Do you ever eat popcorn out of the palm of your own hand with such ardent desperation that you feel like both a wild horse and the gentle schoolgirl feeding it treats to gain its affection
Hey there guys. It’s me, in 2022, commenting on this post from 2016. There’s been a lot of people on this site lately being like “oooh no don’t make viral uwu I’m so pathetic, little, and defenseless and my poor notifications can’t handle 10k reblogs” well first of all ALL of us are pathetic, little, and defenseless and secondly none of our notifications can handle 10k reblogs and thirdly I’m not a coward and I think this should have a million notes. Not because of its own merit as a post, I just think it’d be funny if when I turn 30 this year and I reflect on the greatest accomplishments of my life thus far, I have to at least consider putting “famous tumblr popcorn post” on the list
Hey there guys. It’s me, in 2023, in May specifically, I’m 30 and for the record it rules, I had a lil aging crisis and now I’m past that and I’m just like goddamn it is great being in my thirties and I had a wonderful birthday NO THANKS TO YOU GUYS
actually, much thanks to you guys. Some of you were inspiringly crazy about this post. Frankly you worked harder for this than I did, and your efforts were touching and inspiring and funny and yet we STILL FAILED. GUYS WE GOTTA PUT OUR EYES BACK ON THE BALL. We have ehhh about six months before I turn the big three-one, which is actually the most important birthday because now you’re in your thirties For Real, and I personally can’t think of a better way to ring in my 31st year of life than by trying and failing to do something that I was hoping to knock out in my twenties.
Good luck, kiddo
Are you satisfied, op? When will it be enough?
I feel I couldn’t have been clearer about the number at which this will be enough
You wouldn’t think that flamingoes are extremophiles just from looking at them. It’s like somebody tried to build the vertebrate equivalent of that fungus that lives inside nuclear reactors, and ended up with a gangly pink dinosaur with a spoon for a face.
For everyone in the comments asking how flamingos are extremophiles:
Flamingos can survive in low oxygen, high altitude, high temperatures, low temperatures, high alkaline, they can and will drink boiling water and they can be completely frozen at night and still get up the next morning
Don’t fuck with flamingos
….. Didn’t know most of that
Huh… so that’s why zoos don’t put them somewhere warm during winter.
Oh yeah, this leaves out what I *did* know about them–they can also survive hypersalinity. That is, water so salty it kills practically everything else–water so salty it burns your skin.
American flamingos just drink that shit
(animal death) this is a real undoctored photograph (*though the body was stood up for the shot) of a dead flamingo on the surface of lake natron, a lake so salty and so alkaline that it’s naturally carbonated like soda and would eat through your stomach lining if you drank from it.
When this photo went viral years ago, most people assumed this poor flamingo must have been killed by the lake.
It is actually the lake where 75% of its global population are hatched. This is a photo from the same lake:
Some species of flamingo actually subsist almost entirely on a diet of bacteria! In other words, there is a species of dinosaur that eats only bacteria and lives in lakes so toxic they would kill almost anything else—and it is best known to the average person as a kitschy lawn decoration.
literally my second biggest flex is that the guy behind osha official is my mutual. first biggest flex is that there’s a discord server dedicated to hating on me
‘your parents just want what’s best for you’ that is objectively not true for a lot of people, sometimes they want what’s best for them or what looks the best to other people, or what they think is best for you is based on outdated, backwards and messed up values & beliefs. even if their intentions aren’t bad doesn’t mean they even remotely know what’s good for you
psa: there’s a cool alternative to putting tws on people’s selfies! introducing: not reblogging their selfie! it’s free! it’s fun! it’s free!
