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greater arson

@squelsh

arson - it/they/any - will kill mutuals on sight - 18 - where i put my silly little things. original writing and reblogs of longform media on sideblog

Was walking alone through the alley behind my apartment and saw a weird guy so I checked that I had my pepper spray and I guess the guy saw me do that because he said "Don't worry, I'm more scared of you than you are of me" and I said "Ok" and he said "I'm terrified of women"

Happy International Women's Day to this dude, wherever he is now

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the "what number comes next?" problem

here's a sequence of numbers:

3198, 11, 734, 11, 1115, 11, 1440...

can you guess what number comes next?

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this deserves to be its own post. like yes. totally endorsed.

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fuck. your right. we've been here since the very beginning. learn your queer history folks.

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yeah it's about grant thrboneb but I do always wonder about that oxford twink

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hate the way brits say penalized. PEENalized. wtf.

is this one of the words americans say wrong on purpose because they don't want to say a naughty word.... that big naughty word.... you cannot say it... they won't let you say it... im gonna say it...

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penis word?

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-3 peenalty for saying the penis word

George: "They transmuted me Jerry! Transmuted me!"

Jerry: "I know you needed cash but you can't just sign up for any old alchemical experiment! Those guys got no guild!"

Elaine: "Look on the bright side. Now that you're made of pure mercury, you can sleep in a barrel. Save a ton on rent."

(Kramer enters)

Kramer: Jerry! Jerry! Constantinople just fell to Mehmed II!

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!

wow i wonder what trans women could possibly dislike about a prescriptive system of categorisation assigned at birth. good thing sherlock holmes is public domain because nobody else could crack this big fucking mystery

'in defence of my comfort pseudoscience, it is in fact meaningless bullshit that says nothing'

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so rry i was blogging from here while foraging for silkworms :(

I want to see you die some time.

Not in a weird way, no, but I want it to be conclusive. A relationship either ends in breakup or in death. And putting aside the obvious, one of us is gonna have to live without the other for a time and I'd rather it be me than force you through it.

I want to see you die some time, not to pull the trigger or to avenge you for who did or amend what made it happen or append me in your passing; no, it would be good just to hold your hand or get one final embrace

I want to see you die some time, not just to say goodbye but to force us to accept it - the two of us were never good at promises, but this is a one we both want to keep - we still keep our souls behind lock and key, and maybe now that my safe is cracked you might as well have the code

I want to see you die some time, not because I want to make you guilty, but let's be honest, your partners have killed themselves before and let's be honest one of us will too, and I know that if you ever saw me die instead it'd not take long for it to be you

I want to see you die some time, because I couldn't ever let you do the same. I wouldn't want to let you say goodbye but still need to see me every day in your mind never able to let go because I KNOW it's what I will live through and I know that what it means when I say "I love you" is that I could never let that happen to you,

I want to see you die some time because when I say "I love you" it means I live for you, because when I say "I love you" I mean it, no matter how many typos I need to type through to tell you I live you, no I live you, no, I love you I love you I love you.

I listen to you say it every day

And it reminds me

I want to see you die some day.

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hey i have been invited to perform this poem soon - anyone who can provide last-minute feedback would be badass and i will slog your shit stupid style

Who was involved in the creation of the DSM-5?
The American Psychiatric Association owns the DSM. They aren't only responsible for it: they own it, sell it, and license it. The DSM is created by a group of committees. It's a bureaucratic process. In place of scientific findings, the DSM uses expert consensus to determine what mental disorders exist and how you can recognize them. Disorders come into the book the same way a law becomes part of the book of statutes. People suggest it, discuss it, and vote on it. Homosexuality was deleted from the DSM by a referendum. A straight up vote: yes or no. It's not always that explicit, and the votes are not public. In the case of the DSM-5, committee members were forbidden to talk about it, so we'll never really know what the deliberations were. They all signed non-disclosure agreements.

Hope Reese, The Real Problems With Psychiatry

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this man found a gemstone the size of a new york apartment on the side of the road and said "sorry im excited about rocks" about it

“This is the most honkin’ skookum rock” bro.

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i know a lot of people won’t know who this guy is but he’s running a company that’s building electric semi trucks because tesla sucks so bad and they named it Edison Motors because they’re stealing Tesla’s idea.

Boy the collective tumblr boyfriend has had a really go of it lately huh

Reblog to give the Tumblr boyfriend a juice box.

Drowning him?!?!?!?

More. MORE!

JUICE HIM!

Ok. So.

The average Juice Box holds between 4-32oz of juice

And the average swimming pool holds between 18,000 and 20,000 gallons of water

Converting 18,000 gallons to ounces means that the average swimming pool holds 2,304,000oz of water on the low end

So I did some math and 2,304,000 divided by 32 equals 72,000.

When I started this process, there were 640 reblogs

72,000 - 640 = 71,360

So, if we assume each reblog is a large juice box

We need 71,360 more reblogs to make the collective Tumblr boyfriend swim in juice

Reblog 72k times to give a good boyfriend a juice pool reward.

Like to give him swimming lessons or at least arm floaties.

People are really exercising the "R" desktop shortcut on this post

they put pussy in the water supply to keep the lesbians healthy

ⓘ Fact Check

There are currently no jurisdictions worldwide that mandate the addition of pussy to drinking water, nor have any clinical trials shown that the addition of pussy to drinking water has any significant effect on the heath of lesbians.

