It tastes like someone stole my wallet, you know?

Lauren here - pretty much 24/7.

[hotboyproblems]

When you laugh at a dumb meme and someone who’s not an internet person asks whats so funny, but it’s like a tier 3 meme and you’ve gotta explain about seven years of internet for them to understand the nuances

[ratguzzler-deactivated20181213]

ill be sappy whenever i want. i dont give a shit. i love you. fuck off

[feministism]

[helloitsbees]

Or say, “you’re [incorrect name], right?” If they correct you, they’re the real deal. If they say yes, then get out of there.

[deadbonessinderhellaton]

Call your Uber as soon as they show up. If you see the driver pick up the phone/hear your voice coming from the speakers, that’s your driver.

[towlersnow-deactivated20210528]

This seems like something everyone should know if they’re in the sciences and/or interested in reading scientific papers.

[just-shower-thoughts]

The best feeling when your phone is fully charged so you can unplug it and roll to the other side of your bed

[dope-kulture]

Tony Hawk lands a 900 at age 48!

🐐🐐🐐

[iamnotjody]

G.O.A.T

[dontforgettheclit]

wtf

[supervirgin]

I love how he showed how many times he failed though, that’s inspirational for people out here trying to learn

[shmeards]

i love that he’s still doing this

i also love how he fuckin RIPS HIS HELMET OFF AND DESTROYS IT

[gobbochune-deactivated20241018]

i love that victory slide

[dustrial-inc]

✨

[c3rvida3]

You know that post about how your bones are always wet, and that post about how you shake because your skeleton is ready to hatch??

Combine them to create the ultimate turn of phrase and start describing things as “as moist as an unhatched skeleton”.

[barbedwirebutterfly-deactivated]

That’s explains a lot of things

[c3rvida3]

Listen, I know I have no room to complain about people saying ominous bullshit, but what could this possibly explain.

[baileywilson013]

Maybe misusing the name of God isn’t so much about saying the shallow words, “Oh my God,” as it is about using the name of God to justify discrimination, oppression, injustice, racism, slavery, xenophobia, poverty, sexism, islamophobia, ableism, homophobia, war, & the list can go on. 

[questions-within-questions]

Amen

[gaslightgallows]

When I was a wee little Gaslight attending Catholic Sunday schools, and then later in college when I was taking a Bible as Literature class, both my stolid neighborhood deacon and my dapper Protestant professor said almost the exact same thing:

“Taking the Lord’s name in vain isn’t when someone says ‘God damn it.’ It’s when a mortal, fallible human being presumes to put words in God’s mouth and say ‘This is what God wants you to do.’“

[superpowered-autistic-cats]

Time to reblog again. Holy shit.

[kitchenwitchupinthisbitch]

Interesting. I never knew this

[bizarrolord-deactivated20241123]

Think about it, though. Would God be angrier about you using his name to curse someone else out or straight-up putting words in his mouth?

[princesshamlet-deactivated20210]

guys the “this is a gay’s only month go home” and “this month is gay and there’s nothing you can do about it” jokes are funny but can we not forget about trans people please

[liquidink21]

we respectin’ the straight trans people and their right to pride

[antimanifesto1973]

hey anyone want some upsmexy ? x3

[blackpyrefly]

lol xD whats upsmexy????? :3c

[antimanifesto1973]

nothing much :3 how abt u ?? x3 xDDD

[blackpyrefly]

xDDD x3 OMG u got me xDD :3

[qh-deactivated20170215]

[blameaspartame-deactivated20200]

[stealthrockdamage-deactivated20]

5-hit fucking combo right here

[heavyheartheldhigh]

wat

[daiseokkie-deactivated20190730]

the first five emotes on your recently used emojis describe you as a person ready set go

[everything-is-not-daijoubu]

😭🐘🦃🥔😂

[heavyheartheldhigh]

👋😘❤😊😂

[squidbroom]

homophobes are not allowed to use computers because the inventor of the computer was gay

[local-chibi-girl]

People think this is just a joke but Alan Turing was the inventor of the computer and his sexuality was illegal in his time (which was not even 100 years ago) and he was arrested. They put him on drugs that destroyed his genius brain and committed suicide a year after being covicted. He was gay and a war hero as well. He helped to break enigma which was a German code that they put all their messages through. He shorted WWII by two years and saved so many lives in the process.

