Wow, I knew Reagan did a lot of stuff that turned out bad, but I didn't realize it was "you can clearly see on the charts when his presidency was" bad

hey look it's my whole life

If you want to be able to do a thing, you need to do the thing. If you want to be able to keep doing a thing, you need to keep doing the thing.

This is a fundamental truth and it fucking sucks.

Announcing: the FTH Playbook!

Ever since our first year, FTH has actively encouraged people to run their own auctions, freely sharing our organizational materials as well as a brief guide to using them.

This year, we decided to get (very) serious about overhauling those materials. We've made a lot of back-end improvements over the years, and we wanted to share them with others who might be considering organizing their own events. Even more so, we wanted to offer the very best guidelines and explanations we could, based on our (at this point) several years' experience.

It's taken several months and a lot of effort, but we're proud to unveil it now: our step-by-step guide to organizing and and running your own benefit fanworks auction.

In this folder, you will find:

In addition to the link in this post, you can also find a link to the playbook on our tumblr page.

The world is overflowing with urgent causes that could desperately benefit from some financial support. If you've been sitting at home wishing you could do more, here is your chance. Here is the sign that you can do it.

Also, please reblog to spread this far and wide! We want to be sure this playbook reaches every single person who might find it helpful.

the philosophers of our time are on tumblr dot com

The 4th of July commemorates the American Revolution, an event which took place in Qing-dynasty North America during the reign of the Qianlong Emperor, Gaozong

It represents a succesful uprising against the rule of one of the local warlords feuding in Europe at the time.

i'll never be fully offline because online is where the awesome women thinkers from around the world congregate to share little details about their days and what they're interested in

New decade on the UK this morning. The new goverment needs to be held accountable on a lot of things, but with also 14yrs of austerity, laws in tatters and literally no money in the treasurey need to give them a bit of a chance

Very proud of all our UK friends out there. I only hope all your American friends see how the power of the vote can still rout a terrible ingrained threat to everyone.

Let’s go, America. I know what our choices are (they ain’t great but they’re sure as shit not THAT ORANGE TURD) and the presumptive UK govt has a LOT of work to do. But we can absolutely hold the line and WISE TF UP and course correct the Dems to something worth voting for.

In 2016 the British voted for Brexit because too many people didn’t take the election seriously, and the US learned nothing from them and immediately followed suit.

LET’S FOLLOW THEM AGAIN, GUYS!

They did it, we can, too!

why are people even questioning obesity in america

why is your tea liquidised?

….. Where exactly do you live that the tea isn’t liquid?!?

ENGLAND. WHERE IT IS IN A BAG AND YOU MAKE IT YOURSELF.

like what do you do with already liquid tea? Microwave it?

No it’s sweet tea you drink it cold

WHO DRINKS COLD TEA???

HAVE YOU NEVER HAD ICED/SWEET TEA BEFORE?!?

so i reblogged this from a british person and i’ve been laughing at their tags for 600 years

England, you stole tea from China.  You’ve had it a mere 4 centuries compared to their 30+.  Don’t play like you’re some kind of authority.

[skeletons ooh-ing]

Shots fired. World War Tea has officially begun.

#INTO THE HARBOR

Englad doesn’t own anything

except that time we owned most of the world

If I stop reblogging this, I’ve gone to the other side.

I have only seen this legendary post in screenshots, so today is a blessed day.

HAH

BOSTON TEA PARTY PART 2

HOLY HELL I FOUND IT

And this is why I love Tumblr

Drinking cold tea is like drinking cold hot chocolate. Sure, you *can* do it, but you *really shouldn’t*

Behold concerned Brit. Chocolate Milk

I only see this on pinterest omg….

OMFG

@riverwriter

BEHOLD THE GREATEST TUMBLR POST

“world war tea” is the best play on words i’ve heard in weeks

this post is a wild ride from start to finish

I haven’t seen this since chocolate milk was added. Is that really just an American thing? You’re missing out guys!

Cold tea

Cold hot chocolate aka chocolate milk

Cold coffee

I mean, do yall even know about cold water or is that an American thing too???

YOU GUYS DRINK COFFEE COLD AS WELL???

Does the rest of the world not use ice cubes? Do y'all not have freezers? What is going on?

Just thought I’d put my 2 cents in this post, it’s iced tea and not sweet tea. Idk what Americans r smoking 💀

I’m relatively new to Tumblr but it seems like sort of a big deal that I found this post so I’m gonna reblog

Imagine not liking iced tea- actually im gonna go drink some now

I don’t even know what to say…

i drink iced tea every day >:)

Iced tea is brilliant but hot tea is nice too

@dazzling-rubabe

Behold concerned Brit

World War Tea Situation

This post is a relic

Me seeing this for the 14th time in my 5 years on tumblr and seeing more notes and comments but still reblogging it since it’s literally a World Heritage Post

date of origin: November 5th, 2013

The legend has crossed my dash.

Sometimes Brits forget that a massive portion of America has A LOT OF HEAT. There is no question if you live in the south you need cold drinks, and I know the weather is getting hotter over there too- maybe try the iced tea my good dudes.

