The Boy Who Swallowed a Star

My eclectic collection of things I like.

[susanoos-wife]

[feminismisstillahatemovement]

[onthefloorinthedirtwiththefilth]

notice how last night featured almost no non-diagetic audio

[seviyummy]

Eeveelutions! 

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[its-funnytwittertweets]

[damnfandomproblems]

Fandom Problem #15,541:

I need all the "NOT ALL ART IS POLITICAL!!!!" people to understand that the things they're able to view as being apolitical are in fact informed by politics. You think things are "not political" in the same way that some people think they "don't have an accent". Yes, you do. You just incorrectly consider it to be the "default" because it's what's normal--to you.

[burningabyss572]

Just say you want art to reflect only your current political talking points and if they don't, they deserve to suffer.

[airshipcanon]

For everyone in the back who thinks "all art is political". You've probably seen it 100000 times, but you need to see it again, because you're clearly too fucking stupid to not realize that no, not every piece of art is political, you dumb fucking shit.

[shadewriter13]

"Something something Captializism something something Imperialsim something something Colonerzism something something Facist something something Misogynist"

Look I'm too tired to even do a joking 'break down' of what the art means like I did with Sonic games.

[mercaius]

Your self righteous pareidolia shouldn't be everyone else's problem.

[amagi2000]

[the-davest-of-uncles]

You don't have to make peace with it; you have no quarrel with the universe. All you need do is revel in the beauty it holds, and be joyful you are a part of it.

[justinccase]

For me, the best part is knowing that the God who created all of this, died for our sins, so that we could be reconciled to Him.

The same God who watches all these galaxies, takes time to watch us because we are that important to him.

[norwoods-dni]

[thehungrycity]

[optimisticbananaharmony-deactiv]

what made them think it was always right?

[smoqueen-deactivated20251108]

they are stupid

[atalana]

orrrrr they just grew up in this tech focused privacy lacking world

current university students, assuming they went to university at 18 (which would be most of the first years) were maybe 4 when smartphones got popular? the world they have grown up with is one where apps are the only way one interacts with technology, where social media increasingly demands personal information, where someone who refuses to go along with those norms automatically has something to hide, which means everyone polices themselves as if their every fashion choice or sentence structure is subject to judge and jury, because it is

we live in an age which discourages asking questions, where every question is met with offense and "just google it", while google itself fills its entire first page with ads and misinformation

and tumblr is the only place i've seen critique chatgpt. i've had windows 11 (which every laptop comes with these days) advertise chatgpt to me as a search engine

it's not a search engine. frankly, google hardly counts as one either these days. but if you're not surrounded by people telling you chatgpt is bad and fake, how are you supposed to know? when your computer and your phone and your relatives who don't know much more about technology than you all think it's a search engine with a voice, it wouldn't occur to you that all of them are wrong

and they're clearly not stupid! that's the point of this as an exercise - their teacher is telling them for the first time that chatgpt might be wrong. your job is to find out if chatgpt is wrong. and they did the assignment! they had a reason for the first time to question chatgpt, and all of them came to the conclusion that yeah, it is lying to us, and so is everyone else who said it was always right

and they'll go forward now not only knowing they can't blindly trust what computers tell them, but they'll spread that message around, which will decrease misinformation on a bunch of levels

this was a win for the students and a win for the teacher, i think an exercise like this should be mandatory in all schools if we ever hope to combat where technology's going these days

[aniseandspearmint]

How is TUMBLR the only place that seems to be critical of the PLAGIARISM AND MISINFORMATION MACHINE?!?!

[teaboot]

Machines taking our job

[sickolib]

It is just incredibly obvious that the organized Left has absolutely no standard for morals, ethics, or baseline honesty. They will lie at all times, at every opportunity, with no prompting. They will overlook, downplay, and cover up any misdeed.

All in the name of what? A nebulous ever morphing crusade against the world itself, against authority, expertise, that smug high achiever from high school, their parents, the very concept of responsibility.

A collection of fuck ups desperate to blame their inferiority on anyone but themselves

[autumnmorning]

[gacougnol]

Joseph Schwartz

A kitten sits on a playbill for "I Remember Momma" in a store window in Flatbush, Brooklyn, New York. 1940s

[newsandstuffisee]

[greenandhazy]

Okay I already put something in the tags but upon reflection I have something important enough for a comment, too.

Pennsylvania is currently working on its budget, and one of if not THE main sticking point is funding for public transit—all transit in the state, but mainly for SEPTA, the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority, which serves Philadelphia and its surrounding counties and is facing a $213 million budget deficit. The PRT, which serves Pittsburgh, is also in danger.

