Dang. Idk if anyone has ever laid out Donald Trump’s entanglement with Russia sO clearly.

If you’ve had enough of watching the Trump clowns defending Trump & white supremacy, the Sutori link is definitely worth reading. It is a very enlightening, detailed and comprehensive timeline that puts Trump’s very very long history with Russian mobsters into sharp perspective.

👉🏿 https://www.sutori.com/story/timeline-you-might-be-interested-in--pTTyLH39r7FsRtF51JZi4BVt

👉🏿 https://forensicnews.net/trump-deutsche-bank-loans-underwritten-by-russian-state-owned-bank-whistleblower-told-fbi/

when internet people are like “i love gothic literature but i hate anything that discusses incest, sexual violence, oppression, misogyny, abuse, torture, gore, murder, or death”

no actually me and everyone else who’s ever watched crimson peak were brainwashed by guillermo del toro into believing that incest and violence are cool and awesome. sorry

Horrifying that this pearl-clutching over horror actually being dark is unironically becoming A Thing…

TO THOSE MAKING NATIVE OCS

I see this a lot, no one has actual names, or any reference for names, that are legit Native American, varying among the tribes, for their characters.

Babynames.com and shit like that will give you names made up by white people.

However, I’ve got your solution.

Native-Languages  is a good website to turn to for knowledge on a lot of native things, including native names. If you’re unsure about the names you’ve picked, they even have a list of made up names here!

Please don’t trust names like babynames.com for native names, they’re made up and often quite offensive to the cultures themselves.

Thank you!

Native Languages is a great website. I use it for my fact-checking since it always has reliable links to tribal sites.

I’m Native American and my entire name, first middle and last, are all Spanish names. Like, do you know how many Jessica’s I know?? They are all native too. The people I know who do have a “native American name” are some of the most annoying, insufferable people you could ever meet. They are the types to look down on you for not knowing the language or for not being seen at every powwow. And if they themselves are parents then their kids usually have a name straight from a cartoon. (Like Koda or Kenai. You know? From Brother Bear)

Also also also!!! I told you how my entire name is Spanish? Yes? Well guess what? I ALSO have a “Native American” name! My grandmother gave it to me. A lot of us have a “government” name and a “native” name. And no, we don’t share that knowledge. Only family members call us by our native name.

And guess what! A lot of those “native” names are just things like little bear, groundhog, owl, or rabbit but, you know, in the Native language of the people.

And another thing! Some people have a “regular” name like Shawn or Cody or April or Sabrina. And have a very “native” sounding last name like kingfisher or crow or runninghorse or wolf(e).

Wild that folks keep saying beekeepers abuse bees as if bees are not both venomous flying animals and fully unionized

Hubris to think you COULD abuse bees

I think that if you see a balrog in an unlocked kitty kennel then you can assume that it wants to be there

Actually, beekeepers take many precautions to keep their bees from leaving.

many clip the wings of the queen, destroy new queen cells, cull queens they don’t like and use bee pheromones to prevent a hive from naturally swarming or absconding. They also try and prevent mating with the African honey bee, which makes them less docile among other things. During artificial insemination of queens, drones are crushed and „spare“ queens are killed.

and commercial beekeepers even cull their hives during winter, or when they are not producing well.

Coupled with the fact that there is evidence that insects do feel pain, this is not great.

(Not to mention that honeybees are an invasive species in most places, competing with native pollinators and spreading disease)

It is so fucking bold of you to link the exact same paywalled book thirteen times in your reblog to throw people off the fact that you’re using one source from 1859.

having gone to the linked source I’m actually very unsure even if you got behind the paywalled source it says what it’s claimed, as among the preview pages are:

“In all our operations with the bees we must use gentleness. All quick sudden jars and motions irritate them. So does breathing on them. Bees are always more gentle and less inclined to sting when they are gathering honey; and at such times hives can be opened with very little danger; whereas when a dearth of honey prevails the inmates of the same hive might show a great spirit of resentment. I have observed that colour exerts some influence on the temper of this insect. I have found that dark shades of clothing, particularly red, are more distasteful to them than white. Hence when working among them I always go in shirt sleeves pr in light coloured clothes.”

The broader page is about how being stung is unpleasant but not the end of the world, and you can easily minimize it…. By being thoughtful and careful and calm. I can’t find reference to clipping wings or culling; there is a mention of removing drone comb but only carefully, and it’s useful to remember that the hive itself literally drives the drones out to die once they’ve served their purpose. There’s no mention I could find of artificial insemination of queens, and I’m VERY sure that in 1859 they did not have reliable access to BEE PHEROMONES xD xD

There is mention of using smoke but dire warnings of oversmoking; and since the first record of Africanized honey bees is from THE NINETEEN FIFTIES, not the eighteen fifties, that poster is DEFINITELY lying about that citation, as unless the Victorian writer of that book was a fucking Time Lord, they can’t have known that cross breeding was a concern.

