semicolons are not only for formal essays and anyone who tells you otherwise wants to deprive you of the second most satisfying punctuation mark; do NOT believe them. i promise they get no bitches

the first most satisfying punctuation mark is—fyi—the em dash

Be the Strange, Undulating Glow that you wish to see emanating from the forest at night

discovered an intriguing network of pornbots which appear to be repeatedly reblogging this picture of butter between themselves

I love all of these

for a while there i was sympathetic to tumblr because of how much they’re in debt; i was kind of like “well of course they’re absolutely desperate for new users, they literally need the money or else tumblr goes down forever”. and then suddenly today it hit me that there’s actually no fucking reason for that debt to be causing these ui changes? the userbase has been INCREDIBLY clear about what they want from tumblr over the years, not to mention clear about the fact that even twitter people don’t need this place to look like twitter. it actually would be very… EASY? for them to just make changes in a direction people would actually be HAPPY with?

for fuck’s sake there were people trying to organize a “crab day” for tumblr despite tumblr doing nothing but telling us to go fuck ourselves for months on end. there were people spending hundreds of dollars on check marks just for the glee of MAKING FUN of twitter. can you IMAGINE how much money this userbase would donate to tumblr if they actually made ui updates geared toward what people have been asking for?

if tumblr actually crowdsourced ideas or even just LISTENED to their userbase it may have been possible for them to make way more money than they’re begging for now, they just insist on trying to drive their actual demographic and loyal userbase out for literally no reason

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I don’t get it, man. why. why do we have to homogenize everything. why does every product have to look and behave and feel the exact same way. why can’t tumblr maintain its individuality? why can’t it lean into the things that make it a unique and refreshing offering instead of scrambling to make it a carbon copy of twitter? sucks, man. sucks.

it’s just like. this broadcasts loud and clear that the people behind the curtain have no pride or faith in this site at all. that tumblr, as a whole, has no worth or merit unless it’s somehow tricking the larger internet community into thinking it’s actually another site. and the users are supposed to celebrate this? where’s the dignity? where’s the self-respect? where’s the joy? it’s disheartening and embarrassing to be forced to conform. smh.

if u r trans no matter what ur agab and ur gender may be there is a good chance u will have a voice in ur head telling u that u need to lose weight to pass and to have people take u seriously . that is the voice of the DEVIL do NOT LISTEN TO IT !!!!

Come on Tumblr, don’t be fucking cowards

Alternatively -  come on nameless intern #102, you have a chance to be the fucking funniest person on staff.

cowards

Time for manual blazing, tumblr can be a coward but they can't stop us.

these lakes look like boobs with some perspective

It kinda does (I tried)

terfs keep mentioning the % of autistics who are trans/nb and that we're 'brainwashed'

and because i'm an asshole, i decided to look into why so many autistic folks are trans/nb. it's not an inaccurate statement, at least the first half, but terfs lie through their teeth so i decided to get to the scientific root of it.

the answer blew my fucking mind.

the study on gender and autism i found said two very specific things about autistic people: we are more mentally resistant to things like social conditioning and binarism. we like our secret third things, y'know.

an excerpt:

“The finding that non-binary identities are most elevated seems to support hypotheses focussed on autistic resistance to social conditioning, which are consistent with existing evidence of the same effect with respect to self-description of sexual orientation. Perhaps elevated rates of trans identity in autism might result from a rejection of the binary cisgenderist norm, which combined with a below-typical concern for social norms could promote the disclosure of the identity.”

94% of autistics surveyed for that paper identified themselves as non-binary.

other studies have found autistic people have higher levels of critical thinking, and require more evidence to maintain or convert to a belief system (hence why many of us eventually fall away from religion) than allistic people.

which means, at least from my perspective, that:

a) the 'brainwashing' terfs are accusing the trans community of inflicting on autistic folks would likely not even work if they tried.

b) the current binary definition of gender flies directly against embedded autistic modes of thinking to begin with.

you cannot brainwash someone into thinking something they already believe.

