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I was never harassed as much for dating a man as I was - by the local gay community which was my only community after an interstate move - for dating a woman. You'd think that people who had been on the receiving end of such behavior themselves would know not to do that to others. Turns out that being marginalized isn't the same as being a decent person.

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Cressida Cowell, author of the HTTYD book series on instagram: “Okay, this is incredible, never ever did I think the characters and world I created would be made into an actual land in a theme park…”

additionally, she shared pictures of her with Dean DeBlois (director of the films), Gerard Butler (Stoick), Nico Parker (Astrid in the LA) and Mason Thames (Hiccup in the LA). can only imagine how they are all feeling right now!! 🥹❤️

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Pretty sure I saw worse cleaning out my mother's apartment when she moved into a nursing home. Sometimes I'd find a chain of four extension cords or power strips, with everything else plugged into the last one ... right next to where the first one was plugged in. 🤪Kinda showed how things had (d)evolved over time, I guess. But at least I never found a strip plugged into itself, or a suicide cord.

im stacking extension cords on each other like theyre tinker toys. constructing a tower of babel in the name of the god of electricity. there'll be at least 100 outlets when ive hooked these boys up nice and good. ill never run out again

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Key point: the thought and behavioral patterns that you need for a world that's chaotic and sometimes violent are harmful in a peaceful prosperous one. This is blindingly evident in the militarization of police, but it's really a more general problem. These tendencies create a sort of self-fulfilling prophecy, which harms innocent young people most of all.

I mean, we knew, but it's nice to hear so succinctly

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I don't think I could explain Cologuard to a medieval peasant, but I'm not keeping it either. 🤣

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No spoilers, but I will say it's a book that rewards taking notes. Every time a bit of lore is revealed - world lore or character lore - it's worth remembering. I think you'll love it.

It's time

No spoilers please, I will be extremely annoyed if anyone messages me with spoilers

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My child replied to my own use of FWIW like this a few weeks ago. I didn't recognize it at first, but found it mildly amusing. Then she explained it, and it became hilarious.

Say what you will about 4chan, but it's really hard not to read "fwiw" as "folga wooga imoga womp"

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Data. One byte at a time.

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My child followed Tumblr posts on a very active subreddit before actually coming here. I also see posts from here constantly on Bluesky. A lot of people elsewhere appreciate Tumblr humor, even though they often don't realize it's Tumblr humor.

"tumblr humor is only funny to tumblr users" NOT true. those bitches on pinterest love us.

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I'm kind of giggling at the idea of five-sided pies at the Pentagon pizza shop.

Pizza Index strikes again.

Trump is trying to play this like he and his administration had no knowledge of Israel's attack on Iran, but the Index never lies.

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Do I know any? Nope. But I know of multiple. When I was a B-list tech blogger, I used to trade the top spot in Google search results with another one. He was a Pulitzer prize winning cartoonist, BTW, so I'm slightly proud of that. There's a third who's a DJ, and I think I found a fourth once. Bit surprising, since my first name is super common (for my generation) but my last name is not. I've never met anybody in person with that last name who wasn't a relative.

so I have a really unusual first name /last name combo and I don't think anyone else has it, so I'm curious what it's like for other people

Please reblog to reach more people!

PSA: do NOT share your full legal name on this post, please stay safe

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If you see this you’re legally obligated to reblog and tag with the book you’re currently reading

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Everybody wants to be somebody, but somebody has to do the dishes.

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Source

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All cops are bastards ... including your inner cop.

And that’s that on that.

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Me and my family. I'd be the one on the right.

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You could start here. Or just browse for fun.

i think a really funny project that a statistics professor could have their class do is like. put a bunch of random, patently untrue demographic statements into a hat. "the most popular tv show among white men ages 24-27 is Bluey." "the majority of business majors are middle children." "bisexual women love hot chips." and each student picks one out of the hat and you gotta like. design a whole study and survey a group of people to specifically achieve that result. you have to prove it true. by whatever means necessary. you have to construct the most biased study possible and wrangle in your exact demographic to make that statement a statistical reality. i think people would learn a lot.