/knowledge on the subject so just watch his videos
I found this LGBT Catholic flag on Reddit. The creator for it is getting dogpiled over there but is resolute in keeping it up.
There are also many other flags included in the source.
Not bad but yeeaah..
ALSO it somehow implies the intersex are the head of the church, which is fun
Intersex Pope NOW!!!!!!!!
Intersex Pope NOW!!!!!!
[ Attempt at an improved ID: A rainbow striped flag with a white triangle on the lefthand side, On the outside is,in order from in to out surrounding the triangle is a yellow,pink,brown,and black band. Inside the triangle are silver and gold keys tied together with red string,forming a cross where the keys interect. Above the keys is a purple ring. End ID. ]
hi loves!!i have made a post about this already but, i really need responses to this so i am back afqds.i have this questionnaire for my major work, its just a short survey that takes a couple of minutes!! all the writing questions are optional also.the results are completely anonymous!!i would appreciate SO much if you could tank a couple of minutes of your time to do it for me.thank you all so so much!!!! i need a minimum of 150 responses to even be allowed to use the data so it really would mean so much to me.again, thank you!!!! <3333
hi loves!!i have made a post about this already but, i really need responses to this so i am back afqds.i have this questionnaire for my major work, its just a short survey that takes a couple of minutes!! all the writing questions are optional also.the results are completely anonymous!!i would appreciate SO much if you could tank a couple of minutes of your time to do it for me.thank you all so so much!!!! i need a minimum of 150 responses to even be allowed to use the data so it really would mean so much to me.again, thank you!!!! <3333
I did a very quick, sketchy comic because I was extremely inspired by this post. (Credit to @pinkdiamondprince for the original post.)
The entire analogy was just fantastic and so, so accurate, and I wanted to make a comic for it, even if it’s very sketchy because my attention span is nil.
so apparently its our (users) fault for automattic cutting staff and stopping to focus on tumblr and not………staff implementing shit updates including catastrophical UI changes which are an accessibility nightmare, censoring trans women, taking down nsfw posts, implementing tumblr live with no way to turn it off and being condescending to the users
no its us not liking those shit updates that are at fault
funny that this is on jv’s blog, a guy that got fired from staff after being repeatedly called out and reported for harassing users that criticized staff.
I’m thinking about Tumblr Live again and ruminating on WHY it’s such a huge flop and I think I’ve figured it out: They’ve completely refused to make it a tumblr feature…
By which I mean (begrudgingly goes to unsnooze Tumblr live) this:
^This is meant with zero insult or derision to the people above, but these are absolutely not Tumblr users.
Every single thumbnail I’ve ever seen for Tumblr live seems to say “This is for clout!” “This is for a thirst trap!” “This is for influencers!” “This is for Tiktok wannabe stars!” “This is for showing your pretty filtered face and reaping what people on Instagram and Tiktok are desperately chasing!”
I’m remembering that Reddit has (or had) livestreams you could tune into like this. I’ve tapped into some. Ones I remember offhand include:
a guy just wandering around downtown in his city silently showing people the streets and stuff
a guy streaming his attempt to beat the last level of Celeste
a guy streaming his dog he was petting
And that, that was Reddit. That was undoubtedly just regular Reddit users going “oh stream feature? yeah okay. here’s my dog.” “here’s my video game.” “here’s my street corner in Prague.”
And when I think of all the recent successful Tumblr features, they’re all things that correctly tapped into actual Tumblr user interests. Blaze had people go “haha yeah here’s my dog.” “here’s my advertisement for a horse lawyer (lawyer who is a horse).” They let us buy crabs because, fuck it, crabs. The blue checkmarks were funny. Polls turned into the fandom brackets people have desperately wanted to make for a decade+. I’d wager the merch that calls on old Tumblr memes is at least decently successful.
If Tumblr Live wanted the chance to be successful, it should have been angled toward Tumblr users. “Here, you can livestream your cat if you want.” “You can livestream yourself working on some fanart and chatting.” “You can livestream yourself going bird watching because birds are your hyperfixation and you can identify them all by their song to all your followers who want to tune in for bird facts.”
