Can We Just Sit Down For A Minute

she/they genderfluid. scientist and writer. into things weird, queer, and insect-related. seeking bits of joy.

[literarysassmaster-blog]

George Orwell

If it’s a novel: there is a doomed main character who is either a pig or a man. What’s the difference? There isn’t one. Just like there isn’t a difference between four and five. It’s communism. 

If it’s a short story: the elephant dies.

[teaboot]

what annoys me about explaining evolution to people who don’t think it’s real is that everyone’s idea of how it works seems to be from this

Whereas the reality is far more like

[teaboot]

Was not expecting this many of you to resonate with Millennium Death Plinko

[chimkensamewich]

Our House

When my sister and I were abt 12 and 8 respectively we spent a good afternoon coming up with parody lyrics for the song Our House by Madness. I thought these lyrics were essentially lost media, but I came across them and feel the need to immortalize them on the internet.

Father's eating his own head Mum’s on the couch; she might be dead. The kids are sniffing sharpies Sister’s picking out her fleas Brother’s brain is underground He can’t hang around. Our house, in the middle of the sun Our house, underneath the polar icecaps. Our house it has an appetite There’s always someone there to bite And its usually quite ripe Our mum's decayin', it's her gripe Nothing ever stays alive And the doorway's full of knives. Our house, made completely of asbestos Our house, with a coating of lead paint.

Our house, a better hunter than the shark Our house, public enemy number one Something tells you that you’ve got to get away from it Father's skin is inside out Mother's having a short pout Then she'll be eaten by a squid And be laughed at by the kids Here stupidity doesn't pay In a lot of ways Our house, is a moving black hole Our house, erasing hard drives everywhere. I remember way back when, our house was not a hell demon It was just a lions’ den and we didn't have this uranium Such a happy time And I remember how we'd turn green Then we'd say nothing about mother's spleen. Father wears an old bees nest Mother’s really not her best The kids are turning into hogs Sister’s choking on a dog Brother’s brain is underground He can’t hang around Our house, in the middle of osmosis Our house, the cause of tuberculosis Our house, surrounded by UFOs Our house, it puts bunions on your feet Our house, was our castle and our keep Our house, before it sank to Hell's deep Our house, that kept us from sleep Our house, a toxic waste dump Our house, I don't wanna live here anymore!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[valientpeanut]

I am the sister and two decades later I know exactly where these lyrics are saved on my computer

#probably still have the audio recording too #never known the actual lyrics to this song #something tells you that you've got to get away from it #already scarred #poetry

[56kilobits]

thinking about a long article I read a while back talking about the history of “ultra-processed foods” and how they related to american/western health issues. my main takeaway was a short paragraph buried in the middle of the article, where the guy who came up with the term just says outright “technically by these processing metrics tofu and sourdough fall into the same category as doritos and we’re not really sure how to square that circle” and the article just. moves right past that.

[valientpeanut]

Probably kimchi, too

[catboybiologist]

Y'know that quote about "if you're the smartest person in the room, you're in the wrong room"

Also applies to queerness and neurodivergency

[godless-of-the-hunt]

idk how to compare those lol

[catboybiologist]

The original quote's purpose is to say that you should always seek out people smarter than you for your own intellectual development.

If I'm the gayest and most mentally ill person in the room, I need to find a room with more gay and mentally ill people for my own gay and mentally ill development.

[lost-my-soup]

And thats why you are on Tumblr

[catboybiologist]

You get it

[charlesoberonn]

Heartwarming story: Little girl doesn’t have to do anything to fund her dad’s surgery because his expenses are covered by his country’s universal healthcare.

[charlesoberonn]

Human determination: Man bikes 18 miles to work every morning because he wants to and not because he can’t afford a car and would be fired if he’s late.

[charlesoberonn]

Spirit of Brotherhood: Neighbors host housewarming party for elderly resident who doesn’t need help in paying rent because his pension is more than enough.

[hyperlexichypatia]

SO INSPIRING: Local middle school students bake dozens of cupcakes because their home economics class is doing a baking unit. Their school is fully funded with everything they need.

[homunculus-argument]

There's a fine line between letting go of your fear of being cringe and accepting your genuine self completely and wholeheartedly, and becoming a completely unhinged shameless gross little feral animal, and I'm going to snort it.

[ezramire]

if aught but death part me and thee

[dorothylarouge]

[midori1974hijau]

[cantalope-enthusiast-blog]

[cephalopod-celabrator]

It is inherently fun and sexy to say statements that swap the traditional genders of pronouns and terms mid-statement, such as: "I'm going to make him my wife" "She's my boyfriend" "Who says a guy can't be a pretty princess?" "That girl's the coolest dude I've ever met" "She's a madman who has to be stopped" "It's not his fault he's a material girl" Gender is a set of watercolors and the prettiest shades come from mixing the paints together.

[valientpeanut]

Can someone please tell me why, at 7 pm on a January Tuesday, in the northwest of England, the ice cream truck is driving up and down past my house

[guerrillatech]

AI under capitalism

[magentasnoodle]

we usually think of mood as a scale from 1-5, but there's actually a negative scale too, where the frown turns back into a smile, but just a little insane !

[valientpeanut]

Moods having a villain era

[autismking]

conversations ianthe would kill herself after hearing

[tanis-zed]

That’s it, that’s the love triangle in two sentences.

[valientpeanut]

Notice we have no sentence on what Harrow thinks

[hedalexa]

Oh you just finished reading The Locked Tomb? Congrats! Read it again. I’m so serious right now. Read. It. Again.

[valientpeanut]

The last chapter is just the preface for the first chapter

[mswyrr]

[sooz-again]

[a-krogan-skald-and-bearsark]

I think the folks who support the use of AI in education are missing the point of essay assignments.

Like you are not trying to educate the teacher. You are not trying to demonstrate your ability to produce an essay.

The ENTIRE POINT of Essays is to demonstrate that you understand the material. And you cannot do that if you are not writing the essay yourself.

[beaniebaneenie]

You also cannot do that if you are not reading the material yourself.