if you’re unsure, the easiest way to check/update Firefox is
open the application menu (three horizontal lines in the upper right corner)
click Help > About Firefox
in the pop-up window, look for the version number under the header. If it’s 131.0.2, you’re in the clear. If not, there should be an option that says “restart to update Firefox.” Click that.
You’re good to go 👍
just did this, it took maybe 30 seconds total and it saved all my open tabs. update if you haven’t!
i think the people criticizing chappell roan right now don’t understand how bipolar disorder works. chappell roan is diagnosed with bipolar 2. do you know how hard it is to keep it together with major life changes when you are constantly going through phases of hypomania/mania and depression? big life changes can trigger a catastrophic episode. i was hospitalized after moving or almost moving TWICE. you know what is a really big change? suddenly becoming as famous as she is in such a short period of time. bipolar can also cause paranoia and difficulty trusting people. you know what can trigger that? being constantly approached in public by people asking for hugs and pictures and literally FOLLOWING HER WHEREVER SHE GOES. SOME of yall are like “mental health matters <3” but as soon as someone puts down reasonable boundaries or prioritizes their mental health, y'all go after them. i feel that some of you guys just expect musicians and other artists to be emotionless content machines and call them selfish when they actually experience emotions and need boundaries in place. chappell roan is a human being before she is a musician. she does NOT owe you ANYTHING!! at this point the people whining just sound selfish and unsympathetic.
had a dream last night where i bought a hawk at a flea market for $20. when i pointed out that 1. i don’t have a space for a hawk in my apartment 2. i don’t want a hawk my roommates were like “bro its $20….get ittttttt or you’re so gonna regret not buying that hawk”
jess and i are raising money to help rajaa and her family get out of gaza! tell me in the tags, what is your favorite vegetable that you are NOT washing with soap?
im so incredibly proud of the queer community’s ability to step up and organize. i have had so much hope and faith renewed in the power of community and solidarity through this.
i am exhausted but also i am not ready to be done.
jess and i are now targeting a new goal. raja’s sister saja has already crossed the border into egypt but almost the entirety of the rest of raja and saja’s family are still trapped in gaza. there are 9 adults and 12 children including a pregnant mother and a elder diabetic man who need medical attention as soon as possible. the goal they are hoping to reach is €112,000 for everyone to cross safely.
this is so much larger than our previous goal and we are already exhausted and terrified that nothing we do will be enough. but i have renewed faith in my community and i sure as hell am going to keep trying.
if you are able to donate or boost, every little bit helps.
The Alanqar family has a new baby to care for, and three very young children, Zeina, Eileen, and Yamen, the oldest of which is 7 years old. They need your help to restore hope and safety to their lives!!
🍉They are currently at €61,257 out of their €75,000goal - please consider donating to them and helping them reach their goal as quickly as possible!!
🕊 Show your support to Ahmed and Dina by following their account @zinaanqar - their account has been suspended multiple times and they can use the support!
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Yesterday, missiles fell above us, and shrapnel flew everywhere. My children and I were on the verge of death. I felt like my life had ended, but we survived by a miracle.
Amidst this horror, I was shocked to find my account @anqarfamily@ronzaanqar been closed without reason. That account was my only refuge to express my pain and suffering, and now even that hope has been taken from me. 💔
I am exhausted from a life that offers nothing but fear and pain. I no longer know how to keep going, as this life has drained me 🥺
Every account I lost I lost all persons I talk to him and I lost whom donate to me and help my children 🥺❤️🩹
Lesbian rule A lesbian rule was historically a flexible mason’s rule made of lead that could be bent to the curves of a molding, and used to measure or reproduce irregular curves. Lesbian rules were originally constructed of a pliable kind of lead found on the island of Lesbos.
[Photo of a section of thick blue curved cable shaped like an S with an extra tail. Below the photo is a caption.]
A flexible curve: the modern counterpart of a lesbian rule
Image 2: tumblr tag that reads “babe are you a lesbian rule because prolonged exposure to your curves are driving me mad”
/End ID.]
