We're all stories in the end

a concept: heavy rainfall when you’re tucked up in bed. like if u agree.

Alan Turing and Ada of Lovelace did not invent computer science for the girls and the gays to claim they can't do math

“Everyone around you, those whom you love, whom you hate, who you pass on the street and never see again, the distant stranger who you will never speak with, even the countless dead who came before you and the multitudes of those yet to arrive all have the same level of interiority as you have” is, I believe, the core ethical axiom and yet I’m not sure it’s possible to fully appreciate this, or at least outside of passing sublime moments

the best fanfiction you've ever read was written by a woman in her 40s before she made dinner for her kids. it was written by a teenager after school when they should've been studying for a history test. and a barista came up with the idea while they cleaned the espresso machine and busser fact-checked it on their break and the post-doc edited between writing grant proposals and the nurse apologized for typos in the notes after a long shift and behind every drabble and one-shot and multi-chapter fic there is a person with a wonderful and interesting and chaotic life and it is such a privilege that we get to be apart of it because they decided to do this thing we all share, for fun.

#[loading chekhov's missile launcher] haha isnt this cultural exchange funny and awkwardly endearing @valtsv

I really can’t believe I’ve been on this hell site for 8 years

Impart me in your wisdom of ancient times

one time there was a tumblr user with the url “pizza” and she would just comment on any text post about pizza saying “omg that’s me” and then we found out she had an entire tag dedicated to saying the n word

One time somebody paid $750 for the url ‘hi’ and got deleted in less than a year for promoting weight loss scams

too much to document, but god damn we can try

Seeing that this was from 2019 is like how ancient Egypt had people who studied even more ancient versions of Egypt.

imagine living somewhere flat….with like……almost no hills…..what do you guys do for fun get picked off by birds of prey or

We need an alternative to doesthedogdie cause they’ve started fucking paywalling warnings that include timestamps for triggering moments.

I wish Wolf 359 would get rediscovered now that space adventures are a la mode once more :')

Okayokayokayokaybut "My hand will wear out but the inscription will remain" is kind of a power line BEFORE you factor in that it is, in fact, over a thousand years old.

It’s always good to spend a few moments, on a quiet day, looking through the Family album.

Idk how many young people are still on tumblr but as a college academic advisor please listen to me: it is fine to drop out of college. It’s great even. You can drop out of college if that is what is best for you. However. Please. For the love of god, actually drop your classes. Go to the registrar/your advisor/your student portal/whatever and withdraw from your classes. Do not just stop attending. If you just stop showing up, you will fail all of the classes you’re enrolled in. This will tank your GPA, and if you ever decide you want to go back to school for a specific career, those Fs will come back to bite you. My college program is fairly lenient for our field (healthcare) and still we have to turn away a bunch of students who don’t have a 2.5 GPA, and the reason is that they attended half a semester of college in 2000, dropped out without withdrawing, and ended up with a 0.0 GPA and 16 credits. It’s very tough to recover from that. Even if you think you’ll never go to college, please just withdraw from those classes. Depending on when you withdraw, you may still have to pay for them, but at least there will be a little W transcript that will save your GPA.

and if it's too late and you already did this, contact your old college and see if they have a waiver for this situation. some colleges will let you fill out a form and get those credits dismissed under certain circumstances, like if enough time has passed or it happened during covid.

And make SURE your classes actually get dropped. Often the process for dropping all of your classes is slightly different than dropping a single one. I had a student this semester who attempted to drop my class, but it got automatically red-flagged for them being under the credit minimum and didn't actually go through. They ended up with an F in the class because it never actually got dropped and they didn't realize until it was too late for the automatic withdrawal deadline.

alternate narrative: it’s actually fine if someone found me a little weird or even off-putting. i am a little weird and it’s no big deal

“scientists don’t want you know” is a phrase that always cracks me up because if you actually meet a scientist they will be shaking and crying like an overstimulated chihuahua with the need to let you know

OK lads but. Why is the r slur coming back. It's 2026. Why am I hearing so many of The Youth use this word liberally and at whim. Do you need me to ground you. Do I need to sit you on the naughty step. Do you need me to strap you into the Learning Chair and deliver a 4 hour lecture about the history of the r slur, ableism, and why using that word is neither big nor cool. Or do you just need me to punch you in the mouth.

Because people aren't going along with your "harsh insults are suddenly slurs now" game. Touch grass, get a glass of water, do literally anything else...

when everything is a slur, nothing will be?

A spade is a spade. A trowel is not. Hope that helps!