Mbd7262

my blog is not safe for work. I'm horrendously inconsistent about tagging things. Bit of a spoonie. Ongoing physical and mental health drama.

[memewhore]

[icarus-suraki]

This is Tumblr. You can say words like "killed" here.

[env0]

If I got dunked on like this on my own meme as a meme page I'd give up.

[syakesan]

America be like "you cant have free healthcare or easy access to disability but you can have a gun"

[syakesan]

no healing, no living, go KILL

[syakesan]

This post was really fucking funny in hindsight

[liberalsarecool]

[star-plasma]

[george-rr-binks]

Make it this and I’m in.

[aqueerkettleofish]

Good lord, he even has the right face.

[quasi-normalcy]

Plus he's fucking ripped but you really can't tell given the clothes he habitually wears.

[otatma]

[designobjectory]

The ceramic art of Eduard Stellmacher

by John Coulthart at { feuilleton } blog

The Art Nouveau style is seldom more grotesque than in these vases and amphorae designed around the turn of the century by Eduard Stellmacher (1868–1945) for his father’s company, Amphora, in the Tur-Teplitz region of Bohemia. [...] Stellmacher and co. created their share of delightful ceramic figures with Mucha-like tresses and flowing garments but Eduard’s designs around this time were preoccupied with ferocious creatures: bats, fish, lizards, octopuses, and a profusion of fire-breathing dragons.

[renthony]

"onlyfans but it's [something not sexual]" jokes annoy the absolute fuck out of me, because there has been an active issue of non-SWers pushing SWers off the fucking platform.

Here's one for you: OnlyFans but y'all actually support sex workers materially

[smoldragonborn]

"onlyfans but my content isn't sexual it's-"

patreon. you're describing patreon. go back to that platform and stop hijacking sex workers spaces.

[anarchokeith-deactivated2024071]

genuine question: wouldn't having platforms that are sex worker-friendly but not exclusively for sex work help prevent those websites from being targeted e.g. by anti-SW legislation like SESTA/FOSTA?

[renthony]

Genuine response:

I see your thought process, but the answer, unfortunately, is no, not really. If a platform gets associated with sex work, even if it's only a fraction of the content, it gets targeted, and the sex workers get run off. There were actually quite a lot of sex workers on Patreon back in the day (I was friends with several), and then they got run out of the platform entirely as Patreon rebranded as the mainstream content creator website.

The more non-SWers that flood into OnlyFans, the quicker OnlyFans decides to boot all the SWers off and cater only to the SFW userbase. Because if they get rid of the SWers, they won't get targeted by anti-SWer legislation, but they'll still make their money.

If that makes sense?

Basically, content hosting companies really only give a shit as long as they keep making money, and if non-SW content is gonna make them more money and keep them from having to deal with legal issues around SW, they'll ditch SWers in a heartbeat.

(Which is, incidentally, why we should all be supporting platforms created, managed, and designed by SWers where we can find them.)

[steponmepinkjun]

Okay I love the "I'm vaccinated and ready to party this summer" attitude, but do yous realize you can still transmit the virus to people who are not vaccinated. The vaccine aims to prevent severe symptoms and death, it does not stop transmission. Even if youre vaccinated, you can still catch covid—your case will just be mild or asymptomatic, and you can get other people sick, who may be hospitalized or die if they're not fully vaccinated. So chill out, keep wearing your masks and social distancing. If you don't want to cause you're bored or lonely—SUCK. IT. UP.

[emptydragonseverywhere]

This is literally not true stop it. I am 100% for encouraging people to be on the safe side but I’m not gonna stand for misinformation from either side.

When the vaccines were first approved, we did not know if the vaccines stopped transmission, so we were told to act as though they did not stop transmission for safety reasons. They didn’t test for it in the emergency phased trials. It was speculated the entire time that the vaccines likely reduced transmission... because that’s how vaccines work.

Now we have evidence that the mRNA vaccines, Pfizer and Moderna, do actually prevent transmission. Animal studies have shown decreases in transmission. In Israel, where a majority of the adult population is vaccinated (with Pfizer), they have seen a 75-89% reduction in asymptomatic infections, meaning that getting the vaccine significantly reduces your changes of being an asymptomatic spreader. Oxford also has evidence that their AstraZenica vaccine also reduces transmission. It may not be peer reviewed and replicated research, but for all intents and purposes, as of me writing this on March 31, 2021, we can confidently say that the vaccines do prevent some level of transmission.

That being said, people absolutely should continue to follow regulations and guidelines. The CDC guidelines for people who have been fully vaccinated (aka 2 weeks past your last dose) can be found here. Notice that fully vaccinated people are allowed to do things like visit indoors with other fully vaccinated people (or a single unvaccinated household with low risk) without regard to masks or ventilation, but should still wear masks in public or group settings. So absolutely keep wearing your masks and social distancing. Because that’s what the recommendations say. Not because of lies made up about the vaccine.

[bunnynest]

you’re very special to me *gives you this*

[bunnynest]

take them i have plenty more

[vergak]

They are so shaped

[eliteknightarmor]

one of the animals ever for sure

[occasionallydiverting]

hnnnngh, I’m trying to conduct global maritime trade, but I’m dummy thicc, and the clap of my hull plates keeps blocking the Suez Canal

[awwcutepets]

[makeuphall]

[tardis-stowaway]

“It’s bad that the boat is stuck. It’s bad for lots of people and for lots of reasons. I know that. Please don’t think that me liking the stuck boat is an ideological stance. This is not an opinion I have about boats, or about canals, or about things generally being stuck. But I can’t deny it: I like that the boat is stuck. I like that, so far, we all seem to agree that the boat is stuck. There’s no debate over whether or not the big boat is stuck: it is a big boat, and it is stuck, and we are all aware of those facts, even those of us who are currently located in outer space. Furthermore, most of us share the opinion that it’s disagreeable, logistically, for the boat to be stuck. The boat being stuck is inconvenient. It’s a big disruption! Nobody can say it isn’t a big disruption. None of my distant relatives will get into arguments on The Face Website about whether or not the stuck boat is making a nuisance for lots of people. I like that.”

—

“I Like That The Boat Is Stuck” by Sarah Gailey

I highly recommend that you read this short essay about the stuck boat and why we like hearing in the news that it is stuck. It’s funny and entirely accurate.

[owlmylove]

[lifeafterpsychiatry]

Even if your condition is chronic and your symptoms won't ever go away, your life as a whole can still get better. Whether it's through finding better coping strategies, more effective treatment, a better support network, through knowing yourself, your needs and your limits better, through accessing more accommodations or through discovering new passions, your life can and will improve even if your condition itself won't. I promise.

[fantasmalresplendent]

when a giant cargo container gets stuck in an egyptian canal blocking off 10% of world trade, everyone is like "wow that sucks I guess," but tumblr users pounce like rabid wolves on that shit like

[warcrimesimulator]

Erythrisric European badger (Meles meles)

© John Formstone