Everybody sends out these fucking customer satisfaction surveys now when you deal with front-line customer relations people and it’s the most infuriating thing in the world trying to find a way to communicate “every moment I spend dealing with your company is an eternity of Kafkaesque existential torment” without them just interpreting it as “this representative wasn’t charismatic enough”
Like of course they’re only even asking for the purpose of deciding if they should punish the worker, so it seems inappropriate to reply negatively for things they have minimal control over, but on the other hand, reporting positively is good worker solidarity but also involves tricking the company into thinking I don’t desperately hate everything about it, which seems less than ideal
I was talking to someone about Fury Road today and they said ‘I just hated how it had no plot. They just left and then turned around and went straight back, it was so stupid’ and I think my soul was in danger of leaving my body because really – that’s the whole point. That’s the great message of Mad Max Fury Road – they need to leave and go back because they need to understand that the Green Place doesn’t exist. Valhalla doesn’t exist. There’s no better place waiting, no Eden to escape to, nowhere for Furiosa and the wives to run to. This world, broken and damaged and war-torn as it is, is all they have, and if they want a Green Place then they have to make it themselves. They have to choose peace. They have to choose love for each other. They have to take the seeds from the older, violent generation and start again. They have to destroy the oppressive power structures holding them back, capitalism and the patriarchy that Immortan Joe represents.
The Green Place was around them all along, and it takes this long, cyclical journey to understand that, both for them and for the audience. The circular narrative structure is an absolute work of genius, and the fact that the entire plot can be boiled down to “they leave and come back” is an indication of how well this works as an action movie – that the plot is simple enough so everyone can understand what’s going on while explosions are going off and cars are racing past at 100mph – yet it’s still incredibly rich and wonderfully complex too.
And what a pertinent message to send out – the generations before us killed the world and now it’s up to us to fix what’s broken. There’s no Green Place but the one we make ourselves, which will be born out of fire and blood and rise from the ashes of the old world.
I found this thing on Facebook… and I fell down the Humans Are Weird hole yet again. 😂(I first did before I even started my blog – Pinterest is sooo full of these posts! And I keep falling down it from time to time, when I discover something new)
I mean this one seems fairly easy: the translator just translates its standard language (e.g. English) and leaves words from other languages untranslated (e.g. Sahara).
People who are going to regret being up at 3AM in two or three hours
ADHD.fuck
Night Shift enjoying thier boss not being around
Americans that are just now googling MST and discovering there’s a fourth continental time zone.
Vampires
Americans just now discovering Hawaiian Time Also Exists
Hawaiians that need to GO TO BED
The Australians ™
Irish John, who drank a ton of coffee at that concert so he could drive people home and is supposed to be sleeping on my couch, but drank a ton of coffee and is marathoning Gravity Falls instead because I accidentally told him that the plot appears in episode 7.
confused werewolves
Chupacabra, but only becuase they forgot to organize the queue on thier Pastel Aesthetic Blog earlier and want to post on time
The triangle will show up later John, please go to bed
You too Hawaiians.
Honestly? Most of the rest of the world is awake right now and the American-centric prespective on Tumblr and in media at large really obscures how the world really operates. People in Finland are having lunch. Some guy in Benin is sleeping in with his cat. Several Million people in Bejing are getting ready for dinner, and absolutely none of this is weird at all, time is an illusion, even if we stay within the context of normal human interactions. Do what you want, and be excellent to eachother.
That said
Go the fuck to bed John.
More People On Tumblr at 3AM MST:
People in PST pretending thier sleep schedule isn’t completely fucked as well
The New Zealanders ™ who would also like to be aknowleged. Hi there!
People chasing after thier artisitc muses like starving greyhounds that have just sighted an obese rabbit.
People whose Muse hasn’t been around in ages but chase thier dreams anyway.
more Vampires
John I know you’re still up. I can hear you clattering around in the kitchen.
At least do some dishes if you’re going to be making a racket.
Someone who was planning on finding some nice soothing music to fall asleep to but just found SOME TOTALLY BADASS BAGPIPE TECHNO WHAT THE FUCK THIS IS AMAZING I’M GONNA GO FORGE AND AXE AND DESTROY THE PATRIARCHY WITNESS MEEEEEEEE!!!!!
People sixty pages deep into a wiki rabbit hole that started off as an innocuous question about how cheese is made and are now learning about-
JOHN IS THAT THE BLENDER I SWEAR TO FUCK
cats that were swatting around thier human’s phone and opened the app.
