As per @bisexualturin's request

I can’t make this shit up man

The ongoing meltdown is also hilarious!

Every day is a reason to celebrate 🥂🥳

Friend Makes a Woman Hospitalized with Short-Term Memory Loss an Informative FAQ

This is the best friend a person could ever have.

You know how I said that Dr Glass often says things about his childhood that sound like someone doing a bit? Like some kind of Terry Pratchett hobbit nonsense of a fictional English childhood in the shire in the vale of a white chalk horse in the company of a pack of other feral children, together, forever.

Tonight it was, “oh, I used to make itching potion. Out of rosehip seeds.”

I stared at him. “For what,” i said eventually.

“I can’t remember. Most of it was about making the potion, and the rest was probably smearing it on the other village children.”

I stared at him.

He said, defensively, “it was the 80s.”

Anyway there you go. Unexpected use for rosehip seeds apparently. Forage them to recover a sticky gel-like paste? that causes itching in your enemies? Follow the angry little man for more baffling insights

Was evolving a theory about this being something you did in the 80s, but based on the behaviour of my own children I think it might actually be a Walkable Community thing. You and your allies have to be able to reasonably reach an opposing pack of mildly-rivalling children. Itching potion with nobody to itch is extremely sad!

When I was growing up in the rural USA, I didn’t really wander around away from my home with other kids, definitely not often unsupervised, and only had people around for expressly arranged playdates with parents driving, and all of my nature-based games were pretty lonely. it was unthinkable to me that you’d itch your (rare, important) close friends on a visit - and it seems unnecessarily antagonistic to, like, perpetrate randomly in an American school environment!!

however if you are growing up in a village, or a very close-knit neighborhood like ours, there are always varying levels of kids around with varying complex relationships and social acceptability to attack randomly with plant-based pranks. And because you see them all the time, it’s quickly forgiven.

At least this is my theory of walkable-neighborhood PvP child warfare . I will take questions

what's up with this loose approximation of a social media

This was clearly posted on Twibluthrestadonblr.

Oh hey, that's where I originally saw this post!

Such a classic, simple UI.

Im sorry but the mental image of someone's packer falling out of their pant leg is so funny to me. Hey king uh you dropped your dick

Imagine me dropping my dick and the having to look for it on all 4s like Velma searching for her glasses at the club

Joke's on you all my posts are flops. You'll never get me

Uh oh.

your brain is filled with eyes op

your posts are flops huh?? you know what else flops?? a dick to the ground

we saw a trans guy doing standup where he talked about using rolled up socks when going to the gym because if that falls out in the changing room it's just rolled up socks, right? but not when swimming because you'd have to squeeze it out when you get out of the water and that's not a great look

The way people demonize seagulls is actually unreal. Almost all of their natural habitat has been destroyed (almost all coastal areas have been developed, destroying natural sand dune ecosystems) and they're doing their best to adapt. They're literally just trying to survive. You're in their home. The vitriol some people have for these gorgeous sea birds just because they're not shy about snatching food if you're not cautious is insane

That comic with the bear standing in the forest as it turns into a development around it and saying "I've always been here" except it's seagulls on the beach

i feel like the knowledge that there are some medical databases with free-to-use 3D scans of various human organs available for 3D printing would have drastically reduced tumblrs amount of bone stealing scandals. plus you can make ones that glow in the dark.

look at my glow in the dark humerus boy

hey. if anyone wants em:

NIH 3D Library (Free)

Embodi3D (Free and Paid)

MorphoSource (Free, database of fossils)

Scans can also be found by searching on general-purpose 3D sites like Thingiverse, Cults3D, MakerWorld, Sketchfab

The glow in the dark filament I used

If you don’t have a 3D printer, check the website of your local library to see if they do! If you’re in college, your university’s libraries could have one too! They’ll likely have info on how to submit a print to their services and how/where you could find them.

hey can we. can we rewind to the part where tumblr has a regular problem with bone stealing scandals

look, if you didn't already know about the Bone Stealing Witch claiming that any skeletons unearthed when a cemetery flooded were free game, I can't exactly blame you, but man I wish I could be in your position.

honestly i am less confident than i would like to be that there was only the one

I saw this mentioned as a bit of an aside on another post but since it was a little bit besides the point of that post decided to make my own post about it instead of derailing that one.

