Just a Dude

28M, He/Him, Cis/Het, Confirmed ADHD, suspected Autism. If I'm posting I'm prolly stoned. If you're blocked I probably noticed a pattern of posts that were bad for my mental health to consume

[victusinveritas]

No, no, no, no. Just no.

[calebisprobablystoned]

It's O.K. I'm already writing a stat block for it.

[calebisprobablystoned]

Genuinely would love it if a benevolent AI singularity happened but not optimistic about it because all the people trying to make AI aren't benevolent in the slightest

[demilypyro]

why does Dutch have so many disease-based swear words? I just saw a post about how the Kanker Sisters's name had to be changed in the Dutch dub of Ed, Edd, 'n Eddy and this is baffling me. When Dutch people get really drunk, you don't "get shitfaced" you "contract leprosy"? Instead of "motherfucker", you say "smallpox sufferer"? In the Netherlands, tasty food and/or sexy humans are "cancerlicious"? What is going on in your country???

i dunno. why does english have so many swears about sex? one of the worst ones is about having sex with a mother for some reason? same diff. i don't see why one is more weird than another.

[demilypyro]

yall really be seeing stuff that's a bit different in a culture that's different and assume it's weird and bad just because it's different huh

[calebisprobablystoned]

Dutch: Sex positive, disease negative

English: Sex negative, disease negative?

I think Dutch wins this one lmao

[murdercat3]

There's something that I wish I got to see more in writing. Maybe I'm looking in the wrong places? I notice that it's often either, "sci-fi and aliens are real but magic and the supernatural? haha, that's not real dummy" or "magic and the supernatural are real, but aliens? haha they're not real dummy" I want to see a story where there's both, but both sides have zero idea the other exists.

My favorite example of how this has so much potential for hilarity is this: An alien disguises xemself as a human and goes to Earth to learn about human culture.

A faerie is disguised as a human and hiding from their responsibilities in the faerie realm.

And then there's a random human, let's call him Steve. Imagine the chaos of an alien, a supernatural creature, and a clueless human all ending up roommates to share the rent. No one knows Steve is the only human. Steve just assumes his roommates are Weird and doesn't question why one of them called children "larva" and keeps eating raw meat, and the other hates touching iron and sometimes looks like they're glowing. The alien (or a robot or whatever sci-fi thing) and faerie (or whatever supernatural creature you want) are both like Yes We Are Normal Humans We're Doing So Good At Pretending Alternately, there is no human in the equation, and it's a sitcom of, like, an alien, a robot, a faerie, and a demon are all living in the same apartment desperately pretending they're human and thinking they're the only one that isn't human. I've seen this ^ before, but I want more crosses between sci fi and fantasy where there's magic and aliens, and they're both like "psh that doesn't exist"

[calebisprobablystoned]

did tumblr butcher your post? there were no reblogs and I could've sworn there were reblogs last time this came across my dash

[thereisselfpreservation]

I'm seeing warnings about scammers trying to commission artists but the "reference sheet" for their character they want commissioned isn't an image but a .vbs file ("visual basic script"), and will run a script when you open it, probably to yoink your account(s), but I haven't seen this from anyone who's actually clicked it yet. Just be careful and never open a file like that, 'cause people suck.

[thereisselfpreservation]

For reference (heh)

At a glance, file name checks out. But!! Do not open a .vbs file!!!

[zonky420]

honestly dont open any file format you dont recognise. even if its something normal to anyone else.

this was pretty common practice on the internet when i was growing up but its slowly being eroded and that kinda scares me for future generations.

dont know what a .wav file is? dont click it. dont know what a .webp file is? dont click it. dont know what a .mkv file is? dont click it.

yea people will be like "lol lmao what do you mean you dont know what those files are" and it might make you feel stupid, but the point is that you didnt recognise them and you prioritised safty over looking stupid.

[calebisprobablystoned]

Completely a tangent but .webm pisses me off. It can only be played in a browser. Just use a .gif, or a .mp4 instead, so if I save it I don't need to convert it to display on something other than my web browser.

[i-merani]

[tarttygoodness]

Iconic lines for the history books.

[im-a-greywlf]

Spending BILLIONS to try and repeat successes of the past is not how we move forward.

[calebisprobablystoned]

If we'd kept on it after the 70's we wouldn't need to retread old ground. The dissolution of the soviet union and the subsequent loss of political pressure for space travel fucked that up for us a bit

[spaghetti-twerk]

[calebisprobablystoned]

This 4channer needs to be forced to watch a bad high-school theatre production of "Cats" on rerun for several days straight to pay for their crimes if they manifested this abomination into existence

[calebisprobablystoned]

Drank mountain dew out of a (clean) pickle jar in public today. Maintained eye contact with a stranger on the other side of the street the whole time. I've never felt such power before.

[tumblr]

Reblogs in a chain now get their own notes

The reblog chain is one of the things that makes Tumblr unlike anywhere else. All the notes on reblogs are attributed to the original post, no matter which branch people actually liked or reblogged. We want to keep encouraging conversations, and give contributors the recognition they deserve. 

Soon, you'll be able to like, reblog, or reply to any part of a reblog chain, and that note will go to that reblog's author. Each reblog will have its own counts, instead of one aggregated number from every version of the post. And yes, you’ll be able to like multiple posts in one chain.

If a reblog doesn't add anything, the love flows up to the last person in the chain who did. Your post doesn't lose notes just because people spread it quietly.

