I want you guys to all start making a bigger stink about Tumblr's Age Verification Horseshit.
Like they tried to change Reblogs and people rightfully got up in arms, this is a LOT worse. In order to have access to any sort of thing dubbed mature, and We haveALL seen what they think is mature, Everything from a black and white photo of a black woman's arm, to posts about IUD recalls, to a nude painted by a 17th century artist, to anything involving the word Trans; you have to send your personal information to a third party site that WILL get hacked, and you will be doxxed. And they can say "Oh shit, well it wasn't us who sent your name address and gender identity to Moldovan teenagers, here's a couple extra minutes in the ball pit.
That's bad enough!!!!!!!! But the entire idea of needing permission from state authorities to access anything labeled mature by our friendly AI overlords is some fucking Boll shit. Die Gedenken Sind Frie baby. This is all a reaction to people getting uppity about their lowly lowly rights and is being propped up by the same bad actors tht have made life unlivable. Fuck that shit.
"Well it's only being rolled out in Brazil and UK" Yeah, to start. "Well they're being forced to do this by laws." YOu know it's always really funny when these tech giants (Or whatever you call owning tumblr dot com) get really antsy about laws considering they pick and choose which ones they abide by.
This is a breaking point and it's going to be very interesting to see how we proceed from here.
i get this now and it won't let me click through to any 'mature' blogs :(
Anonymous asked:
What would a Yankee Candle go for in ancient Greece?
tbh the most confusing thing about it to them would probably be the glass that the candle is contained in. They might try to buy information about glass from you.
Yeah I should’ve clarified (pun intended). They had glass in the ancient world especially in Rome and Egypt but it was basically super heated sand and color additives put in a mold and often looked opaque and kinda lumpy. Even if it was blown like it was in some regions it wouldn’t have looked like modern glass.
Clear blown glass like you’d see a modern scented candle contained in wasn’t invented until the late Middle Ages and certainly wasn’t mass produced until the 1500s and even then places like Venice that had knowledge of these techniques literally forbid their glassmakers from leaving their city or region so other people couldn’t make it, forcing artificial scarcity and making it a very expensive material.
So if you showed a yankee candle to an Ancient Greek, especially one from a city or something, they’d be like burning scented wax okay not something I’d do but it makes sense. Also how the fuck is that glass transparent.
Like imagine if someone brought you something weird but understandable contained in a material that they said was made out of wood and you could tell that it’s clearly made out of wood they’re not lying about that but it was also completely transparent and see through with no visible flaws. That’s about the level of weird we’re talking about here.
It isnt flawless, but transparent wood does already exist actually
What the fuck I feel like a medieval peasant seeing an iPhone
the thing about the whole "should old timey narrators count the servants as People" discourse that goes around ( that is, should a person consider themselves Alone if they have servants) is that every time half the examples are like "oh alas would that I had a friend to tell all the hot goss and talk about my feeeelings" and like yeah screw that , your servant doesn't need to do that free therapy but then the other half of the examples are like "alas that I have no one to tell about the Skull Eating Horror of Knobblington Range, which is coming to eat the skulls of everyone in this curséd abode" and honestly I think those narrators should bridge the class gap there and face a little social awkwardness in favor of avoiding the inevitable Chapter X: The Skull Eater Ate The Servant's Skull
like there is nuance here
"do you think the servants would believe them about the skull eater" listen. if my boss calls me in to say " Servant Worker Person, Whatever I'm Calling You, there's a curséd monster that's coming in to eat everyone's skull; truly you should Away" , then I am not staying to find out what the actual dealio is, I'm getting my Character and I am GONE , "you're gonna die if you keep working for me Ooooor you could Leave" thank you employer I am leaving right now immediately
I like that OP is making sure to get a character reference first.
This is fucking hilarious. 1,847 single lemons
The pink tunnel: Motoara River Cherry Blossom Avenue, Saitama, Japan. - Author: Wild_Flower_Xxx
When you see some really cool art and you go to reblog it, but this artist that you've never seen before inexplicably has you blocked, so just have to think... "What is the charge? Being a Jew? A succulent sexy Jew?"
