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I don't go here (my singing is terrible) but this is just absolutely fascinating. I kinda just love it.

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Sam Reich buys Tumblr.

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Possibly the greatest NPR exchange ever recorded

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I dunno, you think this is some AI bullshit?

A video about Don Jr. calling the cops on Jimmy Kimmel came up in my feed. And it just hit the kind of notes that felt like AI, so I figured I would double check.

Typed in donald jr calls cops on kimmel

And got the above list in return:

Don Jr Calls The Cops On Jimmy Kimmel After He EXPOSED Trump On LIVE TV, posted 5 days ago by America Truth, 90K views.

BREAKING: Don Jr calls Cops on Jimmy Kimmel after he DESTROYED him live on TV, posted 12 hours ago by Democratic Live Trust. 19K views.

Don Jr Calls The Cops On Jimmy Kimmel After He EXPOSED Trump On LIVE TV, 4.7K views 1 day ago by FreedomVeiled

Don Jr Calls the Cops On Jimmy Kimmel After He DESTROYED Trump On LIV TV, 48K views 3 days ago, Black Justice

Don Jr Calls the Cops On Jimmy Kimmel After He EXPOSES Trump's Dirty Secrets On LIVE TV, 883K views 8 days ago, Black Justice (again :p)

Don Jr Calls the Cops on Jimmy Kimmel After He EXPOSED Trump's Dirty Secret On LIVE TV, 6.6K views 2 days ago, CELEB CONSPIRACY

BREAKING NEW: Don Jr Calls COPS on Jimmy Kimmel OVER Trump EXPOSURE, 3.7K views 1 month ago, Orange Mic

Don Jr Calls The Cops On Jimmy Kimmel After He EXPOSED Trump On LIVE TV, 382K views 13 days ago, America Truth (again :p)

3 mins Ago Don Jr Calls The Cops On Jimmy Kimmel After He EXPOSED Trump On LIVE TV, 296K views 1 month ago, Democratic Live Trust (yet also again) AND again again 11 days ago 313k views

Donald Trump Jr. CALLS COPS on Jimmy Kimmel After Savage Roast on Live TV!, 1.9K views 2 days ago, CelebFlicker

Don Jr Calls The Cops On Jimmy Kimmel After He EXPOSED Trump On LIVE TV, 3.3K views 4 days ago, US Unfiltered

Don Jr Calls the Cops On Jimmy Kimmel After He EXPOSES Trump's Dirty Secrets On LIVE TV, 708 views 6 days ago, PulsePoint Stories

1 Minute Ago: Don Jr. Calls Cops to SHUT DOWN Jimmy Kimmel After Trump Gets Humiliated on Live TV!, 3.4K views 5 days ago, Truth Recon

Don Jr. CALLS COPS on Jimmy Kimmel After Trump Secrets EXPOSED on LIVE TV! 1.8K views 2 days ago, Basketball Hustlers

BREAKING:Don Jr Calls the Cops on Jimmy Kimmel after he EXPOSED Trump on live tv, 313K views 1 month ago, Democratic Live Trust

Don Jr Calls The Cops On Jimmy Kimmel After He EXPOSED Trump On LIVE TV, 685 views 1 month ago, America Insights

Don Jr CALLS COPS on Jimmy Kimmel After LIVE TV Trump EXPOSURE!, No views 3 days ago, Team ZEESHAN Malik

Don Jr. CALLS THE COPS After Kimmel EXPOSES Trump's UGLY SECRETS on LIVE TV!, 668 views 7 days ago, Capitol Reports

Don Jr Calls The Cops On Jimmy Kimmel After He EXPOSED Trump On LIVE TV, 98 views 10 days ago, Political Pop

Don Jr Calls the Cops On Jimmy Kimmel After He EXPOSES Trump s Dirty Secrets On LIVE TV, 1 view 6 days ago, Pulse Play

Don Jr Calls The Cops On Jimmy Kimmel After He EXPOSES Trump's Darkest Secrets On LIVE TV, No views 6 days ago, Debatix

BREAKING: Don Jr Calls the Cops on Jimmy Kimmel after he EXPOSED Trump on live tv, 45 views 1 month ago, HotMicPolitics365

Don Jr CALLS COPS on Jimmy Kimmel After Trump Gets EXPOSED on LIVE TV! 🚨 Full Breakdown Inside, 46 views 4 days ago, Basketball Hustlers

Don Jr CALLS COPS on Jimmy Kimmel After TRUMP ROAST Live on TV, 5K views 8 days ago, Behind The Curtain

Don Jr Calls the Cops On Jimmy Kimmel After He EXPOSES Trump s Dirty Secrets On LIVE TV, No views 6 days ago, CELEBRITY TRAPS

