im noticing a pattern here and i want to decipher it. lets go by us height standards for people who NEED actual numbers, but again just vote off of vibes its fine either way:
women average is 5 foot 4 (162.56 cm)
men average is 5 foot 9 (175.25 cm)
doesn’t have to be exact just like close, so you’re not short for a male if you’re 5'8, but maybe 5'6
if you’re nb or other just feel it out, theres no gods or judgement here only vibes and a little fox who watches you harmlessly but intently
oh and RB this for sample size bc im wildly curious how this works
“Not beating the ___ allegations” is such a ‘now’ turn of phrase, implying as it does a world where everyone’s behavior is always on literal trial by a guilt-presuming judge and jury that consists of anyone who happens to be paying attention.
friendly reminder that YOU 🫵 can make even the most relaxing innocuous activities into high stress situations if you’re mentally ill enough. always believe in yourself and your incapacity to conquer catastrophic thinking!
I was typing an entire post about food issues and why I don’t like wet food, until I remembered that unlike in Dutch, ‘wet food’ has a specific meaning in English. Just straight up deleted everything bc all I could see myself as was
scheming…. plotting… conniving….. decieving… while i let it all hang out…… i shall bite your hand and skitter away to wedge myself into a crevice after this… all part of my dastardly existence………. and i just hatched today. tomorrow? well. thats for you to find out. 😈 🦎
There was a new LGBT+ acronym, and it was twig etc. (it had to be in lowercase for some reason). It stood for trans, Welsh, intersex, and gay. Everyone else was etc. It was very controversial.
“phones are disrupting natural sleep cycles” I mean true but also bold of you to assume I had one before the tech boom lol catch me out here reading chapter books by the light of my light up pens in the third grade
jeeli beeli, peet rat goomie candieeeee. let’s slike it opeen so he can. breeeeaaaaaath. mmm freesh aier. peet rat, timie to comie alivie. escapi the pakackie. esapi, the pakackie. peet ratti’s. veri baig and longe. veri baig, aaand loooonge. the battaum ais, veri, flatt. goode boye, veri goode boye. peet ratti’s, a veri, goode boye.
love how the ming dynasty has a long series of really competent and hardworking and idealistic emperors who each get on the throne and go i’m going to be the best emperor ever, unlike my good-for-nothing predecessor who let the bureaucrats make all the decisions while he sat back and worked in his hobbies! and then they realize that the squabbling confucian bureaucracy has gridlocked the government so badly that the emperor couldn’t make any decisions even if he wanted to and they’re like ohhhh i get it now
i’ve seen people use the word “childish” to describe the zhengde emperor’s marie antoinette thing where he made all his ministers and eunuchs cosplay normal people in a fake marketplace with him, but honestly i think he was onto something. pretend with me for a minute that the most important thing in the world is not which faction’s interpretation of an eight word phrase in the analects is correct, but rather whether or not you can sell enough beancurd to make rent. sixteenth century touch grass
a poem i am sure everyone has seen but i’m still going to share anyway
as well as this other poem inspired by giovanni’s
and this beautiful tweet
[id: a photo of a small green spider sitting on a web. Below them is the text: “i’m sorry for scaring you but i didn’t know being seen would cost me my life”]/id.
[id: the poem Allowables by Nikki Giovanni:
I killed a spider Not a murderous brown recluse Nor even a black widow. And if the truth were told this Was only a small Sort of papery spider Who should have run When I picked up the book But she didn’t And she scared me And I smashed her
I don’t think I’m allowed
To kill something
Because I am
Frightened]/end id.
[id: The poem “Mercy: after Nikki Giovanni”:
She asks me to kill the spider. Instead, I get the most peaceful weapons I can find.
I take a cup and a napkin. I catch the spider, put it outside and allow it to walk away.
If I am ever caught in the wrong place at the wrong time, just being alive and not bothering anyone,
I hope I am greeted with the same kind of mercy.
-Rudy Francisco]/end id.
[id: tweet by Kayla Ancrum ✨ ICARUS coming Winte… (@KaylaAncrum) from 2022-12-07: “I had a dream that I was commissioned to write a poem from a bug to a god, and I do not remember any of the poem except for the last line which was: I pray nobody kills me for the crime of being small.”]/end id.
should be able to leave kudos on scientific studies. i liked your paper dude keep at it
sorry, Dr. Dude
Dude et. al.
need y'all to know that most academics have publicly searchable email addresses and this not only makes their day but they can put nice emails in their giant packets for applying for jobs or tenure. “hi i read your paper for a class and it was very helpful, im at xyz college and the class is blah with professor blah” is sufficient and ENORMOUSLY helpful
Why am I getting ads about how the government is giving $6k to undocumented immigrants crossing the border im supposed to believe that? What do you take me for ?
