Vegans of tumblr, listen up. Harvesting agave in the quantities required so you dont have to eat honey is killing mexican long-nosed bats. They feed off the nectar and pollinate the plants. They need the agave. You want to help the environment? Go back to honey. Your liver and thyroid will thank you, as well. Agave is 90% fructose, which can cause a host of issues. Bye.
So let me get this straight ,vegans should stop eating the food of the Mexcian long-nosed bats, because the bats need it, and instead vegans should instead eat honey, the food of bees, that their larvae need, even though the bee populations are facing ecological issues as it stands.
10/10 post, dude.
Did you forget the whole part where only excess is taken and all their needs are met and then some orrrr?
Like, did you read it orrrrr?
Anyway, BUY HONEY SAVE BEES
It is a 10/10 post. Because OP is right.
Bees do not suffer when beekeepers take their honey, because experienced beekeepers do not take all of their honey, in fact, they leave plenty of honey left for the bees to consume over the winter. If we do not collect their honey, 1 of two things will happen.
1. they will leave for a bigger home. Which at first seems fine until you remember that bees are dying very quickly out in the wild.
or
2. They will start using the areas that they reserve for their young as a place to make more honey. This is bad because if no more young are being produced, then the hive will start to die out because no new workers are coming into the world, and the average live only 150 days, so it would also mean the loss of more bees.
So yeah, eating honey isn’t inhumane at all. In fact, you’re helping the bees by eating what they produce and giving money to the bee keepers who are the ones making sure that the hive will keep being healthy.
LOUDER FOR THE VEGANS IN THE BACK: use honey, not agave! Bees need your support and other animals need agave! Using honey means more bees!!
Other animal products that are absolutely fine to use because they produce it in excess:
- Wool. Sheep need to be sheared or their wool will get excessively large, matted and gross. Its legit just a haircut. Calm down and use wool instead of whatever fake acrylic microplastic shit they have in stores now. Wool is super warm, insulating, and guess what! It grows back! Its a renewable resource and all the sheep want in return is some good pasture and protection from predators.
- Eggs. I’m not talking about storebought eggs. Go to your local farmer’s market. Find someone around with chickens/ducks. These birds produce eggs literally every day and will not stop unless they are molting, brooding, or kept in the dark for most of the day. Like I am not joking when I say you can very easily find someone with poultry and they will beg you to take some eggs. Theres so many. Please. Take some duck eggs. I dont want them. I had 8 laying ducks last year. Thats 8 eggs every day. Thats 2 dozen eggs every THREE DAYS. Thats SO MANY EGGS PLEASE TAKE SOME EGGS
Reducing animal cruelty does not mean abolish the use of animal products. Go eat honey. Go use wool. Go find a friend with birds and eat eggs, or get your own. Just because it comes from an animal does not make it cruel.
This looks like it is based on data from 2009, so imagine what the chart would look like updated to include the additional wealth funneled to the top during the events of the past 15 years.
omg. i didn’t even check the dates. that’s my bad. ya it’s much worse now.
This looks like it is based on data from 2009, so imagine what the chart would look like updated to include the additional wealth funneled to the top during the events of the past 15 years.
omg. i didn’t even check the dates. that’s my bad. ya it’s much worse now.
Yesterday my little brother told me something very sweet and touching, that when he was a kid and had nightmares about monsters chasing him or whatever he would be able to end the nightmare by finding me in the dream and I would protect him by fighting off the zombies, or carrying him away. This is adorable, and makes me feel like the greatest older sibling in the world, but the hilarious thing is that when I was a kid I had nightmares of needing to save him from zombies and such. so many dreams where he was in trouble and I needed to save him. Like my nightmares began where his ended. Low key I think he mastered the ability to psychically transfer his nightmare to me as a child and I’m kind of annoyed with him.
You two were having an ongoing portal fantasy adventure together in your dreams and wrote the whole thing off as nightmares
Saw a post pointing out that the idea of a Saturday-Sunday weekend is in itself cultural Christianity being applied to the whole “secular” world, that in Israel the weekend is Friday-Saturday and in some Muslim-majority countries the weekend is Thursday-Friday or only Friday (in others it’s Friday-Saturday as well.)