For more information on Tumblr Fact Check or to report inaccuracy, please see our reports page.

idk why but they buried the option to turn this feature off - but you can find it if you go to the FAQ.

WHY DID THEY NEED TO CLAIRIFY THAT

Tumblr has fact checking?

apparently???

yeah it’s new :/ they announced it on the staff blog here

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Ever since I first heard the word grotto I knew it was a valuable word. When I first heard the word grotto I knew it could be used for great things. The word grotto refers to a cavity in the earth. The word grotto means a small hole or cavern in rock or other substrate like ice, especially when used as shelter. The word grotto is related to crypt, and it is related to grotesque. Grottoes can also be built. Artificial grottoes are sometimes built in gardens. Sometimes people live in grottoes. There have been people that go into grottoes and live in them. There have been people that lived in a grotto for a long time. Sometimes people store food and other supplies in grottoes. Sometimes there are religious things in grottoes. People like to put items in grottos for safekeeping, because grottoes are useful for shelter. When I first saw the word grotto I knew it had a lot of meaning and meant something special. When I think of grottoes I think they are unique.

Not even to mention an underwater grotto

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In my last essay I discussed the meaning and use of grotto. I concluded grotto was a unique and special word with value. In this essay I will talk about grottoes and water. Grottoes sometimes have water in or around them. Grottoes are often near water or filled with water. It is important to say that grottoes are often made by water. Grottoes can be carved out through water eating away limestone. Features in limestone carved out by water are called karst features. Karst features are often found where limestone and water meet. Sometimes the water is there in the grotto when it floods and leaves the grotto when it doesn't flood. Sometimes floods happen daily and sometimes seasonally. Grottoes can be flooded often. There is a special grotto called the underwater grotto. The underwater grotto is found completely submerged in a body of water. The underwater grotto is completely flooded. These grottoes often have interesting things in them like ancient animals. Underwater grottoes can preserve old things. The underwater grotto is important in understanding how water and grottoes interact. One day I hope we can find all the underwater grottoes.

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iirc about 75% of your household income in Germany goes towards your expenses, but in the US that’s more like 85%. if you take the median incomes of both countries (~46k in USD in Germany, around 70k in the US), it is very nearly a wash, with Germany slightly edging out the US in terms of the disposable income/money left over to spend on other things
this doesn’t contradict the point that the US is obviously a developed country (on which we agree), but i know you and i have talked about in the past the extent to which median income figures represent actually greater wealth vs just differences in cost of living in Germany and the US, and my subjective sense that because of subsidized healthcare, childcare, education, etc., smaller household incomes go as far or further in germany than they do in the US, and i wrote down this statistic when i ran across it in case it came up again

This actually mirrors an argument I had in Discord last week: I think that we should care more about the income than the disposable income, and apparently not everyone agrees.

So like first, yes, costs of living are different between the US and Germany.  That’s why I’m using PPP, which adjusts for that: that puts the US at 69k and Germany at 57k.  (Nominal has the Us at 70 and the Germany at 51; so doing the cost of living adjustment does close a big chunk of the gap, but not all of it.)  Now PPP adjustment is highly imperfect, but let’s stipulate for the moment that this adjustment basically works.

But your figure points to another factor as well: “expenses” are bigger in the US.  So what does that mean if it’s not just cost of living?  I assume it means that Americans spend more on, like, housing and food and transportation.  But importantly, they still get all that stuff.

Like it’s a real social problem that America basically imposes minimum house sizes, so you can’t free up some cash by downsizing your house.  You have to buy the nicer, bigger house.  But you do, in fact, still get the nicer bigger house.  We eat out more, which is partly because lifestyle drives that but also eating out is nice.  Etc.

(Or like, imagine your job gives you a huge housing allowance.  That’s not as good as getting that as actual income, but it’s much better than not getting it!)

So my impression here is that we eat more food, live in bigger and nicer houses, drive newer and bigger cars, and still have as much cash left over as the Germans do.  (And like the houses thing is definitely true: German houses appear to average like 1500 square feet, with an American average at like 1900.  When I look for numbers I find wildly different estimates, but this is the closest-together estimate I can find.)

Now I think I said last time around that I’m guessing Germany has basically equivalent, maybe higher, quality of life.  Germans are somewhat materially poorer, but they have more security in various ways, a smoother-functioning bureaucracy, less violence, and shorter working hours. Those are all valuable things to “spend” the excess money on!  I think a lot of people would take that trade.  But there is a trade there.

guy 1: man im pissed off im like totally peeved the freak off

guy 2: why whats wrong man you can tell me anythang babygirl

guy 1: ive been talking to this trans broad from work she works in the get this in the coffee room a whole room for coffee you thought i was gonna say it didnt you well thats on you mf anyway i been talking to her cause she got a crazy ass like its insane but i found something that changed all that on god

guy 2: oh yeah? whats that honey

guy 1: shes a yuri trans girl not a yaoi trans girl

guy 2: shiiiiittttttt bro that sucks you know she posting about kissinh girls online instead of posting about boysmelll shitttttt that sucks bto

guy 1: ahah yeah whatevs :p

guy 2: well it dont matter i can be your girl i can be your princess we can kiss and rub our peanuseses togtehr

]guy 1: thanks dude i appreicate you

guy 2: no problem

the world trade centre: in this scenario 9/11 never happened

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