if school was actually fun and cool they’d let me give a presentation on their flaws and suggestions on how to fix them based on student survey and research
I really think that it’s important to remember @staff are trying to phase out custom blogs! Literally the most fun and interesting part of Tumblr and a very awesome selling point of Tumblr’s entire model.
That’s part of their whole ‘Tumblr’s not easy to use’ bullshit. They’ve been working at it for months now, you can’t even access someone’s custom blog from mobile anymore and like not even on the mobile website.
So yeah that theme and those pages you worked so hard to make unique and interesting? The webcomic hosted on Tumblr in such a way that it basically has it’s own website? The ARCHIVE of your blog that you can pretty much only access from a button on your custom blog? It’ll all go down the gutter if we don’t yell until our voices go hoarse.
This is a BLOGGING website the point of the website is THE BLOGS! I didn’t work hard to maintain my blog and keep the pages on it looking pretty for some hack at RND to decide it needs to go to make way for their ‘definitely not-Twitter’ ideal website. I swear to god the loss of our custom blogs will be the exact last straw for me and I WILL leave.
Get you a girl who speaks in parentheses. Get you a girl who includes information in a sentence that isn’t necessary but adds additional context or commentary.
The Canadian Parliament gave a standing ovation on Friday to a 98-year-old immigrant from Ukraine who fought in a Third Reich military formation accused of war crimes.
The elderly veteran, Yaroslav Hunka was honored during a session in which President Volodomyr Zelenskyy of Ukraine addressed the lawmakers to thank them for their support since Russia invaded his country, saying Canada has always been on “the bright side of history.” The Speaker of the House of Commons, Anthony Rota — who had compared Zelenskyy to Winston Churchill — recognized a “veteran from the Second World War who fought for Ukrainian independence against the Russians and continues to support the troops today even at his age of 98.”
The assembly then rose to applaud a man in a khaki uniform standing on the balcony, who saluted, according to this screenshot from Canadian television. […]
The AP caption described Hunka as having “fought with the First Ukrainian Division in World War II before later immigrating to Canada.” The First Ukrainian Division is another name for the 14th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS, the military wing of the Nazi Party; the unit was also called SS Galichina. […]
Note from the poster @el-shab-hussein: What’s truly insane to me is that Zelenskyy is a Ukrainian Jew himself, and his great-grandfather and several of his grandfather’s brothers were killed during the Holocaust. I’m just really truly shocked.
You haven’t been paying attention. There have always been right-wing and even far-right-wing Jews, of course, but the current (and repeated) Prime Minister of Israel, Netanyahu, has being trying to rehabilitate Adolf Hitler for years, and has said that the only thing wrong with the Nazis is that they included Jews in the list of groups they threw in concentration camps. (That is: concentration camps are fine as long as the people who go into them are not Jewish.) And he has his party’s backing, and that party reliably gets a majority in Israeli elections — a surprisingly large proportion of modern Jewish people no longer care. The idea that Jewish people and Nazis are some kind of Manichaean opposites was never true — there were even a few high-level Jewish Nazis for a while, before they got offed — but modern Jewish right-wingers have basically become Mad Libs Nazis, where the only difference is whose names are written in which blanks, so of course they forgive the original German ones for doing what they themselves want to do to (specifically, but probably not exclusively) Palestinians. It’s not at all surprising that Zelenskyy is okay with this, and I strongly suspect that as time passes more and more “normal” Jews will reveal that they don’t care either, because fascism has become part of the mainstream Jewish political landscape just like it has become part of the mainstream political landscape among nearly everyone else. It’s appalling, but the dominant word in “Jewish people” is “people”, and there has never been a time when people haven’t been stupid.
[id: a textpost by @/wdhmbt that says “There is a house in New Orleans, not the one you’ve heard about. No not that one either I’m talking about a third unrelated house” /end id]
[audio description: the textpost slowly, beautifully sung to the tune of “house of the rising sun” with the appropriate backing instrumentals. It fits perfectly. End description.]
Guys, can we stop with the “all hunters are bad” rhetoric please? Yeah, I know there are a lot of hunters who got into the art due to bigotry (and I hate them as much as you do!) but TRUE hunters kill with honour.
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“not all hunters are bad” oh okay, I mean I did have a problem with being potentially STAKED for WHO I AM, but since you’d be killing me “WitH HOnOuR” then I guess I’ll get over it 🙄 typical hunter victim complex.
