every year i forget how impossible it feels to function when you’re cold and under a blanket. u really expect me to be productive right now? to think about things? outside the warmth and safety of my blanket? kind of messed up to be honest
ok i just got this thought out of nowhere but blog divers (people who scroll through a blog and reblog things that were posted YEARS AGO) are actually a super important part of the tumblr ecosystem
With people going inactive and deactivating, a lot of classic tumblr posts and also missed gems get lost because those connections get broken. Even on my own blog I forget about posts I made until I see someone in my activity reblog one of them- which then inspires me to reblog it myself because it was a good post and I want my new followers to see
do not feel bad about diving through someone’s blog and reblogging shit from years ago, it keeps dashboards alive
(and if anyone has a problem with that, they can just block you or they can delete the root post ¯\_(ツ)_/¯, two things that have absolutely no effect on the grand scheme of our lives)
Cycling nutrients (old tumblr posts) from the ocean floor (mutual’s blog archive) to increase (dashboard) ecosystem productivity
Whale Fall Scavengers Spreading Vital Nutrients From The Surface Back Into The Ecosystem
Also real talk but while wildlife-safe salt is something that we need to be striving for, we do NOT want to literally encourage wildlife to linger by and on roads where they’re going to be hit?? Especially icy roads that increase the chances of accidents when a car stops suddenly or swerves suddenly to avoid a collision???
I know the joke is mainly about the color and tumblr’s obsession with red specifically for meme reasons, but you’ve gotta think critically and avoid spreading science hoaxes that distract from REAL progress being made and also make people think that existing problems are already solved.
“Land Back doesn’t mean indigenous people taking the land from everyone” was true and as someone who still supports land back I really really wish a bunch of colonizer progressives hadn’t run to their computers to yell about “this is what decolonization looks like” and “decolonization isn’t a metaphor” when Hamas was busy raping and killing over 1200 people in Israel. Unfortunately people couldn’t keep their judenhass under control so now when normal people hear “land back” they think massacres.
Great job leftists.
I think that it will be years if not decades before we fully understand how badly the idea that “decolonization means murdering the non-natives” has set back Land Back.
I really need to take the time to find (or write up) a really good explainer on the Overton Window that I can point people towards, but the super short version of it is that in order to enact a policy (like some version of Land Back) you need to have that policy be something that most people agree with, or at least something that most people won’t object to. Politicians advocating for policies outside of that window of acceptability don’t get elected, so they can’t pass the laws needed to put said policies in place. What people do and do not find acceptable can be changed through advocacy, but the important thing is that people’s opinions have to change before the law can.
And a lot more people are going to object to Land Back if they think it means “kill all the colonizers,” than if they think it means “indigenous peoples should have a significant say in how they’re governed and access to their ancestral lands.” So, by so strongly tying the idea of Land Back to extreme violence, these (mostly white) leftists are pushing it AWAY from what people are going to find acceptable, making more work for people who actually want to get Land Back policies passed.
So in other words it’s not just the Palestinians the “free Palestine” crowd are betraying, it’s disadvantaged indigenous populations everywhere.
Which, when you consider the makeup of the “Axis of Resistance” (Russia, Iran, Qatar, etc), seems to be exactly the plan and end goal.
Yeah, at this point the biggest impacts of the Palestinian Omnicause are terrorizing Jewish people, and critically undermining, damaging, and/or deligitimizing pretty much every progressive movement and organization that it touches. And, well. “The purpose of a system is what it does”.
Exactly. Who is going to be able to take any “feminist” organization seriously, when those same organizations said that the mass rapes on Oct 7th were justified? To give one example.
My ass isn’t the farthest left but still well outside the Overton window. I am *still* not going to trust ostensibly leftist/progressive organizations. The litmus test is ‘are you normal about Jews’ and far too many fail it.
I’m not even Jewish. But any organization that violates its ostensible principles because 'fuck (((Zionists)))’ is one that will inevitably violate them for any other reason they’re propagandized about enough, and that is not something that will end well for me if any group I’m part of is found in violation of whatever rules they conjure up.
If your stated aim is to help disadvantaged indigenous populations throw off the yoke of oppression (among other progressive goals) and you’re marching in lockstep with Russia, Iran, Qatar, et al., AND you’re unable to be normal about Jews…you got a serious problem, sweet-cheeks. And I ain’t just talking about your obvious Soviet-flavored tankie sympathies. Your Judenhass is showing, plain and simple, and you’d rather performatively cry over dead Jews than be neighbors/friends/other with living ones.
Otherwise, think of this: Who benefits from the tainting and delegitimization of every progressive movement and organization in the West? Hm? Answer me that first.
(Thank you to the other people whose reblogs I’m piggy-backing on. You guys have given me much food for thought.)
It is so annoying when authors try to make their characters seem tough by making them sleep deprived and then just having them “power through it” with no side effects besides feeling REALLY tired. Your characters had five hours of sleep over three days, they’re not just “tired”. They’re forgetting shit. They’re passing out at random moments. They’re probably hallucinating. And they are certainly not going to win a fight when their reaction time is somewhere between “next Tuesday” and “never”.
Your hero has a headache and is trying and failing not to snap at everyone who makes the slightest noise anywhere near them.
If you then add injury and hunger into the mix your character is barely functioning at all. Your character can’t stand up without immediately getting dizzy. Your character is saying stupid shit and making bad decisions. Your character is going to fall over before the bad guy swipes at them because they got motion sick trying to get into a ready fighting stance.
ALT
