kink at pride is easy af to explain to kids, idk what yall are talking about. "mommy, why is that mostly-naked man wearing leather?" because lots of gay men think it looks nice. "why is that guy on a leash with a mask?" hes playing pretend. "why does she have a whip?" she thinks its fun. you know how you like to play with water guns? its like that but only for grown-ups, and she wont play with anyone who doesnt want to play with her so we're all totally safe

if your 6yo's next question is "is that a sex thing?", thats fucking wild and a completely different problem. for you. not really an "Us Problem" collectively for all pride-goers, tbh. something's going on there thats hard to call the dominatrix's fault

homophobes think that being gay is already a weird sex thing thats hard to explain to kids. did yall forget that already? why are you trying to play respectability politics for people who will never respect you?

this is like how people always say “oh this would kill a medieval peasant” girl you strongly underestimate the resilience of these fuckers. they would embrace your challenge with love and curiosity

And its not like gay sprang from the Feywild, fully formed, in 1968. There is a non-zero chance that Goodman John is gonna say “You meam there are people who CELEBRATE that they gargle cock? Wrap me in this strange fabric, for I, too, van be PROUD!”

—

Tim Hitchcock, English Sexualities, 1700-1800, Macmillan Press, page 63

Boss is asleep, cannot stop me from frogposting

First like and this has already found its intended audience

uh oh

I’m a huge fan of how rhodochrosite can either look like beautiful pink flowers, like pointy red crystals, like little Barbie-pink orbs, or like meat

[ image description: rhodochrosite in each of the previously described forms, ending with some rhodochrosite stalactite chunks that look like breaded hams and one piece that looks like a raw steak growing out of a rock. ]

watching a video on brewing Mesopotamian beer and look at this orange man (his ass cannot guard the barley)

everyone big mad because tumblr doesnt let you search nsfw anymore. grow up and get a weird fetish that doesnt immediately register to people as sexual like the rest of us.

Yeah. It doesn’t count as a real fetish until you can have art for it that doesn’t even register as porn to pervotypicals.

Like a couple of the pron blogs I followed closed up shop, but my porn tumblr has been active this whole time.

Everyone- eat the rich! everyone on the Titan was a self entitled rich person (except that poor kid rip)! They shouldn’t have exploited the victims of the Titanic!

News sources everywhere-

Why do I keep seeing James Cameron all over my news (I know these are both Insider, but I have been seeing James Cameron in the news for days from several different outlets, I’m just lazy) Listen, I know he did the time and made the movie but how is he any different? Rich white guy? Profited off of the exploitation of the tragedy of the Titanic? Self entitled expert? Bleh I’m over seeing his crusty wannabe Saruman face all over my phone. Go back to the Avatar movies and think about what you’ve done.

Image descriptions- two news articles, one titled “James Cameron estimates he’s spent more time with the Titanic than the ship’s actual captain after 33 voyages to the wreckage” and “The Titan sub was likely trying to surface and the passengers probably knew the hull was starting to crack before it imploded, James Cameron says.”

A news article titled James Cameron on Titanic Submarine Loss: “Struck by the Similarity of the Titanic Disaster Itself” and a lovely hands rubbing meme with the text “James Cameron eyeballing the opportunity he never thought would come: Titanic 2”

...I'm writing this under the assumption that you don't know any better, because hoo boy is this a bad take

James Cameron legitimately numbers among the small handful of people most qualified to talk about the Titan disaster. The reason why is because being a filmmaker is almost a side project compared to his very real contributions to submersible design, oceanography, and undersea exploration. Cameron has spent decades in the field of undersea science and submarine engineering. He co-designed a submersible called Deepsea Challenger which he personally took to the Challenger Deep, the lowest point of the Marianas Trench and the lowest point on Earth, alone; the first and to date only person to have ever done so solo. His hyperfixation is not the Titanic, it's submersible engineering and undersea exploration in general. Here's him being presented the Nierenberg Prize (for contributions to oceanography) in 2013:

Note that in the above interview he literally says that he made Titanic essentially just to get the funding to go to the wreck site (and to have the funding to continue to do so decades onward). He's made 33 dives to the wreck of the Titanic.

