No offence but I feel like some people got a little too comfortable with telling people to touch grass and swung all the way round to just straight up shaming anyone who might have a less active social life than them to feel better about themselves. “She should be at the club” was a really funny meme until people started acting like fucking middle school bullies towards people who don’t go out with their friends a lot. All those drinking/drugs/sex milestone polls were fun to engage with until it became a wierd circlejerk making fun of people who haven’t done those things before. People on twitter are once again dogpiling someone for wanting queer social spaces that don’t revolve around alcohol or loud music and telling them it’s their own fault for not having friends.
Like I get that nightclubs and sex have strong ties to queer culture and are often the first targets in the hellscape of respectability politics. It’s important we remember our roots and protect these spaces from conservative scrutiny. I mean that. They are important. But just on a surface level it seems like people are starting to see having an inactive social life as some kind of moral failing which…it’s not. I feel like an insane person for feeling like I have to say this on the fucking queer autism website but like. You aren’t inherently a bad person if you don’t have friends. You aren’t “falling behind” if you haven’t had your first kiss in your 20s or never done drugs. The real world isn’t a movie. And if you see someone who doesn’t go out much and instinctually think “wow what a terminally online loser. I bet their social life sucks because they’re a sheltered creep and not because of systemic barriers beyond their control” you need to have a long hard look at why you feel that way.
There are very real barriers that prevent isolated people from finding community and connection. Do you think you’re superior for being able to breach them? Time, money, sobriety, accessibility, none of those factors were a problem for you, so it shouldn’t be for them, right? Right?
me and my friend jessie are physically incapable of having a normal fucking conversation so things happen where we accidently end up rping a dude bro trying to hit on me, an ordinary woman who is not a snake
I resent the idea that cooking is a relaxed art and baking is an exact science because anytime I’ve met someone skilled in either the opposite is true. Professional chefs will be like “and you have to make sure the sauce is exactly 107 degrees celcius before you add exactly one teaspoon of butter if you add too much it will get clumpy so keep stirring at the exact right pace and also this recipe can’t be done in altitudes over 1200ft when it’s humid” and then you’ll meet someone who makes the most baller ass cookies and they’ll be like “measurements? ress-sippy?? what the fuck are you talking about”
the mask is from the 1984 production of “The Bacchae” by Euripides at the Valencia Rose Cabaret in San Francisco. queer witch and co-founder of the Radical Faeries Arthur Evans directed his own translation of the play for the production, which featured a queer cast and played for a primarily queer audience. Pentheus’s drag look at the end of the play was based on then-mayor of San Francisco Dianne Feinstein.
I left my YouTube on autoplay while I’ve been working and somehow ended up listening to a true crime thing and I would be absolutely fucked in a police interrogation.
“Repetition and forgetfulness during storytelling are signs of guilt,” the detective says with certainty.
Worstie, you can ask me the same question multiple times in a row, and I will think of new details to tell you each time while simultaneously forgetting everything else I previously told you. That doesn’t mean I murdered Karen, it just means I’ve got mental illness and ADHD.
By the way, this is part of why you never talk to the cops and you always get a lawyer. It is commonly held belief among cops that a number of common and totally innocent interrogation behaviors (forgetfulness, nervousness, forced calm, excessive precision, repetitive phrasing, inconsistent phrasing, etc) indicate guilt. And cops will testify at trial that their years of experience indicated you were guilty when you talked to them.
when talking with cops, it’s always shut the fuck up friday
Also this!
the cops down here in Oklahoma (where I am, at least) are notorious for being corrupt. Doesn’t matter what they do, you don’t say a fucking word. You sit there and stay silent, be still. They can’t legally touch you without a reason. If you’re still, they can’t claim you were reaching for a weapon, if you’re silent, they can’t claim you were being disrespectful (and therefore guilty.)
-Tips from a Southerner.
ALSO! IF YOU’RE DOWN HERE IN THE SOUTH, AND IN DANGER, GO FIND YOURSELF A HOUSE BELONGING TO A CRANKY ASS OLD MAN WITH A ‘BEWARE OF DOG’ SIGN AND FUCKING BOOK IT THERE. CHANCES ARE, THAT OLD MAN IS A MILITARY VET AND IS GONNA THROW HANDS.
OLD WOMEN ARE ALSO LIKE THIS, BUT MUCH LESS FREQUENT WHERE I LIVE
OR, EVEN BETTER, FIND LITERALLY ANYONE THAT SEEMS LIKE THEY COULD RIP A FACE OFF, AND IS KNOWN FOR BEING RUDE
(Most the time they will throw hands, cuz it’s their job to be a dick, stay away from their folks.)
LAST TIP, NO, YOU DON’T HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT THE YOUNGER DOGS, OR THE BEARS (YES WE GOT BEARS), OR THE COYOTES. NO, THOSE AIN’T SHIT. WE GOT MOUNTAIN LIONS. WATCH OUT FOR ‘EM. DON’T FUCK AROUND WITH THE OLD ‘NICE LIL’ ORANGE DOG THAT ONE OLD LADY EVERYONE KNOWS OWNS. SHE WILL KICK ASS. THAT OLD DOG HAS SAVED LIVES. ALSO, IF A MOM TELLS YOU NOT TO TRY TO GO INTO HER HOUSE TO MAKE SURE HER KID IS SAFE, DON’T FUCKING DO IT. YOU WILL BE SHOT.
imagine you’re a guard for your castle, and you see this lady calling for help and saying she’s the queen, so you bring her in and everyone watches as she fucking eats the babies in there and just goes, “yep. Sure. New queen.” Because she got them, along with you, all high on psychedelics. And then she transforms into a giant fucking blue creature and crawls away, never to be seen again.
