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“Who is the internet even for anymore?” is such a valid question. Companies are sanitizing the internet and stifling natural human expression in the name of child safety and being family friendly, but the kids such as fuck aren’t benefitting from this. The internet is becoming too childish for adults and yet still too adult for kids.
Once we've all been dumbed down by AI and neutered from real language by algorithmic filtering and blocking then we'll fit in just fine...
I really dislike when people lack true manners. And I’m not talking about basic things like chewing with your mouth closed or saying thank you. I’m talking about having a genuine respect for others — gracefully making space for people on the sidewalk, choosing your words thoughtfully, and lifting others up with kind compliments. It’s about allowing others to have the first share or the best seat, and being able to take a deep breath and move on from conflicts, without needing anything in return. It’s not about neglecting yourself to serve others, but knowing there’s a beautiful balance. It warms my heart whenever I feel and see it happen.
Ultimately someone has to go first though or nothing happens. And people insisting you go first when you don't want to is performative and upsetting. So genuine good manners also definitely requires not making other people feel unwelcome, or uncomfortable. That's the heart of it and, like any system based on rules, you have to know how, when and most importantly why to not observe them
idk if this is an usamerican thing or not but it always blows my mind as a small european country resident that yall have many names and types of apples???? what do you mean its not just red yellow or green??? why is it so complicated??? who is granny smith????
'whats your favorite apple' 'red' 'no i mean like what type' '??????' actual conversatiom i've had with a mutual from usa
THIRTY TWO??????
Listen that doesn’t even account for all the weird shit local farmers are getting up to.
May I present the best apple:
the world is so big and beautiful
Every apple grown from seed is different. Most are crabapples (tiny and sour, need frost/thaw to make them edible) but some are new and unique and delicious. I have a tree grown from seed and it has yet to produce fruit but I can wait...
Forever
As yesterday was “Twiyor Day”, and also @twiyorbase is celebrating Twiyor week, I wanted to do a piece that conveyed my biggest wish for them. It’s not thought as a real wedding, but them playing with Anya, who asks them to make a happy ending for Bondman and princess honey, a “sappy romens scene like those Becky likes”. She didn’t count on her parents actually committing to it so deeply, with Loid completely smitten when he sees Yor as a “bride”.
I’m a sap as Becky, Anya… I had to make this the sweetest thing.
Hope you like it!
Yor would punt him through the nearest window but I love the intention here and it's beautifully executed
paintings
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I like paintings
Hello tumblr user trans-lykanthropie. I have heard of these. Can you share one specific example of a painting?
Hello tumlbr user vulpes-aestatis, it gratifies me to see you are still learning so much about our world
I shall choose as my one (1) specific example of a painting one of my favourites, Der Krieg by Otto Dix
Aha! But I have bamboozled you! For this piece is not one, but four paintings! Or rather it is a triptych, a particular layout of art commonly used in altarpieces of the 15th and 16th century and inseparable from the Northern Renaissance. Dix was inspired by and rediscovered the techniques of the old Dutch and Flemish masters, and here subverts this classically religious arrangement to instead depict the horrors he witnessed in the trenches of the Great War, with 'sleeping' soliders occupying the role of the entombed Christ in the predella, the additonal panel at the bottom of the piece.
You are 60% water and every lake, river, pond, swamp, creek, and ocean you encounter wants to reclaim it desperately. Be careful out there.
Good, I hope it haunts everyone about to enter a body of water so bad that they wear a life jacket. 🙌
Every single person I knew (past tense) who has drowned was "a strong swimmer." Water in the wild does not care how good you are at swimming.
I mean this with all due respect:
You are not going to pass a skillcheck against a rip current once it has you.
Waves will not bow to your physical prowess no matter how impressive.
Shock does not care that you used to be on your school swim team.
If you hit your head, being good at swimming isn't going to turn you face-up while you're unconscious.
You may be unable to return to shore. Rescue may be unable to find you quickly.
Scheduling this for when weather starts warming up. Be careful swimming this summer
The story behind the hat pins though - go look it up. Or read it here (and many other places lol)
To protect themselves from unwanted advances, city women wielded some sharp accessories
I feel like a lot of people mistake vanilla sex for unsatisfying sex. They’re not the same thing. You can have the most vanilla sex of your life and be completely wrecked by it — fully present, fully seen, fully satisfied. And you can have the most intense, experimental experience and walk away feeling absolutely nothing. The kink was never the point. The connection was. The hunger was. Two people who actually want each other will make missionary feel like a religious experience. Two people who are disconnected will make every fantasy feel hollow. It was never about what you did. It was always about who showed up for it.
