Private detectives useless as hell all I do is sit behind a desk dramatically lit in black and white stripes by my half open blinds and smoke cigars. Living the dream
#privatedetective #detectivelife #i have 19 unsolved cases
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prohibition hitting hard…making some bathtup gin tonight. DM for recipe
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Clara Bow is 20??!!!
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SHE SHOULD BE AT THE SPEAKEASY
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Smuggling some moonshine in my coat oh boy I sure do hope no big scary prohibition officer comes andbpins me and handcuffs me hahha oh nooo that would suck
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my thirsty ass could NEVER be a bootlegger!!!!
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Anyone else think some of those jc leyendecker drawings are kind of yaoi ….
Everyone talks about the wonderbread guy but nobody talks about how the wonderbread isn’t necessarily the fetish object - it’s supposed to symbolize like overcommodification or something. Like wonderbread is such a synthetic suburban concoction it implies wherever it is, that area has become gentrified and mown over by capitalism and this like caricature of commodification. That’s why all the other pics the dude commissions are women (typically white and blonde) chopping down forests and stuff. The fetish isn’t the bread. The fetish is this extreme caricature of earth and culture being consumed by the unstoppable force of like. Sterile Kroger marketability and commerce. That’s why the women are always BUYING the bread and not like, fucking it. Its not about the loaves people. It’s about Karen Bad End TF.
Thank you for the additional information!! And also this is so much more succinct than my rant
To be completely fair to the folks who focus on the bread thing, the fact of it being bread is not purely incidental to its role as a class signifier. If you look at the guy’s broader patronage, yes, there’s commissioned art of blonde white women personally cutting down rain forests with chainsaws in order to build giant smoke-spewing factories, but the thing that these factories are manufacturing is… sandwiches. Many of his commissioned pieces include dialogue explicitly stating that this is the case. Leaving aside the implications of the fact that these pieces are apparently situated in a world in which a “sandwich factory” is a thing that exists, that this whole complicated edifice of eroticised environmental destruction ultimately loops back around to making sandwiches suggests there’s more to it than Wonderbread just happening to be a convenient signifier of gentrification.
So, on the one hand he kinks on women who are styled to indicate that they’re extremely wealthy and powerful (Able to buy up and pave over land to open giant polluting factories, I think examples I’ve seen will have them in sharp power suits and diamond jewelry just going to the grocery store, etc), but on the other hand, the central crux of it all is women making sandwiches; one of the go-to shibboleths of 21st-century not-so-ironic sexism.
I don’t think I dare to pull on the thread of that contradiction any harder.
She’s going to make you a fucking sandwich whether you like it or not.
In 2016, over 75,000 mail-in ballots were left
uncounted and discarded because they were received after mail-in voting deadlines, which all vary by state, according to CBS news.
Some states like California allow you to check with the Registrar of Voters on-line to verify both if a ballot has issued and if it was received to help prevent voting errors.
Remember, the most common forms of voter fraud are 1) gerrymandering, 2) voter suppression and 3) foreign participation through both lobbying and online misinformation.
for a satire news site they hit the nail on the head
Holy fuck
Something I learned in my brief experience with a journalism class is that The Onion is a prime example of truly successful satire.
All the times they “hit the nail on the head”, they are in fact achieving satire’s ultimate goal. To examine something free of bias, in a way that people are less likely to be sensitive toward a harsh reality.
Under the frame of a joke. Don’t discredit the work of the people behind The Onion just because they make you laugh. They know what they’re doing. And what they’re doing is important. They’re forcing people to rethink the way our system works without wasting the energy on big explanations, and it’s working.
everyone knows that space is very very cold, and the sun is very very hot. so i assume there’s a bit of space kind of near the sun which is just right. balmy space
THE PROBLEM WITH HUMAN PET GUY IS NOT THAT HE WANTS A HUMAN PET.
The dude has a bunch of “weird” fetishes. That is fine. The reason be is infamous is because he keeps bringing them up in non-sexual situations, and gets yelled at every time. And it’s the “gets yelled at every time” that’s crucial to understand here: this is not a guy who made a mistake once. This is a guy who keeps doing this despite overwhelming negative feedback.
Because it’s easy (especially on a social media site as varied as Tumblr, especially how it used to be) to misread a situation and reply with some inappropriate stuff, but you can apologize and delete it.
