Ad Astra Per Aspera

maybe the problem is that people care about other people too much. so if you say, here's a political agenda that'll make you rich, they'll be like, wait, won't this also make other people rich? i don't want that. i'd rather have the other people be poor. i'm very sensitive to the condition of other people, you understand, such as people i read about in the newspaper, and people i hear about on tiktok – and i want them to be poor! ideally i'd be put in charge of making sure that the other people are poor, but someone's got to do it. whereas if you don't care about other people you're like, shit, i want to be rich! sign me up! what's the next thing that's as useful as the refrigerator, i want that. why isn't energy too cheap to meter, i want energy too cheap to meter. i want every disease to be cured because otherwise i might get one, et cetera. and the most politically viable way for me to get what i want is for the political order to make everyone else rich also, which i don't care about

New friends' regression to the mean: if you meet someone who is cool/wise/etc and make bids on that basis, you probably saw them at an unusually good time or at their strongest domain. As the friendship builds, you'll discover more worse-than-initial things about them than better-than-initial things.

Ah, that's the concise terminology for describing what I was trying to explain when talking about how whenever I discover a new band, oftentimes the first song of theirs I ever heard remains my favorite of their songs.

its crazy how if america goes down the drain theres no backup

isn’t that what USB is? backup for USA?

Despite President-General Thurston's efforts, the United States of Boise was never accepted as the legitimate continuation of the United States of America outside of the former borders of Idaho.

Me, passing a car covered in horny thirst-trap anime girl stickers: while I personally find this to be cringe, given the national push for censorship, I must concede that this is technically Praxis.

I am always thankful i don't have the type of mental illness that makes me incredibly dependent on the outcome of an ongoing entertainment property.

#of all the posts i've seen tagged with#project hail mary#this might be the funniest

as funny as “those are his hooves you bitch” I’m mad that it overshadows that lil wayne really did have socks on in a jacuzzi 

can y'all stop just throwing random words together and expecting us to understand it

you had to be there

Why Wayne got socks in the jacuzzi

those are his hooves you bitch

This post changed us fundamentally

So weird to see a post this old and no one is deactivated

so ive been meaning to do this poll for a while because my hypothesis is that seattle is the most Tumblr city, likely in the entire world. tumblr has a huge american majority userbase obviously, but just for comparison going forward, only 0.22% of the american population lives in seattle. as of this reblog, this poll is showing 4% of respondents are seattleites. given, this isnt scientific at all, because my blog just has a lot of seattle connections and seattle followers, but it's still an impressive bias

a hot tip you may not know about tumblr desktop: you can use the j/k keys to go back and forth by one post! it's like vim!

crucially, it doesn't matter how big the post is!

kids very badly need [SOMETHING] in their life. i spent a minute thinking about how to word this post because its not quite role models and its not quite structure. the only word i can think of is, like, substance. character. so much of a kids life is Fucking Bullshit and when you give them something solid to latch onto, something for real and something that's worth it, sometimes you see them fucking latch onto it like its the first time theyve had air