The Once-ler's Sexy Green Gloves

OH MY GOD HI my name is Teresa and won't you let me join you, Once-ler fandom??? Besides all things related to the Lorax and the Once-ler (the reason I joined tumblr), I enjoy other movies and tv shows and books, as well as supernatural things, historical things, hilarious things, intellectual things, literature, art, music, and kawaii babies.

[tam--lin]

(7/30/26) The Red Cross just declared the second US blood crisis in its history.

Summer sees both a drop off in donations and, at least for our trauma center, a spike in traumas. Trauma centers across the US are in danger of running out of blood for our trauma patients TODAY, which is very scary but, unlike much of the other scary national news coming across our screens these days, is something you can help fix immediately and directly.

We need ASAP donations of blood, for people to spread the word, and for manager types to help facilitate others' donations. All blood types are needed, but universal donor blood (type O) is especially dire.

[tam--lin]

Useful notes and reminders from the reblogs:

Many things that previously made people ineligible have been rolled back. If you previously thought you were ineligible, please consider checking current guidelines!

While O- is the most dire need as it can be safely given to anyone in an emergency, all types are needed! Our emergent release blood is being pulled for patients who have a high chance of death if they don't get blood within the hour. Once they're stabilized, they can have their type confirmed and get blood of a specific, matching type released to them so that O- can go to the patients who need it most.

Canada is also in a blood shortage, not just the US. Even if you're not in the USA or Canada, maybe check locally, especially if it's summer where you are.

[kremlin]

uninstall adobe acrobat. it is malware. it has been malware. these aren't opinions: acrobat meets the definition of malware.

it installs a user-login-time "startup" executable that ignores any windows directives to disable it on startup. doing so only removes the even-more-malicious taskbar-icon-creating advertisement-notification-creating process. no matter what you do, the sleeper "updater" process starts when you log in, and runs perpetually

it sends & receives encrypted network traffic both periodically and non-periodically. both are bad, both are suspicious, and a program doing both is more suspicious than the sum of their parts. and to boot: acrobat will polymorphically edit its code after such network activity

this isn't new: it has always done this. now, it does not even do the thing it is meant to: provide a way to interact with documents, which is amongst the very first features computers were built to provide. you can merely open PDFs and read some of their content in the narrow space between the requests for adobe to give them your money, and interface for features you cannot use (because you don't) or do not, have not, and will not ever need

adobe and microsoft would very much like the user's cultural norms around computers to allow for advertisement built into the local software and even operating system itself. the web being 100% advertisements was not enough! sure enough, acrobat will hijack the windows notifications system thing to give you the 2026 equivalent of pop-ups

i don't really know enough about windows software equivalents, so i'll paypal $20 to the first person that reblogs this with a list of 3-5 PDF reader/editor/etc acrobat equivalents that meet the following criteria:

open source, locally-built executables must match checksum of prebuilt distributed executable

no paid features/premium version/subscription/whatever

not a toy hobby project thing, must be windows-users-proof

cheers

[andmaybegayer]

Firefox's built-in PDF.js viewer: does everything you could want from a basic viewer, fast enough search, and can now do annotations for filling in forms and such

KDE Okular: is a decent viewer and can also do basic annotations, and is so not-a-toy that you can even download it on the Windows app store.

LibreOffice Draw: I don't ever really like having to open this but if you have to edit a PDF in detail it does work, and doesn't just vomit up a bunch of polygons when you give it text to work with. Better as an authoring tool than an editor.

[ms-demeanor]

I've 100% replaced free acrobat with the firefox built-in and it works wonderfully for general office use and research/reading/viewing. It doesn't have robust redaction capabilities, but if you need to fill and sign and highlight a form it's actually much more intuitive than acrobat reader.

[theoutcastrogue]

My only problem with firefox's PDF viewer is that it only shows single page, and doesn't have a facing/book view option. (AFAIK!) So for reading, I use Sumatra PDF, which is free, open source, portable, and comically lightweight. (Adobe Acrobat is 426 MB, Sumatra is 10 MB.) No edits here though.

[mx-dorkboy]

Anyway adults saying “I don’t know isn’t an answer” is part of the reason I learned to lie and bluff so well.

[mx-dorkboy]

Really though, what was that about? I don’t know is a valid answer. It communicates very clearly that the child cannot answer your question, and therefore maybe needs more help understanding the question/situation. Why do you try and push them to give an answer they don’t have? That stresses them out and it makes them feel like they’re being punished for not knowing something.

[logically-asexual]

i thought i was the only one with an “i don’t know” problem because my parents made it seem it was the strangest and also most horrible thing in the world. i genuinely didn’t know and they got angry and that only blocked my thoughts more which meant i didn’t know the answer to anything else.

[kitvalkyrie]

THIS ^^^

[nyxwoven]

Also “I don’t know” is a commonly used sentence for children with ADHD/Autism. We DON’T know why we can’t do our homework. We DON’T know why we can’t eat certain foods sometimes. We DON’T know why we forgot to do a chore. It’s really distressing when you genuinely don’t know and people think you’re just lying or indifferent

[demonfoxbunny]

my tooth is half gone and insurance doesn't cover extraction and i don't have the money for an appointment, I owe $400 for my LAST appointment, I i haven't had therapy in 2 months because i don't have the money for an appointment, we owe $450 on storage bills since we were kicked out of our last place, unemployment doesn't cover both rent and food so i am short on rent that's coming due soon, AND they want me to start repaying my student loans AND my wife's computer is literally falling apart and they need that for work. AND our air conditioning stopped working.

if anyone can help a girl and her wife (and their mom and uncle) out, here's my paypl and my vnmo and ko-fi

[demonfoxbunny]

need groceries

[trippyhappybunny]

Hello all. I'm Joan, a Latina lez trans woman and I need some help.

