[ID: the top of a news article. The subject is “climate change.” The headline says, “Indians may already be experiencing temperatures close to limits of human survivability without even being aware.” The body text says, “The basic criteria for IMD to declare a heatwave currently does not include take into account relative humidity, which is increasingly becoming a cause of humid heatwaves.” End ID.]
im officially at the age where when i walk into a store and an associate immediately asks me if i need help finding anything i actually just tell them what im there for so i dont have to waste my own time looking for it. society working as planned.
need a full body massage a margarita 400mg of ibuprofen a plate of brownies at least an hour in a jacuzzi and 20,000 dollars cash
reblog to give a mutual a full body massage a margarita 400mg of ibuprofen a plate of brownies at least an hour in a jacuzzi and 20,000 dollars in cash
the year was Two Thousand and twenty-four. I took a puff of my Electronic-Cigarette, inhaling the vapours. my mobile terminal buzzed in my pocket, a flat slab of microchips and glossy touchscreen. I ignored it……. probably another Electronic-Mail
sorry. i zoned out while you were talking because i saw the tips of your fangs and got hit with a wave of fondness & lust so strong it almost made me nauseous. What were you saying
got tired of all depressing and hating yourself for being aro vibes on legit any other platform besides tumblr (looking at you tictac app) so wanted to listen to positive aromantic playlists and legit could NOT FIND ANY??????
And the ones that were vaguely positive were made for aroace ppl. Which is great! But im not ace!!! So WHERE’S MY POSITIVE AROALLO REP?!?!?!
Anyways i solved this hyperspecific problem myself and made a POSITIVE AROALLO playlist:
It’s so messed up that a site that’s supposably queerfriendly has these results. For the people that answered no what do you think the A in LGBTQIIA stands for because if you think it stands for ally i’m going to scream. Those are the same people that believe that aro or ace people don’t experience oppression meanwhile we do not feel safe in our own community. The same community that prefers to celebrate allies for doing the bare minimum than us !
Community college is not only OK, it’s a very good idea. 90% of jobs aren’t going to care where you got your degree. For those remaining 10%, here’s a hack that can save you tens of thousands of dollars in tuition.
Go to community college, get an Associate’s Degree in General Ed. This will take you two years, and it is statistically likely that at the end of those two years you will have a better idea of what you want to actually do with your life than you did when you were fucking seventeen years old.
THEN Decide on your major. If you need a Prestigious School, you are much more likely to get in with an associate’s degree and a good GPA than you were with a diploma and a good GPA. Since you have an associate’s degree, those credits are locked. None of this “Okay, you can transfer to our college, but you’re going to have to retake your English Credits and maybe another humanities course” shit. You have a degree that says you completed that part of your education, and you can now concentrate on the remaining two years required for a four year degree in your major.
We are doing kids a major disservice when we act like college is the only life path that can lead to success. These days the market is oversaturated with hyper specific degrees that there aren’t enough jobs for, while not enough people are going into trades to keep those professions running smoothly.
You can go into a trade school or an apprenticeship instead of college, you won’t spend as much, and you will start making money sooner. And let me just add: people make good money in the trades.
Trade school or tech institutes are really good alternatives to even community college. Many MANY jobs don’t even require a degree, just certification (or you get better pay with a cert) so you may be spending more at even a CC than you actually need to. And most trade/TIs will get you in and out in under a year!
I think it’s really funny the way pop sci publications will put so much shock value towards “WORLD’S DEADLIEST ANIMALS” when they really mean “deadly to humans specifically”
Black mamba and chimpanzee ain’t got shit on our humble friend the anteater, who has ended 500 lives just for breakfast and is coming back for seconds
We talk about big deadly grazers like anteaters and whales but I feel like insectivorous bats deserve some extra respect for not only chowing down on 6000-10,000 lives per night, but for also Actively Hunting them (often while also schlepping halfway across a continent on migration), instead of just sticking their schozz in their food’s house. Like I get why- efficiency is the greatest virtue of any predator- but it think there’s an element of horror to how stunningly efficient bats are that they can hunt and kill thousands of lives per night as like, a side activity to a road trip.
if you say “as one does” after any phrase nobody’s allowed to think you’re weird anymore. cheat code bypass for all standards of social normalcy
i was gonna add something like “so i was *extremely violent/grotesque/unusual thing*, as one does” and then i stopped because i realized the george costanza nature of this post.