Idk why staff thinks they can make huge and unnecessary changes to their layout and their highly autistic userbase is just gonna be okay with that

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TL;DR – Twitter thread by a library worker on a news article about a woman who pulled hundreds of books out of a library dumpster and donated them to an underserved school. THOSE BOOKS WERE THROWN OUT FOR A REASON. Like outdated science, racism, and misogyny. #ContextMatters 

Sorry, book burning is ALWAYS bad.

Listen, even if the books are legit crap and promote the most horrible things in the world, I am against burning them. The kids should be able to read these books - with the understanding that these books are flawed and have racism/misogyny within them. And maybe it’s a good opportunity to teach them how to recognize propaganda and misinformation? Or to see how outdated science can evolve?

But book burning is the wrong move. Always will be. Don’t go down this road, it will end up backfiring.

… books being discarded by a library is not equivalent to being burned or banned. To even be considered for removal, books will either be in very bad physical shape or will be ones no one has checked out in several years, or will be replaced by newer editions of the same biok. Copies of these books still exist in archives with the express purpose of being preserved, and can be gotten by the library through inter library loan if someone wants to read them.

Weeding and discard of books are very thorough processes, and as the thread says books in good condition that would be useful elsewhere are donated, or sometimes sold to fundraise for the library. Many libraries will also have a cart of free books for people to take if they want.

If, after all this work, and evaluation, and opportunities for reuse, a book is placed in a dumpster, it’s because it isnt needed or useful anywhere else.

Again, this is not the same thing as banning books or burning them. If that were the case we’d be talking about stuff like trumps autobiographies, not outdated books from the 70s that haven’t been circulating.

I left a similar but longer comment on a different thread of this post but it is in a way fascinating to see what’s come of the education system teaching the concept of book burning as like, the nazis piling up whatever books they could find and lighting them on fire for fun.

Book burning is the specific concentrated effort to eradicate specific information, it’s not just the literal act of destroying a book.

image description: screenshot of a google image search with “burn scar” in the text box and 3 results below. the first one is a skin care article titled “what is the impact of burn scars on your skin?” second one is a dermatology article titled “laser treatment of burn scars”. both of these have images of actual burn scars shown as thumbnails. the third one is titled “Monster FX silicone burns scar prosthetic” with a fake looking “prosthetic” make-up. the full title includes “ The perfect  addition to any costume to make a gory and realistic effect! “. end image description

THIS is the type of shit i mean when i say people with facial differences and especially burn survivors are treated like fucking shit. THIRD RESULT of the phrase burn scar is a fucking fake halloween prosthetic because “oohh so gore and scary!!”. and yet it’s fucking crickets and the only people who talk about it once a year are tumblr posts that read as “don’t call those ugly abnormal deformed gross people ugly!!!” (hyperbole but it is so fucking annoying how they all use the most negative terms i have ever heard and don’t bother to check what we call our community :-) :-) ).

SPEAK UP and say something when you see the millionth person of the day tagging a burn survivor or a person with a craniofacial condition as body horror. call your friends out for putting a trigger warning for “gore” when someone dares to have a scar. don’t go watch the 100th movie of the year where the villain has a facial difference (because it obviously makes you evil and kill puppies). get at least half as pissed off as me when you see that another able-bodied actor is cast to play a person with Treacher collins syndrome in some movie because they can’t bother to work with an actual disabled person or god forbid hiring and thus giving money to someone you’re making a movie about. everyone knows that it should be the person who has the most acting skill and fits the role the most and we all know that people who need to put on “Monster FX prosthetic scar gore effect” know how people with FD are the best. stop treating us like some fucking monsters that couldn’t possibly exist in real life and see your bullshit all day every day. maybe even ask yourself why does everyone think of people who drool, have strabismus, skull conditions, hypertelorism or facial palsy/paralysis as a fucking laughingstock. no really. we see your fucking memes and reaction images and oh no it’s a disabled person existing again? must be a coincidence… i could never be ableist because i reblogged something about eugenics being kinda wack last week

i feel like i could go for another hour just listing this shit but at the end of the day this post will have like 10 reblogs and 3 of them will tell me about how their OC who’s a “burn victim” is only a bad guy who kills people like that because of their trauma and definitely nothing that could involve the author’s bias. it’s not like you made it or anything. learn to draw facial differences properly BTW red overlay layer isn’t really how a burn scar looks like to anyone who has seen a scar before :)

We all love urban fantasy but we have to contend with the fact that if monsters were real, some of them would be normies. Your werewolf boyfriend posts on LinkedIn. The tentacled horror you've been thirsting after is a Disney adult.

