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This is so on point, and such a good metaphor for any kind of discrimination and hate towards minorities...
The illusion of choice and all that
@staff this is truly a basis for me to never open tumblr desktop again so if that was you guy's aim congrats, you nailed it!!!! Now if you wanted to keep "what makes Tumblr unique" you have never failed better
"Think of the two major possibilities here: Either the studios owe untold millions to their talents and paying it out will decimate their stock prices, or they owe so little because there really is no money in streaming and the bubble of their entire 21st century business model will burst in spectacular fashion. And make no mistake: this is a bubble. This is the inevitable climax of a stockholder-driven hunger for infinite growth, despite the fact that, by design, such a thing cannot and should not exist. The infection of Wall Street has overwhelmed the entertainment industry beyond repair, leading to cultural vandals like David Zaslav to be appointed with the callous duty of strip-mining decades’ of artistic beauty for pennies of tax write-offs. The past and future are frivolous in comparison to the short-term demands that the line keep going up."
I’ve come to make an announcement: Shadow the Hedgehog’s a bitch-ass motherfucker, he pissed on my fucking wife! That’s right, he took his hedgehog-fuckin’ quilly dick out and he pissed on my fucking wife, and he said his dick was “this big,” and I said “that’s disgusting,” so I’m making a callout post on my Twitter.com: Shadow the Hedgehog, you’ve got a small dick, It’s the size of this walnut except WAY smaller. And guess what? Here’s what my dong looks like! That’s right, baby, tall points, no quills, no pillows — look at that, it looks like two balls and a bong! He fucked my wife, so guess what, I’m gonna fuck the Earth! That’s right, this is what you get: my SUPER LASER PISS!! Except I’m not gonna piss on the Earth, I’m gonna go higher!! I’m pissing ON THE MOON! How do you like that, Obama?! I PISSED ON THE MOON, YOU IDIOT!! You have twenty-three hours before the piss drrrrroplllllllets hit the fucking Earth! Now get outta my fucking sight, before I piss on you too!
Happy one year anniversary to the video that gave us this improvised gem.
Happy 5th Anniversary, all you bitch ass motherfuckers
“So if little girls experience their menstrual cycle in 5th grade or 4th grade, will that prohibit conversations from them since they are in the grade lower than sixth grade?” asked state Rep. Ashley Gantt, a Democrat who taught in public schools and noted that girls as young as 10 can begin having periods.
“It would,” McClain responded.
Unbelievable. Link to article.
The first ever suicide prevention hotline was created in 1935 bevause a man conducted a funeral for a 14 year old girl who ended her life because she got her period. She didn't know what it was and assumed it was a STD. Learning about periods and sexual health is life saving. Republicans are unapologetically just evil.
You know, here's a thing: I went to Catholic school from age 5 to age 16. (My family's not Christian, but the local public schools weren't great, so -- )
In 4th grade, girls were given a clear, scientific, extremely bland pamphlet about menstruation. It was Boring and Educational. There wasn't any class about it or anything -- just the pamphlet, provided in a plain manila envelope for you to take home.
Starting in 5th grade, the school provided a small pack of pads to girls. This was probably so that anyone who unexpectedly started her period at school would have an emergency supply, but the thing was: this boring pamphlet, this pack of pads handed to you by a nun, made menstruation...so normal. It's so normal that a nun hands you a pack of pads. It's so normal that there's a boring pamphlet. It's just a thing your body does. (It's so normal that you realize, oh, nuns have periods, huh.)
It kills me, KILLS ME, that this totally boring and bland form of education about human bodies is somehow Too Much, Too Scary, Too Sexy, for some people.
Hi folks. There seems to be a lot of confusion about what we as fans can and can't do with the striking happening. So I made a flowchart.
Let me make this SUPER DUPER EXTRA CLEAR. Unless an AMPTP studio reaches out and says "We would like to give you X (money/swag/whatever) to create content for us" (that would include writing or acting in anyway on your part) you will NOT be crossing a picket line.
Cosplay, fanart, fanfic, going feral, sharing marketing posts, watching your favorite show, getting your friends to watch your favorite show, etc does not count.
It is ONLY scabbing if you are getting REIMBURSED by the STUDIO.
Please take this flowchart, repost it, spread it everywhere!
