having a king bed sounds scary what if you try to put the fitted sheet on and get lost in there and die like a caver
hi this is andys roommate he got snatched up by a big hawk in the park and now hes gone forever do U feel good that this comment was the last thing he ever got to see on the computer
As someone whose been on this website 10+ years I’ve seen more trans women banned recently than I’ve ever seen Neo nazis on this website banned or TERFs
genuinely insane how often trans women get banned vs terfs n nazis like. i will see a reply from a neo-nazi on a post and they’ll more often than not still be there by the next time i see it while like half of the trans women i see on posts are fuckin Poofed
yall remember how the best anti fashist action that ever happend on this site was when out of nowhere suddenly tonnes of fash blogs were being taken over by Woody from Toy Story, how some annonmous person or group just decided one day to do something about it and started taking them out, fuckin Woody’s Roundup was more effective than staff has ever been
Today’s happy posting: my dad agreed to take me to the farmers market on Saturday! I’m so excited. I hope I can pick up some nice teas and handmade soaps !
Happy posting:
I went to the farmers market ! I got some pasta to make mushroom Alfredo ! It was fun!
I also bought some plants at the farmers market, my grandma got me a blazing star!! I’m going to plant it in my yard
[ID: The original “I see no difference” meme. Each of the four squares features an anime couple with an Impact font caption. First is a boy and a girl cuddling captioned “Regular couple.” Second is two boys kissing, captioned “Yaoi couple.” Third is two girls looking into each other’s eyes captioned “Yuri couple.” Finally, Edward Elric from FMA gives a thumbs-up anf grins with the top and bottom text: “I see no difference / Love is love.” End ID]
i do love listening to my straightgirl friends complain about some guy i never met and then they ask my opinion and i get to join in and be like yeah i agree he sounds sooooooo toxic for you block his number use this summer to focus on yourself #selfcare and also i’m glad you don’t have a boyfriend so we have more time to hang out forever and ever
the only man in your life should be your gay best friend
As much as I’d like to be idealistic in the upcoming election and vote for the greens, none of us can really survive another Tory government. Don’t believe for a moment that your vote wouldn’t matter, or that Labour would be just as bad. Under a Tory government, the country has gone to shit, despite (according to the site below) more votes being cast overall for opposition parties.
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE vote, and please consider doing so tactically - stopthetories hopes to provide data for each electorate on who best to vote for to make sure these heartless slimes lose their hold on parliament.
At the Cincinnati stop of her “world tour”, Taylor Swift ends her set. As she walks off the stage, she leans into a nearby mic and says “oh by the way, I’m lesbian”.
She’s still milking a public relationship with a man named Chett Whitesman, so this is met with a combination of cheers and confusion. Immediately, the media mobilizes. They have to intercept her before she gets onto her private jet, and ambush her for an interview. Luckily, this has become much easier these days. Since the release of her 2027 album, “The Carbon Emissions of my Heart”, T Swizzle has performed a ritual sacrifice of an endangered species on live camera every time she boards her jet, a #girlboss way of saying that her emotional pain can only be healed by the tortured screams of drowning polar bears.
(Since this practice started, a devoted faction of Swifties have started a carbon negative algae farming commune, with the express intent of negating taytay sweezie’s contributions to climate change. Apparently “her tortured soul deserves to pollute without guilt”. They haven’t even come close to their goals.)
Taytor Twift is intercepted after this ritual, as she’s walking up the steps of her plane. When asked what the lesbian statement was about, she nonchalantly says “oh, I thought it was clear that was a joke. Anyways, G T G!” , before biting into the still beating heart of an emperor penguin.
During her flight, discourse on the newly renamed twitter-X-ElonIsExtremelyVirile Corp goes nuclear like it never has been before.
There’s a camp of swifties thoroughly convinced that her relationship with Chett is all a beard so that she can still keep touring in the New Christian Republic of Florida, and the interview at the plane was deepfaked.
A different camp of Swifties feels insulted and betrayed that she would be anything less than a paragon of allyship. To them, this is the worst slight the queer community has ever experienced.
A third camp of Swifties insists that she *is* dating Chett, and is also a lesbian. They get insulted that anyone would police Taylor’s labels. Comparisons to the Boulder, Colorado shooter are made.
