Hmph

I reblog things I like

[geekandmisandry]

@rippledragon linked this to me and a good time is being had.

[mysteriouseggsbenedict]

I love Matilda because it's a story about a child who sees injustice around her and gets mad about it and questions why things aren't fair, and instead of the ending being that she learns how the world works and that life isn't fair, she catapults one of the adults who abused her out of a building with her mind

[girlmostlikely]

You literally have to just get over yourself every day

[hondacivicbrain]

Anyone else think Sam Reich looks like Ruff Ruffman or is it just me. lol.

<- these are the same man

[themaidenofwords]

HOT take

[memewhore]

[mortimermcmirestinks]

bud this isn't from 10 years ago this is from almost 20 years ago

[gluecookie]

happy 19th anniversary to freecupholder.exe

[resplendentri]

HAPPY 20TH ANNIVERSARY TO FREECUPHOLDER.EXE

[xenosaurus]

vaguely working on a vampire comedy about a group of vampires dealing with the death of their sire, not because they're mourning him, but because they're rapidly realizing that a lot of the Vampire Rules were him just straight up fucking with them

[xenosaurus]

what do you MEAN we can go out in the daytime, he just didn't want his neighbors to notice that he had half a dozen twinks in matching outfits hidden in his basement???

[xenosaurus]

YES it’s about the stark absurdity of looking back on an abusive situation you thought was normal YES it features a scene where a bunch of vampires in anachronistic formal wear try a ton of off-brand sodas from the dollar store to see which ones make them puke

[xenosaurus]

Original rule: vampires cannot eat and must consume the blood of the living

Proposed theory: vampires cannot eat solid food but otherwise go wild

Results: Carbonation Bad. Pudding counts as a liquid. Vampires can be deeply, horrifically lactose intolerant.

[ithinkhesgaybutwesavedmufasa]

For those who don't contain a vast knowledge of Green Day lore like myself, I don't think it is hitting just how much of a "fuck you" the NFL is giving djt/the white house.

This is a band that is:

Made entirely of openly bisexual/queer men

Made entirely of men who are vocal about being raised by single mothers on welfare

One of their members was adopted and raised by a Black Native American woman and has said he "understands how his mother could hate 'the white man' and love him with her whole soul."

Were the first band to say, "No Trump, No KKK, No Fascist/MAGA U.S.A." on live television without ANY warning.

Literally released a song last year called, "The American Dream Is Killing Me"

Prioritizes all female/female fronted bands to open for them to address inequality in the music industry. (edited for clarity since yall blew this post up. Lol)

OPENLY tells trump supporters they are not welcome at their concerts.

Anyway, Enjoy Feb. 8th Magats! You're gonna hate it. :)

[prof-grace-aspen]

Already-existing laws that have been around for decades state the photo or video of a food product must contain the actual food itself. Everything else AROUND the food can be fake, but you must use the real food in the ad. You can alter the food in certain ways to enhance its appearance, but if you’re selling a hamburger, the burger itself must be the actual burger your restaurant sells.

You can use glue instead of milk if you’re selling cereal, but you can’t use glue instead of milk if you’re selling milk. You can’t falsely represent how chunky a soup is by adding extra chunks, but you can put it in a shallow bowl to show off the chunks it normally has. You can spray a burger with glycerin to make it shinier. There’s a lot you can do…as long as the actual food product is in the image.

This means ads of food for sale cannot legally be completely AI generated. I don’t know if this rule applies to other kinds of products, but it’s absolutely a rule for food.

So if you do see ads for food and the product itself in the ad is AI generated, I think you have legal recourse to report it to the FTC and the BBB as false advertisement.

[mollyjames]

I think it's important to remember, as a rule of thumb, if you take advantage of a social service, it actually makes it easier for other people who need that service to access it. Most of the time, when these services get cut, it's because politicians will look at usage and say "see, no one is really using this thing, we can afford to trim the budget for food stamps by at least half". Whereas if you decide to step up and use these programs, even if you feel like you "don't really need it", at bare minimum it's another data point advocates can use to say "hey, look, people are using this thing, this is an important service we are providing, do not cut our funding".

