Hnnnnggg..

Washington . 30 . Still uncertain of things.

[hailscatan]

I haven’t been on Tumblr in 5 years

A lot has changed in five years; I married my longtime partner (also met on Tumblr) we now have children, cats, and a home together. I don’t know if I’ll be using this blog much, but I’ve been wanting to hop back on for a while now.

Anyways, hello again internet.

[spoonie-living]

[Image: Tweet by Emily Mullin (@EmilyLMullin) and tweet by Isobelle Winter (@IsobelleWinter), both about the dangers of Facebook’s new preventative health screening tool. Images have been modified for visual ease but information has not been changed.]

Something to know about Facebook’s new “screening tool,” and advice/info that can most certainly be used outside of this specific situation.

For spoonies, the biggest deal is how this data, if leaked, could affect you in professional and insurance spheres.

Here’s Emily’s full thread, which discusses the details of the tool, and here’s Isobelle’s full thread, which extrapolates on specific dangers.

In the end? It’s another data grab. Data is worth money; don’t give yours away, especially not to Facebook.

[blueandbluer]

PLEASE SIGNAL BOOST this shit is scary.

[teratocybernetics]

did everyone just forget the whole Facebook/Cambridge Analytica using personality quizzes to gather data on people and then use it to influence elections thing or what

[tastefullyoffensive]

(via cottoncandaddy)

[taylorzrealm]

LMFAO THE LAST PART

[disasterbisexual-moved]

chaotic dorks

[the-british-pineapple]

I love how they are both as ridiculous as each

[urbanfantasyinspiration]

“All you came back with was hot Cheetos” literally me

[0meadow-deactivated20200602]

[instamatik]

[radlogaga]

Honestly this is fucking brilliant because you can put hot drinks in this cup and since it has a handle you won’t burn your hand drinking it

[hydro-homies]

Spider sense

[unbossed-deactivated20251218]

[tchaikovskaya]

im really not trying to be mean here but this one tag from a reblog just so colossally missed the point i cant let it go unacknowledged

the whole message of this post is that the clothes are being made regardless of whether anybody is going to be purchasing them. they’re made in sweatshops, shipped to the other side of the globe, put on racks in thousands of stores, and whatever doesn’t sell is dumped in the fucking desert to make room on those racks for the next shipment.

“buy secondhand only” in response to this is such an egregious misunderstanding and it’s doing the exact fucking thing that is implicitly being criticized by this tweet, which is that individual consumer choices are totally disconnected from the global production of consumer goods and therefore moralizing about making the Correct choices and imploring people to go to fucking goodwill instead of tj maxx is meaningless

[bogleech]

Slave labor and borderline slave labor allow cheap junk to be made for so little that some companies can make up for the loss several times over by claiming it on insurance, getting government subsidies, or even selling certain things as scrap or filler to other industries. Companies are so frequently part of some vast network of brands owned by the same entity that they can waste a billion dollars without batting an eye. Just saturating a market with *your* unsellable shit can be seen as advantageous if it helps push out a competitor. Someone buying one new pair of shoes for $20 can mean they just covered the manufacturing cost for 500 pairs. Passive boycotting isn’t going to work ever again at this point. The only ways any of this can change will unfortunately require vastly, vastly more work from more people than just telling Twitter to stop buying pants or switching a fast food chain to paper straws.

[tearsofbambi]

[ruinedchildhood]

[lady-redhaired]

Me in 2022 when the pandemic hasn’t ended yet because people don’t know how to act right and I’ve been holed up in my house for three years acquiring a new flavor of crazy, going to open the door for the guy in the hazmat suit that’s come to deliver my groceries

[jjpg1815]

[memeuplift]

[uncle-cazador]

[guerrillatech]

[amateur]

[artisheaven]

MICHAELA YEARWOOD-DAN

[yekkes]

I'm sorry this is one of the funniest tags that's ever been left on one of my posts

[toastbutteregg]

[best-of-inspirobot]

[tearlessrain]

this is in perfect iambic meter and sounds like the first line of a weird poem

[tearlessrain]

Rule #2

Don’t ever hug a lobster when you see one on the street,

For decorum is essential when a lobster you must greet.

You may comment on the weather, compliment his choice of hat,

But crustaceans like their space if one should stop them for a chat.

Don’t ever hug a lobster when you’re strolling down the coast,

Simply nod and give a greeting, or a handshake at the most,

For a lobster’s first priority is formal social graces,

And one seemes over-familiar if a lobster one embraces.

Don’t ever hug a lobster when you meet one in the sea,

For a lobster’s spines and chitin make it difficult, you see,

And he might become self-conscious if you bring that fact to light,

So don’t ever hug a lobster, simply put, it’s impolite.

[pathos-logical]

[ID: An image of two people shaking hands with the text “Rule #2: don’t ever hug a lobster when you see one on the street” above their hands. End ID]

[carry-on-my-wayward-butt]

“i also choose this guy’s dead wife” was easily the #1 funniest thing to ever be written on the internet.

[carry-on-my-wayward-butt]

you can know the punchline but you can’t stop it from punching you.

[mighty-meerkat]

i do also feel the need to add that phil8248 really liked the joke. he said his wife had always had a dark sense of humour, even about her illness and death, and seeing the joke made him feel like he was laughing with her one last time.

[neroushalvaus]

This was cute so I wanted to check out if this was true and found these:

Honestly I’m so happy that he and his children liked the joke.

[macleod]

Reblogging this version because some people in the tags were trying to make it seem like @mighty-meerkat​ was lying, who was not.