everybody’s always on writing prompts like “what if there was a world where everyone had a timer ticking down to their death… but you met someone whose timer said infinity!” or “what if everyone had their cause of death tattooed across their forehead… but you met someone whose forehead said THE CREATURE!” Enough -
enough. stop with the shock value. there is no need to insert THE CREATURE; the benign concept of such a world is horrifying enough. not even in urgency, but just in banal, everyday interaction. imagine you meet someone and their timer says two years. not tomorrow, not urgently soon, but two years. enough to do quite a lot. they could fall in love in that time - could they get engaged? have a baby? you might otherwise get to know them, befriend them, but perhaps you opt not to, make a conscious choice not to invest in your own grief. what balancing act would every individual person have to participate in - I have ten years, is that long enough to be a good mother to children? is that long enough to secure a caretaker for my own mother? my wife will die a few months before me. my newborn’s timer reads nineteen years.
and cause of death. you interview for a job and emblazoned across the healthy, smiling face of the HR lady is MALNUTRITION. your country is prospering, safe, but every person you meet on the street from the babies to the old women read BOMB. BOMB. what kind of havoc would fate wreak on the world? what about the loss of privacy? how would that shape our notions of hope? idk man I think a lot of those ancient poems were right, and the fates are monsters. I’m interested by the framing of these ideas as trite horror tales when the premises themselves are so much more disturbing if simply taken to their logical ends
“Oh Rascal Children of Gaza” by Palestinian poet, Khaled Juma.
He was born and raised in Al-Shaboura Palestinian Refugee Camp, in the Gaza Strip. He lives there to this day. Before Israel’s latest war crimes, he worked as a school teacher and writer.
If you fall for a social media prank, do you reblog/pass it on to your followers?
This is funnier on mobile. It’s like hot gluing a coin to the sidewalk but the glue pools out under it making it obvious at a glance that it is a prank.
one time i was having sex and i was going “i’m yours i’m yours i’m yours” and then my partner stopped all of a sudden and said “can we talk about new kinks before we introduce them during sex” and i was like yeah what but it turned out she thought i was saying im a horse im a horse im a horse
Random idea: Cybertronian who scans a vehicle to be their altmode, but has 0 clue what certain functions from said vehicle do
Examples:
Cybertronian with a B737 altmode who doesn’t know what aural warning alerts mean, and gets jumpscared by alerts like “TOO LOW GEAR” “SINK RATE SINK RATE”
Cybertronian with aircraft altmode in a snowy region who doesn’t realize earth aircrafts need to be deiced or sometimes anti-iced before flying, and just flat out face plants into the snow right after take off
(Ok yeah I’m just thinking about airplanes again shush) But also another thought: Do flying Cybertronians have to learn how to fly when they first come online???? Seekers ig wouldn’t stall easily bc fighter jets are designed to not stall- But do others have to practice stall recovery procedures??
I’m partially thinking about how convenient it is that Twitch from Earthspark scanned a drone, since drones to my knowledge are extremely hard to stall?
Public transit coming on a regular basis is a thing that we need to do better here in the US, and honestly, it will be beneficial for growing our economy.
for your kindness in respecting my gender identity I give you permission to retcon me back into being a male as to not break the immersion of thebayareaboylover’s followers.
Hello! I want to ask about the life span of tiger beetles, or more specifically, how long they usually live as adults. (I'm asking about Cicindelidae in general, but if you have specific information about Abroscelis anchoralis, Chaetodera laetescripta, or Cicindela aurulenta, it would be very helpful!! Basically I have some bug OCs (since quite a long time ago--over 5 years now), and for them I sometimes need information that might be hard to find. Thank you!!
This information is indeed hard to find. It depends on species, and I wasn’t able to find exact info on the species you mentioned. From what I’ve read about other species, adult lifespan can range from just a matter of weeks to more than a year. They spend most of their life in their larval form, though.
Hey everyone the arctic freeze is hitting hard & our fridge is pretty empty i could really use help grabbing groceries and paying off an upcoming student loan payment if yall could help I would really appreciate it
Cookie pop-ups are designed to be confusing and make you ‘agree’ to be tracked. This add-on automatically answers consent pop-ups for you, so you can’t be manipulated. Set your preferences once, and let the technology do the rest!
