Disco Inferno

My aesthetic: https://undeadlobster.tumblr.com/post/626716276254982144/bastardoracle-the-electronic-signs-outside-of

[rlmjob]

me at the beach

[amerlcanapparel-deactivated2020]

when she says she doesn’t send nudes

[straighthater]

when guys objectify women and expect them to send nudes

[timelordpillbug]

when someone asks you about your nuclear plans for russia

[hikingnerd]

When Russia sends you nudes

[dr-thackery]

[dismantlerepaired]

[ilovepretzelrods]

[thegingerbalrog]

[onwardwall]

[miss-jaxon-flaxon-waxon]

#what the fuck happened here

[her-eyes-dared-me-with-danger]

This is my favorite post in all of tumblr

[kyloschuyler]

reminder that this post is now illegal in Russia

[tree-of-blue-squirrel]

reblog it, because Russia can´t

[maradaisykat]

Thanks Obama 

[hometoursandotherstuff]

[echojulietfoxtrot]

Hello, I work for a large moderately evil corporation and for at least five years now I have to sign a yearly thing to say I will never ever have one of these devices in the same room as me while I work.

My large moderately evil employer takes it for granted that these things are spying on me at all times, and you should too.

[thatsonemorbidcorvid]

‘Heroic actions are a natural tendency’: why bystander apathy is a myth

Modern research shows the public work together selflessly in an emergency, motivated by a strong impulse to help

“The notion that people panic and run screaming for the exits is a Hollywood fiction,” said Prof Stephen Reicher, an expert in group behaviour at the University of St Andrews.

“Characteristically, people stay and help each other,” he said. “We found this during the 7/7 attacks on the underground and the 1999 attack on the Admiral Duncan pub in London, where people looked after each other even though they feared other bombs.

“In our own research on the Leytonstone tube attack in 2015, there was an amazing level of spontaneous coordination by bystanders: some directed others away from danger. Some distracted the attacker. Some confronted the attacker. Each was able to act because of the others. Heroism was a feature of the group, not just the individual,” he added.

Prof Clifford Stott, a specialist in the psychology of crowds and group identity at Keele University, agreed. Modern research, he said, showed “bystander apathy” was a myth. Instead, strangers often work together in emergency situations with highly sophisticated unity.”

[cephalopodvictorious]

Bystander apathy is a myth invented by the New York Times to cover up that the police were called by several residents of the building, but the cops refused to act. The cops then told the Times that 38 people just watched her die (a seemingly arbitrary number and a physical impossibility based on where the attacks occurred), and the Times ran with it. In fact, Kitty was alive when the cops got there, and was being held and comforted by one of her friends who lived in the building because one of the people who saw her get attacked from across the street called her friend to go get her. Because people care.

The Bystander Effect Started from a Lie

You have just been attacked. How likely is it that someone will come to your help? If you remember the infamous case of Kitty Genovese in 19

[moosepower]

I will always re-blog this. The story of Kitty Genovese’s murder has gone down in history as a story about everyone watching it happen and doing nothing and none of the story is true.

[doolallymagpie]

whoops I’m back on “Padmé was 110% DTF until she realized Anakin wasn’t talking about just a hot little no-strings-attached thing or an FWB situation”

and, like, yeah, I do consider The Dress evidence of this, but also, look at how hard she shuts things down when she finds out Anakin is seriously in love with her, that’s not the talk of a woman who wasn’t into a steamy “forbidden” fling as long as they were realistic about it

very much “oh, oh fuck, nope, eject, abort, run away, this is bad”

[doolallymagpie]

another thing I think people forget or overlook is that she is the one who re-initiates things later, quite probably based on the fact that they were probably going to die and that Anakin was actually quite mature about her earlier rejection so if they did survive, well, that’d be fine, right? they could just break i-NOPE THEY GOT SECRET MARRIED

[spin-the-wheel-polls]

You are now this random animal, you can't go back!

Do you like it?

Heck yeah!!

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WHY WOULD YOU EVEN ADD THIS

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poll submitted by anonymous!! thank you anon!!

[thepromiscuousfinger]

[steampowerednarwhal]

The (Un)official Tumblr Census 2026

This census was not written by and is not endorsed or sponsored by or affiliated with @staff in any way whatsoever. Your personal data will not be gathered by this census beyond your responses to the polls. Participating in the census is voluntary, but strongly encouraged.

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1. Please select your age

< 18

19-30

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Voting ended onAug 5

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2. Where do you live?

North/Central America (Outside the United States)

The United States

South America

Western Europe

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Voting ended onAug 3

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3. Describe your living situation

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6. Describe your gender identity

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7. Describe your sexual identity

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8. Where would you place yourself on the traditional left-right political spectrum?

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9. When did you join Tumblr?

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10. How would you rate the (Un)official Tumblr Census?

