every time i see someone call kirk and spock the oldest ship, i’m filled with the urge to go “hmm actually the holmes and watson girlies have been here for a hundred years now”, and i refrain because i know the natural conclusion of this game is gilgamesh and enkidu
every time i see someone call kirk and spock the oldest ship, i’m filled with the urge to go “hmm actually the holmes and watson girlies have been here for a hundred years now”, and i refrain because i know the natural conclusion of this game is gilgamesh and enkidu
There’s a bunch of right-wing people posting memes about “”DOGE”” making the government more efficient by removing funding from “”dumb bug researchers”” and I am now realizing how little the average person knows about entomology and its importance
Excuse me while I get sad .
There is a community note correcting this post about the importance of researching insects - including the reproductive habits of insects. But still the fact this was posted and 2k people liked it makes me sad 🥲🥲
“stupid researchers studying the mating habits of beetles” people when they can’t afford groceries because an invasive beetle species is decimating crops
An actual conversation I had with a colleague.
Colleague: so they were using the wrong species to pollinate their crops.
Me: what do you mean?
Colleague: well they were using a fly species from Canada and they’re growing onions in Texas. The fly they were using was dying in a day in their greenhouses because it’s frigging Texas in May/June.
Me: and no one was studying this or telling them otherwise?
Colleague: not till me.
Me: so they were wasting all that money on an inefficient pollinator and losing out on crop yield.
Colleague: yep…
And yet these idiots want to cut entomological research funding. Yeah, good luck with that. Come back to us when there’s huge outbreaks of pest insects and arbovectors that we were studying but y’all decided it was “too stupid” to fund.
There’s a bunch of right-wing people posting memes about “”DOGE”” making the government more efficient by removing funding from “”dumb bug researchers”” and I am now realizing how little the average person knows about entomology and its importance
Excuse me while I get sad .
There is a community note correcting this post about the importance of researching insects - including the reproductive habits of insects. But still the fact this was posted and 2k people liked it makes me sad 🥲🥲
“stupid researchers studying the mating habits of beetles” people when they can’t afford groceries because an invasive beetle species is decimating crops
An actual conversation I had with a colleague.
Colleague: so they were using the wrong species to pollinate their crops.
Me: what do you mean?
Colleague: well they were using a fly species from Canada and they’re growing onions in Texas. The fly they were using was dying in a day in their greenhouses because it’s frigging Texas in May/June.
Me: and no one was studying this or telling them otherwise?
Colleague: not till me.
Me: so they were wasting all that money on an inefficient pollinator and losing out on crop yield.
Colleague: yep…
And yet these idiots want to cut entomological research funding. Yeah, good luck with that. Come back to us when there’s huge outbreaks of pest insects and arbovectors that we were studying but y’all decided it was “too stupid” to fund.
This is your captain speaking and yeah we’re not landing. I just feel like we’ve got a really good thing up here and I don’t want to ruin it. This is my home and you are my people
the way men think eating meat feeds into their masculinity is so fucking funny like miss thing you didn’t wrestle that shit with your bare hands you took your dumpy ass to costco in your wife’s pt cruiser you might as well be a drag queen at this point
being someone who’s passionate about their interests when you’re a horror fan really is a special layer of hell because every interaction you have with another person where the conversation turns to your hobbies and personal entertainments is a trial where if you show too much unrepentant glee at getting an opportunity to talk about your preferred subject you get to watch them mentally move you onto their list of untrustworthy individuals to avoid in the future in real time
you’ll be like i enjoy horror because it articulates things that i’ve experienced and understood for a long time but never been able to put into words, and tackles ideas and themes normally seen as too taboo to express, and people will hear “i’m a sick fuck who enjoys watching people suffer and die”
I will miss you if they finally realize about you, Tumblr the website and app Twitter account. You shined bright, you magnificent being.