This add-on is built and maintained by workers at Aarhus University in Denmark. We are privacy researchers that got tired of seeing how companies violate the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Because the organisations that enforce the GDPR do not have enough resources, we built this add-on to help them out.
We looked at 680 pop-ups and combined their data processing purposes into 5 categories that you can toggle on or off. Sometimes our categories don’t perfectly match those on the website, so then we will choose the more privacy preserving option.
I’ve been using this since it came out in December 2019 (how time flies!) and definitely recommend it.
hey instead of bullying or scaring you into switching to firefox, let me tell you why i LOVE firefox and how my online life has improved significantly since installing it
- the setup process is easy, and even fun! if you’re using tumblr rn, you can handle it, and if you’re the kind of tumblr user who likes customizing your blog or tinkering with xkit, you can have a lot of fun personalizing really granular settings and picking themes and extensions and everything, it’s very customizable and i happily spent like 2 hours getting everything perfect.
- you can use a command line entry tool to change specific settings right from the search bar! i did this to make firefox stop auto filling my email information since i use a different password locker (which you should too! try bitwarden!), and it was easier than digging through a bunch of submenus for a setting i wasn’t sure existed. you can just turn shit off!
- there’s a preset theme called aurora that’s purple and VERY pretty
- once you get ublock origin and as many other blockers as you’d like set up, no ads, anywhere, ever! streaming sites, youtube, all the basics, totally no stress and no compatibility issues for me
- in browser screenshot and picture in picture functions!! holy shit i use these every day, the PiP is especially helpful, it replaced an extension i used to use on chrome and it’s leagues better and works on all video content pretty much
- overall better downloads management imo, it’s a lot easier to get to your downloads and find them later
- better bookmark system, with the ability to organize your bookmarks with searchable tags and assign them a shortcut you can type into the search bar to go to
- containers! you can have two accounts to the same website open in two different tabs and switch between them without having to switch accounts. also gives firefox the ability to contain facebook and their trackers, so you can click that party invite link without feeling like you just let mark zuckerberg into your house
these were just off the top of my head, i love firefox a lot and actively enjoy using it, which i never felt with chrome! please download firefox!! you will not regret it!!! where’s your fucking rage!!!!!! go!!!!!!!!!
I haven’t personally verified this as I’m not at a computer, but multiple people in multiple places are saying the same thing. This is fucking insane. First the endless war on UBlock, then the Chromium changes to shut out some blocker functionalities entirely next year, now this?
Something is deeply rotten in recent Google/YouTube policy. I can’t imagine that this is legal - how is this not anticompetitive? Google needs to get mega fucked in the press and the courts sooner rather than later.
And I need to switch to Firefox as soon as I get home.
While I’m sure there are people too lazy to spin a fork, keep in mind people like this person who may be suffering from arthritis or a neurological disease or nerve damage or a thousand other conditions that might impair their ability to do things as simple as spin a fork to eat spaghetti.
These are used with people who can’t grip well:
This is for Parkinsons’s:
For people who can’t even bend their joints:
Here’s a product that guides your hand from your plate to your mouth
This one holds a sandwich
Like I get it. I used to see things like the fork and think “that’s fuckin’ lazy” or that product that holds a gallon and you just tip it and pour. But then I started working around the disabled and impaired and found out that these products aren’t meant for lazy people, they’re meant for people who need help.
So maybe next time you see something, instead of thinking “Wow, are people that lazy?” just be grateful that you’re able to do the things you do every day and take for granted, like being able to feed yourself and wipe your own ass because you have enough coordination and bendy joints to do it.
This isn’t specualtion either; the majority of products from commericals that we think are funny or silly are autally MEANT for hte disabled.But they are marketed towards the abled because the disabled aren’t considered a viable enough demographic on their own.
the Snuggie for example? Created for wheelchair users.
