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@alilfroginacove

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write that book. publish that blog. apply for that job. dye your hair. cut your bangs. pick up that hobby that you’ve always wanted to try. wear that outfit that you loved but were too afraid to put on in public. life is way too short. be whoever you want to be, and do whatever you want. stop waiting for the right moment, because there will never be one. sometimes you just gotta say fuck it, and do it! live your life the way you want, and don’t ask for anyone’s approval.

By 2030, 90% of "funny boys who are good at posting" will have transitioned into women

This has basically already happened on Tumblr I mean what was the last time you saw a 2010s "funnyman". They've all left the site or transitioned

Don't worry Ryan I said you have to be good at posting

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i definitely think minecraft won't be the game for everyone in the end and that's just how things are no problem but i do think *some* people who don't get the hype of it just need to play with their friends and build a house with them. its also for doing things like this.

"do you seriously think you're above the rules" the stupid ones yeah

if you want me to follow the rules you have to make sure they're not stupid. this isn't a difficult concept to grasp.

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companies really have got to be okay with stagnant profits. what is wrong with earning the same amount every year? why does it always have to be more? it's not sustainable. there are only so many people on the planet you can profit from 😭

This is the thing. If there are only so many people they can profit from, and they demand to see profits go up every year, they will have to steal more out of the pockets of the little people each year, either by paying less, or by charging more. And that is the problem. Because that is exactly what is happening. And the rich get richer. And the poor are getting so poor that it is coming to a crisis point. They seem to have forgotten what happens at the crisis point though: people who have nothing to lose, will rise up and fight.

why must we play god

Artistic representation of how the lemon was invented in the first place

"citrus are whores" is not something i expected to see on the hellsite today

I’m not wrong though they are EASILY the sluttiest fruits. You don’t see Rosales pulling this shit. I mean yeah apples will breed weird new apples but nothing fucks around like citrus.

Tags that look homophobic without context

I MEAN technically squashes are fruits and they are also EXTREMELY SLUTTY.

The lemon and lime fanfic warnings ARE based on scientific fact.

The lemon and lime

fanfic warnings ARE based on

scientific fact.

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

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You love to see it. (Not the destruction of trees, obvs, but shitheads meeting their oncoming comeuppance at the hands of trees.)

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Okay, as someone with their doctorate in plant health (specifically trees and landscape plants), I'm frothing at the mouth livid.

Pollarding is a type of pruning done where you remove the upper branches of a tree with the intent of forcing it to grow more branches. Historically, it was used to produce fodder for livestock and wood for fencing, crafting, etc. but now is more of an aesthetic choice - it creates dense shade and reduces the risk of heavy branches becoming safety concerns later.

However, that pruning is something that occurs in January - March, when the tree is dormant. Not in the peak of summer, when there's a heat wave expected. By doing it during dormancy, the tree has already stored all of the nutrients and sugars the leaves held in the roots and trunk, ready for use in spring.

By pruning these trees now, they've severely damaged them, if not outright sentenced them to death. Leaves provide a tremendous amount of shade to the trunk, actively cool the area through respiration (pulling water through the tree and into the air around it), and provide sugars and nutrients necessary for growth through photosynthesis. These trees now have to work overtime to compensate and re-grow and entire canopy of leaves with reduced resources.

These trees are in what are sometimes affectionately known as "hell strips" - there's a concrete sidewalk on one side, asphalt on the other, and they get hot. Not just upwardly hot, but they heat the soil underneath them as well. The root zone of these trees don't get a lot of water to begin with (concrete and asphalt don't let water in well) and it doesn't seem like there's a lot of soil around the tree to begin with.

Trees in hell strips already have the heat and restricted root zones working against them - you can't have healthy trees if you don't have room for roots. Now these have to compensate and draw resources to push out new growth.

In addition, all of those pruning cuts are open wounds - places where infections and insects can enter into the tree. Usually mature trees can manage minor infections or infestations with no issue. But these trees are now extra susceptible because their immune response is weakened - all the extra energy available is going to new growth, not fighting off infections.

So there's a bunch of factors here that have put these trees at a disadvantage: the removal of most photosynthetic plant material, an increase in surrounding temperature, a restricted root zone, the potential for increased infection, and a heat wave expected in the next week. These trees are going to struggle the rest of their lives because of the decision to prune these trees like this now - all over a desire to break a strike so the studios don't have to pay their actors and writers and editors fairly.

I hope they get the book thrown at them with tree law. And then some.

It’s already happening. Like guys I cannot emphasize this enough the studios are going to make content creators the deal of a lifetime because they have a void to fill and those content creators will then be on the do not work list for the rest of their professional lives.

I think tiktok and youtubers should be specifically warned as well. With SAG-AFRA on strike studios will be looking to fill spots and a lot of young people who are big on tiktok and YouTube and would be super excited to be recruited for Hollywood are easy targets

So let’s be unequivocally clear here:

If you work (scab) now you will NEVER make it in Hollywood.

Your ability to network with other actors is part of what will make or brake your career. If you cross the picket line now you will never, and I mean Never, be able to network with the actors on strike.

They will shun you (rightfully) and that will be it.

You can get as big as you want in the 2-? weeks the strike is in affect, but as soon as it’s over, as soon as the career actors and A-list big names come back you are done for.

Don’t let entertainment companies destroy you for their quick buck. If you are a YouTuber or a tiktoker- this is not “an opportunity of a lifetime”. It’s a con.

it's not just "networking." You will not be able to join the union if you scab, scabs are barred for life. The VAST majority of "good" acting jobs in Hollywood when there isn't a strike going are SAG-AFTRA-negotiated jobs where the studio has agreed to only hire union actors. You will effectively be consigning yourself to only ever work in commercials and student films for the rest of your career if you scab.

[Image ID: Tweet from Catieosarus (@/ CatieOsaurus) on 7/13/23 reading: Listen I am a literal nobody regarding the SAG/WGA strike but I can tell you that a Netflix producer who ghosted me a year and a half ago slid into my DMs this morning wondering about picking up the project we'd discussed back up and it smells a lot like nervous desperation to me. /End ID]

I cannot stress enough to Tumblr staff that they do not need to change the site. Do not try to be like Twitter. Do not try to be like Reddit. Do not alter how this site works.

Tumblr will be the most popular social media site if they continue letting all these other sites implode