[anticritical-lapis]

Friendly reminder that if not for Alan Turing you wouldn’t be reading this post and we might be ruled by the nazis

[addycted]

The Alan Turing statue on my campus

[rainboflg]

He should not be forgotten…

[handsomejackass]

horse people are weird

[railroadsoftware]

what does this mean

[evnw-deactivated20230112]

horses can see demons

[volfish]

@betterbemeta are you able to translate this? Is it true horses can see netherbeings?? Will we ever know the extent of their powers???

[betterbemeta]

I think I have reblogged this before but I’ll answer it again bc its a fascinating answer I feel and i was more funny than informational last time.

The truth is that horses see what they think are nether beings, I guess. They have a perfect storm of sensory perception that, useful for prey beings, marks false positives on mortal danger all the time. Which is advantageous to a flight-based prey species: running from danger when you’re super fast is much ‘cheaper’ than fighting, so you waste almost nothing from running from a threat that’s not there. Versus, you blow everything if you don’t see a threat that is there.

Horses also have their eyes positioned on the sides of their heads, which gives them an incredible range of peripheral vision almost around their entire body with only a few blind spots you can sneak up on them in. But this comes at the cost of binocular vision; they can only judge distance for things straight ahead of them. Super useful for preventing predators sneaking up from the sides or behind, but useless for recognizing familiar shapes with the precision we can.

Basically we now have a walking couch with anxiety its going to get attacked at any second, that can see almost everything, but mostly only out of the corner of its eye. It has a few blind spots and anything that suddenly appears out of them is terrifying to it. Combine that with that it actually has far superior low-light vision than us, and that its ears can swivel in any directions like radar dishes, and you’ve basically given a nervous wreck a highly accurate but imprecise danger-dar.

To be concise: all horses, even the most chill horses, on some level believe they are living in a survival horror.

This means that you could approach it in a flapping poncho and if it can’t recognize your shape as human, they mistake you for SATAN… or you could pass this one broken down tractor you’ve passed 100 times on a trail ride, but today is the day it will ATTACK… or your horse could feel a horsefly bite from its blind spot and MAMA, I’VE BEEN HIT!!!… or you could both approach a fallen log in the woods but in the low light your horse is going to see the tree rings as THE EYE OF MORDOR.

However, they actually have kind of a cool compensation for this– they are social animals, and instinctively look towards leadership. In the wild or out at pasture, this is their most willful, pushy, decisive leader horse who decides where to go and where it’s safe. But humans often take this role both as riders and on the ground. They are always watching and feeling for human reactions to things. This is why moving in a calm, decisive way and always giving clear commands is key to working with this kind of animal. Confusing commands, screaming, panic, visible distress, and chaos will signal to a horse that you, brave leader are freaked out… so it should freak out too!

On one hand, you’ll get horses that will decide that they are the leader and you are not, so getting them to listen to you can be tough– requiring patience and skill more than force. On the other hand, a good enough rider and a well-trained horse (or a horse with specialized training) can venture into dangerous situations, loud and scary environments, etc. calmly and confidently.

The joke in OP though is that many horses that are bred to be very fast, like thoroughbreds, are also bred and encouraged to be high-energy and highstrung. Making them more anxious and prone to seeing those ‘demons.’ All horses in a sense are going to be your anxious friend, but racehorses and polo ponies and other sport horses can sometimes be your anxious friend that thinks they live in Silent Hill.

[inquisitorhierarch]

Reblogging some horse knowledge for certain people who write fantasy books but know nothing about horses *cough cough*

[anzozi-everywhere]

highlights: “Basically we now have a walking couch with anxiety its going to get attacked at any second.” “All horses in a sense are going to be your anxious friend, but racehorses and polo ponies and other sport horses can sometimes be your anxious friend that thinks they live in Silent Hill.”

[justhereforthesherlock]

This is very interesting info about horses but still leaves open the question of:

WHO HAS A SMARTPHONE THAT FINDS INVISIBLE MONSTERS?!

[camwyn]

I sort of assumed they were talking about Pokemon Go.

