Siltstrider Crimes

Hello, I’m 34 and I came back to tumblr a few years ago to blog about TES Skyrim. Now I use this blog as my main. I work as an environmental field geologist, I still love Dusty the Silt Strider, and I am still extremely upset at the vast landscape of human suffering currently occurring, but I guess I will keep… Siltstriding. It’s all I got. She/They, formerly “SkyrimCrimes.”

[theconcealedweapon]

[knowing-smile]

Vintage EPA photos reveal what US waterways looked like before pollution was regulated

In the years after the US Environmental Protection Agency was founded, the agency dispatched photographers to document pollution and contami

What was food like before the FDA?

Formaldehyde, brick dust, lead, and borax once made grocery shopping a minefield.

Shit used to be wild, and this is just what I could find that had decent sources, I've heard a lot more horror stories.

I'm not excited to live in a word without regulation. 🙃

[bogleech]

"Regulations don't exist because governments enjoy them" is an important statement here. The government has to spend money and labor to enforce regulations. The government has to be begged for years and sometimes threatened by the American people into even creating the regulations. The people with the money want you to believe regulations are "BIG GOVERNMENT INFRINGING ON OUR FREEDOMS" so you'll help them undo the regulations your grandparents had to force that same government to install in the first fucking place. They count on you being ignorant of the past so they can make another round of dirty money by poisoning you all over again.

[tastylemonbread]

i saw someone on tiktok call him canonically overweight for this

[tastylemonbread]

im still mad

[teaboot]

THAT SKINNY BITCH????

BRUHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

[siltstridercrimes]

Had to repost @sergle ‘s tags because they were too damn good.

[iamaweirdviper]

As far as I’m concerned, pokemon villain writing peaked with Guzma. Legitimately worried about the erosion of culture due to hyper-tourism surrounding their sacred rites and practices. Abused as a child, ran away from home to start his countries only youth hostel for similarly troubled kids, and funds it with crime. Bug type specialist, with an ace that is mostly known for its first stage being cowardly. Cultivates a big scary persona as a defense mechanism to protect himself and his members, no one can beat big bad Guzma, so they don’t have to be afraid anymore. His grunts trust him enough to ask him for help when they screw up, despite the fact that they all come from troubled homes. Was so significant that pokemon switched from having cartoonishly evil bad guys and teams to the current model of “sympathetic and understandable antagonist that has some very good points, even as they oppose the protagonist, and is in some way actively doing good in their community by supporting those who are the most in need of assistance, due to some legitimate failing of the current system.” There is a cartoon villain looming behind him, but they’re a twist and not the main team presented. Everyone wants to be him, but they can never replicate the perfection that is this man.

Thank you for your service Guzma

[audhdgoku]

Me Standing Up Too Fast Literally Takes Me To A Skyrim Loading Screen Like This

[siltstridercrimes]

Fuck it. “SiltstriderCrimes” it is.

[siltstridercrimes]

You know I would really like to change my username to “SiltCrimeStrider” (“SiltcrimesStrider”? “SiltstriderCrimes”?) as an ode to my old username (SkyrimCrimes) and my favorite giant isopod (?) from Skyrim (Dusty the Silt Strider - the best big bug to ever big bug) - also I work as a geologist so like, it works. I regularly encounter silt.

But also, “SiltCrimeStrider” is a mouthful and sounds…. It sounds too much like a username I would’ve had back in the heyday of Homestuck on tumblr and I’m not sure if I can stomach that.

[skyrim-forever]

His rates are pretty good

[zoesupreme]

[brainscrems]

Valuable tags from @doberbutts

[three-croissants]

Hello everyone,

It's been a whole year since I first made this art for my dear friend, Mohammed Ayesh @/blackeagleplog , who is still suffering from the same dangers since the very start of this genocide. These days, I still talk to him daily via WhatsApp and he remains steadfast & positive in the face of all his troubles.

I cannot understate how deserving he is of help.

