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[pal-the-professional-fool]

Okay so bad news for everyone on YouTube right now

Starting the 13th, we will have an AI determine if we are children or not and if you are a child, than you are forced to send your ID, send a selfie or a credit card

This has the obvious cons of having your privacy being revoked from you and and in case there is a security breach, major identity thefts.

So what do we do in this scenario?

Well right now I have real idea as this is relativity new to me, but I do have two plans

Plan 1. Bug the shit out of them, send letters and send emails about how much of bad idea this is.

Include why the AI will mess up and target adults who watch cartoons, include privacy issues, censorship issues, anything you can think of that relates to this. I want you guys to bug the hell out of YouTube until they reverse this idea

Plan 2. Blackout.

Since the thing is coming out on the 13th.

The plan will be to completely avoid YouTube at all cost for that day, no watching, no sharing, no uploading, no nothing.

Download videos before things go down, watch Netflix. Whatever you do, don’t touch YouTube.

That’s all I can say right now, I also want you guys to let YouTubers know of this situation cause if it’s important for everyone on the website to talk about this immediately

Spread this stuff around, let people know of YouTube’s upcoming policy and how it’ll hurt everyone

[pal-the-professional-fool]

TW//MURDER AND POLICE BRUTALITY

INTERNATIONAL MUTUALS WE NEED YOUR HELP!!

last night (28/8/2025) in indonesia during a protest, an ojol (motorcycle taxi) driver got ran over by a police truck that was trying to escape and was killed, and the police and the government are trying to silence us from speaking up about it.

we are trying to get international eyes on this, as local tv stations are not being allowed to report it. as usual, the indonesian government are trying to coax us into forgiving them with a bunch of disingenuous apology videos and a slap on the wrist for the perpetrators, but we will not let them go that easily this time.

and so to put pressure on them, we'd like international news stations to report on this. trying to get them to listen to us "normal" civilians will be a difficult and strenuous effort, but if we get CNN or something on this then that might be a quicker way to get them to back down.

if youve got twitter, please retweet this https://x.com/ezash/status/1961068893985800511 as it's one of the many video proof of the incident or this https://x.com/pporapippamm/status/1961070289829449770 as a concise summary of what happened, and maybe any other tweets u might see abt this issue. otherwise if you can, please help spread the message; even word of mouth might help.

edit: if u have time to watch a 4 minute video, this one is in english and explains what's been happening https://x.com/wannabewhisper/status/1961308260763406449

the driver who was murdered by the police is AFFAN KURNIAWAN and he was only 21 YEARS OLD; the breadwinner of his family. he wasn't even participating in the protest. he was delivering food.

there were many other victims and cases too, including forms of human right violations (medics in jakarta being sprayed by tear gas and an ambulance driver in solo getting beaten up) but so far this has been the biggest case, and we're trying to get the attention of international media to blow it up and show how fucked up the govt is here at this point.

sorry if im not making a lot of sense rn im super tired and still really angry

[pal-the-professional-fool]

trade offer for the universe! you take donald trump & give us back freddie mercury.

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What the fuck

if posts were cats, I would have 8844 cats, which actually sounds about right.

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......I didn't know it knew that.

apparently, I joined this tumblr place at 5/26/25, 1:00:56 AM.

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Histeoy

I went digging through youtube, old posts, and shitty websites, along with my memories, and here you go! Hopefully these are accurate.

2013 — Unoffical Tumblr event “Mishapocalypse” happened, an online flash mob event wherein which Tumblrinas change their profile pictures to a specific picture of Misha Collins of Supernatural fame.

2014 — Users were given the option to get Tumblr Pro for free, and those who accepted were given top hats on their icons. Prompty after this, @staff announced that “Everyone with a top hat is now marked for account deletion. This is the only way we could destroy this horrible website. Happy April Fools day.”

2015 — The “Executive Suite 2016 Productivity Edition” essentially changed Tumblr into office software, allowing spreadsheets for memes, calculators that gave incorrect answers, and Coppy. Who gave “helpful tips”.

2016 — Tumblr voted to select the “new lizard king”, from Rick, Debrah, Mop and Wretched Tooth. However, more famously, an edited @staff post reads “for april fools we’re deleting this entire site sayonara you weeaboo shits”.

2017 — The Tumblr Horse Game was a feature that, when clicked, took users to a game wherein you had to collect shit from a pixelated horse. If you failed to do so, the horse died.

