“don’t look away” is a meaningless phrase. who are you benefiting by inundating yourself with misery porn?
DO something about things you care about. Go to a protest for something you believe in, if you can. Donate money to a cause if you have it to spare. Volunteer your time to help people if you have the energy. Write a letter to your political representatives if that’s something you can do. These are meaningful ways to try to make change in the world.
And then? don’t feel bad about insulating yourself from horrible news. Don’t make yourself look at images that make you feel sick. Don’t read endless things that depress you. Because frankly it gets harder to actually do the more you doomscroll. Reading constantly about things you can’t change because they’re happening at a systemic level or on the other side of the world is paralyzing. It makes you less able to help where you can.
I’m not saying be willfully ignorant. I’m not saying pretend horrible things aren’t happening. I’m saying don’t destroy your mental health going in-depth and cycling through horror after horror on your phone. I’m saying there is no virtue in making yourself experience other people’s traumas because mere awareness is not activism. you inflicting suffering on yourself is not activism.
doomscrolling is literally sapping your energy and focus away from doing anything useful to help other people. you can burn yourself out without ever lifting a finger by exposing yourself to all the bad news in the world and who does that help? no one.
It actually bums me out that astrology has persisted through the years as the standard BS divinatory practice that people really buy into, when it so easily could have been ornithomancy instead.
We could’ve had hipster girls trying to predict the minutiae of your life using an intricate chart that details how many herons or crows you’ve seen in the past year. Instead of asking what’s your sign on dating apps people would be like how many birds did you see on your way to work today. I cannot stop thinking about what could have been.
Smth I’ve thought about ever since I first saw wreck it ralph is that in universe king candy is basically an irl creepypasta. Like he’s a racer that only exists in this one specific sugar rush cabinet, every other version off the game has princess vanellope. Literally no one knows he exists except for ppl who went to this one small arcade in the United States. And if the code for sugar rush has been dumped there is no trace of king candy bc he only exists in this one cabinet. I bet there’s ppl who traveled cross country just to see if king candy actually exists.
And then after the movie king candy disappears from the roster forever and is replaced by vanellope but she’s different than every other vanellope, different outfit different personality different kart different voice lines etc
It’s literally that one arcade cabinet creepypasta discussions and YouTube videos about it in universe must be crazy.
I bet the internet found out about him bc someone went on the sugar rush subreddit and said “loved sugar rush when I was a kid, king candy was always my favorite racer!” and everyone in the comments was like “WHO??????”
YRS!!!!! I AM NOT LETTING THIS GENIOUS HIDE IN THE TAGS!!!!!!!!!!
actually now that i’m thinking about it. every single video game that lets you costumize characters but doesn’t let you be fat is extremely revealing to the fact that most people can’t imagine fat as something a person would want to be. there’s other examples but like, fuck, i can’t even choose to be fat in imaginary spaces. My size isn’t accommodated for because they couldn’t imagine a player who wants to be anything other than skinny.
Like, you see it right. How media shapes people’s beliefs, and people construct beliefs into the things they create? If all you can ever choose to be in a game is one of two body shapes, and you have to physically alter the game to be anything bigger, like. “why would i imagine a world with you in it.”
I’m doing commissions since unfortunate my job might get shut down which would be bad because I am in Uni, so I’m offering my art services up to anyone. I have 5 slots open to test the waters right, just dm for any inquires
Some people don’t want to hear this but sometimes accessibility is not sustainable or eco-friendly. Disabled people sometimes need straws, or pre-made meals in plastic containers, or single-use items. Just because you can work with your foods in their least processed and packaged form doesn’t mean everyone else can.
I mean, if we’re talking about a more…academic? rigorous? accurate? definition of sustainability, something has to meet human needs to be sustainable. A “sustainable” system that disabled people can’t use isn’t sustainable. Not distracting from your point just saying that “sustainability” is supposed to actually include the needs of people.
Also. In my opinion it’s a good thing we invented plastic. Plastic is good at a lot of things. There are some applications where there really Isn’t a more sustainable alternative. A lot of medical equipment needs to be single-use plastic and there’s not really a way around it.
