“Humans evolved to be dependent on their tools; we’ve had an intimate relationship with our technology from the start. We’ve been cyborgs from the moment we sharpened our first stick.”
text reads: “you’re struggling to make the change because the old behaviour is still meeting a need. instead of shaming yourself, indemnify the deeper need and allow it to exist. then get curious about a new way to meet it.”
no, they’re implying that dprk is supplying hamas military wing with weapons. yes, they do and it’s based af.
And if you’re wondering about the name (which I assume is the joke), it’s “Фагот”, or “basoon”.
“Фагот” is pronounced “faggot”, approximately. It was borrowed from the Italian “fagotto” (meaning, among other things, “basoon”) which comes from the Latin “fascis”, meaning a bundle of wood.
Am i to understand that faggot and fascism share etymological roots
Yup!
oh this is a fun one. so faggot means bundle of sticks, or a stick, or a burnt stick. hence why brits use faggot for cigarettes. it became a slur for homosexuals because the punishment for being gay was being burned alive at the stake. leaving only a bundle of burnt sticks.
meanwhile in ancient rome a fasces was an axe wrapped in sticks, making it unbreakable (e pluribus unum), and it was a sacred symbol of imperial power. mussolini used this as an inspiration and symbol for modern fascism.
The tsunamis from the Theran eruption devastated Crete, weakening the then-powerful Minoan civilization, leaving them open to being invaded by the Mycenaeans.
The volcanic winter it created devastated crops in China leading to the fall of the Xia Dynasty.
The abrupt and catastrophic loss of the people of Thera may have also inspired the myths about Atlantis.
if anyone wants a full list heres how they happened:
basically they all stem from a massive eruption of a volcano on the island of santorini off the coast of greece. the ash then floated over to egypt which kickstarted the plagues
1) blood: the ash carried the mineral cinnabar, which has the capability of turning water red
2) frogs: the ash also had many toxic and acidic substances so naturally, all the frogs are gonna flee the river
3) lice: given what was going on insects would have burrowed into dead animals/peoples skin and laid eggs, which then hatched
4) beasts: everything is getting poisoned from the ash and toxins, causing animals to freak the fuck out/die
5) pestilence: toxins again
6) boils: the ash would have caused storms that carried acid rain which when it fell, would irritate peoples skin causing boils
7) hail: the storm again
8) locusts: again with the insects and the amount of dead bodies and such which attract more insects. a lotta insects basically.
9) darkness: the ash covered the sky, blocking out the sun
10) slaying of the first born: given that children’s bodies were found in higher numbers than others, some archeologists think they may have been sacrificed to stop all the destruction, but they aren’t 100% sure about that. this is just me but I would say another possibility is that babies/kids are a lot more susceptible to toxins and shit, so while an adult may have been fine or gotten a bit sick, it might have been very dangerous/deadly for kids or babies
the volcano would also attest for the parting of the sea weirdly enough. the red sea was in fact the ‘reed’ sea, and was very shallow, probably waist deep or so. given the amount of shit dumped into the ocean from the volcano, this wouldve caused a tsunami to head towards egypt. the water would get sucked out from the reed sea right before the tsunami hit, letting people pass it easily, then the actual tsunami would hit, fuckin up anyone who tried to follow.
another theory is that the red water was caused by algae, which would cause the frogs and stuff to jump out as well. the algae also carried substances toxic to animals so if they ingested any they’d get sick and die, so more insects. in this theory there was a sand storm coincidentally that caused the rest
Fun fact! Water actually turns “blood red” when it is contaminated by sulfur creating sulfuric acid. And scientists have discovered that around the time of the plagues a volcano went off that disturbed Egypt’s environment. So the plagues are scientifically proven. The other parts of the plagues are explained by the sulfuric acid river making the animals leave the river and escaping into the human population.
I love that if you really boil all this information down, what you get is something approximating “the sinking of Atlantis caused the 10 Biblical plagues of Egypt” which is, like, one of the greatest mythological mash-ups I have ever heard of.
Hey um I think we glossed over it ENDING A CHINESE DYNASTY
Hey um I think we
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Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.
you’re all joking about not wearing earplugs to concerts, right? we’re not out here rawdogging 120dB. right.
to be clear i’m not trying to be moralizing or anything it’s just important to me that people at least know they should be protecting their ears at concerts and clubs. repeated exposure to loud enough music will lead to hearing loss. you will get tinnitus. you don’t want tinnitus.
Listen, I wanted to join the military too. I really, really did. But if your motivation for joining the military is anything except going somewhere far away and killing people, rethink.
