BeerCat.

Music major. Artist. Guitarist and musician.

[sometiktoksarevalid]

[and-fishing-equipment]

in 2026 DO NOT ask yourself whether your art is GOOD

instead ask:

is it SINCERE

was it CATHARTIC

was it FUN TO MAKE

is it MADE BY ME

and don't forget to stay silly

[reapersfmn]

What have I been filled with lately

Rage hate love hope disappointment uneasiness?

It flows over me so vapidly

Time work sleep injustice

I render myself obsolete

Ensnared

We won't survive in heaven

[reapersfmn]

I don't know who needs to hear this but you could renew your own dreamers act (daca) on the government website. Stop paying thousands of dollars on a lawyer who at the end of the day only turns in 3 sheets of paper.

[elminx]

I’ve noticed some posts around about how you can’t romanticize your life during a fascist regime and while I deeply sympathize with this sentiment, I want you to try to understand that’s what they want you to believe.

Fascism thrives best in the cesspool of hopelessness. They want us so confused and hopeless that we give in. When you give in, you don’t fight back.

If you wait for life to look good to do the things that bring you joy; life will still be bad - you will just have less joy.

As someone who has struggled with my mental health a lot for the last thirty years, I know this struggle firsthand. And changing this belief system - the one where you spend all of your time expecting bad things so you won’t be surprised when they happen - it’s the hardest work that I have ever done. And I’m not perfect; I still have setbacks. I still experience really real fears about the state of the world and the US, in particular, because that’s where I live.

But I made a vow to myself that I will not let the choices of others ruin my life. When I made that vow, I was thinking of my parents - but it applies to the state of the government right now, too.

There are still flowers in my garden, and ripe tomatoes, and it’s almost pick-your-own apples season, and I have plans with my friends to go to as many cemetery ghost walks as we can find this October.

I still deserve to live. I still deserve to laugh. I still deserve to love. I still deserve to be as happy as I can be.

And you do, too.

[escuerzoresucitado]

[toskarin]

I'll always talk up internet radio stations because I don't think the average person is aware that they're free, can run in your browser (or in any program that can connect to them), work on your phone, run better than a youtube tab, and give you a much better selection of music than you could get from a general algorithmic playlist

(also lots of them have live shows which you can tune into for free)

[toskarin]

"oughh I follow this blog for weeb stuff not internet radio promo" here. gensokyo radio.

[toskarin]

oh and also I have to plug yggdrasil. it's cute.

[windcalling]

if u like folk and/or roots music: wumb.org !!! it is AD-FREE it has ZERO MORNING TALK SHOWS it is on air at 91.9 FM in the BOSTON AREA but streams WORLDWIDE on the WEB it is perfect.

[andmaybegayer]

big fan of soma.fm's selection, dozens of themed stations covering ambient, jazz, soul, punk, and a lot of electronica

[emmavoid]

Also if you search for student radio stations at almost any university you can listen to all sorts of crazy stuff for free!

[uisce-portaigh]

Maybe niche but for any Irish speakers or learners out there, Radio na Gaeltachta streams online and is a great way to listen to some Gaeilge without YouTube.

[kevin-ar-tuathal]

All of these resources are fantastic, but I wanna give a specific shoutout to Raidió na Gaeltachta streaming online - and I say this as a person who works in Irish-language visual media - if you wanna gainna better grasp of spoken Irish and how the language is used in casual settings, Raidió na Gaeltachta is the way to go, not visual media 😬📻😁

[uncuteartist]

I recommend Radio Garden! It has an interactive map of internet radio stations. It's a lot of fun to explore radio stations from all over.

Radio Garden

Explore live radio by rotating the globe.

[reapersfmn]

I know the end of the world's supposed to suck. But c'mon! Is it supposed to suck this much.

[baelpenrose]

Children and Phones

My fellow millenials: I know we grew up when 'those damn phones' was the cry of disconnected boomers. I know that 'damn internet, go outside' was the cry of people who had destroyed all other third spaces and wanted to eliminate one we had, but. I do want to point something out. When we were kids, the internet was a third space. It was democratic. It didn't have rules, and in some ways that made it dangerous - (be real, how many people do you know who talked to adults they shouldn't have when they were young? Did you? I did, honestly, and only didn't get hurt because I was both clever and lucky). But people knew what the dangers were and people overall knew not to give out personal information, so even if you talked to people you shouldn't have, their ability to make you suffer for it was pretty minimal. The internet, in our youth, was, fundamentally, risk-reward, like a dangerous playground. Yes, there were risks, yes, there were strangers, but no one was there to sell anything (or, that wasn't why it existed) and the dangers were, overall, overhyped, and we were, overall, the ones in charge of our experience. These days that isn't true. All the things boomers were afraid of about the internet - that is was full of predators, that it was destroying our ability to make meaningful connection, that it was destroying our attention spans - is now more or less true to life. And I don't want to say it's because the internet or phones have gotten more dangerous, but it's because they've gotten more corporate. They've gotten more algorithmic. The things that made them wild are gone. They now exist to sell products, to guide advertisers to user data, and when we were kids those tools didn't exist to anywhere near the same degree.

