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Not today Justin
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Love Begins
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@regina-bithyniae
Even the referee is knocking over the Japanese players...
Cast a live action spyxfamily. Bonus points if you use period appropriate actors.
Unfortunately I'm very much not the guy for this, I know barely any actors.
I think Ryan Gosling would be a funny pick for Loid, though. He'd go absolutely all in on it and it would send the Gosling guys into an era of dressing in chic cardigans and mumbling to themselves about world peace. Would be funny seeing him play an exhausted single dad.
I'm a pacifist like institutionally but I'm absolutely certain that violence solves at least some problems on a much smaller level. I don't believe in wars or nuclear weapons or military campaigns I do believe in the power of that guy who punched the nazi in the face so hard his entire media presence immediately crumbled to dust
Quibble - Richard Spencer got punched so hard he turned into a liberal.
[ @grousehuntingseason ]
yeah, dude, whatever. You know you *are* way less smart and way less important than you seem to think you are, and that you do write a huge amount while not saying much, yeah? Like, I substantially *agree* with this dismissal of you. Use. Fewer. Words. And fuck, dude, if you're going to post all these essay-length posts, do it on substack, right? Part of what is so fucking ridiculous about you is you're making substack posts that no one would care about on fucking Tumblr.
The things that I say are obvious to you because you're grousehuntingseason.
They take fewer words to communicate to you because you're grousehuntingseason.
I don't seem all that intelligent to you because you're grousehuntingseason.
I myself think that a lot of the things that I say are obvious. I got into politics posting because I thought a lot of people were missing things that I thought were obvious. In my extremely long essay, I wrote that from my perspective, the point of my blog is to explain things that are obvious. I got into the habit of breaking things down into their foundations, from which the conclusions logically follow, in part for that reason. When I break things down, more people go "...oh," or "I disagree, but it makes sense now."
And there will be people who send anons like, "I used to read you, and you helped me to develop a better understanding of politics, but why are you still fighting these lowbies?"
And like, I'm still testing things and working on my health, but a lot of the problems are in more basic misunderstandings. If people get to arguing about 1% differences in marginal tax rates, I'm actually not smart and technically experienced enough to contribute to that! But if that becomes the norm then it means that I can quit politics and go make video games or something.
My experience from the outside is that you're rather abrasive, which can work sometimes, not work other times, and frankly more cynical and harsher than I like, but that's necessary sometimes.
If you have successful practice in convincing people of things or helping them to learn complex-to-them or unintuitive-to-them ideas and have some recommendations, I'm open to hearing them.
My experience is that using fewer words to get through to people who aren't you is actually really difficult, because it will just bounce off, like telling them some short but correct piece of ancient Chinese wisdom or something. It's possible sometimes but it takes a lot of practice. (It's only something I'm just now getting better at.)
Like I dunno man, is that something you do and I'm just not picking up on it?
If you have successful practice in convincing people of things or helping them to learn complex-to-them or unintuitive-to-them ideas and have some recommendations, I'm open to hearing them.
No one wants to be convinced of anything. They want to be entertained. I am not trying to convince anyone of anything at this point, but everyone who seems to do that does so by being entertaining.
Maybe go back to pretending to be a right-wing time-traveler, that was fun.
My experience is that using fewer words to get through to people who aren't you is actually really difficult, because it will just bounce off, like telling them some short but correct piece of ancient Chinese wisdom or something.
If you can't explain any version of something to a child, you do not really understand that thing. That sounds harsh, intuitively, and the obvious counterargument is like... jet engines or something. But the obvious counter-counter argument is that I could in fact explain jet engines to a child and they would probably love it.
is that something you do and I'm just not picking up on it?
Is what? Using few words? Convincing people? Some third thing?
In few words: I'm using more words now so that I can use fewer words later.
Rather than the blog as the main product, I'm writing notes, conducting experiments, and practicing.
Very long posts such as Now, Melt are partly stamina testing, partly getting things down (for greater mastery, recall, and for the record), and partly format experiments, not just communication.
Stamina testing might sound like a strange thing to be doing, but stamina is an issue that I have with projects. It was a surprise to me that I've kept this blog going for as long as I have, for example.
listen, I say this as a person who uses too many words: you need to use way the fuck fewer words. I find myself just glazing past your posts now because you use so many words to say so little.
If this is an intentional decision to write that way, it's the wrong decision, stop doing it like that. If it is an unconscious tendency, try to be aware of it and catch yourself.
Hmn.