I’m going to scream. Pushback on the narrative that climate breakdown can be averted by individual decisions centres around the fact that NORMAL PEOPLE do not contribute to a significant amount of carbon emissions cos the average NORMAL PERSON emits 7 tons of CO2 a year. Not Taylor fucking Swift who has emitted over 8000 tons of emissions this year SO FAR. Her CO2 emissions from private jet use alone are equivalent to that of TWO THOUSAND normal people. We absolutely should be blaming individuals if those particular individuals are emitting two thousand people’s worth of emissions.
“We should be addressing structural issues” my brother in Christ widespread private jet use is a structural issue. Celebrity culture and the extravagant lifestyle that comes with it is a structural issue. These are whole industries that are massively impacting climate breakdown but because Taylor happens to be the most egregious case her stans want to pretend it’s not a problem. Stan culture really is a disease
(Image description: ten square pride flags with white text that reads “you’ll never have the comfort of our silence again”.)
The flags are the intersex inclusive progress pride, trans, leather, genderqueer, bisexual, pansexual, gay man, lesbian, intersex, and nonbinary flags.
These are inspired by this post, an image of a sign taken at an anti-Anita Bryant protest in 1978.
I got an extension called DeArrow that replaces Youtube thumbnails/titles with crowdsourced ones to make them less clickbaity and obnoxious. If there isn’t one available I set it to just grab a random frame and remove ALL CAPS!!!.
Here’s some comparisons (Original on the left, DeArrow on the right):
“PUTTING NEWPIPE, OR ANY FORK OF IT, INTO THE GOOGLE PLAY STORE VIOLATES THEIR TERMS AND CONDITIONS.”
if you install newpipe from anywhere other than what is listed on their official website, you are not downloading newpipe and may be downloading something malicious. uninstall immediately. I linked the website in the first post because there are people who maliciously insert bad code into all kinds of great apps and then release them somewhere else. there are no ads if you download from newpipe’s github, website, or f-droid entry, through the link in the first post.
if you see someone in this post talking about getting ads on their newpipe install, please consider reaching out to them with this information. I know not everyone will see this, and it really sucks to see so many people finding downloads from somewhere other than the official source I posted and accusing newpipe itself of being malicious.
I just wanted to share this article about Palestine’s right to revolt and why it is important that we support it. It also has sources embedded in the text that debunk misinformation about them and Hamas. I implore everyone to read it and spread this information around.
Always remember that Palestine was explicitly granted the right to armed resistance by the United Nations, against the zionist occupation. The article mentions the U.N. enshrining that right for occupied and colonized people, but the U.N. also explicitly named Palestine in the resolution, as well as Namibia and Zimbabwe who were also fighting against apartheid and illegal occupation.
The fire starter line for my fossil fakemon dex! This one loosely follows a synapsid/mammalian lineage! All of them are in the zine which is up for preorder.
Dimwick: (Fire) lil Dimetrodon buddy!
Pyrapsid: (Fire) loosely gorgonopsid-y.
Baseppelin: (Fire/Flying) fire whale! Based on the early whale Basilosaurus, but also. a zeppelin.
[Tweet by Gillian Branstetter reads “If enforcing gender norms requires a constant state of surveillance and censorship then they probably aren’t as biological or innate as you think they are]
it’s always so fascinating and heartbreaking when a character in a story is simultaneously idolized and abused. a chosen prophet destined for martyrdom. a child prodigy forced to grow up too fast. a powerful warrior raised as nothing but a weapon. there’s just something so uniquely messed up about singing someone’s praises whilst destroying them.
I woke up, went to brush my teeth and using my toothpaste spoon I put toothpaste from my toothpaste bucket onto my toothbrush, only to realize that it was not my toothbrush, but my mom’s. My toothbrush was not in the toothbrush cup, so I looked around and realized it was in the sink, covered by foam from someone washing their hands previously. I didn’t know what to do, so I just woke up for real.
@official-persephone well the toothbrush cup is just a cup where you put the toothbrushes. toothpaste spoon is just a fancy way of saying toothbrush. but WHAT THE HELL is a toothpaste bucket????
TOOTHPASTE SPOON IS A TOOTHBRUSH? THAT CAN’T BE TRUE
I HAVE REREAD THE POST AND IT IS NOT. A TOOTHPASTE SPOON IS PROBABLY JUST A FUCKING SPOON. YOU DIP THE GODDAMN SPOON INTO THE BUCKET AND GET YOURSELF SOME FUCKING TOOTHPASTE. I HATE THIS POST
Legends never die, and as such, Jellie will continue to live on in Minecraft and within our hearts until the end of time. It was a pleasure to draw you, Jellie. Have fun playing in the stars.
im trying to go to sleep but i cannotttttt stop thinking about this and laughing
Listen, we have to keep this thing circulating on the internet for at least another two decades, because I have to believe that one day that little girl will be grown enough to stumble upon it and She Will Explain
I want to ask this because I feel like you would know
I'm trying to write a cannibalistic character but I don't know like, anything in depth about the topic, so I was wondering what parts of a human would be good to consume and what parts would be not a good idea to eat
you want meat that isn’t under a whole lotta load all the time, which typically negates muscles like the calves, so the best cuts of meat you’ll get are off the thighs, buttocks, and upper arms
the liver, eyes, testicles, and some other organs are also pretty good, but a lotta human organs are unfortunately just sacks or tubes :(
the bones and teeth can be kept for later purposes, and the bone marrow can be broken into and eaten
you REALLY wanna avoid the brain, there’s prion diseases in there
you REALLY wanna
avoid the brain, there’s prion
diseases in there
Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.
Legendary dance kitty doing just fine as always! This crazy kitty continues to bring joy to all, skyrocketing it’s net worth! The dance dance dance now selling for 21 MILLION dollars!
