Smatterings

[anxietyproblem]

[butterflypeaflowertea]

my favorite thing to do in this christian society is to pretend that i don’t know a SINGLE thing abt christianity. like sometimes people will mention things like going to church with their families or upcoming holidays & i’ll act utterly clueless abt all of it even though i know absolutely everything ever just bc it’s funny to see people fumble to justify + tell me abt things. if i constantly have to explain my religion and practices to ignorant people, y’all are gonna have to do the exact same thing

[butterflypeaflowertea]

like one time i asked this girl what christmas was with my blankest possible expression & she looked at me incredulously & slowly said “it’s jesus’s birthday…” and i was like oh that’s cool! who’s jesus? :-) & she froze for a good fifteen seconds. i think i gave her brain damage it was great

[gobblechopstv]

[mysharona1987]

From The Washington Post. Damn

[leafwhirlwind]

Do not let them make you numb.

[flowerinaflame]

I’m proud of him

[triplehamburgerjack]

He is just fucking great.

[i-am-jayde-deactivated20230705]

Fat pets who are obviously unhealthy:  Bad

Wild animals who are fat because of humans:  Bad

Wild animals who are supposed to be fat:  Good

Wild animals who have gotten super fat because they’re just that good at survival:  Very Good

[the-memedaddy]

Meirl

[theyellowbrickroad]

[pdlcomics]

Mountain Lesson

[pipchonk-deactivated20200515]

[unit04-deactivated20160702]

[high-lord-of-bumbles-deactivate]

Rob Zombie confirmed for coll fuckin’ guy

[retrocatte]

[high-lord-of-bumbles-deactivate]

ROB ZOMBIE CONFIRMED FOR COOLEST FUCKING GUY

[akitchenwitch]

i love that Rob Zombie is now Baby Metal’s badass protective grandpa 

[murin-cryptique]

Are they actually trying to gatekeep metal from Rob fucking Zombie? Go cry some more, here’s Babymetal with Abbath.

[sciencebranchblues-deactivated2]

Rammstein accepted Babymetal as one of their own, that’s good enough for me.

[hella-lugosi]

Babymetal with Rob Halford

[darkmelodies27]

What I’m getting from this is Babymetal is collecting Metal Grandpas and Dads and I for one, love it.

[sunderlorn]

FINALLY 👏 SOMEONE 👏 SAID 👏 IT. 👏 ALL OF IT.  👏ALL AT ONCE. 👏

(Thank you @fallingawkwardly​ for bringing this to my attention.)

[petratodd-deactivated20250817]

fyi

Gender reveal parties, and big planned reveals, literally were not a thing ten, fifteen years ago. Don’t let anyone pull that “it’s a tradition!” crap on you, youngsters. They’re LYING. People would either get the ultrasound or not to find out about the genitals, and tell people or not. That was that.

The fuss over “revealing” a baby’s gender in utero stinks of pushback against the shift toward a more nuanced understanding of gender. I mean yeah part of it is social media, and trends catching on, but don’t think for a minute this isn’t part of some regressive attitudes creeping into the mainstream with a cute (blue or pink) bow on it.

[madlori]

Even the woman who helped popularize gender reveal parties is like…slow your roll, fam.

[ktsphere]

She only had a gender reveal party because it was her first pregnancy that made it to a gender pregnancy scan. All her others had been miscarriages. She was only celebrating a pregnancy milestone!

[fuck-usag]

that…..is a super valid reason for a party.

[ginger-snap-talkin-nonsense]

Wow, i did not expect that to be the reason this all started. Im so happy for her.

[stream]

Larry, if we make an effort today, we might be able to save August. Jaws (1975) | dir. Steven Spielberg

[cryoverkiltmilk]

[lizclimo]

[chris-evans]

relatable

[markusbones]

If you look at the world and say “Yes, there are enough homes for people, yes, there is enough food for people, but if we give it away for free they won’t have earned it and the economy will collapse.” Then you have chosen money (a constructed medium of exchange) over living beings who only want to continue living in peace and safety.

And I have no qualms telling you, that is the wrong choice, and you have been brainwashed by this destructive, exploitative system.

[otatma]

ahhhh, I’m happy this one came back.

[genderpunked]

the #1 argument I see against posts like this is always “but I earned my house, my job, my comfortable life!! it’s not fair to me if someone else gets that after doing nothing to deserve it!!” 

my response is usually: why do you think humans have to earn the right to stay alive 

[musings-of-a-monster]

Before COVID shut the library down, I was helping a little boy and his mom find books.

“What do you like to read about?” I asked. “Dinosaurs!” This is common request, but can mean different things, “Okay. Do you want a story about dinosaurs, or facts about dinosaurs?” “Facts.” I took him to the dinosaur section (567.9) of the juvenile nonfiction. He picked out a couple books, and I asked him if there was anything else he was looking for. “Do you have anything on DNA?” I had to think about that for a second. “I think so…but I’ll have to look it up.” The boy beamed, “I want to find out how DNA works, so I can bring them back!” “We just saw Jurassic Park,” his mom explained with a smile that did not waver when she added, “We didn’t learn anything.”