[asymbina]

“…racehorses and polo ponies and other sport horses can sometimes be your anxious friend that thinks they live in Silent Hill.”

this post just screams @thefingerfuckingfemalefury to me

[thefingerfuckingfemalefury]

:D

HORSES ARE WARNING US OF INCOMING PYRAMID HEADS

[feywildwest]

one of the weirdest ways that language is evolving in response to the internet is that “bad words” just. do not have the same impact anymore. i constantly forget that some people think ‘fuck you’ is a terrible insult

so threats and insults have to start getting really out there if the person wants to even mean anything. if a person told me to die i’d shrug it off but if i opened a post’s tags and saw “op i will sneak into your house and replace all your shoelaces with cooked pasta” do you know how shaken i’d be? do you know how upset i’d be if i saw “op is the personification of the look you share w other people in the grocery store when some dude is causing A Scene™ for no reason”

[zmyaro]

So you are saying English curses on the Internet are becoming more like Yiddish curses?

[feywildwest]

I sincerely hope so but I can’t say I’m familiar with yiddish curses and i am begging you to tell me a few

[gallusrostromegalus]

My Personal favorite is:

“May all your teeth fall out, except for one, to give you a toothache.”

[supersexystonersecretssavwlives]

okay Yiddish Curses are brutal. But what happens when the revival of hyper specific creative and almost flatteringly well developed thoughts specifically designed to express the emotion “go fuck yourself” to another individual reaches individuals that can’t handle the basic “fuck off”? Actually, let me get back to you on that.

[peach-course]

Do not support Adam (2018)

I recently heard the news that Adam by Ariel Schrag will be getting a movie. I read the book myself about a year and a half ago and I cannot stress enough just how problematic it is.

Adam is a book about a cis boy pretending to be a trans man in order to trick a lesbian into dating him.

Adam goes to New York to stay with his lesbian sister for the summer, and while he’s there he meets trans men who consider themselves lesbians. At a party he meets a lesbian he thinks is pretty and in order to get into a relationship with her he lies and tells her he’s a pre transition trans man. Let’s make a list of some of the highlights from the book, shall we?

At the very beginning of the book his sister and her girlfriend visit home and Adam and his friend spies on them having sex.

Almost all the trans men in the book identify as lesbians, implying that they are still women because they haven’t transitioned yet.

Adam, a cis straight boy, tells a lesbian that he is a trans man to trick her into dating him.

Incidentally Adam is 17 I believe, pretending to be 21. His girlfriend is in the 23 range, I don’t recall exactly.

There are explicit sex scenes, the first of which involved Adam using an ace bandage to hold his erection down and using a strapon to have sex with her.

In the second one he claims to be using a strapon but is, in reality, using his actual penis.

Which is fucking rape.

The book doesn’t try to justify this, it somehow manages to do something worse.

This second scene is one of the last in the book. After he pulls out he lays down next to her and confesses that he’s not trans. She responds “I know.”

She says after they first had sex she started fantasizing about him as a “real guy” (yes quote) and that the image stuck in her mind and she started subconsciously imagining him with a penis.

And it gets worse.

So he goes back to ohio and she sleeps with other girls (because for some reason she decides not to break up with this cis 17 year old who lied about his identity literally raped her) and one night he gets drunk and calls her a bitch and a fucking whore and whatever, and THAT’S apparently the point she thinks that maybe they should break up.

And one day they message eachother to catch up i think maybe he graduated at this point idk but hes planning on visiting his sister in new york and they wanna meet up and

She tells him about her new boyfriend.

Get ready for it

Cis. Man.

So. We have

An underage cishet boy lying about being an adult trans man in order to trick a lesbian into dating him!

A scene in which he actually rapes her!

The lesbian in question becomes attracted to cis men making Adam, essentially, conversion therapy!

Do NOT support Adam (2018)

[moved194792743]

Ariel Schrag used to sometimes be in my high school for some reason, so I’ve met her in person and let me tell you with just one look at her it becomes obvious that she sees trans men as an advanced form of butch women

[note-a-bear]

Holy shit holy shit this is the weirdo who is probably partly/largely responsible for the Max/Moira and weird ass “trans men are just confused butches” story lines on the L Word.

Holy fuck.

Avoid this person and her output at all costs

[heavyheartheldhigh]

THEY'RE MAKING THIS SHIT A MOVIE?

[jetsetter-life]