A reminder to go into your settings and TURN OFF “best stuff first” – which is an algorithm feed that’s turned on by default despite the popular belief that tumblr doesn’t do that. 😒 With it turned off you’re returned to a proper chronological feed! As nature intended.
the mighty king
Boy the collective tumblr boyfriend has had a really go of it lately huh
Reblog to give the Tumblr boyfriend a juice box.
Drowning him?!?!?!?
More. MORE!
JUICE HIM!
Ok. So.
The average Juice Box holds between 4-32oz of juice
And the average swimming pool holds between 18,000 and 20,000 gallons of water
Converting 18,000 gallons to ounces means that the average swimming pool holds 2,304,000oz of water on the low end
So I did some math and 2,304,000 divided by 32 equals 72,000.
When I started this process, there were 640 reblogs
72,000 - 640 = 71,360
So, if we assume each reblog is a large juice box
We need 71,360 more reblogs to make the collective Tumblr boyfriend swim in juice
Reblog 72k times to give a good boyfriend a juice pool reward.
Like to give him swimming lessons or at least arm floaties.
People are really exercising the “R” desktop shortcut on this post
I am so deeply sorry for the havoc this post is wreaking on people’s dashes
Do you love the color of your boyfriend’s sky?
If you’ve never taken the bus as your primary mode of transportation you should know that a ten minute drive is like a one hour bus ride.
And sometimes something just isn’t near a bus stop so you’ve gotta take the closest one to it and walk for 20 minutes.
Just something to keep in mind, I guess. Especially if you live in a big sprawling metropolis. There’s people all around you taking five times as long to get anywhere because they can’t or won’t drive for whatever reason.
This post isn’t purely to complain. I like taking the bus way more than I like driving. It’s way way cheaper and less stressful for me. But I think a lot of people don’t realize how inaccessible so many things are to those without a car. I can’t just pop over to Costco in the evening. I need four hours in a row completely free to do that. If you want to meet up at a bar on the other side of town in 30 minutes I can’t do that unless you’re driving. I think a lot of folks just don’t know this.
Fascinating to me how many people in the notes are calling this a purely American problem when I’ve got an equal number of Europeans sharing my pain. Not everywhere is Amsterdam or New York.
I am super against light pollution, and have been for decades
but I am also super annoyed by the way it’s framed as “without light pollution you can see how beautiful the night sky is” way more prominently than it’s framed as “hey, did you ever stop to think of how much energy/resources/money are literally wasted by having so much light shine up into the sky?”
so people get the idea that light pollution can only be remedied by eliminating all night-time light, which would make being outside at night very inconvenient, instead of by making night-time light shine only on the ground where, y'know, the people who need it are
The mildest example of what OP’s talking about in Dunedin, Aotearoa:
This is just with the streetlamp equivalent of using lampshades. Imagine what truly directional city lights could achieve?
Reblogging this again cause light pollution actually have negative health affects on humans and wildlife. We weren’t meant to live in a world constantly bathed in light.
This is terrible but today when I was playing volleyball outside with some friends one of their children (18 months) was sort of ambling around on his stumpy little toddler legs and so we were all trying to be careful and like not spike the ball onto the baby but then he wandered over to his father, who picked him up bc dad reflexes, and then the ball got passed over to the dad and he sort of had a no thoughts moment and instinctively used his child to smack the volleyball over to the next person. Like he just swung the kid and used his legs like a baseball bat. I’m never going to forget his face of premature regret mid baby-manuever right when he realized what he was doing AND the instant he realized his wife saw it happen. Anyway the baby was fine he didn’t make contact with the ball all that hard and he was just mad his dad wouldn’t use him as a club again but I had to sit down because I laughed so hard I cried.
i have a dim attitude to the genre of leftism that treats welfare-before-socialism as obviously imperalist and extractive in itself, but something people do need to keep in mind when they talk about stuff like UBI is that strong welfare is fundamentally and inescapably opposed to wide-open immigration policy, unless immigrants join a separate social class ineligible for the welfare. The state (or whoever is responsible for administering your social program) has an inescapable existential need to avoid adding a large number of people who are net beneficiaries of the program, and the only real approaches to this are “reduce the benefits that most people receive” or “don’t let people come on board very often.” This is a very general problem that applies to any form of cost- or risk-sharing arrangement!
