why has ‘this looks like a renaissance painting’ become such a common phrase on the internet to describe momentous, dramatically lit images that are brimming with pathos when the word they mean to say is ‘baroque’
What do you mean people don’t know tumblr already had daily limits on posts and stuff. Are you telling me people on this hellsite have never known the limits of this place and now suddenly it’s a problem when it’s existed for years?
Like…Seriously. Don’t panic just because premium doubles the daily limit. The daily limit has always existed. It’s been a thing. It’s not a new thing. I say this as someone who’s been here since 2012. Please don’t act like it’s suddenly a new thing it’s not. Xkit even has a way to see the limits!
About how many times have you actually hit post limit?
Shoutout to all Aboriginal Australian LGBTQ+ folks.
Shoutout to all Caledonian LGBTQ+ folks.
Shoutout to all Pitcairn Islander LGBTQ+ folks.
Shoutout to all South Sea Islander LGBTQ+ folks.
Shoutout to all Rapa Nui LGBTQ+ folks.
Shoutout to all Nauruan LGBTQ+ folks.
Shoutout to all New Caledonian LGBTQ+ folks.
Shoutout to all Native Hawaiian LGBTQ+ folks.
Shoutout to all Chuukese LGBTQ+ folks.
Shoutout to all Solomon Islander LGBTQ+ folks.
Shoutout to all West Papuan LGBTQ+ folks.
Shoutout to all Fijian LGBTQ+ folks.
Shoutout to all Tahitian LGBTQ+ folks.
Shoutout to all Samoans LGBTQ+ folks.
Shoutout to all Guamanian LGBTQ+ folks.
Shoutout to all Chamorro LGBTQ+ folks.
Shoutout to all Torres Strait Islander LGBTQ+ folks.
Shoutout to all Ambonese LGBTQ+ folks.
Shoutout to all Tongan LGBTQ+ folks.
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Shoutout to all Yapese LGBTQ+ folks.
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Shoutout to all Mashellese LGBTQ+ folks.
Take pride in it all. Your culture, your identity, it’s all so beautiful. Celebrate where you are from and who you are. It makes you you, and that is something to be proud of.
“I don’t know what your motivations are for voting against Biden” well let’s start with open, joyful genocide and move down the list from there
You’ve got letting covid run rampant and spreading right-wing antimask rhetoric to even the most progressive of liberals, funding the police even more and encouraging police brutailty and more against students protesting Palestinian genocide, every campaign promise broken or completely unfulfilled (e.g. there are even more kids in more cages now), a complete lack of trying to cut the Republicans off at the pass should these do-nothing democrats inevitably lose the election for their unpopular policy and abandonment of their voter base, and so on and so forth.
Don’t forget:
- promising to increase the minimum wage to $15 and doing so only for employees of the federal government (and in your announcement openly admitting that women, queer people, and people of color are paid less than anyone else in YOUR GOVERNMENT AGENCIES THAT YOU RUN)
- “compromising” on trans student athletes, saying that schools are allowed to ban individual trans kids whenever they think there might be an issue (keep this in mind if you support Biden on the basis that he’ll be better for trans people)
- furthering funding and research for the surveillance state, especially further empowering operations at Pine Gap (the top secret spy facility in Australia run by the USA that’s responsible for almost all of our intelligence and guidance systems operating in the middle east)
Great tags btw
Another block-worthy liberal in the notes showing their true colors
Maybe stop acting like a liberal?
Liberals: “We tolerate everyone! Including nazis!
Liberals the 0.3 seconds you consider tolerating Nazis is and: "YOU FUCKING [ablest slur]”
Scratch a liberal and a fascist bleeds is true once more.
I’m not even scratching. I’m literally just talking about politics. We don’t even need to scratch them to make a fascist bleed: what could this mean?
this post’s hypothetical by itself is already ridiculous but the thing that gets me is how the wording implies two very funny things that become funnier in tandem
1. “Accidentally, the pitcher tosses a Christian baby” means this is a mistake on the pitcher’s part. i imagine the pitcher is breastfeeding on the field and they pitch and they look down at their hands and they see the ball still in the glove and they go “fuck”
oh by the way, in Danish, “fag” means “subject” and “slut” means “end” so on library shelves you will see “fag slut” to note where the break in book topics is
why is “mummies are so rare bc the british ate them” always presented as like a morbid fun fact and not an example of heinous racism and dehumanization of people of colour to the point of cannibalism. a little bit odd if im honest.
statement from OP presented as fact without sources
OP elaborates with no sources provided
further statement made as fact with no source provided
OP doubles down, in spite of vaguely acknowledging that there is a chance they may be wrong about the entire pretext of the post
and again. the post is NOT ABOUT whether it’s true or not that mummies were consumed as medicine. the post is about the way people perceive this idea, whether it’s true or not, as a fun fact rather than one of the clearest and most obvious cases of dehumanizing racism. it doesn’t matter if it’s true or not. there are records of this happening (not much, and definitely a minority of the cases of desecrated egyptian graves, but even in the last link where an egyptologist is saying how overexaggerated these claims are, she does say it did happen a little) but again thats NOT the point. i was referencing a “fun fact” that i see spread around whenever people talk about morbid/unsettling facts or whatever, and the point isnt if it’s true or not, but the way people act in response to this concept. i really don’t know how i can make this any clearer.