Imagine if a like 8 foot tall guy that looked kinda like an alien species just kinda showed up at the house you rent a room in and crashed on the couch and at first everyone hated him but you kinda just accepted this weird massive kinda-human alien species thing as a part of your group even though he's like twice the size of everyone else there
Cuz that's literally happening to sea lions in San Francisco right now
So there's two species of sea lion in North America: the California sea lion, ranging along California (including Baja) but not ranging into the north coast or into oregon
And the Stellar's sea lion, which are WAY bigger and live in Washington, British Columbia, and Alaska
A male Stellars sea lion showed up in SF like a month ago and just kinda. Didn't know what to do, and joined a colony of California sea lions, and is just kinda chilling there now.
Weird vagrant species happen from time to time, but this is just a particularly funny instance of a highly social species getting very lost, and just trying to blend in with its closest nearby relatives
But a woman is a changeling, always shifting shape.
Just when you think you have it figured out,
something new begins to tak
literally-defectiveReblogged darkladynyaramyfootyrthroatFollow"Except for the field organizers of strikes, who were pretty tough monkeys and devoted, most of the so-called Communists I met were middle-class, middle-aged people playing a game of dreams. I remember a woman in easy circumstances saying to another even more affluent: “After the revolution even we will have more, won’t we, dear?” Then there was another lover of proletarians who used to raise hell with Sunday picnickers on her property.I guess the trouble was that we didn’t have any self-admitted proletarians. Everyone was a temporarily embarrassed capitalist. Maybe the Communists so closely questioned by the investigation committees were a danger to America, but the ones I knew — at least they claimed to be Communists — couldn’t have disrupted a Sunday-school picnic. Besides they were too busy fighting among themselves."-John Steinbeck, A Primer On The Thirties (emphasis mine)Kinda changes the tone of that whole pull quote, doesn't it?myfootyrthroatThe people on here who will call you bourgeoisie for being a shift lead, and then be like "All work is coercive. Of course I don't 'have a job'."Ok. Fauxletariat.3788
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literally-defectiveReblogged maimonideznutsclarabosswaldFollowTextbook row triggers vote to suspend EU funds to Palestinians | Euractiv'Jihad is a contemporary religious duty to 'liberate' Palestine from the Zionist Occupation,”EuractivThe resolution was adopted with 418 votes in favour, 207 against and 14 abstentions, calling for “the necessity for the Palestinian Authority to remove all educational materials and content that fail to adhere to UNESCO standards, particularly those encouraging antisemitism and inciting violence, to which Palestinian children should not be exposed.”
[...]
In fact, most of the content remained unchanged, a review by Euractiv found, often reproducing earlier editions verbatim. Revisions frequently removed neutral material, while leaving problematic content intact.
[...] Another allegedly revised Grade 12 Arabic textbook urges students to “return” to Israeli cities “with a weapon in your hand", using what Impact-se called “vivid, emotional verse to romanticise armed invasion in a way disturbingly reminiscent of the violence witnessed on 7 October 2023.”
An Islamic Education textbook also marked as revised portrays “the Jews” as liars and associates them with Satan.
Even some cosmetic revisions may not have been implemented. In an internal document issued by the PA ministry of education and seen by Euractiv, school principals were instructed to reinstate previously removed Grade 12 lessons “omitted in error”, including a lesson on jihad."It is the seventh consecutive year that the parliament has backed a resolution stating that Palestinian textbooks continue to include antisemitism, incitement to violence and glorification of martyrs and jihad."this is the third year in a row that i've been seeing the same report, the same time of year, again and again: the european parliament - not israel, not the united states - finds that the palestinian authority's official education system is openly promoting antisemitism and "martyrdom". every year, the reports gets very minimal media attention. every year, the funding continues. SEVEN YEARS. education is everything. can you imagine how many children have had "jews are evil, and you should aspire to die fighting them" drilled into their heads all this time? all directly funded by the eu? for YEARS? even after 7/10.
