I don't know what started the mental health discussion on this post but I'm living for it.

Look after yourself fellow weres.💙

"cgi animators should strike next" "film crews should strike next" I think everybody in the world should all agree to stop working at the same time.

not a strike either. quit your job, slack off, sleep in, jack off, and forget what "work" ever felt like

"....phrase is bai lan (Chinese: 摆烂; pinyin: bǎi làn; lit. 'let it rot'), which means "to actively embrace a deteriorating situation, rather than trying to turn it around"."

I feel like if humans swallowed rocks like birds do to help grind up food we'd have so much fun with it.

Can just imagine all the girlies on tiktok going "I know this is a bit controversial but I honestly love using limestone as a gastrolith. Not only can you readily forage it but they are just so pretty when smoothed out after regurgitating them"

and then all the comments would be like " girl 😭 😭 calcite dissolves in stomach acid!! Just use quartz if you want a pretty gastrolith like 💀"

Round 1 Poll 5: Evil!!!

2001 A Space Odyssey submissions:

Portal submission:

HOT TAKE TOURNAMENT

POST PRE PRELIMINARY #130

Submission 133

i fucking hate most discussion about tumblr sexymen because EVERYONE IS WRONG AND FOOLISH ABOUT HOW TO CLASSIFY THEM!!!!

‘hey i think jack horner from the pussy boots films could be a sexyma-’ ‘um nooo he’s fat and as we all know sexymen are all skinny white guys in suits’ SHUT THE FUCK UP!!!! THATS NOT HOW THEY ARE CLASSIFIED YOU STUPID TWITTER USER!!!!! i’m sick to death of seeing ‘in another world he was a sexyman’ and the ‘he’ is referring to a pale anime boy in a suit that looks villainous like THATS NOT WHAT MAKES A CHARACTER A SEXYMAN!! THERE ISNT A SEXYMAN LOOK BECAUSE SEXYMAN ISNT A CHARACTER TROPE IT IS A WAY TO DESCRIBE CHARACTERS WITH A SPECIFIC AUDIENCE REACTION! it’s less of a mary sue kind of situation and more of a scrappy do situation and i’m FED UP!!! also if i see any posts that go ‘oooh toby fox made like several tumblr sexymen looking guys and fans went for the ones that DONT look like that isn’t that silly?’ SHUT THE FUCK UP IM GOING TO SEED BOMB YOUR GARDEN WITH MINT!! twats looked at the sexypedia and saw the archetypes sections as a checklist of requirements instead of a list of traits commonly seen in other sexyman, but THAT IS NOT WHAT DEFINES A SEXYMAN!

Pre-preliminaries will be used to determine what qualifies as a hot take. Propaganda is encouraged!

Also, remember to reblog your favourite polls for exposure!

Remember when sexyman was 'weird stuff people didn't understand tumblr users were attracted to and then some people made human designs'? And now it's just 'thin white boys in a suit'?

I dunno if this has been posted yet, but.....

Keep this shit off AO3

We don't want that kind of pearl clutching 'christian' conservative sitting on the AO3 board. Keep Moms For Liberty out of our fanfiction.

this is the second fucking year in a row someone has tried to pull this crap. but if you're still on the fence about it (though fair warning, I am not copying everything she wrote as a response, which you can read on the OTW website):

Also, just for some proof of the "Republican" part, from Twitter:

like, it's not a pejorative, it's how she's self-identified

also, ENTIRELY unrelated to this crap, but she's only been a volunteer for about a year and a lot of her answers to questions about ongoing problems is "I don't know because I've only been here a year." she doesn't even know what PAC is.

Unfortunately, this will require reblogs.

Very occasionally, Twitter has some good advice.

I tried generating a map and I got this

Maybe. I don’t think atolls are usually the size of continents tho

Randomly generated fantasy Portland isn’t real. Randomly generated fantasy Portland can’t hurt you.

In 2020, Robert Kuciemba, a woodworker in San Francisco was infected with covid by a co-worker after his Nevada-based Victory Woodworks transferred a number of sick workers to the San Francisco site for a few months. 

Through the proceedings of the case it turns out that the employer knew some employees might be sick but they transferred them anyway and ignored a San Francisco ordinance in place at the time to quarantine suspected covid cases.

Kuciemba was subsequently infected and he then infected his wife, who ended up in ICU on a ventilator.

The California Supreme Court just ruled against Kuciemba on the basis that a victory, while, in the court's words, "morally" the right thing to do, would create "dire financial consequences for employers" and cause a "dramatic expansion of liability" to stop the spread of covid.

There’s a few stunning details to note in this case. First, the court agreed that there is no doubt the company had ignored the San Francisco health ordinance. In other words, they accepted the company had broken the law. And then concluded “yeah, but, capitalism.”

Secondly, the case was so obviously important to the struggle between capitalism and mass infection that the US Chamber of Commerce, the largest business lobbying organisation got involved and helped the company with its defence. Remember, this is a tiny company in a niche industry. The involvement of the biggest business lobbyists in the country tells us a lot about the importance of the principle they knew was at stake.

