chantrymouse:

cishetsbeingcishet:

cishetsbeingcishet:

tbh no april fools gag tumblr ever pulls will ever be as good as the lizard election of 2016 staff put more effort into that than the rest of this website combined and it shows

for those of you who werent here in 2016 on april fools that year the entire fucking website was transformed and there was an election for a position that wasnt even ever specified and the candidates were four lizards (or three lizards and a salamander as a scandal would later prove) and it was called decision2016

each lizard had their own 3d models and tumblr blog and campaign and there was also a tumblr blog dedicated to reporting on the election and they made like whole ass news broadcasts with a guy in front of a green screen

you could vote for your favorite candidate and there was a built-in function that let you make and post a campaign poster

in case anyone was wondering the winner of the election was mop. relatable and reliable. #Mop Could

lest we forget

vegacircuit:

wodneswynn:

Every time I make a post about why you shouldn’t donate to the Starvation Army, some fuckin hero always comes out of the fuckin woodwork to make noise about, “Well sweaty maybe the Salvation Army isn’t perfect but at least they’re doing something!”

No.  Listen.

The reason you shouldn’t donate to the Starvation Army is because they are literally not helping.  They do the opposite of help.  That organization is an active source of harm.

yearly reminder fuck salvation army

mostlysignssomeportents:

Last year Equifax sheepishly admitted that it had breached hundreds of millions of Americans’, Britons’ and Canadians’ private financial data and then suppressed the news (subsequent months revealed that the company had suffered multiple breaches, so many it didn’t know what it had lost and wasn’t looking very hard).

It’s been a year since grandstanding politicians they’d Do Something
about Equifax to prevent this kind of thing happening again.

In that year, those politicians have done precisely nothing.

https://boingboing.net/2018/09/07/america-doxed.html

scienceshenanigans:

Good afternoon, the academic culture of “if you’re not overworking, you don’t deserve success” is unhealthy.

reversemousetrap:

AI Jack: mom says it’s my turn to use the arm

apparentlyeverything:

I sometimes wonder if some people here in their late teens/early 20s just rarely or never interact with unrelated adults older than them so they tend to base their understanding of what *adults* are like and how they should act on their relationships with their parents and teachers, and other authority figures. So many seem to believe that other adults, particularly those older than them, have a responsibility to protect them as if they’re still vulnerable children. They don’t seem to realize that they are in young adulthood themselves, and that other adults are not required to act as their mentors or stand-in parents. 

And like, I really don’t think they realize that most people in their 30s, 40s, 50s, 60s and beyond aren’t *that* different from them. Most are still dealing with some of the same shit that they were dealing with at age 20. If you don’t accept that humans are complicated and weird, no matter how old they are, you’re gonna have a hard time navigating your own adulthood. If you’re expecting every older person to be more mature and wiser than you, you’re gonna be very disappointed. People are hot messes at all ages. 

femliberation:

femliberation:

So many horrific stories of abuse start with “he was great until we got married” and that’s honestly so fucking upsetting because it’s relatively normal.

Like so many women are so, so careful before they commit to a man in any way because he could turn out to be a horrible abuser. They find one they think is different, one they think they can trust, and as soon as they’re legally bound to him he turns out to be exactly what they feared he would be.

That’s horrible.

And, I can say from personal experience, it is embarrassing to get divorced almost immediately after being married. No one cares about how long you were together beforehand or what happened, they just think “Oh it only lasted a year, she’s so irresponsible”. On top of it being exceedingly difficult to get help from the police or other legal assistance(especially if you live together, share funds, children, property, etc.), there’s a heavy stigma that comes with it, only isolating abuse victims further.

I’m trying to think of something to say other than “boycott marriage” because I know that’s not realistic, but at the very least, please support divorced women.

By “support divorced women” I mean:

– don’t make us justify why we got divorced and don’t feel entitled to the details of what happened.

– don’t contribute to the stigma around divorced women that says we’re irresponsible, or that something must be wrong with us.

– If a woman close to you is getting divorced, don’t guilt her into apologizing or going back to her husband. If she’s the one filing, don’t make her question why she wants the divorce.