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[taikova]

these are my fave drawings i did from 2021, and all of them have backgrounds... what does it mean.

[piratedykes]

I wanna do one of those “if you’re lgbt put your orientation, sign and favorite tool in the tags” but I know most of The Gays have never touched a tool on their life. I’ll be left with 15 lesbians, one gay dude and a handful of bisexuals and they better all be tagging screwdrivers

[piratedykes]

Eh. Doing it anyway.

If you’re lgbt put your orientation, sign and favorite tool in the tags”

[powerbottomblake]

big fan of the psychic war between tumblr and its users

[powerbottomblake]

the staff, banning nipples, gay people, gender, your mom: we WILL terminate this webbed site

us, having developed the social media equivalent of cockroach dna:

[lesbijkas]

transphobes trying to "haha gotcha" when I block them... you're not special. nothing I do or say will change your mind, and I'm not about to invest my time or effort in a pointless debate on the internet. remember, blocking people isn't something to be ashamed about. it isn't a "last defense" or "admitting defeat" or "proving someone right." it's part of curating an online experience that is 1) enjoyable and, more importantly, 2) safe for you. you don't owe anyone shit, especially not bigots making a fuss.

[argumate]

seems that Chrome has around 60-65% market share, so it’s not totally dominating the market yet but it’s worrying that we’re basically reliant on Apple and Microsoft to hold the line.

[th4nkyoub3n]

Does Firefox not count for anything?

[argumate]

about 10% and falling, but perhaps that can change, I just don’t see how.

[argumate]

Chrome edging towards 70% on desktop, Microsoft has thrown in the towel, Safari obviously rules iOS, Firefox exists only as insurance for Chrome.

[ms-demeanor]

Please, please I’m begging you, use firefox.

PLEASE install firefox as a mobile browser and then run adblock on your mobile browser it’s so good I promise.

Look.

Look.

I know I’m a total grind about open source stuff but browsers are the PERFECT place to learn to love open source software and for so long FireFox was a major part of the browser market and sometimes if you want to see what kind of fuckery google is up to it helps to see the kinds of things they block in firefox and just

There’s an organization that makes free, excellent, safe software that doesn’t collect and market your data but for some reason two thirds of the world uses a google product and most of the leftover population uses apple and just

I promise, firefox is so good - the extensions are incredible look - I can use lightbeam to see what sites I use and how they connect to other sites (bottom right should give you an idea how much time I spend on tumblr)

or I can look at ublock origin and see that it’s blocked over 2 million requests since I installed it or I can run the facebook container extension and stop facebook from tracking me and you know what I bet you can do a lot of that on chrome too but you’re doing that while chrome itself is tracking you and gobbling up your activity for google and

firefox is so fuckin great and it’s such a great ambassador for other open source projects please be a big old fuckin nerd with me and use firefox and run a bunch of funky extensions and customize the fuck out of your web experience.

Wanna be a hacker? Firefox.

Wanna use instagram on desktop? Firefox.

Wanna be a killer researcher? Firefox.

Wanna properly credit artists? Firefox.

Wanna read a whole shitload of books? Firefox.

Wanna make video responses to shitlord youtubers?

Wanna shoot cat lasers at bugs?

Wanna use youtube as a music streaming service?

FIREFOX.

I just love firefox okay.

[bookloveranddesigner]

[firefox-official]

hey guys

[huariqueje]

In That Morning   -      Zhao Bandi , 1990.

Chinese,b.1966-

Oil on canvas, 200 x 190 cm.

[catchymemes]

[drinkyourjuiceshelby]

[jaspurr]

the best thing about this is that when there’s plenty of resources, domesticated cats will naturally form colonies. in these colonies female cats raise their kittens communally with their kin. so you get situations where moms will raise kittens with their daughters from a previous litter, cats from the same litter will raise kittens together, etc. so not only does this little old kitty see her human as family, she is also excited to help her with her kitten.

[bogleech]

Sometimes a grandma is a little creature that lives on the floor

[memewhore]

[bananahomo]

I reblogged this last month, tagged it, and said “might as well see if it works.” I used this video as a reference to find all the forms that i needed (which is A LOT, especially if you’re a dependent) and sent them through the mail, not really allowing myself to hope.

dude.

$2,714 of medical debt from my top surgery - gone. im shaking this was such a weight on me for 2 years and it fucking worked. what the fuck.

