WHO KILLED THE WORLD?

my erotic cabaret is nonstop

[dailycatsblog]

[hangsawoman]

therapist: and what do we say when we feel like this?

me: no live organism can continue to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality

therapist: no

[spin-the-wheel-polls]

Stuck in a historical war

You are stuck as a soldier in this historical war

(this is a magical universe where people who wouldn't usually be able to fight would. so you can all suffer.)

How are you doing?

good somehow

I might survive

OW

dead

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[roycohn]

happy lottery day girlies!

[tiktoksthataregood-ish]

[a-silly-poll-side-blog-yay]

do you have a hobby that's expensive as fuck

yes

no

all of them

absolutely 0!!!!

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[dogpuppy]

[christopher575]

I'm from Everett, WA where that submarine was built and I used to see it at the marina. I really thought the company just intended to take tourists around Puget Sound in it, and was absolutely shocked when I heard what happened to that rinkydink little thing.

Here's the moment I came across it the first time.

[gracklesong]

"People wouldn't do THIS to THAT minority group!" They would and they do. All you're doing is revealing your blind spots, and it's not even a great argument to begin with

[tahthetrickster]

just so we’re clear if you’ve never actually seen a cybertruck in person and have only seen photos of them i cannot stress enough how much worse they look in real life. like i honestly don’t know how it’s possible. most things look basically the same in pictures and in real life. but as stupid and ugly as cybertrucks look in photos, every person i’ve spoken to who has seen one in real life agrees that they somehow look even worse in person. and i know you’re thinking to yourself “tah they already look so bad in photos, how can they possibly look even worse in person?” I DONT KNOW. the first time i saw one on the road i was on a phone call and i literally cut myself off in the middle of a sentence just to be like “oh my GOD.” just an incredibly, laughably, unbelievably bad vehicle. i’ve never experienced anything like it. they’re just so bad

[cumaeansibyl]

Like one thing that pictures somehow don't convey is how stupid fucking big they are. The size is absurd. Even next to big ass conventional trucks they look oversized because they're so blocky. There's one I see parked downtown sometimes and it sticks out so far into the road I feel like it ought to have traffic cones around it.

My brother in law is a mechanic and he didn't know about these things until we explained what it was, and he said "oh shit, that's what that thing was? I saw one last week and I thought someone welded it together in their shop." It really does look like someone put a big sheet steel casing on their car.

[elismor]

I thought about just tagging this 'nuff said, but it's not.

I want to say something to all of the women under 50 on this site. Ready? You do not have to be over 50 to start taking up space.

Can I make that blink? Is that a thing Tumblr can do? Because, seriously. The sooner you believe you are allowed to take up space, the better life will be.

[cumaeansibyl]

You can do it whenever you feel ready to. You can go as slowly as you like, too. Sometimes you see a woman who seems to spring fully-formed from the head of Vivienne Westwood and that's a beautiful thing but it's also maybe too much all at once for some people.

And hey, maybe your exterior stays more or less the same and it's your behavior that changes. You speak your mind more. You ask for what you need -- not as a huge favor, but as something you have a right to. You move on from jobs, relationships, hobbies that don't serve you anymore. You do things that are just for you, no one else. In beige, if you want! Sometimes it's more fun if they don't see you coming.

[effemimaniac]

we are in the midst of a friday ass thursday. keep your wits about you.

[ganondorf]

i think this captures the defining pathology of the collective social media psyche right now. we are in the thrall of people who are wantonly cruel but who also demand to be coddled at all times in every way

[cumaeansibyl]

think a lot of these are the type who tell themselves all human beings are horrible assholes and the only way to get ahead is to be the king asshole. it really upsets them when people aren't inclined to crown them as such. upends their whole worldview.

[lizardsfromspace]

Hollywood execs responding to the success of Backrooms by trying to adapt more stories from Reddit, a website that the Backrooms did not come from, is p. good but my fav example of Hollywood leaping on a trend in the dumbest way possible is still when they responded to the success of Tim Burton's Batman by making a wave of movies based on 1930s pulp heroes. Dudes sitting around a boardroom telling one another that the children crave The Phantom

[chimaerakitten]

A thing I see happen a lot when we get into discussions of natural fibers vs synthetics on this hellsite and elsewhere is a conflation of when the topic is about Fiber Properties and when the topic is about Environmental Impact.

Like more than once I’ve seen posts be like, “you should buy one $200 Real Wool Sweater instead of 4 $50 acrylic ones, trust me it’s worth it.”

And what the post means is, the wool sweater will feel nicer to wear, keep you warmer, and last longer than the 4 $50 ones combined.

(vimes boots theory obligatory mention)

And then someone comes on and replies, “yes this is probably a good idea but we must remember that industrially produced wool yarn has complex chemical treatment in the process, so the wool sweater is still not perfect environmentally speaking.“

And it’s like. That’s not factually wrong. But it has no bearing on what OP was saying because even without it being outright spelled out it’s pretty obvious OP was recommending real wool for properties, not impact. This is also where I’ve seen several different posts about rayon go off the rails, for obvious reasons.

Anyway it’s a good thing to keep in mind when fiber posts go past. Most of the best reasons to wear linen/wool/silk instead of synthetic fibers have more to do with post-production interaction with the world and with your body than with environmental impact during production.

[parakeet]

just found out about this cute little birdy and i am in love

[crowcryptid]

[awheckery]

from the above-linked ebird.org:

Anis are bizarre, coal-black cuckoos with long floppy tails and unique, curiously tall, flattened bills. Groove-billed occurs in a variety of open and semi-open habitats in tropical lowlands and foothills, typically staying low in shrubs and grasses. Gregarious and not particularly graceful; usually seen crashing around awkwardly in small groups.

oh my god

[roach-works]

groove billed anis are a hilarious cuckoo situation where they ended up laying their eggs in one another’s nests instead of anyone else’s. they hang out together in groups of up to five pairs until a nest gets built (sometimes by committee, sometimes they just hang around hopefully until someone does it all on their own) then they start sneaking over and laying an egg in at a time. the females who lay for the first time will sometimes flip prior eggs out of the nest like ‘oh i KNOW this one isn’t mine! away it goes’ but eventually everyone’s laid a couple eggs in there and is stuck with the mutual hostage situation. then they take turns incubating until all the kids hatch and everyone pitches in on feeding them, because no one knows which of the kids are theirs so they all might as well.

they also like to do a team handshake where they clump up and mutually make a low bubbling noise together, to signal group affiliation. go team!

[keeskiwi]

Also their eggs are incredibly beautiful. They’re a very pretty blue color, but covered by a white chalky outer layer that is easily scratched off, so they end up in various stages of in-between.

(Photo © Henrique_Anizio, shared under CC BY-NC).

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[elizabethanism]

On this day in 1953, novelist Shirley Jackson replied to a disappointed reader.