for New Scientist

THE MANTRA 2023

Here’s a New Year’s wish from Neil Gaiman from years ago that I love.

So this is how I hear about it eh

YOU LOVE TO SEE IT

I don’t use this but might be for someone out there who does, check it out?

Here’s a pretty comprehensive write-up:

https://www.diabetesdaily.com/blog/you-can-get-cheap-insulin-at-walmart-without-an-rx-in-some-states-576008/

reblog to save a life

reblog to send three ghosts after elon musk

Oh, no. Three ghosts per reblog! As of posting this reply, we’re at (checks notes) 75 ghosts and counting

# dog energy/cat energy but with all the ofmd couples

“Finn was the most attractive character in Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker,” I say into the mike.

Everyone claps. No backlash. Poe Dameron gives me a thumbs up. I am right.

I made this in hopes of a very boring and non-history making 2023:

IF YOU ARE APOLLO DO NOT INTERACT!

I WILL BLOCK YOU ON SIGHT! I HAVE DIONYSOS ON SPEED DIAL AND HE’S READY TO DROWN YOUR CHARIOT RIDING ASS IN THE CHEAPEST WINE IN THE WORLD AND YOUR DEATH WILL BE AS TASTELESS AS IT IS STICKY! I SWEAR IF I EVEN SEE A DODGEBALL ATHENA WILL HAVE HER OWL EAT YOUR EYES OUT!

OP we WANT Apollo on this post, we WANT this to be an accurate prediction, we want him to reblog this silently, without comment, and make it come true

objectively good idea

I am once again reminding everyone that the purpose of these bills is to pave the way for requiring government approval ID verification to use the internet

When you ask government to do the jobs parents should be doing, not only will they objectively do a terrible job, they will use the opportunity to take away more of your privacy and infringe further upon your rights.

Mass censorship and surveillance under the guise of “protecting the children” is a tale as old as time, yet people keep falling for it

Remember, all Government is Cops.

[*filmed in 1984]

I actually enjoy celebs being here. You only thrive if you don't try.

Madonna is on here. Her posts get like, 60 notes. Is she trying to make it anything more than a feed/extension of her Insta, though? Nah. She's just here. You want to see a Madonna thing? You can find it.

Neil shares thoughts and answers questions when the whim takes him, billions-deep ask box.

Ryan Reynolds will thrive if he's just...that guy reblogging gifsets of himself like "haha you guys are creative".

Not to be cringe on main but you just have to be...not a glossy product of yourself, to maintain some kind of comfortable nook and easy back-and-forth with the userbase. When it works for the people it works for, it's quite enjoyable for everyone involved.

Like we've all known for years Hozier is SOMEWHERE around here, just reblogging pictures of moss. You go, you moss-collecting cryptid man.

Stephen Colbert admitted in like, 2016 he has a Tumblr account that he runs anonymously and to this day I've yet to see it

Stephen Colbert has the right idea.

Sweatpants website

Any Silmarillion post that crosses your dash could be Stephen Colbert. He's out there somewhere, starting arguments about the blue wizards and accidentally-on-purpose reblogging horny fanart.

I wonder his thoughts on Gandalf's big naturals.

I'm trying to figure out if I'm a dude or not and I thought I was being stealth two months ago hitting up my mom like "Hey I might get a chest reduction what's ur opinion" then last night with the "Yo if I was a guy what would you name me" I GOT A FUCKING PHONE CALL LIKE "You know you can just tell me you're trans. You'll still have depression as a man but whatever. You know my opinion doesn't fuckin matter right just tell people to fuck off, you used to always tell people to fuck off, what changed why do you give a shit now. You were cooler when you were eight and didn't give a fuck" AS IF THAT WAS A CONVERSATUON I WAS READY FOR AT SEVEN IN THE GODDAMN MORNING

I remember telling my dad over the phone I was transitioning and he just said, yeah that happens, and continued audibly eating a salad.