This is actually really nifty.
oh my god of course the snuggie was for wheelchair users
The fact that anyone buys these products besides disabled people drastically lowers the price of them. These would normally cost hundreds if not thousands if dollars. Because if spent time and money creating it, the company wants to get more than that back. And they can’t do that if they sell and market these primarily to disabled people for $20-$40 a piece or whatever. They’d lose money on production. If they can sell hundreds of them to everyone, they can lower the price drastically and therefore disabled people don’t die while trying to scrape up the money to buy these things and be a bit more independent.
I never considered that last part and that’s actually genius
Like yeah, a handful of people ARE that lazy.
But those are the people who use these products even though they don’t need them and thus allow the price to be lower for those who DO.
So honestly in this case good bless the lazy and those prone to gimmicks because they are invaluable to the elderly and disabled in this sense.
@thebibliosphere Look! People learning about disability and why to be kind!
The normalization of disability aids needs to be a thing precisely so they can cost less.
Better living through technology bitches
I’m so glad disabled people get to have nice things. Its still an ableist world but damn we’ve come so far
the spaghetti thing would be genius for arthritic fingers.
And like, arthritis is SO SO common.
also like who tf cares if people are lazy anyway? why does everything have to be a grind - but making things easier for people who find everything harder is such a skill
but… they’re not. Trans is short for “transitioning” which is to say you go from one gender to the other. Non-binary people are not transitioning to another gender. They’re just not moving from one to another.
trans is not and has never been short for transitioning you dumb hoe
trans is short for transgender dumbass
also for those who don’t get it, the creator of the trans flag herself (monica helms, to be exact) has stated verbally, herself, that the white stripe in the flag was for nonbinary individuals + that nonbinary ppl are absolutely trans
if you exclude nonbinary folks and tell us we’re not trans go fuck yourselves
For people who forget: the whole thing of being transgender is that you identify with a gender that isn’t your sex/what you were born as. Because no one is assigned nonbinary at birth, being nonbinary is inherently transgender because you’re not cis about it.
I am really happy that other people are getting the word out on sharks.
Everyone is always saying that they are scared of sharks and don’t want to help them.
But, this is a serious issue.
Sharks aren’t he only ones who are affected by the actions of hunting and shark finning, but the entire ecosystem.
So everyone, PLEASE REBLOG!
SAVE OUR SHARKS!
My art touches people, but it is still far from touching the real shark killers.
I will continue, even if it takes my whole life, even if just somewhere in the sea, someone stopped the knife that would cut a shark’s fin, because someone showed my art.
so background. my fiancée and my mom have been calling each other “BFF” since we started dating over 5 years ago. like that was my mom’s contact name in Selena’s phone for half a decade.
anyway we just got engaged a few days ago, and now the two of them want to update their nicknames to reflect that. and. well. hold on i gotta gear up for this one
they have decided on “mother in law forever” and “daughter in law forever.” fucking. MILF and DILF. yes they are both FULLY aware of what those mean and not even god and his angels can make them stop
The table under the journal is lacquered with ants.
The person holding the skull-creamed coffee paints the underside of their nails. Either that or their natural nails grow red.
The journal’s writing, intentionally made hard to read and partially obscured, is somewhat of a cheat to all the things amiss in the scene. (http://comments.deviantart.com/1/661961724/4372574544) I can make out: “… and eyeball … have to think he is less strange than the horrifying creature that seems to have inhabited the cabinet behind him … all tentacles and teeth … (obscured by cup) … Where in the world can be found such nightmares?!”
Reblogging for the correct source (I didn’t even notice the OP wasn’t the artist oops).
There’s a second one, and there’s even more in this
AAAHH, cool, but AAAAAHHHH
Just a regular morning in Innsmouth.
Passing your perception checks isn’t always a great idea
There’s another one!
These are so neat
This is some twilight zone shit. It’s so cool.
I LOVE THESE KIND OF THINGS CAN YALL TAG ME IN THEM IF YOU SEE STUFF LIKE THIS I LIVE AND BREATHE IT PLEASE AND THANK YOU
Oh man theres a third one now!!
it came back around! and in time for my call sessions. excellent
Someone needs to write the comments on the first picture as the lyrics to a parody song of “Last Friday Night”
I feel the people who say sex positivity and ace positivity are opposites are fundamentally misunderstanding sex positivity. Sex positivity includes all ways of having sex, including not having sex or being repulsed by having sex.
