Optimistic Pessimist

40 something, therefore I must be dead. Neurodivergent dork who blogs about social justice and reads fanfiction to cope with the crippling anxiety of living in unprecedented times.  Please don't interact with me if you are under 18. Thank you. She/her/ominious cloud of doom/dumbass.

[haaarpb]

happy july 4th it is peaches day

[haaarpb]

happy peaches day to all that celebrate

[notaplaceofhonour]

Reminder that the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition of antisemitism is a “non-legally binding working definition of antisemitism” and never mentions Israel even once.

The examples the IHRA provides as guidance, which do mention Israel, are even less binding (and they are just that—examples), and explicitly state that criticisms comparable to reasonable criticisms of other states cannot be considered antisemitic.

The definition does not “chill free speech”; it is a criticism of certain kinds of speech, which is itself free speech, and should be protected in any country where “free speech” means anything.

When people claim this “chills their speech”, they are not describing any rights of theirs that are actually being abridged; they are simply telling you the kinds of speech they wish to be able to engage in without being criticized.

(And they’re probably hoping you don’t notice that list includes things like “denying the Holocaust” “denying Jews rights guaranteed by International Law” “holding all Jews responsible for all the actions of Israel and accusing them of controlling the world and blood libel”)

[ladyshinga]

OceanGate tried to scrub the internet clean of traces that it ever existed, taking down its Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and LinkedIn pages

OceanGate, the deep-sea exploration company that created the Titan submersible, has removed its Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and LinkedIn a

poor things, well we should definitely make this easier on them by never repeatedly mentioning their name and deeds on the "reblog things forever" website

[septicake]

yea that'd be a shame

by the way, just so everyone knows what not to do, shift+r reblogs a post instantly

just make sure you don't reblog anything about oceangate because that would completely undermine their entire plan 😇😇😇

[curoopeez]

You also shouldn't queue a post, that would make people keep remembering this post for a longer time, which is the opposite of forgetting

[frizox]

anyway happy pride month to my queer Arabs/queer Muslims

whether you are out or not, whether you are living a life that fully and loudly embraces your identity, whether you have people that support you and that don’t try to twist it with useless religious guilt, whether you have to hide sides of yourself, whether you are coping well with your sexuality being a political talking point that justifies the massacre of our kin - your queerness exists. Your queerness is valid. Your queerness is not something you have to squirm away from in shame.

May you live in light and pride and love

[butchdemiurge]

in 2026 let’s start actually noticing and taking seriously the true scale and impact of jkrs transmisogyny and how she’s been funneling decades of royalties and ip owner cash directly into anti trans lobbying thats been making the uk hell while gradually worsening conditions elsewhere through impacting the zeitgeist

[butchdemiurge]

[ryukiki]

[ID: tumblr tags reading #she effectively venmo'd a known hate group 70000 usd equivalent on a whim #she personally bankrolled the political campaign to keep Scotland from gaining independence over their intention to legalize(?) trans people #she started HER OWN hate group last year which intends to "protect" women and girls from having their "autism exploited" by trans activists #she used to slip off Forbes' richest person list bc she gave so much money away #she hasn't slid position in YEARS because she has started entrenching herself in transphobic investment funds effectively #she's worth some shit like 1.2B now because of that #she has explicitly stated that engaging with - even on a fandom only level - her works makes her money that she then uses to do all of this #we cannot just let people remain ignorant to the damage she is intentionally doing #and we cannot let people forget that she got her bc she befriended an echo chamber of radfems who never criticized her in order to do this #do not let that shit slide. End ID.]

[sunspotpony]

Don’t forget how in her quest to get allies for her genocide, she’s been promoting anti-abortion anti-gay folks and giving them funds and notoriety.

