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tumblr is great bc its like a diary where I can take other peoples diary entries and glue them into my own diary
"I can't believe humans would hunt the thylacine to extinction, humans are fundamentally evil" Hey, did you know that extinction was long thought to be impossible, and within 50 years of humans realizing that extinction via overhunting was a possibility it practically stopped happening? Did you know that humans are so desperate to prevent more losses that they're funneling millions of collective hours and billions of euros into helping other species? Hours and euros that could be spent on humans, and species on whom humanity's own survival does not depend? Did you know that due to an accidental introduction of rats, the Lord Howe Island stick insect population was brought down to 24 individuals and now there are tens of thousands of them?
This bug. This bug that, to most humans, is utterly useless, relatively gross, and completely foreign. Humans saved it because humans do not want to cause another extinction ever again if they can avoid it.
how many sharks does a tornado need to be considered a sharknado
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this is the level of analysis weâre looking for here people
Do you think tumblr will ever learn the difference between âIâm defending this person because I agree with them wholeheartedly and I am also like this personâ and âIâm defending this person because your behavior is dangerous and you need to stopâ
IMO, blurring the lines between âIâm defending them because theyâre rightâ and âIâm defending them because youâre taking this too farâ is step numero uno to cutting down the very existence of fair trial and democracyâeven in places where saying that might seem a little dramatic.Â
Mob mentality is extremely strong in humans and itâs also extremely dangerous. Mobs donât think things through. Mobs kill and they destroy and they canât be reasoned with. Someone trying to calm a mob down isnât someone defending the ~problematic party~ Itâs time we re-learn that.
So I do 3D modeling and printing as a hobby, and a few weeks ago I designed wheel guards meant to prevent office chairs from running over cables and clothes... or your pet's tail.
I got the idea from cowcatchers old locomotives used to have.
Anyways, yesterday I uploaded the model to Thingiverse, and just hours after uploading it, the Community Relationship Manager of the whole website left a comment suggesting I enter the model into a competition that's currently being held on the site.
So I did... and now it's in third place not even a day later. First place is $500, but the competition still has a month to go.
Then the Community Manager contacted me again, telling me they want to feature my model in an upcoming design promotion.
Just, what is happening? I mostly made this thing for myself in, like, an hour, and now it's suddenly super popular? This is all a little bit overwhelming đľâđŤ
Other models I worked on for weeks didn't get nearly as popular. I swear, it's impossible to predict what people will like.
Anyways, if you want to print the wheel guards yourself, you can get the model here or here.
I also made a quiet version you can stick furniture felt pads on.
People love simple, extremely practical things. I hope you win!
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Iâm so proud of senshi for making it so far in the tumblr sexyman poll. I think itâs so beautiful that tumblr has reached a point where a short fat hairy bearded man is the pinnacle of sexuality for a large swath of this userbase. itâs like when you see before & after pictures of a rainforest recovering from deforestation. nature is healing and we can fight god
I hope he wins so someone will have to explain to ryoko kui what a tumblr sexyman is
I have to say I forgot the oncelerâs thing was cutting down trees when I made my metaphor.
the forest is also a metaphor for his bush
how does this post have almost 20k notes and senshi isnât even winning. the poll is not over he needs your help!!!!!! do it for the fat boys
during pride month??????
Great news: after being banned from Night Power Tools, my wife has taken up whittling and is making me a spoon
Being an adult will have you unironically craving a vegetable
Being an adult will have you unironically sad about a parasite outbreak in fresh vegetables.
is cannibalism vanilla?
yes, like vanilla extract. totally normal boring kink everyone has
what? no. cannibalism is not vanilla
(with the intention of ordering grapes from the lemonade stand) hey
just tried to reference the xkcd "today's lucky 10,000" comic but I wanted to explain xkcd first, so I was like "you probably know the one about experts in the field overestimating their audience's familiarity with the subject matter" and uh. he didn't. love me some irony
i wouldn't even be upset about robotnik not coming back if it means agent stone becomes the new main villain, ESPECIALLY after the beautiful sendoff in sonic 3... like, agent stone continuing the doctor's legacy secure in and fueled by the confirmation that they really did have something is GOOD SHIT.
at the same time though i am SO curious to see how their dynamic would change with the ways their characters have grown. Agent Stone was content to be treated badly and convinced himself Robotnik just wasn't capable of close relationships and that's fine, then watched Robotnik be VERY capable of those actually just not with HIM, and then finally got closure that the doctor truly did care for him all along. this probably won't change him as a character TOO much but it is worth noting.
Robotnik had a WHOLE ASS CHARACTER ARC.
