took around 500 pics driving around the olympic peninsula over the weekend! here are a few favorites :)

Related: at a neuroscience conference I was at once there was a talk on how the "microslippages" against your fingertip when you lightly pinch something are generally enough for you to work out exactly how much force to grip it with to lift it without crushing it or dropping it.

[ID/A tweet by Cliff 🦖 [dinosaur emoji] Jerrison (@ pervocracy) saying "one of the most amazing things a human brain can do is when you shake an opaque bottle and get an idea of how full it is by how the weight shifts. there's got to be incredible math going on under the hood there" /End ID]

Are you trapped on tumblr right now?

Is there something you planned to do before you got trapped in the endless tumblr scroll?

Are you yelling at yourself to get up and do the thing, but you can’t, because you’re trapped in the endless tumblr scroll?

Consider this your save point.

Put tumblr down, stand up, stretch, and go do the thing you planned to do. Future you will be incredibly grateful.

Things people in the notes have been able to do thanks to this post:

I need y’all to know that you’re doing amazing, and I’m so glad that I was able to help you break out of a procrastination loop you did not want to be stuck in.

Helpful post I’ve added to my queue in case it helps someone else at the random point when it’s posted.

people be fucking normal abt ftm bottom surgery challenge.

None of the commenters are gonna see this, but! If anyone’s interested in meta or phalloplasty but is kind of on the fence because they’ve only heard Terrible Wretched Things about the surgeries and results, you should try to find a copy of Hung Jury by Trystan T. Cotten! It’s a collection of testimonials from FtMs who have had bottom surgery, including their reasons, details about some of their procedures, and individual satisfaction ratings, and it includes testimonials from several trans men of color!

This is the book that convinced a buddy of mine to go through with metoidioplasty! I pinky promise, the surgeries are way way way better and safer and more effective than we’ve been made to believe they are. If it’s a procedure you want/need for your health and happiness, it’s a procedure you deserve!

pulling this out of the tags in case anyone knows of any resources like the above for vaginoplasty.

Transbucket

Just learned that the trans surgery team at mount sinai is also the second best in the world and best in the western hemisphere, and they upload testimonials, results, and other resources with patients’ consent!

i do think that one of the worst things “activist” spaces on the internet ever did was convince young marginalized people that individual people, complete strangers, were their oppressors. no, matt from chemistry class isn’t personally oppressing you because he’s a guy, that old lady at the bank isn’t personally oppressing you because she’s cis, your waiter isn’t personally oppressing you because they’re white. individuals can and do contribute to systems of oppression. but seeing random individuals you encounter in your daily life as your oppressors will do nothing but trick you into punching laterally or punching down because you think it’s “empowering.” you might get a momentary rush of endorphins from snapping at the male cashier bc #menaretrashuwu but all you’re doing is being shitty to a random guy making poverty wages.

i saw a tik tok the other day that like perfectly described this phenomenon, how gen z (and some young millennials too tbh) pushes for systemic justice and equality, but refuses to give that on an interpersonal level, and like. y’all. you simply cannot achieve systemic change if you’re not also working toward interpersonal change. you will do more for your own liberation by treating others with sensible patience and kindness than you will pushing this toxic individualist narrative of “i don’t owe anyone anything and i get to act however i want to people i view as my oppressor.” we need class solidarity now more than ever.

Having community is SOO important, bc the Blacker you are, the more the pressure to "Turn the other cheek" in spaces perpetuating racism and anti-Blackness/fascism/white supremacy in order to make space to deradicalize/not FURTHER radicalized ppl who aren't going to listen to you anyway, and would only EVER begin being deradicalized by someone like Vaush first, then Hasan Piker next, so in and so forth

It's even WORSE when you're Black and femme, Black and queer, Black and trans, Black and disabled, Black and autistic... Community without who understand and fight back with shrinks more and more, and you're either at the frontlines of a lot of fights while you're risking the most to your mental health and physical safety, or your doing that all on your

So yes, punching back or "being mean" to racists and perpetuators of anti-Blackness/()misogynoir/ isn't going to STOP racism, but it might be the momentary protection from violence you need. Being able to defend oneself and others IS a necessity -- It's just that we ALSO need to build community, not JUST to protect ourselves, but to begin coalitions that wallet more and more ppl up to the realization that we're ALL similarly oppressed under these systems of power, and abandoning other marginalized groups to suffer and be persecuted under the boot of the system might leave you protected for now, but it'll either eventually come stomping for your throat next, or you and the rest of the world and the future you'd like to give to your children and family and friends and loved ones will inevitably be suffocated and snuffed it but the greed of those who'll strip every resource set off this planet for the sake of hoarding resources as they use division and diversions to profits off of even the collapsing of our climates and ecosystems and the ending of even life on Earth as we know it

We can't defeat this rolling tide of bigotry and authoritarianism and death alone; we NEED to form together like Voltron to defeat it

The only problem is white liberals and even white "progressives" aren't always fully decolonizing their internalized anti-Blackness and practicing ANGRY-racism or learning theory and the history of Black and non-white socialist leaders in history while they're in the process of learning socialism/humanism/feminism, so making safe spaces with them isn't also guaranteed to REMAIN a safe space.

