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Interests include riot grrl punk, pottery, and now marcel proust i guess
Check out my ‘ladies’ tag for pictures of beautiful and badass women, lovingly compiled by your local shameless lez!!
fucking SICK of dating apps i want to meet someone the old fashioned way (we are forced to share a bed together at the local inn because all the rooms are full and we end up taking quite a shine to each other and decide to seek out employment on a whaling vessel together, unwittingly dooming both of us to a tragic fate)
#they call me ishmael...but you can call me anytime 😎🤙
she’s so real
THE RIGHTS OF SPRING, Klara Kristalova, 1967
a whale of a good time🐋
god damn this is a QUILT ('late day shadows' by nancy messier)
THIS IS A QUILT?!?!?!?
ITS A FUCKING QUILT GUYS
“Attention: deep listening. People are dying in spirit for lack of it. In academic culture, most listening is critical listening. We tend to pay attention only long enough to develop a counterargument; we critique the student’s or the colleague’s ideas; we mentally grade and pigeonhole each other. In society at large, people often listen with an agenda, to sell or petition or seduce. Seldom is there a deep, open-hearted nonjudgmental reception of the other. And so we all talk louder and more stridently and with a terrible desperation. By contrast, if someone truly listens to me, my spirit begins to expand.”
— Mary Rose O’Reilley, Radical Presence: Teaching as Contemplative Practice
zooey deschanel wanted what regina spektor had, regina spektor wanted what leonard cohen had, and leonard cohen just wanted to have coffee with heretical 17th century mystic sabbatai tzvi
the default way for things to taste is good. we know this because "tasty" means something tastes good. conversely, from the words "smelly" and "noisy" we can conclude that the default way for things to smell and sound is bad. interestingly there are no corresponding adjectives for the senses of sight and touch. the inescapable conclusion is that the most ordinary object possible is invisible and intangible, produces a hideous cacophony, smells terrible, but tastes delicious. and yet this description matches no object or phenomenon known to science or human experience. so what the fuck
this is what ancient greek philosophy is like
JOAN BAEZ & BOB DYLAN ━ [renaldo and clara, ‘78. dir. bob dylan]
okay, please settle something for me: how many cousins do you have? im talking on both sides of your family combined and only first cousins (also put in the tags whether you consider the amount you have to be a lot or not!)
none
1 - 5
6 - 10
11 - 15
16 - 20
20 - 30
more than 30
i dont actually know
im not sure who counts as my first cousin because of complicated family dynamics
i ask because growing up i always thought i had a normal amount of cousins but now everyone always tells me i have a lot so i wanna see whats average
also i included that last option because its probably what fits best for me personally but for reference i think the amount of cousins i have is somewhere in the early 20s
I'm in club "I don't know", my Dad has lots of brothers who he isn't close to who have had multiple partners and children I've never met.
realized I can FINALLY achieve my dream of doing this particular questionnaire experiment: tryna see the overlap between jews and nds and queers
I'm jewish AND I'm queer AND neurodivergent
I'm jewish AND I'm queer and neurotypical
I'm jewish AND neurodivergent and not queer
I'm not jewish but I'm queer AND neurodivergent
I'm not jewish but I'm queer and neurotypical
I'm not jewish but I'm neurodivergent and not queer
I'm jewish but I'm neurotypical and not queer
I'm not jewish and not queer and neurotypical
I just wanna see the results
Please reblog for sample size!!
love how this is the majority of the jews i know, but since none of them are tumblr users, this is a whopping 0%
breaking news: Bible scholars really do just sit in a room discussing three line fragments for 2 hours and 45 minutes!
[image description: a version of the 'what if x had whatsapp' meme, titled, "what if catullus had whatsapp." on the right of the image is a photo of a sculpture of catullus. on the left is an edited screenshot of a whatsapp inbox with various messages. from lesbia: "fucking KILL YOURSELF." from calvus: "I NEED my books back." from clodius: "Jeff Bezos has 121 BILLION dollars. The population of Earth" (cut off there). from caesar: "fucking KILL YOURSELF." from caelius: "I NEED Cocaina." from cicero: "fucking KILL YOURSELF."]
do you spend many of your waking hours on social media? do you feel like it's a problem? in this world of late stage capitalism, your time and attention is actively being harvested by big corporations. it's.. not good. it also just makes you feel bad!
here are some tips that have really helped me reduce the amount of time i give to these apps & get in control of my social media addiction:
1. IDENTIFY PROBLEM APPS
you probably know which apps you spend the most time on. however, looking at real data about usage is very helpful because time spent on social media is very deceiving. keep in mind which apps you spend the most time looking at and interacting with for the rest of this list.
2. TURN OFF NOTIFICATIONS
this is probably the easiest thing to do and it makes an immense difference. it's up to your discretion which notifications you want to keep on (turning on messaging notifications but turning off algorithm and interaction notifs for example) but, the most effective way to stay off problem apps is to turn off ALL notifications.
3. TURN OFF NOTIFICATION SOUNDS
i always keep my phone on silent. i understand that not all people have that privilege but, if you're able to i would highly highly recommend. it has helped me a lot with anxieties regarding waiting for notifications. i used to experienced the phantom vibrate and check my phone obsessively when nothing would happen. you can also just turn off notification sounds and vibrations for any non necessity apps if you don't want to jump to turning off all notifications.
4. CHANGE THE PLACEMENT OF PROBLEM APPS
i actually learned this trick from facebook when they changed the UI slightly so you had to be more intentional in interacting with the app. changing the layout of the apps on your phone really helps you catch yourself when you are automatically opening up apps that cost you time and attention. instead of keeping social media apps on the homescreen, keep it on a different screen, in a folder, & if possible out of the preview window for the folder.
if you want to expand on this more, you could keep a log in a notes app of every time you reached for an app that has since moved. you can even put the notes app in its place!
