Diversions & Amusements

A bit of silliness makes the world go 'round.

[the960writers]

Welcome new followers who do not quite look like porn bots.

A word of advice: If you only hit the Like heart, your blog appears to be empty and your tumblr experience will not be good. Because people will block you.

I will block you.

Get reblogging, fill your blog. This is how it's done here.

[flashysparklesonthewater]

If for whatever reason you don't feel comfortable reblogging yet, literally just make one single text post saying something like "hey I'm new to tumblr and still figuring out the culture! Not a bot, pls don't block me." An empty blog is an instant report spam.

[antarctic-arcanine]

If I ever share anything that was AI generated it is purely by accident. I hate that it's getting harder and harder to tell and it makes me want to never use the internet again. It definitely had its faults, but man I miss the internet of the 2000s so much.

[myqueenmarceline]

Adding to this: please TELL ME if I share something that is genAI and you know it is. I want to know this information.

[cottageaesthetic]

[sageofthetwilight]

Happy indigenous peoples day!

[voxmilia]

this truly is me about some people's takes on this godforsaken internet

[rylandsgrace]

Superman (2025) + Text posts

[cannibalchicken]

his lips are sealed

[moniquill]

James Dobson, founder of Focus on the Family, has died | CNN Politics

Dr. James Dobson, a politically influential child psychologist who started a radio show counseling Christians on how to be good parents, fou

[martinkhall]

The man was influential enough in politics to have had an outsized influence on everyone's life, even people in other countries who had never heard of the man.

[kingofdoma]

In fairness, I am part of everyone 😜

[perarduaetal]

This man popularized beating children.

This man popularized beating children.

As someone whose home church treated him like a saint while I was growing up -- and retained my faith -- I have to say:

MAY GOD GIVE HIM WHAT HE DESERVES.

This man almost single-handedly brought back spanking your kids, encouraging parents to “break the will” of misbehaving children instead of parenting them with love and logic.

I cannot express how *virulently* *toxic* this ideology is, it hurts the kids, and hurts the parents who think they have to hit their kids in order to be a good parent... and enabled abusers!

My father was indoctrinated into beating his children as a method of discipline, and while it was seldom used, it hurt him almost as much as it hurt us.

To hell with Dobson, Gothard, and everyone else who teaches that beating your children till their will breaks is legitimate discipline.

[becausedragonage]

I have a surgery date, and James Dobson (Focus on the Family hatemonger) died.

What a good day!

[perarduaetal]

Focus on the Family Founder James Dobson dies at 89

Conservative Christian leader James Dobson, who founded Focus on the Family and was once called "the nation's most influential evangelical l

As someone whose home church treated him like a saint while I was growing up -- and retained my faith -- I have to say:

May God give him what he deserves.

This man almost single-handedly brought back spanking your kids, encouraging parents to “break the will” of misbehaving children instead of parenting them with love and logic.

I cannot express how *virulently* *toxic* this ideology is, it hurts the kids, and hurts the parents who think they have to hit their kids in order to be a good parent... and enabled abusers!

My father was indoctrinated into beating his children as a method of discipline, and while it was seldom used, it hurt him almost as much as it hurt us.

To hell with Dobson, Gothard, and everyone else who teaches that beating your children till their will breaks is legitimate discipline.

[1percentcharge]

my high school used to start at 7:30 and I lowkey think that was child abuse

[1percentcharge]

For 4 years I woke up at 6 am, at least (I took the bus and for a year or two it came between 6:40 and 6:50). Morning showerers, or people who put effort into their hair or makeup, probably had to wake up even earlier. Then we all went to school and sat in a health class where our gym teacher told us that teenagers are supposed to get 10 hours of sleep a night. Genuinely implying that we were supposed to go to sleep at 8pm if we cared about our health. The dissonance made my head spin. I haven’t been in high school for years and I’m still mad about it. Maybe even more mad

[perarduaetal]

I'm an ex-high school teacher and think 7:30 am start times are HIGHKEY child abuse.

[nosimpincurly]

You’re not depressed. You just need $250,000 in your bank account.

