Powdered Wigs and Screaming

Museum professional by day, tumblr elder of dubious credentials by night

[beggars-opera]

What’s your icon from? It’s looks familiar but I can’t quite place my finger on it??

[foone]

Important rules for the "age verification" era of the internet that we're living in:

1. Do not do age verification.

2. If you have to do age verification, cheat. Do not under any circumstances give them your real ID.

[very-gay-alkyrion]

Free Tool Says it Can Bypass Discord's Age Verification Check With a 3D Model

The tool presents users with a 3D model they can then manipulate to, the creator says, bypass Discord's age verification system.

Oh no I dropped my link, what a horrible thing! Sure hope this doesn't get reblogged until it reaches users from the UK and Brazil!

And remember to not make a second account just to test out what works best when verifying your identity

[asksanguinius40k]

A reminder that we still dont support Age Verification bullshit.

[flower-crowns-and-combat-boots]

Paywall removed here

[beggars-opera]

When you're hosting a paranormal investigation at work and there's people there convinced their dowsing rods are being moved

[beggars-opera]

Tired of this death coming in threes bullshit

[cherryhatter-deactivated2015072]

KICK THE CAN!

Let’s play the biggest game of kick the can on the internet.

To kick the can, reblog it. I wanna see how long this can go on for.

[visibun]

the oldest reblogs for this post that i can find are from january 2nd of 2013. this can has been getting kicked around tumblr for almost 13½ years now

[drtanner]

And yet somehow this is my first time kicking it!

[aomitois]

rb and tag your favorite song that's not in english, japanese or korean

[parkchanwoohoo]

Dumbest shit ever just happened to-- it didn't happen to me, I shouldn't be using passive language here. I just did the dumbest shit ever

[parkchanwoohoo]

1. Light candle

2. Realize you forgot to smell the candle beforehand to see if you'll like it

3. Bring lit candle directly to your nose to smell it

4.

[beggars-opera]

[beggars-opera]

I know we've been preoccupied with Trump taking multiple cognitive tests thinking that makes him smart, and the general consensus is that it's dementia progression screening, fine. The funnier option to me is Dr. Oz's insinuation that he may not have to take these tests so often but he insists on it because he just likes to be told that he did good on a test, and no one wants to tell him no

[everyday-cutephoto]

[ailithnight]

This is a worm? Or perhaps some sort of slug?

[marlynnofmany]

And it's gonna getcha

[flutterbvnny]

does anyone know how to stop feeling like a weird kid looking on from the outside at everyone

[wandering-jana]

Hartwell Tavern (18th century)

Minute Man National Historical Park, Massachusetts 2014

[daughter-of-sapph0]

happy pride

[lindleland]

[phenomenaaa]

unbelievable

[avenging-fandoms]

my personal favorite

[beggars-opera]

Indescribable feeling cleaning up after a fantastic lecture about how John Brown did nothing wrong only to have a tourist family walk in and complain that the church across the street shouldn't be flying a BLM flag

[maudit]

[profeminist]

RIP Marjane Satrapi, author of the amazing graphic novels Persepolis about living during the fundamentalist revolution in Iran in the 70’s and 80’s. She also created the animated movie based on the graphic novels, which is where these gifs come from.

Gifset source

[missbliss12]

Reblogging in honor of Marjane Satrapi, one of THE great graphic novelists. Her comic Persepolis was a crucial text for shaping my belief that comics can deeply explore identity, culture, politics, and history.

[shoefaced2]

The next time I see Donald Trump trending on this god forsaken website, it better fucking look like this.

[sherlock-on-a-case]

Manifesting

[fforsythiaaa]

Once when I was in undergrad, someone described something as “problematic” in class and our professor was like, “That’s cool, but ‘problematic’ doesn’t really mean anything. It means that the thing you’re describing has a problem, and in and of itself that’s not bad. Art, especially, should always have problems, or else it’s not interesting and not art, either. It sounds like you’re trying to say that this is bad, but you don’t want to say ‘bad.’ Is that right?”

So from then on whenever one of us called something problematic, he would make us talk it out until we could name the “bad” thing we were hinting at. In this particular class, 7/10 it was some type of oppression, and the remainder was like, “I’m uncomfortable because this is very new/confusing/pushing boundaries that made me feel safe.”

Once we stopped calling things “problematic” and stopping at that, class got way more interesting and... we all had to say, like, “that’s racist” or “that’s misogynistic” or “ew capitalism gross” out loud, which a lot of us had never done in a classroom before. Or we had to be like, “Uhhh... I’m not sure what’s so bad?” and confront our own beliefs and that was maybe even more useful.

Anyway. Whenever I see the word problematic, I can’t help but think of this professor being like, “Good starting point, now let’s get specific.” I think when we have to commit to saying “that’s ___” it requires a lot more careful thought about the truth and impact and complexities of whatever we’re claiming. Sometimes there really is some bullshit afoot, and also sometimes it’s art, and it should be full of problems, because that’s what art is.

[beggars-opera]

I once saw an article put it this way: often "this is problematic" is used to shut down discussion of a thing, by casting a sweeping but vague judgement. But really if used at all it should start a discussion about what the problem is.