being an adult and trying to be "responsible with my money" is so hard like literally what corners am I supposed to be cutting on this budget. what am I supposed to stop spending money on. my anxiety meds? food for my cats? impulsive takeout orders? spotify premium? patreon artists who draw huge throbbing monster dicks? all of these are completely necessary to maintain my quality of life.

I'm not going to put the person who left these tags on blast but

like actually don't ignore the monster dick part that very much IS a little joy. like idk a lot of people have engaged with this post with a tone of "heehoo obviously that last part is a silly goof goof joke" while also agreeing that people need whimsy and little treats to live and like. why not huge throbbing monster dicks? why can lovingly drawn indie porn not be a thing that we acknowledge as a treat? it's not less pure just because someone is jacking off to it, jacking off is also fun.

Also, people who make monster dicks for a living want to be able to afford little treats too...

I'm not letting you hide the tags when you're being this correct

#as someone who has gotten to keep a close eye on sales#i personally know how when money gets tight its one of the first things people cut from their purchase list#we've done several refunds for people who ordered and realized it set them back more than they could afford because we get it#its just a little frustrating that everyone goes 'teehee monster dicks funny joke' about my literal livelihood

everyone support your local artisanal monster dick purveyors

#thought about making this point before#your little treat is often someone else's livelihood#you need to be able to afford little treats in some part so your neighbors can afford little treats#community is little treats - @awishturnedwell

Deepsea Lizardfish (Bathysaurus ferox), family Bathysauridae, Veatch Canyon off the coast of the NE United States

photograph via: NOAA OKEANOS Explorer Program , 2013 Northeast U. S. Canyons Expedition

The thing about deep sea fish is that a lot of viral photographs look a little ghoulish and decrepit only because they're photographs of decompressed dead specimens, but in reality, many of them like this lizardfish in its natural habitat naturally look differently ghoulish and decrepit.

At that depth, the water is exerting thousands of pounds of pressure on every inch of every surface from every direction at all times; the only universe this fish even knows is a blanket so weighted it would kill you instantaneously 🙂

Holy shit there are so many birds

reblogging because apparently people missed it! The Birds have claimed the sacrifice this year look, you can see wires showing through on the horns already:

(img source: the official twitter)

my knight wife, or knife for short

every time someone gets invested in another person's oc an angel gets its wings

Dragonball: Evolution (2009) BEST SCENE

i toucha the fruit, you got fruit? ill touch it for FREE! dont worry about it!

You got water? I touch for you

so some local comic book shop accidentally had a shitload of anime girl…. tapestries (I guess?) printed and was desperate to get rid of them so now the cat shelter we go to uses them as cat blankets and it leads to many a funny sight

favorite genre of YouTube: the hyper specific playlists that can be anything from '[pov: you're an evil vampire 🩸] to [dancing with the goblins at 10am (a pisscore playlist) ] and they're both extremely good

disgusted by all the photos and videos of palestinian men being stripped, abducted, and tortured by iof soldiers (and settlers!) and almost equally disgusted by the fact that the majority (the non-arabs, non-muslims, non-palestinians) continue to refuse to include palestinian men in any of their calls for justice and palestinian freedom because they either: 1. still see them as barbaric 2. as deserving of the treatment they are receiving or 3. at best, not effective enough tools for garnering sympathy as the children and women are and so not worth mentioning. hurts even more to see male palestinian journalists focus almost entirely on the women and children because, yes they are the majority of the victims, but palestinian men 110% know their lives aren’t of the same value to the rest of the world, despite their overwhelming love for their people, for their families and friends, for life.

and, just so you know, today (14.12.23) iof soldiers once again forced palestinian teenaged boys to strip and turn themselves in as alleged hamas fighters in ghazzah, and they also stripped palestinian men in jenin (occupied west bank) as part of the invasion that lasted 3 days, appearing to end today, in which dozens of palestinians were detained, 12 palestinians were martyred and at least 10 homes blown up by israeli forces. this has been the largest invasion of jenin in 21 years (x)(x).

oh this is evil

What is that?

discord is adding parental surveillance. as nerdskii's tags pointed out its a ridiculous measure that doesnt help anyone because apps like Signal exist for actual illegal/sketchy activity and this just hurts lgbt teens looking for somewhere to be themselves and have resources especially with conservative parents

I use android. this is my secure folder, which was built into my phone. it has a customize option, so I've made it look like some bland fitness app. when you open it, it asks you to enter a password or unlock it in any other way you've set it to unlock before it lets you in

inside of this folder is like a 2nd phone almost, I can hide apps in here or have different accounts on apps I've already installed. I have a separate discord and tumblr inside of my secure folder (which I moved this blog to recently)

there are similar third party apps, usually disguised as a calculator that you set a certain number or calculation as the password to unlock. that's a lot more inconspicuous if opened, but also more well known, and parents might be looking out for any suspicious calculator apps

also, be careful what 3rd party apps you download, especially when it's concerning things like your accounts and data! make sure you're downloading something safe and secure

this isn't foolproof, depending on how far your parents are going to track you. if they've installed anything or had you install anything on your phone or computer, or had the chance while you weren't there, be careful for spyware. some apps report how long you look at each app, or can record sound from your phone on demand

also important: a good VPN can secure what you're looking at from the router, which parents may be able to access information from, but this also isn't guaranteed to work if the parental controls are set to block VPNs

another one, if your parents are tracking your location but not your app usage: download a GPS spoofer. you don't necessarily need to root your phone for this, as long as it's supported in developer settings. a lot of them are branded as tools for pokemon go, which can be helpful for plausible deniability

parents reading this: these are things I've learned from constantly having my shit taken and looked through as a teen. you aren't protecting your kids, you're ruining any chance of them trusting you with anything. if something goes wrong, you're going to be the last person they tell, because someone who goes to these lengths to see any little thing isn't going to be chill when something actually bad happens if this is how you act when literally nothing is happening

So I work with domestic violence victims, and these are some great ideas to try if the abuser hasn't made a clone of your phone or engaged in other advanced tracking methods. If they have done that, your best bet is to research options at the public library.

And for parents reading this: this kind of surveillance is considered domestic abuse for adults, and frankly it should be for kids too. There's necessary supervision and then there's... this.

sitting anti-kink posters down in front of a wrestling match and explaining kayfabe to them with the patience of a preschool teacher

You see that one? He's called the "heel." He looks mean and says a lot of scary things, but it's not real and he's actually very nice. When he says "I'm going to break you in half" you don't have to be scared because it's pretend. These two talked about this beforehand, and now they're playing pretend together. Can you think of any other situations that might be like this?

no that part was real

“I am happy to share photos of a rarely reported species, Diacheopsis kowalskii, which to date has only been found in a few mountainous areas in Europe, western USA, and Canada. This is a nivicolous species, meaning that it develops near the edges of melting snow during spring. Diacheopsis kowalskii has gorgeous iridescence on the peridium (outer membrane covering the spores), and tiny white needle-like crystals, which you can see more clearly in the close-up. These were on bare dead wood (alder i think) at Yuba Pass, (elevation about 6700ft) in the northern California Sierra.” - by Alison Pollack

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Well, this gentleman understood the assignment.