Interaction witnessed at post office today:

Elderly lady mail clerk and young customer are chatting. Customer says, "oh! I'm wearing my boss's coat right now, give me something weird to put in the pocket!" Others within earshot all start looking for something because, hey, important quest. Mail clerk finally reaches under counter, pulls out a large roll of labels, and tears one off.

Twas this

It's so fascinating how "tough on crime" politics are basically never countered by a sweeping campaign of "HEY. THAT DOES NOT WORK. IT'S SCIENTIFICALLY DOCUMENTED THAT THIS JUST STRAIGHT UP IS NOT AN EFFECTIVE WAY TO REDUCE CRIME" from the opposition

"We want less crime, not to feel like tough guys. That means doing what WORKS, not beating our chests and shooting ourselves in the foot"

!! ATTENTION !!

This post is NOT written from a USAmerican perspective!!

Respondents operating under the assumption that the post is only about Bluemericans and Amerireds or whatever the fuck your parties are will be LAUGHED AT

I'm so confused as to how you keep getting mistaken for USAmerican, like it's such a persistent thing that you keep having to remind people about and it still happens and it's like, do people think the things you mention don't exist outside of the United States? Lol

I simply kææp førgætting tø typæ in å Nørwægiån åccænt tø måke it clæår thåt I'm øne øf thøsæ føræignærs, I guæss

extremely funny to me that harley quinns real name is apparently harleen quinzel, a name that sounds less real that harley quinn. they should do that with more comic characters. batman real name batthew manning. daredevil real name darius devilson. doctor strange real name. well okay that one doesnt count.

I have some very good news for you about Black Bolt's real name

NOW THATS WHAT IM TALKIN ABOUT

there's a fine line between being wary of manipulation and becoming completely paranoid because you get very close to the realisation that pretty much all human interaction involves doing things we hope will lead to a result we like

this post is about a lot of things. it's about my ex saying it was manipulative to talk to them in a cute voice because that influenced their emotions. it's also about someone on this webbed site saying being funny is "engagement farming". like yeah every single conversation you have is going to be "manipulative" if your standard for that is "did something with the goal of eliciting a response". if that bothers you go live in a hut in the forest and speak only to the trees. I'll be over here manipulating my friends into being happy by giving them compliments

i'd make a joke about "let the HUSBAND giggle under the covers and tell HIS WIFE to put that camera away before dying before HIS WIFE'S story starts" but lets be real he'd still get more fanart

sir do you understand that you are being criticized right now

The best thing about tumblr is you can just make a criticism of a very specific person completely unprompted and then that person will appear as if summoned in your notes to prove your point for you.

9/11 could never happen today because the twin towers arent there anymore for some reason

9/11 could never happen today because it's January

Gritty Detective Fiction: There's been a murder 🚬🫩🏚🌧

Cozy Mystery Fiction: There's been a murder ☕️🤔🏡☀️

Intense birdwatcher: there's been a murder 🐦‍⬛🐦‍⬛🐦‍⬛🔭😀

To update this, the astronaut didn’t actually do it, she and her wife were getting a divorce and the wife plead guilty to lying to the feds about it

And framing your ex for a crime mid-divorce while they are actively in space is some Agatha Christie level shit

good lord there's a lot of vasectomy joke gifts that don't know the difference between a vasectomy and an orchiectomy.

orchi is removing of one or both testicles. a vasectomy cuts or seals the vas deferens so there's no sperm in your semen. You still have testicles, you still have testosterone, there's just no sperm in your ejaculate to make babbies with.

they're very different operations!

You might say, there's a vas deferens between the two

Boooo

Digital de-aging is bad not just because it always looks creepy as fuck no matter how much money they pour into it, but because it deprives me of getting to see the fucking black magic of a) the casting director somehow finding someone who looks unnervingly like the original actor despite not being related at all and b) the actors completely convincing me that they are, in fact, the same person at different times in their life.

And occasionally, the amusement of sticking a bad wig and some makeup on the original actor and just demanding we accept they're a teenager now.

A BIRD POOPED ON MY HEAD ON THE WAY TO WORK.

HOW DO YOU KNOW THE BIRD WAS ON THE WAY TO WORK?

DONT MAKE ME ANGRIER THAN I AM

some of us have been following each other for a long ass time

it's healthy for academics to have professional feuds. enrichment activity

Holy shit. "The demese ef the Ne'enderthels: Wes lengege a fecter?" published in the Science magazine

short but sweet

There are human languages spoken today with as few as 11 basic phonemes. Even if the Neanderthals' hyoid bone kept them from pronouncing some sounds used in modern languages, they would still be able to produce a sufficiently large number of sounds to speak a full language

In their attempts to otherize trans women, TERFs and transvestigators have actually invented a strange class of people beyond cis and trans, but that is instead comprised of just anybody they deem to be “not woman enough,” regardless of what their assigned sex at birth even was. To assign people the label of “trans,” they use standards that are often racist and hypocritical.

They will say cis women that aren’t “feminine enough” are actually trans women. They’ll occasionally even say that trans women that are “too feminine” are actually FTMTF cis women. Their panic around trans people isn’t about sex assigned at birth anymore, it’s about standards that get narrower and narrower until barely anyone is considered a “real woman” anymore.

To do this they’ll pick out completely random features that aren’t related to birth sex at all. She has masculine eyes. She has broad shoulders. She has a masculine walk. She talks like a man. She has short hair. She runs too fast. She’s too strong.

Take me for example: I identify as nonbinary, but I have polycystic ovarian syndrome. I have higher levels of testosterone and other androgens. You’d think that because I have ovaries, I’d be a “real woman” to them, right? Wrong.

TERFs have transvestigated me and accused me of being a trans woman because.. *checks notes* I… have too much body hair (caused by PCOS)… that body hair is dark (I’m Latina)… I gained muscle “too fast” after I started lifting regularly (my higher androgens because of PCOS cause faster muscle growth)… my makeup “looks like a drag queen” (I like serving cunt)

Not to mention that they seem to transvestigate women of color the hardest. Black women are inherently masculine to them. Brown women? All trans apparently. If you’re not white European/American that must mean you have a penis. If you look at photos of irl TERF gatherings you’ll see they’re overwhelmingly white women who’ve written their own appearance to be true womanhood.