[egberts]

they're making the sims 4 base game free to play for everyone forever next month

[egberts]

it's gonna be free on every platform too, consoles and computers. October 18th

if you've never played or you've always been interested but deterred by the price NOWS YOUR CHANCE

[deactivated-blog]

you can use this tool to get all the dlcs for free, last I checked it works fine on a legal copy

and mods are half the magic. here's how to install them and here's a bunch of gameplay tweaks.

this is just cosmetic stuff but i highly recommend it:

huge directory of cc

noblu/noglo

no white outline

if you find a sims player that you like the style of, check their tumblr for a resources page. they'll often list most of what they use.

have fun and make sure you look for mod updates after each game update

[pansypr3p]

man i love the babes of tumblr*

*people who tell me how to get free shit

[armameery]

FOREWARNING ON SIMS BECOMING FREE THO: THE SIMS IS HEAVILY BUGGING RN AND HAS BEEN BUGGY FOR THE LONGEST AND EA REFUSES TO FIX IT SO BE READY FOR THAT!!!!!!!!!

[byjove]

You guys hear about that 18 month old baby at a zoo that wandered away from their parents (who were on their phones…), entered a restricted zone, stuck their hand into the wolf enclosure and got bit? The parents are being charged with child endangerment but what I want to know is why the fuck does this keep happening? You do not have to take your toddler to the zoo, especially a one and a half year old who is too young to fully appreciate the zoo. You could have stayed at home and scrolled on your phone while ignoring your baby in an environment containing 0 carnivorous apex predators. You would think the zoo would be one place parents feel the need to constantly supervise their kids but no, they’re like “Oh yeah, honey, go ahead and go swimming in the stingray tank, I’m going to play Candy Crush for 45 minutes.”

[nothing-an-iratze-cant-fix]

Is it just me that thinks it’s reasonable to assume a zoo should be kid-proofed such that a wandering kid can’t get in the (apparently unrestricted) restricted zone? Like, zoos are primarily marketed at families, especially with young kids. They should be safe for young kids to get accidentally lost in because sometimes young kids get lost by accident. Kids can get lost in an eyeblink, the outcome of that should not be a missing hand.

[imjustsharing]

actually you cant! there was an outer fence where visitors can view the enclosure from, and the kid crawled under it and put their hand through the chainlink fence into the enclosure. also the issue wasnt just "they were on their phone" they were 25 feet away from the kid

Toddler injured by wolf at Zoo America after crawling under a fence to enclosure

The 18-month-old crawled through a perimeter fence and moved toward the wolf's enclosure, where the child put a hand through the barrier, th

Wolf bites child at zoo; parents face charges

The wolf “instinctively and naturally grabbed onto the child’s hand with its mouth,” police said.

[byjove]

You guys hear about that 18 month old baby at a zoo that wandered away from their parents (who were on their phones…), entered a restricted zone, stuck their hand into the wolf enclosure and got bit? The parents are being charged with child endangerment but what I want to know is why the fuck does this keep happening? You do not have to take your toddler to the zoo, especially a one and a half year old who is too young to fully appreciate the zoo. You could have stayed at home and scrolled on your phone while ignoring your baby in an environment containing 0 carnivorous apex predators. You would think the zoo would be one place parents feel the need to constantly supervise their kids but no, they’re like “Oh yeah, honey, go ahead and go swimming in the stingray tank, I’m going to play Candy Crush for 45 minutes.”

[nothing-an-iratze-cant-fix]

Is it just me that thinks it’s reasonable to assume a zoo should be kid-proofed such that a wandering kid can’t get in the (apparently unrestricted) restricted zone? Like, zoos are primarily marketed at families, especially with young kids. They should be safe for young kids to get accidentally lost in because sometimes young kids get lost by accident. Kids can get lost in an eyeblink, the outcome of that should not be a missing hand.

[imjustsharing]

that's what the fences are for. which the kid crawled under to get to the actual fence of the enclosure. also they didnt lose a hand, but they had to be rescued by bystanders because the parents were "25 to 30 feet away and on their cellphones". this isnt some lost kid who happened to wander too close.

[who-is-page]

We finally got our copy of Apparently, Sir Cameron Needs To Die yesterday and the polycule has been reading it aloud to each other with great flourish (if you, too, have a family of nerds who you can subject to read-along time for this, I HIGHLY recommend it).

