Freindly Neigborhood Ghoul

I'm in my 40's (I'm getting old...), but have not out grown my love of ghosts and goblins. My inner teenager tends to sneak out more than it should. You can also find me on Steam, usually playing the Elder Scroll V: Skyrim Steam: oliver_wilken Snapchat: ghoulguy13

[cipheramnesia]

Not perfect and not always right but basically:

Is it a screen shot?

Is there a link?

Did you click/read the link?

Was it a real source (AP wire, local news, the original online post - not Fox, not the Sun, not NY Post, etc)?

Did you find any confirmation?

Did it strongly confirm a bias or suspicion?

Did it make you feel angry, smug, disgusted, superior, and/or helpless?

Is it important enough to you that you think it needs to be shared?

Do you have the energy, time, ability to research, confirm, and provide sources, links, and some additional clarifying details?

Generally I have this in mind, not necessarily always and not always observed, and I forget and blah blah. But it's a pretty simple guide to remember, and honestly items 1 and 9 cover me most of the time.

[cipheramnesia]

I am not immune to not checking hearsay either

[nerdreamer]

[lnaliazmcithilien]

every time I do a web search, right at the top I have AI info dumping on me

just give me the top result please

[flootzavut]

Swear in your search request. I know it sounds ridiculous, but the most effective way I've found of it not doing the AI summary is just to add "fucking" go my search.

[aahsokaatano]

Holy shit

[necrxticstardust]

It also seems to get rid of sponsored posts

[icescrabblerjerky]

GUYS THIS FUCKING WORKS OH MY GOD. BEAUTIFUL.

[werewolveswithagenda]

I think Tumblr will love this

[i-am-shitpost]

For the love of GOD turn the volume on

[butyoutoldmeiwasfunny]

[caats]

[caats]

[hmmm-official]

hmmm

[makiruz]

Finally, someone who remembers the true purpose of Lego!

[trickstertime]

The person who originally did this is a phenomenally talent builder. Here’s some more of their work:

[themajesticjunkyard]

To anyone interested, this is Joss Ivanwood, or Jayfa_mocs

[midnightghoul]

I got my 1 year chip with Al-Anon this week

If you don't know, Al-Anon is for the friends and family of alcoholics.

[fandomsandfeminism]

Broke:

Belle has Stockholm syndrome because she falls in love with the Beast, her kidnapper.

Woke:

Stockholm syndrome was coined to slander a woman who had been in a hostage situation but openly criticized the poor police response which recklessly put her in more danger and escalated the violence. She was then belittled and discredited publically by the police for this.

So. Yeah. Maybe Belle does have Stockholm syndrome actually.

[reallysaltygarden]

If anyone is curious here is the wikipedia section describing this.

[ID: Gif image from Disney's Beauty and the Beast with Gaston leading a large group of villagers down the road holding a torch. The atmosphere is dark.

Wikipedia screenshot containing the following:

According to accounts by Kristin Enmark, one of the hostages, the police however was acting incompetently, with little care for the hostages' safety, which forced the hostages to negotiate for their life and release with the robbers on their own. In the process the hostages saw the robbers behaving more rationally than police negotiators and therefore developed a deep distrust towards the latter. Enmark had criticized Bejerot specifically for endangering their lives by behaving aggressively and agitating the captors. She had criticized the police for pointing guns at the convicts while the hostages were in the line of fire and she had told news outlets that one of the captors tried to protect the hostages from being caught in the crossfire. She was also critical of prime minister Olof Palme, as she had negotiated with the captors for freedom, but the prime minister told her that she would have to content herself to die at her post rather than give in to the captors' demands. Ultimately, Enmark explained she was more afraid of the police whose attitude seemed to be a much larger, direct threat to her life than the robbers.]

Hope the ID helps, it's my first time writing one.

[problematic-faves-appreciation]

Excerpts from “See What You Made Me Do: The Dangers of Domestic Abuse That We Ignore, Explain Away, or Refuse to See” by Jess Hill

Here are some other facts you should know about Nils Bejerot: He had a major influence (this involved founding the "Swedish National Association for a Drug-free Society") on Sweden's zero-tolerance approach to drug use.

