Why are we even here

[fly-chicken]

Hi new Tumblr users

Please know this sites hashtagging system is categorical and NOT clout based

Aka if I look up the “Wendell and Wild” tag, I should find clips, media, art and posts related to Wendell and wild ONLY. Same with any other random tag searched

If I spy a selfie, a random neighborhood, or any other kind of “insta” post trying to take likes for a popular hashtag, I’m reporting you for spam. Most other long term users will too and your acct will be fast tracked as a spam blogger and blocked.

You will not ruin the last non corporate site for us, especially by trying to treat this site like influencers matter. If you get popular, it’s bc you’re a clown w a skill not bc your hot or rich or skinny, got it?

[honestlyvan]

#holy shit at people in the notes this isn't 'tyrannical' it's basic courtesy AND against the tos #the spam report button is easily accessible for this exact reason #cross tagging is absolutely reportable spam according to tos so just don't do it #it also doesn't get you any more notes it just pisses people off

[moth-grrrl-mavis]

Every neurodivergent kid felt that.

[dragonfoxgirl]

A Friend From The Wall - Worship.

Comic1:https://dragonfoxgirl.tumblr.com/post/624739738214072320/friend-from-the-wall-a-comic

Comic2:https://dragonfoxgirl.tumblr.com/post/630429327644901376/dying-is-easy-living-is-hard-but-its-worth-it

Comic3:https://dragonfoxgirl.tumblr.com/post/638394679035117568/happy-holidays-everyone-keep-holding-on-read-a

Comic4:https://dragonfoxgirl.tumblr.com/post/641154555784101889/someone-started-shedding

[iniro]

would you let him into your town

[puddicure]

was looking at pill organizers online and found someone asking this. absolutely inscrutable

[penbwl]

Trans Luigi shitpost because I can

[girlinterrupted222]

he did nothing wrong

[autogeneratedkahootnickname]

A storytelling moment I love in Glass Onion is the throat spray. It works in the metanarrative as an excuse to not have any of the actors wear masks despite the setting, but it works in story too.

We're assuming this is set in late 2020 due to the Among Us popularity, so we're looking at peak first wave pandemic. The fact Miles has a throat spray that can, through some magic, stop the transmission of Covid for at least 4 days at the height of its spread, and the fact that, evidently, he has made no effort to mass distribute it, means either

1. This thing hasn't passed FDA approval and Miles still felt comfortable giving it to his 'friends', foreshadowing his apathy towards regulation and safety standards with Klear.

2. He's a selfish arsehole.

Both work.

[sen-thebootbimbo]

My butch and I are both lesbians. We are, neither of us, men.

But I call him my boyfriend. I call him my boytoy, my boy, sir, Mr., guy. Cause this language makes him happy. It supports his gender and expression, and it makes him happy.

Butches of all flavors and types have been using he/him pronouns and masculine language forever. Butches have been called boy, guy, boyfriend. Butches have used "traditionally masculine" names like Mitch, Ed, Mac, Joe.

Cause guess what?

Language is fake! It's all made up! If it makes you happy, use it! Wanna call yourself "boy," even if you're not a man? Do it! Wanna be called "boyfriend," even if you're not a guy? Go for it!

[lookitine]

Pop frames from Into the Spiderverse bc I love this movie so much and they’re all so cool and miles morales is the only thing in my brain right now

Miles jumping in front of the train is my personal favorite :> His reveal in the big fight is a VERY VERY close second

[besweetbyjapanesebreakfast]

the fact that welcome to the black parade was recorded in a haunted mansion called the paramour and they recorded it in the middle of the night in the ballroom and the bass player had to go live with a therapist and the lead singer would have night terrors of being strangled and the guitarist would see a woman in white walking the halls. who is doing it like my chemical romance. fucking no one

[besweetbyjapanesebreakfast]

the fact that in a video shoot the singer broke his ankle and kept performing screaming in agony and the drummer caught on fire and kept playing anyway and sustained third degree burns that become gangrenous. who is doing it like my chemical romance. fucking no one

[105northtower]

[sadclowncentral]

"if mushrooms are the superior lifeform that really calls the shots on this earth, why haven't they destroyed us yet?" listen to yourself. have we as humans gotten rid of every mountain on the planet just because we are smarter than big rocks? no!! because they don't pose a threat to us. sure some people die rock climbing or skiing and that's tragic but mountains aren't dangerous to us as a global society. do you see where i am going with this. it's your misplaced hubris that makes you think that humankind is worth destroying to a mushroom. we are a part of the mundane landscape on the surface. we pose no threat to the mycelian era. humble yourself

[astrayan]

[gubgam]

So really, there is a reason for this! Briefly, fungi do have some pathogens that infect mammals/humans, but most fungi are saprobic, which means they feed on dead stuff and not living tissue. They might breakdown your top couple layers of dead skin on your scalp and produce irritants that give you dander, or a mild skin rash (athletes foot). Some are opportunistic parts of your natural flora…like yeasts.

