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
Yell “ICE” and “LA MIGRA” to disrupt them. Notify people and use your privilege as a citizen to make ICE’s job as difficult as possible.
Fascism has been here. It’s just loud now. Time to be loud too.
If you cannot attend protests in person, it’s time for you to organize with your community and educate yourself.
Donate to bail funds in your city now. Find the sanctuary cities near you.
Go to libraries. There are groups organizing. Do not let the censorship of TikTok allow these communities to go silent.
What they’re doing to TikTok and the timing of it, whether Trump saves it to make himself look better or he censors it on the doorstep of his new reign, it is intentional.
Trump is expected to issue an emergency executive order regarding the southern US border tomorrow after inauguration.
California, Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas, be ready for ICE and border patrol.
#WTF isn’t Chicago a sanctuary city?
Yes. Trump is targeting sanctuary cities. This report on Chicago was originally a leak, so all sanctuary cities are on alert.
an old con gag that will always be funny is someone cosplaying spy from tf2 in a group of people and they’ve got a different cosplay taped to their face to blend in
I just need everyone to know about this tiktok account where these two girls sit and make a cocktail or a mixed drink, usually in a public place, but specifically usually like a fast food restaurant, and look around somewhat nervously while they do it like they’re on the run. They’re usually prominently featuring 2000s-era pop culture like wearing bedazzled clothing or using a Motorola RAZR. It’s called 2girls1bottl3 and I’m obsessed with it.
It’s also important to know they go by Mixey (right) and Munchy (left). They do exactly what their names imply in every video.
My best friend and I are certain Mixey is going to snap and kill Munchy one day
everyone trying to own trump about the “he doesn’t know sex isn’t determined at conception” thing really fundamentally does not understand what the point of that was, and learned basically nothing from his first term. he is not invested in scienve, biology, or any rational discussion where his provably false beliefs would be subject to scrutiny. he is signaling to everyone in the country that it does not matter what you say, he will never care and he will take every action to enforce these views and embolden his followers with the same rhetoric. you cannot logically talk to a person like this when they are reasoning with emotion, not logic. you cannot dunk the transphobia away. someone post the vonnegut quote.
[Video Description: An NBC News segment showing a split screen with Reverend Mariann Edgar Budde on the top and President Trump and Vice President Vance sitting in an audience watching her. Subtitles appear for what the Reverend is saying, and the subtitles read “In the name of our God, I ask you to have mercy upon the people in our country who are scared now. There are gay, lesbian, and transgender children in democratic, republican, and independent families. Some who fear for their lives. And the people, the people who pick our crops and clean our office buildings, who labor in poultry farms and meat picking plants, who wash the dishes after we eat in restaurants, and work the night shifts in hospitals. They may not be citizens or have the proper documentation but the vast majority of immigrants are not criminals. They pay taxes and are good neighbors. They are faithful members of our churches and mosques, synagogues, gurdwara and temples. I ask you to have mercy, Mr. President, on those in our communities whose children fear that their parents will be taken away. And that you help those who are fleeing war zones and persecution in their our lands, to find compassion and welcome here. Our god teaches us that we are to be merciful to the stranger for we were all once strangers in this land. May god grant us the strength and courage to honor the dignity of every human being, to speak the truth to one another in love, and walk humbly with each other and our god. For the good of all people, good of all people in this nation and the world, amen.]
[Image Description of tags: #videos #religion mention # rachael maddow said something interesting about this last night #she was talking about how the way you contain trump #is that you shame and embarrass his supporters in the government #and turn them against him slowly #and what this reverend did is a part of that #make them embarrassed for supporting him #make them embarrassed that they support a guy who invokes this kind of sermon from a religious leader #never let them know peace about it]
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When I was in kindergarten I saw a painting of the American Revolutionary War. I asked my mom, “Who were the good guys and who were the bad guys?” And she said, “That’s not really how war works. It’s not like a TV show. Both sides thought they were right, otherwise they wouldn’t have been fighting.” And my seven year old ass went “Oh ok”
Anyway having internalized that fun fact in literally kindergarten? It surprises me how many college-educated adults still don’t seem to know about it.
OP your mum is correct but also you realise this was literally about the American Civil War where there very much was a good guys and bad guys side?
Like I appreciate the sentiment but it’s one of the few wars where you can very easily pick the side that was validated by history.
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