A flexible curve:
the modern counterpart of
a lesbian rule
Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.
I don’t disagree with criticisms that a lot of the goopy eroticism-of-the-machine stuff the Tumblr Armored Core VI fandom likes to represent as universal giant robot tropes is actually pretty specific to the Armored Core franchise (and is often heavily extrapolated from what’s actually present in the text of the games, at that), but when I think about it, that’s actually weird to me. Why isn’t giant robot media where the giant robot and its pilot are clearly fucking more well established in the genre? It feels like a tolerably obvious direction to take it, and it’s not like giant robot media has ever shied away from sex in general.
“we don’t have girl talk, we have creature talk,” my roommate Julia just said while rolling on the floor, “put that on your fucking tumblr, they’ll love that shit”
she just asked how many notes this post has and I told her eighteen and with restrained glee she said “this is going to do horrible things to my ego”
I’m out of town rn but I told her this broke 500 notes and sent her some of yall’s tags
Hey op why is the contact icon a T if their name is Julia? *condescending tone* do you have your roommate saved as “trash” in your phone?
I keep having to tear down extremely predatory/misleading Scien.tology flyers in my school’s art building. This is the third fucking time I’ve ripped the fuckers up and I’m getting Real Fucking Tired of it.
If you see shit like this DO NOT call the number, do not do anything to interact with these fucking people. Take down the posters if you’re able to. They do NOT want to help you. They are a literal fucking cult who openly despise psychology and any actual proven mental health science, and are actively trying to trick mentally/emotionally vulnerable people into joining.
The red flags here are “Hubbard,” the name of their founder, and “dianetics,” the crackpot theory they teach for “auditing” your sins from your past lives.
I’d like to add what @jaspertheshark said in the tags because I feel it’s important
Here’s the opposite story, though. With apologies because I don’t have the book in front of me, so I may get some details wrong, but I read this “Irena’s Children“ by
Tilar J. Mazzeo.
Irena lived in Warsaw during the Nazi occupation, and dedicated her life to rescuing Jewish children from the Ghetto, and her story is complicated in a lot of ways but - well, this story isn’t actually about Irena, per se.
It’s about a bus driver.
It’s about a day when she’s traveling across town by bus with a very young Jewish child, and partway to their destination the child looks up and asks a question - in Yiddish. and the whole bus goes quiet, because everyone knows what that means. And Irena thinks, okay, we’re going to die here today.
And she’s running through her options - all of them bad - and suddenly the bus stops, and the bus driver announces that there’s been a mechanical failure and the bus needs to return to the depot immediately. Everyone off, please.
And she stands and goes to get off the bus and the driver says - not you two. Sit down. So she sits down as everyone else leaves, because, well, what else is she going to do? the options are all still bad, at this point.
and when the bus is empty the bus driver says,
“Where do you need to go?”
And then he drives them as close to their destination as he can, and lets them off, and drives away. And Irena lives, and the kid lives, and they never cross paths again.
So a janitor got three people killed, and a bus driver saved two lives - not to mention all the other lives indirectly saved because Irena was able to continue her work.
I think about that almost every day now, to be honest.
We can’t all be Irena. I couldn’t be Irena. She was in a unique place with very specific skills and connections that let her do what she did. I am just one mentally ill librarian. I can’t be her. But - I can be the bus driver. Or I could be the janitor. Because it doesn’t matter what your job is. It doesn’t matter who you are. In a world like this, every single one of us has the opportunity to do massive harm or massive good. We can save lives or end them.
And that’s scary. but it’s also very comforting? at least for me. Because at the end of the day it means this: no matter of how small and helpless and unimportant you feel, you’re never powerless in the face of great evil.
You can choose to be the bus driver.
[Image IDs: Text reading: “Most people who know the name Sophie Scholl know she was as 21 year old German student activist who was executed by the Nazis for distributing anti-Nazi pamphlets on her college campus. But people don’t talk about what happened leading up to her execution, or what happened after.