My fiancé, who most notably is not on our favorite hellsite, made a passing comment about how the fact that the book leaned heavily into the Tumblr syntax style made it harder for him to read aloud, because so many things were "written backwards." To which I said, what? And then he re-read the same line he had just read and looked at me, expectantly. To which I said what? again, but louder.

Readers, I had no idea what the fuck this man was talking about.

Apparently, he explained to me far more patiently than I probably deserved, one of the major flags that someone has been around on Tumblr long enough for it to affect their speech patterns is that we love to reverse the order of a sentence and throw in a comma or period as a brief pause for breath, so as to make the second part of the sentence have more of a comedic punch. He said that we've been "yes, and"-ing on the site so long that we've developed entirely around The Bit. He said that while other sites are chasing clout, we're chasing the ha-ha's. He functionally said we're a separate jester genus in the social media taxonomy of the Internet. Tumblr is a clown car and we're driving dangerously with our infinite handkerchiefs and squirting flowers at the ready. Cool, cool. What?

I protested that I definitely don't speak that way, and he looked me dead in the eyes in front of my entire polycule and said that I do exactly that when I'm trying to be funny. Because I've been on Tumblr for almost 15 years. Exactly as long as I've known him. He's watched it develop, in real time. I have never felt more fuckor in my entire life until that moment.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

I need an example, I have no idea what that could possibly mean

[imjustsharing]

op listed the examples here

[ravenclaw-timelord]

Taylor Tomlinson: Prodigal Daughter (2026)

[fierceawakening]

I keep seeing this on my dash, and I am also bi and chronically passively suicidal.

I feel like if I snark I’ll alienate people, so uh… why is “some rando wants you to kill yourself” funny? What am I missing here?

???

[imjustsharing]

the joke is about how it's scary to come out to people as bisexual because they might just say you're faking it for attention, which is similar to telling people you're suicidal

[whatacartouchebag]

Crawling out of my hole to remind people that with this current update to Firefox (version 144) they've gone and dumped in their lot with a buncha lil AI tools, namely Perplexity as a new search engine.

So if the sound of that leaves your mouth tasting of tar, here's what you want to do:

In the url bar, type in about:config

It'll give you a big scary warning page that you might poke holes in your browser. Good. You want to do that. Click continue.

One by one, you're going to need to put each of these into the search bar in the page, not up top:

browser.ml.enable browser.ml.chat.enabled extensions.ml.enabled browser.ml.linkPreview.enabled browser.tabs.groups.smart.enabled browser.tabs.groups.smart.userEnabled

Each of these are gonna have a lil toggle icon on the right hand side that looks like a funky double-ended arrow. Click that and the value next to it should change to false. It all auto saves as you go. Some of these might already be set to false by default and that's peachy.

The next best thing you can do for yourself is to set your default search engine to udm14 or Qwant, but for now, we're just tidying the garden a lil bit.

[imjustsharing]

in firefox android you have to enable about:config in chrome://geckoview/content/config.xhtml

[tiktoks-for-dead-pope]

[vacueabissi]

[natequarter]

[#I think this person used to be a fish and only recently got turned into a human]

[imjustsharing]

OHHH MY GOD. thats not how "bangus" is pronounced!!!!!!!!

bangus is a filipino word, its milkfish in english. its not "bang-gus", its "ba-ngus". this particular way of pronouncing "ng" in filipino isnt common in english, but its close to how you would say the second syllable of "singing/singer".

[bitterblackboricua]

i don’t like white ppl skewing these results so bad so WHITE PPL DNI. this is for poc ONLY

what is your racial identity?

Black Diaspora

Indigenous American

Aboriginal

Pasifika

SWANA

South Asian

Southeast Asian

East Asian

Central/North Asian

Mixed (non white)

something i forgot to mention (NOT WHITE)

Voting ended onAug 1, 2025

if you’re technically mixed but only identify with one thing, pick that one thing.

if you’re mixed with enough white that you consider it part of your racial identity, skip this one ty luv.

if you’re gonna ask “you forgot XYZ, is this white?” probably man idk. skip this one too.

pls rb for sample size god knows we’ll need it

[bitterblackboricua]

update i misunderstood the meaning of diaspora pretend i just said black i can’t edit it. sub saharan africans should pick that first button im sorry

[tiktoks-for-dead-pope]

[mushy6902]

i need a link to the original video so I can tell her she's the cuntiest batman villain

[imjustsharing]

shes on tumblr also

[yarrayora-deactivated20230104]

trope that makes me go insane: children who are kind and good and a testament of how their caretakers have failed them

parents who are the twisted version of their children's future

children who look at their parents and think "this could be who i become and it scares me"

parents who look at their children and think "this is who i could have become if someone saved me"

neither of them particularly like being each other's family

[hollowboobtheory]

casual reminder that if you're ever in a survival cannibalism situation EAT THE BONE MARROW DONT FORGET THE BONE MARROW

[hollowboobtheory]

remember to eat the BONE MARROW eat the LIVER and stay the fuck AWAY from the brain and spinal cord!

