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as someone who admittedly does not know a ton about nuclear energy, i feel like every post on nuclear energy i see is either someone talking about how nuclear energy is vital to the survival of humanity and our planet, or a post by a native person talking about how nuclear energy has directly lead to their family members dying of cancer. and the former never seems to actually address the latter. i definitely think those pro-nuclear posts make a lot of good points about its use and the fearmongering around it, but i'm sorry i kind of need y'all to actually address the whole giving native children cancer thing. i would like it if we expressed a little more concern about that.
to be clear the takeaway i intended with this post is honestly less about nuclear energy or nuclear waste itself, and more that the overwhelmingly white userbase on Tumblr has a problem with trying to confront anti-nuclear attitudes without addressing environmental racism. like making a whole post about correcting myths about nuclear energy, and then not bringing up anything related to native concerns about waste dumps. which is the core problem. you need to care about native people more and be invested in their well-being and their concerns and including and centering them in conversations that will directly affect them. and it will make your argument more convincing to have clearly addressed this
recently my elderly shattered-up phone started letting me charge it to 107% which I've been using to get let's just say a little bit extra out of it on long days
added benefit that this makes it crazy warm and soft so I use it to warm up my coat when it's cold outside
to be honest with you it's swollen as fuck and that's why I'm rocking with it
Swollen batteries are incendiary explosives.
this one's just a phone
if it was a bomb and not a phone I couldn't make a call on it, but I can because it's a phone, although it will be to the fun department instead of the fire department
respectfully, ma'am, phone and bomb are not mutually exclusive descriptors
I'm not gatekeeping I'm just speaking from my presently lived experience
When you start speaking from your formally lived experience, be sure to let us know!
I already live every day with undue formality and noble grace
I'm not a technician so I don't really see how this applies to me
I genuinely can't tell if you're being stupid on purpose
when you feel that way it's a sign that I'm being smart
OP your phone is literally about to explode.
we've been over this, it's just puffy and I poke it with twigs when it gets too hot
my mental health is splendid and my phone is fantastic why in the world would I kill myself
Oh god it's the shark post all over again, but this time OP COULD FUCKIN DIE OR BE MAIMED HORRIBLY
that's really not on the table
reading earlier in this thread, you will find that it is not a bomb but a phone which is being poked with twigs, and only under certain circumstances
Hey, I’ve worked in IT longer than anyone else, and it’s totally fine to keep using your phone this way! This is because phones are not bombs so they can’t explode.
as someone who doesn't work in IT, I agree, which creates a consensus across the full spectrum of possible human experiences
My phone nearly exploded (the battery was so swollen I could see the inside of the phone.) you should get your phone looked at
But its a phone those don't explode
They do when the battery is swollen
you're thinking of bombs, easy mistake to make, but I addressed this earlier in the thread
OP do you have a will or any assets to even need one?
my will is frankly tremendous and I'd go as far as saying it's one of my strongest assets
You should substitute your phone insurance for health insurance
we have universal telephone insurance here so that's not strictly necessary
You know I prayed that this is just a Tohsaka Rin RP blog but it isn't and OPs phone is about to go off like a Mappa Animator.
several studios worked on fate but mappa is not one of them
I heard if it starts to charge past 110% they'll send ninjas after you. Might want to get it repaired and save yourself some ninja battles.
So, let me set something straight. Sit down and get ready to learn, Tumblr
The funny thing about this thread is that a phone battery doesn't actually go to 107% when it's failing, because the battery percentage indicator is measuring subtle changes in voltage. OP's battery, if it was actually failing in this way, might stall at 100% before visibly draining to its actual capacity after some time as a more generic sign of the battery failing, but gas buildup inside of a battery isn't going to make it hold more power in a meaningfully usable way, and of course nothing inside of a phone would allow it to measure and display this inflated (badumtsk) capacity
So, it's bad bait! If a battery's capacity could be so easily expanded by inflating it with more power, this would be a desirable product with lots of useful applications in bald dog grooming
Doublets in French
The French word employer (to emploi) has the same origin as impliquer (to imply). Employer was inherited from Latin implicāre, evolving along with the language and undergoing all sound changes that turned Latin into French, while impliquer was borrowed from written Latin during the late Middle Ages. Pairs like this are called doublets.
