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firefox-official

playing spot the newcomer is easy because they’re the mfs who censor everything

firefox-official

“unalive” “k!ll” you can be free here. loosen up

firefox-official

i dont know how to break this to you but saying the word kill will not influence that

the-last-teabender

I've got another wild surprise for you about how Tumblr works.

vampirebriar

universejunction

I'm so glad to see @firefox-official can be trusted, thanks to those important blue internet checkmarks

rosavaya

“Many people seem to think it foolish, even superstitious, to believe that the world could still change for the better. And it is true that in winter it is sometimes so bitingly cold that one is tempted to say, ‘What do I care if there is a summer; its warmth is no help to me now.’ Yes, evil often seems to surpass good. But then, in spite of us, and without our permission, there comes at last an end to the bitter frosts. One morning the wind turns, and there is a thaw. And so I must still have hope.”

— Vincent Van Gogh

anarchistmemedistro

mentalhealthmemesofficial

hoodiedeer

@ new users remember to set your dash to chronological. I think old users will forget to tell you this because tumblr never randomly resets it like twitter does, so afaik literally everybody switched over to chrono as soon as they tried to introduce non-chrono, and then promptly forgot tumblr even has a non-chrono view. on tumblr we really dont do the “all mighty algorithm” thing.

alithographica

INSTRUCTIONS

Account -> General Settings -> Dashboard Preferences -> Turn "best stuff first" toggle OFF

(And maybe mess with some other settings according to your preferences—I personally nixed "stuff in my orbit" and "based on my likes" because I only want to see bullshit from the people I follow, not the rest of the site's bullshit.)

And if you're on desktop, go download Xkit Rewritten too. It adds (and fixes) some site functionalities, a ton of us rely on it.

agnesandhilda

star trek actors are so strong for doing technobabble with a straight face. if you asked me to talk about how the technicron particles are mainlining the quantum blorbonator I would fall apart immediately

trillscienceofficer-archive

ANDRÉ BORMANIS (science consultant, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine)

An important lesson on technobabble came to me courtesy of Terry Farrell. I was at my first Deep Space Nine wrap party at the end of second season, and it’s the first time I’ve ever been to wrap party so it was like a pretty big deal to me. I’m walking around and talking to the people I know. And I see Terry Farrell standing off by herself. I’d never actually met her, so I sheepishly go up and introduce myself to her, and I said, “Ms. Farrell, I’m André Bormanis.” “Oh, nice to meet you. What do you do on the show?” I’m like, “I’m the science consultant. I’m the guy who puts all that technobabble into your dialogue.” And she literally grabbed me by the lapels and lifted me off my feet. She’s six feet tall. She’s a very tall, striking woman. She’s, like, “You fucking asshole!” And she starts shaking me, and I’m, like, “I’m sorry, it’s my job!”

— “The 50 Year Mission: The Next 25 Years” by Edward Gross and Mark A. Altman

vorpalgrayfox

I feel this'll get alot of use over the coming weeks

chongoblog

urlocalllama

if I could ask God anything and get the real, genuine answer, I'd ask him why He commanded Abraham to sacrifice Isaac. He knew He was going to stop him. He knew that He'd never truly ask him to do it. He knew that if he went through with it then His promise would be frustrated.

The thing is... the story has led parents to think it's okay to sacrifice their children, metaphorically and sometimes literally, for a false sense of moral superiority. How many LGBT+ children have been sacrificed in the supposed name of Christianity? How many autistic children? How many orphaned children? How many abused children?

Maybe it was the right lesson for Abraham, especially about how it paralleled Christ's atonement. But it's not a story that has translated well into modern times.

relatablemormonmoments

do you want the Jewish answer? It was to challenge him to think critically about commandments from g-d (and translating to religion as an institution, rulings from religious leaders and scripture), and it's a challenge he failed. He was supposed to, theoretically, fight g-d and say "no, by no means am I going to do this. I don't care that you created everything, that is my child and my world, and I'm not going to do it just because you said so."

Instead, Abraham royally screws up, traumatises his son, and in doing so, loses his son, loses g-d's will and favor, and in the Tanakh we never really hear from Abraham again after this point, because he failed.

It's a story about someone blindly following in faith, and losing the most important things to them because they never stopped to think "Wait, did I hear this right? And if I did hear this right, am I so sure that this is something I want to follow?"

