Harmonious Mishmash

I hate crane flies, kitchen towels and tomatoes.

[cam1lla]

“Authors should not be ALLOWED to write about–” you are an anti-intellectual and functionally a conservative

“This book should be taken off of shelves for featuring–” you are an anti-intellectual and functionally a conservative

“Schools shouldn’t teach this book in class because–” you are an anti-intellectual and functionally a conservative

“Nobody actually likes or wants to read classics because they’re–” you are an anti-intellectual and an idiot

“I only read YA fantasy books because every classic novel or work of literary fiction is problematic and features–” you are an anti-intellectual and you are robbing yourself of the full richness of the human experience.

[piranesies]

they should invent putting on sunscreen that doesn't feel like putting on sunscreen

[thememedaddy]

[typhlonectes]

[anneemay]

[deactivationgocrazy-deactivated]

"the education system traumatizes students it deems stupid" and "the education system traumatizes students it deems gifted" are two concepts that can and should coexist.

[doubleca5t]

I think I've got a compromise

[can-i-make-image-descriptions]

[Image ID: Tumblr post from che-nya reading: "the education system traumatized students /End ID]

[berrytart]

completely incomprehensible email from my mom. sent from my it's

[persianmom-deactivated20260602]

my body is not tea and my face card is going to decline but my heart is pure and that counts for something

[depsidase]

[liatkolink]

That's great and all, but what took them 2 and a half years (and more if we consider what Israel has done way back)?

[radriendil]

When someone does what you want, don't yell at them for not doing it sooner. That's how you ensure they will never do anything you ask again, because they're going to get punished for it.

[cheaphalloweencostume]

CPTSD constantly has me acting so cartoonishly stupid. hello my partner of 4 years who has literally never so much as raised their voice in my direction, i heard you doing dishes a little louder than usual in the other room. are you going to kill me?

[cheaphalloweencostume]

listen im not HAPPY we’re all going through this. but i am at least relieved that other people can understand the mortal terror of “oh my god i think someone is doing their mundane household chores AT ME!!!!”

[emolgana]

incredible stuff happening out there

[pukicho]

There's gotta be someone more qualified. I'm fucking begging you.

[thefoxboy]

@evilwizard

[evilwizard]

don’t involve me in this…

[kilgarraghforever]

@theshitpostcalligrapher ?

[theshitpostcalligrapher]

[dragon-in-spirit]

@teaboot ?

[teaboot]

☹️

[d00dle-fae]

@charl0ttan perhaps?

[charl0ttan]

[cheacegirl]

I think gatekeeping art is such a funny thing like. "Oh so this doodle I just made is art" yes next question. "So video games are art?" yes????? Bitch your essay you wrote on that book you didn't read in English class when you were 10 is art. Painting a fence is art. 2 sentence shitpost on Tumblr is art. Get on my level.

[bornt-urnge]

[can-i-make-image-descriptions]

[Image ID: Tumblr tag reading: #the deliberate act of creation is art next question /End ID]

[free-my-mindd]

[unfxded]

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[bpdisntreal-deactivated20260419]

in case you didn't know: the top post of all time on r/therapists is just them flat out admitting how absolutely useless they are at actually helping anyone.

[tom-spanks]

remember when u were like 11 and the only thing u wanted was a lava lamp

[scumfuckus]

[yiffpunk]

[heatseekingbehavior]

[nonbinarybeartrade]

[falconfate]

Yeah, I’d have killed a man for this bedroom as a kid

[galgorithm-deactivated20260512]

[str8aura-no-not-that-one]

"Because I do it with a small boat, I am called a pirate and a thief. You, with a whole navy, molest the world and are called an emperor."

-St Augustine, on Alexander the Great

"What even is a war? Like isn't it illegal to kill people?"

-This girl

[callmebliss-got-swamped]

They are both right

[spontaneousmusicalnumber]

A frustrating part of the mainstream vegan “love all animals and protect the environment” mindset is the fact that things need to die in real-life ecology all the time but deer hunting season makes icky feelings and carp culls aren’t cottagecore

[spontaneousmusicalnumber]

The vegan “any animal death ever is morally wrong” mindset doesn’t hold up when:

We don’t have any of the large predators we used to (black bears, mountain lions, or gray wolves) but still retain large deer populations. If nothing is removing animals, they’ll quickly overload the carrying capacity of the environment and have massive losses to starvation and disease that can also pass on to livestock. Human hunters replace the large predators that our landscape can no longer support.

It’s kinder to euthanize an un-releasable hawk rather than try to find it a permanent home with humans. Wildlife rehabs have extremely limited space and resources and are usually run entirely on donated money and volunteer time. Only a few are large and stable enough to care for permanent residents long-term, and those spots are few and far between.

An invasive species poses a danger to threatened native wildlife. I will admit- Australian possums are adorable. But not in New Zealand, where they’re an invasive species that eats the eggs of ground-dwelling birds that previously had no such predators. The landowners I worked with replanting native bush, all native Maori, had no qualms about setting the dogs on them.

I don’t know how to end this except. Sometimes things just gotta die and acting otherwise just isn’t a realistic expectation.

[spontaneousmusicalnumber]

Highlights from the notes over the past 6 months include a lot of angry vegans saying “you’re blowing things out of proportion, no vegans actually think like this!” and a lot of people who work in conservation and education saying “Every day. I have to fight people who think like this.”

As a bonus this post was originally inspired by the vegan who called me racist for saying we should kill invasive species