I can literally only own cats because I 100% know I’d end up neglecting a less communicative pet. I need at pet that’s willing and able to yell directly in my face when they have unmet needs.
This precisely is why I love cats.
I literally never have to worry about sleeping through my alarm because if I ever do, my cat will stand on my chest and bite me on the nose to express that my unjustified deviation from my daily routine is throwing her off her groove.
isn’t it just like absolutely wild to think about it
imagine every person on earth yelling and protesting saying “we’d like to not burn up in half a decade actually. like can we stay alive please” and like 100 rich people with the ability to make it stop are like “no. die”
kinda fucked up
also like the same rich people are the ones letting people starve and die because they have more than enough money to help without impacting their own quality of life but actually literally do not want to because they want to look richer i guess? they don’t like poor people? both probably. its like one billion dollars could help so many people and not affect anything in their life and yet it goes to the military so rich people can feel safer from a threat that doesn’t exist and is marinated in racism and xenophobia i love america
someone said it but it had to be a werewolf fucker account
sorta makes sense that the only people brave enough to fuck a werewolf are the same ones who are brave enough to take a stand donnit
I stand with the werewolf fucker
Every time a rich person acts up this post surges again
Just opened up my email to find one of those âhello influencerâ emails that pop up from time to time, this one offering to âbetter increase the flow of web traffic to thebiblioshphere.tumblr.comâ like ahaha, I think the fuck not.
Bad enough I have to make vague attempts at marketing competence with my author site. The thought of trying to optimize this free-fall pisstake of innate ramblings is like showing up to a house fire with a plant mister.Â
âYouâve got some great creative energy!â
Thanks, itâs the ADHD.
âBut itâs inconsistent.â
Thanks, itâs the ADHD⊠and the multiple chronic illnesses and disabilities I live with.
âWhat we could do is optimize your posting presence withââ
Buddy, itâs 4am waffle recipes, dog videos and the occasional reassurance that Iâm still alive or nothing.
offering to increase the flow of tumblr traffic to oneâs blog can, I believe, be counted as a threat
Elderly woman seeking shelter from the rain voice: Hello dearie. Would you be so kind as to let me stay the nigh–oh. You would? Oh. No, no, I’m very grateful, it’s just that *discards my mortal disguise* it’s just that–okay stop screaming–I’m actually a powerful faerie sorceress and I was kind of, god this is awkward, expecting you to deny me shelter? So that I could curse you for your hubris? Yeah I don’t actually need a place to stay this was just a weird little test I wanted to do for no reason. Yeah it sounds dumb when I say it out loud I’m just gonna go
You guys, the funniest fucking thing just happened. A group of creators made a crypto currency based off of squid games. The catch was you could buy it, but you COULD NOT sell it. Multiple sources warned it was a scam, citing multiple spelling errors on a hastily put up website that has now vanished. Despite this, $2,000,000 of the currency was bought by crypto traders before the creators pulled the plug and ran with the earnings. Now a whole bunch of crypto bros are crying out about the âfakeâ currency and lack of regulation which is the selling point of crypto. Paired with the critique of capitalism that is Squid Games it literally couldnât get more poetic đ
Remember kids: corporations arenât your friend no matter how rich you make them, promises mean nothing to them unless itâs part of a lifetime contract.
I really hope people understand having a unhinged and indiscriminated hatred towards this show is absolute necessary and not at all Doing Too Muchâą
Stephen Hillenburg was diagnosed with ALS(Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis) in 2017, a neurological disorder that slowly makes one lose all motor movement including being able to talk and only a year later he passed away due to complications surrounding it, the single only thing Stephen wanted for the show runners and executives to not do as to make spin-off series from the show, something echoed by a former show runner Paul Tibbit when nickelodeon announced ANOTHER spin-off last year titled Kamp KoralâŠONLY 6 MONTHS AFTER HIS DEATH, they couldnât even wait a full year to disrespect his wishes.
Nickelodeon has disrespected the wishes of someone who sold to them a billion dollar empire idea for two straight years since his death, watching this show and enabling itâs continuation is disrespecting the wishes of itâs creator POINT BLANK NO DISCUSSION.
Do not watch this show unless you plan to rip it to pieces on review sites or pirate it.
No it didnt mean Greeks couldnât see blue Reddit cunt it means he said the sea was dark like wine because you know what the sea looks like sometimes? wine daft cunt
No no no, no (youâve activated my artist and my armchair linguist/historian)
The concept of Mass Greecian Colorblindness was a theory proposed in 1858 for why the Wine Dark Sea line exists in the Oddessy. The theorist in question (Gladstone) went through the Oddessy and had translation issues because Homer used colors weird. Sheep and oxen are described as violet, honey was green, and if you branch outside of Homer thereâs things like âviolet hairâ in contemporary greek texts. Itâs weird, so Gladstoneâs hypothesis was that the entirety of Greece was colorblind, and the ability to see color rapidly developed between then and the modern day with each generation seeing more colors.
Which is wrong. All current evidence says humanityâs colorsight goes back millions of years prior.