Techno Bagpipe’s neighbors, wondering if this song is on repeat, or if this Techno Bagpipe Song is just really fucking long.
IT IS THE BLENDER
I WILL SMOTE YOU JOHN
I WILL @ YOUR MAIN
I’LL @ YOUR PORN SIDEBLOG TOO, DO NOT TEMPT ME.
WHAT IN GOD’S NAME ARE YOU MAKING.
scrambled eggs apparently.
John where in fuck did you learn to cook, use a fucking whisk.
Gordon Ramsey my ass Gordon Ramsey is a gentleman and a scholar who knows what a goddamn whisk is.
Take these funyuns and go back to the basement. You’re cleaning my kitchen in the morning.
Techno Bagpipe’s neighbor, who is now pretty sure that this song has played at least twice, and that it’s really long.
Early-rising EST people who are probably reading this over granola or whatever it is that Diurnal Humans eat before going off to contribute to society and maybe do yogurt or something
the ways of the daywalker are a mystery to me.
Someone who was planning on finding some nice soothing music to fall
asleep to but just found SOME TOTALLY BADASS BAGPIPE TECHNO WHAT THE
FUCK THIS IS AMAZING I’M GONNA GO FORGE AND AXE AND DESTROY THE
PATRIARCHY WITNESS MEEEEEEEE!!!!!
How dare you call me out like this and also bless/curse you for introducing me to the concept of bagpipe techno
EDIT: also I don’t know if it’s 3AM MST right now and am too lazy to google but here in central Europe (GMT+1) it’s noon, so.
So idk if others have noticed this before – but it’s the first time I’m seeing this, hence the post.
There’s a website, https://www.photosugar.com, which apparently mirrors all pictures, gifsets etc. people post on their tumblrs (and also other social media sites like twitter and instagram, if I understand it correctly).
Now it won‘t turn up anything but a 404 error in my case, because I sent an e-mail to the contact address, which is darius@photosugar.com with the title “My content on your website”:
Hello,
it’s come to my attention that you are mirroring all of the posts containing
pictures/gifs that I post on my tumblr. I am asking you to stop pulling the content from my tumblr and to
delete me from your website.
tumblr username is „lordhellebore“
Thank you.
I got a reply consisting of the single word “removed” after just one day, and as you can see, it worked perfectly fine with the informal mail I sent. So if you want them to stop mirroring your tumblr, it seems all you really need to to is this.
I can’t test the site for all of my mutuals, but I’m tagging a few whom I found on there by random trial & error, and I suggest you look yourself up if you see this post and dislike tumblr mirrors (even if this one is only for pictures, not text).
Thanks for linking me, everyone who did, I’ve used the /remove site and it seems to have worked.
i don’t really care if they mirror my reblogs and minecraft screenshots but i’m signal boosting this for folks who post art and selfies and stuff they maybe don’t want mirrored
I just tried sending an email and got a very quick response linking me to https://www.photosugar.com/remove where I could enter my own username to remove my content. Reblogging to spread the word.
Even small deviation outside that range will cause severe symptoms–and I don’t mean “feeling blah” or “higher long-term risk for diseases of aging”–I mean you’ll be in the ER because you’re collapsing and can’t even regulate your breathing.
Fortunately, your body has multiple mechanisms that closely regulate your blood pH, so it takes a very serious problem to throw it out of wack. Your urine pH can change over a wide range, but that’s because your kidneys are part of the system that keeps your blood pH so tightly controlled. Having acidic urine doesn’t mean your body is acidic; it means your body is dumping excess acid to keep you in balance, which is a normal and healthy occurence.
Therefore: You do not need to eat “alkaline” foods and it is impossible (and would be painful and dangerous if it were possible) to make your body more alkaline via diet or lifestyle. Any miracle diet or supplement that sells itself on “alkalinity is the secret to health” is automatically questionable and should be doubted for this reason.
pff someone in my reblogs objected to me calling trump satanic because ‘satanists aren’t evil!’
listen buddy when you name your religion after The Most Evil Being Possible from someone else’s religion either you want the edgelord cred or you’re dumber than paint pick one
Edgelord cred isn’t the same as being called evil or (worse) being compared to Trump, though, and whether Satan actually *is* “The Most Evil Being Possible” is something most satanists would dispute IMO, regardless of whether Satan is called evil in the Bible.
Omphaloskeptomai 