[orteil42]

given the current climate this pride especially i feel i must mention that i love my trans friends, i stand with trans people in the fight against transphobic legislation and those who would enforce it, and this blog is not a good place for you to be if you do not vibe with that

[ndreblogs]

Presenting: the minimalist Nativity scene i made for my friend out of pngs off adam and eve dot com.

[femme-4-butches]

Femme Rooms.

Ulla's Room, 1998. Asia's Room, 1996. Miss Deena, 1999.

All photographs © Chloe Sherman.

[aaronstveit]

Do you know how long it takes a working man to save $5,000? Just remember this, Mr. Potter, that this rabble you're talking about… they do most of the working and paying and living and dying in this community. Well, is it too much to have them work and pay and live and die in a couple of decent rooms and a bath? Anyway, my father didn't think so. People were human beings to him. But to you, a warped, frustrated old man, they're cattle. Well, in my book, my father died a much richer man than you'll ever be!

JAMES STEWART as GEORGE BAILEY It's a Wonderful Life (1946) dir. Frank Capra

[dragongirlteeth]

I am shocked at how many people don't have an actively hostile relationship with advertising

[dragongirlteeth]

I am skipping your ads as fast as I can. I'm skipping past your sponsor read. I'm muting the tv. I'm muting the tab. If they get too annoying I will simply stop trying to watch.

If advertisers can use every manipulative trick in the book to get me to buy their product, I am fully within my rights to do everything I can on my end to make their job impossible

[raleighdotcom]

2026

public transit can be your friend

any city is walkable if you arent a pussy

you need to leave home

shoot your phone

get into acts of creation

[kiefbowl]

first of all in 2026 we are

GETTING OUR PUSSY ATE

LEAVING WORK EARLY

USING OUR VACATION TIME

PRIORITIZING HOBBIES OVER WORKING

TELL PEOPLE OFF WHO ARE RUDE TO US

GETTING OFF PHONE

GETTING INTO ANTIQUE STORE

[adaptationsdaily]

Little Shop of Horrors (1986) dir. Frank Oz

[sewersoul]

[tasty-tiktoks]

[promethiae]

Ouh! Ouh! Ouh!

[redfagdiver]

I imagine this just keeps going for all of eternity

[serglesinner]

i haven't shared any of my tiktok likes for awhile so here's one i think of almost every single day

[plaguedocboi]

what’s an animal fact that you HATE :)

Instead of losing their tail when they get attacked by a predator, fishscale geckos slough off their scales and run around looking like a raw chicken tender until the scales regenerate (it takes a few weeks)

[seasonallydefective]

[lamtfluff]

A few years ago I had a phase of being REALLY into digital privacy, using tor, duckduckgo, etc before suffering some burnout because I was trying to be 100% secure. So I'm by no means a expert I'm just relaying experience.

The culture of a lot of left leaning and "fandommy" sites (tumblr, twitter, etc) tends to fear/dislike (or just not know about) a lot of the IT stuff used by people into online privacy because they asscoiate it with "techbros". ESPECIALLY anything even remotely involving cryptocurrency. But if Trump is going to start censoring things and making morning after pills harder to get now might be a VERY good time for Americans to get into online privacy and how to avoid being tracked as well as avoiding censorship. Perhaps even some crypto to buy things discretly (or perhaps if ICE agents start caring about cash?) and because many activists groups also take donations in crypto. Never dealt with crypto myself but from what I know Monero was designed to be more untracable than Bitcoin. Don't know how succesfull that is though. Definetly get into privacy in general though.

I'll leave some useful links to get started. Words of advice:

Don't install a fuckton of privacy extensions on your browser, your unique combination of extensions will give your browser a unique fingerprint. Instead read up on and pick a few commonly used ones.

The BIGGEST annoyance for me was acedemic/proffesional settings because noone wants to switch over to some software they never heard off for one group project. Personally I use some normie software for exclusivly proffesional purposes with NO other information on me and do my actual browsing/leisure computer use more privatly.

https://www.privacytools.io/os: General software/browser/etc recomendations.

https://coveryourtracks.eff.org/: Test how private your browser is.

https://www.torproject.org/: THE gold standard for privacy focused browsers. Also obscures ip. Might not always be practical. Has the disadvantage of being notoriously slow and is blocked by some services/websites to avoid people bypassing ip bans and whatnot. Probably don't use this as your everyday browser but if you ever need to look up anything without censorship use tor.

https://tails.net/: Install a portable mini operating system on a usb stick to browse privately from any computer.

https://www.eff.org/ Electronic frontier foundations website.

https://mastodon.social/explore Don't have experience with it myself. But open source social media that should be much harder to censor.

Tumblr probably won't like me talking too directly about this because of ties to piracy but for people interested in banned books https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadow_library should be an interesting read...

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

your yearly reminder that Baby It’s Cold Outside is a song about a woman having CONSENSUAL sex, at a time when premarital sex was frowned upon. The female singer is offering up the token demurrals society expects her to, because it’s expected, not bc she doesn’t fully intend to stay and have awesome sex with a dude she’s into. The male singer knows this, and is in turn offering her an excuse to give to the neighbors in the morning (“it was too cold for me to go home, the only responsible thing to do was spend the night at his place. because of the weather, get your minds out of the gutter”). A 1950s audience would have understood all this, but the nuance gets lost in a modern age where women are actually allowed to say yes when they mean it.  

Also the “hey what’s in this drink” thing was a common joke at the time, where the punchline was that there was in fact nothing in the drink. the woman’s making a joke that she wouldn’t do this if she was sober, oh goodness no! it’s only a joke bc both she and the man are in on the punchline: she is sober, and is only staying bc she wants to

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

my tags: The female singer IS saying yes but using an outdated social script that doesn’t translate well to the 21st century. this song was funny and sweet to 1950s audiences bc it was about two people having fun and hooking up, and using the winter weather as an excuse

#it’s a fun song about having fun sex while being snowed in together. which as i say it i realize is ABSOLUTELY a fanfic trope  #they were SNOWED IN TOGETHER. and there was only ONE BED  #OH MY GOD THERE WAS ONLY ONE BED 

[pfdiva]

#i like this song best when i can see the singers#and some of this energy comes across#when you can see the grins she’s giving him#the shared joke they have

[shamebats]

[underwaterfraulein]

@emsails YOU'RE RIGHT AND YOU SHOULD SAY IT

[hollowboobtheory]

hot take apparently but i think it's good for white people to relate to poc's art. i think it's good for straight people to relate to queer art. stop acting like we're different species who could never possibly understand each other what the fuck is wrong with you

[killerqueenmp3]

[laura-the-swarming]

My mans unlocked a higher level of synesthesia