Probably Being an Asshole

literally no dermatologist on earth says acne is caused by bad hygeine/lack of a skincare routine btw. its genetic. every single piece of research ever done on acne says its genetic. feel like i need to restate this every time i see a post about skincare

a few years ago i made an identical post to this and someone tagged it with “yeah ive known this from personal experience. because i once spent an entire summer not bathing and the only water that ever touched my face was from public pools yet i never once had any acne” and every single time i see someone talking up their skincare routine this info forces its way back into my brain

dont be a fucking dumbass on this post btw im serious. actually read academic papers on acne dont fucking post correlation is causation shit on this post. every person who has acne has a half dozen multi billion dollar industries constantly trying to convince them its secretly their fault against all published research as it stands. so don’t fucking help them

Fascism sells a synthetic nostalgia.

As good a time as any to remind folks of the 14 properties of "ur-fascism" (described by Umberto Eco, who grew up in Italy under Mussolini, in his 1995 essay Ur-Fascism). Not all need be present for single regime to be fascist, but a Venn diagram of all fascist regimes will cover them all.

Mamas that would totally unalive you if you hurt their baby

i love you guillermo del totoro

whoa dude when I heard about "radfems" I thought it would be some most radical females! 😍🤙

but these chicks are saying some bogus things about other babes 😬

when you're reading smut and that middle aged man has a little too much stamina

I'm really sorry that I keep rbing this and showing y'all tags but this put actual tears in my eyes

compiling my favorite "peepaw CAN fuck" tags

These policies can help to improve the mental health of students

If the point is for the children to learn, then why wouldn’t you give them as many chances as it takes? What is the benefit of telling a child “you failed and that’s the end of it”?

I’m 25, and in my trade school, our tests aren’t judgement, they’re testing to see what we’ve retained, and identify what we’re missing.

If I weld a joint, and the CWI comes up behind me with a radiographic test for it and finds that I just laid hot metal on cold metal or it looks like a sponge inside, you know what’s gonna happen? You think they’re gonna give me a low score and tell me to move on? Fuck no. They’re gonna hand me a grinder and tell me to take it out and put it in right.

When there’s actual work to be done, we don’t leave it at the first attempt if that attempt was shit. We don’t leave a trail of “what’s done is done.” If it takes you four attempts, that’s what it takes, and next time it’ll take fewer because you learned how to do it right after the third time.

School, as it’s set up, with unforgiving deadlines and single attempt high stakes tests are building a shitty work ethic. It says “I tried once, and that’s all you’re getting.” It sets you up to leave a trail of cut losses and barely or unfinished projects as you scramble to get something, anything, turned in before the deadline.

And we wonder now why nothing works at launch.

From galwednesday

I feel like this is more relevant on social media because no one will tell you they find you ugly in person but people will fucking tear someone apart in the comments under their selfie if they don’t find them attractive

Elon is a punk!

The reason the ambassador told Elon Musk to fuck off was Musk told Ukraine to surrender and accept Russian rule even after evidence of genocide and mass graves were found in towns they reclaimed. Russia's army has been working with openly neoNazi militias calling for the purge of Jews and Musk wants the Jewish leader of Ukraine to surrender to them.

And when people don't appreciate his ignorant opinion on a war he doesn't understand he throws a tantrum and demands money from the US government.

The obvious answer to this is to nationalize starlink. If the US government is expected to fund it anyway why should a private company keep control?

The blue effect is also how Tide works, so if you can’t find the bluing products shown in the video, you can try using Tide. Regardless of what you use though it works because the blue helps color correct for yellowing that whites easily pick up. (Save Dawn for non clothes things though) (also if you have sensitive skin and use Tide, be sure to set for an extra rinse)

Vinegar is also really good for getting pet smells, including accidents, out.

Adding in a little borax powder to the drum is good for a detergent booster, especially if you have hard water issues.

i learned so many things so quickly! and that, friends, is one of my very favorite feelings

tumblr’s aging user base yadi-yadi-ya…

Just a reminder not to take screenshots of headlines at face value. It’s not a big deal or anything but this woman literally calls herself homeless multiple times and is giving practical advice to avoid being harassed by local authorities while sleeping in your car, not “fun tips for living the van life” or whatever.

Even saying ”I’m so sorry, I completely forgot” sounds marginally better than ” I’m so sorry, I didn’t completely forget, I actually completely remembered. I thought about it the whole time and it stressed me out so much my brain built an insurmountable wall around it.”

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— Let’s find out. ONLY MURDERS IN THE BUILDING (2.01)

Dr. Gachey with foxglove, 1890

[transcript:

But I– A couple years ago, a man came up to me after… my show. He had an opinion. Now, in the show, I’d spoken about taking antidepressant medication, and he had an opinion on that.

Now, interestingly, I’d also spoken about how unhelpful unsolicited advice is in a… mental health plan, but he mustn’t have heard that bit. He said,

“You shouldn’t take medication because you’re an artist. It’s important that you feel.”

He said, “If Vincent van Gogh had have taken medication, we wouldn’t have the sunflowers.”

I never, ever, ever thought that my art history degree would ever come in handy. I tore that man a college debt-sized new arsehole. I said,

“Good opinion, mate. Except that he did medicate. He self-medicated a lot. He drank a lot. He even nibbled on his own paints. He didn’t just paint sunflowers, he did quite a few portraits of psychiatrists. Not even random ones. Psychiatrists who were treating him. And medicating him

“And there’s one particular portrait of one particular psychiatrist, and he’s holding a flower, and it isn’t a sunflower. It’s a foxglove. And that foxglove forms part of a medication that Van Gogh… took for epilepsy. And that derivative of the foxglove plant medi-fucking-cation-”

I must’ve skipped a dose today ‘cause I was feeling. “-The derivative of the foxglove, if you overdose it a bit, you know what happens? You can experience the color yellow a little two intensely.

“So perhaps… we have the sunflowers precisely because… Van Gogh medicated. What do honestly think, mate?” I said. “That creativity means you must suffer? That is the burden of creativity? Just so you can enjoy it? Fuck you, mate. If you like sunflowers so much, buy a bunch and jerk off into a geranium.”

/end transcript]

[ID: a painting by presumedly Van Gogh depicting a man sitting with his elbow propped on a table and his face against the hand of that elbow. With his other hand he is holding a plant, presumedly foxglove. /end ID]

i hope my little online friends know i love and care about them and miss them when we haven't talked in a while