Praying for Shirota Family drama

yo bro lets just dillydally later when ur free

it’s weird that professional letters are supposed to start with “dear.” i don’t even call my mom that

my darling hiring manager. my springtime rose. if hired i will bring a strong work ethic to this position

I bring a sort of "all the stereotypes surrounding trans men are based on kids who never made it to their twenties" vibe to the function that people who call us childish find rather off-putting.

only 62 more frogs until we hit 8,000 species described. the moment we've all been waiting for

there are an average of about 150 new amphibian species described per year so I remain hopeful that 2026 will be the year of 8,000 frogs

I do love that somebody tagged tumblr's own frog scientist on this post. chop chop dr scherz, we've got 62 more frogs to discover and you're the only frog scientist any of us knows

GUYS amphibian species of the world is still at 7,994 species of frog BUT amphibiaweb is at 8,008 species of frog, and do you know who is a co-author on the 8,000th species of frog there???? TUMBLR'S OWN FROG SCIENTIST DR SCHERZ

This is an anti-despair checkpoint! You must share something you're looking forward to before scrolling on.

Why he light skinned?

Because Martin Luther was white and German.

I suspect they confused him with Martin Luther King

Oh no

I mean, I get mixing them up based on names alone, but I’m concerned about the people who think Martin Luther King Jr. routinely wrote with a quill or dressed like a Renaissance man.

At that point it’s your own damn fault for making that kind of mistake

but why is martin luther the fastest sold playmobil figurine

Protestants be shoppin

World Heritage Post

the most sexual emotion a man can feel is fear

Now why would Tumblr user twinktorturer say something like this

idk who needs to hear this but it’s healthier for you to just accept that you’re gonna be kinda fat than it is to live the rest of your life miserably trying to monitor yourself to maintain a skinny weight your body doesn’t want to hold onto

The corollary of needing to be willing to frame arguments in terms of moral precepts you don't necessarily share is needing to be aware of subtext. Yes, it's easy to get a certain stripe of hyper-conservative folks to agree with anything you please by framing it in terms of opposition to Big Government, but a large part of that is because when you say "Big Government", what they hear is "Jews". You didn't hack their brain with magic words, you just didn't realise what you were saying!

firm believer you can't be a ''good person''. too much niuance to life.

you can be good (adjective) but you cannot be good (identity)

if you think you are good (identity) you are more likely to cause harm as you don't consider yourself to be capable of it

So do as much good as you can for the world, as often as you can, & keep your eyes open for those opportunities. It can't be everything all the time, you don't always have a $5 for the unhoused person on the corner & you might be drowning in your own responsibilities too much to haul someone halfway across the state on a random Tuesday. But you show up where you can, in the capacity you can, while keeping in mind that you can ALWAYS listen to different experiences... & learn or apologize, where needed.