Bro that one TikTok of that one autism mom that’s like “the PAIN of raising a child with autism 💪” and it’s them fucking screaming. KILLS ME. Can’t stop thinking abt it absolutely obsessed.
You shouldn’t date or become serious friends/partners with someone if you can’t stomach the thought of being stuck in a car or train with them for 16 hours.
Here’s my logic:
- You should be able to work together to solve unexpected problems like fixing a flat tire or getting lost in an unfamiliar station
- You should feel comfortable and safe enough around this person that you can sit in comfortable silence
- You should be able to keep each other interested and deal with each others boredom in a healthy way
- If you’re gonna form a long term partnership with someone you should probably be able to tolerate each other while locked in a small box for a few hours
These tags are hilarious even though I don’t think you intended them to be.
*pulls European closer* The most populous countries in the world are China, India, the United States, Indonesia, Pakistan, Nigeria, and Brazil in that order, with these seven nations alone making up 48.16% of the world population. You may note with the aid of a map that many of these nations are quite large, and would take several days of travel to go across either in cars or on boats. Almost half of the world's population lives in places where you can travel in a cramped vehicle for days and still be within the country. Your worldview is limited and Europe is a tiny outlier in travel time and standards for international relations.
CHAG SAMEACH MOTHERFUCKERS BUBBE IS BACK IN THE KITCHEN
This is the Hanukah dinner that produced the drink I was just served
That may be the best looking matzo ball soup I've ever seen.
Its incredibly easy to achieve! Follow the basic instructions on any box of matzah Ball soup mix (make sure its not just the soup mix and includes stuff for making the balls too!!) BUT with extra special steps:
Dice up a yellow onion and cook that in oil until the onions are translucent
Throw in as many cloves of garlic minced as your heart desires and after a minute throw in chopped carrots and celery and cook until it feels right
Pour in your water and the soup mix, add any other spices you want at this time (I added fresh parsley thyme and dill along with black pepper and some chicken bouillon)
Once its at a boil, before you add your matzah balls dump the contents of 1 shredded rotesserie chicken in
(Side note, to give your matzah balls some oomph i recommend spicing the mix up with whatever mix of spices you want)
Cook according to the box's instructions and you're all set!
Ok while we are talking about treating trans people as humans and not as sexual objects can we talk about assumptions of what genitals we have?
Yeah trans people get the “what’s in your underpants hehe” questions from cishet people all the time but like.. some of y’all also make assumptions while trying to be supportive? Like, I really need y’all to understand that there are trans women with vaginas and trans men with penises. You simply cannot treat all trans women as though they have a girldick and you cannot treat all trans men like they have a boypussy. Gender Affirming Surgery has been around longer than most of you were even a twinkle in your daddy’s eye (literally the 1950s, making bottom surgery 70 years old) and some of you still act like there isn’t a significant portion of trans people who have had it or have a goal to get it.
It’s totally fine to not want to get it/be no-op, but I have also met trans women who have confided with me that they have severe bottom dysphoria but do not want to undergo GAS because they are worried partners will be disappointed by it. And that’s fucking sad. I just feel like the commodification of trans bodies as a fetish has led to this idea that what genitals you have determines if you are trans or not, which is just ridiculous. It’s the same transphobic rhetoric that people use to justify not dating trans people because of “genital preference” when they literally have no clue what genitals a trans woman or man has.
All vaginas are good vaginas, and all penises are good penises. There aren’t more real or more fake genitals, just the ones you have.
Look at every city. The nicest buildings are usually the post office and the library.
We need libraries. They are a reflection of our society. Cops do not need more money, especially at the expense of libraries.
Eric Adams will never feel shame. He is drawn to decisions that are horrible for society.