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See, this is exactly what I mean. I wouldn’t stake you because you are cognizant and in control, but next time one of your thralls goes into blood frenzy and kills a family of five maybe I won’t swiftly put them out of their misery, because SOMEBODY didn’t feel like taking responsibility for their blood children. 😒
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Erm, I get where you’re coming from but I have a problem with the whole “cognizant and in control” part…
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You’re wasting your time, pup. Hunters are bigots by default. @moonblade-mary⚔️ so you think I’m a terrible parent just because I’m a vampire? 🤔 Interesting
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No, don’t twist my words.
I KNOW you’re a terrible parent because you’ve turned THREE thralls this year (three!!!) because they were, and I quote, “smoking hot” (yeah, careful which taverns you neck a bottle of red in by the way…) only to abandon them when you get bored!!
NO teaching them how to feed responsibly. NO passing on techniques to combat bloodlust. NO support from their master! It’s irresponsible!
You just pay me under the table to OFF them when they lose their goddamn marbles then bash hunters online!! I’m sick of it! I won’t keep quiet about it anymore!
The village folk have started sharpening their pitchforks again! Would you rather have ME or THEM?!
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Didn’t see you complaining when you bought yourself those nice new leather boots 🧛🍷💅
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I still think that a key function of the way we think of the concepts “adult” and “child” is to separate the human population into “people who deserve autonomy but no protection” and “people who deserve protection but no autonomy” and in the process dehumanize both groups of people. We ignore the fact that all people need both autonomy and protection, and that our society could easily be set up to provide everyone a healthy mix of both.
And to be honest much of what we label as “protection” for children and “autonomy” for adults is merely the appearance of such. We act as if dictating what children are allowed to say, think, or feel is a form of care, and as if cutting away all social safety nets for adults is a form of empowerment.
dipping back into coding for cookie clicker mobile update etc etc and figured i’d touch up TaskMaster since it’s just been sitting there since 2016! there’s barely any more polish but i’ve added a number of new features
Craft stores are just like “can I interest you in some…objects? some items? would you like some things?” and every time I’m like Oooh I love objects and items and things!
“Jack of all trades, master of none” … “but ofttimes better than a master of one.”
“Blood is thicker than water.” “The blood of the covenant is thicker than the waters of the womb.”
“Money is the root of all evil.” “The love of money is the root of all evil.”
there’s also “pull yourself up by the bootstraps” which conservatives are oh so fond of saying
bootstraps are, well, straps on your boots. you cannot physically pull yourself up by them, and that’s what the original phrase meant. “pulling oneself up by the bootstraps” is meant to be an impossible task
September 20, 2023 - Critical support to this New Jersey man who intentionally crashed his car into a police station while blasting Welcome To The Jungle by Guns n’ Roses. 🫡 [video]
I recall at least one of you guys having worked with livestock animals. Why are cows so damn indestructible while horses keel over and die if mercury is in retrograde or a dog barked in Kazakhstan?
Let me tell you a story about how livestock animals work.
In the beginning, God created the horse. God looked at the horse and saw that it was beautiful and strong. “However,” God said, “it breaks too easily.”
Then God created the cow. God looked at the cow and saw that it was more durable than the horse, and tasted good to boot. “However,” God said, “it poops too much.”
Then God created the goat. God looked at the goat and saw that it was perfect.
God looked around and saw that he still had some spare bits of fluff on his work table, but no brains to put into it. So then God created the sheep.
Now let me tell you what my equine surgery professor said on the first day of class.
“Horses are only interested in two things: homicide, and suicide.”
And that’s all you need to know about horses.
Except every goat is just waiting its turn to die of pneumonia
Sorry I’m not over “if a dog barked in Kazakhstan”.
My entirely half-assed understanding of Why Horses Explode If You Look At Them Funny, As Explained To Me By My Aunt That Raises Horses After Her Third Glass Of Wine:
Horses don’t got enough toes.
So, back right after the dinosaurs fucked off and joined the choir invisible, the first ancestors of horses were scampering about, little capybara-looking things called Eohippus, and they had four toes per limb:
They functioned pretty well, as near as we can tell from the fossil record, but they were mostly messing around in the leaf litter of dense forests, where one does not necessarily need to be fast but one should be nimble, and the 4 toes per limb worked out pretty good.
But the descendants of Eophippus moved out of the forest where there was lots of cover and onto the open plains, where there was better forage and visibility, but nowhere to hide, so the proto-horses that could ZOOM the fastest and out run thier predators (or, at least, their other herd members) tended to do well. Here’s the thing- having lots of toes means your foot touches the ground longer when you run, and it spreads a lot of your momentum to the sides. Great if you want to pivot and dodge, terrible if you want to ZOOM. So losing toes started being a major advantage for proto-horses:
The Problem with having fewer toes and running Really Fucking Fast is that it kind of fucks your everything else up.
