show me The Mess™

she/they, 20s. jester of all trades by day, incessant screaming about the things i love by night 

[femmenietzsche]

[designobjectory]

Nessie beaker mug, 1968, by William John Clappison for Hornsea Pottery Co. Ltd.

[e-von-dahl]

Nicholas Hoult and every other actor involved with either the tv show or the audiobook is spineless and self centred, saying you care about trans people is meaningless when you are actively providing money for anti-trans hate groups

Your nostalgia is not more important that trans lives, your fame is not more important than trans lives

[funstyle]

teenage girls in fiction: hes so cute i wanna slow dance with him at prom :3 hehe

real teenage girls: imagine if he got injured and i had to tend to his wounds and i could watch him seize up a bit as i disinfect them and in the haze of fever he sees me as an angel

[existential-celestial]

Ilya Kaminsky, from “Musica Humana  [an elegy for Osip Mandelstam],” in Dancing in Odessa

[hope-for-the-planet]

Indigenous cultural practices are a climate solution, report finds

Indigenous lands are crucial for climate mitigation and resilience. Research shows their health is a direct result of Indigenous stewardship

While this isn't news to anyone who works in this space, it is useful to have this water-is-wet research to affirm that Indigenous knowledge and land management are extremely effective at storing carbon and protecting biodiversity.

I want to draw special attention to this part of the article:

New research shows that approach overlooks the key role that Indigenous knowledge and culture can play in mitigating climate change. It also reveals a dangerous misconception that has taken hold in global climate discussions: the idea that Indigenous lands are so rich because they are remote or sparsely populated. Nothing could be further from the truth. The health of Indigenous lands and their ability to store vast quantities of carbon stem from the stewardship of the people who inhabit them.

[hope-for-the-planet]

I'm actually bringing this back around to say another important thing.

I get a fair number of asks and comments on my posts expressing sentiments like "human beings are a plague on this Earth", "humans ruin everything, we deserve to be wiped out", "humanity is inherently selfish, evil, and irredeemable".

I don't think the folks saying these things have bad intentions, I know their words come from a place of very understandable pain, fear, and anger. But to act as though humanity's impact on nature is inherently damaging and extractive is to erase thousands of years of Indigenous stewardship of nature. These ecosystems are thriving because there are humans living there.

This is your regular reminder that you don't need to feel guilty for being a human. You are part of nature--viewing humans as inherently separate from the rest of nature is actually part of the problem. You will be so much better served redirecting that guilt into supporting the humans who are helping nature or resisting those who are hurting it.

[hylianengineer]

Those infrared thermometers shaped like sci-fi guns are one of humanity's great inventions. It can tell me the temperature of something several feet away without touching it AND it's ridiculously fun to use. Win-win.

Hotplates that die or lose temperature calibration within a couple months of purchase are NOT one of humanity's great inventions. Fuck you, Thermo Fisher.

[femmenietzsche]

The Children's Crusade was probably an extinction level event for cool medieval 12 year olds

[eightyonekilograms]

That explains it: Western Europeans are all descendants of the cringe children. The silence from the HBD people about this speaks volumes.

[femmenietzsche]

Don't say the Unabomber you canNOT mention the Unabomber on your dating profile you will just attract the type of tgirl who doesn't shower

[eightyonekilograms]

Who's your favorite off-brand LGBTQIA+ icon

The Unabomber

Yukio Mishima

Antonio de Erauso

Peter Thiel

Valerie Solanas

Voting ended onAug 1

[70sscifiart]

Taglines from science fiction covers

[taliabhattwrites]

Tumblr users will say "queer history" and mean "midcentury archival records from a specific US-American city that I have extrapolated into a universal mythos" and not even blink

[taliabhattwrites]

"learn your queer history" I am from fucking INDIA

[taliabhattwrites]

Maybe your queer elders fictional or otherwise were also influenced by the biases and contradictions of their own circumstances, time and place, and I am no more beholden to their ideas and ways of doing things than I am to any other form of tradition trying to constrain me.

Perhaps history is a conversation and not an edict.

[taliabhattwrites]

I fucking snortled

[rylandgraces]

Project Hail Mary (2026) dir. Phil Lord, Chris Miller Director's Commentary Notes

[lutzloopcombo]

i would encourage tennis fans concerned with these news about the wta requiring sex testing to read this hrw report (or at least the summary) about sex testing in sport

“They’re Chasing Us Away from Sport”

The 120-page report, “‘“They’re Chasing Us Away from Sport’”: Human Rights Violations in Sex Testing of Elite Women Athletes,” documents the

it talks mostly about the world athletics policies and the athletes interviewed for the report are from athletic events but it is still a good read to be informed about sex testing in sports in general. it points out all of the scientific and moral problems with sex testing and the background section also has a good overview timeline about sex testing in sport (different policies from the ioc, not just world athletics) from 1930 until 2020

[incarceratedgirl]

nobody with a tumblr in 2026 is a good person

[de-activated-offical]

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[charliemack]

[lyamal]

WORLD CUP WINNER

[poll-position]

You are given a short-lived curse in which you have a song stuck in your head for a week. On the bright side, you get to pick the song. Which do you choose?

American Pie (Don Mclean)

Bad Romance (Lady Gaga)

Cotton Eye Joe (Rednex)

Bohemian Rhapsody (Queen)

Dancing Queen (ABBA)

Happy (Pharrell Williams)

Hot n Cold (Katy Perry)

Single Ladies (Beyonce)

Take Me Home Country Roads (John Denver)

Wannabe (Spice Girls)

We Didn’t Start The Fire (Billy Joel)

9 to 5 (Dolly Parton)

Voting ended onJul 16