The reason why he appears in the news is not because he wants to talk about the disaster. It's got little to nothing to do with him having made Titanic (though that is tangentially related). It's because everyone knows that he is an actual, legitimate expert on the issue of submersible engineering (as well as both diving and diving to the Titanic wreck in particular), and so they bombarded him with interview requests and requests for comment. He specifically did not respond to any such requests until after the deaths of the passengers had been confirmed, because he knew that the sub had imploded and they were all dead, and he didn't want to be insensitive and drown everyone's hopes by telling everyone that the search and rescue was pointless. Here's him on ABC News next to his friend and associate Dr. Bob Ballad, the man who discovered the wreck of the Titanic, who is probably the only other person more qualified than Cameron to talk about the recent disaster:

TL;DR: James Cameron is not being interviewed because "he made Titanic"; he's being interviewed because he's a well-known and verifiable submersible engineering and undersea expert.

Ducks quack loudly before a rain. 📰 🦆 

It's a whole clip.

nowhere else

this is exactly the same in Argentina, it's forbidden for police to enter a public university without a judicial warrant and even then only the federal police or gendarmerie, there was a case a while ago where provincial police entered to arrest students and it was a scandal, the other time there was a petty crime in a protest on my college and there was a whole protocol to follow to arrest the guy, we don't let cops in colleges

the concept of colleges or schools having police officers inside to me is completely alien and almost barbaric, what kind of learning enviroment are you fostering when there's police and "shooter drills" in your educational system?

Reblogging prev tags for truth

The reason why Latin America ejected the milicos and recovered (a very fragile, still incomplete) democracy was by the struggle of students, unions and the people. It's still the only thing that keeps us going.

The United States is quickly, and I am not exaggerating one bit on this, sliding into a military dictatorship, as the remnants of the democratic system can only agree in one thing: keep the military going. Sooner or later, some milico will decide that they don't even need the whole democracy thing after all.

I do not mean it to gloat, but as a warning. If the United States does not develop a popular movement soon that fights back instead of the defeatist attitude, things will get worse. And unfortunately, given their position, the consequences will be global.

Surprisingly, this is not a Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy reference, but an actual fact. From Burnout: Solve Your Stress Cycle, by Emily and Amelia Nagoski

I think Doctor Emily Nagoski has a PHD but YEAH

[image ID, photo of a book page:

[bold, centered text] Forty-Two Percent [bold ends]

So how much is “adequate”?

Science says: 42 percent.

That’s the percentage of time your body and brain need you to spend resting. It’s about ten hours out of every twenty-four. It doesn’t have to be every day; it can average out over a week or a month or more. But yeah. That much.

“That’s ridiculous! I don’t have that kind of time!” you might protest - and we remind you that we predicted you might feel that way, back at the start of the chapter.

We’re not saying you [italic] should [end italic] take 42 percent of your time to rest; we’re saying if you don’t take the 42 percent , the 42 percent will take you. It will grab you by the face, shove you to the ground, put its foot on your chest, and declare [image ends here, mid-sentence]

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Here’s the last paragraph, completed courtesy of Goodreads:

We’re not saying you should take 42 percent of your time to rest; we’re saying if you don’t take the 42 percent, the 42 percent will take you. It will grab you by the face, shove you to the ground, put its foot on your chest, and declare itself the victor.

This looks like a fucking parody post, or an edgy edit, but it’s 100% official real Flintstones.

Clarification: I don’t hate this book, I love it, it’s amazing. It’s just that taking a step back and looking it out of context is still really funny. Especially the line “We participated in a genocide, Barney.”

ok but imagine them in their cartoon forms saying this dialogue i’m

can we have some context to this, perhaps?

Bedrock is having a mayoral election. One of the candidates is a violent war mongering asshole that riles people up against the lizard people. This reminds Fred and Barney of their time in the army.