If it is getting away from the situation that you’re in, if it’s the ability to serve your country full-time, if it’s camaraderie and wearing a uniform and the opportunity for college and/or job training, if it’s physical fitness and learning to live with other people who are really different than you, heck, if it’s fully paid-for travel and the ability to do cool things like respond to disasters and fight wildfires…
JOIN THE NATIONAL CIVILIAN COMMUNITY CORPS OR A CONSERVATION CORPS INSTEAD.
AmeriCorps NCCC is a residential, team-based national service program. It’s free. They provide all travel, lodging, food, and training. They even pay you a stipend. At the end you get money for college or job training. Almost everyone 18-26 gets in. If you want to be a team leader you can be older than that.
You travel around the country for 1-2 years with a diverse team doing anything from building parks to trail maintenance to serving with a food pantry to disaster relief to cutting fire line to building houses.
If you have any questions I was a team leader with this program. I am happy to answer them.
this is what i’m planning to do after i graduate high school it seems so awesome
This is probably one of the most depressingly heart-wrenching photos I’ve ever seen. Native American children taken from their families and put into school to assimilate them into white society. the slogan for this governmental campaign ’“kill the Indian to save the man”. no official apology has ever been issued. never forgotten.
this hurts so bad.
I remember learning about this in Native History
they were toddlers taken from their homes, their hair cut. if they asked why their hair was cut, who had died for their hair to be cut, why they couldn’t see their parents, had their parents died, they were told yes. and beaten and starved for crying.
never forget that these prison labour “schools,” who used the boys for free farm labour and infrastructure development in nearby settler towns, and used the girls for free laundry, kitchen labour, and sewing, whether in america or canada, had graveyards.
in canada, specifically, the children were subject to government starvation experiments and deprived of specific nutrients to study the effect on their health, for the benefit of cereal manufacturers. this human experimentation led to the understanding of vital nutrients for settler children, and their inclusion on cereal packets, by learning what would happen if you starved native children of them.
these schools were cultural genocide, yes, but they were also violent, murderous, bloody-handed genocide against our most vulnerable members.
If anyone was curious the photo is of children from the Carlisle Indian Industrial School.
You can learn more about it here on a website made to commemorate the pain that happened within it’s walls:
These look like ai photos you’d generate after typing in “reanimated corpse of Donald trump serves French fries” but no these are actual pictures from his day working at McDonald’s that they somehow thought were a good idea to release for his campaign
Donald Trump really missed his calling. This man was sculpted by God to be a McDonald’s manager.
black and brown bloggers will describe a racist phenomenon in a slightly jesting way and white people will very openly flock to the notes proudly saying “i do that!!! xD”. No shame at all. Appalling, really
It’s really a white pathology thing isn’t it? White people don’t get checked on their racism, but when they do, they see it as a personal attack. The lack of self awareness.
dont make me tap the charlotte zhang
hihi white people im gonna be the fucking Angry Brown Girl about it because i dont have the energy to be nice:
stop fucking asking people of colour to tell you when you are being racist. Because, chances are, they wont, because they feel unsafe or because they already deal with so much shit and dont have the energy to educate you on top of that. Libraries are free, Libby is free, if you’re a white person reading this post on tumblr dot com using the internet then googling “how to be anti-racist” is FREE. If you care and you want to do better then you need to fucking put in the work. Im not going to do it all for you. There are books, podcasts, videos, zines, comics, every type of media you can think of about anti-racism. You only need to seek it out.
(also this goes for every other form of marginalization too. Don’t expect oppressed people to patiently lay out every little microaggression and perpetuation of that oppression for you because we live with that every day. I live in my disabled body every day. I live in my queer and trans and neurodivergent bodymind every day. I experience this shit every day. I claw at the dirt every day just to live here, I don’t have the time, energy, or patience to be your tour guide.)
black and brown bloggers will describe a racist phenomenon in a slightly jesting way and white people will very openly flock to the notes proudly saying “i do that!!! xD”. No shame at all. Appalling, really
So I looked this up and there’s three things I think should be mentioned:
Yes, this is real.
They found this ecosystem in underground hydrothermal caves where the water was 75 degrees Fahrenheit (25 degrees Celsius) and when it says “volcanic fluids” it means that, or where the hot water in the caves comes up through cracks to mix with the colder water above, allowing minerals and nutrients from the volcanic caves to escape and dissolved oxygen from the open ocean to enter.
The robot that tested the hypothesis of life under the seafloor was called SuBastian.
There’s a hole in the bottom of the sea.
There’s a hole in the bottom of the sea.
There’s a hole. There’s a hole.
