ThoughtInFog

[shocklabrynth]

our glorious magitek vs their soy and reddit steampunk

[castrationfaq]

Whatd you say

[shocklabrynth]

fuuuuck i didn’t mean it Sir i swear

[castrationfaq]

Haha well as long as it doesnt happen again

[bromdebus]

Did you buy the rights to the second one

[catsofyore]

Girl, you better not be touching those beans. Photo from my collection, no date/info.

[kedreeva]

I offered to come check on my friend's animals while she's away for the long weekend

She thinks I'm joking

But I'm ready

[eunyisadoran]

Wait. Are there 200, but to be numbered 1-250? Did I read those tags right? 😲

[kedreeva]

Yes there are actually 202 of them, the company sent 2 extra in the package, and I will be numbering them on the bottom with sharpie marker 1-250. This will ensure even if she manages to find all 202, she will never truly stop feeling like there might be a tiny duck somewhere unknown in the house. Lurking. Waiting to appear at the strangest time.

[talesfromtreatment]

#sometimes you must be gently evil to your friends#so they know you love them enough

very very important

[ifririt]

hey op i don't think those are frogs like you said

[armayes]

they're right those arent frogs op.

[kedreeva]

I meant to prank my friend by hiding hundreds of small ducks after saying I would hide small frogs, but it turns out due to some quirk of only 3 people on the entire Internet knowing what a prank is, it seems I have pranked hundreds of other people by saying I would put 100 small frogs in my friends house, when in fact the prank was that it was 202 small ducks.

[kedreeva]

an update. it has been over 4 months and they are still finding ducks

[kedreeva]

1 year and 7 months later:

[pudulogy]

same animal btw

[wandersthroughfog]

What was said -> Meu Deus, que que eu faço? (ri) [beijinhos]

Attempt at translation -> My God, what do i do? (laughts) [kissing noises]

[catsofyore]

I am convinced that doily was custom made to fit the cat and nobody will convince me otherwise. Photo from my collection, 1955.

[str-ngeloop]

everything you see on tumblr is biased towards the perspectives of the types of people who post a lot on tumblr. this is essential to remember

[21st-century-minutiae]

Selection bias is a drift in statistical results as a result of sampling mechanisms, to the point that the selected population no longer effectively correlates with the larger population against which an inference may be erroneously made.

As pointed above, it is erroneous to assume opinions visible on a website such of this are representative of how humans think.

There are a large number of selection steps which bias the results.

Opinions are only from people who are currently alive. Those of the past and future are unable to have their opinions heard directly.

All opinions visible on Tumblr are from people who are aware of Tumblr and chose to use it in a language that is mutual with the viewer. Vast swaths of humanity are unaware or uncaring of the website, or are communicating in a different language.

All opinions visible on Tumblr come from the subset of users who post them. As with many websites, a large portion of users exclusively lurk or reblog, rather than share their own opinions. Only a certain subset seeks to have their thoughts known.

All opinions visible are those that have been judged worth sharing. Individuals may self-censor or find their own opinions too boring to be worth conveying.

For an opinion to be visible on Tumblr, it must either come from the subset of individuals that a user has chosen to follow (a curated group), be reposted by said curated group, be tagged with a tag a user follows, or be amplified by enough people to attract general attention by a given individual. This introduces a bias towards opinions that one's curated groups believe or choose to amplify, opinions that match a tag a user curates for themselves, or opinions that are amplified.

It would be a fallacy to believe that after all these non-random selection phases, any remaining opinion one sees is representative of humanity at large.

But one can make non-erroneous judgements such as "this is an opinion that exists in humanity" or "this is an opinion shared by this particular subculture on this website."

In the early twenty-first century, even when aware of Selection Bias, many people do not always remember to apply it in their assessments. It is a common problem for people to forget that the information available to them is curated, either by their own efforts of via the effort of other parties/algorithms.

