the department of skeletor

[lamine-19]

scientific fact

[redstonedust]

i need crossword puzzles to stop giving me sports clues. dont ask me about football stars and nba championships and baseball team names. im the kind of nerd who chooses to do crossword puzzles why would you expect this of me. cruel and unusual.

[oaky-dokey]

love the library. there's no risk. you can take out a book and go "wow this sucks" and just give it back. and when you do that you're still making the library's Number Go Up so you'll be able to roll the dice on even more books. all for the low low price of free/you already paid for it with your tax money so you might as well use it

[ratsarecute4]

I’m looking at horse pictures (attempting to find a drawing reference) and I can’t stop laughing at this one

[levil0vesyou]

[helenvaughans]

"crime" for conservatives is basically just existing in public as a person of color

[dragon-in-a-fez]

always thinking about that Oxford study that found half of adults define "young people hanging around in groups" as "anti-social behaviour"

[stantler-and-walrein]

>"anti-social behaviour"

>looks inside

>socialising

[teaboot]

>L'enfant plaza metro

>Les enfants

[smokingrozanov]

T shirt that says “I ❤️ getting laid” & then on the back it says “to REST” with a photo of a coffin + the name & phone number for a local cemetery. Please follow for more advertising ideas

[stuckinapril]

A lot of people will judge their compatibility with someone off things like “do they have hobbies” “are they funny” “are they ambitious” “what music do they like” literally whatever the fuck. But even though someone could check all those boxes, a connection can never be appropriately formed if the answer to “do they make me feel safe” is ambivalent and unclear. Always ask yourself “do I feel safe around this person” when forming both friendships and relationships. Ask if you’re a safe person for them too. How cool a person is can never make up for lack of emotional safety on either end.

[5ellaal5]

I found this amazingly useful (one can substitute traits like “interesting” for “attractive” if it’s about a new friend rather than a romantic/sexual date)

Post-date 8

Ask self these questions after spending time with someone:

What side of me did they bring out?

How did my body feel during the date? Stiff, relaxed or something in between?

Do I feel more energized or de-energized than I did before the date?

Is there something about them that I'm curious about?

Did they make me laugh?

Did I feel heard?

Did I feel attractive in their presence?

Did I feel captivated, bored or something in between?

From The Happiness Lab with Dr. Laurie Santos: Date Like a Scientist, Feb 2, 2025, podcast episode interviewing Behavioural scientist Logan Ury

I like that these questions aren’t about them as a person, but me in that encounter.

[songbirds-here]

Before I was in her class, I would never have imagined that history was connected to art, that philosophy was connected to science, and so on. The usual way that people are taught to think in amerika is that each subject is in a little compartment and has no relation to any other subject. For the most part, we receive fragments of unrelated knowledge, and our education follows no logical format or pattern. It is exactly this kind of education that produces people who don't have the ability to think for themselves and who are easily manipulated.

— ‘Assata: An Autobiography’ (Assata Shakur)

[talas-first-lady]

[waltzingbi]

i already know there wont be anywhere near enough options but

what is your favourite tree🌲🌴🌳🪾

pine

oak

maple

redwood

palm

cherry blossom

willow

olive

birch

sycamore

cypress

other/not listed/say in tags

Remaining time: 3 days 8 hours

[comintoyoulive]

Hi I’m Indi. I think it’s time I updated yall but I have been busy.

you may know my for my kpop blogging, writing, general hateration, being unapologetically black, etc. I am trying to move out and have hit a financial road block. The good news is I have picked up some part time work. the bad news is it is minimum wage. I am also a graphic designer and make my own art for my writing and will do it for other authors for a $50 starting rate.

if you want to help me out - v3nm0: aribela

thank you all who have helped already 🫶🏾

[comintoyoulive]

i’ve received $65 in total and i’m very grateful. please keep spreading my post i still need help

[comintoyoulive]

$85 received!!! 🫶🏾 please continue to help

[karvina]

[evilqueerwizardassociation]

Misionero Comido Por Tigre, 1907, Noé León

[despazito]

Niu Lai has not made its way onto tumblr yet so I guess my anglophone ass has to make a post about it

[despazito]

Low-budget ‘Niu Lai’ emerges as a surprise hit with its ‘disaster-level’ animation, grabbing millions in China as curiosity rivals Nolan’s ‘

This movie is currently a huge meme in china. It came out of nowhere and inexplicably got a theatrical release, looks like ass, was animated completely by the director and his mother, and took several years to make. "Niu Lai" translates roughly to "The bull is coming" and apparently the film has several other allusions to stock market puns. The Chinese stock market coincidentally had an uptick the day of its release which added further fuel to the meme fire. After going viral Niu Lai began to actually turn profit at the box office, theatres unprepared for Niu Lai mania (the creators did not distribute any promotional material) had to improvise DIY posters:

Niu Lai has now been pulled from theatres.

