the new guidance is fucking evil in way more ways than the already horrifying mandatory reporting thing btw. its straight up ron desantis shit and the country’s “"left wing”“ party is all aboard. if i had the opportunity to cast the deciding vote between a tory or labour mp id spend the day at home jerking off instead
well bad news fellow trannies it looks like the Reasonable Moderates have decided our lives are just the price that’s gotta be paid for a keir starmer government! the person who left these tags has "LGBTQ ally” in their bio btw lmao
@sexhaver just thought u would wanna know that ppl are now saying putting the water effect on screenshots in posts is done to “protect it from AI” I feel like this bit of info will be particularly torturous for u.
oh this take was engineered in a lab to piss off me specifically
Get in the pool idiot
“Protect it from being search with AI”… yeah, right. The “select text in an image” feature built into Mac OS X (which is to say: probably not as good as specialized code) can read that text — here’s a direct copy-and-paste from the image above which I did without leaving Safari or doing any editing (which is where the weird line breaks come from):
else answered so im sorry about this but the effect is done to prevent it from being searched with Al, i’m uncertain how well it actually works though. people may be using it to separate posts but that was the original intent.
For those of you wondering how things are going in the UK, the leader of the Labour party is no longer recognising Palestine as a state unless it’s “acceptable to the state of Israel”, and their shadow equalities minister (shadow just means that they’re in opposition, not in government) is now openly opposing trans rights. Fuck this country.
ALT
Yes, those who have been following UK politics over the last several years will remember that the right-of-center Starmer wrested the leadership of the Labour party from the possibly-disappointing-but-definitely-much-further-left Jeremy Corbyn. This was approved by the voters as a result of a series of “scandals”, nearly all of which eventually turned out to have been instigated by Starmer and his faction, but the initial seed of the anti-Corbyn campaign was an accusation of antisemitism originally arising from his expressions of solidarity with Palestine. Labour’s change of leadership was fairly explicitly an embrace of Zionism.
It’s also worth mentioning that Starmer has had zero concrete stances ever. He’s gone back on pretty much everything he has ever said as Labour leader. He is bizarrely hell-bent on losing an un-lose-able election. He’s sold the party to its right wing as a whole, and in the process lost the majority of the membership as well as the crucial backing of the unions.
That’s not even slightly a surprise. Starmer is an acolyte of Tony Blair, and a latter-day exponent of New Labour. New Labour, like the “New Democrats” in the US (members of the self-appointed Democratic Leadership Council, like the Clintons and Joe Biden), exist specifically to chase right-wing votes. They don’t believe in what might be called the traditional tenets of the party, and think that if they move far enough to the right they can permanently capture a majority of the votes by reducing their major opposition on the right (Tories in the UK, Republicans in the US) to a hollowed-out minority.
There has been a sort of yoyoing parallel between US and UK politics since the 1970s — the UK got their “New Labour” before we got the “New Democrats”, and got their far-right leader who brought in the modern right-wing clown show (Thatcher) before we got ours (Reagan), but we had our resurgence of the New Democrats before you had your imminent resurgence of New Labour, and you can look at Obama and Biden to see what Starmer will be like: all major promises broken (see: Obama on Iraq, drone bombing, and the Too Big To Fail banks, Biden on Covid, climate change, and immigration), relatively minor promises treated as though they were the most important thing in the world to serve as a distraction from the things which are actually causing harm (see: Obama with the ACA, Biden with “respectability” on Twitter), a total (and deliberate) failure to resurrect institutions and regulation using the remnants of the opposition as an excuse, and feigned reluctance to embrace right-wing policy matched with secret overwhelming enthusiasm (see: Obama with domestic surveillance and new wars like Libya, Biden with immigration, fossil fuel extraction on public land, and the genocide in Gaza). And in the end, it won’t help one bit — Democrats have not gained a single vote from the right wing by all of this; at best, some Republicans may not vote in 2024 — but in exchange, they have lost quite a lot of votes from their own base, and are currently projected to lose the next election as a result, although they are unwilling to admit this or take any steps to mitigate it.