And some of you may not have heard this peak of human culture, but… just after Twitter purchase by Elon Musk got confirmed, a bunch of (serious) journalist put together a Twitter Space (a live audio streaming where any of the attendees can ask to participate) about what was going to happen next, and … @tumblr joined. And… they invited tumblr to speak. I can’t describe how much joy this moment brought me and how fucking proud made me of being part of our little entropy generator here:
Last twitter space
canon Tumblr voice
I DONT KNOW WHAT I EXPECTED BUT MY EXPECTATIOBS WERE BY FUCKING FAR EXCEEDED
In light of Brian Thompson being shot dead on my birthday (🎉🥳🎂) I’d like to share a personal story about UnitedHealthcare.
During the peak of COVID, my family all got sick. I couldn’t be on my parents’ insurance because they were both older and on Medicare. So, I had insurance through my University: UnitedHealthcare.
For some reason, rather than roll-over each year, I got a new plan each year that ended after May and didn’t start until August, so I was uninsured for the summer months, but it was a weird situation that the university denied, and told us we were supposed to be insured year-round, it was messy.
Both of my parents went to the hospital, and I got sick too. I had to take care of my pets, and myself, and try to stay alive and keep my pets alive when I was so weak I could hardly move. When my parents came home, my condition got dramatically worse (I think my body knew it couldn’t give out, because there was nobody to take care of me, so once my parents were okay, it completely crashed and failed.)
I started experiencing emergency symptoms. It was a bit hard to breathe, my chest hurt, and I was extremely delirious. I wanted to call my insurance to see if I was covered (this was during the summer) and I was connected to some nice person, probably making minimum wage, who told me with caution in her voice that my plan was expired. I had no active insurance, but she urged me to go to an emergency room. I remember saying something to the effect of “You just told me I don’t have insurance, I can’t go to the hospital, I can’t afford it.”
She sounded so genuinely worried and scared. I remember she said “You really don’t sound good, you sound really sick, please call 9-1-1” and I think I just said “I can’t afford it without insurance, don’t worry, I think I’ll be okay.”
And she paused and said “I don’t want to hang up the phone with you like this.” And it sounded like she was holding back tears. And I don’t remember what I said, I think that I would be okay, and I hung up.
I still think about her. I wonder if that phone call haunted her, or if she had dozens of calls like that a day. I wonder if she thinks about it at all, if she wonders if I died after she told me I didn’t have insurance and therefore couldn’t go to the hospital without incurring a tremendous financial burden. I wonder if she feels guilt or blame– of course she shouldn’t, it wouldn’t have been her fault if anything had happened to me. Maybe it’s self-centered to wonder if she thinks about it. I’m not the main character and it was just her job. But, still.
I think about how evil it was that we were put in that situation. Because offering year-long continuous coverage through the university plan would maybe cut into profits, maybe not benefit shareholders enough, maybe cut into Thompson’s $10 million salary. While his minimum wage administrators have to feel afraid to hang up the phone, because on the other line someone might be dying, and they wouldn’t know. While his patients hang up and decide to take their chances rather than put their family through that trauma.
This is UnitedHealthcare. This is Brian Thompson’s legacy. This is why, understandably, an entire nation is jubilant that he was gunned down like the vermin he was. I don’t care about his widow. I feel pity for his children, despite the fact that they will inherit millions, but I feel more pity for the children of his victims patients who are gone because they didn’t want THEIR children to inherit crippling debt. Brian Thompson got what he fucking deserved. I pray that he not be the only one. I pray for continued safety, peace , and anonymity for his killer.
American healthcare is a disease.
Please go to the ER if you need to, even if you don’t have insurance.
They have to treat you, regardless if you can pay. And a lot of hospitals have payment programs, or might waive your expenses partially or completely if you’re below a certain income (speaking from experience here).
Medical debt is a real and serious problem, but it has a fair number of solutions. Being dead is an eminently less solvable problem.
My theory is that ghosts get their energy by sucking the oil out of door hinges. That’s how you know a place is haunted. Because the doors creak, even if you’ve just oiled them. The ghosts suck the oil out.
I don’t know about others but the only reason I put both is so that whichever someone clicks on, they will find my fic. So if there is supposed to be rules, I guarantee you that no writer knows these ones. We can barely get people to comment, you think we’re going to specifically choose & or / ? Hell no.