[iguanamouth]

You’re a patron to the fruit guy on YouTube?

fuck. yeah ok theres this dude who just, eats different fruits from all over the world and tells you what they taste like and if youre a patreon subscriber he sends you souvenirs from his journeys where he travels to eat fruits. he sent me salt from iceland once. all his video titles are formatted like typical clickbait except specifically about fruits which i think is really funny and when i remember he exists i go through all of his new videos at once for hours

his name is jared and he looks like this

[iguanamouth]

HUH

[ms-demeanor]

Hey you know how I said I was going to make a workbook on the kind of bullshit you need to do when someone you love dies? I actually did that.

HERE IS THE VERSION WITH LOTS OF SWEARING AT THE USELESS, SHITTY SITUATION YOU’RE IN.

HERE IS THE VERSION WITH A FAIR AMOUNT OF BLACK HUMOR BUT NO CURSEWORDS.

Featuring Helpful Sections such as:

Death Certificates – What you need, why you need them, and how to get them

Prepare to spend a long and miserable time on the phone

What the Everloving Fuck is Probate

Some Simple Dos and Don’ts

Shitty Mad Libs – Templates for writing Obituaries and Memorials

How to plan a non-religious death party

So you suddenly have to become some sort of hacker or some shit

This is an eighteen page book that you can print out, download, share, and give away; it is meant to be used to collect information about funeral planning and account management after a death OR you can use it BEFORE you die and give people information so they’re not stuck playing Nancy Fucking Drew while trying to keep seventeen cousins who crawled out of the woodwork from gutting each other in front of the fucking casket as they argue about who’s inheriting grandma’s favorite dentures.

It’s not exactly cheerful and it’s full of things that are probably going to feel really fucking raw if you’re processing a fresh death.

I’m sorry! I love you! Death is shitty! I’m trying to laugh about it a little and I hope you can laugh a little too because otherwise we’re all just going to cry together.

Good luck!

(in memory of my weirdo mother and her weirdo siblings who all died too fucking young and left me holding this flaming bag of dogshit)

[saffronhare]

This is so radically kind, thank you

[ms-demeanor]

You’re welcome!

Life is short, kindness is what we’ve got.

When my mom died it wasn’t exactly unexpected but it was still sooner than we all thought it would happen. It was a huge punch in the guts and the thought of making things and not being able to show her and share them with her still hurts but in that first month it was like drowning.

So I made this for her, and shared it with and showed it to other people who are hurting, because my momma didn’t raise a quitter but she sure did raise a softhearted fool who wants everyone to feel a little more loved and a little more worthy and a little less alone.

I love you. Take care. Be kind.

[gothiccharmschool]

This is important, useful, and so very damn kind.

[mewwon]

When will there be tumblr stories

[queenofcrystaltokyo]

[guerrillatech]

[deepfriedanon]

I've heard a similar logic used to explain why nurses wages are so low in Finland:

"It's not a job, it's a calling!"

You can't pay rent with that warm feeling you get from following your calling...

[incel-moved-deactivated20210803]

[todaysbird]

poverty & poor people = bad

poverty ‘aesthetic’ when it’s rich people = good

[dontwantthenextcommanderiwantyou]

FINALLY someone said it! I swear I couldn’t stand the “tiny house” bullshit like poor people aint been living that life. Then you got the damn “van life” shit as if these bitches invented sleeping in yo car…

[tref0il]

walking in the night and you look up your eyes adjust to the dark and 1 star turns to 5 and 10 and 20 . scooped rice into a bowl . every day i experience what people call god in a different way

[thestuffedalligator]

The main thing I get from Dylan Hollis cooking old recipes is this:

Recipes from the 1910s and the Great Depression are great, and I suspect it’s because they were made by someone with limited resources. But they found a way to make something good, maybe even something fantastic with those limited resources, and they wanted to write it down and share with their friends so that they could also make something out of saltines and potatoes. Recipes from the 1910s and the Great Depression are written down and shared in love.

The recipes you should fear come from the 1950s and 1960s, which I’m pretty sure are written down and shared as a form of McCarthyism.

[jackironsides]

I strongly suspect that the rise in horrifying recipes in the 50s, 60s and 70s is that this is when recipes were being used as advertising. Whether or not the recipe was tasty or even palatable at all was a secondary concern at best to if it could convince a housewife to buy more Chlorox Brand Lard™️ to try it out.

[northisnotup]

He touches on this in his longer video about the tomato soup cake!