It’s wild when you think about the fact that in most countries when you say you want ice in your drink they ask one cube or two except for America where you tip the cup toward your face and a giant avalanche of ice rushes toward you immediately.

lately my tiktok fyp is filled with brits crying about their heat wave (i do sympathize babes, even if your “hot” is what i set my ac to in the summer) and one particular brit currently in texas having the worst time of his life. HE is drinking all the cold drinks now, i’ll tell you what. come to the usa during the summer, drink iced tea/coffee with us.

Y’know, I’m in Beijing right now, where the high today is 89 with 70% humidity (aka just like home) and I will tell you that the Chinese whom the British got the tea from? They definitely do drink it cold. I mean you go to a restaurant and it’s hot tea by default (sometimes free instead of water), but milk tea/boba is all over the place, walk down a block and you’ll pass three places selling it, and you see people walking around with it like you see Starbucks cups in the US. I got cold milk tea at freaking KFC.

REBLOG FOR SAMPLE SIZE PLZZ

If my neighbour neglects their lawn, I would frolic through it like a baby goat in a meadow. I would watch fireflies dart in and out of it at dusk. I would marvel at all the tiny lives going on around me.

I’ve listened to the neil gaiman podcast. Here is a recap of the allegations and trigger warning I will talk about it in detail. This is an incredibly complex situation, so take care of yourself

“To Throw A Wrench In The Blood Machine” by guantesolo

idk if this is a contreversial take or not but i think that the ideal internet experience is being able to remove specific things (triggers, nsfw, gore) if you truly dont want to see them but overall being also shown things you aren’t interested in. i think one of my fave things about tumblr is seeing like 50% of my dash be about fandoms im not in, bands i dont like and quotes from books i dont want to read rather than this endless feedback loop of tiktok showing me ‘exactly what i want to see’ in a trap to keep me online as long as possible and blind to communities outside of my own. i want a mix of curating my own experience and a healthy dose of content i don’t already know i want to see, yknow?

I watched this video about Online Filter Bubbles back in 2011 when I used to watch Ted talks regularly. Changed my online habits right away. I stopped using Facebook within a year of this. Became more aware of checking settings of apps/softwares. I am currently very much interested in online privacy and fights for it. And it all ties down to this talk: internet should be about YOU. Nobody else should get to decide what you see and and what is censored from you. Honestly, this talk is still relevant, because unfortunately we have done a massive slide down to the enshittification by creating these filter bubble, which as he feared then, also has ruined democracy. BECAUSE PEOPLE DON'T HAVE ACCESS TO ALL THE INFORMATION DUE TO ALGOS.

Republicans commit crimes in broad daylight and their loyal base votes in every election to stack the courts in their favor to protect them from any consequences, while liberals have to beg on their knees for leftists to vote, and they still self-righteously refuse to. That is why the system is in favor of Republicans, because they always vote and are serious about gaining power. They want to change the country to suit their twisted vision of the world and know years of winning elections will do that, unlike the left, which just wants to be in permanent opposition to power.

The reason why I drag them when Republicans do terrible things is because it’s despicable, inexcusable, and shameful to look at Republicans only become more authoritarian and extremist, and refuse to do the bare minimum to stop them. All of this could have been avoided in 2016—or even 2000, with the Nader ratfucking.

‼️ if you live in the UK please vote in the general election (4th july) ‼️

99% of "mysterious disappearances" esp of people in their 20s who start acting weird for 48 hours and then vanish are not mysterious, thats just when a lot of reality-obliterating mental illness tends to kick in and it's pretty easy to get a short circuit in your brain that makes you go family guy death pose in joshua tree national park. it's not any less tragic, it's just a documented phenomenon and not particularly predictable. its a big reason the medical advice is for people with a family history of schizophrenia to completely avoid weed and psychedelics. "people just go crazy sometimes" is a principle of human health that used to be a lot more accepted prior to the american midcentury and to a certain extent thats a healthier way to conceptualize and prepare for the risk, as opposed to the modern assertion that anyone acting weird is dangerous and broken forever.

you should have a rough outline of a plan for if any of your loved ones experiences psychosis, it really does happen a lot. UTIs can cause psychosis. taking drugs, even safe drugs, or prescription drugs, can cause psychosis. i was once prescribed a heavy regimen of vitamin D because i was deficient, but the doctor never told me to stop taking it, so i moved to california, stopped being deficient, and developed vitamin d toxicity with downstream hyperparathyroidism which triggered significant hypomania that was undetected and uncontrolled for yeeeeeeears. i just slowly got Weird and started making impulsive decisions based on slightly out-of-gamut beliefs. i drove cross country by myself to have a love affair. the love affair was real, the series of decisions leading to burning down my life in pursuit of it were based on not great brain function however. etc. you see what i mean. churchill mentioned depression being the "black dog who stalks us" (one reason for Churchgrim's multi-referential name) but theres another, stealthier dog called Insanity and it's closer to some people than others but man it sneaks up on you. every time i see one of those "guy gets weird and drives into the wilderness forever" missing persons stories i think "yeah i could totally pull that off"

"van gogh cut off his ear what a lunatic" you are 3 nights of bad sleep, getting unexpected upsetting news and taking a substance as benign as coffee at the wrong time away from doing the same hope this helps