Vanilla Extract?

29* she/they* Down With Cringe Culture! literally just reblogging shit I like (not always interactive but I’m here)

[skygenders]

There is something sooo deeply American going on with Seattle Children’s Hospital that I think would brick the minds of everyone outside of the United States.

[skygenders]

The CHILDRENS hospital has to restrict helipad landings because of noise complaints from the wealthy home owners living next to it. Only the most urgent patients can land directly at the hospital. While the other kids have to land a mile away and are taken to the hospital via ambulance. Which is an unnecessary risk to the child’s life and also makes the families pay for the helicopter AND ambulance.

[skygenders]

Seattle Children’s says Laurelhurst noise concerns burdens lifesaving care for children

The hospital says some limits on helipad access add pressure when children need lifesaving care.

Apparently this has been going on for decades and is only getting traction because a pilot complained on Twitter.

[lifesgrandparade]

I want you guys to all start making a bigger stink about Tumblr's Age Verification Horseshit.

[lifesgrandparade]

Like they tried to change Reblogs and people rightfully got up in arms, this is a LOT worse. In order to have access to any sort of thing dubbed mature, and We haveALL seen what they think is mature, Everything from a black and white photo of a black woman's arm, to posts about IUD recalls, to a nude painted by a 17th century artist, to anything involving the word Trans; you have to send your personal information to a third party site that WILL get hacked, and you will be doxxed. And they can say "Oh shit, well it wasn't us who sent your name address and gender identity to Moldovan teenagers, here's a couple extra minutes in the ball pit.

That's bad enough!!!!!!!! But the entire idea of needing permission from state authorities to access anything labeled mature by our friendly AI overlords is some fucking Boll shit. Die Gedenken Sind Frie baby. This is all a reaction to people getting uppity about their lowly lowly rights and is being propped up by the same bad actors tht have made life unlivable. Fuck that shit.

"Well it's only being rolled out in Brazil and UK" Yeah, to start. "Well they're being forced to do this by laws." YOu know it's always really funny when these tech giants (Or whatever you call owning tumblr dot com) get really antsy about laws considering they pick and choose which ones they abide by.

This is a breaking point and it's going to be very interesting to see how we proceed from here.

[teh-nos]

i get this now and it won't let me click through to any 'mature' blogs :(

[cannibalchicken]

[icedoatmilkmatcha-deactivated20]

also

[yeahokayillreblogthat]

Yeah okay Ill reblog that!

[aggressivelybicaptainamerica]

Not a scholar at first, but the guy who wrote Jaws hated that people used it to justify hating sharks so much he dedicated the rest of his life to shark research and advocacy.

[ruffboi-mags]

The woman who popularized gender reveals wishes she hadn't, afaik.

[fall1ngfeather]

(afaik- the woman who popularized gender reveals did so because she had a long history of miscarriages. The reveal was a celebration of the fact that one of her pregnancies had gotten far enough that there WAS a physical sex to reveal. It was never intended to be like... *gestures at modern gender reveals* all that. That same kid later came out as trans and yes, the family had a second gender reveal for that lol.)

[p00pym00py]

This whole thread is so beautiful to me that I can explain it

[my-random-fandoms]

[pouncequick]

K-Cup coffee pod creator wishes he'd never thought of them | CBC News

The man who invented the K-Cup coffee pod almost 20 years ago says he regrets doing so and can't understand the popularity of the products t

[jackironsides]

L. David Mech, who popularised the idea that there were 'alpha' and 'beta' wolves in his 1970 book The Wolf, has spent the rest of his career trying to debunk this. (The original studies were done on captive wolves, and thus didn't simulate an accurate model of wolf pack dynamics.)

Is the Alpha Wolf Idea a Myth?

The idea that wolf packs are led by a merciless dictator, or alpha wolf, comes from old studies of captive wolves. In the wild, wolf packs a

In the wild, researchers have found that most wolf packs are simply families, led by a breeding pair, and bloody duels for supremacy are rare.

“What would be the value of calling a human father the alpha male?” says L. David Mech, a senior research scientist at the U.S. Geological Survey, who has studied wolf packs in the wild for decades. “He’s just the father of the family. And that’s exactly the way it is with wolves.”

[averyoddfishindeed]

[ghouliens]

Ötzi the icemans' murderer could still be out there. We just don't know.

[just-s0me-stranger]

How do we even know he was called Ötzi?

Did he have his name written down on something?

Or is that what the people who dug him up thousands of years later decided to name him?

And how TF does he even have a fanbase?

How TF do you even get a fanbase just for being murdered?

[ghouliens]

Apologies if this is all stuff you already know and you were being rhetorical but he definitely was not called Ötzi!

Ötzi is a 5300-ish year old mummy, found in the Ötztal Alps in Italy (hence his name). While the earliest form of writing was emerging from Sumer at the time, Ötzi likely came from a civilisation with no writing system.

Ötzi has a fanbase because frankly he's absolutely fascinating. For a long time he was the oldest tattooed person ever discovered (in 2018 older Egyptian mummies were discovered), with 61 tattoos, a series of lines and crosses, primarily on his joints. These tattoos were likely an early form of acupuncture since he had worn joints that likely caused him pain.

