Future Archaeologists Will Know You Were (not) A Boy

I wish I could reblog an ad because for some reason this badly edited gallon of honey is hilarious to me.

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.

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

visting the domes ✨

Now I’m no expert in sign language but I love how clear this was depicted! Even if I saw the panel without context seeing it drawn makes me happy.

Wahoo world adventure

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.

what abled ppl think is a massive problem for disabled folks: 13 year old on the internet faking something

what is actually a massive problem for disabled folks: "well you don't LOOK disabled, are you sure you're not faking? I'm not giving you accommodations until you PROVE you're not faking. Please give me, a stranger, your medical info and explain your condition to me in detail so I know you're not faking and only then will I respect or take you seriously"

The Tumblr Code:

1. Defend Tumblr, even with your life. You may have friendships with users from the other social media, but your loyalty must remain to Tumblr, as one day you may meet them in battle.

2. Do not repost or steal from another site’s territory.

3. Fandom elders and smol beans must be fed before reposters and girlbloggers. Unless they have permission, reposters may not post until they have hunted to feed the Fandom elders.

4. Posts are made only to be reblogged. Give thanks to FandomClan for their life.

5. A new user must be at least thirteen years old to become a blank blog.

6. Newly appointed girlbloggers will keep a silent vigil for one night after receiving their url.

7. A girlblogger cannot be made a popular user without having made at least one banger post.

8. The popular user will become Tumblr leader when the leader dies or retires.

9. After the death or retirement of a popular user, a new user must be chosen before moonhigh.

10. A gathering of all users is held at the full moon during a truce that lasts for Out Of Touch Thursday. There shall be no fighting among users at this time.

11. Boundaries must be checked and marked daily. Challenge all trespassing blank blogs.

12. No girlbloggers may neglect a little meow meow in pain or in danger, even if that little meow meow is from a different fandom.

13. The word of Evil Mario is the Tumblr code.

14. An honorable girlblogger does not need to kill other bloggers to win their battles, unless they are outside the Tumblr code or it is necessary for self-defense.

15. A Tumblr user rejects the soft life of a Twittypet.

please be kinder to the people around you who have neurotypes that "scare" you. i really don't think it's cool to see people claim to hate ableism, and then treat psychotic people, bipolar people, people with OCD, people with personality disorders, people with DID, traumatized people and so on like garbage. i don't really care if seeing someone who is actually, for real in the throes of a mental health crisis is frightening to you, it's far, far more frightening for them. compassion is key here. learning to get over our fears isn't just for people with anxiety, psychosis and trauma- it's for all of us. if someone is genuinely harming you, it's okay to seek help and to be alarmed. but if they are having symptoms that are not affecting you, it is not okay to treat them like garbage. treat everyone around you with respect, especially people with "scary" neurotypes and mental health conditions. no one deserves to be looked at with terror when they need help.