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sometimes i say dumb shit on the internet. sometimes i learn things

[st0p-sign]

if u are perceiving this blog, i implore u to stop. close the tab. close ur eyes. it is gone.

[alma-de-naturaleza]

[stumblngrumbl]

wth

"tens of thousands"

these ones are likely Mobula Munkiana

up to about 1.1m width

The largest school of rays ever caught on film

Tens of thousands of mobula rays come together off the coast of Baja California in a brilliant display of their massive numbers underwater.

[akdov-vox]

Do you think the whales see these guys swimming over them and gaze at their beauty like we do with birds flying in the sky?

[queerasaurolophus]

Is there a way to check if the og video is ai-generated? No offense meant but it looks way too perfect and cinematic, especially compared with the one in the link below (which is incredible and hilarious and y’all should watch it too btw)

[st0p-sign]

looking through the video creator's account, it appears to be genuine. he has a lot of these cinematic shots of ocean life. the lack of typical AI tells (rays disappearing/merging/splitting etc) also helps. leaving the OG video here in case anyone wants to check the account as well

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[arolust]

i'm like this bc my parents didn't give me the sex talk as a kid so i've just been guessing the whole time and i've come to the conclusion that it probably involves wearing a dog collar while someone is nice and/or mean to you

[translatingpoststodutch]

arolust

ik ben zoals ik ben omdat mijn ouders mij nooit de sekstalk hebben gegeven als kind dus ik heb de hele tijd maar gegist en ik ben tot de conclusie gekomen dat het waarschijnlijk gaat om het dragen van een hondenhalsband terwijl iemand aardig en/of gemeen tegen je is

[mapsontheweb]

Map shows the roads Dutch people use in holidays

[dkpsyhog]

Are the Dutch a fungus or perhaps a tumour

[thereisnoneedtocallmesir]

As a dutch person I will neither confirm nor deny

[iwishthedayswereametaphor-deact]

its called an airplane simone HWKDJWDKHEEKEJEHEKEHDJDJB

[sacredstem]

europe is insane how have you all not killed each other yet why’s everything so close together

[pinene]

I mean famously there’s been conflict

[shamebats]

[depsidase]

[escuerzoresucitado]

[shopwitchvamp]

when they said tumblr would become the next PDF, i understood the vision. give us 9 more years and you'll see

[minihood31770]

Honey, nobody's asking how to convert to Tumblr.

Tiktok went down and people started learning another language before they came here.

[st0p-sign]

for context, the CEO of tumblr once said that tumblr would be "the next PDF", (which confused everyone and turned into a massive joke). that's what's being referenced here

[trylonandperisphere]

Wow. The patience, kindness and calm communication skills. Outstanding.

From raindovemodel

[loveislattes]

This made me cry. I wish all situations could be handled as perfectly as this

[fatsexybitch]

I just want to point out the core of what the diffuser did in this conversation

They recognized that the mother was also expressing a vulnerable truth about herself - that she felt like a bad mother because her child was expressing gender feelings she wasn’t equipped to help with - and met her where she was, a concerned parent with limited information - to point her where she should be heading, research and resources.

Im going to make more of an effort to stop reflexively pushing people away when they express biases and make more of an effort to hear the underlying fears when i can

[redseeker]

“it’s easier to love ourselves when we feel loved as ourselves”

damn that is so  powerful though

[the-haiku-bot]

“it’s easier to

love ourselves when we feel

loved as ourselves”

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

[thegrandmarsh]

@radley-writes

Peer review

[randomramblesofaraven]

I passed peer review! Thank you. I think these are important skills for everyone to learn. x

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[powerfulwizard]

men have set the bar is so fucking low, where i think a lot of girls get distracted by the questions of “is my boyfriend a good person? does he respect me? will he hurt me? is he interested in anything other than my appearance?” rather than “are me and my boyfriend compatible? do we have fun together? do we have interests that align? am i enthusiastic about my love for him?” 