[starship-goldfish]

Good news: Niu Lai was only pulled from cinemas its hometown, because "the film’s poor quality could harm the city’s image." The rest of China is still screening it.

[cosmovain]

like i cannot stop thinking abt moaning beatboxing accordion Its So.

[diebymybeyblade]

[homunculus-argument]

We need to isolate and start selectively breeding the plastic eating bacteria so we can optimise their efficiency, and then somehow splice their DNA into the gut bacteria of an obligate carnivore, so we can put it in our cats gut biomes so they'll finally be free of having to choose between whether they want to eat plastic or whether they want to live.

[guldaastan]

india has banned these 25 books about kashmir. you can read some of them on this google drive link here <3

[brianbrianbrain]

ID. Three screenshots of List of Books table:

S. No; Name of the Book; Name of the Author; Publisher

Human Rights Violations in Kashmir; Piotr Balcerowicz and Agnieszka Kuszewska; Routledge (Manohar Publishers & Distributors)

Kashmiri's Fight for Freedom; Mohd Yosuf Saraf; Feroze Sons Pakistan

Colonizing Kashmir, State-Building under Indian occupation; Hafsa Kanjwal; Stanford University Press

Kashmir Politics and Plebiscite; Dr. Abdul Jabbar Gockhami; Gulshan Books Kashmir

Do You Remember Kunan Poshpora?; Essar Batool & others; Zubaan Books

Mujahid ki Azaan; Imam Hasan Al-Bana Shaheed edited by: Maulan Mohammad Enayatullah Subhani; Markazi Maktaba Islami Publishers Delhi

Al Jihadul fil Islam; Moulana Moudadi; Darul Musannifeen-Markazi Maktaba Islami Publishers Delhi

Independent Kashmir; Christopher Snedden; Manchester University Press and Sanctum Books Delhi.

Resisting Occupation in Kashmir; Haley Duschinski, Mona Bhat, Ather Zia and Cynthia Mahmood; University of Pennsylvlia Press

Between Democracy and Nation (Gender and Militarization in Kashmir); Seema Kazi; Oxford University Press-Women Unlimited New Delhi

Contested Lands; Sumantra Bose; Harper Collins Publishers India Gurugram Haryana

In Search of the Future (The Story of Kasimir); David Devadas; Viking Pengiun

Kashmir in Conflict (India, Pakistan and the unending War); Victoria Schofield; Bloomsbury Academic India

The Kashmir Dispute 1947-2012; A.G. Noorani; Tulika Books Chennai Tamil Nadu

Kashmir at the Cross Roads (Inside a 21st Century Conflict); Sumantra Bose; Pan Macmillian India, New Delhi

A Dismantled State (The Untold Story of Kashmir after Article 370) Anuradha Bhasin; Harper Collins Publishers India, Gurugram Haryana

Resisting Disappearance (Military Occupation & Women's Activism in Kashmir); Ather Zia; Zubaan Publishers Pvt. Ltd. New Delhi

Confronting Terrorism; Stephen Pcohen Edited by: Maroof Raza; Pengiun India Darya Gunj New Delhi

Freedom in Captivity (Negotiations of belonging along the Kashmiri Frontier); Radhika Gupta; Cambridge University Press Pvt. Ltd New Delhi

Kashmir (The case for Freedom); Tariq Ali, Hilal Bhatt, Angana P. Chatterji, Pankaj Mishra and Arundhati Roy; Verso Books

Azadi; Arundhati Roy; Pengiun India Darya Gunj, New Delhi

USA and Kashmir; Dr. Shamshad Shan; Gulshan Books

Law & Conflict Resolution in Kashmir; Piotr Balcerowicz and Agnieszka Kuszewska; Routledge (Manohar Publishers & Distributors)

Tarikh-i-Siyasat Kashmir; Dr. Afaq; Karwan-e-Tahqiq-o-Saqafar Kashmir

Kashmir & the future of South Asia; Edited by: Sugata Bose & Ayesha Jalal; Routledge (Manohar Publishers & Distributors)

End ID.

[the-bitter-ocean]

While we are at it I need nonblack people to stop saying “YN” and “🥷🏾” just to get around saying antiblack racial slurs. Yes that includes that stupid shit where white people go “ooh but I said nega not-“ I don’t give a shit. You know damn well what you meant. Fuck off. It’s a insta block from me for anyone who does this shit and think it’s funny or whatever don’t pmo.

And before someone fucking says “erm are you referring to the fanfic / shipping term? How is your name offen-“ obviously no I’m not referring to that and anyone who is using it to mean “your name” types it with a slash -> (y/n) *NOT* “yn”. Like. I need nonblacks to stop randomly regurgitating aave they see or hear without knowing what it fucking means and misusing it to hell and back thinking it’s cool/ trendy/ or something worthy of mockery. It means young nigga. Stop fucking using it if you’re not black lol