But Tumblr Live has never tried to be that. It ONLY seems like it wants to be a Tiktok-clone, Instagram-clone, clout-chaser baited-hook trying to pull converts over from Tiktok/Insta/etc who are trying to grow their influencer brand, which Tumblr is lethally hostile to.
(And ALL of this is only touching on the concept behind what’s happening here. I haven’t even touched on the third-party streaming service and questionable data protection.)
Like fine, I guess I get it from a business model of trying to grow your userbase–since catering to your existing userbase doesn’t pull in new meat. But this will not work. Because anyone, tumblr-native or not, trying to grow themselves as an influencer will NOT find success here. This place is not a place of honor. No highly esteemed deed is commemorated here. Nothing valued is here. What is here was dangerous and repulsive to us. We will not watch your Shein haul stream.
allowed false flags of 100% sfw posts made by transfem users (and blacklisted trans and trans adjacent tags) (edit: ’#tgirl’ is still blocked as of sept 8th, 2023)
pushed tumblr live, a feature users actively dislike which is mostly unused and overrun by spambots, that also collects all of your dataEDIT: staff deleted the blog and post of the user who made the data harvesting expose post (iamdealwithit), as well as rbs. partyjockers and iamdealwithit both had their blogs purged by staff for criticizing them.
STOP GIVING THEM MONEY! stop trying to make crab day or whatever else happen. paying for stuff from the shop is rewarding them for ignoring the userbase continuously and doing things the majority don’t want, even if the things they’re doing and allowing can cause actual deaths. staff shouldn’t be praised and get profit for ignoring their users in exchange for trying to turn tumblr into twitter 2 ft. tiktok. (and now going scorched earth when you criticize them). at this point i don’t even care for “staff are people 🥺 be nice” arguments, because even when people are being very polite in feedback, they’re perfectly fine ignoring it in exchange for implementing changes nobody wants or asked for (now claiming negative feedback is responsible for them being suicidal), all because new users may like it more (and forget anyone who’s used the site for years, apparently).
leave bad reviews. don’t buy things from the shop. send feedback, even if they never reply. email them and @ the staff, send asks to the wip blog. don’t just blindly buy into “we need to support the site, buy xyz shop product”, they don’t deserve more money for giving a worse product.
I, as a very tiny blog, remember the time when I posted something about the huge political scuffle in my country (Terror Bill) and this popular blog ((with 20k followers with some tiny fucking pans)) reblogged it once and overnight it got 2,000 notes. So basically the post reached more of my countrymen and I’m thankful to that person because in the middle of a battle, we need information, and moreover, we need signal boost of correct information.
Also… Wow dude, we’re not even from the same country. She’s from the country where a popular filipino TV series was set, and where the breads are big.
this is so funny this literally sounds like a right-wing paper from 1860s france
This is really fucking funny, and op is right about how it sounds. But I felt a strong need when moving to reblog this to say something about the situation– not aimed at op who just dunked on clickbait propaganda, but just as something to keep in mind the more this kind of thing gets said by news outlets. This is way more public than I usually comment on posts (I like posting in the tags) but it felt a bit important.
My store successfully managed to both get the unionization vote underway and win the vote with only one ‘no’ to speak of, and the people who worked the hardest and put the most sweat and tears into making that possible were not college-educated. The people who went out of their way for several months now to provide information to combat the slew of lies and fearmongering that corporate directed at my coworkers were people whose formal education ended at high school and who came from all different walks of life.
The (returning) CEO of the company put out a statement in an hour long video we were forced to watch right after our votes were read where he chalked the unionization efforts up to “outside influences” who take advantage of the ignorance of the other employees to push an agenda, and listening to that made my blood boil for so many reasons.
But what I want more than anything else to say to H.S and all the people pushing this narrative is that the people who are unionizing have been there– in the trenches– for years, and they aren’t stupid or easily manipulated by sneaky college students. They’re single mothers who have been with the company for 15 years; they’re people who’ve been previously-homeless, putting in extra effort to foster an environment of love and respect among coworkers; they’re people from other parts of the restaurant industry who’re using their spare time to learn sign language to better communicate with others; they’re 17 year olds who can see that the way things are are so far from the way they should be.