When a horse runs at full gallop, it sort of… stops actively breathing, letting the slosh of it’s guts move its lungs, which is tremendously calorically efficient and means their breathing doesn’t fall out of sync. But it also means that the abdominal lining of a horse is weirdly flexible in ways that lead to way more hernias and intestinal tangling than other ungulates. It also has a relatively weak diaphragm for something it’s size, so ANY kind of respiratory infection is a Major Fucking Problem because the horse has weak lungs.
When a Horse runs Real Fucking Fast, it also develops a bit of a fluid dynamics problem- most mammals have the blood going out of thier heart real fast and coming back from the far reaches of the toes much slower and it’s structure reflects that. But since there is Only The One Toe, horse blood comes flying back up the veins toward the heart way the fuck faster than veins are meant to handle, which means horses had to evolve special veins that constrict to slow the Blood Down, which you will recognize as a Major Cardiovascular Disease in most mammals. This Poorly-regulated blood speed problems means horses are prone to heart problems, burst veins, embolisms, and hemophilia. Also they have apparently a billion blood types and I’m not sure how that’s related but I am sure that’s another Hot Mess they have to deal with.
ALSO, the Blood-Going-Too-Fast issue and being Just Huge Motherfuckers means horses have trouble distributing oxygen properly, and have compensated by creating fucked up bones that replicate the way birds store air in thier bones but much, much shittier. So if a horse breaks it’s leg, not only is it suffering a Major Structural Issue (also also- breaking a toe is much more serious when that toe is YOUR WHOLE DAMN FOOT AND HALF YOUR LEG), it’s also hving a hemmorhage and might be sort of suffocating a little.
ALSO ALSO, the fast that horses had to deal with Extremely Fast Predators for most of thier evolution means that they are now afflicted with evolutionarily-adaptive Anxiety, which is not great for thier already barely-functioning hearts, and makes them, frankly, fucking mental. Part of the reason horses are so aggro is that if deinied the opportunity to ZOOM, it’s options left are “Kill everyone and Then Yourself” or “The same but skip step one and Just Fucking Die”. The other reason is that a horse is in a race against itself- it’s gotta breed before it falls apart, so a Horse basically has a permanent terrorboner.
TL;DR: Horses don’t have enough toes and that makes them very, very fast, but also sickly, structurally unsound, have wildly OP blood that sometimes kills them, and drives them fucking insane.
I am morbidly gratified that my deep suspicion of horses has grounding!
Thinking about how asexual stereotypes hurt all asexuals, the ones who fall inside of them and the ones who fall out
Like… the kinky asexual writer. I am a kinky asexual writer!!! That is not because I am asexual, that is because I am a trauma survivor!! I am hypersexual!! This is my coping mechanism!! Not your goofy stereotype!!
And for asexuals who don’t fall into that, those who might be sex repulsed, that’s just really upsetting!! To make them feel othered for not being part of something specific like that, or make them feel gross by even bringing up the stereotype in the first place!
Augh!!! Stop stereotyping people!!! What is wrong with you!!!
Hey kids, wanna learn what signs of botulism look like?
Since the sell by date wasn’t for another 4 days I returned them. I was checking out at the store and I was like “i’m not sure you want to take them out of the bag” and he did and a passing manager was just like “That looks like a bomb, I’m just gonna take it to the back” and was off like a shot.
Okay but seriously, if you have a package of food like this or especially if you have a can that is bulging like this, it is literally full of poison, do not open it and absolutely positively do not eat it under any circumstances.
Any food packaging that is bulging has to be considered unsafe to eat. A lot of people who might be living on their own for the first time don’t know what that looks like, and this is a really, really extreme example, but yeah if the top of a can has become slightly domed from internal pressure that’s going to kill you, don’t eat it.
doesn’t it piss you off corporations act like you were born to see ads. why it’s so bad for trying to escape them??? the way it’s okay for websites to make ads sooo annoying you feel like you have no choice but buy premium. and even then you can’t escape ad reads. i don’t want to waste hours of my life skipping ads. finding the x button. or being woken by an ad that pops at the end of 3 hours long white noise video. using spotify without premium is a nightmare. i hate how ads are everywhere and somehow it’s normal to say ‘if you don’t want to see ads on youtube and use adblock then you’re stealing from them!’ what. i’m gonna install adblock on every computer elders in my family use as a preventive measure bc too many websites put ads in between news articles!!!