Robotnik hates humans and human relationships, he hates vunerability and connection, he tells himself he doesn't need those things and that being a Robotnik makes him special, set apart, not like those other humans. People reject him and don't understand him, that's fine, it's just because he's a Robotnik- the last left- and he's brilliant and unique and people simply can't get on his level. He doesn't need them. He doesn't need anyone, because he's above them. because he's doctor Ivo Robotnik and he is above humanity. Meeting Gerald, though, who is also a Robotnik, means that all Ivo's excuses for why he just can't make friends go RIGHT out the window. But THEN Gerald betrays him and rejects him. The truth is, Ivo isn't some special breed of being that can only be accepted by others like him- that theory is disproven by Gerald. He isn't alone because he's too different from and too good for everyone else, he's alone because of his actions. And he, proven again my Gerald, IS a human and does crave close connections, does need social bonds, he's just been depriving himself of them because he believed he didn't. And this ENTIRE time agent stone has been offering him unconditional love and affection. Robotnik realizes ALL of this, and that he has been repressing and downplaying the one connection he really did have (and he should have let himself have it! he loves stone wether he admits it or not, he kept a rock around in space just to remind him of stone! and Stone's been all too willing to love him if Robotnik had just LET HIM), and sacrifices himself to save stone while telling the ENTIRE WORLD that he cares for him.
that's HUGE and it's gotta impact their dynamic moving forward like. like if Robotnik somehow survived then there is no way they go back to Stone silently pining while Robotnik ignores him and tries to stifle the part of him that cares. they CAN'T after THAT.
ohhh my god I just fact-checked, Nolan actually DID cut the "Nobody" scene from his Odyssey movie. Mfer that is like cutting the Father reveal from Star Wars. Let me speak in a language you understand this is like not dressing Batman up in his suit. "It was not possible to work it in" the TikTok musical with a budget of $4 and a scratched Hamilton CD managed to work it in in SONG form, step up your FUCKING GAME
As someone who has written academic papers about the role of disguise and deceit in the Odyssey â Nobody is so damn important.
Prior to this point, when Odysseus tries to exercise Xenia (ancient Greek guest rites/hospitality code), he did what he was supposed to do. (Well, we think so anyway â notably, the most famous books of the Odyssey are told by Odysseus, who isnât exactly a reliable narrator.)
But when Polyphemus kills and eats some of the men, the game changes. The Cyclops makes it clear he has no intention of abiding by Zeusâs laws, and will cannibalize the lot of the men. So, Odysseus responds in kind â he breaks Xenia and lies. He introduces himself under a false name as part of a trick. Polyphemus then breaks Xenia again â he tells Nobody heâll be eaten last, and that is the Cyclopsâ guest gift to him.
Odysseusâ transgression is clearly the lesser one. The Nobody trick works. It gets Odysseus and most of his crew out of the cave alive.
But, crucially, before leaving Odysseus sheds his disguise. He admits his true identity, in detail, so he can boast of his achievements and add vanquishing a Cyclops to the list. And it bites him in the ass spectacularly.
The only reason why Polyphemus can curse Odysseus, can bid his father Poseidon to curse the man who blinded him, is because he now knows who did it. If Odysseus had kept his mouth shut, he might have safely made it home from there. But while a big part of why the Nobody disguise vs. real name reveal is showing Odysseusâs hubris, itâs not just about that. Itâs also about the start of a pattern that hurts him more than it helps him.
From this point in the Odyssey on, Odysseus lies about his identity constantly. And sometimes it protects him, but more often itâs a detriment or at least unnecessary. Heâs lying about his identity primarily to people who are on his side â a kindly loyal swineherd, his son, his faithful wife, his ailing father.
The last one is especially damning, because happens when Odysseus has already killed the suitors and returned home and reunited with the rest of his family sans disguises. He knows from everyone else that Laertes never betrayed him or his legacy, but was mourning his son and heartbroken for almost a decade. Odysseus has publicly declared his return to everyone else â his father doesnât know because heâs living in squalor remotely. But Odysseus doesnât tell his father who he is. He makes up a fake identity and tells a story implying Laertesâ son is dead. And when Laertes bursts out crying, then Odysseus drops the charade and finally admits who he really was.
There was no utility to that lie. No loyalty to test. No hidden threats to worry about. But Odysseus still instinctively lies to his beloved father about who he is, only dropping the charade when he sees the damage itâs doing to his relationships.
Because at this point, lying is pathological for Odysseus. He canât seem to stop doing it. Because with Polyphemus, a lie protected him and the truth hurt him. That is the point of the â Nobodyâ disguise.
And they fucking cut it???
The "B" is *not* for "buses"
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I hate you Ozempic craze I hate you 'heroin chic' I hate you weight loss ads on public radio I hate Burn Fat Fast ads every thirty seconds I hate you I hate you I hate you
I grew up before the term 'thigh gap' was invented I grew up before 'hip dip' was invented I was born before 'muffin top' was a thing before 'clean girl look' was a thing before 'glass skin' was a thing before razoring off peach fuzz was a thing and I'm so so so fucking tired of us inventing new concepts purely for the purpose of convincing people to hate their own bodies enough to buy products
Last time Tuberculosis ran through the USA a small number of people got it on purpose to look skinny and waifish and delicate and used makeup to look flushed and bony and when the Victorians figured out tapeworms people would infect themselves on purpose to starve themselves smaller and women and now in the year of our lord 2026 there is a noticeable fraction of the USAmerican population genuinely thrilled about a treatment-resistant microbial parasite that makes you shit and vomit your brains out for a month because side effects include weight loss and STILL we talk about being skinny like it's the natural default setting for all healthy people as if it's a self-sustaining standard and not an imaginary goal that we are constantly constantly constantly beating ourselves with a whip to acheive
