Meow

[good-soupmens]

If Aziraphale's bookshop represents Eden (his and Crowley's paradise), then Metatron is the serpent, Aziraphale is Eve, the coffee is the apple, and ACCEPTING THE OFFER WAS THE FALL

[optimistic-starlight]

we definitely do not fucking talk enough about how Crowley was left in charge of the bookshop and within 0.05 seconds he was wearing fucking SLEEVE GARTERS like some kind of goth Aziraphale cosplay

[identitty-dickruption]

my utopia has disability in it. my utopia includes free healthcare and no-questions welfare and state-funded carers. my utopia includes building requirements that centre disabled bodies — ramps and lifts and dimmer switches and braille signs. my utopia has disability in it. because without disability, it’s not much of a utopia at all

[matan4il]

This is one of the kids kidnapped from Israel into Gaza by Hamas terrorists yesterday, being abused, taunted for calling to his mom, clearly framed by antisemitism.

The current count (which is far from the final number) is over 300 people murdered, over 1800 wounded, many of them specifically in mortal (19 people) or critical condition (over 300 people), and over 100 people kidnapped into enemy territory. Most of them young women. Here are some of the faces of missing Israelis whose parents and families are begging for any information on:

To all the people being so incredibly kind and reaching out: thank you. Thank you for caring. Thank you for being humane, for not justifying the attack, abuse, torment, rape, kidnapping and murder of people just because they're Israelis. I've seen a post doing just that on my dash and it had thousands of notes.

On a personal level, since I promised to update: I did make it to my treatment at the hospital, and back again safely. The hospital is just... I have no words. I also saw police forces, ambulances and firefighters on the way, but yeah, like I said, I am physically okay. I do know this is far from over. Israel's border is still breached, there are still pockets of fighting with Hamas terrorists within our towns, there are still rockets fired at Israeli cities, the Barzilay hospital was directly hit, Hezballah on Israel's northern border is giving initial signs of joining the fighting, while there are still people trapped and hiding from terrorists in Israel's south, terrified and running out of food and water.

Update: Over 600 murdered, over 2,000 wounded, over 100 kidnapped, fighting still happening.

Someone did the math and relative to the size of the population, this is as if the terrorists had murdered, instead of close to 3,000 Americans during 9/11, around 22,000 innocent civilians.

[scifi-guy]

"x ship is normalizing incest-"

Buddy

If game of thrones hasn't normalized incest by now (pulling over 10 million views in the 7th season alone) then a small fandom ship most certainly won't

[lentilswitheverything]

Spn ran for fifteen fucking seasons, it ran for over a decade, and wincest was consistently one of the two or three most popular ships. And it had no measurable impact on real world abuse. Maybe you think fandom is uniquely dangerous (why, idk, but this tumblr after all) but a pretty good rule of fandom is that if Spn couldn't do it, fucking no one else is going to manage it.

[silentstep]

(link to tweet)

[intosnarkness]

One of the most interesting ways that Christocentrism rears it’s ugly head is when a Jewish person does something because of our religion and here come all the ex-xtian atheists to say “GOD DOESNT CARE IF YOU EAT PORK” or “YOURE NOT GONNA DIE IF YOU WORK ON SATURDAY”.

Like yeah, no shit. As a Jew I don’t fear god. I don’t think he is gonna impose consequences on me if I break his rules. That’s not how the relationship works.

If I do something because Jewish tradition says to, it’s because I’m honoring my community and keeping my culture alive. God doesn’t really enter the equation. He can have given us a rule, but if you know any Jews you know we have nine to eleven ways of following any rule and it depends on what suits us in the situation.

So if you slip a Jewish person trief to “show them” that nothing bad will happen to them, you are an asshole of the highest order and have fundamentally misunderstood the rule they’re seeking to follow.

Judaism does not include fear of God. It is a partnership with history and community and culture. And god can come, too, if he promises to be cool about it.

[hachama]

Also, sneaking something into someone's food that they don't usually eat? That they haven't eaten in years? It can make them physically ill. That's not Gd punishing them. It's the entirely predictable consequences of ignoring someone's boundaries around food.

I don't abstain from pork because Gd. I abstain from pork because I'm a Jew. Please don't give me food poisoning to "prove a point," unless that point is "I shouldn't trust you with anything of importance ever again."

[facultyloungecosplay]

Halloween shopping is self-care, actually.

[headspace-hotel]

it's so chilling to walk through an area where the houses are surrounded by blank sterile lawns and see a big lilac bush in full bloom without a single bug on it. No bees, no butterflies, not a stir of activity.

