[sexhaver]

watching public discourse over tweets mamdani's wife made when she was 15/16 is fascinating because it's, like, the textbook definition of a psyop, and it appears to be going extremely well

[sexhaver]

when the callout tiktoks casually drop language like this you at bare minimum have to do some introspection into who wants you to feel outrage over this and why before indulging your inner sjw

[crimesagainsthughsmanatees]

[karpad]

This Black History Month, reflect for a moment on the fact that George Washington Carver, famously "the inventor of peanut butter and more than 100 industrial uses for peanuts" wasn't, like, Doc Brown fucking around in his garage because he really liked peanuts but was specifically trying to introduce larger use of a nitrogen fixing legume into crop rotations against cotton monoculture which was destroying yields, livelihoods and the biosphere, and how most agribusiness farming now just destroys that topsoil on purpose and continues to grow a cotton monoculture (or soy or corn or whichever local monoculture is profitable) using petrochemical derived fertilizer, which is one element driving climate change

Daniel Hale Williams performed the first successful heart surgery. He also founded the first nonsegregated hospital in America because he was keenly aware of disparate health outcomes by race which is still a problem today.

WEB Dubois was a part of the delegations for the birth of the UN. His proposal to include in the charter that "the colonial system of government … is undemocratic, socially dangerous and a main cause of wars" was not adapted for the final draft. We might see inaction against colonial violence to this day as part of the failure of others to heed his warnings there.

I feel like so often when we look at Black History Month so much of it is driven by factoids but when taken as history in context its about a direct line from decades and centuries to what is happening right now.

[yellow-cat]

when im 45 years old ill still be here posting like take my hand. lets go into menopause together

[vagisil]

the people yearn for nonplastic fabrics

[frogmoss1]

me: *trying to take my socks off but they keep getting stuck on my heel* oh fuck. goddamnit.

the extractor fan in a bathroom in Norway that has an intrinsic link to my spirit: *momentarily whirs louder*

[billyshakesqueer]

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[truelovevip-deactivated20190324]

being as i am an idiot, and having been one my whole life, i just wanna say that i find it very easy to do nothing, and go nowhere. i eat chocolate late at night in the dark. i stand in the garden also. and i’m often waiting for something to happen. and i’m stupid.

[sophiamcdougall]

I tried to annoy some youths on the Elizabeth Line and it backfired

[sophiamcdougall]

I Became That Which I Sought To Destroy

[sophiamcdougall]

They were playing music out loud. I hate that. I asked them to stop. They didn't. "Fuck it", I think, and decide to choose violence. I move nearer them, remove my own headphones and start doing Duolingo Greek, which I know from experience is extremely irritating to be around. I figure anyone else nearby is already annoyed and I can't make it worse

But then I ran out of hearts. And I wasn't finished with violence yet, so I decided to turn on my own music.

"What are you doing" say the youths. I shrug.

The youths begin to bop along ironically.

"They hate this," I think. "I am winning."

"Hang on," says a youth. "What is that."

I realise something is going wrong but not what to do about it. "It's Italian," I mutter

"Are you Italian?"

"No, I just speak it."

"Oh shit. This goes hard actually," says a youth, whose bopping along no longer appears to be ironic "Is that rap? There's Italian rap? Whoa. Took me a second"

"What's it about?" says another youth.

My inner Public Transport Etiquette Absolutist and my inner Italian Music Evangelist are now at war. Fatally poised to decide the balance is the fact that I am a middle aged woman who has just had her musical tastes flattered by Youths.

"It's called Arresto Cardiaco, which obviously means cardiac arrest, and it's about a panic attack," I say. They lean over to peer at my phone.

"He must have some bad panic attacks," says the first youth thoughtfully.

"Maybe he gets them all the time," agrees another.

Somewhere along the way, and I realise I don't know when it happened, they turned off their own music and are now bopping along to mine.

I can't bring myself to turn it off.

Other passengers stare at me with open loathing. They are right to do so.

I literally could not beat them and I accidentally joined them. I am sorry.

[infectiouspiss]

you have to stay alive. you're going to be such a beautiful middle aged freak. young freaks will see you in the street and know that things can be okay.

