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I know I haven't posted regularly on this blog in years but I'm not seeing a whole lot of posts on this site about what's happening in Minneapolis right now. And the posts I am seeing are not covering the scope of it. I'm genuinely surprised because tumblr is usually where I find out about things organically through my feed. So I'm making a post about it.
A brief summary of events, from someone who pays attention and also lives here, best taken with a grain of salt and some fact checking:
2020: George Floyd is murdered by Minneapolis police. There are weeks of protests about it. It makes national news. Protests happen in DC. The infamous Trump and his bible photo shoot happens.
2024: Gov. Tim Walz is Kamala Harris' running mate in the presidential election. He starts the "they're just weird" thing. Is folksy, Trump personally hates him.
November 2025: ICE starts showing up to "crack down" on "illegal immigrants" in our Somali community. I may remember the numbers wrong, but something like 90% of our Somali neighbors are either naturalized or were born here. People distribute ICE whistles and are on high alert. Localized to the twin cities.
December 2025: Nick Shirley is paid by a bunch of MN Republicans to do an exposƩ on daycare fraud. I didn't hear much about this. All I really know is this was an ongoing investigation that MN officials were already taking care of and some of the guilty parties have already gone to court from a COVID era food assistance program. Mostly, if not all, legal US citizens. He did a really bad job at doing journalism and just showed up to day cares with a camera crew and went "YUP nobody's here" as if they weren't in lock-down procedure because some fuck ass white men showed up with camera equipment that could easily be mistaken for guns. I believe. I will fact check all of this and will correct myself in a reblog if necessary. (source but not all the details that I remember hearing about but they said there was no recorded evidence of fraud)
Conservative internet explodes. Kristi Noem sends a mess of agents. I know it's more than a thousand more. They call it Operation Metro Surge. They are going everywhere. There are protests. People try to interrupt the arrests. It's a lot.
1/7/2026: Renee Nicole Good is shot by an ICE agent in the middle of a protest. A few blocks away from where George Floyd was killed. Broad daylight. In front of a crowd. While she was following instructions to turn her vehicle around. Jonathan Ross, the piece of shit Nazi who did it, was recording on his phone the whole time, switched his phone to his non dominant hand so he could more effectively shoot her in the face from 2 feet away. Claims self defense, several angles immediately disprove him. He releases his video, he calls her a "fucking bitch" as her corpse drives away. Does not help him at all. (source) He has not been seen since. Some photos/reports exist of a bunch of agents showing up to his house and taking some tubs and art away. His wife is an immigrant. (source but it's the daily mail so grain of salt.)
Not hours later they go raid a school and tear gas a bunch of kids. (source). Minneapolis has switched to distance learning. I'm not sure about St. Paul.
The last week: There are up to 3,000 ICE agents here. Keep in mind Minneapolis and St. Paul only have 600 or fewer police officers each. So these dudes are roaming in packs. It's 2-4 dudes to a car and 2-5 cars per pack. People are "commuting with" ICE agents to honk and alert people that they're there. People are going on patrols with their neighbors.
ICE is no longer asking "are you a citizen." They are simply walking up to you and taking you into custody. They are going door to door. They have started just breaking the door down if you don't comply. They are driving recklessly to just grab pedestrians and drivers alike (source). People are afraid to go get groceries. It's all over the state. I am learning names of cities in places I thought were just factory farm land and I've lived here my whole life because they're doing raids there. I had to text my family in the suburbs because I saw reports of my small little hometown an hour away getting door knocks today.
It's insane and I am not doing it justice. There are thousands of masked federal agents roaming around all of Minnesota with no warrant or specific goal. They are just trolling around looking for people. They are detaining anyone and everyone. They are beating people. They are pepper spraying people. They are kidnapping people. They are acting unconstitutionally, aggressively, and unpredictably. They are creating situations that are dangerous so that they can try to justify beating or shooting their way out. I will run an errand and then get fed a tiktok that was shot from the Cub Foods that I just left and there's 20+ ICE vehicles parked there now. They're taking people from work, from day care, from schools, from shopping centers.
Iceout.org tracks ice sightings. This is a screen shot with the date set to 12/1/2025.
And from today.
They have cut off SNAP and WIC benefits. Just for us. Not any other state, just Minnesota. They're saying it's because of fraud but I think it's because they hate that we use federal funds to give free breakfast and lunch to every public school student.
And this is breaking just now, 1/13/2026: the DOJ is trying to investigate Renee Good's widow. 4 people have resigned about it. (source). I don't even want to read the article to see what they're saying.
So that's a brief history.