The amount we've been able to study and understand about Ötzi is incredible, and he has offered us an incredible view of the European Copper Age. He was 45. He was 5"3. He was around 50kgs. We know what his final meal was, how he dressed, where he came from and how he travelled to the Ötztal region (through pollen in his lungs). We know he was involved in copper smelting (high levels of copper and arsenic in his hair). He could still have 19 descendants alive today. We know he was sick three times in the last six months before he died. We know he had whipworms. We know he was lactose intolerant.

We know he was murdered. Not killed by a stranger, or robbed. He was murdered by someone, and it was probably personal, and he did not know it was coming. He bled out, from an arrow to the back, and nobody helped him.

His last meal was elaborate. He was not on the run, or in a hurry to get away. He was not chased up those mountains. Where was he going? Why was he being followed? His body was not looted. He was a wealthy man, for his time. He had good quality clothes, shoes that people have reconstructed and hiked up the mountain in (and found surprisingly comfortable, apparently).

Weapons, too. He was found with a copper axe, a knife, arrows and an unfinished bow, baskets and medicines. These were all valuable possessions. People were not so rich back then that they could easily discard items like this- so why were they left to rot on the mountain with him? Was the fact they'd been touched by Ötzi really so repugnant to whoever was on that mountain?

There are at least 4 other people's blood on his gear. On the knife. On the arrows. The arrow that they shot him with was left in his back but the shaft was removed.

We know so much about Ötzi. We know everything about his finals hours- except for everything about Ötzi. We do not know who he was, we do not know his name, and we do not know why he was killed. His murderers stand in the shadows and will never come out into the light.

Anyway, that's why I find him fascinating!

[afurioushawk]

[indecisiveavocado]

aren't they the people who fully made a thing saying "GOYIM LIVES MATTER"?

anyway. i have stuff to do.

fuck it though it's time to talk about how russia's indigenous people exist in spite of and in defiance of the modern state.

here's a discussion of the russian colonization of poland that addresses the (really sucky) counterargument that because no one crossed water it actually can't be colonization (apparently one people make?? what the fuck??)

a whole book on stalin's genocides (pdf, epub)

Russia's Imperial Endeavor and Its Geopolitical Consequences, open access book post-2022

Colonizing Russia's Promised Land, open access book that explores the role of religion

The Touch of Civilization, a comparison of Russian and American colonization, open access

Minority Rights Group, which covers indigenous as well as non indigenous minorities, on the Russian Federation.

Discussion by Cultural Survival, an indigenous rights organization

On the Circassian Genocide: The Circassians - A Forgotten Genocide?, two-hundred-some-page book on it, an almost eight-hundred-page history in documents, discussion of Circassians in Israel

The Real Face of Russia, a 1967 book, has some information

Book on Crimean Tatar history, including their genocide and persecution by Russian/Soviet authorities

Chapter from Echoes of Empire: Memory, Identity, and the Legacy of Imperialism

Not in Our Name: Why Russia is not a Decolonial Ally or the Dark Side of Civilizational Communism and Imperialism

Imperialism, Supremacy, and the Russian Invasion of Ukraine, paper

Okay, now I really have to get back to actual work, but tl;dr: do you really think Russia got this big without imperialism?

[indecisiveavocado]

#I respect this wealth of information but I have up be honest that I am almost certainly not going to read any of it#I shall nonetheless pass it along#it may make a difference for someone

I haven't read all of this! But the information is out there, and a substantial part of my strategy is "I am going to hit you over the head with all the papers and books I can find [until I get bored] that contradict you, and you are going to have to pray you are right"

TL;DR for those who don't, won't, or can't read it: Russia was and is a colonial, genocidal & imperialist empire. The Russian government is not the good guys in Ukraine, they are not the good guys on indigenous rights, and anyone saying they are is either paid off by them; woefully ignorant; or not at all ignorant but delighting in harm to innocent people. In no case should you listen to them.

[lelif]

on survival

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[uncannyannieg]

moon joy !!!

[gaytanic-panic]

[winter-rabbit-2]

This is what that one post was taking about.

You can be as offended as possible about the language used, or you can look at the actual intent behind the words.

This man grew up in a time when trans people used that word for themselves. He probably hung out with a few often enough and just absorbed the language.

He was very much using it in a positive context. The barista he’s referring too is probably the only one that makes his favorite drink just right.

This is why Queer elders get so annoyed with the younger members of the community. Too focused on policing the terms people use while there are far bigger problems we are all dealing with.

[dancinbutterfly]

#this is all true#baby gays PLEASE learn that the words you scream at people online for are still in active use AMONG OUR COMMUNITY IN REAL LIFE#there are trans people who refer to themselves as trannies & transssexuals. there are lesbians who call themselves bulldykes. gay men who#call ourselves faggots. and it's done not in a self-effacing way but in honest joy and reclamation and it is NOT your place as#self-appointed keyboard warriors to bitch at us to stop. YOU'RE the new ones here. learn the culture if you want to survive.#and make the fucking effort to go meet queer people older than 20 in meatspace for FUCK'S sake#i get that you didn't get the trial by fire that the rest of us got but we'll be goddamned if we're gonna let you tell us we're not allowed#to be in OUR spaces smelling like smoke#old man yells at cloud#queerdom#trans matters#twitter dot com#blog together queue alone

This.

