greenfluff

Baygirl, gaygirl, 36, in need of sleep and a just world

[an-ruraiocht]

how it feels to be online these days

[sweetvinegar]

[spatialheather]

"i saw your name in the kudos list of the devil's sacrament"

[sage-nebula]

Okay, but what were YOU doing in the kudos list of the devil's sacrament? 👀

[stele3]

I'm taking this class that's a prerequisite to a master's program in mental health. Last night, the professor was describing difficulties inherent to group counseling; in particular, confidentiality is tricky because the other group members are not bound by HIPAA and could potentially put information about the group up on "their, y'know, LiveJournal or MySpace or Tumblr."

From the back of the class, I could not restrain myself from saying, "Did you just say LiveJournal? Tumblr? Okay, sure, fangirl, drop your AO3 handle."

She looked at me with absolute terror in her eyes.

[yaoiblackmold]

Journey to Babel happening after Amok time is so incredibly funny because in that episode Jim learned that Vulcans have a heat cycle and his first officer has to fuck right now or he'll die. Met Spocks WIFE and also learned that T'Pau the most influential person on Vulcan is related to Spock, got into a messy three way divorce arc between T'Pring, Stonn and Spock, then having to literally fight Spock to the death and DIED. And yet after all of that extremly personal drama Jim witnessed Spock still didn't tell Jim who the fuck his parents are. Like the man is insane, your best friend and captain saved you from a fuck or die situation, got you out of a loveless marriage, literally died for you and you still won't introduce him to your mom and dad.

[dduane]

Welcome to the time when there was no guarantee that episodes would air in any kind of specific order—and the affiliate stations showing them straightforwardly refused to give any kind of commitment to showing episodes in any order that the studio desired.

Therefore TV Then was nothing, nothing like TV Now.

Episodes had to be able to stand alone when shown in any order. None of them could refer specifically to any other, because there was no way to tell which eps an affiliate had already shown. (Or not shown.)

People do know that order-of-showing of any kind in syndication didn't even start until Hill Street Blues, yeah? That the concept of the "episode arc" was first implemented then, in the early 1980s?

If you didn't know that, please know it now.

Therefore: if you were only young in the 1960s, or not born yet—as regards episode arcs and the logical results of anything you saw in any one given episode—please let ST:TOS off the hook.

Thank you. :)

[feelmyroarrrr]

Link

What a thirst trap!!!

[the-real-seebs]

... gotta say i am genuinely impressed by this man's ability to fold a fitted sheet and have it come out well.

[mythicamagic]

One of my favourite things when reading fanfiction is when you click with an author's style so much that you adore the fanfiction you're reading, and once it's over you need more. So you go to their page and hope that there's more for any fandom you might know- only there isn't any. They've written for other fandoms you aren't familiar with and never would've thought about before.

But you're down so bad for their style and talent that they got you wading in like:

[creature-wizard]

Hmm? What's this? An anti-voter telling us our votes don't count?

Well! That's quite an opinion! Let's look at their blog, I'm sure we'll see a long history of posts there, showing us that this person is not a bot or a troll account specifically made for election interference?

...Oh?

What's this? Literally only one post?

Oh! But that post is dated to August 2013! Clearly this must be an old blog, it's not like Tumblr has a feature that lets you date posts to anytime you want- oh? They do?

Watch out, y'all - anti-voting bots/trolls are on Tumblr, and they are trying to discourage us from voting. They do this because they know that if we vote blue, we can keep Trump out of office.

[mothman-etd]

Going back to 1976 "Did not vote" voters have won every presidential election except the last one.

The news likes to talk about how a State is Blue or Red but any state can flip given how 1/3 of voters did not turn out last election and that was the highest turnout we have had for the last 48 years.

[artielu]

Listen up.

Supreme Court ruling makes it harder to bring racial gerrymandering claims

The U.S. Supreme Court, in a 6-3 vote along ideological lines, reversed a lower court decision that had struck down a South Carolina congres

The current Supreme Court is a 6-3 conservative majority.

Justice Thomas, that corrupt fascist fucker, is 75.

Justice Alito, that biased fascist fucker, is 74.

Each is married to a fascist ultra right wing woman. Ginny Thomas was actively involved in Trump's efforts to overturn the 2020 election. Martha Ann Alito is the alleged source of the ultra right wing flags on the Alito homes.

If Trump is elected in 2024, Thomas and Alito will retire, just like Kennedy did in 2018. Trump will get to appoint two more justices in their 50s.

Like sexual assaulter and liar Kavanaugh. Or handmaid's tale Coney Barrett. And the conservative majority will be on lock for thirty years. Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, and Coney Barrett are in their 50s.

Add two more ultraconservative justices in their 50s and you have a five seat conservative majority for 30 years if they live natural lifetimes.

