Negative Man

42, he/him. I like stuff sometimes

[depsidase]

[sadgi]

can I get a job as an editor but the only thing I do is correct when someone uses the word "prone" when they mean "supine"

[sadgi]

thank you wikipedia for this really good image

[sadgi]

a helpful mnemonic for everyone

[talkwithtatsu]

too good for tags

[headspace-hotel]

This mnemonic has a permanent place in my life.

Every time in yoga class when my instructor would say "now get into a prone position" I would think "ah yes on your pronis"

[datsderbunnyblog]

This comment was left on a post about making the most of the Libby app. "Excessive use of generous lending policies" is the most absurd phrase I've ever seen anyone use to discuss libraries.

[zeldahime]

(US public libraries context)

It incidentally also betrays a lack of understanding of how licenses and (hopefully) how her own royalties contracts work. The library has to pay an exorbitant fee for the license to allow the patron to borrow things, and for most items on Libby, it’s not unlimited. Last I was involved, most licenses were good for about 7 borrows or a specific length of time like 6 months or 2 years, and then the library would have to purchase a new license. Unless her contract was written to exclude royalties from licensing purchases, in which case she got a raw deal from her publisher but is not the library’s fault, some percentage from those licensing purchases DOES go towards her royalties checks.

Which means that, if her book is popular enough for licenses to get renewed, she effectively is being paid per borrow.

[paper--machete]

it bothers me that you often don't really hear about people having a "favorite album" the way they might have a favorite movie or favorite video game

[paper--machete]

fuck it. reblog this and tell me in the tags what your favorite album is

[beardedmrbean]

[burgerdotcom]

reblogs were off

[plague-memoria]

reblog to play videogames with your mutuals 🎮🕹️👾

[dduane]

Nasty and sophisticated scam: BEWARE of this!

That "Pending PayPal Charge" Email Is a Scam — Even Though It Really Came From PayPal

If an email recently landed in your inbox with a subject line like "Pending charge of USD 987.90 for account activation. Questions? Call 855

Don’t get caught off guard by this. It’s quite a slick one.

[kerryweaverlesbian]

What to actually do If you get one of these, the answer is boring and it works every time: Don't call the number. Don't reply. Don't click links in the email — not even the unsubscribe link. Open a fresh browser tab, type paypal.com yourself, and log into your account. Check your activity. You'll see either nothing, or a tiny incoming payment from a stranger that you can ignore. Then forward the original email as an attachment to [email protected] and delete it. If you want to go a step further, report the phone number to the FTC at reportfraud.ftc.gov — every report makes it slightly harder for these operations to keep running. And if you've already called? Don't beat yourself up — these scams are designed by professionals to fool smart people. Hang up, run a malware scan if you installed anything they asked you to install, change your PayPal and bank passwords from a different device, and call your bank's real fraud line (the number on the back of your card) to flag your accounts. Move fast, but you don't need to panic.

from the above linked article. For the UK the email to forward phishing scams to is [email protected], texts can be forwarded on to 7726 (for free!) and as a victim of fraud you can report it here (or here for Scotland)

[comicgeekscomicgeek]

— If an email recently landed in your inbox with a subject line like "Pending charge of USD 987.90 for account activation. Questions? Call [phone]" — don't call that number. Don't click anything. And whatever you do, don't panic-dial to "stop the charge."

You're being targeted by one of the cleverest scams going right now, and the reason it works is uncomfortable: the email genuinely came from PayPal.

The trick is in the subject line, not the email

When most people think "phishing email," they picture sketchy senders, broken English, and links to weird domains. This scam is the opposite. The email passes every authenticity check — SPF, DKIM, DMARC, all green. It comes from PayPal's actual mail servers. The fonts are right. The footer is right. The unsubscribe link works. If you forwarded it to a security expert and asked "is this really from PayPal?" they'd have to say yes.

So how is it a scam?

Scammers have figured out that PayPal lets anyone send small amounts of money to anyone else, and that PayPal will dutifully email the recipient a notification. The scammer sends you a payout of, say, one Hungarian forint — about a quarter of a cent. PayPal's system then automatically generates and sends you a real, legitimate, fully-authenticated email confirming the transaction.

Here's the catch: the email's subject line is whatever the scammer typed when they set up the payout. PayPal doesn't sanitize it. So they write something terrifying like "Pending charge of USD 987.90 — call this number with questions" and PayPal's servers cheerfully deliver that subject line straight to your inbox, wrapped in a perfectly legitimate-looking notification.

The actual transaction in the email body is for 1 forint. There is no $987.90 charge. There never was. But by the time most people read carefully enough to notice that, they've already dialed the number. —

[bitchesgetriches]

Might be time to update our master list of scams...