He’s done this multiple times though! In different places! And he keeps doing it.
THAT is why he is infamous. Not because he has weird fetishes. It’s overstepping boundaries.
(I’ve posted before about why he’s like this and what he gets from it, but that’s not important for this)
It’s about consent. I know the HDG stuff is dubcon/noncon, but they’re stories. You have to go read them, and you’re warned about the contents before you can read them.
Human Pet Guy will show up in your reblogs saying “okay what if I keep a human as a pet” because you mentioned that something about breastfeeding. You didn’t consent to that and he knows it.
Wait I thought the problem with cybersmith was like, eugenics or something
He has a lot of really terrible political opinions, I don’t keep up with all of them. It wouldn’t surprise me!
i personally was a fan of his political opinion of milking trans women and selling it bottled
That’s one of those ideas that seems like a good one at first, but then you investigate further and it turns out it’s terrible. He wanted all trans women locked in chastity and their health care denied unless they paid for it by selling their breast milk, but he wanted this program to be set up as a government program which would then be privitized. Yes, he wanted trans women to have to sell their milk to a PRIVATE AGENCY doing the government’s job!
I’m fine with forced chastity trans-hucow fetishes, but I draw the line at privitization.
Keep your neoliberalism out of weird kinks!
“I’m fine with forced chastity trans-hucow fetishes, but I draw the line at privitization”
That’s what you get when your school lunches are provided by the company that used to feed prisoners until they lost the contract following repeated food quality and food safety concerns.
The “fact” that junk food is cheaper than real food has become a reflexive part of how we explain why so many Americans are overweight, particularly those with lower incomes. I frequently read confident statements like, “when a bag of chips is cheaper than a head of broccoli …” or “it’s more affordable to feed a family of four at McDonald’s than to cook a healthy meal for them at home.”
this bullshit fills me with a very specific kind of rage. so, TIME TO DEBUNK!
that meal from mcdonalds takes virtually no time to acquire AND is available almost anywhere.
the second meal? that “salad” is lettuce … with nothing else, not even dressing unless its just olive oil or some milk i guess? gross.
also thats the price of each serving, not an entire loaf of bread, a bottle of olive oil, etc. that stuff adds up which means you have to have a lot of money at one time to buy it all.
that meal probably took an hour and a half to make, which is a long fucking time when you work multiple jobs or are caring for a lot of people or dont have help! seriously, if you are a single parent of three who works, is spending an hour and a half every night preparing a meal a likely option?
same with beans and rice! also, you know whats a fucking bummer? eating beans and rice every night because you are poor. ask any person who has done it and they will tell you (you can start with me).
there is a “nutrition” argument here that lacks a follow up: poor people are more likely to be doing physical labor and need more than 571 calories per meal.
you know who is less likely to know how to bake or prepare a chicken? people without access to the internet, or libraries, or who werent taught how to by their parents because their parents worked all the time. access to healthy foods is a classist issue and classism is cyclical, you fucking morons.
seriously, these sorts of infographics make me want to fucking flip tables. do you know why people don’t eat more fresh fruits and vegetables? because fresh fruits and vegetables are expensive, because they take a long time to prepare, because they dont live near a grocery store that has a decent produce section, because they dont have reliable transportation to get groceries to and from the grocery store, because they dont have the energy to plan all of the shit that is involved in making healthy, intentional, filling, balanced meals. basically: poor people get fucked, and then we get BLAMED for being lazy.
eating “healthy”, aka access to fresh fruits and vegetables, is a privilege, first, foremost, always. so fuck you new york times and your ignorant goddamn infographic.
there are SYSTEMATIC REASONS that we do not have equal access to fresh fruits and vegetables. they are very REAL problems. besides, you know, systematic poverty in america, the total mis-distribution of farm subsidies is a perfect place to start. read about that, then either get bent or start working on the actual problem.
In which fad dieters forget about the dollar menu
These comparisons are always so dumb. There’s no comparison between a fast food meal & a home cooked meal. When I was young, poor & working 2 jobs, I still cooked most of my food for myself because it was cheaper and cooking instead of sleeping was the only way I could actually afford to eat. But I also did not have kids to look after. If you don’t have a car & you don’t live in a city then you probably don’t even have easy access to McD’s. People talk about food deserts all the time, but reality is that there’s still a lot of the country that is poor & lives in the middle of nowhere.