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conter/compter and computeur is an other one but dont tell the academy that
I'm watching a video essay about a game ive been interested in playing. The creator of the video, who has crossdressed multiple times, makes a "women arent funny" joke, and i suddenly realize ive never witnessed him acknowledge a woman in an uplifting way before.
I'm on a dating app for lgbt+ people. I've stated multiple times on my profile that i would rather lose an arm than recieve nudes without consent. I will be sent five dick pics for every 2 people i talk to that night.
I'm talking with my dad, who informs me he's been trying his best to learn about trans issues. He says the same things steven crowder brings up when trying to ridicule trans people. I gently but firmly correct my father and get told that ive been fed propaganda.
I'm on instagram, under the comments of a post ridiculing someone for being a misogynyst. Someone's left a comment saying "it must be hard being a woman on the internet" and i respond "it is." I will have every aspect of my appearance scrutinized as a reminder that no matter how well i pass, it will never be enough for someone with bad intentions.
I'm back on that dating app for lgbt+ people. I'm messaged by an attractive looking person, but i can see their partner prominently displayed in all but their main photo, oftentimes striking what im sure they thought was a very intimidating pose. Their bio says "looking for a third for our anniversary." I know that even if I did feel up to it, the gruff partner wouldnt approve of me because i don't pass.
I'm at a job interview for a clothing store. I tell the gracefully-dressed woman interviewing me that ever since i began my transition, i've discovered an interest in fashion, and that this job would allow me to dip my toes into the industry in a safe way. I'm told that i've reduced womanhood to a stereotype, and i can tell by her tone that i lost any chance at the job the minute she realized i was trans.
I'm at the same hospital i got facial feminization surgery in, trying to figure out what's wrong with my bowels. When the person behind the desk gives me a wristband with my patient info on it, i notice a single, lonely, letter M. I ask a nurse in private why it would say that despite me having changed it nearly a year prior. They say they have no clue, and bring in paperwork for me to fill out and have it re-changed again.
I'm living with my mom at the time. I'm new to transitioning, and decide to try my hand at voice training. It feels a bit off, but otherwise im feeling neutral toward the whole thing. I try speaking in this new voice to my mom and she laughs. Now, when people ask if i intend to voice train, i find speaking at all difficult for minutes after.
I didnt have some sort of grand message to convey by this. I just had a thought and then that thought spiralled into whatever the hell this became. Some, okay most, might call it complaining; they are right to do so.
for everyone asking for what article this is i actually went back and found it again and you'll never guess who it's about
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Holy **** oh right okay. So I was about to make a post about how using speech to text has already been a game changer for me but as you can see by the line of asterix at the start of this post the bloody thing auto censors swear words. (Yet bloody got through, ig Because it is a description and also British slang.). Hint: the word I was trying to say there starts with F and ends with K.
Oh and guess what else you can't say you can't say? **** [Nipples]. had to type that myself. penis is ok but **** [clitoris] isn't, and all my attempts to say "clit" were Misunderstood, which may just be my speech but at this point I am not willing to give the benefit of the doubt. Vagina is OK too but every time I say it there is a moment when an * shows up on screen first before the full word does. this doesn't happen when I say the word penis.
It is completely heinous. Anybody who needs speech to text is immediately forced to comply with the rules set out by people in a position of power and then enforced by a machine — a machine that is a very powerful accessibility tool. Imagine trying to dictate a letter to a doctor or fill in an E consult with speech to text, only to have words of your anatomy censored as if they are taboo. there is already far too much stigma around genital physical health — and note that I could say genital but can't say **** [clitoris] — for it to be okay for these words to be censored.
And even if somebody just wants to swear In a message to their friends or write smut/**** [pornography], they should be able to. There is no justification for this feature. No reason for it to be default.
I'm trying to find a way around this. There is a settings icon on the little speech to text bar that comes up, but this only gives me options For the speech typing launcher, auto punctuation, and to set the default microphone. it's making me extremely angry
really heavily reject this idea that just by virtue of being oppressed you understand everything about all types of oppression, and that reading theory is unnecessary or is something that unoppressed people do to make themselves feel good. do not fall for this trap. you need to be reading . you need to be learning. your own ideas are good but they can only carry you so far. learn from others.
