#bad numbers

[feminist-space]

Please remember if you need to call a business, go to their actual website (or for example for credit cards, use the number on the back of the card) to get their official phone number.

Do NOT trust the number you find on a Google search. Some of those are going to be scam numbers.

For example:

-folks have called in to what they thought were airline customer service to troubleshoot a canceled flight, only to be prompted to pay for new tickets or rescheduling fees, only to discover later that they had just given credit card information to a scammer instead of the airline

-folks have called in to healthcare facilities to schedule or change appointments and ended up giving their ssn information to what turned out to be scammers instead of actual healthcare phone operators

-folks have called in to troubleshoot missing packages only to be asked to download an app by a scammer, who uses that app to access their devices

It's worth the time and critical scrutiny to make sure you're calling the correct number. With the new administration coming in being hell-bent on dissolving the CFPB, this is only going to get worse going forward, and we all need to look out for it.

[words-from-whydotheycallitoven]

Eventually with enough tumblr users on typewriters we shall get the oven

why do they call it oven when you of in the cold food of out hot eat the food

2/19

[words-from-whydotheycallitoven]

why do they call it oven when you of in the cold food of out hot eat the food

3/19

not to be insensitive but some of the salem witch trials were so funny bitches like “i saw her at the devils sacrament!!!” girl... what were YOU doing at the devils sacrament 👀

[spitblaze]

[guy who doesnt watch shows voice] yeah ive been meaning to watch that show

[nathaniacolver]

arcane ships be like

i love a show that teaches equality (😭😭😭)

[wanologic]

sorry danny, sam will never think you’re cool

[words-from-whydotheycallitoven]

why do they call it oven when you of in the cold food of out hot eat the food

4/19

The Barbie movie reminded me about how when I was little my parents were upset that I kept making my Barbie dolls kiss, so they bought me a Ken doll. The next day they found me having a funeral for poor Ken in the garden, he had died of tuberculosis. All the Barbies were in attendance and I buried him under our rose bush. The Barbies were too poor to afford a headstone (it was 1875) so I didn’t mark where the grave was and I never could find him again. He’s probably still there.

[words-from-whydotheycallitoven]

You're like the high brow version of @in-the-bible

why do they call it oven when you of in the cold food of out hot eat the food

2/19

[babybluebanshee]

Someone pointed out that a lot of recent films that previously focused on the importance of found family (Lilo and stitch is the most recent, but they also mentioned Frozen, Wreck It Ralph, and Toy Story, plus HTTYD in the tags) have had that messaging undone by their sequels and remakes. And if I were more conspiracy brained, I would point out how found family narratives are very important to queer people, who’re often rejected or mistreated by their biological families, because it reminds them that there is a place for them in the world. That even if some or all of their blood relatives won’t have them, someone out there will gladly welcome them into their family of choice. It’s been foundational to the queer experience for centuries and so much media that’s beloved by queer people (whether openly queer or merely coded) focuses on it. And how in a social and political time when backlash against queer people is reaching a fever pitch, the emphasis on “actually no, these people who were shunned, mistreated, and isolated for being different and came together to be happy anyway should split up without even a thought to the people who have loved and welcomed them and made them feel safe and accepted for the first time. They should all have normal dreams and want to live respectable, individualist lives and have socially acceptable careers and get married and have children, and the ones who want them all to stay together are explicitly shown to be wrong and holding the others back.” is actually kind of nefarious, especially with Disney’s current very, very, very bad erasure of queer themes and characters along with the revelation of their support of Florida’s don’t say gay bill. Given all that, this would all seem very concerning to me. Good thing I’m not conspiracy brained tho.

[words-from-whydotheycallitoven]

why do they call it oven if you of in the cold food of out hot eat the food

4/19

A good gimmick blog adds something to a post. It's why those "I-give-people-x" blogs are annoying as hell, but "Identifying-cars-in-posts" is funny. Identifying a car by a few blurry pixels is humorous and impressive, and the audience gets to learn something.

Plus it can be a punchline. An image of two huge hairy men fucking on the hood of a car is not necessarily humorous, but knowing the exact make and model of the car upon which they fuck can add some character to the scene.

