nevertheless, we ball

thereupon we ball

to sleep, perchance to ball

to ball, or not to ball

Exeunt, balling.

“I don’t learn this in school :(“

Hey here’s a question what steps have you taken to increase your education and knowledge since graduating?

12 years is not nearly enough time to teach you everything to know about the world, especially when the starting point is “a says ah” and “1+1=2” and “rain comes from clouds.”

There are people who spend their whole lives in pursuit of knowledge and do not run out of stuff to learn. If you want to be well-informed and knowledgeable as an adult you have to actually make your continued education a priority. The library is free, thousands on online resources are accessible to all, and somewhere near you is an affordable museum or culture center or zoo or art display that can give you information you didn’t know.

In Prince's funky name, amen.

Millennial here. All the above and:

Please send me the training or tutorial in a written format with maybe some screenshots if necessary. I don't want a video tutorial. I don't want to waste time trying to scroll to the exact moment in the instructions that I need and then have to pause and replay it because I missed the .01 seconds of actually relevant information.

Please. Text. Maybe some images for clarification. I can read. I promise.

Skimmable, SEARCHABLE instructions. If they're long, there should be a hyperlinked table of contents.

Many things I did not expect from some youngish white dude approaching a group of protestors and saying "I would like to have a discussion... excuse me, will someone explain to me what you're doing here, I would like to have a conversation..."

Other protestors understandably shied away from him, those are odd words for someone to use in good faith--but I gave him a chance, and damn, am I glad I did. It opened my eyes to the ways that someone can be (apparently) intelligent, sensitive, and decent, and have just utterly enormous gaps in information and context.

We had about a half an hour discussion before his bus showed up, and covered too much to say here--he brought up a few intelligent objections to my assertions, was receptive to both hard data and conceptual reframes, wrote down terms I said that he was clearly unfamiliar with, admitted to being "out of the loop," said "no, really??" and "that's a good point" and "that would be terrible" a lot, and while he had a LOT of questions, there was none of the sealioning I had kind of anticipated.

But the part I wanted to share here. He had asked who was being negatively impacted and how. (By Trump/Musk/DOGE?? Overwhelming question, but I picked a couple answers.) I say something about trans people, for one, he says:

"Now what IS the trans thing about? The president said there's only two genders. I looked it up, first of all, there's like twelve different ways you can be born, that's just medical facts. And then what about the transgenders? You can have, like--your soul can be a different gender than your body. Why are they attacking that?"

And I. I talked about scapegoating. And Musk's daughter. And the religious control aspect, which brought us to christofascists and white nationalism. (He wrote down those words, while saying with genuine bemusement, "where does race come into it?" and I. Started rambling about the construction of whiteness as a tool of class division which has been successful in its aim for hundreds of years, which seemed like a big lightbulb moment for him.)

But I. Honestly I could just cry. From knowing that there are people out there who are THAT out of the loop, like, "have you literally been on a silent retreat since you were perhaps twelve, and have spent the last two months trying to catch up on the past decade and a half?" levels of out of the loop, whose response to "there are only two genders" is to go, "well that doesn't sound right hey, there I looked it up it's not true, why are you being mean for no reason? :("

what real suffering looks like

I want to be safe and comfortable and happy. And I want everyone else to be safe, comfortable, and happy with me. Why can’t we have this

Republicans let First Felon destroy America rather than pushback on Parkinson's research.

That is the level of abusive retaliation from a malignant narcissist we are dealing with.

I love having a cat because who else will sit with me for four hours solid while I sort aquarium gravel by colour composition surface texture and patina

Sometimes he tries to eat the rocks but I've honed my reflexes to a razor's edge for just such an occasion

so are the egg prices down yet

TGIF

doing this with my girlmutuals

antique.alchemist : instagram

A beautiful work from @im-significant that I received as a submission: I FORGOT ABOUT TIMEZONES. i'm going to submit anyway. this project has been languishing for months and i finished it tonight, in a time zone where it is in fact still march:

the pattern is Year Of Birds by Jessica Long on Etsy

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That's absolutely incredible @im-significant, that's literally an heirloom work. I'm so impressed. thank you so much for sharing.

Major shout-out to men that craft. Dudes that knit. Fellows that felt. Bros that bind books. Cobbers that cross-stitch. Y'all are wonderful and I appreciate you.

UM GUYS. I JUST NOTICED A CRAZY ISSUE W THE TUMBLR UPDATE.

YOU CAN SEE THE ICONS OF ANONS SOMETIMES.

The way I was able to recognize several anons in one of my inboxes bc of this error. Oh my god. Guys. This isn’t supposed to happen.

Weighing in to say:

YES, I SEE THIS ON MOBILE. HOWEVER I DO **NOT** THINK IT'S SHOWING THE ANON'S REAL IDENTITY.

The profile pictures I see next to anon asks are profile pictures that belong to other, non-anon asks in my ask box also. Some info

I think the bug is the inbox INCORRECTLY attributing anons to neighboring, logged-in asks.

Which is still a bad bug! Considering it makes it look like a long-time follower of mine sent me a spam ask.

And is worse if, say, one of these was anon hate.

But it's NOT the anon's real identity. It's a neighboring ask asker's identity

So if you have anon hate in your inbox that looks like it's attributed to your dear friend, who sends you lovely asks all the time, it was Not them.

CONFIRMED THE BUG IS INCORRECT ATTRIBUTION.

Thanks @thepatchycat for being a test subject. As you can see the icon being attributed to this ask is NOT the patchy cat

The pictured icon belongs to @watchingforcomets who sent me a nice ask about nail polish yesterday which I have not yet answered!

Reblog to give prev a fucking break holy shit y’all

Some of you guys have never burned a CD and it shows

Some of you guys don't even realise I don't mean setting a CD on fire