She joyously cozied up against the fash and religious right any time it suits her, while still pretending she’s “pro woman,” because, just like Trump, she can SAY she’s a good this or a good that — she can claim to be a good feminist while helping destroy cis women’s rights and bodily autonomy, and her followers will believe her because they don’t fucking pay attention enough to see the shit she’s doing in broad daylight, let alone the shit she’s doing secretly.

[yourfriendlyneighborhoodwraith]

Again

Fuck J.K. Rowling

[bowlby4]

[mysharona1987]

[robertreich]

So this is what "efficiency" looks like?

[kleeklutch]

[rikusqueenofhearts]

[balillee-deactivated20260220]

happy pride month to country mama lynn and country mama lynn only

[iampattonsanders]

Someone give this woman a damn crown and medal

[applejuicewerewolf]

Happy pride month to country mama lynn and ger gay son only

[rabbitheartedfool]

aint it crazy how many people realize they're queer when they have the language to express how they feel and a support system to encourage self exploration????

[wardenaristraith]

I never stop enjoying reading this. Literally everyone's lives improves.

[ya0ishi]

Ancient legends say that if you reblog this on June you get 110% gayer and stronger

[hikarisakurariver]

right at the beginning when she's like how do I help my son feel loved and accepted I'm here shouting "QUEEN YOU ALREADY DID THAT BY TAKING HIS SIDE AND LEAVING THAT NO GOOD HUSBAND FOR HAVING THE AUDACITY TO KICK YOUR BABY OUT!" And Good for her! this is the only response to a man who kicks out a child.

[queen-mihai]

It's Juneteenth yall. And I'm not letting this day go unmarked.

Black people fight for everybody. We stand in solidarity with women, lgbt people, poor people all over the world of every skin color and background. Every religion and nationality.

Today, stand with us. Be with us. Tell a black person you love them. Hug a black person (with consent). Ask that hot black girl out today. Make a black person smile. Black lives matter to everybody and you matter to us.

Stand with us on Juneteenth like we stand with you all year round, and I hope a happy Pride month continues for all of us

💝

[queen-mihai]

Obligatory self reblog because Tumblr doesn't ever let anybody see my stuff unless I literally post it repeatedly

[queen-mihai]

I'd love if you'd reblog this and keep it moving, with love

[depsidase]

[departmentq]

This is the world capitalists want to return to.

Instagram

[sea-salted-wolverine]

Hey. Heyhey. Do me a favor real quick.

If you don't already know you have issues doing so, squat down real quick. Bend your knees all the way and touch the floor. Just make sure you can do it. Okay? For me? And then stand up all the way and make sure you can balance on one foot.

Like. You don't need to blow it into some huge thing. Just. Make sure all your bits and peices still work the way you think they do.

[sea-salted-wolverine]

Can you turn your head to look behind you without twisting your shoulders? What about standing on your toes? If you sit down on the floor can you get back up without using your hands?

If there was ever a tumblr post worth sending to your mom, it's this one.

Just saying, bodies are a use it or lose it kinda thing.

[sea-salted-wolverine]

okay so every time I see this post crop back up in queues and notifications I end up thinking about it. Because I made the post and even I'm still doing the thing where I read the post about maintaining range of motion in my delicate meatsuit and I nod and hmm and think yeah that's a good idea and then dont move from where I'm curled up shrimp style staring at the nightmare rectangle.

So like. Thinking real hard about moving doesn't count as moving. Major bummer. Anyways. Joints.

[yourfriendlyneighborhoodwraith]

I have tight hamstrings and calves and can't squat all the way down without lifting my heels.

Any advice on what to do tumblrites?

