Loose Ends

What happens when you figure out that you follow too many Tumblrs and you really should just get your own.

[apolladay]

When was the last time you had fast food?

* I’m eating some right now!

* I had some today

* I had some within the past few days

* I had some this week

* I had some within the past few weeks

* I had some this month

* I had some within the past few months

* it’s been a year or more since I’ve had fast food

* I’ve never had fast food

*it’s complicated

* see results

When was the last time you had fast food?

I’m eating some right now!

I had some today

I had some within the past few days

I had some this week

I had some within the past few weeks

I had some this month

I had some within the past few months

it’s been a year or more since I’ve had fast food

I’ve never had fast food

it's complicated

see results

Remaining time: 6 days 6 hours

[penny-anna]

Further questions from the finance team

[zenodotus-xxiv]

bowtie placement?

A

B

C

Remaining time: 5 days 2 hours

[ceescedasticity]

necktie placement?

A

B

C

Remaining time: 6 days 10 hours

[tephra]

For anyone that feels the need.

[topgunvolleyballscene]

how often are you getting a headache

daily

weekly

monthly

couple times a year

yearly or less

Remaining time: 2 days 23 hours

[topgunvolleyballscene]

how often are you getting a tummy ache

daily

weekly

monthly

every couple months

yearly or less

Remaining time: 2 days 23 hours

[topgunvolleyballscene]

Ok so thanks for voting on this but i need you to reblog it too

[fluffysheeps]

Bumble sharks 🐝🦈

[thebestworstidea]

Would it be acceptable to wear the bridesmaid's dress from one wedding to a different wedding just as a formal dress?

I'm not going to any weddings in the near future but I'm curious

reuse the dress?

yes

no

nuance

Remaining time: 4 days 11 hours

[wordswithkittywitch]

Isn't that what brides always say? That the dress is expensive, but you can wear it again at another formal occasion?

[a-silly-poll-side-blog-yay]

the last food you ate is your nickname now how is it going

good

bad

great

awful

results

Remaining time: 17 hours 11 minutes

[yesornopolls]

do you have any friends that are 4x your age or more?

Do you have any friends that are 4x your age or more?

Yes

No

Remaining time: 1 day 16 hours

[figtreeandvine]

I have friends a quarter of my age, if that counts?

[copperbadge]

If I was friends with someone 184 years old I would never shut up about it. They would be "my friend who is 184 years old..." every time I opened my mouth at least until next year when they would become my friend who is 185 years old.

[blacksheepdolls]

Hey uh, I don't like making call-out-type posts, but I feel like I need to say something and warn people.

Maybe don't join the new up-and-coming BJD forum called Resin Grove.

I know it looks really promising, I fell for it too, but not only do they use genAI for coding (and probably other things), the husband of the creating duo is very pro-AI and super MAGA. Apparently the wife/main creator is "apolitical", but yeah.

Be careful guys. I know we're searching for a DOA replacement, but this is not the one.

[pineisland-dolls]

documentation in the comments, if you're wondering.

more here, too:

Post by @struungout

💬 6  🔁 1  ❤️ 14 · lmao I made an account on Resin Grove and that was by far the fastest I've regretted joining a forum bahaha. The rule li

[bunnyscribblesbjd]

here's an instagram post that was made with evidence of the AI coding and the husband's political beliefs:

🤍 M A R T A 🤍 on Instagram: "Third time’s the charm 😅 Since everything happened in stories and a Facebook post that is not available anymo

250 likes, 37 comments - piumangelica on July 14, 2026: "Third time’s the charm 😅 Since everything happened in stories and a Facebook post

[charlietheskonk]

all the typical ingredients: doll-collecting wife who “used to be” queer, maga fitness husband who “accepts everyone,” uses ai to build a website for artists and art appreciators, try to keep it “apolitical” with psa after people start to catch on, and then accuse folks of harassment when they spread the word.

[greater-than-the-sword]

My toxic trait is that if I find a product I like I want to keep using the same product forever. It's not even brand loyalty. It's called stop changing and discontinuing everything.

[spin-the-wheel-polls]

You are an adventurer in a generic fantasy world and you use this weapon!

Do you like it?

