To new, inexperienced drivers:

so idk if they teach you this in drivers’ ed class or whatever, but if you see someone in the opposite direction flashing their high beams at you, they’re NOT being a dick. they’re saying, “SLOW DOWN, I just saw a police car back there”.

If I hadn’t known that today, I wouldn’t have noticed the police car hiding in its fox hole and gotten a ticket for going 20 over the speed limit. and I’m glad I don’t have to pay $80 for a dumb mistake!!!

In deer country this is also used to warn others about a herd up ahead. In either case, the double flash means that some nonsense is occurring and ya gotta slow down!

Double-flash also means “turn on your headlights”. Basically, if someone’s flashing their brights, pay super-close attention and figure out what’s going on.

They could ALSO be flashing them to tell you to turn YOUR brights off because you’re blinding them! It’s common courtesy to turn your brights off for oncoming traffic, but not everyone knows this~

I’ve also seen it used to warn of an accident ahead. Basically anytime someone flashes their brights at you, if your own lights are 1) on, and 2) not on bright, you can take it to mean “slow down and pay attention for the next stretch of road particularly.”

Whether that’s for a speed trap, a herd of deer, or four fire trucks, two ambulances, and a dozen squad cars all clustered around what used to be two vehicles, slowing down and paying attention is good for you and can save you a lot of money and/or heartache.

the BEST THING about America is that one of their timezones is called mountain time. i cannot tell you how funny that is to me. it sure is always time for mountains in one fourth of america

1/4 of you guys live like this

Move your fucking personal bags out of the goddamned wheelchair closet you ableist fucks.

And leave the wheelchair closet available for the flight attendants’ personal bags. How convenient for you. The wheelchair closet that was only ever built into the damn plane because it was required by law for wheelchairs under the ACAA.

Of course you never tell wheelchair users about it you fucking ableist shits, do you? In fact you actively argue with anyone who wants to use it. You. Ableist. Fucking. Shits.

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“14CFR 382.67 (e) As a carrier, you must never request or suggest that a passenger not stow his or her wheelchair in the cabin to accommodate other passengers (e.g., informing a passenger that stowing his or her wheelchair in the cabin will require other passengers to be removed from the flight), or for any other non-safety related reason (e.g., that it is easier for the carrier if the wheelchair is stowed in the cargo compartment).” (Source)

“14CFR 382.123 What are the requirements concerning priority cabin stowage for wheelchairs and other assistive devices?

“(a) The following rules apply to the stowage of passengers' wheelchairs or other assistive devices in the priority stowage area provided for in §382.67 of this part:

“(1) You must ensure that a passenger with a disability who uses a wheelchair and takes advantage of the opportunity to preboard the aircraft can stow his or her wheelchair in this area, with priority over other items brought onto the aircraft by other passengers or crew enplaning at the same airport, consistent with FAA, PHMSA, TSA, or applicable foreign government requirements concerning security, safety, and hazardous materials with respect to the stowage of carry-on items. You must move items that you or your personnel have placed in the priority stowage area (e.g., crew luggage, an on-board wheelchair) to make room for the passenger's wheelchair, even if these items were stowed in the priority stowage area before the passenger seeking to stow a wheelchair boarded the aircraft (e.g., the items were placed there on a previous leg of the flight).”

It’s not the “first class closet” it’s the wheelchair closet you ABLEIST FUCKS.

“14CFR 382.141 What training are carriers required to provide for their personnel?

“(a) As a carrier that operates aircraft with 19 or more passenger seats, you must provide training, meeting the requirements of this paragraph, for all personnel who deal with the traveling public, as appropriate to the duties of each employee.

“(1) You must ensure training to proficiency concerning:

“(i) The requirements of this part and other applicable Federal regulations affecting the provision of air travel to passengers with a disability;

“5) You must ensure that all personnel who are required to receive training receive refresher training on the matters covered by this section, as appropriate to the duties of each employee, as needed to maintain proficiency. You must develop a program that will result in each such employee receiving refresher training at least once every three years. The program must describe how employee proficiency will be maintained.”

Super fucking tired of your ableist-ass “But I didn’t know!” and “Gee I’ve never heard that before” excuses. Just saying you don’t know the law is a violation of the law you ableist shits.

