The reform would mean citizens from the blacklisted counties will be forced to comply with complicated British rules if they move to the UK and gender-recognition certificates (GRC) obtained may not be recognised in this country.
If this goes into effect, this policy would target primarily immigrants.
Parents don’t get to decide if they were “really good” parents. I know that’s harsh and there’s a lot of mommy positivity circles online that just give each other a positive feedback loop but you don’t decide if you were a “really great parent” to your child. Your children tell you if you were a good parent or not. I see this a lot of no contact parent circles where the person who is no contact with their children is like “well I was a GREAT parent so it isn’t my fault and I didn’t do anything wrong”. Normal parents wonder if they’re doing a good job, ask themselves how they can improve, are open to feedback from children and other parents. If you are 100% sure you were a faultless fantastic selfless awesome fantastic parent totally beyond reproach and your shitty ungrateful willful delinquent children just don’t appreciate you enough, you are a terrible parent.
Sometimes parents end up hurting their children without even intending to hurt them. What kind of response that brings about is up to the child, not the parent. Never forget that children are not the possessions of the parents, they are whole entire people, who have their own rights to determine what kind of relationship they will eventually have with their parent, based on their own independently valid experiences.
The melting of the ice causes a bunch of cold water to be released, thus temporarily and rapidly cooling the North Atlantic Ocean. This is not a good thing.
Remember that you are a primate, and one of the basic primate threat responses is to go absolutely bugfuck and hope that whatever’s after you decides you’re not worth the risk. Charging directly toward the problem waving your arms wildly in the air and shrieking like a gibbon is always valid.
Hey, @compiler-specific, I mean, Lain Iwakura, why would these bad actors use that IP address if it can be identified as unsafe? Wouldn’t it make more sense to use one of the normal schemas you described for normal IP addresses?
Yes, Definitely! But many bad actors are lazy or incompetent, and might not think to change the default - perhaps a script kiddy who only skimmed the documentation. If your local IP address is under 172.16.42.*, then it is pretty likely that you’re connected to a WiFi Pineapple - but even if that isn’t the case, it certainly doesn’t mean you’re not on a compromised network, particularly if you’re on free public wifi such as might be found at a hotel/cafe/etc.
I think it’s interesting that people have interpreted my post as a cybersecurity PSA. I’m glad that people are now more aware of the risks posed by connecting to public wifi networks. But that was entirely unintentional. My entire thought process when I made this post was that I saw someone post the Joey meme in a Discord server, it got a bunch of reactions indicating confusion, and I thought, “Hey, wouldn’t it be funny if I put that with a meme that’s like the ‘Peter Griffin explains the joke’ format, but with Lain instead of Peter Griffin?”
Listen I’m aware you all want a piece of this. I understand I’m a hot commodity here on tumblr dot com. But even setting aside wealth and immortality, my husband squeezes the absolute fattest ass you’ve ever seen through literally billions of chimney flues every December 25th. And every other night of the year, he’s with me. And somehow you hoes think you can teach me a trick I haven’t seen before? Dream on.
looney toons bit where a guy who plays too much Minecraft needs to escape a chase by going over the edge of a cliff. so he dumps an ACME bucket of water and jumps into the water, swimming the whole way down and landing safely. then the antagonist, perplexed, tries to do the same thing and just plummets to the bottom at normal speed and gets the huge bump on his head with the tweeting birds encircling him and he’s sopping wet.
this is a great question because it narrowed my soul! i would choke on regular chewing gum on the steps outside before even entering the factory. willy would make no attempt to perform the heimlich maneuver and would leave my corpse on the concrete
this ask tapped into an extremely primal part of everyone’s body soul & mind
Twitter User: I wish I had more followers, then I’d be more likely to get verified.
Facebook User: I wish my posts reached further, then I’d get famous.
Instagram User: I wish I had more followers so I can unlock more basic features for my account.
TikTok User: I wish I had more views then I’d be a real influencer.
Tumbler User: I specifically didn’t tag this so no one would find it why does it have 200k notes? Who the hell are these people following me? All of you need to go away so I can go back to posting incomprehensible garbage and pictures of frogs.
Self-fulfilling prophecy
Oh no
Help
Here’s a picture of a blue poison dart frog.
WHY!?
Okay, lots of folks asking “INSTAGRAM DOES THAT!?”
And yes, it does:
Nice.
Kaeru the frog from Poco’s Udon World
Pain.
Also, we like the frogs. That’s why we’re all here.
Ringo (my dog) has officially made it his role in the universe to completely ruin the life of one possum specifically
We have a fig tree in the backyard which, as you could guess, sees a lot of late night animal visitors. The latest animal pal to snag some figs has been a possum that has now twice been in Ringo’s mouth (and both times Ringo almost charged his way into the house with it) and has, miraculously, survived both times.
Buddy I know figs are probably hard to come by in the possum world but it’s not worth it.
The possum, after experiencing his second near-death experience within the span of a week:
If you try fucking w/ gender and it just confirms that you are in fact cis, that still gives you like an upgrade because now you’re approaching your sense of self with Intent™.
weird how liberals made the personal is political in to like “everything i do, whether it’s wearing makeup, taking selfies, shopping or breathing is a powerful revolutionary act, my existence is a gift to the oppressed masses” rather than like, your behaviors, thoughts and feelings are influenced by politics and you don’t exist independent from society
I got my (now 18-year-old) daughter into Ao3 back in 2021. I taught her she should always comment - even if the fic looks old or abandoned or whatever. She did.
Well - she got this email this morning:
The fic was written in 2014 and essentially abandoned.
Bethy read and reviewed in 2021 (and was actually the only person who had commented at all).
Today in 2025 - the final chapter was posted by the author and this was her reply to Bethy’s comment.
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Never question whether a fic is too old to comment on.
I can all but guarantee that the author had been sitting on that ending for all those years and had wanted desperately to sit down and get it written and posted but just never found the time, and your daughter’s lovely comment was the nudge they needed to finally make it happen.
I’ve been in the same position myself many times, lmao.
Low key my dog has been fading away and we can see through him now we tried tying him down with a rope but he just phases through it couldnt do that yesterday i think hes going home now
what are you waiting for? someone to grant you permission? the perfect and permanent emotion? a shooting star to magic away every problem you have or ever have had? alright, wait away then. but no one is going to live your life for you while you wait to become someone else
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