*gives you a foxglove* *gives you a nightshade* *gives you a devil’s trumpet* *gives you a moonflower* *gives you an oleander* *gives you a lily of the valley* *gives you a hydrangea* *gives you wisteria* *gives you a buttercup* *gives you a daffodil* *gives you an iris* *gives you elder berries* *gives you a
I once had someone point to my bisexuality as to why they thought I was “ace in denial”
A lot of aspecs identify as bisexual before they realize they’re aspec because “they feel the same amount of attraction to everyone, which is none” and this person made the argument that since I identified as bi and aro I must have just been in denial. Then they proceeded to explain “allonormativity” to me which was extremely ironic.
Anyways, reminder that speculating on other people’s identities and claiming you know their experiences better than them is Really Fucked Up. Don’t do that!
Also reminder that alloaro erasure does, in fact, effect real life people in real life situations. This isn’t just a tumblr issue or a chronically online take, aros deserve to be recognized as separate from asexuality.
I partially agree with this, I feel like I’m intruding when I reblog “don’t tag as aroace” posts as well AROACEsafeplaceforall so… but at the same time I’m not tagging it as anything nor am I making an aroallo/aro issue about being asexual.
It’s a kind of trend I’ve seen recently were a large number of aroallos have posted stuff that at first glance and if I didn’t know better, could honestly read as anti aroace.
YES AROMANTIC IS SEPERATE FROM ASEXUAL
YES YOU CAN BE ONE WITHOUT THE OTHER
But it is also true that aroace people can reblog posts about one part of their ID and they can do so without tagging it.
I think you’re missing the point a lil on why we do it; we don’t want whatever we say to be misinterpreted as aroace just because someone reblogged it as aroace, because we’re not aroace.
Like we get it, something we say might be relatable somehow to you aroaces, but those posts reflect our experiences, our aro experiences, not aroace.
Having something we say marked, tagged or reblogged as aroace, instead of just aro or with no tags at all, just feels like erasure.
People also use aroace as a umbrella for communication instead of the more acknowledging and fitting term aspec; People do in fact treat aroace as the umbrella, unaware as to who they are mislabeling and hurting by doing so.
Remember, aroaces are the most seen group in the aro community. Not even grey area aroaces get that much recognition, they in fact are ina similar boats as us aros and aroallos.
So us putting “don’t tag as aroace or ace!” isn’t some anti aroace gatekeeping, it’s us trying to protect our experiences from being misinterpreted as something we are not.
the default way for things to taste is good. we know this because “tasty” means something tastes good. conversely, from the words “smelly” and “noisy” we can conclude that the default way for things to smell and sound is bad. interestingly there are no corresponding adjectives for the senses of sight and touch. the inescapable conclusion is that the most ordinary object possible is invisible and intangible, produces a hideous cacophony, smells terrible, but tastes delicious. and yet this description matches no object or phenomenon known to science or human experience. so what the fuck
this is what ancient greek philosophy is like
False! “Sightly” is a positive word, so the default way for things to work is good as well.
The true most ordinary object is beautiful, horrible sounding, very smelly, intangible, and delicious.
I still don’t think it matches anything in existence but to truly understand a thing one must know its true nature.
“touchy” is also a word! however it’s mostly used for things that aren’t objects, like subjects of conversation. it either means “oversensitive and irritable” or “requires careful handling/wording, delicate”
i think the second one works well for our hypothetical object. so we can use that.
therefore, the Default Object is:
beautiful
makes a horrendous sound
smells absolutely awful
is very fragile
tastes delicious
and i still cannot think of anything that matches this
the default way for things to taste is good. we know this because “tasty” means something tastes good. conversely, from the words “smelly” and “noisy” we can conclude that the default way for things to smell and sound is bad. interestingly there are no corresponding adjectives for the senses of sight and touch. the inescapable conclusion is that the most ordinary object possible is invisible and intangible, produces a hideous cacophony, smells terrible, but tastes delicious. and yet this description matches no object or phenomenon known to science or human experience. so what the fuck
this is what ancient greek philosophy is like
False! “Sightly” is a positive word, so the default way for things to work is good as well.
