The thing is that I don’t want to be employed but I also don’t want to be unemployed. I actually want our entire economic system to explode but that’s not really a feasible option right now
Years on the internet and somehow i still click on comments sections with the insanely optimistic idea that I’ll learn something new instead of being subjected to the dumbest motherfuckers online typing like their sole purpose in life is to make me want to end mine
“Wow, what an interesting post! I want to see what sort of fascinating discourse is being generated by the idea posited by the original poster” <- Me, operating under levels of delusion yet unexplained by modern science
i love being sober and talking to drunk people at parties cause i asked a guy “if you were a wizard what kind of spells would you cast” and i know he wasnt lying when he said “summon creatures”
The more I get back into liking, loving and lusting on people, the more I’m reminded what a sanitized, segregated lie queers have been built into.
I’ve met the sweetest, prettiest queens who tell me “Well, I’m a transsexual. Sometimes I call myself a transman because both my trans self and my manhood are me.”
New friends tell me about the sexcapades their closed polycule gets up to that they just watch because they’re a kinky ace.
There’s staunch lesbians who helped the love of their life transition as a transmasc, gay men begging to be topped by trans men with the fattest tits.
Older queers don’t hesitate to shout “oh, like Prince!” when I tell them I’m androgyne. Vanilla questioning men will text me day after day before shyly confessing I’m their dream guy. Closeted trans women ask to kiss me because I’m their dream girl. Doms and subs who melt when they realize I’m both and neither, and they didn’t know somebody like me existed.
There’s vanilla lesbians on Grindr and acearos who have shown me love deeper than I thought possible and guydykes kissing girlfags and MtFtMtX elders and throuples that have so much affection that they just collectively parent babygays who got disowned.
Everybody is so beautiful! There is so much love! It is no wonder a cruel world has a vested interest in suppressing queerness when humanity is so expansive to us.
I also want to make it explicit that not only are these real people, but like. This is explicitly about people I know across the spectrum of race, ability, and more. Including me, a fat cripple!
Queerness is not the exclusive domain of the thin, the white, and the ablebodied. If you are any of those things and can only picture queer people like you? You need to ask yourself why.
That’s why I’m making this addition. It is on me as a white person to make the room for queer BIPOC that is vehemently, violently denied. And I did not make that room in the original post.
Intersectional and lateral aggression kills. There’s no “community” without U and I.
So, fun facts: color CRT displays either use Shadow Masks (where there’s a metal grid inside the tube) or an Aperture Grille (where there’s a bunch of thin wires inside the tube).
Shadow Masks are pretty sturdy and shouldn’t be permanently damaged by a magnet unless it’s REALLY strong, but Aperture Grille displays use very small wires, so it’s possible to permanently damage them with a magnet.
But there’s also the issue of magnetizing them: the masks/grilles are not supposed to be magnetized, but if you get big magnets near them, they might get magnetized. This’ll cause the beams to be permanently deflected, causing color issues. This is what degaussing is for, but the built-in degaussing function is limited in how much magnetism it can remove. You can easily magnetize it to the point where you’d need to externally degauss it to fix the colorization issues.
So, these two methods (mask and grille) are needed because the inside of the screen is coated in a pattern of red/green/blue phosphors, which light up when hit by an electron beam.
The beam is steered using the yoke, which is two crossed electromagnets. One makes it go left to right, and one makes it go top to bottom.
By carefully tuning how the magnetic fields go back and forth, you get a raster: a pattern by which the beam can trace the whole screen.
For a color display, all three beams (red/green/blue) are being steered in unison, but it’s important to keep the beams hitting the right phosphors, or blue will show up as red and such.
So there’s a Shadow Mask , or an Aperture Grille. This blocks the phosphors so that the wrong beam can’t hit them, it hit the mask/grille instead.
But here’s the thing: this display is an early Macintosh. It’s a monochrome display. There’s no Shadow Mask or Aperture Grille to get damaged.
All that’s happening is that the beam is being temporarily deflected. As soon as you remove the magnet it’ll return completely to normal!
So shitposting and silliness aside, this should be completely harmless to the display.
Be careful doing this to a color CRT, but a monochrome CRT should give no shits.
“If you have time to be on social media, you also have time for…” “If you have time to watch Netflix, you also have time for…” Yeah, but do I have the energy for it? Do I have the emotional and mental capacity for it? Am I pain-free enough for it? Can I focus on it? Can I do it without leaving my bed? Can I safely do it without risk of (physically or emotionally) injuring myself by pushing past my boundaries?
