text post from 10 hours ago

i wish ppl would learn a sense of scale. “ten hundred thousand GIRLS testosteroned themselves foreves and DIED all because of the LIBRALS” ok. 100,000 people ate a mc chicken today. that is a big number dont get me wrong. but the vast majority of the country did not think once abt mcchickens. many girls didn’t even buy a mcchicken, except for the ones who did. so like. is there anything else meaningful to say abt this group that coheres them or is it just a big number that makes you cry


text post from 10 hours ago

the impulse to hide what I'm doing at my computer still sits so deep even tho I'm literally never looking at anything objectionable , the door will open and I'll hurry to close the page like oh fuck no one can know I'm looking at the Wikipedia page for the Balkans


text post from 14 hours ago

Native English speakers! What foreign language did you learn in high school and/or college?

Spanish

French

German

Chinese

Japanese

Russian

Arabic

Your country's Sign Language

Latin or Italian (sorry, wanted to put both but had to combine for space)

Other (comment :))/Not a native English speaker but want to see results

(If you learned more than one, pick the one you learned the most or took for the longest time or enjoyed the most or whatever. Pick the one most meaningful to you.)

text post from 15 hours ago

these past few weeks my mild excitement for the barbie movie has reverted to the normal disdain for blockbusters and the moving picture


text post from 15 hours ago

i don't care if the barbie movie is even good at this point. the amount of marketing and advertisements and brand integrations i've seen for it has poisoned my heart forever

image

this is so fucking sad how we're treating our sctors. its no wondee they're striking and eating people in the streets and biting people in the streets


text post from 15 hours ago

I don’t get it, man. why. why do we have to homogenize everything. why does every product have to look and behave and feel the exact same way. why can’t tumblr maintain its individuality? why can’t it lean into the things that make it a unique and refreshing offering instead of scrambling to make it a carbon copy of twitter? sucks, man. sucks.

it’s just like. this broadcasts loud and clear that the people behind the curtain have no pride or faith in this site at all. that tumblr, as a whole, has no worth or merit unless it’s somehow tricking the larger internet community into thinking it’s actually another site. and the users are supposed to celebrate this? where’s the dignity? where’s the self-respect? where’s the joy? it’s disheartening and embarrassing to be forced to conform. smh.


text post from 15 hours ago

WARNING TO NORTH CAROLINIANS

our chiggers now carry TYPHUS

The symptoms to look out for are fever, rash, headache, body aches, swollen lymph nodes, general GI symptoms and a crusty nasty looking area around the bite. Not all of these symptoms may be present but if you were bitten by a chigger in North Carolina and you don’t feel well, go to the doctor. Antibiotics can clear it right up but if left untreated, the fatality rate can be 40% for some strains.

Here’s a map of the places tested and the places where chiggers were found to be infected:

image

(Also, because I saw this in the notes, typhoid and typhus are radically different diseases. Typhoid is caused by salmonella and usually transferred through contaminated food and water while typhus is caused by several different bacteria and typically transferred by insect bite.)