I honestly think that the lack of non-sexual nudity in public spaces has done horrific damage to American society.
We deeply struggle to understand the natural diversity of bodies because we only see naked bodies in a sexual context. We are taught that seeing nudity is somehow inherently harmful, especially to children. We struggle to differentiate between sexually suggestive and sexually explicit material.
It fucks up the way people think about and talk about sex ed. It fucks up the way people think about and talk about breast feeding. It fucks up the way people think about and talk about queer folks. It feeds into fatphobia and ableism and is all rooted in this deeply harmful puritanism.
Like, I need people to understand that seeing a bare titty in public is not going to hurt a child. Seeing a man in a banana hammock isn’t inherently traumatizing. I would argue, in fact, that adults treating those things as dangerous and gross and scary is going to do way more damage to a kid’s psychology than seeing the nudity in the first place.
btw I know ppl on this site go on abt mutuals but if you are someone that shows up in my notes regularly who I don’t follow, I do notice and I am fond of you and if you reblog something from me I do think “YES I have pleased the follower with good taste”
Tumblr is giving us a lot of different dashes but the thing is no one wants “for you” so what I propose instead is you give me the ability to make mini-dashes with specific subsets of people I follow. Let me follow 300 people but then sort them into category. Let me have one dash for all my aesthetic stuff, another for news, another for my weird feral friends. Am I the only one who wants this? Maybe. Give it to me anyway.
it’s literally insane to me that if you steal enough televisions you can go to prison forever. like we effectively go “okay your life is less important to me than a panasonic TV”. we literally value property more than human life
ok so this post is insane right? like the concept of imprisoning someone forever because they’ve stolen TVs is really crazy right. ok now replace “televisions” and “panasonic TV” with FOOD. you can go to prison forever if you steal food to survive. if you literally are like “i’m going to starve to death if i don’t steal this food” and then get caught enough you can go to prison forever.
Prisons are inherently and ideologically unethical. Prisons exist to house society’s undesirables and create a slave labor force that is legal. The “violent offender that needs to be housed away from society” is a myth used to proliferate this concept. Criminality is a symptom of social inequity and can be solved with better social and economic infrastructure. Abolish prisons.
I’ve never even heard of this before tho??? Wtf??????????
oh my god, I didn’t think there were any surviving versions of this post left
For those who weren’t around in the Deep Lore times, this is one of the relics of the editable post era. This post has THE SINGLE HIGHEST NOTES of ANY post on this site, bar none, but with more than a dozen variations. Every single post you’ve ever seen with more than 3 million notes has been a different version of this one.
This is the “Dean’s Gym Shorts” post. This is the Flubber post. This is the original “Reblog if you support gay people” post. it was ALL of them. before half the site got nuked, it had even more notes than it has now - at one point, well over 15 million, and that was years ago.
This, with no exaggeration, is the ONE TRUE heritage post
This Google Drive AI scraping bullshit actually makes me want to cry. My entire life is packed into Google Drive. All of my writing over the years, all of my academic documents, everything.
I’m just so overwhelmed with all the shit I’m going to have to move. I’m lucky to have Scrivener, but online data storage has been super important as I’ve had so many shitty computers, and the only reason I haven’t lost work is because Google Drive has been my backup storage unit.
My partner has recommended gitlab to move my files to - it seems useful, and I can try and explain more about what it is and how it works when I get more familiar with it. I’m unsure if it’s a text editor, or can work that way. He was explaining something about the version history that I don’t quite understand right now but might later. I’m just super overwhelmed and frustrated that this is the dystopia we live in right now.
I’m so sad to see so many panicked posts about google docs when the original inflammatory post has been debunked and retracted.
Google is ONLY talking about publicly available data. Stuff that is in your drive DOES NOT COUNT as publicly available.
There are SO MANY companies that use drive and docs for proprietary information who would have MANY lawsuits to bring if it was discovered private drives were being scraped.
Now, I’m not saying NOT to swap writing programs because google docs is pretty pants as an actual word processor, and also, never ever have all your stuff only in one place, but I don’t want anyone to freak out that their writing isn’t safe.
being called pretentious on tumblr is just affirmation that you’re normal and on the right track because this website is full of adults who haven’t picked up a real book since tenth grade
Canadian version of Breaking Bad where Walter White refuses to pursue chemotherapy through state healthcare because it would be impolite, choosing instead to manufacture and distribute menthol cigarettes of astounding purity with the assistance of his former pupil Jessé Bonhomme-Rose
In canada high school french class we had to read a play about impoverished quebecois teenagers smuggling menthols across the US border to avoid taxes
i never imagined in a million years this shitpost would reflect anything real about canada
Men and masculinity are not inherently bad or untrustworthy things and I don’t mean that in a ‘misandry is real and a problem’ way, I mean that in a 'I think some of you might have contracted minor TERF poisoning’ way