Sophie and her brother Hans were caught by a university janitor named Jakob Schmid as they distributed pamphlets in a courtyard. He grabbed them, declared them “under arrest,” and turned them over to the Gestapo. Four days of interrogations later, they were in front of Nazi judge Roland Freisler (one of Hitler’s favorites, his “hanging judge” flown in from Berlin) for a show trial that Hans and Sophie’s parents weren’t allowed in the courtroom for.
Hans, Sophie, and their friend Christopher Probst were all found guilty of treason, sentenced to death, and beheaded a few hours later.
No one talks about this janitor, Jakob Schmid. He got a cash reward and a promotion for turning in Sophie and Hans. The University of Munich threw him a celebration. Hundreds of students attended and cheered for him. He thanked them with a Nazi salute.
After the war, Jakob Schmid was arrested and put on a trial of his own. He said he only turned the Scholls in because distributing pamphlets was against university policy - it wasn’t because of the content of the pamphlets.
When you think of Nazis, you probably think of uniformed officers. But the Nazis were a political party of everyday people. So also think of a janitor tsk-tsking that someone was protesting “the right way.” A student at a rally applauding him. A judge towing the party line.
We like to tell ourselves Nazi Germany was so horrific it could never be repeated. Maybe you don’t personally know someone who would have flipped the switch on the gas chambers. But I can almost guarantee you know a Jakob Schmid.“
Here’s the opposite story, though. With apologies because I don’t have the book in front of me, so I may get some details wrong, but I read this “Irena’s Children“ by
Tilar J. Mazzeo.
Irena lived in Warsaw during the Nazi occupation, and dedicated her life to rescuing Jewish children from the Ghetto, and her story is complicated in a lot of ways but - well, this story isn’t actually about Irena, per se.
It’s about a bus driver.
It’s about a day when she’s traveling across town by bus with a very young Jewish child, and partway to their destination the child looks up and asks a question - in Yiddish. and the whole bus goes quiet, because everyone knows what that means. And Irena thinks, okay, we’re going to die here today.
And she’s running through her options - all of them bad - and suddenly the bus stops, and the bus driver announces that there’s been a mechanical failure and the bus needs to return to the depot immediately. Everyone off, please.
And she stands and goes to get off the bus and the driver says - not you two. Sit down. So she sits down as everyone else leaves, because, well, what else is she going to do? the options are all still bad, at this point.
and when the bus is empty the bus driver says,
“Where do you need to go?”
And then he drives them as close to their destination as he can, and lets them off, and drives away. And Irena lives, and the kid lives, and they never cross paths again.
So a janitor got three people killed, and a bus driver saved two lives - not to mention all the other lives indirectly saved because Irena was able to continue her work.
I think about that almost every day now, to be honest.
We can’t all be Irena. I couldn’t be Irena. She was in a unique place with very specific skills and connections that let her do what she did. I am just one mentally ill librarian. I can’t be her. But - I can be the bus driver. Or I could be the janitor. Because it doesn’t matter what your job is. It doesn’t matter who you are. In a world like this, every single one of us has the opportunity to do massive harm or massive good. We can save lives or end them.
And that’s scary. but it’s also very comforting? at least for me. Because at the end of the day it means this: no matter of how small and helpless and unimportant you feel, you’re never powerless in the face of great evil.
You can choose to be the bus driver.
[Image IDs: Text reading: “Most people who know the name Sophie Scholl know she was as 21 year old German student activist who was executed by the Nazis for distributing anti-Nazi pamphlets on her college campus. But people don’t talk about what happened leading up to her execution, or what happened after.
Sophie and her brother Hans were caught by a university janitor named Jakob Schmid as they distributed pamphlets in a courtyard. He grabbed them, declared them “under arrest,” and turned them over to the Gestapo. Four days of interrogations later, they were in front of Nazi judge Roland Freisler (one of Hitler’s favorites, his “hanging judge” flown in from Berlin) for a show trial that Hans and Sophie’s parents weren’t allowed in the courtroom for.