This! Kink is a way to scratch a certain itch deep inside! But it does not define sex! Connection is the most important thing for sex to be good! It doesn’t have to be rough, sloppy and demeaning.
Vanilla - real vanilla - was an incredibly rare and exotic spice. We have cheapened it with our fake flavours and overuse but that's not the lore.
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So SO gorgeous
I honestly feel like the proliferation of LED headlights was the canary in the coalmine for the general attitude we see in the political climate these days and i'm not even remotely kidding
Very much in line with the attitude of "this choice will marginally improve the way I move through the world and make everyone else's experience SIGNIFICANTLY worse, but I don't really care, based simply on the fact that I am allowed to do it and there's nothing they can or will do to stop me" ya feel me?
So none of y'all think the issue is the height from the ground these fuckers are at now everyone drives an F150 or a massive SUV? Cos I surely do. If their lights were at a normal bumper/fender height we'd be basically fine. You should remember how truck headlights always dazzled every fucker on the road and realise everyone's driving a truck now.
Meanwhile crappy headlights suck whether they are led or halogen or those self-levelling arc lights folks had before LEDs took off. Badly adjusted, poorly designed, shitty reflectors and lenses that put prisms on the edge of every light? Those are what piss me off.
If the headlights are dimmer your eyes are wider open, you still get dazzled by a set of bad headlights. I got dazzled by tungsten bulbs, halogen, xenon and LEDs, and don't get me started on the days of "auxiliary lights" when some morons would have a whole rack of 100W floodlights on their pedestrian-killing bull bars.
Things are better now but there's still room to improve headlight design...
when I tell u I had to scroll a week back in my twitter likes to find this video bc I genuinely couldn’t sleep until I did
I've gotten a few notes on a few different posts where someone in the tags brags about intentionally "body checking" someone else when they're in their way.
For example on a post I made about leaving the way clear for people exiting elevators or public transportation instead of standing right in front of the door blocking it I got a few notes from people saying "haha yeah I always give someone a good body check if they do this and I love seeing the shocked and offended look on their face"
or on a post about leaving room for the flow of traffic I had people in the notes bragging about giving "body checks" to people in their way on a sidewalk or in a hallway.
Do. Not. Ever. Ever. EVER intentionally bump into people aka give them a "body check". Anyone who brags about this kind of behavior in my notes is getting blocked. You are literally physically assaulting someone and then bragging about it. Physically assaulting another person is actually a lot worse than accidentally being in someone's way, and I have no tolerance for it.
The times in my life where someone has intentionally "body checked" me have been when I was disassociating and/or about to pass out from low blood sugar, or quite literally was as far off to the side as possible (literally up against a wall or packed up against other people in a crowded area) and every time this has happened it has ended in me having a full blown panic attack that I need to take emergency meds to come down from due to my PTSD.
You never know why someone could be in your way. They could be visually impaired. They could be disassociating. They could be about to pass out from low blood sugar. They maybe just experienced a disturbing or traumatic event that's shut down their pre-frontal cortext. All sorts of things. So congrats I guess on physically assaulting someone who might be disabled or disassociating or about to faint from low blood sugar. You sure are showing them.
Not only that, but it's unsafe for you too. There are violent and unstable people in this world, and you might "body check" the wrong person one day. I had a friend in secondary school who would brag about this kind of behavior, and when I was talking to my aunt about it one day she said to me "one day your friend is going to do that to the wrong person and find herself cleaning herself up off the floor."
And if you're only "body checking" people you think it's "safe" to, people who you're pretty sure won't be able to fight back? People smaller and weaker looking than you? Congrats, not only are you definitely a bully then, but you're also perpetuating systems of social injustices in this world like ageism and ableism by only going after "the weak".
can also see how this could be dangerous to rollator users . and yes , easy enough to think oh , would never do this to someone with mobility aids - but truth is will not necessarily always see mobility aids before snap decisions like this .
weight of rollator will depend on several factors , but 7 to 9 kg seem like fairly average guess . rollator users , naturally , can weigh 10 or ( many ) more times that . if balance of rollator user is thrown off , that rollator can easily glide ahead . given purpose as mobility aid , very likely for user to have at least one hand on rollator - which means that person will follow , and fall , and possibly get very hurt . this is true even with brakes on - brakes mean very little against full weight of person .
even one small snap decision can seriously hurt someone .