I’m a college-educated worker who took a job because I had no options, but when I said we should join the tide of stores unionizing the work had already been done and they’d just been waiting to see if I was a person they could trust. I have so much love and respect for the people who will never get the credit they deserve, and that’s why I felt like I wanted to speak. The incredible strides being made in this country right now in terms of unions are being made on the backs of people being called “uneducated” and “unskilled”.
i’m tired of seeing memes for shit i’ve never fucking heard of so here’s some memes for a piece of media that doesn’t fucking exist. fuck you.
i was getting real sick of this post and seeing everybody reblog it and thinking “what the god damn is with these memes from shit ive never heard of that everybody suddenly knows that i dont” and then i finally read the comment
Remember Longcat? I remember Longcat. Fuck the picture on this post, I want to talk about Longcat. Memes were simpler back then, in 2006. They stood for something. And that something was nothing. Memes just were. “Longcat is long.” An undeniably true, self-reflexive statement. Water is wet, fire is hot, Longcat is long. Memes were floating signifiers without signifieds, meaningful in their meaninglessness. Nobody made memes, they just arose through spontaneous generation; Athena being birthed, fully formed, from her own skull.
You could talk about them around the proverbial water cooler, taking comfort in their absurdity. “Hey, Johnston, have you seen the picture of that cat? They call it Longcat because it’s long!” “Ha ha, sounds like good fun, Stevenson! That reminds me, I need to show you this webpage I found the other day; it contains numerous animated dancing hamsters. It’s called — you’ll never believe this — hamsterdance!” And then Johnston and Stevenson went on to have a wonderful friendship based on the comfortable banality of self-evident digitized animals.
But then 2007 came, and along with it came I Can Has, and everything was forever ruined. It was hubris, Jane. We did it to ourselves. The minute we added written language beyond the reflexive, it all went to shit. Suddenly memes had an excess of information to be parsed. It wasn’t just a picture of a cat, perhaps with a simple description appended to it; now the cat spoke to us via a written caption on the picture itself. It referred to an item of food that existed in our world but not in the world of the meme, rupturing the boundary between the two. The cat wanted something. Which forced us to recognize that what it wanted was us, was our attention. WE are the cheezburger, and we always were. But by the time we realized this, it was too late. We were slaves to the very memes that we had created. We toiled to earn the privilege of being distracted by them. They fiddled while Rome burned, and we threw ourselves into the fire so that we might listen to the music. The memes had us. Or, rather, they could has us.
Remember when you could summon Longcat in Scribblenauts
And it just got worse from there. Soon the cats had invisible bicycles and played keyboards. They gained complex identities, and so we hollowed out our own identities to accommodate them. We prayed to return to the simple days when we would admire a cat for its exceptional length alone, the days when the cat itself was the meme and not merely a vehicle for the complex memetic text. And the fact that this text was so sparse, informal, and broken ironically made it even more demanding. The intentional grammatical and syntactical flaws drew attention to themselves, making the meme even more about the captioning words and less about the pictures. Words, words, words. Wurds werds wordz. Stumbling through a crooked, dead-end hallway of a mangled clause describing a simple feline sentiment was a torture that we inflicted on ourselves daily. Let’s not forget where the word “caption” itself comes from: capio, Latin for both “I understand” and “I capture.” We thought that by captioning the memes, we were understanding them. Instead, our captions allowed them to capture us. The memes that had once been a cure for our cultural ills were now the illness itself.
It goes right back to the Phaedrus, really. Think about it. Back in the innocent days of 2006, we naïvely thought that the grapheme had subjugated the phoneme, that the belief in the primacy of the spoken word was an ancient and backwards folly on par with burning witches or practicing phrenology or thinking that Smash Mouth was good. Fucking Smash Mouth. But we were wrong. About the phoneme, I mean. Theuth came to us again, this time in the guise of a grinning grey cat. The cat hungered, and so did Theuth. He offered us an updated choice, and we greedily took it, oblivious to the consequences. To borrow the parlance of a contemporary meme, he baked us a pharmakon, and we eated it.