the silence on this is maddening.chutzpahchesed4174224
literally-defectiveReblogged shofarsogoodwildernessflavoredjellybean-deaAmerica is absolutely disconnected to meatI think I realized this when I had went to see my dad and stepmom one day and asked if I could place my hawk’s food. (A rabbit leg) in the freezer. My step mom was disgusted by the idea that a leg from an animal was in the freezer meanwhile an entire chicken was sitting in the fridge. Your rotisserie chicken is an entire chicken.Your pork chop is a hunk of pig.Your rack of ribs are from a cow’s rib cage. It’s like Americans view meat as colorful red and pink hued shapes that just exist and come into the world packaged. You see so many people getting harassed or even having their content flagged for showing how to process or field dress meat when it’s at it’s freshest. Right after culling. For some reason this is considered “gore” by many folks when in reality it’s no more different from plucking a processed chicken after cull. You also notice that Americans have an idea of what’s normal meat and what isn’t normal meat and there’s racist undertones that I’ve noticed in a lot of these comments left on foreign cooking videos You have people that claim a video of a man in a different country preparing something like this is “eating a dog.” Meanwhile this is roasted goat. You have people who’s only perception of an edible fish is in fillet or fish stick form and they call something like this nasty because “Eww there’s a head!” Yeah.. most animals have heads..Some of ya’ll need to realize what your meat looks like prior to processing and that it’s prepared in different ways. We also need to erase the stigma behind non traditional meats.sevdoesnotexistTruly, genuinely, as an indigenous person I talk about this exact thing a LOT! Like, don't get me wrong I get a bit squicked when dressing a chicken or gutting and cleaning a fish, lord knows I had really mixed feelings the first time I saw a deers throat slit (I thought it was cruel, until my elder asked me if I would have preferred to let it suffer instead)
The truth of the matter is that animals and humans are intertwined. We are food to one another, that's the way of the world and I think people forget that when we champion for humane treatment of animals and when we rail against factory farming we need to remember that removing death is not the goal, removing undue suffering it.sweaterkittensahoyI grew up in hunting country. I didn't hunt, but I saw all the processes of taking an animal and breaking it down for delicious parts. See also fishing.Americans who don't hunt or fish or farm can get real precious about their meat. I've watched a six-year-old delighted to make the first cut into a deer not because the kid was fucked up and weird but because it was part of the whole experience of going hunting and helping to get the meat ready to eat. It was adorable. Like a kid pushing the tiny cart at the grocery store.some-israeli-guywe need to remember that removing death is not the goal, removing undue suffering is.That's exactly it. The way I see it, if we give an animal a good life and a quick death (or just a quick death when hunting) there is nothing immoral about killing and eating it.For most animals, life involves pain, diseases, harsh conditions, and a constant need to be on high alert, otherwise you'll be eaten. And unless you're lucky, whatever is eating you won't even bother making sure you're dead first, just tired or injured enough to stay still.Animals raised in proper conditions can have better lives than any other member of their species in nature, so there's nothing wrong with eating them.Sadly most of the meat comes from horrific factory farms, and learning about what goes on there made me reduce my meat consumption by quite a lot.3336,34344,103
literally-defectiveReblogged shofarsogooddykesynthezoidFollowPpl losing their minds that RF Kuang put an Israeli side character in a book who’s hardly mentioned makes me want to shake ppl like oh my god!! Oh my god!! “It normalizes Israel” you are a tarpit!! You are a baby with a rattle!!! You need to grow tf up I’m so serious. Fiction reflects reality and Israelis are in fact ppl who exist whether you have negative feelings about that or not. You are not attached to reality rn. Your echo chamber has given you the tolerance of a 6 year old for the real fucking world183189
literally-defectiveRebloggedmariacallousFollowALTView on Twitterhazel2468Literally had someone say to me the other day something about why can't Jews just make a home where they're at? Why do Jews need a whole country?And like... You know, for a while, that was a popular idea!And then the entire fucking world proved that Jews aren't safe, and that we cannot trust anyone but us to protect us. And all of the assimilationists and the Bundists were fucking murdered in the Shoah and all the other atrocities that followed. Zionism is a vote of no confidence in the rest of the world to keep us safe. iswearbyalltheflowerspagecommandoThey have to escape the reality of their failures by returning to blame Jews and expend Jewish lives and safety because otherwise they have to finally face their own centuries of complicity in murder, marginalization, and dispossession. They don't want to. They want to hang onto all the good golden artsy philosophical bits of their histories and never look at the broken bones and stolen gravestones and Judensau underneath it all.
