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It's not a great precedent, that's for sure.
It's still incredibly fucked up that my Credit Card company has any say over what I spend my money on.
I'm an adult, I earn my money like everyone else. Who the hell is MasterCard to say what I can and can't spend it on?
Mastercard's new policy unfairly targets the adult content industry, making sex workers more vulnerable, especially Black trans women. It mu
There is an ACLU petition to tell Mastercard to cut that shit out. Turns out it was an ultra-conservative activism group that pressured MasterCard into doing it, and was just reporting games for questionable content (presumably having never played them).
Many Steam users claim that Valve has set a "dangerous precedent" following its sweeping adult-only games ban policy update.
Summary of H.R.987 - 119th Congress (2025-2026): Fair Access to Banking Act
My dear lgbt+ kids,
Can you guess what all these statements have in common?
„I’d rather trust my intuition than some study that has probably been faked anyway“
„I’ll listen to health influencers over doctors any day - they at least have real life experience rather than just basing it all on books“
„Kids don’t need to learn how to analyze poems, it’s not like that’ll pay their bills as adults“
„It’s much more important that kids are taught values from their parents at home than math and literature in school“
„We don’t need people studying philosophy, we need people to fix refrigerators“
These are all examples of anti-intellectualism.
That may sound like it’s just a fancy word for „stupid“ or „uneducated“ but that’s a misconception! You can personally have no higher education, work in jobs that don’t need college degrees, come from a family where nobody went to college etc. without being anti-intellectual.
Anti-intellectualism describes a negative attitude towards education. It often shows itself as a general distrust towards experts (scientists, teachers, scholars etc.) and a dismissal of the importance of arts, literature, philosophy etc.
People who fall for anti-intellectualism often believe themselves to be more down-to-earth. They believe they „live in the real world“ and „trust their common sense“ while higher education is removed from the real world and useless from the ordinary people.
Now it’s easy to think „that doesn’t sound so bad, after all I am also an ordinary person living in the real world and those refrigerators do need fixing“ - but anti-intellectualism helps right-wing extremism thrive.
Many authoritarian or extremist movements rely on sowing distrust. Because this distrust opens the door to conspiracy theories, pseudoscience and populist manipulation.
„Living in the real world“ is not at odds with critical thinking skills. The opposite is true! Critical thinking skills are needed to operate the real world safely. The ability to analyze a poem may not directly translate to a career path - but it helps you to learn those critical thinking skills. It teaches you to read between the lines and spot hidden messages. It teaches you to question and interpret media rather than just consume media. It teaches you to consider different perspectives and fosters empathy and emotional intelligence. It teaches you to pay attention to details, to stop for a moment to think about stuff before you rush to a conclusion. It teaches you that context matters.
Those are very important skills for your real life - even if your career is in fixing refrigerators!
With all my love,
Your Tumblr Dad
This is great especially for women in the workplace who have learned kinda self-demeaning patterns of behavior in order to not be seen as a bitch. I started communicating this way in my VERY male dominated field and people definitely started taking me at least slightly more seriously. If that makes sense
Even in my heavily female-dominated industry (and office), using this kind of phrasing sees me taken more seriously by management, HR, and clients. I also find that for things like requesting PTO or schedule flexibility, I’m more likely to get uncomplicated agreement from the company if I phrase it as a statement of intention rather than a request for permission. This also goes for asking for accommodations; “X is not going to work, I need Y and Z” is a lot more effective than “I would like Y and Z, if it’s not too much trouble.”
I highly recommend these phrases for any individual. When utilized with good context that avoids adding passive aggressiveness, these phrases convey confidence, assurance, and capability. Those qualities are admirable so people respect you more if they believe you have them, even if you’ve made an error because you’re also taking accountability and proceeding without groveling or getting defensive.
If you speak like you know what you’re doing, people are going to give you a good faith take that you are correct. Likewise, if you apologize frequently for yourself for insufficient reasons or act insecure in your desires or proposals, people presume you have reason to be insecure or apologize.
For sale: one iPhone. Some cosmetic damage. Sold as seen.
