For all the trans girlies who have never had long hair, here's a fun fact about what split ends are and how to identify them.

Split ends are, to simplify, hair damage concentrated near the tips of your hair, either from heat or just time peeling your hair like string cheese. There are a lot of different variations–

–Ranging from actual splits, to knots, to your hair just being bent permanently. The reason these are such a bitch is that those damaged ends will catch on EVERYTHING. Notably, they catch on each other and cause those horrible mats you may be waking up to each morning.

If you look closely at your hair and your eyes are good you can sometimes physically see the splits. Using my own hair I just trimmed as an example here, you can physically see where the texture of it changes when the light catches it.

But, the easiest way to identify it is the texture. Running your fingers down a strand of hair, it should have a silky feeling all the way down to the base. If the tips feel dry, rough, or catch easily then your hair is splitting and the only way to fix it is to trim off the damage.

Left unchecked, your hair will keep splitting and you'll actually lose length when you inevitably have to chop it off.

Make sure to trim just a smidge of your hair at least every other month or so and you'll be able to grow it out way longer than you could otherwise and you'll stop getting mats that rip out your hair when you untangle them

But when I say the “wholesome and funny” YouTube short I have been handed of students surprise showing their teachers 10+ year old photos of themselves and most them were emo/goth in some way and every single one now has medium brown beach waves and is wearing head to toe beige and immediately screams and hides the photo like it’s the most embarrassing thing in the world is a hallmark of a deeply insidious tendency to associate socially acceptable WASPy aesthetics with maturity and responsibility and perpetuates the idea that everyone grows up, “gets right” and becomes the most digestible unobtrusive heterosexual I’m “taking it too seriously”

“It’s not that serious” oh but it issssss because every day we perpetuate the idea that non-conformity of any kind to the white straight middle class standard is inherently immature and gets “left behind” when someone becomes a socially acceptable adult

This idea that maturity is conformity is everywhereeee if you look for even a moment

You are not staying in the tags

I can’t speak for other social media webbed sites but I really enjoy how tumblr seems to just completely spin a wheel on whatever media is hot right now. Like yeah sometimes it’s a new show that’s big and actively coming out but also sometimes there will be a solid month where half my dash is Columbo memes. Defy authority. Get really into an book from the 1800s. Watch shows that haven’t aired in 40 years. Celebrate the anniversary of the Boston Molasses Flood. Become unmarketable

oh shit i almost missed it!

Haven't seen anyone talking about it here, but vocal transfeminist and writer Tara Knight has been sent a threat from the fbi insisting that she stop speaking about "radical gender ideology" and get rid of the past 3 years of her work.

A black trans woman is getting personally threatened by the fbi for being a transfeminist. What the fuck. Hopefully this gets more reach than my usual posts so that people who are able to can support her.

Here’s her latest post about it.

[Transcript: So as you all have likely heard I was forwarded a letter from the FBI informing me that my work and my platform and everything I’ve built over the past three years has to go, um, for propagating what they are calling ‘radical gender ideology’. Um, this comes from Trump Executive order, um basically saying I’m a propagandist for domestic… september eleventh… thing. Um, I would… I— I’ll just say, point blank, short period. I have no intentions of stopping anything. Maybe to my detriment but I’ve never been the smartest one. That’s— all I’m gonna say on this.]

Just as I was writing that transcript she posted this—

[Transcript: So I was told and informed that it’s probably in my best interest to tell all of you where you can find me in the event that I get deleted because having a platform is probably the only thing that will keep… everything okay, if you will. So I will provide the links and ads to my TikTok, my Substack, my Bluesky, the like. You’ll be able to find me there in the event… y’know. Y’know.]

TikTok: @ bundleof.styx

Bluesky: @ bundleofstyxx.bsky.social

Substack: @ bundleofstyxx

^ just putting this here along with the transcripts, please support her if you can

what a fucking surprise.

finding out that ‘dont treat me rough treat me really niceys” is an actual lana del rey lyric and not just a funny meme phrase was damaging enough to my psyche

but then i looked up the lyrics and not only is that line directly after the lyric “drugs, suck it up, like vanilla icies” (rhyming niceys with icies) but also the first line of the song is “my pussy tastes like Pepsi cola”. ms del rey this is disastrous what are you doing

this post had femcels telling me to kill myself

Alek Wek by Ellen von Unwerth for Paper Magazine - Fall 2017

go away forever with me

drew fanart of the thang

2026 Manga Redraw! Interest Check

Friends... artists... countryweebs...

Once upon a time, a batch of us decided to redraw the first book of Detective Conan page by page into a Zine. And it was good.

Once upon a closer time, another batch decided to do the same with the first book of Magic Kaito. And it was good.

Why, then, not take the magic a little further still? Why not stroll around Tumblr and beyond, see how many of you like the idea of doing it with some real pillars of Shonen and Shoujo? 2026 has a whole bunch of Big anniversaries coming up, one after another...