I’ve been in fandom for twenty years, and “/” means romance and “&” means no romance was literally one of the first things I learned. It dates back to Star Trek fanfiction of the 70s. I’m boggled by the fact that anyone who’s been reading fic on AO3 for more than like five minutes wouldn’t know that, and I’m curious as to what fanfic community you come out of.
I don’t think that tagging with both is actually going to get your fic in front of more readers. People looking for romance often exclude the “&” tag if there are too many gen fics tagged with both. People looking for gen often exclude the “/” tag if there are too many fics with both. So rather than putting your fic in front of twice the people, you are in fact more likely to get your target audience ignoring your fic because it has a tag they don’t want.
Also, by overtagging you are more likely to annoy potential readers away from your fic than entice them. A fic tagged both & and / better have both romance and a ton of platonic interaction between the two characters, like a slow burn romance friends-to-lovers arc. If it isn’t, I’m going to be very unhappy because the author lied to me with the tags to try and trick me into reading a fic with deceptive advertising.
When I’m in a fandom and see tagging where some of the tags don’t really apply and are just there to get it in front of more eyes, I’m going to assume one of two things. Either the author is a newb who doesn’t know anything, or the author is purposefully spamming the tags because they don’t care about lying to their potential audience and think that “spray and pray” is an effective tactic. In the first case, their writing probably will not be very good, so why bother reading their fic. In the second case, the fact that I can’t trust the tags to be accurate means I’m not going to read it to see if it’s interesting even if it has a tag I like. Chances are, that tag isn’t actually in the fic anyway, and even if it is, by spam-tagging the author is making the archive harder to use for everybody. Why would I reward bad behavior with attention? No. Far better to mute the author and move on.
More to the point–and no, I will never stop harping on this, because we have GOT to stop leaving our strongest points in the drawer–it doesn’t matter if you heard of this convention before joining AO3 or not, because it’s in AO3’s tagging FAQ.
[id: the “How do I tag a romantic or platonic relationship?” section of the tagging FAQ here.]
“But Jo,” you may argue, because you’re wrong. “There’s no way to find that without digging through site FAQ menus, and that’s really inaccessible!”
sure
except
that when you go to post a new fic, and you go to put in those relationship tags, you see this
[id: the Relationships field]
and that tooltip, the one THERE TO EXPLAIN HOW THE FIELD WORKS, links to the Relationships segment of the tag FAQ, which explicitly lays this shit out.
I don’t care if you don’t know fandom history. I don’t care if you’ve never heard a goddamn word about the spirk shippers. I don’t care if you’ve never been exposed to fandom culture in your life. It is, frankly, not fair to expect those things of everyone.
What is entirely fair to expect is that you will READ THE INSTRUCTIONS PRINTED NEXT TO THE FUCKING BOX, actually. Forget fandom conventions. It genuinely doesn’t matter whether you agree with or respect fandom conventions. This is a site policy.This is explicitly how tagging on AO3, specifically, works.
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The best thing about Strunk/White fanfiction is that it’s virtually guaranteed to be well written.
Men’s 38-in-one night time sickness cold & flu shampoo & conditioner toothpaste and mouthwash combo (plus nourishing skin formula with hydrating aloe)
be right back guys i need to run out to O'Reilly’s Auto Parts and get another jug of Boy Juice to soak in, got a big day tomorrow and want to wash up, brush my teeth, take care of these sniffles, and exfoliate
Folks, this exists and it’s called Dr. Bronner’s castile soap.
Trans people are allowed to be upset and/or angry if you misgender them. Even if it’s on accident, you’re most likely not the first person to use the wrong gendered terms. It’s not about you, it’s frustration at the fact no matter how hard we try, somehow we’ll always be seen as “different”.
Don’t tell us how to react to our identities not being respected or understood. Especially if you’re cisgender.
I found this in an old sketchbook. I wanted to try and figure out how the skull of this anime person would look since her mouth is almost in line with where her eyes start.
play oneshot (2016) on steam for windows mac or linux, or the recent console port called oneshot: world machine edition (2024). thats it thats the post okay bye
you can click on this button once daily to help palestine and support other causes in the middle east for free. it takes literally 5 seconds and could help save lives so please take the time to click and share this link.
