The Milk Shark gets its common name from the Indian belief that eating its meat promotes lactation. They can be found around the world. Their range occurs from West Africa to southern Japan. They commonly swim in shallow waters which make them vulnerable to fisheries and 200 m deep below the water
*In case you’re wondering, yes this was strategic posting. How could I pass up the chance to not about about the Milk Shark after the Cow Shark from yesterday? 😂*
“I’m not going to do the thing because I don’t view it as important.” ←Conscious decision made of your own free will.
“I want to do the thing because I view it as important, but trying to get myself to do the thing creates the same reaction as trying to put my hand on a hot stove would.” ← Executive dysfunction, a physical health problem that doesn’t answer to your own free will.
“Trying to get myself to do the thing creates the same reaction as trying to put my hand on a hot stove would. This must mean I don’t actually want to do the thing and I’m just tricking myself into thinking I do.” ← No, that’s still executive dysfunction, but you’re having brainworms about it.
Gentrification, U.S. imperialism, what else are yall gonna excuse as a “fault of the system, not people” so you don’t have to think too hard about the role you play in it?
i had to scroll back up cause i thought about it. before, white people would be like “I’M not racist, so does it really exist?” then there was like decades worth of explaining systematic oppression. and now it’s “It’s systematic, so it’s not MY fault.” it’s all about feeling defensive and dodging accountability
I miss working at the sex store people would really walk up to me and say shit like “I need help making my wife cum” and I’d be like yeah. I know just the thing brother
Male Scifi and Fantasy writers: Look at this !Strong! female character! She can fight and solve puzzles, and ends up with the sidekick not the hero! Isn’t she a great character?
Everyone: No, she’s one-dimensional and still only exists to please the hero’s ego
Male scifi and fantasy writers: You’re never happy! This is how characters are written! Besides, it’s much harder for us to write women because we are men!
Terry Pratchett: *creates a female character who is literally the embodyment of a dog, sets her up to be the love interest of Protagonist Hero Man.* *writes her as clever, emotionally tortured, lonely and powerful* *uses her to explore difficulties of bisexuality and masculine dominated workforces*
Terry Pratchett: *Creates a pair of old witches, one of whom is a virgin and the other who has slept with lots of men.* *makes them best friends, never dismisses one lifestyle of the other, explains lifestyle choices based on characters history and personality, uses this to develop each character as the books progress*
Terry Pratchett: *Writes Sybil Rankin* *makes the powerful rich lady heavy set but beautiful, never plays her by her looks, develops her as she ages, acknowledges the way society views such people and then spits on their attitudes* *does it again with Agnes*
Terry Pratchett: *Writes a book about an entire army secretly being women, creates complex female relationships, introduces same sex relationships completely naturally*
Terry Pratchett: *takes old joke about female dwarves and uses it to explore gender identity without making it seem forced or unnatural, carefully discusses some of the issues and complextities whilst still making funny and witty observasions and maintaining genuine fantasy tropes*
Terry Pratchett: *DOES THIS ALL OVER AND OVER AGAIN, DEVELOPING CHARACTERS AS HIS VEIW OF THE WORLD DEVELOPS AND CAREFULLY APOLOGIZES FOR EARLY MISTAKES*
We should be fine as long as we do not reblog bread.
Question.
I’ve rebogged bread.
What?
I have done nothing but reblog bread for the past three days.
Where, where have you been sending it?!
I love how there are more reblogs than likes
This post. This fucking post. I cannot believe after nearly 7 years its still going around. Let alone ON MY OWN DASH! A kid born on the day i posted this would be entering 2nd grade right now.
i’m guessing at some point someone in charge must’ve been like “if there’s swords in the game then the currency is gold. if there’s spaceships the currency is credits. if you do otherwise i will kill you”
i haven’t played starfield yet but out of curiosity i had to check
Comic strip artists from the 40’s draw their characters while blindfolded
You are one of the top Problem Sleuths in the city. Solicitations for your service are numerous in quantity. Compensation, adequate. It is a balmy summer evening. You are feeling particularly hard boiled tonight.