Adding a screenshot of this gem from Coffeespoonie on Twitter, who had the same sort of ableist shit given to them approximately 5 months before this thread came to be, and was able to get their chair stored properly:

[A screenshot of a tweet by @coffeespoonie on Twitter, which says "Oooop the flight attendant just made an announcement and very frustratedly said that "we're getting a late start with boarding", and when she closed the closet she grumbled "but now nothing else fits in there [highlighted in yellow] as if I give a shit that the wheelchair closet is full of wheelchair.]

I added the highlight to the bit about the wheelchair closet being full of wheelchair because a) I found it hilarious and they turn a good phrase, and b) it's infuriatingly pointing out that the airline crew was mad that the closet was being used for its intended and legally mandated purpose.

Because she stood up for herself and the chair was in the closet, when she arrived the chair was, GUESS WHAT, not broken!

Jsyk the flight attendants are mad every time the wheelchair closet is full of wheelchair and have on occasion been known to point out the disabled person “to blame” for this to every passenger who wants to stuff their shit in the wheelchair closet.

They’ve definitely let the whole plane know I’m to blame that the flight is leaving late. Because, ya know, I had to spend a lot of time arguing with the flight attendants to move their bags out of the wheelchair closet which slowed everything down. But of course that’s my fault not theirs, right?

There’s nothing quite like a long flight on a plane full of hostile flight attendants and passengers. Which is pretty much every flight I’ve taken since I got a wheelchair.

It’s so weird because when I don’t have my wheelchair some flight attendants are really great about stuff like me asking to stretch in the flight attendant area so I don’t get blood clots during long flights but I’ve never had even one flight attendant be anything less than hostile about mobility aids

I just realized this jacket is so underrated for Steddie.

Because Eddie would be an absolute menace about that shoulder pocket. He'd keep trying to sneak things into it just to see how much he can get away with.

He gets away with it all the time.

Eddie is so damn proud of himself. He is the reverse Artful Dodger. Absolute sleight of hand god. Natural 20 every damn time.

Meanwhile, Steve just patiently waits and deliberately keeps looking away until he's sure his gremlin boyfriend's fingers are no longer wriggling into his pocket. The biggest challenge is not laughing at Eddie's fake innocent expression when Steve looks at him right after another mischief. He finds it absolutely hilarious that Eddie genuinely seems to think he's being super sneaky, so he keeps humoring him.

Occasionally Steve realizes his shoulder is getting considerably heavy, or something starts digging into his flesh, and he sighs and empties it all into a designated drawer in his bedroom. It's already full of little rocks of all shapes and colors, acorns, dry flowers, kids' marbles, bubble gum wrappers, bird feathers, beer caps and old movie tickets.

It's absolute trash, technically. A trash dragon hoard. But he doesn't have the heart to throw it all away. And he's glad he didn't, by the time their one year anniversary arrives, because Robin (who's in on the joke, obviously) gives him the coolest gift idea.

Steve arranges all the items inside a frame and covers them in epoxy resin. When he presents his gift to his boyfriend, Eddie's a total mess of simultaneously laughing, crying and trying to devour Steve's face. He proudly hangs this masterpiece up above his bed.

Ask Polly: How Am I Supposed to Make Friends in My Late 20s?

Okay, so I saw a couple of people say that we should make Zepotha out of spite. The main thing that keeps popping up is summer camps and aliens (I think someone also wanted lesbians, but I mean who doesn't want lesbians?)

But I'd like to say that this really points out the difference between Goncharov and Zepotha.

Zepotha, in a very tiktok fashion, is being made based on a popularity contest. Zepotha will exist. It didn't already exist.

Zepotha is treated like it's being made, rather than like it already exists. It's an 80s movie not because it was made in the eighties, but just based on the vibes.

Tiktok is trying to make a movie, much more than they're pretending the movie already exists.

Goncharov on the other hand, is treated like it always existed. Tumblr made a fandom and not a movie. The clarifications and contradictions are just a normal product of fandom, especially a fandom of a lost media. It's normal for people to mix up details.

The details of Goncharov depended on people seeing a mentioned plot point and going along with it, 'yes, and'ing the bit. If there was a common plot detail you didn't like, you'd just talk about how much you didn't like that that happened in the movie.

Since Tiktok is writing a movie, the contradictions are more prominent, because people want Zepotha to be the story they want it to be, rather than the story it is.

