To Those Of You Who Are Moving Here From Tiktok, From Someone Whos Used Both Tiktok And Tumbr For Years...

The ice bucket challenge back in 2014 was originally meant to spread awareness for ALS. Participants were encouraged to either donate $100 towards the ALS association for research or dump a bucket of ice water on themselves, which was supposed to be a metaphor or physical representation of how the disease felt to its sufferers.

Now it's back for the nebulous cause of "mental health awareness," and while it can be a good cause, raises questions about whether it's ultimately putting any good out into the world other than sparking a trend on social media. What about mental health should we be aware about? Is it okay to use a physical representation of how a physical, terminal disease feels, and apply it to something as vague as "mental health?"

The original cause raised over $250,000, and substantially advanced research for ALS. An ultimate good. But what good comes of the new trend if not to overshadow the original challenge and purpose of the trend? Is it appropriative to reuse something that was ultimately created very personally by sufferers of a terminal disease? What organizations are participants encouraged to donate to? I haven't seen any specifics, just "mental health awareness." Are any donations even being made? It doesn't seem like many, as I've read from the many articles being posted about it.

Mental health awareness is good, yes. But once again people with physical disabilities and terminal illness, who nearly always have mental health issues as well, are having causes meant for them turned into something vague that can apply to everyone. Because it's more comfortable for the able bodied person to think about than something like ALS.

I really don't give a shit dude LMAO!

REALLY?!?!? THAT'S ALL YOU GOT!??! A CHOCOLATE REMATCH!? Alright, fine, whateves.

Hang on.... this art tho....

Wait are those, COUPLES?!?!?!

Straight.

Gay.

Lesbian.

Is it near valentine's day... is this a fucking valentine's day Splatfest?

A Splatfest just for COUPLES IN LOVE EH?!?! Alright, i see how it is...

It would be sad if something bad happened to those cephalopods, like, they better be careful and watch their footing. You never know when you're stepping on the side of the road when walking...

really wanted to draw miss piggy all of a sudden so i did. also kermit's there i guess

[image description: a lineless drawing of miss piggy and kermit from the muppets. kermit is wearing a hawaiian shirt and applying sunscreen to himself, and miss piggy is wearing a red swimsuit and saying "to me, beach body is about having the most body on the beach... which i certainly do!" end id]

Keep giggling at how you have Octolings act like cats. It fits

contemplating eight as a stealth blue-ringed octo...they typically only show up when shes mad but if she feels something extreme enough theyll show. they also show when shes in rem sleep

also some stupids stemming from my thoughts about this

The New Republic

Trump Wants Snitches to Report on DEI. There’s Just One Problem.

Donald Trump wants people to expose diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts in the federal government. The idea is already flopping.

The threat was loud and clear: Report your so-called “DEI” employees or else. What exactly “DEIA or similar ideologies” means is up in the air, but the message was out there. And so was the email address of the DEIA snitching hotline. Fake emails quickly started to roll in. ‘I don’t care, fuck these McCarthyite bastards,” one BlueSky user said, with an screenshot attached of an email to the hotline where he ironically reported Donald Trump and JD Vance for being “put in their positions solely because of their race and/or gender despite the fact that they are wholly unqualified for their jobs and, in some cases, have criminal records.” “Anyone have a script to fire off a billion e-mails an hour??” another user asked in the replies. “Anyone can email anything of any size even if it crashes the site,” one X user noted. The scope and effectiveness of this latest phase of Trump’s anti-DEI crusade remains to be seen.

Miniature Inkling plushie I made!

Splatoon autism + new crochet fixation = me making this apparently haha.

I didn’t use anyone’s pattern or anything and honestly I wouldn’t know what to tell someone who wanted to replicate this. Feel free to use this as inspo!

(mob boss voice) so here's the deal, see. you's gonna go home and get a gooood night's sleep, see? and you's gonna have sweet dreams and a reaaal nice rest. reaaal nice. max here will tuck you in *i motion to the thuggish goon behind me and he approaches you with a warm glass of milk held gingerly in his enormous hand*

As someone who’s felt both sides of this.

Being the “gifted” kid is an experience to say the least, but please don’t speak over others. If anything, we can help eachother! Solidarity!

insane to me when former gifted kids hear other people (mainly disabled people and dropouts) talk about being horribly traumatized & irreversibly harmed by the school system and their response 9/10 times is “oh yeah??? you think that’s bad??? well my teacher said I had potential and everyone said I was going places and then I didn’t” like we’re supposed to be absolutely devastated for them because of this. lmfao

Mmmm

Weighted Blamkee

I am content