[powerfulwizard]

there was this guy who liked me on okcupid, and he would message me a LOT, and i never ever responded. his profile was basically, paragraphs of assurances that he’s a good person like and was all long versions of saying “i like consent, i dont like cops, i dont like racism, i don’t like toxic masculinity, i dont abuse people, i dont condone pedophilia” and i feel like all that stuff should be a given. all that stuff shouldn’t be what i’m thinking about when looking for a long term romantic partner. his profile didn’t have much about his interests, or much about anything at all. it was all about his politics and morals. all i knew about him from his profile is that he probably passes the very low bar of not being a horrible person.

[powerfulwizard]

“people are more than their politics” shouldn’t mean “people can be horrible racists and still be good people.” it should mean “you deserve to seek out more in friends and partners other than just the lowest bar of not being a horrible person”

[powerfulwizard]

And this isn’t about whether a man’s politics are genuine or not. Its about whether they have any other redeemable characteristics besides their politics. A man can have great politics that are completely genuine and still be just a boring dude whose future interests don’t align with yours.

[red-wasabi89]

My abuela used to say” dating/marrying a person because they’re good is like buying the car because it came with the steering wheel.

[powerfulwizard]

Holy shit this is the best comment on this

[luminarai]

I never add onto these so sorry if it’s annoying but I felt like this was relevant: whenever one of my female friends or cousins would get a new boyfriend and all she could say about him was “he’s nice” my mom would always go “So are the cows. you wouldn’t date them”

[powerfulwizard]

Holy shit here is the next best comment on this.

[tedhead]

the gender performance of dolly parton and bruce springsteen (sources: x x)

[sandmandaddy69]

[glumshoe]

Wheat fields are more mystical than fields of other crops. You are 7,000 times more likely to meet an old god or see a portent of doom in a wheat field than in a field of like… soybeans.

[greatrazinsofthesunne]

For your consideration: cornfields

[glumshoe]

Cornfields are less mystical than wheat fields but more mystical than soybean fields. Two-bit monsters congregate in corn fields to eat people, but their power is nothing compared to the things that manifest in wheat fields. 

[systlin]

Have been in both wheat and cornfields; can confirm. Cornfields host monsters who eat people. Wheat fields attract old gods. 

[whadyameanhesdead]

I have a theory that this is because the notions most of us have of “old gods” are pretty intrinsically European, and wheat was (and is) the staple crop of European life. It is quite literally tied to the ancestral rituals and beliefs of most white people. Odin, the Morrigan, and even Zeus are actually linked to a set of peoples who cultivated wheat.

Meanwhile, corn (maize) is a crop native to the Americas. It features in the white cultural imagination in a very different way. Corn is a motif seen not in our ancestral myths, but in a much newer genre: the American Gothic. With its focus on the tensions between man and nature and—perhaps more importantly—the United States’s history of genocide against its indigenous population and trade in enslaved Africans, the American Gothic is VERY preoccupied with agriculture. Our monsters come out of corn fields because corn is a symbol for not only what we did to the Native Americans (who were the first to grow the crop), but of what we are doing to the very land itself. Corn is a monument to our cultural sins.

Meanwhile, I suspect that corn features very differently in the imaginations of people of color. If you asked a Native American person or a Latinx person what sort of mysticism they associate with corn fields, I imagine their answer would be very different than ours.

TLDR: White people associate wheat with our ancestors’ gods because our ancestors grew wheat. We associate corn with terrible monsters because it is a literal sign of our own monstrosity.

[moniquill]

Native American here, can confirm that small plots of corn feel safe and homey; ideally they should be interplanted with other crops. You find turkeys and possums and raccoons in the corn. It might tell you important knowledge.

However.

Giant monocultures of corn, where the corn grows unbroken for miles and miles, not near human habitation, devoid of local wildlife, just corn on corn in the soft wind? Corn mega monocultures? Those sound like screaming.

[malus-syl-vestris-deactivated20]

“monocultures attract people-eating monsters” is not the take I expected to see today but I’m glad I saw it

[dressesandalchemy]

The anthropological analysis and discussion on folklore is spot on. 10/10

[roseofmyeye]

Corn lore

[lesbianrey]

idk what young person on the internet needs to hear this but you are not obligated to share any personal details about yourself online. in fact im gonna straight-up circle back to 00s era advice and say being anonymous is good actually

[beepbananabus]

i was drawing at the same time that my spouse was, and somehow, this was created. have fun.

[caats]

[beepbananabus]

buzzcut practices yeah yeah totally