Send it, Your Highness

30 - 🌈🏳️‍⚧️♂️ -  I'm here when I'm here and I like watching the zoomie men. Plus I occasionally care about things. I have multiple drivers I like but be ready for a lot of Seb.

[you-need-not-apply]

I’m pretty sure that Australians don’t have more then maybe 30-50k MAX people on tumblr. Like American had some 30 million users in 2020 (aka basically probably peak over the last 7 2018-2025) while Australia only has 26-28million people depending on who you ask (27 to be safe) so I’m just genuinely curious how many of us there must be on here.

If you Currently live in OR were born / raised in Australia and ID as (born/raised + ID, as I know a lot of born/raised here don’t ID as Aussie) you are Australian in this poll!

Are you Australian?

Yes, I am

No, I am not

Voting ended onMar 21, 2025

Please reblog for bigger sample size

[batshit-auspol]

Roll call

[femalepope]

Let's settle this:

Where are you from?

What would you call this device (in English and in your native language)?

Have you ever had one?

[allphatauri]

say christian

[in-a-mellow-tone]

Fuck it, post lamb stew slow cooker recipe

[in-a-mellow-tone]

[in-a-mellow-tone]

How high was I last night?

How much lamb stew did I want to make??

1,814¾ lbs of Lamb????

[beemovieerotica]

>960 cups beef broth >2 bay leaves

the unfathomable power of bay leaf

[stinkyhat-deactivated20231213]

[isaiahomega]

When I don't reblog 2 Bay leaves lamb stew, do not mourn me, for I am amongst the stars

[laqueus]

i love filtering tags like. no. i do not want to see it. goodbye.

and then it is gone forever except for the fact that I am now presented with the most enticing button in the world

[pangur-and-grim]

one thing that took me embarrassingly long to learn is "sometimes when people say things, they will not be true."

I used to tell people about this revelation and they'd be like yeah.....duh.....but like, why wouldn't my base assumption be that you're communicating to me in a straightforward manner. anyway, I get scammed a lot.

[pangur-and-grim]

wait why did someone tag this autism. is this an autism thing

[pangur-and-grim]

THAT'S WHAT "TAKING THINGS LITERALLY" MEANS??????

I thought it meant 'taking things literally', as in metaphors and figures of speech. which means.....that I took it too literally.

[vro0m]

Anyway fuck Ben Sulayem all my homies hate Ben Sulayem

[escuerzoresucitado]

[vamos-chilli]

and fuck danica patrick

[laqueus]

i love filtering tags like. no. i do not want to see it. goodbye.

and then it is gone forever except for the fact that I am now presented with the most enticing button in the world

[raapija]

European Citizens' Initiative

Give your support !

For my European friends, please sign this to secure our abortion rights.

[fernandoalonzoo]

I don’t qualify, but if any of my EU mutuals see this, please consider signing 🙏

[largishcat]

starting to suspect that tech bros actually just don’t know what reading is

[menaceanon]

I know I just reblogged this but I think the really important takeaway here is that this techbro is not genuinely asking “how can we improve fanfiction?” What he’s asking is “how can we tap into this massive market?”

I keep thinking about how many of these chat bots are free—for now. And of course they are! It’s a classic marketing technique when you’re trying to get your foot in the door with a novel product: let folks use it, let them get used to it, then start charging for it. You don’t have to look any further than streaming to see a very recent example of how this happens.

And it’s going to happen with AI.

There’s nothing these assholes love more than making money off of other people’s hard work. But you can’t legally charge for fanfic! So how do you get around that? You charge for a chat bot (which you trained on other people’s fanfic). You can’t charge for the content, but you can charge for the thing that produces the content.

AI is theft, and there are a whooooole lot of people gleefully looking to make a buck off of our hard work.

Don’t use AI, don’t feed AI your favorite fic writers’ and artists’ work, don’t read AI fic, don’t engage with it. And if you do, well, I can’t force you to give a shit about other people, but AI is a paywall being built, brick by brick, between you and the things you love. Stop slathering on the mortar.

[jonjos-library]

👆👆👆

[uneryx]

This is it, right here

but AI is a paywall being built, brick by brick, between you and the things you love. Stop slathering on the mortar.

[your-gay-grandma]

i need everyone to know that community is what will save us all in every single way imaginable. you forming a bond with your neighbour or coworker might help them move house or feel less alone or have the courage to leave an unhealthy living environment. you helping a stranger might provide them with hope. in turn, being able to lean on your community in times of need will save you. your broader bonds with your community are the revolution we need. our society seeks to divide and separate us in so many ways but we are all so much more united in our struggles and joys than you are made to believe. we need to hold onto each other very tightly.