This is why it’s not enough to merely assume that because someone has REFERENCED a source, this means they have evidence. It is necessary to check that the source says what they claim. In this case that is in many cases literally impossible, and in all other cases unproven.

TIL that in 1941, American vessels of the Atlantic fleet fired hundreds of rounds on a light in the sky believing it to be a Japanese aircraft. It turned out to be the planet Venus.

via reddit.com

Thank you for posting a pine cone for reference but I’d like to see what the bird looks like too, please.

I’ve been asked many times “why the monster business?” As in “why come out on the internet and make such a claim? What is the point?” Pessimists see a con. Believers see a signpost, a rallying point. Every single person comes with their ideas, and because I’m not human and openly allow their curiosity, they often permit any social inhibitions to break down. Behavior toward me has been very different and interesting.

Absent inhibitions, humans show more of their inner space, their thought process, their analysis and how it functions. I get to see more by being the monster, and the first way, is in expectations.

For years, every chance they have, someone tells me how I do not meet their expectations. Really. What a shame. Please tell me what you’d want from me to be more the monster you think I ought to be. I’m too formal, too relaxed. I’m too mean and not mean enough. I care too much, but am abusive. On and on. My ask box reads like yelp reviews. Everyone has an opinion, and that is one factor I’ve been tracking. Always has been. How many people say Simon, how many Simone? How many make an attempt to combine genders or avoid them? Every permutation you can think of, I’ve been able to see it all, simply because my claim allows me to slip behind the decency curtain.

12 years.

How many of you have spent 12 years doing anything unless paid for it?

You ask yourself why? You do this because you can’t fathom a human motivation for my actions.

Good on you.

Watching how I’ve been received/dealt with/questioned etc has taught me everything I came to see. Because whether or not you believe in me, is simply a lock on your behavior. It’s one layer of inhibition.

If ever I see manipulative behavior, for whatever purpose, whatever reason, I will call it out, because the experiment is over, and I’ve seen enough. These days the little games are no longer tolerable.

Not interested. It’s been well-documented by me.

If you’re smart, you’ll analyze the behavior I received also. See what it can teach you. Fiction is used to discuss reality in safe ways. If you think I’m fictional, then look to the behavior if captured. If you do believe me, think about what your behavior says to other species, about your capacity for compassion or empathy.

Either perspective ought to teach you enough to make you cringe.

For me the most compelling set of data was the behavior of those who did not believe me, because somehow the concept I might be lying let them get away with whatever they wanted, in their own minds. Especially all the fascinating constructed motivations for my actions. Very telling about their backgrounds, their concepts of self and culture. The behavior says everything.

You’d never believe how many people told me they were rude to be because they could be.

It’s helpful to the study to state such things aloud but honestly I figured it out before anything was said .

48hr tumblr blackout proposal

tumblr mobile has seadily become near unusable these past few updates. not just from a user experience perspective (which is important enough in itself) but also from an accessibility perspective.

examples include the new way the image viewer works (if you can call it "working"), the tumblr live button replacing the profile button, and that newly created blogs will be forced to have their main dashboard tab be the 'for you' page.

the demands of the protest would be along the lines of:

to protest against these usability issues, and inspired by the recent reddit blackout, i propose a 48 hour blackout (where you don't use tumblr at all). preferably of both mobile and web (since web has problems too) but mobile is the focus here.

I suggest the 48 hours between the 30th of June to the end of the 1st of July.

this marks the end of pride month (for the "queerest place on the internet") and the start of disability month (since accessibility is a massive issue here).

tumblr office is in San Francisco, USA, so the times and dates will be calculated using their time zone (PDT).

you can find out the times and dates for your timezone here.

i can't afford to blaze this post so please spread it around as much as possible! protests only work if significant numbers show up!

tumblr rejected the blaze campaigns for this post because they know it would hurt them. let's make this an indefinite blackout - it's the best way to get results.

(so the blackout would be from June 30th onwards)

TL;DR- This is a concept that has been attempted several times before on Tumblr, and because of the way Tumblr works as a site, has never actually worked. Please stop proposing this just because Reddit did it (and also has not succeeded despite mass coverage).