So if this summer you think you'd like to put your pen and tablet to a certain boy's first Transmutation... a certain Pharaoh's first Shadow Games... a certain Princess's first Moontiara... and many, many more...

Just click on this interest form and make your vote heard! Enough artists interested in any of these (or a series of your own choosing!) and we'll take the effort to launch its very own Redraw zine!

(Illu. @livmadart)

100 responses so far! Keep 'em coming, folks!

Apparently ICE now has agents posing as utility workers to get into people's homes. The electric and gas companies have posted information on how to tell if it's one of their workers, and numbers to call to confirm whether they've sent someone to do utility work on your house.

Stay safe, friends.

Some people have shared stories of suspicious “sales representatives” knocking on homes, asking about the home owners and who lives there, fishing for phone numbers, but do not provide business cards, company id, company phone numbers, etc when asked.

They come in pairs, never one person though one may hag back a bit. They have been seen using cars with significantly tinted windows, no business logos anywhere on the vehicle, or parking close to the home they walked up to only to drive away right after without visiting other homes, almost as if they’re not real sales people.

True door to door salespeople need a sort of peddler’s license, subject to city and county law, to solicit at your door. You can ask to see this permit. If they don’t provide one or make an excuse, they are likely bogus.

They wear a jacket with a company logo but likely don’t wear name tags and the Don’t provide id.

Tell them you’ll call the company about a noncompliant representative. Make them leave. Better yet not to open the door to them, and tell them nothing.

Actual sales reps also generally do follow “no soliciting” signs. Be aware, be safe, don’t give out your information or that of others under duplicitous means.

Can my Indigenous ass say the progressive christian impulse to no-true-scotsman their entire religion, appealing to "what jesus actually taught", *specifically* in a way that points to "modern" christianity as deviating from this, implying it used to be better, is completely fucking bonkers. You can't RETVRN your way out of genocide. Christianity has been about pillaging for the last 2000 years & if you sincerely want to change this I can respect that but be so fucking fr when you talk about how "modern christianity" isn't what jesus taught. Neither was the roman empire innit

I've said this before but it's all so....... "this isn't what jesus taught" is like, step 1 of recognizing the hypocrisy. But then nobody wants to keep thinking about it past that point. It's been lies justifying unfathomable violence this whole time

& if you want to play that game the christian bible also says to convert the entire world so. It's not looking great. The pillaging is kind of a central pillar of the ideology. Or did you just think the problem with christianity was homophobia, or some nebulous concept of racism that's simply "hate" and doesn't include robbing people of their cultures

"Why are all these white christians racist all of a sudden? :(" I have terrible news about how the last 2000 years have been going

Yeah I said something similar yesterday but we can NOT let what happened to Renee Good cloud what happened to everyone else at the hands of these SS Demons!!!

Because we can’t disregard one person if we’re for human rights!

KOSMA (Senate equivalent of KOSa hearing Thursday Jan 14!! call in now!

"This is a hearing, not a markup, because lo and behold this bill passed out of the Senate committee without discussion and is already on the Senate floor 🙃🙃 And apparently this happened last February. Trust me, I am just as shocked as you. I did not hear any of this happening and would have remembered, but yes. Gotta love our government 🙃🙃

What this hearing is hoping to do is to kickstart the propaganda machine about these internet censorship bills up again in support of them. Since this bill is on the Senate floor, it is urgent that we call Senate leadership and tell them not to support a bill that will cause mass harm to children.

Please spread the word as well! Call not only below, but Your own senators and house members as well!

Senate Leadership: R: (202) 224-2321 , (Senator John Thune) D: (202) 224-6542 (Senator Charles E Schumer)

House Leadership: R: 202-225-4000 (Mike Johnson [is that even worth it?]) R: (202) 225-3015 ( Steve Scalise D: (202) 225-5936 Hakeem Jeffries

Call not only below, but Your own senators and house members as well!

@titleknown @bogleech

Today I woke up to a terrifying message from my baby Qais’s doctor. He told me Qais’s wound will keep bleeding pus and blood unless his surgery is done urgently. I will not forgive anyone who scrolls past and keeps browsing without sharing my post.

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Please don’t scroll past us in this critical moment; even a small share or donation could ease suffering and give Qais another chance.

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Here are the 2024 vaccine recommendation schedules. They’ve already been wiped from the cdc site. Save them and share widely, especially to your friends with kids.

Hi!!! One of my parents got meningitis when I was a kid.

They were in the hospital for nearly a month, the rest of us were all placed in medical quarantine, there were several points we thought they were gonna die, and even though they survived, it was a SUPER close call and they lost about two years of memories from the ensuing brain damage.

Like… a two-uear-long cookie-cutter pocket of thoughts and memories went missing right out of their brain. It’s an inflammation of the brain that cooks it alive.

I DIDN’T EVEN KNOW THERE WAS A VACCINE.

I WILL BE GETTING IT.