My old Nokia brick wouldn’t do me like this…
Anyway, this feels like a good time to plug my Patreon!
“Do it scared” “do it badly” it’s time to drop the guide for do it alone
Doing it scared and doing it badly is one thing, but no one seems to talk about doing it alone. When you feel so isolated from your friends and your family but you have shit to do and you have to get it done no matter what. When your support system really is only you. For any myriad of reasons. We do not talk enough about doing it alone.
Want guides? I do Guides.
💪 Doing It Alone When You Don’t Have a Support System, This Is for You 🧠 1. Mental Anchors to Remember You are not broken because you don’t
Other things? Job, Food, Car, Home, Health, Money. Plus a request form.
Doing it alone the next 1,282 days
It’s interesting how diseases rip through schools at incredible speeds despite being in an arguably modern, clean(ish) environment. I wonder if it has something to do with the whole “you need a doctor’s note to excuse your absence of even one day” combined with the average price of going to a doctor, the lack of education on things like “you’re still contagious even after the fever goes away”, and the overwhelming message of “if you don’t struggle through it, you’re a failure!”
On my campus there tends to be a problem where even I you have the doctors note professors will still take points off of your final grade regardless of how sick you are. I’ve seen people show up to class with the stomach flu, pneumonia, respiratory infections and all sorts of other contagious ailments.
Here’s a fun story:
The school system I grew up in put an absolutely ungodly amount of pressure on kids to Show Up Every Day No Matter What. Many schools are like this, but looking back, my town’s was borderline fucking dystopian. They asked me why I didn’t just “postpone” a surgery at one point— when I was fifteen— to give you an idea of how monumentally obtuse these people were.
So, in elementary school, I started having chicken pox symptoms, right? They were mild because I was vaccinated (yay!) but my mom recognized them quickly and took me to the doctor, because my mom is a reasonable human being with standards. The doctor said “yup, you’ve got those pox, it may seem mild but please for the love of god DO NOT take her to school, she is very contagious even though she may FEEL okay.”
So I had to stay home from school until I got clearance from my doctor to go back. I was an angry little gremlin the whole time, because I wanted to go to the school library and read books about the human skull, but my mother said, “no, you cannot leave this house, and do not scratch the bumps please.” So I sat at home and tried not to scratch the bumps, like a good little gremlin.
A few days into my Chicken Pox Related House Arrest, we got a letter from the school. I was far from the only person with chicken pox, as it so happened. Like… a tenth of my second grade class had Confirmed Pox. We all fell ill within DAYS of each other.
So how did this happen, you ask? Well, a kid had chicken pox, and he came to school anyway. “Ah, well perhaps they didn’t know,” you may very well say. “Maybe his parents didn’t notice!” No. No, they noticed. In fact they KNEW it was CHICKEN POX. They sent him to school anyway.
The kid’s parents…….. were, in fact, teachers at the school. And they KNOWINGLY made him go to school sick, because they didn’t want to risk hurting his precious “perfect attendance” record. They figured that since he wasn’t, like, Literally Dying, it was better for him not to miss school. Never mind the fact that they were actively endangering hundreds of little kids.
Fast forward to my freshman year of college. A kid came to class with mumps because he ‘couldn’t afford to miss’. Guess what happened? Mumps outbreak! Diseases are, as it turns out, good at being diseases! Vaccinations are phenomenal, but they can only do so much, and some people rely on herd immunity to not be killed by preventable illness.
This entire attitude needs to die. It’s dangerous. Food service workers are forced to show up sick, little kids are forced to show up sick, college students show up sick because they’re afraid of flunking out.
And on top of it all, misinformation campaigns are encouraging people not to get vaccinations! It’s 2019 and we’re flirting with the plague! Next thing you know some blogger is gonna be like “actually we should all be fucking rats and eating our meat raw, death to all science and god bless america”
Many kids at my school will show up really sick because we only get like three days of excused absences without a doctor’s note.
this is what those in literary academia call “foreshadowing”
(note the dates)
this post aged like an ice cube in an oven
worst part is! IT’S STILL HAPPENING! SCHOOLS AND WORKPLACES ARE STILL LIKE THIS!!! THEY LEARNED NOTHING!!!!!!!