2018 — The answer to Bitcoin, is Tumblcoin! A parody of crytocurency.

2019 — Tumblr Memories, in which Tumbeasts were set loose. Remember them? The mascot from 2011, for service interruption announcements.

2020 — There was seemingly no prank this year. This was COVID-19.

2021 — Tumblr released “non-fungible tumblcryptids”, a parody of NFTs. There was a supposedly limited amount of them.

2022 — A light switch, when activated, would open up a variety of colourful things on the desktop dashboard, including a “Summon Crab!” button, which would summon a crab when activated. Other buttons made different sounds.

2023 — A feature similar to the Discord reaction function was temporarily added, using basic emojis.

2024 — Every user was given the option to opt-in to the boop o meter, and could boop, super boop, and evil boop other users who also opted in, earning up to three badges by doing so.

[pal-the-professional-fool]

I went digging through youtube, old posts, and shitty websites, along with my memories, and here you go! Hopefully these are accurate.

2013 — Unoffical Tumblr event “Mishapocalypse” happened, an online flash mob event wherein which Tumblrinas change their profile pictures to a specific picture of Misha Collins of Supernatural fame.

2014 — Users were given the option to get Tumblr Pro for free, and those who accepted were given top hats on their icons. Prompty after this, @staff announced that “Everyone with a top hat is now marked for account deletion. This is the only way we could destroy this horrible website. Happy April Fools day.”

2015 — The “Executive Suite 2016 Productivity Edition” essentially changed Tumblr into office software, allowing spreadsheets for memes, calculators that gave incorrect answers, and Coppy. Who gave “helpful tips”.

2016 — Tumblr voted to select the “new lizard king”, from Rick, Debrah, Mop and Wretched Tooth. However, more famously, an edited @staff post reads “for april fools we’re deleting this entire site sayonara you weeaboo shits”.

2017 — The Tumblr Horse Game was a feature that, when clicked, took users to a game wherein you had to collect shit from a pixelated horse. If you failed to do so, the horse died.

2018 — The answer to Bitcoin, is Tumblcoin! A parody of crytocurency.

2019 — Tumblr Memories, in which Tumbeasts were set loose. Remember them? The mascot from 2011, for service interruption announcements.

2020 — There was seemingly no prank this year. This was COVID-19.

2021 — Tumblr released “non-fungible tumblcryptids”, a parody of NFTs. There was a supposedly limited amount of them.

2022 — A light switch, when activated, would open up a variety of colourful things on the desktop dashboard, including a “Summon Crab!” button, which would summon a crab when activated. Other buttons made different sounds.

2023 — A feature similar to the Discord reaction function was temporarily added, using basic emojis.

2024 — Every user was given the option to opt-in to the boop o meter, and could boop, super boop, and evil boop other users who also opted in, earning up to three badges by doing so.

[pal-the-professional-fool]

I really gotta watch this don't I

finally built up the courage to finish the latest season of doctor who

[pal-the-professional-fool]

Silly Game Time: If you had to be a reptile, which kind of reptile would you choose to be? It could be a specific species of real lizard, snake, turtle, tortoise, crocodilian, etc. OR you could pick more generally and then assign it traits that you think are cool (such as colors, size, shape, features like spines or venom or grippy feet or retractable tongues, and so on).

And for the purposes of this question I'm limiting the selection to real (or at least real-ish) reptiles. Sorry, no fantasy or sci-fi creatures like dragons or reptilians (having "dragon" in the name like "bearded dragons" or "komodo dragons" is obviously not the same thing). Dinosaurs are allowable if you have a specific species in mind.

Geckos, but with way longer lifespans

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Like to charge. Reblog to cast.

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people talk too much about "slender man" and not enough about "fat girl"

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Btw y'all, if I ever should put trigger warnings or anything on a post please just tell me

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This chill acoustic guitar shit does NOT vibe with the crying child in the corned

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[pal-the-professional-fool]

Real

Silly Game Time: If you had to be a reptile, which kind of reptile would you choose to be? It could be a specific species of real lizard, snake, turtle, tortoise, crocodilian, etc. OR you could pick more generally and then assign it traits that you think are cool (such as colors, size, shape, features like spines or venom or grippy feet or retractable tongues, and so on).

And for the purposes of this question I'm limiting the selection to real (or at least real-ish) reptiles. Sorry, no fantasy or sci-fi creatures like dragons or reptilians (having "dragon" in the name like "bearded dragons" or "komodo dragons" is obviously not the same thing). Dinosaurs are allowable if you have a specific species in mind.

