#we have to do better

[hillbillyoracle]

This is only going to get more important in coming years:

Think critically when people make claims that someone or something is [insert group here]phobic or [insert group here]ist.

Setting aside the fact that folks misusing terms originally used to name oppression has had demonstrably negative effects on various movements, if you have a few key words someone can use to change what you think about people and groups that are actually on your side then you are incredibly easy to manipulate.

There are people who are actively trying to manipulate you using those words. They are absolutely rooting for these words to become meaningless. They are absolutely making fake accounts to come in an stoke cancelations and make them appear more legitimate.

They have a vested interest in bombarding you with a bunch of terrible things you don't have much agency to impact and then pointing you at people and groups that have long track records of working in your own interest.

They want you to keep your anger pointed at people in your own community because it keeps y'all busy and unorganized while they work against you.

When you boost that stuff, without thinking critically and thinking about who benefits from your rage, you do their work for them.

Which isn't to say that you cannot correct or ask for change from people in your community - we need that. But learn how to make a good faith critique that isn't rooted in rage baiting people with gunpowder terms. Our lives fucking depend on it.

If you're a leader in a space where this stuff is getting passed around, it is fucking vital that you create standards that don't allow for that stuff to spread unchecked (fellow discord mods, I'm looking at y'all).

Think critically. Nuance matters. Don't let people convince you to burn your community down to keep yourself warm.

[sugugasm]

a little psa

people are so weird and jealous on this app it’s sick…

the fact that creators have to leave due to death threats, harassment, and other anon bullshit is ridiculous. we’re all here to write about and support our favorite fandoms but it seems as if people have their priorities in a bunch.

i’ve seen so much hatred since i’ve joined and it was one of the main reasons why i was afraid to share my work. people are ruthless and mean and they do NOT care about others’ feelings. if you’ve experienced any of this, i am so dearly sorry. it’s absolutely disgusting and i hope tumblr can go back to a somewhat ‘positive-ish’ environment.

[blowingglowingdandelions]

Our country is a bleeding fucking wound. To all those who voted for a racist because you didn't like Kamala's handling of Gaza, I hope we all live to regret your actions. And to all those who abstained from voting because you think Kamala was just as bad as a bigot, I hope we all live to regret your inaction. I hope, for the next four years, that the government moves as slowly as people always bemoan it does. I hope that my queer friends, and black friends, and friends of color, and disabled friends, and trans friends, and female friends, and all the kind people who I have yet to meet, survive the next four years. I hope that all of these people will still be alive in four years to regret, and to learn, and to try again next time. I hope we are not killed. I hope that my fears are unfounded. I hope that I will not have to give up the name and family and home I have chosen. I hope that their changes come slowly enough that those of us who will never pass as anything but what we are can last through their echoes.

To all those who voted for Donaled Trump because a Black woman couldn't meet your impossible standards, do better. You were mad she wasn't handling a genocide the way you wanted, so you invited one into your own home. I'm sure that'll teach someone a lesson.

Give your friends longer hugs. Tell the people you love that you love them. Hold tight to hope. There will be more elections. Every fucking year there are elections. This was a gunshot, a gaping wound in the progress so many want to make, but there will be more chances. Vote. Protest. Stay alive, most of all. No one can hear you when you're dead. Hold each other and keep fucking living. Keep hoping. I'm terrified of what this means for us, for this country, for the kind of hate that festers here, but we have to keep trying to beat it back.

Survive and fight. These next four years, other officials will be up for election. There will be hope. They will try to take more ground from us. They will come for our rights. Don't give it up without a fight. Don't let them make us weak. Fight this. With everything you have, hope there is a better world and fight to make it this one.

[paulodybaeeela]

Dele Ali’s interview was heartbreaking but is a STRONG reminder about how little we know about these athletes in reality.

It also shows how much we take them for granted without really understanding the sacrifices they make and the toll it takes on them.

[uygfiug]

its pride month, please dont forget to keep up with the gay agenda, as we will be particularly active this month

[anteroom-of-death]

I think people who let their children use slurs and get a kick out of them using them to others or even swearing at others especially in public deserve permanent jail time and their kids to get adopted by vegans who do gentle parenting.

[crshbndct]

Tokitae died yesterday.

She was still singing the songs that she was taught in L Pod, as a small child of 4 years old, until she died at 57. Orca sing songs to communicate with other orca. She was calling for her mother until she died .