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[prokopetz]

Game where the ancient hero is awakened from the deathless sleep of centuries in the hour of their people's greatest need, only to find that civilisation is thriving and there are no obvious threats on the horizon; the game then becomes a fish-out-of-water detective sim as they try to figure out what woke them up, and also solve other, smaller mysteries along the way.

[nearo]

[boymounter]

[nightbringer24]

AI Book Burning? Companies Are Destroying Millions of Books to Feed Chatbots

AI developers are quietly buying physical books by the millions, slicing them apart, scanning every page into AI training datasets, and disc

Like a scene out of the classic dystopian novel "Fahrenheit 451," some AI companies aren't just reading books—they're destroying them.

As developers race to build more powerful AI models, and lawsuits over copyright mount, a cottage industry has sprung up to supply them with millions of physical books that are stripped apart, scanned into training datasets, and discarded.

First reported by 404 Media, AI companies are using intermediaries to acquire books at industrial scale anonymously. Companies specializing in bulk sourcing advertise their ability to locate hundreds of thousands of titles while promising confidentiality for AI clients, reflecting the sensitivity surrounding the practice.

Critics say the buying spree is driven by AI companies racing to preserve human-authored knowledge before it is diluted by AI-generated text, often called "AI slop." Books published before the rise of generative AI in 2023 are especially valuable because they provide high-quality training data written entirely by humans.

The surge in demand is already reshaping the used-book market. One unnamed bookseller told 404 Media that weekly sales climbed from roughly 20 books to several hundred after AI buyers entered the market. While the increase has been profitable, he said he worries uncommon and out-of-print books are being permanently lost after they are scanned and destroyed.

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This is all kinds of fucked up.

I would definitely call this shit dystopian.

[soundwave-starlight]

wish we could talk about feminism or especially transfeminism without feeling crazy. because its not crazy. but whenever we talk about it we feel like we're putting on our tinfoil hats and ranting on the streets.

we can't even say "i hate men" without having to explain TO OTHER WOMEN that no, we don't hate every individual man on the planet, we hate the class man and the system men made for themselves that dominates the place we live in. in the same way that we have to tell other women that misandry is not a systemic force, and hating what men as a class of people and the patriarchy they made does not a misandrist make

and then WE feel bad because we made others uncomfortable by talking about injustice!

[kayla-denker]

Its absolutely insane how much backsliding the public consciousness has intentionally done over the last couple years alone in regards to feminism. Like, all of these things were basic feminist concepts that most people anywhere left of center understood and accepted as late as 2024. Y'all remember the "would you rather encounter a strange man in the woods or a bear" question? That whole thing happened just two fucking years ago!

This meme was posted in 2017 by a man!

[dubiousculturalartifact]

The new Odyssey adaptation has inevitably gotten people talking about a Muppet version of it, and they’re frequently suggesting Kermit as Odysseus, Miss Piggy as Penelope.

I’m sorry but that’s thinking way too small, hear me out:

We need to have Miss Piggy as Odysseus, and Kermit as Penelope.

Think about it… who’s the more fickle, prideful, warlike one in that relationship? Who is absolutely ready to go ham, at a moment’s notice?

It ain’t Kermit

[rosethyme]

"Who stabbed you in the eye, Polyphemus?" "Moi! Moi stabbed me!" "He stabbed himself. Sad."

[a-midnight-rest]

Amidst all the snobs who lament that the movie was not truly good because it missed soooooo much of the original work, I am glad to find people who appreciate that the Odysse is back into mainstream counsciousness.

I sure as shit didn't fall in love with mythology reading the original works.

[sabertoothwalrus]

hey guys it broke containment. anyway

fuck marry kill

fuck senshi, marry grace, kill tenna

fuck grace, marry tenna, kill senshi

fuck tenna, marry senshi, kill grace

fuck senshi, marry tenna, kill grace

fuck grace, marry senshi, kill tenna

fuck tenna, marry grace, kill senshi

Remaining time: 4 hours 54 minutes

[loredwy]

I cant believe this tweet is how I find out

[would-you-punt-them]

now all the things you guys have told me about american high schools are starting to make sense

[jeaninelatragedia]

holy shit.

[frustratedasatruar]

You're not really supposed to say it this way, because its considered crass, but here in the US children are culturally and legally considered essentially the property of their parents.

Note that its considered more crass to point this out than it is to treat children as property in the first place.

[dogpuppy]

[scorpio-system]

AAA video game publisher voice: "Look. The goose layed a golden egg, and that's nice! Everyone loved that egg. But keeping the golden goose means paying for bird feed and I don't want to, so I killed the goose."

[traycakes]

AAA video game publisher voice: "Now that we don't have to pay for bird feed, we expect a massive increase in revenue. Probably a billion people will want to buy our golden eggs."

[waddingham]

HANNAH WADDINGHAM as JUDITH 'WHIPTAIL' BURTON in RIDE OR DIE (2026)