Big Fat Phallusy

[roscolux]

you will see something that the us military has done and it will be the most horrifying thing in the world. something that should be the catalyst for a complete upheaval of the system, for riots in the streets, for national mourning periods and rewritten textbooks and decades of reparations. and the whole time it's just a normal day for them. they did something like it yesterday and they'll do it again tomorrow. the lucky ones even get to come home and spend the rest of their lives getting discounts at the movies and applause at baseball games. and if you try to express any this to the average person irl they will act like you shot their dog in front of them

[vmlinuz-edge]

i think political awareness is a kind of madness, you know? not to look at bananas in your grocery store in the mountains in landlocked america and know why exactly they're so cheap. that's sanity. not to see the shadow people stand stock-still out of the corner of your eye, that's an irritant, not madness. but to talk to someone you know, and for them to talk about hallmark movies. and then they mention how wholesome they are. that's when the madness takes you. it seeps into your neurons, saturates your grey matter. the madness takes you, and you have to look them in the eye, and smile, and nod. you have to nod your head about how hallmark movies are so wholesome, as if you can't draw a straight, clear line between the political underpinnings of the average hallmark movie right to the political beliefs of fucking adolf hitler himself. and then the conversation passes, and you can hide in a world of your own creation, once again, and the madness passes. and you take the moment to complain with some friends about how much hallmark movies suck.

[kaijuno]

Wait this is funny

[red-faced-wolf-deactivated20251]

This humor is so fucking advanced yet so fucking simple at the same time

[crunchygranoladyke]

i know i've said this before but i'm going to say it again because the more i work with geriatric women the stronger i feel about the fact that the only anti-aging that women in their 20s/30s should be obsessed with is building strong bones and muscle mass. that's like the most important thing you can you can do right now to lay a good foundation for healthy aging. you can botox the shit out of your face but that's not going to do anything to save you from dying prematurely from a fatal hip fracture that you can't bounce back from because you didn't do anything to prevent yourself from becoming frail and breakable. like i know that sounds harsh but that is reality for a lot of older women and i don't want that to be you.

[oscarjamesleigh]

Tumblr is a fate driven website. You can't find posts through the search function, you see them when you're meant to.

[soberscientistlife]

[klapollo]

the way sesame street, a pbs puppet show for literal babies, is pressing on with pride content despite vitriolic monsters descending on every post to insinuate they're pedophiles or demons while some of the biggest companies on the planet who could swim in olympic swimming pools of money like scrooge mcduck on steroids buckle and cave just emphasizes how completely and utterly pathetic these corporations are. they'd butcher a baby if it meant saving a penny.

[klapollo]

where Starbucks and Target and Budweiser will be bullied into submission with the slightest push, puppets and people in your neighborhood stand tall

[adobe-outdesign]

Sesame Workshop has been doing pride stuff since 2017. The Muppet Wiki has a nice list of stuff they've done:

LGBT culture

LGBT culture describes the social paradigm by which lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) individuals sometimes identify. C

[aquilathefighter]

Jim Henson supported his openly queer colleagues in the 1970s! The Muppet performer Richard Hunt was majorly influential on Sesame Street, the Muppet Show, and Fraggle Rock.

They also dumped Chick-fil-A in 2012 when CFA made their stance on gay marriage known.

It would be a dishonor to their memories for the Jim Henson Company to kowtow to queerphobic demands when their namesake always stood for diversity and acceptance of everyone, and it makes me proud to be a Muppet fan to see that insisted upon 💖🌈

[thedailysimpson]

[elbiotipo]

When South Africa dismantled apartheid, it did not end with the expulsion of all white South Africans. They became part of the new South Africa, just without the criminal discriminatory oligarchic powers the apartheid goverment had. When Bolivia recognized its indigenous heritage and became a plurinational state, it did not mean that people of European descent were expelled in masse. It meant the recognition of the previously discriminated indigenous and mestizo people of Bolivia and the beginning of a path of integration and revalidation.

What I mean is that it's ridiculous to think that decolonization inherently means mass suffering and relocation, that's what colonization does. Decolonization is recognizing the crimes of colonization, but more importantly, material, political and social steps to give power and self-determination to the exploited native people who were victims of colonialism and imperialism.