The real comparison here would be pre-made food. For instance, it’s cheaper & healthier to buy rotisserie chicken, ramen noodles & frozen vegetables. Just dump the vegetables in the ramen and add half a chicken. Then you can make sandwiches out of the second half for another meal. Or you can buy minute rice, canned beans, salsa, cheese and whatever fresh veg you can afford to make a rice bowl. Add some eggs & have breakfast burritos with your leftovers.
The comparison should not be between only fast food & only home cooked meals. There’s a ton of stuff you can do in between that no matter how poor or busy you are.
ive been spending too much time on twitter lately and occasionally there’ll be these threads along the lines of ‘what do you think is the most important movie moment of the twenty first century’ and someone will add a gif of that shot of all the characters running into battle in Avengers Endgame and its like please im begging you please there are so many genres of movie in the world
some time last year in a daze i signed up to be a community notes contributor on twitter, and i have not used this ability once in any meaningful sense, but i do appreciate that it sometimes provides me with exclusive advance previews of muppet discourse
When I’m bored I paint arms onto VeggieTales screencaps
god dammit no now they can do too many things like jack off and hit you
BUZZFEED: Top 2 Things Vegetables Would Do If They Had Arms
I’ve never seen the show, do they not have arms??
They’re vegetables with faces and an unending faith in christ
|If they don’t have arms then crucifixion can’t be a thing
Their Jesus culture must be extremely different
What do they wear instead of crosses
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there isnt a veggie christ. they believe in human christ, and now that i write that out in words that might be weirder, but whatever.
every bible story is something they are explicitly acting out in-universe, often with one of them acting as narrator, sort of like how the muppets are “actors” in-universe. you can even see in op’s edit the tiling from the countertop they all live on, and the side of the giant, human-scale computer they use. also they have never explicitly talked about the crucifiction or most of jesus’ life, even in the christmas episodes (at least, not in the old version of the show, the IP has changed hands several times and i stopped following it in like 2005 lol), because the creators thought it would be too weird to have a veggie jesus.
does this mean the veggietales are expecting to be eaten by the children they are telling bible stories to? yes. we don’t talk about that part.
Okay so they’re not in a universe populated by veggies, they are sapient veggies in our universe, talking about human Jesus who was crucified by human Romans. Okay.
And they’re Christian? Do the vegetables have souls? Do they look forward to going to heaven after they die? That sounds blasphemous. Or are souls the purview of humans only, as per real Christianity, and these sapient vegetables know that a great nothing awaits them after death, but they are motivated to save the souls of children for… some reason? Are they a form of angel, perhaps? Is that monocled asparagus an angel?
In August 2024, a wave of protests rocked Indonesia, ostensibly in response to political machinations aimed at anointing a successor to President Joko Widodo, popularly known as Jokowi. Very little information has circulated about these protests in the English-speaking world. To get a sense of the deeper issues at play, we reached out to anarchist participants in different parts of Indonesia.
little kids always latch onto the older cousin who is the most aloof to them they’re like i am so sorry sweet old ladies who want to give me toys & candy but i do not give a fuck about you right now because i have GOT to go bother the unemployed 23 year old who wants to play call of duty in the dark in his room
In my past experience as the tumultuously-employed 20 something it’s because the adults are always talking about taxes and the kids are playing with Legos and if you’re a 20-something you can easily be branded “good with kids” by building a spaceship with your niece twice removed or whatever instead of dealing with the most toxic suburbanites known to man and the kids will think youre cool for that
Aunt Kathy needs to stop asking the kids about school and me about how the job search is going. we are playing hexbugs right now.
*nodding seriously* we are playing hexbugs right now.
After almost a decade on this site, I found another Tumblr user in the wild. I stopped to tie my shoe with rainbow laces this morning outside the silversmith at Colonial Williamsburg, and I heard it.
“I like your shoelaces.”
Oh. Oh no.
I responded the only way I could. “Thanks.” And then I reluctantly added, “I stole them from the president…and if that makes sense to you, I’m very sorry.”
The poor man, in full Colonial dress, stared at me for a long moment. And then burst into laughter. And said, “I haven’t thought about that in YEARS and this has never happened to me before.”
beavers have the lifestyle that most children dream of. dig and travel through underwater canals. dam a river and flood the local woodlands. stomp mud into dam to seal. swim to flooded trees and destroy them. live in a secret hideout with a underwater entrance. full ownership over an engineering project
i find the fact that so many people in the gravity falls fandom dislike Mabel actively baffling bcos personally it took me multiple watches of the show to come around to Dipper lmao
How hard would it be to make a new search engine? One that isn’t operated by a big tech company.