[kylaralynn]

The neighborhood association where I work hires a truck to spray the whole subdivision. It trundles up every driveway and sprays every yard with pesticides. The children excitedly tell me about "the bug man" and know which days he comes on. I know when he's been there, because in the following days I see the beetles, butterflies, bees, and more, all struggling on the pavement, slowly dying. The children do not realize why they are there. They poke at the bugs in fascination. I hate it.

[headspace-hotel]

That's. Horrible. I have no words

[headspace-hotel]

Like

Those insecticides are toxic to humans as well, many are proven carcinogens, and their residues stick around for years inside homes

But even if that wasn't so, insect populations worldwide are plummeting, and the entire food chain depends on them. Most plants and animals could not exist without insects, period

Keeping the insect ecosystem in balance is important for human health and long term flourishing. Not all species are impacted equally by these toxic chemicals, and the elimination of one species can cause an explosion in another.

For example, some of the major predators of ticks are ants, spiders, and beetles

If you kill all your ants, spiders, and beetles, it'll take a long time for them to re-establish, but ticks can return because of a feral cat walking across your grass

What's more, scientists have found that excluding animals from an area makes the amount of ticks that can be collected in that area to explode. We're talking 2-3 times the amount of ticks actively foraging for things to latch onto. It seems like hungrier ticks seek food sources more and bite people more. This leads to the hypothesis that global defaunation is one of the causes of the explosion in tick borne diseases in recent years

Many birds depend on insects for food, bluebirds specifically eat a ton of mosquitoes

If you wipe out most arthropods, the the small mammals and birds that eat the bugs will visit your yard much less. Guess what that means

Current projections predict that the insect declines will be heavily impactful upon bees, butterflies, and moths, but could increase the populations of...flies and cockroaches.

Not to mention that as all the natural predators of agricultural pest insects suffer, more and more pesticides will be needed to get enough crop yields and it becomes a vicious cycle of poisoning the planet and farm laborers more and more severely to avoid collapse of food systems

Your neighborhood association is creating a bleak, sick, hungry future for those kids and everyone else.

[headspace-hotel]

Like, think about it:

If you kill and destroy everything in your surroundings that doesn't benefit you directly, soon the only critters that can live there are the creatures that are parasites on you directly or that compete with you for resources.

And now they don't have any predators to keep them at bay.

[headspace-hotel]

reblogging this again because researching ticks changed my brain around

like I thought "Yeah re-wilding will probably increase the risk of ticks but we just need to make tick safety widespread and common knowledge"

but then I RESEARCHED it

and the research was like "Actually tick diseases have increased DRAMATICALLY over the past 40 years, and tick ranges are expanding hugely and it's mostly unrelated to climate change so far. And we did experiments and in areas where there aren't any animals, the number of ticks that catch onto things passing through the area explodes, it's like 2-3 times the number of ticks. Which is like, wait, weird, I thought animals spread ticks. But we think what's happening is that when there's no animals, the ticks engage in more questing behavior to find food."

and I was like "Wait, but if the decline of animals is making the ticks look for food more, wouldn't they...wait. Oh no. OH NO. We're the food!"

and I looked at more research

and the research said "so the main things that kill ticks seems to be spiders, ants, and beetles."

and I was like "spiders, ants, and beetles? the things that people see as pests and try to kill with chemicals that contaminate the whole ecosystem?—OH FUCK"

[headspace-hotel]

Basically it's like

Expectation: destroying nature= fewer ticks, which means less disease

Reality: destroying nature= hungrier ticks that want to suck your blood way more and less spiders ants and beetles to eat them for you

[sodorz]

thinking abt how fucked up steam engine boiler explosions can look. theyre just pipes under there

gives me the idea of a ghost/monster engine that looks normal, albeit a bit battered, only to swing their smokebox door open and a myriad of pipes come bursting out like fucked up tentacles

[marlynnofmany]

I didn’t know a train could be an eldritch horror, but here we are.

[siphersaysstuff]

The Call of C'thchoochoo.

[earhartsease]

Treign of Terror

[transhuman-priestess]

You guys do know you're supposed to reblog things, right

[transhuman-priestess]

"well i like this post but i'm worried my followers might not" fuck your followers. The entire point of tumblr is to cause irreparable psychic damage to your followers. We are locked in mortal combat on the astral plane. You must win. You Must Win. You Must Destroy Them.

[griffonatrix]

social media is supposed to be PvP

[chrysalisshell]

anyway i can’t wait for Progressive Shipping ™ to die out as a trend and for people to start being honest about reasons why they ship stuff. idk about you but i’ve never shipped something because it was progressive or subversive or whatever it’s because it spoke to me/moved me/made me feel something or it bolstered my fave’s storyline in the narrative and allowed me to glimpse them in other dimensions.

