Time travel required too much setup for my poor brain so I went in a Ghost!Qui-Gon direction. I mean, Ghost!Qui-Gon talking to Obi-Wan is canon, so why not?
Forced Safe Mode just went live. Go into your account settings to check for the changes.
It took me a bit to figure out that if you’re on iPhone the safe mode isn’t in the settings menu in the app. Go to your phone’s settings app, then scroll down to Tumblr, and it’s in there…
Hey so yeah on my mobile app “safe mode” was on by default, heads up to check your settings for anything weird that may have moved.
Tumblr’s insistence on pushing app updates with no notification of what actually changed or was added is so exasperating.
For any followers who use mobile by preference and haven’t found how to turn this damned “update” off on there.
Look how many people hate him. I’m pretty damn happy about that 😁😁😁😁😁😁
All I want is this post to get a small amount of a million notes
All I want is this to be the most popular post in the history of this site
Let’s make the notes disappear y’all
Grow baby grow
Jess is being adorable, and has spent the day curled up next to me, and only moves when I go to get up. And even then, she usually takes some encouragement to be sure that yes, I am getting up.
President Trump’s vision of soldiers marching and tanks rolling down
the boulevards of Washington is moving closer to reality in the Pentagon
and White House, where officials say they have begun to plan a grand
military parade later this year showcasing the might of America’s armed
forces.
Trump has long mused publicly and privately about wanting
such a parade, but a Jan. 18 meeting between Trump and top generals in
the Pentagon’s tank — a room reserved for top-secret discussions —
marked a tipping point, according to two officials briefed on the
planning.
Surrounded by the military’s highest-ranking officials,
including Defense Secretary Jim Mattis and Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen.
Joseph F. Dunford Jr., Trump’s seemingly abstract desire for a parade
was suddenly heard as a presidential directive, the officials said.
Brain Meme 1: Trump wants a military parade because he’s planning on becoming a literal dictator, and he’s already figuratively a literal dictator.
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2: Trump wants a military parade because he doesn’t realize that this kind of political theater is for countries with weaker legitimization of the state, intended to show off its might both internally and externally. He is utterly clueless as to the functionings of statecraft or diplomacy.
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3: Trump wants a military parade because, due to the prominence of positions 1 and 2, it will piss off the Democrats, and causing enormous amounts of noise using symbolic gestures is his strategy and has been the entire time.
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4: Trump just thinks military parades look cool. His strategy is just to follow his instincts, and his instincts were selected for by the ridiculous American election process under the influence of media in the Internet age. There is no bigger plan.
all of the above, all of the above.
Brain Meme 5: Whatever his reason for wanting it, he’s worried he’s going to be impeached if the House and Senate are flipped in the fall so he knows if he’s ever going to have a chance to force a giant symbol of this country to march in glorification of his tiny penis he’s gotta do it soon.
*tilts head* I wonder if anyone else saw this article and started contemplating where along any route they might take would have the greatest impact to sit in the way. (Or stand, but my joints will not allow me to do that.) Because fuck this shit if it gets anywhere close to reality.
People easily mistake neurodivergent speech patterns and communication styles for run-of-the-mill pretentiousness.
I don’t want to get too specific right now, but a lot of people who are neurodivergent (namely autistic, but there’s lots of overlap) struggle with communication. To them, writing/typing may be far easier and more natural than speaking aloud, but it can still come off as unusually formal, overly precise, or more awkwardly structured than usual. Sometimes it’s interpreted as “pretentiousness” because it doesn’t have the same casual cadence many neurotypical writers may use.
This.
wait people consider this offensive?
Not offensive so much as irritating, I guess. It’s low-hanging fruit and easy to mock whenever people pick up on something “off” about you.
Other times, people assume that you employ formal language or “advanced” vocabulary because you’re trying too hard to sound intelligent or superior. What you intend to be clear and specific may be interpreted as condescension.
Ship, you just wrote about ten chapters of my life story. The flip side of this is when you take something someone else says at face value, but they meant something different than what you thought they did, and they’re like, “You knew what I meant; you’re just being pedantic.”
Oof, yeah. I can figure things out for myself and I can follow instructions, but vague/incomplete instructions throw me off tremendously… but I can’t always distinguish between someone’s neutral attempts to be informative versus a passive aggressive “hey, you stupid fuck, I bet you can’t even get the most simple directions right unless I spoonfeed you”. What is mockery, and what is establishment of a basic premise?
Knowing that other people will sometimes say things insincerely for the purpose of humiliating you, it’s easy to becomes suspicious of friendly comments. I met my friend Alexi because I responded to her compliment about my clothing with “fuck you” because it rang all my “this person is teasing you and will use your assumption of good will to hurt you” bells. Nope! She was sincere! I kept going over the interaction in my head until I decided that my initial calculations were incorrect and she was legitimately being nice to me. I found her again, apologized awkwardly, and we’ve been friends ever since. But that was face to face! There were other cues on the table, and the pressure of close proximity encouraging reconciliation. Think how often misunderstandings like that happen on the Internet.
…
*is very suddenly and unexpectedly reminded of the worst and earliest years of school*
(This is not a bad thing, despite the feeling of being punched in the chest, just. I am uncertain how to quantify what this means for me, to find that someone has been able to put into words one of the aspects of me that was targeted – my brain keeps saying caused, because I was blamed for being bullied – by the people who made my life miserable at school for five long years.)
can we please bring back “in poor taste” as a concept
Because at some point it got folded in under “problematic,” and now every damn thing that has Unfortunate Implications or deals with sensitive topics indelicately enough to raise hackles or gores somebody’s sacred cow is treated as a grave injustice or a threat to society. Online activism culture has lost the vocabulary to express “this deals with touchy stuff in a way many people might find inappropriate, and you should probably avoid it if insensitivity on this subject gets you angry/upset, but it’s not promoting hateful ideas or demeaning people or affecting anything but my opinion of the creator’s sense of tact.”
I think this really an important post.
We’ve fallen into such a rut of “everything is right or wrong, no inbetween” that stuff that’s merely in poor taste is conflated with things that are actually offensively malicious.
this is so well worded like i been trying to say this for awhile thank you
Damn. This is the thing.
Good, yes. This is a valuable concept.
. . and while we’re at it, can “problematic” actually mean problematic again? As in potentially but not definitely bad. Imperfect. Difficult to assess. One person might find it hurtful and another might not. If you think something is definitely bad, ‘problematic’ is not the word you want. Basically can we just have the general concept of gray areas back?
There's a Mirror on the Wall 