DID HE MAKE IT??
he makes it
There is a level of mad delusion only accessible to syphilitic inbred European monarchs and upper middle class Americans trying to start a small business.
The guy who makes these posts in the hvac subreddit a lot and I love his memes
Some of my favorite by him
going from the reddit star wars fandom to the tumblr star wars fandom is giving me insane whiplash. the upside is that people aren’t bitching about every single imperfect detail in the entire franchise, but the downside is that i’ve seen more fanart of obi wan and commander cody tenderly knowing each other than i have ever wanted to in my life in the last three hours and it has probably fundamentally altered the way i interact with the entire franchise
after the initial shock of being plunged into the icy cold lake of seeing my childhood action figures caressing each others sweaty chests in a gentle, hidden moment after a battle, i’ve been able to get my wits about me and realize that yeah, i’m kinda with it
🟪 ANIMAL OF THE DAY: Scottish wildcat. Felis silvestris silvestris. not a domestic cat!! a fully wild cat found in Scotland. endangered because it keeps mating with house cats. probably out of Wedlock too. terrible
A lot of people love that fake Voltaire quote, "To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize," because it's just vague enough to cover everyone's differing definition of who they are. Obviously the neo-Nazi who made this quote up meant it to imply Jewish people, but there's actually lots of different groups that aren't considered socially acceptable targets of specified critique.
You know who no one ever lets me criticize? Orphans. Anytime I try to point out that orphans are living lavishly at the expense of hardworking taxpayers, people around me always seem to get disgusted. Naturally, this suggests that we live in a world ruled by orphans
I’m babysitting my grandma’s cats and she wrote 4 pages of detailed notes, down to the exact words I should use to greet them in the morning and when I put them to bed at night
forgot to add the goodnight wishes
"bears repeating" and "time flies" are two kinds of creatures that fill similar ecological niches
The true scourge of Reddit users coming to tumblr is that these bitches think reposting art is ok if you add a funny caption
It’s something that isn’t exclusive to Reddit (I see people do it occasionally and it makes me see red every time) but since the Reddit migration I’ve been seeing it WAY more. Killing and exploding everyone who doesn’t source their fucking art with my mind
actually i'm adding this directly instead of in tags: please get permission before you repost even with a source!!! don't just assume it's okay!!! many artists DO NOT ALLOW REPOSTS AT ALL, even with credit, and i've regularly seen art reposted on reddit from artists who have it right in their twitter bios (often in english even if they don't speak the language themselves) that they don't allow reposting
if the artist is on tumblr themselves, reblog their original post. if not, please check their own social media (pixiv/twitter/etc) to see if they say anything about reposting, and if they don't outright forbid it, ask for permission before reposting! (and if they say no, don't do it!)
#reddit had my rvb art all over it#and even with a watermark ppl would be like 'idk who did it credit to them' and I don't have and never will have a reddit account#so I couldn't claim it and reddit wanted me to sign up to report it#so if any of you fucks steal art here on MY turf#it's on like donkey kong#we report shit here
keep seeing Temu ads on here so just to share cause idk if people are widely aware
Folks, Temu is just Wish/Shein/Whatever shitty marketplace of the hour is direct-selling to get around import tariffs and this post in particular is garbage.
The first image is a screenshot from this website, and the article that says "The Temu app is a pyramid scheme that has been gaining popularity recently" ends like this:
The USA Today article and the final screenshot are actually both the same article written by Kim Kommando and hosted on her website AND USA Today where she is a regular contributor. Kommando is not a cybersecurity expert, she is a computer sales and marketing expert who pitches content as a way to sound like you're good at tech even if you don't know anything about tech (which hey, they say to write what you know.)
Kommando is also a Fox tech news contributor and in every mention of China in that article she refers to the country as "Communist China" - so she's recommending that you uninstall Temu so that you're not sending data back to "Communist China."
To be clear: Temu is a datamining piece of shit that sells products produced by underpaid workers and direct ships them from China to you. Their return policy means that if you have a problem you're better off throwing away the problem product than returning or replacing it. It is like if fast fashion weren't just for fashion but was also for garden hoses and car parts. It's only popular because it is spending a shitload of mony on advertising and it is literally the same business model as Wish there isn't anything special about it. Temu sucks and you shouldn't install it and honestly none of us should be using these absolute trash direct sales marketplaces because there is a global impact to cheap consumerism that doesn't seem worth the exchange of encouraging businesses like this to exist as a tradeoff for getting a shitty five dollar polyester dress in the mail.
Temu is bad but it is not especially or uniquely bad, and it seems bad for privacy but not in a way that is any worse than facebook.
OP has actually updated the original post with a Snopes link, an exhortation to do your own research, and an apology for any implied Sinophobia but I still kind of want to yell a little bit.
The "do your own research check your own sources" thing only works when you, OP, haven't ignored the conclusions of one of your sources. This post was originally either misleading on purpose OR op just didn't bother to finish reading articles before posting about.
So don't go yell at OP here, but I want people to note that as of this reblog this post is less than a week old and has about 36k notes. I've seen it floating around a few times and I've never seen it with additional information or the update from OP.
It is *difficult* to update incorrect posts on Tumblr and they can grow legs remarkably quickly. If you're going to make informative posts about a subject you need to show your work and screencaps don't actually count, as you can see here.
So yeah i guess this is your general reminder: If you see a post on the internet that upsets you or makes you worried or makes you angry or makes you scared and that post doesn't make it easy for you to check their work and verify what they are saying is true, please don't share it until you've checked to see if it's true for yourself.
"But helping poor people should be voluntary."
And even when it is, people still have a problem with it.
I went back and did some digging, because it occured to me that I didn't know the date reference of this story and, sadly, there are way too many stories about school lunch debt that they're easy to mix up.
This particular story was from July 2019 (I reblogged it Sept 2022).
There was a relevant update within a week of the scandal: public outrage was swift, the embarrassed school board redacted the outrageous allusions to indebted students ending up in foster care, and it accepted the CEO's $20k donation.
It doesnt change the fact that the very concept of "school lunch debt" is disturbing and inhumane (and there are still stories about children...with lunch debt...). And clearly, the district changed it's tone because it didn't like the bad PR. But figured it was helpful to have more info and context.
Here are some of the relevant sources; each offer bits of info unique to each specific source:
Remember: Public outrage can and does solve problems.
downside: going to have to include a picture of the Giza pyramids in the slides for the lecture upside: i get to give people a crash course in why perspective matters in two frames, because
followed by
is such a funny sequence
i find most people who haven't seen it in person don't know that cairo is RIGHT THERE
I loved these perspectives so I took some of my own when I was in Cairo and yeah, they're literally just. Right there. Pass em on your way to work, nbd
No, y'all don't even understand.
There is literally a Pizza Hut across the street from the pyramids.
That Pizza Hut among other things is why Egyptologists laugh their asses off when we see another piece of media where the protagonists get "lost in the desert near the pyramids", because it's like... just turn around my dudes you're only a seven min walk away from the nearest fastfood shop
Yall don't know how much I adore all of this