Kimmel Exposes Trump, Don Jr. Calls Cops—GOP Meltdown Ensues, 16 views 6 days ago, District Dialogues

"Don Jr. Calls the Cops on Jimmy Kimmel After He Exposed Trump on Live TV", No views 12 days ago, TrueVoice USA

Don Jr. CALLS COPS on Jimmy Kimmel After Trump Roast Meltdown!, 1K views 3 weeks ago, America Files

Trump Jr Calls Police on Jimmy Kimmel After Live TV Exposure, 3.2K views 11 days ago, Orange Mic

Don Jr. CALLS the COPS on Jimmy Kimmel as He DESTROYED Donald Trump On LIVE TV, 3.5K views 1 month ago, Black Justice

Don Jr Calls the Cops on Jimmy Kimmel After He HUMILIATED Trump on LIVE TV, 290 views 2 weeks ago, Nirvana News Network

Don Jr. LOSES IT and Calls Cops on Jimmy Kimmel After SHOCKING Trump Exposure on Live TV!, 2.4K views 3 days ago, Женский Взгляд

BREAKING: Don Jr. LOSES his HEAD, Calls Cops on Jimmy Kimmel after Hilarious ROAST on live Tv, 6 views 1 month ago, Trumpster Fire

BREAKING: Don Jr Calls The COPS On Jimmy Kimmel After He EXPOSED Trumps Marriage!, 1.3K views 6 days ago, America Unfiltered

👉 “Don Jr CALLS POLICE On Jimmy Kimmel After HUMILIATING Trump LIVE!”, 95 views 1 month ago, AmericaUncovered

And that's about halfway down the results page before extends itself.

When the say AI slop, they are not fucking kidding.

I don't even care if it's true anymore.

It's just pure filth gumming up the works. They're not even copy pasted. They all have just slightly different images and titles and run times and tags and what have you. This isn't even some kind of psy-op, it's just lazy entitled bullshit of people who want the clicks but not the down payment of investing anything.

This is the cyberpunk dystopia of AI's great promise. Endless reams of photocopied bullshit because it ONLY knows how to copy. It only knows how to repeat. They probably didn't even give the same prompts to the damn machine. It's just the slop that was served because it vaguely fits the bill they don't want to pay.

What fucking ridiculous crap to sell our humanity for.

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The Lasting Impact of Emotional Invalidation

Growing up with our feelings dismissed can leave deep scars. Maybe you were told things like:

“Stop being so sensitive.”

“You don’t know real struggles.”

“I’ll give you something to cry about”

These messages teach kids that their emotions are “wrong” or “too much.” Over time, we learn to minimize or bottle up our feelings, which can lead to unhealthy coping, explosive anger, guilt spirals, or shutting down in relationships.

Even as adults, we might invalidate ourselves by telling ourselves others “have it worse” or that our feelings aren’t big enough to matter. But that doesn’t help. It only hurts more.

Your feelings are valid.

You don’t have to find a silver lining. You don’t have to be grateful it wasn’t “worse.” Feeling sad, frustrated, or upset, over big or small things, is okay.

When you catch yourself minimizing your emotions, pause. Acknowledge them. Sit with them if you can. Respond in ways that help you, like calmly talking to someone who hurt you, instead of pretending you’re fine.

Your feelings are real. They deserve patience, compassion, and space. Especially from you.

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Hmmm... at the risk of re-invoking essay time, I just saw a really well done video about US politics done by someone who wasn't from the US. And I feel like her being clearly knowledgeable and well educated, as in she had obviously done the required reading and homework and grasped everything she needed to grasp about the subject to give it a full treatment, I feel like her lack of intimate personal knowledge and experience actually really helped her explain and comment well

And I'm suddenly wondering if maybe that's of some real value. Just depersonalizing and defusing the intimacy of the stakes. So it's not so emotionally volatile. And you're not so hung up on the "correctness" of any particular hyper specific. Just the general principle of what's going on.

I'm also wondering if it is of value beyond politicking. My first interest is still always story. And I'm wondering if a apprenticeship method might be of use to worldbuilding. Like, ok, let's learn how they did this in order to produce the same effects ourselves instead of just relying on the real understanding, if that makes sense.

And now I'm wondering if I've just invented a waste-time project for myself XD.

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Now there's an idea..........

Bones, have you even met Jim Kirk?

