The weeds grow fonder / Every day

dunno if i’m being too cynical about this but i’m worried that my white friends posting black lives matter stuff is just performative and they don’t really recognize that just getting rid of the “few bad apples” won’t fix anything and that the foundation of policing and law enforcement is violently racist and has to be dismantled altogether to make any lasting change

turns out I was right to be too cynical because in 2020 public opinion was shifting to varying degrees of “police are a taxpayer-funded institution that only serves to protect capital and murders minorities with impunity and we want to do something about it” and that sentiment was capitalized on by some politicians insofar as saying the right words to garner support from those people and now we’re getting “woke 1 was crazyyyy” from those same politicians as they walk back every progressive position they publicly held

average tumblr user do not fall for that latest 50k notes post about Comrade IT Guy who loves it when OP uses their company computer to write explicit fanfics and check their neopets dailies on the clock. that's great for them. it does not apply to you. use your phone. use your personal computer. do not use your company device for personal work & play. Tumblr Post Comrade IT Guy does not work for your company.

exactly.

If u could bring dead ppl back 2 life with magic like in video games the hollywood stunt scene would be out of control. There'd be professional snuff actors winning awards for dying the best. Producers would be like "If u need somebody to get killed in a film call up Resurrection Eddie, nobody gets killed as good as Eddie"

Okay we've seen the upper limits of what an astronomical budget for filmmaking can do. Let's cap the budget at $500,000 for a few years and see what film teams forced to get creative and utilize unknown actors produce.

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I don't like it when people are trying to (even sympathetically) explain why teenagers can sometimes have emotional volatility as "well they're just biologically stupid and angry and bad because of their hormones and underdeveloped brain" with no mention to be found of the fact they're also still trapped in an incredibly oppressive environment 24/7.

working 12+ hour days for school without pay or the right to "switch jobs" to something better, often working a real job on top of that, still the legal property of their parents, can't even dye their own hair or use their own name or have a door to their own room in many many cases. yeah I would be at the end of my rope too, especially when dealing with the adults in my life who are enacting and/or facilitating the abuse! it feels pretty glaring to ignore this dynamic when talking about the strained emotional capacity of teenagers. did you forget? what it was like to not have the right to your own life yet? to be hurt 24/7? and then to have your (extremely reasonable!!!) emotional reactions dismissed as pure hysteria?

purely anecdotally, I'm also not convinced that teenagers are "biologically" more prone to volatility in a meaningfully distinct way tbh. thinking back to the people I knew as a teen vs the people I've known in adulthood, in both demographics there have been people prone to lashing out, and people who were completely stoic, and the differences between the two groups have always seemed to be split not along age or hormonal makeup but along life experiences and who had better support structures. (but again this is anecdotal, and somewhat besides the point. because even if there is a non-pseudoscience biologically provable difference in teenagers' brains that make them universally moodier across the board, perhaps they could better manage their own moods if they weren't being crazy abused as an entire class with no legal ability to escape.)

not to drive the implicit point home too hard but I also can't think of literally any other instances where it's been good or helpful to say "[class of people] are all universally bad and stupid because of their small brains and crazy hormones". so idk why we think saying it about teenagers is the one exception to the rule. even if you're tacking on a "so this is why we have to be nice to them. because they can't help having small dumb brains." who does this rhetoric help?

*at a therapy appointment* I mean sure, but what am I gonna do (doing a stupid voice) "heal?" *rolls my eyes and makes a jacking off motion*

> Get into color grading

> realize every screen displays color slightly differently

> realize every camera captures color a little differently

> realize every format and image editor translates color

> realize every printer deposits ink differently

> realize every kind of paper accepts ink differently

> realize colors look completely different under different lighting conditions

> ok I'm going to do everything greyscale now

> black density changes as ink cartridge depletes and depending on viscosity after multiple prints

> "what color white are you using"

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Action movie that takes a hardline "murder is always wrong" stance, but still has the protagonist kill a ton of dudes, taking great care to establish that each killing adheres to the specific legal definition of self-defence in the particular jurisdiction in which it notionally occurs. There's caselaw citations in the subtitles.

while you were jacking off to boobs and ass i was jacking off to masterful use of negative space

you can just say hole

you don't understand anything

some birds are very intuitively named. looked up a sparrow going chipchipchip in my yard, it was a chipping sparrow. saw a black bird with red wings, it was a red winged blackbird. gray bird that sounds like a cat? gray catbird. the first time i saw a house finch it was perched on a windowsill. However, some birds are the red-bellied woodpecker

I gotta google something real quick

who named this bird

Official ornithology post

there’s just no way he fucks good I’m sorry. that’s the appeal. to me

need him apologizing and crying on it

i'm late for both nonbinary day of visibility and make a terrible comic day, so here is an occasionless nonbinary shitty comic

one low/no empathy person who is trying their best to be kind and compassionate is worth a million '''empaths''' who use their 'high empathy' as an excuse to treat people they don't vibe with like shit

retracing ur steps to remember what u were about to say/do is so funny like yeah let me go stand next to the microwave for a second i think i dropped my thought over there. & then it works