people in the notes of that porn addiction post like "i've had men jerk off to porn when i was right here being sexually available" and beyond the idea that not wanting to have sex is some sort of pathology (bad), like... do you really not understand the difference between sex and masturbation?

sex is a social action, doing it means you are taking the needs, desires, and wellbeing of the person you're fucking into account. it takes a certain amount of mental energy and a certain mood to do that? pulling up xhamster and cranking it is like, using similar body parts, but its a completely different task.

if you're with a guy and you're expecting sex with him to be basically him masturbating with your body, well... that's something that needs to be specified and negotiated ahead of time, not the default assumption for sex.

It's mad how midshipmen in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries used to be literal children. like can you imagine being an ordinary seaman in the royal navy having been at sea your entire adult life surviving countless dangers and living through countless battles on a diet of lemon juice and salt pork getting beaten with a cat o'nine tails for various misdemeanors and shot at with cannon by whatever european power your king is currently beefing with for no reason every day and also your boss (the future sir john ross) is nine years old

Boars love sweets

Don't like that they can do that

first i learn that alligators and crocodiles regularly climb trees, and now this!?

This proves that they can in fact see the sky, and that is good in this world.

Trump is going to lift those tariffs btw. Like we're gonna feel it and it'll suck, and then he will lift them, and things will improve, and people won't realize that things were still better before he put them in place at all, and he will claim credit for making everything better even though things are still worse than when he started. Because of him. Because he made them worse.

So you gotta pinky promise me you're not gonna let yourself or anyone you know fall for that shit.

I don’t think I could ever be a good salesperson because one time I was at a new job where the manager was having a smoke break and she said “you wanna know the true test of a good salesperson? Being able to sell anything. Here, take my lighter and make me want to buy it” so I took the lighter and then put her cigarette out

OP, that's just enshittification. You made the experience worse and offered to sell the old experience back.

Uncharismatic Fact of the Day

Bush dogs are living proof that team work makes the dream work! When these small canines hunt half of the pack will pursue their prey over land, while the other half waits in water for the target to try to swim away. Bush dogs are particularly adapted to this style of hunting, as their partially webbed feet make them excellent swimmers.

(Image: A bush dog (Speothos venaticus) by Josh More)

my little brother tried to show me a "cool trick" where he entered my name and hometown into chatgpt and tried to get it to pull up my personal info like it did on all of his friends, then was absolutely shocked when it couldn't find anything on me

so. keep practicing basic internet safety, guys. it still works. don't put your personal info on social media, keep all your accounts on private, turn off ai scraping on every site that you can, enable all privacy features on social media apps. our info still can be protected, we have to keep fighting for control

Forbidden Scotch Egg.

straight people are so fascinating even when they aren't actively trying to be homophobic. I had a class a few years ago where one assignment was to summarize some eighth century arabic poetry about going out for drinks with the lads before indulging in some gay sex and like half the class came in and said "I'm sorry idk what was happening in this one, they mention having sex with a servant but they also say the servant's a man? where'd the woman come from? I'm so confused." and a few days ago in a shakespeare class I made a comment about how cleopatra and octavius caesar are kind of parallel characters in possessively bartering for mark antony's attention and one of my classmates responded as though I'd been talking about octavia and not caesar, despite the fact that I said "caesar" and "him" multiple times while describing the actions he specifically took. fully incapable of comprehending of anything that's even a little bit gay.

yayy

todays birds are: those penguins the USA put tariffs on for some reason

being self aware is the worst thing ever. can’t even be pissed at my dad properly without having a disco elysium ass internal monologue about it

PISSY TEENAGER: GOD dad just does not FUCKING get us!! And he isn’t even trying to!!

AUTISM: Nay, we shall not complete this task, chosen arbitrarily and with nary a consideration towards our numerable other priorities. The harder he may push, the harder we shall rebel, for this is a waste of our time with no evident necessity for its immediate completion!

RATIONALE: As a nineteen year old woman still living at home and with a history of frustration with her father, it makes sense for this time of our life that we would conflict with him, in this and other ways. In all things we must seek calm.

AUTISM 2: Ough…. The Dharafter…

TUMBLR BRAIN: Wow, real original. Way to ignore the actual themes of Disco Elysium, not that you know since you haven’t even gotten around to playing it yet! Why not go look for your neighbor’s cat in the Alps while you’re at it?

posting this for no particular reason

I love movies where the plot takes place in less than a day. It’s like. What if these people were experiencing the worst 8 hours of the entire lives and you got to see the highlight reel?

riding the trolley out of omelas because i'm a little too shaken to walk rn and i just heard this weird thump from the tracks. probably nothing

#they arrested the trolley driver and the guy in charge of track switching #and i hear they're both being offered some kind of plea deal if they agree to testify against the other person

awarding this the first good riff on this post award. thank you tumblr user anyagobsin. this is the first good riff anyone's had on this post.

it rly is weird how theres this culture in progressive spaces where like you can be as mean, as CRUEL even, as you want as long as youre not being explicitly bigoted towards any marginalized group of people and still be seen as a really good person with good morals who nobody is allowed to have beef with bc theyve never done anything racist or homophobic

politically correct behavior devoid of compassion for humanity as a whole is a callous performance and nothing more

And if the group in question is seen as having power–even if in reality they’re also marginalized–then you can be explicitly bigoted as well and be applauded for it.