Discount Femboy (he/him)

To everyone that's confused, the planet Venus rotates very very slowly, with a single revolution taking about 243 Earth days, and Mercury rotates slowly, but not as slow as Venus.

you guys know the republicans and democrats work for the same guys right. every election is the "most important election of our lifetimes" snap out of it and realize we need to create alternatives for ourselves

They even turned around and blocked a border bill that was 100 percent everything they wanted and they proposed solely because Trump said to not do it cuz he wanted to use the border as a campaign point.

Yes, the Democrats are not good. Yes, additional political action--direct action, community building, supporting your local library, etc is important.

But saying that voting is pointless doesn't really achieve anything. It's a defeatist position.

If you currently believe that, ask yourself what you're going to do in the time you would've been voting that will make a more positive change. No really, get out a piece of paper and commit to what you're going to do to make your life better instead of voting.

Is it community building, and reaching more people? Educating people on why we need to de-commodify housing, or establish universal health care? Advocating for radical bodily autonomy?

Consider for a moment, perhaps, that even if you have soured on voting entirely, that perhaps this could be a chance for you to get there early, get your little "I Voted" sticker, and then stand outside with some literature you printed in advance, ready to win over some people who are receptive to it.

Even if you live in a district that's 75% red, if you think you won't be at risk of physical harm, go. Do it.

Apparently I saw the post once when it was at 6k because an artist I admired reblogged it, but at that stage I was very unwell & not experienced enough with Tumblr to realise what effect it might have.

Looking through the notes now I see that in the six years since then-

Several people got the design as a tattoo.

A number liked it enough to want custom designs but didn’t know how to contact me so that’s approximately £300 I didn’t get a chance to earn.

Someone used that art in the front cover of a comic by accident and while the company fixed it after I contacted them that’s exposure that it’s far too late to capitalise on now.

If you like an artwork that you find off tumblr, please, please I am begging you search for the artist’s name and see if they do actually have a Tumblr you could reblogged from instead. If you’re an artist search your username(s) every so often to see if your work has been taken.

Here at Tumblr, we’ve been working hard on trying to keep our sinking ship afloat for as long as possible. This means desperately trying to copy every new fly-by-night social media app that some multi-billionaire sh*t out during their daily Peloton routine. What follows is the strategy we're using to accomplish the goal of user growth. If you find the things we say here worrisome, please understand that is our exact intention. You've outgrown our target demographic. Don't let the door hit you on the way out.

The Diagnosis

It's lookin' pretty bad y'all!

After somehow losing hundreds of thousands of users during the great pr0n purge of 2018, we started to wonder if anything could be done to get back to where we were. We even brought in a management consultant who charged us a ridiculous amount of money. It would make you sick if you knew how much, but we got a few nice meals out of it at least. Anyhow, we handed this guy the app, and HE HAD NO IDEA HOW TO USE IT! It was f*cking hilarious! But suddenly it all clicked -- our users are a bunch of stupid idiots who can't even do basic arithmetic. I mean, they spend all day looking at their phones, so what do you expect?

Tumblr’s best feature is its unique content and vibrant communities. But who cares, right? We're just as happy getting traffic from people sh*t-posting memes, vague-booking, giving out-of-context hot takes to news events, and spewing whatever random thought is in their head at the moment. Plus that stuff doesn't p*ss off Apple.

To keep this thing going we need new people. And by "people" we mean teenagers, like we used to have back in the good ol' days. Unfortunately we're all in our 40s now, so we have no idea what they want. But teenagers are so cool! Imagine if they talked to us like we're one of them? We're getting hard just thinking about it.

Our Guidng Principls

To make Tumblr cool again, we must address these huge glaring issues.

People can look at a blog without logging in. How is that fair to all the poor schlubs who had to fill out forms to get an account? Also we haven't figured out a way to force ads onto the personalized pages yet. But we swear that's not the main reason.

People can see content they are looking for or linked to. People can keep up with blogs they follow. But the problem with this is, people don't know what they want. We know what they want! We're smart. We wrote this damn site, remember?

Promote posts that incite pointless conversations. Posts that are guaranteed to bait every troll into responding. Isn't that why all your Magat relatives love Facebook so much? We can do that!

P*ss off your content creators in every way possible (see #2).