Okay, so, summary out of the way-

Tumblr does not function in such a way to make black outs actually work the way needed to properly impact the site. Reddit's blackout has had such a dramatic impact because it works like a mass network of forums, and the shut down of the forums basically neutered the network as a whole.

Tumblr, on the other hand, is entirely individuals that network one on one and do not control any large mass network, so not only is communication limited, control over the network is entirely dispersed between individuals.

Asking users on Tumblr to participate in a black out is like trying to get individual dog owners to properly leash their dogs outside of off leash areas when you have 3 people to talk to dog owners and a minimum of 27 different parks across a whole city where dog owners take their dogs. It simply does not work, not without a great deal of stress, overtime and manpower that the city cannot afford.

Tumblr staff responds best to feedback, contacting support and the specific public staff blogs, and has in the past responded to DMs and emails. Better yet, form a survey or form letter, and mass send to Tumblr Support to maintain pressure about the changes.

What works for one site will not work for another, don't let yourself fall into the fallacy of false equivalence.

Or, in this case, what doesn't work for one site definitely won't work for another that's set up in a way that makes it even harder to carry out.

- the lady at the welfare office cancelling my benefits

- the lady at the welfare office cancelling my b

The lady at the w

Encounter: first-draft Alien

“Raar, I’m gonna getcha!”

GERARD DUBOIS Moby Dick

this is legendary because you as you go you see the photo itself and you’re “oh this is some symbolic / surrealist art” and then the TITLE hits you like a shotgun shell

In case you were unaware, Moby Dick is one of the foundational texts of cosmic horror. The White Whale is a god, maybe even The God. And Ahab Hates Him.

The funny thing about being an X-Files fan is that there are the "good" monster-of-the-week episodes where Mulder's theories are insane, Scully is justifiably skeptical, and the real culprit turns out to be something neither of them expected (if, indeed, they ever learn the full truth at all), and then there are the "bad" monster-of-the-week episodes where Scully is shrill and Mulder is smug, the culprit turns out to be exactly what Mulder's zero evidence ass-pull of a theory claimed it would be, and Scully maintains her skepticism only because a series of Phineas and Ferb contrivances keep making all the evidence vanish right before she walks into the room, and everyone just politely pretends that the latter don't make up 80% of the show.

One may note that the pictured post opens with the phrase "when the show is at its best"; it does not specify how often that is.

I really hate how emotionally manipulative TV commercials have become. Normally I don't see them since I don't own a television and rarely stream anything legally, but I've been rewatching SG:A on Hulu and watching SNW on Paramount+, so...

They're all like "Look, this person from a minority is deeply emotionally invested in our shitty product!" Whether it's a young woman doing "baby butch voice" (you know the one) talking about Microsoft Fucking Edge as if it revolutionized her life and it will revolutionize yours too (is that a threat?) or that commercial where multiple black Southern people talk about how much the new Chic-fil-a breakfast biscuit reminds them of their mother's cooking (I bet it doesn't, somehow. I bet it doesn't.)

It feels like it carries a "how dare you dislike our product on ethical grounds. This person has made it part of their identity!" message with it.

Believe me, I'm not just talking about rainbow capitalism, that's... well, this year, I'll fucking take any public display of queer acceptance, no matter how cynical. I'm talking about these commercials that are trying make us associate products that already have a horrible reputation (no one likes Edge, I don't think, and you know about Chic-fil-A) with young, smiling, happy minority individuals to try and make it seem... Oh, god, are they trying to make it seem reactionary to dislike their products?

Actually, watch this, Harry kind of tangentially touches on this here:

Yeah my name is Tim, short for OpTIMus Prime

[id: tags saying "wait wait i wanna know where they plan on using their full name, why'd you cut it off"]

answer: THEIR WEDDING.

I can't describe to you the emotion I would feel if I was hanging out with my friend Tim and he was like "hey we've been friends for a while now I want to show you something," and he hands me his driver's license, upon which I read "Optimus Prime Jones"

Reverse fireball that does 8d6 fire damage to everywhere except a 20ft radius sphere within 150 ft

I WANT SPELLS THAT WORK LIKE THIS SO BAD

Okay but... how eveywhere

Everywhere.

Not even just, like, everywhere in D&D. You cast this and the MCU bursts into flames.

die girlies reading this 🥰

oh my god I meant in a german accent I did not mean to wish death upon girlies

The girlies reading this post

Each of us… gets a gray cube :)

come get your cube!

me picking up my cube   at the cube store

Those cubes in the last image are rather small. A cubic meter would be a lot bigger.

Here’s an example of what amount of space a cubic meter cube would actually occupy.