The Reblog Corner

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[double-acers]

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[twofingerswhiskey]

"oh food now has so much added to it, past food was so pure and untainted" victorians used to cut bread with chalk and aluminum powder. romans put lead in the wine, which was made from dirty feet mushing unwashed grapes covered in horse shit and road dust. i think our species will survive a few additives in food. our food systems have never been cleaner and safer. it has room for improvement, but we're not putting fucking plaster of paris in the milk

[theo-the-cat-guy]

Notice how all those examples are from europe. A lot to consider here

[twofingerswhiskey]

ancient rome wasn't entirely in europe!

also i can guarantee that people in the rest of the world were also doing stupid shit to food.

the whole mercury drink thing in ancient china (and they KNEW it was toxic they just didn't know why).

ancient egyptians and mesoamericans using arsenic to colour food offerings.

people did not wash their vegetables. plates and utensils could be made with lead or other heavy metals. they would have flies touching their vended and stored food. handwashing and kitchen safety was completely a crapshoot (though vendors would be upset if they made customers ill). it was just a fact of life. refrigeration was not a thing and, while we did preserve foods, some of these techniques were horrible for our health (salt preservation) or otherwise not safe (botulism!)

some cultures had better food hygiene than others (the islamic world was very good at it), but nowhere was perfect, and nowhere was/is immune to adulterated or otherwise toxic food.

[lynx-tales]

Episode 364: The Poison Squad (5.8.2026)

In 1902, twelve young men volunteered for a government experiment. They agreed to eat food laced with chemicals like formaldehyde, borax, an

This shit was very much happening in the US into the 20th century. It’s not an ancient problem.

[anaclastic-azurite]

One aspect of Codywan I find so interesting is that, at least in the beginning, Cody and Obi-Wan are likely fighting the war from objectively two different perspectives. Their interests do align, but their end goal is not always the same. Cody’s goal is to win the war, and Obi-Wan is a Jedi, even though the Jedi are commanded by the senate, their main goal is still to help people. I think this would likely present several interesting conflicts, especially early in the war. There’s probably several instances where the different perspectives would clash. Like, Cody can do the math and make a decision that destroying a space port is their most effective way to complete their objective, but Obi-Wan knows that the people of the planet here just watched a Jedi cruiser appear in their atmosphere and he knows that whatever they do next will reflect on these people’s opinion of the Jedi forever. Cody most likely has to teach Obi-Wan that he himself is a resource. If Obi-Wan expends all his energy to help everyone in a small skirmish, then he ends up risking losing even more people during a larger more dangerous part of the battle. Ultimately, they both would have to learn and teach each other a different form of sacrifice. Obi-Wan has to learn how to sacrifice others in order to complete their objectives, and Cody has to learn that sometimes the objective is the sacrifice, in order to save innocent people caught up in the war. I thinks it’s just interesting the ways Codywan probably fundamentally change each other throughout the war

[dailymanners]

Do not ever be rude or condescending to someone who asks "obvious" questions, no matter how obvious or silly you think the question is.

For one, in some cultures asking an obvious question is just a polite way of acknowledging the situation. So for example, if you just put your jacket on and start clocking out, a co-worker asking "oh, you done for the day and heading out now?" doesn't deserve you sneering at them like an idiot, scoffing, and saying "uh duh, just like I do every day at this time" when it's likely they knew the answer, but were just asking as a polite way of acknowledging the situation.

But even if they were genuinely unsure that you're leaving even though it seems obvious to you from context clues, so what? What does being rude and condescending to them achieve? Maybe they couldn't sleep last night so they're really out of it today, maybe they're dissociating, maybe they're about to pass out from low blood sugar, maybe some other employees sometimes put on their jacket and only clock out briefly but come back.

There's all sorts of reasons they could be confused about whether or not you're leaving, but intentionally making them feel bad achieves nothing except, well, making them feel bad. Either way, they're not hurting you or anyone by asking a "stupid" question, so there's no point in being rude about it. If you still want to make them feel bad about themselves for looking "stupid" when they weren't hurting anyone, that is the mindset of bullies and abusers.

[dailymanners]

Thank you everyone who is pointing out in the notes that this is usually an attempt to connect with someone and/or strike up a conversation. Because honestly in my experience 9 times out of 10 when someone asks an "obvious" question that's what they're trying to do. If someone walks into the kitchen and asks "oh are you cooking?" while you're standing over the stove holding a spatula, they probably already know the answer, but they're just trying to start a conversation with you and connect to you.

All the more reason it's sad and hurtful when these attempts are met with sneering and being treated like an idiot.

[sarcasticmothwrites]

There are no stupid questions, only assholes providing snarky non-answers. Because aside from the bid for connection or genuine confusion, sometimes there are REASONS why you might get an obvious question.

“Oh, are you cooking?” asks person who thought you were going out tonight.

“Are you leaving?” asks time-blind person who’s surprised it’s 5:00.

“Are you going to lunch?” asks person who remembers there’s a meeting in 30 minutes.

This is where I make my occasional reminder that Emily Post said the reason for manners is to make others comfortable and foster kind, thoughtful human interactions.

[the-haiku-bot]

“Oh, are you cooking?”

asks person who thought you were

going out tonight.

