there’s this church sign i pass every day that says “hurt people hurt people” and i know it’s supposed to mean like “people who are hurt, hurt people” but it sounds like a command

HURT PEOPLE

HURT PEOPLE

Official ominous sign

@the-ace-of-wrath

HURT THE PEOPLE HURTING PEOPLE SAYS THE GREAT ONE

HURT EVERYONE

mi wile pakala e jan ale!

Being a weird little girl as a kid provides two options to you: becoming transgender or becoming a weird adult woman. Both of which are things the world needs more of

"I'm just a girl", "girl math", "girl dinner", "divine feminine energy", "bimbocore", "clean girl", "girl's girl", "girlfriend brain" SHUT UPPP!!! SHUTT THE FUCKKKK UPPPPPP !!!!

to quote some other tumblr user:

"girl your rights"

and similarly, girl your self-image and so forth.

A story about a boy who wore his movie fandom on his head.

FUCKING CHOKE ON UR OWN NIPPLES YOU FUCK ASS WHORES YOUVE INTRUDED ON MY GODDAMN PEACE AND I HOPE UR CLIT OR TIP CRUSTS OFF AND CRUMBLES TO ASH FUCK YOU

ah, the good old rebloggable ad.

I have to remember that the black Tumblr community still exists despite the purge years ago. but sometimes it's a bit hard to remember that when some people on here are so blatantly anti-black and or clearly have never spoken to a black person but hide their antiblackness under progressive talk or whatever. more than anything it makes me sad and isolated especially when this shit is coming from white people who never have to experience systemic oppression based off skin color ever in their life. how I envy you.

it is hard for black folk to exist among any sort of spaces ever, especially fandom/queer spaces. because the folks who you think are extremely similar to your experiences or interest might just straight up commit a microagression and or hate your guts for being black.

or the opposite end, where liberals see your blackness and weaponize it against other people, reducing and watering down your existence to something they see as a tool rather as a human. it sucks.

sometimes I feel bad talking about my experiences as a black person in these spaces because I don't want to upset non black people but truthfully white fragility and white comfortability kills my people either way so whatever. it won't hurt to make non black people acknowledge that they can be anti-black and that they have the opportunity to learn rather than going full liberal "I can never be racist I'm [blank]" moding

manifesting

My brother in law recently became a veterinarian and it has really driven the point home as to how fucking bonkers veterinary medicine is. We don't expect human physicians to really know much outside of their own specialty - a dentist, an otolaryngologist, and a maxillofacial surgeon are three totally different dudes. Meanwhile a veterinarian at a wildlife rehab center is doing orthopedic surgery on a hawk and then doing rounds on baby hedgehogs in the hedgehog NICU and administering antibiotics to a ratsnake. And he also knows how to perform surgical interventions on a cow! What the fuck! Those are all totally, wildly different kinds of animal!!

Shout out to veterinarians, they know Too Much.

sent this to my mum, who is a vet, and she agrees. they know Too Much.

I don't know how to explain to some people that the ideas that

1. Owing to the fact Hamas and the PA are virulently antisemitic, there is racism and antisemetism baked into a lot of Palestinian society because it's literally taught in schools

And

2. Israel also has people who are super racist against Palestinians

And

3. Despite the issues above, Palestinians and Israelis are still people and have the right to safety and security in their homes

Are things that can, and should, exist side by side (just like Israel and Palestine)

hello tiny friends i keep in my pocket. tell me something I will find humorous but vaguely annoying

Everything you see isn’t the colour you see it as. It is instead every colour EXCEPT the one you see. You perceive that colour due to that spectrum of light bouncing off the object and going zoorp into your eyeballs.

ok this does genuinely piss me off actually

Your eyes also see things upside down but your brain flips it rightside up again.

And y’know how goats are known for having those horizontal eyes that twist around in their sockets so that they always see parallel to the horizon? Human eyes do that too.

oh no this is much worse

this is so much worse

More body weirdness ahead:

What’s really worse is that some people can control it. So that they ask you to stare into their eyes and then, with their head completely still, you can see them rotate their eyeballs.

*rolls my eyes at you and then to your horror rolls them AGAIN*

"rotate their eyeballs" is a horrific sentence. thank you, tumblr user @theeverdream.

The communists want to take away YOUR MOLD

"the communists want to take away your mold" is a lovely, lovely sentence that I must fine more uses for.

