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Man. Sometimes you just feel your brain resonate like a tuning fork. Like I definitely wanna talk Making Weird Things with that guy.

The end is what got me

is this even funny i dont think its funny im not putting it in the tags

How has this comic made such a groundbreaking cultural impact without getting over 40k notes

thinking again about the 1970s cosmo article about bisexuality where according to the bisexuals interviewed the biggest problem facing the bisexual community is finding someone to have gay sex with you when you’re already married. girl i know

my favorite stories in that article are:

Couldn't find that article (@prettyboysdontlookatexplosions, can you link it or share pics?) but I did find this 1995 article from Newsweek that had many quotable moments including:

'Indigo Som, 28, a paper artist currently in a monogamous relationship with another woman, considers the word bisexual far too vague to describe her life. "My sexual orientation," she says, "is toward creative people of color who can cook."'

i keep meaning to share this in some other less annoying way than a bunch of jpgs but i am too lazy to transcribe the whole thing so since you asked, sure! every single person interviewed here is my favorite person ever and i love every piece of culture writing produced in the 70s. (afaik the article is not widely accessible online; these scans came from a database the new york public library grants access to, thank you to @onihcinimkcin for getting them when i located it after curiosity about the accompanying illustration because i had not renewed my library card lol)

for a while there i was sympathetic to tumblr because of how much they’re in debt; i was kind of like “well of course they’re absolutely desperate for new users, they literally need the money or else tumblr goes down forever”. and then suddenly today it hit me that there’s actually no fucking reason for that debt to be causing these ui changes? the userbase has been INCREDIBLY clear about what they want from tumblr over the years, not to mention clear about the fact that even twitter people don’t need this place to look like twitter. it actually would be very… EASY? for them to just make changes in a direction people would actually be HAPPY with?

for fuck’s sake there were people trying to organize a “crab day” for tumblr despite tumblr doing nothing but telling us to go fuck ourselves for months on end. there were people spending hundreds of dollars on check marks just for the glee of MAKING FUN of twitter. can you IMAGINE how much money this userbase would donate to tumblr if they actually made ui updates geared toward what people have been asking for?

if tumblr actually crowdsourced ideas or even just LISTENED to their userbase it may have been possible for them to make way more money than they’re begging for now, they just insist on trying to drive their actual demographic and loyal userbase out for literally no reason

somehow instead of saying "as a treat", I've started using the phrase "for morale", as if my body is a ship and its crew, and I (the captain) have to keep us in high spirits, lest we suffer a mutiny in the coming days.

and so I will eat this small block of fancy cheese, for morale. I will take a break and drink some tea, for morale. I will pick up that weird bug, for morale.

I'm not sure if it helps, but it does entertain me

we need a three day weekend i swear to god no experiments no testing no bullshit we gotta lop off a workday

I just spent 5-6 years working 4-10s and seriously, we need that 3rd fucking day. I'm back working 5 8's and I hate it.

I don't know how I managed before. That day of pure rest. The day of pure creative. The day to not have chores, errands, or obligations. Want to catch up on sleep? Go for it. Got a show you've wanted time to binge? Have at it. Games to play? Hike to take? Hobbies to work on?

I never realized what having that extra day did for my well being till it was gone. Yeah, I'm bad at time management, but even on my days off I just feel bad because I just need to rest but I feel guilty if I do. If I sleep too late I won't have any time to do what I need or want. I feel like I'm fighting with myself between my needs and my needs- the need to rest, to catch up on sleep, to get energy, and the need to actually do things- laundry, dishes, cat, self-care.

Yeah, I've been pitching the idea at my new job since I got here- apparently I wasn't the first to bring it up, but it's getting from the 'talking' phase to the 'enacting change' phase.

we need a four day workweek and we also need those four days to not add two extra hours to an already long standard shift. 8 hours is a third of a regular person’s waking day (i am ACUTELY aware of this as a narcoleptic whose reset time is twelve hours. a six hour shift is half of my waking day). Four day workweeks are great but taking the time off the fifth day and adding it on to the other four days is, I feel, nulling the point of a four day week. And yes I am also suggesting the pay increase per hour to compensate for 32 hours being the new full-time. At the very least.