LIZARR LIZARD LIZ

[pal-the-professional-fool]

My mom’s a fucking badass. She was a Mormon feminist in the 80s and 90s when that was almost impossible to do. She was also extremely well-educated, ambitious, and funny.

She was also raised by what I would politely call “wannabe domestic terrorists.” I’m pretty sure she’s the only one of her siblings to have a healthy relationship with all of her kids. Her side of the family is wildly unhinged in a way that ranges from “nerd autism” to “arrested for several felonies” and it’s entertaining but sometimes a little nerve-wracking so since I was able to recall I’ve been impressed with how stable she is.

She’s also part of the reason I did so well in school. I couldn’t do math to save my life in first grade and my first grade teacher had marked me as the class’s designated Fuckass Loser Pissbaby Idiot Who Is Destined To Eat Shit Forever because she was like 4 years away from retirement and decided to just fully lean into hating non-neurotypical children. My mom recognized this and taught me how to do math on her own. She recognized that I couldn’t write well because of a core tremor and orthographic dysgraphia so she tricked me into doing physical therapy with her through play activities. I just thought we were having fun but we were actually having fun AND preparing me for academic success.

In second grade I was going to be switched out of my favorite teacher’s class into the class of a new teacher and she just calmly walked her way into the principal’s office and calmly read him the riot act until he caved and moved a different kid because she knew if I didn’t have a good time in second grade after having my crappy asshole first grade teacher I would just write school off forever. I loved that class so much it actually made me look forward to school for years afterwards.

When I was going into high school I tried to test into a combined AP English/AP History class called “The Block” and I missed entry to the class by one point. The day I was supposed to start classes I was SO sad about it that my dad noticed it and said “Hey, is this about that stupid class? Listen, I graduated high school with a 3.0 GPA, I got into college on an athletic scholarship. I got into med school. I’m fine. Your mom graduated as her high school and undergraduate class’s valedictorian. She got into a master’s program, she’s fine. Neither of us are upset by this. Go have fun at classes.” A few years later when I was getting ready for college my mom explained her study routine in college, which was “sit and study for 20-30 minutes, then get up and walk a lap around the library, then sit back down.” It was when I realized that my mom had the same ADHD I had AND she was the Valedictorian of her high school AND college class. My dad later told me to study in my room with the door closed and when I said “Oh, mom said to study at the library” he said “Oh, well then fuck what I just said, study at the library. If I give you study tips, and your mom gives you different study tips, ALWAYS do what your mom says.” I studied at the library or in designated study rooms for all of my hardest classes, and I always let myself pace after 30 minutes, and I graduated with a GPA high enough to get admitted into a doctoral program right away. My mom is a goddamn genius AND she did it all with combined-type ADHD, which is like “sit still and learn” kryptonite, PLUS she then got admitted to one of the top 10 physical therapy program in the country on an academic scholarship as a MORMON WOMAN from BYU in the fucking 90s.

When I came out as trans she gave me a huge hug and just BAWLED because she said she knew for years I’d been sad and stressed about something and she just didn’t know what. The next day she entered my room with a REAL serious look on her face and said “Liz we need to go for a walk” so I went with her and she tells me that she knows how Mormons talk about women and she knows how Mormons are about women getting an education and she needed me to know that I could NOT use transitioning as an excuse to drop out of grad school, and I said “Mom, you’re the only Mormon I like, and you’re a woman, and you literally have a Master’s Degree. I couldn’t play that card even if I wanted to.” and she did this BIG exhale and I was like “Omg, the first thing she told me As A Woman was to not let the patriarchy win,” like fr what a fucking icon.

Anyways, I graduated from my doctoral program last week and when I told her I wasn’t able to get the time off to attend my commencement ceremony (due to exigent circumstances, I love my job and don’t blame them tbh) she said “then we’re coming up to celebrate.”

And yesterday was her birthday! So to celebrate my mom and how cool she is her are pictures of us at various points in our lives - my first day back to school after my mission, the day before I started grad school, the end of my second year in grad school (the hardest year of my grad student life), and the day after I graduated 🥹 I couldn’t have made it this far without my mom’s support and strong muscly brain.

[pal-the-professional-fool]

plot twist, im in YOUR walls and I'm the one who steals all your socks and puts coins between the cushions

woah 🤯 uhh thanks for the coins ive been using them to get chocolate but could i please have some socks back? i miss my cat socks