Unicorn Riot is doing a lot of good reporting and they don't seem to have the spin that a lot of local news stations will have where they downplay everything. This article specifically goes into a lot of the specific instances of brutality.
It's also a rumor on TikTok that all of the videos of ICE and protests and the such and the like are being geo locked. So my feed is all footage of people being detained and talking about the "commuting" they're doing and what they're seeing but people outside of the state are not seeing it. So if you're also on that infernal app, try searching for Minneapolis or Minnesota and see what you see. I'm kind of curious if this is true. Because I've been living and breathing ICE and doomsday prepping content for a week. I'm sure those two topics aren't connected.
I don't really know what my goal with this post is. I'm tired. I'm in the first ring of suburbs, so it's been pretty quiet. But I have friends in south Minneapolis. And I'm worried for them. And I know it's a matter of time before my quiet pocket is affected. Because they're coming door to door.
Pay attention to Minnesota, I think an example is being made of us.
I've been monitoring this closely because I have friends in the area, and because I think every city in the country is at risk of having the feds come to do what they're doing in Minnesota, and we all need to get ready.
There are some Twin Cities activists who have been very clearly laying out what they're doing, and why it's effective at slowing down ICE. It sounds like all you really need, is neighborhood group chats where people can let one another know when and where ICE is present, and then people show up, start recording, and blowing whistles, and then ICE will leave again more often than not. This VERY SHORT thread by a Twin Cities activist outlines what to do and how it works.
Getting a lot of messages. A lot are like "Can I come help?" (appreciated, but unless you know the area very well, probably not THAT useful)
Also: Minnesota Public Radio has been doing great coverage of what's happening, and the local NBC affiliate has some excellent interviews with activists who were arrested and detained for hours.
And finally, some good news: the courts restored SNAP funding.
Reading Ancillary Mercy rn and Seivarden has really been on the journey of all time. In a coma. Woke up. Whole family dead. Only person who recognises her is her former company car, who's decided to go and shoot the president. Not kill, just shoot. The car shoots the president several times. The president gives the company car her own company car. Seivarden can come along. Seivarden is in love with her former company car. The company car never liked her. Her company car is now in love with another company car. The company cars are openly discussing this in front of her, including Seivarden's own feelings for one of the company cars. Sequence of events of all time.
having viral posts is all fun and games until you have clowns in your mentions being like "well, op, i bet you also didn't know THIS" [haughtily explains something i absolutely would and do know] like add whatever to my posts that you think is informative just don't direct it at ME! i know! i just didn't include it in the post i made in 20 seconds because i didn't think 30,000 of you would see it!
i love these tags. WHAT was your viral post i need to know so badly.
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people keep trying to make "ladies and gentlemen" more inclusive.
I think we should go the other way around.
make more and more weird false dichotomies in greetings. "gamers and pianists". "oil painters and swordsmen". "vexillologists and entomologists". "chess masters and diamond artificers". "accountants and gendered individuals".
we need to be dropping shit into formal meetings to make people say "wait what? which one am I?"
I have started referring to my students as ācritters and creatures.ā I then offer them the option to decide where on the critterācreature spectrum they think they belong. They enjoy this immensely. I teach some critters, some creatures, some 50/50s, some critters with creature tendencies, some creatures with critter inclinations.
all i have to say is 'hello cowards' and it shuts gendering up
Watched a video by a etiquette expert.
Honoured guests is the formal gender neutral term
But i encourage everyone to continue being funny
I think the problem is that if I opened a lunch meeting with "Welcome, honored guests", most people in that meeting would have the creeping suspicion that their lunches were poisoned.
On the other hand, if you say "Welcome, trusted friends and embittered enemies!" you can defuse that suspicion by assuring anyone who asks that they are definitely in the former category. Then if they don't believe you they can put themselves in the latter one. Everyone wins!
I have been addressing my students as "crew" for the past decade because I never stopped wanting to be a Starfleet captain. My advisor uses gang and it always makes me feel like we're about to do a heist (we never do a heist).
So listen i have this book coming out in uhhh 10 days and I am Worried about it, because it is a Comedy, and comedy is really hard to market (why????? it's funny pirates, what's not to like??) even when it is, yanno, normal mainstream comedy.