[catherinebunnington]

Reblog to materialize $250,000 in prev's bank account

[murderpod-diaries]

Therapist: and what do we say when people ask us about ourselves

Murderbot: I have to check the perimeter

Therapist: no

[creativepromptsforwriting]

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[socially-awkward-supervillian]

Fun fact: Cheetahs only attack prey that runs

[youwinagainmoffat-blog]

jesus that is good to know.

[chandra75-deactivated20180905]

Yup, that’s the point you just stay still and let it do whatever the fuck it wants that doesn’t involved you getting eaten. 

[magehenry-moved-blog]

REALLY FUN FACT for big cats cheetahs are fucking docile as shit

my grandfather ran a cheetah sanctuary in south africa and he’d just lie with them and sleep among them and they’d rub against him and chirp at him they’re big fucking babies

[pkmnbreederbrianna]

Another Fun Fact: Cheetahs are incredibly nervous animals. One of the (many) reason’s they’re going extinct is that cheetahs are so sensitive and nervous, some of them are literally too nervous to breed. Others will breed, but stress themselves out so much, they’ll lose their cubs. So zoos with breeding programs had to figure out how to make cheetahs comfortable enough to first of all, get laid and secondly - not spazz themselves into miscarrying. So what’d they do? They gave the cheetah’s their very own Service Dogs! The dogs make them feel safe, protected and secure!

[emo-islandniles]

AJHHHHFDDGHH SO PRECIOUS

[renirabbit]

this post just got so much better

[enjoying-nudiustertian-deactiva]

THIS IS OFFICIALLY MY FAVOURITE POST

[wylltingtrees]

[sashayed]

this is emmett and cullen they are best friends

[clover11-10]

This is the greatest thing I’ve seen all day.

Dogs are truly angels.

[oshiawaseni]

so THATS why these cheetah ft dogo pics exist

[erin-luci-and-me]

the anxiety cat

[peppermint-madness]

Also! Cheetahs are not in fact classified as big cats, they are simply very large lesser cats, due to the fact that they purr, meow, chirp, and cannot roar. Also many cheetahs have learned to recognize wildlife photographers are friends and not foes, so they will just come up to people and be friendly occasionally as pictured at the top of the chain. Some will even leave their Cubs with photographers to look after while they hunt. So. Yeah. Cheetahs are great

[elfwreck]

[bunjywunjy]

this works because cheetahs are actually fairly social animals, and they look to members of their group for context on how worried they should be about any given Situation. but since cheetahs are also nervous social animals, they can work each other into an anxiety spiral pretty easily over things like “being in an enclosed habitat” and “there’s a guy over there”.

so by introducing a dog as a member of the group, the cheetahs will now look to the dog for context clues on how worried they should be! and the dog Is Not Worried At All, Thanks, so the cheetahs think everything must be chill even if they were personally unsure about it, and they stop being so freaked out about literally everything.

[june-egbert-official]

Cheetah: oh god what’s going on how are we feeling weird spotless cheetah

Dog: :) fine, thanks

Cheetah: :) oh, okay

[greatlordfluffernutter]

[soratayuya]

Wasn’t expecting this of all posts to be the first tumblr post I’ve ever seen crest 2mil notes, but I’ll take it

[nasa]

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[apoemaday]

Dedication

by Czeslaw Milosz

You whom I could not save Listen to me.    Try to understand this simple speech as I would be ashamed of another.    I swear, there is in me no wizardry of words.    I speak to you with silence like a cloud or a tree.

What strengthened me, for you was lethal.    You mixed up farewell to an epoch with the beginning of a new one,    Inspiration of hatred with lyrical beauty;    Blind force with accomplished shape.

Here is a valley of shallow Polish rivers. And an immense bridge    Going into white fog. Here is a broken city;    And the wind throws the screams of gulls on your grave    When I am talking with you.

What is poetry which does not save    Nations or people?    A connivance with official lies,    A song of drunkards whose throats will be cut in a moment,    Readings for sophomore girls. That I wanted good poetry without knowing it,    That I discovered, late, its salutary aim,    In this and only this I find salvation.