5. UTILIZE APP TIMERS
my experience is based on samsung app timers so i'm not sure how it differs in different makes. i really dont like my phone telling me i can't do something so i've set my tumblr timer to the highest end of my usage data (2hrs 10 minutes). another mindfulness thing that i like about using the timers is that when i'm switching between apps, my phone tells me how much time left i have (it's currently 1 hour 21 minutes, most of the 49 minutes i've spent writing this lol). i'm just a slut for data so i really like this aspect of the samsung app timer function and it's very useful besides this point.
6. DELETE APPS
okay, i know this seems drastic. but it doesn't NEED to be depending on your habitual problem apps. apps like youtube, instagram, facebook, and tumblr (to a lesser extent ime) (and probably others these are just the ones i have experience with) can pretty easily be transferred to being used exclusively on a web browser. if you use firefox it will even get rid of ads which is very important for overall sanity and for safe web browsing. one of the biggest plusses to moving from an app to a web browser is that it won't automatically play your platform's version of tiktoks. it also makes it more difficult to upload items which is a plus because it will hinder you from doing so and cut back on the loop of expecting validation from recently posted content.
opening instagram without immediately being enthralled by their endless stream of reels has made it SO much easier to control my time on the site. there are tons of plusses to transferring from app browsing to web browsing.
so on the more drastic side, if you are addicted to tiktok you maybe should just delete it. tiktok is intentionally designed so you can't use it in a web browser and can only use it in the app. i will talk more about tiktok and how evil it is later in this post.
7. MOVE DMS TO MESSAGING APPS
if a hesitation to turning off notifactions or deleting apps is from not wanting to miss conversations from online friends, i understand your pain. but, if you are serious about cutting down screen time on apps that are absolutely draining your attention, talk to your friends about switching to a different messaging app. i would suggest signal personally.
your friends may be experiencing similar problems with phone addiction and even if they aren't, if they care about you, they will make this accommodation to help you in this process. i get that this is very scary but i believe in you.
8. USE TIME ON YOUR PHONE FOR OTHER THINGS
depending on your goals for how you spend your time, there are plenty of alternatives to social media / other problem apps you may have. personally i have downloaded a bunch of books on my reading list and will divert attention from dopamine pumping social media to reading. you can find tons of free pdfs of books online and if you are used to reading on your phone, it won't be a difficult transition to read longer form narratives from short text posts.
there are free art apps, language learning apps, self care / journaling apps, meditation apps, etc. that you can use when on your phone. this may seem counterintuitive, getting more apps to battle certain app addictions. but, simply weakening the habit that brings you to the apps that you spend so much time on should help. but watch out for apps that claim they are to teach or better you but have social media built into them / other tricks that keep you glued to your screen. everyone is trying to mine your attention so be wary of all apps and the methods they use to keep you engaged.
9. DON’T BE AFRAID TO PUT YOUR PHONE BACK DOWN AFTER PICKING IT UP
idk if this is a weird one or not but, you know the feeling of going into a room to do something but you forget what so you putter around trying to remember? i feel like going on your phone when you have a phone addiction is often a state of that except the majority of the time you DON’T have a purpose to go on it. so even though it may feel silly, opening your phone only to close it right after is PERFECTLY FINE.
IN CONCLUSION, phone usage is pretty inevitable in this day and age. i've considered getting rid of my phone entirely but, between the expectation to be constantly reachable from employers to QR code menus at restaurants, it just doesn't seem reasonable to get rid of my phone completely. and i will readily admit its convenience and functionality is life changing and wonderful.
however in late stage capitalism, technology doesn't only work for you but it harvests you -- your data, your habits, your time, your attention, your wants, your needs, your thoughts. even leftist spaces with good intentions can trap you (doom scrolling). when i was becoming radicalized during the beginning of the pandemic i spent sooo much time online reading about all these horrible truths of imperialism, colonization, and capitalism, and i felt it was my duty to share these horrors with other people to radicalize them. but it was so unhealthy, especially when shit hit the fan (which it was like constantly doing) because everyone was posting about the horrors and it felt utterly inescapable.
after following some of these steps (which i did in stages over the course of a few years), my relationship with social media has improved greatly and my mental health is actually significantly better. all of this is based on personal experience and observation and this post is specifically for people who want to cut down on phone usage, it's not supposed to be a preachy post that's telling people they spend too much time on their phone.
it's also nowhere near complete. it doesn't tackle addictions to games on phones nor the notorious tiktok. i said i would talk about it later and here it is. i have a chalkboard in my kitchen and all it has written on it is "tiktok is the devil". i have never seen such a commonly used app that has such a degrading effect on all of its users. and it set a precedent to all other social media apps for autoplaying videos that demand user engagement. i was on tiktok for a little less than a year and the way that it would sap anywhere from 20 minutes to over 3 hours of my time when i told myself i'd only watch a few videos was insane. as an aspiring creator i felt that i needed to hop on it to get recognition but now, i don't see it as anything more than a tarpit to trap as many people as possible in its dopamine rich algorithm. but whatever, that's just my little rant. as a social experiment i think it's fascinating lol and i for the creators it's benefited im very happy for them.
anywayy, i hope this helps someone if it gets any attention at all lol. remember no one can make the decision of how you spend your time on or offline but you. not some stranger on the internet, not corporations, no one. you are in control of your time (well besides the whole having to work most of your waking hours to survive but that's what communism is for yayy).
become the dyke they told you to watch out for