wybbit.

20-something ND queer like nearly everyone else on tumblr. i am sleepy and the internet is my personal diary. picrew link (not mine): https://picrew.me/en/image_maker/603210

[polyamandhellaglam]

Polyamory is safe for work. Polyamory is safe for kids. Polyamory is safe for day time tv. Polyamory isn’t more sexual than any other relationship and it can be just as romantic, sweet, and healthy.

[evilwriter37]

Aggressively reblogs.

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

sorry to be a broken record every month but christ menstruation is a stupid concept. oooooh excuse me for not getting pregnant, why the fuck is there goo falling out of me about it? grow the fuck up and reabsorb that shit for nutrients.

[dragon-in-a-fez]

when a government bans young people from using social media, and then categorises messenger apps like Signal and WhatsApp as "social media", they are pushing those young people toward using text messages, a fundamentally insecure form of communication. texts are not encrypted in transit and can be read by both the sender's mobile carrier and the recipient's. that also means they can be leaked in data breaches, subpoenaed, or just handed over willingly to law enforcement at the carriers' discretion.

hmm. I wonder why governments might want this

[dragon-in-a-fez]

this is not JUST about destroying kids' privacy by the way, although that is bad on its own! but think about it: if you can push everyone to spend their formative social years communicating through an insecure protocol, most of them are not going to do the work of moving to a secure one the moment they're legally allowed! banning everyone under 16 from Signal and WhatsApp creates a whole population of people more likely to continue, for the rest of their lives, to communicate using a tool the government can access at the drop of a hat

[artemisrhodon-deactivated202403]

staff member getting dunked on by one of their favorite bands you love to see it

[cuteness--overload]

[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

[icantspellthings]

Top 3 things people love insisting they don't have despite it being impossible

Pronouns

An accent

Bias

[energyprison]

it was crazy getting into weed the first time as an adult and learning that all that cliche annoying stuff people like to do when theyre high like watch song visualizers and shit really does feel awesome

[wybbit]

electricity is like ghosts that only some of us can hear are crying

[theaspecyear]

People need to understand that the point ISN’T “being single is not a failure if you’re aromantic”, the point is being single is not a failure full stop.

You can be allo and be single; it’s allowed. You feeling attraction doesn’t mean your priority NEEDS to be finding romance (it can be! But it also can not).

Being single should be normalized no matter what your romantic/sexual orientation is. It isn’t a tragedy.

[aninals]

just hallucinated only the bottom right panel and started giggling and decided i wanted to find the real thing to laugh about it again. and i couodnt so i had to go into my boyfriends dms and ask them if "do you have truckparts"

[grimoiremanifest]

gonna be so real i did not realize the bottom was about purchasing and shipping automobile parts. I thought they were straight up intending to kill and dismantle the UPS truck like some auto mechanic apex predator.

[rohirric-hunter]

"We're gonna achieve immortality by turning ourselves into machines" buddy I want you to find yourself a 15 year old laptop and try to run a 10 year old piece of software on it please. Connect to the internet, if you can, and attempt to log into any of your online accounts

[voyaging-too]

I want to make a post about how hard it is to properly understand what's going on in another country, and how easy it is to misunderstand news coming out of another country, but it's hard to do without sounding either condescending or naive, so I'll start with personal examples and work my way up to it.

Once I saw a world map showing which countries have ever had female heads of state, and which ones were always lead by men. And Hungary was coloured in as having had a female head of state and first I wondered if it was a mistake, then I wondered if they meant the eighteenth-century Habsburg Empress Maria fucking Theresa, then I remembered that Hungary did actually have a female president between 2022-2024. It's just that the president of Hungary had been a ceremonial role for decades. Political leadership is in the hands of the prime minister and his cabinet, the president at best provides some symbolic moral leadership, but mostly they're just window dressing. Katalin Novák, our sole female head of state, never did anything but smile in photographs, and then she was discarded the moment Orbán needed someone disposable to scapegoat for one of scandals. Hungary has never had a woman in a democratically elected head-of-state leadership position, but if you don't know that, you might look at the map and assume our society is far more progressive than it actually is.

And this isn't new. The Hungarian State Socialist system really prided itself on social mobility, and despite them being a dictatorship serving their Soviet overlords, I'll admit that they did facilitate social mobility for women and for the working class. But real social mobility is slow and boring, it takes years if not decades to see the results of poor children going to school and poor adults going to night school. But the party wanted big showy immediate results, so they just picked people and put them in nominal positions of power, mostly for show. Look, there's young female factory workers in our parliament! Yep, because you picked them up and put them there, with like two months of "political training." They are backbenchers who do literally nothing, and the parliament itself does next to nothing. But an outsider who had no context, and operated under the assumption that actual political decision-making took place in the Parliament of State Socialist Hungary, might have assumed that there was far greater social mobility than actually was the case.