I can’t pick a favorite
Some of these take on an impressionist quality. Eyes are important.
Practical Benefits of Creative Writing if You Need Some Motivation
Writing stories isn’t just a hobby. It’s a practice that sharpens so many skills. You’ll use these skills all your life, so write that silly idea and let’s start refining these talents that come from our work:
(Psst—this is where you should open that copy of your resume if you’re also applying for jobs!)
Communication: You know how to use words to convey complex and simple ideas.
Emotional identification (for personal benefit, not so much standard careers): You’d be surprised how many people can’t name or describe their emotions, much less make them something others can feel.
Thematic analyzation: You can find or create a common thread between wildly different people.
Community building: You can bring people together by making them feel things deeply.
Perspective shaping: You make others try on new perspectives through your characters and their challenge, which also points back to your communication skills.
Encouragement: You know how to make other people dream through your work.
Empathy: You remind readers they aren’t alone in their experiences—we are all going through different versions of pain together.
Typing: Let’s be real, every boss will think you’re amazing if you can type with more than two fingers at a time (or with two fingers really fast!).
Time management: You’re always finding ways to fit your writing into your schedule, even if it’s only once a month.
Commitment: because that 100,000-word fanfic won’t just appear on paper because you daydreamed about it.
Self-reliance: When you set a goal to write a story, you (mostly) finish it. All on your own!
A willingness to learn: Your editing and revising work keeps you open to growth opportunities, which is essential to being a good person/team member/employee.
Organization: Those folders with all your story ideas, character outlines, and plot arcs? That’s a skill, my friend.
Creativity: You’re in touch with your creative instincts, which brings vision to projects and team efforts that produce better results
i love you USPS I love you NASA i love you taxpayer funded services that actually contribute positively to society i love you libraries i love you public transport
you ever think huh i havent drunk anything in a while, i guess i’ll just have a little sip- glug gLUG GLUGGLUG HOLY SHIT GLUG GLUG GLUG GLUG GLUG GLUGGLUGLGUGLUG
A Tennessee Republican state lawmaker is arguing federal funds to feed school children from low-income families should not be accepted unless it can be proven that the program will increase test scores.
GOP Rep. John Ragan, who has a history of targeting school students from low-income households, told the legislature’s Joint Working Group on Federal Education Funding he was concerned about “tying ourselves to the federal government,” and inquired about the amount of “waste” in the federal program, according to a video clip posted by The Tennessee Holler. The Working Group’s purpose is to determine how the State of Tennessee can reject $1.8 billion in federal education funds. […]
I’m not too clued up on US-state politics so I may have missed something, but I don’t understand how that would be politically tenable for him. Surely the people of Tennessee would be immensely pissed off by their own representative turning down extra funding at no additional cost to his constituents? There can’t be any coming back from that.
It… depends. Some people are such single-issue voters, whether that is guns or hating the gays, that these things just… don’t register.
But that’s starting to change, because people don’t like to see their children hungry.
Republicans quite frequently do turn down federal funds when the President or the majority in Congress is Democratic. They turned down Medicaid expansion funds under the ACA, Indiana turned down federal funding to build high-speed rail (so Illinois got it instead, and the resulting high-speed connection between Chicago and St. Louis, taking in the state capital along the way, is just about ready), I know there are many more examples but those are the only ones I can name off the top of my head. Occasionally it makes some of their voters angry, but the single most important thing to remember in order to understand US politics is that Republican voters always vote Republican.
Hey so it’s come to my attention that the Creators of Disco Elysium want you to share the game and not give the company who took over and fired them (illegally)?) any profits off of their ideas and work, and I originally joined tumblr 2 weeks ago when that post was going around about the Steam sale and how you should [Skull and Crossbones flag] it instead.
So.
in light of that.
Check the replies/notes of this post :)
I was informed that posts containing links in them aren’t findable in the search so i’ll just…. drop a link in a seperate reboot :)
first things first though, copy this key:
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1. The Republican Party turns out for EVERY vote. Primaries, local elections, midterms, you name it. Most dems show up once every four year and then get defeatist when things don’t immediately change. It took the Republicans YEARS to overturn RvW but it has been a long game goal of theirs. YEARS of voting, and you’re gonna opt out after one vote. Okay.
