"You ever wonder why we're here?"

reggie, 22

[neonshroudedgraves]

Bluesky asks Texas users to verify their ages, citing new app store law

"Why do you need age verification on a site where everyone is 38?"

[codegnave]

Can't speak to the validity of it, but I saw this.

[aprillikesthings]

Because I just mentioned this website to someone else--

If you ride a bicycle OR drive a car, please please please do me a favor, and at least skim this website:

Ten ways you can get hit by cars (with pictures) and meaningful ways to avoid them. Not your typical lame Bike Safety page.

Yes, the site is hella fucking old. The information is still good.

"But April, if I'm a driver who never rides a bicycle, why should I read it?" Because you'll be less likely to be a dick to cyclists who are trying not to get killed.

For instance: In places with shitty cycling infrastructure, cyclists are far safer taking the lane instead of hugging the curb. People on bicycles are not in the middle of a lane just to slow you down and piss you off. They're trying to avoid the most common ways cyclists get killed.

It will also inform you on the most common ways you are likely to accidentally hit a cyclist, and help you avoid them--like looking behind you before opening a car door when parked on the street.

Thank you for your time.

(Yes, some cyclists just behave badly. So do plenty of drivers, and it's a lot easier for someone in a car to kill a cyclist than vice-versa.)

[datsderbunnyblog]

This comment was left on a post about making the most of the Libby app. "Excessive use of generous lending policies" is the most absurd phrase I've ever seen anyone use to discuss libraries.

[catboycommunist]

evergreen

[toskarin]

something incredibly funny about dnd trying to get in on the cute animal of the week trend with a popular raccoon and, because this is how dnd works with regards to animals, doing so by releasing a statblock so you can fight and kill it

[toskarin]

putting "don't you dare" in the XP count but still explaining how one would go about fighting jimothy the raccoon, a random animal with a spinal condition, is killing me

[tokkibean]

i do not “delete sentences” when they start “hindering the plot” i COPY PASTE THEM into a SEPARATE DOC made just for keeping all my USELESS LINES that i will also NEVER USE so therefore i should JUST DELETE THEM but i DONT because id FEEL BAD if i did

[harpyharpyharpy]

You don't actually have to kill your darlings. You can just put them in the oubliette #myoubliette

[redstonedust]

gripping the shoulders of every youtuber ever. look up that unfamiliar word before you pronounce it. especially if it's not a word from your native language but honestly double check the ones that are native to you if you've only seen them in writing. you will thank yourself later.

[depsidase]

[terpsikeraunos]

posting on tumblr is risky because there's always a chance that your diary will undergo peer review

[an-ambient-girl]

some of you are gonna fall for the same trap boomers did for 50's nostalgia but its gonna be 90's and 2000's internet aesthetics. its fine to be infatuated with the past but some of you are gonna start trying to return to a vision of it which never existed and its gonna bring along with it the same problems boomers have been causing for a while

[valleyhowler]

There are hardly any female werewolves because they break all the classic rules of femininity. They force you to confront female violence, strength, size, grotesqueness and uncontrollability. Historically female shapeshifters always shift into something dangerous (snake) or sleek (cat) or dainty (bird) but female werewolves ignore the masculine gaze completely. They're distorted beasts that have no ulterior motive except to destroy. Nothing about them is nurturing or modest. They're the opposite of what a woman "should be." Their omission from pop culture is not an accident.

[victusinveritas]

It's almost like something happened in 2020-now that is causing these problems.

[weaselle]

ignoring everything the pandemic response specialists were saying was good for the economy tho. State governors and federal agencies with no medical experience and no economics education told us so

[small-witch-big-hat]

"no reliable data" What A Curious Coincidence. I Wonder What Might Have Been Happening In That Period To Cause Such a Thing

[identitty-dickruption]

nobody ever believes me when I list off all of the ways that humans are significantly less sexually dimorphic than people seem to believe and it drives me batshit insane. “you’re denying the biological reality of sex” well you’re sticking your fingers in your ears and saying lalalala every time anyone presents you with data that confirms that women and men aren’t really that different. and refusing to come to terms with the two-way relationship between the “biological” and “social” worlds. I think one of us is ignoring the biological sciences here and it isn’t me

[shofarsogood]

Someone once told me my biology degree was fake because I said humans weren't sexual dimorphic.