10 Ways to Spot Financial Scams and How to Defend Yourself

[the-four-seven]

Genuinely curious if these people calling you out would label every Aussie and Scott they come across a misogynist because they call everyone and everything 'cunt'. Rather than not using it at all, I'm in favor of expanding it so when people hear it they think of like, a misbehaving printer

I'm not going to speak for any of them or how those words make them feel because it isn't really my place. There are words that I personally find incredibly objectionable, namely slurs, particularly one that seems to be making a comeback these days (I had a friend as a kid who would be called that word all the time simply because he was deaf and I've hated it ever since). It's all mileage-may-vary and personal experiences.

I do wish we could collectively take action to diminish the ugliness and power of certain words, much like Black people have, though again that is its own discussion that I'm also not remotely qualified for 😅

[the-four-seven]

just because you think you only use "bitch" and "cunt" because they're harsh does not mean that they aren't inherently rooted in misogyny. they are. and you dismissing a woman pointing that out makes you even more misogynistic. do some soul searching and stop speaking over women pointing out misogyny

Could have sworn OP had he/him pronouns, but I can't confirm that anyway since rather than see the (really rather mild) response I had and perhaps have a conversation, they'd rather make assumptions about my character and then block me.

I've been here, on Tumblr, for over 13 years, which is likely longer than many users at this point have been literate. I've seen this and so many other conversations about social justice issues and I am a better person for having been here. Of course, learning and self-improvement are journeys in and of themselves, and I'm not going to claim to be perfect.

Having said that, tsk-tsking me for calling an AI a gendered insult seems genuinely wasteful, effort-wise. Life, or even Tumblr for that matter, isn't some college gender studies symposium.

Might I recommend volunteer work at a pet shelter? Or sign up with a service that helps unhoused people in your area? Or offering financial support to or boosting any one of many struggling trans women on this site, of which many are still having their accounts mysteriously deleted?

I'll even help with that last one. Amelia @millyblank is a longtime mutual of mine and could use some help! Her PayPal is [email protected].

[the-four-seven]

After some further thought and discussion with some other longtime mutuals, I'll go ahead and say to that post's OP and the asker here and anyone else concerned here that y'all have a fair point. I have the luxury of privilege in that I'm straight, white, and cis male so I am as far removed from being a target of any form of bigotry as I can be, so empathy is really all I have here. So I'll do my best to use that empathy, and to be more discerning and thoughtful in my word choice here and in the future. My apologies to those who have been wronged or hurt by my choice of words.

Also y'all still should help Amelia! Her PayPal is still above.

[the-four-seven]

just because you think you only use "bitch" and "cunt" because they're harsh does not mean that they aren't inherently rooted in misogyny. they are. and you dismissing a woman pointing that out makes you even more misogynistic. do some soul searching and stop speaking over women pointing out misogyny

Could have sworn OP had he/him pronouns, but I can't confirm that anyway since rather than see the (really rather mild) response I had and perhaps have a conversation, they'd rather make assumptions about my character and then block me.

I've been here, on Tumblr, for over 13 years, which is likely longer than many users at this point have been literate. I've seen this and so many other conversations about social justice issues and I am a better person for having been here. Of course, learning and self-improvement are journeys in and of themselves, and I'm not going to claim to be perfect.

Having said that, tsk-tsking me for calling an AI a gendered insult seems genuinely wasteful, effort-wise. Life, or even Tumblr for that matter, isn't some college gender studies symposium.

Might I recommend volunteer work at a pet shelter? Or sign up with a service that helps unhoused people in your area? Or offering financial support to or boosting any one of many struggling trans women on this site, of which many are still having their accounts mysteriously deleted?

I'll even help with that last one. Amelia @millyblank is a longtime mutual of mine and could use some help! Her PayPal is [email protected].

[goatmilksoda]

A question I get asked a lot while working at a public library is "how do you deal with homeless people?"

And the answer is, we don't.

The unhoused people who come here seeking refuge 99% of the time understand that they will be kicked out if they misbehave.

The people you have to watch out for are Jessica, who only came because the kid she didn't want had to visit for a homework assignment and she just *needs* to yell at her child for asking to borrow two books or stay an extra five minutes, or Michael, who came in to look at porn on our computers for whatever fucking reason, or Karen who just wanted to come by to throw a fit that the particular book she wanted was checked out and harrass our staff about our collection being too limited.

99% of the time, the people we need to ban are middle to upper-middle class white people while the homeless and mentally ill/disabled people mind their own damn business and are honestly some of the best patrons we have.

[goatmilksoda]

I bring this up because today we had a man come in. He stopped at the desk, pulled up a chair and said "I'm newly homeless and was living in my car. I'm disabled. It was impounded. It's raining. I don't have a phone and I don't know where to go tonight."