When we’re talking material properties of a substance, plastic does stuff that other materials can’t. It’s not brittle. It can be flexible. It can be lightweight. It doesn’t expand and contract a bunch with temperature. It can allow light through. And it doesn’t corrode or biodegrade, which is bad but it’s also good because it doesn’t change or become contaminated while you’re using it.
I bet the abled ‘leftists’ are going to be real cool and normal about this.
I saw a post one time that was like “in a just world with equality for everyone, people in rich imperialist countries would have access to less of expensive luxuries and that’s okay” but one of their examples of these expensive things that wouldnt be in the world anymore with equality was. MRI machines.
I don’t know about y'all but I think theres like, a ranked list of the frivolousness of expensive technologies, and all medical technology is collectively dead at the fucking bottom
Some people don’t want to hear this but sometimes accessibility is not sustainable or eco-friendly. Disabled people sometimes need straws, or pre-made meals in plastic containers, or single-use items. Just because you can work with your foods in their least processed and packaged form doesn’t mean everyone else can.
I mean, if we’re talking about a more…academic? rigorous? accurate? definition of sustainability, something has to meet human needs to be sustainable. A “sustainable” system that disabled people can’t use isn’t sustainable. Not distracting from your point just saying that “sustainability” is supposed to actually include the needs of people.
Also. In my opinion it’s a good thing we invented plastic. Plastic is good at a lot of things. There are some applications where there really Isn’t a more sustainable alternative. A lot of medical equipment needs to be single-use plastic and there’s not really a way around it.
When we’re talking material properties of a substance, plastic does stuff that other materials can’t. It’s not brittle. It can be flexible. It can be lightweight. It doesn’t expand and contract a bunch with temperature. It can allow light through. And it doesn’t corrode or biodegrade, which is bad but it’s also good because it doesn’t change or become contaminated while you’re using it.
I bet the abled ‘leftists’ are going to be real cool and normal about this.
I saw a post one time that was like “in a just world with equality for everyone, people in rich imperialist countries would have access to less of expensive luxuries and that’s okay” but one of their examples of these expensive things that wouldnt be in the world anymore with equality was. MRI machines.
I don’t know about y'all but I think theres like, a ranked list of the frivolousness of expensive technologies, and all medical technology is collectively dead at the fucking bottom
My physics professor just told the class the wildest story from when he was in grad school about building a high voltage unauthorized Tesla coil with the ability to kill a man
No I’m still not over this - this man along with two other graduate students rigged a Tesla coil and a faraday cage without a budget and the arcs of electricity that came off of it hit things in the room like exposed gas pipes. He found a thick piece of plexiglass that he sawed into smaller pieces, he found a screwdriver that he filed down to a sharp point, and he reasoned that by charging the plexiglass with a shit ton of excess electrons and striking it with the screwdriver-ice pick immediately after flipping the coil off but before the energy in the room had a chance to dissipate, they could see the physical path of the conducted electricity as it conducted through the excess electrons.
These men rigged up an empty storage closet in their lab with the faraday cage and Tesla coil and ran their little experiment. My professor ran into the room the instant the coil was turned off, grabbed the grounded screwdriver-ice pick, and stabbed the plexiglass millimeters away from the edge where he could’ve missed.
And it worked.
This man captured a god damn lightning strike in physical media. That shape is from the electricity breaking through the structure of the plexiglass. That’s literally the conduction path.
Anyway I was talking to one of the lab instructors about it and she put her head in her hands and literally groaned. “I wish John hadn’t told you that story.”
Puritanism is getting worse around the globe and conservatives and fascists will absolutely be first going harder against porn, then use that against queer people. You HAVE to realise this and oppose anti porn measures and laws, be in solidarity with sex workers, and listen to them when they call this shit out. It’s going to be vitally important.
Reminder that keeping porn legal means that pornstars have legal protections that they will lose if porn is made illegal. Reminder that keeping porn legal means there are legal standards that can be put in place and enforced which results in better safety for all who are involved in porn’s creation.