So… a monster and/or slasher-type boogeyman is in your neighborhood, Voorheesing all over the place…
Now, your first instinct is going to be to go to the cops with whatever evidence you have and beg them to believe a supernatural murder machine both exists and is not already on their payroll.
This is wrong. That’s how you wind up in a tense handcuffed escape from the back of a patrolcar before the wolfman finishes tearing out Spec-Ops Barney Fife’s liver in the front seat.
Instead, Give ‘em the Reverse Scooby-Doo™:
“Some methhead in a Halloween mask is running around attacking people. I think he’s got a knife, I didn’t get a good look.”
Now. You know that its really Dracula on a rampage and that mortal weapons won’t work on him…
But who are they going to believe? You, or the dried husks of an improbably exsanguinated SWAT team?
It annoys me so bad that nobody in media does this, the most obvious thing, but also that the police never just draw this conclusion on their own?!
I’m going to scream. Pushback on the narrative that climate breakdown can be averted by individual decisions centres around the fact that NORMAL PEOPLE do not contribute to a significant amount of carbon emissions cos the average NORMAL PERSON emits 7 tons of CO2 a year. Not Taylor fucking Swift who has emitted over 8000 tons of emissions this year SO FAR. Her CO2 emissions from private jet use alone are equivalent to that of TWO THOUSAND normal people. We absolutely should be blaming individuals if those particular individuals are emitting two thousand people’s worth of emissions.
“We should be addressing structural issues” my brother in Christ widespread private jet use is a structural issue. Celebrity culture and the extravagant lifestyle that comes with it is a structural issue. These are whole industries that are massively impacting climate breakdown but because Taylor happens to be the most egregious case her stans want to pretend it’s not a problem. Stan culture really is a disease
also please note that this scientist is in fact the retired man who invented the xbox.
oh fuck i listened to a podcast that was interviewing him and the process he went through to make this bread, ologies with allie ward
like he went through full on clean room levels of prep to ensure that this was 100% yeast from old egypt and had to bend over backwards to ensure everything involved was uncontaminated
thinking about a person with those butterfly wings with eyespots in the place of regular eyes and instead of blinking they fold and unfold their wings. like this.
anyone else incapable of not thinking “wow the amount of people and layers of work that went into this” anytime anything ever happens or exists? and i mean anything. think about any random thing right now. think about the phone in your hands, your favorite blanket, a game at a stadium, an arctic expedition, an app nobody uses. all the designers, planners, organizers, manufacturers, sailors, pilots, drivers, any and everyone involved in getting that thing to you or to exist. everything manmade that exists in this world wouldn’t be possible without hundreds or thousands of people being involved in its process. and I think that’s nuckin futs
I highly recommend the book Thanks a Thousand by A.J. Jacobs! He decided to personally thank every person involved with the production of his daily cup of coffee and quickly realized how difficult that really is! He started with his barista and tracked down everyone from the farmer who grew the beans to the driver of the truck who delivered them to the cafe to the construction worker who paved the road for the truck to drive, and so on. It’s an excellent read :)
I do it sometimes i did it a lot today tho cause I was in a MOOD okay??????
I bet he’s gonna delete this one
just because you said that I will fully dedicate myself to memorializing this post for ever. we will all be dust and bones and this shitty-ass post will loom above our graves, never-ending.
you have to let “dennys parking lot at 3 am” go. you have to think independently. you have to come up with your own strange places, and indeed your own strange times to be there. there’s authenticity in that
Daily reminder that heteroaces, arohets, demihets and all other possible combinations are queer and just as much a part of the community as anyone. They are not “straight-light” or “basically hetero”. They are my comrades my siblings my blorbos my beloveds my poor little meow meows. If any are reading this rn omg hi bestie hiiiiiii
I love the implication that it’s woke not because you can play a woman with a dick but because the woman’s are larger.
They’re just being true to the lore
can a male elf get a bigger penis by taking elfstrogen?
Elves are pretentious bastards so no. They need Elfsterone to get a bigger cock. The elves decided to switch their gendered hormones to be farther way from humans and dwarfs
Me as a kid rubbing my fingers across the screen of my gba to pet my lv 67 Mightyena so it won’t faint this turn & attack through confusion to finally beat the E4 having no knowledge of type matchups or proper teambuilding but relying solely on the power of love & friendship (&RNG) to win
THE POWER OF FRIENDSHIP IS NOT LIMITED BY THE LIKES OF YOUR PUNY TECHNOLOGY. FRIENDSHIP. IS. MAGIC.
