Mom asked me what woke means, she’d heard some politician use it. I explained it as being aware that some groups in society have less advantages than others. She proclaimed herself to be proudly woke.
Apparently she’d heard a lady in our government talk shit about trans people. She used a lot of flowery language to describe this politician. The only word I feel comfortable repeating is “bitch”
the thing is. when tumblr finally announces it is going to shut down because every attempt to make money in good faith was condemned and decried by popular users here, i suspect a lot of the Popular Big Reblog Reactions will be: “GOOD. THEY SHOULD. THEY DESERVE IT FOR [GRIEVANCES] GOOD RIDDANCE”
and. I’m not at all saying this is a perfect site. but also like. if you wish for the destruction of something around you because it’s the only way it will be ‘cleansed’ then. like. why are you hanging out there.
i’ve been on tumblr for almost decade and a half. i like it here. i’ll be sad when it’s gone. that does not mean i defend it’s every action!
but the response to any small feature that’s a little fun! for a couple bucks! it’s all just. so uncompromisingly reactionary. inflexibly dogmatic. it’s easier to tear something down than say 'it might be imperfect but it IS what’s present’. the rapture will come and the bad thing will get what it deserves. the revolution is here. and the sinners will be cleansed. and this little vestigial corner of the web where written word and creative fandom still thrives will be gone. forever.
sometimes liking a thing and wishing it were better is harder to swallow than righteous anger. and some people here would have you burn it all down rather than face the contradiction.
“noooo they’re limiting likes” likes have always been limited. Just like posts and side blogs and whatever else I can’t remember rn There has always been a limit and if u have never hit it then premium wouldn’t even be worth it
Here’s the thing about Tumblr Premium: The amount of posts, reblogs, and likes have literally always had daily limits.
… It’s just that people don’t typically notice this because it’s really hard to reach any of those limits in a day. I believe it’s 250 posts/reblogs, and 1,000 likes per day. Tumblr Premium would just be upping that to 500 posts/reblogs, and 2,000 likes per day. The issue is not that they’re suddenly limiting basic features - these limits have always been in place, saying otherwise is stupid. The issue is that who the fuck is actually posting + liking that much in a fucking day?? Who is that upgrade for????
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Hello, there has been a lot of misunderstanding with the tumblr premium thing. People are under the impression that tumblr is restricting likes and posts . but im under the impression that premium simply allow to go beyond the daily posting limit (250) and the daily amount of likes someone can have (1000) can you please confirm ?
yes, Premium subscribers get double the normal limits. there are no new limits. these limits have been in place for over a decade. the vast, vast, vast majority of people don’t know there are limits because they’re never in danger of hitting them, but some people hit them every day, and now they can get higher limits.
the limits are documented across various help docs, our API documentation, and we tell you when you hit them. XKit Rewritten has a nice little limit checker, too, if you fly close to them frequently.
laurae, a small Native farmer who built up her farm over the last five years, was served a 90-day eviction notice despite being promised by the landowner that she would be given a purchase agreement and the farm would never be sold to another person. Everything she has is in this farm - she’s put thousands of hours of work into it, built her cabin by hand, and invested every penny she’s made back into it. we are fighting to help her get the money to purchase her land before someone else buys it and kicks her - and us, her tenants who had no access to land without her help - off.
she ships her jams & honey, which you can buy here
I know we’re all hurting right now and the world is fucked. but I love laurae and she’s done so much for all the people in her life. She has nowhere to go, no other options for a home, and no means to start over. she is a veteran, a survivor of multiple cancers, and close to fifty. all she wants is to live out her days on her farm till she hands it off to the next generation of farmers and I don’t want to see that simple thing taken away from her.