Reminder that porn will never stop being a thing. It just won’t. If it’s made illegal, then it will continue to be created and distributed - its just that it will now be done under the table, and with no safety regulations or protections for anyone.
Yes, the hard-right’s ultimate plan is to use porn as a gateway from which to attack queer people, but even if that wasn’t their plan, you should want to protect the legality of porn anyway.
Keeping porn legal means that the chances of sexual assault on those who work in the industry are reduced, and means that victims of assault are able to pursue legal action against their attackers. Keeping porn legal means that human trafficking is decreased, and it gives victims of human trafficking a legally supported escape route that would be lost if porn were made illegal.
Keeping porn legal means that anyone who is involved in making it - regardless of whether theyre making it simply because they want to, or because they’re financially desperate – is granted a measure of protection that they otherwise would not be. People love to raise the “but porn is made by desperate people who sell their body to survive,” but a) some people make porn because they like it, and b) someone who is desperate enough to sell their body will do so regardless of whether it’s legal or not. But when it’s legal, that desperate person has far more protections and is less likely to be taken advantage of than when it’s illegal.
Keeping porn legal protects people. Making it illegal will harm people. It’s that simple.
“But it’s demeaning!”
That’s a you problem. No, really - it’s your opinion is that sex work is demeaning, but I’ve had some really demeaning jobs that were legal and “proper”. Just because a job involves sex doesn’t mean it has less value than being a salesperson, or an accountant.
Puritanism is getting worse around the globe and conservatives and fascists will absolutely be first going harder against porn, then use that against queer people. You HAVE to realise this and oppose anti porn measures and laws, be in solidarity with sex workers, and listen to them when they call this shit out. It’s going to be vitally important.
Reminder that keeping porn legal means that pornstars have legal protections that they will lose if porn is made illegal. Reminder that keeping porn legal means there are legal standards that can be put in place and enforced which results in better safety for all who are involved in porn’s creation.
Reminder that porn will never stop being a thing. It just won’t. If it’s made illegal, then it will continue to be created and distributed - its just that it will now be done under the table, and with no safety regulations or protections for anyone.
Yes, the hard-right’s ultimate plan is to use porn as a gateway from which to attack queer people, but even if that wasn’t their plan, you should want to protect the legality of porn anyway.
Keeping porn legal means that the chances of sexual assault on those who work in the industry are reduced, and means that victims of assault are able to pursue legal action against their attackers. Keeping porn legal means that human trafficking is decreased, and it gives victims of human trafficking a legally supported escape route that would be lost if porn were made illegal.
Keeping porn legal means that anyone who is involved in making it - regardless of whether theyre making it simply because they want to, or because they’re financially desperate – is granted a measure of protection that they otherwise would not be. People love to raise the “but porn is made by desperate people who sell their body to survive,” but a) some people make porn because they like it, and b) someone who is desperate enough to sell their body will do so regardless of whether it’s legal or not. But when it’s legal, that desperate person has far more protections and is less likely to be taken advantage of than when it’s illegal.
Keeping porn legal protects people. Making it illegal will harm people. It’s that simple.
“But it’s demeaning!”
That’s a you problem. No, really - it’s your opinion is that sex work is demeaning, but I’ve had some really demeaning jobs that were legal and “proper”. Just because a job involves sex doesn’t mean it has less value than being a salesperson, or an accountant.
Everything we think we know about the world is a model. Every word and every language is a model. All maps and statistics, books and databases, equations and computer programs are models. So are the ways I picture the world in my head—my mental models. None of these is or ever will be the real world.
“The negligible is nothing other than what has to be neglected in order to construct physics; it is not by any means what is of no importance, because what is neglected is always an infinite error. What is neglected is always as large as the world, exactly as large, because the physicist neglects the whole difference between something that happens in front of his eyes and a perfectly closed, perfectly definite system which he conceives in his mind and represents on paper by symbols and signs; and this difference is the world itself, the world which presses around every morsel of matter, and filters into it, and inserts infinite variety between two points no matter how close together, the world which makes any closed system absolutely impossible. The world is neglected because it has to be; and, since mathematics cannot be applied to phenomena at a lesser price, it is applied at the price of an infinite error.”
