Museum Of Incompetence

26 /Bi/ Trans man for clueless cis people and enby, QUEER (they/he) Names Rome - Personal blog with fandoms and humor. Ask me to tag things

[missy-mistress]

[penny-anna]

Hello friends we need to talk about this twitter account:

You might know him from a thread where he was getting wowed by free appetisers in a Mexican restaurant.

Firstly: He is doing a bit pretending to be a wandering samurai. It's a joke and his posts are all made up. This is very obvious if you actually look at his account and website:

He does purport to be Japanese but based on some of the other content he posts there's reason to believe he's British.

Which brings me to my second point: his Samurai content is interspersed with posts like this:

And this:

He is not cute or funny. Stop platforming him.

[penny-anna]

The chips and salsa thread went viral in June and his website seems to have gone live in July. This confirms what I suspected which is that said website with it's explicit disclaimers was made in response to the big viral hit.

Consequently, back when he first blew up it was potentially a bit harder to figure out that his stories are fictional. That said, the New York Times worked it out so I'm comfortable accusing outlets who ran the story describing him as a Japanese world cup tourist of legitimately terrible journalism.

[penny-anna]

Regarding some comments in the notes:

Yeah this is also the guy from the truck thread going around. That's what prompted this post and in retrospect I should have said so explicitly.

He claims he just uses AI to translate his posts from Japanese. He also says the art on his website isn't AI generated. I think he is full of shit on both counts.

I only gave a couple of examples but even on a brief look through his twitter it was apparent that he posts a LOT about UK politics to the point where he's quite patently British. He is a Restore supporter which is a party that split away from mainstream far right party Reform due to feeling they weren't right wing enough.

It might not surprise you to hear he does not seem to know shit about Japan? Both the salsa story and the truck story failed the smell test for people who are familiar with Japan. There's also a story about going to a potluck where he seemingly couldn't come up with a single Japanese dish for the character to cook??

Yeah his whole bit is racist and it is troubling that so many people took a guy badly roleplaying as a medieval samurai to be a 21st century Japanese tourist.

[brilliantpines]

do you guys remember when we used to say oh worm all the time. remember that

[brilliantpines]

is anybody out there

[acakewalkofcrocodiles]

[cafffine]

woke up this morning, rolled over, and very confidently tried to blow out my alarm clock like a candle. absolutely no precedent for that.

[wizardshark]

In the year 1450 a priest rolls over and slams his hand into his candle, burning him and sending wax flying all over the place

[sexchangedotcom]

ancient roman women whose husband keeps looking at the neighbour's boy quintus and he never looks at her that way and she can't even chainsmoke in the kitchen because they don't have marlboro blues in ancient times. and she can't even go to the club because they haven't discovered drum and bass music yet. her friend clodia's having visions of a woman named doechii but neither of them knows what that means

[newsfromstolenland]

*Urgent*

My bf and I are trying to pull together money for first and last on an apartment as soon as we possibly can

Both of us are in less than ideal situations, with me living precariously with family and him having no fixed place to live

We have a place lined up, but we need to pay first and last month's rent in order to secure it, and we need to do so as fast as possible

If anyone can help out, we take donations over PayPal or e-transfer (you can DM for e-transfer info)

I do writing commissions on Ko-fi, where you can also donate

We have to put together a total of 3200 CAD so obviously this is pretty stressful, and any and all help would be much appreciated!

I'm going to update this post with both the amount of any donations we receive, and the amounts of our paychecks when we get them, so the total raised will reflect the complete amount of money that we have set aside as opposed to only showing what's been donated (to avoid any confusion). I also applied for a government assistance program for first and last, which would take care of about 1000-1600 CAD, so I'll include that if I am able to get it

2435/3200 CAD

[newsfromstolenland]

My bank account is empty, and we need to get groceries and cleaning supplies for the apartment

Please, if anyone can contribute to help with that to get us through to the end of the month, it would mean everything to us

45/250 CAD

[newsfromstolenland]

My account is currently overdrawn by about 45 CAD so I'm adding that to my goal. Please please help

45/295 CAD

[wiimotion]

T_T I wish bathroom-related disabilities weren’t still today the subject of so much baseless ableism and hatred.. When you learn that kind of shame, it can kill you. People think “it’s too embarrassing to be seen buying an enema, or to go to the ER and need a manual disimpaction. I’ll just wait this one out” and then the bowel perforates and that can kill you in no time at all. And a LOT of it is just because of the meaningless stigma surrounding something as universal and basic as.. peeing and pooping?? That’s insane! Most everyone does it! Get over yourself and stop perpetuating shame!! Knowing someone has to wear a diaper will not kill you, but the embarrassment that person feels might just kill them!!