“I do it for people who might be hurt by-” shh shh babygirl when you’re talking do you ever think? because what you’re saying is a human person should not show themself in public in case there might be somebody nearby who will be harmed by seeing them. maybe just don’t reblog their selfie if you can’t be chill about it.
this was about scars (for any reason), missing limbs, low weight being tagged “anorexia” (even if it isn’t), and so on, but it applies regarding somebody’s kinky outfit too. if you’re triggered by the whip someone’s holding then block the word whip, people could simply tag it the word whip - all adding the tw achieves is now if someone doesn’t know your triggers they won’t tag it with that, essentially meaning you have to tell everyone you follow exactly what could mentally destroy you and hope they have a flawless memory for every single person who follows them, but on top of that, the op will get bombarded with reminders that people view something about them as necessary to hide for people’s safety. personally, my triggers are blocked with no tw, because that will catch posts without needing to send a handwritten letter to the people I follow detailing exactly how to emotionally destroy me.
^ my tags from earlier btw, please stop catastrophising and/or making everything black n’ white, sometimes I’m just saying a problem could be solved, I don’t think everyone who has made bumbles along the road is a hellspawn who should eat a bullet
Footless Jo on Tiktok/Youtube did a really great video about this. She’s a below the knee amputee and makes a lot of content about life as an amputee. She gets a lot of requests to TW her videos because people don’t like seeing her leg. Her very eloquent response was “respectfully, fuck all the way off. I am a human being and I will not TW you for my existence”
Unfortunately, she’s been flagged a few times for “disturbing content” and her channel gets hit on the regular.
Trigger “etiquette” on the Internet is the fucking worst, cos people think they need content warnings slapped on every single thing and nine times out of ten, it’s not an actual trigger, it’s just something that makes them mildly uncomfortable. I am absolutely not surprised this has gone onto “trigger warning” actual people for their appearance. The people who do this are too disconnected from reality to realize how fucked up that is.
i think it partially comes from not seeing tws as doing/saying a thing to somebody, y'know? a tw is “me on my blog protecting people who follow me from being triggered/uncomfy” (i’ll link a reblog where i explain why the difference doesn’t matter for the purpose of this topic), they don’t see it as “something i just said about your body to you”, and they definitely don’t see the thing they’re saying as being “it hurts people” - just like the lady who aggressively told me my burn scars would set a bad example for children and i should never leave without sleeves, she didn’t see saying that as saying “you will kill children if you don’t suffer in boiling hot weather”, she saw it as “i’m protecting children from setting themselves on fire”. that wasn’t even internet etiquette, people in real life do this, albeit less so and less casually. i think somewhere along the line there’s this mental skip, where they’d normally think “this is a person, will my words hurt them?” but it doesn’t happen because they’re not looking at the person, they simply look at the “offending” body part and “danger” it poses. everything about the situation is dehumanising and demonising somebody based on a, very often, traumatic experience they’ve been permanently injured by - i know someone who was in this explosion and was burned badly, and she gets treated just like i have been, with people telling her kids will copy it, making her genuinely afraid to show herself. i don’t think a lot of folks who haven’t got visible severe scars, missing limbs, etc, actually get quite how constant and demonising the treatment is, and why a good intentioned tw is just adding fuel to that metaphorical fire.
In the United States, many jails and prisons can and will charge you money for every single night that you spend imprisoned, for the entire duration of your incarceration, as if you were being billed for staying at a hotel. Even if you are incarcerated for years. Adding up to tens of thousands of dollars. What happens when you’re released?
In response to this:
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So.
You’re getting charged, like, ten dollars every time you even submit a request form to possibly be seen by a doctor or dentist.
You’re getting charged maybe five dollars for ten minutes on the phone.
Any time a friend or family tries to send you like five dollars so that you can buy some toothpaste or lotion, or maybe a snack from the commissary since you’re diabetic and the “meals” have left you malnourished, maybe half of that money gets taken as a “service fee” by the corporate contractor that the prison uses to manage your pre-paid debit card. So you’re already losing money every day just by being there.
What happens if you can’t pay?
In some places, after serving just a couple of years for drugs charges, almost 20 years after being released, the state can still hunt you down for over $80,000 that you “owe” as if it were a per-night room-and-board accommodations charge, like this recent highly-publicized case in Connecticut:
Excerpt:
Two decades after her release from prison, [TB] feels she is still being punished.
When her mother died two years ago, the state of Connecticut put a lien
on the Stamford home she and her siblings inherited. It said she owed
$83,762 to cover the cost of her 2 ½ year imprisonment for drug
crimes.