[baddyzarc]

If you wanna know the state of Yugioh TCG collecting in the wake of Overframes in the core game…

[baddyzarc]

The situation is so funny man

Basically, Mr grifter announced that he might be getting into the collecting side of yugioh, which would lead to the scalping hell that now plagues the Pokémon and One Piece TCGs

As a joke, MBTYugioh gave them pointers on what to “invest in”, recommending some of the WORST shit products that this game released in the years

He then followed up with a tongue-in-cheek, clearly trolling video recommending shit like Legendary Duelists sets, Duelist of Deep and Synchro Storm, and the Platinum cards, and exclusive COINS before ending the video with “Don’t invest in yugioh. You will lose money due to this game’s reprint policies”

Like, it was very obvious for anyone with half-a-brain cell and is familiar with Yugioh that the video is a joke

BUT a bunch of scalping bots took the video at face value and bought out these doodoo, worthless products immediately after his fuckass video came out

Now they’re sitting on unsellable trash. 100% deserved, I hope everyone whose trying to grift this game like Pokémon loses their money

[themainspoon]

Yu-Gi-Oh fans really saw the scalpers coming and said "You've activated my trap card".

[gatheringbones]

tbh a lot of my advice boils down to “hey you know that terrible horrible looming thing you’re doing your best to avoid and distract and escape as much as possible but no matter what you do it just keeps looming and looming and ruining your life”

“just, fuckign, run straight at it screaming.”

[quasarkisses]

i needed this as a background

[spectrexviiii]

[mysharona1987]

I did not understand I grew up in a concentration camp until I left Gaza

Growing up in Gaza, I didn’t realize that the siege I was living under was unique or that others didn’t face a constant threat of death. It

[startrek-themed-barmitzvah]

Its a "concentration camp" where people go to school and get married and eat pastries and buy new furniture to furnish their nice homes 🤡

literally every fucking claim out of gaza is so patently and self evidently fake, and the holocaust inverting and coopting language so disgusting

Its honestly just so deeply fucking embarrasing that so many westerners buy all this taqiyya and bullshit

[snarkleharkle]

Those famous concentration camps where you can just...leave and move somewhere else.

[mysharona1987]

Unless you had enough money, education and connections (and most people in Gaza didn’t, they lived in poverty) it was very difficult to leave or get a passport.

This was long before October 7th.

Like, that’s the crazy thing about the situation: Israel wants the land, but then they’re stopping everyone from leaving, even the ones that genuinely want to.

So, they just expect everyone to get depressed and commit mass suicide?

(For the record, That’s maybe what it is.)

[phinarei]

As a Native American who has lived on a reservation, a concentration camp doesn't need walls and fences. It just needs sick fucks with guns who don't want people leaving.

A concentration camp is a restricted area where a group, ususally an ethnic group, are forced to live on threat of torture or death while giving their oppressors plausible deniability to the rest of the world.

"Of course they can leave!" they said about the reservation before shooting my uncle in the back for being off our land. "They have such nice things!" they said, while most of us lived in homes with no floor or electricity and only the lucky had any modern conveniences. "They have schools and get married!" they said, while never showing the rest of the world the decrepit schools or talking about the secret weddings that would be disrupted with white men with guns if they were held in the open.

I've spent the last few years growing angrier and angrier. Watching the lies get thinner and thinner.

You don't like Holocaust comparisons? Okay. Fine. Palestine is a reservation and Israel is the murderous federal government trying to exterminate them and violating every promise of peace they make to them. Yes, there are good people working in good faith. But the majority are currently turning their backs to pretend they don't know about the atrocities happening so they can take land that isn't theirs without guilt. "It doesn't matter. They're not real people, just savages. This is a necessary evil."

Been there, seen that. It's a lie and it always has been.

Signed,

An actual survivor of an ongoing genocide.

[stuckinapril]

I think part of getting better is complete ego death. Like you’re not above setting a timer for 5 minutes and focusing on a task. You’re not above doing a very simple 3 minute workout to start. You’re not above reading for 10 minutes a day when you first get out of your reading slump, even if you used to read for hours. You’re not above starting slow and then building up to where you want to be/where you once were. What you are above is total inertia. Doing something really is better than doing nothing. Radically accept where you are, radically accept your limits, and go from there. Don’t let your ego get in the way.