Back then the father of said violent candidate was riling people up against the “tree people”. Fred, Barney, and other soldiers fought what they believed to be a defensive measure against the tree people. Turns out, it was actually an invasion, in order to kill off the tree people and take over their forest to build Bedrock.

That’s what Fred means when he says he and Barney participated in a genocide. They literally did.

(Extra fun fact, Barney adopted a tree person baby after the war, and his son Bamm-Bamm is the last tree person.)

just fucking read it

http://readcomiconline.to/Comic/The-Flintstones

There are a lot of interesting things about this post but the AK-47 shaped spear is what really got me

This is just as wild with the context

Some of my favorite moments in the series

From the foreword to 2021 print of the comic.

i get that its popular but has anyone thought about how fucked up the truman show is? like it was really funny last week when he tripped over that bird but think about it... he doesnt know...

okay if you care so much then don't watch 🙄 people are always whining about the show but I knowwww you're tuning in. besides he's never known anything else at this point it'd be cruel to end the show. like what are they gonna do? just release him into the wild?

HR people of tumblr, I could use advice

My life partner, the man thing, is a salaried exempt employee. He has been for a few years at this point. The company he works for was bought out and was part of a merger at the end of last year.

Since then, there have been… issues. There is still no company handbook. There is no HR department. There is no way for employees to ask about company policies and get a straight answer.

Employees have been asking for insurance since the merger, and nothing has been done yet. (This is a problem for a few people with things like… heart conditions and diabetes.)

There are obviously a lot of issues.

The one I’m asking about: He told me this morning that exempt employees are required to work 84 hours every two weeks. This is not in writing anywhere, it’s not in his contract, and I can’t find anything online saying that an employer can require anything more than a 40 hour work week (as part of written company policy). Is there something I’m missing? Does anybody happen to have a handy link or two that definitively states what is legal in this case? I haven’t been able to find anything state specific - we’re in Florida so that’s not surprising - but anything would help.

If y’all don’t know, then at least spreading this post so more people can see it would be helpful.

Thanks so much in advance.

Tumblr used to be so easy, so simple.

"Touch my butt and buy me chicken nuggets"; 40k notes

What happened when did we stray so far from the light of god

Cómo picar a un italiano 🤌🏻

RATING: NOT CUTE!

that italian man is showing clear signs of distress. you can see his e-

bro got that gender reveal pussy. set you ablaze.

I don't know who blazed this but staff said absolutely not

Sincerel

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i'm going to air fry you don't put that evil on me

You little shits

Hey, you’re the one who wanted to blaze this shit up! You meet your destiny on the path you take to avoid it, palchum!

WRONG someone ELSE blazed it i did nothing!!

my dad took some ancestry tests and eventually found out who his father was (and that he has 5+ siblings who are also finding all of this out) and honestly it's been pretty bizarre and emotional so far, naturally

but one of the biggest changes for me is no longer having to give the whole spiel of "oh i know i'm racially ambiguos but hey there's a whole story behind it because this that and here's my father's backstory"

like no i... i just have a grandpa from Nigeria now

...that's way less mysterious >:(

edit: my brother has made a tiktok on the whole situation

Congratudolences OP, your family are hilarious

Today, one of my second graders was working on shape name recognition, and we got to this picture of a pyramid shape with a wide-ish base. When he saw it, his eyes lit up and he turned to me with a huge grin on his face, pointed at it, and said "When the teacher forgets to assign homework" before bursting out into hysterics, covering his mouth and giggling. I don't understand what happened except this kid CLEARLY knows about the strong comedic and memeable value of mathematical shapes and emotions that I, an old millennial, cannot comprehend I did, however, try to recreate this moment as the meme this child must have seen in his head

maybe he was thinking of the dancing triangle meme??

i have seen this gif with that exact caption before. this is absolutely the one he was thinking of

That kid saw one of the simplest geometric shapes and said that's blorbo from my memes 👍