Okay. I found that, on Twitter, the difference between a post getting dismissed as "word salad" and getting actual disagreement was a factor of 5, and on here, the difference between "wtf are you talking about" and "oh, okay, I disagree but it makes sense now" was also about a factor of 5.
I've been described as "like a fae creature" before, so I'm trying not to be incomprehensible.
If you don't mind, for fine-tuning, are there any particular posts that you have in mind as examples?
Edit: Also, if there's any particular point in time that you thought was better, or particular post that you think was a good example in the other direction.
I'll just add another voice to the "write fewer words" chorus.
I read a few thousand words of Now, Melt and gave up because you weren't nearing any sort of point and the prose itself wasn't interesting or entertaining in its own right.
You seem to like freely inventing your own terms as you go without really defining them and your general argumentation style is extremely hazy. This makes you a distinct character in the tumblr ratsphere debate scene, but the style makes anyone using it immediately suspect, as it obscures their line of reasoning suggesting they are trying to hide that it isn't as factually-supported or logically clear as they would like it to seem.
After all, if the evidence and reasoning was that strong, why would you obscure it under a titanic wordcount?
New graffiti in Norwich!
I just assume that frankie has gotten his ass kicked at least once because Anya snitched on him fantasizing about Yor.
My personal headcanon is that whenever Anya reads someone's mind while they're having Sex Thoughts, all she sees is television static. Many years later, when she figures it out, she will tease Yor and Loid for having TV Static thought about each other within minutes of meeting one another.
"How's it go again?"
I like how Tony Soprano has a bunch of henchmen all specialized in different types of crime, like wizards each with their own element of magic. The car crimes guy. The arson guy. The obviously stupid crimes guy.
Brain overheating trying to plan a father's day activity that my dad's girlfriend won't want to tag along for...
What Europe Would Look Like If Sea Levels Decreased By 1000 Meters
something tells me Russia would not agree to this division of the artctic
Worldbuilding question: What kind of a situation would it require for Norway to be able to first claim and then keep the entirety of this new landmass?
Presumably Russia loses its war against Ukraine (this map shows Ukraine's internationally recognized land border after, all), but that would probably not be sufficient...
The closure of the Black Sea export route would make Crimea substantially less valuable to Russia. They're a pretty big loser here, losing both that route and having the North Sea route also essentially closed off. Countries that suddenly became landlocked would hardly be pleased about it, but at least e.g. Belgium is landlocked by friendly neighbors.
Cavalcade of Türkiye flagged cars driving past my apartment honking their horns. Amazing, they're like this everywhere.
Uncle died early this morning. Mom phoned me at 7 AM and I knew instantly what was up. Sister and I spent time with her, she's OK. Did a lot of grieving in advance.
We knew they switched him to palliative care, but I was expecting it to be a few weeks, not days, so it was still a bit of a shock. He slipped away peacefully, not in pain, in a private room with his wife present, which was the best case scenario at this point.
We would mostly meet up every 2-3 years or so when we coincidentally were in the same city, and he always loved spending time with my sister and I. Always assumed that would be the pattern for a lot longer. Even when he told us he had cancer in October he insisted it wasn't a severe case, and after the surgery to remove it the doctors didn't even put him on chemotherapy because the scans looked like they got it all. Eyebrow raising at the time, and now it seems just absurd.
He was a good man. Did a lot of good work, which he took very seriously. He deserved better.
LOL, and upon further reflection... LMAO.
You get that by actually *saying* this, you're undercutting your point basically completely, though... right?
There were some topics that needed to be covered after the 2024 election, and a few Tumblr users provided some short, specific criticisms that I was able to quote instead having to present those criticisms as hypotheticals, Ghost being one of them.
Mr. GhostPalmTechnique’s party has lost the election. He has decided to lose weight about it. Good.
I also found his decision to lose weight and pump iron after the 2024 election to be striking, so it was a good illustrative example to start with.
The essay overall is about the refusal of Democrats to change and the necessity of becoming strong to make peace. Losing the 2024 election and deciding to lift weights about it is a really good blunt metaphor, because it captures both the conditions and the suitable response in a short, relatively literal, blunt way.
I'm not sure if the criticism Ghost is referring to, here, is the one addressed in the essay, or not. Anyhow, none of the people quoted are expected to actually read or respond to the essay.
In retrospect, if I were writing the essay again, it might be more appropriate to anonymize all three Tumblr users quoted in the essay, as the long form isn't a good fit for interpersonal Tumblr discourse culture, and could result in unwanted, excess attention.
How are you feeling on the Trump administration endorsement 18 months in?
tombstone saying I DIDN'T MAKE OPTIMAL LIFE CHOICES close to another tombstone saying I DID