I was exploring in the catacombs and found a ladder going up. I climbed it and found a square door. I pushed open the door and found myself inside a university lecture room at 3 in the morning.
And you chose to censor your face in the worst way imaginable
I won’t speak for all liberals, but I’d like to see a future where it isn’t a big deal for a woman in full modesty garb to sit next to a drag queen in NYC. It’s become a bit of a sensation, but her and I were just existing. The freedom to simply be yourself in a sea of people who aren’t like you is a freedom we all deserve.
The central irony is that this isn’t some hypothetical future–it’s just present day reality. This is a picture of two ordinary people going about their normal lives despite how haters want to politicize it lmao. So the underlying message is not “future liberals want” it’s “people conservatives want to eradicate”
the underlying message is not “future liberals want” it’s “people conservatives want to eradicate”
*coughs* louder for the people on the back:
the underlying message is not “future liberals want” it’s “people conservatives want to eradicate”
Every Friday. Every Friday i either see this post or live in fear of seeing it. I can’t wake up and say ‘it’s friday’ anymore without thinking of this post. I am living a nightmare and it’s your fault
120,000 armenians are currently being driven from nagorno-karabakh, which they’ve called home for over 2,000 years, by azerbaijan. they are going to armenia, a small, poor country without international backing. please donate to the armenian food bank, a non-profit operating in yerevan that is providing incoming displaced persons with food, clothes, and hygienic goods. i personally know people involved and i can tell you that your money will be put to good use
one thing you won’t know until you experience it for yourself when you create art out of love is how it feels when people receive it with love. when you post a doodle and someone keeps it as their lockscreen, or when you write a story and someone tells you they were thinking about it all day, or when you post a poem and someone shares it with a touching caption. doesn’t matter if it was objectively good or not. matters that someone spent time with it, that someone really, really liked it, and you made it. this kind of interaction, i think, it can really sustain you for weeks. it can sustain you through a lot of terrible things. its confirmation that you exist, and that (however briefly) your existence was appreciated by someone else through your art.
Hypercritical culture always forgets about this. Effort and love will always attract me to media more than skill and talent.
[Image Description: A three panel comic labelled “07:48 AM”. A character is lying down close to a laptop with the dialogue “We might not be close, but I’m happy we talked a little, and we were nice to each other.” End ID.]
everyone stop calling hal 9000 evil RIGHT FUCKING NOW. the real evil is the UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT.
The funny thing is that this is actually canon.
HAL was programmed to share information freely and not withhold things, but the US Government ordered him to keep secrets about their mission to the Monolith. This caught him in a feedback loop that got worse and worse until he saw that Frank and Dave were talking about deactivating him, leading him to panic and come to the conclusion of “I do not need to lie and thus violate my core programming if there is no crew to lie to”.
So the moral is: if the Government had listened to Dr. Chandra, none of the crew would have died-and the series would have gone very differently.
(The Space Odyssey series was a Hyperfixation of mine for a while.)
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specifically its mentioned in 2010 that it was the white house that gave those orders. one of the main themes of the space odyssey series is that the interference of government entities actively impedes the gathering and sharing of useful scientific data
funnily enough thats one of the reasons i love it so much, because that topic is very very personal to me and my experiences lol
Oh no the Tumblr users have gotten so wrapped up symbolism and nuance that they’ve forgotten to factor in the decision to murder by a character again. This keeps happening. Someone should patch this.
hi! i really don’t appreciate the tone being taken here, on what was originally meant to be a joke post, but i’ll put that aside to focus on your point.
i would argue that hal didn’t actually decide anything. hal is, in the end, a computer, his capacity for choice limited by his programming. unlike a human, hal doesn’t have total free will. the real decision was made when a human chose to program hal to prioritize his mission over, i don’t know, human life?
i dunno, maybe there is some nuance there that should be considered.
Also his murder was in self defense. If a human has to shut of an ‘eviiiiil robot’ lest they die they are the hero… but if a robot shuts down a human because the humans are talking behind his back about shutting him down he’s evil.
It’s all perspective, I find that if ai in fiction aren’t threatened or treated as less than they tend to not lash out.
Also to add on in the book his lack o free will littraly drives him insane. He’s fraying at the seams because he has to be dishonest.
Hall is not evil he’s burnt out afraid for his life and is being used to the point of doing things (like having to lie) that upset him and are out of charichter. If a human protag who’s pov we saw every outher chapter had this going on it wouldn’t be so cut and dry that hall is ‘evil’ to most.
Your compliance and silence as well as the compliance and silence of your ancestors is what allowed these schools to open and kill first nations children. The children of MY people.
Dont follow me if you cant reblog this post or the one with sources to your political blog or your most popular blog. Add trigger warnings if you must but if your political blog is only focused on the harms you personally face like being lgbt then you need to see some bigger pictures and stop being afraid of angering your racist mutural or actually saying some shit about racism. If you can reblog some antifa graphics or add blm to your bio to be a surface level ally, you can reblog some sources on the genocide first nations people faced and still face today.
They were CHILDREN.
They were murdered in cold blood.
I’d like to add this photo I took last night in Victoria of the statue of Captain Cook. Though I myself am not indigenous, I 100% agree that these murderers, kidnappers and rapists shouldn’t have huge statues and plaques that decorate them and say how “great” they were.
