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I hate that waffle irons aren’t see-through. I don’t like how unsupervised they are in there
G: Like a Gameboy?
J: Like a Gameboy!
G: But Jerry, Gameboys are plastic! Waffle irons, they-they heat! They’ve gotta be made of metal. The plastic would melt!
J: I don’t know, George. Technology these days! They got them space-age polymers. They could make a waffle iron outta polymers-
G: Polymers, polymers! What do you know about polymers?
J: I know things!
G: You wouldn’t know a polymer from an amorphous metal!
J: What are you talking about?
G: I don’t know, I read an article.
J: Of course. An article.
(KRAMER enters. Audience cheers.)
K: You talking ‘bout that new NASA article? It’s disgraceful the things they’ve been doing with carbon these days. Disgraceful!
G: Jerry thinks waffle irons should be see-through.
K: Why?
J: They seem unsupervised! I wanna know what’s going on in there!
K: Well why should you get to know? See I think they deserve some privacy. We live in a police state, Jerry! Constant surveillance! The government, first they’ll be wanting to see the waffles cook, next they’re trying to find out how the air fryer fries! Before you know it you’ve got the CIA barging in on your slow-cooker without a warrant! A watched pot never boils, Jerry!
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I don’t care if the world isn’t ready to hear it, but I’m going to say it:
“Sugar We’re Going Down Kung Fu Fighting” is better than either of the original songs that comprise the mashup
for those who need to hear it
i reject determinism because i cannot imagine any creator or deity determining that TikTok acts in the interest of Their will for humanity
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okay new ask game. what's your ethnicity and can you slav squat (squat directly down with your heels touching the floor).
observations I've made so far, with a sample size of over 1000:
most, but not all, ethnically slavic people are able to slav squat.
most balkan people are also able to
any slavic and balkan people who can't slav squat are ashamed at the fact
the ethnicity with the highest ability to slav squat seems to be ashkenazi jews, with many responding and only 1 or 2 being unable to
people are confusing the slav squat with the asian squat - afaik, the slav squat has a wider stance, with your knees pointed outwards. the asian squat is narrower stance, with your knees tucked under your chin
nevertheless, most east and southeast asian people seem to be able to do both, and were astonished that other people find it hard
most americans don't seem to know what an ethnicity is, with lots of them just responding 'american' or 'white' (one of those is a nationality, the other is a race)
most european americans cannot slav squat, but those who could almost universally answered that they are largely ethnically slavic
the numbers were around 50% for native american respondees, though lots of european americans seemed to claim they have native friends who can
a lot more people in the world have ehlers danlos syndrome (hEDS) than I would have imagined (I have it too)
a lot of people in the notes claimed that the ability to slav squat came from flexibility in childhood, which is an interesting theory. however, I have serious issues with the external rotator cuff on my hip, and I can still do it easily
very few southern europeans or arabs answered, so numbers still inconclusive there
south americans (people with mixed indigenous and iberian heritage) seem to be able to do it more often than not
the numbers are around 50% for ethnically british and irish people
bonus observation: one american described their ethnicity as 'catholic', and another as 'anglo-saxon' which is the funniest thing I've ever fucking read
*listens to a song* wow this would be great to crawl on all fours covered in blood growling and screaming to
at club metamorphosis writhing and howling as i transform into something unspeakable
i love the term "joshing." it's slang, meaning to joke or tease playfully. "i'm just joshing you." who is this notorious josh. who joshed so much that the whole concept got named after him
the one true Josh
Whenever this photo turns up I remember that all the Joshes came and fought and then they made that little Josh's entire life by declaring him the winner and I get a little choked up.
No, kids should not have unsupervised acess to the internet. Yes, I got that and it was the best thing that ever happened to me. Its a paradox.
My opinion on detransitioners is that if someone dyed their hair purple and then realized it wasn't the right color for them I'd help them buy the hair dye to change it back.
The only time it would be a problem is if they started blaming me for "making them want to dye it in the first place" just because I dye my hair.
It would be even more of a problem if they then started advocating for restricting people's access to hairdye just because they decided dyeing their hair wasn't the right thing for them.
I'm going to elaborate on this a little more directly because the other day I saw an article by the daily mail that made me feel a bit queasy.
It was an article about a woman who had thought she was a trans man, had gotten top surgery and gone on testosterone, and then realized that it wasn't actually making her happy and that she wasn't actually a trans man. Reading this I felt nothing but sympathy, as someone who has struggled with mental illness his whole life I know how hard it is when you think something is going to "fix you" and then it doesn't. She talks about how she saw trans people expressing joy after transitioning and she thought that it would do the same for her. I was a little uncomfortable with that line of thinking but the alarm bells weren't going off quite yet.
But then she goes on to say that she thinks she was given access to transition care far too easily and quickly. That her informed consent wasn't really informed. That's when I started getting really uncomfortable. She started talking about how she thinks it's too easy to transition and that a lot of people "don't really know what they're doing" when they transition. She then advocated for making it harder for people to transition. That's when I stopped reading the article.
