Existential Bullshit

Jocelyn. My tastes are indiscernible and my habits unintelligible.

[feyd-meowtha]

[great-and-small]

Don’t mind me just thinking about the hole in the middle of the United States where Chipping sparrows refuse to fuck

[great-and-small]

[bob-belcher]

Bob’s Burgers, Turkey in a Can (S04E05)

[theboywithburninghands]

Bi pride

[slowtovvn]

This map is the most up to date version as of 3-4-2023 and takes into account all recent movement on anti-trans legislation

[goverment-agency-bracket]

Yeah, I am going to signal boost this rq

[ccosmiccookiess]

This map has since been updated, as of 26-8-2023 this is the most current version

[glennnui]

Updated map for March 2025.

[rivvytrick-deactivated20260515]

you just doordashed yourself a knuckle sandwich pal

[pinketine]

The way tumblr users talk about racism makes it really obvious they learned about it from Harry Potter's muggle born wizards plotlind

[pinketine]

This is to say, they take the same attitude JKR does: racism is wrong because it's factually incorrect on a pedantic level and not because it inherently places a certain group of people as inferior, a wrong belief to have no matter what.

For example, in the third Harry Potter, Hermoine gets called a slur by Draco. She goes to Hagrid, upset, and instead of saying Draco's wrong because he's bigoted and hateful, Hagrid starts talking pedantically. Not all muggle borns are inferior because Hermoine is academically gifted, and Neville, a pureblood, isn't. So therefore, racism is wrong! 👍🏾. Of course the implication is that if Hermoine wasn't good at school she'd deserve it..? And that's how tumblr users speak about racism.

My real world example is how some tumblr users tried to defend rap music by saying, not all of it is about drugs, sex and violence, so therefore it shouldn't be dismissed. But, what about the rap music that is about those things? Does that deserve to be belittled and mocked?

[pinketine]

Astute observation as always. It's the subconscious belief that everything white is naturally superior because white people made it. While black art is naturally uncomfortable/hard to emphasise with because not only is it not white, it's black, and there's always an underlying sense of percieved aggression attached to blackness. For it to be liked, white people often project their own whiteness onto it (see things like how fandom treated Miles Morales after the Spiderverse movies). And when something, like rap music, does have an aggressive element to it, white people use that as an excuse to express discomfort while listening to heavy metal because white anger is the status quo and black anger is always a threat.

[pinketine]

I didn't go far enough in describing the whitewashing as I'd like so here's my elaboration: fandom will often ignore a black character's aspects to their black culture and give them interests more aligned with white people (example: the fandom surrounding Tyler, the Creator's alter egos, where some of them lose their swag era fashion and get replaced with notoriously anti-black movements like (modern) scenemo), remove any "rough" edges to the black character to act "soft", tiktok softboi style (example: the woobification of Miles Morales), turning it into a big joke to laugh at and then call cringe (examples: Drake vs Kendrick rap beef, "brainrot" words that are just AAVE) or even just straight up ignoring the black context to music to fit their own white experiences (example: 'Wavy' by SZA being used by white girls to complain about not being blonde, the 'Black Barbies' by Nicki Minaj trend on tiktok being hijacked by insecure white girls, and ad nauseam).

This all just ties back into seeing black art as inferior and "fixing" what black art they deem just about good enough to be more white and ie more acceptable

[ssoupcup]

Yeah so unfortunately, my friend was right. Muttering 'I'm gonna put on the greatest talent show this town has ever seen' darkly to myself is not only vastly funnier than saying I'm gonna kms, but is also somehow more concerning to anyone who might overhear it

[antlersish]

Mad about politics again

[omghotmemes]

Google Earth is Amazing

[kingscrown666]

Wait for it…

[hereisisa]

everytime. i laugh like an idiot everytime

[theehorsepusssy]

[rechicken-and-waffles]

Great Mouse Detective's clock tower scene lives in my head rent free so I did art based on it

[thysilus]

went on a nice walk

[punkitt-is-here]

pet peeve of mine whenever I talk about being bisexual online and people want to make it about them

[punkitt-is-here]

I love being bisexual but the second I talking about liking dudes I get people in my mentions going "ew dudes I'm only into women" and it's like. Hm. Well I'd like to do this to you

[byjove]

[feisar]

I want to see the fall of LinkedIn during my lifetime

[prgnant]

lest this be lost in the bellicose noise of the day

[ahoneesan]

the word ive heard is theres no telling when this might get sewn up. jump on this while you can, girls.

[kropotkindersurprise]

June 4, 2025 - Dockers at a major French port on Wednesday refused to load a container with machine gun spare parts bound for Israel, saying they “will not take part in the ongoing genocide (in Gaza) orchestrated by the Israeli government,” according to broadcaster Franceinfo.

Dockers at the port of Marseille-Fos have set aside a container containing "spare parts for machine guns," and they "will not load it onto the ship bound for Haifa" in Israel, the Gulf of Fos branch of the General Confederation of Labor (CGT) announced in a statement.

The union confirmed that it was alerted by several networks that 19 pallets of Eurolink belts were to be shipped to Israel on Thursday. The Eurolink belts are spare parts for machine guns used by the Israeli army.

"The port of Marseille-Fos must not be used to supply the Israeli army. The dockworkers and port staff of the Gulf of Fos will not take part in the ongoing genocide orchestrated by the Israeli government. We stand for peace among people. We condemn all these armed conflicts that bring death, misery, and the displacement of populations," it added. [link]/[link]