#appal

[waanderlussttt]

ethel at the greek in la last week

not sure i’ll ever be over this

[dreams-of-here]

June 22, 2024

today was by far one of the best days of summer so far! it was one of those where the heat was thick and slow moving and the sun just bore down on us all day long. those are some of my favorite days. i started my day off doing laundry, then i went in for a job interview. (it went well, i have training tomorrow!) to celebrate i had a tomato sandwich at the creek, i got tomatoes from the garden and sourdough from about a week ago. after i ate i swam for an hour and waded about a half mile up the creek.

then, in the evening i got to go to my cousins wedding. as the ceremony progressed, a rainbow formed over the newly weds! to those who don’t know: in appalachia and other protestant-heavy regions much emphasis is put on religious symbolism. in the old testament book, Genesis, the Lord sends a rainbow to signify that he will never again flood the earth and seeing rainbows is now a signal to christians that God keeps his promises. so having a rainbow on your wedding day is a symbol of a healthy marriage to come.

(i’m not sure if you can see the rainbow on the camera, but here is my best shot of it)

[i-still-mask-because]

Nassau County of Long Island, New York passed a mask ban bill today. Please make a habit of calling your city, county, state, and federal representatives expressing your opposition to mask bans because fascist legislative proposals like this is absolutely going to be domino effecting throughout the US. AND WEAR A MASK IN PUBLIC. WEAR A MASK TO NOT ONLY PROTECT US, BUT SUPPORT US.

Editing to add (8/14/2024): Please read the recent update.

[tanadrin]

There's this phenomenon on social media, especially TikTok, where someone will post a cute video of their pet doing something totally harmless, and someone will invariably chime in the comments with some piece of unsolicited advice which may or may not even be relevant, and it bugs me a lot! Offering someone unsolicited pet-care advice (or child-rearing advice, for that matter) is actually really rude, especially if you're not a vet and you're doing it in that way that seems calculated to show off that you know more than them rather than being genuinely helpful. Like, the latest version I saw of this was somebody's cat chasing a laser pointer quite happily, and someone in the comments saying "make sure you play with them using other toys, too! It's better enrichment!" Like, boss, you saw one video of somebody playing with their cat and couldn't help but extrapolate from that that they might be doing something wrong in general, and therefore that you just had to correct them? Go jump in a lake.

This is one of those things that I think we would instinctually recognize as kind of deranged if you did it face-to-face--if you were playing with your dog in the park and someone came up to you and was like, "actually, you shouldn't be doing that, you should be doing this instead," you would be well within your rights to tell them to fuck off, no matter how much they tried to defensively frame their intrusion as "just trying to help." But the faux familiarity of social media and the anonymity of random commenters reduces the social friction there, and the urge of the know-it-all to show that they indeed do know it all is unleashed.

But here's your modern etiquette tip for the day: knock that shit off! It's really fucking rude!

[leejungjaes]

so eggs have tripled in price recently. lol. so this guy has been going out to the stores and using the stickers and leaving fake dollar bills out at tesla and i'm deeply in love with every part of it.

[cardsharksplayingames]

[toss-a-coin-to-your-stan-account]

huge if true

[lotus-pear]

intertwined fate

[cybershock24601]

Rook sitting Bellara and Davrin down all somber and they're expecting some sort of serious conversation only for Rook to go "I need you to teach me how to curse in elven. The common tongue isn't enough. I need to cuss Solas' ass out in his native language."

[purlty23]

Have you had Nazi propaganda blazed onto your dashboard? Me too.

Its no secret that Tumblr doesn't give a damn about its user base. It's been made abundantly clear to me that not only do they not care. Tumblr is allowing posts with direct links to nazi propaganda and chatroom sites to be blazed!

The only reason I found this post? Because Tumblr put it in front of my face on my dashboard.

In the notes of this post there were dozens of reblogs with things like "is this an ARG?" "Oh whats this, save for later". One comment that said "tempting".

This is a neo nazi trying to recruit you.

Report this immediately. Do not click links. Email support@tumblr.com telling them that you don't want neo nazis paying them to show us this garbage.

If you want to know how I figured out what this was in more detail, I'll put it under a read more so that everyone can be a little safer and a little smarter out there.

First: I went to the persons blog.

This one in particular is clever enough to have an ask about palestinian donations as their first post. The second is the one screenshot above.

I kept scrolling. Most are youtube links posted with 0 notes or interaction. This is another link to the same site here.

If you scroll far enough, you'll see they've reblogged an original post.

If you directly copy and paste this text into google, you'll find exactly one result. A PDF in Bulgarian hosted on a website named aobg.org.

Sounds legit, right?

Its the official website for the Bulgarian Society of Anthroposophy. A 'new age spiritual movement based on German idealism'. A cult.

As soon as I made the connection, I knew that clicking the original link would lead me to something similar. I felt confident enough to click it safely (DO NOT TRY AT HOME), and was launched into the shittiest little pro Nazi website with a live chatroom on the side.

There are always signs, always queues. Do not be stupid out there. These are NOT ARGs. If you aren't sure, block and move on.

[hyunpic]

[waitingawhile]

more of this archetype of Guy in minecraft please

[hgedits]

honey you're familiar like my mirror, years ago

[heywriters]

look. I never questioned the admonition "don't write a disabled character that gets suddenly cured by the end," but didn't truly understand it either.

Then I watched an episode of a popular '70s show where a woman suffers an accident that leaves her blind. By the end of the episode—and abstractly through the power of love—she can see again! No ongoing medical treatment, no miracle, just love! And that was normal writing, on TV, for adults. Disabilities existed for plot and then magically went away to get a happy ending. Because, of course, being disabled means you can't have a happy ending, and gee wouldn't it just be so hard on the abled character who loves you if you were blind all the time? unbelievable

So for anyone else who isn't sure if this is a hard and fast rule or if there's nuance, maybe knowing how not to write it will help.

[entiqua]

goofy fs emotes i drew in 2022 that i don't think i ever posted anywhere for some reason

if anyone wants to use them for discord feel free to! -> gdrive