Past notes will stay on the original post — we're only changing what happens from here on out. Retroactively re-attributing all of them would be... a lot.

This is just the beginning. More changes are coming as we keep building this out – stay tuned!

[tumblr]

Let's talk about reblog notes.

We rolled out a significant change to how notes work on reblogs, and the reaction has been strong. We're not going to pretend otherwise. 

First things first: We're reversing the change. Your feedback in comments, emails, and especially reblogs, made clear that the rollout created problems we need to address before moving forward. We also should have communicated this differently from the start, and we didn't.

We still believe there's a better version of how reblogs can work. One that gives every voice in a chain the credit it deserves. But we want to get there with you.

In the coming days we'll share more on how we plan to do that,  including ways to work directly with some of you on this and future changes before they ship.

Keep an eye on @staff for updates to come soon. 

[calebisprobablystoned]

"We still believe there's a better version of how reblogs can work."

*Insert Extremely loud "incorrect" buzzer noise here*

[soviet-union-deactivated19911226]

“you’d fumble some girl asking for your star sign by going Um akshually it’s pseudoscience ☝️🤓” she’d fumble me by believing in astrology ngl

[southhpaw]

Let's cut the bullshit and get real: most of the people bitching about astrology and babbling about how it's pseudoscience or whatever are hiding their true motivation. It's primarily men who read some dumbass fearmongering reddit story about how a girl rejected someone for their star sign and they all fell for it hook line and sinker and now they're in hysterics over imaginary scenarios of being rejected by some girl over a sign even though, guaranteed, it never happens.

Sincerely, someone who isn't even into zodiacs but can't understand the irrational hatred of it.

[calebisprobablystoned]

I don't think that's accurate, actually. I feel the exact same when people deny vaccines/claim they cause autism, say the earth is flat, or claim we never went to the moon. It's more likely to be an intolerance for nonsense in general. I link people who unironically believe these things to the general decline of society as a whole, and hold disdain for them for that reason.

[balaclava-trismegistus]

its really unbelievable how bad my fucking day has been dog

[calebisprobablystoned]

please, regale us with your daily sorrows, friend. It's not because I like stories or anything

[depsidase]

[the-ladyrae]

I live in Ohio and our lawmakers gave tech developers tax breaks to bring data centers here and now that there are over 200 of them in the state, my most recent electricity bill that used to be $300~ is $700~ despite the fact we've used significantly less electricity year over year.

[calebisprobablystoned]

There needs to bee new legislation that makes corporate interests 100% responsible for utility cost spikes caused by their activities. Passing the buck to normal people like this is untenable.

[sometiktoksarevalid]

[bogleech]

Everyone "correcting" him in the comments.

You guys know "bee" and "wasp" are the same word in most languages, right? And that there was never much of a reason to name them so differently in English to begin with?

Bees, and their sister group ants, are nested within one of the many equally distant groups we decided to call "wasps"

[calebisprobablystoned]

"Why do we call them toads, just call them frogs they're in the same family of creatures"

[itsapmseymour]

Dear PM Seymour, I usually do not do this kind of thing so apologies if its out of line, but I have no idea how else to solve this minor issue. A few years ago (around two if I remember correctly) I found a podcast/audio drama through one of your videos. (I am pretty sure it was because you played the villain in it? or just a sort of unlikable character? unsure about that part) It was about superheros and the mc was this really bubbly and energetic girl (woman? unsure of their age) I can not, for the life of me, remember what it was called or what it even was about exactly. I want to relisten/finish it because I know that I never finished it and I regret that now. I am sending you this ask, because I do not know how else to find it and I was hoping that you would remember it? Again, apologies if this crosses your boundaries in any way (or I litterally made up this thing on accident and confused you greatly...) (I am pretty sure it was a podcast/audio drama but it could be also maybe animated? but I think that is less likely) Thank you in advance

Megaton Girl :)

[calebisprobablystoned]

You're good to your community, keep being you and you'll go far

[johnny-depp-is-loved]

I’m barely on TikTok but. Yikes. Be careful y’all

[calebisprobablystoned]

Unfortunately I can't cancel my tiktok in protest as I never had a tiktok in the first place

[leebrontide]

Ok the US Attorney General says that she will remove ICE if MN drops all our sanctuary laws, complies with ICE, hands over all our SNAP, Medicaid and voter rolls. They demand control over our voter registration so they can "ensure free and fair elections".

They want to control our elections.

I am dead serious people call your representatives. Get volunteering. Get protesting. Get LOUD.

They released a letter full of straight up lies. Spread the truth. MAKE NOISE.

Source

[rederiswrites]

How interesting. How very interesting. They rejected my Blaze of this post.

Well, y'all. Make of this what you will, eh?

[a-krogan-skald-and-bearsark]

Then I guess we'll just have to Blaze it the old fashioned way, eh?

[megpie71]

Boosting signal. AGAIN.

[redstonedust]

reformed villain who hasnt quite figured out how to make completely ethical inventions so they keep coming to the good guys like "good news everyone! i've figured out how to solve climate change. all i need is a few blood sacrifices and the tears of 2-300 children." and everyones like okay man we're glad that youre trying but maybe back to the drawing board on that one

[calebisprobablystoned]

"I'm just saying, just give me a few death row inmates, I'll use a truth serum to make sure they were actually guilty, and let me introduce a bunch of kids to a few clowns with no warning, collect the tears that way. I'm not a monster, c'mon."