Anyway to make a truly secular and inclusive world I propose a Monday-Wednesday work-week and a Thursday-Sunday weekend. I think anyone of any or no religion could all get behind this.
They also get to wiggle their ass against you and sigh comfortably and tell you to hold them tighter
You have to hold them tighter when they ask. Not because they’re ordering you to. But because even scary dom girls get chilly and want you to warm them up. Because scary dom girls want to feel safe. Because you can make them feel safe. So you gotta. You gotta hold your scary dom girl and kiss their neck a bit and say that you’re so glad you get to hold them like this. And that they can always ask you for anything. Not just because they’re always so good to you or because you’re always going to obey them but because you love eachother okay?
I made a new tomodachi life save on my nintendo 3ds today and oh my god please tell me why it didn’t even take a DAY for Narinder and Lamb to become a couple LMAO
It’s like the cotl marry narinder speedruns
they’re simply obsessed with each other
Also: they didn’t even ask each other out. My mii lookalike set up a date for them rekdsmd shipping at its prime
guys… bad news. also hilariously funny news
Narinder dumped Lamb for @captainluu LMAO???? AND I CRASHED INTO HER PROPOSAL AND WANTED TO GET WITH NARI AS WELL????? AND NARINDER JUST SAID YES TO LUU????
lamb is devastated
daydreaming about “their good days” like they were together for more than two days
NOW GOAT IS IN LOVE WIT LAMB WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON I’M CRYING VRKDVDKDBDKDK
Saw a tiktok of a guy saying he doesn’t feel comfortable talking to minors because he’s 19. And it’s just. I’m so fucking tired of this.
And like to be clear, I’m speaking as a victim of pedophilia when I say: We need to get over this collective fear of endangering children. Because holy shit, this stuff is getting out of hand.
The average person is not a threat to a child.
And also!!! It is actually really really good for kids to have friendships with adults that aren’t their family.
Having friendships with adults when you’re younger prepares you for adult life in a better way then only interacting with adults that are family members or teacher as well.
And also if there’s any sort of weird behavior happening with adults or teachers, it’s very helpful to have unrelated adults, you can go to, and also have a model for what normal adults are supposed to look like.
And also! You’re just making it way easier for pedophiles to prey on children when you completely avoid interacting with them as an adult. Because kids are naturally inquisitive and curious. They are going to want to interact with adults and they are going to want to ask questions. And if the only adult adults that are willing to interact and speak with them or adults who have ulterior motivations. Guess what’s gonna happen.
Also on a more general note. Having a model for what a normal healthy adult is supposed to look like makes it way easier for kids to be able to recognize and identify when adults in their personal life are being weird.
tumblr classics major who really likes halsey and thinks that the romantic poets were the only people to ever make contributions to english literature: you once made flowers grow within my ribcage but you were like icarus flying too close to the sun and your ichor wings are melting and now divinity stains your bronze fingertips like a pomegranate and you are holy holy holy
Remember when I reblogged this and a tumblr poet told me to kill myself
One thing they don’t tell you about getting into FNaF is that eventually, if you’re the creative type, you will decide it would be fun to make a little something inspired by it. It’s not so hard at first, it’s just easy-ish things, until you realize how impressive it’d be if you made something bigger. And so, you get towork plotting out even more— you could probably make a neat rod puppet out of this! But rod puppets are usually only a top half… we could make the bottom half, too, drop the rods, and just make a sort of fullbody puppet, more like a fursuit! We can make a fursuit, yes, just like a real mascot performer! And, you know, it’s be neat if the eyes blinked on their own, so we’ll add some animatronic parts to the inside of the head, just a little, really, so we can get into working with servos. And this could really use some more tech, and some more, and more…
Suddenly, you don’t recognize yourself anymore. You’ve devoted yourself to creating the scary animatronic from the game about scary animatronics. It’s in your house. It’s in your illegible notes. Evidence of your invention is everywhere. You can’t stop. You want to crawl inside and become one with it. It looks cozy in there.
…And then you go “maybe this is a bad idea” because you are never beating the William Afton allegations by now. You’re me. I’m doing his to myself for funzies.