[kaizenreiii]

Fom Gifts

Complete :

Incomplete:

Missing Recipes

Glowberry Cookies (Dell)

Spellfruit Parfait (Darcy/Juniper/taliferro/Reina)

Coconut cream cake (Hayden/Taliferro)

Missing Item

1.Monster hoop (Dozy)

[jabberwockypie]

Me: I don't know, maybe I was overstating how bad my migraines are to the neurologist. :-/

My best friend:

[jabberwockypie]

#THIS BITCH #do you know how many times a week this winter she got a migraine??? #Or this spring? #THIS SUMMER? #CALL OUT POST#between this and 'well maybe I don't have asthma and am just choosing to wheeze for aesthetic purposes' #I will be inflicting one million 'well maybe I could talk if I just tried harder' DON'T TEST ME (tags via @arinrowan)

Arin did you just turn MY post into a callout post?

[arinrowan]

Crawling out of the well of deep tumblr for the purpose, yes

[jabberwockypie]

#for every note this gets op has 1(one) day where she's not allowed to say maybe her disabilities what disable her are fake or made up (@arinrowan again)

I don't think you can do that?

[arinrowan]

Can I do that?

Yes

No

Voting ended onAug 15

[professionalchaoticdumbass]

cast iron? yeah thats a pretty common spell to learn

[professionalchaoticdumbass]

you come onto my post and be funnier than me

[weaselle]

skillet issue

[innerchildabortionclinic]

the hot chocolate enjoyer when you ask where all the milk is going so fast:

[faraway-ant]

i’ve seen this user post this photo as a sort of reaction image a couple times now and it makes me laugh every time. because this is the incredibly elusive marbled cat and they really do just have a tendency to look so pitiful, guilty, and empty in the head. so here’s some more photos of them looking like there’s just one marble bouncing around their skull:

[catsofyore]

Vintage dollhouse cat from my collection. Pictured on Francie for no particular reason at all.

[catsofyore]

Writing on the back of this one says “I don’t like this program”. Photo from my collection, 1961.

[stuckinapril]

Controversial take but I think we more often need to accept that sometimes it’s not personal, but that a person still doesn’t fuck with us. They don’t want a relationship with us, they don’t wanna be our friend. We’re not their type for whatever reason. They don’t hate us but they aren’t interested in building something with us in any capacity. It’s not that they have a lot going on, it’s not that they can’t receive love, it’s not what a lot of people concoct just not to deal with the sting of rejection. Sometimes we’re just not somebody’s type. And that’s okay and we don’t have to curl up in fetal position in a corner about it. We will not be the type of every person we encounter and that is natural and nothing to lose sleep over

[quasi-normalcy]

I've reached the point where cynicism is a major turn-off for me. You're not smarter than idealists, and you're not helping.

[quasi-normalcy]

Funny that the stereotypical cynic is an idealist who aged out of it. In my experience, the reverse is true. I was an extreme cynic as a teenager and then I noticed how profoundly limiting it was, and also that "cynics are cool and smart" was a message that was being constantly reinforced by corporate media for some reason.

[quasi-normalcy]

#yes! cynicism reads as very juvenile to me#and yes prev often stemming from teen pain

Yeah, like I see black-pilled people on here and my default reaction isn't "oh, these must be world-weary old warriors who've lost their faith in humanity", it's "these people are in their 20s and need a hobby"

[quasi-normalcy]

I also think that the present era has proven that authoritarian leaders don't actually want a population of wide-eyed idealists, they want a population of jaded assholes who are convinced that everyone is lying, any resistance is either a scam or doomed to failure, and nothing can ever get better.

And that they're somehow better than everyone else for being aware of the scam.

[appystruda]

only goodtimeswithscar would be able to have the very first block he breaks on the decked out mountain cause water to pour down into the game, and then manage to miss tango's redstone by ONE BLOCK

[catsofyore]

Baby. Postcard from my collection, ca. 1900.

[great-and-small]

My fellow bird nerds will understand the breathless excitement I felt to turn a corner in the wetlands and witness this quiet scene! The secretive King Rail is a bird I’ve rarely been able to photograph, let alone film. How cool that my first chance to catch one on video was such a gorgeous and relaxed bird.