[cursed-and-haunted]

do NOT eat the liver you will get vitamin A toxicity which will make you very sick and could possibly lead to your death

[imjustsharing]

that's from polar bear liver, not human liver!!!! they have lots of vitamin A because they have lots of fatty tissue, and a blood level of vitamin A that does not bother a polar bear can kill a human!!!!!! in short you eont die from consuming human liver. from vitamin A toxicity, atleast.

[cursed-and-haunted]

Vitamin A is a fat soluble that is stored in your liver and is slowly released to the rest of your body over time. The average adult human liver has about a few hundred days (if you go by recommended daily allowance) worth of vitamin A stored in it. Eating a human liver in one sitting would indeed make you very sick and could possibly lead to death. (source)

[imjustsharing]

ok ngl i wasnt thinking of like. the whole liver. since ppl dont usually eat the whole liver of an animal in one sitting. and you said "dont eat the liver" i thought thats like at all costs even just a little bit would kill you and i remembered thats for polar bear liver. my bad.

also going by that source

the average vitamin A content of a human liver is approximately 1000 IU per gram, which equates to approximately 500 days worth (assuming a recommended daily intake of 3,000 IU and a normal-sized 1500g liver).

and clevelandclinic.com

For all adults, the Tolerable Upper Intake Level (UL) — the most vitamin A one can take without experiencing negative health effects — is 3,000 mcg RAE, or 10,000 IU.

hypothetically someone can eat about 10 grams of a human liver. before they get sick. a little snack. it does build up tho.

[hollowboobtheory]

casual reminder that if you're ever in a survival cannibalism situation EAT THE BONE MARROW DONT FORGET THE BONE MARROW

[hollowboobtheory]

remember to eat the BONE MARROW eat the LIVER and stay the fuck AWAY from the brain and spinal cord!

[cursed-and-haunted]

do NOT eat the liver you will get vitamin A toxicity which will make you very sick and could possibly lead to your death

[imjustsharing]

that's from polar bear liver, not human liver!!!! they have lots of vitamin A because they have lots of fatty tissue, and a blood level of vitamin A that does not bother a polar bear can kill a human!!!!!! in short you eont die from consuming human liver. from vitamin A toxicity, atleast.

[enriquemzn262]

[transgenderer]

what the fuck

[argumate]

sweet, might base an agricultural civilisation on this river, hope it behaves itself

[theaudientvoid]

[argumate]

might just fuck around and find out

[andmaybegayer]

Diversity win! This river has ADHD

[crazy-pages]

Nile: You would not believe how long term you have to mismanage agriculture on my banks to start experiencing soil depletion. I will always be here for you Egypt.

Huang He: *kicks in the door* FUCK YOUR DYNASTY IT'S FAMINE TIME!!!

[theprofessional-amateur]

I took two semesters of Chinese history in college. The first thing the professor started with was “getting to know the rivers, Yangtze and the Yellow Rivers. You need to know them because they will play very important roles in the history of China. The Yangtze has been crucial to trade, movement, culture and more. The Yellow river, the Yellow River can’t be trusted as you will repeatedly see.”

[theprofessional-amateur]

If you got stuck on a question during a test or whatever you could start with “the Yellow river jumped the banks causing instability and chaos that quickly spread” and would be correct more times than you would be incorrect.

[im-adrienne-deactivated20260216]

I love geographical chats when it completely devolves into dragging a landform.

[kittiesarecuter]

[imjustsharing]

art ↑ by centurii-chan

[vipitis]

i hope i'm not a person to you. i hope i'm just a blog. i hope all you associate me with is my current obsession. don't perceive me.

[cutsofguiltcutsdeeper]

"don't perceive me" and then you blaze it. You aren't a person to me. I wish I didn't have to perceive you, you fucking mongoloid.