This loser straight up made a sideblog just for this
This post is the only thing on their blog lmao. Imagine being this petty.
Everyone is talking about John Fetterman wearing a formal suit for Netanyahu’s genocide apologia but Rashida Tlaib is actually the only one wearing an acceptable outfit to the speech.
gonna start talking about skinny characters the way some of yall talk about fat characters
they look like they give terrible bony hugs 🥺 theyre so brittle >w< i love how you drew him so tiny youre so brave 🥺🥺 theyre so confident wearing that bikini i could never ÚvÙ omg their body type is so unique!! theyre probably so cranky and malcontent with their bony little limbs 🥺🥺
An apparently unpopular opinion: disabled people can have and do their hobbies. They deserve to have fun. They deserve to live their lives.
Their inability to do some things (like work, for example) does not mean they should be judged for… idk hanging out with their friends or to going outside. After all, having interests outside of work is often essential to our mental and physical health OUTSIDE of our disability.
And also *you might want to sit down for this* disabled people know what’s disabling for them (unless they people-please or push through due to necessity or survival of some sort). Disabilities don’t have to be visible or persistent to be disabling.
So yeah - my declaration: if an activity you want to do feels good and you’re able to do it, then do it. REGARDLESS OF YOUR DISABILITY WITH OTHER THINGS.
I saw this last month on twitter and took a screenshot! Heres an addition
Sometimes real life beats the shit out of movies can you imagine LIVING THIS
[id: tweet by Mika: Yuletide Era 🎄: “don’t let movies mislead you “can I kiss you” is like one of the cutest things you can say”
Dissident/Despondent replied: “I was too nervous to say that. Instead, my hook was “so, how may I tell you goodnight?” She replied, “Any way you want to.” “May I?” “You may.””]/end id.
[id: Dissident/Despondent’s tweet, with replies. 연연: “Please tell you said the last part after your marriage vows 🥺”
Dissident/Despondent replied: “It’s how I asked her to marry me. Me: *down on one knee, holding ring* “…May I?” Her: *sobbing* “You may!” I also said it after each of our daughters were born, when I waited patiently to hold them for the first time.”]/end id.
[id: the meme of the cat crying and leaning against the wall saying “wait. hold on a minute. i think i need a moment…”]/end id.
just so you know, you have some followers who enjoy/write fanfiction. not saying their urls rn bc i don’t wanna air out dirty laundry in public but if you want them so you can block and report, just say the word and i’ll dm you a list
are donuts and bagels convergent or divergent evolution ?
Convergent, their doughs are different, they’re baked different, but they evolved to scratch the itch of wanting to eat something with a hole
is that historically correct ? because they could have come from a common ancestor which split to have two different doughs. so what I’m asking you is: which came first, the dough or the hole ?
The dough, there’s others like those (sorry I’ll have to mix german words in here)
Deep fried Hefeteig (doughnut dough) has always been a long standing tradition (Kräppel, Fastnetsküchle, und weiteres Siedegebäck)
The more bready bagels probably followed the footsteps of the popular doughnut while staying true to the original dough.
so did they originally have the hole, or did they evolve to have the hole ? are you saying bagels were inspired by doughnuts and were just pieces of bread before ? if one did not exist without the hole, and did not exist before the other, then such would imply a divergent evolution
It’s more like when a harmless insect evolves colouring to look like a hornet.
The doughnut is just one in a long, long line of fried doughs and came first. And also not all doughnuts have holes. I mostly only see them in American media. Most doughnuts where I live are bun-shaped with a jam or custard filling. They’re still doughnuts.
I don’t know about the history of bagels, but there are others dense cake-like breads that are similar, but serve a very different purpose here.
I’d guess that the bagel is native to the US, and the American sub-species of doughnut started to converge on form in order to mimic the indigenous stock, but then found it’s own niche and diverged radically in terms of colouration and topping.
bagels are native to poland and date back long before the Americas were known about to the rest of the world
I stand corrected. I will have to do more research.
My prof was like ‘yeah there was this experiment where they like made a casino for rats with mini slot machines n everything and made those rats into gambling addicts it was so cool’ n i looked up the article n hes the lead fucking researcher
I’ll do you one better op, i was taking an american history class of the early 1990s to 2000s and upon our final, which only took two hours max (the class was 3) our professor said we could watch some americana stuff if we needed to wait for more finals in the building (i did). The classroom was a huge lecture hall with a projector. He puts on stuff about cryptids, which, that’s a surprise but hey, nice light mood for a sobering look at what amounted to pre and post 9/11 america. And when the man on the video introduced the world expert on the jersey devil who do we see grinning at the camera, giant on the projector, but our professor. We turn to see him making the exact same face. We went wild.