Thirdly, the defence of the company is very telling. They said “There is simply no limit to how wide the net will be cast: the wife who claims her husband caught COVID-19 from the supermarket checker, the husband who claims his wife caught it while visiting an elder care home." 

Well, exactly. Capitalism couldn’t survive if employers were liable for covid infections contracted in the workplace, and the ripple effect of those infections. And they know it. 

This case is something of a covid smoking gun, revealing what we always suspected but had never seen confirmed in so many words: the public health imperative of controlling a pandemic virus by making employers liable for some of that control is, and always must be, secondary to capitalist profit. 

This ruling is also saying out loud what has been obvious to anyone paying attention for the last two years: employers don’t have a responsibility to keep your family safe from covid. You have that responsibility. And if you give a family member covid that you caught at work and they get sick or die – even if it was a result of law-breaking by your employer – that’s on you buddy.

It is the same old capitalist story: the shunting of responsibility for ills that should be shared across society, including employers in that society, onto individuals.

This ruling essentially helps codify workplace mass infection and justifies it as necessary for the smooth functioning of capitalism.

This is not new. This is where the ‘just a cold’ and the ‘mild' narrative came from. It came from doctors and healthcare experts whose first loyalty was to capitalism. Not to public health. To money, not to lives. Abetted by media who uncritically platformed them.

While this ruling tells us little that we couldn’t already see from the public policy approach of the last two years, it is revealing (and to some extent validating) to see it confirmed by the highest law of the land in the United States. 

Isekai except the fantasy world is literally just like a ten minute hike away from everything else and has just explicitly never been found.

The protagonist gets hit by a truck but instead of dying they roll down a comically tall hill through like a mile of woods and then they wake up in a fantasy village

undertale

i feel these needed to be compiled. feel free to add more genre related posts in the notes if you want

the thing is that country music has always been in uneasy contention with its dual allegiance to reactionary politics and working class roots because the genre is dominated by but not exclusively populated by white southerners, and the themes of class and race in country broadly identify with a sense of place and romanticization of country life and present “the big city” as an out of touch land of yuppies and “the other” sometimes even when the artists otherwise identify with blue-collar struggles and it is a rotten sanitizing myth to say that country music was somehow spoiled by 9/11 sensationalism when in fact it was a breeding ground for this very sensationalism because of pre-existing nationalism on which a lot of the genre is built. you can’t say country music was good union-organizing music up until 2001 and it made a clean break into conservatism when you had alan jackson and george strait in 1999 performing “murder on music row” to protest country becoming too pop-centric and the “urban cowboy” featuring lyrics that evoke hanging because country was breaking with its traditions to include aspects of other genres. 

plus current trends in country music find a lot of inspiration in hip-hop and borrow trap beats (which is a conversation in itself considering that “meant to be” by florida georgia line was lauded for having a trap beat but “old town road” by lil nas x was snubbed for not being Country) and the genre IS becoming more diverse racially and becoming more lgbt-friendly, and singers such as luke combs are enaging in dual parasitism of and homage to black singers i.e. the fast car cover and turning a concerning profit off of it. so playing into this “actually Traditional Country is good working man music and Current Country is being Contaminated" rhetoric still isn’t quite. it. even if your argument is that the “contamination” is reactionary politics

The Bible says Tetris and Puyo Puyo, not these "DT-cannon" and "4-wide" abominations.

My favourite thing about tumblr, that in my opinion makes it far superior to other social media sites, is that new posts live side by side with old posts. These days, there’s a prioritization of new content. It not only shortens the lifespan of people’s work, memes and such, but it also devalues the work that goes into making certain things.

Sure, a lot of posts are just random thoughts spewed into the ether, but some posts are carefully crafted videos, photos, artwork, prose, that take the creator a considerable amount of time and effort to craft. So, as a content creator, it’s nice to see that you can put work into a piece of content on here and it can have a life of its own. Unlike other platforms where posts live and die in a matter of day, sometimes, hours

Yeahhhhhh!!!!!!!

I think something very scary that is happening for the newer generation is that the invisible audience no longer exists. They’re not invisible, they’re right there, in their pocket all the time, and that is so physiologically damaging.

“he he ho ho elder millennial thinks technology is evil and Edison was a witch”

fucking no but don’t you remember in middle school when you were like “I’m horrible and everyone hates me” but you literally never had any evidence to back that up so you eventually grew out of it? Now imagine you had a little light box that people from all over the world could tell you that actually yeah they did hate you , and they could do it anonymously. Why do you think teens today are so fucking obsessed with cringe? Why do you think you haven’t seen a gen z horse girl? Like the audience isn’t invisible anymore and the kids have to perform form the second their born.

Gangstalking used to be considered a myth to the point where believing you were being gangstalked was considered a genuine paranoid delusion

Now the internet has dedicated forums that have made it completely real.

This shit is so ugly you fucking idiot

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