I wonder what Christian meme groups are like. I mean some Christians have the biggest victim complexes in the world and if you couple that with first person perspective memes, you’d probably get memes like:
Oh thank fuck it is my time to shine
These are all from a Christian meme group that I joined for some reason but fell in love with
And around 31 October, reformation/Lutheran memes start to make an appearance in my social circles!
Thanks to these memes, I’m now a born again christian and I see the light, amen
some i have two contribute
i’m so impressed by these memes, christian memes are incredible actually
Omg omg I got a bulbasaur at build a bear and I was kinda embarrassed about buying it for myself and stuff but there weren’t any other kids in the store or shoppers for that matter and the girl helping me said she was glad to here it was for me as she collects some plushies and has her own bulbasaur.
Well she was almost done stuffing him and then I noticed that you can put scents in your bear and fucking love cotton candy and the girl basically car salesmen style sold me on the scent pad and asked where I wanted the scent to go
And I didn’t know where it should go but she herself being quite the plushie enthusiast was like “you’re gonna hug him a lot right? may I reccomend right here” and pointed to his forehead
So I was like “awe cute yeah that sounds good” (my bulbasaur is totally stuffed mind you and I even had her make him extra firm )
and then the girl rolls up her sleeves and was like “alright bulbasaur! Here we go! I apologize in advance but this is gonna look very inappropriate!”
And she fisted my super full bulbasaur all the way to her elbow saying sorry to him and to me over and over again. It took her several tries to get the scent pad in place since my bulbasaur was so stuffed and she looked like she was straining and saying “I don’t know why they didn’t think about this design more, so many parents are gonna complain about this one day, I know it”
So all in all this was the best build a bear experience I’ve had since I was a little kid and I love my fat, cotton candy scented, anally inclined bulbasaur to pieces
Every time I see this post I cant stop fucking laughing
OK WAIT SO IF POC GET STRICTER SENTENCES IN COURT… AND IF WOC ARE MORE AT RISK OF MISCARRIAGE AND GENERAL MALPRACTICE… AND IF SEX EDUCATION IS WORSE IN INNER CITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS… AND IF RACIAL HOUSING DISCRIMINATION IS PRACTICED BY 85% OF REAL ESTATE AGENTS… AND IF SCHOOL DISTRICTS ARE FUNDED VIA PROPERTY TAXES WITHIN EACH DISTRICT… HOLD ON………. WAIT A MINUTE
richard -> dick so obviously we should start the charles -> cock process
how the fuck do you get cock from charles
you ask him nicely
The Richard-dick naming situation actually comes from a fad that existed back in I think it was the 17th or 18th century, can’t remember which. But the naming fad/convention of the time was for rhyming secondary nicknames for names that already had a 4 letter nickname. Ie: William-will-bill, Richard-rick-dick
“I was there and I know how hard it is in captivity,“ said Menir. "Every day in captivity was very difficult. I was in a home when there was shelling all around. We were sitting in the tunnels and we were terribly afraid that not Hamas but Israel would kill us, and then they would say, ‘Hamas killed you.’ So, I very much ask as soon as possible to start exchanging the prisoners and everyone should return home. There is no priority [of some over others]. Everyone is important.”
Bar Goldstein told what his family members who returned from captivity in Gaza described to him: "Fortunately, I had the privilege of receiving my sister-in-law Chen [Goldstein Almog] and her children. They were under constant threat from the IDF [Israeli army] shelling.”
… Another captive who was released with her children also expressed anger at the army’s shelling of the location where she was held in Gaza, and that Israeli Apache helicopters had opened fire at them as they were being taken from their home across the border into Gaza.
She said: "The feeling we had there was that no one was doing anything for us. The fact is that I was in a hiding place that was shelled and we had to be smuggled out while we were wounded. Not to mention the helicopter that shot at us on the way to Gaza. You claim that there is intelligence, but the fact is that we were being shelled.”
i feel like no one really wants to hear that sleep/exercise/nutrition/hydration are major factors in treating mental health issues bc we’ve all talked to that person who thinks your depression would be cured by one good session of goat yoga or whatever but unfortunately they do help and i’m chronically annoyed about it