There’s a hole in the bottom of the sea…
See THIS is why (another reason why) we need to all be more informed about and active against the deep sea mining that is in its infancy but trying like hell to ramp up fast
The rich and greedy are trying to scrape up the bottom of the sea for money, because of course they are
That last one, if you missed it, says “Deep Sea Mining Could Begin Soon, Regulated Or Not”
“scientists can’t agree if that’s good” is a little misleading tho. Should be more like “scientists don’t know enough to give you proof of all the ways it’s bad” would be more accurate
All those, like, rock footballs on the bottom in the NPR pic above? They have things like nickle and zinc in them, and they want to use stuff like this machine to scrape them all up
It’s even worse than you think btw
not only do all those football rocks (nodes) have micro ecologies that we don’t understand and could be important to, you know, the foundational ecosystem of the entire planet, but also
the ocean is a huge carbon sink. That means it takes in and locks down carbon gasses (you know, those greenhouse gasses we’re struggling to not let kill basically all of planet earth)
well. turns out when you stir up the ocean sediment, it
A: interferes with the oceans ability to take in and hold carbon
B: actually releases carbon gases back into the atmosphere
C:
fucks with all the wildlife by completely changing their local environment, removing lots of microbial organisms, changing the shape of the ocean floor, and making the water all cloudy and full of things that aren’t usually floating around in the water. Also, like, WE DIDN’T EVEN KNOW ABOUT THE UNDERGROUND ECOSYSTEM OP IS POSTING ABOUT which is the kind of thing this sort of operation would destroy without us even knowing what we were destroying.
And we need to be informed and outraged about it because there is a lot of money going into doing this despite these serious concerns and i don’t think enough of the general public is aware of what they are trying to do
Some people have “fuck you” money. You know, that amount you have in the bank where you can look at someone, say “fuck you, I quit” or “fuck you, I’m leaving” or anything like that.
This has now taught me that some people have “fuck you” time. and I could not be any happier with this knowledge.
The secret to developing Fuck You Time is developing Fuck You Skills. In the above example, the gentleman had the Fuck You Skills of
1. Being able to track down the superintendent’s doctoral thesis 2. How to check it for plagiarism 3. How to notify the relevant people of this fraud without sounding like a crank.
Since he has these skills, it does not take him MUCH time to preform the Fuck You. Hence, his Fuck You time might be only a few hours a week, but because he’s so effecient at the Fuck You, that’s all he needs.
Learn a new skill and how to tell the universe Fuck You! today!
I knew I was nonbinary growing up when I realized that I literally didn’t understand how gender worked. I thought it was like being goth, or a furry. I thought I just wasn’t allowed to shop at the other clothing section because it was expensive.
Even now I have trouble with the idea that people have a visceral sense of gender, even with other trans people. I have never even for a moment considered myself to be male or female, and I’ve never experienced a desire to be either.
I see a lot of how I experience gender (or my lack thereof) in how asexual people describe their understanding of sexuality. There’s this common refrain of realizing “wait this is actually something you experience? Like for real? Like it’s not just in cartoons? You’re fucking with me.”
It is kinda funny how when people read “nonbinary” they hear “cis woman with blue hair” only to get jumpscared by my ghoulish 6'2’’ ass.
I believe the Mormon church has more sway on US law and politics than any other religious organization
Like they’re the flag bearer and strategy think tank for the strongest examples of religious interference in the law even if you see evangelicals and catholics making moves they’re using the LDS playbook
The LDS church is directly responsible for organizing a decent chunk of “religious freedom” coalitions over the years. The primary reason why they don’t get more flak for it is that they’re primarily seen as a regional power both by outsiders and those living within the mormon corridor. Pretty much everyone who looks at Utah for even a couple of seconds understands that it’s Like That because the mormons have to sign off on any proposed legislation, but then they’ll just assume that this phenomenon is limited to Utah and that the church doesn’t have any meaningful impact on anything outside of that bubble.
Ensign Peak alone is a multi-billion dollar conglomerate, and the church regularly pours massive sums of cash into PACs throughout the nation in support of conservative political campaigns. The most tangible impact the LDS church has is on the wider political landscape of the US via its spearheading of attempts to replace public education with charters or home schooling, and yet the biggest criticism most people have about it is that those poor bastards in Utah will never get to experience the joys of recreational THC. Like, girl, one of the wealthiest, least financially transparent nonprofit organizations on the continent is constantly pouring money into the Heritage Foundation.
YES EXACTLY
I cannot emphasize enough that the Church quite literally has overthrown election results in Utah. Like you all know this, right? Utah voted for some of the best, healthiest marijuana laws in the country that would have made chronic pain for millions disappear overnight and it passed by a LARGE margin. People were ecstatic. The election results came out and people were beyond excited. And the state refused to honor the fact that it passed because the Church simply told them not to. My friend was in the Capitol building and watched the legislator she worked for see before his very eyes that the law did not apply to these men and watched the election be overturned quietly. Politely. The law shifted and adjusted just enough that people wouldn’t riot, but not in any way what was actually passed. Utah is the testing ground for controlling the narrative. The goddamn NSA has one of its biggest offices there.