But it did highlight a linguistics phenomena - there was no word for blue in the language at the time (white + black occur in the texts, red occurs fewer times, yellow even fewer, then green, and no blue). This is not a phenomena that is unique to Ancient Greek, it exists in ancient Hebrew as well as the Icelandic Sagas, Vedic hymns, and Ancient Chineese. Contemporary descriptions of the sky (in ancient Greek) would call it white.
The words for white and black are the oldest in every language (light and dark, day and night) and then red starts cropping up (blood, ripe fruit). Yellow, green, etc show up next in variable order, and blue is almost always the last color to be invented as a linguistic concept, because it doesnât show up that often in nature. There arenât a lot of blue flowers, or animals, the sky isnât consistently blue and neither is the sea, and blue eyes are a rare trait in most parts of the world.
Thereâs a fellow named Guy Deutscher who ran an experiment with his daughter a few years ago (you can listen to him talking about it here)
- he never told her what color the sky was. Â He and his wife gave her all the
words for the different colors, including blue, and for months she
couldnât tell him what color the sky was. Â When she finally had an
answer, she said the sky was white. Â And she maintained that for months,
until gradually she started answering âblueâ more and more often.
Humans need regular exposure to a color and then to be told that the color is itâs own concept before it sinks in as a separate category. Thereâs another experiment that was performed with a South American tribe, the Tsimaneâ that showed the same effect - if a culture doesnât need to identify the color often we have a harder time separating it out into its own category.
Itâs not that people couldnât see the color, itâs that⊠look orange and brown are the same damn color, okay? Brown is just dark orange, that is all it is, thereâs a really nice breakdown of that in this video - we just *perceive* it to be something entirely separate because thatâs how weâre taught to think of it. Brown is different than orange, pink is different from red. Russian has two words for blue (goluboy, a light blue and sinii, a very dark blue) and they are separate concepts which means Russians tend to be quicker at sorting shades of blue.Â
Language gives our brains a different box to put the color into so we see it and perceive it differently because we know to pay attention to it. But cultures donât make up the words for a new color until thereâs a reason to.
This is also one of the things you have to adapt to when youâre learning to paint, because weâre trained that trees are âgreenâ and the sun is âyellowâ and apples are âredâ and water is âblueâ and skin is âwhiteâ and âblackâ and âbrownâ. And the colors that things actually are is more complicated, itâs based in where the light is and the relationships between the hues youâre seeing.
holy shit
What interesting is how this also lines up with how children develop a concept of colour as they grow up. Even if they are told things like âthe sky is blueâ
Infants respond best to black and white and as they get older they can take in the different colour variations but it follows the same linguistics pattern that languages do with blue being one of the last colours that kids get a handle on at about 4
Which makes it very challenging to figure out that your kid is actually colourblind
Kiddo is red/green colourblind but you canât really pin that down as a thing before the age of 4
The Greeks did have a name for the color blue, though - it's ÎșÏÎ±ÎœÎżÏ (kyanos); âcyanâ is derived from it. People (including some classicists, which I donât really get) get very hung up on the literal meanings of Greek color words, but as my esteemed colleague, um, nutsacktorturer points out, the Mediterranean does look almost purple under some light; âÏλÏÏÏÏâ (chloros, like chlorophyll), which literally means âgreenâ is often used for âyoungâ or âinexperiencedâ â a use thatâs still common in English.
Itâs easy to forget that most of the sources we have color words in are literary (thereâs not much cause to say that the defendant was wearing a blue tunic in an ancient court case, for example) and therefore often use the color words for their metaphorical meanings rather than for their literal meanings.Â
In short, itâs not that the Greeks âdidnât haveâ a word for blue (they had at least two), itâs that Greek literary tradition uses blue in a way thatâs slightly unexpected. Â
Tumblr and Twitter really are evolving into a sort of evil-opposites situation, aren’t they? On Twitter you can post a high-definition video of yourself sticking a can of Red Bull up your ass but will get dinged for a terms-of-service violation for joking about a random C-list celebrity experiencing mild discomfort, while on Tumblr you can make death threats against the President but can’t show your nipples.
what’s that make facebook
Facebook is the evil opposite of 4chan.
Please elaborate. I wish to hear
Anonymity-as-moral-virtue versus compulsory total disclosure
Openly hostile to the notion of personal media exposure boundaries because toughen up snowflake versus actively encourages the formation of dysfunctional echo chambers
Majority of content is worthless due to an anything-goes culture that pushes people to be vile as a demonstration of in-group solidarity versus majority of content is worthless due to moderation policies that are at once overbearing and ineffective
Exploiting manufactured outrage over trivial shit as a grassroots fascist recruiting tool versus selectively exposing users to neo-Nazi content as a top-down strategy to drive advertising clicks
when tumblr users post tweets on tumblr it’s postmodern intertextuality when twitter users post tumblr posts on twitter it’s loser behavior hope this helps
1) a very simple and genuine âi like your shoelacesâ, which tells me that you are either a lesbian or a very cool ally
2) âi like your shoelacesâ followed by the pronounced grimace of one recalling their past sins, which tells me that you were a 2012 tumblr user. i now hold the power in this conversation and you are at my mercy.
if you know about 2012 tumblr how do you hold any power in any conversation
well, stucky fanfic url, the trick is to not let them know that you are also cringe