“it’s like an instant bypass, jerry. nobody can say you’re strange anymore when you pull that bad boy out”
“an instant bypass.”
“yes. and i use it to escape social accountability. as one does.”
Hey, guys? Make peace with yellow teeth. I’m so serious right now.
Every time I visit my parents anymore, they always take time to comment on my appearance and how much it’s changed, for better or worse. I could easily turn this into a fat-positivity post, or nonbinary-positivity, glasses, hair, ect. But the one thing I don’t think I’ve ever seen any positive talk about are yellow teeth.
My teeth are stained yellow. I doubt they will ever be white, and to be honest? I don’t care.
I don’t have cavities. I brush. I pick between them at least once or twice a day to keep them clean. And yet they remain yellow.
I cannot tell you the sheer amount of damage this can cause a person, especially if they keep constantly getting told to brush their teeth every time they visit family. Like… I do. There’s nothing I can do about this. And I don’t really want to.
The only reason I feel any compulsion to whiten them is out of embarrassment when other people look at me weird for smiling at them. And how fucked up is that. I have taught myself subconsciously to suppress any joy or happiness I get when I’m around other people for fear that they’ll see my teeth.
If you see how I draw myself, it’s always with white teeth, even though that’s not true. The only time I’ve ever seen yellow teeth in cartoons, it’s always for the slobby character that doesn’t take care of themself.
I didn’t even realize how much it was damaging me until today, when I caught myself forcing back a smile at work.
Obviously, remember to brush your teeth and keep them healthy. This is not a post about letting yourself fall into disrepair. But if someone has less-than-white teeth, then… okay? And?
I think we should just stop judging people for their appearances in general. People come as they are. That’s all they need to do. Who cares what fucking color their goddamn teeth are.
Addendum to this post because the people in the notes are absolutely correct:
Make peace with crooked teeth.
Make peace with sideways teeth.
Make peace with missing teeth.
Make peace with deformed teeth.
Make peace with teeth that DO have cavities in them.
Make peace with rotting teeth.
Make peace with damaged teeth.
I think a big part of why this has gone un-talked about for so long is just because having yellow teeth is associated with damaged teeth in some way, and thus indicative of a person’s day-to-day life. But, just like with everything else, this is NOT TRUE.
Missing teeth does not automatically mean that person gets into a lot of fights or was bullied. It could just mean that that tooth got removed.
Not everyone can afford braces, and for some people, they can be more harmful than helpful.
Some people’s teeth are hard to maintain, and they get cavities VERY easily. This doesn’t mean they don’t try their best to take care of themselves.
Everything has nuance. Let’s stop boxing everything in “good” and “bad” categories based on what beauty companies want us to be, yeah?
“average person eats 3 spiders a year” factoid actualy just statistical error. average person eats 0 spiders per year. Spiders Georg, who lives in cave & eats over 10,000 each day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted
I love how whenever someone is like “parents should have the right their kids internet usage more closely” and you point out what if that were the case it would get a whole lot of queer kids kicked out or killed they go “of course I don’t mean abusive parents should be invading their childrens privacy I just mean good parents with healthy boundaries 🙄🙄🙄” as if “parents should have more control over what their children do and look at online but not the abusive ones only the nice ones :)” is something that’s actionable or enforceable in any way.