As of this morning, SEPTA has to start the process of cutting services by 45%—canceling some train and bus lines entirely, implementing a 9pm curfew on subway lines, reducing frequency, and canceling sporting event services (all of our professional league stadiums are accessible by one subway line and a significant number of fans take it)—all because politicians in rural counties have been demonizing SEPTA as a “chauffeur service for city residents” that doesn’t benefit the rest of the commonwealth. I am not joking. A state rep literally sent a letter to constituents describing buses that way.

But what is so fucking infuriating to me is that at one of the rallies, I learned ONE SIMPLE FACT that, in my mind, should have ended the entire debate: Philadelphia and Allegheny Counties are the only revenue-positive counties in the commonwealth of Pennsylvania. The money to fix roads and bridges in every other county comes from Philadelphia’s economy, which is supported by the fact that people take the train in from collar counties to work here, and people go to sporting events here and spend money, and residents who are paying significantly higher rents than anywhere else in the state but still living in poverty can get to their jobs without having a car. (Not to mention the fact that our cash-strapped education department saves money by having kids take SEPTA instead of school buses.)

If no agreement is reached and these cuts fully go into effect—some of them are starting by the end of the month and a second round in January—it very well may cost thousands of jobs and millions of dollars in revenue, which will have reverberating effects on every county in the commonwealth, including the poorest who are most reliant on state funding.

But, you know. Fuck cities.

[whereserpentswalk]

A lot of people need to face the truth that rural and suburban areas are legitimately privileged in American society, and the bigotry agaisnt cities is inherently tied to anti immigration sentiment, racism, queerphobia, and Christian supremacy.

[siryouarebeingmocked]

Are y'all ignoring the decades of how the Midwest has been called "flyover country" by smug urbanites?

This isn't unidirectional.

A lot of people need to face the truth that rural and suburban areas are legitimately privileged in American society, and the bigotry agaisnt cities is inherently tied to anti immigration sentiment, racism, queerphobia, and Christian supremacy.

How convenient that every opinion you dislike is held by people with every other opinion or trait you dislike, so you can just ignore everything they actually say.

Tell some poor rando living in a shack on a mountain and surviving on roadkill and food stamps that they're privileged, and they're going to laugh at you.

Even living in a suburb doesn't make you privileged. Take a gander at Detroit.

Also, plenty of bigots are not actually privileged, and most anti-city sentiment I see is driven by things like high prices, high crime, and lack of nature.

[fiachdubh]

I'm not afraid of cities, I just don't want to live in a place full of people that gets hotter in the summer than the suburbs and rural areas.

[takashi0]

Also the idea that Rural areas, which are often way poorer, are somehow "Privileged" is a perfect example of how leftist urbanites just plain do not live in tangible reality and don't understand a single damn thing they talk about.

[beardedmrbean]

Visit Farm Sanctuary: Los Angeles, CA

Our 39-acre Southern California shelter is located on a beautiful hacienda ranch in Acton, just 45 minutes from Hollywood.

LA County is massive, saying that many people live there is not the flex you think it is, especially considering how much of it is still rural farmland.

[doggirldick]

[april]

screenshots of hope and joy

[the-axiom-of-choice]

peace and love on planet earth

[myspace]

[witch-hattery]

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[forestgreenandgray]

Hey do you know what rumination is?

Rumination is probably the most common type of OCD compulsion, but I rarely see anyone talking about it. I've talked to multiple people diagnosed with OCD who didn't even recognize it as a compulsion.

Basically, if you have OCD you have terrible intrusive thoughts. They can be about anything, but common themes are fear of being a bad person, fear of hurting someone, fear of contamination. etc.

Rumination is when you get stuck in a spiral. Rumination is when you spend hours catastrophizing, overthinking, analyzing, telling yourself it's going to be okay.

I'll say it again:

Rumination is a compulsion.

Rumination is a compulsion, and that means you have to stop doing it.

I did ERP (exposure response prevention) for my OCD with a therapist! For 9 months! And it did help, but the idea didn't really click until I found this website a couple years later.

And Oh My God. It made things make so much more sense, and I was able to pull myself out of an episode even though I wasn't in therapy or on meds at the time.

Genuinely if you have OCD, or even if you suspect you have OCD, I'm begging you to read some of these articles.

Like this was genuinely life changing for me.

Here are some of the ones that were most helpful to me:

Defining Rumination

How to Stop Ruminating

ERP Exercises for Compulsive Rumination

What to Do When You're Triggered

[vitamaeternum]

@my-mom-does-not-have-it-going-on

[never-obsolete]

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