The jaw. The head cradle. The whole damn thing.
The pull. The Everything
Lynda Carter going off for Pride 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ Month and I'm here for it!
Absolutely fascinated by the fact that known civil/gay rights supporter, Garth Brooks, whose reputation as a Country Singer for the Red Necks apparently supersedes the fact he's received a GLAAD award and has a half-sister who is gay that he publicly supports and references as an inspiration, is now being collectively "cancelled" by MAGAs because he's agreed to sell Bud Light in his new bar.
Genuinely wondering what's going on in the mind of these people who say, It's not because he's selling Bud Light, it's because he called us assholes! When the direct quote was:
“I want it to be a place you feel safe in. I want it to be a place where you feel like there are manners and people like one another. And yes, we’re going to serve every brand of beer. We just are. It’s not our decision to make. Our thing is this: if you [are let] into this house, love one another. If you’re an asshole, there are plenty of other places on lower Broadway.”
Truly, I really want to know how these people have decided that now, after Garth Brooks has won like every country music award known to the American Man, he suddenly "was never that good."
How do your brains even work????
All these people deleting their Garth Brooks songs and throwing away their albums. Y'all. You already paid for it. Garth Brooks is a millionaire. He literally does not care what you do with his albums. Nor does he care if you attend his concerts or go to the bar.
He has one rule, don't be an asshole.
And all you are doing is being assholes so like...he doesn't have time for you.
Such. Monumental thinking is happening today.
Anyway, here's a song Garth Brooks got a GLAAD award for following the 1992 LA Riots.
Need to settle something.
If you could tag with the area you grew up, I would appreciate it. Having a West Coast vs East Coast discussion with my partner.
My mom loves Diet Coke floats.
Both root beer and Coke floats were popular, but I was always a sucker for the creamsicle, orange Faygo soda over Vanilla Ice cream.
“The average US president has been charged with 1.56 felonies” factoid isn’t true. The average US President has been charged with 0 felonies. Donald trump, who has been charged with 72, is a statistical outlier and should not have been counted
One of the most life-changing things I ever learned came from Mythbusters, where they tested and proved (with cognitive testing puzzles and reaction time tests) that lying down and resting with the intention to sleep STILL provided significant mental benefits over just staying awake, even if a person couldn’t fall asleep in the amount of time they had.
It helps me to actually sleep to know that just lying down with my eyes closed is still doing me some good, and helps me to not freak out/beat myself up when I stay up later than intended. Any amount of rest is better than no rest!
So if you didn’t know that…now you do
do you know that i think of this post every time i can’t sleep op. what mythbusters did for you, you have done for a great many others.
"Until recently, a visit to the Colorado River’s delta, below Morelos Dam, would be met with a mostly dry barren desert sprinkled with salt cedar and other undesirable invasive plant species. Today, that arid landscape is broken up with large areas of healthy riparian habitat filled with cottonwood, willow, and mesquite trees. These are restoration sites which are stewarded through binational agreements between the United States and Mexico, and implemented by Raise the River—a coalition of NGOs including Audubon"
Thanks to @aersidhe for sending this in!
Pink
Pink ain’t come to play wit you hoes!
This is also an excellent example of providing breed-adequate enrichment, because Border Collies are herding dogs. They were bred to run a lot and do multiple quick and sharp turns, so if you can’t provide your collie with an actual herd of animals to… well… herd, an obstacle course like this is a great alternative. That dog is having the time of her life.
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Hello Tumblr! I am posting this on behalf of the Queer Liberation Library, who don't yet have a Tumblr, but have promised me they're working on it. Some of you may remember them from the Twitter Poll I was involved in a few months ago where Hunger Pangs: True Love Bites beat multiple award-winning, trad-pub queer authors with a hefty 69% (nice).
For those of you unaware, the Queer Liberation Library, or QLL, is an organization fighting to build a vibrant, flourishing queer future by connecting LGBTQ+ people with literature, information, and resources that celebrate the unique and empowering diversity of our community.
And today, June 12th, 2023, they launched their fundraiser to try and reach 15k so that they can start purchasing digital licensing for queer media and hopefully open their digital doors to library patrons across the US in 2023 with as many queer and trans books as possible.
You can check out their newly redesigned website here:
(If you are in an unsafe space and need to exit the webpage quickly, there is a quick exit bar at the top that redirects to a weather page. When I spoke to them about their web design they were also open to accessibility suggestions and are potentially working on a dark mode for those of us who need it.)
If you know me, you know I am unequivocally pro-library, both as a reader and a queer writer. But with the current rise of homophobia, transphobia, and the proposed ban on books taking hold in certain States, the importance of having protected access queer books cannot be over-emphasized enough.
The QLL aims to protect that access, aiming to provide FREE access to queer and trans media (ebook and audio) to patrons regardless of location within the United States.
They are funded entirely through regular donations from their supporters and their now annual Pride fundraiser, where they hope to afford the cost of not just library books but also maintaining their web presence and staff.
I cannot emphasize enough how much this project is a labor of love for everyone involved and its importance.