2. Primaries are when you vote for who you want. Elections are when you vote for who you can. If you’re not voting in the primary, you’re letting the moderate centrist do-nothing candidate win.
3. Local elections affect your daily life. That sherif in Texas who is refusing to enforce the abortion ban? Local election. Gerrymandering, voter suppression, so much of this is trickle up from local politics.
4. Call your damn representatives. Even if it feels hopeless. The gun control reform that just passed (as minimal as it is) was bipartisan because people showed their reps that they wanted change. Get vocal as a voter and prove courting your vote matters.
5. If someone in your area is running for office and needs votes, be a signature for them. Not everyone can afford to pay to run. You want to support better candidates, put your name behind them (only in your district and always read what you’re signing first).
6. The two party system is shit. We know that. But the democrats are a big tent housing a lot of different opinions and trying to cater to them all. Republicans are generally united in one mission of dismantling everything and protecting only their own. This is also why Dems don’t have the same type of “super majority” and can’t easily whip the same voting results. And anyone who thinks Obama had a super majority for enough time to codify roe does not understand politics. He had about 18 days of actual in-session time, split into two different sessions.
7. Purity politics isn’t going to get you anywhere. The candidate is a bus stop getting you closer to where you want to be. They’re not the end goal, and a smart voter knows that.
8. Voter suppression is huge in America. Help other voters register and get to the polls. It’s not always indifference keeping people from voting. Do something to help disenfranchised voters.
Let me repeat: The two party system is shit. We need to get rid of the electoral college. We need ranked choice voting. We need to get rid of Citizens United. Our country is an oligarchy. Always has been. Not denying that. But Living in these ideals of what we should be without creating any change now isn’t going to get you anywhere. Being defeatist and abstaining from the process is cutting off your own nose to spite your face. Its saying “the other team is scoring too many goals, so instead of playing, I’m just gonna sit on the sidelines. That’ll teach everyone.” No, you’re just gonna keep losing. Maybe, instead, vote in the primaries and choose better teammates.
Y’all kill me with these “hot takes.” They ain’t even half baked.
Now, if you want to talk about the other things we should be doing IN ADDITION TO voting, like general strikes, organizing, etc. Then that’s a different conversation we should also be having.
Also no, there is no such thing as “one more vote.” Vote every time. Vote consistently. Vote national. Vote local. It’s the absolute MINIMAL amount of civil engagement you can do. If you can do more than vote, do more, but at least vote every single time.
A lot of people really think democracy is something they only have to do once. It’s not. It’s something we do constantly - because greedy and power-hungry and malicious people are constantly trying to take advantage of society. Evil never stops, so neither do we.
“Just wash one more dish bro I swear then we won’t have to do dishes anymore bro come on just one more load of laundry bro and then I promise all the clothes will be clean ok just trust me bro the chores will definitely be done okay just sweep the kitchen floor and take out the trash this one last time it’ll work I swear you’ll never have to do chores again I promise.”
Grow the fuck up.
Vote in every election. Over and over again until you die. It’s a chore. That’s how chores work.
It’s important to remember that all American politicians are warmongers. It doesn’t matter if Democrat or Republican gets into office. They’ll both continue the military shit the previous did.
But one side has made it actively clear they want to criminalize queer people out of existence, imprison and separate kids from their families, and wants a puritanical Christian slave state. They’ve made it their goal to block anything they don’t agree with and dismantle everything in place.
You need to vote if we want to have a chance of changing things for the better.
A snapshot of one morning, on a relaxed day with mild weather. Now imagine this when it’s crowded or when it’s raining or snowing.
StarShip Technologies Delivery Robot $8500
CraftRight Sledge Hammer $40
As a wheelchair user, I’m just saying that there is a hobby waiting to be invented with a low cost of entry… I have no idea what that hobby might be, but it comes with free food.
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