The true most ordinary object is beautiful, horrible sounding, very smelly, intangible, and delicious.
I still don’t think it matches anything in existence but to truly understand a thing one must know its true nature.
“touchy” is also a word! however it’s mostly used for things that aren’t objects, like subjects of conversation. it either means “oversensitive and irritable” or “requires careful handling/wording, delicate”
i think the second one works well for our hypothetical object. so we can use that.
therefore, the Default Object is:
beautiful
makes a horrendous sound
smells absolutely awful
is very fragile
tastes delicious
and i still cannot think of anything that matches this
Had a dream that tumblr came up with a new creature called Greachur and it looked like this
brother of the alot
upon further research:
i had a dream a while ago of a very tall, long-legged creature with a thin, grey fur coat. it didn’t have any horns and it was like double the height of a semi, but this post reminded me of that
very upsetting that as a society thighs and tummies have been demonized. like they are literally just body parts and if they’re a little rounder it’s no big deal. beauty standards = pure embodiment of evil in this world
the people rbing this like tummy’s and thighs are cute and squishy uwu that’s not the point of this post like. i’m saying i want body neutrality…i wish having a tummy and having round thighs was neutral…. like don’t tell me you want to squish my tummy bc it’s sooo cute. that makes me feel like an animal in a petting zoo. i wish we as a society could treat bodies that aren’t model-thin as normal and deserving of respect
hi hey please talk about this as much as you can constantly over time
so often i’ve seen big-ass Stupid Bullshit News about Stupid Bullshit become absolutely nothing after like 3 days. i’m so fucking tired of it because it means that nothing changes, since we’ve forgotten what we need to change.
now amazon is getting sued. awesome! this is the first time i’ve heard of it. the suit was filed presumably somewhere between a few hours and a day ago, so that’s understandable.
is this really, really going to be covered after, i dunno, three days? i honestly don’t reckon so. amazon has enough money and probably apathy to make this not as much of an important lawsuit as it should - and maybe could - be.
i would love to be reminded every day for weeks and then months that amazon is being sued for operating an illegal monopoly. i want to read every joke, hear every update, see every move that’s made until this shit is wrapped up. i don’t just want to operate on hope and, inversely, a lack of faith on this one.
i want my anger over the way things are run to be grounded in things happening right here and right now, instead of historical events that make you go “that sucks. can’t change the past! :)” and move on, because that changes nothing in the present or the future. please talk about amazon getting sued by the federal trade commission and 17 state attourneys-general for breaking antitrust laws by being an illegal monopoly.
time to schedule post this a few times this month!!
CY: Cy! Cy! Cy! BLITZ:Please stop chanting your name, it’s starting to give me a headache… CY: … BLITZ: Thanks…
[The duo approached the door, quickly being stopped by someone.]
THE MASKED: Heads up, you might experience some changes. THE MASKED: It’s something to do with BlueEngland, I don’t care at all but I’m the only one who knows so I have to tell you. THE MASKED: Bye. BLITZ: That was weird. CY: Yeah… CY: Let’s go! BLITZ: Yeah!
[The two walked into the battle room! It was white. Just pure white.]
BLITZ: Wow this is just… BLITZ: So boring. BLITZ: After what Jake said I thought this’d be a lot different. CY: Well there is a neon sign over there! CY: Cy’s gonna follow it! BLITZ: H- hey, don’t leave me here!!
[Blitz ran after Cy, who followed the neon sign. It pointed towards a blank wall, but as he got closer it divided into curtains. The two walked through, entering onto a stage. Their appearances were modified too, becoming brighter and more colourful.]