Hans, Sophie, and their friend Christopher Probst were all found guilty of treason, sentenced to death, and beheaded a few hours later.
No one talks about this janitor, Jakob Schmid. He got a cash reward and a promotion for turning in Sophie and Hans. The University of Munich threw him a celebration. Hundreds of students attended and cheered for him. He thanked them with a Nazi salute.
After the war, Jakob Schmid was arrested and put on a trial of his own. He said he only turned the Scholls in because distributing pamphlets was against university policy - it wasn’t because of the content of the pamphlets.
When you think of Nazis, you probably think of uniformed officers. But the Nazis were a political party of everyday people. So also think of a janitor tsk-tsking that someone was protesting “the right way.” A student at a rally applauding him. A judge towing the party line.
We like to tell ourselves Nazi Germany was so horrific it could never be repeated. Maybe you don’t personally know someone who would have flipped the switch on the gas chambers. But I can almost guarantee you know a Jakob Schmid.“
I beg my kidnappers for a phone, swearing not to make any calls or texts, and they stare over my shoulder, holding a gun to my head as I use my newly-freed hand to post, “So do like, dudes just buy ropes and baklavas from the same store or what lmfao like a specialty Crime Store”
One of the kidnappers says “balaclavas” but it’s muffled under the fabric. I ask them to repeat and they do, their voice raspy from disuse. “You wrote baklava, that’s a pastry.” The other kidnapper goes “stfu” and then after a pause goes “Why would you buy from a crime store”
i find it so fucking egregious that 8 billion dollars was very recently sent to arm israel in their genocidal siege on palestine and attacks on lebanon, meanwhile there is a natural disaster happening in our own country in which the government is doing fuck all to help with. they haven’t even declared helene and her floods a national disaster yet
chimney rock, north carolina has been basically wiped off the map. it’s gone. reports from the ground in asheville are saying the people are absolutely stranded and very few have power or service or anywhere to go. im seeing video and post one after the other of citizens grieving entire losses of their farms, their livelihoods, saying all of their animals are gone and the floods destroyed everything in their wake. it’s devastating.
t rex was about to eat the dead triceratops but nobody was around and it tasted the leafs just to see and he realized they were pretty good. and he was like wow ill stop being the bad guy and eaating everyone and everyone was like wow t rex its been millions of years but you finally turned a new leaf haha and then the sky got red
Audio transcript : Hamster balls are like so dangerous for small animals. You know why? Because like, they can’t extend their back properly, so their back is like thi– (cuts off abruptly as the creature in the hamster ball is revealed to be a crab; pauses. The following is said with an affectionate tone like one uses when speaking of a cute animal:) Well, he can’t break his spine ‘cause he don’t have a spine.
skin is not supposed to be perfectly smooth and clear and unblemished. it’s literally like 5 sq ft of organ that’s ENTIRELY ON THE OUTSIDE OF YOUR BODY. it’s supposed to protect you and your organs and your muscles and ligaments etc. without skin that can adapt we would all be riddled with infections and pain. even “imperfect” skin loves you and doesn’t want you to suffer. be nice to it . it is your friend
If your skin didn’t wrinkle, crack, bruise, tan, freckle, or scar then we wouldn’t be alive!!! those are all evolutionary adaptations!!! it’s your body’s way of keeping you in one piece :) and it’s beautiful
The reaction towards the Barbie movie was literally so sexist. Everyone literally only talked about Ken. No one talked about how Barbie was catcalled and sexualized, no one payed attention to the fact that there was a black female president, no one talked about the absolute shock when Barbie came to the real world. Literally all you saw about it online was that stupid “Kenough” meme.
The fact that everyone watched a feminist movie that was about empowering women and STILL managed to only acknowledge and give attention to the male character is the most sexist and absolutely disgusting fucking thing.
playing a new game where i talk about fandom using words that belong on corporate powerpoint slides like:
✨ we have to align our headcanons to authentically reflect our strategic mission and meet quarterly margin objectives ✨
sorry to everyone who understood that
as per my last 5+1,
Hello team,
With all due respect, I cross-checked your references with Kakashi from accounting, and the error in your fics was statistically significant. Every fic published in our “Enemies to Lovers” tag after the most recent episode’s air date needs to be updated and reviewed due to new policies issued by the author.