A male human and a female human are roughly the same size and same coloration.

Meanwhile, male black widow spiders are brown and a tenth the size of females. Anglerfish females are a full foot long and have a bioluminescent protrusion on their heads; males are barely half an inch long with no bioluminescence or protrusions. Male elephant seals are ten times bigger than females and have massive snouts. Male orangutans have big jowls and neck sacs that look like goiters, while females look more like other apes. Peacocks have flashy coloration and a long tail that they can display. The females are brown and simple.

Humans aren't sexually dimorphic! You only know someone's gender because of cultural identifiers, like clothing or hair.

[zaprowsdower27]

The big things for primate sexual dimorphism tend to be canine size and body size. Male primates in sexually dimorphic species tend to have HUGE canine teeth for better threat displays, and are bigger for similar reasons.

Lowland Gorilla males tend to be 2.38x on average the mass of Lowland Gorilla females. Humans? That ratio is something line 1.15.

Male gorilla canines tend to be about 2 inches long, easily twice the length of some of their other teeth. Male humans have canines the exact same length as human female canines and the exact same length as the rest of our teeth.

We are not particularly sexually dimorphic.

[dreadwedge]

how pets are named

Holly -> Hollywood -> L.A. -> Los Angeles -> Angel -> Snow Angel -> Snowgirl -> Frosty the Snowgirl -> Frosty -> Ice Cream -> Soft Serve -> Little Softy -> Microsoft -> Microsoft Word -> MS Word -> Miss Word -> Miss W -> Mrs. Dubya -> Mrs. George W. Bush -> Mrs. Bush -> Mrs. Busch's Baked Beans -> Mrs. Beans -> Mrs. Mr. Bean -> Mistress Beans (in a British accent) -> Beans On Toast -> B.O.T. -> Bot -> Botulism -> Botulizzy -> Lizzy -> Big Lizzy -> Large Lizard -> L.L. -> LL Bean -> Mrs. Large Lizard Bean -> Mrs Large Lizard Beans On Toast W. Bush the Snowgirl -> Girl

[waytoomuchinformation]

Pssst.

Are you a sub/bottom that has issues kneeling because of the pressure created by sitting on your feet/ankles?

Look into meditation benches.

[dumbdomb]

[various images of people utilizing a meditation bench. different styles of benches shown.]

[waytoomuchinformation]

Thanks for the image addition.

I’ve only ever used one and it was a thrift store purchase so no specific suggestions.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Any advice for someone who's got bursitis in both knees? (I'm not a sub I just miss being able to kneel.)

[misa-chu]

@derinthescarletpescatarian a garden kneeler, maybe. At their most basic they're just a chunk of fairly dense foam, but there are also ones with handles to help you get up and the double as a regular seat

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Oooh thanks

[disabled-dragoon]

[ID: Two images of garden kneeler. The first is of two foam pads, one blue, one green. The second is of a metal frame with a green cushioning. The frame is first posed to look like an upright stool, and then posed like an overturned stool. /end ID]

[whencartoonsruletheworld]

"we cut the nobody scene from the odyssey" "we cut the religious trauma and parental abuse from carrie" i'm starting to think that studios barely funding original films is starting to have an effect where directors make up a story and then slap an IP on it in order to sell. or maybe some bitches just can't read anymore idk it's one or the other

[goldensunset]

idk who needs to hear this but if you have been putting something off bc it doesn't need to be done until the end of the month. we are almost done with the teens we are approaching the big numbers (the twenties). that date shall dawn upon you swiftly and without mercy before you know it. psa for everyone except me i got plany off time

[emberphoenixisgoingtolivee]

fuck the teenager stereotypes. if adults had to sleep outside of their natural sleep rhythms and deprive themselves of sleep every night and get infantilised yet piled with so much pressure to do well in school and get a job and go to university and a million and one other things all at once and get borderline bullied and laughed at by adults (including teachers) and have their parents constantly hound them about homework and school and housework and have no freedom and no money to exercise what little independence we have and needing our parents' permission for everything important and being treated like an adult when it suits the adults around us and constantly being stereotyped when there is an EPIDEMIC of mental illness among us, you'd be moody and lazy and angry too