Representative Rashida Tlaib (the only Palestinian member of the US Congress) holds up a sign saying “WAR CRIMINAL” and “GUILTY OF GENOCIDE” as Benjamin Netanyahu addresses Congress.
hello transgender woman on reddit. before you is a transfem who is pre-everything asking about how to get a close shave on facial hair. if you reply “just get laser hair removal” a bomb will go off killing you instantly
safety razor and shaving butter is the way to go, in my experience!
blades with multiple razors tug and irritate my skin more often, and don’t cut nearly as closely. and shaving cream is inconsistent with its actual viscosity and overall quality for the shave.
i keep a bit of shaving butter in my left hand at all times, and i keep my right hand for my razor, that way i dont make the handle all slippy.
also, since most safety razors have two sides, i recommend using one side for each half of your face! it spreads out the wear more evenly, making it easier to reuse them. i reuse razors for 2-3 shaves. i could probably reuse them for one or two more shaves, but i prefer not to take a chance.
to dispose of razors, i get a piece of packing tape and fold it over the razor. the only way anyone’s gonna get hurt by that is if they go out of their way to pry open the tape to get to the dangerous object.
the total cost of this was about $100 for the safety razor (this is the one i use), butter, and 100 reusable razors, which i paid over a year ago. since then i havent spent a penny on shaving, and i foresee myself not needing to for a while longer. maybe on shaving butter, but that’s it.
for actual shaving technique, i give my face 3 passes. once while going with the grain (the direction your hair is growing in), once taking the grain from the side, and once going against the grain. that usually leaves me smooth for a day and a half. with a bit of foundation, you can cover up the next day’s stubble relatively easily.
shaving every day is bad for you, so i try to leave at least 2 days for the microcuts on my face from the razor to heal between shaves, and i recommend doing the same.
the main driving force in my life is acquiring information. if you ever see me doing something stupid please understand its because i have probably developed some bizarre idea about how to acquire more information and i have disregarded other concerns (“safety,” “politeness”) in favor of my ultimate goal. what am i going to do with this information? nothing at all. i am going to sit on it like a dragon sits on its golden hoard. dragons dont need gold to buy anything they are just using it as some type of really big couch or sensory sand type of situation. this is my relationship to information. in the past i have been happy to eat villagers in order to acquire my information but i am trying to be better now and only blackmail them, which i understand is more polite in many human cultures. im losing track of this metaphor. someone tell me a secret.
there are a lot more abjectly harmful and meanspirited april fool’s jokes out there but the one i personally find most annoying is when american game devs pretend that they’re going to make a visual novel spinoff of their game because they can’t imagine making visual novels in earnest
conversely, the sonic team won my everlasting respect by making their april fool’s joke an actual complete visual novel without a hint of irony or disdain for the medium because the joke wasn’t that it was a vn, it was that they fucking killed sonic
Being in a smaller fandom is so weird because it’s just like a handful of us going “Still like the thing??? Cool, cool, me too. Just checking in. Glad we still like the thing. I hope we continue to all like the thing.”
me: did you know the narrative that school shooters in the US are all bullying victims is false and originates from inaccurate coverage of one of the most infamous school shootings, the columbine shooting? in reality the columbine shooters were reactionaries who isolated themselves deliberately and followed an ideology that positioned them “above” the rest. so, a lot of school shooters are actually ideologically motivated rather than revenge motivated. no one knows this and the media paints these murderers as victims. do you want to know what the columbine effect is? also I have a lot to say about “stranger danger” as a conservative fear campaign to promote the isolated nuclear family
In any tomato based sauce, vodka, or any strong alcohol doesn’t make the dish taste more like alcohol, it releases alcohol soluble elements from the tomato itself, making it taste sweeter, richer and more tomato than even just tomatoes themselves, this adds acidity, which is often tempered by the addition of dairy (usually heavy cream) a la vodka is not a delicate sauce, but any means, it’s made with a full intention of every major ingredient hitting well above it’s weight. And if you want it even better, try using a good botanical gin or a pepper vodka for even more intensity.
When an archer is shooting for fun He has all his skill. If he shoots for a brass buckle He is already nervous. If he shoots for a prize of gold He goes blind Or sees two targets – He is out of his mind.
His skill has not changed, But the prize divides him. He cares He thinks more of winning Than of shooting – And the need to win Drains him of power.
I’m so glad to draw Forneus, I never get to draw characters this big. When playing the og demo, i had to stop the stream to squeal over the chonker kitty.
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When Sam is super duper relaxed, his lips part and his mouth droops open just slightly. I think he was dreaming here. I saw some movement under his closed eyes. What do lizards dream about?