[steampunkette]

Okay… Lemme drop a big ol’ bombshell on folks:

Slavery and War are the reasons.

Okay. Maybe that’s a little too harsh to not explain… Let’s start with Slavery.

Back in the first 400 years of America being populated by white colonizers and  enslaved black folks it was mostly black people doing the cooking. Particularly in the South. Oh, for sure you’d have poor white folks cooking for themselves and their families, using traditional recipes handed down. Or making things with New World foods like Potatoes and that newfangled Corn stuff.

But particularly in the South, Slaves did the majority of cooking. And when they were freed in the 1860s and 70s, you suddenly had a mess of wealthy white folks who didn’t have a -damn- clue how to cook. You know how Tiana’s Dad started up a restaurant in The Princess and the Frog? Yeah. LOTS of former slaves did that. Used the skills they learned working for white slavers to cook banging meals they knew the white folks couldn’t cook for themselves.

It took -decades- for white folks to start getting their culinary feet back. To really understand how to cook and make recipes work.

And then you know what happened? WW1. Food shortages before the Dust Bowl happened caused people to tighten their belts and try and figure stuff out. Know what the most popular meat was on the dinner table? MUTTON. Sheep. Lamb. Delicious and flavorful and just -so- good for you with it’s healthy amounts of fats and all the luscious goodness in that nummy snackiness.

Recipes expanded. Exploded. Got shared.

Then WW2 hit. And this is where shit went sideways again… but this time? Not because of Shortages. See, Mutton was cheap. Cheap for the people, Cheap for the Government. And that made it the premier Ration for American GIs… but.

Tinned mutton is a slimy gross paste. 

And soldiers were eating it two to three times a day. No MRE packs with variety menus. Just straight up canned mutton over and over and over and over. And when they got home? They BANNED it from the dinner table. The sheep industry in the US went from top dog to bottom of the barrel. 

So once again you’ve got American Culinary Understanding flailing and reaching out for anything it can to replace a -staple- of the American Diet.

“Beef, it’s What’s for Dinner”. “Pork, the Other White Meat” “Chicken of the Sea”

Folks knew how to prepare -Mutton- and -Lamb- and maybe Chicken. And now they’re slapped with these other foods? Add in the massive changes in availability of new products (Again that are largely untested) and marketing pushes for things like Crisco or Gelatin…

The 50s and 60s are a culinary nightmare in the US’s collective memory for the same reason the 1880s were: No one knew what the fuck they were doing.

[vaspider]

Don’t forget to add in the absolute explosion of people owning refrigerators in the Baby Boom/Post-WWII period. Then you have the fact that the great sort of… mixing-up of people that happened in the late 40s through the 50s when the suburbs exploded… moved a lot of young mothers away from their support structures.

See, Jell-O between WWI and the late 40s was largely used by women who had tea in the afternoons. Gelatin already featured heavily in cookbooks intended for Ladies Who Lunch.

But then you hit the late 40s and you have these harried women who were trying to put A Nice Dinner on the table for their husbands, and their husbands remember dinners where their mom had like 6 or 7 daughters to help her while the men were out in the fields, and aunties and grandmothers to hand to take the baby for a minute but their mother made two pies for supper and two for dinner, every day!*

And so these women, who now have refrigerators instead of iceboxes and have far less support in caring for their children than previous generations, are trying to put together a Nice Dinner 7 days a week. And here’s this miracle substance that can turn out these jewel-tone dinners and desserts, and they make it in savory flavors now, and it’s very modern and there are lots of recipes!

Basically, Jell-O was the Instant Pot of the post-war period. 🤷🏻‍♂️ Yeah, people didn’t know what they were doing to some extent, but a lot of people who did really needed a quick way to do things alone for which they’d had community support before.

*Yes, my great-grandmother (different one from that one post) did this on the farm she and her husband owned. Two pies a meal, 2 meals a day, for 50 years. I have her recipes. :p

[sabertoothwalrus]

[aromanticbastards]

i really like that there are aros who said 'i'll call something love when i feel like calling it love, fuck you all" and that there are aros who said "love is not real for me, fuck you all" and i just think lovequeer people and loveless people are great and important and should have a great evening

[aromanticbastards]

and because i wasn't aware of those terms when i made this at first: shoutout to amatopunk and lovepunk aros, and to anyone who just decided to be a bit weird about love without labelling themself!