Tubi is the best streaming service because it captures the feeling of a video store, but not a corporate video store like Blockbuster, or even a good indie store, but a rundown video rental place under a overpass weeks away from closing down. You’ll find, like, 2001: A Space Odyssey next to a unwatchable copy of a 70s exploitation film and a micro-low-budget indie and a movie called STRIPPER VAMPIRE MASSACRE III but you can find no evidence of STRIPPER VAMPIRE MASSACRE one or two existing.
This is a real, commercial streaming service and they’ve uploaded films with the DVD menu visible for the first few seconds bc it’s a recording of a DVD copy. What a titan in the landscape of streaming
I love it when folks tag their friends by name when reblogging my posts, not just because of the gesture, but because the names involved are always something like “emilymoonglow”, “theothersteve”, and “dickmangler9000”. It’s seemingly always the third one, too!
(Also, I will point out that I explicitly checked that none of those three examples currently exist as real Tumblr users before I made this post, so if any of them subsequently show up, someone is doing a bit.)
Israel’s far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich has ordered preparations for the annexation of the occupied West Bank ahead of US President-elect Donald Trump taking office in January 2025.
In a statement on Monday, Smotrich voiced his hope that the new administration in Washington will recognise Israel’s push for “sovereignty” over the occupied territory.
“There are almost no Palestinians remaining in a vast area stretching east from Ramallah to the outskirts of Jericho. Most of the communities who lived in the area — which covers around 150,000 dunams, or 150 square kilometers, of the occupied West Bank — have fled for their lives in recent months as a result of intensifying Israeli settler violence and land seizures, backed by the Israeli army and state institutions.
The near-total emptying of the region’s Palestinian population shows how Israel’s slow but gradual process of ethnic cleansing is continuing apace, effectively annexing large swathes of the occupied territory for exclusive Jewish settlement.” […]
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THIS IS GETTING A LOT OF “NOTES”. I PRESUME THIS MEANS YOU ARE LEARNING MY WAYS. GOOD ! LEARN FROM THE B🪲🪲🪲🪲AH SHIT THEY’RE BACK .
sometimes you get a simple question and start giving a confident answer only to realise halfway through that actually your whole life you’ve never really understood this topic at all and you have some hard readin’ to do
a few days ago, I have found gunshot fish (it would be funny if gunshot fish was its common name since it doesn’t have one yet)
(it says I visit often)
this fish 1.2 cm in length can make 140 dB sounds (by striking its own swim bladder with its rib, if I understood correctly)
but due to how sound works and also how water affects sound it would be less louder from a distance
but still loud
they say specialized ribs and muscles allow the fish to not instantly die when it makes the sound, but I haven’t found much detailed explanation on how exactly they help the fish not shock itself to death with the sound
pistol shrimps have these funny organs called orbital hoods that serve as helmets to protect themselves from their own shockwaves made when they snap their claws, preventing brain damage. but I don’t see any possible organs in this fish that could shield itself from its own noise.
maybe it’s unnecessary because the pistol shrimp’s noise is much louder than D. cerebrum’s, at 210 dB but I still think 140 dB is still dangerous enough for a fish smaller than a penny (also this fish is smaller than most pistol shrimps)
when you are making and reading posts about dire predictions for quality of life, do not forget about reservations.
we already have issues accessing clean water. we already experience devastation from climate change. we are already going missing for our race. we are already being murdered for our culture.
it will only get worse.
it’s possible to live through. every single person indigenous to north america has a chance to live through this. i’m not trying to fear monger; i’m trying to remind you.
please do not forget about us when you assure people that “everything will be okay; people are living under far worse circumstances in other countries”.
people are living under far worse circumstances here. and it can get worse. and it will get worse. and we need you to remember that we’re here when it happens.
not as punchy, but adding onto this:
What are Indigenous issues that I and the Natives I know are worried about?
- Pipelines affecting water
- Pipelines destroying protected land/land under treaty
- Pipelines are already factually epicenters of the MMIW+ crisis
- Substance abuse and suicide rates
- Directly related to the above, IHS funding
- Tariffs affecting gaming revenue, which is often used significantly in our communities’ funding
- Not a huge systemic issue, but a bummer: no more Native secretary of the interior
- ICWA. holy fuck. ICWA.
