gigglesmith

[gigglesmith]

I am ) ( this close to posting my address online and asking for somebody to come kidnap me. Being in a different abusive situation would be refreshing.

[homunculus-argument]

"If you accept any food from the fae, they shall never let you go" is a human belief. The fair folk stand by the principle that if you feed 'em, you gotta keep 'em. If wildlife learns to rely on you for food, you have already fucked up, and you can't just stop feeding them cold turkey. That human is your responsibility now. Because you left your peach cobbler unsupervised.

[gigglesmith]

If enough evil is done in God's name, does he become the Devil?

If enough good is done in the Devil's name, does he become a loving and merciful God?

[accreature-deactivated20260222]

The Noise Demonstrations Keeping ICE Agents Awake at Their Hotels

Participants in the noise demonstrations targeting hotels that house federal agents in the Twin Cities recount their experiences and explain

YOU LOVE TO SEE IT !!

[reasonsforhope]

-via CrimethInc, January 27, 2026

[gigglesmith]

I love this! ❤️ Wish I could go be a nuisance, too!

[macmanx]

Bandcamp takes a stand against AI music, banning it from the platform | TechCrunch

"We want musicians to keep making music, and for fans to have confidence that the music they find on Bandcamp was created by humans," the co

Bandcamp’s new guidelines state that music and audio generated “wholly or in substantial part by AI” is not permitted and that it will not allow the use of AI tools to impersonate other artists or styles.

[raevenlywrites]

another win for bandcamp! and friendly reminder about Bandcamp Fridays, the first friday of every month, when the platform waives its fees so more money goes directly to the artists youre supporting, and often they run charity drives as well

[qelflinq]

archeologists forever finding ancient little statues of fat women & animal people yet we still hating ? its been our favourite shit since we were apes and if u don’t understand this u need to get hit on the fucking head

[a-kind-of-merry-war]

friends, if I can give you one piece of advice for those of you who are new to work, or are about to enter the workforce, especially if you have any sort of office job:

Do not work on your days off.

"But--"

DO NOT WORK ON YOUR DAYS OFF.

[theprofessional-amateur]

Do not work on your breaks

Do not “answer a few emails” on your vacation

Do not work off the clock

Doing this doesn’t reward you with more money or whatever. It rewards you with more work.

[un-monstre]

Hate it when TikTok farm cosplayers and cottagecore types say stuff like "I'm not going to use modern equipment because my grandmothers could make do without it." Ma'am, your great grandma had eleven children. She would have killed for a slow cooker and a stick blender.

[un-monstre]

I’ve noticed a sort of implicit belief that people used to do things the hard way in the past because they were tougher or something. In reality, labor-saving devices have historically been adopted by the populace as soon as they were economically feasible. No one stood in front of a smoky fire or a boiling pot of lye soap for hours because they were virtuous, they did it because it was the only way to survive.

[jimmythejiver]

Taking these screenshots from Facebook because they make you log in and won't let you copy and paste:

[gigglesmith]

I'm going to go kiss my washing machine now. I knew it saved me from a lot but I wasn't educated on JUST HOW MUCH.

[wachinyeya]

Flat-Headed Cats Seen in Thailand for the First Time in 30 Years, Having Been Thought Extinct https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/flat-headed-cats-seen-in-thailand-for-the-first-time-in-30-years-having-been-though-extinct/

Flat-Headed Cats Seen in Thailand for the First Time in 30 Years, Having Been Thought Extinct

The flat-headed cat has long been feared extinct in the tropical kingdom, where it inhabits peatlands, mangrove forests, and marshes

Dec 29, 2025

[teaboot]

OH MY LORD

[directactionforhope]

Don't know who needs to hear this but trans men don't deserve to be punished for being men

Trans men don't deserve to be shamed for being men, either

No one deserves to be punished for their gender. Ever. But especially not fucking trans people

[wholeheartedsuggestions]

🥇

here’s your “i survived 2025” award

[gigglesmith]

I am no longer telling cishet men my traumatic backstory because it seems that they get off on it. Fuck y'all.

[rederiswrites]

Just in case you need to hear this, bedtime is not for looking at news. It's not time to watch videos about what's going on; it's not time to catch up or "stay informed". Your job at bedtime is to relax and clear your head and sleep, so that you can be rested and tackle another day tomorrow. That's your only responsibility at bedtime. That's how you serve the world best. At bedtime, relaxing and going the fuck to sleep is praxis.

[burninglights]

So turns out the US are setting babies up for a lifetime of illness and increased likelihood of liver cancer in Guinea Bissau in the name of “research”

[burninglights]

7000 newborns will be denied the neoneatal HepB vaccine that is supposed to be administered at birth at the very strong recommendation of the WHO until 6 weeks to ‘prove’ that the HepB vaccine is linked to neurodevelopmental disability on the directions of the Department of Health vis RFK Jr and in collaboration with researchers in Denmark, despite the fact that the vaccine’s efficacy rate and best protection is when administered to newborns, and the total lack of correlation between vaccination and neurodevelopmental disabilities.

Guinea Bissau has some of the highest rates of HepB on the continent, and infants are the group at the highest risk of contracting HepB, leading to chronic hepatitis & long term hepatic diseases like cirrhosis and liver failure as well as increased chance of liver cancer.

The study can’t be carried out in the US or Denmark because it fails almost every benchmark for medical ethics — surprising absolutely nobody, it is in fact heinously unethical to expose babies to preventable disease that causes liver failure and liver cancer, but the “study” has been green lit in Guinea.

Fuck the US imperial project in Africa, fuck RFK Jr and the US Department of Health, and fuck every single collaborative researcher in Denmark. This is some nightmare Tuskegee Study shit and every single individual involved deserves to be in The Hague.

Controversial US-Backed Vaccination Study Begins In Guinea-Bissau - Health Policy Watch

A US government-funded trial on the timing of hepatitis B vaccinations, which will delay vaccination for up to 7,000 newborns in Guinea-Biss

[burninglights]

this post has been edited for accuracy and clarity; please reblog this version if you’re going to reblog it!

[burninglights]

UPDATE: as of this afternoon (Thursday 15th January 2026) the study has been cancelled. There is still the ongoing possibility of the study being re-negotiated with Africa CDC, officials in Guinea Bissau and the Department of Health, so it is important to reiterate to the chief research team and the Danish & Portuguese scientific collaborators your issues with the study, but roll-out has been delayed indefinitely.

[weaselle]

listen. There's a whole mentality shift that needs to happen culture wide here, from the schools to the public infrastructure to pet ownership to the justice system

The proper response to your dog doing a natural behavior you dislike (digging/barking/protecting etc) it to give them an appropriate time and place to engage in that behavior

The proper response to skateboarders damaging infrastructure is to build more and better skate parks, or build skate elements into the public infrastructure on purpose.

The proper response to homeless people sleeping on park benches is to build them houses.

you see how there's like, a commonality at play here?

The proper response to a disruption is to address the root of the disruption directly, not somehow attack the disruption itself -

you don't invent a muffler by swinging a bat at the engine noise, you don't relieve your hunger by punching yourself in the stomach, you don't resolve public unrest by sending armed men to control them and you don't prevent homeless people using bus shelters as a roof by removing the bus shelters.

a whole ass shift in a basic mindset, i'm tellin' you. We need it.

[upandoutcomic]

A moment talking to a cis girl a few months back. She'd known I was trans but sometimes I forget what I look like nowadays 😅

[gigglesmith]

This makes me happy and I think others should see it

[tea-with-mrs-mourning-dove]