what fine design;

Ria. Est. '94. She learned her hands in a fairy-tale, And her mouth on a valentine.

[whyenn-reader]

normalise saying ''what the fuck is wrong with you'' to mean people

[luminarai]

*david attenborough voice* truly the most dangerous predator in the animal kingdom

[likeafieldmouse-deactivated2015]

Gustave Caillebotte - The Floor Scrapers (1875-6)

Original on top, later version below

“Despite the effort Caillebotte put into the painting, it was rejected by France’s most prestigious art exhibition, The Salon, in 1875. The depiction of working-class people in their trade, not fully clothed, shocked the jurors and was deemed a ‘vulgar subject matter.’ 

The images of the floor scrapers came to be associated with Degas’s paintings of washerwomen, also presented at the same exhibition and similarly scorned as ‘vulgar’”.

[aroundthecoffeepot]

[json-derulo]

I'm not gonna articulate this well, but there's this phenomenon I keep seeing on the left that I'll call "bean soup rhetoric," wherein someone fails to understand that they are not the target audience for a particular message, or just can't conceptualize why a speaker would craft their message differently to resonate with a target audience that doesn't already completely agree with them.

"The 'God Made Trans People' billboard is stupid! God didn't make me! I'm an atheist!" Okay. The billboard sits along a major highway in Kansas. We can deduce that the target audience is not you—it's the centrist evangelical Christians driving along that road who could probably be persuaded to become allies as long as we choose our words carefully and don't make them feel attacked for not already knowing everything about trans rights issues. Another one I see a lot is, "We shouldn't be talking about how right-wing legislation catches [privileged in-group] in the crossfire when [marginalized out-group] suffers far more!" I know. I agree with you. Which is why you and I are not the intended audience of this argument!

The entire point of rhetoric is to win over someone who doesn't already fully agree with you. In this case, let's say that someone is Jennifer, the moderate center-right mom in your neighborhood who doesn't really know or care about transgender issues but would be absolutely horrified by the idea of her teenage daughter having to submit to an invasive inspection of her body just to be allowed to play soccer. Tell her, "Banning trans students from sports will inevitably subject all student athletes to invasive gender-policing," or "Legal restrictions on gender-affirming care will make it harder for you to access the hormone replacement therapy you take to treat menopause symptoms," and she is more likely to question her existing beliefs and listen to the rest of what you have to say than if you lead with leftist talking points that she already has a calcified opinion about or which she thinks do not personally affect her.

Tailoring the argument to the things she already cares about does not mean we're forgetting that she has more privilege than most—entirely the opposite, in fact. A privileged ally can be extremely valuable. Jennifer votes in every election. And so do all the other ladies at her book club, and church, and in the PTA, and those folks listen to Jennifer. There's a reason both parties were courting suburban women so hard in the last election cycle! If we can find common ground with her on this, if we can get her calling her representatives and talking to her friends and phone-banking and door-knocking and making a stink, that's how the needle starts to move. If I can convince her to take her support away from the candidates who are actively restricting my rights and throw it toward those who want to restore and expand those rights...then I'm sorry, but Jennifer is a more valuable ally to me than the people who agree that the legal boundaries of gender ought to be abolished altogether but refuse to actually do anything except complain online about how both sides are equally bad because the right is trying to force everyone to drink the cyanide kool-aid while the left keeps serving bean soup and they don't like bean soup

[vaspider]

"Meet people where they are" is Activism 101, and people seem to be allergic to seeing that this is exactly that.

"Bean Soup Rhetoric" is a very good concept.

[ethanmaldridge]

"The America I loved still exists, if not in the White House or the Supreme Court or the Senate or the House of Representatives or the media. The America I love still exists at the front desks of our public libraries."

-Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without a Country

[slayerbuffy]

Look me in the eyes and tell me when you saw Buffy alive that wasn’t the happiest moment of your entire existence.

BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER | S6E03: After Life.

[iamheavymeta-lll]

[h0lyshift]

The older i get the more i understand why some people become obsessed with privacy, not because they’re hiding something, but because being constantly perceived starts to feel spiritually exhausting.

