[txttletale]

efforts towards a "positive vision of masculinity" or whatever are so funny because what these guys are trying to figure out is literally "what's a way of being a good person that's Not For Girls™"

[lindamanz420]

"To begin with, a writer plays with words, but plays seriously ... when I was a child and was interrupted for any reason from a game I was playing alone or with my friends, I felt offended and humiliated, because I had the impression that they didn't realize to what extent that game I was playing with my friends was enormously important to all of us. We had an entire code, an entire system, an entire small world ... From the most complex games to the simplest ones, we had entered, while we were playing, into a territory that was totally ours and extremely important for as long as the game lasted. When a person gets interested in literature, this can persist; in my case, it persisted. I've always felt that there is a very important ludic element in literature..."

-- Julio Cortazar, from "The Ludic in Literature" in Literature Class: Berkeley 1980

[forestgreenandgray]

source

[ninakaina]

they need to invent a bluetooth speaker that can keep playing your music while you play youtube audio from your phone speaker. for people with unmedicated adhd

[wykart]

what do you mean my disability disables my abilities? what the fuck

[the-tree-line]

the problem with having a decade old tumblr blog is that there are posts on it from a decade ago

[sparrowlucero]

like the most politically neutered movie of all time unironically

[sparrowlucero]

the book this is based on (the true meaning of smekday) is uh. more

[pansyfemme]

dick game so bad i dont even have one

[2008hondacivic]

⚠️ BEWARE ⚠️

the homoerotic girlbestfriend situationship CAN and WILL kill you

[hayatims-deactivated20240111]

some things that have happened since you stopped hearing about p/alestine after the “ceasefire” was declared

1,000+ palestinians were arrested in a mass-arrest campaign designed to, and i quote, “instill fear” - including children

al-aqsa mosque and worshippers were attacked and beaten

literal children, not even teens, children, were arrested and tried in a military court (this is not new, thousands of children have faced this terrorization over the years. Isr@el is the only country in the world that tries children in military courts. 500-700 children are prosecuted each year.)

a soldier deliberately ran over a child on a bike for having a pales/tinian flag on his bike. an adult man ran over a child with his car. on purpose. the child is 12. read that again.

sheikh jarrah was blockaded, illegally

whatsapp blocked the accounts of over 100 pal/estinian journalists

silwan, another pal/estinian neighborhood like sheikh j/arrah, is being violently ethnically cleansed to make way for more settlers

Isr@el has forced social media sites to censor the hashtags “free pal/estine” and “save sheikh ja/rrah” many posts and accounts have been deleted

25 pales/tinians have been murdered by the ID/F and settlers

in Jaffa, 300 arab families are under force expulsion orders to make way for more settlers. 300 families.

suicide rates in g/aza have risen to an all-time high due to PTSD and hopelessness

Pales/tinians in G/aza still do not have access to safe drinking water, electricity, medical care, and nutrition. families are still being displaced from their homes by settler colonialism. There is still an inability to mobilize freely, pursue a career, seek an education, or gain access to decent healthcare or mental health resources. The occupation, genocide, and ethnic cleansing continues whether you see on your feed or not.

[vintage-lgbt-pins]

[rationalisms]

using a pumice stone isn't very butch of you

i need you to know that this is already a top contender for funniest anon message of the year for me

[lesbiansinthegarden]

AFAB= assigned femme at bathtime

[licoricefern]

what does it say about us as a culture that most of our microwaves have a dedicated popcorn button

[cognito-ergo-hazard]

i dont know but whatever it says, its magnified by literally every bag of popcorn saying “don’t use the popcorn button”

[prokopetz]

Funnily enough, there’s an answer for that.

In brief, the “popcorn” button was initially introduced by fancy high-end microwaves that used an integrated humidity sensor to tell when your popcorn was done; microwaveable popcorn vents steam as it cooks, so by monitoring the amount of steam in the cooking chamber, you can get pretty close to perfectly popped popcorn every time (though it’s generally only pretty close, since different brands of microwaveable popcorn have different moisture content).

As the feature became popular, manufacturers of cheap microwaves started adding a button labelled “popcorn” as well, in order to imply that they offer this feature. These “popcorn” buttons simply run the microwave for a fixed amount of time that the manufacturer figures is close enough to the printed cooking time of most commercial brands.

In practice, of course, the fixed-time “popcorn” button usually just sets your popcorn on fire. To make matters worse, owing to America’s permissive advertising laws, microwave manufacturers are allowed to make all sorts of misleading-but-technically-true statements in their packaging and instruction manuals, rendering it nearly impossible to tell whether a given model of microwave has a real humidity-sensing “popcorn” button or a fake fixed-time “popcorn” button before buying it.

In summary: the “popcorn” button that your microwave popcorn instructs you not to use exists because American microwave manufacturers are using a misleadingly labelled button in order to imply that their product has a feature that it does not in fact have, in a way that can potentially trick people into burning their houses down, for advertising purposes. This is perfectly legal.

So: what does that say about our culture?

[anerdyfeminist]

Holy shit! Learned something.

I have a popcorn button on the microwave in my house that came w/ the place that I brag is the only popcorn button that works. When I use it, I can tell it’s changing the time based on something, I had no idea what. It produces almost perfectly popped bags like 90% of the time. It’s an older microwave (I’d guess maybe 15 yrs old) installed over the stove. It looks like it was “nice” in its heyday.

My 2 other microwaves in my life were like $35 from Walmart or something. So of course I had never experienced a good popcorn button until now.

[millennial-review-deactivated20]

[postirony]

cop play judge, jury, and executioner

[justsomeantifas]

idk it is kinda scary that hospitals, at least where im from, just kind of expect everyone to know how to wash a baby or clip a babys nails or do proper diaper care, for instance, and dont really offer a lot of help postpartum. on top of that they sort of just expect everyone to already know about community resources that could help bridge this gap.

I bring this up because everytime I go to the hospital for my sons checkups I am congratulated on my son not having diaper rash, having trimmed nails, and being clean.

When I ask why they congratulate me on this they say the majority of parents they see don’t do these things either because they cant or they dont know how

and tbh if the people working in the hospital know this is a problem and has been a problem for so long i wonder why they dont try to reach out more to parents in need?

[rainbowafterthethunderstorm]

What makes me incredibly frustrated is that so many hospitals are anti-doula, and these are the exact services postpartum and birth doulas provide.

They're straight up banning doulas from hospitals right now, which they've kind of always wanted to do because they've seen us as a threat to their authority when we start advocating for the birthing person's bodily autonomy. Covid finally gave them the excuse they always wanted to ban us. Before that some hospitals banned us too, just not on such a widespread scale. Hospitals have never invested in postpartum support, and in the end families pay the price.

[justsomeantifas]

hospitals will complain about being too underfunded and understaffed to properly care for their patients and then ban people who could pick up some of the slack.

🏃

[popculturediedin2009]

Chris Crocker out in Los Angeles, April 2008

[sirensandcondolences]

post punk bitches LOVE music that sounds like a fucking construction site