Her mother is still alive.

Miami Seaquarium would have suffered reputations damage if she had been released and managed to thrive outside of their care, contrary to what they told people would happen.

Her release was imminent, after years of work put in by people that wanted to see her reunited with her pod.

Miami Seaquarium has life insurance on all their marine mammals.

RIP Sk'aliCh'elh-tenaut. You deserved so, so much better, but we all failed you, in the worst possible way.

[falkii]

yeah that sims 2 ai post got me 💀 lovely concept but a very less than ideal execution

[ered]

Here’s my take on the whole audio books vs. reading:

Oral tradition of storytelling predates written ones by millennias, and honestly, which one you like is just a personal preference.

The actual difference is

when listening, you have no idea how to write characters’ names

when reading, you have no idea how to pronounce characters’ names

hope this helps!

[stemmmm]

more people gotta try this shit where bill has not improved and will not change but he's just chilling so its fine probably. its great

[qiinamii]

we'll do fine.

[luvyeni]

you guys need to understand where ot7 briize are coming from , moving on and pretending this never happened will just give ot6 the go to continue to do this , they already know now that they send just the right amount of death threats they'll get what they want , who's to say they won't do this again , they already supposedly leaked sungchans family home and he doesn't live there thats so unsafe for his family. they're bullying wonbin for sticking up for hannie , this is eunseoks and antons second time being harassed by their fandom , and sm is allowing it?? when will it be enough? when their emotionless robots forcing a smile to perform in front of the very fans who are ruining them inside.

you guys are so afraid of “loosing riize” you don’t realize we kind of already lost them.

Wonbin is covering his whole face. Sungchan wanted to run away from the cameras. Shotaro, who is always cheerful and respectful, didn’t even addressed the filmmaker. Sohee CRIED.

the boys look MISERABLE. they aren’t happy with this and if we, as a fandom, don’t do something about it when THEY OBVIOUSLY CAN’T, what are we for?

I DON’T WANT TO LOOSE RIIZE, but the feeling is that I already did. there’s no resemblance of the seven guys who had warm smiles and hearts and wanted to grow together and realize dreams with us.

part of the fandom actually DESTROYED their dream and the other part is giving no fucks about it. we aren’t rise and realizing shit for ages now.

my blood boils thinking that the guys are in the hands of the psychotic bitches that sent funeral wreaths for a 21-year-old and a company that doesn’t care shit about their mental and physical well-being.

not to mention how Sohee and Eunseok are both on their radar now, and they want to attack each and every one of them, bully them until there’s no one. Anton is already being harassed on social media, too. It’s not the next idol who’ll be under attack, it’s OUR IDOLS. the same guys, the same group.

they are overworked, tired and sad. SM didn’t even have the decency to postpone or cancel their schedules.

and yet you’re still afraid about how they feel if we boycott? they already feel like shit. and you’re doing nothing about it, congratulations!

[o3o-lapd-o3o]

after six hundred strike

*odysseus and poseidon are both still on the rocks in the middle of the sea*

odysseus: ok, let's just agree to both say we're sorry

odysseus: on the count of three

odysseus: one..two..three

poseidon:

odysseus:

odysseus: see, now i'm just disappointed in the both of us

[reasonsforhope]

Literally begging anyone who can vote in US elections to vote, and to vote against Trump. Which means voting for Harris, not abstaining or voting third party.

My family actually did move here from an authoritarian country, where voting literally didn't matter, they literally did throw out your vote, and they literally did assassinate citizens who spoke out against them.

We would all very much like to keep living in a country where those things are not the case!

You know, the same things that Trump and his stooges have openly said they want to do. And two of the main propaganda lines for why people in the US shouldn't vote, which is a lie.

Voting matters. The parties are not the same.

And make sure to vote in down-ballot races!!!

And like. The fact that voting matters in the US is a very real reason for hope. It is something you should genuinely appreciate. We can make a difference.

And a lot of people risked their lives or even died to earn that right, and it's a right not everyone has.

[800db-cloud]

i’m literally shaking buy them brown contacts pls

[sophies-junkyard]

I’m in the South. I’ve got ears to the ground. Republicans are SWEATING at the prospect of Kamala being nominated. They’re not sure Trump can beat her.

Let’s prove them right.