I was recently reminded of one of my favorite jokes from a family member, and its the spicy kind of Christian joke that tumblr loves

Isaac wants to build a PC, so he asks his dad, Abraham, to buy him the parts. Abraham goes to the electronics store with the list Isaac provided him, and gets most everything. Isaac is overjoyed initially, but notices something strange when looking over the parts.

"Dad," says Isaac, "I appreciate this a lot, but I can't help but notice that you didn't get any internal memory for this computer."

"Fear not, my son," says Abraham, "God will provide the RAM."

I mean, this story is jewish and not christian, but go off.

thinking abt that time in one of my art classes when the prof put up a silhouette of L from death note and said “this is not an effective design bc you can’t tell who this character is from this shape” 

and everyone in the class went like “yes we can that’s L from death note”

who the fuck else looks like that? what did the prof expect?

You’re laughing… the Royal Shakespeare Company is doing Hamlet with Jared Harris and the setting is a ship… and you’re fucking laughing

I dunno who that is but this sounds cool I guess.

So I listened tonight to a Conspiracy Theories episode on UFO/UAPs tonight, and it reminded me of why UFO enthusiasts piss me off so damn much:

Why do they always assume we're the interesting thing aliens are here for?

Like, let's take it as given for a moment that at least some of the unidentified things we've seen are in fact extraterrestrial interstellar craft. Just roll with it. Everyone's like "omg they want to save us from nuclear war!" "Omg they want to take us over!"

Like. Have you considered the fact that we have rocks that make energy, and that all by itself this is kinda weird but added to that these rocks can produce nearly unlimited energy, provided sufficiently advanced technology, like, the kind you might want for an interstellar craft? And that we don't know how common uranium, plutonium, radium, et. al are in the universe? Radiation is common, but how common is radiation-in-a-convenient-portable-format? We haven't explored enough planets to know.

Have you considered that we have a frankly astonishing amount of water?

Have you considered that we have tectonic plates, which is extremely rare?

Have you considered that our planet is a great case study in what can happen in case of interspace impact, not once but twice, thanks to Theia and Chicxulub?

Have you considered we are but a comma in Time's bestselling novel The Universe And Everything In It, and that maybe we've just spotted some alien version of Voyager or Curiosity?

For that matter, even if we are the interesting thing, have you considered that we already know life must be extraordinarily rare in the universe, and that far from "we are here to save/destroy humans specifically," maybe it's "holy fuck, there are billions of species on this planet, and a couple of them even seem sapient, how the heck did that happen?"

The extremely humancentric nature of so much UFO contemplation drives me nuts. We're not as important as we want to pretend we are.

We have a moon. Not just A Moon, but a round moon, positioned just right relative to its size to enable the moon to cover the entirety of the sun in the sky.

The chances of that happening are really rare. Additionally, you’d need to get to the planet at the right time, because moons all move either towards or away from the planet they orbit (ours is away), so eventually they won’t block the whole sun. Or suns, potentially.

YOU GET IT. Moons aren't terribly rare, but a moon like ours is. And to add to that rarity, scientific tests based on mass and gravity and similar physics constants have determined our moon and planet are made up of almost entirely the same stuff. We know they're the result of a long-distant collision between two planets. The important thing here is that any other intelligent race would be able to measure that because it's based on physics. The laws of physics do not change when in a natural state. Which is to say you can do things like making light move faster than the speed of light, but it requires a very big lab and a whole lot of fuckery to get a very small reaction. So even if their methods of measurement are totally different, they'd be able to determine this is true.

It also seems like our solar system as a whole might be fairly unusual. We have no planets orbiting closer than Mercury, no super-Earths, our closest-orbiting gas giant is the fairly distant Jupiter, our ice giants are unusually big, and our gas giants are relatively small by gas giant standards

Although I will note - the astonishing thing about our water content might actually not be that there's so much of it (NASA believes full-on waterworlds might be fairly common in the universe) but that we have just enough of it to have large oceans while still leaving significant amounts of land exposed

All of this is true. And we've also got the asteroid belt, which probably isn't that unusual (when flying through space at incredible speed, rocks will slam into other rocks and sometimes break each other, imagine that), but could be interesting to study for people from a solar system that doesn't have one.

req'd by @ladyphlogiston

on it boss o7

text: Reject depression become half goat

thus spake Pan, when Typhoeus raged.

beginning to suspect that if I ever want to have a published novel I will have to actually write a novel, which is frankly ghoulish

I know I have a novel in me but it seems to be lodged in like. I don't know. my appendix.

no, novels need at least seven appendices, if Tolkien taught me anything.