The studios benefit from us being confused. The studios benefit from us not promoting and not watching and cancelling our subscriptions. The unions, the actors, the writers, they all benefit from us promoting in their absence, they get paid when we watch the shows, we bolster their argument when we boost the shows numbers. If we make the media popular and successful the studios have to meet the writers and actors at the table, and the writers and actors will be in the position of power.
I see Hollywood is now very into the idea of buying something once and then owning it forever and being able to make infinite copies. Which. Isn’t quite the message they imparted upon me in my childhood. In the spirit of their own long-held stance:
you all need to be my minions i think it’d be wonderful if we made hope posting a trend on tumblr
Yes please! This is a really important valuable practice for offsetting at least a little of the negativity bias.
Essentially, humans are wired for danger. Negative content stands out 4-6 times stronger in our minds than positive content, even when both are equally intense. We’re way more likely to notice negative content, way more likely to retain negative content in our memories, way more likely to pay attention to it than positive content.
Which is evolutionarily adaptable on the one hand, good for short term survival. If you’re wandering around gathering food in a hunter-gatherer society and you find a great berry patch, and then an hour later down the trail you get jumped by a tiger and barely escape with your life, you might forget the location of the berry patch but you’ll never forget where the tiger hunts. Because you’ll find other berry patches eventually, but if you forget where the tiger tends to hunt, you’re dead.
This becomes a bit more maladaptive in the Information Age.
It’s fine if most of the information you’re exposed to is fairly local and directly relevant to your personal life, but now we’re exposed to all the information worldwide.
Except… not quite. Because of the negativity bias, guess what information gets the most attention and shares? Guess what information gets the most money?
Yeah. The negative stuff. Some studies have shown a 17:1 ratio of bad news to good news being reported, aka ~90+ percent of news is negative. The negative stuff gets shared way more, spreads faster through social media, gets a 60+ percent higher click-through rate, gets a stronger physiological response when you read it… the statistics are pretty consistent and pretty dramatic.
So how do you combat it?
By increasing the amount of positive content.
By deliberately focusing on and enhancing the weight of the positive stuff. Reminding yourself of the positive things you see. Saying it out loud to make it feel more real. Writing it down and coming back to it. Trying to multiply the weight of every positive thing fourfold, by revisiting and reinforcing it, so that it gets closer to equal weight with the negative stuff.
And by reminding yourself that the overall state of the world is probably at least half as bad as it seems, and probably closer to 1/4th as bad as it seems.
(This doesn’t mean minimize any single topic of bad news. Any single topic might be just as bad or worse than you think it is, eg how COVID was minimized by some parties, or how racism or transphobia gets downplayed, etc, and that’s a whole other kind of bias to talk about, ask me about the Just World fallacy sometime. But the aggregate of badness, that feeling that everything is so much worse across the board now, that there is no hope, that we’re all doomed? That’s probably way less true than it feels.)
My job is about 60% reading psychology books, etc., and I can absolutely confirm the negativity bias facts and statistics, esp around news. I’ve looked them up myself, and honestly, they’re a huge part of the reason I started this blog
I started checking a handful of good news posts every day for the sake of my mental health. Had a little bookmark folder and everything (it was 3 sites at the start lol)
And yall. There is SO MUCH MORE GOOD NEWS OUT THERE than you will EVER hear about. It’s about what doesn’t get shared - and it’s also about what doesn’t get reported on in the first place, or only gets reported on by small or dedicated good news outlets
I made this blog mostly because I wanted to do something to help push back against that negativity bias, to fight against the negative news bias, by making sure people see good news too
And by the way, there is so much more good news out there than I ever have time to link. Seriously, I could probably make this blog a half-time job if I wanted to. (Well that’s also partly because I have endless details and thoroughness disease lol)
Let’s make hope posting the new big thing - because we all need to be reminded more often that there absolutely is hope
(including genuine hope we will solve climate change and save ourselves. many scientists have said that as of the middle of 2022, there is more reason to have hope than there has been in DECADES. My understanding is that we literally have the best chance and outlook we’ve ever had since we began to truly grasp the extent of the problem of climate change)
ALTdon’t forget during the WGA strike that animation is not covered under the WGA deals and as a result animation has gotten the shortest possible end of the stick in under-staffing, under-paying, and generally turning the field into gig employment.
please sign the petition here for Disney to recognize animation production workers as a union and reblog this post!
As of July 15, they are looking for about 9,000 more signatures. It takes less than one minute
2,000 more as of July 16
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