YES!!!!!

yes

Eh it's okay

No

NO!!!!!!!

Remaining time: 1 day 3 hours

[headspace-hotel]

one of these days i will write a very in-depth post about why the concept of "going back in time and being able to invent modern technology and amaze everyone with modern scientific knowledge" is stupid

[rgbprose]

Ryan North has a (mostly) nonfiction book called "How To Invent Everything" about the basics of all sorts of important technologies. The framing device / gimmick is that it's written as a manual for stranded time travelers who may end up having to do exactly what you're describing. I'm sure there are lots of gaps that would prevent it from actually being usable as such, but as a layperson it was a great read.

I do think there are a small number of scientific insights that are known to most modern people, simple enough to communicate, and actually useful: germ theory would be a big one. But this would only make a difference if you could make people believe you, which is a big ask, since I don't think there's a quick way to prove germs are real without a microscope.

[headspace-hotel]

See, this is an easy demonstration of the problem: germ theory (the idea that there are extremely tiny particles or organisms that transmit illness) existed as an idea for a thousand years, (Ibn Sina, from the 11th century, thought of a similar idea) but it was unproven, and there was no way to prove it.

People knew from ancient times that certain things, like contact with sick people, bodily fluids, dead bodies, or "dirty" things/things that smell bad, can make you sick, even if they didn't know precisely how. And they couldn't know. In order to prove that a microscopic organism was the cause of a disease, you wouldn't just have to be able to observe microorganisms. You'd have to identify that there are specific microorganisms that are found in people who get a specific disease, and that they are not found in healthy people, and that exposure to infectious material that contains those microorganisms can cause a healthy person to become sick.

We think of germ theory as being "so simple!" because the rituals of protecting from harmful microorganisms are culturally ingrained in us, and we have access to the technologies to perform them. But if you were sent back to medieval times, would you be able to come up with a way to purify dirty water on a scale that would work for everybody? Could you come up with a treatment that kills the fleas that cause bubonic plague? Would you even know how to clean the clothing or tools that people used daily without damaging the item? How do you sterilize a cup made of wood or pewter? How do you make sure the water you're washing your hands with is clean? Can you make enough soap to fulfill the needs of handwashing? How do you safely examine a patient if you don't have gloves? How do you make the cloth you're using to bind a wound sterile?

Meanwhile, you probably don't even know how to safely preserve food without refrigeration, how to dispose of human waste without toilets or running water, where to dig a well, how to recognize different parasites and diseases in farm animals, how to recognize spoilage in stored grain, or how to use medicinal herbs. That's a lot of medical knowledge medieval people would have had that you don't know because you don't need to know.

"Wash your hands with soap and water" we would tell everyone! But we ourselves don't even know how to make soap!

Humans have been cooking, digging latrines, disposing of dead bodies, setting rules and norms about which foods are good to eat, and using medicines since before the beginning of civilization. Those things are all health knowledge, but it is easy to take it for granted when you have access to soap and sewers that keep your poop separate from your drinking water and Lysol and borosilicate glass and little boxes inside your house that automatically make objects the appropriate amount hot or cold to get rid of microorganisms.

[feamir]

There’s this Japanese drama from the 2000s called Jin about a modern day neurosurgeon who gets sent to the Edo period.

It starts out with him being able to do a miraculous surgery bc of the emergency medicine bag he had with him when he time traveled. But then later when there is a cholera outbreak, he can only save a few people due to exactly these kind of problems: sanitation is very difficult (cholera causes diarrhea); he can’t conjure medication out of thin air; and even if he can make rehydrating solution, he can only commission a few needles and rubber tubes to make IVs.

In another story arc, he tries to grow penicillin, and through a ton of labor and collaboration with Edo-period scholars, manages to succeed in isolating that strain of mold! But then there is no way to grow it at scale, and he can’t make enough to even save one patient.

I really appreciated how the series showed both how awful the state of medicine was in the past, while also demonstrating that our ancestors were doing their best with what they had. So much of our progress is not just “good ideas” but rather the slow build up of manufacturing capacity, global supply networks, and general industrialization.

[headspace-hotel]

That sounds really cool.

