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YOU ARE THE REASON
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im laughing so hard because no matter what song you listen to
spiderman dances to the beat
no matter what song ive been testing it and lauing my ass off for an hour
hey guys do you want to circulate the heirloom dancing spiderman again i feel like we could stand to do that
KILL AI AND REBLOG AND CREATE ART IN 2026
Ok the US Attorney General says that she will remove ICE if MN drops all our sanctuary laws, complies with ICE, hands over all our SNAP, Medicaid and voter rolls. They demand control over our voter registration so they can "ensure free and fair elections".
They want to control our elections.
I am dead serious people call your representatives. Get volunteering. Get protesting. Get LOUD.
They released a letter full of straight up lies. Spread the truth. MAKE NOISE.
Source
How interesting. How very interesting. They rejected my Blaze of this post.
Well, y'all. Make of this what you will, eh?
Then I guess we'll just have to Blaze it the old fashioned way, eh?
Boosting signal. AGAIN.
are you djoking
so happy and free
this is going to be a silly reblog but i have kind of a fixation on animal qualia and the idea of an animal's umwelt, so i ended up wondering whether pudding was actually "enjoying" this.
which meant i went and read about snail brains.
here's the bad news, at least by human standards:
snails do not have anything like a centralized brain. their nervous system is made up of small clusters of neurons (ganglia) that mostly handle very local tasks. they don't have a cortex, they don't build big integrated models of the world, and they almost certainly don't experience things like appreciation, anticipation, or savoring.
pudding is not looking at the sky and thinking it's beautiful.
snail eyes are basically light sensors - they can tell bright from dark, but not form images. snail "taste" is done through chemoreceptors on their tentacles and around their mouth. those receptors don't produce flavor the way ours do; they just detect chemical compounds and sort them into "approach," "ignore," or "avoid."
so there's no evidence that snails enjoy food, or wind, or views, the way mammals do.
and that does sound kind of sad. but then i thought that maybe we are asking the wrong question.
snails do have valence. they detect aversive things (like salt or dryness) and withdraw from them. they detect non-aversive or beneficial conditions (like moisture) and stay extended. when pudding is stretched out like this, it means his nervous system is basically saying "this is safe; nothing is wrong."
if we define pleasure not as our human experience of dopamine and reward chemicals but instead as "the absence of aversion" - a state where the organism is open to its environment instead of defending itself - then this does count as something positive, even if it's extremely nothing like human enjoyment.
pudding isn't appreciating the wind. but his body is registering humidity, safety, and the ability to keep functioning, and that matters to him in the only way his nervous system can make things matter. he does not think "this is great, this is awesome, i love the weather", because he doesn't think in the way we do at all, but the neurological action in his ganglion tell his body that he is safe, that the moisture is an acceptable level, that it's not too dry or windy, and that there's nothing imminently threatening.
i think a lot of the sadness comes from assuming that a good life has to look like ours: full of enjoyment, meaning, and aesthetic experience. but a snail isn't missing those things. its world just isn't built to include them.
snails don't have a sense of flavor. they don't even have tastebuds. this seems like a gimme, right? but again that might be asking the wrong question about what "taste" is. biologically speaking, it's chemoreception. we taste sweet because it indicates high value, high calorie sugar molecules. we taste salty for salt, umami for proteins. so in what way does pudding's chemoreceptors differ from ours instrumentally? we can say "by our human perspective, pudding can't experience "preference" or "savoring" or "anticipation of delicious food"", but from pudding's perspective we have radically overengineered ourselves for the task at hand. pudding can tell what's salty, what's high value, what has the chemicals he needs. the functional outcome is that he can discriminate food souces based on their composition. is that not taste?
so maybe the point isn't "this is sad because he can't enjoy it," but "this is a reminder that minds come in radically different shapes, and value doesn't have to be rich to be real."