Society if the government gave everyone crossing the border $6,000 to jumpstart their life
I hate so much that professors who still can’t figure out how to send messages on Zoom think they’re capable of spotting AI writing. Professors are just feeding essays into AI detectors with massive fail rates with absolutely zero critical thought about the tools they’re using. I moved across state lines. I’ve spent years of my life trying to get this degree. But at any moment I could be expelled because I got a false positive from a detector that tells you ChatGPT wrote Anna Karenina.
My friend was placed on academic probation because their essay tripped the automated AI detectors. His probation only lasted until the humans in the community standards office made time to manually review his essay – that wound up being sixteen whole days.
There’s a scholarship for our school’s study abroad program, but you can’t apply if you’re on probation. And there’s a strict deadline. My friend wasn’t able to apply, even though he would have been perfect for the program, because the mindless program started beeping, and the humans in charge didn’t care enough to come check until after the scholarship deadline had already passed. He can’t afford to go on his own. This likely means he won’t be able to attend classes during the summer even domestically, which means he won’t earn credits during those three months. That pushes back his graduation timeline by a whole semester. I cannot stress enough that these crazy arbitrary braindead-version-of-HAL “detectors” are wreaking havoc with real people’s lives.
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sorry about always posting about kink discourse im just v passionate about it because its relevant to my day to day life, my relationship, mental health, and my career.
i actually think its an important discussion to have because it is a prime example of certain sociological issues that i find interesting, issues that in the end are anti-marxist and are counterproductive. not only in sense of “stop telling ppl to die” which yes is an issue, but this is a symptom of culture at large, of perfomative activism, of small groups of young people who use and abuse moral authority to control others within them. and in the end, disgust politics are bad, and not does this only pave the way for antiqueer violence and policies, it also ostracizes people coping with ocd and other youreabadpersonewww disorders.
also i make living from my art and having to constantly self-censor to avoid getting spammed w death threats and cancellations is very annoying and not very nice
we as a society need to do something about the fact that frozen pizza doesn’t taste good
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Hey that might be the wrong gif. It cuts to a scene from 0 of Kiryu kicking a door through a man. That’s not the normal gif.
I know it’s not the normal gif but for some reason this is the one that’s been on my hard drive for several years and I can’t bear to part with it. I feel like kicking the door down just adds some flavor. especially because no one’s ever expecting it.
re: that last post, ive said it before and ill say it again: no one deserves to die (deserving is fake and death is bad) but some people need to be stopped and choose to make death the only way to stop them
I disagree. Pedophiles 100% deserve death.
you are moralizing and weaponizing your disgust in order to construct and justify a category of person you’re allowed to murder
what do you think you deserve for this?
Sorry, no person deserves to die, thankfully child molesters and pedophiles aren’t human, so this doesnt apply to them.
denying the humanity of people who do horrible things accomplishes exactly three things:
give cover to people who haven’t been caught yet by allowing them to use their humanity as “proof” of their innocence
silence any criticism of societal structures and institutions that facilitate those horrible things by putting the focus on individuals who are assumed to be so uniquely monstrous that the ways it was made easy for them are irrelevant
provide a shortcut to dehumanize anyone you feel like killing: simply accuse them of doing a horrible thing
3.a. if you’ve already established that only an inhuman monster could kill a child, then all you have to do to get people to burn down the jewish quarter is say that jews kidnap christian children to bathe in their blood
3.b. if you’ve already established that only an inhuman monster could commit rape, then all you have to do to get people to string up a black man you don’t like is find a white woman who’s willing to point at him while she cries and babbles
3.c. if you’ve already established that only an inhuman monster could molest a child, then all you have to do to get people to drag gay people behind their trucks is say that since gay people can’t have babies, the only way they can make more gay people is by following a nefarious Agenda to “convert” children by molesting them
3.c.a. meanwhile if you try to address the rampant sexual assault of catholic altar boys, you’re met with “don’t be ridiculous, he’s a priest!” (see #1) and with assertions that even if it does happen sometimes, those priests are just infiltrators who don’t represent the church and there’s no reason to make sure priests and altar boys are never alone together (see #2)
tl;dr: your disgust-based violent politics are not less reactionary than any run-of-the-mill homophobe or racist’s disgust-based violent politics
I realized how bad of a take this was after I added my last bit, i apologize for the idiocy i portrayed in my half thought out statements. And I appreciate the way you rebutted this with reasonable statements rather than going hog wild because I said something you didnt agree with.