[bisquid]

I feel like there are some things you could 'invent' like ribbed wash boards or certain basic chemical/medical knowledge/facts - like the fact that foxgloves contain digitalin, which can be used to treat some heart conditions, or celiacs disease being a gluten intolerance, or how to treat dehydration with rehydration salts - but most of those things are going to be of severely limited use unless you're in a position to be a) able to fund the necessary work/resources required (do YOU know how to make a ribbed wash board from scratch? Can you afford to commission someone to figure it out? ORS requires salt and sugar, which were both valuable trade commodities for most of history), b) likely to be listened to/believed on a big enough scale to make a difference (random time travellers are unlikely to arrive with a convenient built in high ranking backstory, and good luck being a woman/foreigner/persecuted minority of the day/peasant), and c) in an era with enough tech to actually use your knowledge effectively (even after the effects of foxglove extract were known by the 'establishment' - ie 'educated' westerners and not just 'wise women' - it took DECADES to identify and refine the actual compounds involved to the degree they're used in modern medicine).

If you're lucky you might be able to kick-start certain avenues of research, but generally the tech base of wherever you end up is going to seriously limit the impacts you're likely to have over anything but the very long term. The celiacs thing might be doable, and would definitely be a legacy worth leaving, but you'd need access to multiple babies with actual celiacs (something impossible to diagnose accurately besides 'do they respond to a gluten free diet?' before modern medical technology) AND be able to correctly identify all the foods containing gluten AND all the gluten free foods necessary for a healthy diet - which may not even be available - AND be able to get the parents to agree to your suggestion AND have the results be persuasive enough for the idea to spread.

Honestly the biggest advantage you'd have is that *you* would know things like germ theory and be therefore obsessive over things like boiling all your drinking water, and therefore would have a slightly above average chance of not dying of disease, but honestly I doubt that would be as much of an advantage as you might imagine, because your *won't* know how to do any of the things everyone around you does by default, like how to function in a world without electric lights or plumbing or fridges or sticky plasters or washing machines or hobs.

[copperbadge]

Okay I have lived with this ambiguity long enough.

THIS EMOJI:

Is it:

I am high fiving you over text

I am praying in a vaguely secular way for whatever you said to come true

I have my hands folded in front of me like I'm about to white person namaste

Some wildly unlikely other option

Remaining time: 1 day 17 hours

[satorugojowidow]

Which of the three remaining european countries in the World Cup colonized your country?

Spain

France

England

Remaining time: 10 hours 48 minutes

[just-shower-thoughts]

Peppers are the spicy of the fire, mint is the spicy of the ice, carbonation is the spicy of the air, and vinegar is the spicy of the water.

[get-j1nxed]

[lachesismeg]

Ginger is the spicy of the earth.

[robinade]

In conversation with multiple posts going around discussing technical literacy and typing skills…

I HAD typing classes: my typing speed is less than 35 Words Per Minute

I did NOT have typing classes: my typing speed is less than 35 WPM

I HAD typing classes: my typing speed is 36-45 WPM

I did NOT have typing classes: my typing speed is 36-45 WPM

I HAD typing classes: my typing speed is 46-55 WPM

I did NOT have typing classes: my typing speed is 46-55 WPM

I HAD typing classes: my typing speed is 56-69 WPM

I did NOT have typing classes: my typing speed is 56-69 WPM

I HAD typing classes: my typing speed is faster than 70 WPM

I did NOT have typing classes: my typing speed is faster than 70 WPM

I'm on mobile/ vanilla extract option

Remaining time: 12 hours 41 minutes

➡️ Take a typing test here (and you need an actual, physical keyboard for this):

1-Minute Typing Test — TypingTest.now

The industry-standard benchmark used by employers and typing certifications worldwide.

➡️ 'Typing classes' refers to computer skills classes you might have had in school; you can also count games or other related typing training your parents might have had you do.

➡️ Across 3 different typing test websites*, the (english language) world average typing speed is 40 WPM.

*typingtest.now, typingtestgo.com, typerworld.com

[ode-on-a-grecian-butt]

art by @niochemblyat

[ode-on-a-grecian-butt]

I always know its getting toasty out in the world because girls start reblogging this post like crazy