uk journalists having to report through gritted teeth that there were no riots last night as thousands of anti-racist protesters significantly outnumbered the racist rioters across the country
around 10,000 people counter-protesting in walthamstow last night
here in brighton, with the three (3) racists vs thousands of anti racist counter-protesters
i don’t know about you guys but the main reason i am still on tumblr in 2024 is BECAUSE it is the most cloutless least influential social media app out there and that is the experience i am after. absolutely none of this will ever translate into significant attention or real success in my life and that is so beautiful.
the epidemic of grown adults playing tiktoks at full volume in public is rampant why are you acting like a 7 year old with their first ipad you have a mortgage
“I would say, arguing that you don’t care about privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don’t care about free speech, because you have nothing to say.”
“I would say, arguing that you don’t care about privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don’t care about free speech, because you have nothing to say.”
how come i see so many characters that are commonly headcanoned as autistic and or generally neurodivergent in fanon, that are also treated as if they are a child, childlike, childish or young in fanon. this is a concerning pattern. you guys know infantilisation isnt the only way to treat neurodivergent characters right
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see i’ve come to call this a “five pebbles situation” because that’s where i’ve seen it the most. just a few minutes ago a friend talked about a character in another character in another fandom who was very commonly hc’d as neurodivergent and also treated like a child and i just asked “five pebbles situation?” and wouldn’t you like to know what it was. it was a five fucking pebbles situation. that man is a grown ass man who does grown ass man things and is treated like a child in fanon
Help me help my former coworker cover the last of her medical expenses and leave the greedy hospital for good!
The last post lost traction 4 days ago, and I had to dip into my savings AND take out loans instead to help C pay to get discharged. Only for the hospital to keep surprising us with even MORE hidden charges! 😡😭
C’s region’s local government does NOT offer aid for these types of situations, and she is currently estranged from her family.
If you don’t believe me, here’s the full story in parts:
⏫ Translation in alt text, just tap on “ALT” on the lower left corner of the images to read.
She needs to pay $152 (₱8,800) within the deadline the hospital gave her, which is 3-5 days from yesterday (August 7 our timezone), so the latest due date is August 12 our timezone. That would be August 11 in most places across the world.
I also want to be able to help C get back on her feet after she’s finally freed from the hospital, so she’ll need help covering food, lodging, and other misc expenses. I believe $50 (₱2,900) will cover that for a while.
Please, we are getting desperate. Neither of us have the means to cover this at the moment, and we’d appreciate if you can reblog this post if you see it.
She doesn’t have a P*yp*l account, so I use my account from my more active days as an artist and act as her proxy.
Everything here will be sent to her ASAP.
Please do not tag this as d*nations or the like.
Please share this post when you see it!
Update as of 08/09/2024, 7:27 AM
Thank you to the person who sent $19!
C told me yesterday that she’s been skipping meals when she’s not allowed to, since she can’t afford food as well.
Update as of 08/09/2024, 7:37 AM
C keeps texting me three times a day hoping for any movement, and I’m tied up with work. I barely have any savings myself, and I feel guilty telling her that the fundraiser barely moves.
She’s currently short of $48 (₱2,800) and it would be great if someone could cover that within the next 12 hours so she can finally leave the hospital
people like to bring up things like “all your loved ones would die before you” as a concern re: immortality. But the real danger for me would be that i’d literally never get anything done again. I’d adopt the elvish lifestyle immediately. Not doing anything in a week that could be done in a century. Not getting anything done in a century that can be done in 10 centuries. Spending the next 100 years reading 1 book very slowly because i have infinite time and don’t care.
“sounds like a tomorrow problem! :)” - me several centuries in a row.
Palestinian men should not have to repeatedly hold up pictures of their family struggling through a genocide, for us to care about them. Fundraisers conducted by/for Palestinian men, should not have to repeatedly refer to their mothers, sisters, wives and children, to make us realize their humanity, their vulnerability. Enough. Isn’t it enough after so many months? Hadn’t it always been enough?