It is even worse when it is Unhinged Comedy That's Mostly Going To Be Funny To People On Tumblr. (For example, the main character being a supreme gremlin made of 90% memes by weight (examples: carries around a bag that is never called anything but his "little rucksack"; has a near-verbatim "stick me legy out real far" moment; talks about his metaphorical "orphan gruel bowl" which is a direct reference to that one Oliver Twist gif) because those are funny to me personally.) Unhinged Tumblr Comedy is difficult because tumblr is not a platform where it is easy to market things to people, because we are generally violently anti-capitalist and LOATHE advertisements and reflexively resist being marketed to for most anything. I LOVE that about this website. Except for right now, because I have bills to pay and a cat to feed. So look, fellow tumblr gremlins, I am just trying to say that if your personal brand of comedy is laughing at the kind of jokes that could only be produced on this hell website, and:
you like pirates
you're queer and want to read more books by queer authors
you want your fictional queer characters to be a hell of a lot more Messy and Unhinged than they often are depicted as being
you're interested in seeing a love triangle (M/M/NB) that resolves into polyamory
you want books where the hottest character gets to makes Passionate Speeches about rebelling against oppressive institutional regimes like governments and organized religions
you believe that capitalism is the most oppressive institutional regime of them all
you think it's fun when two characters have been in a 15-year-long relationship where the vibes have been "We're Newly Divorced" nearly since day one
you believe that All Cops Are Bastards and want to know what to do when you get pulled over by the boat cops
you think the Great British Bake-Off would be improved with weaponry, ritualized bribery/coercion of judges, and elaborate shit-talk
then this book might be for you. Beneath the wall-to-wall hijinks, it is political and it is righteously angry and it is the funniest thing I have ever written (which is saying something, because I have written some funny shit). It's called RUNNING CLOSE TO THE WIND. Here's a picture of it.
If all that sounds cool, you can read a review of it here and the first chapter of it here to see if it as funny as I am claiming it is, and then if you think that it is, you can preorder it here. It comes out on June 11! Ten days from now!
Thank you for letting me market to you for a minute. Signal boosting would be very much appreciated.
I manage to get an eARC of this book (highlight of my year) and can confirm it is absurdly funny. I was half worried my neighbors would call in a noise complaint with how hard I was laughing. Also if you are a fancy booksā¢ļø person like myself the broken bonding has a BEAUTIFUL signed edition with painted edges, foiling, the works
Good news: this book IS one of the funniest books Iāve ever read. Comedy is Hard but THIS BOOK is pure comedy. (With a side of horny and heart)
okay, I wasn't sure how I'd feel about this going in, but when I got to "he'd managed to rhyme 'strap-on' with 'denouement`" I had to put my laptop down because I was laughing so hard I was worried I'd drop it
and I sent just that line to my partner, who I'd expect to be much more in the target audience for this kind of Gremlin Story than me, and said "I might have to buy this book."
My preorder is heeere and I just started it! In love already but will report back. His little rucksack!
QUEER PIRATE FANS ESPECIALLY! I devoured it in one go on release day, but I'ma read it again super soon. It is so queer and that's so unremarkable in the world (which I also loved in A Taste of Gold and Iron). And it is so horny, at a level which would be remarkable anywhere. It would be difficult to overstate what a fucked-up wet cat of a creature you will follow around in this story. You will be snerking loudly and occasionally just making explosive hooting noises. You will post excerpts in your group chats. You will exclaim "HIS LITTLE RUCKSACK!" at people and they will give you Looks. The joy of the baking competition carried me through a day of people banging on my roof loudly, and I say this even as a fan of seagulls and all other garbage creatures. Anyway, if you would like to support a queer author and also be filled with joy and whimsy, I can't recommend this to you enough. If you love it, definitely go back and read A Taste of Gold and Iron, because fucking hello?
Yeeeessssss. Anyway, I just can't see OFMD fans not loving this (I think there's a couple of nods to but I can't swear it). It also shouts out the giant of fantasy comedy, GNU Terry Pratchett. You can see that influence in all the best ways. Please read it and bother other people about reading it, request that your library buy it, review it, etc. To support the author and celebrate the representation, of course, but also so that I maybe get more. Please and thank you.
Folks, I just finished reading this last night, and it's amazing and beautiful. I laughed SO much reading it but I also cried and cheered and got angry. All of the emotions - I felt them.
(Pictured above: both me reading this book and also Avra every moment of every day)
When people are saying that this feels very Terry Pratchett in execution, take them seriously. It does. It's very much its own thing as well - far more explicitly queer and with its own style of humour that is distinct from Pratchett, but the blending of comedy, social commentary, and outright rage against injustice is VERY Pratchett in the best possible way. There comes a moment near the end of the book when a particular character goes on a full-blown raison d'etre rant where I genuinely wanted to applaud at the end.
Also, all of the character voices are so distinct and entertaining that I read so much of the dialogue out loud to myself because it felt fun to just SAY.
I love everything from Alex Rowland, particularly in the Chantiverse, but I felt like this one took a step out and just GLOWED. I will be re-reading many times just to feel it all again.