Isaac was Abraham's only son at the time, and the child he had fought so hard to have. Him following an order blindly without thinking of the consequences is not supposed to be a good thing (It just kind of benefits the feudal society that eventually embraced Christianity, which is why the understanding was changed in Christian worldviews.)

stufflikethathere

some examples of wabi-sabi

notmanthelessbutnaturemore

this reminds me of the time I visited Canterbury Cathedral and a nice old volunteer told me all about the grooves worn in the floor from pilgrims kneeling there

angremlin-deactivated20250312

Things like this don’t just reflect the past, they also shape the future. When Rome was building its network of roads, it was also using war chariots with wheels a standard size and distance apart. The chariots wore deep grooves into the roads that were essentially the same everywhere. Because of these ruts, everyone pretty much always made wagons and other wheeled vehicles with wheels that fit into them so they didn’t have one wheel slip into one and crack the axle. This just sort of became The Size Vehicles Are, so train tracks have their rails match these dimensions too. A lot of train lines pass through tunnels, and these tunnels are of course built just large enough to accomodate the trains. These train lines, with the tunnels, are pretty much the only reasonable way to move very very large cargo overland. When we build space ships, we didn’t build everything at the launch pad. Parts had to be constructed all over the place. These parts then had to be moved for assembly. That means that had to be put on trains. That means they had to fit in the tunnels, which were sized based on trains, which were sized based on their rails, which were sized based on the exact dimensions of war chariots of the Roman Empire. And that’s how the grooves worn into roads by Roman soldiers two thousand years ago determined real physical properties of space craft.

kadabura

I made a little tune but I didn’t know what to use it for. So. I made this.

Don’t Let the Sound of Your Own Wheels Drive You Crazy

For a long time I’ve struggled with the idea of perfection. People aren’t perfect but many strive to be as perfect as they can be. While it may be hard to believe, I am one of those people. I say this may be hard to believe because I am very far from perfect. From my grades, to my skills, the way I act and the things I do. Everything about me is imperfect. I have always held myself to a standard that is almost unattainable. Getting into the same school as my siblings, doing things of equivalent value to their success. I can remember this happening for as long as I can tell. Comparing myself to others in my family, believing that I had to be just as good as them or better rather than just be myself. I still strive to do the best that I can, but I have started to let myself relax in terms of my expectations for myself. I tried to be ok without medication for my mental health issues because the stigma of getting help through medication felt like cheating, or that I wouldn’t be as good if I turned to medicine for help rather than just try to deal with everything on my own. I’ve mentioned it before but I’m now on medication for these issues and I’m doing better than I was before. I have always been somewhat shy of my singing voice because I never thought I was good. There were always people better than me, which would feel like I couldn’t be good because others were better. This sparked a fear of something known in singing as belting which requires the singer to let go of anything holding them back in their voice and throat and to just go for it for it to succeed. I’ve been seeking help for this as well through my singing lessons. I never thought I was a good singer because no one ever told me I was. Constantly seeking validation from others and trying to live up to others expectations for me rather than living for myself. I feel like I have been living for others. There are 2 songs I’d like to mention. The first is take it easy by the eagles. I recently heard the song and I turned to the person playing it and said “this song makes me sad”. He turned to me surprised and said “what? Why? Nothing about this song is sad”. I then later looked up the lyrics and did some research into what the song meant. After listening to the song again I found the line that made me think the song was sad. “Don’t let the sound of your own wheels drive you crazy”. From my research it seems that this line is intended to be about not letting yourself get carried away or getting too egotistical. The way I always heard that line was “don’t make yourself crazy by doing too much, you’re allowed to take a break”. This brings me to the second song. Vienna by billy Joel. Many people who know me know that Vienna by billy Joel makes me SOB. When I was at my college orientation a friend FaceTimed me one morning and played it for me because he was practicing for a performance. I couldn’t remember where I’d heard the song before but something about it when he played it caused me to cry uncontrollably. Ever since that day, anytime I hear Vienna I start to tear up and cry. If I want to force myself to cry I will play Vienna. I never really knew why Vienna made me cry, but I think it has to do with the lyrics. “Slow down you crazy child, you’re so ambitious for a juvenile”. This alone brings tears to my eyes. I think it also has to do with the idea of trying too hard and forcing yourself to do too much. “Slow down you're doing fine, you can't be everything you want to be before your time”. I’ve tried so hard to become what I want to be, what I think others expect of me as fast as I can to not let anyone down.

“Slow down you crazy child Take the phone off the hook and disappear for a while It's alright, you can afford to lose a day or two When will you realize... Vienna waits for you?”

This verse especially gets to me. I have always felt like I’m “on the clock”. There’s always something to do. Some way to improve, to do better, to be better, do more, be more. It’s taken me so long to realize that I don’t need to be more or to be better, I just need to be myself. Something that I’ve always told myself is to never be content. You can always do more, help more. There is never such thing as enough. “Don’t you know that only fools are satisfied”. For fear of being foolish, for fear of failing, for fear of my voice cracking, I have denied myself to be comfortable. I’ve tried so hard to be as perfect as I can be that I have grown to have a fear of mistakes. If something isn’t perfect I glitch and have to start over rather than power through until the end. No one realizes it’s a mistake if you keep going. The knowledge that I wasn’t perfect has been enough to stop me dead in my tracks, so that I go back to the starting line whereas others trip, get up and keep going, I feel the need to start over until I get it right. There is no right. It’s time I finally accepted that and start to live my life with the mistakes I deserve to make.

#sorry this is long #rant #ignore me