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[supertinytins]

[lesbianics1]

It's 11th August 2023...

[aristoteliancomplacency]

It’s that time of year again. Courtesy of digitalhammurabi.com

Addition about the image, courtesy of Twitter user @lui_log: wrt the background image, which is a stone plaque showing a winged goddess flanked by owls: “Also, we don't know whether this is a depiction of Ishtar, as the piece has been looted, thus has no archaeological context that could point us to whom it shows. Nor does it bear an inscription. The owls could mean that it is Ishtar's sister Ereshkigal, Goddess of the Underworld.”

[gallusrostromegalus]

Sorry about all the reblogs. I got lost and forgot I wasn't on my dashboard.

Baby, this is the "Reblog stuff you think is cool" website. It's TOTALLY NORMAL to reblog from people you aren't mutuals with, or that you don't follow, or that you've never even spoken to. Encouraged even! It's how you make more friends here.

Seeing one person reblog all of one of my tags in my dash brings me nothing but happiness and self-validation.

The odds of me seeing your reblogs at all are Bad-to-Nil because:

This is what my activity page looks like on a SLOW day.

[nonbinary-vents]

There’s been a distinct shift in how leftist Jew haters are starting to express their Jew hatred and it’s… very back to the old days, to put it lightly. It’s two specific things that I’ve seen. The more moderate stance of ‘it’s so terrible that the bad Jews are playing into Jew hating canards, how dare they!!’ which, just… ugh. And then you have the extremes, the ones who say ‘yeah, I hate Jews, but it’s their fault because of them being the scum of humanity’, it’s the ‘Hitler hated Jews for shit they didn’t do but I hate Jews for shit they did do!’ (a direct quote taken from someone who I can only describe as completely deranged)

And, honestly, seeing this shift has kind of broken me

At this point, there is no denial left. There is no going back. The pretences are starting to be dropped, people are becoming more and more comfortable with their Jew hatred being about Jews, and they’ve realised that it’s acceptable to say that out loud. All they need to do is say it’s our fault, and they get a free pass. We are fully back in the nineteenth century, all we’re missing is the ‘no dogs, no Jews’ signs (oh wait— what’s that about a bar in America banning all (((Zionists)))?) and the pogroms that go with it (oh no, what’s that about Russia, Dagestan, an airport, and a hotel?). We’re back in mid twentieth century Iran, where Jews are stuck between a country not yet legally aggressive to us, and all of the people in said country who want us dead

I don’t think things in the west are at the level of nineteenth century Europe yet, just in the style. But I’m also smart, I’m also connected to my history. My safta left Iran in 1951, at the age of ten, because her family saw what was happening. Ninety thousand other Jews in Iran saw it too. They caught on and they left. And then two decades later the revolution happened, and now our family can’t even visit without being executed. Many Jews have convinced themselves that we’ve assimilated, that were just like everyone else, that were safe. But we’re not safe. We are a people who have been persecuted and expelled and massacred for over two thousand years, it’s not going to suddenly stop now. And now that the people who are supposed to be fighting to keep us safe have started killing us, we have nobody but each other

I don’t think everyone should pack up and leave their countries right now. But I do think you should have a suitcase ready

[s-nnoh]

since it's topical: nintendo has started offering refunds for scarlet/violet. in case you were disappointed in the game/couldn't play due to the bugs & wanted your money back

link to post & link to nintendo support

if you ask for a refund, remember to be really nice to the person on the other end.

full text from the screenshot copied and pasted below:

"Without boring you with all my gripes about this game, I just got my money back for Pokemon Scarlet. A lot of people don't know this, but Nintendo will, on rare circumstances, offer a one-time refund for you.

Here's the exact steps for anyone unfamiliar:

Head on over to Nintendo's Customer Support and click on Start Chat.

Click Nintendo Switch > Downloads & Digital Content > Nintendo eShop > Refunds

You'll be connected to a chat agent, in which just tell them your experience with the game being unsatisfactory and ask if you could get a refund. Here's exactly what I said if you just want to copy/paste:

Hi there! I bought Pokemon Scarlet last night, and I played for about an hour or two and unfortunately the game runs incredibly poorly. I don’t normally reach out in these instances, but frankly I think would really appreciate a refund as I can’t see myself enjoying playing this in its current state. Would that be at all possible?

After this, they offered me the refund. They will ask for the email address of your Nintendo Account, to verify your payment information, and for the serial number of your Switch. The game will be deleted off your Switch and your payment returned.

