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Hi Tumblr. Say hello to Eugenides, aka Gen. He’s a rescue from the local shelter, three years old, and a total cuddlebug.

Yes, I plan to call him Goatfoot when I’m irritated.

Yes, I’ve already caught myself saying silly things like “Why is your nose so itchy? Have you offended the gods?”

Yes, there will be many more pictures to come once I have proper lighting.

I wonder if this is the funniest bank run in history. It's probably up there

looked into this a little, and it seems that there have been other funnier bank runs, most notably the Toyokawa Shinkin Bank incident

honorable mention to the Washington Mutual bank run of 2008, thanks to their CEO's memorable 2003 quote "We hope to do to this industry what Wal-Mart did to theirs, Starbucks did to theirs, Costco did to theirs and Lowe's, Home Depot did to their industry. And I think if we've done our job, five years from now you're not going to call us a bank."

Yeah okay that's much funnier

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I WILL be taking notes on which people will immediately get up in arms about the AI shit but are hemming and hawing and poking holes in the #EndOTWRacism demonstration before it even starts.

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A CRIME WITH A FINE IS ONLY A CRIME FOR THE POOR

silly animal that likes to roll about

"neckbeards" are a common facial hair pattern for people with PCOS and hirsutism and people who go on T and people who have a lot of weight on their face. It is not funny or cool or based to use physical features as a moral attack, and especially not when it's a common feature of intersex people and trans people and fat people and countless other types of people who society already mocks.

What?? Neckbeards are made fun of because they are too lazy to shave properly..

the fact that you see that as some sort of moral detriment is exactly the problem. Who the fuck cares what someone does with their facial hair, why does the way someone's hair grows naturally need to change. Terrible take. Get lost.

for their behavior??? not their appearance??? it's pretty simple.

Elvira: Mistress of the Dark (1988)

If you came from Reddit and you Black, I wanna hear about your time on Reddit.

If you not Black, keep it moving, idc, I’m talking to Black folk.

Has anybody heard from Black Reddit travelers? I still haven’t and I’m not being friendly til I do.

Where they at?

Yeah, no… I mean like the people who primarily are on Reddit to the point where they would flee and turn to Tumblr instead. I’ve seen a lot of guidance and welcome posts for Reddit users coming over, which I do not know of any Black person who just is on there like that.

Meanwhile, whenever Twitter was allegedly coming over, there was nothing but hostility. Mind you, there are beaucoup niggas on Twitter, MANY of which were ran off of Tumblr by racists and sex work discrimination. I just find it interesting that one of very few sites where Black creators and Black casual social media users can have a good time and interact with a lot of fun content is the one people hate the most.

Often under the guise of the idea that people on Twitter are more toxic and problematic. If that’s true, I’d just like the studies. That haven’t been true in my Tumblr and Twitter experiences. Whenever a Black moment occurs, Twitter is my best stop for consumption. Because so many negroes there and my algorithm be like, “Hey, Girl, you here for this nigga shit, huh?”

Tumblr forces white people into what I am doing everyday. No matter what I’m looking for or engaging with. It’s maddening.

This became a rant.

I am still looking for the Black Reddit community so they can tell me what I was missing by never being on there.

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White people who make fun of Indigenous words even if they are state names think it's all so innocent and in good fun when it's so obvious you don't think our words or languages have value and just sound silly.

You are the same kind of people as my teacher who got annoyed when I did a presentation on Navajo Codetalkers in Diné Bizaad and ended up cutting off my presentation before I could finish without realizing just how disrespectful and rude it was (and in the same presentation allowing a white boy who's presentation was on WW2 immigrants do his slides in German, Italian,and Norwegian for each group and being impressed with it) . That's what it looks like to me when the premise of your joke boils down to "this Indigenous word sounds so goofy and weird".

Not indigenous but colonization regarding languages is so shitty.

I’m Filipino-American (Tagalog) and I grew up hearing both white people and OTHER Fil-Americans my age constantly say Tagalog is an “ugly/weird” language, since our parents usually wouldn’t teach it to us because racist white people hated it.

Meanwhile, older Filipinos often make fun of us for “not being real Filipinos.”

Meanwhile, everyone learned Spanish and French for years because they’re EUROPEAN foreign languages and therefore okay to learn.

I’m so tired of seeing shit about Miraculous Ladybug with its fucking French people while my posts about my own Filipino urban fantasy stories just get ignored. They get notes and the occasional reblog, but barely anyone actually READS THEM.

