This is me now!

[msfbgraves]

Imagine having been born in 1905... And all your life it doesn't fucking stop. The Great War, the Spanish Flu, and then you go out of your mind for 7 years. Everyone is traumatised and nothing matters. Then another crash. And then the rise of fascism, and the War to end all Wars didn't and it's 1945 and you're just about still there. You may have fought or ferried the boys from Dunkirk or sabotaged the Nazi occupiers or worked in the factories and put out fires during the Blitz and you're lucky to be alive, because not all your friends made it. But you are and finally, fucking finally, it stops. It stops. You are tough as nails and you can put that strength to work into building something and you do, and people have cars and can buy icecream and you have a pension fund and the kids have money of their own and no nightmares.

I want that for us. I so want that for us. I want to be the generation that has seen fucking everything and is like a MRSA bug and unfazed and when that Cheeto finally dies, I want us to. Plant the gardens and clean the seas because we can and we want to and we remember some joy, some time of trust even when it got broken and we can say to the 20 somethings "let us show you what we can build, how it can feel."

And maybe Gen beta will take it all for granted like the boomers did, but we can give Gen Z and Alpha some peace because we, and Gen Z and Alpha have seen the Dark Times and fuck that noise.

[krakenartificer]

At the start of the Pandemic, my spouse’s grandmother was in an assisted-living home, and of course they were severely locked down, because with no vaccination available and we don’t really know how it spreads and no tests and anyone over 80 is deffo gonna die…. They couldn’t take the risks. So they weren’t even allowed to leave their rooms. Staff brought meals and left them outside the door, and they left dishes outside, and that was just their life for the foreseeable future.

So we tried to make sure someone called her every day, so she would have some kind of interaction, and one time my spouse asked how she was doing, and her attitude was basically, “Yeah, this happens sometimes.”

Because that was her life. She did live through the depression, she did lose three siblings to the last pandemic. She did live through WWII, and sent a son off to Vietnam, and made a family and a household and a career while knowing one slip of a button might wipe out all life on earth. And she lived through it; she survived.

And so 2020 wasn’t the end of the world, for her. It was just another thing. Because life is made up of sunshine and rainbows and puppy dogs, AND ALSO fascists and violence and rancid millionaires living high while people starve. And when you are in the middle of the shit times, you acknowledge that they’re shit, and also that they are not exclusively shit, because they still include spring days and new flowers and people taking care of each other.

And it was just… a really helpful perspective to get. You can survive it, you can become strong enough to live to 103 despite everything, you can become a source of strength and joy for everyone around you.

[medusadyke]

tumblr discourse after 13 years on this fucking website

[princessnijireiki]

[kleeklutch]

[rikusqueenofhearts]

[vaspider]

As always, Happy Pride to Mama Lynn.

[theknightlywolfe]

When the CEO of the company that didn't turn away Nazi business says "this isn't going to work" you know it's bad.

[quasi-normalcy]

Every single person I know who did football in high school, without exception, has a chronic injury. Many regret what it's done to their knees and back, even major organs like the brain.

There is no serious legislative push to ban high school football.

[quasi-normalcy]

Also, like, if you want to talk about social pressure on minors to undertake activities that will result in regrettable, irreversible damage to their bodies:

No one, *ever*, tried to persuade me to transition.

My gym teacher tried to persuade me to try out for the football team almost every single day that I was in junior high.

[quasi-normalcy]

#i firmly believe that the reason why concussions and brain damage in general#are not taken nearly as seriously as they should be#is because of football#if we take concussions and brain trauma seriously then we have to acknowledge the risks that children are undertaking at even#high school level football#but we can't do that#because the kids need to play football in high school so they can play football in college so they can join the NFL#This time I'm really gonna queue it.

[astrologamage]

I recently watched this video by hydn called “The Great Concussion Denial” and holy fucking shit. Made me sick to my stomach. The tldr is that it’s all the NFL pushing football on kids but that’s really diluting the story

[fuckyeahchinesefashion]

traditional chinese firework huohu火壶 by 江寻千

[gnars-house]

[hollowedskin]

This is beautiful. Is this the same lady that learned the iron fireworks technique too?

[ilovehumanssosomuch]

I'm posting this here because yes it's visually beautiful, but more importantly it shows the process of learning. It's not easy. It's scary. There's not a lot of people doing it.

It's beautiful because of the effort, not in spite of it. I feel like we don't value the effort of learning in social media posts, and this was incredibly done.

[hungry-skeleton]

I think the biggest thing mascot horror things need to get a grip on is the reasonable balance of cute/creepy. The mascot in question needs to be cute enough to realistically be for children but scary enough to actually make for effective horror. Most games always lean too far in either direction and idk maybe it's just me but immersion with these kinds of games are important for me to actually find enjoyment in them.

[hungry-skeleton]

Can anyone hear me

[hungry-skeleton]

[hungry-skeleton]

GUYS...

[mavenmemnon]

[netflixandnudez]

We won’t ever forget you.

[sun-turner]

Oluwatoyin Salau, murdered in cold blood in June, 2020. She was 19.

[segamascott]

[loftily]

All jokes aside it truly is very pathetic. Not even just towards that one person, but all self proclaimed white leftist who won't confront their own racism. If you cannot handle call outs/confrontations about your racism and/or prejudices then you are not anti-racist. If your response is anger and trying to gain sympathy by saying that you "would" take accountability if asked or confronted then that shows how you are as a person. You are still racist and not trying to break out of how you were taught in your education system, especially in the American education system, you should properly educate yourself and express how your ignorance has impacted other people without focusing on yourself. Especially if you react with jokes or play it off as a joke you are undermining your racism and racism in general by playing it off as some "hee hee haha" thing. But your words impact people. May white people properly educate themselves and check their privilege.