They used to pour millet on graves or poppy seeds    To feed the dead who would come disguised as birds.    I put this book here for you, who once lived    So that you should visit us no more.   

[makereadgrow]

RIP Joann, now what?

I wanted to make a post I could copy and paste and or link when I see folks asking where to buy fabrics when Joann is gone. I sew a lot, generally between 100-200 items a year and I don't do it on a big budget. Stores are not in a particular order.

Notions:

Wawak.com - start here, mostly stay here. Wawak is a supplier for professional sewing businesses and have the prices that show it. I will not pay for gutermann Mara 100 anywhere else. I buy buttons, tools, thread, and most elastic here.

Stitch Love Studio - this is where I buy lingerie supplies https://www.etsy.com/shop/StitchLoveStudio?ref=yr_purchases

Fabric:

Fabric Mart - this is one where you want to sign up for emails and never buy unless its on sale. They run different sales every day and they rotate. Mostly deadstock fabrics but I buy more from here than anywhere else. Fantastic customer service and if you watch you can get things like $6 wool suiting or $4 cotton jersey. https://fabricmartfabrics.com/

Fabrics-Store - again, buy the sales not the full price. Sign up for the emails but redirect them to a folder because it is TOO MANY. They stock linen or good but not amazing quality. https://www.fabrics-store.com/

Purple Seamstress - This is where I buy my solid cotton lycra jersey. They have other things, but the jersey is what I'm here for. Inexpensive and very good quality. If you ask she will mail you a swatch card for the solids. https://purpleseamstressfabric.com/

LA Finch - deadstock fabrics with a fantastic remnant selection https://lafinchfabrics.myshopify.com/

Califabrics - mix of deadstock and big brands, easy to navigate and always seem to have good denim in stock. https://califabrics.com/

Boho Fabrics - good variety, nice bundles. I have also gotten some really great trims from here. https://www.bohofabrics.com/

Firecracker Fabrics - garment and quilting fabrics, really nice selection and great sale section. I've bought $5 yard quilting cottons here several times. https://www.firecrackerfabrics.com/

Hancock's of Paducah - Quilting fabric and some limited garment fabric. AMAZING sale section. Do not sleep on the sale section. This is my first stop when buying quilting fabrics. Usually the last stop too. Not particularly speedy shipping. https://www.hancocks-paducah.com/

Itokri - This is something a little different. Itokri is an Indian business with incredible traditional fabrics. Shipping to the US is expensive, but the fabric is so inexpensive it evens out. I generally end up paying like $30 for shipping. Beautiful ikat and block prints. https://itokri.com/

Miss Matatabi - this is a little treat. This isn't where you go to save money, but there are so many beautiful things in this shop. Ships from Japan incredibly quickly. https://shop.missmatatabi.com/

Lucky Deluxe - Craft thrift store, always has an incredible selection and fantastic customer service. I need to close the tab fast because I never go to this website without finding something I need. https://www.luckydeluxefabrics.com/

Swanson's - the OG of online craft thrift stores, but I find their website harder to navigate. https://www.swansonsfabrics.com

Honorary Mentions: I haven't shopped at these places yet but I have had them recommended and likely will at some point.

A Thrifty Notion - https://athriftynotion.com/

Creative Closeouts - https://creativecloseoutsfabric.com/ being rebranded to sewsnip.com on March 1 - quilting deadstock

Hawthorne Supply Co. - I just got this rec and I think I need to not look too closely or I'm going to slip with my debit card. https://www.hawthornesupplyco.com/

This is not an exhaustive list of everywhere you can buy fabric, or even a full list of where I shop. There are SO many options out there in the world. You also need to think outside the fabric store box. I thrift men's shirt fabrics for quilts and sheets for backing fabric. I don't do a ton of in person thrifting and my local stores don't get a lot of craft materials but every thrift store is its own universe and reflects the community it is in. Go out and find something cool.

Oh and final note: Don't shop at Hobby Lobby.