glowing.allium

27 / she / white t4t lesbo on coast salish lands (PNW) / gentle giant

[glowingallium]

smooch

[glowingallium]

if i'm texting you and care what you think of me, i *will* be typing every turn of phrase i use into a search engine first to make sure i'm at least approximating common human communication techniques

[rockshitty]

Yearning for what you can never have is beginner level. Real yearners know the good shit is what you could freely have if you allowed yourself to, but never will.

[rockshitty]

Yearning for what you can never have is beginner level. Real yearners know the good shit is what you could freely have if you allowed yourself to, but never will.

[glowingallium]

plugin hell is when you're stuck between your DAW, bedroom producers blog, kvr audio, and reddit

plugin heaven is when you're stuck between... some other things

[eggpngg2]

Personals on Transgender Forum, 1995-1998

[hardwrench]

The Poisoned Ant = tavern for villains and rogues

Poisoned Ant = 90s rock band

Poisoned the Ant = 2010s rock band that sucks

Ant, Poisoned = dark and contemplative novel that just came out

ANTPOISONED = steam game

[lowpolyanimals]

Bird from Crash Bandicoot

[draconym]

do you think two pennies is still enough for the ferryman or has inflation driven up the fare

[draconym]

if he makes me use an app I am simply not crossing the river Styx.

[sunbeast]

this is my favorite video evcer whats going on

[mayamelodyegg]

🎵

[tributary]

i’ve been a 23 year old girl and i can tell you it does not

[keepingitreluctant]

[couch-purveyor-of-toxic-yuri]

[glowingallium]

Effortless Tidiness

the trick to tidying up before receiving guests is to leave just enough mess that they would never guess you agonized over how minute details might affect their impression of you. such informalities persuade guests that your home is naturally slightly tidier than theirs, kindling insecurity regarding their own tidiness and securing their impression of you as the supreme tidy one.

[jingerpi]

I dont think people realize how much money the US spends on Official anti-china propaganda. over a BILLION. do you know how much that is? Do you have any idea how many people you can pay for that? How many news articles you can buy? How many hoaxes? How many reporters you can keep on retainer? How many analysts you can pay to drum up fake statistics? How many studies you can fund? How much social media you can manipulate?

[jingerpi]

Not a lot of people know this but during the height of COVID the USA funded anti-vaccination conspiracy theories in the Philippines in an attempt to undermine the PRC's influence, using hundreds of (confirmed) bot accounts (potentially far far more), rallying under the tag #Chinaangvirus ("China Is The Virus"). While initially the program primarily drummed up claims of the virus being China's fault, it ended up going far beyond that into making claims about vaccines provided by the PRC being unsafe, in particular leveraging concerns of religious minorities against China.

Hardly any outlets reported on this at all

The clandestine operation has not been previously reported. It aimed to sow doubt about the safety and efficacy of vaccines and other life-saving aid that was being supplied by China, a Reuters investigation found. Through phony internet accounts meant to impersonate Filipinos, the military’s propaganda efforts morphed into an anti-vax campaign. Social media posts decried the quality of face masks, test kits and the first vaccine that would become available in the Philippines – China’s Sinovac inoculation.

Reuters

By the summer, the propaganda campaign seemed to have moved beyond the origin of the disease to the vaccines developed to protect against it, inflaming anxieties among Muslims that the Sinovac shots from China had been manufactured with pork products prohibited by Islamic law. Quite quickly, Reuters reports, Facebook flagged the accounts as objectionable, but the Pentagon defended them as parts of a legitimate counterterrorism operation, and the accounts remained active through the spring of 2021

NYT

So So many people died because of this, and its had a lasting impact on the culture and attitudes towards vaccines in affected communities. Its not even the first time the U.S. has propped up these kinds of anti-scientific conspiracy theories in other countries for their own political goals, either

read more:

International relations in public health: the Pentagon’s anti-vax campaign during COVID-19 pandemic

The intersection of public health and International Relations1,2 (IR) has increasingly become a focal point of academic inquiry, driven by t

[dog-teeth]

normal way to think about making art

[positivelyqueer]

[ID: traditional black ink illustration of an anthropomorphic canine sitting at a desk, drawing. They are thinking "I just need to make a drawing thats so good that everybody will love me." /end ID]

[charlesoberonn]

"helicopter" is a portmanteau of "helico" (greek. "spiral-shaped") and "pter" (greek. "wing").

But when the word was turned into a prefix and suffix, it was divided into "heli" (as in "helipad") and "copter" (as in "quadcopter")

"pter" took the "co" in the divorce.

[depsidase]

[headdunk]

great image, helpful infographic. that being said this is the most useful reaction image ive seen in my life

[sistersorrow]

Tumblr-coded threat