Small but Mighty

It really is wild how people who don't understand what consent is really do not understand what consent is. The idea that they're supposed to know how someone wants to be treated, and err to the side of caution or even ask if they aren't sure is absurd when you genuinely do not understand the concept.

"What, you need consent for everything these days?" Literally yes. And not just these days, but always have and always will.

"Do I need consent to kiss my wife in the morning? Do I need consent to shake someone's hand after a business meeting? Do I need CoNsEnT to braid my daughter's hair?"

Yes, yes and yes. A neurotypical person of reasonably passable social skill should have the ability to either instinctively understand when their touch is welcome, or logically conclude when their touch is socially expected. If you truly, literally, genuinely cannot tell whether your own child delights in you playing with her hair or merely endures it, then yeah, maybe you shouldn't touch anyone at all, ever, before you learn how to do that.

"Do I need consent to make eye contact with strangers on the street? Do I need consent from everyone on board before I get on the bus?"

Okay now you're just throwing a tantrum because someone told you 'no'.

Even those last two questions are hilarious because guess what - even if accidental, eye contact is mutual. If someone looks away, that is them no longer consenting to eye contact, and if you grab their head and force them to look into your eyes that would in fact be a violation of consent! Multiple, actually! And by riding a bus, you are in fact implictly consenting to ride with other people, who are doing the same with you, so you already HAVE their consent. In fact, if you are disruptive or violent, the bus driver can REVOKE consent by kicking you off and/or other passengers can revoke consent by disembarking.

So yes, in fact, everything involving other people requires their consent in some way, shape, or form. That's what forms social mores and folkways! This is the very basis of society! A mix of explicit and implicit consent.

So yeah, they're throwing a tantrum from being told no, and also ignoring sociology 101 while doing so.

Unmute !

Awwwww!

At Mount fuji

Forget the rest of the fireworks around the world, these are the best. HNY.

The finale HOLY SHIT!!!

This is actually the first time I was impressed by a firework

For anyone interested, the music is by a composer named Thomas Bergersen, and the piece playing is called Homecoming from his Illusions album.  I listen to his music whenever I need to be inspired to write.

It’s moments like this that remind me what gunpowder was really invented for.

No wonder ppl in anime stop their confessions for this shit.

this is funnier the earlier in march you reblog it it

✨ it’s march ✨

.

Woman doesn’t understand why the actor got mad when she touched him without consent. People in comments defend her and say the guy overreacted. Just because you’re a woman it does not give you the right to touch people. Don’t be like this woman or the people defending her.

this is insane.

“he overreacted” what???? i’m speechless.

imagine what would have happened if it was the girl to get her breast groped like that.

but no, since it’s a man he obviously “overreacted”.

You hear him say “there’s kids here” 

He’s not a male stripper, he’s there to entertain children not be groped. 

I mean big L for giving money to Disney, but then doing this too? Throw the whole woman out she’s trash

If it’s not okay to do it to one, it’s not okay to do it to all.

He was well within his rights to make her leave. Sexual harassment is sexual harassment, and, as he stated, she was doing it in front of kids.

i restate a rule- if swapping the gender suddenly makes it skeevy, it was already skeevy the first way around

The good plot twists aren’t the ones that are wild left turns out of nowhere, they’re the ones that make all the other little things that didn’t quite add up before suddenly click

it shouldnt be “i didnt see that coming!”

it should be “i SHOULD have seen that coming!”

The Road to El Dorado (2000) dir. Bibo Bergeron, Don Paul, Jeffrey Katzenberg

Asian Pacific American Heritage Month ∟Day 7: Jason Mendoza in The Good Place

Do we have a franz kafka diary entry for july 1st, i want to know what he thinks!!!

happy too tired July everyone

Burn Notice. [S1.E1: Pilot.]