"neurotypicals have this special way of saying 'okay' that makes you feel like shit after infodumping your special interest" anyone can do that actually
in fact i have had this happen to me multiple times from other autistic people sometimes someone just doesn't realize they sound bored. or aren't as good at hiding that they Are bored lmao people aren't always gonna jive with your special interest and it may not really interest them like hate to break it to you but that isn't a personal attack on you
like i offhand can think of my coworker who also has adhd who says "yeah" in this way when i'm talking that makes it sound like she does not give a single fuck, and she's admitted that she sometimes zones out when other people are talking (i do this too) even if she's interested and trying to listen. and sometimes when She's talking i just start getting bored/losing energy and start trying to find ways to back out of the conversation like that's just how things are sometimes
so seeing posts like that are really annoying lol like yeah it really fucking sucks when it feels like you've bored someone while talking about something you love! however not only does it not automatically mean they're an ~evil neurotypical but also i'm sure most of the people reblogging that post would never acknowledge that they've very likely been the "...okay" person more than once
wow i wonder if that 300 year gap could be explained by any outside factors…….whoa! for some reason it lines up with the timeline of britain’s invasion and subsequent colonization of ireland! wild, huh? i wonder if the two are connected in some way? i guess the world will never know….
“why do the Irish hate the English so much? It couldn’t have been *that* bad!!”
This was in place till 1973.
Seeing non irish people reblogging this makes me happy
The stereotype of “the Irish are drunks” is English propaganda used to justify paternalism and controlling the Irish. It’s bullshit.
I remember the first time I read The Little Match Girl. I was about 6 or 7. It was my first time reading Hans Christian Anderson and, as a small child, my first story without a happy ending.
I remember going to my mother and demanding, through tears of sorrow and rage, (paraphrasing, but not much) what the hell kind of story was this? Little girl lives brutal, miserable life and freezes to death in the snow, how could you write something like that? How could anyone write something so unfair?
I remember very, very clearly my mother's attempt to explain.
"It's not a totally unhappy ending, she gets to go to heaven-"
"BUT SHE'S DEAD."
By the time I was a teenager, I understood the concept of tragedy and why people like it, and also that Hans Christian Anderson was Just Kinda Like That.
But I remember very, very clearly the surge of smug, delighted vindication I felt the first time I read The Hogfather, and read Death himself saying (paraphrased) "Absolutely fuck that"
Oh! Oh! Let me tell you why Andersen wrote The Little Match Girl. Honestly, I think you’ll love it.
Hans Christian Andersen wrote it--on the request of the publisher, Andreas Christian Ferdinand Flinch--in response to an illustration. Well, Flinch actually sent Andersen three illustrations to choose from, but I have no idea what the other two pics looked like.
(Photo of the woodcut drawn by Jacob Thomas Lundbye that inspired Andersen to write "Den Lille Pige Med Svovstikkerne"--literally, "The Little Girl With the Sulfur Sticks"--in late 1845. ) The woodcut had been printed once before, in 1843, in another publication (Flinch's Almanac, or House Calendar) run by the same person. The first time around, it illustrated an "article"--little more than a paragraph--called "Gjør vel, naar du giver (Do right when you give)." I don't know if Andersen was aware of this or of the article's content, but if he was, then he delivered the ultimate Take That to its author...who was probably Flinch himself.
If you want a line by line sporking of the translated article, go here. But basically, “Do right when you give” argued that broke kids who were begging (and selling matches was a cover for begging in the Victorian era) shouldn’t be given money or food, as that would simply encourage their parents to be lazy and improvident.
I don't know if Andersen was aware of this article...but if he wasn’t, then he wrote, by coincidence, a tale where everyone closes their eyes and hands to the needs of a poor child. He was extremely poor as a child, as was his mother, and he knew damned well what he was talking about.
If we interpret this story as a Take That to Flinch's article...well, it's basically showing the audience the worst possible outcome of their inaction. The little match girl freezes on the streets--but her home is so full of holes (and her parents clearly aren't earning enough to repair the damage if they are stuffing the holes with rags and straw) that she could have frozen there just as easily. She works all day at selling matches--but no one is willing to buy from her, which does neither her nor her parents any good. It certainly doesn't inspire them to work harder. And the making and selling of matches was generally a family business in the Victorian era. The match girl's mother and older siblings would probably be making the matches she sold--and incurring lasting damage to their bones and facial structure in the process. (DO NOT, FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, GOOGLE "PHOSSIE JAW.") That happened to almost all people who made matches with phosphorus, i.e. mostly poor women, and the results were hideous and, eventually, fatal. The condition also severely limited their employment; businesses, then as now, had issues with illness and disfigurement.