And when we point out they haven't changed, simply pretended and offloaded it? They get very angry:
"Western civilization never waged war on the holocaust. If Hitler hadn’t also been bent on world domination, he could have industrially mass murdered all the Jews of Germany, Austria, and Czechoslovakia with nary a peep. Escaping Jews would have been turned away from safer shores, and the train tracks certainly wouldn’t have been bombed. And the world that still appeased Hitler after Munich and didn’t care to save Jews during the war, except as part of other objectives, would have called any Jew who complained too loudly a troublemaker and a warmonger.The world wishes to say it gave a damn about the Jews at the time and that WW2 was waged against the deepest moral horrors of the Nazis. It needs to expiate its unique, civilization-level indifference to the extermination of its Jews. It is clear from the way that Europe has always spoken to Israel that it considers its sins well-compensated, and from the way the US does that it never had any doubts—cultural, military, spiritual—in the first place. Many brave soldiers may, at a personal level, have fought to save the Jews. Their governments did not. Western Civilization went to war not to save the Jews, but to save itself from the world-conquering monster it had midwifed, the man who invaded Poland, whose allies bombed Pearl Harbor. The camps were liberated and documented in the best spirit of, “See what the war enemy is like.” Thus anti-Nazi sentiment became a civilizational self-absolution. The Nazis were declared the enemy without having to pay a dime. And the Jews were admitted, magnanimously, as evidence.The often-genuine empathy of the individual toward the holocaust is natural, spontaneous, and totally uneducated. As soon as they ask, “But how did this happen?” a thousand “educators” step in and start talking about things they invariably would have opposed anyway had Jews never existed. They say it was nationalism, or populism, or right-wingism, or anti-communism, or dehumanization, or a bad Treaty of Versailles unleashing powerful economic forces, or the alienation of modernity and the death of G-d. Whatever it was, you see, we, the right-thinking, we whose minds are shaped by the same ideas and swim in the same waters, we, the creators of the One True Rational Hermetically-Sealed Dichotomy, are not to blame. It was not the culmination of our civilization. The holocaust was aberrant, and so obviously aberrant that everything other than the one side of the True Dichotomy can be forgiven as a bad turn down a wrong road. The project is good. Heidegger, and the churches, and art, and liberalism, and enlightenment humanism, and communism, and family values are not to blame for this. What’s that, Jew? Oct. 7 is a Nazi crime? Because it’s obviously mass Jew murder? Why would a Jew have any say about what a Nazi is? In fact, muddying the waters and crossing the dichotomies and saying this type of person could be a Nazi makes you the disgraceful one, Jew. You’re misusing the holocaust, whose lessons about universal human brotherhood and giving peace a chance are well known. You obviously don’t care about the memory of the six million. The Jews have sunk so far since the holocaust…"The Holocaust Was the Fulfillment of Western CivilizationThe mass murder of the Jews was inevitable. No one has atoned. Yet Jews still seek redemption in the West.open.substack.com120198
literally-defectiveReblogged darkladynyarasirfrogsworthFollowThis is especially frustrating because the only reason we know the wind speed is because NOAA's Hurricane Hunters literally fly into the hurricane and collect vital data. They fly in and out of the storm over and over in 8 hour shifts.This brave team flies two identical Lockheed P3s called Kermit and Miss Piggy.You can see the dangling ornaments in the videos to determine which plane they are in.And when I say they fly into the hurricane, I mean they fly *into* the hurricane. Here they are in the eye of Milton.And here they are in the eye of Irma.As you may notice, this flight was in Kermit. So the next time you see live data about a hurricane's wind speed and pressure, just remember how that was collected and don't be a giant turd about it.And please vote because conservatives want to kill NOAA.mooncustaferThis is serious But I also just want everyone to know that Kermit and Miss Piggy have retro-style nose artwork of the characters:www.usatoday.comthefrogmanI was so enamored with the ornaments. I didn't think to check for nose art. Thanks for adding this!wild-aspenI still can’t get over the Twitter user being under the impression that the wind inside a storm is supposed to blow at one speed the whole time…weathernerdmandoAlso the way we GET those measurements?A little instrument called a