[serenityvalleyradio]

I work at a nonprofit, and it is absolutely wild explaining to folks that being part of a program that reduces their energy bill actually helps us get funding to help even more people get energy bill savings.

You aren’t taking resources from anyone by using programs you qualify for. You are making a case for those programs being important enough to continue to exist and (in many cases) grow.

[headspace-hotel]

We live in a world so controlled by the idea of resource scarcity that we reason "If I get help, that must be taking help away from someone else!"

[robertreich]

Your regular reminder that trickle-down economics is a cruel joke designed by the wealthy.

[theunicorncomic-blog]

[randomushroom]

HE FOUND TUMBLR??????

[robertreich]

I’ve been here the whole time.

[spinningthehamsterwheel]

Dear god, he's not kidding...

[errantindy]

Wait did Robert Reich make a Sam Reich reference?

[heatherwitch]

My resolution last year was to do one thing before bed that would make my morning feel easier, and that’s become a daily habit that I’m carrying into this new year.

Some nights even filling up the kettle and setting an empty mug out for my morning tea felt hard. But I was always thankful for it in the morning.

Other nights, one thing would lead to another, and I’d wake up in a clean house with everything ready to go.

And, on a rare few nights, the one thing that I could do to make my morning easier was going straight to bed and allowing myself to rest.

What stayed the same each day is that I would take a moment to think of what I could do for my future self and do it, even after a hard day. And I would wake up knowing that I had done my best and any effort—no matter how small—was a kindness to myself.

[one-bite-is-undercover]

I’ve been doing a lot of “a treat for future me” moments lately.

[heatherwitch]

That’s a great way to look at it, and I love this artist! (Anna-Laura: instagram / website)

[setheverman]

what is the january mood?

[angel-ani]

[darren-mia-miarren-deactivated2]

[dutchster]

[alwayslaurinah]

waits patiently for 2015 upload

[darren-mia-miarren-deactivated2]

2015

[darren-mia-miarren-deactivated2]

Happy new year 2016

[darren-mia-miarren-deactivated2]

Happy new year 2017 

[darren-mia-miarren-deactivated2]

Happy new year

[darren-mia-miarren-deactivated2]

Happy New Year

[myslightobsessions]

there she is!!

[myslightobsessions]

hopefully 2021 treats us better

[myslightobsessions]

happy 2022 everyone!!

[myslightobsessions]

i hope 2023 is kind to you all!

[myslightobsessions]

another year another slay

[myslightobsessions]

happy 2025!!!

[myslightobsessions]

she returns!!! (along with my obligation to tell you all that this is not me, it’s actress meredith stepien!)

[mostlysignssomeportents]

20 years ago, it was a scandal that Google started to track which links you clicked on the search-results page,

[sabertoothwalrus]

this is like finding a journal written by someone before the zombie apocalypse happened

[eszlelesihezag]

[anarchistmemedistro]

[moon-guard92]

Essek accidentally saving Caleb from backsliding into being his worst self and falling for Trent's manipulations....im sure nothing like that will ever happen between them again, nope.

[roach-works]

speculative fiction writers i am going to give you a really urgent piece of advice: don't say numbers. don't give your readers any numbers. how heavy is the sword? lots. how old is that city? plenty. how big is the fort? massive. how fast is the spaceship? not very, it's secondhand.

the minute you say a number your readers can check your math and you cannot do math better than your most autistic critic. i guarantee. don't let your readers do any math. when did something happen? awhile ago. how many bullets can that gun fire? trick question, it shoots lasers, and it shoots em HARD.

you are lying to people for fun. if you let them do math at you the lie collapses and it's no fun anymore.

[roach-works]

YOU GET IT

[cipheramnesia]

The funniest possible outcome would be if Luigi Mangione really did shoot that guy but is found innocent thanks to the very publicly dogshit handling of his arrest et al.

And then he immediately kills another health insurance CEO.