Hi, Tumblr! Meet my game! 🖤 🖤Free to play demo out now: https://yamino.itch.io/black-rose-revue

Here's a sneaky peek at some of the many, many more illustrations I am working on for the full version of this game!

The full game is still far from complete, but if you liked the demo you're going to be blown out of the water by what our team is putting together!

trying to explain to tumblr that the Middle Class in not their enemy

saw someone say that someone complaining about only having 7k in savings makes them contemplate “doing something bad”

you know that 7k covers like. one hospital visit WITH insurance, right?

“people who make six figures shouldn’t be allowed to complain —“ most people who make six figures are, these days, solidly middle class. where i live, a combined household income of $110k is *lower middle class*.

“people who can afford homes —“ are typically 400-600k in debt for them. also if “can own your own home” is your threshold for the rich you are contemplating eating, i think you are genuinely stupid

“boohoo your investments dropped, stop complaining rich boy” idk how to tell you this but. most of us have a retirement account. you should probably open one

If one grain of rice represents $200,00, which is the median net worth of an American (and more than half of Americans have less than half one grain of rice for this analogy), compare to the visual of Elon Musks combined net worth of $400 BILLION DOLLARS:

Can we please be serious and focus on the billionaires who are dismantling our country and selling it for parts?

society if Animorphs and Harry Potter swapped pop cultural impacts

🇺🇸tony's chocolonely chocolate bar recall due to rocks🇺🇸

literally, due to rocks. they got rocks in them

april 2, 2025

emphasis mine.

this recall only affects some lots of the dark almond sea salt bar and the everything bar, due to the rock problem. they were distributed nationwide in stores and on the internet. I included their pictures at the top.

I am not able to format a table for tumblr, so check that recall link for the specific lot codes and expiration dates.

they found rocks after there were 12 reports that said hey. there are rocks in this. this can easily lead to dental problems if someone tries to bite full force on a rock and breaks a tooth or otherwise injures their mouth. dental infections can eventually become life-threatening even in people who are young and otherwise healthy. so it is a good thing nobody apparently ate the rocks yet. or at least, nobody got injured while potentially eating rocks. yet

emphasis mine.

please do not the rocks. thank you

2025 had a record setting 157 food recalls in Q1 alone. Most are for listeria and salmonella, but sometimes they're for rocks in your chocolate or wood in your Lean Cuisine Butternut Squash Ravioli.

Deregulation of food safety is so profitable for companies. You don't get a refund when they admit whoopsies, your Alehouse Clam Chowder and Smoked Salmon Chowder are infected with Clostridium botulinum. They already have your money! It's up to you to stay on top of the recalls and throw away everything that's contaminated.

This isn't just annoying - it's lethal.

Every listeria and salmonella recall notice comes with a warning that X people have been hospitalized and Y people have died. That's how they trace the listeria - by working backwards from known infections. Those numbers only reflect insured people whose doctors or the ER thought to check, so they don't include the poor and uninsured. The real hospitalizations and deaths are so much higher.

If you're poor, you're not throwing away perfectly good food - especially if you got this food from a food pantry. You'd think the recalled foods would go in the trash, but last fall when cucumbers were lethal they were plentiful at food pantries. Same for the listeria broccoli and bagged salad mixes. I bet there will be surprise chocolate bar treats at pantries in the near future.

Groceries get a tax credit for all food donated to a pantry, regardless of whether it's safe, so this is a win-win for them. They get it away from the paying customers and get social good credit for donating X pounds of food per year to the poor.

This is all due to food safety deregulation.

It doesn't have to be this way. If you're already calling or emailing your local reps and throwing a fit about Trump's policies, add food safety to your rant. Let them know we remember when a food recall was shocking, and those are the Good Old Days we long for.

It's not just to have a "do over" that doesn't involve the original cast, it's to cut them out of the royalties. Literally the entire point is to make sure all the money made by Harry Potter goes to transphobes or people willing to work with transphobes.

If you watch it, you are supporting bigotry, hate, and oppression. That's just objective reality. All for a story that you probably have already seen in movie and book form.

#the last point is especially true since the old cast receives royalties for anything with their likeness on it#meaning the original trio still gets money for every mug with their 14 year old faces on it#if they stop making those and replace them with the new cast which they will the old cast gets cut off completely#which is again exactly what rowling wants because she cannot stand those 'ungrateful brats' as she would likely put it#and as she has last say in anything that gets made in harry potter paraphernalia this might also explain the decrease in faces on products

via @discipleofkleio

I hate Rowling so much.

