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this is the core of why some women defend beauty standards - if they’re deconstructed even a little they have to face how much money/time they’ve sunk into them. it also exposes how untrue “i did it for myself” really is - if that was true, you wouldn’t be upset that other bodies are being uplifted

volatilevale

how life feels when there's a sicko on the same disgusting freak wavelength as you

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The Artemis II crew naming two previously undiscovered lunar craters (one after Commander Reid Wiseman's late wife).

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Sphinx employee slash bodega cat that blocks the door and asks riddles, the owner has the answer of the day on a paper taped to the door.

it never notices.

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important addition from a friend:

everyone thinks REALLY hard and regulars makes two bad guesses so it feels like it's doing a good job

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I did tarot cards of everyone in my campaigns (I've been DMing this group for five years and we are onto our second campaign). I used the Fablemaker's Animated Tarot Deck and the Rider-Waite Tarot as examples.

#my beautiful friends #my beautiful blorbos #love springs eternal #dnd

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Y’know, if tumblr wasn’t so racist, Gustafson from Jingle Jangle would’ve become a tumblr sexyman like instantly

He’s a fucking live action onceler except actually attractive

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Rb this you cowards I’m right

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Comparing a guy who can actually sing and dance and dress well to the Onceler feels unfair to this character.

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That’s true but there’s also an alternate dimension with a less racist tumblr where we were subjected to endless g spot jokes about this character

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I wish. At least this guy looks like he actually knows where that is.

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Jingle Jangle is one of my favorite movies despite technically being a “Christmas” movie because damn near everything about it is impeccably executed.

Afro-Victorian outfits???

Clockpunk magitek done well???

And the choreography and songs are all amazing and far above what I’d expect from a Netflix “Christmas” movie.

Legitimately even if you don’t like Christmas movies, please take a moment to watch at least this video. It pulls from multiple historic Black dance and music styles and is truly one of the best pieces I’ve seen. The entire movie is well worth it but at least treat yourself to this.

thebaconsandwichofregret

This was such a good movie! It deserves more love!

northstareclipse

As someone who has overcome substance abuse, I find this decade’s framing of addiction incredibly insulting.

Somewhere along the line, we decided that any repeated behavior, any source of pleasure, any coping mechanism, any habit that isn’t monk-like and productivity-optimized must be labeled an addiction. You like scrolling art before you create? Addiction. You watch comfort shows after work? Addiction. You check your phone in line at the grocery store? Addiction. You drink coffee with breakfast? Addiction. The word has been stretched so thin it barely means anything anymore, except “a behavior I personally disapprove of.”

Addiction is not “I enjoy stimulation.” It is not “I have habits.” It is not “I seek input before I produce output.” Addiction is a specific, devastating pattern of compulsion, harm, loss of control, and often self-destruction. It dismantles relationships. It corrodes trust. It hijacks the reward system so thoroughly that survival itself becomes secondary. It is not equivalent to liking Pinterest boards or needing music to focus.

When everything becomes addiction, nothing is. The language gets diluted, and with it, the gravity of what actual addiction is. People who have clawed their way out of substance abuse know the difference between compulsion and preference, between destructive dependence and deliberate engagement. Collapsing those distinctions into a trendy moral panic about “dopamine” is not enlightened. It’s sloppy. Unserious, even.

There’s also something deeply puritanical about it. The 2020s seem obsessed with pathologizing pleasure. If something feels good, it must be suspect. If it captures your attention, it must be hijacking your brain. If it isn’t explicitly productive, it must be rot. We’ve replaced older moral frameworks with neuroscience-flavored shame, but the tone is the same: you are wrong for enjoying things.

What bothers me most is how casually the word is thrown around in creative spaces. If you gather inspiration through music, images, movement, conversation, suddenly you’re “stimulus addicted.” If you can’t brute-force a novel in a silent white room with no input, you lack discipline. Never mind that many artists throughout history have relied on immersion, community, environment, and cross-media inspiration. Now it’s framed as weakness, as though the only legitimate art is produced under self-imposed sensory austerity.

This framing flattens nuance. There is a difference between avoidance and incubation. There is a difference between doomscrolling to numb out and deliberately engaging with material that fuels your imagination. There is a difference between compulsively chasing a hit and consciously choosing input that enriches your work. But nuance doesn’t trend. Alarmism does.

There’s also a strange individualizing move happening here. Instead of asking why people are exhausted, overstimulated, underpaid, isolated, or burnt out, we zoom in on their coping mechanisms and label them addictions. Instead of examining structural monotony, economic precarity, and social fragmentation, we scold individuals for having “bad dopamine habits.” It’s easier to diagnose people’s scrolling than to confront the conditions that make endless scrolling appealing.