dropsonde. This is what one looks like (from Wikimedia commons). We fly into the (eye!!! Often to the eye iirc!) hurricanes, shove that in and down a tube into the hurricane, often 10+ times and then gtfo of the hurricane when enough data is gathered. We do this with regular weather too, but in the form of regular balloons and radiosondes (technically radiowsondes because of the measurements they take, iirc), and uh, usually we do some across the entire country.Right now, we are still missing several sites because of funding and staffing cuts Trump has done. And it’s been long enough that I think (and could be wrong but…) the models are starting to show that lack of data at least slightly. Which is honestly what a lot of folks were expecting and worried about with the major loss of those data sites. Private industry cannot remotely do what NOAA and the NWS do. They genuinely cannot scale to the extent of what NOAA covers and also…. They SHOULDNT be. This shit isn’t a profit vector, it’s literally to help keep everyone safe and aware of what the weather is doing!!! Call your reps. Demand they support NOAA and the sciences and reject budget cuts!!!!12833,25335,605
literally-defectiveRebloggedmariacallousFollowALTView on Twitterhazel2468Literally had someone say to me the other day something about why can't Jews just make a home where they're at? Why do Jews need a whole country?And like... You know, for a while, that was a popular idea!And then the entire fucking world proved that Jews aren't safe, and that we cannot trust anyone but us to protect us. And all of the assimilationists and the Bundists were fucking murdered in the Shoah and all the other atrocities that followed. Zionism is a vote of no confidence in the rest of the world to keep us safe. iswearbyalltheflowers120198
literally-defectiveReblogged hazel2468rainyydovesFollowyou are not immune to being an asshole just because you're marginalized by the way.rainyydovesyeah this includes disabled people, and poc, and queer people. just because you were hurt doesn't mean you can scream at everyone else you dont get a free pass.52,7683,506
literally-defectiveReblogged darkladynyarasirfrogsworthFollowThis is especially frustrating because the only reason we know the wind speed is because NOAA's Hurricane Hunters literally fly into the hurricane and collect vital data. They fly in and out of the storm over and over in 8 hour shifts.This brave team flies two identical Lockheed P3s called Kermit and Miss Piggy.You can see the dangling ornaments in the videos to determine which plane they are in.And when I say they fly into the hurricane, I mean they fly *into* the hurricane. Here they are in the eye of Milton.And here they are in the eye of Irma.As you may notice, this flight was in Kermit. So the next time you see live data about a hurricane's wind speed and pressure, just remember how that was collected and don't be a giant turd about it.And please vote because conservatives want to kill NOAA.mooncustaferThis is serious But I also just want everyone to know that Kermit and Miss Piggy have retro-style nose artwork of the characters:www.usatoday.comthefrogmanI was so enamored with the ornaments. I didn't think to check for nose art. Thanks for adding this!wild-aspenI still can’t get over the Twitter user being under the impression that the wind inside a storm is supposed to blow at one speed the whole time…weathernerdmandoAlso the way we GET those measurements?A little instrument called a dropsonde. This is what one looks like (from Wikimedia commons). We fly into the (eye!!! Often to the eye iirc!) hurricanes, shove that in and down a tube into the hurricane, often 10+ times and then gtfo of the hurricane when enough data is gathered. We do this with regular weather too, but in the form of regular balloons and radiosondes (technically radiowsondes because of the measurements they take, iirc), and uh, usually we do some across the entire country.Right now, we are still missing several sites because of funding and staffing cuts Trump has done. And it’s been long enough that I think (and could be wrong but…) the models are starting to show that lack of data at least slightly. Which is honestly what a lot of folks were expecting and worried about with the major loss of those data sites. Private industry cannot remotely do what NOAA and the NWS do. They genuinely cannot scale to the extent of what NOAA covers and also…. They SHOULDNT be. This shit isn’t a profit vector, it’s literally to help keep everyone safe and aware of what the weather is doing!!! Call your reps. Demand they support NOAA and the sciences and reject budget cuts!!!!12833,25335,605