Really important point. When the doors for an elevator or public transportation open, and you see someone standing what you deem too close to the door, you really do only have a second or two to decide between a) saying excuse me or asking them to move b) just squeezing around them if you're really in a hurry and have no time to ask them to move or c) giving them a "body check" to punish them for being in your way.
And yes, you are 100% correct, in the second or two you have to decide between those options, you might not notice a mobility aid, and if you go for option c for a mobility aid user you can seriously hurt them.
Also, not everyone who is physically disabled and at serious risk of being hurt from a "body check" uses a mobility aid. My mom really should be using a mobility aid, she has vertigo so badly she sometimes has to old onto my arm if we go anywhere together in public, and she has really bad arthritis in her feet that make it harder for her to walk at quicker than a shuffling pace. And yet because of her not wanting to look "too old" she refuses to use mobility aids, and insists on running errands by herself on days her vertigo isn't "too bad". But if someone were to get annoyed with my mother, who moves extremely slowly and often wobbles from side to side, and they decide to give her a "body check" due to their impatience, they could seriously hurt her.
Also, my mom often uses accessories like wigs to try to hide her age, so even though she's pushing 70, when she's wearing a wig it's not always obvious. So if you think "Well, I would never do that to an old person" it's not always obvious, some people don't look their age and/or are good at hiding their age.
Hey guys did you know "pushed somebody and they fell and hit their head" is like. One of the most common forms of manslaughter?
#I can think of at least one invisible disability situation where being body checked could cause serious problems.#i'm pretty sure being jolted while having a colostomy bag can't be good.
Quick Overview of this Very Correct Thread (not written by AI, unless I haven't been told something fundamental about myself):
Not everyone causing an inconvenient situation is being rude. Sometimes there's a reason they're just in the way like that, seemingly oblivious, and whatever is happening to them is beyond normal control.
But even if they WERE just being self-centered, that's no excuse to willfully become aggressive toward them. When you do, the only thing you prove is that you're a bully who cannot be trusted, which is far worse than simply being oblivious or self-absorbed.
Also, yes, you can badly hurt or even kill someone if you jostle a person the wrong way, especially if it results in them falling over. In no rational world would your aggravation over a minor annoyance be worth catching a charge over. Grit your teeth, leave them alone, and move on with your life.
I just want to emphasize the point in the second-to-last paragraph above:
Even if someone IS just being rude, that still does nor give you license to physically assault them!
Something I forgot the mention but should, the fact that someone intentionally "body checking" you can be disturbing, potentially triggering PTSD if you have PTSD from physical assault and/or domestic violence etc. is exactly why it's considered polite to apologize when you do accidentally bump into someone.
It is important to let people know in one way or another that you meant no harm, you're not a bully trying to punish them for the crime of being in your way. Giving a quick "sorry!" (or gesturing "sorry" in your local sign language) can be important for defusing the situation. If they have PTSD it could stop them from spiraling into a panic attack to know that nobody just intentionally assaulted them, or if they're someone unstable who might start throwing hands at someone who would intentionally give them a "body check" you're also keeping yourself safe from harm.
#I hope this isn't an off topic thing but I wish people would say excuse me when I'm in their way instead of just staring and waiting#I'm sorry but sometimes I'm too into what cereal I should chose & that can make me unware of my surroundings
It's on topic enough I think. I also prefer when people say excuse me instead of just staring at me. If I'm just standing there trying to decide on what brand of pasta sauce I'd rather someone say "excuse me" then stand there and stare at me. If nothing else because I find a stranger standing and staring at me to be unnerving and uncomfortable, but also it's just easier and gets it all over with quicker to just ask me to step aside for a second.
