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20s. bad at tumblr. main blog, music, personal, aesthetic, general. (star trek content on @scifitrash)

[memeuplift]

[cath-lic]

images that WILL go triple platinum if i have my way

[swallowedgirl]

Anna Haifisch

[deirdreskye]

Babe are you okay I saw you reblogging "here's the life I've always longed for"

[agalarianzigzagoon]

for anyone curious there is a follow up image:

[seraphica]

Biodiversity Reclamation Suits for Urban Pigeons

Artist Laurel Roth Hope takes a unique approach to commemorating lost avian species, by designing and crocheting outfits that represent extinct birds, but are sized to fit a common city pigeon.

Seychelles Parakeet

Great Auk

Passenger Pigeon

Guadalupe Caracara

Carolina Parakeet

Dodo

Bachman's Warbler

Heath Hens

Cuban Red Macaw

Ivory Billed Woodpecker

Paradise Parrot

[chocolateismynemesis]

@todaysbird

[captainjonnitkessler]

You know I used to think "tumblr's absolute refusal to actually engage with the Trolley Problem in favor of insisting that there must be a third, morally pure option that doesn't require them to make a hard decision and anyone who asks them to make a binary choice is just a short-sighted idiot is really fucking annoying, but I guess it's not actually doing any harm".

Anyway that was before we asked tumblr at large to decide between "guy aiding a genocide but making progress elsewhere" and "guy who would actively and enthusiastically participate in a genocide and would also make everything else much, much worse for everyone elsewhere" and the response was that there must be a third, morally pure option that doesn't require them to make a hard decision and that anyone who asks them to make a binary choice is a short-sighted idiot.

[aqueerkettleofish]

Oh, god, I hate that this is correct.

[mctreeleth]

"Engaging with the lever in any way makes me culpable for the death that occurs" seems to be the rationale behind most of the voting naysayers, so, and I am quoting wikipedia here, their rational is quite literally one of the positions of the trolley problem;

'...since moral wrongs are already in place in the situation, moving to another track constitutes a participation in the moral wrong, making one partially responsible...'

Their refusal to engage with the trolley problem has made them ignorant not only of how their position IS one of the sides they refuse to take, but also that the other option recognises their desire for moral purity at the expense of obligation, for what it is;

'Under some interpretations of moral obligation, simply being present in this situation and being able to influence its outcome constitutes an obligation to participate. If this is the case, then doing nothing would be considered an immoral act.'

People who refuse to vote because "they're both bad" may be taking the high ground, but there are still people on the tracks.

[impossiblepackage]

This post is stupid because there IS a third option. The party doesn't have to run biden again! The party can have anyone as a candidate! They're choosing to.

Don't run genocidal candidates if you want my vote. It's that easy. Surely you can find one Democrat willing to run for president who isn't also genocidal, right? Surely it can't be that hard?

[mctreeleth]

You are still missing the point of the trolley problem, just like OP was saying people do.

The trolley problem is not "why couldn't they have given us a better track"

It's not even "should we take steps to prevent the kinds of people who would tie people to train tracks from having access to those train tracks"

The trolley problem is about reacting to the situation AS IT IS.

The trolley problem is; does taking steps to mitigate harm mean you are therefore responsible for the harm that has occurred as a result of your choices? Do you allow more suffering to happen because you are scared to be tainted by your association with *some* suffering? Or, if you make the choice to abstain from participation, are you then responsible for the harm that occurs because of your choice not to act?

We'd all love some morally pure option. But when voting day comes, there might not be one. So you will have to choose between getting your hands dirty in the hopes of some progress, or clean hands and letting the trolley rampage out of control.

[ruffboi-mags]

[rodrickheffeley]

[humanoidhistory]

American shopping mall interiors.

[henstomper]

hard cider was invented when someone decided to make beer that tastes good instead of bad

[twinkwolf]

bruce springsteen kisses clarence clemons in the finale of thunder road. 1985, parc de la courneuve, paris

[twinkwolf]

not to sound like a broken record but can you imagine the depth of feeling, the intensity of love and affection, the strength of their partnership? can you imagine how much it moved them? that they would embrace like this in front of an audience this big in an era this repressed? the music and the people and the excitement and the action boiling over so much you just have to pour it into a kiss with this man and this band that you love so much? i can’t even look at them it’s like staring into THE SUN

[tooies]

"humans are naturally selfish and evil" factoid actually just statistical error. former united states president ronald w. reagan,

[2008hondacivic]

i love wearing jeans. i feel so beautiful. like bruce springsteen

[fnordseer5]

has anyone else ever noticed how good i am at picking pictures to reblog

[crawly]

The everest chronicles

[crawly]

[officiallordvetinari]

[grimeclown]

 “hi welcome to mcdonalds what can i get for you?”

“yeah can i get a deluxe quarter pounder with cheese?”

“absolutely, do you want the meal or just the sandwich?’

“uuuuuh hold on”

*fishes something out of my pocket*

“mikey what do i do?”

“get the fries. youll need the energy in the coming days”

*stuffs it back in my pocket*

“uhh yes please  the meal would be great”

[texcritterspizzajamboree]

serious question: can anyone else see this post? am I hallucinating?

[mosticonicposts]

certified iconic post

[anotherdayinbliss]

Appliquéd Jeans from Creative Crafts and Stitchery, Better Homes and Gardens, 1976.

via

[howldean]

“so, I’ll miss my friend, his sax, the force of nature his sound was, his glory, his foolishness, his accomplishments, his face, his hands, his humor, his skin, his noise, his confusion, his power, his peace. but his love and his story, the story that he gave me, that he whispered in my ear, that he allowed me to tell… and that he gave to you… is gonna carry on.”

- bruce springsteen’s eulogy for clarence clemons, rolling stone

[woolstation-deactivated20210603]

my favorite is s&g songs about tough guy stuff. “I held up and robbed a liquor store” no you did not paul simon