Well first you would have to build all the software and pay for all the hardware
Then you would need to build up your index
That is where a problem appears, due to AI scrapers many websites now don’t allow any bots other than google bot and maybe bing bot so you would need to convince publishers to allow you on their sites
Actually doing it would cost crazy amounts of money before you even consider the convincing the sites to let you in thing
There has never been a startup that got that much in a single funding round much less a non corporate non government organisation that held that much money that isn’t the Catholic church.
I simply cannot imagine a successful open source search engine people want to use
Even duckduckgo often borrows results from Bing
Search engines clearly aren’t going away, people aren’t going to deal with link lists and they want to be able to search the whole web at once
Me n my friend both got the same bug at our other friend’s party over the week but she doesn’t have any COVID tests and I do so I’ve been testing every morning and sending her the results like
I used to be *good* at search. It was a whole thing - I found people’s “lost songs” or their unknown-source childhood stuffed toy or whatever from Google.
Now, you can’t search for the exact brand/design name of something and get accurate answers. It drives me spare on Amazon - if I search for XYZ and you don’t have any, or you only have 2, tell me that.
I wouldn’t mind if it said “Here are 2 XYZ. Shoppers also searched for…” Instead it’ll just throw a random, barely-linked pile of results and you have to wade through every single one to see if the thing you want exists.
THIS. For ages I used to say that I had “high Google-Fu”. I could find *anything* because I knew how to use strings to enhance searches. The string commands haven’t even worked for well over a year or more, far before they put in this infernal (and often wrong!) AI BS on top.
I used to be able to search for recipes and easily eliminate unwanted ingredients with a -. For example I’d look for low-carb desserts but without the zillions that use peanut butter simply by searching for something like:
low carb chocolate dessert recipe -peanut
And I’d get a slew of on-point suggestions. For some time now if you do -peanut Google ignores the - and assumes you want recipes stuffed with peanuts.
Where it’s even worse now is now you get directed to sites full of bogus AI recipes that don’t even make sense. But they have peanuts in them.
I used to be able to use reverse image searches to find out who made that awesome art so I could give credit in my share. They’ve removed that ability entirely and replaced it with Lens, which is AI BS just showing you more like what you looked for. (Rebecca Watson complained about this in her recent video about JD Vance jizz cup rumours and I apologise for that sentence but…yeah. Watson is great, go find her on Youtube and subscribe because she went into detail about how Google has become less and less useful for debunking.)
This isn’t just about Google inserting shopping ads instead of what you wanted to learn about. That’s bad. But the results now are just *broken*. The tools we used to have to make searches better have been removed. Google no longer wants us to find the answers we seek, but the answers they want us to have, and that’s super creepy and dangerous.
And the alternatives are either using Google in the back end or have other significant barriers to use.
This sucks.
Duckduckgo and all the other alternatives work this way too, now.
Verbatim search, guys!! Go to “Tools,” and enable “Verbatim.”
Global warming made the seas rise and humans went extinct so sea life mutated and repopulated the earth with anthropomorphic sea creatures. Squids fight eachother for fun. Squids and octopi fight over land and resources. Squids fight salmons for money. The octopus empire eventually collapses so the octos join squid society. Then a bear attacks
Oh that’s not to mention the fucked up experiments where they blended people into Lobotomy Smoothies™
Well yeah
Okay like most of this I can follow (somehow) but where did the bear come from??
Space station
Thank you that explains everything. I have no further questions.
This is called being intersex, by the way! There are tons of sex variations and PMDS is one of them. I’m not sure why the entire post goes on without saying who we are.
Also the tags aren’t wrong, but the fact it focuses on trans/cis women when the post is about intersex men feels just a bit weird. Intersex people are so erased and we’re constantly brought up as proof the gender binary doesn’t exist, without actually being named or explicitly fought for. Like it isn’t wrong but it wouldn’t feel as inconsiderate if we got actual love.
So yeah. Intersex people exist! Please don’t forget us, and stick up for us too!