However, I understand that some people are non-verbal, so sometimes saying "excuse me" isn't a choice, which is why I don't recommend lashing out at someone for standing and staring instead of saying "excuse me". If you really want to say something, you can be polite about it. However, most people I know who do this are capable of verbalizing "excuse me", and if you are capable of saying "excuse me" I do recommend it because plenty of people find it unnerving and uncomfortable to be stared at by a stranger. Plus it saves you time to just say "excuse me" rather than spending all that time staring them down waiting for them to get the hint.
Now, what I really really hate is something I've seen people in my notes call "the German shuffle", except people in Iceland do it too (so presumably in other parts of northern / western Europe) and I cannot emphasize how much I hate it and how rude I think it is. It's where if someone wants to get something you're standing in front of they just slowly shuffle closer and closer to you to basically try to intimidate you away. I hate hate hate standing in the grocery store, trying to decide what kind of bread I want, and suddenly I can feel a perfect stranger's breath on the side of my face because they decided slowly shuffling closer and closer to me is the best method of getting me to move so they can grab whatever I'm standing in front of.
Between being neurodivergent + having PTSD from interpersonal violence I'm not exactly a fan of having strangers intentionally violate my personal space! I get northern Europeans are scared of talking to strangers, but I'd much rather a stranger just uses words rather than violates my personal space to try to intimidate me away from the bread they want to grab.
Important additions I've gotten in the notes on why we don't "body check" people. You *really* can never know a someone else's medical status or why they're in your way.
#there’s this YouTuber who gets told she doesn’t ‘look’ blind#and she’s had people be really rude to her because she was in the way#imagine if one of those people just decided to fucking body check a blind person because she didn’t ‘look’ blind
Sorry @thundercaya I hope you don't mind me taking these out of the tags, but this is another really great point on why we should say "excuse me" instead of just body checking someone, or generally being rude to someone to punish them for "being in the way". You really never can tell for sure who is and isn't blind or visually impaired, so genuinely has no way of knowing they're in your way.
Just a quick add - if you did this in your car you'd be a dangerous driver and a criminal. Let that sink in because the principle of "oh no you don't!" is the same.
If you're stuck in bumber to bumper traffic, and someone is waiting to merge in, even though you may be frustrated enough from the traffic, you actually have very little to lose by letting them in. One more car in front of you will make very little difference in how late you'll be for work / class / ect. or how much quicker you'll get out of traffic, but it could make a world of a difference for this other person.
Sure, when you're stuck in bumper to bumper traffic and already stressed and annoyed it might seem like a big deal to let one person in, and this is why so many drivers exhibit greedy behavior like creeping as close as possible to the car in front of them when they see a car who wants to merge over, but in reality it hardly makes a difference at all, at least insofar as making you later or slowing down traffic even more.
Meanwhile, that other person could have been sitting there for god knows how long and might sit there for god knows how much longer, that is unless you show kindness by letting them merge over.
Personally I do find that drivers (in the UK specifically) are more courteous than I expect - and sometimes that can feel frustrating when a driver in front of you lets a car out of a side road or makes you wait while several vehicles turn across your lane. But I always remind myself that I am often that other driver being helped and I am SO grateful for the assistance that I can't really begrudge it to others.
“The Ostentatious Orgasm”. Illustration by Wendy Buttrose for Cosmopolitan, July 1972
Not her real name I suspect
Istg, if I ever get rabies because some dumb ass antivaxxer refused to vaccinate their dog, I’ll probably be doing the rest of my blogging from prison because I promise you, Imma curbstomp the shit out of the owner
Fun fact: if your dog is unvaccinated and bites someone, in most states it's not only perfectly legal but SUGGESTED COURSE OF ACTION for animal control to seize your dog, euthanize it, and cut its head off for rabies testing. This process costs 300-500 USD and is the responsibility of the owner to pay.
This happened to someone on tumblr, and happens with regularity at my job, so it is not a far-flung worst case scenario.
Rabies shots cost 20 USD at your local pet store or farm supply and if your dog bites someone while vaccinated, all you have to do is quarantine for 10 days.
Once again:
Rabies is one of the most lethal diseases in the world
If you get bitten by a rabid dog - or even slobbered on by a rabid dog and happen to have an open wound - and don't get medical treatment until you develop symptoms; congratulations! You're dead.
Vaccinate your fucking pets
I also suggest vaccination
Even if you are vaccinated against rabies that just buys you time to get treatment and cuts the cost and complexity of the treatment you need.
