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A storm.

A voyage.

A jungle.

Outer space.

Adventure.

Voting ended onSep 17, 2024

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[valtsv]

i don't really have strong feelings about anything at all i just practice complaining recreationally in the hope of one day entering the big leagues and being able to express a desire or perhaps even a need

[newtberry]

Snucissa core

[rhube]

A wild ride:

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[reverbraven]

[talvin-muircastle]

Errant bus driver takes passengers for unwanted ride to Vienna Metro station | FFXnow

A routine bus trip from New York City to D.C. took a harrowing turn for passengers last night (Monday) when the driver reportedly decided to

[familiaralien]

I feel like adding a little addition here because the OP got the funniest possible e-mail after this

[do-you-have-a-flag]

a problem I have is sometimes if i like something it can feel so intense beyond even just frequency of how much I think about it that suddenly engaging with it feels important and i can't do it unless i'm giving it The Correct Kind Of Attention i have literally dropped off watching multiple shows because of this. i stopped watching cause I liked it TOO MUCH and it flipped from easy to difficult

[do-you-have-a-flag]

me: [clicks play on a video about a topic i care a lot about] "I feel like i'm looking into the sun" [stops the video]

[crabussy]

senior/elderly nonbinary people. I adore you and you make the world a better place. whether you've known for multiple decades or you just found out last year. thank you for just Being. so much love from me.

[crabussy]

GAUGEHAHAH????

[gobusto]

[chongoblog]

Genie: Come on, you have only one of your three wishes left. Can you please make it good?

Me: No ❤️

My new iguana: How are you doing that with your mouth?

[spacepsychologist]

Sorry these are being peer-reviewed.

[can-i-make-image-descriptions]

[Image ID: Tumblr tag from tripp-pants-sora reading: #miss frizzle origin story /End ID]

[correctopinionhaver]

still kinda funny to me how british leftists and the media were never able to do even 1% of the damage to margaret thatcher's reputation as eric andre was with one passing joke on his low-rated cartoon network show

[supernovaaart]

🌿🌺

[sabrebash]

Is That Allowed

[sabrebash]

Boy am i glad that the con has a facebook page so i can post this photo:

[pansyfemme]

one moment ☝️ *pauses the blowjob to start violently coughing up blood*

[lordofseagulls]

Lil Nas X should not be allowed to be this funny

[faggotry-enjoyer]

[ID: Lil Nas X wearing a white t-shirt that says "White, straight, conservative male. are you triggered?" /end ID]

[goldcrescent]

I also think that the strength gap is at least partially manufactured women would in fact be stronger overall if little girls were encouraged to do physically taxing games and activities and eat their fill while they’re growing vs having to constantly diet and be sedentary indoors (or god forbid do intense cardio while under-eating). The amount of adult women honestly afraid to lift weights bc they think they’ll get bulky as though bulking isn’t a full time job that athletes have to spend all their time on and anyone on earth gets shredded from just using their adult muscles for their intended purpose, girl your bone density 🥀

[goldcrescent]

if you say women are intentionally nerfed from birth in 2026 people look at you like you’re insane and start condescendingly telling you about how women are just better at different things (but not during their periods haha) but this was a completely basic feminist talking point I grew up with like “girls can do it too! [shot of little girls climbing and running with boys]” nickelodeon commercial tier base level I hate it how is everyone suddenly dumber than the average 7 year old

[caspercryptid]

I feel like not enough people realize that people under enormous strain act really really fucking Weird

[withoutideas]

There was a parenting-kids-with-trauma book I remember running into around 2010 (I was not and am still not a parent, but I am an older sibling) that had a lovely little slogan I like to quote all the time:

“It’s not about the Cheerios.”

This was in reference to a story about a kid flipping the HELL out into a full-blown panic about running out of their favorite cereal. Not a tantrum, not a whine-fest, but an all-hands-on-deck, code-red, world-is-ending blowup.

The kid had originally come from a very unstable situation and experienced food deprivation. The new adoptive parents were stumped, because look at all the other food! You’re safe! We can get the Cheerios tomorrow!