When you play COTL and you’re basically the goat and your friend is basically the lamb while playing “How the fuck is this guy old already?? God these fuckers die so fast” “It’s almost like we’re immortal or something…”
Journal: Communications in Addition and Subtraction
Title: A Lower Bound on the Largest Natural number
Abbreviated Abstract: We prove a lower bound on the largest number. The proof proceeds in two steps: we begin with 1, and proceed by induction as until we lose count. We then add that number to itself. The main advance in the first step is to get a big number, and the second step notably avoids using multiplication (they don’t teach that until 3rd grade).
Field: Topological Geometry
Journal: Advances in Nonlines
Title: The Four-Color Scribbles
Abbreviated Abstract: In this work we show a zoo of examples of nonlines (curves) with the unique property that they are either red, blue, orange, or purple, or some combination therein. The key idea is to use less colors rather than more, creating a clear and easy to follow proof. This provides a clear basis for simplifications to further work, such as scribbling with 5 colors.
Field: Playground Analysis
Journal: Slide Dynamics
Title: Sufficient Conditions to Yell Weeeeeee on Spiral Slides
Abbreviated Abstract: We identify sufficient conditions for a slide to cause joy. We identify a notion of a “fun slide,” and prove that fun slides are a sufficient condition to make someone go Weeeee on a slide. We then verify a spiral slide is a fun slide, and provide numerous examples and non-examples (notably, a ramp is really not fun to slide down).
One of my favourite questions for figuring out a character’s motivations is which qualities they most fear being assigned to them. Are they afraid (consciously or unconsciously) of being seen as stupid? Ungrateful? Weak? Incompetent? Lazy? Cowardly? Intimidating? Like they actually care? etc.
It’s such a fun way to explore into who they are, why they do what they do, what they don’t do out of fear, and how they might be affected by the events of the story. And I love when characters have negative motivations—trying to avoid something (in this case, being seen a particular way) as much as they’re trying to achieve a goal.
my mum loaned me her iPhone bc my android isn’t working right, and I can’t exit the settings because iPhones apparently no longer have home buttons, and there’s no obvious other way to do it
I did, in fact, try swiping up from the settings, and nothing happened. Presumably I’m Swiping Wrong. It works from other apps, but not from Settings.
I’m increasingly not a fan of this “get rid of every button and only use gestures” thing, because I’m finding that my movements are apparently “wrong”. I remember my friend with essential tremor who did many things on her phone with voice commands. Buttons are easy to use. A click from a button is something that doesn’t need super fine motor control. But I cannot tell you the number of times my current phone thinks I’m swiping up when I intend to swipe down. It happens multiple times a day. The number of times when swipe text (because tapping a screen repeatedly makes the joints on my hands hurt) returns nonsense, because it didn’t like the way I’d moved my finger across the keys.
I’m increasingly of the opinion that touchscreens are not the amazing boon they’re supposed to be. I suspect they’re something that is increasingly going to lock out disabled people, many of whom could manage switches or dials or buttons just fine. This is just one particularly obnoxious example of it.
I was also using an iPad when they added some other new swipe option where I had to remember to swipe up on my iPhone for something, and down on my iPad for the exact same thing. Or vice versa; I don’t remember anymore. I’ve noticed that Apple has this tendency in their design these days where you have to memorise a bunch of secret handshakes to do anything, and if you stop using their devices and come back to them later, it’s going to be completely unintuitive what you’re supposed to do. I’m not a fan.
… I just had to look up how to turn off the phone.
I HAD TO LOOK UP HOW TO TURN OFF THE PHONE.
Can you imagine the kind of user experience FAILURE that is??? Pressing the same button I used to turn it on DIDN’T WORK.
WHY IS APPLE LIKE THIS. How is this supposed to be an improvement over before, when a phone behaved as you would expect, based on the previous twenty-plus years of experience with similar devices?
Blackberry were done dirty by a world who wanted the present to look like the prettiest future sci-fi had to offer.
A few weeks ago I accidentally trapped myself in a Corvette at the car dealership.
