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'Do not obey in advance.' - Timothy Snyder
24/03/2025 Jean-Luc Picard @SpaceDadSupport Incoming Transmission…
Perfectionism is often the enemy of progress. I understand the impetus to try to get it all done properly the first time, but frequently there's value in doing things in less-than-ideal stages and then building up towards something better later.
"But we took the oath, Sarge, and now we're disobeying orders and helping rebels. Doesn't seem right, Sarge," said Wiglet wretchedly.
"You took an oath to uphold the law and defend the citizens without fear or favor," said Vimes. "And to protect the innocent. That's all they put in. Maybe they thought those were the important things. Nothing in there about orders, even from me."
— Night Watch, by Terry Pratchett
excerpts from erin in the morning's article on the ioc's ban on transgender women and sex testing policy
thinking again about vampirism as disability
what if you slept all day and woke at night, lonely and frustrated. what if you couldn't go to social events, or even mundane public spaces like stores. what if you couldn't see the sun. what if you couldn't go to the pool, or the beach, or the creek. what if you couldn't eat what everyone else is eating. what if you couldn't eat at all. what if your basic needs came at the cost of your loved ones' quality of life. what if you became agitated, confused, maybe even violent if your needs weren't met. what if people blamed your behavior on demons, or worse, your own inherent evil. what if people saw you as a threat to your own community. what if the default response to your suffering was either indifference or violence. what if people thought you were better off dead, that you no longer count as human, that they're doing you a favor by letting you disappear. what if people assumed you must somehow deserve all of this. what about that.
From one Gen-Z to another, let’s continue to deprogram ourselves from the idea that 30 is old and you need to have your shit together before 30.
You can go back to school after age 30!
You can fall in love after age 30!
You can find a best friend after age 30!
You can find a passion after age 30!
You can find a job you love after age 30!
You can recover from an addiction after the age 30!
You can pursue a large goal after age 30!
You can travel the world after age 30!
You can move after age 30!
You can change your appearance after age 30!
You can ask for help after age 30!
You can make discoveries about yourself after age 30!
You can come out after age 30!
You can fix your finances after age 30!
You can be attractive after age 30!
You can fix your life after age 30!
You can do anything after age 30!
Idk what so specifically about the number 30 has bewitched so many of us into believing that means your life is over, but it’s just so far from the truth!
You have so much more time after 30 to accomplish all that you want to do.
Your life isn’t over until it quite literally is over. Stop giving yourself a deadline that doesn’t exist!
Since turning 30, I have changed careers, gotten married, sought out and received gender-affirming care, got help for depression, picked up new hobbies, made new friends, and moved across the country. You could not pay me to go back to my 20s.
I know you kids are going through hell right now. You are almost to the other side, so keep going!
Wait...whaat!? 🤔
ya’ll were really gonna let me live my life in ignorance thinking mr. rogers was straight???
oh whoops, did we forget to tell you? there’s a quote in The Good Neighbor where Mr. Rogers talked about being attracted to both men and women
FRED ROGERS I LOVE YOU EVEN MORE
WOOOO
tumblr rediscovering this post in 2025:
HEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEELLLL YEAHHHH
hey, uh. what the shit
This means that if two enemy pawns stop face-to-face with each other, they both become immobilized, stuck in place, staring into each other's eyes for the rest of the game. The spell can only be broken when another piece kills one of them, at which point the other can mindlessly return to the combat. Were they shell-shocked? Love-struck? We can but speculate.
Always bear in mind that there is absolutely no legitimate evidence that Luigi was actually the one who killed the insurance company guy.
Of course he wasn't. He was at a party with me that day.
No but like literally, actually. All bits aside.
He didn't do it.
The cops very clearly planted evidence on him because they had to make an arrest because all eyes were on them and whoever actually did the deed was making them look stupid.
Why would the real killer hero have kept the weapon on his person and traveled two states over while carrying it and a manifesto in his bag, conveniently turning the crime into a federal matter? The same guy whose bag they found in a park, filled with monopoly money? Why did the police turn off their bodycams, take Luigi's stuff, drive a block away, turn their bodycams back on, go back into the restaurant, and then arrest him?
From the moment of his arrest, even left-of-center media has been presuming his guilt without examining anything (e.g. calling him "the killer" instead of "alleged" or "accused") and then when I say he didn't do it, the nearest person chimes in with some quip that tells me they think he did do it but should go free anyway. Don't get me wrong, I would have the same attitude if he had done it. But he didn't. It makes me feel like the only sane person in the world, even among my staunchly leftist friends.
A once-in-a-lifetime shot — the moon perfectly framed by a rainbow. Caught at just the right time. 🌈 🌕
Sourcing the photos as taken by Mark Ham on Instagram, according to one of the replies.
Happy Pride month to the moon
"likes mean nothing on tumblr" you're sending me a little heart. that's not nothing it's your heart. look here's one for you <3
when I made this plan there were fewer of you
my pen may be dying but the joy & friendship does not
It is incredibly important to train yourself to have your first instinct be to look something up.
Don't know how to do something? Look it up.
See a piece of news mentioned on social media? Look it up.
Not sure if something is making it to the broader public consciousness, either because you don't see it much or you see people saying nobody is talking about it? Look it up.
Don't know what a word means? Look it up.