[imjustsharing]

mongoloid is a slur for people with down syndrome. also an alternative for the r-slur

[allpiesforourown]

Okay let's say hypothetically life begins at conception. A fetus is unable to commit sins so if it's aborted, or "killed", it would go to heaven, but the mother wouldn't go to heaven because she had an abortion. So that raises the question, how is the fetus going to exist if its not in someones belly?? Like is it just a little clump of flesh laying on the ground? When you go to heaven do you have to step over eternally living fetuses spread all over the sidewalk

[imjustsharing]

from what i've been taught babies don't go to heaven unless they're baptized/christened before they die (because they haven't "accepted god") so that fetus is going into limbo i guess

[privatejoker]

starting to think fragrantica reviewers think literally everything smells like piss

[privatejoker]

"this smells like piss again" well idk girl are you are looking for the piss note in everything? look inside yourself

[c3rvida3]

I have to out myself as a perfume bitch to say this, but if you do find yourself thinking, "I really love this note, but FOR SOME UNKNOWN REASON, every perfume that contains it smells disgusting," the problem almost always is YOUR skin chemistry reacting to that note. A common thing people complain about is vanilla making them smell like a hamster cage. The funny thing is, the fragrance community refers to the note that reacts with your skin chemistry badly as your "death note".

[ecrivainsolitaire]

Isn't vanilla smell often extracted from beaver anal glands? This feels a bit like a "you're holding the phone wrong" kind of excuse.

[imjustsharing]

no, you're talking about castoreum, and it smells "leathery and intense". even artificial vanilla scents are still made with (synthetic) vanillin.

[viejospellejos]

[haiimrowie]

This is cool and all but I'm of the opinion that these aren't rugs. I dunno about what specifically makes a tapestry a tapestry but a piece of fabric hung on the wall is closer to that than a rug, even if it's made in a similar way to rugs.

[vaspider]

Okay thank you, I was about to scroll down and say basically the same thing. A rug to me feels like by definition something that belongs on the floor. Like, even if someone hangs up a rug on the wall, the rug was made to be put on the floor, right?

This wasn't made to be put on the floor. It was made to be on the wall. It's a tapestry.

I guess there's a British definition, supposedly, that uses rug to mean a "lap robe or blanket" but idk. It ain't that, either.

[tastyfishistasty]

A tapestry is technically a weaving or a specific form of embroidery, so I'm not sure it can actually be called a tapestry?

But it's definitely art over function and rugs have such a specific function that I don't think these are rugs.

The process to make rugs is called tufting. So maybe this is Tuft art? Tufting art? Tufted wall art?

Like putting a quilt on the wall to display would be quilted wall art, not a tapestry and not *just* a quilt anymore.

[vaspider]

I have literally never heard any of the quilters i know call their displayed quilts anything but quilts. They're just quilts being displayed, but quilts are often displayed by being hung up.

The point about tapestry as a word is well taken.

It still ain't a rug.

[bucketofdeltav]

Okay but like, a quilt hung on the wall could go on a bed or a lap or be used as a table runner if it's that tiny, and it would be a fine and functional quilt, and these objects could be put on the floor and they'd be perfecty fine rugs. it's just that that's not where they are right now.

You could totally use an ancient Greek kylix for drinking out of, and just because you're not doing that doesn't make it 'not a cup'.

My grandparents have a beautiful silk Turkish rug on the wall. It could be on the floor. Nothing about its construction makes it 'not a floor rug'. They have a dog who has Opinions about floor rugs so it's on the wall to keep it from being chewed, but it's still a rug.

[vaspider]

They're built into frames.

[ineffectualdemon]

They aren't built into frames. The first couple are framed when they are displayed on the wall but not before and the last two aren't but the final one also has a mirror built into it

They also look like they would be uncomfortable as fuck to walk on so I don't think they count as a functional rug. Tufted wall art makes sense to me

[vaspider]

They are built. To be put. Into frames. They are built for the purpose of being hung on the wall, on a frame for the purpose of hanging. The things? Are made. To be framed. On the wall. And built with this in mind. This is to say, they are not built to be finished like a rug, backed like a rug, and laid on the floor. They are created for the framework that makes it possible for them to be displayed as they are: on the fucking wall.

And now I'm done answering anybody on this post because this level of piss on the poor taking over my notes is beyond tiresome.

[imjustsharing]

thats what gets views. they call it a rug bc that catches attention. a rug is one of, if not the most recognizable product of tufting. "tufted wall art" is a mouthful that does not make for an interesting enough caption.