CLEMENTINE: Hiii hi guys this is my stage!! BLITZ: Woah! It’s a gooey cat! CLEMENTINE: i’m not a cat CY: Yeah!! That’s so cool!!! CY: A gooey cat!!! CLEMENTINE: … CLEMENTINE: I’m no- CY: It looks so cool!!!! CLEMENTINE: SING something for me!! NOW!! CLEMENTINE: you guys are so… IRRITATING…. BLITZ: Woah, okay! CY: What do we sing? BLITZ: How about that one song, from the movie with the girls? BLITZ: You know the one… CY: Of course Cy knows the movie with the girls! CLEMENTINE: what BLITZ: Ya ready? CY: Cy ready! BLITZ: Let’s go!
Some people will really just brazenly out themselves as being the worst kind of puritain. Feel free to say that you are offended by the mere implication of a penis. Feel free to say that the implication of a penis existing threatens and disgusts you. Please just SAY WHAT YOU MEAN when you are trying to insinuate that the implied existence of a QUEER MAN’S penis makes all of the leftism leave your body. You need to stop couching it in liberal word salad and just say what you mean: People who have penises are inherently predatory and should never under any circumstances even imply the existence of those penises. I know I usually try to make light of this kind of stuff but I just can’t right now. I am so angry. These people call themselves activists and spend all their time virtue signaling how queer-positive they are and then imply that the simple PRESENCE of a (Fully covered!!) penis equals sexual harassment. Fucking get a grip. Terfs the lot of you. As someone married to a trans woman, I am fucking disgusted. I will not be discussing this further.
Something I really need pagans to understand is that bad apples in the pagan community ARE our and your responsibility.
You can’t just look sideways at racism and fascism in the pagan community because “they aren’t real pagans.”
We are the only community who seems to get away with that bullshit and I’m tired of it, Muslims as a whole get held responsible for the actions of extremists, Christians as a whole get held responsible for the actions of mega conservatives, Hindus as a whole get held responsible for the actions of Hindu Nationalists ect. ect.
Yet whenever someone rightly calls pagans out on effectively ignoring the vile racists, abelists, sexists and fucking NEO NAZIS in our communities people jump on them saying the same old “they aren’t really pagan” excuse.
Say it with me kids, someone being a terrible person doesn’t delegitimise their faith!
Y’all get soooo mad whenever Christians do this but turn around and do the exact same thing and wonder why people draw comparisons between pagans and Christians.
Also a side ramble but there is this weird perception that right wing pagans all became pagan post right wing radicalisation but that is absolutely not true. There are so many right wing pagans because we’ve allowed literal fascists to run around unchecked in our communities (it’s especially bad on tiktok) and then completely shun the people who they manage to indoctrinate instead of realising that maybe this is a systematic problem and that we should be introducing community wide education and condemnation to deal with this issue.
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You’ll never know how strong you are until strength is your only option.“
From the heart of Gaza, these words become more true than ever. I am Bilal Abed Rabou, and I stand before you as a survivor of five wars, an academic student at Al-Azhar University and a software developer from the besieged Gaza Strip. I witnessed the devastating effects of these conditions firsthand
We were a family, living in peace, love and warmth. But everything changed when conflict and despair swept through our lives. Living in Gaza means confronting ongoing conflict, struggling against poverty and the lack of basic necessities to live. Life is very difficult, and even the simplest tasks seem impossible. Yet, despite all the chaos and pain, we remained grounded by the warmth of our love and the strength of our spirits.
Even six months ago, everything changed. Our once home turned into a mess and everything we cherished. Since then, we have been lost, clinging to a world of uncertainty and despair. We left our badly damaged home with only a few things. Since then, our lives have been threatened
with every passing minute.
But now, there is no longer a reason to stay in this place full of suffering, where we are deprived of even the most basic and important rights, education, security and peace.
Our hearts hurt because of all this injustice. We were willing to endure anything to keep our family together and provide comfort and care for our father in his time of need.
