my friend told me last night that he gets girls to come back to his place by telling them “oh i can’t wait to go home and have some stew” and “i’m so hungry, good thing i have stew at home” and it’s worked every time
bro the worst part is last night i went to his place and it’s 11pm and i’m sitting there eating fucking stew like god damn it worked on me too
Now I want some stew
guys we’re not being cringe to keep out the twitter users. we’re being cringe to keep out the ALGORITHMS, the CAPITALISTS, the INFLUENCERS. twitter users are welcome as long as they agree this site is UNMARKETABLE
anyone can join the skeleton war but first you must shed the mortal flesh of marketability
goodnight, sweet prince
the funny thing about this being an (illegal) way to try and filter out trans people is that i do in fact identify as my legal gender. i’m legally male. i got a court order and everything. a judge decided i was right about being a man, and now i am exactly as legally male as a guy who got born with a penis. even if someone wants to ask what’s on my birth certificate, that’s gotten changed too. i’ve been reassigned at birth to ‘boy’. so like, legally, on paper, no matter how transphobic you want to be to prospective employees, the government says i’m a man.
like, this is an insanely illegal and shitty thing to be asking prospective employees to try to catch trans people but it’s only going to catch those who haven’t yet gotten their paperwork changed. and enough of us have that this question is going to fail to do the thing it was put there to do.
i wish them a very merry Get Fined.
That's so weird and cool!!!! I love how creative people are!
I turn 30 next month so here’s what I learned in my 20s:
—don’t work for startups, they’re always one ‘innovative idea’ away adding ‘sell your kidneys on the black market’ to your job description.
—keeping a collection of basic OTC medicine on you will save your life one day. I recommend Advil, Imodium, and TUMS.
—those little single-use glasses cleaning wipes are 1000% worth the money
—overly self-depreciating jokes just make people uncomfortable, wean yourself off of them
—you can buy dehydrated mini marshmallows in bulk online and they’re a godsend for hot cocoa
—people don’t care if you have fidget toys on your desk they just want to play with them
—try to go to bed BEFORE the existential ennui kicks in
Also drink water and eat a plant
This is all GREAT. I turned 40 last week, so permit me to add what I learned in my 30s:
I turn 50 this year. what I have learned in my 40s:
Optimization
tis fall
All I can hear is Merida from brave 😂
I was absolutely not prepared to hear Croissant pronounced like that.
Mate how are ye supposed tae pronounce it then?! We're Scots we're nae going tae be lit Oh pardonnez moi je suis so French oui verse moi mon croissant!
Fuck sake man
Crossn't
Caption: [I think I got pretty lucky to be a lesbian (laugh) ya know? Cuz I was always gonna look like this uhh and I think if I looked like this and my type was just like, dudes named Chad (laughing) I think I’d have a bad time! What anomaly that would be, if I wanted to hook up with Chads. If that was my thing. I dunno I just I just think that sounds way gayer than like the lesbian marriage I’m in right now.
I’m pretty sure God would be confused (laughing)if I dated a Chad. I think God would look at us as a couple and be like “Okay you’re a girl, he’s a guy. That’s pretty good, uhhhh somehow this is still a sin”. (laughing) This is SO unnatural! You guys think I could do it? You think I could find a Chad if I wanted one? The one Chad would be like “Baby, I don’t care that you look like Terk from Tarzan, I love you (kiss noise).
I know half of you aren’t even listening. You’re like “Dez, I thought you were a small Mexican boy this entire time”. No. Adult, Puerto Rican lesbian. Eh it reads the same. Mainly the difference is I have way more credit card debt than the average Mexican child, like WAY more.]
this is beautiful and the context is hideous. i hope someone sues on the artist's behalf. what a disgusting thing to do.
Unfortunately it appears that the people managing his estate might be the ones responsible.
I suppose we'll find out on Monday when people are back in the office.
So right now the website for the piece says something slightly different - it's still the new description for the most part but it does allude to the actual history of the piece.