[farialyton]

Facebook deleted this almost immediately. It's almost like the ultrawealthy don't want us knowing or talking about what's at stake.

[bananonbinary]

here's your fucking feedback @staff

list of problems the removal of icons causes:

i cant see my friends

ruins the sense of community

can't tell at a glance who's online right now and what they're interested in

literally cannot tell without scrolling back up who put a post on my dash if it has a single addition attached to it. or like. 2 paragraphs in the op.

i cant click my own icon at the top of the dash to quickly view my own blog

can't tell who someone used to be if they change their username

squashes the margins between the menu and posts, making the whole dash feel more cramped

ruins the quick visual cue of how long each post is and where it ends when you're trying to scroll past ones youve seen before

people put a lot of creativity and individuality into icons, and now i never see them

makes people who primarily reblog instead of make their own posts all but completely disappear

list of problems solved by removing icons:

?????

who the fuck was asking for this

ive never in my life seen a website or app that has profile pics forcibly HIDE them, so i guess you did it you made the dash unique again in the worst way

here's some more feedback: maybe when you run an a/b test you should, idk, actually have a feedback form people can fill out about it somewhere

[marlynnofmany]

@staff​

Be prepared for immense amounts of unpleasant feedback about this

[superchat]

staff changing dashboard again i think, all pfps are removed unless its an original post, which then it appears INSIDE the post :|

[superchat]

can you stop.

like if its a reblog, theres just no PFP. at all. why.

[lilliephoenix]

how the hell am i supposed to know who anyone is?!?!  

i don’t remember names.

you are all your avitar to me.

[superchat]

Hey! so i just found out that the creator behind the dashboard-unfucker (@/dragongirlsnout) updated their script to fix the icon change!

If ppl could try to spread this around so others see it, thatd be appreciated

[yesthatdana]

The @changes blog just made a post about this:

I encourage everyone who hates this to immediately send in a support ticket here using the feedback category. Tell them you want to see the pfps!!

[samfodo]

The devs of this website are so childish and cannot respond to criticism. People are giving very elegant and verbose criticisms, without hatred, genuine criticism, and then the staff are whining and crying about it. Imagine being this hostile toward your userbase and then begging them for money; touting memes and jokes that you stole from them. And that's another thing -- nothing about the memes and jokes the staff & devs parade around is their own original thoughts. They mock the userbase they steal from then wonder why that userbase is actively hostile toward them back.

[super-hero-confessions]

[iamnmbr3]

EXACTLY!!! the show is so messed up. 

[iamnmbr3]

It feels like this show was made by and for bullies, bigots and fascists.

[aurevoir-mes-amis-deactivated20]

This won’t make your blog look ugly. How could you not reblog this? REBLOGGING THIS COULD SAVE A LIFE!!!

[recycled-soul-deactivated201401]

This goes for assholes, too, guys. I know a couple who went tubing once, and they had to re-air their tubes, but the guy thought it would be funny to stick the tip of the air compressor up to her bikini trunks, the air ruptured something inside her and she died within thirty minutes.

[riskpig]

WHAT?

[endangeredslug-deactivated20170]

The thing about this? It’s in every pregnancy book I’ve read.

[riskpig]

WHAT?????

[thegrimmlovely]

Why is it in pregnancy books but not sex ed books?

[willowofthehearth]

Because the men in charge only care about the health and safety of women in so far as it enables them to have babies.

[mayothefirst]

https://www.healthline.com/health/air-embolism#outlook

[eattherich73]

Reblogging with a link because I thought this was a legit joke. Never heard it before. Like I knew you could kill a person by inserting air into a vein but still.

[smooththegoofyshark]

WHAT THE FUCL I hate how I didn’t learn this in sex Ed AT ALL

[jehovahhthickness]

This is very true lol

[bundibird]

Yo what the f u c k

[safifonhasstrel]

[archangeltwins]

not the normal stuff i’d reblog but, uh, this is kinda??? heckin???? important?????

[thesaltofcarthage]

I feel like I first saw this in The Joy of Sex, but it’s definitely a thing.

[midnight-spectrum-again]

What the fuck

[gotterhag]

[panomoly]

i-

….thank you tumblr??

[stankpasta]

hm. 

[krystal-prisms]

I legit thought this was a shitpost until I saw the rest of the comments

[soulvomit]

I first saw this in The Joy of Sex, too.

[wordsaremylife]

Well I never

[digital-magus]

As a general rule of thumb, do not push air into any bodily orifice, regardless of gender. It never ends well. Air compressors and the human body do NOT mix.

Not even the mouth, shit can rupture a lung.

[lovelyheartclover-deactivated20]

……… What did I just read……. 😭💔💔💔

[bitterkarella]

i learned this from a dave barry column