I don’t think this insight recommends a particular course of action; you could start from there and take it in many different directions. But I do think you need to start there, because if you’re just trying to make the best society you have with what you have on hand, this is one of the big constraints!
yeah this is an issue that many people choose not to engage with (because a person engaging with politics as a social tool or hobby doesn’t need to! this issue only matters for actual rulership or honest intellectual endeavors)
anyway this is why my preferred immigration policy is something liken million new employment / study / whatever visas per year, sold at auction, with people renewing visas getting an increasing discount per year until they’re eligible for permanent residency, plus whatever number of at cost visas for family members of citizens, plus some number of free visas for humanitarian reasons. this policy is perfect and flawless despite my only having spent a few minutes thinking about it. dont @ me
Vlad and the Joker start dating and all's well and good until tax season comes up and Vlad flat out lies on his tax write offs and Joker nearly has a panic attack bc he (canonically) will fight anyone BUT the IRS.
Tax evasion is how so so many criminals get caught when the courts can’t pin anything else on them. The Joker refuses to get caught in any way other than the most dramatic of fashions and tax evasion ain’t one of them
Okay but any relationship Vlad is in he’s gonna be obsessive. Like: Obsession ended with Maddie, Joker is his new love
And he wasn’t even in a relationship with Maddie, he just liked her.
So how much worse is he gonna be with Joker when they were dating and he tries to leave him.
I’m thinking “Plasmius” & Joker were the ones dating - maybe Vlad fled to another universe bc he got put on the illegal things radar as Masters in the DP world, maybe it’s a combo world & Danny just… thought Vlad started minding his own business and decided it wasn’t his problem when he couldn’t find him in Amity/his castle/the ghost zone, whatever the case - Plasmius & Joker have been on a worldwind tour of Gotham. The only reason the city is even still standing is bc the Bats called in JLD backup after the third batfam member got posessed by a clone.
And then they both go quiet.
It takes a week to track them down to Vlad Masters’ mansion - new in town, the guy bought the place & moved to Gotham not a month ago.
They find the both of them in the basement, Joker strapped to a table with Vlad holding a syringe of green liquid nearby. They have to rescue Joker.
Vlad went the full “it’s because I’m a halfa, isn’t it?” route. Just absolutely Romeo & Julietted - if Romeo forced Juliette to drink the poison. “Surely if we’re both halfas you could still love me.”
Joker is losing his mind here. More than normal. Because Vlad won’t listen to a word he is saying. He literally told him it’s because he can’t cope with the tax evasion. Vlad refuses not to tax evade on principal.
“Taxation is theft”
“All of our money IS STOLEN!”
“Well yes but none of it was stolen from me.”
Joker spent most of the week in a cushy room with Vlad trying the mental & emotional manipulation tactics before he just went “eff it, time to turn you in a half ghost” so the calvary gets there just in time.
Vlad knows the JLD guys can catch him (they did once, but Joker freed him) so he bolts the moment they try to blast him (he would’ve tried to take Joker as well, but the blast was aimed between them - pity, his amore will simply have to wait a bit for his knight in shining armor to rescue him from that dreadful asylum - perhaps he’ll love him again then).
Except now Joker has to go into Protective Custody. From a ghost dude.
They just had to rescue Joker. Joker likes to monologue, if the scene they arrived to wasn’t enough.
Where would they even keep him? Would it just be Arkham but with anti-ghost measures in one cell. If it isn’t, how pissed is Vlad gonna be - he can work around anti-ghost measures but missing?
Joker is absolutely going to hunt down how to deal with ghosts if he gets the chance.
The fight when they meet back up? Horrendous. Like the world’s messiest divorce spat with extra murder except they were only dating for a week. Vlad is just. Like That.
So basically: Vlad becomes the Joker’s rouge. And the JLD can’t be there all the time. And Vlad’s clever. Essentially: Vlad becomes Joker’s own personal rouge.
Vlad starts doing shit to impress Joker by attacking Gotham to try & win him back?
Yeah: Batfam + Joker teamup. Jason is frothing at the mouth. But Joker keeps escaping anyway. And they keep having to rescue him, because he’s still Very Bad At Anti-Ghost Things (until/unless they find & acquire Fenton gear, which Vlad has a vested interest in preventing them from finding).
PLUS! Vlad is Very Easy To Distract if Joker is there. Makes it easier for the rest of the Batfam to get him.
Joker is also frothing at the mouth and hates it. But whenever he leaves to do his thing He Gets Kidnapped! (It takes 9 rescues before he breaks & calls a truce until they End Vlad [which the Batfam doesn’t want to do but Joker works on it whenever he can get away from them - infrequent due to the whole “we’re not letting u leave bc u need protective AND are a dangerous criminal” thing. And you know? Batman’s whole “I refuse to kill anyone, ever” thing is a lot less funny when he’s dealing with the crazy immortal ex from literal hell killing him is just like sending him home Batsy for the love of FUCK])