Yeasts are extremophiles, and in this context they are specially adapted to higher temps than most other fungi. Our body temperature has excluded us as hosts. BUT as climate change warms a large portion of the earth, mycologists and pathologists are worried about that driving natural selection for more thermotolerant fungi that could survive in our bodies.

On the other hand, millions of fungi are at risk of extinction.

Some don’t sexually reproduce, and/or grow very slowly so their genetic variability is Not Great. Yeasts can reshuffle their genes pretty well, with some ‘casette’-like features to swap them in and out. Loss of soil is a huge deal, while fungi don’t make up a large proportion of the counts when we sequence soil, their hyphae make up the majority of the biomass. Plants -I see estimated ranges from 80-90%- require a mutualistic association with fungi and can not absorb enough P, N etc or water in some cases, without them. Roots can only absorb nutrients about 3cm away with a rhizobium (root microbiome they cultivate) but with mycelia ~8cm. They share food, warning chemicals (VOC’s BayBe!) through mycelia, and these fungi can’t be grown without their associated plants.

[the-haiku-bot]

On the other hand,

millions of fungi are at

risk of extinction.

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

[freedominthedarkmp3]

I miss when library books used to have little paper pockets inside with a list of all the people who borrowed it and when... I hate that this is now exclusive knowledge of librarians. I do care that a miss Mariana borrowed this book in 1985 and then Dario in 1997. They're my brothers and sisters

[elasticitymudflap]

but really, there's a million reasons why it's an issue for users and staff of the public library to have immediate access to a record of who has borrowed a specific item and when.

and that's not even about keeping the information "privileged" to the library staff, these days they don't even keep a digital record of an item's history of borrowers; once you return a book, there isn't a list of everyone thats ever taken that book out that your name gets added to (though they probably take a tally of how many times it is checked out for circulation statistics).

i think the card system is a remnant of a culture that could only exist in the world before the internet as it exists today, where this identifying kind of information wasn't always readily at your fingertips, even for those at the "information professional" level.

don't get me wrong here, i do understand the nostalgia factor to it as being part of a different time, but i think it's always important to understand why this kind of system has its flaws and has been (at least in north america) taken out of practice

[umjammertammy]

bear in mind that US public libraries spent most of the past twenty years fighting off lawsuits that they were prohibited from disclosing to the public because when 9/11 happened the federal government wanted a list of every person who read certain books and the librarians had a really bad feeling about where that kind of policy would end up going, for some reason.

not keeping the records in the first place is a way for the libraries to protect themselves when they stand up for your privacy.

[hsavinien]

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_FBI_has_not_been_here.jpg

This was a thing in multiple libraries. We really want to protect your freedom to access information.

[iamnotlanuk]

My old person trait is that I think a website should work in a web browser and not try to open an app

[mommy-mortis]

My old person trait is I think video games should work without needing access to the Internet

[seriousjones]

SPACE HEATER: If you plug this in, it will kill you. It will burn your house down and kill you if you ever use this. Not for use. 

ME: (standing right in front of it so my shins feel warm) mmm. Worm

[mcrbois]

nashville

[bisexualwario]

today elon musk banned the "elonjet" account that shared his private flight data, which is public information, in real time. he also banned a litany of ostensibly liberal journalists for having the temerity to report on it.

banned twitter users, as it turns out, can still participate in spaces, so a bunch of them got together. elon himself found the space and was allowed to speak on it.

one of the banned journalists asked musk whether he sees any similarities between his own behavior today and previous twitter staff taking down illegal content stolen from hunter biden's laptop, to which elon musk... said nothing and fucking left

[bisexualwario]

update: the space just closed abruptly

[bisexualwario]

twitter spaces no longer exist. the function is completely gone now