A group of non Swifties tries to point out that everyone is fucking insane and that ‘ole taytay regularly tear gases pride rallies to make way for her promenade to stadium venues, and who the fuck cares about this shit and point out that what a billionaire celebrity does for five minutes of PR is not worth your attention or discourse, nor does it warrant harassing other people for the labels *they* use, and isn’t it really fucked up that Taylor is making a joke of how people describe their identities? They are promptly doxxed, harassed, and banned.
Bi lesbian discourse is off the charts. Nothing Taylor said has anything to do with it, but it happens anyways.
A lone transsexual who actually goes outside once in a while tweets “hey guys isn’t it kinda fucked up that 2.4 billion people have been displaced by mega storms this year that her jet contributes to and is also specifically designed to fly over” and is promptly doxxed and harassed off the platform.
After an exhausting 9 minute plane ride, Tailing Swiffer lands in Columbus for the next performance of her world tour. She unveils a new single that contains the line “ride my horse after dumping him, stepping up onto my SAD dle”.
All is forgotten. All is quiet. The Swifties continue as usual, moving on to the next discourse about these lyrics.
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I would still use my turn signals in the Mad Max Wasteland. They’d call me “Signal” because I’d hit my blinker before ramming the enemy hot rods into the side of a desert ravine. I’d use my turn signal every time. They would respect me for this.
The thing about Microsoft shutting down Tango Gameworks and Arkane Austin is that it isn’t really a case of finance bros not understanding how game development works. Sure, saying “we need smaller games that will win us awards” while shuttering studios which have a record of producing smaller, award-winning games looks dumb on paper, but you need to know how to parse corporate doublespeak.
In brief, they want the prestige of producing smaller, award-winning games, but not the risk. The way you get the former without the latter is by constantly buying up independent studios which already have successful titles in their portfolios, keeping them around long enough to provide post-launch support, crank out paid DLC for their already-proven properties, and finish development of whatever is currently in the pipeline, then dismantle them and shut them down before they get any funny ideas about risking your money on new, unproven projects.
If you’re thinking “hey, that sounds a lot like a predatory business model”, well, exactly.
I feel like that would be illegal. For example, if a company buys another, they should take good care of them. Otherwise, they should be allowed to be unbought and be separated and even be given financial compensation. Is it just me? Am I sounding insane?
This practice of repeatedly buying up and subsequently shutting down one’s smaller competitors arguably already is illegal under American federal antitrust laws. It’s just that those laws haven’t meaningfully been enforced in decades.
Don’t let the media make what’s happening with Israel, Iran and Jordan into some “middle-east problem” again. This was entirely orchestrated and encouraged by the US and the UK. Israel initiated every attack against Lebanon, Syria, Palestine, and Iran. Israel KILLED, targeted, the children and grandchildren of Palestinians political leaders. And the US could’ve stopped all of this by simply not giving Israel money and weapons bu they didn’t.
The Western media has constructed this narrative that countries like Iraq and Iran are the problem and the western nations are the antidote keeping their ‘terrorism’ at bay. No, they have always and at all times started the conflicts, or worsened them.
Because they want the land, they want hegemony over the resources of that region and that is it. And they’ve demonstrated already by killing over 33,000 people that they’ll do anything.
Stop joking about World War 3 and take the loss of lives and the horror of what is happening seriously. This cannot keep escalating
i forget baby bugs don’t really exist not in the way i want them too anywYs. i was like how come ive never seen a baby beetle i bet theyre soo cute and then i googled and i was like oh right. grub
do you guys think John Singer Sargent may have been gay
I dony want to impose my little faggot gaze on history but I think maybe…..
I just went on Wikimedia commons and looked at a ton of his art and he has a “male nude” category but not a female one 💀
(there might be another reason for that but yeah)
His portraits of women also seemed to me to focus much more on their outfits than his portraits of men, which were more zoomed in on faces. This could simply be a consequence of women’s fashion being cooler (and therefore more fun to render beautifully like he did), or maybe a result ofJohn Singer Sargent being a man himself. On the other hand, though, it could suggest that his appreciation of women’s beauty and men’s beauty was different. This on its own doesn’t necessarily mean anything about his sexuality, but it does remind me (gay) of how my own affects my art.
He did create female nudes but the difference between his female nudes and his male nudes is striking. His female nudes are more like “this is a beautiful artistic depiction of the female form” and his male nudes are like “this is a guy in the sexiest kinkiest pose I could think of”.
