just overhead the most fucked up conversation at walmart:
customer: do you guys have any grapes?
employee: no, they stopped making grapes *walks away*
I’m like if a girl had a terrible chronic fear of being a uniquely horrible person
I’ve survived my first day on Tumblr
Achievements:
- Don’t shoot! I’m friendly!: Prove you’re not a bot
- AI dismemberment: Disable algorithm settings
- Friends?: Gained a mutual
- I recognize you: Follow someone you know from r/Tumblr
- MY EYES!: Change the site palette
- Great Idea: Reblog a post
- They love me: Have a post reblogged
Oh boy oh boy you’re gonna get a Rare achievement for this one
Containment Breach
websites love getting worse its their favourite activity
the most attractive thing someone can do is teach me things
— Good luck!
“When I first heard it, from a dog trainer who knew her behavioral science, it was a stunning moment. I remember where I was standing, what block of Brooklyn’s streets. It was like holding a piece of polished obsidian in the hand, feeling its weight and irreducibility. And its fathomless blackness. Punishment is reinforcing to the punisher. Of course. It fit the science, and it also fit the hidden memories stored in a deeply buried, rusty lockbox inside me. The people who walked down the street arbitrarily compressing their dogs’ tracheas, to which the poor beasts could only submit in uncomprehending misery; the parents who slapped their crying toddlers for the crime of being tired or hungry: These were not aberrantly malevolent villains. They were not doing what they did because they thought it was right, or even because it worked very well. They were simply caught in the same feedback loop in which all behavior is made. Their spasms of delivering small torments relieved their frustration and gave the impression of momentum toward a solution. Most potently, it immediately stopped the behavior. No matter that the effect probably won’t last: the reinforcer—the silence or the cessation of the annoyance—was exquisitely timed. Now. Boy does that feel good.”
— Melissa Holbrook Pierson, The Secret History of Kindness (2015)
Y'all have got to stop spreading fake news via the destiel meme, that shit needs to be an accredited source
while you’re still checked in to the hot take hotel, know that “you can benefit from systems of oppression without wanting to, because these are systems much larger than any individual” does not mean “you are inherently oppressing other people through your presence and also by virtue of being alive.” spread the second message and you should go to hell for that
wow this is too intimate to share with my close friends or family let me put this on my tumblr blog for hundreds of strangers to see
The wise man, when caught naked in public, covers not his junk but his face.





