Ferno the Wise

source: @uss-edsall

If you're in the US military or National Guard, and are given an illegal or unconstitutional order, the GI Rights hotline (1-877-447-4487) is there to help give you the support you need to do the right thing by refusing it. It would be good to think about this now before it becomes a live issue for you and it would be smart of you to memorize that number.

You can reblog this without your thoughts about the US Military, btw, that's allowed.

first day as a small-town sherif and you discover that some of the convicts you're transporting managed to escape in the night and since the penalty for letting prisoners escape is death, and the penalty for being late because you were looking for escaped prisoners is also death, you decide to free ALL of them and go hide out in the wilderness for a bit, except the convicts are super grateful so they make you their leader and it turns out they're decent guys who were exploited by a tyrannical government, so long story short you're crowd-sourcing for a peasant uprising and would anyone like to chip in?

3650th day and due to a series of unforeseen events you are now the emperor and founder of the han dynasty.

wait a second I just need to Google something...

...Huh

to summarize: you have the moral backbone of a flatworm if your response every time harry potter comes up is to make it about your inability to give up a book

lets list how many brand deals JKR got this year:

Target Merch

Boxed Merch

GameSpot Deal

CinemaBlend Merch

Haribo Gummy Bears

New Shop in Chicago

Featured at Universals new Stella Nova location

Squishmallows collection

Starbucks Korea Collab

And this all was just on the first page of google.

How do you think brands decide who they collaborate with? Popularity. Media attention. Social media trending. FANWORK NUMBERS. ENGAGEMENT.

JKR literally depends on keeping Harry Potter in cultural memory, in people's nostalgia banks, trending on social media, in hashtags, Hogwarts houses in bios, everything. She depends on you keeping HP acceptable to talk about and acceptable to interact with. If enough people had treated it like the moral stain it is, she wouldn't have had the ability to take away trans women's legal personhood in court today. Fuck everyone still talking about or caring about Harry Potter, you are a traitor to the queer community.

Dude has a death wish

Delighted to announce this bird is real and is a corvid.

Truly the family that just keeps giving.

I haven’t seen it in the notes yet, so afaik, here’s the source of that video! So now you can see the funny poison bird much more clearly.

It was taken by a biologist that studies birds so it seems like he knows what he’s doing. For the most part. Here’s his caption:

You all know that he 100% licked his fingers after handling that bird

I can’t leave this in the tags, I’m sorry.

sorry to be like this and I'm very much not loving it, but tumblr loses around 30M a year. divided by the cost of yearly subscriptions, it means half a million ish people on premium undoes that loss. I saw stats claiming more than 300M users. That sounds super not right since even the sacred texts don't often cross 1M notes. I know there are around 12M posts a day. Yeah, yeah, we post multiple times a day, but there's a quantity of lurkers out there, and I'm trying to goldilocks a number to do math without having real data to pull from, leave me be.

If there are 12M users, it needs around 4% of users. If there really are 300M (still don't believe this) it would be .16%

You know what portion of Spotify is paid accounts? 40% ish (can't find data from the last year)

But, because we are the worst, and so probably will end up with a sundowning social platform... If someone knows of another platform that has this kind of reblog with added comments that doesn't put your comment first, lmk, cause every alternative someone has suggested aint been it for me. Bluesky and pillowfort aint it. TT is video based. Reddit is.... almost? except that there's a reason we got refugees.

I pay for Tumblr premium because 1) I have the money to do so, and 2) I want this platform to stick around.

If you're out here with the money to spend on tumblr freaking out because you're worried tumblr may disappear because of its yearly losses, there is 1 very real thing you can do to help. And that's a premium subscription.

"OMG BUT I SHOULDN'T HAVE TO PAY TO BE ON THIS HELLSITE."

Websites cost money. Period. It's why AO3 does donation drives twice a year. Because it costs money to run a website. Tumblr needs money to run because it is a website. It can't do a donation drive because it's not a non-profit.

But you CAN give them seven dollars a month because you have seven dollars a month and also are very aware of how much time you spend here.

"BUT I HATE IT HERE."

Then leave. Fucking leave. I'm tired of all this, "OMG, why would you pay for this stupid place?" Because I fucking like it here and won't do some sort of anti-tumblr performative pantomime to seem, what? Cool? Disaffected? On fucking tumblr? The scream and reblog website?

Until tumblr heaves its last, I'm here. And I'm giving them seven bucks a month. Because giving them seven bucks a month is something I can do to hopefully keep the lights on a little longer and not have to contemplate where the fuck I'm going to be a loud, horny weirdo. I'm never going back to anything remotely like twitter; insta won't let me set a permanent "followers only" timeline; communication options on Youtube aren't meant for the kinds of interactions we have here; Dreamwidth is there and chugging along, but it's a legacy build that does NOT have the same integration options as tumblr has.

Tumblr is the only thing like tumblr. You want tumblr, fucking pay up.

The thing that abled people who advocate for the disabled community don’t get is that there are times when disabilities/accommodations clash. Horribly.

Like I spent years having to come up with a solution to get therapy dogs into a series of residence halls. Why years? Because we had to decide who got to stay and who got to leave: the people who needed therapy dogs or the people with severe allergies to animals. Who got the alternative housing? 

Things like fidget toys might seem great for some disabled people but having them in the room could be distracting/overstimulating for others. The same goes with stimming. It can’t be helped but neither can the anxiety that another person in the room feels as they watch/hear it. Additionally, something like a weighted blanket might immediately calm one kid down and send the other one into a panic attack due to the claustrophobia it causes. (*Points to myself*)

Every Metro bus in New York City has a series of seats at the front that can be lifted up to accommodate people in wheelchairs but if I’m in one of those spots then someone with a cane/walker has to journey even further to sit down.

The flashing lights of a fire alarm are there to help deaf/hearing impaired but if they’re not properly timed, they can also cause a person to have a seizure.

The worst part about all of these is that there is rarely a concrete solution that makes everyone happy/safe. And I’m not here to offer any because I don’t know them. I’m just here to remind you all that as you’re taking your education/health classes, as you’re reading your textbooks, as you’re preparing to go be an advocate, just remember that there is rarely ever such a thing as a one-size-fits-all solution to advocacy and that something you do that can help one disabled person might actually hinder another.

Food for thought.

I have heard this referred to by some in the disability advocacy profession as “duelling disabilities” and it’s definitely something I wish people would be more mindful of when discussing accessibility.

hey we wanna re-think this at all or

The crotch of the pants too.

reposting my reposted all time favourite greentext since 4chan died badly

Imperial collapse speed run

oh my fucking god

it's actually UNREAL to me that they still wear those stupid fucking wigs in british courts ill forget about it and then remember all of a sudden and black out like howwwww can you still be doing that!

THEY WHAT LMFAO

honestly just put me straight in the jail i don't even wanna bear witness to this

is anybody else seeing this

YOU hate JK Rowling!

Age of Empires 2 Longbowman