Proceeds are donated to the UNRWA, which is one of the major funding agencies providing aid to Palestine. Recently, the US and other major countries have escalated genocidal efforts by cutting funding from the UNRWA, as AlJazzera reports : Which countries have cut funding to the UNRWA and why?
This is a direct action you can take to say fuck you to the government directed genocidal efforts, bookmark the tab, add a calendar notification daily, do what you want. Or if your prefer: Donate Directly to UNRWA
I don’t know if anyone has talked about this, but lately this has been happening in other fandoms too. There’ll be these bot accounts that straight up steals people’s posts and adds “expand” “read more” “continue” as a link in the end of the post - DON’T CLICK ON THAT, it’s most likely a malware or something of the like.
so if you see a post like this: no profile picture, something that looks reposted (I’ve seen this happening to artists too) and a link at the end, even if the post has tags, that’s a bot. Block and report it.
stay safe, and I hope @staff finds a way to stop these bots soon!
This is not non-descript malware it’s a marketing campaign of Vodal.co
A shady media company that’s known basically only for charging people that don’t know what they’re doing for a dubious and not clearly defined service and not offering refunds. That is to say, a scam
Israel’s genocidal attacks on Gaza’s health infrastructure has a real affect on real people.
Like my friend Dina Alanqar who gave birth this summer without access to proper care, and her husband Ahmed is ill and in need of treatment that he can’t possibly get in current circumstances. They have four young children but cannot get to a hospital because of these brutal attacks.
Dina contacted me today wanting to share this with you all, asking for help for her family to get by in these unlivable conditions.
“save me, substance abuse!” i cry. before you can moralize to me about the dangers of addiction, a noble and powerful steed gallops into the room - my horse whom i have named “substance abuse”. you learn an important lesson about making assumptions. i snort a line off its back
this reminds me of me and my friend’s horse named Drugs
when i was in middle school me and my friends had a small yellow horse eraser we fondly named “drugs”. this lead to a lot of middle school tomfoolery around his name and saying shit like “Ma’am, so and so took drugs from me” and other dumb shit like that.
eventually, our english teacher, Mr. R, caught onto the joke. instead of writing us up or sending us to the principal though, he played along, making similar jokes like “(name), stop taking drugs.” “hey. you three. you need to share drugs if he’s going to be at the table.” “no drugs today, guys?” so on and so forth.
by the end of the school year it had become a very fond joke between us and this english teacher, so we decided since we were moving onto our freshman year, we decided to give our eng teacher this little yellow horse eraser.
so we go find our english teacher, Mr. R, who was setting up cornhole with our principal and other “big important people” for our 8th grade graduation party, and we hand him the little eraser.
to which he yells as loudly (and happily) as he can: “YOURE GIVING ME DRUGS?!!”
i actually went back to visit him before i left for college, and to this day he still has Drugs on his desk, and regularly tells his new students about me and my friends. ty op for reminding me about Drugs the Horse
*grabbing mlm shippers by the shoulders* guys nobody needs to be the twink. nobody needs to be the sub. nobody needs to be the femboy. they can both be big fat hairy men who bask in each others masculinity or they can both be unspeakable monstrous creatures with inhuman genitalia it’s okay I’m holding your hand. Let me show you the way
Jesus Christ almighty the amount of people that are like b-b-but… I want them to be so small so tiny 🥺 but what if I don’t want them to be fat??? Well sorry to say folks I’m adding 50lbs to your favorite queer man
i think what us in the west and particularly europe must mostly focus on rn are the rights of syrian refugees who several european countries are already planning to expel en masse and deny future asylum requests. the far right in most of our countries is already clamouring for their departure and we can’t let that happen
french trotkyists do this tonight instead of copetweeting about how every syrian political prisoner under assad was a jihadist zionist who deserved to die in there and fantasizing about brutal violence to syrians currently expressing any kind of relief even as the far right right in our backyard is already planning to expel syrian refugees and send more arms to israel. allez vous faire foutre sales chiens et faites votre taf
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