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Warrior Crowd Control and Riot Manual
I think he thinks it's 1942 and mines are these round floating things with spikes on them that sailors see with binoculars and yell, "turn 5 degrees starboard to avoid mine!"
When I was a truck driver in Iraq, we also used to take an unfortunate pride in our ability to detect IEDs...once.
Different Stories Resonate with Different People
I will always reblog this.
I once spent three hours scouring the internet to find this comic again, I will not let that be repeated.
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Here's a photo of my friend and colleague, Jorge Bautista, getting shot in the face with a flashbang grenade. The ICE Agent is so afraid of
Sharecropping.
FYI if your employer does this, if they have done it for a long time especially, you and your coworkers could be owed huge amounts of unpaid wages and it would be an easy suit if there is a paper trail like this and your employer is placing strict requirements on your behavior while not at work. Employment lawyers generally work on contingency. Just food for thought.
A national park I worked at had all the permanent rangers (I was seasonal) basically on stand by for call outs 24-7 or they were penalized on their reviews.
They got tired of it, sued, won, and the nps had to pay back YEARS of back wages for stand by time. Now they are all scheduled and if* you get called out its time and a half.
ONLY because some rangers stood up.
If your employer does this: document document document, then find an attorney
Game where the ancient hero is awakened from the deathless sleep of centuries in the hour of their people's greatest need, only to find that civilisation is thriving and there are no obvious threats on the horizon; the game then becomes a fish-out-of-water detective sim as they try to figure out what woke them up, and also solve other, smaller mysteries along the way.
Art by the prolific Eddie Jones (1935 - 1999) with over 1000 book and magazine covers and illustrations to his name
Art by the prolific Eddie Jones (1935 - 1999) with over 1000 book and magazine covers and illustrations to his name
This map is the most up to date version as of 3-4-2023 and takes into account all recent movement on anti-trans legislation
Yeah, I am going to signal boost this rq
This map has since been updated, as of 26-8-2023 this is the most current version
Updated map for March 2025.
I wonder how the "both parties are the same, the democrats don't actually care about trans rights!" useful idiots explain the fact that all of the states in the safest category are reliably democratic voting states, all the ones in the second safest category are democrat-leaning swing states, and the more republican the remaining states get the less safe they become for trans people.
Every time Republicans win elections trans people lose rights. Vote Democrat for trans rights.
Get off my post!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The first two maps happen under biden!!!!!!!!!! Are you stupid?????
hello class, welcome to US Government 101.
The United States of America is what is known as a Federal Republic. In American Federalism the USA is broken up into 50 administrative unites, called "States" as in The United States.
There States are granted wide ranging powers to pass their own laws. The national President has no role in the passing of laws in the states and no say over what laws states pass.
as we can see from all versions of the map, states where state level government is dominated by Republicans sees transphobic laws passed by those same Republicans, states with Democratic government sees no such laws past and in fact trans supportive laws passed, this is not a coincidence.
When a state over steps and passes a law that conflicts with the national Constitution it is the role of the federal court system, and ultimately the Supreme Court to step in and strike down a state law.
Again the President has no role in that, they may enforce a court ruling with federal law enforcement if needed, but they can't do anything till a court rules.
The President can launch a challenge to a law in court. As Biden did by suing Tennessee over its attempt to ban gender affirming care for minors
likewise a President can interpret federal law and try to use the flow of federal aid to pressure states, as Trump is doing against California and Maine again we see Democratic lead states reject now Republican federal government pressure to do something transphobic.
The idea that the actions of Republican state governments are somehow the fault of a Democratic President shows a total lack of understanding of how the American system works. A lack of understanding that is of course massively self defeating if you can about the issue of trans rights.
Indeed Trump has ordered an "all of Government" approach of transphobia, which means every, single, government department is looking for ways to make trans people's lives harder, all of them all at once. Something, needless to say did not happen under Biden, and would not happen under any Democrat
so, really, are you stupid?
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Pseudo-Karens pupating.
First they're offended by things they think someone might have done.
Then they ramp it up to just thinking someone might do something they don't like, so they get offended before things reach that point.
Finally, they reach their final form, assume everyone subconciously knows who they are, then pre-emptively get angry before they even see or hear anything but just assume their rights have not only been trampled, but openly mocked as well.
This is probably because I am Internet Old (41 years of age)
And because I grew up with message board/forum/blog/LJ culture...
but it seems like many younger people do not want to converse; that any response other than 'THIS' - anything that reflects, responds, adds, comments upon, etc a post is seen as adversarial/disagreement.
I'd love to have a conversation about this trend, especially as it relates to tumblr, which USED to be a much more conversational website than it currently is.
replies vs. reblogs definitely exacerbated this hugely; the tiktokification of 'person who creates content' and 'person who consumed that content' rather than 'human beings having a conversation'.