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Attitudes like this are part of why we've lost so many languages. I took a Languages in Globalization class and the number of times we read stories about languages that had gained no new speakers in the past generation, mostly indigenous languages, because it wasn't seen as cool to learn the native language when English was more useful broke my heart. Support people speaking and learning their native languages!!! Every language is so beautiful.

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poor things, well we should definitely make this easier on them by never repeatedly mentioning their name and deeds on the "reblog things forever" website

How about Part 1:

And Part 2:

...of the Behind the Bastards deep diving (pun very much intended) into the life of shitbird Stockton Rush.

I don’t understand why people hate baristas so much or especially why we’re often trashed as some kind of “cultural elite” by fashy (including and especially post-left) types.

Anytime there’s a discussion about tipping in the US people crawl out of the woodwork and talk about us like we’re some privileged class of people trying to shake them down for their hard earned salaries and dilute the meaning of real labor (whatever the fuck that means).

Shit like this

Or

Like one of my coworkers is currently homeless and crashing with our manager until he finds a new apartment. Another brings free coffee to the dentists office next door (and comps the Dr.’s espresso drinks) in exchange for affordable dental work. What about this screams privilege?

Just like any physically demanding job we’re facing a high risk of disabling repetitive motion injuries and yet the industry standard is zero health benefits unless your shop is part of a corporate chain and it’s legally required at which point benefits are technically available but functionally near impossible to access.

Don’t get me wrong the coffee industry is fucked from farm to table. The perception of the “not just anyone” that gets to be a barista is accurate to an extent. But that has more to do with the type of person who owns coffee shops. The trope of the Owner/Manager who only hires baristas they would drink with or fuck is not without merit but in what world is the barista benefiting from that? Short shifts and the promise of flexible hours attracts grad students and artists but I assure you the Queer Studies PhD candidate waiting for their big break as an adjunct and the bassist spending their nights playing in a rotation of 5 local punk bands bc they love the scene have no systemic power over you.

People hem and haw about servers and bartenders too but it seems like baristas specifically are the scapegoat of the food service industry and i genuinely do not understand what kind of bath salts these people are smoking.

Do these people not know that tipping is leveraged by companies to argue for paying service staff well under a livable wage? How much of a douche do you need to be, goddamn. If you care so much make your fucking drinks at home

this is a deeply unpopular opinion but i think in general we need to start holding conventions to higher standards wrt how they treat their indie artists. like when i went to momocon they set up mine and several other tables literally on top of each other and i had to chase down the staff to get us the spaces we paid several hundred dollars for. That sucked! but what REALLY got me is when i mentioned this was unacceptable the other artists involved nobody wanted to "make waves," one even told me i'd better not apply to heroescon because they'd laugh in my face for complaining. that was my first Big show, where i knew other artists even, and that response was so fucking weird i've never forgotten it lmao. then across a bunch of smaller shows:

-someone set off a fire alarm! there was no emergency exit plan in place, the staff disappeared and everyone in the artist alley just sort of had to Figure It Out

-some vendors being trapped in industrial loading zones for nearly /seven hours/ because the load-in info was incorrect and the people directing traffic were city police, who had no idea what the event even was

-me and several other vendors being locked OUT of loading zones and instructed to carry entire tables around the block, in the rain, because venue security "didn't like the look of us" and didn't want us bothering people attending a different event in the same building

-paying for a table, booking a room and traveling three hours and showing up to be told they had no record of me applying; if i didn't compulsively save all my convention correspondence i wouldn't have been allowed in

-"this 2020 season we'll be running our show As Usual but we understand if you want to back out because of personal reasons; we are unable to provide refunds"

also the usual stuff like lack of air conditioning or heat, shoving small artist tables right next to industry behemoths or resellers, or carbon monoxide poisoning caused by poor planning, lmao

anyway it's taboo to call out this shit because people are afraid of being blacklisted but god are we really SO scared of this industry we'll pay hundreds of dollars to get treated like this, do we need the tiny table shoved as far away from the main entrance as possible that badly? if a show blacklists you for asking for THE THING YOU PAID FOR is it really worth walking on eggshells?? we've GOT to respect ourselves more jfc

......Soooo apparently my time vending as a small indie shop at a Doll Convention is a dream come true experience

and HOLY CRAP guys that is not okay. None of that is okay. That could literally kill people.

The difference between a Good Show and a Bad Show for me is that a Good Show is a relatively smooth experience whereas a Bad Show such as Emerald City Comic Con gives me a new permanent injury.