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tumblr users love reading. you literally stopped for this post just because it has words in it

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sits on my own blog like it’s the edge of a lake wistfully

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finding my dream home on FB marketplace

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If it keeps you from killing yourself it's not stupid. This applies to anything btw.

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Interview with the Vampire illustrated by Anne Yvonne Gilbert for (Books Ilustrated Ltd)

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Hihihihi the situation is WAY too dire to be attacking trans men. Like no matter what you think they're doing, why the hell are you spending more time attacking other trans people instead of the fucking fascists on national television?? the next four years are gonna SUCK . They're gonna suck HARD. Don't make it worse for other transes and fight the RIGHT PEOPLE.

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season 3 leaks: mean girls conference call

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snow angels in new orleans ❄

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Just married 🎉

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restless heart syndrome

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i logged on to twitter.com and saw somebody say “plutonium is fictional because it doesnt exist in nature”. which, one, i dont think is entirely true, im fairly certain trace amounts of plutonium exist in natural uranium deposits, and two, that is such a frankly wonderfully incorrect definition of fictional and im deeply intrigued by the implications. concrete is fictional. polyester doesnt exist

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brother what

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An explainer for why I don't fuck with algorithmic social media

If you give a pigeon a little button to peck that releases pigeon food, it will push the button when it's hungry.

If you give a pigeon a button to peck that releases food every 5 pecks, it will peck it more often.

If you give a pigeon a button to peck that releases food at a randomly selected, always shifting number of pecks, the pigeon will peck that fucking button all day long.

Algorithm based social media is not set up to give you the best most fun stuff all the time, it is set up to give you a bunch of stress and nothingness with a randomized reward of something that actually makes you happy, because they want you pecking that button all damn day. It is a slot machine of content, meant to keep you putting in quarters made of your time and attention till you've nothing yet.

At least if I'm having a shit day on my own Tumblr home feed it's because I've made a bad choice about who to follow and I can fix it.

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Daniella Willett-Rabin (American b.1979), Deep Into the Land of Enchantment (New Mexico), 2022, Oil on canvas

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In da clerb