In multicultural societies, you don't go like in that Peter Griffin meme with a skin tone chart and saying 'well, you go back to Europe, you go back to Africa, you stay here'. You build a new society on the paradigm of dignity for exploited people and equality under the law. People are acting like this is some sort of fantastic utopia instead of real initiatives that were done in living memory, with successes and failures, as all such initiatives have. One must ask why are some so insistent that multicultural societies can't thrive, especially when for most of history, societies were indeed like that. Consider why you think like that.

[blackpyrefly]

sharks every time theres a cataclysmic extinction event: damn thats crazy. anyway

[in-love-with-my-bed]

Good thing I’m so smooth

[transmechanicus]

[halorvic]

[ms-demeanor]

By the way, the way that No Child Left Behind impacts the trade worker shortage in the US is because in about 2002 shop classes, home ec classes, auto classes, etc, had their funding diverted into teaching kids how to pass standardized tests so that the schools could continue to pay teachers and keep the library open.

It’s hard to figure out that you might be interested in plumbing as a career when you’ve spent twelve years learning how to pass multiple choice tests and having ceramics and band as the only available electives.

This is one place where I actually WILL do the generational thing and say that Millennials and Gen Z got completely fucked in a way that older generations didn’t.

It’s actually really fucking hard to repair a cabinet when you’ve never had a shop class. It’s really goddamned difficult to learn everything about car maintenance on your own through youtube videos instead of in a semester of auto shop. It’s really goddamned difficult to figure out you want to be a plumber or an electrician or a welder when you are eighteen years old, have been taught to pass tests and cajoled into applying for college, and you’ve never handled an air compressor or used a socket wrench.

[msaprildaniels]

Blue collar America was betrayed by Republican educational ideology, an ideology designed to strip already-challenged schools of resources.

[evilkitten3]

you aren’t a real american if you haven’t spent a non-inconsequential chunk of your life imagining yourself beating george bush to death with a stick

[ommanyte]

yo what are you always so stressed about?

me:

[somewhere-otherthan-here]

I will never not reblog this

[starlightomatic]

do fish ever get to repent? or are they doomed to swim around forever bearing the sins we have tossed to them to consume over the many years?

[starlightomatic]

[noir-renard]

[starlightomatic]

[maaarine]

Beyond the Visible - Hilma af Klint (Jenseits des Sichtbaren - Hilma af Klint, Halina Dyrschka, 2019)

[animentality]

[dearearlyarchaeologists]

@jstor 🥹

[bigfatphallusy]

JSTOR’s tumblr account is iconic and has been around since the dawn of  tumblr time

[goobra]

my unpopular opinion is that i hate tiktok because now people just publicly watch loud ass videos in public spaces with no regard for anyone else. 100% it was not this bad with youtube, it’s such a different thing with tiktok. put on headphones. you are grown.

[fairypage01-deactivated20221018]

Girl……

[byjoveimbeinghumble]

This is it! This is what social media/smart tech have done! They’ve rotted away any distinction between private and public.

Yes, we do have the right to make demands on public behavior. Of course we do. Have you never heard of laws and etiquette? I’m not allowed to grocery shop naked. You can’t rummage through my purse. I can’t have a work meeting in the middle of a movie theatre.

I remember when it was taboo simply to answer your cell phone in public. The person answering would apologize and try to go to a more private area. Then public calls were normalized. Then putting people on speaker. Then listening to music without headphones. Do you know how many times I have hiked up a mountain or driven to the beach, only to be met with someone blaring shitty top 40 music from their portable speaker, because Heaven forbid you go one hour without noise?

Old woman yells at cloud and all that, but I can’t believe someone is not only admitting this behavior, but saying it’s a good thing! No one likes you! You’re a menace!

[elidyce]

BEING INCONSIDERATE OF OTHERS IS STILL BAD.

It was obnoxious when it was youtube.

It was obnoxious when it was music.

It was obnoxious when it was the radio. 

It was obnoxious when it was dudes wanting to talk to you instead of letting you just read your freaking book.

Do you want to be this guy? Because being obnoxious in shared spaces is how you become this guy. 

Wear your damn headphones like an adult participant in the social contract.

[10thingsihateabout-all-yall]

Best art history lesson ever, thank you

[bigfatphallusy]

It’s actually true. The baseline volume on tiktok is louder than any other app, and of course that is on purpose. It’s just one more contributor to our general public noise pollution problem.

The dissenter in this post obviously never had to ride public transportation on a regular basis. Yes, headphones are not just a social contract requirement, they are an ACTUAL requirement on most public transport. Imagine being at a restaurant and putting on headphones because the person at the table next to you was watching tiktoks and now you can’t talk to your family LMAO.