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Multifaceted Psychopomp

[official-boob-posts]

you know what this means chat

[etherealspacejelly]

the quiz:

[official-boob-posts]

I was wondering what happened to this post but it turns out the fucking trekkies (affectionate) got to it

[kirksfattitties]

sorry.

[thevaultoftheatomicspaceage]

[alboardman]

McKinsey - AI in 5 Industries.

[asneakyfox]

the reason you, a white american, believe that white americans don't have culture is the same reason fish don't believe in water

[asneakyfox]

yes i know you think it's an antiracist statement, that you're saying it's a bad thing white americans don't have culture. but what you're actually saying is that the way white americans live is simply the normal way to live and that "culture" refers only to deviations from that norm

[asneakyfox]

there's real holidays and then there's, you know, cultural holidays. there's regular foods and there's ethnic foods

[asneakyfox]

this is not (just) about "cultural christianity," an idea that gestures at a real thing but the way tumblr talks about it is mostly not useful, i'm talking about stuff much broader than that.

making yourself a ham sandwich with mayo on white bread is a cultural practice just as much as making jollof rice is a cultural practice.

[asneakyfox]

if you feel some kind of yearning as a white american to connect with your Ancestral Culture you can get really into wearing lederhosen or playing bagpipes or whatever. but you could also just learn to understand the way you are living right now as a culture and not some kind of neutral default absence of culture

[idol8or]

No, it is normal to grieve a loss, even one that happened before you were born.

White families haven't all been eating white bread and mayo since 1776. So many people from so many places have immigrated and integrated under threat of discrimination. It leaves real cultural wounds that future generations feel without even knowing.

I knew my grandmother by her American name. I didn't know she had changed it to avoid anti-Italian discrimination (dot gif) until I read it in her obituary. My other grandmother lied her whole life about where she was from to avoid anti-Soviet discrimination.

So few things from our ancestors are left, and the soul-cleaving truth is that they wanted it this way. They followed the promise of America, they made it, and they didn't want us to endure the discrimination they did. Under threat of violence they rid themselves of anything that marked them as an other. They succeeded, and here we are.

It is normal to feel like there should be more, a phantom limb amputated generations ago. We can understand that we live in a culture (dot jpeg) and still know it as the culture of oppression. We can see our norms for what they are, and choose to not inflict them on our neighbors now and descendants hereafter. We can all yearn for something beyond passing as White.

[transgenderer]

Secularist society that takes the cigarettes approach to religion and it's totally legal but all religious texts require a big sticker thst says "THERE IS NO EVIDENCE FOR GOD" or whatever. And at the start of every sermon you have to give a disclaimer thst you're making it all up. Etc. Kinda based

[misanthropic-mollusc]

[dragon-in-a-fez]

never ever trust anyone who uses "listen" as a synonym for "obey"

[dragon-in-a-fez]

I think this was the first concrete anti-authoritarian principle I ever adopted. by the time I was 6 I had recognised how parents and teachers LOVE to say "listen to me" when they mean "do what I want" and I knew I hated it. it betrays an insufferably entitled belief that the only reason someone might not be doing what you want them to is that they haven't properly received your instructions. that they couldn't possibly have the agency to hear and understand and then decide differently.

by age 8 I had started to retort with "I'm listening, I just decided not to do it", which my dad (anti-establishment academic) loved and my mum (a cop in all ways except literal) hated.

fast-forward a few decades, and I now realise that when my ex-spouse started using "you're not listening to me" to mean "why aren't you doing what I told you", I should have ended things right then and there. looking back on it there was no coming back from that.

anyway, pay attention to the casual assumptions about authority embedded in the language people choose. it tells you so much.

[990000]

source

[animentality]

[solitarelee]

To all the people in the notes wondering how we got anywhere before GPS: we got lost a lot. Like a lot. If it was a new place we would pull out the maps, we all had local maps in the car and then these huge huge huge books of maps called atlases and we'd have one for every state we'd be driving through

And before a trip we would plot our whole entire route, and go back over it every night at the hotel, and we would write all the directions down on a little note and someone would be in charge of navigation and making sure we didn't miss any turns.