- The DoE only being allowed to teach sanitized genocide-denial schlock.
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hey. if you are a queer/trans person who is feeling hopeless and overwhelmed by the election results, i just want to tell you this:
we have existed as long as humanity itself has existed. through every monarchy, every presidency, every dark age and revolution, queer people have existed. we have survived and lived and thrived and loved. in the face of an unwelcoming society, we have always carved out our own niches where we can find community, strength, and peace.
we survived 2004. we survived 2016 and 2020. we will survive this, too. i promise you.
please stay safe, take care of each other, and if you ever feel like it’s over - i suggest reading about our queer elders and ancestors who lived through time periods that were even more dangerous and hostile. i always find strength and solidarity in their stories.
but most importantly: hold onto one another, build each other up, and love one another. we will get through this.
Heartwarming story: Little girl doesn’t have to do anything to fund her dad’s surgery because his expenses are covered by his country’s universal healthcare.
Human determination: Man bikes 18 miles to work every morning because he wants to and not because he can’t afford a car and would be fired if he’s late.
Spirit of Brotherhood: Neighbors host housewarming party for elderly resident who doesn’t need help in paying rent because his pension is more than enough.
SO INSPIRING: Local middle school students bake dozens of cupcakes because their home economics class is doing a baking unit. Their school is fully funded with everything they need.
genuinely would rather have two thousand people add a cringe ass comment on my post than everyone silently reblogging aside from queue tags and content warnings
2024 tumblr is so fuckin silent, man. nobody’s contributing to bits. nobody rambles in the notes. everyone is saving their jokes for either original posts or discord dms.
if i were going for a funnyman approach on this post i would say some shit like “reply guys are faced with extinction in the modern poster’s economy despite being crucial to stability” but no. im just genuinely sad over the silence.
okay. let me tell you one of my pet peeves. it’s when you send a link to something and the link takes up a full paragraph. amazon is especially egregious with this; as an example, i’m going to use the sweet essentials goat milk & honey perfume. here’s the link i get if i just copy/paste it:
do you see this shit? that link is longer than my introduction paragraph. and most of it is totally unnecessary and just gives amazon tracking data. so i’m going to quick breakdown the link:
https://www.amazon.com/ is the domain. this tells your browser to go to the internet, to amazon’s address. can’t do without.
Goat-Honey-Fragrance-Perfume-Organic/dp/B07D5N4XRP/ is the sort of directory. this is where the meat of the link is; it gives the browser the information of where in the amazon domain it should look for what you’re looking for. sort of like when you ask a librarian where a book is and they say “it’s in this area of the library, i can show you if you like”
every single thing after that is optional. most, if not all, of it is just tracking data that tells amazon who looked it up, how, where they found it, etc. etc. and you can totally safely remove it.
and you can test it for yourself, both the really long link and this nice clipped link lead to the same page. this is generally applicable to most websites; if a link feels a little too long, experiment and start removing bits off the end. generally anything that shows up after “?[text]=” is probably safe to remove, as with “&[text]=”. sometimes those have particular jobs, though; for example, youtube links with a particular timestamp will include “&t=[number]s” and while removing this will keep the link to the video, it will remove the timestamp. similarly, youtube sometimes uses “&v=[text]” to encode the id of a video, so without that you’re left with just the youtube homepage. if a link has “?si=[text]”, that’s all safe to remove, because that’s pure tracking data.
in short: clip your links. don’t give them any more than you need to. experiment a little. have fun and be yourself. i love you
genuinely would rather have two thousand people add a cringe ass comment on my post than everyone silently reblogging aside from queue tags and content warnings
2024 tumblr is so fuckin silent, man. nobody’s contributing to bits. nobody rambles in the notes. everyone is saving their jokes for either original posts or discord dms.
if i were going for a funnyman approach on this post i would say some shit like “reply guys are faced with extinction in the modern poster’s economy despite being crucial to stability” but no. im just genuinely sad over the silence.
Really looking forward to future etymologists writing papers on 21st century slang in which they discuss the origin of the term “based”, thus forcing them to explain in academic language who Lil B is
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