I was waiting around for non-Corvette-related reasons and decided to sit in the cool new supercar that they had unlocked on the display floor, got in, shut the door, enjoyed myself for a few minutes, went to get out and couldn’t find a fucking door handle.
Cue about a minute and a half of me frantically trying to figure out how to open the door and weighing if it was worth the embarrassment of googling the dealership number and calling to ask them to come let me out, all while experiencing claustrophobia worse than in any cave I’ve ever been in.
Eventually I googled “how to open corvette door” because that seemed like the more discreet option, and, following instructions, discovered a tiny-ass button that, when pressed, opens the door. It was way too tiny and too easy to press for it to have a mechanical effect on the door, meaning it was probably electronic in nature.
A few days ago I got into my own car, shut the door, and found out the car wouldn’t start because the battery was dead.
The trunk didn’t have a keyhole and required a button to be pressed, which did not work because, again, the battery was dead; I had to fold down the rear seat to access the trunk and worm in and reach through to pull the emergency trunk release (again, less claustrophobic than Suddenly Trapped In Corvette).
Apparently it is now the fashion for any electrical problem in one’s car to come with the Free Second Problem of being trapped in the car (or out of it, as I’ve seen cars with outside handles being clearly electronically assisted).
Hey. You. The American teenager inexplicably reading this. Don’t join the US military. You’re better than that. The military is a bunch of cops. Are they technically diverse and inclusive? On some level, kind of, almost. But their job is to kill people. They kill innocent people every day. They abuse their own members, especially their members who aren’t white cis het middle class Christian men. The US exists through perpetual violence against the global working class, including its own working class. The military is how it carries out a large portion of that violence. You deserve better. You’re better than that. Don’t join.
I used to be you. Trust me when i say that. “It’s just a job” is easy to say until you see drones take off loaded and land empty. “I need the money” is easy to say until you hear about the US betraying and abandoning her allies and you watch an empty lot in the desert fill with tanks that, until a few days ago, had been protecting the people you thought you signed up to protect. “I didn’t have a choice” is a lie you tell yourself when you hear about an AC-130 crew destroying a hospital.
Have you directly supported combat aircraft that have killed people? Have you directly supported logistics aircraft that moved weapons and ammo and troops into combat zones? Have you heard about war crimes committed by the US and realized the war criminals and their tools were able to get where they did because you helped keep an airfield in operation? Have you seen armed white men supervise impoverished Indian and Filipino migrant workers building and maintaining infrastructure on behalf of the US government and Kuwaiti royal family like some sort of 21st century version of plantations in the Antebellum South? Have you seen a team of hurricane “first responders” treat the hurricane response duty like a vacation, drinking and partying every night while the people off the base are dying due to lack of electricity?
I have. I haven’t seen combat, I’ll admit that. But everything i just described, i saw in Kuwait in 2019 and Puerto Rico in 2017. I saw and experienced other things, too, things I’d rather not have seen.
You are morally superior to me. You are a better person than me. Don’t do what i did. If you’re so damn desperate to get killed by doing a government job, join a fire department. I would run into a burning building and relive those nightmares every single night before I’d spend another second in the USAF uniform. You can do better than me. Please do better than me. I’m not superstitious but the Devil is real and he collects souls at US military recruiting stations. Don’t give him yours.
As someone with a lot of financial trauma from barely scraping by for most of my adult life, doing the retail/food service tango, having to seriously make plans for the possibility of being homeless and only managing to get by thanks to some friends who support me in a way my family never did, I do NOT regret staying out of the military. The fact that they can buy young people off like they do is diabolical.
Anybody has that political cartoon of an angry rich man watching TV while his servants are all sneaking peeks at it during their work and smiling? A bunch of googling resulted in nothing.
I believe the original context was Bernie Sanders winning some primaries but I feel like it’s even more relevant nowadays.
Your boyfriend starts mumbling in Latin in his sleep and it scares the hell out of you but upon translation he’s introducing himself, inquiring on the price of grain, attempting to sell dormice, brainstorming silly Saturnalia gift ideas. In his sleep he somehow becomes a 1st century BC plebeian, of modest means but with a pleasant outlook on mundane life.