For a long time, he has put aside promoting his own campaign in favour of helping others:

Vetting campaigns on the ground to assure everyone of legitimacy

Creating the Ihyaa Society @ihyaasociety which provides a space for students to continue their education online despite the genocide

It is very important that he himself is supported, given how much he has done for others. Please consider donating to him today. Any amount, no matter how small, will help him.

As of July 9th 2025:

£4,477 / £15,000

Donate to Help Ayesh family, organized by Shelley Gordon

Hi my name is Shelley and I am fundraising on behalf of the Ayesh family. Here is their story My … Shelley Gordon needs your support for

[carbomcoco]

"these researchers published a paper on something that literally any of us could have told you 🙄" ok well my supervisors wont let me write something in my thesis unless I can back it up with a citation so maybe it's a good thing that they're amplifying your voice to the scientific community in a way that prevents people from writing off your experiences as annecdotal evidence

[carbomcoco]

they did the research in the first place because they believed you and wanted to tell people about it. they are not our enemies.

[writterings]

how i'm handling my students using AI to write papers:

-don't accuse them on using AI from the get-go and instead ask them to informally define all the huge words that they used in their essay which i know they don't know the meaning of

-ask to see their original file where they "wrote" the essay. go to version history to see if it was just copy and pasted and then just edited a bit. i keep an eye out for the shit like "certainly! here's an essay about...."

-if they own up to it, they can re-do the assignment for a higher grade even if there will be an automatic penalty. if they don't, i process it like plagiarism and get my supervisor involved.

[manicali]

And this is much better than the immediate accusations. Some students have a good vocabulary. Stop accusing them of faking their essays without proof, and this is a good way to check.

Fellow students please stop using AI, go back to promising not to kill the school nerd if they do all your homework or something.

[sirfrogsworth]

Josh Hawley is a putz. I want a new senator.

[sacred-portal]

[gravityjunior]

[dragon-in-a-fez]

a few days ago I started my college class with "goldfish have long memories, Einstein never failed math in school, and the brain does not stop developing at 25, these are all things people just repeated until they sounded true, so let's talk about media literacy" and I could tell I had broken every brain in the room

[posts-i-think-about-at-midnight]

The repost added to this plays rent free in my brain whenever I think I know something and then learn it’s false or a myth. Genuinely

[headspace-hotel]

[todaysbird]

Possibly my favorite from that page

[socialistexan]

I may be too chronically online, but there has not been more likely allies in the past 30 years.

I'd say tech bro and trad wife are the most prominent conservative architypes for anyone under the age of 45.

[charlesoberonn]

"These two bigoted terminally online white people are unlikely allies"

[guerrillatech]

[farewell-mortal-bus-boy]

like to charge reblog to cast

[tiktoks-for-dead-pope]

[countofeight]

Glad it’s not just me

[ventela1]

The first time I saw this video I didn't reblog or save it anywhere and it's been genuinely impossible to find again. I searched every variation of "dyke falling apart car bentley review asmr meme" I could come up with on Google and across multiple websites/apps.

So, thanks for putting this back on my dash.

[socialmaya]

[ode-on-a-grecian-butt]

theyer old enough that they used to connect 

[finnglas]

They're older than Florida. The Floridian peninsula is the solidified runoff of the Appalachians that got caught on some coral. It's why we're like this, I think. You don't stand a chance of being normal when you were created by the shed skin of an elder god draping itself over a hollow skeleton. You're always going to be a little Off.

[galladegamer]

[headspace-hotel]

They used to be as tall as the Himalayas.

[purkinje-effect]

[dragoninahumancostume]

Okay but are they older or younger than sharks?

[iota-andromedae]

THEYRE OLDER THAN SHARKS BY LIKE THIRTY MILLION YEARS

[azures-grace]

@nyarevar pookie your mountain range is cool

[nyarevar]

older than blood, bones, sharks, AND the rings of saturn!

[shinelikethunder]

when John Denver sings "life is old here, older than the trees, younger than the mountains" he is in fact not messing around