If Trump is elected in 2024, we've not only lost the Court for at least a decade (now) but another thirty years.

What other civil rights would you like to lose? Because YOU WILL. We ALL will.

Can we fucking not? CAN WE FUCKING NOT?

Vote for Biden.

Vote for Democrats for the Senate.

[qqueenofhades]

If I had to guess, if god forbid Trump is elected, I'd put money on Thomas and Alito promptly retiring (as @artielu notes above). Trump will then appoint probably James Ho (the Fifth Circuit insane nutjob whose hardline anti-abortion stance was too much even for the forced-birth anti-Roe wingnuts currently on SCOTUS) and Aileen Cannon, the wildly unqualified district-court hack in Florida who is holding up the Mar-a-Lago documents case at every turn in Trump's favor and is clearly gunning for an appointment to SCOTUS as a result of the personal favors she is doing for the Godfather. James Ho is 51, Aileen Cannon is 42. They will be on the court for another 30 years at minimum. The 6-3 conservative majority will be fucking locked down for the rest of your goddamn adult lives, and anything that gets in front of SCOTUS that your allegedly progressive asses care about? Gone. And somehow it will all be Biden's fault still, apparently? Because This Is Your Brain on Online Leftism.

It can and will get so much worse. Especially while Project 2025 and Trump are doing all the fascist shit they possibly can.

BUT. After 2016 was so epically, cosmically fucked up, in large part because of people shouting that Hillary was evil and SCOTUS didn't matter (and then steadfastly refused to change their opinion even as a wingnut-hijacked SCOTUS functioned exactly as designed), there is still a chance to fix it. It's not GUARANTEED that Thomas would tragically fall off his sugar daddy's yacht and drown, or Alito would mysteriously die on a FedSoc hunting boys' club weekend, but it could also happen. They're both in their mid-70s, and while they won't VOLUNTARILY retire in a second Biden term, there could also very well come a tipping point of scandal when they're forced out. (John Roberts is also a professional ass-saver extraordinaire, and may intervene if they keep making the brand look so bad.)

Biden himself has said the next president will probably have two SCOTUS picks (most likely Thomas and Alito's seats). If we could fill those with progressive/liberal judges, like he's been doing with the lower courts as fast as he can in an attempt to counteract all the Heritage Foundation hacks Trump and McConnell jammed onto the bench between 2017-20, that would flip the court back 5-4 liberal. If Sotomayor retires due to health problems, which is likely even though she's only in her late 60s, Biden would also be able to fortify her seat. The liberal wing would once more have control and could start reversing some of these horrible fucking decisions that SCOTUS pumps out on the regular, even after Biden himself was out of office.

SCOTUS is the way a president's policy keeps functioning long after he is no longer in power. Thomas was appointed by Bush Senior. Alito was appointed by Bush Junior. Kavanaugh, Gorsuch, and ACB were all appointed by Trump and they will remain in their posts for life. If Trump is then allowed to fill two MORE posts -- Trump, the most unqualified, sleazy, rapist, treasonous, fascist fucking scumbag to ever seek any American political office anywhere -- then yeah, there ain't gonna be too much left to work with by the time they're done.

This is not about Moral Purity Pearl Clutching. This is about basic pragmatic hard-tacks choices about the basic reality of how the American government fucking works. If you don't want to vote "for" Biden, then don't frame it that way. You are voting for him to give him the chance to fucking get rid of Thomas and Alito, who have infamously distinguished themselves as even more insane than Trump's handpicked lunatics. You might just be able to save us from the carnage of 2016. But only if you LEARN A DAMN THING.

So. Yes.

[prof-grace-aspen]

Look.

I have made you a chart. A very simple chart.

People say "You have to draw the line somewhere, and Biden has crossed it-" and my response is "Trump has crossed way more lines than Biden".

These categories are based off of actual policy enacted by both of these men while they were in office.

If the ONLY LINE YOU CARE ABOUT is line 12, you have an incredible amount of privilege, AND YOU DO NOT CARE ABOUT PALESTINIANS. You obviously have nothing to fear from a Trump presidency, and you do not give a fuck if a ceasefire actually occurs. You are obviously fine if your queer, disabled, and marginalized loved ones are hurt. You clearly don't care about the status of American democracy, which Trump has openly stated he plans to destroy on day 1 he is in office.

[catboymistyquigley-deactivated2]

if you want to vote for a third party, what you are going to do is vote for biden in november 2024 and then as soon as that’s done, start trying to get ranked choice voting in your state

we will ALWAYS be a two party system until voting reform happens, and voting reform won’t happen if project 2025 happens.

suck it up and vote biden, then put the next four years to good use

[prof-grace-aspen]

^^^

[neil-gaiman]

Are you able to vote in US elections? Because the preachy vote blue no matter who posts are really not where it's at, Neil, and if you can't vote in the states then it's doubly fucking annoying.

