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Dill, 27, ✡, M, Married. Not always SFW. I block minors. PFP by Zanis Waldheims.

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Dill, 27, ✡, M. Married. Blood type: A-. I like vintage Corningware, beets, and the color blue. This blog contains opinions, questions, and lots of text. Not always SFW. I block minors.

[senatortedcruz]

[orthoscheme]

let me come to your house so i can keel over and die on your property without any discernable cause to make your life a little harder

[adonischildsupportcase]

[famouspainterwombat]

[itsbenedict]

#france in shambles. automation truly comes for us all.

[beardedmrbean]

[dogpuppy]

[beardedmrbean]

[kafkaesquegf]

they should invent a high ponytail that doesn’t give me a headache and they should invent a low ponytail that doesn’t make me look like a miller’s apprentice going off to enlist in the continental army

[systlin]

In 38 years of life I have learned 1 thing;

If anyone is ever training you to replace them in a position and tells you 'its an easy job I don't do much' what this means is that you are about to spend six months to a year catching up on all the stuff they didn't do and sorting out the stuff they did poorly.

In related news I finally managed to finish un fucking my predecessor's lack of a filing system.

[hungrymilliek]

And if they start a sentence with "You're not supposed to do it this way but...", you're about to learn some shit to make OSHA go:

[systlin]

My job is literally in safety and emergency management and that phrase makes me break out in hives. Which is to say that you are entirely one million percent correct.

[what-even-is-thiss]

They put a little garnish on food in pictures and on cooking shows because most food is pretty ugly actually

[what-even-is-thiss]

That’s why they put them in little outfits

[that-stone-butch]

personalized ads are so funny to me

'hey we've been spying on you and tracking your every move. it's a culmination of state of the art technology and an unprecedented invasion of consumer privacy. a room full of men with made up jobs bent their will toward decades of constructing this system, defending it in court, and tirelessly innovating new ways to aggregate more data about you'

and the end result is

'yeah so uh we saw that you recently bought a car. so here's an ad for that car'

like no i'm good actually. you might be aware that i already have one

[cuntaloupes-deactivated20241215]

by tumblr standards i'm a well-adjusted normie. by normie standards i'm a nutjob. what is the truth

[bluering8]

listen to me, this is so so important: you've gotta get used to really giving it your 60% as a default. like don't half-ass it necessarily but try not to go over 70% or so of an ass. you'll feel better and live a happier more fulfilled life, and on the rare occasions where you do need to lock the fuck in you'll be able to pull off bullshit that the sad miserable wretches giving it their 100% can never dream of, because they're busy draining themselves dry and you have energy reserves to spare.

[isaacsapphire]

Yup. Like, I can dicker about exact percentages, but you cannot be operating on 100% day-to-day, because some days, shit hits the fan and you gotta hit the NOS, which means you gotta NOT be going full tilt boogie on a regular Tuesday so you still have something in the tank when you really need it.

This applies to life in general as well as work btw. Like, if you’re utterly fucked if anything goes wrong, you’re already fucked and it just hasn’t hit yet, and you need to try to get some slack before it does hit. Eventually something will go wrong in some small way; it will rain, you will get stuck behind a school bus or a train or emergency bridge repair or something, someone else’s dog’s medical emergency will become your staffing problem, and so on. A truck carrying an essential component will be hijacked or crash, the store will be out of parsley or something. You gotta have some slack to absorb the inevitable slings and arrows of fate, you know?

Have an emergency backup canned soup in the back of the cabinet for the rainy day, etc.

[sharp-tender-shock-deactivated2]

This is a comment someone appended to a photo of two men apparently having sex in a very fancy room, but it’s also kind of an amazing two-line poem? “His Wife has filled his house with chintz” is a really elegant and beautiful counterbalancing of h, f, and s sounds, and “chintz” is a perfect word choice here—sonically pleasing and good at evoking nouveau riche tackiness. And then “to keep it real I fuck him on the floor” collapses that whole mood with short percussive sounds—but it’s still a perfect iambic pentameter line, robust and a lovely obscene contrast with the chintz in the first line. Well done, tumblr user jjbang8

[headspace-hotel]

I hate that my aesthetic sense agrees with this but everything you just said was correct

[headspace-hotel]

I went back to dig up this post because I was thinking about poetry.

This is one of those non-poem things that are among my favorite poems.

As the OP stated, the use of alliterative consonants is aesthetically just great, especially the placement of the strongest use at the end: “fuck him on the floor.” The use of “chintz” is indeed great word choice.

Because I’m insane, decided to scan the poem:

Not only is the second sentence, indeed, perfect iambic pentameter, the entire poem is perfectly metered, though the first sentence has four iambs rather than five.

There are further things I love about this poem, though: I like the casual connotations of “keep it real” juxtaposed with “chintz.” It causes me to interpret the “chintz” more strongly as meaning something fake, a facade. There is also of course the coarseness of “fuck,” which is a contrast with “chintz” but a different kind of contrast, gutsy and carnal where “chintz” is flimsy and inanimate.