[goldcrescent]

I also think that the strength gap is at least partially manufactured women would in fact be stronger overall if little girls were encouraged to do physically taxing games and activities and eat their fill while they’re growing vs having to constantly diet and be sedentary indoors (or god forbid do intense cardio while under-eating). The amount of adult women honestly afraid to lift weights bc they think they’ll get bulky as though bulking isn’t a full time job that athletes have to spend all their time on and anyone on earth gets shredded from just using their adult muscles for their intended purpose, girl your bone density 🥀

[goldcrescent]

if you say women are intentionally nerfed from birth in 2026 people look at you like you’re insane and start condescendingly telling you about how women are just better at different things (but not during their periods haha) but this was a completely basic feminist talking point I grew up with like “girls can do it too! [shot of little girls climbing and running with boys]” nickelodeon commercial tier base level I hate it how is everyone suddenly dumber than the average 7 year old

[thisismenow3]

It really shows how much people give in to social pressures. My cuz who was more than capable of beating my and her brothers asses acts like her daughter can’t do anything physical and that’s just how “most girls are.” She’s the epitome of boy mom and “I’m not like other girls.” Really is crazy what people will make of themselves to fit in when society is gonna throw you out anyway

[lunarcurrents]

Omfg get behind me toonrifictariq… the indie animation community is showing its ass again

[romehbo]

"you couldnt make seinfeld today" you couldve made seinfeld in 45 B.C.

[romehbo]

kramer: *barges in* *crowd cheering* jerry! caesar just made himself dictator perpetuo!

[kkoraki]

My mum is republican, so I've always been brought up really strongly for a united Ireland. I was taught rebel songs - I used to sing them to people when they came round, things like that. I remember my mum telling me that her grandmother saw people dying on the road with grass in their mouths during the Famine, but I wasn't taught Irish history at school. I was taught it first at college, doing A levels. They said, "We're now going to deal with 'the Irish problem'." I said, "The Irish problem?" I questioned it, and that was the first time I didn't like the way it was being put across. The second time, at the poly, we were doing literature and they said, "We're doing English literature here, the poets and playwrights, Shaw and Oscar Wilde and Sheridan." I said, "Excuse me, I don't really think they're English." We argued for about half an hour. The whole class was bored because I wouldn't let it drop. But I really felt indignant. It's a real English thing anyway, it's like what they do with black athletes. They claim who they want, when they want, when it serves their nationalism. But the thing is, those lecturers have been lecturing the same thing for years, they're not going to change it. As a small child I had no conflict about my mum being white. She told me that when I was about four or five I said to her, "Mummy, am I black?" She was taken aback by this and she said, "Yes, yes, you are black." She told my dad and my dad thought it was really funny. Later on, in school, the biggest thing for me was that my father was African rather than West Indian. I used to say he was American, because Africans were, you know, called monkeys and savages and cannibals and the rest of it. It's awful now, when I look back on it. It's all part of what the colonialists have left us. My mum and dad never sat down and talked to me about racism and being mixed race. My dad would talk about Africa and say I was an African child. My mum would talk about Ireland and say that I'd get on because everyone would like me for what I am. With a lot of children of mixed race now, their parents consciously tell them. Looking back on it, I can remember feeling apart at primary school. There weren't very many black people, so my friends were white -- funnily enough they were all Catholics, but they were white English. I can remember feeling a bit different. Maybe when I was younger I put it down to other things, but I know I felt a bit like an outsider. I was about eighteen years old when I actually sat down and confronted it, and cried about it, and felt I didn't belong. My identity crisis came at eighteen, which is quite late, you know. At school we learnt about the slave trade, we learnt that it was really bad, that it was really wrong, but we never learnt about how great the civilizations were in Africa, before the people were taken as slaves. So, although we were given a sympathetic view, we were given a really negative view. It wasn't put into perspective -- they left out a very fundamental part that could have given a lot of black children a lot of pride, because to be taught that your history started at the time of slavery is pretty tragic.

Jenneba Sie Jalloh, Daughters of Africa, edited by Margaret Busby, Ballantine Books, 1992, p. 966.

[faux-friend]

When a black person states that something you did was racist, chill the fuck out. Its annoying dealing with you panicking trying to dissociate yourself from racism. If you're not black, black people already assume youve said nigga or its variant at least once in your life. If they're interacting with you and bringing something up, its because they want you to stop doing that so they can still interact with you(if ur already friends)

You WILL be racist. You WILL do racist things. You have ALREADY done both. Learn and move on. There's no ideological purity you can hold on to, i promise. Proving you can take the criticism without making it a big deal and practice what you preach is better than any clean slate.

Be the kind of person black people don't have to gamble on. Shut up and lock in

[dogpuppy]

[furrypost-generator]

[furrypost-generator]

bitches be sucking farts there

[ravingsockmonkey]

Found the source of the infographic that explains how the results were obtained!

[alexseanchai]

there’s sixteen Colorado counties that their most searched was “wolf furry”, plus thirty-odd counties (not counting either Arapahoe or any of the ones marked here as “Insufficient Data”) which may well have had plenty of searches for “wolf furry”, just fewer than for whatever they’re labeled here

and “skunk furry” searches in Arapahoe County outnumbered “wolf furry” searches in the entire state of Colorado

something tells me Skunks Georg

[headbenzhawk]

we did it, we created furry gerrymandering