#misinformation correction

[describe-things]

[ID: A screenshot that had been edit to be titled in large text, "This screenshot is from 2020". The screenshot shows a news burst from AP Seattle reading, "Breaking: Greyhound says it will stop letting Border Patrol agents conduct routine immigration checks on its buses.". Then a user named corpse / thefurrow replies, "Witnesses said a bus driver told an ICE agent to 'gargle [his] balls' when the latter requested to enter the bus". Below the screenshot, more added text reads, "Warn people who reblog it thinking it just happened yesterday in 2025. Reposting old news without context is a form of misinformation. We all need to work together to stop it, no matter how 'harmless' it may seem.". End ID.]

You might think it's harmless to repost old news like this without the relevant context, but it's not. This is painting a corporation in a positive light, when they may no longer hold that stance.

There is no safe form of misinformation. This reposted news might be about a bus driver swearing at an ICE agent, but next time it could be about a mass shooting, or a wildfire or earthquake, or oil spill.

All misinformation is harmful. Everyone needs to be wary. If a screenshotted post does not have timestamps or a link to a news source, ask yourself why. Google a quote from it to see what shows up.

And if there is actual important information that needs to be spread, include image descriptions. Tumblr has been known to censor important posts in the past by removing pictures. Make sure the information can survive the original photo being deleted.

[walks-the-ages]

Anyways if you see a Sponsored Post about "How to Take Passiflora" know that its bullshit and like 90% of ai-generated "Articles" about the herbal uses of Passiflora Incarnata, it uses a picture of the completely wrong species of Passiflora when its talking about Passiflora Incarnata which is just going to get someone extremely sick or killed.

[ID: a cropped and color-altered screenshot of a Sponsored Tumblr post, showing the word "origin" followed by a photo of a passionflower that is not a Passiflora Incarnata, and appears to be in the Passiflora Foetida complex, with very thick white filaments, a bright pink center, and branched bracts used to trap insects. The whole image has a slight green tint to separate it from the rest of the post. End ID]

Don't take fucking medical advise for herbal supplements from any website that can't even show the actual species they're talking about, and especially if they don't even name the particular species in the first place and then proceed to show flowers from four different, toxic species.

Passiflora Incarnata is the only Passiflora species that it is safe to consume the leaves and that's only if you know for a *fact* that you have Passiflora Incarnata on hand and aren't just assuming its that based on 20 different incorrect photos presented by these shitty articles which show flowers from Edulis, Caerulea (!) and foetida instead of actual Incarnata.

If you try eating or making tea out of passiflora leaves that are not Incarnata you are going to make yourself very, very sick with fucking cyanide.

[mickeymouseispublicdomain]

Download from the Internet Archive here.

Download from Itch.io here.

You are encouraged to print or otherwise share these with as many people as possible!

[ID: A single-page pamphlet titled, "Mickey Mouse is now in the Public Domain!", with "public domain" underlined and bolded for emphasis. The body of the flyer reads:

"The copy-rights for the animations “Steamboat Willie”, “The Gallopin Gaucho”, “Plane Crazy”, and several promotional posters for them have expired!

But what does this mean for you?

Let’s start with the shorter list:

What you cannot do:

Trick people into thinking the art you are selling of Mickey Mouse is official Disney merch, or sanctioned by Disney

Sell art of Mickey that includes *specific designs* still protected by Disney’s copyright

What you can do:

Share, edit, remix, remaster, and sell the original animations that are now in the Public Domain.

Sell digital, traditional, and written art that you have made of Mickey, Minnie, and Pete, with no permission required!

Add new colors and patterns to Mickey, Minnie, and Pete’s classic outfits, or design them brand new outfits altogether!

Create new stories with Mickey, Minnie, and Pete, as animations, movies, books, or comics, and sell them!

Some common misconceptions…

Some people think that you have to stick to the original designs to the letter, IE: keeping them black and white, not having gloves on Mickey, and not letting them talk – but this is just a misunderstanding of what the Public Domain is! You can design and use them in any way you want, as long as you aren’t using a *specific design* still protected by Disney’s copy-rights. They can have color outfits, gloves, and talk! They belong to all of us now! Have fun!"

Framing the flyer at the top right, middle left, and bottom right are three pictures of Mickey Mouse with red shorts, a tan face, brown shoes, and gold buttons, with a pink tongue when his mouth is open. In the first, at the title, he has his arms thrown into the air with joy. In the second, at the "what you can do" section, he is looking excitedly at something in front of him. In the last, at the "common misconceptions" section, he's wearing a black hat with a red stripe, posed with a smile as he looks at something in front of him. Each is posed to be facing the text, as though they are reacting to it with excitement. End ID.]

[chirasul]

[draph91]

Regarding A03, I would like to make a correction to a bit of unintentional misinformation regarding it. This is connected to AB 3080

the Organization for Transformative Works which is the parent company of Archive of Our Own is headquartered in New York, not California

Here’s a screenshot of the address on the OTW website which you can find at the bottom, I have also provided the link to the website: https://www.transformativeworks.org/

[mischiefmanifold]

Get your head out of your ass. Narcissism has been the word for malignant, destructive selfishness since ancient Rome. Just because some misguided shrink named a disorder after it in 1968 doesn’t make the older sense of the word invalid. Recognizing narcissistic abuse is a key step toward recovery and community for victims and it has nothing to do with a npd diagnosis. It goes beyond emotional abuse. We need to specifically recognize that our abusers are narcissists in order to start trusting our own memories and valuing our own perspectives. How dare you try to take that away from us.

1. Narcissism has never meant “malignant, destructive selfishness”. In 1931, Freud described a narcissist as “someone who was primarily focused on self-preservation, who was independent, not easily intimidated, aggressive, extraverted, high in activity, and unable to love or commit in relationships”. In 1939, Karen Horney agreed with Freud in every way except that narcissists cannot love or commit in relationships because they love themselves too much; she argued that the outward display of self-love is illusory, and that narcissism stems from an inability to love one’s true self or anyone else. [The information for this point came from here, and it’s a very interesting read]

2. I agree that the naming of NPD was misguided, but we can’t do anything about that right now

3. Narcissistic abuse is not a real term. It contributes to the actual term, emotional abuse, not being taken seriously

4. If you were to actually look at ANY of the “narcissistic abuse” pages or articles, the vast majority of them very obviously list NPD or the diagnostic criteria of NPD when describing a narcissist

5. You can learn to trust your own memories and feelings without throwing a disorder under the bus

6. Cry me a fucking river, it’s so horrible that you’re getting told off for stigmatizing a debilitating disorder and making us out to be abusers

I will say thank you for getting me to do some research into the origins of narcissism and the history of the psychological term.

[threefeline]

I just wanted to point out that sheep and goat post is wrong. Sheep’s and goats are too different to have viable offspring that don’t come out stillborn. The adult sheep on the bottom is a Jacobs sheep tho! Still a cool breed but not a goat mix lol

oh cool!! thank you for the correction! 

[rjalker]

"I'm not spreading misinformation by claiming that Sir Thomas Mallory completely made up everything in Le Mort D'Artur, you just don't know how to take a joke!"

you don't get to spread lies and then pretend it's just a joke so that makes it okay.

you're also just. flat out not funny. Get better "jokes" instead of just spreading misinformation and then calling it a joke when you get corrected.