For local stuff all directions would be described in reference to other things. You still see this when older folks give directions. Do you ever get the "do you know where the ruby Tuesday is? No? How about the Buffalo wild wings? Yeah okay so from there go down til you see a Wendy's and turn left..." instead of them just telling u the address so u can plug it into ur GPS? That's why.

I have fond memories of getting helaciously lost in Kentucky because we had to go around a bad accident, and we didn't have a Kentucky map because we hadn't planned on going thru Kentucky and we stopped at a gas station to get a map but they didn't have any and my dad came back to the car swearing up and down about these goddamn Kentucky communists who didn't even sell maps in their gas stations,

[fuckingconversations]

honestly the funniest thing about this post is referring to kentuckians as communists.

[newtype-lila]

rb to tell prev they're being so brave right now and pat their head a little please

[gojira007]

[escuerzoresucitado]

[crankydevon]

(I'm sad that this amazing video has no source and no userid. Is it tiktok? If so, where is their name on the screen? He made this himself. He's had his video copied onto youtube and cropped also.)

[salvia-plathitudes]

Looks like his tik tok is here

[elodieunderglass]

Hat tip @battlefairies , the innovations!!

[swampthingy]

[actuallyapathy]

[the-lumpfish-queen]

I love environmental storytelling

[belphegor1982]

[hotlegsharker]

[berlynn-wohl]

[harleyklawz]

Its fucking hieroglyphs with you people

[necronomipod]

Can't just leave this in the comments

[henk-heijmans]

Dovima (American, 1927 - 1990), Giza, Egypt, 1951 - by Richard Avedon (1923 – 2004), American

[raibura]

Is it rude to smoke weed at a concert (in the crowd during the show)

Yes

No

Voting ended onMar 11, 2025

[bliss-bliss-bliss-bliss]

Nuance:

If

The venue is an enclosed space smaller than liiike... 400 square feet

The venue is specifically no smoking

You are in assigned seats and the person next to you can't move away if the smell bothers them

You are attending with a sobernaut who may be triggered, upset, or otherwise too distracted to enjoy the show

It's Vince Staples

You take edibles beforehand or you take it outside.

But if

The venue is large and well-ventilated or outside

The audience is standing and people can mill about

The venue sells other mind-altering substances, like alcohol, without keeping track of how inebriated the audience is allowed to get

You may blaze.

And if

The show is a Grateful Dead tribute band

The show is part of a three day long festival

People on the periphery of the crowd have light-up poi and hula hoops

You must blaze.

And if you do blaze, it is standard concert etiquette to offer the joint to those around you, so bring enough to share. (If you are offered a joint and don't want to take it, absolutely no one will think you're uncool.)

Lastly, I think the term that momentumussy was searching for up there is second-hand smoke. Unconsensual drug use is, like, roofies, which is a verrrry different thing.

Love, an old hippie✌️

[santas-clauze]

every western movie ever made: The wild west is dying. theres no more room left for cowboys anymore…

me everytime: :(

[nem0c]

every samurai movie ever made (both edo and bakamatsu periods): The bushido code is dying. there no more room left for samurai anymore…

me everytime: :(

[rickfuckingdalton]

A lot of westerns are remakes of samurai movies

[bonesawcagematch]

those samurai movies were very often heavily inspired by 50′s and 40′s westerns

[simon-newman]

Cowboys and samurai are brothers separated by time and space.

[eric-coldfire]

Best duo.

[seriousfic]

[breadgunner-deactivated20200418]

I’ve got y’alls new favorite art piece right here.

[phoxxent]

According to Google, Samurai were abolished in 1868.

This means that at the same time that cowboys were reaching their end, so too were samurai.

Cowboys and Samurai were separated not by time, only space.

