[shamesonlydaughter]

i really love this video it’s a poem to me

[brehaaorgana]

I just saw a YouTube short that reminded me that sometimes common knowledge isn't common for everyone, SO here's the reason WHY you should not have a traditional mattress rawdogging the floor without a bedframe:

Hint – it's NOT because it makes your bedroom look like a frat boy's first apartment who spent all his money on a giant TV (also on the floor) and a ps5 and one sad mattress on the floor. (Although this is also a good reason, to avoid being that guy, it is not the actually important reason.)

The reason is this:

You will get mold or mildew under your mattress if the mattress doesn't have air circulation happening underneath it. Air circulation is possible when the mattress is lifted up off of the floor with a bed frame, or if you have a floor mattress, when you regularly roll the mattress back up off the floor.

Do not just dump a mattress on the floor and leave it there.

You are a warm sweaty body lying on a mattress at night and all the sweat, moisture, and oils will get trapped between the mattress and your floor if there's no circulation. If you have a floor/tatami style mattress, you actually have to be frequently rolling that back up and moving it for the same reason.

Traditional floor mattresses get put away (taken off the floor) after sleeping, which brings in the necessary air circulation!

don't give yourself a moldy or mildewy mattress – those things are expensive.

The cheapest options are:

buy the cheapest frame you can find when you buy a mattress

or buy the super basic frame that comes with the mattress as a bundle offer

find a used mattress frame somewhere for free or cheap. Facebook marketplace, buy nothing, used furniture stores, estate sales, moving giveaways, whatever.

DIY a mattress frame if you have the time, energy, knowledge, and can find supplie

Buy a floor mattress you are committed to regularly rolling or folding up to provide air circulation

There is no "just put the mattress on the floor" option unless you want your bed to also function as a petri dish.

[lilyblisslys]

why is it on fire

[segamascott]

to see

[riben-deactivated20230922]

My pet milkfly

[riben-deactivated20230922]

I think im becoming a milkfly

[riben-deactivated20230922]

Im starting to feel just like a milkfly

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[doomdaysdecays-deactivated20251]

if i had to explain what tumblr is like i’d only show this

[moon-grub]

No one seems to be acknowledging the far funnier element of this, which is, that when you go to the commenter’s account, you find out they are actually fucking roleplaying as a sexually repressed skeleton and jjst really committed to the bit while everyone in the reblogs is talking about how much they hate minors or whatever. thank you kharak the skeleton servant of the almighty lich king

[nerdragons-hoard]

if i had to explain what tumblr is like i’d only show this

[sqwick]

Eartha Kitt's career is just so iconic because there's no way you don't know her even if you don't know you know her. You like Christmas music ok well she's Santa Baby. You like Disney animated movie ok well she's Yzma. You like Disney Channel original movie ok well she's Madame Zeroni. You like comic book ok well she is Cat Woman. She won.

[dream0holder]

You like making the racist wife of a war mongering president cry on national television? She did that

[amaditalks]

You like laughing at the very idea of needing a man? She's your role model.

[xekstrin]

My boyfriend, again blending together fanfiction tropes: So what if when you finally find your soulmate, that’s when you discover if you’re alpha or omega, right?

Me, hands shaking as I frantically search for pen & paper: KEEP TALKING

[xekstrin]

Me: Seems hellish

Boyfriend: So does being an ant person

Me: Again, baby, they’re not ants

Boyfriend: YES THEY ARE. They communicate via pheromones— LIKE ANTS.

Me: So back to the soulmate thing….

Boyfriend: You could trick them into following orders and thinking they’re dead by spraying them with a spritz bottle. I think they need a queen.

Me: So back to the soulmate thing…. Seems hellish!

Boyfriend: Not really. If being around the other person is what triggers the changes, if you want to go back to normal… all you need to do is leave.

Me, writing: (You found your soulmate. It’s changing you in scary ways. All you need to do is leave… how difficult would it be to leave? What pressures exist to stay?)

Boyfriend: So these ant-people—

Me: OMEGAVERSE IS NOT ANTS!!!!!!

[notahorseindisguise]

youd think a band named violent femmes would be made up of violent femmes. but it isnt. its dudes

[notahorseindisguise]

genuinely no mary... the australian dollar is not doing great right now

[notahorseindisguise]

i need to type with more of an accent

[notahorseindisguise]

youse may bloody reckon a band name of violent femmes'd be a buncha sheilas after a couple bundy cokes. but it aint. packa blokes.