[wolchefant]

help a disabled household make ends meet

hey, it's lucian again. the last post is still gaining reblogs, but not donations. im still disabled, still not scheduled for work, still without medicaid coverage, still in debt.

if you haven't heard my story by now, i was hospitalized for a week last april after a particularly bad seizure, and i haven't quite been able to recover since. my roommate works full time and while i've worked whenever and wherever i've been physically able to, i've still been reliant on good will and donations for over a year now to pay the bills. and now without medicaid, which im working tireless to get back, i can't access or afford my seizure prevention or pain medications, or update my vaccines.

im still taking direct donations through my paypal, but i now have a formal gofundme up with an adaptive goal that will increase to encompass what i listed there: the next 2 month's worth of rent, my current credit debt balance, and an additional allotment for major costs such as my phone and electric bills.

Donate to Help Disabled Trans Man Afford Living Expenses, organized by Lucian Hartway

I am a transgender disabled man attempting to survive unstable employm… Lucian Hartway needs your support for Help Disabled Trans Man Affo

as ever, im immensely grateful for all the help that has been given to me here on tumblr over the last year, and for all the emotional support that has been shared with me and my household. my dream remains to stabilize my life, and work towards returning to a point where i can give back financially to the community that has helped me so much in recent years.

[wolchefant]

donations have slowed down; i received a great deal in the first week but had to use a good chunk of it to make the first payment on baby's $400 veterinary urgent care trip (she's much better now!), buying toilet paper & kitty litter, and an electrical bill. rent is due in a week and i need to prioritize putting donations towards that, even with my credit card almost maxed out.

[wolchefant]

donations have completely stopped—rent was made but i haven’t been able to make a dent in my credit card balance. im sorry to keep asking for help but i do still need it. baby will need her cat food restocked soon, and i’ll need money for uber rides when she has her check up at the vet later this month.

[wolchefant]

i need $205 by the 17th

100 towards paying off baby’s urgent care visit, and 105 for the power bill. i cant pay off either of those because of how close i am to maxing my credit card. baby also needs more food before the end of the month.

i may have a job interview late next week but that won’t help with these upcoming expenses

[wolchefant]

nothing for 2 weeks now

[superspecial-awesome]

[yaoiblackmold]

Im sorry but it is so funny how people outside of tumblr view us. Like why are the tiktokers treating tumblr like some professional ass website you need to do extensive prep before you begin posting on. And the follower farming advice is so fucking funny to me when this is the website where people actively hate getting new followers

[queen-of-hobgobblers]

Tumblr is the website where you ramble to yourself like a madman until someone decides they like you and put you into their pocket like a shiny rock. That's how you get followers

[imlostinthebooks]

"have some idea of content you want to do", "have lots of drafts before posting" - no, silly, just post whatever comes to your mind at 2 AM. the best thing about tumblr is that you can start rambling about some obscure background character from a 3000 year old poem, and there'll always be someone equally invested

[trangoldin]

[lumiiki]

"What's the sudden interest in ancient Egypt?"

"No reason" I say, failing to mention there is a very Atem shaped reason 𓂀

[teaboot]

what annoys me about explaining evolution to people who don’t think it’s real is that everyone’s idea of how it works seems to be from this

Whereas the reality is far more like

[teaboot]

Was not expecting this many of you to resonate with Millennium Death Plinko

[sufficientlylargen]

One of these days the horse is gonna come out of pinko with opposable thumbs, and then we're all in trouble.

[mumblesplash]

it’s so magical and beautiful that there are sprawling interconnected cave systems carved deep into the earth by various geological forces and you don’t have to go in them. there are miles and miles of stone passageways in total darkness that require you to exhale all the air out of your lungs to squeeze through parts of them and you don’t have to be there. some of these squeezes are underwater and require cave divers to take off their oxygen tanks and push them through ahead of them and me i am above ground looking at the sky as we speak. there are untold subterranean wonders no human has ever seen and i will not be the one to discover them #grateful #blessed

[mumblesplash]

so true there could be any number of undiscovered species down there all of which are none of my business and never will be. peace and love on (the surface of) planet earth 💕

[spin-the-wheel-polls]

You wake up one day and discover you've lost control over a random action or feeling!

Spin the wheel to find out what!

How bad is it?

Actually way better than before!

Its good

It's alright

It's annoying but I'll be fine

It's pretty bad

IM DEAD

worse than death

Nothing changes/results

Remaining time: 3 days 5 hours

This idea was submitted by @dbnekonico!

[cipheramnesia]

I feel like it hardly matters anymore, but Flock isn't the only unsecured intrusive data selling crime inventing AI hallucinating automated license plate reading mass surveillance camera operators. Axon and Motorola and Amazon and ALPR and CCTV and security cameras should be equally rejected. All surveillance must go.

[cipheramnesia]

There is no such thing as benign surveillance.

[cipheramnesia]

You are never monitored for your safety.

[cipheramnesia]

Don't tag this #america, unless you're talking about the continent, dipshits. You're not exempt from this.

[jareckiworld]

David Kanietakeron Fadden — Onkwehonwe Gothic (acrylic on canvas, 2016)