It will make you a better reader and a better writer, but it will also just make you more equipped to cope with the world.
So often, I see people talking about something as though it is the first time anyone has ever acknowledged it, when I've been reading reports about it on the news for months or years. Or I see someone totally misinterpreting an argument because they clearly don't know what a word means--or, on the other hand, making an argument that doesn't make sense because they aren't using words the right way.
Look things up! Check the news (the real news, not random people on social media)! Do your research! You (and the world) will be better for it.
Yes!
You have the whole internet in your pocket!!
When I was a kid, we had an encyclopedia in the house. And it was a normal dinnertime occurance to say, well, let's look it up.
But it was frustrating, because there were so many limitations.
But you have! the whole! INTERNET! in your pocket! ALL the TIME!
look that shit up
Look up ALL the things. 👍
had an interaction with a cat at my mother's friend's house (we dropped by to feed her while my mom's friend was out of town) and my mother said "i was surprised how much that cat liked you, she doesn't usually let people pet her but she followed you around and let you pet her a lot"
and in explaining to her my interaction with the cat i put into words a thing i'd never put into words before, having always automatically understood what i was doing. But once i put it into words my mother said she'd never thought of that and it felt like something worth sharing here.
This cat did a typical cat thing where she sniffed my fingers i was holding out, and then acted like she wanted me to pet her, but then when i started to move to pet her, moved her head away slightly to prevent it.
I instinctively understand this interaction, and stopped trying to pet her and moved back to a neutral position and waited to see if she would re-initiate an interaction.
Because this is basically a consent test. This is how a cat can assess "how closely are you paying attention to what i'm telling you" and "how respectful of my boundaries are you".
If i am responsive to her yes/no game, moving to pet her when she indicates i can, stopping immediately when she seems to change her mind, then she knows she can trust me to understand her, and also to respect her choices. That's what i did, so then she knew she could trust me and relax around me and enjoy my company. She was actually a very friendly and social little cat, who clearly wanted to make friends with me.
But if i had insisted on trying to pet her when she seemed to change her mind instead of simply understanding that she didn't want to be pet in that moment, she would have known she couldn't trust me to understand or respect her, and she would have treated me like she has to treat 90% of the people who visit that house, evidently.
I work mostly with dogs these days, but i grew up with cats too, and am generally good with animals. Many shy animals will also do this same "sniff sniff okay touch me nope just kidding" routine, especially if they've had experiences with people that make establishing that kind of communication and trust important to them.
And in fact, a lot of animals will do some version of this kind of consent test in a whole variety of situations. When well socialized dogs do that thing where they are rough housing and then they both stop suddenly for a moment until one of them play bows or makes a little pouncing motion and then they fly back into rough housing mode, that's what they are doing, they are doing a consent check-in, like "whoah this is getting wild, are you still in? are we still playing, is this still a good time for you?"
anyway, that's why this lovely little cat followed me around asking me to pet her the whole time we were visiting that house, because i showed her that i understood her signals and respected her boundaries, which is something i see a lot of both men and women not doing when interacting with cats and dogs.
oh yes of course! I had a similar moment with a client in my trickwork class just this weekend. See, the thing about teaching tricks is that everything is about getting the communication just right between dog and human. I'm using a mixture of luring and shaping because most of these dogs have not experienced shaping at all and take some time to adjust to the concept. A lot of dogs kind of freeze up at the concept, even when we're shaping something as simple as "perch."
So when a dog is having a hard time with a concept, I have a bunch of approaches in my toolbox. To move through class, I start with the one that is most generally useful, demo it with a client dog, and then I go around the room troubleshooting and helping people get at least an approximation closer to the behavior they'd like.
This particular dog was quiet and a little inhibited coming in, so when I needed to show her handler how to introduce a lure, I had to get up in her space to see if I could convince her to follow my cookie in the way I was trying to communicate. She was a little perturbed by this, so I backed out and away--and she immediately relaxed, and was then more interested in getting up in my space when I invited her to do that in exchange for cookies so I could show up close what I was doing.
Seriously, establishing handling consent and manners is huge with animals, just like it is with people. You ask an animal how it wants you to interact with it, and then you take its opinion into account (with allowances for health procedures etc). And you build positive associations and experiences into that trust bank, so that if you have to do something really bad you can make a withdrawal--but only if you've paid in enough. That's just how trust works.
perisex people who know next to nothing about us making "intersex educational" content:
"intersex is a medical condition ......... it's a medical condition ....... they have a medical condition .... medical condition ....... not all intersex people are LGBTQIA because it's a medical condition .......... it's a medical condition"
Just to break this down for any confused people:
Yes, a lot of intersex people have unique medical issues and challenges that perisex people do not have.
No, "intersex" is not a medical condition. Intersex is a sociopolitical identity based on the collective experiences of many, many types of people with differing medical needs and challenges.
Yes, being intersex makes you queer. You can opt out of calling yourself queer, but queer is a sociopolitical identity heavy with specific meaning that will always apply to intersex people, whether an individual identifies themselves as queer or not.
Looking at the sheer amount of world leaders who are currently in their goddamn 70s, I resent the possibility that one day when I'm in my 60s these fuckers will still be holding on, 100 years old and living on 1 hp, but refusing to die because they ontologically refuse to do anything that might benefit other people.