dick so good it turns you into hold on i can’t finish this post. there’s a cobweb on my couch i can see it
i can finish it for you lemme try. dick so good it turns you into The Thing
thanks king that means a lot. there are spiders everywhere
you can exchange those for bonuses and points
at the spider store yeah
a lil bit emotional about how "nostalgia" originally meant longing across a displacement in space but in common parlance it refers to longing across a displacement in time... you don't go away from home and miss it, you stay where you are and time passes and home just disappears
Last year the city I live in cut down some hold and huge trees because they were widening the roadway. I miss them.
An elderly woman I knew died a few months ago; I came across her home on Zillow, cycled through the photographs of it, all empty. The next day it was gone from the site, sold; these two happenings were separate, sequential punches to the heart.
There was a nice winding, hilly road that was as thrilling as a roller coaster the first time I drove it on not very much experience behind the wheel of a car, which somehow got shorter and shorter in experience compared to memory each time I drove it, and they just went through and widened it to four lanes and reshaped the sharp turns away and leveled out the hills and it isn't the same road anymore.
The Minnesota State Fair has a place called Heritage Square, and it used to be this tight cozy place with wooden booths and stalls, all traditional, and now they rebuilt it and it's got these futuristic architectural shelter things that all the stores are under, high-roofed and spread out and very modern-aesthetic and it's not remotely the same space anymore.
Fields and forests turn into developments and fast food joints. Things get replaced with newer, modern variants that also happen to be significantly less interesting.
I hope Heaven is a spiral. I hope it contains everything at every time. I hope to walk downtown and find those trees again, and climb the mountains that were here millions of years ago and find trees that grew when trees were new, tall and old and impossible. I want to drive down roads that are terrifying in all the best ways, in a car I haven't seen in decades, to trees that never knew what a chainsaw was.
The point of officially naming a pet is not to actually use that name but to have a baseline from which to come up with every conceivable nickname to call them instead.
You bury a seed not because it looks nice in the dirt, but because the limbs that branch out will look nice in the sky
Congrats on contributing to the ancient tumblr tradition of turning shitposts into profound poetry
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There is an assumption made, particularly reinforced by the media, that Long Covid is a temporary illness for most. There is no evidence to support this. Some improve and some show little or no sign of improvement, years later. Part of the confusion with Long Covid is definitional. It ranges from post-viral syndrome that clears up after a period of months to severe disability and serious health complications. Roulette is being played with the health of millions. It’s also a lonely experience that isolates you from loved ones and the rest of society, where you face persistent gaslighting and little medical support.
In the UK, 2,300,000 people have Long Covid with 514,000 people reporting Long Covid for more than two years, and 1,100,000 for more than a year, according to the latest ONS data. 438,000 people have developed Long Covid since Omicron so far, representing 24% of total Long Covid patients. Unsurprisingly, this is fuelling labour shortages. Currently around 32,000 children have had it for at least twelve months. In the US, since Omicron, infants are now being hospitalised at a higher rate than the over 75s. Globally, 144 million are conservatively expected to have Long Covid. This is a mass disabling event with multiple unknown long term consequences. These people are now deemed surplus, as so many disabled people are by capitalist society. As of June there were 10,000 NHS staff off sick with Long Covid for more than 3 months and many others burnt out. The NHS in England, Scotland and Wales has also recently decided to end indefinite sick pay for healthcare workers suffering from Long Covid. Healthcare workers with Long Covid have been abandoned.
Alex Heffron, Covid is dead! Long live Covid!
The average across the US is that 30% of those who get Covid suffer from long COVID symptoms.
30%
It’s estimated that the US is just shy of 100 million cases, though it’s tough to confirm due to at home testing and general reduction in data collection in the past year especially.
That means in the US alone 30 million people became disabled in the last 2.5 years.
That’s approaching 10% of the entire US population.
It’s time for serious reform on disability rights, benefits, employment laws, minimum wage, and healthcare at a minimum. And it’s beyond time for significant scientific and medical funding research into long term illness caused by infections.
meditating on the fact that manscaped is pumping this site full of its ceaseless unending ads when tumblr is 1. the #1 website where male users are least likely to have balls 2. the #1 website where users who possess balls are least likely to be men and 3. the website with the highest population percentage of users who love unshaved hairy pussy and cock and balls. people here love bush more than republicans did in the months after 9/11
It’s like this
Reversed version so you and your mutuals can bonk back and forth.
wait, hold on
I went to a bookshop and I got dizzy at the amount of books on stuff like “astrological feminism” “reclaiming womanhood through numerology” and all that shit…… One was called “cosmic fanny” or for my french speakers out there, “foufoune cosmique”. I think the fight against patriarchy is going really well
“But I didn’t and still don’t like making a cult of women’s knowledge, preening ourselves on knowing things men don’t know, women’s deep irrational wisdom, women’s instinctive knowledge of Nature, and so on. All that all too often merely reinforces the masculinist idea of women as primitive and inferior – women’s knowledge as elementary, primitive, always down below at the dark roots, while men get to cultivate and own the flowers and crops that come up into the light. But why should women keep talking baby talk while men get to grow up? Why should women feel blindly while men get to think?”