But it wasn’t really about the Cheerios, it was about that first flicker of unease triggering all the old trauma. From the outside, it looked ridiculous. To the trauma-trained reaction of the kid’s brain, it made perfect sense.

Human brains are weird, and we’re all out here trying to survive. Sometimes our brains do this in socially acceptable, convenient ways. But not often.

(The book was titled “Beyond Logic, Consequences or Control” I think, I’ll look it up and edit this in a bit.)

[nerdicornthetrekkie]

[gamechangershow]

Sorry but it's not complete without...

[solarpunk-nightbird]

Actually, fuck the myth of the Tower of Babel. The real beautiful utopia where we can all finally truly understand each other doesn't lie in sameness or uniformity, it lies in the giant and digital Rosetta Stone we are going to build and broadcast across the entire world

[solarpunk-nightbird]

So, genuinely no hard feelings, I get where y'all are coming from, but that was actually kind of my entire point

The Rosetta Stone was and is real.

This is indisputable. You can go see the Rosetta Stone on display right now!! I'd say you could even it touch it, but there's museum glass in the way, so that the oils on human skin can't further degrade this 2,000-year-old stele, which is one of the most important surviving historical texts in the world.

The Tower of Babel is not real, and it never was.

The Tower of Babel is a millennia-old religious story about a mythological tower, which serves as a mythological explanation for the origin of different human languages. Yes, there are some religious historians who speculate that the myth was inspired by one or another physical tower, but no, that doesn't prove anything other than "this is how many people in this culture/time and place explained or understood that sort of event."

The Rosetta Stone, on the other hand, is an object of translation that actually exists

Photo credit: By © Hans Hillewaert, CC BY-SA 4.0, retrieved from Wikipedia article "Rosetta Stone." https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=3153928

That picture is of a real object. It is not of a picture of a 3,000+ year old myth.

Our attempts to understand each other will not result in us being struck down by some force from on high!

And the true path to a world where we can all understand each other does not involve us all speaking the same language. That's racist bs

True understanding depends on ethical translation and language preservation, not on unity of language

[solarpunk-nightbird]

And this is a very urgent thing for us to remember, because a fluent speaker - and especially a fluent native speaker - of an endangered language is one of the rarest, most concentrated, and most fragile sources of knowledge in the world

Preserving and revitalizing endangered languages is a race against time. For many languages, especially Indigenous languages and languages from an oral tradition, the loss of each individual fluent speaker is a permanent loss of language

Almost half of the world's 7,000 languages are endangered! You can learn more about, and find resources and education on, the Endangered Language Project and similar organizations, especially ones that are Indigenous and respect knowledge sovereignty and traditional ownership

knowledge sovereignty: when it comes to language and traditional knowledge, knowledge sovereignty is the simple but super important principle that the speakers of a language and members of a culture should have full, independent control of their own traditional knowledge and knowledge systems. For Indigenous languages in particular, sometimes knowledge sovereignty means certain language resources are closed to those outside the tribe, Nation, and/or culture - which is absolutely fair, given what white people have historically done and are still doing when it comes to stealing, and then fucking copyrighting, Indigenous traditional knowledge. (Related: Fuck Monsanto)

But good news - you can learn more about, support, and access community resources on language preservation at The Endangered Language Project here:

[wholeheartedsuggestions]

eventually you realize you don’t want to die. you just don’t want to live the life you’re living. and slowly you try to create a life you want to live. just gotta start there.

[wholeheartedsuggestions]

no one needs to add “sounds fake but ok”, “no”, “well, not me”, “impossible”, etc. to this post. and i’d rather you not.

[duckbunny]

one day you think: I want to die.

and then you think, very quietly: actually. actually. I think I want a coffee. a nap. a sandwich. a book.

and I want to die turns day by day into I want to go home, I want to walk in the woods, I want to see my friend, I want to sit in the sun

I want a cleaner kitchen

I want a better job

I want to live somewhere else

I want to live