It makes me feel so fucking scummy when everytime I answer a fundraiser, I have to exclusively talk about their children, their wives or their elderly parents struggling. Do Palestinian men not struggle? Do they not get injured? Do they not suffer from chronic illnesses? Do they not get terrible rashes in summer? Do they not get dehydrated? Do they not get hungry? Do they not fall sick with hepatitis? Do they not despair? Are they not bombed? Are they not shot at? Do they not get rounded up like animals and stripped and blindfolded and tortured and assaulted? Are they not thrown in solitary confinement? Do they not have IOF dogs sicced on them? When will it be enough? What will be enough?
I do not know how to help Siraj except for pleading on behalf of him. Please get Siraj to 10k He needs it to relocate safely to another camp. Please donate. If not that please boost
In the era when the state inevitably decides to kill me, I hope we will have advanced morally and technologically to the point where they can cause me to hallucinate a pleasant fantasy while it happens. In my fantasy, I’ll be explaining to attendees of an orgy about how we can use a modified version of the Gale-Shapley algorithm to come up with the optimal way of breaking up into groups in a way that prevents disputes from occurring. I don’t know if the hallucination will actually feature any sex
This is the most important thing I’ve learned about grieving. It never goes away. Time doesn’t make it smaller. Time, if you do the work, makes you bigger. Self expansion is key. Self expansion through creativity and passion and communication. My grief used to be all of me. Now it is a part of me. An important part, but just a part. I love this visualization so much.
posting on tumblr is like being stranded on a deserted island and sometimes a bottle will wash up from tiktok that’s like “people over 30 are becoming paranoid about sock length” and you will turn to the island’s flock of parrots like “sounds like some kind of sock mind virus” and they will attack you
I’m seeing a lot of the same arguments and thoughts about this election as we had in 2016. I don’t want to see that repeated. Neither do you. So we have to come together and vote in record numbers. We defeated MAGA once. We have to do it again.
Those elections in France where the far-right ended third when we were all were worried they’d be first and possibly have a majority? We had the highest turnout since 1981. Voting works, folks.
Hey a reminder to all salaried employees in the US that as of today, July 1st, you need to be making at least 43,888 per year or else your employer needs to pay you overtime at a rate of 1.5 per hour over 40 worked, as you are now non-FLSA exempt. On January 1st 2025 this number will increase to 58,655 per year. Don’t let your employer cheat you.
BTW today I met a person who’s at least 50, uses they/it pronouns, and named themself Wyvern. It looks like if Santa was a biker and it plays D&D at the local library. Just a reminder that you can do whatever you want, forever.
It’s important to remember that the point of a hobby is to have fun not “get better”
Imagine if someone who reads as a hobby was constantly told they would “get better” or asked “are you improving”
Now stop saying this to artist/fiber artist/dancers/anyone that has any hobby where they make things
Stop putting pressure on our fun enjoyable time by putting standards and expectations on it. If I suck at embroidery oh Fucking well i suck but I like doing it it’s FUN that’s the whole point is having FUN
My ideal date? You release me into the wild to hunt me for sport on your remote island BUT I’m not very good at hiding so you find me within 20 minutes. You hold the gun to my face but there is something so earnest in my eyes and hands that you cannot carry through. You pick me up and carry me back to your mansion. I am so polite and charming that you nurse me back to health. You grow to love and trust me despite the fact you’re holding me hostage after I fell of a charter vessel bound for Brazil. You buy me new clothes and have them shipped to the island. I kiss you good morning every day. You propose marriage. I accept. We skype in a priest and get married with the butler as our witness. That night I kill you and the butler. I redistribute your wealth. I live in the mansion on the abandoned island for the rest of my days. I study snail ecology. I never remarry. You were the love of my life but you were too dangerous and evil to live. I am buried next to you. The tides eventually wash our bodies away. Into the depths of the ocean, together.
cant have sex with my IOS wife because my dick doesn’t fit her portussy so now i have to go to the shitfuck apple store and buy the like 200 dollar strapple
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