If you genuinely are disappointed with the game, I'd strongly urge you to do this instead of complaining or trying to raise awareness of the game's issues. I highly doubt any kind of fixes are coming - especially before Christmas - and I have zero urge to play a broken game.

Anyway, try it out and upvote to spread the awareness that you actually can get a refund for a digital game."

[charlesoberonn]

I keep trying to add tumblr-style tags under my posts on places that aren't tumblr.

Other social media sites are really missing out on the ability to add little footnotes to your posts and shares that aren't part of the "main" text.

[airinn]

a Kaz I drew for a trading card thing I did for fun for the last con I did 💜 

[thebibliosphere]

Lies and slander.

[curiositypolling]

answer:

its 100N

[kitty4president]

artfight attack for @nomdaface!! cept i gotta confess i didnt really have the energy to do it so i just got duke to do it instead i hope thats ok 🖊️☢️

[llamagoddessofficial]

i love the good aquarium au! i want to see the fishes happy 🩷o🩷 How do the sirens interact with mc in this version? 🩷

Sans: He has to wait much longer than his bad AU counterpart to get to 'play' with her. This aquarium is very safety-focused, and unwilling to have anyone even near his open tank, let alone in it. Despite his obvious obsession and courting displays, Mc remains safely behind thick barriers and high out of his reach- the only chance he'll get is if he proves he can behave, and Mc herself is the one who approaches management about the subject of swimming with him.

Her presence clearly has benefits on him, so she spends a lot of time on his shifts, talking to him from up on the railings or entertaining him through the glass, sometimes just doing homework by the dappled blue light of his tank. He does occasionally attempt to pull her into the water, whether he's breaching and knocking the railing or grabbing a feeding pole and yanking it (in the hopes of yanking her in with it)... but he's always unsuccessful.

It gives them time to get to know one another more. Time for him to mellow, realise that just because she leaves when her shift is over doesn't mean she won't come back. Time, so that when they do finally make physical contact, it's a gentle and mutual experience that leaves him feeling like things in his world are going to be okay.

Red: Again, poor Red has to wait a lot longer in this AU to get to swim with his girlfriend. But not as long as Sans. Since Red's so well behaved with humans, his keepers interact with him a lot more closely (albeit while wearing plenty of hand and arm protection), giving him lots of chances to flirt with her close-up. He gets many more opportunities than Sans to show that he can behave with her; though 'behaving' still includes grabbing her butt if she lets her guard down too long.

... In this AU, the aquarium knows Red considers her his mate. Mc does too. After she was suddenly hired, the first thing management did was put her on a pretty intense and in-depth learning course. Now even if he's flirting like a siren she knows exactly what's going on. Initially, it made the aquarium cautious about letting her swim with him- but since he's never going to be released, it might be alright after all. It does make life easier when it comes to things like giving him medicine; he doesn't bite when it's his mate doing the medical checkup.

Skull: Mc ends up interacting physically with Skull a lot sooner than anyone intended. At first, there was obviously zero contact thanks to his kill, she'd only even THINK of interacting physically with Skull if she was completely confident he'd never hurt her. And that kind of confidence would only come from a long while working with him, perhaps years.

... Thing is. He's a clever boy, he wants Mc's affection. And he won't wait years. He makes a 'hobby' out of breaking security measures and pulling her into the tank- at first it's a terrifying incident, but as it happens over and over, it loses its shock value and becomes something of an in-joke at the aquarium. Especially since he never actually does anything... just pulls her in, cuddles her, then politely sets her back on the side of the tank like nothing happened. No matter what they do, Skull just finds increasingly more and more complicated and innovative ways to snatch her into his pool.

Eventually, they can clearly see he's not going to kill her- and they decide it's probably just easier for everyone if she interacts with him in person. He's going to grab her anyway, may as well let him do it before he finds a way to break every security measure they have.

[dynamitekansai]

brainbuster_: I’m Superfly T.N.T., I’m the Guns of the Navarone! . Kris Statlander + Willow Nightingale from Saturday nights incredible street fight on Collision against Mercedes Martinez + Diamanté. Photographed for AEW

[coffeefrogresources]

Since Tumblr has made it even more difficult for your followers to get to the original source post, reblog this to let your followers know you're okay with them reblogging from you.

[battlecrazed-axe-mage]

Hey @staff you wanna explain why I'm suddenly getting invisible mobile ads that open broken links or 1x1 pixel images in my browser without my thumb being anywhere near a god damn advertisement

[typenull]

UNDER CONSTRUCTION!!!!!