Please re-aquaint yourself with the source material before next week’s meeting and prepare to discuss the changes.
Cheers!
you guys are really good at this game
[Image IDs: Image #1: Tumblr tags reading: #translation: ‘everyone should agree with my obviously correct takes so there will be more fic i like in the tag’ #add something about the ability to 'quickly pivot in response to changing market trends’ if it’s a fandom with actively airing canon
Image #2: Tumblr tag reading: #i really need to work on my deliverables
Image #3: Tumblr tags reading: #i like what I’m hearing from you OP #i have a hard stop right now #but I’d like to circle back and touch base about this tomorrow
Image #4: Tumblr reply from mirailTheSnail reading: Aus are now “bluesky thinking, aiming to re-contextualize and reinvigorate the market.”
Image #5: Tumblr tags reading: #touch base with your local fan fiction author #aka leave comments /End IDs]
you guys gotta be able to learn how to hate a celebrity for petty reasons because when you start bringing morality into the equation you’re gonna have to confront the fact that a lot of celebrities you like do the exact same things and i know for a fact most of you cant deal with that
be honest with me. look me in the eye. do you think taylor swift is the only famous person with a private jet.
*In response to a meme about a tv show adaptation of a book being written by a writer who had not read the book*
Brandon Sanderson: I have a fun story here. Early in my career, someone optioned the rights to make one of my stories (the Emperor’s Soul) into a film. I was ecstatic, as it’s not a story that at the time had gotten a lot of attention from Hollywood.
I met with the writer, who had a good pedigree, and who seemed extremely excited about the project; turned out, he’d been the one to persuade the production company to go for the option. All seemed really promising.
A year or so later, I read his script and it was one of the most bizarre experiences of my life. The character names were, largely, the same, though nothing that happened to them was remotely similar to the story. Emperor’s Soul is a small-scale character drama that takes place largely in one room, with discussions of the nature of art between two characters who approach the idea differently.
The screenplay detailed an expansive fantasy epic with a new love interest for the main character (a pirate captain.) They globe-trotted, they fought monsters, they explored a world largely unrelated to mine, save for a few words here and there. It was then that I realized what was going on.
Hollywood doesn’t buy spec scripts (original ideas) from screenwriters very often, and they NEVER buy spec scripts that are epic fantasy. Those are too big, too expensive, and too daunting: they are the sorts of stories where the producers and executives need the proof of an established book series to justify the production.
So this writer never had a chance to tell his own epic fantasy story, though he wanted to. Instead, he found a popularish story that nobody had snatched up, and used it as a means to tell the story he’d always wanted to tell, because he’d never otherwise have a chance of getting it made.
I’m convinced this is part of the issue with some of these adaptations; screenwriters and directors are creative, and want to tell their own stories, but it’s almost impossible to get those made in things like the fantasy genre unless you’re a huge established name like Cameron. I’m not saying they all do this deliberately, as that screenwriter did for my work, but I think it’s an unconscious influence. They want to tell their stories, and this is the allowed method, so when given the chance at freedom they go off the rails, and the execs don’t know the genre or property well enough to understand why this can lead to disaster.
Anyway, sorry for the novel length post in a meme thread. I just find the entire situation to be fascinating.
in cryptography, “alice”, “bob”, etc. are used instead of “person A”, “person B”, etc. to make scenarios like “alice wants to send a message that bob can read but carol can’t” easier to read. by convention this practice extends to parties with special roles – “eve” is an eavesdropper, “mallory” is a malicious actor, etc. here’s the wikipedia article. anyway the xkcd joke can be read as using nerds’ interests in arcane algorithms to explain regular human interaction, humorously reversing the original utility of the convention, and the rest is basically your typical (affectionate) tumblr “but what if it was yuri” posting.
