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This game, about listing as many animals as you can, is shockingly well-considered and polished for such an apparent shitpost of a game idea

hot new brain workout

bitingwhit

How do I make the background stop changing color between black and grey? It's so inaccessible like that!

seeingteacupsindragons

Hey. Hey, there.

Traumatizing yourselves is a hideously bad idea.

Trauma inhibits logic and empathy. It causes lack of trust. It causes emotional numbness. It’s legitimately damaging to your brain.

We need to be able to trust in something (not the government right now, but each other, at least? Our friends?). We need to have hope. We need to be able to care and think.

Intentional trauma is not how we’re getting out of this.

Trauma is, in some ways, how we got into this: people lashing out in fear and anger without logic because they're scared and hurt.

The people who are telling you that you must bear witness to violence and traumatize yourself are not thinking of useful actions. They do not have any explanation for how this will actually help, what it will actually accomplish.

They are telling you to whip yourself like a penitent medieval Catholic.

That you deserve pain because other people are in pain and you, currently, are not, instead of working to make fewer people in pain. Because more people being hurt helps somehow? It doesn't.

leebrontide

Y'all PLEASE do not burn yourselves out and drown in the swamp of despair. You are no use to us in that condition. I assure you, Minnesotans are lifting each other up and finding comfort and hope and community ANYwhere we can. It's fine for you to do the same.

You can yell at your reps, send an angry email to Hilton, and then go have some nice soup. Honestly we are all leaning into nice soup right now. It's fine. You do not need to watch murder videos unless you do not trust us about what's in them for some reason.

Your trauma has no tactical value, but your support does.

humanerrers

stop spreading despair and nihilism

stop buying into the idea that nonviolent activism is useless, rather than (by far) the most effective form of protest

stop falsely claiming that BLM accomplished nothing and that most citizens “don’t care” when people are murdered by the state

start understanding that most of your neighbors care about your rights, and their own

start noticing that most people are moved by injustice, including against people who look nothing like them

nattousan

*doom music starts to play* I actually kindof like scheduling these kinds of appointments now...

but seriously Fellas, don't forget to schedule a pap smear every couple of years just in case. If you still have a cervix you can still get cervical cancer. ilu

this has been a psa

nattousan

i've had this as an idea since 2017 btw

nattousan

damn, tumblr says my art is ass and trans people is eye strain so no blaze for me :\

it'd be a shame if this...

blazed the old fashion way...

aworldofpattern

Galaxy Bride at Robert Wun Couture FW24

wormsical

it would be one thing if it was just the horrors but it's all the little horrorcitos también

madlori

I see posts going "Okay, I'll vote for Kamala, I GUESS IF I HAVE TO" and "omg if that's the best we can do I suppose I'll support it" and I'm like...

What do you people fucking WANT?

Let's run down how she's rated politically by some organizations that we vibe with, kay?

ACLU = 93% on civil liberties

AFL-CIO = 100% on trade unions

Human Rights Campaign = 100% on queer rights

League of Conservation Voters = 91% on environmentalism

NARAL = 100% on reproductive rights

NRA Fund = 7% on gun rights (we LIKE a low score on this one)

NEA = 100% on education

Planned Parenthoos = 100% on reproductive rights

In addition, GovTrack (which is a nonpartisan tracker) places her in the MOST politically left-leaning categories of Senators. So we've got a very liberal, woman of color who's spent her career trying to mitigate draconian tough-on-crime laws to benefit the accused and keep black people out of prison and decrease recidivism and that's somehow...just barely tolerable.

So I ask again...what is that you're dissatisfied with? Is it Palestine? as recently as March she was calling for a ceasefire and demanding aid to Gaza. Keep in mind she's pretty constrained as to what's possible to do in this situation.

Is it just that she was a prosecutor? That is an important job that needs to be done and we WANT people doing it who aren't rah-rah tough-on-crime Gestapo types, which she is not. We need prosecutors who are addressing the root causes of crime and looking for ways to help people escape the cycle, which she has done to the point that she was often called SOFT on crime.

So what is your objection here? Is it that her politics aren't 100% aligned with a bunch of Tumblr socialists? I got news for you...we Tumblr socialists DO NOT REPRESENT THE ELECTORATE. If such a candidate existed, they would not win.

Democrats struggle sometimes because our tent is large. Republicans just want you if you're a straight white man and preferably rich. There's room for a lot more types in the lefty side, but sadly that means a lot of room also for dissention among the ranks. This is how they get us. Let's not let them, huh? Just a suggestion.

thecadhatter

Genuinely, who are you saving your vote for? A deity? A god? She's more than good enough

almostmfa

Somewhere along the way, the idea of “complicity” became toxic. Ordinary people are complicit with wrongdoing if they so much as don’t post about something. We have agency, but only so much. It lets actual bad actors off the hook.

winged-mammal

this post I just came across on bsky seems relevant

tenya

fucked up how colors look different depending on what screen you’re looking at them on. that should be illegal I think

broskepol-deactivated20221009

this fucking shit, you know

bogleech

I spend so much time carefully picking and adjusting the colors in every single drawing I make that I’d probably lose my mind if I didn’t just repeatedly push this out of my memory and pretend it’s not a thing. Why am I reblogging a blank empty post that doesn’t say anything??? Weird

gaysheep

good news! you can’t make sure that everyone will see the correct colors on their own device, but you can make sure your monitor is as accurate as possible for printing and sharing by calibrating it!

there are a bunch of free monitor tests, but here’s an easy one you can use. the passmark and eizo tests are also pretty good, though passmark doesn’t work in your browser. be warned that some tests may cause eye strain.

you can either use the settings built into your monitor itself or use the display color calibration settings in your operating system to adjust the settings until everything looks correct, and then enjoy your accurate colors.

zeldadiarist

REBLOG TO SAVE A LIFE

camerapits

Photographers, too. Color calibrate your monitors if you intend to print or sell your work. There’s a ton of info out there for this.

#art

gendercensus

The 2024 Gender Census is now open!

[ Link to survey ]

The 11th annual international gender census, collecting information about the language we use to refer to ourselves and each other, is now open until 13th June 2024.

It’s short and easy, about 5 minutes probably.

After the survey is closed I’ll process the results and publish a spreadsheet of the data and a report summarising the main findings. Then anyone can use them for academic or business purposes, self-advocacy, tracking the popularity of language over time, and just feeling like we’re part of a huge and diverse community.

If you think you might have friends and followers who’d be interested, please do reblog this blog post, and share the survey URL by email or at AFK social groups or on other social networks. Every share is extremely helpful - it’s what helped us get 40,000 responses last year.

Survey URL: https://survey.gendercensus.com

The survey is open to anyone anywhere who speaks English and feels that the gender binary doesn’t fully describe their experience of themselves and their gender(s) or lack thereof.

For the curious, you can also spy on some graphs and demographic data for the incoming responses here.

Thank you so much!

[ Link to survey ]

Image credit: Malachite and rhodochrosite.