🥹 I'm ok I swear
Has anyone figured out what’s so viscerally wrong with this woman yet
She’s so one dimensionally evil you guys 😭😭 how is she real
not sure who needs to hear this but everything is gonna be okay :) the sun will always be warm, your favorite song will always touch your soul, warm bread will always be so delicious, and the stars will always shine so bright and pretty for us to admire ⭐:)
Man it’s crowded in here
joe biden should make it a law so that any time i fall asleep on the couch at night 400 cops have to come to my house and gently move me to my bed without waking me and then they all fall into a machine under the floor that grinds them up and converts them into a new kind of special gel that can be fed to elderly horses to make them sick
this doesn't make any sense. joe biden is not in office anymore.
Women are allowed to do this.
also a poem from the new, unreleased collection. very possibly my own all-time favourite.
FOR PARENTS OF YOUNG KIDS IN THE US!
Someone over on bluesky posted this and I figured I'd better repost it here. It's the pre-RFK 2025 vaccination schedule for babies and young children, ya know, just in case it mysteriously disappears. Save this and give it to your child's pediatrician; tell them this is the schedule you want your child on.
Got a hold of the older children/teen and adult versions of this chart. Vaccines for everyone!
@wolfsilverlight something to keep in mind for The Pup going forward.
hopefully may will be kinder to me
I think a lot of people are forgetting that on tumblr fandom used to be practiced very differently. now everyone fucks off to their discords or tumblr groups to discuss everything with a select few, making tags be nearly only used for posting some finished fanworks or not at all
a decade ago people didn't have tumblr groups. people didn't even have dms. if you wanted to talk to anyone about anything you had to make a post, or send an ask (which more often than not would get published and thereby become a post in the end too)
so next time you think "I have a fandom thought but I have to find a small group of hyperspecifically like-minded people to share it with in private" remember all the freaks you could be missing out on meeting by keeping the tags dead. use tags, make friends. fuck discord.
You can't hide gold like this in the tags! That really is the perfect way to put it! ⬇️
Chai tea bag + lil but of brown sugar + apple cider packet + 16 oz. mug of hot but not quite boiling water
it will not Fix You but like. maybe. maybe.
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Update: this is the best post I've ever made because everyone is sharing their Warm Beverage recipes in the notes. Go check the notes for more Warm Beverages That Will Fix You.
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I had chocolate mint tea from Kroger, and used Stephen's brand mint truffle cocoa and........ It's so light and dreamy. It's so aromatic and tastes so good.
Introduce a law to legally protect the right of those aged 18 and over to transition using NHS services. This should specifically cover phys
Uk peeps!! Let’s get this going! 🏳️⚧️🇬🇧
...Non-UK peeps, please reblog for reach ❤️
The Trump administration is cracking down on student protests because it serves their anti-woke and anti-education agenda and that's extremely gross of them. That does not mean the protests aren't hotbeds of antisemitism. Please believe Jews when they say protesters have used antisemitic rhetoric or called for violence against Jews. Please believe them when they say protesters have called them slurs or spat at them or even assaulted them. Nothing can be gained by letting this slide.
Please understand that this moment is scary for American Jews because the antisemitism is coming from all sides. Yes, the Trump administration is talking a big game about antisemitism while simultaneously giving notorious antisemite Elon Musk an alarming amount of power while Trump rages on about (((globalists))). Yes, leftists are refusing to say shit about antisemitism in their movements, attacking anyone who mentions it with dogwhistles and slurs, and supporting those who do the worst of it as people advocating for justice and human rights.
It's so isolating. We look around and there are so few allies. We are 2% of the American population, and we are overwhelmingly concentrated in specific places. Many Americans have never met a Jew, and simultaneously, America is home to the largest diaspora community by far. It's six million in America, and then the second largest is less than 500,000 in France. Less than 16 million worldwide. That's what happens after thousands of years of ethnic cleansing, targeted violence, and genocide.
We can't do this alone. We need you right now. We need you to see antisemitism everywhere it is festering. Speaking up against antisemitism is advocating for justice and human rights, and it's not anti-Palestinian to do so. The people who say otherwise are lying to you.
Please listen to us.