So on one end you're fighting a system that punishes Black ppl of radical revolutionary consciousness the most, which jails us for longer, brutalizes us thru police and laws and economic sanctions harder, and stamps is to dust faster than our non-Black counterparts. And on the other hand, our fellow yte leftists might either be time policing how we fight back against that, or alternatively demanding us be on the front lines of those fights, even when doing so means very likely giving up our freedoms and our lives

It's a very nuanced thing. But I think we forget, just bc the racist or classify ppl we encounter AREN'T the embodiments of racism and bigotry didn't mean they don't sometimes need to be punched or dragged as AGENTS of these systems of oppression. Sometimes, that's EXACTLY what you need to do in the moment to protect yourself and others. It's just that, ULTIMATELY, we just employ a VARIETY of strategies to not only SURVIVE fascism and white supremacy and American imperialism's stranglehold on us all, but to also finally resist and DEFEAT it before it winds up eradicating us ALL.

the idea of hannibal as loustat's marriage counselor is soooo funny bc on the surface he would have to agree with lestat's attempts to corrupt louis's nature and have him embrace murder and killing and consumption but on the other hand I strongly believe that hannibal would find lestat's general personality and shallow theatrics in incredibly poor taste and would feel obligated to kill and eat him despite agreeing with him completely

exactly.

[image id: tags reading #hannibal would NEVER bite a fake baby and have red streamers come out /end id]

idk if unalive has ever helped anyone not get banned from any website but it is impossible for me to separate it from deadpool in that one episode of that one animated spiderman show

they were so ahead of their time

if this 5000 year old tree isn’t too old to realize that its trans neither are you

Fascinating…

Feminism isn't "Women vs Men"

Feminism is "Us vs The Patriarchy"

And "Us" includes everyone.

the patriarchy is the men btw.

No, it's not. The patriarchy is a system. Women can also enforce the patriarchy. Women can be and often are misogynistic and sexist.

Understanding the difference between a hierarchical system and individual human beings should be feminism 101.

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Happy Pride!! Fuck yourself if youre like this.

life actually gets better when you leave the house consistently btw like im serious

if you don't know where to go, just wander! go to the store and don't buy anything, go to the library just to sit and do whatever you were going to do at home, go to a park and just walk around/sit outside for a bit (weather permitting, of course)

just put some headphones in and walk around the block a couple times if you really have nothing else to do, just getting a bit of air and change of scenery is so good for you

me the first few weeks of forcing myself to go on daily walks (it gets better tho)

i really need tumblr to learn the concept of “if you physically cannot do this then this post is not talking about you” because jesus christ.

@a-spectacular-pigeon you get it.

anyone want to see a animal

the votes are in. who am I to deny the request of the people.

As promised:

Dudes check this out. 2 animal’s

in there

i do think that maybe there does need to be some rehashing of super basic feminist theory on this web site because i've got a lot of pushback on saying 'marxism leninism should be for perverts' to the tune of 'but what about perverts who violate consent & expose unwilling people to their sexuality' to which i just have to say over and over again 'listen buddy i've got some really bad news about the normative cultural ideals about heterosexual sexuality in our society. you might want to sit down for this one,'

like, the guys implicated in the activision-blizzard sexual harassment lawsuit weren't 'perverts'. they weren't deviating from the sexual norm--in fact, quite the opposite, they were all participating in a culture that was normalized & expected of them! they were expressing their sexuality in a way that was perfectly aligned with decades of normative cultural images of masculine sexuality! 'deviance' or 'degeneracy' from the norm is clearly not the problem factor when it comes to sexual violence!

much the same when people say "oh so we have to accept pedophilia too huh?" -- you are fundamentally misidentifying the problem! there have been many times and places in history where adults having sex with children was or is entirely normal, accepted, & socially encouraged by the hegemonic cultural standards of sexuality. does that mean it was 'good'? no! of course not! because the problem with pedophilia, it turns out, is not that it is 'perverted' or 'abnormal', it is that it harms children -- and by conflating 'perversion' with 'harm', you are not only feeding reactionary sexual politics but you are reifying the aegis of 'normal' social arrangements (family, schools, churches) under which the vast majority of csa actually happens & is normalised!

idk when we decided that explaining yourself shouldn't be part of an apology but like. if someone was a dick to me and apologizes but I still don't understand why they did it I'm not gonna feel any better

"Sorry for hurting your feelings earlier. I was trying to say x, but I guess it came across wrong. I don't think you're stupid."

or

"Sorry I snapped at you. I didn't get enough sleep last night so my patience is a little low today."

is a better apology than

"I want you to know that I am sorry that my actions offended you. I take full accountability for my actions and I am listening and learning. I hear you."

AITA for realizing that my best friend is actually a ghost and not telling him because i'm worried that if he realizes he's dead he'll finally be able to accept it and fully pass on and i won't be able to hang out with him anymore?

AITA if i've been dead for a while but haven't told my best friend yet because he doesn't seem to have realized i'm a ghost and if he does i'm worried that he'll finally be able to accept it and let me go and i can't bear the thought of losing him?

AITA for killing that guy

"DNIs," AKA "Do not interacts," go both ways. You can't harass people you dislike only to get upset when they respond back to you, claiming they're violating your DNI.

If you want people to respect your boundaries, you've got to follow them yourself, or else it doesn't mean anything.

Don't enforce boundaries on others that you're unwilling to follow yourself.

The moment you interact with somebody you are suspending application of your DNI. A DNI only works for asking them to not initiate contact. If you do, you are saying "I am okay with this contact because I sought it out myself"

Otherwise it's just the tactic beloved by abusers of "I can do anything I want to you but if you retaliate... Well, I'm the REAL victim here!"

Happy fat fuck Friday to Themberchaud, Wyrmsmith of Gracklstugh