[iwritebigbellies-blog]

I was 22 when I got my first bookstore job, and at the time my entire experience of "old people" was my grandparents, none of whom had been particularly healthy, and none of whom I was close with. To my young eyes, all they did was sit around and be old. That was life after 60.

The owner of the bookstore was this grand old dame of 76 who had been in the business for 40 years. She'd had three kids with a husband who was extremely gay, and as soon as those were old enough, they split up. She read on an epic scale, was an avid follower of the opera, sang in several choirs, and scheduled arts programming for a private club. She had gentleman callers (so they styled themselves) at the store continuously the entire fifteen years I worked there--yah, into her NINETIES. She never took up seriously with any of them, because they couldn't keep up. She was impeccably dressed and put together every single day of her life, drank regularly, and said they would pry her estrogen supplements out of her cold, dead hands. She had a gang of elderly single lady friends, though, and they went out every night of the week. They knew everything and everyone, collectively. She got her first smart phone in her mid-80s and became extremely Online. I bet she's on Tumblr now. She is 96.

This blew my mind. Life didn't have to be over...ever.

We worship youth in our culture. Only the young have futures, and the aged exist to enable the lives of the young. We act as if by the time you hit forty, you've had your chance. You are now expected to step aside and scede life to others.

FUCK THAT. I have a lot of life ahead of me. I have places to go and books to read and people to fuck and food to eat and music to dance to and emotions to feel and nazis to punch and stories to tell and hearts to break and ventures to capitalize and empires to conquer. I am going to be doing this for the next fifty years, minimum.

Life has so much in it. Do it all, forever.

[kimyadawson]

NYC! We are playing an acoustic Moldy Peaches concert at CARNEGIE HALL on June 6th, 2026! Advance tickets are on sale NOW with password: MoodyPoodles - (link in bio) or: https://www.carnegiehall.org/calendar/2026/06/26/the-moldy-peaches-0800pm  w/ support from our friend Paleface

[mentalchillnesss]

!!!!!!!!!!!

[whitegenocidereturns]

I'm sure the youth have no frame of reference for the bush era nor understand the gravity of the damage that administration did, and I anticipate that trump's accelerationist racism is going to eclipse that legacy due to the extreme nature of his theatrics. if it hasn't already. but hell just gained a new demon in the form of dick cheyney. and I think it's an opportunity to talk about the ways in which this regime had the groundwork laid for everything happening now decades ago. the mass surveillance, the black sites, extrajudicial kidnappings, racially motivated arrests, courting and platforming reactionaries (remember Rush Limbaugh?) all of it is relevant, not distant history by any stretch of the imagination. but there was also resistance, which had its share of successes and failures to learn from. a lot of us foolishly thought we survived the worst of it when obama got elected only for him to basically be a dark skinned chicagoan version in all the ways that really matter. so, hooray, but we also have to mourn all the people he took with him on his way out, and. make it our duty to figure out how to stop more from joining the pyre.

[crimesagainsthughsmanatees]

[amygdalae]

Me: damn this situation I'm in sure isn't ideal, what am I gonna do about this

Suicidal Ideation Man who lives in my brain: perhaps I have a suggestion ☝️🤓

[amygdalae]

[allsadnshit]

It makes me sad that most people around me are so unbelievably burnt out from work and life that they are just truly emotionally unavailable and don't even wanna use their energy for anything beside going out partying once a weekend

It's like watching friends who you've seen be silly and have deep talks work jobs to the point of stress where they are incoherent and respond to messages like legit 6 days later and not in a rude way but genuinely they don't have the mental capacity to do shit anymore

Working jobs and paying bills shouldn't take everything out of people to the extent it really does

Even when I'm off work and I had a shorter shift most of the time I truly have nothing left in the tank after the combo of emotions and physical labor

[pansyfemme]

relationships and jobs are temporary. your shitty unpopular tumblr blog is forever

[juelzsantanabandana2]

[juelzsantanabandana2]

A Jewish rapper from south Florida with wick dreads was not on my bingo card but that boy said “IM FOREVER SMOKIN NAZIS IMMA PASS THE BLUNT TO ANNE FRANK” WHEWWWWW THATS BARS 🔥🎤

[only-tiktoks]

[picturesque-about-it]