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so you’ve chosen the path of hubris. so be it.
hey, rip to all the guys who’ve been killed by the tumblr public for their hubris, but i’m different. and better. maybe even better than the tumblr public.
The Notebook Game, the only game that actively gets worse intentionally!
Okay, so you’re probably wondering what the hell I’m on about, but trust me, this is possibly my favorite card game and I need more people to experience it!
Required Materials:
Notebook
Playing Cards (possibly multiple decks if you need it)
People
The basic idea is that every time somebody wins, they get to add another rule to the game!
Set Up:
Take your notebook and write down the “core rules” in the first page of the book.
The game begins with everyone being dealt the same amount of cards (agreed on before starting)
On your turn, you can either put down a card with the same suit or value as the previous card played, or pass.
If you break a rule and are called out, draw one card.
At the beginning of a session, rules may be discussed, but after the first game begins, nobody is allowed to discuss rules.
The first person to get rid of all their cards wins. The winner gets to write down another rule in the notebook, announce it to everyone once, and then close the book before starting a next game
Game play
That’s basically it! Keep the notebook and use it for later sessions, it gets so much more fun as people add random rules.
Some rule examples:
When someone plays (suit), everyone must do (action)
No discussion of movies made after 2007 at the table!
You have to thank someone if they call you out
When you have one card left, close your eyes!
Basically whatever random thing you feel like
Genuinely this is my favorite game to play with people, it’s so much fun trying to remember 70 different rules and contingencies while your friends just sit there waiting for you to screw up I can’t reccomend this enough please try it
i just realized i can rb my own posts so i’m just going to throw this one back out because i want to share this with more people
The immediate answer to the seeming contradiction is that the people calling the shots disagree with that official; the larger answer is that both the US and UK have access to millions of pounds of ordinance, and seem to struggle to find solutions that don’t involve using it to murder civilians.
I could fix him. I could make him worse. Good for you. I could gently take the weapon out of his shaking, blood-soaked hand and hold him until he finally believes that he doesn’t have to be defined by all the ways the world has hurt him. Then we could ruin the lives of everyone who has ever treated him like he’s a monster who doesn’t deserve love.
You have three minutes to stop an argument about who’s ship is better or worse than someone else’s, and three more to make the arguees see that ship wars are pointless. If you fail, you’ll be forced to watch your favorite book or show be adapted into a terrible remake. Good luck.
The thing about general life weirdness is that it’s accumulative. If you open the door and allow one (1) unusual thing into your life, that significantly improves the odds of other weird things happening. Just one mildly odd thing is just one mildly odd thing, but they lead the way for things that can be a perfectly logical consequence of the first thing, that would never, ever happen to someone who hadn’t invited the first odd thing into their life.
Like let’s say you decided to get an iguana. That’s not the most common kind of pet, but not unheard of. Perhaps you thought you wanted a cat, but then decided to see what other animals your local animal rescue has available, and holy shit they’ve got an iguana. So now you’ve got an iguana.
And being a responsible pet owner - which, again, is a normal thing to do - you make sure you take good care of your new baby. And being a rescue, your iguana might have some issues that they’ve got from being poorly handled by the previous owner. So you see what you can do about it, and find out a vet who is specialised enough to do physical therapy on an iguana. And naturally, you call them right up and get your iguana cared for. And being such a specialised professional, naturally this vet makes sure to keep their work and personal life neatly separated.
All of these are perfectly logical steps into an unusual direction, but they are also the way you may find yourself saying something like “my iguana’s therapist blocked me on grindr.”
The lands have been in trouble for a long time. Wherever one goes, everyone looks after themselves with no concern for those around. Leaders have fallen, Queens and Kings vanished, and humans scramble to make do.
Until one morning, a satyr wanders from the safety of her realm to find heroes she’s sang songs about that will help save the lands.
ALT