Like, I find it some of the religious symbolism in Goncharov annoying, I feel like they overdid it with two 'eating the forbidden fruit' scenes, but I'm not going to say 'that didn't happen in Goncharov', because it did!! And there's nothing I can do about that.

there is, in fact, a "platonic explanation for this" if you're not a coward

its so fun to see the diversity of tags on this ranging from "they're literally just standing next to each other" to "deep bonds dont have to be romantic/sexual!" to "yeah friends can fuck nasty, platonically. coward." we're all so correct, there are, in fact, a million platonic explanations for this

I couldn’t fix him, but I could fuck him, and that could fix me, and that’s more important.

okay I get it, y'all want the ted lasso guys to fuck

man written by a woman energy

Yes we need more chaste twee baby gay romances like heartstopper and yes we also need more shows where men fuck raw to express their love for one another like Élite and yes we need more toxic gays having hate sex like Interview with the Vampire and yes we need more incidental gay characters like the dads in cartoons like Owl House.

It's not a competition! It's a hoard and I'm like a gay little Smaug.

the normalization of porn in mainstream media is a weird take to have

Normalization of gay desire and yes, even gay sex, is paramount to gay liberation actually.

Serious literary critics: [Thumbing through a volume of Sigmund Freud] We interpret Lucy’s dream to mean that she purposely sought out Dracula for sex. She needs to be recognized as a sexual creature.

Tumblr, the horniest website out there: [Googling ‘symptoms of cardiac arrest/near death experiences/extreme blood loss’] We interpret Lucy’s dream to be terrifying. She needs a doctor and a therapist right now.

#dracula daily #like. vampire stories ARE about sex. #but the literary determination to frame lucy as the willful seductress is bonkers sexism levels #vampire narratives are generally loss of agency to another person (whereas werewolves are loss of agency to yourself) #and dracula is VERY loss of agency narrative #like the demeter’s captain. he did everything right. he did everything he should have done.#and he still ends up tying his hands to the wheel and washing up dead in a derelict ship #it’s an extraordinarily unfair reading to interpret the male characters as victims of violence who heroically fight back #while the women are by default responsible for their own ra–i mean vampire bite (@words-writ-in-starlight)

@the-golden-onion this took me out

Adult ProTip, from a security professional: If a kid tells you, "My parents are gonna kill me / kick my ass / kick me out" for something relatively minor, don't respond with shit like "Really? ;) that sounds a little extreme, don't you think sweetie?" because that shit really does happen.

Instead, respond as though whatever threat they are afraid of is fully valid, and offer whatever you can do to help- ask if they believe they are in danger of being hurt in any way, and work accordingly.

If they're overreacting, they'll usually realize and dial it back, self-correct and begin thinking a bit more rationally.

If they're not overreacting, and the danger is real, then they'll need a level-headed adult in their corner, not another condescending authority figure who doesn't believe them.

Reagan was truly a sack of shit

Wow….

Carter was famously absent during his 1980 campaign because he’d locked himself in the White House, determined to get the hostages released. He worked every diplomatic channel, made hundreds of phone calls, wrote letters.

Even Reagan blasted him for not being more visible. In pre-internet days voters only got to see their presidential candidates on brief TV appearances or in newspaper articles. Carter was simply too distracted to do any of that. Meanwhile Reagan was everywhere.

She’s not kidding: the hostages were released 20 minutes after Reagan took the presidential oath.

Then all 52 were flown to a NATO base in Germany where they were greeted by former President Carter. He’d flown over to Germany in anticipation, where he met them at their airplane, shook their hands, and welcomed them home.

BY NAME. He’d memorized all 52 names & faces.

Carter is, was, and always will be a fuckin legend.

lesbian sex that looks like a big cartoon ball of dust with the occasional leg sticking out and i crawl out of it covered in lipstick kisses and get swiftly dragged back in

Yeah !!!!! Firefox truly is the superior browser

much to Yahoo's chagrin, Firefox is actually the new pdf

*violently sobbing* I KNOW ITS FOR THE BETTER I KNOW ITS FOR THE BETTER KNOW ITS FOR THE BETTER KNOW ITS FOR THE BETTER KNOW ITS FOR THE BETTER KNOW ITS FOR THE BETTER KNOW ITS FOR THE BETTER KNOW ITS FOR THE BETTER KNOW ITS FOR THE BETTER KNOW ITS FOR THE BETTER KNOW ITS FOR THE BETTER KNOW ITS FOR THE BETTER KNOW ITS FOR THE BETTER KNOW ITS FOR THE BETTER