if we’re being silly for a second can I just say I love that Elliot Page came out while his main job is Umbrella Academy. Like oh you realized you were trans while heavily invested in art made by Gerard Way? Welcome to the club brother 🤝
this morning NASA abandoned their mars rover Opportunity (aka Oppy) because it (she) got hit by a storm on Mars and it knocked her camera and wheels out and her last words to the team were “my battery is low and it is getting cold”. I know she’s a machine but I’m devastated. Oppy is the one who discovered water on Mars. RIP oppy ily space baby
they didn’t abandon her!! they tried eight months to reach her!!!! as their last farewell to her yesterday they played her “I’ll be seeing you” by Billie Holiday:
“I’ll find you in the morning sun
And when the night is new
I’ll be looking at the moon
But I’ll be seeing you”
They love her so much and they tried so hard!!!
Oh man, It doesn’t end there.
This isn’t the first song NASA sent Opportunity. They had a playlist:
It’s on Spotify, it’s called “Opportunity, wake up!“
This is what’s great about NASA and it’s what’s great about people. These are world-class engineers. When they sent a rover to another planet they could have easily looked at it as just another scientific tool. But people don’t do that. We can and will get emotionally attached to the most inanimate of objects. We can and will anthropomorphize anything. And frankly Opportunity’s camera mast looks like a little face with eyes and everything, so why not?
So they started calling it her.
They nicknamed her Oppy.
They told her to take a selfie not long ago.
After 15 years of Oppy flipping the double bird to her original 90 day life expectancy, when a planet-spanning dust storm finally knocked her out and she stopped responding to the engineer’s wake-up messages, they started playing music for her.
And after 8 months and almost 1000 unanswered wake-up messages, when it was finally clear that Oppy was never going to wake up, the last thing these world-class NASA engineers did for their little rover on another planet
my 3 rent paying girlfriends (yes they all pay rent)
[ID: Edit of the “centipedes? In my vagina?” Meme so it says “Monogamy? In this economy? It’s less likely than you think.” END ID]
[Image ID: Edit of the “Okay, was anybody going to tell me that a walrus can suck the skin off of a seal, or was I just supposed to read that in National Geographic myself?” meme (starring Chris Fleming) so it says “Okay, was anybody going to tell me that this meme originally says ‘Centipedes? in my Vagina?’, or was I just supposed to learn that from this image ID myself?” End ID]
there’s an app called “No Thanks” that scans barcodes and tells you whether a company supports israel or not if anyone is interested! it should be available on most app stores!
AS OF FEBRUARY 21ST, 2024, WE GOT FIVE DAYS UNTIL THE DAY OF DECISION OF THE KOSA BILL, WHICH WILL CAUSE MASS CENSORSHIP ROUND THE INTERNET IF PASSED. OR DOOMSDAY. WE NEED EVERYONE TO KNOW ABOUT THIS AND CONTRIBUTE. I’M NOT GIVING UP ON YOU ALL.
WE’RE DOWN TO THE WIRE BUT WE CAN’T GIVE UP YET. IF WE GIVE UP, EVERYTHING IS OVER. IF WE DON’T, AT LEAST WE HAVE A CHANCE.
I’M THE ONE WHO SOUNDED THE ALARM, AND I’M NOT GOING TO CURL UP AND DIE YET.
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Its about time to move on from this Minecraft town so it’s time to say goodbye to
What’s under the train station / zombie driving school
But not just under the train station / zombie driving school. But in the basement.
But not just in the basement
But in the sub-basement
But below the sub-basement
Is the sub-sub-basement.
And under the sub-sub-basement
Is the underwater tunnel. A dangerous dark underwater tunnel that requires most of your health to get through. After the underwater tunnel you have to go through
The sub-sub-sub-basement. Which leads to
The second underwater tunnel. Which leads to
The door
But behind The Door…
Is Jeff
I’m glad people are appreciating the work it took to seal away Jeff
Uh- guys? Why does Charlie think Lucifer “didn’t want to see her” after her parents split? I mean, we see very clearly how desperate he is to connect with her and how much he loves her. So what gave her the idea that he didn’t..?
I’m just not sure I trust Lilith (for multiple reasons, but this is one of them).
I hate when people try to be some kinda funnyman in response to powerful art. Maybe you should just earnestly feel things once in a while, babe.
Oh, and adding to this…I also hate when people try to be some kinda funnyman in response to art that was earnestly done but maybe fell short of what it was trying to do or had a certain naivety to it…maybe you should just earnestly try to make things once in a while, babe.
Hi sorry, but an anon ask said matt was sexually harassing Avery on twitter like a day or 2 ago and from the screenshots ive seen it was nasty harassment but I didnt see anything sexual, did I miss some form of context or something or was it an exaggeration? I keep seeing that ask on my dash so I figured I would ask. I hope this finds you well and that you have a good day
i’ll elaborate a little here, though: just like all sexual violence, sexual harassment is not always (and honestly not often) done by someone looking to get their rocks off. it is a weapon used by people who want to make someone feel violated and strip them of agency. it says “remember: you’re not in control of this situation. i can hurt you whenever i want.”
which is what’s happening here. matt posted those sideblog urls because he expected them to be sexually humiliating. he expected them to speak for themselves and allow people to judge avery as deviant and worthy of him stalking her over to twitter. he might not think that’s why he did it — men rarely do — but it’s pretty clear to those of us who’ve dealt with men like that.
I just finished The Rehabilitation of Death(@bamsara cotl fanfic) and… OMG THIS IS SO COOL AAAAAH CHAPTER 15 MY FAVORITE THESE TWO IDIOTS ARE SO CUTE… You should read this if you haven’t yet
Ignoring situations involving doxxing (which are more serious but also less common and easier to protect yourself from), the main goal of sustained harassment on here is to get you to delete your blog. You can probably keep most of your friends by adding them on discord or whatever, but the underlying logic in these cases is “you are a person who exists on the same part of the internet I use, and I want that to stop.”
I reject the idea that moderation will ever be a solution to this problem, at least not without creating new, worse problems. But tumblr can and should provide users better tools for defending themselves.
Let’s talk about tumblr’s private blog feature. You can password-protect a blog, so that users have to enter the password before being able to see and interact with your posts. This is barely a step above deleting your blog.
You need to manually share this password with everyone you want to have access to the blog, which does not scale to a following in the thousands. You need to hope that no one ever leaks the password to your harassers, in which case your only recourse is to change the password and manually reshare it, again. This is a Bad System.
What does a good system look like? Consider twitter’s private account feature. All your followers are preserved, but future followers have to ask to follow your blog. If you block a follower, they can’t just create a new account and dodge the block - they’re locked out. You keep your blog, you keep your following, you keep your friends, and no one outside your bubble can touch you.
There are still downsides here compared to not being harassed at all - people who don’t already follow you can’t see your posts - but it gives you a way to turn off the harassment spigot that can be easily reversed if/when your harassers get bored.
Combine this with a feature ideally for both private and public blogs (allowing only people you follow to reblog or reply) and I think the situation on this site improves a lot.
“come home and see my girl cave :)” I say flirtily. You agree, imagining a rec room with some couches and maybe a few vintage consoles. I lead you down into the basement, where I have carved out a slimy grotto with its own ecosystem. by the time you see me dive into the water and come up with a fish in my teeth, it’s too late. You want to fuck me so badly.
How many more queer kids are gonna die before people give a shit? What are we supposed to do. Nex Benedict did fucking nothing wrong and they had their head bashed against the fucking floor. They just wanted to go home that day.
ALT