[marshemillow]

how the heck porn addiction is not real

Because scientists have studied it and they've found insufficient evidence to prove that it's real. It's really quite simple.

[the-consistent-anti]

There are literally scientists who went into these studies genuinely believing in porn addiction who were eager to study it and its effects who came out no longer believing in it. Why? Because they're good scientists who changed their minds in the face of new evidence.

The key point in studies like this is that they always expect porn-related problems to go up as porn use goes up, and you would expect that because that's how every addiction works from gambling to cigarettes to alcohol to crack cocaine, but what they actually find is that the people with the most distress over their porn use is actually related to how religious they are, not how much porn they're watching. This is significant, because it means people who identify as "porn addicts" are not actually watching more porn than the average person; They just feel worse about it because they think they shouldn't be watching it AT ALL.

I really can't stress this point enough; Are there people whose lives are badly impacted by watching 22 hours of porn a day? Sure, they do exist and they have my sympathy, but the majority of cases of "porn addiction" are completely religiously motivated and have nothing to do with how much porn people are actually watching.

The key takeaway here is that shaming people for their sexuality is harmful. It's bad for people's mental health to make them feel shame over something they have no control over, like how horny they can get. It's wrong to force people to suppress their emotions and make them feel guilty for not harming anyone. As Drew of Genetically Modified Skeptic once said; You can't shame someone out of feeling horny any more than you can shame someone out of feeling hungry.

Christianity often does this as a form of control by selling you the sickness and the cure; We are created sick and commanded to be well.

[rimonoroni2]

being a trans guy directly post wwi and wwii was so easy. you could just be like yeah i got my dick blown off in the war and everyone would be like hey that happened to my buddy jim and not even question it. truly next level valor stealing to pass

[rimonoroni2]

not sure if yall know this but one of the first trans men to ever get a phalloplasty was a british guy named laurence michael dillon. dillon was a doctor himself (in fact he performed a gender affirming orchiectomy on roberta cowell) who had been taking T and passing as male for years, and he was watching harold gillies, a pioneer of dick surgery for the pandemic of Guys Who Got Their Hogs Rocked By Bombs from wwii, do all these dick reparation surgeries. so he got to wondering hey. if you can reconstruct a dick, can you construct a dick? they got to talking about it and eventually ya boy dillon got the surgery. so shout out to all those british dudes who lost their cock fighting nazis and inadvertently contributed research/techniques to The Transgender Cause ig

[robertreich]

Your regular reminder that trickle-down economics is a cruel joke designed by the wealthy.

[theunicorncomic-blog]

[randomushroom]

HE FOUND TUMBLR??????

[robertreich]

I’ve been here the whole time.

[spinningthehamsterwheel]

Dear god, he's not kidding...

[serenadeformice-deactivated2025]

I understand why some people, especially women, really play up and perform the "I hate kids" stuff. In societies that value reproduction above all else, and insists women need to be nurturing and naturally good with children, it can feel good to try and buck that demand.

But also that's a class of person?? That's a class of vulnerable person constantly subject to horrific acts of abuse by a society that sees them as property?? When you vocally express hatred and disdain for them you are not distancing yourself from your mother and the people telling you to reproduce-- most parents fucking hate their kids! You are performing the exact same shit they do!! That's a person!! Those are people!! They hear the way you and society talk about them and they understand it! Stop it!!

[charlesoberonn]

*chuckles randomly because I remembered "Man stop wasting them peoples time"*

[dogpuppy]

[theonion]

[vonkarmic]

my thing is that. if you want a lesbian version of heated rivalry. women’s sports (pwhl, wnba, etc)—where players have public relationships with each other irl—wouldn’t actually make good settings. imo a gay sports romance frequently works bc the main relationship is under pressure from the typically masculine & often homophobic environment. but, women’s sports tend to be less traditionalist in this regard (bc women engaging in traditionally masculine activities is already comparatively subversive). so i guess what i’m saying is that, if you wanted a show about lesbians competing in a high pressure, physically demanding, traditionally north american activity. and you wanted to keep this spirit of subversion alive. it would have to be about competitive cheerleading

[demilypyro]

it's funny how "press F to pay respects" was such a gigantic meme that it seems to have permanently affected the way we talk online. people use it completely genuinely and unironically. had a bad day? F. died in a videogame? F. I see it constantly in Discord, Twitch and ingame chats. like it's actually being used as common shorthand. when it only gained prominence because of how hilariously stupid this screenshot is