has anyone noticed that after the porn ban of 2018 tumblr was essentially killed from the mainstream and everyone flocked to other social media sites like twitter and meta. then those sites got enshittified to where twitter became Nazi Central and meta sites had an entire meme around getting βzuccedβ aka mark zuckerberg himself would ban you for saying a no-no word like fuck. and then the mainstream shifted to tiktok where infamous toddlerspeak sentences like βhe got unalived by a pew pewβ were born because if you once again say a no-no word like kill or gun or any other word that isnβt corporate i mean kid friendly then the algorithm will bury your post into the ground. and somehow weβve come full circle and tumblr is now the most bearable social media site because although we canβt have female presenting nipples we can at least talk to each other like adults. has anyone noticed that at all or is it just me and the flaming skull
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i get why people don't believe in marriage as a social construct but legally it is the best and easiest way to say "this is who i trust to take care of me when i can't take care of myself" and i'm so glad gay people fought for that right bc when shit gets scary at least i know im in good hands
People don't remember how one of the worst things to happen to someone in a same sex relationship was having the love of your life hospitalized and all of their medical decisions put into the hands of family they'd cut off years ago. Of having no right to attend, much less plan, your wife's funeral because her body was released to her next of kin. Of not being able to say goodbye because her parents told the hospital you were not allowed to visit.
sherlock holmes deduces you are trans before you've figured it out yourself and refers to you with those pronouns and then when you look confused is like "ah...had you not arrived at that conclusion yet?" and wafts away in his dressing gown to smoke seventeen pipes, leaving you in a gender crisis
Hercule Poirot deduces you are trans by accident because he suspected you of murder and broke into your house and searched your stuff then puts 2 and 2 together when Hastings makes an innocuous observation about your fashion sense or something and he jumps up and cries βmon dieu!!!β before striding over to you kissing you on both cheeks and saying βah, cher ami, you must live as you choose!β and then running off to confront the real culprit while you stand there in befuddlement
Columbo deduces you're trans from context clues while he's talking to you about the area, immediately uses your preferred pronouns and starts telling you about his cousin, who's also transgender, and how they got this job doing security, and how they told him that a security guard always locks up, and asks you if the guard locked up last night, and isn't it weird the place was open? And you're like, well, someone else must have opened it up. Maybe the guy in charge? He has a spare key. And then he nods and goes "the guy in charge has a spare key... well, how about that?" And then he offers you a cigar and wanders off, and a day later your boss gets arrested for murder.
Miss Fisher learns youre trans and simply gives you hormones, and a little cocaine as a treat. she also invites you out to a club to meet like minded individuals. at the club you watch as she seduces the bartender and then the next day the bartender is arrested for the murder.
Elementary Sherlock deduces you are Trans and takes you on as a specialist in many obscure and useful disciplines, and also takes you in when you have a falling out with one of your many eccentric and rich paramours. This leads to you becoming an occasional and part-time housekeeper. You are Mrs. Hudson. Yes this is Canon and it aired on TV in like 2007
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Remember when the entire internet believed that it was entirely the fault of Anish Kapoor that consumers weren't able to purchase an airplane paint that required proper ventilation and a paint booth to use, entirely on the word of a pigment manufacturer who then used the video to advertise his pigments?
Strictly speaking, most (spray) paints require proper ventilation and a paint booth to use. Vantablack's original formulation wasn't even a paint, it was a vapor-deposited crystal that was applied by putting whatever you were coating in a vacuum chamber. Later versions eventually did get into a more paint-like format but still require post-processing in vacuum chambers.
It still isn't sold direct-to-consumer because it's not meant to be "really dark paint" (though BMW did build a concept car coated in it) it's an engineering material designed for precision optics and sensors, and its application is a little more complicated than rattle-canning something flat carbon black.
From Columbia Journal of Law & the Arts, June 3rd, 2025 by Amelia Chen:
The "airplane painting company" was Surrey Nanosystems.
They gave Anish Kapoor exclusive rights to use Vantablack in artwork, which means he paid them a lot of money to write up a contract that the only manufacturer of this type of paint was only going to sell it to Kapoor. A contractual agreement that nobody else is even allowed to attempt to use it.
