yeah see this is my problem with DuckDuckGo

ideas for tumblr staff

3. stop banning Black people for no reason

4. stop suppressing posts about Palestine for no reason

reblog this version actually

[ begin id: a screenshot of three tweets by Ana Mardoll @/AnaMardoll. The first tweet reads “If it weren’t for racism and misogyny, we’d view Marie Kondo the way we view Mister Rogers and Bob Ross.” The second tweet reads “She THANKS THE HOUSE, you look me in the eye and tell me Rogers and Ross wouldn’t love that shit right there. They’d think she was awesome.” The third tweet reads ““Thank you for your service”, said to a t-shirt, is this generations “happy little trees”.”   / end id ]

Mr Rogers would have had her on his show and they would have sorted his cardigan collection together.

Think about this quote like all the time and how it really undermines so much shit in capitalism

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“But what will you do with the lazy man, the man who does not want to work?” inquires your friend.

That is an interesting question, and you will probably be very much surprised when I say that there is really no such thing as laziness. What we call a lazy man is generally a square man in a round hole. That is, the right man in the wrong place, And you will always find that when a fellow is in the wrong place, he will be inefficient or shiftless. For so-called laziness and a good deal of inefficiency are merely unfitness, misplacement. If you are compelled to do the thing you are unfitted for by your inclinations or temperament, you will be inefficient at it; if you are forced to do work you are not interested in, you will be lazy at it.

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–Alexander Berkman, "What is Communist Anarchism?: Will Communist Anarchism Work?" (1929)

People do lots of things not to get bored. Sure, sometimes they just watch tv, but even then, they are doing something: watching tv.

The problem is... Can you make money from watching tv? Can you produce something from listening to music? Often people use it as background sound while they do other things that may be equally productive or unproductive to the eyes of capitalism. If you are making silly drawings to give to a friend, if you are reading a book or writing a letter, does it count as not being lazy?

People have hobbies that go from caring for a few plants to actually building furniture. If that is not work, I don't know what is. But since you are not selling it, you are not stressed about it, you can leave it for some months and then come back, well...

i open the lesbian tag. i see 20 posts about gold star lesbians in a row. i close the lesbian tag

you guys realize "gold star lesbian" is a terf/radfem term right. you guys realize that term is made to indicate you've never slept with/dated a man and is specifically used to indicate you've never slept with a trans woman in modern lesbian spaces right. you guys know that term is used specifically to call cis4t lesbian relationships straight right. you guys know about the transphobia in the gold star lesbian community right. rights guys. right.

when is comes to asexuality and aromanticism you have to be okay with contradiction. one ace person will say asexuality is about not experiencing attraction, another will say it’s about not caring to act on attraction, another will say it’s not experiencing arousal. one aromantic will consider themself queer, one won’t. two people with seemingly identical experiences will use two different labels. aro people will be in romantic relationships, ace people will have sex. you get it.

Since the OP made their post unrebloggable (and blocked me. Both actions they are well in with their right to do)

I'm going to make my response it's own post because I think the point is important

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As someone who is autistic and has BPD and CPTSD and loads of trauma yes you sometimes need to change how you interact with others to keep people around

When I was 13 I hit the few friends I had when I was angry

I had to change that in order to keep those friendships

When I was in my early 20s if I was losing an disagreement with my husband I would threaten to kill myself. My husband told me it hurt him and was cruel and manipulative behaviour, because it was.

So I worked hard to change that to keep my relationship

It's easy to say "I shouldn't have to change for others" and that's true to an extent. You shouldn't change your interests or passions or dim your light. And you should have space to be imperfect and flawed and not have to pretend your ugly bits aren't real. But if something you are doing it causing other people harm you kinda need to change that.

That's called "living in a society"

People adapt to each other and make space for each other in their lives. You adapt to them and they adapt to you

You start being more diligent about throwing away the empty toilet roll because it really bothers them. They start warning you before they run the blender because you hate loud noises

I stopped threatening to kill myself because I was mad I was losing an argument and my husband stopped being so vocally judgemental amount media he personally dislikes

There is a certain type of person who heard the phrase "your emotions are valid" and took that to mean "my emotional reactions and my behaviour are always objectively correct because my emotions are valid and if you have an emotional response or react to what I'm doing negatively then you are wrong and you can't be hurt because my emotions are valid"

And that's a recipe for disaster

Your emotions are valid to feel. They are how you feel and there are reasons you feel the way you do

However, your reactions and behaviour are something you can learn to control and can be irrational

We live in a society and we as people change each other as we interact and that isn't necessarily a bad thing

The older I get the more I admire people who are earnestly, genuinely into whatever their thing is. I know it sounds like an annoying cliche but unless you're being cruel or hurtful there is really no need to be normal about things. The dude with the bad fake accent at the renaissance faire is having the time of his life. The people having photoshoots with their fashion dolls are loving it. The old lady with a yard unreasonably full of tacky ass lawn ornaments is having a blast, HOA be damned.

Don't waste your time being too cool to have fun, y'know?

Lupita Nyong'o wearing VALENTINO – The Hollywood Reporter (2022) photographed by Christian Cody

The Kyo Poetry series - Poem I: "Without further ado"

Have you ever woken up with the urge to translate and comment on Kyo’s poems from back in the early 2000s as if your life depends on it?