Parental controls should not be designed the way they are now
Or how anyone who thinks parents should have more insight into what their child is looking at Imagine them
the first place transfemmes aren’t allowed is in PUBLIC
people get that, right? Many of the transfemmes being banned can’t just “go outside”, there is no outside when a constant onslaught of transphobia keeps you stuck at home. Many transfemmes don’t have homes, either! Can’t get jobs - lots of us are forced to beg on social media sites like this in order to have any money at all.
getting banned from social media is annoying, most of the time! But if you are relying on this site to live, it can KILL you. Same way phones are a luxury, but a 911 call is an emergency. If you cut someone’s phone line when they are calling emergency services, you are a murderer!
No I’m not attracted to you. Quit your evil putting your finger under my chin to make me look up at you. I know I’m your nemesis and all but we really need to set some boundaries when you’ve got me tied up like this.
No look I get it. You’ve got your evil plan, you’ve gotta get me out of the way but you also want to see me suffer as I watch the world burn, I know. But like, I’m not into this. Sexually or otherwise. Wait, you thought I was doing this because I liked you? I’m trying to stop you from using a death laser. No I don’t think death lasers are sexy what on earth are you talking about
Wait. That’s why you dress like that? I thought that armor was impractical. No I don’t find our relationship to be homoerotic I find it to be tedious. Look, man. We all keep trying to get you into therapy. No I’m not kink shaming you I’m saying you’ve completely misinterpreted this relationship. I actually do think you should answer for your war crimes. Yes, really. No you’re the one not listening to me in this situation. Yes that is the alarm the others will have cut all your wires and called in the fbi by now.
What do you mean you thought we had something special? I have other enemies. You’re not the only one. No I’m not doing kinky things with them either I blow up their nefarious devices. Speaking of which, you might want to move like… ten feet to your right.
No, enemies to enemies. And then still enemies.
Cannot stress enough how lovers will never be part of this equation even a little bit
The henchmen in the tags who have been assuring the villain since the beginning that “of course he likes you back, why else would he keep coming to destroy your death lasers”
The henchmen have been reading too many romance novels.
Awfully defensive are we? I think the henchmen are onto something.
You know I didn’t intend for this character I made up to be aromantic but this whole post has turned into being arospec at a family reunion simulator
No I’m not attracted to you. Quit your evil putting your finger under my chin to make me look up at you. I know I’m your nemesis and all but we really need to set some boundaries when you’ve got me tied up like this.
No look I get it. You’ve got your evil plan, you’ve gotta get me out of the way but you also want to see me suffer as I watch the world burn, I know. But like, I’m not into this. Sexually or otherwise. Wait, you thought I was doing this because I liked you? I’m trying to stop you from using a death laser. No I don’t think death lasers are sexy what on earth are you talking about
Wait. That’s why you dress like that? I thought that armor was impractical. No I don’t find our relationship to be homoerotic I find it to be tedious. Look, man. We all keep trying to get you into therapy. No I’m not kink shaming you I’m saying you’ve completely misinterpreted this relationship. I actually do think you should answer for your war crimes. Yes, really. No you’re the one not listening to me in this situation. Yes that is the alarm the others will have cut all your wires and called in the fbi by now.
What do you mean you thought we had something special? I have other enemies. You’re not the only one. No I’m not doing kinky things with them either I blow up their nefarious devices. Speaking of which, you might want to move like… ten feet to your right.
No, enemies to enemies. And then still enemies.
Cannot stress enough how lovers will never be part of this equation even a little bit
The henchmen in the tags who have been assuring the villain since the beginning that “of course he likes you back, why else would he keep coming to destroy your death lasers”
The henchmen have been reading too many romance novels.
Awfully defensive are we? I think the henchmen are onto something.
