let me wrap my teeth around the world.

If you are looking to read more widely, I have recently discovered a website called the world book map. How it works as you click on a country and it comes up with a list of the most popular best loved books from that country.

When I was drunk one night and watching the Jellyfish livestream, I reached out to the Monterey Bay Aquarium with a dumb question about their jellyfish... And they actually emailed me back.

(yes, these are actually my own screenshots, I am in tears laughing)

DO YOUR ANIMAL EXPERTS HAVE TO UNTANGLE THE JELLYFISH

AND THE ANSWER IS FUCKING YES, THE JELLIES GET TANGLED SOMETIMES LMAO

imagine your job being to gently stir the jellyfish soup

who is Electric Bill and why do we all have to keep paying him

There is a great deal of truth there. Sometimes special moments happen purely by accident. But most of them happen because you make a plan and create the conditions to let them happen.

people will design soap dispensers and dish racks and go like it's okay if this is capable of getting rusty, right. that's an acceptable weak point for an item whose sole immutable destiny is to get wet every time it's used, right

you need to listen to rap and hiphop you need to listen to jazz you need to listen to blues and country and bluegrass or else you will be inflicted with something most foul of the soul

and if you say you do and post a video game ost you will be hexed by an evil shaman

my best friend linen my brother in arms cotton my partner wool my beautiful sister silk

our sick deranged enemy polyester....

The demonization of actual charities/orgs in favor of individual GFMs has done nothing but stripped marginalized people of their privacy + dignity by forcing them to become internet celebrities in order to get their needs met as opposed to an org that could privately help them if said org had the funding!!!! Also it’s why people feel the need to go as far as to fake their own kidnappings just to get traction! Not to mention it’s just made the lives of grifters so much easier

To circle back, who benefits more from this? The 65 year old drug addicted woman on skid row who can’t read or the young hot gen z college kid with 10k tiktok followers? This bastardization of “mutual aid” combined the constant like mining dopamine cycle social media has done almost irreparable damage to young wokey people especially young people of color.

Making every poor person dance for the internet in order to get their snazzy twitter begging flyer traction will only set people up for long term failure.

Imagine: I’m a young person down on her luck so I beg on twitter with my real name and face along with every personal detail, I get my coin, I am actually able to put myself through schooling but now whenever an employer googles me they can find this incredibly personal information about me!

I have nothing but sympathy for people who are in a position where they urgently need money and need it fast but we should instead put that money towards orgs whose whole job is to PRIVATELY help people

My guy you have entirely missed the point of my post and there are multiple ways to vet a charity

if you are worried about charities spending your money they do actually have to share their accounts publicly in most jurisdictions.

Ok both of the above are great suggestions, but that’s a lot of work to do all that vetting yourself. You can also check with Charity Watch to see what their rating and recommendation is.

You can also consider giving to an Umbrella Nonprofit. These groups distribute funds to much smaller orgs that may have trouble reaching a large audience on their own. The most well-known of these is The United Way which has over 1,000 individual charities it distributes funds too. You can often designate your donations this way - either to be distributed to charities all who serve a cause, or to specific charities only.

Direct giving is fine, but your dollars are far more impactful if distributed through a non-profit network. So give directly to people you know personally, but there’s a reason why these charities and more importantly things like rating systems and watchdogs exist and that’s precisely to ensure your dollars end up where they can make the largest impact.

But what if masc x butch pumpkin lesbians?

i've searched every combination of words imaginable and i still can't find that gif of the german star trek parody where gay spock is quickly drinking coffee and smoking freaking out PLEASE send it to me i need it urgently

matched set

also this

Say what you will about Reddit but sort by controversial is like one of the best features of all time... Want To See Some Bullshit button

search results that make me laugh so hard i start coughing

i wish i could hit chatgpt physically i wish i could hit it with a hammer and hit it with a hammer and hit it with a hammer and hit it with a hammer

I'm fed up with "maybe later".

you guys gotta stop deactivating your blogs cause you're making it harder for me to go back in a reblog chain to remove the annoying additions

I reblogged this specifically for the prev tag because it made me feel like I was having a stroke

she’s just so beautiful (my libby app)

we need to romanticize the libby app. sexualize it, even

masturbation is evil not for any puritan anti-fun reason but because it has permanently claimed so many verbs

nobody can crank anything anymore. and god forbid you jerk

you picked me