#*taps the sign*

[titles-for-tangents]

I remember being at my podiatrist’s office one time and when she told me what my BMI was (not even to be mean, just analyzing statistics) I called out how thankfully BMI is not medically relevant in the modern day and she was actually impressed by that.

The next time your doctor tries to give you flack for your BMI just ask them where they think BMI as a concept came from from. Let them guess.

Medical 👏 history 👏 is 👏 important.

I really need people to understand that straightforwardly the only diagnostic criteria for obesity is a person's BMI, which by itself is about as medically dubious as it gets. Like, It's just a simple calculation of a person's height and weight, it doesn't even take into account the difference between muscle and adipose tissue, no health effects could be reasonably measured from it. However obesity itself is heavily medicalized, doctors will immediately tell you to lose weight if you even look a little bit fat.

[cheeseandcake-from-ao3]

There's a difference between "I don't interpret this story as romantic" and "I'm weird about women". You've admitted yourself you don't care about the Princess and obsess over the voices, and I've never seen you acknowledge the fact that the protagonist hurts the princess as well.

First of all: Those are bold words to say to someone who’s first and favourite ending was and is the Leave Together Stranger one! (I jest, I jest, but seriously-)

Second of all:

????

I don't understand how you came to that conclusion? Where did I say that the protagonist doesn’t hurt the princesses?? Or that I don’t care about the Princesses? I’m genuinely confused. In my posts, I’ve never mentioned the princess hurting the protagonist (besides my one moment of clarity post). The only place I bring up the princess hurting the protagonist is in my fanfic. For clarification: My fic also has the protagonist hurt the princess, which creates a downwards spiral that leads to the Unending Dawn ending.

Third of all: I said I prefer the most of the voices over most of the princesses. There’s a big leap to go from “This person likes the voices better because they appear more often so its easier to get attached to them” to “This person is weird about women.”

[titles-for-tangents]

This is just a thought and an observation about my dash in particular today, but for all the lovely posts about warm welcomes and camaraderie Tik Tok refugees are finding over on Rednote, I’ve not really seen a single post yet on archiving Tik Tok videos for posterity, lest we lose almost everything a la Vine.

Plenty of other social media sites now accommodate Tik Tok-length videos of course, like YouTube’s Shorts for example, but not everyone has or wants a YouTube account. The closest I’ve seen so far to the concept of backing up Tik Tok videos onto another site is that Mark Zuckerberg is about to have a rather rude awakening when he discovers that no, not everyone wants to keep uploading their content to the shitty social media company that is so bad at managing data and misinformation they are literally responsible for political coups in India. What a concept, Mark; maybe not everyone wants to flock to or right back to Instagram’s Reels.

Yes, the fact that mass exoduses can and will happen is having CEOs pants-shittingly scared out of their wits, because at the heart of it the idea of social media and the internet in general being a thing to profit off of instead of the internet being a public utility has always been a flawed goose chase from the start, but that’s kind of a red herring here.

What will likely happen is that plenty of TikTokkers (is that a word?) will make copies of their videos and upload them to Red Book in much the same way plenty of artists re-uploaded their art to BlueSky once they migrated from Twitter. Plenty may find it economical to move to a third site as well, like YouTube, if only to expand their audience. Not everything is going to be saved from deletion and/or becoming inaccessible, so I do expect many of my reblogged posts of Tik Toks to become defunct as many of my reblogged posts from Vine have unless they’re sourced from a different site like YouTube. Tumblr is likely to eventually accommodate Red Book posts though, so hopefully we’ll see some excellent Tik Toks archived over there soon.

My point is that while it’s great to face the U.S. government’s ban of Tik Tok with mirth and spite rather than fear, I’m not really seeing any urgency from anyone on tumblr yet reminding folks to back up their Tik Tok videos. Some of that is the nature of tumblr being a different social media site entirely, yes, but if this ban can happen as soon as Sunday, now is the time for TikTokkers to back up as much data as possible. There may be a short window of time after next Sunday (01/19/2025) before the site gets cut off from everyone entirely, but there’s no guarantee how long it will last and I expect there will be more than a few lawsuits fighting the ban in the aftermath.

