perpetually stressed

they should invent a doesn't kill you that actually makes you stronger

Vaccines

hello, white tumblr user. before you is a serious post by a blogger of color about racism. if you are able to quietly reblog it without adding any bullshit, especially not anything starting with "as a white person-" you will be allowed to go free. the hardest challenge in your entire life begins now

as a physically disabled person I'm used to people only noticing accessibility issues if they are temporarily disabled. so this disability pride month I'm proud to be partnering with this baseball bat...

For all those in the notes - peregrine falcons hunt by dive-bombing their prey; this falcon however is currently stationary and cannot dive-bomb much of anything. In this moment, the pigeon is safe. The falcon however may not recover from the embarrassment.

I can't tell if that's a giant pigeon or a tiny falcon

Tiny falcon

I was today years old when I realized "Acronym" stood for "Anyone Can Rationalize Obvious Nonsense You Moron"

I love this post, but I figure I'll use it as a change to do a PSA about this particular irritating brand of folk etymology: as a general rule, acronyms basically didn't exist at all before the 20th century, and even after that it's pretty rare for an acronym to get "de-acronymized" and become an ordinary word that people have forgotten the acronymity(?) of. I'm sure there are a couple more examples, but off the top of my head the only ones I can think of are laser (and derivatives), scuba, and radar. So in general, whenever you see a post of the form "did you know [word] is actually an acronym?", your default assumption should be that it's bullshit.

I don’t want to pile on the person in question, but it’s very funny that they used “fuck means ‘fornication under the consent of the king’” as a counterexample, because that’s like the central iconic example of fake backronyms, to the point where I almost put it in the tags of my post. 

Anyway, it's actually short for "Fornication Under Consent of Kong." You need Donkey Kong's permission to have sex. Sorry, but I don't make the rules.

[ID: tags reading #sure I'll hop on this #english doesn't even have 'tu' AND 'jūs' #imagine having only one 'you' which has to be used for one person and for multiple people]

official linguistics post

I forget who originally said it, but there’s a quote about “Great science fiction isn’t predicting the automobile, it’s predicting the traffic jam”

Transcendent in my tummy