@ / staff apparently just removed gaza and palestine from trending tags, which have been trending (as they should) for days. fuck your one-sided coverage and your propaganda and fuck you for turning a blind-eye to what is being done to CIVILIANS. un fucking believable
what do you think this is going to accomplish- aside from making people even more aware of how the west and western media treats palestinians???
edit: people who support israel’s attack on gaza, get the fuck out of my post. if you don’t have the dignity to admit that palestinian children dying is JUST as bad as israeli children dying, and if you can’t admit that the whole world letting israel commit WAR CRIMES is absolutely disgusting, then block me because I sure as hell will block you.
wait so staff has generally removed movement focused tags from trending and put it in a separate “things we care abou” section like #coronavirus #ukraine #blacklivesmatter, but palestine and gaza are neither in trending nor in that section which is, certainly a choice.
Yes. Yes I am. And you can ask literally any marginalized man and they will tell you American Patriarchy hates them, too, specifically because they are being men in the “wrong way”.
Like fuck, this is feminism 101.
Edit: it’s non-radfem feminism 101.
Just look at the way that manosphere wierdos talk in reference to other men: they are competitors to be dominated either socially or with explicit violence. The whole grift is built on selling men the idea that they can climb their way to the top of the pile
^^^ This. It’s like a pyramid scheme of abuse. “If you throw fifteen men under the bus and convince five of your friends to throw fifteen other men under the bus, you can Win at Patriarchy, we promise!”
I can’t agree enough with this, and it’s something more and more men are speaking up about, even if our voices aren’t being heard.
Man box culture, as some call it, starts when we’re young. It’s pervasive - the competition to be a real “man” as defined by violence, dominance, and this absolutely fucked up concept of emotional detachment. It’s a raw struggle to not appear weak, and it starts with how adult men treat male children - the toxic values they instill, sometimes with words and sometimes with fists. And even if you grow up in a less toxic and more loving environment, you’re never really free from it. Your male role models, male adults like teachers and such, but especially male friends who are your age, all get caught up in this toxic system of abuse. And “real men” don’t have emotions, right? So you have to bottle all that up rather than understanding any of it because it’s *weakness.* All of that tends to come out in the one emotional state that men allow each other to display: anger. Shit, by the time most boys reach high school, they’ve been struggling against each other for years. All that hate, that anger, that uncontrollable rage? That’s been taught to them long before teenage testosterone hits. And by that time, it’s gotten worse because the patriarchy has defined how “real men” see and treat women. Underneath everything is this deep, deep fear of failing and becoming the weak punching bag. There’s so much shame to it all.
It isn’t always like this for every boy growing up, but no one is left unaware of its existence. And the only true way to stop it begins when we are young.
This is fucking heartbreaking.
One of my friends in law school once opened up to me and a few other people in our mixed-gender friend group that he didn’t really have friends before he knew us, even though he thought he did. We sort of nodded like, yeah man, we’re glad you’re our friend too, sorry people back in your home town were shitty – and he stopped us like, no, you don’t understand. He told us that he thought he had friends, and that those people thought that they were his friends – but that his all-male small-town social circle constantly hurled abuse at each other, and that they all thought that that was normal. He told us that he used to go out partying with them, and whereas when we’d go out, we’d talk each other up – like, man, nice shirt, love what you did with your hair, I bet chicks are gonna dig it, etc. – back in his old circle of friends? All they’d ever do before going out was talk each other down. You’re dressed worse than your friends? You look like trash. You’re dressed better than your friends? Why do you care so much about you’re appearance, are you gay? You’re dressed exactly the same as your friends? Wow, look at this loser copying other people’s look. You could never win, you could never even break even, and you were expected to not only put up with this, but to participate, because that sort of normalized constant stream of verbal abuse was the main way that you and other men your age socialized. He literally did not realize that men could have actual, real friendships – with women, sure, but also with other men – until he met us, because to him, the act of hanging out with people who you weren’t dating was so deeply intertwined with toxic competitive expectations that he flat out didn’t know that there was a different way to be until he moved halfway across the country for law school in his late 20s.
It’s incredibly fucked up, and men should be able to talk about what a patriarchal culture like that does to them without being silenced.
Tough Guise came out before the turn of the millennium for fuck sakes!
This used to be settled feminist theory! I studied it in uni! It wasn’t controversial!
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