With each passing day, our despair grows and our burdens grow heavier. We need your help to break the cycle of suffering, rebuild our shattered dreams, pave the way to a better future, and reunite with our family. Your support is not just a lifeline; Rather, it is a beacon of hope in our darkest moments.
> literally just common physical traits among women of colour
you can’t separate transmisogyny from racism. the radical feminism movement is so overwhelmingly white because their idea of what a woman is is so thoroughly steeped in white supremacy.
look, we’re all in a state of shock and confusion right now. That’s to be expected. Just don’t… don’t go harassing any actors. Or any people who are posting about this rn. Because I keep seeing people guilt tripping like whole ass 14 year olds for having a hyperfixation on coraline. Like yall this is NOT what we need right now we need unity and the ability to have mature level headed discussions that DONT insult the intellect of who you’re arguing against please I beg
also to add in case you need to hear it: you’re not morally reprehensible for still liking his works, you’re not evil for being upset at yourself for falling into a parasocial relationship, you’re not a bad person for waiting for more info
*releases pack of dads into home depot* go……be free
invasive species encroach on lesbian territory
This is a common misconception because they’re such similar environments, but you should be aware that dads are native to Home Depot, while lesbians are actually native to Lowe’s. At this point, however, both dads and lesbians have made themselves at home in both Home Depot and Lowe’s to the point that trying to separate them back into their original ranges would probably do more harm than good to the delicate ecosystem of large chain hardware stores.
A properly raised and socialized Dad will be perfectly comfortable cohabiting with Lesbians. Its not really “encroaching on another’s territory”. You wouldn’t say that about foxes in a forest that also homes bobcats, would you? No. It’s just two different species that have both evolved to live in similar/the same environment. As long as they recognize each other as equals, Dads and Lesbians are more than capable of cohabitation.
Now, if you were to release a pack of Lumberjacks into a Lowes or Home Depot, that’s where chaos will reign. Being adapted to a far harsher and more demanding environment, the Lumberjacks would simply push Dads and Lesbians both out and also consume far more than a sustainable amount of resources. It would be like releasing bears at a country club.
As a former timber-harvester… I feel this is potentially accurate in theory. But highly improbable in actuality.
Lumberjacks, like most megafauna species generally require more space than the average hardware store, even a big box store could provide. The misconception is that Lumberjacks are a social species because of how they often work and live together.
This is a matter of necessity, not preference, and a survival technique for thriving under the LogBoss.
A “pack” of Lumberjacks, if not under the environmental pressure of a LogBoss will naturally disperse until they each have a wide territory.
Lumberjacks rarely fight for territory.
One on one, a Lumberjack could drive out a Dad or Lesbian, however the latter tend to travel in social packs.
Lumberjacks will passively retreat on the presence of large numbers of people. Kind of like Sasquatch.
Getting a “pack” of Lumberjacks assembled would be hard enough unless they were forced into a Hardware Store by a LogBoss. In that case, they would already be in a heightened and potentially agitated state far above their natural behavior. This artificial scenario can be likened to a circus animal running amok. If it had been in the wild, the incident would not have occurred.
Free-roaming Lumberjacks are the cryptids of the Hardware ecosystem. They are surprisingly quiet and unobtrusive.
Please stop labeling Lumberjacks as dangerous roving social predators. They are intermediate level omnivores and remarkably peaceful unless threatened.
As a hardware store worker I can say that this is all 100% accurate.
now how in the FUCK am i supposed to leave tumblr when a god tier post like THIS is just is just waiting for me daily?!?!?!
question where does the “art student” or “DIYer” “crafter” or “soap maker” or “miniaturist“ etc. who has ventured into the store for supplies fall into the ecosystem/what is their impact of said ecosystem?
Most of the above are native to craft and hobby stores (art students, historically, are native to museums, but having been introduced to hobby stores, have found a niche for themselves and thrived), but all can be seen in hardware stores on occasion due to territorial overlap. They are generally low-impact, as they tend to stick to specific small areas and primarily utilize different resources. While a large group of any of them can be disruptive (art students, in particular, are known to travel in packs), in general, they are more likely to have territorial disputes with one another than with the local fauna.
