*sigh* here we go again

23/ESTJ/she/her/hers/straight/multifandom but taking a vibes-based fandom sabbatical (hazbin hotel, Steven universe, Harry potter). from the cesspit that is the USA is

[erraticenclaveavenue]

Green beans: an analogy for sexuality (4 AM thoughts)

As of now, I hate green beans and will never voluntarily eat them. I've eaten them in the past with a smile, but will now never eat green beans. I will never tell anyone not to eat green beans. If someone wants to eat green beans, then go for it. I shouldn't conflate personal disgust with societal disgust, nor should I fall into the trap that just because I liked green beans before means I have to like them now.

This doesn't make my past self "wrong" or my current self "inconsistent". It simply means I don't like green beans.

[petewentz-]

It's fun being queer and weird and unconventional until you remember you live in a society

[scribbled-death]

Remember to support the artists you love, likes don’t spread their work….

Deviantart || Twitter || Patreon || Webcomic

[trifoliate-undergrowth]

Me: lol I should like this 

Me:  W  A  I  T 

[thedovahcat]

This comic is a big trap and its damn hilarious

[drtanner]

This goes doubly so for writing! Support your favourite writers, too!

[paulthetoonman]

with the year or so i’ve been on this website, all of the of my art post’s reblogs combined, only adds up to 20 reblogs in total.

20 

need i say more?

[i-am-committing-tax-fraud]

so basically, like AND reblog.

[ahumanbeena]

Did you know that after they switched to blind auditions, major symphony orchestras hired women between 30% to 55% more? Before bringing in “blind auditions” with a screen to conceal the the candidate, women in the top 5 major orchestras made up less than 5% of the musicians performing.

[shwetanarayan-deactivated202504]

so I believe it was actually more complicated than that, in interesting ways. Because at first, when they did blind auditions, they were STILL hiring more men.

…Then they put down a carpet, so that high heels didn’t clack on the floor,  and BOOM women were suddenly getting hired.

The testers didn’t even know that’s what they were picking up on, which just goes to show how tiny of a cue it takes for misogyny to kick in.

[isaacsapphire]

The case of blind auditions for orchestras and how it dramatically changed the gender makeup of orchestras is a very illuminating example of gender bias, and an interesting possible way of countering it.

[small-witch-big-hat]

You can be sexist without knowing it. You can be racist without knowing it. This is not a moral failing; it is a moral imperative to remember that you are fallible, and take steps to limit the damage your squishy ape brain’s foibles can cause.

[mindfulwrath]

The final chapter in Malcolm Gladwell’s Blink (2005) describes this in detail.

What you don’t usually hear about when discussing this blind audition process is that after the blind auditions were implemented, when women had gotten many positions in the orchestra, men no longer saw being a member as prestigious and the salaries for the entire orchestra dropped.

[kimmycup]

Like I don't think you guys comprehend what happened in Poland just now but everyone needs to be talking about it.

A random influencer decided he'll listen to an anti cancer song on loop. People liked it enough times he ended up listening for 9 days.

He raised 90 million in these 9 days, and then 160 million more over the last 10 hours, for a total of 250 million.

Hundreds and thousands of people signed up to donate marrow.

Hundreds of celebrities shaved their heads in solidarity.

The Foundation receiving this money had to create a special commission to figure out how to distribute the money.

The national TV stations got highjacked to stream this for hours because it was better news than anything happening in the world.

Because we broke and DOUBLED the world record for this kind of thing.

They raised about as much as the biggest running charity event in Poland did in a whole year with three decades of tradition and a goddamn army of people.

And they did it on a goddamn amateur set up in a shabby room sitting on folding chairs.

[kimmycup]

Little update: people keep donating despite the stream being over. We're at 280 million in the fight against cancer.

Łatwogang refuses to collab with companies that only reached out to him now because of popularity or give interviews. He said any medals people wanna give them should go to the doctors and nurses and the cancer patients.

Someone offered to renovate that shabby little flat for him as a thank you. He refused.

Someone counted up how many people appeared in that room during the whole thing - it was 319 total.

[belladonna-rx]

Love to hear it. Love news articles too.

https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/polish-nine-day-charity-stream-breaks-records-support-kids-with-cancer-2026-04-27/

Just love this headline phrasing.

Streamer crushes MrBeast charity record with $70 million raised for kids with cancer - Dexerto

Polish streamer Łatwogang’s charity livestream has raised over 203 million złoty for children with cancer, breaking the charity stream recor

[dancinbutterfly]

Way to go Łatwogang! You and the rest of Poland are saving lives.

Bonus gift of: eat shit Mr Beast.

[jv]

This may be the worst use of LLMs anyone has attempted, ever. Up there with recognizing mushrooms.

[ashenmind]

[crabussy]

wow I love to sit crosslegged without moving for several hours straight!

[crabussy]

okay time to straighten my legs man I'm so excited

[crabussy]

I f eel like a suit of armour that was attacked by a welder

[crabussy]

I am nineteen years old

[crabussy]

I am so sorry I just turned 20 I hope you can forgive me

[crabussy]

. yeah okay true I did do that

[justsomeguycore]

horror movie showing a child’s drawing of the monster or ghost or whatever but instead of a little kid and crayons they’re like a preteen and it’s manga style

[cpericardium]

hey everyone "I" have something to show "you"

[cpericardium]

[cpericardium]

[kosmogrl]

what doesn’t kill you makes you cry on a bright sunny day

[cryptotheism]

Genuinely funny that there was an intruder to the white house correspondence dinner and the overall reaction seems tepid at best

[cryptotheism]

I checked in to conspiracy Twitter and everyone is just kind of half heartedly talking about the ballroom. General sentiment that it was staged. Even they don't give a shit.

[erraticenclaveavenue]

I guess even the tinfoil hat crowd is burnt out atp

[depsidase]

[dragon-in-a-fez]

knowing that the past tense of "hang" is "hanged" when it's a method of execution can be very entertaining because you'll be watching a horror movie and someone goes "local legend says a woman was hung in these woods" and you're like "👀 good for her I guess"

[erraticenclaveavenue]

A copy-and-paste comment I put underneath a video about careers.

I think it would benefit everyone here to study at least an intro level of game theory, myself included. Different environments with different information produce different optimal strategies at different times.

A lot of people on the Internet talk as if everyone is playing the same game. In reality, everyone has different games, different rules, different strategies, and different players. If, for example, I stayed in one area for 20+ years with one employer, my strategy is different from if I were to, say, move between different areas at different times.

My strategy worked. Yours might. But I think at the end of the day, hopelessness is not a strategy. Find yours, learn the game, and learn how to play it.

[probablily]

i say yay outloud too like this isn't just my internet persona this is real me

[effervescent-fool]

tumblr mobile is broken as hell

[erraticenclaveavenue]

Agreed I remember the days before I used desktop when I used to go on at 3 in the morning in 2018 because I thought my parents wouldn't be chill with me being on Tumblr (probably not then when I was 15, now that I'm 23 they don't care. Has it really been 8 years?).

[targetedknowledge]

[erraticenclaveavenue]

I love when Tumblr rediscovers Reddit (alternatively, I love when YouTube rediscovers Tumblr)