Chumbology

the study of chumbo

[evilwizard]

wake up people. big bad wolf breath can’t melt straw beams. the first little pig was an inside job

[omnybus]

Swine/11

[wulhubba]

Asking for a friend but how do I know if I am covered in bug bites because bedbugs or regular flying bugs?

Follow up what do if bedbugs?

[chumbology]

If you do have bedbugs prepare for the fight of your life. They're hard to kill and amazing at hiding.

The internet has good advice on how to beat them, but you need to act RIGHT AWAY

[wulhubba]

Should this friend who definitely isnt me consider just burning his RV to the ground with a propane tank?

[chumbology]

the fact that it's mobile has got to be helpful somehow, I just can't figure out how.

I mean, if you could find a vacuum chamber large enough you could just tow the whole thing in there?

[wulhubba]

Asking for a friend but how do I know if I am covered in bug bites because bedbugs or regular flying bugs?

Follow up what do if bedbugs?

[chumbology]

If you do have bedbugs prepare for the fight of your life. They're hard to kill and amazing at hiding.

The internet has good advice on how to beat them, but you need to act RIGHT AWAY

[chumbology]

Since netflix is poised to basically take over the lions share of the entire TV/movie industry, lets take a look at their app. It's got:

A search function that doesn't search

A video player that often can't remember where you left off watching

A video player that doesn't support custom playlists or randomisation within a series

Picture in picture barely works, and closes randomly

A library where multiple episodes are axed if deemed too "problematic" by totally arbitrary metrics

A "most watched in your area" list that appears to be completely made up, but we'll never know for sure because they don't publish viewership numbers

A terrible recommendation algorithm

A movie division that keeps pumping out really expensive flops that are terrible and terribly marketed and often not even released in theaters (this makes netflix money how? What's the plan here?)

A TV division that cancels the best shows

And THIS is the service that keeps upping its prices? And we all just accept it? I feel like I'm taking crazy pills

[chumbology]

No search engine! Bad search engine!

When I search for a cat gate I do NOT want Amazon, I want catg8 dot com, a place that sells cat gates and only cat gates because it's their life calling or whatever.

Stop showing me--- no, no, that's Amazon again. I know about amazon. If I wanted to shop on Amazon I'd go to their website. No, not Etsy either, that's basically just amazon.

Where's the "show me the freak bitches of the website world" button? that's all I've ever wanted. Oh, you can't do that because companies pay you to pollute your search results? Very bad search engine. Get in your crate. You can come out when you've had a good long think about what you've done.

[babylon-butterfly]

[chumbology]

Use our app! The experience is better in the app! USE IT! We're fucking up the mobile site on purpose so you use the app! Get five bingle stars for free when you download the app!

Its because browsers have adblockers. That's it.

If you aren't using Firefox + ublock to read this, stop reading right now and switch over. The app is not better. They want to sell you things.

[chumbology]

@vargamornight but also anyone else who is inconvenienced by having to log in to Tumblr every time they want to use it. Staying logged in is achieved by storing your login session in the browser cookies, something Firefox blocks by default. Firefox does this because cookies are used for a lot of shady things.

If you're so annoyed by constantly logging in, just allow cookies for tumblr and you will only need to log in one time.

Click the options button -> settings -> site settings -> exceptions then add www.tumblr.com

How to Enable Cookies in Mozilla Firefox: Desktop & Mobile

A user-friendly guide to allowing cookies from any website on Mozilla Firefox Are you trying to allow third-party cookies in Mozilla Firefox

thats a more in depth guide.

It will allow Tumblr to see some cross-site cookies which isn't ideal, but it's still heaps better than the app, which collects every bit of data it can + you lose your adblocker.

[wulhubba]

I love my old man. We drink together, we get high together, sometimes he tells me about doing Crack with neo-nazis to secure a gas pump on their farm.

I will say many things about my father. He has a fever for Filipino milfs like nobody else in the world. He will meet anybody where they are and pull a positive spin from it. He has saved the lives of five people, mine included. He is far, far from a perfect man but he is somebody that I am proud to know and even prouder to call my dad.

Which is good.

Because I do not believe that I have an ounce of his blood in my veins. We share many things but I do not believe for an instant that we share a genetic connection.

And still, here are the matching tattoos that we got on my eighteenth birthday.

[chumbology]

Fascinating, I never knew that. What do you think happened?

Whatever happened, happened twice. You and your sibling are very very clearly siblings

[chumbology]

"waaaah that's not punk, I decided!"

Oh yeah, because if there's one thing thats definitely punk, it's letting other people tell you how to be a punk.

Like my favourite band Cower Before The Machine says in their best song, "thank you, I'll do whatever you tell me"

[earendil-was-a-mariner]

Galadriel: Here, my friends, is a special gift, to nourish you on your travels. 