And just to clarify, I am not involved in any way beyond raising awareness. When QLL reached out and asked me to retweet their fundraiser tweets, I readily agreed and offered to post about it on Tumblr because I believe in their mission and the world they are trying to build.
One where queer and trans books can't be banned or taken off of shelves because of bigotry and hatred.
If you would like to donate to the cause, you can do so here:
They've already surpassed their first 2k, and it'd be absolutely wonderful if we could help them reach their next milestone. And if you can't give, please consider signal boosting this post.
You can also follow QLL at:
- Twitter: @queerliblib
- Instagram: @queerliblib
- Tiktok: @queerliblib
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Worst part about this is I've only ever used that yellow square emoji once and it was just to see how it looked. This isn't who I am. However, in retrospect, I suppose it is
Reading through the notes is a surreal experience please keep adding more to fuel my effervescent consumption of non descriptive emojis
i feel so bad for nikola tesla like imagine spending years beefing with a guy who has conned the public into believing he's some sort of supergenius when in reality it's his overworked employees developing all of his world-changing inventions and you end up dying broke and starving and alone and then 100 years later another guy cons the public into believing he's some sort of supergenius when in reality it's his overworked employees developing all of his world-changing inventions and he's doing it all IN YOUR NAME. he must be rolling in his grave like a fucking rotisserie chicken
His ghost is setting those cars on fire actually
I hadn’t really considered “the agnostic demigod of electromagnetism is the reason Musk’s companies fail” before, but I like the concept.
YOUTUBE???!!???
I mean, I guess I believe it could happen? Christ.
(And I feel so ancient.)
(chuckle) 1973.
Bound paper Trek fanfics from underneath a dealer's table at (I think) Lunacon.
(pausing to check the date) Yeah, it was '73: Harlan was the GoH that year. :)
the funniest thing in the entire pirates of the caribbean series is definitely that one scene in At World’s End where they have parlay but davy jones is part of it, and rather than have him stand in the shallows or something they get a big bucket of water and have in stand on it on shore
who thought of that idea? who thought “put davy jones in a bucket of water” and had the guts to suggest it aloud? and then who went “hey that sounds like a great idea!”
at some point someone told davy jones their idea was for him to stand in a bucket of water and he agreed to it
radicaltrains
*stands majestically in a bucket*
amalgarn
ok but notice the trail of buckets behind him meaning he walked from the ocean through three other buckets of water before he got into the one hes standing in
It’s even funnier when you consider how he must have figured all this out in the first place.
Some folks are asking “well, if he can avoid the no-dry-land curse simply by standing in a bucket, doesn’t that ruin his whole motivation?”, but he’s not on dry land here.
The parley takes place on a sandbar - which, for the unfamiliar, is a temporary “island” of sand deposited by breaking waves, unconnected with the shore, that spends most of its time submerged, being exposed only at low tide.
What Jones is doing here is rules-lawyering his curse. Can you imagine the trial and error he must have gone through in order to determine that this would actually work?
“Okay, do islands count as dry land? How about parts of the shore below the high tide mark? Reefs? Shoals? What if I stand in a pool of water on a shoal? Does it have to be seawater, or will any water do? Does it have to be a natural tidepool, or can it be something artificial, like a bucket?”
What I am saying is that there must have been a process.
Pretty sure that this implies that the reverse - a bucket of sand, floating on the water (big bucket with just a bit of sand), would qualify as dry land. That’s absurd, so I’m pretty sure that his lawyer pulled a fast one over the curse governor.
It may be absurd, but the text of the film bears it out. Davy Jones can sense the presence of his heart while it’s at sea, but not while it’s on land (indeed, that’s why he buried it on land in the first place: to break his connection with it) - yet placing the heart in a simple jar of dirt conceals it from Jones’ awareness just as surely as burial on land does, even if the jar is on a boat at the time. Suitably prepared vessels filled with dirt absolutely count as dry land for the purpose of Jones’ curse.
Then the reverse should also be true. If he buried it in a jar of water, no matter how far inland it is, he would be able to sense it. So by this logic, any container of seawater counts as not dry land, ergo, the bucket is a perfectly viable loophole.
Not necessarily. It’s traditionally a lot easier to accidentally get whammied by a curse than it is to weasel around it - I figure that’s why he’s using multiple layers of indirection here. He’s forbidden to set foot on dry land, but it’s technically not dry land (it’s a sandbar, a non-permanent landform exposed only at low tide) and he technically didn’t set foot on it (he’s standing in a bucket of water). It’s entirely possible that either one of those things alone wouldn’t make the grade.
necrotelecomnicon
okay but this all raises one further, very important question: if it’s specifically “dry land” he’s forbidden from, what about wetlands. can Davy Jones fight you in salt marshes? can he throw down in a peat bog?Swamp Battle?
This is the quality content I come to Tumblr for.
memes-and-musicals
could he step on land if his shoes are wet?
No matter how ridiculous PotC gets I will love it. Especially when it results in conversations like this
What if he crawls around on his hands and knees, with his feet raised slightly into the air? Can he walk on his hands? Can he ride around in a litter or a wheelchair?
can he be in a wheelbarrow?
