As bad as you think discourse on here is, rest assured that there is internal drama on terf Tumblr that would make your eyes melt.
Every six months some big "lesbian separatist" blog turns out to be happily married to a straight man.
Or the racefaking.
Every once in a while you get a leaked sexts scandal, and you get a peek into some truly labyrinthine psychosexualized obsession with trans bodies.
The Forbidden Pool
Every so often a note will blow through my notifs telling me “Um actually the water is only radioactive at the bottom so it’s perfectly safe to swim here” yeah bitch swim in the reactor pool see if I fucking care
A classic What If! The rest of the piece is wonderful, and also has Randall Munroe’s delightful illustrations. Highly recommend.
nothing fills you with greater false confidence than managing to wake up early once
"this sleep schedule shit is easy" (← about to learn a lesson straight out of a fucked up traditional fairytale punishment)
The duality of the word fairy
I think there's also a Z-axis that goes from "twee and harmless" to "you've been turned into an equal volume of spiders".
I wish someone would put my post under the water, maybe I want to be lost at sea forever
I've got you bestie dw about it
Puts you in the water
Sorry could you speak up I can't hear you under all that water
Oh! Ok
Waterboards you too so you feel included
the fuckin face in that last panel is on its own plane of emotion
i told my friend’s dad that he was hot (it was in context with the conversation, he was complaining that he was feeling old, etc), and he said a very genuine thank you and the conversation moved on to other topic, my friend was now talking about something else entirely when his dad goes
“i think if i were born in your generation i might have been bisexual”
and friend got kinda mad at me lmao
Fuck his dad
Happy "Fuck Your Friend's Dad Friday" Monday
You are granted a time machine and the ability to prevent one birth (or commit a murder up to you), don't worry about the butterfly effect, we want the butterfly effect that's part of the point. Your actions will prevent them from ever rising to prominence. No he's not here, because it'd be too much of a sweep, pick your second choice if you're wondering where he is
Screeeeching at this meme a girl I went to high school w posted recently
story time
they used to give us 15 minutes to do the mile, which meant you could walk it and still qualify if you watched your pacing
one time we were doing the mile and my buddy (a japanese-american goth music nerd guy who wore fishnets and stuff to school) ran by me, huffing and puffing, which was weird because he usually did it in a half hour walk
i was on pace to finish in 14 minutes 30 seconds, walking in solidarity with my friends even tho i grew up playing all the sports and could have easily run it, because fuck school and fuck gym class in particular
Anyway i see my buddy (we didn’t hang out much in school but we grew up playing together because we lived on the same block) i see him go by hauling ass, high-key unusual, so i cranked up to a run, caught up to him, and asked him what the hell
So he tells me (in a gasping sort of way) that the gym teacher, a terrible bully who was always riding me and my friends, was once again giving him shit about never qualifying on the mile and my friend reminds him that he’s excused by a doctor, and the gym teacher basically called him a faker and threatened to fail him if he didn’t run
“so i got a couple of us witnessed that…. and now i’m gonna give myself a fucking asthma attack… because i’m fucking sick of this shit all the time… fuck that motherfucker… i hope i goddamn die on him”
the school wound up having to call an ambulance, he coughed up actual blood and passed out
the gym teacher got suspended over it, when he came back he stopped fucking with the un-athletic students. And my buddy didn’t even have to show up at all for gym class for the rest of the year. School legend
Listen I'm hammered right now but I did competition martial arts for several years. If Zuck and Musk actually fought, it would be fucking fascinating.
Zuck has been training for several years, but Musk is literally two weight classes heavier. That's enough of a difference that most orgs would consider it legally dangerous for them to fight. However, Musk is also older, which could mitigate his weight advantage.
In a vacuum, I'd give that matchup a tenuous 50/50, but I think Zuck wins the psychological game. There's nothing behind his eyes. He reminds me of the 5'4'' coked up ringers that every Jiu-Jitsu dojo would bring to MMA tourneys. You can't take your eyes off those guys or they win points by slipping along your kicks. Musk might be stronger but Zuck has the strategy.
Final call. Hammered 4/1 for Zuck.
If I have identical training to my opponent, but they are 70 pounds heavier, I have no chance. That is not a fair match.
If I have a black belt, but my opponent is inexperienced, even if they are 70 pounds heavier, I could potentially handle that. That's a gamble, but a decent gamble.
If my opponent has been in actual street fights before, I am not fucking with them, regardless of weight.
You're giving Musk too much credit, the guy is pudgy af, any weight he's got on Zuck is probably fatty tissue.
Underestimate body fat at your own peril. Body fat is mass and armor. It cushions blows and weights punches.
That's because in older generations, milk was framed as a stupid children's drink for children, so teens and adults didn't drink it. After all, a cool 17-year-old doesn't want to look like a BABY in front of her even cooler friends! This was especially true for girls and women of the time, who might also stop drinking milk in an attempt to lose weight.
As a result, practically an entire generation developed osteoporosis and other health problems due to a lifelong lack of Vitamin D and calcium. Ask any woman you know over 50 and she'll probably have a story like "oh yeah no one drank milk and I really regret it because a light breeze will break all my bones." For one example, my mother-in-law has a calcium deficiency that is affecting her health. But because she hasn't drank milk in like 60 years, it's both hard to get in the habit of having a glass, plus the texture is kind of gross to her since she's not used to it. Which in turn makes it harder to fix the deficiency.
So go back to the early 90s, and combine public health officials desperate to prevent another generation of vitamin-deprived kids, 90s parents looking for alternatives to soda to give their kids, and dairy farmers around the US concerned with their low sales, and you get the Got Milk campaign.
(Please note this is just me giving historical context to weird retro ads. I'm aware that there's other ways to get nutrients in your diet, and I'm not saying anyone HAS to drink cow milk specifically)
Tony Hawk's secret weapon.
This post is such a good example of how effective advertising can be. There was no epidemic of osteoporosis in the 1990′s caused by decreased dairy consumption. This is categorically untrue.
What did happen in the 1990′s however, was a continuing decline in milk sales as a result of the increasing popularity of soft drinks. So the advertising agency Goodby Silverstein & Partners stepped in with the Got Milk campaign in 1993, funded by California's major milk processors (not public health officials) with three cents from each gallon of milk sold going toward the campaign—which amounted to approximately $23 million annually. In 1994, at the height of the campaign, 755 million gallons were sold in the state, up from 740 million gallons in 1993. Due to that success, Got Milk was later rolled out nationally, while osteoporosis rates in the US continued to climb.
So no, this large conglomerate of dairy corporations certainly didn’t fund this ubiquitous and extremely expensive advertising campaign because they were worried about your bone health. It was solely about profit. This was money well spent though, since people are still spouting this kind of industry propaganda 30 years later, and apparently they’re doing it for free.
