This Life Is Just A Game

Kat, too old really, loves cats and all things purple.

[myheartflutters]

It’s an enamel pin of a cat biting another cat’s butt. No further explanation needed. (IT'S AVAILABLE HERE)

[gynja]

[my-dailydreams]

[colemckenzies]

would you rather your daily commute (2x a day) was a 15 minute drive or a 30 minute walk

uk, drive

uk, walk

usa, drive

usa, walk

anywhere else, drive

anywhere else, walk

bald

Voting ended onApr 29

[colemckenzies]

follow up poll (not location-based)

your destination is a 30 minute walk away. you can take a bus, but due to the distance to the bus stop and the unreliable schedule and traffic, it will probably still take about 30 minutes. what do you do.

walk

bus

still bald

Voting ended onMay 1

[monsterpotion]

another underappreciated tumblr feature that you dont get on other sites is the queue. i love it when something i thought was funny six months ago and then forgot about a week later crawlts its way out of the processing vortex and i get to see it all over again.

[monsterpotion]

you should queue this post it would be funny and grant me immortality

[monsterpotion]

you motherfuckers put me in the processing vortex

[rvllybllply2014]

He sure does love his fruits

[nothing-an-iratze-cant-fix]

We just not going to talk about how he can also do pottery? With chocolate?

[knitmeapony]

And stickers!

[gholateg]

he HAS A not chocolate version of that god damned bowl right there! TAUNTING US, and holding the not pastries kiwis!

[supreme-leader-stoat]

[yanguang]

[omghotmemes]

Show some respect, people.

[your-naked-magic-oh-dear-lord]

THANK YOU

[grandpanerd-world-deactivated20]

The story of Balto is interesting. He led a team of sled dogs across the Alaskan wilderness in the dead of winter with diphtheria antitoxins to stop an outbreak in Nenana Alaska. Diphtheria is a deadly infectious disease that could wipe out a third of a town’s population. It is mostly unknown to the public today because of vaccines. Balto’s body is preserved in the Cleveland Museum of Natural History.

[your-naked-magic-oh-dear-lord]

He’s a big hero of mine!

[pugcrumbs]

Let’s not forget Togo! Who, at 12 years old during the serum run, lead his team 200 miles through much more dangerous conditions during the first leg of the journey before Balto ran the last 55-mile stretch.

[space-buns]

Togo and Balto didn’t bust their asses for dying children for you to turn around and not vaccinate your damn kids

[depsidase]

[ao3org]

Errors Accessing AO3

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Posted: 22:36 UTC 02 March, 2026

[ao3org]

AO3 is now fully down. After performing a software upgrade a few days ago, we've been unable to keep our server cluster healthy due to what we believe is a bug or issue with the new release of our database server software.

We're working with our vendor's support team to understand the cause and whether reverting or upgrading further will best resolve the issue without continuing the cycle of up and downtimes.

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Posted: 03:16 UTC 03 March, 2026

[ao3org]

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Posted: 04:37 UTC 03 March, 2026

[sarah-yyy]

风起青萍末 (34542 words) by sarahyyy Chapters: 17/17 Fandom: Original Work Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Additional Tags: Arranged Marriage, Getting Together Summary:

定远侯萧策觉得这桩婚事亏了。

娶了个母族无权无势又不受宠的公主，还得供在府里当菩萨。好在公主识趣，主动提出约法三章：各过各的，互不干涉，将来有了心上人彼此成全。

萧策大喜：还有这等好事？

后来他发现，这菩萨有点费侯爷。

她病了，他巴巴送蜜饯。她说冷，他偷偷买炭。她随口提一句江南，他记了三个月。

再后来，他喝醉酒拽着人家手不放，嘀嘀咕咕说“想给她一个家”。

公主笑眯眯问：侯爷，约法三章还记得吗？

萧策：什么章？撕了。

又名，《风起于青萍之末，止于真香》。

又又名，《关于我那约法三章的夫人最后成了心尖宠这件事》。

[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.

[eonblueinmay]

Watching the process of this absolutely stunning painting makes it even more beautiful.

The artist is Sydney Swisher

[amagicalmoonlight]

This will be worded so messily and unorganized but asexuality is so weird like, you often end up questioning yourself because you don’t even know what sexual attraction is supposed to be like.

So many people don’t realize their asexuality cause they assume whatever attraction they do have must be the oh so fabled sexual attraction they hear so often about, see the common ace experience of confusing aesthetic or romantic attraction for sexual attraction.

Just the uncertainty of having thoughts like “I found this person pretty, is that sexual attraction? I kinda get nervous when I talk with this one classmate, is that getting ‘butterflies in my stomach’?”

Or there’s the alternative experience of assuming sex and sexual attraction is actually this one huge inside joke everyone’s into but of course nobody actually feels these things, right?

And the proceeding realization of “wait, you’re not joking? None of you are?”

I myself know so little about sexual attraction, it feels so foreign to me, and I’m just left with so many questions, Recently I just learned myself that apparently finding someone attractive and being attracted to them are two different things? What?? How do allo people keep up with all this stuff???

Being ace is weird

Also sorry if I caused confusion with the butterflies thing I forgot I’m also aromantic

[caramboloides-007]

This is so true, I craved all my life for the commonly talked sexual and romantic experience, I wanted to understand it so bad I tended to force it where it didn’t belong. Soon enough I realized that I never really cared for the romance nor the sex, I just loved the drama.

[melonfacade]

[punkrorschach]

someone almost stabbed me with a butchers knife and my response at the time was to turn and ask them "are you kidding me?"

[tf2incorrectquotes]

[txttletale]

its so fucking funny that nuclear waste is such a contentious topic. like yeah those damn nuclear advocates need to figure out somewhere reasonable to put that nuclear waste. for now we will  be sticking with coal power because it puts its waste products safe and sound In Our Lungs, where they cannot hurt anybody,

[mc-cookies]

coal byproducts also give people cancer en masse is the thing though. coal smoke is a carcinogen that contributes to lung cancer, and ash and other waste products can also contain significant amounts of uranium and thorium, so coal as a power source can totally expose people to ionizing radiation as well.

[mangonetics]

The thing is that for every hazard of nuclear waste, pretty much the worst case scenario is that it might do something that coal power is already doing. You could aerosolize nuclear waste and just spray it out of a chimney and it would have less environmental and health impacts than coal because you’d only be spraying like a gram of it for every billion tons of coal smoke for the same amount of power.

[afriendofblahaj]

Im already pretty vocal about my advocation and belief in nuclear power and I have been for years, but I saw something a few weeks ago that just

It so perfectly sums up everything that’s wrong, but also it’s incredibly horrifying

So, basically, someone not very involved in nuclear science but still discussing it posed the question “could we retrofit coal power plants to be nuclear power plants?”. And on the face, this is a fairly good idea actually. Coal and nuclear power both generate electricity the same way (heated water turns to steam which turns a turbine) so you would only need to do some modifications, making new nuclear reactors much cheaper, and killing coal plants.

Well, someone actually involved in the nuclear industry (I think they were a researcher but I might be misremmebering) responded to the question with (paraphrased from memory)

“that’s something many of us have proposed in the past, and unfortunately we can’t do that, because coal plants currently have much higher radiation levels than the EPA allowed a nuclear plant to be operated at. And cleaning up the site would cost more than just building a new plant in an uncontaminated site.”

It’s fucking wild

Not only is coal so much more dangerous in so many other ways, but the very thing people worry about with nuclear power is higher because coal isn’t regulated at all.

[hometoursandotherstuff]