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If only we as a society learned from our mistakes
If only we as
a society learned
from our mistakes
Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.
Whenever I take a long car ride I end up exhausted afterwards, and I’m always like “why am I so tired? I was just sitting around doing nothing all day.”
But the answer, it turns out, is I was doing something. Riding in a car jars your body in many directions and requires constant microadjustments of your muscles just to stay in place and hold your normal posture. Because you’re inside the car, inside the situation, it’s easy not to notice all the extra work you’re doing just to maintain the status quo.
There’s all sorts of type of work that we think of as “free” that require spending energy: concentrating, making decisions, managing anxiety, maintaining hypervigilance in an unfriendly environment, dealing with stereotype threat, processing a lot of sensory input, repairing skin cells damaged sun exposure, trying to stay warm in a cold room.
The next time you think you’re tired from “nothing”, consider instead that you’re probably in situation where you’re doing a lot of unnoticed extra work just to stay in place.
opening my body’s task manager to see what’s taking up all my cpu
Also, just to add: we should not lose sight of the fact that the mammalian brain is a ridiculously energy-hungry organ. A human brain makes up 2% of the body’s weight and volume and 20% of its caloric requirement. Thinking is physical work.
Competitive chess players carb-load before tournaments. And lose weight in the process.
It took me an embarrassing amount of time to realize that thinking physically takes up energy. I would be like “why don’t i have energy I’ve been sitting inside studying all day” ma'am it’s because the phrasings, evidences and vocabularies in your brain are eating the energy
If I’ve been really focused on crafting or something, there will invariably come a point where my brain is just like “Warning! Warning! Out of Energy!”.
Getting a snack usually fixes it.
I get post-exertional malaise from just… Going places. I sit in a wheelchair, I take one bus and spend some time in a different building… And when I get home, I’m sick.
This post helped a little cause I always feel bad about it.
leaving the house is abso-effing-lutely EXHAUSTING and it’s okay to BE exhausted after having to do stuff
Legit, the exertion of driving a vehicle is why you should have a water bottle and some snacks in your car if you have to drive any sort of distance.
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In a 'historic and monumental achievement', Irish can now be used in Northern Ireland's courts. But questions remain about how this will aff
Dont stop talk about palestine 📣📣🇵🇸
Important information for writers who aren’t British but like to try to sound British in their British-y fanfiction
“You need tea” - you are having, or just had, a medical emergency. This tea will have like 3 sugars and milk in no matter how you normally take your tea.
When I gave birth they kept bringing me cups of very sweet tea until I drank one
Even when covered in blood and being stitched up
“Do you want some tea?” I’ve something to say and I’m nervous about it
“Do you want some tea?”
I’ve something to say and I’m
nervous about it
Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.
“I’ll put the kettle on.” Iy has been the longest, hardest, and most physically/emotionally draining day of our lives, tea is non-negotiable.
{ID - tweet from @/nickocdw reads: British Tea Translator
“Cup of tea?” Welcoming a guest. “Tea?” I find this situation awkward. “Spot of tea?” A foreign guest has activated Hyper-English, Mary Poppins mode. “Pot of tea?” Trying to impress in-laws. “I’ll make some tea.” There has been complete devastation.
END ID}
“I’ll just put the kettle on, shall I?” = I will leave the room so you can dry your eyes / put yourself together / hide the sex toys / dispose of the body.
My dear lgbt+ kids,
Yes, there are „bad reasons“ to enter a polyamorous relationship - just like there are bad reasons to enter a monogamous relationship.
And yes, it is definitely important to be aware of the fact that you can enter relationships for unhealthy reasons - but, again, that applies to everyone. Education on healthy relationships is important for everyone.
And yet, people usually do not go „Oh, they’re in a monogamous relationship? Those rarely ever last, there are just so many people doing it for the wrong reasons“ or expect you to add on „as long as it’s not done for toxic reasons“ whenever you talk about monogamy.