Calling everything an addiction also erases agency. It suggests that people are perpetually hijacked by their brains, incapable of intentional choice unless they purge all sources of easy stimulation. That’s not empowering. It’s infantilizing. Adults are capable of enjoying things without being enslaved by them. Adults can have rituals, comforts, and creative processes without it being pathology.

When I hear the word “addiction” tossed around to describe normal human behavior, it doesn’t sound like insight. It sounds like moral grandstanding dressed up in pop psychology. And for those of us who have actually lived through the wreckage of substance abuse and fought to reclaim control, it feels like watching something serious get turned into a meme.

We deserve better language. We deserve distinctions. We deserve a culture that can tell the difference between compulsion and preference, between harm and habit, between numbing out and nourishing ourselves. Not everything that holds our attention is a disorder. Not everything pleasurable is a vice. And not everything repetitive is an addiction.

goldensunset

well when all else fails at least there’s daydreaming about your oc getting tortured and abused and experimented on and assaulted and dehumanized and torn apart and surgically modified and

remnantglow

#This is star wars to me

inthefallofasparrow

When yet another stupid update gets rolled out

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Although without the spirit of communal posting, now it's more like this

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#tumblr #wank #update

cheaphalloweencostume

domming is great until you hit a decision fatigue wall likeeeeee i think youre a fucking grownup and you can decide whether to cum or not on your own. be proactive for once

#nsfw #mood

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Cat-Shaped Vessel from Peru, c.100-700 CE: this vessel was crafted in the shape of a wild cat (possibly a jaguar, puma, or pampas cat) with a bird perched atop its head

This vessel is more than 1,900 years old, and it can be traced back to the northern highlands of Peru. It's crafted in the Recuay style, which is an artistic tradition that existed from about 200-700 CE.

According to the Metropolitan Museum of Art:

The first millennium CE was a period of expansive artistic creativity and strong stylistic regionalism in Peru. Several communities in the northern highlands shared a distinctive tradition that is known today as the Recuay. This tradition emerged following the disintegration of the Cupisnique and Chavín cultures, which thrived between 1200 and 500 BCE and whose art featured depictions of ferocious beings and predatory animals.

Around 200 CE a new style of pottery emerged—one that we recognize as Recuay today—and spread rapidly throughout the mountainous part of the Ancash region, a territory located between the temperate valleys of the Pacific coast and the tropical forests of Amazonia.

This particular motif (a feline depicted with a bird on its head or back) also appears in some of the artwork produced by the Paracas culture, which is an older tradition that existed along the southern coast of Peru in 800-400 BCE.

Sources & More Info:

The Ethnological Museum of Berlin: Clay Vessel

Flickr: Recuay Cat Pot

Metropolitan Museum of Art: The Art of the Recuay

Cleveland Museum of Art: Similar Cat-Shaped Vessel with a Coatimundi on its Head

Time Magazine: Why Indigenous Artifacts Should be Returned to Indigenous Communities

thoodleoo

i know i talk a lot about the relationship between humans and animals in ancient rome and i’m constantly very emotional about it but i NEED you all to look at this part of a mosaic of a race horse named polidoxus that says “whether you win or not, we love you, polidoxus”

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Y’ALL!!

mateodoodle

THIS IS NOT GOOD!!!

Jack Dorsey funded this with his nonprofit AndOtherStuff. The home page for the organization explicitly lists AI as one of its pillars, saying a goal is "making NOSTR the best social protocol for open source AI development and implementation"

A collaborative Nostr funding initiative to develop strategic pillars for the Nostr ecosystem

What is open source AI?

It's a program that publicly shares its code for free online, so that anyone can use it for themselves. This means that anything this AI is trained on could eventually make its way into any business, social media site, etc. That uses this code. Or, if not, it'll have the ability to harvest content as well as this.

Even since the app doesn't allow AI openly on the videos themselves, the app is likely to use our original content to train its AI. You might have seen that some AI have experienced a positive feedback loop of declining quality, training itself on other AI slop until anything it produces is unintelligible.

This is likely an attempt to prevent that in video format

Then, any other company that wants to use the code can use this better trained AI to make it even harder to recognize AI across the board.

You can read about the connection to AndOtherStuff, as well as the developers' reasons for the project here:

Jack Dorsey backs diVine, a Vine reboot that includes Vine's video archive of six-second, looping videos. A new app called diVine will give

TLDR; do not give Jack Dorsey any credit for this, do not download the app, and tell others not to either. It's a nostalgia-bait attempt at fueling another AI model