These days, yeah. They're designed to addict to as brutal a degree as possible and it is quanitifiable that it destroys the attention span of adolescents on social media. It is quantifiable that it seriously damages their ability to relate to other people in a meaningful way because they are so afraid of being surveilled and afraid of vulnerability because they know that anything they say might be posted about or recorded at any time. When we were young this was a tool for us to explore. Now it's yet another way corporations are making money at the expense of the young, all while insinuating themselves into the lives of kids who can't actually avoid it. Keep your kids away from smart phones as long as you can. They won't like it, but you really are doing the right thing as a parent by keeping them away from it longer.

[ruhua-langblr]

Duolingo Sucks, Now What?: A Guide

Now that the quality of Duolingo has fallen (even more) due to AI and people are more willing to make the jump here are just some alternative apps and what languages they have:

"I just want an identical experience to DL"

Busuu (Languages: Spanish, Japanese, French, English, German, Dutch, Italian, Portuguese, Chinese, Polish, Turkish, Russian, Arabic, Korean)

"I want a good audio-based app"

Language Transfer (Languages: French, Swahili, Italian, Greek, German, Turkish, Arabic, Spanish, English for Spanish Speakers)

"I want a good audio-based app and money's no object"

Pimsleur (Literally so many languages)

Glossika (Also a lot of languages, but minority languages are free)

*anecdote: I borrowed my brother's Japanese Pimsleur CD as a kid and I still remember how to say the weather is nice over a decade later. You can find the CDs at libraries and "other" places I'm sure.

"I have a pretty neat library card"

Mango (Languages: So many and the endangered/Indigenous courses are free even if you don't have a library that has a partnership with Mango)

Transparent Language: (Languages: THE MOST! Also the one that has the widest variety of African languages! Perhaps the most diverse in ESL and learning a foreign language not in English)

"I want SRS flashcards and have an android"

AnkiDroid: (Theoretically all languages, pre-made decks can be found easily)

"I want SRS flashcards and I have an iphone"

AnkiApp: It's almost as good as AnkiDroid and free compared to the official Anki app for iphone

"I don't mind ads and just want to learn Korean"

lingory

"I want an app made for Mandarin that's BETTER than DL and has multiple languages to learn Mandarin in"

ChineseSkill (You can use their older version of the course for free)

"I don't like any of these apps you mentioned already, give me one more"

Bunpo: (Languages: Japanese, Spanish, French, German, Korean, and Mandarin)

[leebrontide]

An explainer for why I don't fuck with algorithmic social media

If you give a pigeon a little button to peck that releases pigeon food, it will push the button when it's hungry.

If you give a pigeon a button to peck that releases food every 5 pecks, it will peck it more often.

If you give a pigeon a button to peck that releases food at a randomly selected, always shifting number of pecks, the pigeon will peck that fucking button all day long.

Algorithm based social media is not set up to give you the best most fun stuff all the time, it is set up to give you a bunch of stress and nothingness with a randomized reward of something that actually makes you happy, because they want you pecking that button all damn day. It is a slot machine of content, meant to keep you putting in quarters made of your time and attention till you've nothing yet.

At least if I'm having a shit day on my own Tumblr home feed it's because I've made a bad choice about who to follow and I can fix it.

[ufoapproached]

Song of Storms

[typewriter-worries]

people will read books they Do Not Like™ and then wonder why they hate reading

[typewriter-worries]

"i don't like long books" read short ones. "i don't like prose" try poetry. "i don't want to pay for a book i might not even like" go to your local library.

reading is the hobby that you make it; make it something you like.

[typewriter-worries]

seeing this mentioned in the tags, but for the love of all that is good and holy please stop making yourself read books you don't like. you know yourself better than any curation or recommendation, if you're not enjoying it, you can put it down.

reading for leisure is supposed to be fun. you can't have fun if you're actively robbing yourself of joy while you do it!

[jupitersmusings]

good things will happen 🧿

things that are meant to be will fall into place 🧿

[overlord-fire-bubble]

THIS ONE FUCKING WORKS. REBLOG IT.

[tiny-kt]

this for real fucking works

[scroll-of-thought]

Apparently this one fuckin works, and who am I to argue with the collective agreement of tumblr. Will report back if good things happen.

[caats]

[suicideenthusiast-backup]

oh boy i wish someone would notice my cries for help! [someone actually notices] noooo i'm fine don't worry about me

[akajustmerry]

genuinely being a tv enjoyer in this current time sucks balls because tv is trying to do what movies do and it makes it WORSE. the best part about tv is that you spend time with it consistently week after week year after year and now because tv shows are fractured and have the budget of major movies they're becoming shorter with way longer time between seasons and it hurts the one (at least to me) best thing about tv!! which is that it's reliable and consistent and has longevity because tv is a long form format!!! But it's being pushed into being made more short term like movies because of all these economic pressures and bonkers expectations. I'm sick of it!!! I'm sick of tv shows being acclaimed when they don't feel like tv shows as if that's a bad thing!!! I'm sick of waiting 2-4 years for 4-8 episodes. I'm sick of reading about the best writers in the business not being able to make a living. I'm sick of it!!!! I want tv back!!! I miss my friend tv!