[unforth]

Everything feels awful right now but it isn't really. We still don't officially have a winner, but regardless of how the presidential election ends up, I wanted to take a minute and find what lights I can in the 3 a.m. darkness. Here's what I know:

* Kentucky overwhelmingly rejected an attempt to undermine the public education system by offering private school vouchers:

Kentucky rejects Amendment 2 to allow private education funding, passes Amendment 1

Amendment 2 to allow public funds to go to private and charter school education was rejected universally in Kentucky counties when the Assoc

* Delaware has elected a transgender woman to the House of Representatives, the first out trans person of any gender ever elected to congress:

Sarah McBride becomes first out trans person elected to US House

McBride wins Delaware’s at-large House seat against Republican candidate John Whalen III, a former state police officer

* For the first time in history, two Black women will be serving in the senate at the same time, and they are only the fourth and fifth Black women ever elected to the senate:

US will have two Black women serving as senators for first time in history

Democrats Lisa Blunt Rochester from Delaware and Angela Alsobrooks of Maryland both saw victories

* New York State has passed a constitutional amendment enshrining the rights of pregnant people (including the right to an abortion), LGBTQIA+ people, the disabled, immigrants regardless of legal status, and other at-risk groups:

New York voters pass Prop 1, enshrine abortion rights into state constitution

The constitutional amendment faced a tougher-than-expected fight after a right-wing campaign against anti-discrimination protections.

* Democrat Josh Stein has beaten self-avowed Nazi Mark Robinson to become governor of North Carolina:

North Carolina’s Josh Stein wins race for governor over Mark Robinson

 Stein is the current attorney general and he noted his work winning opioid settlements. But it was controversy over Robinson’s inflammatory

That's everything I know off the top of my head. It's not many bright spots, but it's not zero. I'm going to try to find more and I'll add them to the post. It's the only thing I can think of to do that isn't sobbing and throwing up or looking up Canadian immigration rules.

If you know more good news, I encourage you to add it in reblogs.

[unforth]

* Nevada has amended their constitution to guarantee abortion rights, overturning a state ban:

Nevada Question 6 Election Results 2024: Right to Abortion

Get live results and maps from the 2024 Nevada general election.

* Colorado has passed amendment 79, guaranteeing the right to an abortion, with more than a 20 point spread between the Yes and No vote:

Colorado voters approve constitutional amendment on abortion access

This means that now, the right to an abortion is codified into the state constitution and a future state legislature cannot restrict it.

* Maryland Question 1, also focused on reproductive rights and abortion, has passed as well: https://www.cnn.com/election/2024/results/maryland/issue-1

Maryland Question 1 results 2024 | CNN Politics

Question 1 on the Maryland ballot offers voters the choice to enshrine reproductive rights in the state’s constitution. View the 2024 ballot

* Likewise, Amendment 3 has passed in Missouri, overturning a near-total ban to add reproductive rights to the state constitution:

Missourians vote to pass Amendment 3, enshrining abortion rights into the state constitution

Missourians voted to enshrine reproductive health rights into the state’s constitution Tuesday by voting yes on Amendment 3.

* Arizona Proposition 139 to protect abortion rights also passed:

Arizona Proposition 139 Election Results 2024: Right to Abortion

Get live results and maps from the 2024 Arizona general election.

Every glimmer helps.

Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

[unforth]

* New Jersey has elected the first Korean-American senator in history:

Democrat Andy Kim wins open New Jersey Senate seat, defeating Republican Curtis Bashaw

Democratic U.S. Rep. Andy Kim was elected Tuesday to the U.S. Senate, defeating Republican businessman Curtis Bashaw for the seat that opene

[sonny-shine]

God I wish elections in the fucking US wouldn’t affect literally every other country in the world

[baba-fett]

for me internet friendships are “we don’t talk all the time but I see you’re online and it makes me happy” and I really hope it’s like that for everyone

[theamiableanachronism]

(via @freenarnian )

[hiveswap]

I hope none of you disappear in the coming days. Seriously don't do anything that can't be undone.

[hiveswap]

I know i'm just a random person you follow online but I mean it. People (all kinds of marginalised people too!) Have survived all types of horrible times and managed to find happiness eventually. If for no one else, survive for them. And also, try to survive because the people making you despair don't want you to live. Don't give this to them. Don't give your life. The best thing you can do is cling to it with everything you've got.