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

[swampthingy]

[actuallyapathy]

[the-lumpfish-queen]

I love environmental storytelling

[belphegor1982]

[hotlegsharker]

[berlynn-wohl]

[harleyklawz]

Its fucking hieroglyphs with you people

[sexy-people-contests-2026]

Tumblr Sexyman Contest 2026 Round 2 Part 33

Sans (Undertale)

Darius Deamonne (The Owl House)

Remaining time: 3 days 14 hours

[pineappical]

i've always wondered what human speech would look like visually in the POV of eridians in the same way eridian speech is written as music notes in the book and my favorite version of it i've seen in fics is when words are written as phonetics in rocky's POV :-) oh and also that one post about rocky and grace figuring out random words they can say in the other's language

[crafty-butch]

anyone else notice how when "digital assistants" were just supposed to do specific tasks when you asked for them we had Alexa and Siri and Cortana, but now that they're being marketed as smart enough to take actions and make decisions on their own they've got names like Claude and Devin

[crafty-butch]

@namanie @tsunderrated the point isn't "fake names -> real names," it's "feminine names -> masculine names"

[bovid-beauty]

"Fascism"—New Federal Rule Would Require Federal Funding Recipients To Deny Trans People Exist

The rule could have heavy impacts towards trans people across society.

Last week, the Trump administration quietly released a sweeping new federal rule that would use funding threats to force institutions across the country to reject transgender people. The 400-page proposed regulation would codify the administration's anti-trans executive orders into binding federal policy, imposing a blanket prohibition on federal funds going toward "gender ideology"

The proposed rule, formally titled "Regulation for Federal Financial Assistance," rewrites the government-wide framework governing all federal grants across every agency. Among its most consequential provisions, it requires that before a federal grant recipient can receive money, the award must pass a "pre-issuance review" conducted by a political appointee—not a career expert or peer reviewer—to ensure it is "consistent with applicable law, Federal agency priorities, and the national interest." The regulation explicitly instructs these appointees to screen for "denial by the recipient of the sex binary in humans or the notion that sex is a chosen or mutable characteristic." [...] An institution that acknowledges transgender people exist—through its policies, its training, its healthcare, its bathroom access, its HR procedures, its name-change processes—could be deemed to "deny the sex binary" or to “support the notion that sex is mutable” and have its federal funding blocked.

Importantly, the gender ideology prohibition has no age limitation—hospitals could be targeted not just for providing care to minors but for providing gender-affirming care to adults, because prescribing hormone therapy to a transgender patient of any age could be deemed promoting the belief that "sex is a chosen or mutable characteristic."

[junequeer]

THIS IS OPEN TO COMMENT UNTIL JULY 13, 2026

[featherandstorm]

This is all very bad and horrible, but I want to be clear that it’s worse and more sweeping than just eliminating trans research.

This torches everything. And I do mean everything.

A very abbreviated list of its ramifications include (but are not limited to):

ending funding for ALL DEI related initiatives

allowing the government to terminate grants at any point for any reason

preventing researchers from publishing, going to conferences, and being part of academic societies

requiring that topics must support the president’s agenda.

What this means, and if anything I’m under selling it, is the death of science and research in America. It allows the government to restrict any topic they please at a whims notice, putting officials who have no background in the topic in charge of deciding funding continuity. It controls what gets researched and if/how researchers are allowed to share their discoveries. There are no books to burn if the government never allows them to be written. This is fascism plain and simple.

Please, if you only ever write one public comment, this is the one to do.

[genderkoolaid]

Bringing back this guide to writing an effective public comment. This gives you the basics you need to know, what you need to include, a basic outline you can follow, etc.

Public comments are not a vote, it is a chance for you to say "here is an issue with this law I think you need to address" and provide justification for legal challenges if it goes forward:

"Comments raise the bar that agencies have to meet when making a rule; “if an agency fails to adequately respond to significant, relevant comments in a final rule, members of the public may seek to challenge the rule in court on that basis and claim it could be struck down.ˮ"

But also, if possible, don't stop at writing a comment. Don't stop at calling your representatives. You should ideally be talking to people in your community about this and organizing resistance on-the-ground; there is a good chance people are already doing that even if you aren't hearing about it.

[arcticlogik]

i was checking in-game stats for gta 4, and theres a curious line called "addiction level". it's a level showing how frequent and how long you play the game

there are many different levels with each having different name. last one called "choose life"

what i told y'all about trainspotting 😭😭😭✋

[lunnefisk]

brave and loyal knight want a treat

[lunnefisk]

brave and loyal knight want a fucking break from it all

[rosenkranz-isnt-dead]

is it just me or have people really stopped writing tags under art reblogs

[rosenkranz-does-things]

WE'RE ON TUMBLR! BLEED YOUR HEART OUT!

[sleepnos]

[lilyeka]

[bonesmarinated]

baby Ahsoka called Maul an ugly jabroni - the sequel (x) “Lord Maul, are your horns hurt? Lord Maul, why are you red? Lord Maul, why are you always growling? Lord Maul, can you teach me how to growl?”  this could go on for ages but I couldn’t fit all of her stupid questions and Maul half arse reply in one pic. 

[galaxywarp]

[desmess]

One apple a day keeps the ganon away 🍎 it doesn't work