I'm 30something and new(a year and change) to my transition and you can pry tranny from my cold dead hands.

I'm also a gay man and you can pull faggot out of my clenched teeth.

I stood on the outside for decades like an orphan in the rain but I never stopped fighting the good fight as an "ally" and now I'm inside I will say and do whatever I fucking want forever because those words feel right on me.

It's fun and it's sexy and its mine and just fuck all the way off. I didn't walk alone through the dark for 25 years to get here to be told by angry children with anxiety what I am not allowed to do.

[sunderwight]

This is part of what "kill the cop in your head" means, btw.

Stop looking for Rules to follow or punish people for not following, pay the most attention to actions, intentions, and consequences.

[the-haiku-bot]

This is part of what

“kill the cop in your head” means,

btw.

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

[chadhulk]

I have mixed thoughts on sex work. I love sex, but I hate work!

[kybercrystalgems]

“Yeah, we hate seeing you work too!”

[burglarsonarceny]

how does this post keep getting better

[apollosfallen]

The only way forward is to stop treating masculinity as synonymous with harmful, monstrous, or dangerous.

[apollosfallen]

There is a fundamental difference between "men are dangerous" (wrong, bioessentialist) and "the patriarchy allows dangerous men to exist unchecked" (true).

[tench]

I'm yet to see anyone posting about it here, so:

(screenshot from bluesky)

Paypal wants you to out your nsfw artists, don't do that. Please don't fuck them over more than they already are.

[missingrache]

Which reminds me. The work colleague who makes display signage using AI art is finally getting told to knock it off bc a reference librarian overheard some patrons mocking said AI art the other day and also bc we got a write in comment about how disappointed the commenter was that the public library ie an information center would use AI. We come to the brick and mortar library to get away from that etc etc etc. So, you know. Be loud and annoying about it in public, maybe you’ll get lucky and it’ll do something.

[ayeforscotland]

Gaidhlig and Scots become official languages in Scotland today with the Scottish Languages Act coming into force after it was voted on back in June.

Key parts of the legislation includes the right for parents to request Gaelic schools for their local area, and will help with standardisation of language teaching across the board.

Good signs for the future. In the future would be very interested to see parents (and everyone else) getting access to the same learning materials so they can learn alongside their kids.

[eirenical]

Gaelic and Scots now recognised as official languages

The milestone is one of a number of new measures taking effect on St Andrew's Day from the Scottish Languages Act.

[woman-becomer]

tumblr users love reading. you literally stopped for this post just because it has words in it

[interpolationz]

this is one of my favorite bits about tumblr

the users seem to actually prefer text posts to anything else, and treat it as a chore to play a video especially with sound

[lazzarella]

[hockpock]

ADHD time blindness be like "oh, today is the 30th? that's fine, December is still next month, that's forever away!

...what do you mean tommorrow?"

[hockpock]

happy 1 year anniversary to this post,

DECEMBER IS TOMMORROW.

AGAIN.

[verirothestar]

2nd year anniversary now

[verirothestar]

3rd year anniversary. This year was certainly something

[verirothestar]

Happy 4th hear anniversary to this post4️⃣

[thedancingwalrus-blog]

'Huge' fall in FGM rates for African girls

Activists say female genital mutilation is still common in Africa - but a study finds it is falling.

There’s been a massive fall in FGM rates across the African continent for girls under 14.

The figures are all taken roughly 20 years apart, in the mid 90s and then in the late 2010s. The rate in Western African has gone from 74% to 25%, in Northern Africa it’s gone from 60% to 14%.

Across the continent the overall rate has gone from 71% to 8%. 

This is just huge. I’m finding it difficult to wrap my head around the scale of it, the number of children those percentages represent. It feels like such a huge shift. It’s millions of girls growing up safer and healthier. 

And the researchers are saying their mothers are the driving force.

[mozagg]

For all African girls

[occasionaltmblrforafreehero]

Everybody say “Thank you, African women!!”

[byjove]

When you point out to people who are against animal testing that there are potentially lifesaving medications that need to be tested on mammals before going to trials that could potentially harm human lives, they’ll say shit like “We should test on prisoners instead.” Bitch. Why are you working for PETA? The WW2-era Imperial Japanese Army needs you. There is suchhhhhhh a strong thread of fascism laced through the current animal rights movement and in so many animal rights spaces and they’re extremely transparent about it.

[langstynotteen]

I can excuse racism, but I draw the line at animal cruelty

[byjove]

That scene from Community is so accurate, that is exactly how these people sound. Racism, ableism and classism often tangled with their crusade for ‘animal rights’ and their talking points often go against basic ethics and basic animal husbandry.