Ursula K Le Guin, from What Women Know
One night we had a thrilling summer storm… We hadn’t been in the house long, and it was the first time in this house we’d had to close all the windows. In the morning I smelled gas, strong, unmistakable. “I smell gas,” I said to my husband. “I don’t smell it,” he said. He had a friend come over. “Why are you having a friend come over,” I asked, “when it doesn’t matter if he can smell it or not, and none of us can fix it?” His friend didn’t smell it, either. I called the gas company. The gas company employee didn’t smell it, either. He waved his reader around and it blasted off in three places, substantial leaks behind the stove and in the basement. “Always trust a woman’s nose,” the gas company employee said.
Yes, I thought, believe us.
Then, No, I thought, I’m not a fucking witch. Believe anyone who smells gas. If someone smells gas, believe them.
– Jane Dykema, What I Don’t Tell My Students About “The Husband Stitch”
I think that this article should be mandatory reading for everyone age 16-25, especially if you’re in university. Read it here.
This one stood out to me:
sorry to add another highlight but this article is full of bangers
“But I think the issue here is even more mysterious and complex. After all, these kids were very young when their parents gave them iPhones and tablets—they’ve never known a self that wasn’t subject to anonymous virtual observation. And so it may well be that whatever we mean by “authentic” here isn’t the standard definition that Rousseau and the Romantics first fathomed—a true effusion of your unvarnished personality—but is “authentic” in the sense that their identities have been made in perfect, unconscious sympathy with whatever their mob of online followers has deemed agreeable and inoffensive.”
pickpocket is by far the best skill in skyrim. i run around and every npc in windhelm is completely naked. whores.
i recently found out the funniest thing about big horses recently which is that for centuries humans have sworn that the feathering on big horse’s legs has been bred in there for a reason, and the reason given is usually something to do with how it helps keep the joints warm and safe when the big horse is doing hauling work in fields.
the thing is: it doesn’t appreciably do that, because the feathers wick up water and mud, which cancels out any insulation advantage they might hypothetically confer, and also it wasn’t even put there on purpose.
the Leg Get More Hair gene is just linked to the Bones Get More Big gene. when you breed any lineage of horses to have bigger bones–not just taller, but chunkier–the leg hair just happens anyway. so every single breed of draft horse has feathered legs, and even carriage horses like friesians get feathers once they hit a certain threshold of lorge.
when you supersize your horse, mother nature throws in a free pair of booties. how cool is that?
shit shit shit I left my furry trash sketchbook in the lobby all the campus dorm leaders are having a meeting in and plopped right in the center of their table is a fucking shirtless bunny dude with my name on it shiiiiiit
tHEY FUCKING FLIPPED THROUGH IT SHIT NO
I’M NOT GOING TO BE REMEMBERED LIKE THIS
my RA just called me “rabbit dude”. it’s all over
I wanna correct them and tell them I’m a “deer dude” but is that any better really?
At least it wasn’t full on porn.
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It was wasn’t it
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you guys are so whorephobic holy shit
i literally don’t disclose more than “im a sex worker” for a reason. i don’t find online sex work safe for me at least. just because i don’t talk about what i do online doesn’t mean i’m making that up. i don’t trust any of you with information beyond that wrt sex work because a) white people exist (i’m a black person…put two and two together) b) snitches get stitches
you do realize that it’s still illegal right? i do offline sex work and my clients are usually black cis men. why in the WORLD would i openly go into detail about sessions i have, putting myself and my clients in danger? is it bc you’re entitled and nosy or you want free porn? go die
can ppl who claim to be allies to swers reblog this
Not to mention sex workers and adult film stars are getting their bank accounts closed down.
i've said it before and i'll say it again, sex work is real work and all you get by making it illegal is workers put in danger. Legalise sex work, all of it. Consentual sex shouldn't be illegal. (and you assholes KNOW what I mean by consentual. Don't you start with your "so you're saying blah" bullshit. Fuck you. The only adult who should get a say in what they do with their own body is the person who's body IT IS)