Educating about unhealthy relationships is - obviously - not by default offensive or done in bad intent, just because it’s focused on poly relationships (or any queer relationships for that matter). But it is important to differentiate between education and double standards.
Problems arise when monogamy is treated as the (inherently healthy) standard while polyamory is treated as inherently suspicious and in need of scrutiny.
With all my love,
Your Tumblr Dad
Someone requested that I elaborate on this, so here we go: What are „bad reasons“ to enter a poly relationship?
This may feel like some loaded question or heated debate - but that’s only if you twist it into „who do I personally think should be allowed to enter poly relationships (because I think other people’s relationships should cater to what I’m personally comfortable with)?“. If you assume that the goal of talking about this should be to discourage people from being in poly relationships, then any answer will be loaded - because the question has the wrong intention to start with.
If you disconnect it from „making other people feel comfortable“ and purely focus on a „ensuring healthy, safe relationships for the people involved“ angle, then the answer becomes really simple:
Bad reasons to enter a poly relationship are basically the same as bad reasons to enter a monogamous relationship - and that is:
Every reason that’s not „I happily and willingly consent to being in this relationship“.
Especially everything that comes with the (unspoken) addition of „… even tho I don’t really want this“. For example:
„My partner cheated on me and I think the only way to save our relationship is going poly, even though it breaks my heart to even imagine him kissing someone else. I just agree to this because I’m desperate and don’t want him to break up with me.“
„I’m asexual/trans/disabled/fat/some other thing people told me makes me „undateable“, so I believe I’ll never find anyone who wants only me and have to allow my partner to fuck others who are not as undateable as I am, even if this isn’t what I want“
„I met this great person and want them all for myself but they already have two partners. I told them I’m fine with that but I hate it and hope they’ll just realize I am the one for them over time and break up with the others.“
Begrudgingly agreeing to a relationship model that you (deep down) know you don’t want will not lead to a healthy, happy relationship - which isn’t all that unique to poly relationships!
There are plenty of people who enter monogamous relationships for bad reasons, too, such as:
„My parents really want me to be in a monogamous long-term relationship. I know deep down I’ll never feel comfortable in that relationship model but I don’t want to disappoint my parents and feel a lot of pressure“
„I have not really reflected on whether I even want to get married but I’m 35 years old now and feel all this societal pressure that I missed my window to marry, so I’ll settle for this person that I don’t even like that much“
„I would love to just live that single life for some years but kinda can’t afford rent alone, so I need to be with someone“
All these scenarios are just a recipe for pain and heartbreak - not because the whole relationship model is „bad“ but because that particular relationship is based on something unstable.
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If you'd still like to sign, the deadline is the end of July 2025.
Keep signing because of invalid signatures, there's a chance a lot of what's gone up will be invalidated once the campaign is over. The bigger our margin is, the more likely it is to actually pass, and the bigger the final number, the more likely the EU is to fold to the pressure.
Great and now there's this. Theres truly no room for an ounce of complacency this is a direct attack on queer creatives.
Here's a link to the whole thread for more context
Mastercard's new policy unfairly targets the adult content industry, making sex workers more vulnerable, especially Black trans women. It mu
Hey, so the ACLU is gearing up to take this on if yall have room to support this org, it would mean a lot to me (and other adult queer creators). As always, word of mouth is really important here too so reblogs are greatly appreciated.
If it keeps you from killing yourself it's not stupid. This applies to anything btw.
Bestie. How dare you leave “do not mock the life preserver…” in the tags.
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Taylor Tomlinson, Look At You (2022) Netflix special
Long before the introduction of color film, a Russian chemist and photographer named Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky used an innovative technique. He took three individual black and white photos, each through a colored filter (red, green, and blue), to create fully colored, high-quality pictures. The photo of this woman, taken by him, is around 107 years old!
No wait I looked this guy up and this shit’s amazing
It’s so incredibly humanizing to see people from the very distant past in such authentic color
And like. look at these landscape shots!! They’re so vivid!! Even aside from the historical value, these are just legitimately beautiful photographs