You know I didn’t intend for this character I made up to be aromantic but this whole post has turned into being arospec at a family reunion simulator
My niece Karma is 3 months old . She was born in war, in a tent ..She is malnourished , she gets sick , ,intestinal catarrh and fevers and vomit all the time !But sadly there is no medical care or even medicine , She deserves not to die or get orphaned . Please help her and her family escape Gaza to Egypt. Help her be safe and healthy
Karma Name means the generous giver who never runs out of blessings 🙏❤ Hopefully she gets a share of her name ! 🙏🌸
Watched a great talk today about web/technology accessibility, and the speaker pointed out that yes, accessibility is important for people with permanent disabilities, and we should definitely care about that. But also accessibility helps EVERYBODY, because everybody will, at some point in their lives, find themselves in situations that accessible technology can help with. Here are permanent, temporary, and situational disabilities that accessible technology can help with:
Remember that whether something is disabling or not depends on the situation, the environment, the technology, etc. We’re ALL disabled at some point. It is important to support permanently disabled people, but it is also important to remember that accessibility helps us all!
Watched a great talk today about web/technology accessibility, and the speaker pointed out that yes, accessibility is important for people with permanent disabilities, and we should definitely care about that. But also accessibility helps EVERYBODY, because everybody will, at some point in their lives, find themselves in situations that accessible technology can help with. Here are permanent, temporary, and situational disabilities that accessible technology can help with:
Remember that whether something is disabling or not depends on the situation, the environment, the technology, etc. We’re ALL disabled at some point. It is important to support permanently disabled people, but it is also important to remember that accessibility helps us all!
On The Subject Of Bots: A Former Bot Farm Operator Speaks On The Process (Also spread this video all over this website. I mean it. Spread it. For a whole set of reasons-one of them being antiblackness)
ID [ Close up of a woman in a car wearing a green shirt. She has a dark brown ponytail. She says: ‘I’m a a former tech employee that created and sustained a bot farm between 2015 and 2018 in California USA.
Wanna give you guys some information because American bot farm operators are pretty rare. Most bot farms operate oversea. I don’t know if there’s anyone like me in the US that can tell you this stuff is what I’m saying.
I’m typically way secretive about this but it’s gotten so bad I need to talk about it
So what is a bot farm ? Something that an individual or a company purchases. You get a set amount of bots that look like normal people, go out, and spread your message. And here’s the work that goes ino that:
I as a operator have to create each individual fake person. I have to create a bio. I have to create a username, a real name, then I have to generate content that has to be supportive of the message the client is paying for.
Positive opinion of the company or the individual. If anyone has ever tried to create content (you know that) that takes time and also that takes ideas; it’s not easy.
Finally you need to program these bots based on activity. Bots respond to what you do.
You think that you going around and liking things is invisible. It’s not. You’re leaving a footprint across the app. That footprint is tracked by people like me. So based on what other people like or comment on, I program my bot to go and search for those people, find them, and then interact with them with my content that supports the message that I created.
This programming also includes research to find the people that are the most susceptible to believing the message that you’re selling, and targeting those people. This is just a scratch on the surface of what it takes to program one of these. And people are buying hundreds of them.
Now here’s the interesting part. The software to run all these bots is not free. And the time that it takes to create all the things that I just told you about also not free. All of this stuff costs money.
And it represents money when you see it. If you’re seeing non stop videos posted with a certain agenda, someone’s paying for that. So when you see a dump/ a ton of media that’s telling you all the same message, do not say wow what a thing happening right now.
Please instead say wow who’s trying to buy my opinion on this topic ?
End of the video ] End of ID
“Please instead say wow who’s trying to buy my opinion on this topic ?”
A lot of people in the notes are defending this with stuff like “why are you so mad that this guy made the book easier to read for himself, would you rather just not read it than read it using an accesibility feature?” And I gotta say I’m of two minds about this.
On the one hand, it’s not wrong for people to do whatever they want or need to make reading easier for them, and it seems like this change legitimately helped him get through the book more easily. At the same time, I also don’t think it’s wrong to notice or point out how this particular accesibility feature fits neatly into broader societal trends of a lot of westerners (and particularly anglos) being conditioned by their own global cultural hegemony to be unwilling to make the bare minimum effort to mentally engage with anything that isn’t immediately palatable to them, and of art being seen as unpalatable and inaccessible to western audiences if it isn’t stripped of “foreign” elements that might make it unrelatable to them.
