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We’re Tasting the Color of God

@cortalian

A copper lady. She/her. Floating amidst the void. Note: I rarely use tags, so if you decide to follow do so at your own risk.
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Hey. Why isn’t the moon landing a national holiday in the US. Isn’t that fucked up? Does anyone else think that’s absurd?

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It was a huge milestone of scientific and technological advancement. (Plus, at the time, politically significant). Humanity went to space! We set foot on a celestial body that was not earth for the first time in human history! That’s a big deal! I’ve never thought about it before but now that I have, it’s ridiculous to me that that’s not part of our everyday lives and the public consciousness anymore. Why don’t we have a public holiday and a family barbecue about it. Why have I never seen the original broadcast of the moon landing? It should be all over the news every year!

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It’s July 20th. That’s the day of the moon landing. Next year is going to be the 54th anniversary. I’m ordering astronaut shaped cookie cutters on Etsy and I’m going to have a goddamn potluck. You’re all invited.

Hey. Hey. Tumblr. Ides of March ppl. We can do this

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i almost got hit by a car today.

my klang toyotathon jumped in the way and saved me. hes a very good boy.

(art by @realpokemon )

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toyotathon is okay (we're in the pokemon center now) and we got to meet a bunch of fire fighters. it was kind of cool watching them get him out with the jaws of life.

One of my favourite things about hanging out in the trans community is how it has and will continue to slowly erode my ability to blend into cishet dominated social settings. I'm just fundamentally on different wires now, and that's great because I never liked those social settings anyway

cishet ppl will say shit like "if your boyfriend closes the fridge door with his hip he's not a boyfriend" and expect you to understand what they mean then explode when you liken your gender to a wolf but in a girl way

I've never felt more seen

jokes that will literally never not be funny to me:

  • saying “speedrun strats” every time you fuck up
  • saying “first try” when you’ve tried the thing like 15 times, minimum

people (mostly on twitter) are pissing me off so much with the "its reddit, who cares"

like, its not a social media, its a collection of forums, if you hate certain subs for their politics or opinions, dont visit those (you control the buttons you press or whatever)

meanwhile were about to lose so much information about niche hobbies and interests,

and these are the same people who were complaining last week that you cant find anything on google without adding "reddit" at the end,

are you fucking stupid, do you want to have to look through unrelated blogs and ai generated/pay walled quora answers everytime you need technical assistance or wanna talk about a hobby? is that what you want?

im this close to losing it

There's a reason why I use both Tumblr and Reddit.

Tumblr is great for in-jokes, community, etc. It's good for seeing what your buddies are into and reading derange 2am mutualposts and finding out what kind of brainrot is trendy right now.

Reddit is good for factual information. Reddit has a functional search, for one. Reddit is where I post a picture of my cactus and go "I think it's dead. How do I confirm?"

There's also regional subreddits that are invaluable if you're not American, because trying to find regional information (especially about local politics) on a platform like Tumblr if you're not American just never works. For all I know, it doesn't work even if you're American! And for non-political regional info like "how much should I expect to pay to rent X in Y area" or "is the landlord particularly bad in this place or is this just normal in this town" and "I'm celiac, where should I eat where they actually care about keeping things gluten-free" and "where the hell are they posting about roadworks, there's nothing telling me when they're ending". And yes, because I'm a gamer, I also go to Reddit for theorycrafting and optimising gameplay etc.

Tumblr is great but it does not work for any of those queries. It struggles with niche topics and specific details. It's hard to update posts with resources (whereas it's very easy to update a Reddit post - Tumblr can't reflect changes once a post is reblogged).

“what if people transition and then regret it?” ok. let’s do that with everything. no more straight marriages until the heterosexual divorce rate is below the detransition rates