Final addition: the cake competition was one of the greatest things ever.
Go read it now.
Y'all. Y'ALL. I just finished this absolutely wondrous book today on the train and lemme just say. I was moved to tears by the aforementioned raison d'etre rant and a candid little chat with a certain catlike (haha) character. I feel like Alex has taken my soul and bared it for the world to see. AND YET they did it with such tenderness and healing and goddamn consideration for the weird personal universe of truths that makes every human's unique experience. Absolutely the kind of book that will rewire your brain a bit if you just let it. I'll be getting a hardcover copy which will reside in pride of place on my bookshelf posthaste.
[gets out guitar case to busk on the streetcorner a bit]
Hello friends! I am Alexandra Rowland, a queer fantasy author of some books you might have read in the Chantiverse (including: A Taste of Gold and Iron, A Conspiracy of Truths, Running Close to the Wind, Some By Virtue Fall, etc).
Over the past few months, my Patreon income has fallen by about a third (no shame to my patrons, sometimes financial situations change!). I do Patreon a little differently from most people, because I know that the amount of support that people pledge isn't based on how much they value me and my work, it's about how much they personally can afford that month. For some people, giving one dollar is as impactful on their finances as giving ten dollars would be to someone else -- in either case, even though the monetary amount is different, the amount of generosity and kindness in the gesture is equal. Therefore, I don't restrict access to my works based on tiers of support: Everyone gets access to everything, regardless of how much they've pledged. It just doesn't seem fair to do it any other way and implicitly "punish" people for not being able to afford more. And those one-dollar-a-month pledges REALLY stack up.
Currently on Patreon there is a great backlog of sneak peeks of my WIPs, including everything that currently exists of my next book, Yield Under Great Persuasion (a queer fantasy romance between a prickly tea shop owner named Tam and his childhood nemesis, Lord Lyford, who he definitely isn't in love with; it's got nosy busybody gods who refuse mind their own business, vegetable-related dick jokes, a supposed-to-be-epic quest to the mountains to capture the Ram of the Highlands, and reflections on the fact that sometimes apologies aren't good enough, the struggle towards personal growth, and how to learn to love yourself enough to allow other people to love you too). I also do tarot readings from time to time, and supporting me on Patreon also gets you access to a secret channel in my Discord server.
If you love my books and my nonsense on tumblr and you'd like me to continue doing those things... Here's the link, and I'd be really grateful for your support (and for any signal boosting!) š Thank you!!!
š³ <- this emoji but without the blush or romantic connotation. im not blushing im staring you directly in your fucking eyes
if you excuse the bad editing it would look like this
can we hit 150k before this piece of shits one year anniversary
u know before yellow emojis took over as automatic, the one we used for this exactly was O_O . which has unfortunately become the shortcut for the stupid blushy one. but we also used to emphasize the emotion by making the mouth bigger, O_________O . there was also o_O , for when you're weirded out, and o_o for small weirds or intrigue. you could use a period instead of an underscore for the mouth, o.o, O.O, which was a little more like shock.
there was also -_- for when you're annoyed. -_-* for pissed. the asterisk is a forehead vein. a very bad day or very bad joke could result in -___________-********** .
anyway that's your history lesson for the day, dont forget your roots.
let us also not forget the meekest of them all: ._.
And their cousin @_@ for confusion
Also my personal niche favorite: a teary uwu ;~;

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okay I watched good omens s2 yesterday with my partner, and I was genuinely very surprised -- I think if you've grown up through superwholock/merlin/the 100/teen wolf type shows where (with the exception periodically of doctor who) you kind of had to make up the good show that something could have been in your head, that colours a lot of your viewing, and to be honest I thought season 1 of good omens was a fine little piece, honoured the book while modernising it somewhat, it was a nice, fun, low stakes time, with a couple of things I might have wanted a tad different but nothing overall awful.
so I was seeing all this meta and gifsets and discussion, while I was waiting to give s2 a watch with my partner and thought "ah, people have made up the good show in their heads again" not that I assumed s2 was going to be a bad show, but that people were taking extra deep plunges into possibilities, the way fandom does, and that was fine. I knew there was a big ol kiss, I had a sense of some kind of argument at the end, and that it was setting up a s3
I also knew that mainstream reviews were calling it (politely) self-indulgent and dependent on whether or not you enjoy david tennant and michael sheen having a good time for just under 6 hours
all in all, expectations of a somewhat mainstream show without too much to think about, a nice, fun low stakes time, moving on...