There is a reason a lot of trans people are uncomfortable around detransitioned cis people, and it's because of people like the woman from this article. You can tell from the way she talks about the trans community to the way she talks about transition that she did not do her due diligence and is now refusing to take responsibility for that. She saw people talking about how transitioning made them happy and took it at face value. She thought it would be a magic fix that would cure her depression and when it didn't she felt betrayed, like she had been lied to. But she never understood why transitioning was making these people happy.
Based on her comments about informed consent it's obvious she also didn't bother researching the actual transition care that she was getting. That is the whole point of informed consent, you have to do the research yourself. I mean hell I feel like I know more about how testosterone affects the body than my general practitioner does because I've spent so much time researching it to make sure that's what I wanted. It's not the trans community's fault that she didn't educate herself, it isn't like the resources aren't available.
To me all of this is indicative of a larger issue. It isn't just about transition, it's about the way society as a whole treats mental health. Mental illnesses have been commodofied and healthy coping mechanisms have been abandoned. People think that watching tiktoks about depression are a stand in for therapy. Trauma is worn like a badge of honour and the mere idea of unpacking it is seen as ableist. People build communities around suffering and then act surprised when people get hurt. Nobody is expected to take responsibility for their own mental wellbeing anymore so nobody knows how to.
That woman transitioned because she thought it would magically get rid of her mental illnesses. She saw trans people finding relief after finally being able to live in a body they were comfortable in and misunderstood what was going on. She was viewing them through a lens of her own suffering because she didn't see the difference, she assumed her experiences were universal. When it didn't work out she decided that trans people must have been the issue and not her own ignorance.
It's the constant refusal to take responsibility for your own actions that really bothers me as both a trans person and a disabled person. Getting better takes work and you have to be ready to fuck up and feel bad sometimes. Getting to the root of your mental illnesses and doing something about them is hard and uncomfortable and exhausting but it's worth it. Quick fixes aren't real and there are no magical cures. Transitioning is a journey of self discovery, not just a medical treatment. We will keep seeing detransitioned people acting and thinking like the woman above unless we change the way people talk about and treat mental health.
And that's that on that.
Actually I'm not done. I want to be as explicit as I possibly can right now:
Trans people existing and being happy in their trans bodies isn't "making" anyone do anything. Us being ourselves isn't "pressuring" anyone. Trans people being nice to you on the internet have no control over what YOU do with YOUR body.
If you are mentally ill and find some comfort and solace in the trans community then I'm happy for you! I'm glad you found kindness! But if you have such a surface level understanding of us and our experiences that you think transitioning is a magical cure that suddenly gets rid of all of our mental illnesses over night, then sorry but that's on you. Transitioning makes many trans people feel better specifically because it treats their dysphoria. If your mental illnesses aren't related to gender dysphoria then yeah, transition isn't gonna fuckin help! You cannot blame trans people for your own ignorance. There are more than enough resources available for you to educate yourself, not just about trans people but about mental illness too. Trans people aren't responsible for educating you, even though many of us will if you ask!
I'm so tired of hearing story after story after story of someone who saw trans people being happy after transitioning, decided that surely transition would cure their depression, and then got pissed off at trans people when it didn't work. I mean every single story I have heard about detransitioners who were mad at the trans community and felt "pressured" to transition is like that. As a trans guy who has spent a decade of my life in pyshciatric care it frustrates me.
Trans joy is not dangerous.
I am cis so if this addition is unwelcome, please let me know and I'll delete it.
I have had severe pain in my feet when standing and walking since I was a child. In 2020 I went to a doctor who diagnosed me and told me we could try conservative efforts like physical therapy and custom orthotics, or surgery was an option.
I chose surgery. If I wanted to meet my deductible and maximum out-of-pocket, I needed to have both surgeries in the same year, or I would have to pay for both myself. So I said "ok, let's do it."
It's been two full years. My pain is worse. I regret getting the surgery, it made everything worse and now I have to use a wheelchair. That was always a possibility. My doctor had me sign a waiver saying that I knew the risks. But I need to emphasize that I walked into that doctor's office for the first time and walked out 45 minutes later with a surgery scheduled for the next week. Just like that. The surgery quite possibly ruined any hope of me walking without pain for the rest of my life, I cannot undo it, and I cannot overstate how simple it was to decide I was getting it and have it done the next week.
Nobody made me go through months of therapy to prove I was prepared for it. Nobody gave me a pamphlet of horror stories from people who had the surgery and regretted it. Nobody told me that I was being too rash or hasty about a huge decision that I might regret for the rest of my life. Nobody tried to make it harder for me to get the surgery because they regretted getting theirs.
They just scheduled the surgery.
My regret is my problem, and nobody else's. Nobody told me I needed the surgery, my doctor mentioned it as an option. Am I bitter that I'm worse now than before? Of course I am. Would I advise people against getting the surgery? No. I would advise them to try less invasive treatments first if they could. I would advise them not to rush into surgery without considering the possible consequences. But I would also know that grown ass adults don't need me to hover over their shoulders and give them medical advice.
People make irreversible medical decisions about their own bodies every fucking day and nobody, NOBODY, behaves as though it is some huge crisis that must be addressed. Unless the medical decision involves gender-affirming care. Then suddenly it's everybody's business. Then suddenly someone should protect us from ourselves.
