#but say

[hawkeabelas]

you're allowed to say "sex" on the internet. See? I just did it. Sex. Sex sex sex. You don't have to say s*x or smex or Adult Fun Times or s3x or "spice" any other variation of self-censorship on tumblr dot com you can just spell out the word SEX i am going to scream until the heat death of the universe

[aromantic-goldfishdeactivated202]

I find it so funny, in light of TikTok’s imminent American demise, that even now they aren’t considering moving to tumblr. The last two social media refugee crises (Twitter -> X and whatever happened with Reddit) prompted a wave of wide-eyed new baffled tumblr users to flood this app and yet last I heard all of the tiktokers are flooding en-masse a Chinese social media app. That is entirely in Mandarin. Instead of moving to tumblr.

[artistformerlyknownasbutttrumpet]

no i don't want to use your ai assistant. no i don't want your ai search results. no i don't want your ai summary of reviews. no i don't want your ai feature in my social media search bar (???). no i don't want ai to do my work for me in adobe. no i don't want ai to write my paper. no i don't want ai to make my art. no i don't want ai to edit my pictures. no i don't want ai to learn my shopping habits. no i don't want ai to analyze my data. i don't want it i don't want it i don't want it i don't fucking want it i am going to go feral and eat my own teeth stop itttt

[the-uncanny-dag]

[anexperimentallife]

[koobiie]

shoutout to everyone who wants to infodump but cant string together coherent thoughts to form sentences and instead just look at you like this

[freackthejester]

I had a dream that a bunch of people were making jokes about how the economy was so bad that gay people couldn't afford closets and were just "in the corner"

[blanket-hugger]

ok but i have a stupid question that is 20 years old and i don't think i have quite managed to get an answer (maybe i never managed to ask it clearly enough to the right people b/c it feels like shame gets in the way *very quick* during those inquiries)

why do we get so mad at people saying the sun orbits the earth and not the other way around? like is it actually categorically false in terms of cinematics??? "the sun orbits the earth" and "the earth orbits the sun" seems both like statements that can be true depending on your pov?

like ok i do understand if you are doing newtonian mechanics SURE you wanna prefer the heliocentric referential over the geocentric one for celestial stuff (cuz probably the sun's super heavy), fine, but that does not change the statements above in any meaningful way? it's still spinny movements from both pov, observed or predicted right?

don't know shit about relativistic mechanics, but same point still stands?

i am not defending mars-centrism, i just wonder if there is any strong reason we are beating kids over the head with that and not the all-encompassing importance of dialectics or any other bullshit Society Deems Important for Reasons

i do remember in primary school we were told to perform an "experiment" to prove that the earth orbits the sun. the experimental setup required a stick glued somehow vertically onto a base which was an A4 paper and a desklamp, and we were supposed to move the paper around the lamp and observe that the shadow was moving.

to this day i remain quite confused at the explanatory power of this (like is this the weirdest flat earth model ever? idk if flat earthers believe that the sun has a hood somewhere in space (maybe im misremembering something critical in the setup but i was confused as a child).

i moved the lamp around the stick and observed that indeed the shadow moved, but then the teacher told me i was doing it wrong, i needed to move the paper

which i did, and i did observe the shadow move. but i was utterly convinced i could even attempt to deduce "the earth orbits the sun and not the other way around" from that. i mean sure, maybe if the sun *was* orbiting the earth, its power cord would cause too much of a trip hazard and the universe can't have that??

(i was ok accepting it as "statement from experienced authority figure, surely that'll make more sense later on" with the addendum a couple years later "surely this even has a physics explanation which is not rooted in some philosophical-cartoonishlyanticlerical-cultural bs because the world is a sane space")

I used to be a grader and an occasional substitute prof for an introductory astronomy lab. That means that the majority of the people in this lab are only taking it because it’s a requirement and about half of them think it’s an astrology class.

I was grading midterms and this one girl. She was so nice and I think she was a business major. Fuck. The question on the midterm was to draw a diagram of the solar system and this poor girl. This fucking girl had drawn a Mars-centric solar system. As in every planet and the sun were orbiting Mars. I now actually have a custom Cards Againsy Humanity card I got at a con that says “A Mars-centric solar system”

I had a boy argue with me that there was liquid water on the moon (this was around when they had found liquid water on Mars in ~2015) and he wouldn’t believe me that he likely meant Mars and not the moon. After I marked his answer to the relevant lab question wrong, he took it to the department head who had promptly laughed him out of the office.

And there was another boy who, during a lab in our observatory where we would look at certain things in the sky, asked where the sun was. At 10pm in November. After some questioning it was revealed that he thought the moon and the sun were the same thing.

[criiitter]

how did sonic even get him to take that?

[roach-works]

speculative fiction writers i am going to give you a really urgent piece of advice: don't say numbers. don't give your readers any numbers. how heavy is the sword? lots. how old is that city? plenty. how big is the fort? massive. how fast is the spaceship? not very, it's secondhand.

the minute you say a number your readers can check your math and you cannot do math better than your most autistic critic. i guarantee. don't let your readers do any math. when did something happen? awhile ago. how many bullets can that gun fire? trick question, it shoots lasers, and it shoots em HARD.

you are lying to people for fun. if you let them do math at you the lie collapses and it's no fun anymore.

[tjalexandernyc]

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Check your subscription if you need Word for work! Don't get duped into paying for something you might not even want

[dsmsix]

thought I was muted and just had this exchange with a coworker on a zoom call

[teffiebell]

[inkskinned]

please i love you i'm begging you bring back suspension of disbelief bring back trusting the audience like. i cannot handle any more dialogue that sounds like a legal document. "hello, i am here to talk to you about the incident from a few minutes ago, because i feel you might be unwell, and i am invested in your personal wellbeing." "thank you, i am unwell because the incident was hurtful to me due to my childhood, which was bad." I CANT!!!!

do you know how many people are mad that authors use "growled" as a word for "said"? it's just poetics! they do not literally mean "growled," it's just a common replacement for "said with force but in a low tone." it's normal! do you hear me!! help me i love you please let me out of here!!!

[anexperimentallife]