Tatiana | 24 | CA
Memes.
Intersectional feminism.
Occasionally nsfw.
Viewer discretion is advised.
NOT a spoiler-free blog.
Enter at your own risk.
I was walking around my neighborhood and saw a bunch of police surrounding a small house for a drug bust. As I got closer, I heard the policemen barking aggressively, so naturally I was like, wtf??? And one of them caught my eye and said, “Oh, we’re trying to scare them out of there,” and minutes later a bunch of furries came out the house whimpering and shit.
please sign your posts with your url i refuse to be continuously terrified of humanity by them
lgbt representation in kids media wont confuse your children. the reason gay kids are confused is because they’re constantly taught straight is natural and normal, and straight is the “default”. so uh yeah thanks for attending my TEDtalk
i feel like Bob is so far outside of the DragRace circle even though he won because he pulls NO punches about racism. even on his season some of the white dudes were racist as shit and always nearly tried Bob he wasnt the one. Also if you havent seen his stage show he does A LOT of commentary on race and how Black women are treated.
This is it… this is the height of what memes and memetic culture can do and the purpose they can serve, and why it’s so important to have this freedom of expression and exchange. Protest, reference, the instant connection of ideas, heavy weighted messages conveyed by the simplest of means. This image speaks volumes about the state of internet politics right now, and it does so by omitting the most important and recognizable part of itself.
You know what’s great about this to me.
From the other thread talking about how unlike human cognition neural networks are, and how they make decisions in ways that are utterly arbitrary and incomprehensible to us. The example was raised of an algorithm that was trained to look for sheep, but what it actually ended up learning to look for was the background or setting on which sheep would usually be present. The algorithm would then claim that since this setting (green meadows) usually contain sheep, then by the logic of statistics, even an empty meadow must also contain sheep.
What I’m saying here is that by standard of learning, Tumblr’s flagbot has probably seen this particular background or setting before, and has learned that it is usually accompanied by a target criteria (a naked woman.) Therefore, Tumblr’s algorithm is likely to learn that a painting of a well with a tree against a stone backdrop usually contains naked women, therefore, by the logic of statistics, even an empty well must also contain naked women.
In conclusion, even aside from the irony of literally erasing truth from the picture, it’s entirely possible that all the attempts to make this painting ‘tumblr safe’ is likely to be for naught, as Tumblr’s indiscriminate flagbot would probably flag it anyway.
Storytime. Cooking in a different country makes you realize how many things you take for granted are just, Not A Thing Here. Like apple juice. Surely you can find apple juice at your local Athenian grocery store, right? Wrong. Greeks drink orange juice and peach juice and mixed fruit juice and sour cherry juice, but… plain old apple juice, nope, not so much. You’ll have a hard time finding vanilla extract in Greece too, since Greeks are used to vanilla powder in little plastic capsules and you have to go to specialty shops for the liquid stuff. Sour cream is virtually nonexistent here (but hey, it’s the land of yogurt, which is a good enough substitute). But surprisingly cornmeal (which is a specialty ingredient in the UK) is everywhere, since Greeks have their own versions of cornbread and corn pudding.
So basically: I knew it might be impossible find vegetable shortening (aka Crisco) for my Thanksgiving pie crust here in Athens. Crisco is pretty uniquely American, and Greeks are more likely to use phyllo than shortcrust anyway. That said, there are a handful of specialty shops in central Athens that sell things like Heinz baked beans and custard powder and Worcestershire sauce and other Weird Foreign Foods™ so us Sad Homesick Expats don’t have to go hungry (I’m always reminded of A Passage to India and their corned beef and tinned peas). So I went on Skroutz (the search engine for buying stuff in Greece) and typed in “vegetable shortening” to see if any stores carried it.
A notification came up asking me to confirm that I was over 18 years old?
???
I clicked “yes”??
Turns out there is, in fact, one shop in Athens that carries vegetable shortening. It’s a sex shop. The shortening is listed under “sex essentials”, as lube. For fisting. It’s literally called “βούτυρο για fisting” – “butter for fisting”.
I decided I didn’t need a flaky pie crust that badly.
male singers who refuse to sing katy perry’s “e.t.” as horny as she did are cowards
i dont even like katy perry but like she! went full on alien-fucking horny in that song. a male cover in that exact voice inflection would’ve been perfect for my venom playlist. but no. straight men are always horny, except when it comes to singing about aliens i guess. cowards.
