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never host a world cup in america again omg

#please god #professional men's football is already annoying enough without All That

how it is apparently

#''there is no ethical consumption under capitalism''#<- an actual thing a queer person has told me when i tried to talk to them about that

sometiktoksarevalid

knitmeapony

She started to transition after 5000 years. It's never too late.

cassiefisherdrake

This is one of many reasons why scientists are (sometimes slowly, sometimes quickly) moving away from "male" and "female" flowers to calling them staminate (pollen-producing) and pistillate (seed-producing). Plants just don't fit our definitions of "male" or "female," rendering the old terminology insufficient - though, really, even humans don't fit this binary!

Also, fun fact, the flowers that include both pollen- and seed-producing structures on the same flower are called, among other terms depending on exact structure, perfect bisexuals. Moving away from the sexes terminology, they're often just called perfect.

beholdingslut

this from the guy who wrote the sting pain index, a scale he constructed after letting himself be stung by insects

beholdingslut

“why did i start this list” pleaseeeeeee this is so funny

caracalliope

his descriptions were extremely on-point, and frankly inspiring when writing a hurt/comfort scene

Instagram poets could never!

lobautumny

For those who want it, here is the entire list:

Anyways, dude's 1,000% a huge masochist. Nobody just describes pain like this unless they're enjoying it.

onehundredandtwentyfour

sergal

hello this is your google account. did you know that you are trying to log in. to. your google account. would you like five emails about how you logged in to your google account.

legally-allowed-to-slime

i was gonna say “wow, they’re really pushing the came back wrong trope because buffy keeps repeating the exact phrase” until i googled and realise the phrase “came back wrong” literally originates from buffy. this show is like the modern shakespeare

aphony-cree

in 2004 a thread started on buffistas.org to discuss tropes used in Buffy and other Whedonverse shows. At the time there were no formal names for most tropes so users assigned them names based on the scenes they were discussing. This thread inspired one of the site members to start the website TVTropes.org

Most of the listings on TVtropes were named after scenes and quotes from Buffy the Vampire Slayer

heybluechild

what learning fandom history is like

(and if it's not btvs, as people in the tags have noted, it's star trek or the x-files)

fucking-relax

nerve stretch and glide

(modified from a bigger post)

T-pose/sitting variation

extend arms out in a T-pose; face forward and shoulders back

rotate one thumb up and the other thumb down; turn your head to face the up thumb

move your arms up and down a bit until you feel a nerve running from your armpit to your palm

return to step 1's default T-Pose and repeat a mirror of steps 2 and 3, facing the up thumb previously down

continue to alternate for ~1 minute

sitting down, put the first down thumb hand firmly under your butt; your arm should be parallel to your side.

keeping shoulders back, use your opposite hand to gently pull your head to the side for 30 seconds

repeat a mirror of steps 6 and 7

occupational therapist variation

bonus 6 step: with arm in the same position, tilt your head towards the opposite side for a few seconds

👍 give yourself a double thumbs up 👍

#woww that works so well???#resources

error-404-fuck-not-found

used to think it terribly silly (and kinda funny) when fantasy or sci-fi stories would have people refer to major recent historical events as The Flood or The Incident or The Revolution, and im sure historians fucking hate that because it's not helpful or descriptive, but we sure do be calling it The Pandemic

iamthelowercase

Hello, tumblr! I saw something on here the other day that worried me, so I decided to Do Science about it. But I can't do it alone: I need your help to build the dataset!

Here's what I need you to do:

If you see a post with a "mature content" label, and it's 2026, DM me a link to the post.

Yes, that's really it.

I am hoping to collect several thousand such posts, so that I have a decent sized dataset. I do not care what the post is about; if it's labeled as "mature content", I want to add it to my dataset.

If I get 10,000 posts in my dataset before August 31st 2026, I will post my preliminary findings then. I won't feel comfortable calling my findings "settled" before 2027, unless I get over 50,000 posts.

iamthelowercase

Tumblr Science FAQ, round 1

What's your hypothesis, OP?

I am not talking about that unless I have results to share. That would bias the results.

I did write them down and I did share them with a trusted contact who can prove that I wrote them down the same day I made this post. (While I did so before I made this post, I am not sure they will be able to provide proof of that, because I did so on the same day.)

OP are you interested in...?

Do you have to click through to see the post? Does the clickthrough contain the words "mature content"? Then yes.

OP are you interested if the post is about...?

I am interested in the mature content labels, not the content of the post. Is there a clickthrough that contains the words "mature content"? Then yes.

iamthelowercase

Tumblr Science FAQ, round 2

Should I reblog this for reach?

Yes, please. I felt really silly when I noticed I forgot to include that in the original post.

Is it okay if I send you my own posts?

Yes, those are perfect for what I'm looking for. I actually need to do some processing on a post to make it useful for testing my hypothesis, and this makes it easy.

Are you looking for "potentially mature content" also, or just "mature content"?

I want both, please. Anything that throws up a blocking screen that you have to click through. The distinctions between them are one of the things I am hoping to study.

Does it matter when the post was made originally?

Technically no. There's no way to respond to this without introducing some bias in the results, and I don't want that. However, I do collect some data on a post as part of making it useful to me, and that data is easier to collect if the post is recent.

What if I request content label review on a post after I send it to you?

I need to see the mature content label to be able to use the post. Because the mature content label hides the content of the post, it is very hard to use a post that no longer has a mature content label. You could send me a screenshot, but people could use that to lie to me.

Basically, it's more work for you to make it usable to me.

OP are you a transphobe? It would ruin the experiment for me if you're a transphobe.

I promise I'm not a transphobe and not doing this for transphobic reasons. You should still double-check that I'm not a transphobe for yourself, though. I am not sure that this study will have the useful effects you're hoping for; I am studying something specific, and it may not be what you hope.

#huh alright interesting

gendercensus

It's day 7, and there have now been over 20,000 responses to the Gender Census!

If you laugh in the face of the gender binary, please click here to take the survey. :)

charl0ttan

something i actually just realized on call w some friends recently is how crazey it is that your online friends are as many as thousands of feet above or below u right now. like if you teleported to their location without changing your height above sea level, well your fucked in some way basically

charl0ttan

How high above sea level are you right now?

0-250 feet

251-500 feet

501-750 feet

751-1000 feet

1001-2000 feet

2001-3000 feet

3001-4000 feet

4001-5000 feet

5001-6000 feet

6001-7000 feet

7001-8000 feet

8001+ feet

Voting ended onJul 19

#...I thought this poll was in meters and was very confused for a sec #anyway #i am muuuuch lower than i thought i was lol

64mpg

what do you mean my childhood affected me

64mpg

i have terrible news

mistresssheo

Tja

Found here 🦋

translating-german-to-english

Depending on context:

* well then.

* ain't nothing you can do about it.

* well how about that then.

* you brought that upon yourself dude.

* it is what it is.

* that was completely to be expected.

* told you so.

translatingpoststogerman

Je nach Kontext:

* tja.

#tja my beloved #if you think about it too hard it's such a weird word

devpalmer

military recruiter: so what got you guys interested in the marine corps

enormous horde of hagfish, ispods and bottom-feeding crustaceans: oh. uh. is that how you pronounce it

devpalmer

whale fall side of tumblr you understand me

zapatism

brazilians, imagine you’re a famous futebol player and are about to hit the winning penalty kick at the world cup finals. accidentally, the referee tosses a christian baby at you. would you still kick the baby to the goal and win the hexa championship, and sacrifice the christian baby?

zapatism