THESIS: the real reason that people stay on this hellsite is not “chronological order” or “the drama” or whatever (per se), but is instead linked to how tumblr, unlike most social media, is not optimised to give content as short of a half-life as possible, but instead is optimised to let content continue to cycle for months, years, even decades. this has in turn led to a more consistent centralised site “culture” in which there is more coherent linkage among different areas of the site, thus also explaining why its content permeates so thoroughly throughout the internet.
THESIS: the real reason that people stay on this hellsite is not “chronological order” or “the drama” or whatever (per se), but is instead linked to how tumblr, unlike most social media, is not optimised to give content as short of a half-life as possible, but instead is optimised to let content continue to cycle for months, years, even decades. this has in turn led to a more consistent centralised site “culture” in which there is more coherent linkage among different areas of the site, thus also explaining why its content permeates so thoroughly throughout the internet.
Okay so I just watched a video of a boy who once identified as trans still got bottom surgery after he realized he was cis and people were so fucking rude? Like just because this cis dude has a vagina people were calling him transphobic and wishing death upon him.
So this is a reminder that when we as a community advocate for bodily autonomy and gender surgeries that means everyone regardless of gender can do whatever they want with their bodies.
If someone who is cisgender wants top/bottom surgery THEY CAN GET IT. If someone wants facial plastic surgeries that we usually find creepy like buccal fat removal or eye lifts THEY CAN GET IT. And here’s the really controversial one but if someone wants to do things that harm their body like hard drugs or diy mods THEY CAN DO IT!
Because body autonomy isn’t just “I can get bottom surgery to pass” or “I can get an abortion” it’s also all the wild stuff that makes us uncomfortable and that’s okay.
dumbest firefox feature you can just set whatever the fuck you want to be your default search engine
not the dumbest actually this rocks
(go on a page with a search bar and right click the address bar at the top of the page, an option gets added to the bottom and you can even set custom shortcuts for it if it’s not your main one)
WAIT NO THIS ACTUALLY FUCKS SEVERELY
you can add shortcuts and it searches DIRECTLY on the site bypassing external search engines entirely!!!!!!
WELCOME BACK TOOLBARS
I use the Minecraft wiki and Wikipedia ones all the time. If someone hasn’t setup a browser extension to add it as a search engine, it’s really easy to make your own too.
so when did “the person i’m disagreeing with probably has an anxiety disorder which makes them a hypocrite for having opinions, they should shut up until they’re able to overcome their disorder” become a normal and cool thing to say in supposedly progressive circles
“theyre saying [opinion] but they can’t even order their own food/make phone calls/etc” yes that would be because they have an illness. a disorder. they’re mentally ill. maybe they’re even disabled. should that disqualify them from voicing their thoughts? is it just neurotypical people that get to speak now? that’s so progressive and disability advocacy of you (sarcasm)
even if they’re not disabled and they “just” have anxiety i thought we all agreed it was shitty to treat anxiety and depression like non-issues ages ago. they’re very much mental illnesses and they very much can ruin someone’s life. trivializing them with this “nut up or shut up” attitude is literally some conservative bootstraps shit
far too many of you still think middle school bully behavior is cool and it’s highly embarrassing. exercise some compassion why don’t you
*insert that meme about how the absolutely crazy discourse that somehow exists in some part of Tumblr I’m not in is surprising*
im gonna have to keep seeing that tinnitus article over & over aren’t i :/
notes full of people like ‘omg i can’t believe doctors have been misunderstanding what tinnitus is’ and 'i didn’t know doctors thought tinnitus was imaginary’ yeah no the information about tinnitus in the article is actively misleading. no medical authority thinks tinnitus is universally a brain problem bcos it demonstrably is not.
How is the info in the article misleading? Because I read it to my Mum who has tinnitus and never went to a doctor about it because she’s of the gen where it was considered to be a brain/ear thing and therefore unfixable - and she has since started looking up whether there are treatments availble, and she’s been dealing with it for like, 40plus years at this point.