And then there is the storytelling: there is SO MUCH storytelling in just these two lines. To break it down: The speaker is having sex with a married man, in the house he shares with his wife, which is “filled with chintz”—something that here connotes fakeness, in contrast with “keep it real.”

The illicit encounter in the poem takes place within a house filled with facade, the flimsy construction of the wife’s marriage and domestic sphere, but the encounter itself is a taste of something “real.” That’s a story, and it’s just two lines.

This is EIGHTEEN SYLLABLES, y’all. The amount of meaning condensed into these eighteen syllables is stunning, and it is so elegantly done.

From a technical standpoint (and ive taken 300- and 400-level poetry classes so I can say this) this is damn near flawless as a poem.

[agent-octopus]

Kept thinking about this ever since I saw it and had to do something

[headspace-hotel]

there's art now

[jetlaggingbehind]

[questions-within-questions]

Ah dang to go further; the floor is framed as a refuge. As if there is literally no other space in this house that hasn't been populated by his wife with flimsy inanimate fakery. There is no space for this man in this house save for the floor. There is no space for him on the sofa, oon the counter tops, and most notably, no space for him in the marital bed.

[normal-horoscopes]

I’d also like to point out the use of the word “has.” The wife has filled the house with chintz. She isn’t filling the house with chintz. She doesn’t fill the house with chintz. She has filled the house with chintz. Use of the past-tense makes the wife a subtly removed element in the story, someone whose presence we see in the environment, but who is blissfully distant during the actors throes of passion. There is an element of physical as well as emotional separation from the wife that is catalyzed by being fucked on the floor. Use of the past tense is an end to the wife presence in the actors life, a carnal catharsis amid cold fragility and emotional distance.

[stargazing-enby]

This is my new favourite post in the world

[astronomical-bagel]

everyone cheer for the one (1) time tumblr had reading comprehension

[trekkiesagainstchastity]

And, predictably, it's because it was about gay sex

[cassassinated]

I miss the days when, no matter how slow your internet was, if you paused any video and let it buffer long enough, you could watch it uninterrupted

[mythicalwashrag]

[useful-info-haver]

If you use Firefox, you can go to the about:config page, search for "media.mediasource.enabled" and double click on it to set it to false. After you restart Firefox, all youtube videos will load entirely even when paused! This also affects other streaming websites :)

[nyxgoddessofcandles]

There's more to do actually, now

go to About:config find media.mediasource.enabled and toggle it to false find media.cache_readahead_limit and change it to 9999 find media.cache_resume_threshold and change it to 9999

additionally if you'd prefer mp4 to webm

also in about:config, find: media.encoder.webm.enabled media.mediasource.webm.audio.enabled media.mediasource.webm.enabled media.webm.enabled and toggle them all to false

note! this will limit video to 1080p

and use https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/dont-accept-webp/ to kill WebP Fuck Google

[vortex-vt]

We jailbreaking browsers now lmao

[seasonallydefective]

There’s also this, which additionally lets you upload your own subtitle files (and if they don’t sync you can drag them around until they do)

GitHub - Andrews54757/FastStream: Stream videos without buffering in the browser. An extension that gives you a better, accessible video pla

Stream videos without buffering in the browser. An extension that gives you a better, accessible video player designed for your needs. - And

[imyourbadjew]

the childish tendency to blame every single one of the world's problems on billionaires was a direct pipeline to the current antisemitism send tweet

[shalom-adamah-lekhem]

Yeah not to go all tinfoil hat or anything but I did happen to notice that around the same time as The Left™ started to pivot from talking about capitalists as a class to specifically billionaires or vague "elites", they also started to platform Neo-Nazi rhetoric from 8chan and call anyone who pointed it out "Zionazis". There's no way I can prove a deliberate psyop, but it feels less than coincidental. One of countless reasons I'm always harping that Leftism™ is in fact right-wing.

[notaplaceofhonour]

For me it was when I started seeing people switch from talking about “The 1%” to “The 2%” / “we are The Other 98%”

The justification was “actually it’s not just the very top 1% that’s responsible, it’s the next layer down too,” but, uh, that’s a very specific demographic number to be throwing around in US politics, especially in relation to phrasing like “Elites” or “Cabal”? And for some unknown reason they kept calling Christian fundamentalists “Pharisees” and talking about Israel like the pinnacle of evil.

I’m sure that could’ve meant anything…

[shaftking]

This is all good and important to point out, but saying that radical or problematic portions of the left are actually just rightwing psyops does kind of sound like trying to no true scotsman your way out of addressing that there are factions within leftism that are massively antisemitic not due to buying into right wing views but instead coming to those positions through their left wing ideology. Let’s be completely honest, Karl Marx wasn’t being right wing when he wrote about “the Jewish question.” It exists largely unaddressed how deeply imbedded antisemitism is to the communist and socialist ideologies that so many leftists adhere to.