Well, I have, because I’m a weirdo.  So for the sake of this series, take it or leave it; here is my translation and commentary on 前略、お元気ですか、最果ての地より名も無き君に愛をこめて… (Without further ado, how are you? I keep on wondering, lovingly crying out this question to all of you from the farthest lands.), Kyo’s second poem book, released in 2004.

Poem I: [Untitled]

Without further ado, how are you?

Without further ado, how are you? I keep on wondering, lovingly crying out this question to all of you from the farthest lands.

Like children dreaming; struggling to swim through submerged alleys

with your beloved red shoes stored neatly in your balconies. *

Inside your fish bowls, the night is warm and young women ask for ice water, laughing,

while beyond our borders mothers hold their children every day

and throw their love into seas of flames.

Flowers adorn the side of the road and yet you turn away

and even if Ed Gein were to make a mask of your face, it would bear a smile**

and you’d still be feeding on this lovely world you adore,

Hating the rest of them more than you love yourself

Hating the rest of them more than you love yourself

Hating the rest of them more than you love yourself.***

Their subliminal words, deeds and doctrine are an effective Hail Mary

As the sky and earth turn to ash in 194586815****

Oh go admire those pouring mud tears

of my nameless brethren and their tears thou shalt nor forget, never…

There lies that flickering great power of the modern-day,

oh pray to God it doesn’t disintegrate

oh thee playable yellow monkeys,

thee tame yellow monkeys,*****

why don’t you inject that so-called HIV up your asses?******

- it’d be just sex, not rape, so cry me a river

just like in a soap opera

oh, cut the crap.

Rusty water cups

reverently carried by girls with bob cuts

that I stare at with my pitch black eyes and who surely don’t feel a thing

- ah, where has our innocence gone?

Only creeping, crawling maggots

that won’t deign to say hello.

To them, I shall not say a word, just trample them beneath my feet.

* Red shoes in the balcony In traditional housing in Japan, shoes are stored in the “genkan”, i.e. the entryway area of the house. During summer, shoes may be stored in the balcony to avoid bad smells. The author mentions that these shoes are red, which is quite specific. I believe he might be referring to a very popular 1948 post-war film, The Red Shoes. The Red Shoes is a complex interplay between art, love and ambition. The red shoes themselves symbolise the irresistible allure of artistic ambition and the relentless drive for perfection. They represent the protagonist's desire to excel in her art form, even at the cost of her life. The film serves as a cautionary tale about the dangers of becoming consumed by one's passions to the point of losing touch with reality. 

** Ed Gein Edward Gein was an American serial killer. He made various objects from the skin of his victims and bodies he dug up from cemeteries, including human skin face masks.

*** Hating others more than you love yourself This is a reference to a Buddhist concept according to which hating anyone or anything is a reflection of one’s self-hatred. In Buddhist philosophy, one should love others as much as one loves oneself (even horrible people). One should accept dissenting opinions just like one accepts parts of oneself that aren’t perfect or necessarily good. This is a very quick and simplified explanation of Buddhist compassion, but you get the picture.

**** 194586815 This series of numbers is a date and time: 6 August 1945, 8:15 am. This is the exact time the Hiroshima atom bomb was dropped by the United States.

***** Yellow monkeys Yellow Monkey is a WWII-era slur for Japanese people, akin to “Japs”. The author is referring to Japanese people being tame, gullible and accepting of their government.

******* HIV up the ass I didn’t make this sound any more vulgar than it is in the original text - the author used very strong language for this one.

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My analysis of this poem: I read this as a political statement. The narrator is unreliable. In the first few lines, he appears to address his own people (the Japanese) with tender words ("how are you? I keep on wondering, lovingly crying out..."). He paints a picture of comfort and picturesque happiness ("inside your fish bowls", “red shoes stored neatly in the balcony”).

In the second half of the second stanza, the poem takes a turn, and he begins to contrast Japanese comfort with the horrors going on in the world that his people are oblivious to.

He criticises the reader for not reacting to such horrors, comparing their indifference to a cruel mask of disinterest and self-absorption. He claims that "their words" (presumably the government's?) distract from reality, as it happened during WWII prior to the atom bombings.

More notably, he appears to criticise Japan’s fragile political system, implying that it relies on the indifference and acceptance of “tame” Japanese people.

He describes a mass of people who all look and act the same (“girls with bob cuts”, a popular hair style in Japan) and how they do not appear to react to his (presumably political) appeal (“my pitch black eyes”). He thus despises them, as evident in the crude final lines. 

Translator disclaimer

These are are just my own interpretations and I took some liberties as a translator to make this poem make sense in English. Japanese is very hard to translate to English since sentence structures are very different. Japanese is a highly contextual language, whereas English is explicit. Thus, certain passages can have multiple interpretations and sometimes it’s impossible to know what the author really meant. This is just my own take. There are other takes out there. You don’t have to take my translation as the ultimate source of truth. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

XENA: WARRIOR PRINCESS (1995–2001)

positing hamas as some kind of evil boogeyman when hundreds (at least 300) of dead civilians are found in a mass grave around nasser hospital after the idf ran through khan younis……………🥴🥴🥴🥴

392 dead civilians.

Important photo ♡

STOP eating salads because you want to get Skinny✋🚫 START eating salads because theyre yumby plate of leafs ✅🥗