Like, admittedly I skimmed the article to where it got interesting, it was a bizarre read elsewise, but yeah, would love to hear your take on this.
it presents the concept of tinnitus being a physical noise that can be picked up by recording equipment as if it’s a brand new discovery. it is not, this is called objective tinnitus and is a known condition.
the article says that the NHS defines tinnitus as a brain problem. this is not true - the NHS just defines tinnitus as 'hearing noises in your ears that don’t have an external source’. tinnitus is associated with a whole host of physical disorders.
doctors do sometimes attribute cases of tinnitus where they can’t find a cause to stress but not all doctors do that; and even if they did, it still wouldn’t be the case that the NHS universally defines tinnitus as a brain problem. as stated above, they do not, because it is not.
when I first starting seeking medical help for my tinnitus i was under the impression that all tinnitus was caused by damage to your hearing which turned out not to be the case. so how laypeople think tinnitus works and how doctors think tinnitus works are not necessarily the same!
even if the medical consensus was at some point that tinnitus was universally an unfixable brain problem (I find this unlikely based on the range of physical conditions that are known to cause it - meniere’s disease causes tinnitus and it was first identified in 1861), the article was written about the present day and that is not the current medical consesus.
does that all make sense?
Yeah, that makes perfect sense, and I didn’t get the whole brain thing, except as like maybe your hearing got damaged but fixed itself, and now the sound is psychosomatic. But I’m fairly sure that psychosomatic symptoms usually mask an underlying problem, or at least, that’s how I understand it based on some stuff I’ve read.
But yeah, no, that makes heaps of sense, and I kind of wish it was more generally known; because yeah, as I said, my Mum’s been dealing with it for 40+ years and always said she wished she could get it fixed but it’s “just one of those things”.
I’m pretty sure hers is from hearing damage, too many live gigs in the 80s and 90s; but given her recent diagnoses with a few chronic health problems, maybe it’s not. Idk. I might press her into seeking treatment, tbh.
Mostly, though - thank you for the information and clarification; and also, do you ever think that the medical science industry needs a better PR team? Because I have got to stop learning groundbreaking shit on tumblr and yet, I probably won’t.
So yeah, huge thanks, I really appreciate the time you took to answer my question. :)
oh damn, okay, so literally last night i was talking with friends about how unrealistic the golden horse in tears of the kingdom is and how it feels like they were just trying to one-up the white horse in breath of the wild, and then i run across this post, do a tiny bit of looking, and—no really gold horses are actually literally a real-world thing!
I remember reading about this breed in horse books. They’re indeed very very old (over 3000 years old) and come from the deserts in turkmenistan. The way their hair is built helps them with the extreme temperature changes in the desert.
They’re tough, with high endurance and intelligence, friendly and sensitive.
Oh my god if 8 year old me had known about this it would have been OVER
friendly reminder that characters don’t need to be saints to be entertaining. and telling a story does not mean endorsement. art does not need to be all about morally good people.
IDK if this was meant as hyperbole but it’s literally true:
We are genuinely in a crisis of media literacy, with ever fewer genuinely factual resources available in the style and language used by contemporary audiences.
It may sound condescending, but we genuinely need to remind people, or worse, explain to them for the first time that art is not evidence of real world behaviour.
So, thank you, for this reminder. Genuinely.
You’re correct:
Art does not need to feature exclusively morally pure characters. Art is not proof of the creator’s secret, violent desires.
was tаlking with a friend about how some of dunmeshi fаndom misunderstands kabru’s initial feelings towards laios.
to sum up kabru’s situation via a self-contained modernized metaphor:
kabru is like a guy who lost his entire family in a highly traumatic car accident. years later he joins a discord server and takes note of laios, another server member who seems interesting, so they start chatting. then laios reveals his special interest and favorite movie of all time is David Cronenberg’s Crash (1996), and invites kabru to go watch a demolition derby with him
tumblr is, if anything, the Appalachia of social media…easy to get lost, sparsely populated, out of the loop with fast-moving modern trends. Attached to tradition. Close-knit communities. Believe in “talk shit, get hit.” Everyone is doing their own thing in their own obscure little holler. Prone to pulling the most inventive turns of phrase you’ve ever heard out of nowhere. Somebody’s always starting a racket. We sometimes repel outsiders with much aggression. Lots of talk about hell and damnation to be found. Everybody tends to forget about us for some reason
What is pirating media but the moonshining of the internet
The “is this a pigeon” meme with the speaker labeled “radical social justice spaces” asking, “Is this accountability?”
The butterfly is covered up with a large thought bubble that says, “Completely obliterating a trans woman’s entire support network leaving her a traumatized bundle of nerves who feels like she’ll never have any community because you’ve convinced her she’s a monster.”
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What a statement Tumblr turned this into, removing the image and the person who explained it
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