To add to the post surgery regret line and how GAS and other surgeries are treated so unequally:
Two minutes of googling found me this and this or if you don't like clicking through and reading -- these are two studies, one showing the post surgery regret for gender affirming surgeries is below 1%, the other that the post surgery regret for abdominal and thoracic surgery is 8% for severe regret.
No surgery has a 100% success or satisfaction rate but it's telling what people will give oxygen to.
Before undergoing bariatric (weight loss) surgery, patients are generally required to see a psychiatrist and get a note which states, essentially, that the patient understands that (a) not everyone is happy with the surgery, (b) not everyone achieves sustained weight loss with the surgery, and (c) the surgery will not magically fix their depression, anxiety, or crappy sex life (if they have one).
I am not advocating for pre-op trans folks to be forced into therapy. But I think one visit with the same intention would probably not be a bad thing for the patients - or for the surgeons, for that matter, from a perspective of complete informed consent. You can’t say “No one told me it wouldn’t solve my depression” when it’s on the record that someone DID.
This is called direct registering and it is super cool to watch in slow motion!
I had no idea what I just watched, so here's why this is cool:
Cats are capable of walking very precisely because, like all felines, they directly register; that is, they place each hind paw (almost) directly in the print of the corresponding fore paw, minimizing noise and visible tracks. This also provides sure footing for their hind paws when they navigate rough terrain.
their front paws have whisker like hairs on them, a little bit behind the pad, so they have greater sensory input on their front paws and so can ensure a sure footing once, putting their hind paws on directly the same spot means that, for the same processing power and focus, they can ensure sure footing on all four paws with only two sets of foot whiskers.
[video id: a short-haired white cat walks in slow motion along the crest of a sand dune, placing her hind paws directly into the indents left by her front paws of the same side so she leaves only a single set of tracks. She then turns to walk down the side of the dune, slipping a bit in the loose sand and beginning to run, but still maintaining her direct registering. end id]
I was reading an essay about trans identity earlier and the author forwarded an interesting argument, which was that cis-heterosexuality is deeply unnatural. it can’t be anything but unnatural, because if it wasn’t it wouldn’t need to be so violently imposed on everyone and reinforced to you your entire life. which means humanity existed prior to that imposition - that there is a state of existential transsexuality, or rather pre-sexuality (used in this instance to refer both to gender and sexuality), where human beings are fully capable of existing in the world without the imposition of cis-heterosexuality. trans people are just sitting up and taking note of this imposition. so the real question is not “why are you transgender?”, the question is “why are so many of you not transgender?”
"Rather, transsexuals likewise initially attempt to prevent their own falling away from cissexuality. We do this not thanks to cissexuality being truly ‘natural’, but primarily because we face so much social antagonism. In my experience, the realisation of my transsexuality was not merely the original joy of self-understanding, but also the original horror and anxiety at the upcoming difficulty I would face: ‘Oh shit… I’m trans’. Cissexuality should be regarded in this instance as the true social pathogen, whereas transsexuality is ontologically primary. We could say the ‘trans’ signifies ‘transcendental’, a condition for the possibility of (cis)genderism.
Insofar as trans culture accumulates across time, it is through us each teaching one another how not to lose a grip on ourselves. How to revert to our original inversion."
—Xandra Metcalfe, "'Why Are We Like This?': The Primacy of Transsexuality," in Transgender Marxism, ed. Gleeson & O'Rourke (jstor; drive)
The “bats can do calculus” thing is funny, because if you play around with synths for a while, you realize a lot of what humans perceive as “natural” sounds are just us directly perceiving certain complex mathematical things as big gestalt gestures. Like recognizing a multiplied wave as sounding like a woodwind. Hearing individual notes within a chord is basically Fourier analysis. Feeling how naturally a note decays is perceiving how linear or exponential the curve is. The fact that a sine wave sounds smooth but a sawtooth wave sounds nasally, and a square wave has a certain hollow fuzz to it. Is someone doing “math” there? Once you get the flavor of what each of those qualities are like, listening to the world becomes like directly perceiving math. Also, listening to birds becomes very strange. Because you realize some goofy easy weird sound you can squelch out of an analog synth is the same thing a bird is doing. Then sometimes they make a sound you can’t make. What kind of math is that bird on? Makes you wonder.
Yeah any time I see anything that’s like “[animal] can do complex maths” I’m like so can we, we just don’t think of it that way.
Music is an excellent example but even more simply every time we cross the road and judge whether or not a car’s far & slow enough to be safe that’s kinematics, every time you’re in a vehicle next to another and your brain has that momentary confusion when that one moves away that’s an instinctive understanding of the Galilean principle of relativity, hell there’s a headache’s worth of maths involved if a person jumps to catch a ball.
Maths is just the language by which we describe the universe, and you don’t need to be a linguist to speak it.
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what’s crazy is that Pete wentz writes those gay ass tragic lyrics and he doesn’t even sing them he just hands them off to his boy Patrick 😭
#then patrick sings them w the most heartaching passion imaginable like he’s the gay one.
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