“trans men have an easier time transitioning” I want you to sit here and look me in the face and tell me how devastated you would be if, on the day of your gender affirming surgery, your doctor called you and told you “sorry we’re cancelling it and aren’t helping you get this approved even though you have the right to this help”.
And then I want you to understand that that is exactly what happened to me at 8:15am on the date I was supposed to be checking in to my top surgery at 10:30am.
you can say literally anything like. “the autistic urge to go for a walk” and everyone in the notes will be like #WELL SHIT #Guess thats another mental problem to add to the list #forest rambles #casey dont look
America has a weird relationship with cults where they’re terrified of small cults (or organizations they think are cults) but completely normalized massive cults that hurt many more people (eg: LDS Church, Jehovah’s Witnesses, the Amish, Scientology, most Megachurches)
To anybody asking if the Amish are a cult, the answer is yes, very much so.
They’re a high control group that isolate you from society. The cult decides how you dress, how you behave, who you marry and how. They control what you know, blocking all information from the outside world. They control how you feel and what you’re allowed to think with threats of both social and supernatural harm. They’re a cult.
The best method to determine if a group is a cult, in my opinion, is Steven Hassan’s (cult expert and former cult member himself) BITE model.
BITE stands for Behavior Control, Information Control, Thought Control, and Emotional Control.
The more points a group “scores” on the model, the more of a cult it is.
I think this model is the best one for several reasons:
It’s more nuanced than “cult” or “not cult” and doesn’t make false equivalences between groups
It’s versatile, applying to groups big and small, and cults of all kinds, religious, political, financial, etc.
It focuses on what’s important, which is what the cult does to its members, and those members’ experiences, and not on irrelevant details like how uncommon their doctrines are or whether they have a charismatic leader
This is a great example of Thought Control used by cults whenever they’re confronted with criticism.
America has a weird relationship with cults where they’re terrified of small cults (or organizations they think are cults) but completely normalized massive cults that hurt many more people (eg: LDS Church, Jehovah’s Witnesses, the Amish, Scientology, most Megachurches)
To anybody asking if the Amish are a cult, the answer is yes, very much so.
They’re a high control group that isolate you from society. The cult decides how you dress, how you behave, who you marry and how. They control what you know, blocking all information from the outside world. They control how you feel and what you’re allowed to think with threats of both social and supernatural harm. They’re a cult.
The best method to determine if a group is a cult, in my opinion, is Steven Hassan’s (cult expert and former cult member himself) BITE model.
BITE stands for Behavior Control, Information Control, Thought Control, and Emotional Control.
The more points a group “scores” on the model, the more of a cult it is.
I think this model is the best one for several reasons:
It’s more nuanced than “cult” or “not cult” and doesn’t make false equivalences between groups
It’s versatile, applying to groups big and small, and cults of all kinds, religious, political, financial, etc.
It focuses on what’s important, which is what the cult does to its members, and those members’ experiences, and not on irrelevant details like how uncommon their doctrines are or whether they have a charismatic leader
This is a great example of Thought Control used by cults whenever they’re confronted with criticism.
America has a weird relationship with cults where they’re terrified of small cults (or organizations they think are cults) but completely normalized massive cults that hurt many more people (eg: LDS Church, Jehovah’s Witnesses, the Amish, Scientology, most Megachurches)
To anybody asking if the Amish are a cult, the answer is yes, very much so.
They’re a high control group that isolate you from society. The cult decides how you dress, how you behave, who you marry and how. They control what you know, blocking all information from the outside world. They control how you feel and what you’re allowed to think with threats of both social and supernatural harm. They’re a cult.
The best method to determine if a group is a cult, in my opinion, is Steven Hassan’s (cult expert and former cult member himself) BITE model.
BITE stands for Behavior Control, Information Control, Thought Control, and Emotional Control.
The more points a group “scores” on the model, the more of a cult it is.
I think this model is the best one for several reasons:
It’s more nuanced than “cult” or “not cult” and doesn’t make false equivalences between groups
It’s versatile, applying to groups big and small, and cults of all kinds, religious, political, financial, etc.
It focuses on what’s important, which is what the cult does to its members, and those members’ experiences, and not on irrelevant details like how uncommon their doctrines are or whether they have a charismatic leader
This is a great example of Thought Control used by cults whenever they’re confronted with criticism.
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