So Amazing

as a welsh person i want you all to accept that W is a vowel because honestly it makes pronouncing acronyms so much easier. wlw becomes ‘ooloo’, wjec becomes ‘oojeck’, love yourselves and stop giving us shit when we tell you welsh has 7 vowels. english actually has 15 vowel sounds but because y’all only use 5 letters you have to rely on a spelling system devised by satan

and please, enough with the “keyboard smashing” jokes. not original, not funny.

“ #okay but can any of y'all even pronounce your own town names tho? #bye”

yeah, we can actually because the spelling is phonetic. meanwhile english folks have placenames like bicester or keighley or beaulieu, which you have to learn the pronunciation for individually because the rules are so inconsistent. i mean people can’t even agree how to pronounce marylebone but sure welsh place names are the weird ones

“#But are you aware your language literally looks like a potato rolled across a keyboard”

fun fact: for decades children were beaten for speaking welsh in school, even in areas where english was barely spoken, because the government decided in 1847 that the language made people lazy and immoral

fun fact: welsh orthography is actually easy to read if you take your head out of your arse for one minute and learn our alphabet - just like french, or spanish, or korean, because surprise! languages use different spelling systems that are not based on english. novel, i know - and in the 18th century, travelling schools were able to teach people to read and write welsh in a matter of months, so that wales enjoyed a literate majority, a rare thing in europe at the time

fun fact: the english have been taking the piss out of welsh for years, just like they’ve been doing for irish, and scots gaelic, and cornish, and british sign language, and a hundred and one other languages, because evidently the fact that the whole world isn’t anglophone and monocultured and Still Part Of The Empire is a problem, and something that needs to be corrected

(quietly cheers in support of the Welsh, and your language sounds beautiful, too)

drag them, wales!

Go Wales

the thing people need to get through their heads is what the original statement is:

W is a vowel, and LL and FF are single letters not two Ls or two Fs. Saying LL is two letters is as dumb as saying W is two letters just because it looks like two Vs.

We have a different alphabet, it just looks a lot like the english one.

Don’t tell me this is real.

it actually is. as someone who dedicated his entire life to making family oriented films for many generations of children filled with magic, love, fantasy, and innocence. of course he’s disgusted with how otaku culture has heavily influenced most, if not all anime.

YES MIYAZAKI GO OFFFFFF

my utopia

The drag queen from this photo has spoken up about the photo.

The central irony is that this isn’t some hypothetical future–it’s just present day reality. This is a picture of two ordinary people going about their normal lives despite how haters want to politicize it lmao. So the underlying message is not “future liberals want” it’s “people conservatives want to eradicate”

the underlying message is not “future liberals want” it’s “people conservatives want to eradicate”

The freedom to simply be yourself in a sea of people who aren’t like you

Always reblog.

Worth repeating: This isn’t “the future liberals want.” This is the present we already have. And conservatives want (1) to convince you it’s not happening and that (2) we need to stop it (plz ignore that they already said it’s not real).

They’re not trying to prevent a future they don’t want. They’re trying to end freedoms that already exist, a cultural habit that’s already in practice: people just going about their business near other people who are different.

that.... explains a lot

Is that not many?

Well Twitter has 3,900 employees,

Facebook has 35,587 full time employees,

and tiktok has 833 employees that also have a LinkedIn profile (there may be more employees but I can't find a published number beyond LinkedIn)

I see the problem :|

200 is an extremely small amount of employees for a website with more than 465 million blogs.

no wonder we’re dealing with so many bots, nazis, and pedophiles—there aren’t enough employees to look into matters. no wonder sending a message to staff is nearly useless, there’s almost no chance anyone will ever actually see it bust because of the sheer amount of messages backed up for ages.

it’s not a surprise verison lost more than a billion dollars on this website, they obviously had no idea how to run a social media site, especially of they thought having 200 people on staff (i’m assuming that this number is TOTAL, so not just including mods, but also webdesigners, coders, art design, etc) was adaquate for something of this caliber.

honestly, we’ve all been too hard on @staff. it’s not their fault verizon wasn’t providing them with the tools they needed to do anything beyond what they’ve already done.

what i’m hoping to see once automattic gets settled in and starts making their changes

things i’m really hoping NOT to see change

The Tumblr Manifesto, lads.

this thread is the absolute holy grail of repeated self owns

This thread is making me wet

“I voted for a guy who wants to take rights away from people I love and got backlash for it :(”

“I voted for a Vice President who caused an AIDS outbreak as governor of Indiana while also supporting conversion therapy and other anti-LGBT legislation and now my gay son won’t talk to me :-(”

hey uhhh anyone notice the nazi dogwhistle of (((group)))??? that’s a white supremacist way to say “the jews”. if anyone sees this thread and actually feels a little bit of sympathy, i would redirect your attention to that. these people, whether they admit it or not, have thrown in their lot with nazis. never forget that.

PLEASE LOOK AT THIS PIC IT’S VERY IMPORTANT

astronaut…………

She’s aiming for the moon not knowing she’s already a star

Of all the comments on this post this is truly the best one thank you so much

god I hate john lennon so much and whenever I see that fucking photo of his hairy br*tish ass naked and clinging on to yoko ono like a bald fucking chimp I throw up in my fuckin mouth

this is very callous and cold of me but when I learned that he abandoned his wife and son Jude just so he could go fuck yoko ono, straight up stopped talking to his son because he kinda didnt want him anymore, and then left his inheritance and royalties solely with Yoko while his ex-wife and son struggled with near poverty I was happy he got merced by that one dude in an alley. It really broke my heart to hear that the other members of the band wrote Hey Jude while John partied

fucker was so self absorbed with himself and preached about his bullshit hippie “what if we, like, not fought?” philosophy and anti-materialism yet its widely known now that he was a complete fraud who was insanely greedy and arrogant. Im glad hes dead and cant make any more shitty music and fuck every yuppie who defends him with rose-tinted glasses

i got curious reading this post if this was true and boy howdy it is actually so much worse! this is all just from the surface-level wikipedia article on john lennon, btw; i have no doubt you could find worse stuff if you dug.

He beat his girlfriends and became possessive of them, cheated on women, nearly strangled a woman to death in a drunken stupor only to be restrained by a roadie, and was a violent homophobe and an anti-semite who threatened to blackmail his gay jewish friend, and before I only knew about the whole abandoning-Julian thing

anybody who SERIOUSLY tries to defend his actions by saying “he changed music!” and “his words inspired generations of revolutionaries and the counter-culture!” or “everyone has a darker side” need to get their ass kicked. This man was a monster and a fraud, and he needs to be remembered as such rather than this bullshit messianic figure that the music industry made him out to be

Let’s not forget he also fought for sole credit on several Lennon-McCartney songs specifically to get more of the royalties. That’s literally why their friendship went down the drain—he tried to steal McCartney’s work.

hide your girlfriends im heading out for the day