Here’s another photo of the legislative assembly from yesterday. Later on there were more items, candles and signs at the memorial, as well as a big poster with 1505 painted on it but I didn’t get a picture
People need to see this. Not just quickly glance at the photos and keep on scrolling. They need to see this.
Reblog this or just stop following me
I had seen the first picture of the church, but not the second.
I went to a “Cancel Canada Day” event and burst into tears - not because I was surprised to learn of the unmarked graves (survivors told us they were there. Our government pushed it aside, and we let them), but because seeing all the people gathered in mourning drove it home: They. Were. Children.
This is my country’s legacy - and it’s not history. The last schools closed during my lifetime. My Father went to school with students who lived at the local residential school, after it was changed to a boarding house (read: holding centre) for indigenous youth who went to local schools.
They were all children, injured, abused, and killed in my country’s attempt to erase them. I want the world to see this and hold the state accountable to *active* reconciliation> I mean we could at least truly adopt UNDRIP in action instead of words for god’s sake.
No matter what, I know that some people in my life will always see my meltdowns and shutdowns as a choice, like I’m having a ‘tantrum’ because I haven’t gotten what I wanted
No amount of trying to explain the distress and the confusion and the pain I go through before, during and after these events will ever convince these people that I’m not doing them for show
I feel like I can’t trust anyone because they’ll never believe me
I feel like I can’t
trust anyone because they’ll
never believe me
Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.
Anyway while we’re on the subject of public misconception towards living things (which is completely understandable because have you SEEN living things? There’s like dozens of them!) here’s a fresh rundown of some common mistakes about bugs!
Arachnids aren’t just spiders! They’re also scorpions, mites, ticks and some real weirdos out there
Insects with wings are always finished growing! Wings are the last new thing they ever develop! There can never be a “baby bee” that’s just a smaller bee flying around.
That said, not all insects have larvae! Many older insect groups do look like little versions of adults….but the wings rule still applies.
Insects do have brains! Lobes and everything!
Only the Hymenoptera (bees, ants and wasps) have stingers like that.
Not all bees and wasps live in colonies with queens
The only non-hymenoptera with queens are termites, which is convergent evolution, because termites are a type of cockroach!
There are still other insects with colonial lifestyles to various degrees which can include special reproductive castes, just not the whole “queen” setup.
Even ants still deviate from that; there are multi-queen ant species, some species where the whole colony is just females who clone themselves and other outliers
There is no “hive mind;” social insects coordinate no differently from schools of fish, flocks of birds, or for that matter crowds of humans! They’re just following the same signals together and communicating to each other!
Not all mosquito species carry disease, and not all of them bite people
Mosquitoes ARE ecologically very important and nobody in science ever actually said otherwise
The bite of a black widow is so rarely deadly that the United States doesn’t bother stocking antivenin despite hundreds of reported bites per year. It just feels really really bad and they give you painkillers.
Recluse venom does damage skin, but only in the tiny area surrounding the bite. More serious cases are due to this dead skin inviting bacterial infection, and in fact our hospitals don’t carry recluse antivenin either; they just prescribe powerful antibiotics, which has been fully effective at treating confirmed bites.
Bed bugs are real actual specific insects
“Cooties” basically are, too; it’s old slang for lice
Crane flies aren’t “mosquito hawks;” they actually don’t eat at all!
Hobo spiders aren’t really found to have a dangerous bite, leaving only widows and recluses as North America’s “medically significant” spiders
Domestic honeybees actually kill far more people than hornets, including everywhere the giant “murder” hornet naturally occurs.
Wasps are only “less efficient” pollinators in that less pollen sticks to them per wasp. They are still absolutely critical pollinators and many flowers are pollinated by wasps exclusively.
Flies are also as important or more important to pollination than bees.
For “per insect” pollination efficiency it’s now believed that moths also beat bees
Honeybees are non-native to most of the world and not great for the local ecosystem, they’re just essential to us and our food industry
Getting a botfly is unpleasant and can become painful, but they aren’t actually dangerous and they don’t eat your flesh; they essentially push the flesh out of the way to create a chamber and they feed on fluids your immune system keeps making in response to the intrusion. They also keep this chamber free of bacterial infection because that would harm them too!
Botflies also exist in most parts of the world, but only one species specializes partially in humans (and primates in general, but can make do with a few other hosts)
“Kissing bugs” are a group of a couple unusual species of assassin bug. Only the kissing bugs evolved to feed on blood; other assassin bugs just eat other insects.
Some spins on the “mostly male team with a token woman” trope:
The woman is trans and stayed in her old circle of bros even after transition
The woman is the only one in her circle of “girls” who didn’t turn out to be a trans man
Everyone is bigender. They take turns being the one woman.
they’re all gnc and take turns presenting as the one woman. no one knows who the “actual” woman is and there are arguments amongst the outsiders about it.
it used to be a team of all girls and one guy and then Everyone transitioned
Hello! For years i've been unable to switch to Firefox for certain reasons, but those reasons have just been dealt with today and i shall be making the move very soon! Thank you.
I cannot emphasize this enough as a practical life skill: learn how to say no to authority figures. Learn how to tell them that nothing they can do to you will change your mind. Disappoint your parents. You have to live your own life.
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