literally-defectiveReblogged asteroidtroglodytebyjoveFollowlenoreacedia asked:Why was New England subject to so many cults?byjove answered:The ghosts of their Puritan ancestors were whispering to them that they had to join oppressive and freaky religious sects RIGHT NOW. That is what happened during The Great Awakening. crazedporcupineAnd none of them managed to have the same staying power as the Mormonsbyjovethe Mormons did not stay, that’s a pretty significant thing about the Mormons, they had to get the hell out of there 9159833
literally-defectiveReblogged grabmybonershaneshollandersFollow"Your freckles.” Ilya grazed a fingertip over his own cheek. “I am nuts about them.”1148302
literally-defectiveReblogged grabmybonershaneshollandersFollow"Your freckles.” Ilya grazed a fingertip over his own cheek. “I am nuts about them.”1148302
literally-defectiveReblogged thestuckylibrarykuttithevanguFollowWhat if at the end of the Met Gala all the other celebrities devoured the corpse of the most boringly-dressed guest in a Bacchic frenzy. I think that would spice things up a little 22,2453,744
literally-defectiveReblogged soloorganaasmohelconventionFollow“Christian” as a name is so funny to me. What if I just named my son JewmohelconventionShit post canceled. I just remembered Yehudah and Judah exist135661,096
literally-defectiveReblogged grabmybonerthisfeebleheartFollowIlya + being provided for by Shane and his parents15351,994
literally-defectiveReblogged thesasukecomplexneuronaryFollow"the only difference between a cult and a religion is the scale"NO. NO IT ISN'T. THIS IS WHAT THE CULTS WANT YOU TO THINK IT IS NOT TRUE. THERE ARE RELIGIONS THAT ARE NOT CULTS AND CULTS THAT ARE NOT RELIGIOUS AND YOU MUST LEARN THE DIFFERENCE763,3456,132
literally-defectiveReblogged thesasukecomplexgolem-brigadierFollowThe funniest tweet in a horrific and gallow way.View on TwitterMany people also point out hoe similar it is to another famous picture of an antisemitic discovered who's the person he was being amiable with.View on TwitterThere's also thr massive hypocritical and how leftists are now firmly believers in race science once people realizes that Miss Israel is Jewish. zaprowsdower27Miss Israel Claims Shock Cafe Encounter With NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s Wife Turned Awkward And ‘Horribly Wrong’ After Identity Was RevealedThe reigning Miss Israel said she randomly bumped into New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s wife in a Brooklyn cafe over the weekend — and tcitynews68.com92129292
literally-defectiveRebloggedbdalakFollowi feel like anti-zionists are just opposed to the existence of synagogues and jewish community centers as a whole. they perceive a coherent, unified jewish identity as inherently threatening. it's why they keep trying to rewrite judaism and jewish culture and universalist and inclusive of everyone. i had a big lunch and am really sleepy so i lack the brainpower to elaborate on this, but even if every synagogue/JCC to ever exist in the diaspora had no ties whatsoever to the state of israel, they'd still justify anti-zionist terror attacks targeting synagogues and jewish community centers bc they serve as a kind of symbol for a unified jewish identitypoliticaljewishblogKind of like the period of emancipation in France.A viewpoint of “society is progressing towards justice, but there’s the issue of Jews as a group”iswearbyalltheflowersIt's because the left's solution to the jewish problem has not fundamentally changed since then: that jews should assimilate and disappear as a people162314
literally-defectiveReblogged thesasukecomplexjadwigaspeaksFollowI generally try to be cautious with Nazi comparisons but if you're more suspicious of a Magen David necklace than you are of a fucking SS Totenkopf tattoo, you are a Nazi and should be treated accordingly206351
literally-defectiveReblogged thesasukecomplexwherever-you-are-is-your-derechFollowWatched this amazing interview with Dara Horn and Haviv Rettig Gur on antisemitism, and at the end (1:01:34) she drops her definition of antisemitism. It's been rewiring my brain and now I want to interject in all sorts of conversations with it.We do not teach it as this is a social prejudice/bigotry... we teach it as a lie that people use to gain or maintain power. And the lie is always the same. The lie is: Jews are the obstacle to what you value most. And the only thing that changes in different historical settings is what you value most. The whole conversation is recommendable, but if you only watch ~5 minutes, watch from 56:58 onward, IMO.193158
literally-defectiveReblogged thesasukecomplexmemorycycleFollowdeinosuchus wouldve loved a lamb souvlaki4730,00030,567
literally-defectiveReblogged queenwillemy-2nd-accountFollowThe difference is that jealous Ilya looks homicidal while jealous Shane looks suicidal no-lovelorn-hazard@raccoonboywrites coming correct as always5312,01855,167
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