cryptobotanical:

Incivility is contagious and on the rise

Rude behavior toward frontline workers is on the rise, according to a new study.

Axios

I’ve had a feeling for a while now that people are ruder now than they were before the pandemic. I did some googling and turns out I’m not crazy or alone in thinking people have gotten ruder and more aggressive over the past few years. The articles chalks it up to stress from the pandemic and the economy and other global situations, but I think it’s deeper and more complicated than that. I don’t think stress is a valid excuse to be rude to strangers who don’t deserve it, even when I’m really upset or stressed out I don’t use a random service industry employee, or any random undeserving stranger, as my punching bag because that’s deplorable behavior.

I think one of if not the biggest contribution to the rise of rudeness comes down to people spending years inside getting little to no in person socialization and spending massive amounts of time online, and social rules online tend to be different than social rules in person. Online it tends to be more normal and acceptable to be aggressive and hostile to strangers, usually because there’s not the same consequences (it’s hard to punch someone through a computer screen) and also it’s easier to not feel guilty about bad behavior when someone is just words and pictures on a screen, it tends to make the hostility and aggression spilled on others not feel as “real” or “bad” as treating someone like that in person. (and I’m not saying this is okay, I really think as a society we should address and work on the ease and acceptance of being a total raging sack of shit to strangers online) But I think if people spend years spending massive amounts of time online and little to no time actually in person with other people, it’s going to affect their sense of how it’s acceptable to behave and treat other people as they adopt the social norms of the internet.

I do like the point this article makes that rudeness and aggression are contagious. It is a social contagion, the more you’re rude and aggressive to others the more tense and upset they’ll feel and start behaving rudely and aggressively too. The good news is, kindness and courtesy are also contagious.

jaymesdoodles:

jaymesdoodles:

In light of recent events

Also feel like original is always relevant

gothhabiba:

slothicsupremacy:

ms-demeanor:

ninjakittenarmy:

ms-demeanor:

The headline: UK Drug Dealer Feeling Bleu After Cheese Photo Leads To Arrest

The article: Police cracked encryption on a privacy-focused phone service provider and ran fingerprint analysis on photos posted by users.

Like I get that law enforcement does things like this, that’s literally what it exists for, I’m just really upset by the cutesy framing.

Also. Like. Don’t organize shit online or over the phone. Law enforcement has been pressuring tech companies to put backdoors into encrypted services for years, this whole crackdown happened because of a device-level attack, and you never know who’s listening.

And yeah. If you’re setting up an anonymous ID online for any reason do not, under any circumstances, post or share any identifying information under that ID or with devices associated with that account.

Just don’t break the law.

• The Criminalization of Private Debt.
• The Human Toll of Criminalizing Drug Use in the US.
• How Every Part of American Life Became a Police Matter.
  
• No Right to Rest: Police Enforcement Patterns and Quality of Life Consequences of the Criminalization of Homelessness.
• The Criminalization of Poverty.
• The Criminalization of Immigration in the United States.
• From “brute” to “thug:” the demonization and criminalization of unarmed Black male victims in America.
• “Forced into Breaking the Law”The Criminalization of Homelessness in Connecticut.
• American Cities and the Creeping Criminalization of Walking.
• The Unfair Criminalization of Gay and Transgender Youth.
• Mass criminalization is a root cause of racial inequality within the U.S.
  
• Illegality of Unions.

“Just don’t break the law.”

“just don’t break the law”

[ID: image in OP shows three news headlines: one from the New York Post titled “UK drug dealer’s cheese photo leads to his arrest”; one from Huffpost titled “Cheese photo leads to arrest of ‘big cheese’ drug dealer in Liverpool”; and one from NBC News titled “Drug deal identified by cheese photo posted on encrypted message service.” Each article shows the arrested man’s headshot and a photo of a hand holding a block of cheese. Image in 3rd reblog shows Arthur’s Muffy handing the phone to Francine and saying “bitch it’s the circus”. End ID]

fivequartersoftheorange:

mysticalthingphantom:

tattooedzombigirl:

theman:

beardedmrbean:

I GOT A FUCKING RAISE THE POTATO WORKED WTF

This potato works. Every. Fucking. Time.

reblogging again bc i really need it

NO BULLSHIT. I REBLOGGED THIS HOURS AGO AND JUST RECEIVED REALLY GOOD NEWS ABOUT A POTENTIAL PROFESSIONAL ADVANCEMENT PROGRAM.

I’M SO FUCKING HAPPY I THINK I’M GOING TO THROW UP!!!

frankbelloriley:

medblr-td:

Sooo hilarious but I can completely see this being a real conversation between streaming execs 😏

(original vid: Asif Ali - instagram - https://tinyurl.com/2p8jpkzz)

“they even put an Indian guy in WandaVision”

hang on a second, I gotta look up something

yeah, this is really funny

aplpaca:

caesarsaladinn:

caesarsaladinn:

albatrosses will wipe the floor with any species of bird you choose to compare them to. they’re the Most, or at least Extremely, by almost every metric

wingspan. lifespan. intricacy of mating dances. devotion to monogamy. investment in offspring. ability to circumnavigate the globe. literary symbolism that is flexible but not to the point of meaninglessness. eyeliner quality. I could go on

muppetness of said offspring

claypigeonpottery:

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I gotta say, this is one of my favourite mugs. the green might turn out more black than expected, it was a mix of a few things and …who knows. I can’t wait for this to get out of the kiln

lowdowndandy:

If you’d like a reference for what Tumblr looked like when I joined it and then you might understand why people are saying it’s copying Twitter

weepingwitch:

it’s so funny how ppl sometimes forget that some light sexual assault is just part of the airport security process for some of us lol like I’ll be like going through security is the worst part of flying and they’ll be like yeah it’s so annoying having to take your shoes off and I say no I mean the part where a TSA agent gropes your genitalia and makes a face at you

startrekgifs:

human-south-of-north-pole:

watermelon-converse:

alagaisia:

alagaisia:

alagaisia:

Hey. Why isn’t the moon landing a national holiday in the US. Isn’t that fucked up? Does anyone else think that’s absurd?

It was a huge milestone of scientific and technological advancement. (Plus, at the time, politically significant). Humanity went to space! We set foot on a celestial body that was not earth for the first time in human history! That’s a big deal! I’ve never thought about it before but now that I have, it’s ridiculous to me that that’s not part of our everyday lives and the public consciousness anymore. Why don’t we have a public holiday and a family barbecue about it. Why have I never seen the original broadcast of the moon landing? It should be all over the news every year!

It’s July 20th. That’s the day of the moon landing. Next year is going to be the 54th anniversary. I’m ordering astronaut shaped cookie cutters on Etsy and I’m going to have a goddamn potluck. You’re all invited.

Hey. Hey. Tumblr. Ides of March ppl. We can do this

MOON LANDING DAY IS THURSDAY!

HAPPY MOON DAY EVERYONE!!! 🌙

prettyaveragewhiteshark:

prettyaveragewhiteshark:

So turns out…..you guys are not gonna believe this…….but it turns out. Reading real books. Is good for you actually.

Let me be completely clear - I’m not being a sarcastic ass. I’m just realizing all over again, in real time, for myself, that reading a real life published book makes your neurons feel like they’re getting a spa day. Like I can feel my brain getting juicer and wrinklier with every page I turn. This shit is no joke, this is like hard drugs if hard drugs were good for you and made your brain feel revived and alive.

tonyoso:

tonyoso:

had someone comment “investing at x notes” on one of my posts and then the post just stopped getting notes which is a thousand times funnier than it blowing up if I’m being honest

get urself a new portfolio manager my guy because your investments ain’t going nowhere

omegaverse:

omegaverse:

Scariest thing ive wver read. What do you mean

Tumblr like 2 weeks late to the joke 😭😭

andisupreme:

modmad:

papergardener:

farmside:

watched this for the first time when i was 14 i think? it saved me

Knew what this was before I clicked and had to watch the whole thing again.

If you haven’t seen it, now’s your chance!

ten years later still get shook

The universal urge–young and old–to pretend you’re the one conducting

flameraven:

kinka-juice:

netherworldpost:

unbidden-yidden:

unbidden-yidden:

tyrannuspitch:

tyrannuspitch:

still so fucking weird to go from real life, where a cis man being flamboyant/effeminate/camp is judged like 70+% by how he speaks and carries himself, to online queer communities, which often seem to have no concept of male gender non-conformity that doesn’t involve wearing a skirt

i promise you, a man can be fem to the point of being in danger while wearing literally exactly the same thing as a hypermasculine guy. a boring basic black suit. a t shirt and jeans. a UNIFORM. gender conformity is not only about what you wear

None of you have watched that heartbreaking scene in The Birdcage where Albert gives up wearing everything he likes to try and blend in for their son’s conservative prospective in-laws and is so awkward and uncomfortable that no one says much until finally he says, defeated, “I know what you’re thinking - dressed like this, I’m even more obvious, aren’t I?” and it shows.

Here, have your queer heart broken:

This is what I’m talking about. This is still literally how it is in most places in the Midwest if you’re trying to “pass” for straight/cis/whatever.

I cannot begin to describe how hard I cried when I saw this scene the first time and how confused my conservative family was as to why I was crying.

It’s so funny how literally the way a man holds his wrists is an indication of femininity but also people think it’s all about makeup and clothing. But we’re also at a point that if you have a suit that is any color other than black, dark grey, or navy, it’s flamboyant.

Men’s sartorial stylings are so rigidly controlled it’s painful. Tim Gunn here is at the very absolute bleeding edge of “acceptably masculine” here for most cishet men, just for some noticible stripes, patterns, and purple, and that’s before he even moves. This is how restricted it is.

But Trixie Mattel (out of drag here) wearing standard masculine garb is could still be deemed unacceptably feminine for body language alone.

This is why we talk about “toxic masculinity” – the idea that any expression of emotion besides anger or even wearing colorful clothes is non-masculine and therefore restricted is horrifying. It sucks! Men should be allowed to express themselves outside of a tiny box of acceptable behavior, because they’re, y'know, people, and people have a wide range of expression in the way they like to look and move and act.

I honestly feel like it’s gotten worse over the last couple decades, too. If you look at men’s fashions from the 70s and even into the 80s, there’s a lot of style choices that look pretty cringe to us, but…. you also see a lot more color and pattern in suits than you do now. I’m not sure when this started to shift, or if it’s tied in to the increasing lack of color in all consumer products, but it sucks.