Rightoids have been raging about LEGO’s latest theme (LEGO Dreamzzz) because it’s marketed as being gender-neutral, you know, like how LEGO was originally marketed? 🙄
I know many of you out there are feeling a bit down. Have a crow to Wouldn’t it be Nice by the Beach Boys to lift your mood.
He stops and looks both ways?!?
You wanna know what makes this better?
Crows normally walk. This one seems to have both legs working, so he’s not hopping out of necessity, he’s doing it for fun. Corvids can sometimes be seen doing things like this for no evident reason other than enjoyment.
3. a submission form like this should pop up. bingo!
4. for the category option, you’re going to want to choose Community, Customizing your Tumblr, Feedback, Posting, or Social features. any of those can work! it’s up to whatever you feel like, maaan.
5. right under that, there’s a body test window. in that window, i want you to put every frustration that you have been noticing about those pesky awful changes that have been happening to Tumblr on desktop. you know like
not seeing the blogs youre following’s profile pictures
all the feature actions being moved around
the feature actions moving to the left side and making the dash feed smaller
removing your pfp icon to quickly access your account and blog settings and customizations
or you know, anything else you been thinking about all this nonsense, go wild!
People swing wildly between seeing indigenous people as “evil savages” and “noble protectors of the forest” instead of just seeing us as people and it’s not only really goddamn dehumanizing, it also makes it harder to talk about our own community issues without supposedly progressive people thinking that that gives them permission to jump right into violent racism that they pulled directly from Manifest Destiny propaganda.
Like I see so many Native people who desperately wish they could talk more openly about enrollment issues and lack of marriage equality and other forms of bigotry that our tribes justify with blood quantum and claims of tradition but they can’t do that because it opens the door for people to just be obscenely, horrifically racist and think that they’re progressive for doing so.
“Oh, this Native person is talking about asshole Elders on their tribe’s council? Well obviously this means that all culture and religion are evil tools of oppression that are holding us back and people who still cling to cultural traditions are just dumb and ignorant bigots.
Except for my culture, obviously, since I see it as the default state of humanity.”
I am biting you. I am biting you and I am killing you.
things i never expected to learn through a tedtalk but now am glad to know:
the founder of Sirius XM radio is a sapphic trans woman and is currently trying to preserve her wife’s consciousness in a digital file so her wife can be immortal in the body of a robot.
Holy shit you neglected to mention that when her daughter got a terminal disease with no cure or treatment possible she literally went to the library got some medical textbooks and taught herself enough biochemistry to actually begin developing a drug that halted the disease good god why have we never heard of this absolute genius
YOU KNOW WHY
YOU K N O W W H Y
Real life tony stark is a gay trans woman
Her name is Martine Rothblatt. She also founded United Therapeutics, which is a company that works to find cures for “””small””” diseases that don’t necessarily affect a lot of people.
oh, yes–and she’s Jewish.
Here is a picture of Martine and her wife, Bina Aspen:
Buckkkkkkk oh my celestia this hurts!!!! does anypony have a bandaid?
When this PARTICULAR brony stubs their toe (which is every FIVE MINUTES!!!)
GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH manure manure manure manure manure manure MANURE MANURE MANU}RE BUCKBUCKBUCKBUCK BUCK YOU BUCK HIM BUCK HER BUCK EVERYPONY CELESTIA LUNA CADANCE THORAX TWILIGHT MOTHERBUCKING SPARKLE SWEEEEEEEEEEET BABY FLURRY HEART *incessant hoof slamming on any nearby object* AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH
this hive of pain will be my sweet sweet end
sweet release from the torture of cyberbullies and trolls
sweet release
YOU PONY HATING FUCKS CAN UNFOLLOW AND BLOCK ME NOW. GOOD FUCKING RIDDANCE. YOU GOT YOUR FUCKING CONFESSION OUT OF ME. NOW GO.
you know at least once a week i’ll think that i’ve seen the worst post on this entire website but then, just like that, i’ll be BLESSED with a post that tops every other post i’ve seen, ever
hey netizens! i’m not sure how many people are aware, but youtube’s been slowly rolling out a new anti-adblock policy that can’t be bypassed with the usual software like uBlock Origin and Pi-Hole out of the gate
BUT, if you’re a uBlock Origin user (or use an adblocker with a similar cosmetics modifier), you can add these commands in the uBlock dashboard (under My Filters) to get rid of it!
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