(EDIT: AND THEN I WROTE A LOT OF WORDS SO YOU CAN IMAGINE THAT MY REACTION WAS QUITE DIFFERENT)
I enjoy letting Rocky be the chaos gremlin he is, but I also really enjoy writing characters just bouncing off each other, talking and being their unabashed (intoxicated) selves.
Looking forward to writing more of it for Season 1. (Thank you for making that possible!) ----------------------------- Lackadaisy Season 1 Backerkit crowdfund is in its final week! Help us make this as high quality as we can, with maybe some mini-episodes to boot. In exchange, we have books, plushes, pins, a card game and more!
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Iāll make a more official post once weāve done the cover reveal, but for now: a plot teaser! And by plot teaser I mean: telling you whoās going to fall in love. I know why youāre all here.
A Power Unbound is the final entry in Freya Marskeās beloved, award-winning Last Binding trilogy, the queer historical fantasy series that began with A Marvellous Light.
Secrets! Magic! Enemies to⦠something more? Jack Alston, Lord Hawthorn, would love a nice, safe, comfortable life. After the death of his twin sister, he thought he was done with magic for good. But with the threat of a dangerous ritual hanging over every magician in Britain, heās drawn reluctantly back into that world. Now Jack is living in a bizarre puzzle-box of a magical London townhouse, helping an unlikely group of friends track down the final piece of the Last Contract before their enemies can do the same. And to make matters worse, they need the help of writer and thief Alan Ross. Cagey and argumentative, Alan is only in this for the money. The aristocratic Lord Hawthorn, with all his unearned power, is everything that Alan hates. And unfortunately, Alan happens to be everything that Jack wants in one gorgeous, infuriating package. When a plot to seize unimaginable power comes to a head at Cheetham HallāJackās ancestral family estate, a land so old and bound in oaths that itās grown a personality as prickly as its ownerāJack, Alan and their allies will become entangled in a night of champagne, secrets, and bloody sacrifice⦠and the foundations of magic in Britain will be torn up by the roots before the end.
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okay, so neutrinos are predicted to be massless, but they oscillate, which implies they have a very small mass; this mass is, as i understand it, so small that it has not actually been detected.
everything i have read says neutrinos must have mass to oscillate. that neutrino oscillation without mass is impossible. i trust that this is correct. but would massless neutrino oscillation break physics in, like, a āthis means we have to go back and revise basic assumptions about the standard model, and it would be a huge pain in the ass, with uncertain consequences for all the predictions of that model we have that are correctā kind of way, or a āthis would require -1 to equal 15 in this equation, and is objectively nonsenseā way?
So several other people have responded that neutrinos having mass does not majorly break the standard model, which is true. But what you asked is does massless neutrino oscillation break things, and my understanding of that is yes, it would break things very badly. Massless particles are necessarily static, their properties cannot change unless they interact with another particle. Thatās not a prediction of the standard model, itās a prediction of the Schrodinger equation.
(I guess cosmological/gravitational redshift is an exception to this, but, you know. Gravity. You can probably model that as photons interacting with gravitons or something.)
One interesting part of this is that while we havenāt been able to measure the masses of neutrinos, we do know the ratios of the masses of the different flavors to one another, because thatās directly tied to the rate of the oscillations, which weāve measured.
Not ratios, differences in the squares of the masses, right? (I donāt really understand this, otherwise I would try to explain it)
Ah shit, yeah youāre right. And while weāre being picky, I guess itās not technically the masses āof the flavorsā either, itās the masses of the mass eigenstates. The whole reason oscillation occurs is that those arenāt the same thing.
Anyway, the short explanation is that because of what I just said, a neutrino with a well-defined flavor is actually a mixture of the three different mass eigenstates. Schrodingers equation tells us that the phase of an energy eigenstate (which, since weāre talking about free propagation here, is the same as a mass eigenstate) rotates at a rate proportional to the energy, which in the relativistic limit is equal to a constant factor plus the mass squared. As the different mass components of the neutrino therefore rotate in and out of phase with one another, the way they interfere will vary, producing different flavors in an oscillating pattern. The rate of this oscillation is related to differences in the rotation rate of the phases, which is proportional the differences of the squared masses.
I bet if a mushroom could lap water out of your hand with a tongue that a gently drinking mushroom tongue on your hand would be the softest and gentlest thing.
jesus christ, i experienced brief but severe grief over not actually being able to experience this.
I think it would feel like a lizard tongue but I've never had a lizard drink out of my hand either, and thus the whole thing remains conceptually elusive.
this put such a vivid image in my head i needed to make it real as soon as i got home
This makes me indescribably overjoyed.

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I think this is my favorite poem.
Girls racing sheep in Aberystwyth, Wales. 1965.