Like. This IS a decent short-term fix, but also I think that if someone’s at the point where they find it hard to read a book because they keep mixing up names that don’t look or sound anything like each other because they all sound foreign I think it’s worth questioning if you’re having that problem because foreign names are inherently difficult and inaccessible for you, or because you’ve been culturally conditioned for your brain to bounce off anytime it encounters anything that’s too foreign-looking.
This might well work to make the book more accessible for this guy, but I don’t think it’s anything wrong with questioning why this accesibility feature is like. Two steps removed from 4Kids changing “onigiri” to “jelly donuts” in the Pokemon dub.
I honestly think an accessibility feature is maybe a skewed way to view it? Or I guess more accurately, accessibility features are not automatically value neutral. You need to ask, what is this accommodating?
Very much like imsobadatnicknames2 said, yeah it makes the book easier to read for this person, but why? Like as someone who’s a native english speaker, things are frankly remarkably easy and sanitized for us. It is very comfortable to never have to learn how foreign names are pronounced (and indeed to never have to deconstruct what we consider a “foreign” name is in the first place); our media is filled to the brim with typical white people names, and when we do get names of other ethnicities or cultures, they are typically those that are easiest for an anglophone westerner to pronounce. “Nguyen” is one of the most common family names in the world, yet I have never once seen it in any film or tv show and I have found it in exactly one book. Maybe my media tastes are pretty bland and undiversified, but that’s kind of the point, isn’t it? Because I’d have to hear and learn how to pronounce a name I don’t know already, it’s very easy for one of the most common surnames to just never come up.
So again, what is this person accommodating? They make no mention of dyslexia, or trouble reading, and a pronounciation guide seems easy enough to google. Are they accommodating poor memory? Because a small sheet of notes would do the exact same, AND reinforce the learning of these new (to them) names.
Because that’s the crux of it, right? They aren’t making it easier to learn, or easier to invest in cultural differences. They are making it easier to ignore them.
At the end of the day, it’s their copy of the book, so it’s theirs to modify as they please, I guess. But is that really how you want to engage with the text? By covering up pieces of it? What growth and discovery are you giving up to be comfortable? Who are you erasing to remain unchallenged?
[ID: A tweet from @ BatkaA02 that reads, “Scientific experiment: we gave a redditor a book to read that isn’t Harry Potter.” Attached is a screenshot of a Reddit post from watzor2332. It reads, “The content isn’t difficult however what I personally really struggled with was the names. You have Rodion Raskolnikov, Avdotya Raskolnikov, Marmeladov, Svidrigailov, Razumikhin, Katerina Ivanovna etc etc. I had a hard time remembering who was who. My solution was, because I was reading on Kindle, to save the .mobi file to my computer, open it with a free editor I downloaded and do some bulk replaces. I replaced them with common English names, Pete, Roger, Kate etc.” / END ID]
Okay okay we all know Johnny cash did his cover of Hurt and we were all like “ok he owns that now” but I watched the music video he made and I’m like “oh he OWNS it owns it”
It’s totally wild to me because most people agree that Trent Reznor is a master of his craft and Hurt is considered one of NIN’s best songs. Imagine having this great hit and 8 years later a musical legend who hasn’t done anything great in a long time and is ostensibly dying takes your song and fucking. Just fucking obliterates you
Taken from the Wikipedia page. Even Trent Reznor said it’s not his song anymore.
If a flaming old queen in a cape wants to kill off racists in power I say have at it
That wasn’t even his plan!! His plan was to make the senator a mutant, so he’d have to advocate for mutants or be destroyed by his own policy, and tbh. It’s the best villain plan I’ve ever seen. The goo was the plan unexpectedly failing. 9/10 only bc he was going to kill Rogue. Next time use someone willing to sacrifice herself for the cause, pls. No further notes
I like how his plan in like real world terms, was to turn desantis gay but instead he exploded
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