In fact, aside from the boy who steals one of her slippers, no living person interacts with the little match girl at all. She is unimportant to the point of invisibility. No one sees her. No one even notices her presence until after her death. In the midst of all of the holiday celebrations of love and joy--which honor another impoverished child--a little girl freezes to death, because everyone else is busy with their own affairs. The story takes Flinch's argument to the logical extreme, showing what happens if someone with no food and no money isn't given any. There is no Hail Mary pass at the end, as there is for Tiny Tim, who manages to live once Scrooge reforms. Andersen provides no reassuring moments at the end. If you don't feed a child, keep her warm, or love her, you end up with a dead, unloved child. Sure, she goes to Heaven--but Earth could have been a lot kinder. All Flinch's selfish philosophy did was ensure that the little match girl died quicker...which didn't have to happen. I wonder if Flinch realized all this when he published the story.
I think this is still well in line with Pterry’s use of it in Hogfather. Pterry demanded militant decency of us, demanded that we care. And through Death pushes back to all the rules and does.
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If we reach 100 million notes (which we won't), I'll reveal who I'm the alt account of.
Shame, we won't even reach 10k it seems.
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Unless this post gets crazy popular again, whether by another blaze or getting noticed by the Tumblr gods, your Frogageddon shalt not pass and my hands shall remain away from the art table
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I hope that when you are accused of being hot and doing things for the public good at least 24 otherwise unknown people of your desired romantic preference show up to support you in court (ace folks would just have 24 other ace folks showing up expressing comradely support).
Yeah, this actually misrepresented. He had people of all genders and ages supporting him (according to journalists who were there and not with huge corporations). They’re just trying to make it seem like people only support him because he’s hot. But when interviewed, the majority said there were there because they care about healthcare reform (and his justice, I’m sure, but I cannot confirm that last bit).
i see "men bad" jokes as very similar to suicide jokes. like making them every once in a while isn't the worst thing, but if you Keep making them constantly. it DOES shape how you start thinking and you WILL become a more unpleasant and bitter person and also make people around you uncomfortable. and sometimes you just gotta choose to not make or engage with certain jokes, even if they are amusing to you, because its just not who you wanna be
Respectfully, bad take. Stop tone policing people who are affected by misogyny. We are allowed to be just fucking pissed, and if it makes people more uncomfortable than the men who cause harm, that is their bias.
If I am a more bitter person because I lived in a world where I was oppressed by men, then I am another victim. And I am bitter, oppression has made me a worse person, because that’s how that works.
OP, do you feel similarly about other groups of oppressors? Do you think hating straight people as a gay person, able-bodied people as a disabled person, or white people as a person of color makes you bitter and unpleasant? Or is it just men who are off limits?
No, I think what I said applies to all groups. Making jokes on occasion is one thing. But when you are constantly going "straight people are worthless," it does start to reinforce the unironic belief that some people are, essentially, less human and worthy of any amount of hatred. And not only will that make those people, it will make people who aren't straight/abled/white uncomfortable because they know and care about someone who is, or the attitude is something they disagree with.
I'm not saying Ever Making A Joke At A Powerful Group's expense is bad. There is a difference between an oppressive group joking about those they oppressed to reinforce the status quo, and oppressed people making jokes about them to cope with life and push back.
It's about not pretending it doesn't have a real affect on your beliefs. at some point you DO unironically believe that straight people are worse, which means you believe that someone should have their worth judged by their sexuality. and THAT becomes the kind of person you are. it's not that the impact of oppressors making jokes about the oppression being equal to that of the reverse. there is a reason why making fun of white people is different than white people making fun of people of color; there's a lot of real harm that weighs behind those jokes, and they are a way of reinforcing the oppressive status quo. but ultimately you have to confront whether you want yourself, or your movement, to have certain values. you can't just hide behind "it doesn't matter because it's just jokes" because like. aside from what you see as moral. do you plan on being powerless forever? do you plan on your beliefs never having an impact on the world?
He's saying what we've all been thinking
For reference, OP's "Hear Me Out" is on the left and the commentor's is on the right
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