I'm sorry that it annoys you that I don't have a vote in the US: if it makes you feel better, I pay the vast majority of my taxes here, I live here, and more importantly my children and grandchildren live here and will grow up in whatever version of the US the courts and government create. The effect of the US on the rest of the planet is enormous.

So I'm going to use whatever platform I have to point out that voting matters. And that sometimes you hold your nose and decide who you're voting against.

[red-lipstick]

Tom Gauld (Scottish, b. 1976) - The Reason I Stayed In The House All Day    Drawings  (All perfectly valid reasons)

[ivan-fyodorovich-deactivated202]

this has aged well

[greatmountainfloofsquatch]

We’ve all had these days.

[dzhmileka]

⚠️ Situation at Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant is critical: Expired fuel, unqualified staff, Russian occupation raise new safety concerns.

The Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP), the largest in Europe, has been occupied by Russian forces since February 2023. This raises serious safety concerns, as the plant is using expired nuclear fuel and is being operated by unqualified personnel.

According to Petro Kotin, chairman of the National Nuclear Energy Company "Energoatom", one of the most critical issues is the presence of expired nuclear fuel in the reactors. The fuel has been there for six years, exceeding the six-year limit set by the manufacturer. This can lead to destruction of fuel cells, which could result in a release of radioactive material.

The situation is further complicated by the fact that the Ukrainian staff that operated the plant was dismissed and replaced by Russian forces. The staff currently present is not qualified to operate the power station, and there are concerns that they may not be able to handle an emergency situation.

In addition, the plant is experiencing problems because of a lack of proper maintenance and infrastructure. This includes a shortage of spare parts and qualified personnel

The consequences of a nuclear accident at ZNPP could be catastrophic. It could release radioactive material into the environment, contaminating a large area and causing widespread illness and death. It could also damage the plant itself, making it difficult or impossible to clean up.

The international community has called for Russia to withdraw its forces from the ZNPP and allow Ukrainian authorities to resume control of the plant. This is the only way to ensure the safety of the plant and prevent a nuclear disaster.

The situation at the ZNPP is a ticking time bomb, and the global community must act to prevent a nuclear disaster.

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[hellenhighwater]

just abruptly remembered that one of my friends had the absolute best college job, which I am still envious of. If it paid more I would quit lawyering right this minute and go get this job; it didn't pay enough to live on, but the temptation remains.

She was on call 24/7 as an operator for the Grammar Hotline.

Which is, yes, a phone line that you could call at any hour of the day or night to have your emergency grammar questions answered.

Literally none of her calls were boring. It was like 80% writers who had worked their way into a grammatical corner and 20% people having the pettiest arguments who needed an arbiter to decide who was right, and 100% of the time she got to be the platonic ideal of a stuffy librarian. Best job ever.

[maniculum]

Hey so. How does one apply for this job?

[naamahdarling]

How does one contact such a hotline today?

[anexperimentallife]

[badsciencejokes]

Don't miss a wire

[antique-scarecrow]

[mordeshakes]

My cat’s body is so loose and saggy that he blended in perfectly with a sweater on the ground. When my mom was cleaning up, she thought he was part of the sweater and grabbed him. :(

[haru-desune]

You GRAB miette??? You grab miette like a sweater???

[wilwheaton]

“If our historical enemies—from the Nazis to the denizens of the Kremlin—sat down to enumerate the sources of American strength they wished to destroy—domestically and internationally, socially, economically, politically, and militarily—their list of targets would match perfectly with the Trump-MAGA agenda. That is why—as demented and disqualifying as Trump’s latest rant should be, as much as he should be the target of unceasing public opprobrium—the real problem is not the leader, but the movement. The greatest threat America faces today is from tens of millions of our own neighbors, friends, and family members who are willing to see the future of our country put in grave jeopardy for reasons of ignorance, anger, and greed. In other words, as outrageous as Trump’s comments were this past weekend, what is most shocking about them is that they have not and will not result in his immediate rejection by the members of his party. And, therefore, the goal in November must not be just to defeat Trump but to decisively defeat—and thereby begin to destroy—the entire MAGA GOP movement.”

— Trump Is Telling Us He’s an Enemy of the American People

[normal-horoscopes]

Okay someone asked me earlier "Hey CT, you study the occult for a living, off the top of your head, what's the most popular form of the occult in today's world?"

Pseudo-nutrition. Bar none. A massive amount of the fad dieting world goes beyond simple misinformation and ignorance and full on into a systemized non-scientific theory of anatomy and nutrition that 100% qualifies as magic. If you replace the term "toxins" with "evil ghosts" half of these blogs would sound like sumerian curse tablets.