It’s the circle where people pretend the American Dream is real so want the aesthetic that shows they worked their way out
so when i was a teenager, i was homeless, and also did a lot of activism surrounding the issue of homelessness among queer youth. occasionally some newspaper or magazine etc would do an article about this activism.
there was one time that stands out to me in particular because a fashion magazine had done an interview with me and subsequently sent folks to do a photoshoot to accompany the article. they had a stylist they sent down to select clothes for the photo shoot who, i am dead serious, was picking out clothing they thought fit The Homeless Teenager Aesthetic. artfully pre torn and frayed $250 jeans (studded, for extra Edge, with a skull design. in rhinestones.) a $70 tank top with Graffiti Print Design. (the clothes did, in fact, still all have price tags on; i gathered they had some sort of policy around keeping them in Like New condition for… return? reuse on different photoshoots? i wasn’t really clear on what happened after they had served out their life making real homeless teenagers look fake homeless.)
i tried explaining that this was Kind Of Silly and didn’t actually look anything like the clothes i wore, since what with the homelessness and it being chicago and, uh, cold, i preferred my clothes as hole-free as possible for as long as possible in order to be alive.
but they were very insistent. people will expect you to look the part.
and, you know… subsequently go out and buy the expensive clothing that tells them exactly how to look the part, from the comfort of their cushy homes.
this is exactly why the “distressed” fashion trend bothers me so much. They’re charging extra for t shirts with holes in them and unraveling sweaters. They’re gentrifying poverty tbh
Better than that. If you’re poor, you NEED to not look poor. Your clothes need to be up to date. Clean. Well-maintained. You need to avoid scuffing them or staining them, because if I show up to work or an interview with holes over my knees and a moth-eaten sweater? Unprofessional. Sloppy. Careless. A slob, with no ambition or respect. But if you’re rich? Who cares. You can own one pair of suit pants, a pair of jeans, slacks, chinos, leggings, leggings, overalls, and pre-torn jeans. An outfit for every event. You can WEAR distressed or sloppy clothes and not worry about coming off as undesirable, because that’s not a problem for you. You can look as dirty as you want in your free time, because you have a secure and stable income that isn’t threatened by that. Poor people need to look rich in order to be respected. Rich people want to look poor because it says ‘look at me, I have the luxury of experiencing life hands-on, I don’t need to maintain my appearance because I can replace jeans like Kleenex"
XKit Rewritten
The enhancement suite for Tumblr's new web interface.
Features
- Block all instances of any specific post
- Get an unread count on your tracked tags
- Easily see when a post was originally made
- Adjust the volume on audio & video posts
- And more! Check out the full features list on the wiki
Screenshots
Installation
I think this is overdue a proper announcement!
If you're unaware, I'm one of the members of the New XKit team. It's no secret though that New XKit is kinda dead in the water, thanks to Tumblr's overhaul of its interface which broke almost every feature we had. Oh, and everyone else on the team has a day job now, so I decided to take matters into my own hands:
XKit Rewritten is the result of my work of over a year, now available for Firefox and Chrome (and by extension, Edge and Opera too). There are still features to be added, but the featureset has now mostly overtaken the current working featureset of XKit 7.
If you're already an XKit user, I heartily recommend trying the new experience - even if it means configuring everything again - for its improved performance and increased compatibility.
If you're not already an XKit user, I invite you to give it a go! There's probably some option you'll enjoy. Even if you're on your phone all the time, there's a janky way to set it up on Firefox for Android (sorry, iOS users; blame Apple, not me) which I've also detailed on the wiki.
Have fun with it!
People will literally see a sage green building and be like "what if it was white" 🙄
People will literally see a unique little house and be like "what if it had beige vinyl siding" 🤢
People will literally see a gorgeous Victorian painted lady house and be like "what if we knock it down and make it a carwash" 🤮
People will literally decide to build a community center for their town and then be like "what if it looked like a prison" 👹
People will literally see a mom and pop store going out of business and be like "what if we had a 3rd Dunkin Donuts there" 💀
People will literally see a vacant lot and be like "what if we had 6th dollar store there" 🤑
People will literally see a 40 year old bowling alley and be like "what if it was storage units" 😵💫