Frodo: What is it?

Galadriel: These are Fiber One bars, with chocolate chips and granola. 

[chumbology]

those hobbits would be shitting like crazy. I have never had movements with the kind of energy I had when eating fiber one bars. Idk maybe the elves did make those things because it was pure witchcraft

[planetpopstarian]

Please report @/nononsense-antiship-anonymous

This antiship confession blog should not exist because its owner and their anons promote harassing proshippers, and the screenshots speak for themselves.

There header also has flashing lights so flash warning!!

Sending threats, gore, and other horrible things is not consequences. It is simply harassment plain and simple!

[wulhubba]

This is what I mean. The fucking rabbit-hole I dove into trying to figure out what shippers were before I could get into the pro versus anti sides of it. Is Tumblr real? Do people really spend this much mental effort imagining cartoon characters kissing and other people spending the same getting really angry about it? There are active war zones in the real world! Children are being gunned down in Gaza! Why does any of this matter to anybody!

[chumbology]

Anti shippers are some of the dumbest people on the planet. Like most dumb people they're angry and violent and loud.

Tumblr also has terfs, nazis, and judgemental Catholics and mormons. I have no idea why they like it here but they're the Tumblr equivalent of those weirdos passing out religious pamphlets on the street -- you just have to ignore them. Don't make eye contact, block tags and users as necessary. It sucks so bad but you just cannot engage or Tumblr thinks it's your whole identity

[kushblazer666]

oomf linked me to this “experimental brutal death metal” album on bandcamp and it has bar none the stupidest fucking snare sound i have EVER heard. st anger doesnt even compare. it sounds like a hanna barbera sound effect for someone playing with a paddleball toy

[kushblazer666]

realized i never actually posted what it sounds like

[wulhubba]

I have been drumming for 22 years and this had me crying laughing. Every single decision that this band is making is so funny.

[chumbology]

a while back I made a post about someone whos bar for "weird music" was king of carrot flowers.

This will forever be the song I show people to demonstrate why I was mad about that assessment.

It's like calling pepper spicy

[bonesbeetle]

my favorite thing on mouse/rat subreddits are people going "is my pet pregnant??" & then posting the most pregnant rodent you've seen in your life. yeah i think it might be.

your mouse looks like a lightbulb. congrats on the babies

[chumbology]

thats also what a rodent looks like after it's just eaten another rodent

I know because I used to have two gerbils. One day I woke up and there was only one gerbil -- well, one very very fat gerbil, and the tail of the other gerbil.

[chumbology]

i mean I guess technically the other gerbil couldve impregnated the other gerbil and then escaped, leaving its tail to remind the other gerbil of the love they shared. Perhaps the tail was the one thing preventing it from leaving.

Anyways the fat gerbil died days later, and we always assumed it was from cannibalism-related complications. but we never did an autopsy, so who knows?

[fireleaptfromhousetohouse]

[neurodivergentaf]

it's so wild when your parent changes when you become an adult. my dad is very cordial and non confrontational - he regularly helps me with adult stuff like changing the oil or providing insurance tips. he's always smiling when i call him on video and providing jokes when i complain about college

when i was a kid, i would have to tiptoe around his anger issues often, sometimes running quietly past his work table until he got his own place completely separate from our family, locked away for days. every so often he would start screaming in the car and trying to hit me or my brother for talking too loud while my mom attempted to calm him down as he swerved on the road. and now he, smiling, helps me with car insurance.

like oh, this is just who you are when you have power over someone, and this is who you are when you dont have power over someone. no wonder you can have a normal life, friends, work while scaring the shit out of your kids and wife. i see it now. i see why no one would have believed me. that, i think, is one of the core fears of trauma - seeing the outside of it from the perspective of other adults that brushed you aside, and understanding. of course, that understanding gives the opposite of solace; it just gives you more grief with nowhere for it to go

[beemovieerotica]

[chumbology]

thought for sure this must be an old post and was absolutely SHOCKED to see the ad is from 2026.

i mean the laptop only has two Great Britains of ram. The average phone has eight. EIGHT.

And then it only runs for an hour and a half?? That's significantly worse than a battery, and solar panels and backup batteries are a thing. You can also just... buy a gas generator and plug a laptop into it, and it'll run longer than ninety minutes.

Everything about this is weirder and worse than it looks

[bonesbeetle]

my favorite thing on mouse/rat subreddits are people going "is my pet pregnant??" & then posting the most pregnant rodent you've seen in your life. yeah i think it might be.

your mouse looks like a lightbulb. congrats on the babies

[chumbology]

thats also what a rodent looks like after it's just eaten another rodent

I know because I used to have two gerbils. One day I woke up and there was only one gerbil -- well, one very very fat gerbil, and the tail of the other gerbil.