also according to michael collins when the three of them were discussing what neil armstrong should say when he first stepped on the moon, collins suggested armstrong say “Oh, my God, what is that thing?” and then scream and cut out his mic.
Everyone forgets Michael Collins and it’s fucking tragic.
lmao tumblr letting their users choose whether or not they want their likes to be public but then pulling a twitter 2.0 and showing your likes on your followers’ dashboards and specially saying who liked the posts in their new update, without the users’ consent or a way to turn it off, is actually pretty insane.
like how many times to we — the users — have to tell them we don’t want tumblr to be like any other social media platforms and that tumblr’s being different than twitter, instagram, tiktok is actually what makes us stay on this silly little site.
respectfully @staff you’re driving your users away. stop trying to “fix” things that are good and don’t need to be fixed. we want tumblr to be tumblr. we don’t want the site to be twitter or instagram 2.0
edit: so at first I was under the impression that you could turn off the “posts liked by blogs you follow” in your dashboard preferences, but couldn’t control how your own likes showed up on the dashboards of your followers, after I saw several posts claiming that this was the case. — however, now I think I might be wrong and it thankfully does look like as long as you have your likes set to private, they will stay private and will not be showing up in your followers’ dashboards. apologize for any misunderstanding this may have caused.
* from my understanding now, you can choose not to see other people’s likes by going to your dashboard preferences in the setting and turning off the “posts liked by blogs you follow” option, and if you have your own likes set to private, they won’t be showing up on your followers’ dashboards.
what did the founding fathers think about banging MILFs
We actually know the answer to this!!! VERY positively.
In 1745, Benjamin Franklin wrote an advice letter to an unnamed younger man which is titled “Advice to a Young Man on the Choice of a Mistress”. He begins his letter by telling his correspondent that the best way of dealing with sexual urges is to get married. However, Franklin acknowledges that extramarital sex happens (and he himself would know all about that, he had tons of it before his marriage, during his marriage, and after his wife had died). Therefore, he offers his correspondent some wisdom on choosing the right mistress.
“In all your Amours you should prefer old Women to young ones,” Franklin said, and then proceeded to spell out eight reasons why an older mistress was the best decision to make.
The first reason was the chat would be better: “Because as they have more Knowledge of the World and their Minds are better stor’d with Observations, their Conversation is more improving and more lastingly agreeable.”
Secondly, “Because when Women cease to be handsome, they study to be good.” He adds that older women will look after you when you’re sick, and there is “hardly such a thing to be found as an old Woman who is not a good Woman.”
The third reason was that “there is no hazard of Children, which irregularly produc’d may be attended with much Inconvenience.” Franklin adopted a pragmatic approach on unwanted pregnancy, and in 1758 published instructions for inducing abortion - more about thathere.
Franklin rated the wisdom that comes with age in his fourth reason, saying that older women were more discreet in their affairs, which would protect both parties’ reputations. And if the affair was rumbled, “considerate People might be rather inclin’d to excuse an old Woman”.
The fifth reason is perhaps most pertinent to you, dearest followers of a museum of vaginas. Benjamin Franklin’s fifth reason is that a vagina is a vagina, no matter the age of the woman it’s attached to. Or as he put it: “Because in every Animal that walks upright, the Deficiency of the Fluids that fill the Muscles appears first in the highest Part: The Face first grows lank and wrinkled; then the Neck; then the Breast and Arms; the lower Parts continuing to the last as plump as ever. So that covering all above with a Basket, and regarding only what is below the Girdle, it is impossible of two Women to know an old from a young one. And as in the dark all Cats are grey, the Pleasure of corporal Enjoyment with an old Woman is at least equal and frequently superior, every Knack being by Practice capable of Improvement.”
The sex, according to Franklin, with a milf, is usually better.
The sixth reason Franklin offered was that “debauching a virgin” would be more likely to ruin a life than an affair with an older woman, and the seventh, related, was that you might feel guilty about that, while with an older woman you’re just “making an old Woman happy.”
Franklin concludes his list of reasons to bang a milf with “8thly and Lastly They are so grateful!!” (punctuation, including the exclamation marks, his).
When Franklin’s papers were published in the nineteenth century, this letter was, for some reason, omitted. Along with some other pieces of Franklin’s writing such as a joyous essay about farting and bits of his autobiography about his sex life. The hornier elements of Benjamin Franklin’s writing were censored in law under the 1873 anti-obscenity Comstock laws, and later frequently cited in attempts to overturn obscenity laws.
We are pleased to be able to share, without fear of breaking US law, what Benjamin Franklin thought about shagging older women.
i’m gonna make a movie where two normal ladies fall in love. everything’s chill, no age gap, they’re both out of the closet, their families love them, everything’s fine. the catch is that one lady has a cat and the other lady never figured out what the cat’s name was cause the Owner Lesbian ALWAYS uses a dumb nickname and now it’s been three years and they’re getting married and it’s too late to just ask
It’s garnering more and more urgency because the cat’s importance is growing (the cat is going to be the ring bearer, oh no!)