I think a (small perhaps) part of this phenomenon is reading comprehension. By which I mean immediate small scale comprehension and attention, not like, media literacy (though obviously that wouldn't help either).
If I'm unable to parse simple sentences, then anything that even vaguely plausibly isn't immediate and total agreement might look like someone disagrees with me, and I don't like it when people disagree with me >:( that makes me feel bad. So I lash out instead of thinking more deeply at all about the thing that was being said.
This is almost certainly amplified by people not reading all the way through a post/message before responding to it while having an emotional reaction. Which I'm absolutely guilty of from time to time, though I generally limit my reaction to an out loud "what the fuck did you just say to me" sort of expression.
Oh definitely; I'm willing to bet that this phenomenon:
For decades, schools have taught children the strategies of struggling readers, using a theory about reading that cognitive scientists have
has had a nonzero impact on the way that young adults, who were 'taught' by this methodology as children and who are now coming of age in the digital landscape, are interacting with text. There's a reason other than 'Teenagers be crazy, am I right' that this behavior is prevalent in those under 30 or so.
I tell my kids (the ones I gave birth to and also my students) that when I was growing up, the internet was nothing but reading and writing.
There was some "content" to "consume" but basically everything had active comment threads. You went on message boards and talked with people. You engaged. Even if you just lurked, there was still so much going on that it felt like you, the lurker, were in the minority for not engaging.
Now everyone seems to lurk and wait for "creators" to supply us with entertainment that we would like to passively consume before going on to the next thing.
I'm slightly younger than the Unix epoch, and often I just don't have the mental or emotional energy to engage to the degree I might want. A Like, a Reblog,a terse "This!" can be athing of great moment. as easily a it is the calling card of the ADHD generation.
The thesis of the above posts is "anything that reflects, responds, adds, comments upon, etc a post is seen as adversarial/disagreement" NOT "A Like, a Reblog, a terse "This!" are meaningless/useless actions and you shouldn't do them" and I'm frankly unsure of how you managed to read the above and have this response.
Also I cannot take seriously anyone who uses the term 'the ADHD generation'
As someone who claims to have been born slightly later than 1970, you don't have the excuse of 'I was never actually taught how to read'
Sorry for jumping in on the chain at this post rather than earlier up btw. It's kind of funny, I was just writing a long response to this because I think there's a lot more that has gone into things developing this way than just illiteracy - after all, people have been misunderstanding each other on the internet from the very first day two strangers met on here, I'm sure of that. While writing that response I just got a pretty illustrative reason as to why I think people are so adverse to online discussions nowadays.
I got a notification on a post that I made dated October 20th, 2013, the post was expressing shock that Obama had been following Jhonen Vasquez, a creator I greatly respect but wouldn't typically consider to be in the realm of "acceptable for a presidental account to follow" (how things have changed :face_holding_back_tears:). The reply that this person decided to add described the violence they'd have liked to inflict (I assume on the former president and not on the creator of Invader Zim). Completely out of nowhere, just an insane thing to say to a stranger, right? And this one time isn't a big deal, I'm just going to roll my eyes and move on. But if that person had a moderate following and decided to reblog instead, then I'd be dealing with that kind of nonsense for quite a while afterwards. it isn't hard for me to see how people get worn down and have a reluctance to respond when that's definitely not an uncommon experience at all. Anytime someone chooses to respond to posts, they're taking the chance that their own followers will be normal and that the person they're responding to will have normal followers too.
There's the issue of tone too - something that reads as sarcastic to one can be genuine to another. I was having a discussion with my friends in discord and thought I'd emphatically exaggerated a point, which didn't actually come across or wasn't interpreted correctly. A misunderstanding like that on public social media can honestly lead to a kind of social exile or targeted hate campaign. too many times have I been pulled into pro-anti-shipper (as used by socmed. fandoms) discourse despite believing that every issue around that sort of thing requires more nuance than either side will ever offer fourth. It's exhausting to get pulled into that, so while I personally want to have discussions on my fandoms so so badly, when I make a post and see a reply, there's a moment of reluctance to actually read it.
More than a lack of reading comprehension, I think a large majority of internet users have forgotten how to be.. understanding? have grace? with each other - so even a small mistake can be twisted into something major. Who would want to engage in conditions like that, when an imprecise turn-of-phrase or typo could lead to that? How can someone assume good intentions on the person responding or asking them to reflect when that assumption is so often taken advantage of by trolls? (Trolls doesn't feel like the right word here, I associate trolls with a kind of rage-bait performance art that is now only seen on the neopets newbies board and the notes of some funnymen, but I'm not sure of a good replacement?) I don't believe a lot of people want to be this way, but it's part of how social media feeds are set up to feed the beast - even tumblr has an algorithm now, so even if you don't take part in it and stay entirely on your main dashboard, others will and will react to the random posts they're given accordingly.
