[3000s]

im like anthony bourdain if he didnt go anywhere or eat any good food and was broke

[gogandmagog]

I Spy Fantasy: A Book of Picture Riddles, photographs by Walter Wick

[thyrell]

i dont "use" tumblr im just here

[failure-artist]

transmascs are saying their experiences are like a transfem not because they transitioned because they envied trans women and are secretly cis women underneath but because the trans experience is similar no matter what direction you go in.

[bisforbutch]

For the last time. A bear is a FAT hairy man. FAT. FAT. Say it with me because it's not a bad word. Bears are fat men. Stop showing me dehydrated and muscular hairy white men. That is not a bear. That is some generic white guy I don't want to look at. Give me real bears or give me death.

[lostxanadu]

it's genuinely bullshit that you should be required to own a mobile phone for participation in literally any aspect of life

[lostxanadu]

this should be illegal and i'm not fucking joking

[endoanarchy]

I'm not going to leave this in the tags cause I would like to expand on this with a situation I ran into a few months ago:

I took a Greyhound in November to my current state. I had a homeless man approach me and ask if I knew where the next bus was headed. He needed to buy a bus ticket, and was completely stranded in that city because the bus stop itself did not sell physical tickets. It required purchasing them online, and he didn't have a phone. He had cash with him to afford it, but literally could not buy a ticket because he didn't have a phone or debit card of any kind.

The bus driver allowed him to just ride for free that day so he could get to his destination (3~ hours from there), which was incredibly kind of them.

More recently, I had to download an app for my friend to use a parking meter because they got rid of letting them take change and debit cards. An app for a parking meter.

I'm currently dealing with homelessness and do you have any idea how lucky I am to have a phone that's paid for? Half the resources I go to require a phone number or email to sign up for assistance (or more ironically an address but that's besides the point).

It's shit like that, that makes me HATE how everything requires a phone, an app, an email ect to use basic shit, especially when it's not needed. It's inaccessible to so many people, and not just those going through homelessness.

Phone broke? That sucks. Is your phone dead? Too bad. Missed payment on your phone plan? Fuck you, better suck it up. Don't have data or signal? Uh oh better find somewhere with it.

It's a disadvantage at BEST to the average day to day citizen and it's absolutely exhausting. At worst I honestly think it's a symptom of fascism.

[fairycosmos]

for about a month in the early 2010s people used to say things like climate change is real and gay people deserve rights. does anyone remember this

[thatkindofwoman]

[theehorsepusssy]

[qwestleon]

everything is beautiful because i choose to see it that way

[st-just]

Covid's cultural hangover is fascinating because on the one hand no one really wants to think about or remember it, but on the other it does seem to have permanently destroyed the last shreds of (at least) American civic society, in a way which is only becoming harder to ignore as time goes on.

[lawbutch]

It also started an ongoing health crisis that everyone is in denial of in a way that makes me feel absolutely insane. Long covid has overtaken asthma as the most common chronic illness in children, causing fatigue, depression, anxiety, and more. Disability rates in all ages have skyrocketed and will continue to grow. Every covid infection can cause long-lasting or permanent immune system and BRAIN damage and we're wondering why everyone is sick all the time and has no attention span or critical thinking skills. A study found that driving a car with acute or long covid is as dangerous as driving drunk because your brain is so fucked.

It wasn't just social isolation that's making everyone nuts, it's the wreck-your-brain-disease that everyone is spreading every day like its their full-time job. If you want to fight fascism, wear a mask!

[slowspinningredemption]

unfun fact: any flu virus can cause this damage. even regular "normal" flu. covid seems to be very efficient at this, but influenza viruses can also cause "long flu" and months or even years of issues. i can't even count the number of people i've seen saying things like "i don't understand, it's been months and i still feel wiped out. it wasn't even covid, it was just flu!" like bruh. there's no "just" flu. flu fucks you up and can kill people too, especially the very young, very old, the chronically ill, and the immunosuppressed.

masks stop every virus, not just covid. wear a fucking mask.

[kvetchlandia]

Leonard McCombe     Man Having His Hair Brushed by His Wife, Navajo Nation, Arizona     1948

[femme--deer-deactivated20260430]

Picture from the Photographer Kalynn Youngblood, in her series Staged Portraiture and Documenting daily Black Life.

This is all I need in my life.

[nyreaho]

it’s been so long since i’ve used tumblr i forgot my phone absolutely hates trying to run this monstrosity of an app oops

[catsbeaversandducks]

"no"

By yuki_illust19

[jollyrebelwinner]

[cottonsoftdyke]

breaking news: all white people have now been BANNED from using poc or bipoc as acronyms and must spell out the whole thing. this will be in effect until you all learn what a fucking noun is and stop saying nonsensical things like “people of colour artists”