You all know this, right? You know that when you mock people in Western states like Utah you’re talking about people who live under theocratic laws that they didn’t vote for and can’t vote out of and gerrymandering so severe that despite the majority of voters in Utah being registered Democrats, it’s blood red because they built it that way… right? You know this? Please tell me you know this.
And then once you tell me you know this, promise me that you will actually internalize that the red states are not your enemy, they are being held hostage.
Louder for the folks in the back please:
…the red states are not your enemy; they are being held hostage.
can we explain to early-twenties autistic lgbt people that they . cant be saying these things. you cant be calling people ‘degens’ in your dni you cant do that. you cant do that man. can we do a history lesson. you cant do that
YOU CANT DO THAT MAN
“in defense of using the term degen, it’s generally applied to pedophiles” - conservative man who might actually shoot a trans woman if he saw one within 50 meters of his child, and also LGBT tumblr users who do not know things they should know
This child who came to my house tonight is literally the funniest human being on the planet. She complimented me on having both lollipops and mini Three Musketeers available because “a lot of houses these days don’t give you a fruit flavor option.” She was very solemn about this.
Everytime a cis women tries to argue against gender neutral language in medical settings it becomes very clear they care more about their comfort then trans men being denied medical care and dying.
I don’t care how ‘uncomfortable’ the terms person with a uterus, person who can give birth, person with breasts, etc. makes you. I very much care more about trans men having access to medical care than a cis person’s feelings.
It’s almost been three months since I posted this and I still get death threats sent to me because I talked about language in medical insurance paperwork and how using gender neutral language makes it easier for trans men to access care ❤️
Everytime a cis women tries to argue against gender neutral language in medical settings it becomes very clear they care more about their comfort then trans men being denied medical care and dying.
I don’t care how ‘uncomfortable’ the terms person with a uterus, person who can give birth, person with breasts, etc. makes you. I very much care more about trans men having access to medical care than a cis person’s feelings.
It’s almost been three months since I posted this and I still get death threats sent to me because I talked about language in medical insurance paperwork and how using gender neutral language makes it easier for trans men to access care ❤️
I wasn’t crazy about this piece so I wasn’t intending on publicly posting it again, but it keeps getting stolen every five minutes so I figured I’d put it here so people at least know who to attribute the original thing to lmao
[Digital illustration, Procreate App, 2020]
If you like what I do, you can support me and my work here.
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I completely didn’t even realize this until I was looking through old posts I was tagged in on Twitter today but somebody made their own real-life version of this lmao. Shoutout ToadKingStudios!
Hey y’all, I keep finding myself having my work reposted by larger gimmick accounts without attribution and wanted to put a reminder out there that all of these pieces are my original work. It’s mostly just a minor nuisance rather than serious infringement but it is getting a little tiresome
If you see them reposted don’t harass the original posters but do politely let me know so I can send a takedown notice or something (mainly big meme accounts, I don’t care much if it’s someone with like ten followers)
Art is my only source of income as I am disabled and currently do not have access to accessible and sustainable employment+not eligible for SSI, so having my work attributed correctly to me is a huge help to building an art career thats more livable for me
I plan to offer prints and maybe start a Patreon on the future so people have more tangible means of supporting me, but until then getting the word out there that this is my work would be really cool since these images have gone so viral. (I have a kofi tip jar as well, but don’t feel obligated!)
In case someone gets on my case for having not signed my work, all three of these are very early pieces of mine and I didn’t really expect them to get so much attention and by the time they took off it was a bit too late to put the genie back in the bottle lmao. Very hindsight is 20/20 sort of thing… that and I’ve had a couple instances of my signatures getting cropped or edited out anyway 🤷♂️
“i’m not the same as who i was before [x] thing happened to me” does it help to know that you would not have stayed that person regardless
added a graphic to elaborate on the specifics of what i’m trying to say.
basically, everybody changes all the time for all sorts of reasons. don’t let the myth of static selfhood trick you into thinking you’re unworthy. the only way to go is forward, which would be the case no matter what, and that’s okay.
All of my cotltober pieces together!! yippee!! I had so much fun planning them out and making the Themes TM and I’m super happy with all of them ﾉ≧∇≦)ﾉ*:･ﾟ✧
All of my cotltober pieces together!! yippee!! I had so much fun planning them out and making the Themes TM and I’m super happy with all of them ﾉ≧∇≦)ﾉ*:･ﾟ✧
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