The First Lady asks her fiancé if they should get a fancy collar with the cats name for the wedding and her fiancé throws her arms around her and says “great, would you go do that tomorrow?”
the longer i think about it the more that sounds like a valid conflict to base an entire movie around and the fewer problems i could think of that cant have a solid writing solution available
“Just wanted to confirm the spelling before I gave the order, hun. This shit is costly and I only got one form.”
“Oh, just the normal spelling, no crazy vowels or anything.”
This is so good. Plus it’s not like you can try out likely names and see if the cat responds, like a dog might. It’s a cat. It’s just gonna sit and squint unblinkingly at you regardless, no matter how many names you try.
Plot twist:
It’s not a stupid nickname.
The cat really is “miss kitty.”
Y E S
no no no. the cat doesn’t have a name, the cat owner never decided on one so she just goes with various silly nicknames. but since her fiancée acts like she is aware of the cat’s name, the cat owner assumes the fiancée mistook one of the nicknames for the actual name. but she doesn’t know which! so the cat owner doesn’t know what the supposed cat name is either, and relies on the fiancée revealing it at some point, but it never comes and she’s getting agitated too because she doesn’t want to admit she never named her cat
Hey hey hey in a similar vein to ^^^
What if
Neither if then know the name
Because it’s neither of their cat.
The cat decided to move in about the same time one of the girls did. Both think it’s the other one’s cat. Both are committing these increasingly elaborate shenanigans to figure out the name from the other.
The true wlw miscommunication romcom we deserve
The Cat: I like these humans. They are idiots and also adorable. I think I’ll stay here.
again, as someone who literally lived in Amsterdam and used a bike as my main form of transit for a year, I Get It. i get that helmets mess up your hair and can get hot on sunny days and are obnoxious to carry around/hang off your bike and the bike lane infrastructure means the average person will never get hit by a car. i don’t even wear my helmet all the time. I Get It.
but the thing is, i’m painfully aware that this is a calculated risk i’m taking. i’m aware that i’m valuing guaranteed convenience over the possibility of literally saving my life if an accident happens. and up until this latest round of disc horse, i assumed other Dutch people were in the same boat: aware of the risks, but choosing to ignore them for the sake of convenience. and while that is objectively kind of a dumb decision, it only affects the person making it, so it’s a completely victimless “crime”.
so imagine my surprise to learn that a significant majority of Dutch people unironically believe that helmets are not just “more trouble than they’re worth” but are in fact totally useless! there are people on here in 2023 proudly asserting that the only reason you’d need a helmet is for collisions involving cars, or that the Dutch are “taught how to fall” in such a way that protects their noggins from slamming into the concrete from 11 feet in the air (average Dutch height).
like, i know cigs and vapes are gonna give me cancer or worse eventually, and so does everyone else using them, but that’s a long-term risk everyone is aware of and disregarding in favor of immediate pleasure. this bike helmet discourse is the equivalent of finding a smoker going through 2 packs a day and claiming that it’s actually impossible for them to get cancer because they’re smoking healthy, organic, Dutch cigarettes
propose to him with the worst fucking ring you can possibly get your hands on. like not a half-assed, “oh you won’t like anything I get anyway,” passive-aggression ring, that is not the play, you need to do your research and take some interest in the things that matter to your enemy future husband and really learn about like, the gemstone cuts or whatever, and then you need to get him the most eye-catching ring you can find that would also be completely offensive to his overdeveloped sensibilities. He’s putting in all this effort to bribe the cat to bite you, it’s the least you could do to step it up in response.
So that anon came back with an adorable proposal story, but I fucking love this idea and need it to make it into someone’s fanfic or something
The wild thing about the whole “we’ll pay you for one day’s work to scan you and use your likeness in anything we want forever” is that they aren’t even offering the same licensing expectation you would give to a font.
film in other countries continuing as usual, but those actors/writers are NOT crossing picket lines! other countries unions often have rules where they can’t strike in solidarity with american unions.
new indie movies separate from hollywood studios. indie movies can continue as usual too, and may even use union actors if they follow certain guidelines and/or get permission from the union.
awards shows, although they might look different and may be postponed. if there are award shows during the strike, there’s a chance they will just be live conferences announcing winners with no celebrations attached.
celebrities will not be promoting their work during this time— that WOULD be crossing the picket line! yes, this includes social media. they can still post on social media, as long as it doesn’t pertain to their work.
a lot more reality tv. this happened the last time there was a writers strike, and it will certainly happen again.
actors will also not be able to campaign for awards. this awards season is going to be a strange one.
propaganda from hollywood. they are already trying to flip the narrative by claiming they can break the unions, but they can’t. the strikers have the power. stand with them for however long this takes!