My engineering 101 professor put on a documentary once about some renovations the government did on the Hoover Dam and it was more or less interesting even though I couldn’t tell you now what actually happened in it. But like maybe a little more than halfway through when they got done with the history and introducing The Problem they interviewed the top engineers working on the project.
And you’ll never guess who was up first. You’ll never guess whos face (albiet, maybe 20 or so years younger) was projected up on the screen for the entire class (maybe 8 or 9 in total of us) to collectively point at. And my professor (This old guy who’s doing this teaching intro to engineering as part of hisretirement), doesn’t even look up as he continues to grade our latest assignment to say: “that was a fun project.”
I had a dream where after I sent that ask with the Mr Ms mx you made a vague vent post and was very upset about it
Oh, well I don’t think I’d ever make a vent post because someone said something to me on the internet. I’m just not really negatively affected by that stuff
“fish don’t even know theyre wet” and? you don’t even know youre luft (air equivalent of wet)
This is a really good example of how we can just make up words that work. “Luft” is a perfect word for this it feels correct and we understand and can feel it.
Like it would’ve necessarily work with other words but “luft” is a combination of sounds that means luft (air equivalent of wet).
Thank you but the reason it works is because it is a deliberately chosen word!
The closest word we have in English for ‘wet but with air’ would be ‘aerated’, which is the past principle of the verb ‘aerate’. As a multi syllable Latin derived word, aerated wouldn’t feel equivalent to wet even if you just used it as an adjective in a sentence- so to have something that feels like ‘wet’ I looked for a monosyllabic air-related word with a German root.
As many have pointed out in the notes, ‘Luft’ means air in a lot of languages, because it comes from the proto-Germanic word ‘luftuz’. It’s also used in English as a chess term, and is a doublet of ‘loft’. Because it’s rare in conversational English but has the right etymology to evoke the idea of air and the texture of ‘wet’, it is very easily appropriated for the concept of ‘air equivalent of wet’.
The list of things that Biden’s team has accomplished is impressive. I went ahead and made a bullet list of the things that affect me/my loved ones personally:
Over the counter birth control now available. This is especially important to people in states like mine where abortion is entirely inaccessible. Opill can be ordered online with no doctor visit and is currently available at $50 for 3 months worth, which is not bad. Could help a lot of people! (they’re also trying to make it so your insurance would have to cover this)
Established the Office of Gun Violence Prevention, which is one of the first major steps towards gun control we’ve seen in a long time. Also awarded one billion dollars to support student wellness and school mental health professionals (which is the field I work in)
Helped broker a deal to save the Colorado river. There’s something simply existential about a water crisis, and I have a lot of family living in the affected area, so it’s nice to get some progress on this.
Invested millions of federal funds into cancer research, with the goal to halve death rates over the next 25 years. I unfortunately know several people who have/have had cancer, and it could happen to anyone, so it’s always nice to see progress made in this area.
Made it harder for companies to engage in union busting. This doesn’t directly affect me yet as I’m not currently in a union, but I sure hope to be someday!
The infrastructure deal is pouring 1.2 trillion dollars of investment into roads, bridges, airports, waterlines and broadband networks. Hey, I use those things!
Making airlines pay up when flights are delayed or cancelled. I’ve lived through the tragedy of a cancelled an non refunded flight, and hopefully I’ll never have to do it again.
I’m making a factbook in the form of a wiki for my fictional NationStates.net country (Elyia) and
I’m also making all the notes and record information for the world and characters that I’ve been thinking about for quite a while and decided to write down and make concrete.
Elyia is a country that had a socialist revolution a few decades earlier than those in the real world did and had a less one-sided conflict between its “socialist factions” leading to a fairly different outcome when combined with less external pressure.
And the MMA stands for Multiverse Management Agency which is the organisation that oversees universes and multiverses, insures that they’re safe from Corruption etc.
Fuck self-sufficiency. It’s time for Interdependence. Always offer help and always accept it. Cook meals for the people you love. Grow fruits and vegetables and give them to your neighbors. The “independent” person is merely the perfect version of a Consumer, eating directly from the palms of Corporation. Fuck self-sufficiency. Need one another.
If you’re thinking ‘ok, but I’m disabled and I can’t *do* any of these things…maybe I don’t fit into this’
yes, you do! we need you!
we need your kindness, your laughter, your joy
what might that look like during the hard times? it might be saying 'thank you’, or being gentle with someone else, or saying 'isn’t that a nice cloud?’, or enjoying literally anything that you like (whether by yourself or sharing that with others)