The thing I'm working towards is: always be wary and skeptical of a country's self-presentation. Even if there's no lie there, you might be lacking a crucial piece of context. There's such-and-such diversity in the parliament: okay, does the parliament have actual power or is it at best an advisory committee? The citizens get all these benefits: okay, who gets to be a citizen, is there perchance a wretched underclass of non-citizens? There's social security: does it apply to everyone or only to employed taxpayers? There's socialised healthcare: is it functional or is it just a barn where we put poor people to die? People have such-and-such rights protected by such-and-such laws: are they enforced or are people consistently denied rights that they are nominally supposed to have? (The legal situation of Roma people in Hungary is not that bad, the problem is their actual situation, which is in large part due to nobody enforcing the laws about segregation being illegal.)

[knitmeapony]

Nothing is better than animal whose job it is to basically exist In a specific space. Bodega cat basically just lives there. Bookshop dog whose most taxing duty is waking up from naps to say hello to incoming customers. Librarian horse that basically just goes for walkies with their buddy everyday. Doctor's office fish that like to follow people back and forth as they move in the office.

All love and appreciation to the critters and to the kindly humans to make sure they live in peace and joy

[systlin]

My mom for a time was director of tourism for the county. Her office was a welcome center in a refitted old schoolhouse. There was a gift shop and there were maps and stuff, normal welcome center stuff.

She found a scruffy orange kitten out back one day and took him in. Named him Jackson. He became the Welcome Center Offical Greeter Cat.

He was WAY more popular than the gift store or the maps. People would stop in SPECIFICALLY to see Jackson.

Anyway mom got driven out of that job for various bullshit petty reasons involving the fact that two guys on the tourism board hated her for various misogany related reasons, and when she resigned she took the cat.

They were very angry about this. As mom pointed out, though, SHE had paid all the vet bills, for food, ect. Legally, she was registered as the cat's owner and they couldn't do a thing. Jackson came home with her and lived out the rest of his very long life (he died at 17) in she and dad's old farmhouse.

The tourism board had to shut the welcome center and are still baffled as to why things fell apart so much after mom left. They still periodically get questions about where the welcome cat went. Suck shit, Tom and Daryl. It's because neither of you can run more than your damn mouth and you couldn't organize your way out of a wet paper bag.

[exxos-von-steamboldt]

[delicatefury]

I just googled this and… yes, it’s absolutely real.

And there are so many articles and videos and discussions. Like, the scientific community is buzzing about this.

So much research will have to be redone because the data was absolutely compromised, off by orders of magnitude, by using standard lab gloves.

The world is probably not horrifically contaminated by microplastics. Sterile laboratories, however, are contaminated by latex and nitrile gloves.

Thank God someone bothered to check.

[beardedmrbean]

>I just googled this and… yes, it’s absolutely real.

Sources beyond dude just trust me, for the skeptics.

Scientists shocked to find lab gloves may be skewing microplastics data

Scientists may have been unknowingly inflating microplastics pollution estimates, and the surprising source could be their own lab gloves. A

https://www.technologynetworks.com/applied-sciences/news/scientists-lab-gloves-may-be-causing-an-overestimation-of-microplastics-411138

Nitrile and latex gloves may cause overestimation of microplastics, U-M study reveals

Nitrile and latex gloves that scientists wear while they are measuring microplastics may lead to a potential overestimation of the tiny poll

Nitrile and latex gloves may cause overestimation of microplastics - Phys.org (it’s a pdf)

An Embarrassing Mistake May Have Skewed Microplastics Research All Along

Researchers discovered a standard piece of lab equipment has added thousands of microplastic ‘false positives’ per each square-millimeter un

Ordinary Lab Gloves May Have Skewed Microplastic Data

Ordinary Lab Gloves May Have Skewed Microplastic Data: That doesn’t mean microplastics aren’t a problem, though

That should be enough

[bimmyjimmy]

i didnt know the flash was on

[crabussy]

captivated by his colours. how is he doing this

[galileosballs]

There are a lot of philosophical concepts that I wish were in more common parlance, but the one I wish people broadly understood most is 'merely verbal dispute'.

[beansproutking]

care to help me add it to my parlance?

[galileosballs]

So, not infrequently in philosophy you'll have a debate with someone, go back and forth for hours, and eventually realize... you don't actually disagree on any point other than the definition of a word or two. Your actual positions are the same, you're just calling them something different. You see this a lot in some of the slipperier areas of metaphysics, like in debates over free will. But it's everywhere.

Once you get to that point in the debate, there's simply no reason to continue. You're not going to be able to logically compell someone to use different words, it'd be pretty pointless to even try, and there's nothing else at stake. For a philosopher, realizing that you're in a merely verbal dispute is realizing that you're arguing about nothing, and thus, that it's time for the debate to end.