This is legitimately how I’ve broken into a thousand places like just act like you’re meant to be there and if someone actually ends up calling you out on it just be super confused

#I would be an excellent pentester and actually have considered it as a job many a time#when I was a kid (7-14ish) my grandmother was in the hospital a lot and I was a bored kid that no one was really watching#and we spent days and days at the hospital over the course of those years#so I’d wander around and it became a challenge to see where it could get into without gettting caught#and the answer is basically everywhere#like ther is no legit reason for an 11 year old to be in the morgue but I was tall for my age and I would carry a cup of coffee#and look irritated to be there like someone woke me up for this#and no one would question me#people would ask where are you headed and if you just exhaustedly point through a security door 97% of the time they will swipe their card#-and open it for you

I want to add that I don’t make a habit of this now that I am a law abiding adult, but recently I accidentally did this again. Having been used to having my run of hospitals and walking basically anywhere as a child, I was visiting a friend in the hospital just before covid and I was legitimately exhausted and carrying a coffee cup cuz it was like 5:30am or something dumb, and I went to leave and get to the bottom floor and i’m like “this is not the lobby” and I walked around for a bit and people kept holding doors for me so I traveled through many corridors, and nothing looked familiar, and then I realized every single door was a key card swipe and everyone had mag-stripe badges with varying security levels and I realized I had gotton onto a staff elevator with the staff, who had swiped their card to go down into a high-security area of the building, and people had just been letting me through all these security doors.

So then I had to out myself and be like “Um I accidentally broke into you high-security wing, please show me the door, I’m literally just trying to leave this hospital” and I had to get like searched and stuff. 

And what was funny was that while I was blissfully walking around assuming I belonged, No one questioned ANYTHING and in fact, were violating protocols left and right to let me through, but the VERY SECOND I realized I was not where I was supposed to be and let that show on my face, like three people in the hall confronted me. 

So the take away is, be confident that you belong, look exhausted and like you don’t want to be there, and carry a cup of coffee. It will open pretty much all doors.

@clutchkuza I feel like you need to hear this lol

No joke, Burn Notice is a great show. If you like Leverage, give Burn Notice a try (its available on Hulu and Prime iirc) and frfr, confidence and an excuse are all you need to get around places

This works I accidentally broke into someone’s whole ass home a month or so ago and uhhh it went fine because I’m short white and VERY CONFUSED

One time while I was in Rome, I was busy admiring the ruins and not paying attention to signage, got lost, and ended up in some kind of archaeological dig or restoration. Not knowing it was off-limits (having missed all signage, as previously stated), I started peeking around all the stone stuff, wandering off the path, and most importantly (to this story), poking around in a hole that had been dug into the ground. I was careful not to touch anything, but still, clearly (to anyone who wasn’t as oblivious as me) this was not a place a tourist was meant to be.

I finally attracted the notice of someone who was meant to be part of this restoration project when I came back up from the hole. He quickly came over to ask me, in Italian, what I’m sure were the very normal questions of “Who are you?”, “What are you doing here??”, etc.

Problem: I do not speak Italian.

My brain’s solution: Quick, what language do we speak that’s close?! 

And that is how I wandered up out of a hole in a Roman ruin without warning and began speaking ancient Latin to an archaeologist.

This man’s face went through 15 different absolutely floored expressions in ten seconds, like you could physically see him going through the thought process of “Have I encountered a ghost from ancient Rome? No, ghosts aren’t real. But if ghosts not real, how Latin??? Fellow researcher??? Supposed to be here???”

So this is the story of how I was allowed to walk away without issue at all after blatantly trespassing upon the ruins of ancient Rome, because if you speak Latin, where else would you belong?

Both literally and figuratively:

Summoning Demons

•

I think Crowley would still enjoy causing a bit of chaos. And no I will never stop with the “Aziraphale doesn’t understand technology” thing

A true captain goes down with his ship

Via Reddit

these are some of the most delightful laughs I’ve ever heard

I wrote and illustrated this story as a birthday present for my partner, I hope you enjoy it!

Tactoon-cat Cartoons

With each I was like “Surely the cat doesn’t actually look like that in the image. surely this is an exaggeration.” but then I scrolled and yes, the cats are liquid

I am sorry but I just CAN’T

still my favourite on set story ever

I still can’t believe they used IKEA FURNITURE FOR THE SET DESIGN!!! 

the Fjellowship of the Ring