What if he flies over dry land? Like in a hot air balloon, or in the claws of a giant bird?
What if he’s carried by two swallows using a strand of creeper?
European swallows or African swallows?
grednforgesgirl
this whole thread reads like a conversation between these two:
In fact im not entirely sure that it wasn’t their idea in the first place
As someone who inhaled Cool Pirate Facts as a kid and still have a massive soft spot for stories about seas and ships, I'd love to hear more about why Queen Anne's Revenge deserved so much better than what Blackbeard gave her! Never heard of that before and now I'm extremely intirgued : D
SHE WAS NOT DESIGNED TO HOLD THAT MANY CANNONS AND SHE COULDN'T HAVE CLEARED THAT SANDBAR EVEN WITHOUT THEM
ALSO RENAMING A SHIP LIKE THAT IS INCREDIBLY BAD LUCK
TAKING A SHIP NAMED FOR THE VIRTUE OF INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL HARMONY, NAMING HER SOMETHING POLITICAL AND BLOODTHIRSTY, AND THEN USING HER AS A SLAVE SHIP IS OBSCENE IT'S DISRESPECTFUL IT'S STRIPPING HER OF HER IDENTITY AND TWISTING IT INTO SOMETHING FOUL
in strict fairness it was not blackbeard who committed that specific perversion, Concord was already entering a death spiral from the cognitive dissonance by the time she fell into his hands
but like a competent hand on the wheel and a modicum of moral fiber could have righted course and NOPE. NOPE. LET'S JUST CONTINUE THE UNSPEAKABLE HORROR AND ALSO STRIP HER OF HER SOUL AND ALSO PILE TOO MANY FUCKING GUNS ON HER AND THEN GET SHITFACED AND CRASH HER INTO A SANDBAR--
I’ve been reading facts on Wikipedia again, and i’m overcome with the need to terrify non-Americans with the most underrated Terrifying American Thing: TORNADOES
Due to a quirk of mountain and ocean placement, the east-central United States has a higher number of tornadoes (particularly exceptionally strong tornadoes) than any other place on Earth.
And they’re so fucking scary oh my God
Reasons tornadoes are So Fucking Scary:
- they can form really suddenly and move really fast, so you have like a few minutes of warning when one happens
- their behavior is arbitrary and unpredictable. They can obliterate your house and leave your neighbor’s house untouched
- the most powerful tornadoes are so strong that it’s nearly impossible to even measure them because measuring equipment is straight up obliterated in those conditions, but they’ve been known to exceed 480 km/h wind speeds.
- please just read this wiki article it’s the scariest fucking thing ever
- like with F5 tornadoes you’ll see a lot of stuff about trucks, SUVs, furniture, appliances from homes like refrigerators etc being “lost/missing” and you may think to yourself “how does something that large just get ‘lost’ surely there’s a better description of what happened”
- and well. the above article does provide the ‘better’ description. And it’s “granulated.”
- As in, “debris from many of the obliterated homes was finely granulated.”
As a born and bred Alabamian, reading this is very funny when you’re so desensitized to them that when you’re woken up at 3 am by the sirens theres a very good chance you’ll be like “if its my time its my time” and go right tf back to sleep
I mean I’ve been there but I contain multitudes okay
Tornados can put a 4x4 through concrete but also that siren going off right when my muffins come out of the oven is annoyingly inconvenient…
I would visit family in Ohio when I was little, and in the summer there would be thunderstorms & tornado warnings and I would be like “WE HAVE TO GO TO THE BASEMENT RIGHT NOW!!!!!!”
And they’d be like, nah, we’re fine.
o_O
Like earthquakes and virtually everything else, we get very little in the way of Weather (with a capital letter) in Britain.
But the South (most Cornwall and Devon) is in that thin pink corridor of Europe that also gets tornados.
Only compared to your tornados, our tornados are typically pretty minor, so our response is basically… ‘Ooooh, we had a Weather? An actual Weather? Quickly! Photograph the devastation!’ And it’s like:
Anyway, condolences on your granulated fridges. I can see how that’s alarming.
We have tornados too but… it’s not the same.
#we didn’t really used to get them in PA where I grew up?#common wisdom was that the mountains stopped them#but that has changed recently#had one in my town and it didn’t do a lot of damage but it passed like half a mile from my house#and did that weird thing with the air pressure that shook all the windows#and yes the sky really is green#but normally also everyone is like#’nah we got time’#you’re not really in danger til the emergency alerts have broken into every radio and tv channel#and everyone’s phones are all going off simultaneously
I’m sorry friends, but “just google it” is no longer viable advice. What are we even telling people to do anymore, go try to google useful info and the first three pages are just ads for products that might be the exact opposite of what the person is trying to find but The Algorithm thinks the words are related enough? And if it’s not ads it’s just sponsored websites filled with listicles, just pages and pages of “TOP FIFTEEN [thing you googled] IMAGINED AS DISNEY PRINCESSES” like… what are we even doing anymore, google? I can no longer use you as shorthand for people doing real and actual helpful research on their own.