CALM THINE TIDDIES

the world is your oyster etc etc. boogie on

[anistarrose]

my only religious belief is that there is no afterlife except for the ublock origin team who are going to heaven and the youtube anti-adblock team who are going to hell

[kitttenteeth]

heart - shaped scallion found In pho . reblog for good luck & yummy soup 500000 forwver

[maelwife]

In the bathroom and cascada every time we touch just came on and the girl in the stall next to me was like oh my god this is my song and started peeing harder

[log6]

I believe authors should be cryptic and unhelpful in the interpretation of their own work or even act like they’re dead and never comment on it ever

[ostolero]

[boringkate]

Seeing game devs take a "the customer is always right" approach to feedback is so sad because like I get it from a PR perspective, but…

1) The customer is always wrong

2) Your customers are gamers, so they're twice as wrong

[yasmin1000000]

Learn from him and make everything worse. Gamers are idiots and you should never listen to them

[prokopetz]

While it's true that mandatory identity verification will inevitably be leaked on a massive scale, the thing you need to understand when framing these arguments is that a lot of the folks in favour of such measures don't see that as a bad thing. Full de-anonymisation of the Internet is their explicit goal. Like, the actual objective here is for everyone to have a public record of everything they say and do – online or otherwise – linked to their government ID. The universal panopticon is the good ending as far as these people are concerned.

[evonnagale]

So what's the better way to frame these arguments? Is there one?

[prokopetz]

If your aim is to persuade, you can't just stop at "your identity and activities will be made public". A lot of the people you're trying to convince don't see that as bad in and of itself, and as far as they're concerned, the fact that you do means you've got something you hide. You need to take it past "your identity and activities will be made public" and hit specific, actionable negative consequences of that disclosure.

[canadianwheatpirates]

Negative consequences such as, for example, identity theft going through the roof

[elf-kid2]

-Identity Theft through the roof

-Kids stealing their [parent/older sibling/aunt/uncle/grandparent/babysitter]'s ID to access inappropriate content online

-Stalker's Paradise!

-Bullies doxxing their targets just got WAY EASIER

-Burglers & Robbers want to know when YOU'VE been planning a vacation! Thanks to Everything You Do Online, including "researching beaches & tourist spots" and "purchasing plane-tickets" being PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE, these nefarious thieves KNOW that they can rob and/or vandalize your house when you're out of town!

-Your Boss can now monitor if you've been searching online for other job-opportunities, researching employment-laws, or googling "how to start a union." Your Boss can punish you for googling things.

[humming-fly]

you ever have just like, a really bad idea

anyways if you like bad things here’s a postcard

[humming-fly]

I was trying to figure out why this post starting spiking recently and then I found out you animals had this queued for Mother’s Day

[sass-o-matic]

[knightofleo]

Kestrel-dad not sure how to dad but he’s trying his best.

[astarlingdiscovery]

[punished-ned]

Dad loves you and feeds you. But he is also dumb and feeds you a wonderfully done wagyu steak. You are 3 days old.

[swan2swan]

Okay, but check out this video from mid-May 2022 of a Kestrel Dad who just kept piling up voles and mice beside his babies when the mom was injured/killed/mia’d by owls…but then watched one of his babies just swallow a lizard and went “OH. I can feed them small food!” and learned to tear it apart!

EDIT: There’s a not-zero percent chance that this could be the same dad???????? The source is the same–Robert E Fuller–but they could be different birds. 

[swan2swan]

UPDATE: Not only has Mister Kes learned to feed his chicks all on his own…

….the three chicks who were taken out of the nest for intensive care after the mom disappeared were put back in, and he just started feeding them, too.

He’s a single father of six who does not possess the instincts to feed even one of his offspring, but he learned and adopted that behavior without difficulty and is now hunting and providing for six kids all on his own. 

[tuulikki]

[random-chaos-thoughts]

Happy father’s day to the Krestel single dad of 6 Who is doing a wonderful job

[adreamngofdragons]

Shout out to these chicks who have never seen a hand before.

[birds-in-posts]

Common kestrel (Falco tinnunculus)

[official-ornithology-posts]

Official ornithology post

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Imagine you’re chilling at home with your siblings and some alien thing beyond your understanding breaks into your home and just puts more siblings in there

[ohlookachicken]

And when your dad comes home with dinner he just stares for a second, shrugs, and starts making more food.

[only-cat-memes]

[theinfiknight]

[100493503004422]

I literally did not know that sag aftra is currently on strike against video game companies and has been for six months

[100493503004422]

it's over AI bc of course it is. I can only assume that bc of the election & the wars, it's not really making huge headlines

[100493503004422]

as of May 20, 2025, SAG-AFTRA is still on strike against video game companies

[animentality]

[moniquill]

Reminder that Luigi Mangione is an innocent man, and an entirely different person from The Claims Adjuster (the guy who actually killed CEO Brian Thompson)

[hjartasalt]

Not now kitten daddy's googling his symptoms

[hjartasalt]

Daddy has five days left to live

[hjartasalt]

Daddy wishes to be cremated

[werewolfoffeverswamp]

found goat milk and wheat ale at the store. theres no way im NOT making a white gilgamesh tonite

[werewolfoffeverswamp]

ok here we go. recipe/original post here:

[localcryptic]

i sent this post to my friend who is known for making Concoctions. thinking she'd just find it funny. i underestimated her hubris

so for anyone curious about the white gilgamesh experience. i hope this satiates that sick desire in your hearts

[lizardywizard]

TWO THIRDS BEER AND ONE THIRD MILK

FROM A GOAT OR OF ITS ILK

SURPRISINGLY IT'S REALLY GOOD

WHITE GILGAMESH, MISUNDERSTOOD

[mylittleredgirl]

okay tumblr’s exclusion from the twitter social media ban list is hilarious but genuinely we do not belong on there. if a real human person asks “where can i find you on social media” and your choice is a swift death or revealing your tumblr, most of us would simply expire. half of y’all change urls every week like you’re in witness protection. just imagine for one second attaching your wholeass government name to your latest two am clownposting and tell me that didn’t send a cold chill down your spine. the only place i ever want to see the words “connect with me on tumblr!” is on the ao3 profile of an author i’m actively stalking. anyone in the world can follow me except anyone i personally know. antisocial media.

[mylittleredgirl]

fully obsessed with the people in the notes who are like “i don’t know what y’all are worried about 🙄 i simply curate an entire dummy tumblr account connected to a different email address where i reblog a regular stream of cute animals and aesthetic pictures of old buildings and then give that url out instead” like they’re maintaining a deep cover identity for a cold war spy. completely normal behavior.

[mylittleredgirl]

a funny thing about this being one of my more popular posts is that in all truth i DO tell people out loud that i'm on tumblr, and the myth that this site is dead is so pervasive that it absolutely does not matter. i can say “i have a tumblr” present tense, or “i am going home after work tonight to spend a ridiculous amount of time on tumblr,” or even “here is a direct link to a post on my personal tumblr blog, that i made just now today about a currently happening event,” and they’re like “wow i remember hearing about tumblr. how many years ago is this from?” it quite simply will not sink in. great news for the “i do not wish to be perceived” crowd we are actually comically impervious to it.

[deathtokillian]

10/10 dad joke

[original-character-chaos]

I'll take "sentences you would only hear on tumblr" for $200, Alex.

[creachiergh]

let's slime on mama

[riqthegoofygoober]

let’s lay flat on our ovoidal mama