We also literally have studies showing that longer shifts are not more productive, at all, because productivity drops sharply partway through. We’re not meant for long periods of dedicated work. We get the most done in like the first 2-3 hours of a shift. So it doesn’t make sense to lengthen them anyway, in most jobs - you won’t actually get more done.

32 hours should be the new full time.

Hey, could you do me a favor?

Could you just RB this?

The little RB statistics chart is so pleasant and stimmy to look at and I want to see what it looks like when it gets really REALLY huge because it makes me think of some deep sea lifeform

This is the transhumanist horror story I want to read

Horror game concept where you wake up and everything is fine. You're living a great life, good job, fun social circle. for a while. but slowly things start to glitch out of place or you put something down and it moves just slightly and the people around you start reciting ads from your past verbatim and you start to see black in the corners of your vision and you go outside and the sky says "format no longer accepted" and everything slowly deteriorates around you while you watch and you look down and there's no ground beneath your feet except you don't have feet or hands or lungs and the screen goes black and cuts to a computer screen that says "simulation terminated due to system incompatibility"

✨ audacity ✨

"useless gay" jokes are OUT this energy is IN

action movie directors really don’t understand that they could write the scariest, toughest, most badass line in movie history, and it still wouldn’t come close to the moment in Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement, when viscount mabrey of genovia said, “sir you will find that the word ‘fear’ is not in my vocabulary!!” and joe didn’t even fucking blink before replying, “Perhaps… But it’s in your eyes.”

You cannot forget this.

Joe! Joe! Joe! Joe! Joe!

You know that study that found when doing a blind taste test the majority of people prefer pepsi over coca cola so coke changed their recipe to taste more like pepsi, and people actually liked the new coke a lot less because the people who were buying coke didn't want it to taste like pepsi they wanted their coke to taste like coke. That's what a lot of the new changes tumblr is working on feel like.

“we live in an uncaring universe” yeah dude and I live in an uncaring house. and I shit in an uncaring toilet. but do you touch an uncaring lover? do you comfort an uncaring child? do you guide to sleep each night a cold and uncaring self?

"In the same way your heart feels and your mind thinks, you, mortal beings, are the instrument by which the universe cares. If you choose to care, then the universe cares. If you don't, then it doesn't." - Brennan Lee Mulligan, Fantasy High S1E17

[Image ID: A picture of a bee and a wasp, both labeled. Both are colored yellow and black. Facts are listed about each one in their respective columns.

Bee:

Wasp:

At the very bottom, in smaller text, is the URL bug-maniac.tumblr.com. /End ID]

NO ANTI-WASP SENTIMENTS ON THIS POST

I love showing people this wasp. Behold the beauty of the wasp!

I was making coffee and I heard a "mpeep" behind me so I turn around an on my kitchen floor sits Kotelet, the tiny stray that visits me every day, and to her side sits a big fat house spider, you know the one that gets stuck in your bath.

So I go "Hey ehh, you brought a buddy?" and she looks down at the spider and swallows it in one go -legs and everything- and looks back at me with these cute big eyes

Couldn't get the image out of my head

CRIME SCENE

new thing i learned just now: in like 400 AD there was a monk named simeon stylites who used to live in a one room cell with a window but too many people kept bugging him for religious advice, so he climbed to the top of a pillar and shackled himself to it until he died 37 years later.

this became a cool new trend to the point where there were enough pillar monks of varying viewpoints that they would scream at each other all day

#i like how he looks genuinely into all of it asdf

This was my barbenheimer

He was a punk she did ballet: ❌

He and she are both punks and have a crush on a same art baby: ✅