I finally started laser hair removal on my face after a long time of my facial hair being thr biggest source of my dysphoria and one of the biggest impediments to passing. Ive found a good place, and usually I can afford it. However, budgeting has gotten harder recently as (im sure anyone in mpls knows,) the rate for my electricity has jumped up 200$ more.

Ive had to take a break for the past two months to catch up on bills and even with where ive gotten its looking like I wont be able to continue in September. Ever since ive had to stop my mental health has taken a huge dip and I feel like ive lost whatever progress I had made

So im reaching out to try and get some help. I get one treatment a month and the cost is 189$. I dont expect any one person to give all of that, but i'd appreciate this post being spread around to try and raise it by the end of the month

Pp:[email protected]

Ca:$uprightdeath

Vn:@ladyofthevarioussorrows

[probablyasocialecologist]

Study links data centres to heat island effects worldwide

University of Cambridge scientists have discovered a pronounced heat island phenomenon correlated with the development of data centres.

Called the Data Heat Island Effect, the study showed that temperatures are rising an average of 3.6 degrees fahrenheit (2 degrees C) in areas immediately surrounding the " locations of the main AI hyperscaler centres", while as much as a 16.4 (9.1 degrees C) degree increase was shown in the most extreme cases. Its findings also provided insight into how widely felt the thermal effects are, claiming the centres and associated heat islands could impact a total of over 340 million people worldwide.

[...]

Each of the 6,733 data centres that constituted the research group were located away from largely dense metropolitan areas. The study claimed that heat island effects were being carried by a distance of up to 6 miles (10 kilometres) from the facilities.

[...]

"The prevailing logic has been one of acceleration, the infamous 'move fast and break things', which translates into building capacity first and perhaps mitigating later," Harvard researcher and architect Marina Otero Verzier told Dezeen. "If development continues at this pace, we will see a significant increase in emissions, the intensification of thermal effect." "These impacts extend well beyond the data centers themselves, shaping entire territories, although those living next to them usually bear the burden." "In a context of ecological fragility and energy instability, a moratorium is needed, followed by a much stricter regulatory framework that would involve public oversight."

9 April 2026

[beggars-opera]

Now that everyone's over The Odyssey can we please just sit back and watch the only adaptation that matters, the Coen Brothers' 2000 perfectionist classic O Brother, Where Art Thou?

[heartfairy]

I would love to unclench my jaw one day

[autism-thoughts]

The anti-vax and anti-science propaganda is very real - and also, frankly I think doctors and nurses would've had an easier time getting people not to fall for it if they spent less time treating people like fucking shit

[autism-thoughts]

This post is about a lot of things but it is especially about racism, medical abuse, and eugenics

[hyperlexichypatia]

There would be fewer conspiracy theories about vaccines being a sterilization plot if the medical establishment hadn't spent a century nonconsensually sterilizing people under the guise of routine medical care.

[theprofessional-amateur]

link to bluesky post

[theprofessional-amateur]

In addition to how to turn various things, it includes:

Other useful AI Removal/Detection links

How to spot AI Hallucinations like a Reference Librarian (originally on Substack)

Library Freedom Project has a lot of handouts about AI on their Resources page

[saveaboud]

I SWEAR TO YOU THAT YOUR BETRAYAL IS HARDER THAN WAR.

If you’re scrolling, please share. It’s just one share.

[saveaboud]

[saveaboud]

I fell into a coma after developing severe anemia and woke up to the sound of explosions and my little siblings crying.

[saveaboud]

All I need is to receive my treatment and evacuate my family to a safe place. Please donate and don’t leave us alone.

CHUFFED • PAYPAL • VERIFIED

[aboud-lives]

Please share!!

[greengableslover]

MIA SARA as PRINCESS LILY costume design by Charles Knode LEGEND (1985) dir. Ridley Scott

[organicmatter]

i fucking love when halloween music is just surf rock with a ghoul laughing in the background

[queenofratz]

i love me some scooby doo ass music

[blasesaint]

[byjove]

the United States government, which absolutely does not have a history of shooting, bombing, drugging and poisoning its citizens and definitely reflects the will of the people-

[byjove]

“you voted for this” wait until you hear about gerrymandering and all the forms of voter suppression the state and federal government has tried

[northirish]

Hey does anyone want me to come live on their land like one of those weird hermits rich people in the 18th century hired for their estates?

Time sensitive question

[strrawberrryjam]

Hello there, I'm so sorry for asking again.

I'm an autistic queer woman and I need all the help I can get to pay my debts. Going to work is extremely hard for me and I manage to do it as much as I need to but I've been sick for 2 weeks last month and I haven't been able to get on top of things since.

If you can help me by rebloging, boosting or donating anything even a dollar, it would help me tremendously and I'll be forever grateful.

Ppal

Kofi

68.77/500 cad $

Thank you so much 🥹

[strrawberrryjam]

It's my birthday tomorrow, help me spend it a little less stressed out? 🥲