[tacticalgrandma]

New discourse quotable dropped

[evvergreen]

tumblr is the website for if you're just someone's weird sister

[random-brushstrokes]

Angelo Inganni (Italian, 1807–1881) - Notturno di Piazza del Duomo a Milano

[hunnybear]

empire state building lovers - july 1, 2026

[toastbutteregg]

[abandoned-as-mustard]

All the people in the notes saying 'that's too busy'... maybe this post just wasn't aimed at you.

[breelandwalker]

"That's Too Busy." So sorry you were raised on Landlord White with occasional forays into Shades Of Beige and can't handle patterns or saturation in your colors.

[onandon-anon]

My problem with the second one isn't that it's busy, it's that it's AI slop, I mean look at it, the sink bowl isn't even under the faucet, I begging to know what are y'all seeing when you look at this?

[onandon-anon]

#AI AI AI #can not believe y'all folks think 2nd one is a real room #how is the mirror reflecting the shower at a 90 degree angle from it #hell of a mess on the counter when you turn on the faucet #but your sink basin sure to stay dry as f*ck #everyone on this site: "go to literal hell if you ever opened ChatGPT" #everyone on this site: *reblogs the most physically-impossible shit you've ever seen as long as they like the palette* #IT'S AI

[snakechvrch]

1) The sink does have a basin. It's hard to tell because of the low resolution of the screenshot, the foreshortened angle of the counter, and the fact that there's plenty of lighting coming straight from above so there isn't much of a shadow. It's visible as a very flattened oval that doesn't reflect the wall tiles as clearly as the rest of the counter:

2) That is how mirrors work! They can reflect things that are seemingly not in their "line of sight" because light is funny like that. Here's my own bathroom. Notice how a bit of the back wall is visible in the mirror, despite it being tucked waaaay back behind that sloped wall.

I encourage you to find a mirror and test this for yourself! Stand at 90 degrees to it, and see how it reflects things that are 90 degrees in the opposite direction.

Anyway, I don't think this is AI. I don't see any obvious tells, but I do see a LOT of things that AI would have a very difficult job getting right -- including the mirror, ironically. Look at the green tiles lining the arch of the tub, and their reflection in the mirror. They're different, as they should be: the mirrored ones are at more of an angle due to perspective. I could point out plenty of other things too.

[bogleech]

Yeah that is most likely NOT ai and I am deeply concerned that people are going to increasingly make this mistake just because they don't always realize what reality looks like :(

[ramonekemono]

Sauce because appearantly everyone is just posting that renovation work without credits now:

Corey Lohmann Design | Interior Design Studio on Instagram: "A once narrow, builder-grade bath now feels full of charm and personality. ✨ W

14K likes, 109 comments - corey.lohmann.design on October 31, 2025: "A once narrow, builder-grade bath now feels full of charm and personali

by Corey Lohmann Design

[wizardshark]

Perhaps hunting for AI like medieval peasants is going to end up with everyone just being dicks to each other instead of like actually achieving anything

[willgrahamscock]

some of you need to realize that your faves would be having unsafe bdsm sex because they don’t actually know what bdsm sex is, they just want to fuck and also kill each other. you must understand this.

[willgrahamscock]

you don’t have to write safe practices and contract agreements. your audience knows not to apply any of this in their real lives, sasuke doesn’t know what a safe word is im begging you please write the toxic yaoi

[error-404-fuck-not-found]

used to think it terribly silly (and kinda funny) when fantasy or sci-fi stories would have people refer to major recent historical events as The Flood or The Incident or The Revolution, and im sure historians fucking hate that because it's not helpful or descriptive, but we sure do be calling it The Pandemic

[lostsometime]

Also the new linguistic quirk of just saying “it was 2020” as like. The full end of a story. You say “it was 2020” and everyone knows what you mean.

“I was going to get my masters degree but then it was 2020, so yeah”

“I was cast in a play and then it was 2020”

“my boyfriend proposed but then it was 2020”

[lacetulle]

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