I think how the conversation is started also plays a role? There's someone I respect greatly on here, adore their posts, always very thought-provoking. But I'm very fond of tag-rambling since it used to be more common for tags to be seen as the domain of the reblogger (and their immediate followers), and not the domain of the whole of tumblr; the place to organize the post on your blog also became the place to organize your thoughts on the post. Because of this though, I've rambled in the tags of their post and, on occasion when I've been unlucky, they've at'd me in the replies to expand upon my tags, which has always caught me off-kilter because it reads as a violation of etiquette to me, even though I'm now severely questioning if that ever actually was etiquette rather than something I thought I had observed. This is usually only a problem to me because my tag rambles aren't usually.. coherent exactly, because I'm still not used to them being able to be seen so easily by everyone who isn't my immediate follower despite these updates having been in place for quite a while. My process of ruminating is very disjointed for a wide variety of reasons, so in cases like that, I don't feel prepared to have a discussion about something I didn't intend for others to see.
(And intention on social media and expectation of who sees what is another can of worms that I think also underlies all of this. It's kind of hard to adjust to the ways people have become more visible than ever before on these sites)
I hope that made sense? I used most of my personal experience as someone in the ages being discussed (26, I can't remember a time I wasn't on the internet, though I guess I'd say I really got in on it when I was nine or ten?) but I think there's so much more that goes into the state of internet communities now, so it kind of gets frustrating seeing the broader issue of discussions and sociability online get pigeon-holed into illiteracy. I didn't even touch on the things that I was going to bring up in my original response before getting that random reply.
Yes, and: I went into more detail here, but another reason I think some of this generational shift is less "everything is content to consume" and more "fear over interacting with strangers on the Internet" is what we were taught as basic Internet Safety™️. I'm in my early 30s, and while my mom was rather paranoid and took it to an extreme, I learned some simple rules in school: Don't share your real name/age/location/etc. Don't DM with people you don't know IRL. Assume people might be lying about who they are. Report anything that makes you feel uncomfortable to a trusted adult. That kind of mindset makes the Internet feel like a very scary place, y'know?
I got all of that exact same advice in the 1990's and did not come to the conclusion that the internet is a very scary place, and I don't think that generations following mine have been given that advice at all - can you elaborate?
Sure! Or at least, I can try - this feels rambling and jumbled up, because I'm not having the best brain day, but here we go, anyway:
I will say that, on second thought, you're right that "I was taught that the Internet is a scary place" isn't quite the right way of describing it - I think it would be more accurate to say "I was taught that strangers on the Internet were, more likely than not, dangerous to interact with". Like, if each and every person I interact with could be (and probably is) using those interactions to figure out who I am/where I live/etc, why ever would I want to put myself at more risk by actively seeking out those interactions (by, for example, commenting on a fic/replying to someone else/reposting something)?
Perhaps our different experiences come from the decade-ish between us (at least, going by the year in your profile) - I think a lot of younger Milennials (like me) may have had our experiences of the Internet really heavily shaped by social media more than anything, where the norm is "you use this site to interact with people you know IRL", as opposed to, like, the old fangroup/forum culture, where it was more normal to interact with people purely on the basis of shared fandom interests.
(This also, I think, connects to what I've seen discussed about the conservative purity culture that's developed among Gen Z, and the backlash against intergenerational friendships - if I understand correctly, it used to be normal for a 16-year-old to interact with adults in their 20s/30s/40s/etc on, like, anime forums or whatever, because everyone was following the Internet Safety Rules and staying anonymous, so nobody really knew who each other was.)
IDK, I feel like, as my peers became the first generation to start breaking the Internet Safety Rules™️ by sharing personal info on social media, we started to draw a sharper distinction between "IRL friend I connect with on Facebook/etc" = safe to interact with, vs "stranger on the Internet" = unsafe to interact with. Does that make any sense?
It does! Thank you for helping me understand better
The religious argument for moralism is more coherent because they can at least tell you that it derives from god while with the normal lib one they just kind of wave their hand at you and threaten you with social damage when you try to ask them where morality comes from.
Everytime you say something like "if we don't have an objective metaphysical moralist system then whats stopping people from killing people" you just sound like an evangelical.
Yes, I was talking about you, baby booboo.
No, you're not special because you have Autism.
My brother and nephew also have autism.
It doesn't mean they can't also be assholes, just like evetybody else on this planet.
And you were being an unmitigated, pobresito yo, act-before-you-thought, boohoo.
I don't give two shits you're mad ("mad") at those dudes.
You even said it yourself you never actually watched the video that upset you.
I wish they still taught critical thinking & analysis in school, because tiktok is evidently your most influential educator.
Please refrain from actually taking me seriously; you're too stupidly blinkered to actually understand anything that takes effort.
Please go back to the shed you were locked in during your childhood years because that's where the others with your affliction were kept.
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