[Image IDs: Image #1-3: Series of tweets from verified user Vagina Museum (@/ vagina_museum) on Feb 21, 2023 reading: In 2014, a 70 year old cis man who had fathered four children went to hospital in Kashmir with an inguinal hernia. Everything about him and his life had so far been ordinary - except that the hernia turned out to be his uterus with an ovarian tube and broad ligament.
The man had the expected genotype of a cis man: 46XY. He had a cryptorchidism (an undescended testis) on one side, which affects about 1% of people. Everything external abut him was expected - except that he had a uterus, ovarian tube, and broad ligament.
The man has Persistent Müllerian Duct Syndrome (PMDS). This is a natural variation. Usually, if an embryo is developing as male, a hormone called anti Müllerian hormone is released.
The hormone prevents the development of Müllerian ducts, the tubes which eventually develop into the gynaecological internal anatomy. In PMDS, not enough of this hormone is released.
PDMS is considered quite rare, although in order to diagnose it, doctors need to use medical imaging, which isn’t usually done to people without symptoms, and can be entirely unaffordable to do at all in global majority countries.
The 70 year old father of four isn’t the only man who has discovered a uterus late in life! Last year, a 67 year old father of three from Kosovo went into hospital with a hernia and discovered the swelling was in fact a uterus, ovarian tube and an ovary
In 2011, a 35 year old father of two from India went to hospital with severe stomach pain. Imaging revealed that he had a uterus, two ovarian tubes, two ovaries and the upper part of a vagina.
In 2021, a father of one from the USA went to hospital with abdominal pain. The source of the pain was a tumor on his testis- but he also had a uterus, ovarian tubes, cervix and upper vagina.
In all of these cases - many other case studies of cis men who have discovered they have uteruses, the anatomy was found by accident, because everything else seemed “normal enough”.
You can read the case study of the 70 year old father of four here. Warning: it includes photos of his uterus.
Link preview for scienceDirect.com Hysterectomy in a male? A rare case report Persistent Mullerian duct syndrome is a rare form of male pseudo-hermaphroditism characterized …
Image #4 Tumblr tag from orpheuscas reading: #re: there is no definition of ‘woman’ that includes all cisgender women and excludes all others /End IDs]
can i be truly honest? i severely dislike the “homeless and mentally ill people are actually more well-behaved and respectful than regular patrons” narrative because it’s simultaneously unhelpful and castigates the people who are not “easy” to deal with.
it also essentializes two problems when you’re in a position of authority over these types of people. the first is that, in spite of their hardship, they’re normal people, who have just as much ability to perform correctly in an institution or public area when expected to. in reality, hunger, addiction, psychosis, abuse, etc. all run rampant in these populations and it’s ignorant at best and deeply unkind at worst to assume that these factors wouldn’t alter their behavior in observable and unpalatable ways.
second, it also necessitates that homeless/mentally ill people receive the same level of patience, sympathy, compassion, etc. as a “normal” person because all wrongdoing is based on their character, circumstances be damned. social disorganization often creates a cascading domino effect that will make normally well-behaved people act in antisocial or otherwise disorderly ways. should we neglect these people because of this? i think it’s unhelpful to suggest that these people deserve equitable treatment and leads to, again, the worst cases receiving the most neglect.
anecdotally, i work in a city facility that gets a lot of homeless people. i have been yelled at, been insulted, been told i am the antichrist, and a whole myriad of other things i wouldn’t let regulars do or say to me. why? because the way you respond to someone in one of the worst phases of their life is with firm patience, not a platitude of equality.
The problem w writing fiction is that you’ll be like tee-hee I’m going to write a story about a fucked up little scenario that’s got nothing to do with anything in real life, just some pure messed up nonsense, and then you finish it and take a step back and go aw rats I made a metaphor again
watching a tiktok and someone just described the black/blue gold/yellow dress meme as “one of the first things to ever go viral”
ok the irony and misinformation in the tags is making me insane. leprosy? caused by bacteria! and not actually that contagious! tuberculosis? bacterial! bubonic plague? also bacterial!! if you want an early viral infection smallpox is right there! polio! hell, even influenza! bacteria ≠ viruses!
I understand that museums have to be dark because light can destroy fragile artifacts. That said, I’m always afraid to walk around the blind corners because what if there is a skeleton
Okay yes sometimes there’s a skeleton, I understand how museums work. But I mean what if it gets me
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