[mewo777]

various contextless doodles i did at 5 am when i could actively feel my brain frying

will probably not be elaborating on whats going on in any of these so good luck figuring out the inner workings of my mind

[morganbritton132]

AU where Eddie, a drug dealer who hired two employees to legitimize his drug front, keeps creating new drug fronts because Steve and Robin keep quitting and he likes them.

He’s a franchise now.

Every business on this block is a front to launder money for drugs.

At this point he is a business owner who does drugs on the side, and he still hasn’t got up the nerve to ask Steve out on a date.

[andstuffsketches]

vanity

[words-from-whydotheycallitoven]

why do they call it oven when you of in the cold food of our hot eat the food

1/19

nobody says “hey wise guy” or “what’s the big idea” anymore…reflects the sorry state of wisdom and big ideas in general

[mightaswelljxmp]

hm ok so interestingly, bdubs’s courthouse is built on an odd number of blocks. note the roof of the facade coming to a point, but more importantly, the nine pillars….

you don’t use an odd number of pillars. like ever.

let me get this out of the way first: i get why you’d build with odd numbers in minecraft. i usually do it myself, to not run into problems like double doors or two-wide pointed roofs or frustrating spacing/symmetry between decorative elements. however. to not even out the design of something so unequivocally done in every other example of columns and pillars…. fascinating implications…

every other example guys. every other building with columns like this has an even number of them.

doing so sets the line of symmetry at an invisible point between two pillars, an even number on each side. but an odd total number of pillars makes the central pillar itself the line of symmetry. this does a couple things.

one, it upends the sense of community and equality. which i know sounds crazy, but really, a group of columns are all put there to hold up a structure. there’s no focus on one because they are all are working as supports.

symbolically, at least when first used in ancient greece, pillars represented people. and it makes sense for courthouses, especially, to want to show an even, fair, equal number of people on each side. no focus on any one, no inherent bias right off the bat just looking at it.

with an odd number of pillars, though, one will always be placed front and center.

and THEN. and then you walk in the courtroom itself (also odd-numbered blocks) and you are immediately opposite the judge, bdubs, located exactly centrally. and true, courtrooms are often set up like this anyway. but bdubs ups the ante and reaffirms that no, focus is on him by staging it all as a daytime court show, boom mic just over his head, cameras pointed in, spotlights on him.

literally by design, it was not built for justice. it’s built for show, for entertainment. and just look at the credits to know exactly what sort of message you’re supposed to be getting from this show.

the biblical story he used, with king solomon. it’s about king solomon. isn’t really about the trial itself, or the babies, or the women. it’s about showing (off) how wise and just he is. that’s the point. hm. interesting.

now, getting to the second point that etho also picked up on: it feels like a prison.

it’s not just the color palette. when your eyes naturally draw to the center point, you aren’t seeing an open space. instead of feeling like an arch or gateway or otherwise some kind of opening, the pillar there makes it feel closed off. the overall effect is that of prison bars. not pillars lining the entrance to a place of order or a temple. bars of a cage, a cell.

imagine the lincoln memorial were set up with 11 or 13 pillars. he’d look so much more trapped in there.

having a central pillar blocks the entrance. it’s not welcoming. you have to go around it; it’s immediately inconveniencing you. and when you go to leave, it’s there blocking you again.

this courthouse was not designed and built to be fair, nor accomodating, nor equitable, on any terms. even if unintentional, i wouldn’t call it so much coincidental as i would… subconscious.

after all, y’know. form follows function.

[brokenrefraction]

alright my dearest and humblest most sincere brother, imperator of this sleep-nurse tumblr dot come popolus. the time has come

it was either in two business days or the last ask you receive determines it

its the time. unearth to everyones eyes the body pillow of dr welcome smile corporation creation. i will await with open arms. god fucking damknit why does it have to be when i cant spa m relbog ts cus my phone is on charge

sigh. welp. you guys asked for it. I TOLD YALL ITS CRINGE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! IM NOT LYING WHEN I SAY ITS CRINGE fuck my stupid life

feel free to kill me now

i need my amisulpride