SO LONG & thanks for all the Lexapro

#i'm not an actor, i just play one on television# no DNI because people don't work like that. it's the safe spaces that chew up vulnerable demographics and spit them out anyway and i'm not that type. anyway stay safe, folks.

[telomeke-bbs]

SECRET TUMBLR DASHBOARDS

Secret Tumblr dashboards organized into a quicklist (links are actually just your Tumblr feed but filtered):

Only posts of those you follow.

Posts from your "favs" — the blogs you’ve liked and reblogged the most lately.

Posts you've not seen yet (will be empty if you've checked Tumblr beforehand).

Posts that are trending.

"Stuff for you" — Tumblr's recommendations based on your likes.

Links to original posters @roughentumble, @nightpool and @cyle with many thanks: sourcepost. 👍😊💖

I suppose this is technically a repost (rather than a reblog), but I'm making this one exception because a quicklist is fast, clickable and handier if right up front, and also the original posts were information and not art (and it's information you can find if you dig around Tumblr too). Still, if you would be so kind, please click on the sourcepost link and leave a like for the OPs, and reblog the original too (which is what I did just before this).

[digitalkiddo]

If you're writing anything involving cons, scams, heists, or morally questionable characters who are very good at lying, here are some free resources I've been using for research. Saving you the "why is this in my search history" anxiety.

1. The FBI's Famous Cases & Criminals archive (fbi.gov/history/famous-cases) has detailed breakdowns of real fraud cases, Ponzi schemes, and confidence operations. The language they use is clinical and precise, which is perfect for getting the procedural details right.

2. The FTC Consumer Sentinel Network publishes annual reports on the most common fraud tactics in the US. Great for understanding how modern scams actually work and what makes people fall for them.

3. The Smithsonian's American Art Museum has a free digital collection of forgery case studies. If your character forges documents or art, this is gold.

4. Court Listener (courtlistener.com) is a free legal database where you can read actual court transcripts from fraud trials. Want to know how a real con artist talks under oath? This is where you find out.

5. The Internet Archive's collection of old newspaper crime sections. Search for "confidence man" or "swindle" in papers from the 1920s through 1960s and you'll find incredible real stories that would feel too dramatic for fiction.

Bonus: The Psychology of Fraud section on the Association for Psychological Science website has accessible articles about why people trust, how deception works cognitively, and what makes someone a convincing liar. Essential reading if you want your con artist characters to feel psychologically real.

Reblog to save for later. Your WIP will thank you.

[op-la]

Moral lesson of IWTV:

Abuse is facilitated and exacerbated by the material and social conditions surrounding it and breaking out of the cycle of abuse requires a conscious effort to acknowledge the conditions leading to it and a willingness to reconcile with who you are before and after it: FALSE ❌

All bisexual men have a deep darkness within their heart: TRUE ✅

[mytearsrricochet]

[artemissoftstepper]

🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️he can still get more dead.🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️we should make him more dead.🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️happy pride month!🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

[important-animal-images]

[nudityandnerdery]

New cosmology dropped, we know what's underneath the turtle now!

[byjove]

‘Nuclear Family Month’ is so funny as a concept. I have never seen a nuclear family worth celebrating.

[byjove]

The problem with the concept of the ‘nuclear family’ and further, the glorification of it by the American right and their feeble attempt at launching Nuclear Family Month, is that it is a concept built on the Christian patriarchal family structure. A man should be the leader of the house, parents should have ownership over their children, children having more than two parental figures or aunts, uncles and grandparents living in the home challenges this. It’s not that a straight couple and their children can’t form a healthy family structure, it is that the glorification of the ‘nuclear family’ as the gold standard of family situations pushes individualism, stigmatizes divorce and multigenerational households and continues to push the 1950s-esque ‘Children need a mommy and a daddy, no matter how fucking evil the mommy or daddy is.’ bullshit. There are so many children that did not grow up in ‘broken’ homes and suffered for it. Stop staying together for the kids. The support and involvement of the extended family in childrearing isn’t inherently trashy or lazy. Families come in so many different shapes and sizes and prioritizing and romanticizing the nuclear family continues to harm everyone.

[quasi-normalcy]

I've reached the point where cynicism is a major turn-off for me. You're not smarter than idealists, and you're not helping.

[quasi-normalcy]

Funny that the stereotypical cynic is an idealist who aged out of it. In my experience, the reverse is true. I was an extreme cynic as a teenager and then I noticed how profoundly limiting it was, and also that "cynics are cool and smart" was a message that was being constantly reinforced by corporate media for some reason.

[quasi-normalcy]

#yes! cynicism reads as very juvenile to me#and yes prev often stemming from teen pain

Yeah, like I see black-pilled people on here and my default reaction isn't "oh, these must be world-weary old warriors who've lost their faith in humanity", it's "these people are in their 20s and need a hobby"

[quasi-normalcy]

I also think that the present era has proven that authoritarian leaders don't actually want a population of wide-eyed idealists, they want a population of jaded assholes who are convinced that everyone is lying, any resistance is either a scam or doomed to failure, and nothing can ever get better.