Create algorithms that throw an unending barrage of irrelevant content in your face. Have you seen Instagram lately? We could do that so easy!!!

The app is slow. The website is slow. Obviously this is because of GIFs. Facebook and Instagram don't allow them, so why should we?

Conclusion

Infighting only helps our oppressors.

Infighting only helps our oppressors.

Infighting only helps our oppressors.

I am a straight dude from a moderately conservative European 3rd world country. And i find the infighting in the lgbtq community incredibly stupid, for one simple reason. If any of you lived here, you would certainly be discriminated and shunned by most of society, probably disowned, and maybe, if you're especially unlucky, stabbed.

Hegel said that language has the unique quality that its interiority is as external as its exteriority is internal, and I think this is true - everything described by language correlates to language and language correlates to everything it describes in an inseparable fashion. This begs the question of what is precluded from language, which in turn, as my friend pointed out, explains the prevalence of the word "vibe" in popular culture at the moment. People are fucking sick of talking, they're sick of describing things, they want to be understood implicitly, and I think that for as long as people have been using language one really important place people have looked for understanding beyond the world of words is in the interiority of animals. Straight people call it being a cat person or a dog person, but I think it's pretty obvious that furries and petplayers are driving at something similar phenomenologically - when they look at their furry friend they see something happening inside them which is essentially similar to the shape of their own mind, thoughts and experiences. I implicitly feel a need to describe it with as few words as possible because it isn't mean to be in words in the first place. I want to just say I'm a cat shaped girl shaped cat and have that be all, because actually being able to describe it in words is a vanishing point that I can never reach because I'm trying to describe the definitionally indescribable. When I look at a cat I think "wow, me" and I feel more connected to the actual real world than anything in the world of words has ever made me feel.

The use of language has pulled us both away from and simultaneously into something deeply human because we try to use words to articulate the experience of the world around us, including the immanent world of spirits through which we really emotionally connect to the world. We're all trying to pretend we've transcended spirituality, superstition, religious beliefs and animism, and all the while the human species is going through the biggest (and getting bigger always, ever deepening) epidemic of depression in the history of our existence because the only transcendant things we have to imagine are like, The Economy or some other soulless self-denying spiritual concept which pretends not to be superstitious for the benefit of profit and the self-belief in rationality of those making the profits. I'm not saying RETVRN, incidentally, there is no backwards, I'm saying that we have to embrace belief in things that we know are abstract, irrational and beyond language because if we don't it's not that we won't have anything to nourish us spiritually, it's worse: we remain spiritually attached to the most inhuman and evil spirits ever conceived.

Which is why I want to assert my belief in the abstract and spiritual consciously and deliberately. Three of the spiritual things I believe in are: the revolution; love will be there in the end; there is a kitten in my soul. The more words I try to use to describe this the closer and further I feel myself getting from the real understanding, because the way people relate to animals is neither internal nor external to language, it's a false dichotomy created by language that needs the illusion that we are not animals in order to make sense at all

So back in the middle ages, many magicians felt that the world was primarily ruled astrologically. The planets, the moon and the sun, and signs of the zodiac, were all a sort of heavenly language that God used to administer the world.

The evidence for this was the similarities of things. The sign of cancer looked like a crab, therefore it ruled over crabs, and all things like crabs. So the sign of cancer was connected in some way to any thing reclusive, hard-shelled, furtive, and self-reliant. This idea, that the star signs and planets are connected to qualities on earth, is known as "The Doctrine of Signatures."

This extends to the body! Check out this image from De Occulta Philosophia, in which Agrippa shows which star signs rule over which elements of the body.

(yes that diagram on the left is what horoscope charts used to look like.)

This diagram is from the 1500s. Take note of the planetary associations on the left here. The core of the body is associated with the sun, but the genitals, the genitals are lunar. (Because they ebb and flow like the tides as they get excited.)

Humorously, but also as significant magical commentary, Alieststair Crowley would extend this conception of the Magical Solar Internal Core of the body to the idea that the butthole was therefore also solar in nature. This was both simply a logical extension of Agrippas magical theories, and a clever jab at traditional religious institutions. (The Christian god is often considered astrally solar in nature.)

High control groups will trawl astrology communities looking for the despondent directionless mfers with few community ties. This trick works even better on college campuses, which are full of despondent directionless mfers with few community ties.