[…]
“I’m about to be homeless,” said [TB], 58, who in March [2022] became the
lead plaintiff in a lawsuit challenging the state law that charges
prisoners $249 a day for the cost of their incarceration. […] All but two states have so-called “pay-to-stay” laws that make prisoners pay for their time behind bars
[…].
Critics say it’s an unfair second penalty that hinders rehabilitation by
putting former inmates in debt for life. Efforts have been underway in
some places to scale back or eliminate such policies.
Two states — Illinois and New Hampshire — have repealed their laws since 2019.
[…]
Pay-to-stay laws were put into place in many areas during the
tough-on-crime era of the 1980s and ’90s, said Brittany Friedman, an
assistant professor of sociology at University of Southern California
who is leading a study of the practice.
[…]
Connecticut used to collect prison debt by attaching an automatic lien
to every inmate, claiming half of any financial windfall they might
receive for up to 20 years after they are released from prison
[…].
Text by: Pat Eaton-Robb. “At $249 per day, prison stays leave ex-inmates deep in debt.” AP News / The Associated Press. 27 August 2022.
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Look at this:
To help her son, Cindy started
depositing between $50 to $100 a
week into Matthew’s account, money he could use to buy food from the
prison commissary, such as packaged ramen noodles, cookies, or peanut
butter and jelly to make sandwiches. Cindy said sending that money
wasn’t necessarily an expense she could afford. “No one can,” she said.
So far in the past month, she estimates she sent Matthew close to
$300. But in reality, he only received half of that amount. The balance
goes straight to the prison to pay off the $1,000 in “rent” that the
prison charged Matthew for his prior incarceration. […]
A PA Post examination of six county budgets (Crawford, Dauphin,
Lebanon, Lehigh, Venango and Indiana) showed that those counties’
prisons have collected more than $15 million from inmates — almost half
is for daily room and board fees that are meant to cover at least a
portion of the costs with housing and food. Prisoners who don’t work are
still expected to pay. If they don’t, their bills are sent to
collections agencies, which can report the debts to credit bureaus. […]
Between 2014 and 2017, the Indiana County Prison — which has an average
inmate population of 87 people — collected nearly $3 million from its
prisoners. In the past five years, Lebanon’s jail collected just over $2
million in housing and processing fees.
Text by: Joseph Darius Jaafari. “Paying rent to your jailers:
Inmates are billed millions of dollars for their stays in Pa. prisons.”
WHYY (PBS). 10 December 2019. Originally published at PA Post.
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Pay-to-stay, the practice of charging people to pay
for their own jail or prison confinement, is being enforced unfairly by
using criminal, civil and administrative law, according to a new Rutgers
University-New Brunswick led study. The study […] finds that charging pay-to-stay fees is triggered by criminal justice
contact but possible due to the co-opting of civil and administrative
institutions, like social service agencies and state treasuries that
oversee benefits, which are outside the realm of criminal justice. “A person can be charged $20 to $80 a day for their incarceration,” said author Brittany Friedman, an assistant professor of sociology and a faculty affiliate of Rutgers’ criminal justice program.
“That per diem rate can lead to hundreds of thousands of dollars in
fees when a person gets out of prison. To recoup fees, states use civil
means such as lawsuits and wage garnishment against currently and
formerly incarcerated people, and regularly use administrative means
such as seizing employment pensions, tax refunds and public benefits to
satisfy the debt.” […] Civil penalties are enacted on family members if the defendant cannot pay and in states such as Florida, Nevada and Idaho can occur even after the original defendant is deceased. […]
Text by: Megan Schumann. “States Unfairly Burdening Incarcerated People With “Pay-to-Stay” Fees.” Rutgers press release. 20 November 2020.
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So, to pay for your own imprisonment, states can:
– hunt you down for decades (track you down 20 years later, charge you tens of thousands of dollars, and take your house away)
– put a lien on your vehicle, house
– garnish your paycheck/wages
– seize your tax refund
– send collections agencies after you
– take your public assistance benefits
– sue you in civil court
– take money from your family even after you’re dead
ALT