And we did what we could to help. He was incredibly kind and patient despite his obvious anxiety and stress, more than most able bodied, housed patrons are to us under much less dire conditions. I liked knowing that we were the first place he came.

We have so many people like this who come in everyday. Many are quiet and keep to themselves, but sometimes they talk to us.

They tell us about how they're taking a few courses on a scholarship they applied for from our library's computer at the local community college to get their diploma. Or ask about a manga or dvd or book we might have to help them pass the time.

One woman, who comes in daily with her tattered walker always says hello to me and likes to work on the new jigsaw puzzle with me when we set one out.

So like, treat unhoused people like people. Treat disabled people like people. I don't want my library to feel like the only safe space in the world, but I'm glad it can be one of them.

I'm so sick of hearing about how "the homeless are ruining everything" when they are some of the kindest, most respectful people here. Sometimes they mutter, might not have had a place to shower, and might need a little extra space for their backpacks but that's FINE. It Doesn't Matter Actually. None of that is a problem or any of my business to care about (unless they request help/services), and I also don't think it's any of yours.

[pusheenthenerdcat]

libraries provide vital and lifesaving services and i will die on the hill you have to let people who are mentally ill and disabled and homeless and politically disagreeable to you still access those rescourses. its simply too important to society

[isuggestusingyourlocallibrary]

I suggest using your local library!

[anglaised]

looking for a specific meme to use about perfume talk and the google ai did this..?

[anglaised]

im ngl i really dont like that yall assigning ai a “woman role” and automatically insulting it using misogynistic words like not to be the friend thats too woke oh who am i kidding i love being that person, can we think about why we associate negativity and things we dislike with words meant to demean women? like this was a mildly annoying slightly weird funny moment and so far the replies r people like weirdly gendering this ai as if its a actual woman that did them wrong instead of code and numbers

[the-four-seven]

I encourage you to please go outside and have human interactions once in a while

[anglaised]

looking for a specific meme to use about perfume talk and the google ai did this..?

[tahthetrickster]

just so we’re clear if you’ve never actually seen a cybertruck in person and have only seen photos of them i cannot stress enough how much worse they look in real life. like i honestly don’t know how it’s possible. most things look basically the same in pictures and in real life. but as stupid and ugly as cybertrucks look in photos, every person i’ve spoken to who has seen one in real life agrees that they somehow look even worse in person. and i know you’re thinking to yourself “tah they already look so bad in photos, how can they possibly look even worse in person?” I DONT KNOW. the first time i saw one on the road i was on a phone call and i literally cut myself off in the middle of a sentence just to be like “oh my GOD.” just an incredibly, laughably, unbelievably bad vehicle. i’ve never experienced anything like it. they’re just so bad

[dukeofriven]

There's a few in my neighbourhood, god knows why, and I go absolutely feral whenever I am near them, just screaming 'NAZI CAR" at the top of my lungs until they drive off. I will not stop doing this.

[smute]

i think the most upsetting thing about american-flavor puritanism is how fucking patronizing it is. it's 2026 but the whole world still has to deal with a cultural hegemony grown from the gnarled vestiges of victorian-era paternalism. tax-paying adults with passports and the right to vote are treated like wayward children because of the antiquated idea that authorities must protect the weak minds of the unwashed masses from depravity and corruption. the average american can send a fellow citizen to the chair, but they can't piss in a ditch without being declared an outlaw. american entertainment media is saturated with sex, but you can't talk about it online without getting your account suspended. it's such blatant censorship at a universal scale, but because sexual content is framed as inherently dangerous, this restriction on basic adult autonomy, this blanket denial of moral and intellectual adulthood, can be reframed as protection, an expression of care, a moral duty. "won't someone think of the children!" I AM A GROWN MAN! I AM A GROWN MAN! I AM A GROWN MAN! I AM A GROWN MAN! I AM A GROWN MAN! I AM A GROWN MAN! I AM A GROWN MAN! I AM A GROWN MAN! I AM A GROWN MAN! I AM A GROWN MAN! I AM A GROWN MAN! I AM A GROWN MAN! I AM A GROWN MAN! I AM A GROWN MAN! I AM A GROWN MAN! I AM A GROWN MAN! I AM A GROWN MAN! I AM A GROWN MAN! I AM A GROWN MAN! I AM A GROWN MAN!

[smute]

thank god that the video game that features slow motion animations of graphic gunshot wounds and is rated 18+ has a profanity filter in single player offline mode. thank you for protecting this 33 year old mind from the corrupting influence that is a horse named apple slut

[theehorsepusssy]

peach piss and fart cakes