There's people in the notes saying they're going to watch it anyway, and you know, I understand how you can start feeling so burned out and numb from the world that it may feel too hard to avoid things that will give you a little immediate relief in some way in order to avoid the long-term impact of funding these things.

But. If you can't bring yourself to avoid watching it, you better at least fucking pirate it.

Hey, look at me. Look at me. I’ve said it once and I’ll say it again: you need to condition yourself to being okay with being inconvenienced by things. The first time I spoke about this I meant it in a mental health way- it is good to go out to the store and see people versus just ordering alone at home- but there is another more pressing societal issue you should be more concerned about as well.

Any service you rely on for convenience can be weaponized against you the moment you begin to rely on it. Streaming used to be a cheap and convenient way to see movies at home. It is now exorbitantly expensive, you need multiple accounts just to get what you want, and any of those movies can be taken from you at any time. And unless you have gotten used to going through the “inconvenience” of owning physical media, you can do nothing about it. Same goes for buying things on Amazon. Same goes for any service like DoorDash etc. These companies WANT you to be reliant on them for convenience so they can do whatever they want to you because, well, what else are you gonna do?

Same thing goes for the uptick in AI. If you train yourself to become reliant on AI for doing basic things, you will be taken advantage of. It is only a matter of a couple years before there are no free AI services. Not only that, but in the usage of AI’s case, it is robbing you of valuable skills that you need to curate that you will be helpless without the moment the AI companies drive in the knife the way they have done with streaming. Delivery. Cable. Internet. Etc. It will happen to AI too. And if you are not practicing skills such as. Writing. You are not only going to be at the mercy of AI companies in the digital world, but you are going to be extremely easy to take advantage of in real life too.

I am begging you to let go of learned helplessness. I am begging you to stop letting these companies TEACH you helplessness. Do something like learn to pirate. It is way more inconvenient at the beginning, but once you know how, it is one less way companies can take advantage of you. Garden. Go to the thrift store (older clothes hold up better anyway). These things take more time and effort, yes, but using time and effort are muscles you need to stretch to keep yourself from being flattened under the weight of our capitalist hellscape.

Inconvenience yourself. Please. Start with only the ways you are able. Do a little bit at a time. But do something.

I know it's hard, but it's worth it, I promise.

Oh my god please this!

Also paying for generative AI is already starting to happen!

Over the last 3 months I have had countless emails from various library vendors about each company's new "AI assistant". Many of them are at an additional cost to libraries. Other's are "free", for now. They are all problematic in an academic setting as generative AI tools can go against academic code of conduct policies.

Now, these AI assistants don't give you a full essay and at least give you scholarly and peer reviewed citations but I know, I KNOW, students will use the paragraph summaries to write their papers and be done with it.

Generative AI searches are not research.

Generative AI searches provide you with what is the statistically most likely answer. NOT what the answer is.

Critical thinking is and extremely valuable skill, especially now. The ability to step back and evaluate information you are being told is a step towards not being duped by propaganda. None of us are immune to propaganda!

So please, please, do not rob yourself of the ability to think. Do not give others the keys to take advantage of you. Do not submit in advance!

just wanted to share the National Down Syndrome Society’s message for this year’s World Down Syndrome Day (21st March) 💛💙

Powerful message that lovingly includes multiple disabilities, united. I love this.

The plains spadefoot (Spea bombifrons) is toadally cute. But did you know that this stout amphibian, which inhabits arid regions of western North America, is an “explosive” breeder? Hundreds of individuals gather en masse to mate. Afterwards, females can lay as many as 2,000 eggs! These eggs might hatch in as few as two days, and the resulting tadpoles can develop rapidly, sometimes maturing in just 13 days. This species reproduces after warm heavy rains.

Photo: Andrew DuBois, CC BY-NC 2.0, flickr

Weird and wonderful compilation of strange bird noises.

Birds evolved from dinosaurs, and they really show huh.

Cassoary my beloved why so scary

It took me forever to work on in short bursts while still injured, but sometimes and idea just sinks its teeth into you and won't let go. 🦁

You can get a print of this art on my Teepublic shop:

💟https://www.teepublic.com/poster-and-art/73622432-pride-trans-rights?store_id=8151 💟(It's discounted for a limited time!)

💟T-shirt version here: 💟 https://www.teepublic.com/t-shirt/73622432-pride-trans-rights?store_id=8151

Drew this for a friend going through a rough time. Ganbatte! ♥🐰

It took me forever to work on in short bursts while still injured, but sometimes and idea just sinks its teeth into you and won't let go. 🦁

please try to enjoy each sticker equally