And he wrote "Barn, Serier, Samhälle" (Children, Comics, Society), basically the Swedish version of "Seduction of the Innocent"; an infamous anti-comics book by Fredric Wertham that led to the Comics Code Authority.

Bejerot described comic books as a "significant mental hygiene and cultural problem that concerns us all."

This is the man who coined the phrase "Stockholm syndrome", guys.

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

all goofing aside I genuinely don't understand the urge to reimagine Taylor Allison Swift as a secretly queer icon when the pop music scene(TM) is like. literally overflowing with women who actually like women. Gaga and Kesha and Miley and Halsey are right there. Rina Sawayama and Hayley Kiyoko and Rebecca Black and Kehlani and Victoria Monét and Miya Folick if you're willing to get slightly less top 100. Janelle and Demi for them nonbinary takes on liking girls. like what are we doing here. like I'm not even saying you can't enjoy Taylor but why would you hang all your little gay hopes on her.

[thepuppeteer-andthetrashmob]

Isn’t Lady Gaga bisexual?

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

yes that is indeed why she's on the list of famous women who like women

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

why have multiple people reblogged this with some horse-assed "um actually most of these people are bi or pan" did I fucking stutter I said they like girls. what is your point. I'm going to kill you.

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

#op probably has this post muted but the icon is too real.

the icon is because of this post

[wildflower182]

POV: you make a good post and then encounter tumblr reading comprehension

[ericrmalice-deactivated20240323]

btw to just clarify for anyone who sees this reblog of this post

op is basically saying something along the lines of "yea ik taylor swift is bi but like. why is she y'all's only lgbtq+ pop icon when there are all these other lgbtq+ people in the pop scene???"

i might have worded this badly but hopefully i got the main point across

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

hi op here I certainly did not fucking say Taylor Swift is bi

[1-800-horrorfilms]

[midnightghoul]

I read this, and immediately thought of David Bowie's tired and annoyed face when 'yet another' talk show host asked him to define what bi-sexual means.

[katjohnadams]

i remember adults telling me, as a kid, to listen to doctors and get my flu vaccine and any shots i could because they remembered Before.

then they started fighting Covid precautions.

i remember adults telling me, as a kid, that the ozone was disappearing and the earth was dying and we needed to recycle and save the planet.

now my parents think climate change is a myth.

i remember adults telling me, as a kid, that racism was a plague, that we had to love and accept everyone, that we should never judge before walking a mile in their shoes.

then they told me that protesting for my Black siblings was wrong.

i remember adults telling me, as a kid, that we needed to give to the poor. working at soup kitchens. making quilts. collecting food and money and supplies. building houses. because it was the christian and just plain right thing to do.

now they look at me, on food stamps with their grandchildren, and lament the "welfare state".

i remember adults telling me, as a kid, that it was easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than a rich man to enter the Kingdom of Heaven and that any rich man, especially an immoral one, should never run our country.

you can guess who they voted for.

i remember adults telling me, as a kid, so very much.

when did they forget?

[katjohnadams]

Time to bring this back. Again.

[katjohnadams]

Apparently this is evergreen. Dammit.

[citadelofmythoughts]

I remember adults telling me, as a kid that girls can be equal to boys in all fields including athletics. Now, they consider girls to be delicate flowers who could never hope to compete against boys.

[midnightghoul]

I can remember a lot of things being said when I was kid, trying to have me be a better person. And I saw it be swept away by fear in the wake of the 9/11 attack. I remember quite a few adults that would say what they thought was good things, but later totally fail when they were tested on those same thing. And every one of those failures seems to track back to a fear of letting something from the outside in. A fear of the other. A fear of people that are not like them, that don't look like them.

[midnightghoul]

The Eternal Question: How do I Get Over the Stuff I Can't Change

[nonalimmen]

© Nona Limmen {via Instagram}

[laughcentre]

[wrywlf]

it’s been years since i’ve first seen this comic and i still think it has one of the best punchline delivers of anything i’ve ever seen

[ogrebattle128-deactivated201404]

eternal classic

[omgitsbees-deactivated20150410]

[ilsidur-deactivated20160521]

#pacific rim was too excited to hold back#’HERE LOOK AT WHAT WE MADE’

[whippoorwillsh]

shout out to pacific rim for showing me what i paid to see

[oneheadtoanother]

FINALLY

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