A point of clarity -“crafter” is a bit misleading; while it conjures a specific image, much like ‘fish’ or ‘reptile’ it actually covers a broad array of wildly disparate species, and in general, more descriptive nomenclature is preferred. Fiber artists in particular are a genus to watch out for, particularly in groups. Beware a roving pack of domesticated quilters. They fear nothing, will go anywhere, and due to their social nature, will often seek interaction from other species that thrive best in solitude. They are quite friendly, and will happily adopt members of other species; the concern is that their adoptees do not always wish to be adopted.
I do wonder how lesbian/bisexual lumberjack-mimickry fits into this
I can say as a former craft store worker that if you wish to see true fear, look into the eyes of a Dad who must venture into a craft store. Despite the overlap of familiar beings known to him from his native hardware store habitat, Dads are instinctively aware that craft stores are not for them; they contain unfamiliar perils and even the seemingly familiar may have strange variances and unnerving secrets. (”Why is this airbrush so small? What do you mean nails, why would you… WUT!!”)
Only experienced silverbacks or the boldest young Dads dare venture into a craft store for long without his mate or offspring to keep roving Craft Ladies at bay and guide him in this strange ecosystem. If a Dad enters with his mate and is
separated from her, he will often scuttle for the seeming familiarity of Woodcrafts,
Models, or
Paints (the latter not to be confused with Fine Arts, unquestioned territory of art students), but he eyes Scrapbooking and Jewelry with trepidation and will usually venture into those exotic areas only in the company of females of his pack.
Lumberjacks are rarely spotted entering craft stores of their own volition, for while
they do not fear it as Dads do, they know it is an environment unsuited
for megafauna such as themselves.
Hardware store Lesbians generally adapt more easily to craft stores, although they may enlist another Lesbian of a subspecies more adapted to that environment to guide them until they find their niche. Lesbians have even been known to seek the aid of a Craft Lady, a native fauna that share similarities with Lesbians but are usually smaller and nimbler to suit their chosen habitat. Dads who witness this are often awed by the Lesbians’ temerity, for although larger, Dads are generally wary of the cunning and dexterous Craft Ladies and may mistake their enthusiastic pack greetings as predatory swarming.
Craft Ladies, secure in their ecological niche, have no fear of interlopers and take the presence of non-native beings in stride, although they may become territorial about scarcer resources.
The only truly invasive species that threaten craft stores are Brides-to-Be, who are mere annoyances individually, but
like locusts
may descend in hordes and lay waste, leaving swathes of destruction in their wake. Fortunately
for the Craft Ladies,
Brides-to-Be are seasonal and usually
only a threat in the spring and early summer.
It Got Better
Is anybody going to address the newly invasive species of BuJo enthusiasts into the craft store/art supply store environment? Why aren’t we talking about the dangerous proliferation of Leuchtturm 1917s and the growing threat of Dotted Moleskins? I had to liberate a Dad from a tangle of washi tape in the art supply store the other day and it wasn’t pretty.
The natural habitat of journalers was stationary stores, which have been replaced by office supplies stores, not the same. Journalers invade the craft stores and art supplies stores to get the markers and washi tape and Sakura pens they require for survival.
VERY IMPORTANT AND ENTIRELY ACCURATE now excuse me I gotta hit Lowes and Michaels.
Another thing to note is all of those habitats must adapt to the seasonal migration of goths. As soon as the faintest hint of spooky can be detected at those stores, goths will arrive in packs. A small pack of goths determined to forage can strip the shelves of a seasonal section bare in 30 minutes.
It is also normal to look where does the source came from and to question it.
It’s possible to care about the media and the victims at the same time.
People are not bad persons because they are worried about good omens. It’s already been stated multiples times how importants the show is to some people.
And we don’t have to like the creator and agree with his behaviors to like a media.
Everything is not always white and black, people on the internet need to learn that nuanced situations exist.