Everything we think we know about the world is a model. Every word and every language is a model. All maps and statistics, books and databases, equations and computer programs are models. So are the ways I picture the world in my head—my mental models. None of these is or ever will be the real world.
“The negligible is nothing other than what has to be neglected in order to construct physics; it is not by any means what is of no importance, because what is neglected is always an infinite error. What is neglected is always as large as the world, exactly as large, because the physicist neglects the whole difference between something that happens in front of his eyes and a perfectly closed, perfectly definite system which he conceives in his mind and represents on paper by symbols and signs; and this difference is the world itself, the world which presses around every morsel of matter, and filters into it, and inserts infinite variety between two points no matter how close together, the world which makes any closed system absolutely impossible. The world is neglected because it has to be; and, since mathematics cannot be applied to phenomena at a lesser price, it is applied at the price of an infinite error.”
“the children are just saying things that don’t make sense and acting like they’re funny jokes” it’s called lolsorandom humor and it’s a time-honored youth tradition. be cool
i bought pre-cum strawberries today at the store and they were like twice as expensive but theyre so fucking good theres not any bad ones in the bowl and i dont have to waste time doing it myself now. so worth it
i meant to say pre-cut as in. they were previously cut before i bought them. but okay i eat cum strawberries now. whatever
I just found the funniest fucking thingGGGGG it’s a website where you make fake simpsons synopsises and compile screenshots from the show that fit the plot, which is simple enough but this is the first one I found
he just fucking murders homer gay rights
op how could you not add this one
my fave is the one where homer realises they’re trans
I just found the funniest fucking thingGGGGG it’s a website where you make fake simpsons synopsises and compile screenshots from the show that fit the plot, which is simple enough but this is the first one I found
he just fucking murders homer gay rights
op how could you not add this one
my fave is the one where homer realises they’re trans
I just found the funniest fucking thingGGGGG it’s a website where you make fake simpsons synopsises and compile screenshots from the show that fit the plot, which is simple enough but this is the first one I found
he just fucking murders homer gay rights
op how could you not add this one
my fave is the one where homer realises they’re trans
so the other day a castmate of mine was talking about having once been a little girl (at this point, i all but short-circuited because said castmate is a man in his mid-sixties and my brain had its little moment of “!!!!! trans person!!! and he’s OLD!!!!”) and being asked if there was a famous person he looked up to or wanted to look or be more like. and he said— again, as a little girl at this point— “santa claus!” and everyone thought he was weird for it.
and this story doesn’t read as well over text because you really have to see the guy. but he looks just like santa claus. he’s got the long white hair and the beard and the belly and everything. and i just. the amount of secondhand trans joy i experienced is truly insane. i’m gonna get old! i’m gonna get old the way i wanna get old! hey everybody you’re gonna get old; we’ve been doing it for years!
anyway shoutout to the santa claus of my cast and to every older trans person we love you so fucking much
so earlier my dog (who does not make bombs) was out in the rain and he started rolling around in the mud (as opposed to making bombs, which he does not do) so we had to give him a bath (he did not make bombs during the bath). anyway i think my dog (who I must insist, does not make bombs) just gets dirty to annoy me
JEsus Christ how did that even happen I’m trying to fix the other stuff
I am so sorry I genuinely do not know how that even happened
Context: (courtesy of a gimmickblog i know)
Looks like someone hacked nyanchio’s blog and sent scam asks posing as tumblr’s support team. Just a little note for everyone, just in case: Tumblr support is more likely to email you directly than use anonymous asks to reach you. Don’t trust unfamiliar links anons send you, especially if they try to hide the link itself, as shown here.
[yeah I can confirm I got that one that coloredmesa shared. reblogging here for awareness, don’t click if you get one of these!]
Plaintext from the video: Please do not type out your DNIs like this. This kind of censorship is inaccessible to those with screen readers. Thank you.