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quick headshot for my first artfight attack

character belongs to af user cyviarvuk

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Wonder Woman by Darwyn Cooke

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Post on my dash about medical debt reminded me of the time tumblr saved me two grand. I don't think I told y'all about it because I am out of the habit of posting everything I do on tumblr lol

So. Last December, I had a bad cavity filled, and about a week later, I woke up with half of my face paralyzed. Which, as I'm sure you can imagine, freaked me the fuck out. Fortunately I had some level-headed Discord friends who a) told me what Bell's palsy was so I could look it up and b) reminded me to call my dentist for an emergency appointment. Dentist was also pretty sure it was Bell's palsy, but urged me to go to the emergency room to get checked out, because one-sided facial paralysis is also a possible indicator of a stroke. And you don't fuck around with strokes.

Bell's palsy, if you, like me of 6 months ago, don't know, is a harmless paralysis/muscle weakness on one side of the face that can be caused by a variety of things. It usually goes away on its own after a few weeks but also you can speed up the process with steroids.

I was pretty sure I was not having a stroke, because I'm Red Cross first aid certified and I know the symptoms of a stroke, and while one-sided facial paralysis is one of them, I didn't have any of the others. Also, I had quit my shitty job in October, which meant I had a shiny new marketplace health insurance plan and hadn't even touched my deductible. But I called my parents from the car and they urged me to get checked out and promised to help me pay off the emergency room bill if I needed it, because they're good people and they love me even if they drive me crazy sometimes. So off I went to the nearest emergency room.

Emergency room staff also didn't think I was having a stroke, because I waited ALL AFTERNOON, periodically having a new person come up to me and ask me to smile, hold both arms out to the side, press down on their hands, and tell them what month and year it was. (They don't ask who the president is anymore. Hmm, I wonder why.) One guy had me drink a cup of water while he watched. I cannot stress enough that I did not have any medical tests other than a physical examination: no CT scans or MRIs, no IV drugs or blood draws, nothing.

I get diagnosed with Bell's palsy and given a prescription for Prednisone. And then they give me a phone number and tell me to talk to this person about administrative stuff. So I call, and the dude on the phone verifies my name and date of birth and insurance information, and then he says, "It looks like your copay today is going to be $2400. How would you like to pay?"

I am, to this day, kind of impressed that he didn't even stutter over that number, but I assume working in a medical call center drains your entire soul. At this point, it's about 7pm, and I've been in the hospital since 2pm, and I'm stressed because half my face doesn't work, and I know that I can't afford $2400 because I quit my shitty job with nothing lined up back in October. But, I still remember every tumblr post I've ever read about health insurance and the medical system and how you can negotiate down a bill. I am not looking forward to this process, it sounds like a pain in the ass, but the alternative is paying $2400, so I say the magic words: "Send me an itemized bill."

I kinda expected the guy to try and get me to pay up front, but he just says "Ok" and finishes up the process. I get discharged, go to the only open pharmacy at that time of night to get my Prednisone, have the pharmacist tell me the prescription isn't written right and he can't fill it, go home, and have a screaming sobbing meltdown because I have used up every single milligram of cope in my entire body. (I got my steroids eventually, and the Bell's palsy cleared up in a couple weeks.)

A few weeks later, I get the bill in the mail. I brace myself and open it...

$300.

Turns out, after going through insurance and processing and everything, they couldn't actually find $2400 worth of stuff to charge me for. Shocking! Who could have predicted!

I might have been able to argue it down even more, but I was fed up with entire thing, so I paid the $300 just to be fucking done with it. Sometimes the cheapest way to pay is with money.

What if I had paid that $2400 up front? Do I think they would have been like, "Oh, oops!" and refunded me $2k? Well, possibly, but I am not optimistic.

So, thank you to everyone who has ever posted about navigating the US healthcare system on tumblr. Because of you, I knew how to handle this situation even when I was tired and stressed.

Don't forget to ask for an itemized bill, folks.

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Emmanuel Gervasoni - Wonder Woman

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The Fantastic Four: First Steps - Promo Posters

Releases July 25, 2025 (USA)

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Had to ban the phrase “tricky dick” from my classroom during watergate lesson because saying the word dick in front of 30 fifteen year olds is like lighting a bomb and throwing it through the doorway but now they’re just calling him Richard the Treacherous like they’re all medieval peasants. gonna lose it

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So, I have a farm page on FB, and FB REALLY REALLY wants me to advertise with them (no thanks) so they send me alerts when my posts are 'doing better than X% of your other posts!' (it got FIVE likes instead of TWO likes!) and tries to get me to advertise. I clicked through today out of curiosity for which post they meant, and this is the AI text generated to replace the text I added originally (you know, to get more clicks I guess):

And I. I am baffled. I thought what on earth would have caused FB to generate such weird as fuck "advertising" slop... so I looked down at the photo I had come to look at and:

assigned crush at advertising

I VERY much assure you that I never feel ignored by him. Actually, I could use a little less attention. he is, in fact, always in my business.