It IS very interesting how in Lord of The Rings orcs are the soldiers of a (compared to the rest of the world) highly industrialized and technologically advanced military force, yet pretty much every high fantasy media that has borrowed the concept of orcs since then has instead given them the "tribal savages" treatment, and i don't know how I failed to realize that difference until I saw someone else bring it up.

Like of course this is not saying that the depiction of orcs in LoTR is not problematic for a lot of different reasons (there have been years of discussions unpacking that) but it IS an interesting change and I think a pretty ideologically loaded one.

Thinking about it makes me remember this article I read a few years ago about how, regardless of genre trappings, a lot of high fantasy (especially in ttrpgs and videogames) actually has a lot more in common narratively and thematically with wild west ""cowboys vs indians"" films and shows than it has with its aesthetic inspirations. Like once you look at it with that lense in mind it becomes really conspicuous how much these works like giving the "tribal savages" treatment to any sapient creature that exists for the heroes to fight.

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#something interesting could probably be written about orcs in LOTR in light of racial thinking -- #orcs of course in LOTR were originally ELVES. who were 'warped and twisted' by the torment of Sauron and Morgoth #who then one assumes became able to perpetuate the species (unless Sauron maintained a kind of elf federal reserve) #so orcs take on many of these mmm Less Human qualities -- 'bandy-legged' and 'fanged' etc #as a result of their true nature (elvish) having been corrupted #there IS also one way in which their true nature shines through though -- elves are brilliant artisans #the elves of the First Age created boats and swords and jewels that were so perfect they became magic #orcs in LOTR preserve that ability -- they have a dark ingenuity for weapons of war that is functionally sorcerous in its results #now. let's once again examine the 'LOTR as allegory for the Great War' #Germany was (we all remember) one of the more aggressive nations going into the Great War #but prior to that point they were a NEW nation as well! one which had a TON of intellectual and manufacturing power #Germany could have been regarded as 'the future of Europe'--they were advanced and cosmopolitan and had a strong academic tradition #and their reputation (at the time) was one of strength and honor and ingenuity--and a warlike nature--but ultimately great promise #but in the Great War all of that went sideways--became twisted by propaganda and the idea of Der Tag and the ideals of German supremacy #and in the years running up to WWII (when writing LOTR) Tolkien (we know) was aware of the further corruption of German culture -- #--which was taking place under Hitler and the Nazi Party. #So in sum you have here -- this great nation (Germany) which had sprung up newly-formed with such potential -- #--the character of its people much-discussed with excitement for what the future might hold (and some apprehension about what they Wanted) #and then this nation of craftspeople and thinkers and artists (Germany for example INSTRUMENTAL in the Romantic movement just decades prior #(not only in terms of 'art' (visual) but also literature and philosophy) #--Germany also gave Europe the philosophical origins of several disciplines (psychology--phenomenology--sociology)-- #--at a time when these disciplines were considered to be infallible and possibly indicative of a bright and enlightened future of humanity #--Anyway then THIS NATION of great and high character is corrupted and all its people march to war -- #and their ingenuity is turned to violence and propaganda and clever weapons and explosives and choking gas #anyway yeah you get the point. TLDR there's a lot that could be said about the 'true nature' of orcs in LOTR #as a representation of the 'fall' of Germany from grace during the twentieth century #and of course originally 'fantasy' orcs are. mm. the bare scraps of Tolkien's idea filtered through the minds of American men from the 60s #so of course they are. simply racist

If that doesn't have potential for some fairytale nonsense, I don't know what does.

In the right wintry conditions, an ice bridge forms between the Diomede Islands in the Bering Strait. Theoretically, this is the only place where you can walk from Russia to the United States (and vice versa), however travel between one Diomede to the other is strictly forbidden.

On the West side sits Russia’s Big Diomede with a population of 0. The smaller Little Diomede to the East has a small population of 82 (as of 2021).

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A bridge between Today and Yesterday, you say? Only there at the right time of year, with a certain amount of luck?

That absolutely has the makings of a quest destination.

According to the United Nations, India alone was responsible for 37 percent of the world’s female sterilization in 2011.

Family planning in India, from its inception in 1951 to its peak in 1977, should be seen in the wider context of the campaign to control world population. Among all the Asian and Sub-Saharan African countries, India’s family planning program received the biggest chunk of international aid. The World Bank gave the Indian government a loan of US $66 million dollars between 1972 and 1980 for sterilization.

The international push was so extreme that in 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson refused to provide food aid to India—at the time threatened by famine—until it agreed to incentivize sterilization.