So yeah - just a friendly reminder to anyone on here with a Tik Tok account to please back up your content before the site goes down and/or becomes inaccessible if you haven’t already. There are now years’ worth of information at risk of being lost, everything from music videos to captured moments of police brutality to educational material. There are also plenty of videos with misinformation and less-than-tasteful content too, but the point still stands. If you have the means and know-how to archive your videos, now’s the time to do it.

[phalangemedes]

Paul has a short fringed mullet

[rankarana]

[ooc-miqojak]

Mihoyo wanted me to use their app, to get more Genshin goodies. No sooner do I start looking through other profiles and posts... and it's so many pre-teens saying "my parents won't let me have social media, but they don't know this app is social media!" And they're posting pictures from school. Selfies. Report cards. Test results. I made a few "please stop sharing personal information on the internet posts" and tried to explain why it's dangerous... then basically never looked at the social media aspects ever again. Plenty of adults will be using this app as well, as the daily check in feature gets you free stuff in game. Then you're inundated by children sharing extremely identifying information, and it just...feels dangerous. Anyone could be on there. There's safety in anonymity, and it terrifies me to think what could happen to these kids sneaking into social media without permission, so they're not being monitored and told 'hey this picture shows exactly where you go to school, take that down'. Internet safety is kinda more important now than it was when I was growing up - there was no tag showing where I was located at all times, then. And while children are extra vulnerable? No one should be showing off identifying information publicly, because you don't know who's out there, and how motivated they are to get what they want.

totally normal and not deranged thing to say

[am-i-the-asshole-official]

Once again, we do not accept "aita for feeling" submissions here, please stop sending them.

[darkdragon768]

Sometimes I just think about being on a tram and going somewhere, having no goal, at night and seeing a lot of lights while listening to mood fitting music.

I always want to go home as fast as possible because that's where all my stuff is but to be honest? Such a late night trip would heal my soul, my mind, my every and anything.

I leave work always at night so maybe I should just say "fuck it" and take as much time as I want, enjoying the view and being alive.

Going the opposite direction. From the beginning station to the end station and back.

[greghatecrimes]

for the love of god

[titles-for-tangents]

Once more for the folks in the back:

Do not disregard the advice of a specialist just because you do not understand.

Do not disregard the rights of a community — obey cheerfully the rules issued by authorities.

Do not think you are entitled to special privileges.

From 2020.

Just like the influenza pandemic of 1918, society decided to move on and forget mitigations. We also decided to forget about covid in general too. Might be a good place to mention: every covid infection damages your brain. Might have something do do with this epidemic of forgetfulness about of covid.

[gojosbf]

and it is a fact that you cannot blame anyone here. you cannot blame yuuta either, infact he's the one who's suffering the most. he wanted to make gojo's sacrifice worthwhile, he did not want any of their deaths to go waste, he had to become a monster too and give up his life so he could be useful. no one probably hated that decision more than him but tragedy is never merciful and they're not heroes.

[mysterycitrus]

Is Bruce Wayne a good person?

must a man be good? is it not enough to be a bitchy goth who traumatised two generations worth of orphans with ur incomparable autistic swag

[foursaints]

call me problematic but the death eaters will always be the more compelling characters to me specifically BECAUSE they exist in a narrative with such rigid black/white morality; because they are considered evil as fact; because they are punished as individuals for the way a system made them; because they are offered no avenues for redemption!

every glimpse of humanity & personhood from one of the cartoonishly-evil disposable background villains (bella’s petnames for her sister, peter’s friendship with james, barty’s skill as a teacher, the carrows’ love for each other, regulus’s note) automatically carries INFINITELY more weight than any dramatic gryffindorish act of heroism BECAUSE it comes shining out from a vacuum. lock me up!!! you should be feeling empathy for them!! do you see how humanity becomes more textured when applied to characters that we, as readers, are meant to disregard as monsters. should i call mary shelley

[twinsfawn]

“oh but i get all my images from other sources where there’s no credit listed there so i just post them 🥺”

have you heard of this amazing thing called reverse image search

“aesthetic” blogs whose entire schtick is just reposting other people’s content with no credit are sooooo lame. the reblog button is right there. and if you’re taking it from another source then fuckin say so, it takes 2 seconds

[pothame]

Others might see us. Really? Mm.

[fuckyeahillustrativeart]