[shoudesuka-mechadork]

I’ve got something else to add to this: there’s also an extremely specific species of mushroom that can only be found in Texas and Japan. I’m serious.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chorioactis

[anybodyandsomebody]

The most ambitious crossover

[ghost-cassette]

Fantasy setting but it’s just Texas and Japan together at last

[ladymaplecourt]

Mycelial portal between cowboys and samurai

[superpixie]

@britonell your tags I’m dying xD

[hellenhighwater]

Well those are allllmost done

[codebreakerblue]

question. why do you have 7 featureless grey monoliths in your driveway

[hellenhighwater]

There's eight actually but the last one is still in the garage

[jackfromthefairytale]

question. why do you have eight featureless grey monoliths

[hellenhighwater]

They're actually a really dark purple

[fishofthewoods]

question. why do you have seven featureless really dark purple monoliths in your driveway and an eighth in the garage

[hellenhighwater]

Some of them do have features though. There's holes and hinges and stuff, so I can put secrets in em

[nobodywasneverhere]

question. why do you have 8 really dark purple occasionally featureful monoliths

[hellenhighwater]

The heart wants what the heart wants

[fred-the-dinosaur]

this reads like a muppet sketch

[fred-the-dinosaur]

see? See!??!

[hellenhighwater]

You're not wrong

[hellenhighwater]

This post is less than six months old.

[onlywayin-deactivated20231101]

[wander-in-arda]

I work cybersecurity, this is like half my job.

[fiddlertoad]

the whole vaccine deal tbh

[i-am-emily]

antidepressants

[wizardavid]

Yes these are all the work of wizards

[vmkhoneyy]

“People are inherently terrible” no!!! Have you ever seen a child wait for their friend while they tie their shoelaces? Have you ever known someone who would bring hurt squirrels and rabbits and mice to the nearest vet just so it doesn’t suffer? Have you seen someone grieve? Have you ever read something that hit your heart like a freight train? Have you looked at the stars and felt an unexplainable joy? Have you ever baked bread? Have you shared a meal with a friend? Have you not seen it? All the love? All the good? I know it’s hard to see sometimes, I know there’s pain everywhere. But look, there’s a child helping another up after a hard fall. Look, there’s someone giving their umbrella to a stranger. Look, there’s someone admiring the spring flowers. Look, there’s good, there’s good, there’s good. Look!!!!

[naamahdarling]

"We took in a kitten that was starving, injured, and shot with a pellet gun."

"Oh my god, people are awful!"

"They're not. A person rescued her, other people who are trained in helping animals treated her injuries to make her healthy again, and so so so many people contributed to pay her medical costs, I don't even know how many. That she was hurt by...what, one person? Three? Certainly not many. Is honestly maybe the least important and least meaningful part of her story."

"...Oh."

I am holding a triumph of human kindness in my lap right now and her name is Fancy.

[naamahdarling]

[great-and-small]

I’ll never forget I once had to break the news to two women that their dog had cancer, and as they cried and hugged and asked me questions I said something about how I was grateful this pup had such a loving family to support her- only for these ladies to inform me one of them wasn’t actually an owner at all, she was just the other woman’s Uber driver…

So this driver tells me she’s literally never met the other lady in her life, but when this passenger started crying in the car with her dog because she was worried, this angel in the form of an Uber driver went off the clock, came inside the building, and waited over an hour in a busy emergency room with a complete stranger just so she would have someone there by her side in a scary situation. This woman even took notes about everything I said so the owner wouldn’t have to try and remember it all later.

I see plenty of stuff at my job that makes me tempted to lose my faith in humanity but all I do is remember that Uber driver and it comes roaring back to me just like that. Humans are so unbelievably good, man.

[followthebluebell]

#weirdly it ended up being a uterine tumor (not super common) and the dog was cured with an OVH#a rare feel good story from the ER 🥹#Uber driver came for the dog’s follow up appointment as well!!!

[6qubed]

"the world is a cold and uncaring place" then warm it up. care, dammit

[the-haiku-bot]

“the world is a cold

and uncaring place” then warm

it up. care, dammit

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.