Western conceptions of both Indian men and women were cemented during British colonial rule in the 18th and 19th centuries. Indian men, Europeans said, were emasculated and weak, whereas women were the hapless victims of Indian society—yet also the symbol of its woes.

In the 20th century, American visitors furthered this rhetoric—and the writings of two very different American women typified Western attitudes toward Indian reproductive politics. The first was Katherine Mayo. When she travelled to India in 1925, she was already well-known for her polemic The Isles of Fear: The Truth About the Philippines, in which she argued that Filipinos owed the Spanish an enormous debt for introducing Christianity and “forms of European law” to the islands.

Mother India, the wildly popular treatise Mayo would write about her travels in the country, similarly argued that India’s only hope was in British colonisers and in Christian missionaries—but, as the title indicates, she made this argument through the figure of the mother. As Asha Nadkarni writes in Eugenic Feminism, the title invokes “the idealised figure of the nation celebrated by Indian nationalists, rewriting it as the pathologised reproductive figure of a diseased body politic.” Mayo painted Indian mothers as pathetically impoverished and diseased, unable to take care of their children, and depicted Indian sexuality as depraved.

A decade later, Margaret Sanger, the founder of the birth control movement, travelled to India with her own mission: promoting contraception. [...] Sanger’s descriptions of Indian women were often clichéd—she described them as “tired” and “pathetic,” as well as gentle and childish. Though far less explicitly racist and contemptuous, this picture of India was not entirely different from Mayo’s. Both writers painted India as a place beset by an uncontrollable fertility that threatened disease, destruction, and war.

By 1952, Sanger had moved away from fighting for “birth control” for individual Indian women and had begun to emphasise “population control” for the masses. She gave an address in Bombay arguing for government-led family planning policies, linking large family sizes with national instability. “The cry for babies is the cry for armament, the cry for war,” Sanger said. “There is also the tremendous expense of care of defective mentalities and the army of delinquents.” The solution, in her view, would need to come from the top down: It should be [health officials’] duty to the State, to the public and to our future civilisation to see that those who do not have the individual initiative and intelligence to plan and control the size of their families should be assisted, guided, and directed in every way to eliminate the undesirable offspring, who usually contribute nothing to our civilisation, but use up the energy and resources of the world.

The same year she gave this address, Sanger founded the International Planned Parenthood Federation, which funded Indian organisations that would have an influence on population policy.

"Trans women are actually women for real, not in a metaphorical sense, not in a "anyone can be anything" sense, but genuinely actually make more taxonomic sense to classify in the category of women than any other group" is a position you'll find is pretty radical even in queer spaces

Could you explain this?

A lot of people who'll say "trans women are women" treat it more like a concession that they're making to be nice, rather than a factual observation about the world.

We're genuinely so brave for the way we somehow manage to navigate cis society never knowing wtf is going on in their heads at any given time

Birders: do you ever wonder if this happens?

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THEY DO!!! I’VE SEEN IT!!! Those motherfuckers run across those trees head down with no spacial awareness and get so startled and bewildered when they bump into eachother. It’s hilarious

I still can't believe that Tommy "Karate" Pitera, the mafia boss who was also a karate champion and who killed people by doing karate on them, was a real person. That's not a combination of traits a real guy has. That is a Metal Gear character. That is Chuck Norris playing the heel in a Bruce Lee movie. But no, there was a time not that long ago when people on the mean streets of Brooklyn might whisper "Hey, watch out for Tommy Karate, he'll kill you with his bare hands" with the gravest seriousness.

Was he the one who was also basically a serial killer and grossed the other mafia guys out because of how much he seemed to enjoy dismembering people

This sent me on a wiki crawl, and I cannot believe some of this. I assumed "Tommy Karate, gangster from Brooklyn" would have been some kind of self-aggrandisement but no, he kicked so much arse at a New York dojo as a youth that he won a scholarship to live in Tokyo studying at a famous historical dojo, where he lived for over 2 years, perfecting the art of beating people to death with his bare hands. He apparently was legitimately just that good at Karate. And I say was, but he's still alive! He was only arrested in 1990! Within my lifetime this lunatic was killing people with Karate in New York City and dumping their dismembered corpses in Staten Island!

Oh my apologies to mass murderer Tommy "Karate" Pitera, who despite the nickname actually studied Togakure-Ryu Ninjutsu in Tokyo. We wouldn't want to be inaccurate with regards to the ninja gangster, now would we.

get in loser we’re living past the end of our myth

lost, we live beyond the end of our history