What the website says that's different from the photo of the in-museum 2022 label:
Regardless of its physical shape, the label lists its ideal weight, likely corresponding to the average body weight of an adult male, or perhaps the ideal weight of the subject referred to in the title, Ross Laycock, the artist’s partner who died of complications from AIDS in 1991, as did Gonzalez-Torres in 1996.
"Likely"? "Or perhaps"? It's known it was the healthy weight of his partner.
Why is it written like no one could possibly know the intent? When Félix González-Torres (the artist) was very much alive when he made the piece and the meaning is explicitly known??? Sounds like a quick online edit was made due to outcry.
Also, someone has edited the Wikipedia article on this piece to note this erasure.
this is a really good point, actually
“Oh that animal doesn’t LIKE you it just TOLERATES you” …..So? If that’s the most a non-social organism can feel towards you isn’t that just as special an honor as whatever it is you think affection means??
“This creature with no natural social instincts outside of mating allows me to freely interact with it, while causing it little stress” is fucking DOPE AS SHIT
also… are you SURE? like, we’re still finding out so much about animals. Wolverines fathers, who we thought were not involved in caring for kits, turn out to travel around and collect all their kits from multiple mothers and take the whole group out on camping trips. Some spiders have tiny frog pets (!) or group up to communally raise their young. Wild sharks, crocodiles, and snakes have formed strong, documented relationships with people.
this man Gilberto (Chito) Shedden nursed this crocodile back to health after it was shot in the eye, and they were best friends for the rest of the crocodile’s life.
this python came in out of the wild as a baby snake and curled up next to the family’s infant, Oun Sambat (or Oeun Sambat?) and they were inseparable for 12 years
Cristina Zenato removes hooks from sharks and they let her stick her hand down their throat to do it and they even bring other sharks who need help to see her.
It’s a relationship that goes beyond a single helpful interaction. For example one of the sharks that would show up when she first started swimming with them was a shark she called Foggy Eye who really didn’t like to be touched. One day, Foggy Eye showed up with a hook in her mouth that Cristina Zenato removed, and ever after, Foggy Eye cuddles when she visits, putting her head in Cristina’s lap and enjoying some petting
We don’t know SO much. Some wolf spiders will adopt unrelated orphaned spiderlings and raise them. We recently discovered that the ant-mimicking jumping spider (below) produces “milk” and suckles its young until they are nearly fully grown.
SO. Don’t assume we know all about what creatures do or feel or whether or not they form social connections or bond with others.
Surgeries and operations are being cancelled on the day of the queen’s funeral. These patients will have been on a waiting list for months if not years.
Everyone should be absolutely seething with rage.
That is wrong.
A while back, I got a notification that I could enter a pet into a little voting competition. I figured heck, the prize to win is $10,000, why not!
Well, it looks like Artemis made it past round 1 and into the top 20, within the same group. I'm not sure how many rounds there are, but if you'd like to help us out, you can vote for her here!
She's dropped to third in the last few hours! I'm guessing someone donated to the cause for the other two, because donations were 2x the votes. Any help getting back into first would be appreciated! There's just a few hours left in this round!
do y’all remember before direct messages tumblr had a dumbass ask limit of 10 per hour and communication was impossible until they introduced dumbass fan mail and we were basically sending telegraphs back in forth trying to communicate those were…dark times
Do y'all remember when they finally gave us direct messages and instead of doing it normally, they gave it to a few people at a time and we had to infect each other with it like a virus
remember when any post with more than like 6 people talking was unreadably smushed except for the last few additions remember when any post of over 500 characters became a link back to op’s blog readmore style remember when video and audio posts had about a 10% chance of working when you click play
As a recent user I love finding out shit like this from older users. What the fuck guys???? Why were you USING IT AT ALL?!??
believe it or not, we liked that more
its worth noting that immediately after these updates that made everything better, we were all angry about it