Nobody had to take Stuart Semple at his word, they could look it up legally. They could ask to also be trained to use Vantablack and rejected by Surrey Nanosystems. It's not that it's a "license to use it" as much as it is "and nobody else can."
If it hadn't been for the 'exclusively' bit, it still would have been restrictive to do, but the attempt to improve the pigment Could have been made.
It also wasn't the first time this happened: Yves Klein did the same with an exclusive blue pigment. There was still outrage in the 1960s when "Klein Blue" was exclusive to Yves's use. (Note: It is VERY blue.)
As far as the art itself, I mean, at least Kapoor puts up warning signs for his installations? Though you know, insurance liabilities need to be viable. But this is how he's using it in his installations. You have to sign a waiver to see it.
A man fell into a hole in an artwork on view at "Anish Kapoor: Works, Thoughts, Experiments" at the Serralves museum in Portugal.
So, Semple went out of his way to call Kapoor out and invented several new acrylic pigments to be petty and included a Kapoor rider. -I promise not to give this to Kapoor-
And then,
instead of letting a sleeping dog lie,
Kapoor heard he wasn't supposed to have a new pigment from Semple. Legally restricted. Y'know, like he did with Vantablack.
So he used his money and wealthy connections and paid a sequence of people to be able to get it.
What did he do with it? Oh, he covered his middle finger in the pigment and posted it online, tagging Semple.
Kapoor got it after Lisson Gallery purchased the pigment from Semple. A tumblrina is cited as having found that out on legit news sites.
Semple then went on to make Black 2.0 and Diamond Dust, both with the Kapoor rider on each sale. Semple is still making pigments. The pigments he makes get good reviews.
So, unless they're somehow secretly friends and all of the sales benefitting Semple were a favor Kapoor did for him, I'm not sure how anyone "was just taking a pigment seller's word" for anything?
Like, that all did happen. It was funny, and petty, and Kapoor participated in the interaction, like what? Did you buy Semple's pigments? Did you feel ripped off?
Like what's the source to be all "oh we were all gullible" about it? Are we supposed to deny reality now?
So, I was working in a lab, right? My job in the lab was preparing a pure, concentrated enough sample of virus. This is tricky since, y'know, viruses require hosts to replicate, but you then need to get the host cells (and the pieces of the host cells that died!) out of the sample while still keeping the viruses. Once I'd finished and the samples had been sent to the database for analysis as well as a second one sent to be frozen for future reference, there was still some left over that needed to be disposed of.
I, knowing that this was a once in a lifetime opportunity, waited carefully for the lab director to be deep in conversation with someone else on the other side of the laboratory. And then I took my chance.
Test tubes, as it turns out, are really bad as shot glasses. Their shape turns any liquid inside into a stream, so you really can't knock it back quickly - it takes a couple seconds. Additionally, the best way I can describe the taste of virus concentrate was "sterile rot". A very unique kind of bad! Made worse by the test tube's inefficiency as a shot glass.
(by the way we were studying bacteriophages, not animal viruses. these viruses are too specialized on attacking prokaryotes to even recognize our cells as targets at all, according to studies.)
(but also like. if the viruses managed to successfully switch hosts and killed me with a violent infection, itd still be worth it.)
The OBSESSION with identity is so crazy like the view that when you do something it immediately becomes part of your identity and all the parts of you have to click together to become βperson who wakes up earlyβ or βperson who readsβ no you can literally just do something without restructuring your whole performance of personhood around it. I donβt know what to tell you except that you will never be able to have an entirely unfractured view of yourself or that you will be able to rationalize all the complex parts of yourself into the phrase βperson who xβ like you should just be doing things without performing them. Or aestheticizing them. Just try different things on and keep what works for you. Otherwise you will never learn and grow!
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[ID: Set of photos of Jerry Lewis kissing Betty Hutton and then turning in her arms to kiss Dean Martin. The caption reads "Boy meets girl, boy gets boy, or, Betty Hutton and two friends... Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis"]
Putting the term "male gaze" on top of the fridge until everyone remembers that it refers to a cinematographic trend and not the act of looking at things while being a man
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idk if this is an usamerican thing or not but it always blows my mind as a small european country resident that yall have many names and types of apples???? what do you mean its not just red yellow or green??? why is it so complicated??? who is granny smith????