Also don’t censor content warnings as it voids the whole point of a content warning. Saying kill and suicide won’t damage your post’s visibility, but saying k1ll and su*cide will stop people from being able to filter out content they don’t want to see.
this is SO important whats the point of having cw tags if people cant even filter it out
Plaintext from the video: Please do not type out your DNIs like this. This kind of censorship is inaccessible to those with screen readers. Thank you.
Also don’t censor content warnings as it voids the whole point of a content warning. Saying kill and suicide won’t damage your post’s visibility, but saying k1ll and su*cide will stop people from being able to filter out content they don’t want to see.
this is SO important whats the point of having cw tags if people cant even filter it out
Vulcan teen on Vulcan [tiktok] saying “I have just lost track of my father in the grocery store.” The camera turns to show the viewers the grocery store in which almost every single older middle-aged man has a bowlcut and long robes. Camera turns back to show the teen’s face which is expressionless and yet communicates all it needs to.
You ever think about how weird hippos are ecologically speaking?
There’s literally no other megafauna on earth that spends the entire day lounging around in water, mostly just socializing, only to come onto land to feed at night.
I remember when I used to do education programs on hippos, most people assumed they ate aquatic plants, and that that’s the whole reason they were in water. Meanwhile, hippos are basically just giant nocturnal cows that eat only grass.
most animals that start adapting to live more of their lives in water:
“i must grow my bones lighter and less dense so that i don’t get trapped on the bottom and may float easier in this new environment”
hippos: “denser. heavier bones. MOAR dense. Make sink the most.”
mother nature: but how will you get off the bottom when you sink?
hippos: Make muscles more too, give all muscle.
mother nature: and to stay warm in the water? a big layer of fat?
hippos: no! no fat only muscle.
mother nature: o….kay. And, you eat aquatic plants, that’s why you spend so much time in the water?
hippos: lol no. eat land grass, like cow.
mother nature: i see. right. You eat mostly grass, so, flat grinding teeth?
hippos: hell no. big spike teeth. sharp big teeth. Biggest
mother nature: what, like lions? 3 inch fangs?
hippos: course not. giant fuck-off teeth, 18 inches. Also, not just one pair, three pairs of giant sharp teeth. give
mother nature: but you eat… grass?
hippos: yeah. lol. Sometimes eat a zebra tho. Or a antelope. Maybe eat a crocodile, you don’t know. Give all teeth, giant fuck-off teeth. Most bone! most muscle! most teeth! Me.
mother nature: y'know what? fuck it, sure, here you go
hippo: …
hippo: i’m very angry now
so idk about layers, and they are not all the same size, but they have three pairs of large sharp teeth on each side of their mouth, or you could say six pairs of …? anyway they have a bunch of molars you can barely see through the gums, and then they have these teeth:
looks like this in the mouth
so those are their, yeah i guess actually six pair of giant fuck-off teeth
This is incredible. Hysterical. Historical. Hilarious. And impressive, too.
Even Mark Zuckerberg didn’t run Facebook into the ground so badly that it got removed in Brazil by court order. Let alone within five years of owning it.
And I heard that Brazillians made up a lot of Twitter revenue, so this could very well be what KILLS Twitter completely. This is Elon admitting that he would rather let the entire platform die than stop platforming the worst kinds of people you know.
This is incredible. Hysterical. Historical. Hilarious. And impressive, too.
Even Mark Zuckerberg didn’t run Facebook into the ground so badly that it got removed in Brazil by court order. Let alone within five years of owning it.
And I heard that Brazillians made up a lot of Twitter revenue, so this could very well be what KILLS Twitter completely. This is Elon admitting that he would rather let the entire platform die than stop platforming the worst kinds of people you know.
I don’t have time to draw it right now but while driving home from the winco I saw a happy mustached man pedaling a bike, towing a cart built to look like a chariot, inside of which stood what I can only imagine was his completely expressionless 13 year old in a makeshift corinthian helmet
like this
People drawing their encounters instead of filming strangers without their knowledge or consent: my beloved
i want to thank you both for turning my biggest wording fumble where i clumsily said mining dwarfer instead of dwarven miner into a post i chuckle at whenever it comes across my dash
hold on i’m busy i’ll have to check what you said in a minute