[this-is-transandrophobia]

Less of an experience with transandrophobia and rather a thing I've noticed when it comes to transfeminism appropriating radfems. Whenever a trans guy posts something they lose all reading comprehension despite how they have good reading comprehension on everything else.

For example: I saw a post where a guy was saying how everyone should disavow isff just because of her pedophilia apologia, and he put in something along the lines of "it doesn't matter what your stance on tme/tma is or whether you agree with her opinions of trans mascs you should not support her at all because y'know PEDOPHILIA" and somehow in the tags I saw "the tme/tma thing is suspicious"

Like, girl, it's clearly someone saying that it doesn't matter what your stance on the thing is, it isn't suspicious it just means you should have the same stance on her because of this one very clearly wrong thing! And then I go to the blog and this woman has a very good reading comprehension (for Tumblr anyway) yet she misinterpreted what the trans man was saying just because she doesn't want to listen to him.

This is transandrophobia.

[echo-mckellogg]

if you have a set of kneejerk conditionals/justifications for switching off your reading comprehension, that's a hole in said reading comprehension that makes it close to functionally worthless.

[captainsnoop-deactivated2020041]

i hate it when game devs put “fixed several issues” in patch notes 

no. tell me what you fixed. i wanna know what the glitch was.

you know those patch notes that are like “fixed an issue where if the player sat in a bush for too long, they’d become the size of a skyscraper” 

i wanna read those. tell me those. 

[necroesque666]

[sindri42]

[sindri42]

[ahdok]

Adjusted value of Bees. Now that was a special one… because every item in the game had a minimum value, and a beehive was a container for bees, which each had a minimum value… which meant the moment one of your dwarves picked up a beehive, your entire fortress’ net worth skyrocketed… a value used in determining how powerful the foes that visit and try to murder you are.

[prokopetz]

Reblogging for the explanation of what “adjusted value of bees” actually means, because I know several folks following this blog have been wondering.

[probabilitydirigible]

Okay but you’ve all forgotten the best Dwarf Fortress bug of all “Flying creatures give birth in midair, leading to tragedy” 

[probabilitydirigible]

Actually I lied it’s the one where after a major update werewolves and vampires started climbing the nearest tree and refusing to come down. It turned out that he’d given evil creatures the ability to sense each other, but forgotten to set a maximum range on it, so werewolves were aware Hell was underground and trying to flee by climbing 

[thepageofhopes]

This has to be my favorite patch note ever

[great-and-small]

Just in case anyone needs a reason to not feed wildlife- this story out of Washington is a pretty good reminder. This lady has been feeding raccoons for years and now she’s just had to call authorities for help because hundreds of them are parked out on her property and are so aggressive trying to get food that she can’t get into her house.

Neighbors have been reporting excessive raccoon mortality on the adjacent road and several attacks on pets, but still everyone on this video was just talking about how cute it is. Why can’t people see how unfair it is to disrupt an animal’s life like this? What do they think will happen to these raccoons? They should be scampering through a forest or marsh eating crayfish and berries and bugs, not hotdogs and cat food. This is a nightmare situation and it’s entirely one person’s fault.

[datderpycookie]

- tags by @sigmastolen

[mangled-by-disuse]

in happier pride news i actually found this deeply heartwarming

that's solidarity baybeeee

[lgbtlaughs]

Further context: Durham city council (Reform UK) cut funding and support for Pride. The Durham Miner's Association and other trade unions raised enough money for Durham Pride 2026 to go ahead - a direct call back to when Lesbian and Gays Support the Miners (LGSM) raised money for mining communities when Margaret Thatcher seized union funding during the miner strikes of 1984-85.

At the 1985 Labour party meet, the motion to support LGBT rights as a party was passed due to a block vote from mining unions.

Stephen Guy, the chair of the Durham Miners’ Association, said that when it became apparent Durham Pride was under threat, he took it upon himself to “encourage the trade union movement to step up and do the right thing, and stand shoulder to shoulder with the LGBT+ community […] They not only raised funds for us, but came to our communities, uplifted our spirits when they were down, and showed their solidarity.”

[echo-mckellogg]

[eixd-deactivated20150710]

YES I GOOGLED HOW TO TAKE A SCREEN SHOT FIGHT ME 

[eixd-deactivated20150710]

The rest of the space is going to be pretty pissed when they see this. 

[thesassycat]

did you google how to take a screen shot

[bobdylanhater115]

Genesis P-Orridge's fuzz face, Chris Carter's 1975 Roland SH-5 Synthesizer and the original tape recordings of Subhuman, Something Came Over me, Adrenaline and Distant Dreams.

Source: Vinyl On Demand

[echo-mckellogg]

hooooooooooo boy. that equipment has seen things i'm telling you. what an honor

[cremsie]

There's so much to be proud of!

[shetheyslain]

Trying to sleep during a heatwave is a great reminder that all oil executives need to die painful painful deaths

[maidslime]

It's very telling how many terfs think "porn addiction" is a real thing when researchers found it to be a Christian invention that has to deal with shame and not actually a real addiction.

*Gasp!* You're telling me terfs are just conservative Christians?!

[maidslime]

Anytime anyone insists porn addiction is real I just call them Mormon. They get really pissy but it's true.