hey no worries. we’ve all been there, and anyone who says they havent is either 11 or afraid of their social circle
unlearning our kneejerk reactions is a process, and it’s not a linear one. its good to practice thinking before we post, but sometimes thinking after we post just has to be good enough
all these retro style games that are like “NO tutorials NO handholding” apparently forgot about the little books that used to come with your game that detailed all the mechanics, controls, special moves, lore, maps, collectables, means of unlocking additional content, character bios, etc
i remember there were a few games that would even include what was essentially a walkthrough/strategy guide for the first level or two, i dont get what these retro devs are on lmao
hadnt actually considered that. much to think about
I love when I’m watching scifi and the doctors or scientists or whatever argue about each other’s technobabble like No quantum beams won’t work. You fool. You fucking idiot. As the audience I wasn’t even gonna question it like damn my bad… I thought quantum beams might work
there is, in fact, a “platonic explanation for this” if you’re not a coward
its so fun to see the diversity of tags on this ranging from “they’re literally just standing next to each other” to “deep bonds dont have to be romantic/sexual!” to “yeah friends can fuck nasty, platonically. coward.” we’re all so correct, there are, in fact, a million platonic explanations for this
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when my mutuals change their icons that means they have changed their entire body. my beloved mutual gerard way has transitioned into lisa frankenstein
the way gay ppl online talk abt classical um. faggotry is interesting. every time i see a ‘ancient greece/rome was a queer paradise’ im like girl lets separate fantasy and fact. we can all imagine two beefy bearded warrior type guys blowing each other. we can even jerk off to that. but that was NOT what was going on back then
like they didnt do what we think about or mean when we say gay sex - anal, fellatio, etc. that was not a part of the norm. they didnt accept what we now think when we say consensual sex - which we think of as between two consenting adults (or two consenting teens). those that engaged in that kind of gay sex (as-we-think-of-it-today), especially those who preferred to be penetrated, were shamed and punished.
and thats before we even begin discussing gender deviancy and relationships between women. hell, even the basic rights of women.
The amount of safety features incorporated into modern cars is unreal. I’ve seen crashes where the car flipped over and the occupant only had minor injuries. My dad was t-boned by someone speeding off the highway and walked away with a broken arm. The car was completely smashed except for the passenger compartment, which was curtained on all sides with airbags. That one manufacturer has decided they are exempt from implementing all these advancements disgusting and terrifying
When I was going through driver’s ed I was taught that the steering column would stab through your chest if you crashed head on and that was just the way it was. We do not want to go back, not even a little
In 2020 I was rear ended by someone going 40 mph when I was at a dead stop (person in front of us stopped on a blind hill and I had to slam the breaks).
My (then) 3 year old car was barely dented. Me and my spouse walked off without even a HINT of injury. Not even sore muscles.
The person who hit us and had a 2004ish model? Their car was TOTALED (like it had gone from a borzoi to a pug) but everyone inside was also completely safe and okay.
The lack of safety features on the Cybertruck and in Teslas in general is so scary.
what worries me is people saying stuff like ‘let the market decide’ because this is late stage capitalism, where production is totally decoupled from demand. consumers do not have choices anymore, we can’t make decisions.
instead of responding to this as consumers who have made smarter choices than the victims of the CEO of a company that’s simply decided not to comply with health and safety regulations, we need to look at this as citizens who expect their society to protect us. it should not be legal for a car company to make cars that are deadly to drive in, or around. if it is legal, we should change that. if it’s illegal, we should enforce that. like, if one company can flout safety and accountability practices to make an absolute fuckton of money, they’re all going to try.
so like yeah haha look at the jackasses who wanted to noodle around in a ridiculous status symbol. what a bunch of arrogant twerps! but the con men who sold them a death trap have blood on their hands and need to be stopped immediately.
If people can’t understand that this isn’t just about individual choices:
You don’t get to choose what kind of car your parents drive, you fucking cabbages. You don’t get to choose what kind of car crashes into you. You don’t get to choose what kind of car hits you while you’re crossing the road.
This is about everybody being safe on the roads, not just the people driving the fucking Teslas.
I’ve learned a lesson, I can’t be openly trans on the internet.
Ever since I started getting a lot of attention on all my posts it’s been unbearable non-stop harassment. All because I dared to be a trans man on the internet who made posts about being a trans man. All because I dared to be a trans man who made sexual jokes. All because I dared to be a trans man who had a fucking backbone about anything and didn’t let people walk all over me.
I’ve gotten hundreds of transphobic comments and asks, and staff hasn’t done shit about it. I report and I report but nothing. The people who harass me just say up. They can tell me to kill myself. They can call me slurs. They can send me rape threats. And staff just lets it happen.
And I’m tired of it. I just wanted to have fun . I just wanted to shitpost.
I’m going to make a new general blog - one where it’s just me and my friends making shitposts again. Mutuals can DM and ask what it is.
This is the shit tumblr allows on their platform. This is what I have to deal with.
Tumblr allows this to happen.
I encourage people to reblog this - and for people to share their stories about tumblr ignoring transphobic harassment - this is an ongoing issue. tumblr has had a problem ignoring transphobic harassment for years.
I’ve experienced worse transphobic harassment here on tumblr than I have on any other website. If I report someone for harassment on Reddit they actually do something, but on tumblr? Nothing. They do nothing.
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