You did it, you made unimaginable horror within man-made comprehension.

@monstrousagonies

another thing abt me. i use the 👍 emoji very liberally. im not being sarcastic or passive aggressive im being like cool ok or thanks for the heads up or etc. to me 👍 is an innocent happy polite little emoji

me when i 👍

#i like to think data took him all the way to the brig tossed him in and left#and then came back 60 seconds later and was like ‘i believe i have successfully played a ‘practical joke’ on you :)’#riker loses it & claps him on the back like ‘wow. good job u rly had me going. dont ever fucking do that again’ Perfect.

Actually it’s 73 seconds. Data, knowing something of how human minds work, estimates that Riker will give him 60 seconds to come back (because humans prefer “round numbers”, however arbitrary the units). After 60 seconds it will take 4 seconds for Riker to fully process the conclusion that Data is, in fact, not coming back after all, and an additional 9 seconds to build to the optimum level of anxiety. 

After all, comedy is timing.

If you love Tree Law, the beloved subreddit is open again. I highly recommend sorting by top/all time.

To clarify after some questions:

(American) Tree Law is very satisfying because the cases often involve someone damaging trees that don’t belong to them, usually for an aesthetic, mercenary, petty, and/or spiteful reason. However, American tree law comes down like a HAMMER on such people, and they will get mighty fines. If the tree dies, in fact, they’ll be on the hook to replace the whole thing, and as it turns out, trees ain’t cheap. As the article above summarizes one incident in Reddit terms:

Tree Law is perhaps one of the few branches (I didn’t even mean that to be a pun) of American law where self-entitled wrongdoers WILL face consequences. NBC Universal wants to maul a row of city-owned ficus trees to deprive striking workers of shade during a heat wave? Oh boy.

Trees are one of those things whose worth is weighed in years, whose value is inclusive of all the time that went into making it what it is. A mature tree is a MATURE tree; you cannot replace it with a sapling and call it good. You don't just replace the tree; you must replace the years of the tree. And it turns out that finding those years to replace is both difficult and expensive.

It's one of those lovely situations where a wrongdoer is forced to restore the situation to its former glory, cost be damned, and if it's "too expensive" or "too inconvenient" or "I had no idea" or "this is so much trouble" then tough shit, asshole, you fucked around and by God you WILL find out.

feel like tell story when look at someone blog who talk about disabilities and accept all and stuff like that but then look for anything even mention intellectual disability and is nothing , not even vague positivity .

those is people that most scare try say anything to because will probably just assume intellectual disability and internet not mix , so anyone with intellectual disability on internet is fake person , or assume have same intelligence competence abilities just because online .

feel like people not understand what means and think just little hard to learn or everything impossible ever , for every single person .

People who say bi erasure doesn’t happen need to realize Freddie Mercury is known as the most famous homosexual man when he identified himself as bisexual. If that’s not bi erasure I don’t even know.

Also PoC erasure, most people don’t know he was 100% Indian

Specifically he was Parsi. Also raised Zeroastrian.

*zoroastrian 

#i dont think the white boys can handle a queer brown guy being their god

^^^ centuries of religious art featuring white-skinned blue-eyed Jesus have made that pretty clear

His real name was Farrokh Bulsara. He was born in Zanzibar.

Okay but why is “farrokh bulsara, from Zanzibar ” more inspiring and better sounding than “Freddie mercury from England ”?

Can I add this tidbit I found?

ID: “During a Queen concert in the 70s, a heckler shouted “you fucking poof” [gay slur] to Freddie Mercury during the middle of their set. Freddie responded by ordering the crew to turn the spotlight on hte man, asking him to “Say it again, darling”. The heckler cowered in shame.