a talking lamp

she/her no longer minor ; i really like thw quack in the disc soundboard just thought u should know

[hydrattan]

I was feeling agitated and artblocked yesterday so I decided to give my brain a rest by watching TV and then the next thing I knew these were in front of me

[phineas-and-ferb-heritage-posts]

phineas and ferb heritage post

[zerozerosenpai-art]

Vocaloid at the beach!!!

[STORE]

[eatsleepcrap]

Look, I made a collection of Fandom cakes that I found!

I like cake.

[mimidiann]

What about Homestuck.

[princecharmingtobe]

Homestucks aren’t sorry.

[fuckingkarkalicious]

[dunkstein]

Children born when this post was made will be in the sixth grade this year

[wingedcatgirl]

Children born when this post was made are now allowed to create a tumblr account.

[grimoiremanifest]

[g3minii]

[vulturevanity]

hate what people did to the dead dove tag

[vulturevanity]

mothers and fuckers of the jury. "Dead dove: do not eat" is a label on a bag in the fridge. It means "the content of this bag is exactly what is labeled". It does not mean "trigger warning uhhh something". In fact, it means the exact opposite of "trigger warning uhhh something", because you use it with other tags. You write a fucked up fic with extreme violence and gore, you tag it as "extreme violence", "gore" and you tag it with "dead dove: do not eat". You write a fic with emotional abuse, gaslighting and manipulation, you tag it with "emotional abuse", "gaslighting" and "dead dove: do not eat". You write a fic with your extremely niche kink that appeals to like 3 other people and may skeeve out the rest of the fandom, you tag that with your kink and "dead dove: do not eat". It's so people know you really mean the content warnings.

It's NOT a catch-all term for "uhhh this may be fucked idk". TAG YOUR SHIT GENEROUSLY.

[staff]

for april fools we’re deleting this entire site sayonara you weeaboo shits

[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.

[catharticscream]

Remember in 2010 when Taio Cruz said "I throw my hands up in the air sometimes"? I appreciated his restraint. You can't just throw your hands up in the air whenever. There's a time and a place, and that time was 2010, and the place was the club.

[silverfox66]

Adobe is going to spy on your projects. This is insane.

[audacityinblack]

For general graphics: use GIMP For vector graphics: use Inkscape For drawing and illustration: use Krita For print and web publishing and design: use Penpot For PDF authoring: use LibreOffice For PDF reading and form filling: use Okular

All are free, open source and cross-platform. None use AI.

[quasi-normalcy]

[quasi-normalcy]

[viridianmasquerade]

Like... If you have regret and sadness about doing something don't fucking do it, you bunch of turds

[galadriel1010]

The problem is that they can't afford to. The Supreme Court ruling means that JK Rowling can single-handedly force these organisations into bankruptcy if they don't fold to her wishes, especially as she can afford really, really expensive lawyers and then, if she wins, get the organisations charged with paying her costs. Up until this year, this was a lower risk, because the gender criticals rarely won their cases and had to crowdfund their own legal fees. The Supreme Court has changed that.

Amazon, Warner Brothers and the Harry Potter fandom at large have successfully crowdfunded the campaign to exclude trans women from public life in the UK.

[theweirdwideweb]

[worldheritagepostorganization]

World Heritage Post

[softwaring]

[missadelinecatgirl]

must we live in squalor

[doubleca5t]

tumblr is a website full of funny posts and great art and also people being wrong about things that you never thought you'd see someone be wrong about and people finding new and creative ways to be misogynistic in such a way that it appears woke to the untrained eye

[zipsunz]

thanks for everything 🌸🌙

[melissa-titanium]

[melissa-titanium]

WHAT HAVE YOU DONE ITS HAPPENING NOW. HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP ME OH MY GOD HELP YOU GU;YS CANT TALK ABOUT WOMEN ONA POST ABOUT WOMEN OH MY GO DP LAEASE

[fundomqueen]

rewatching himym but we skip the last episode🤟

[memeuplift]

[robertreich]

What you can do to stop big corporations from helping ICE https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-biggest-corporations-helping