the-last-punbender:

chromolume:

so imagine you’re making ratatouille and you don’t like tomatoes. you don’t like the taste, the texture, the putting them in the water and the peeling them - eugh! so you say to yourself “lookit, this whole dish is nothing but vegetables, so what does it matter if i leave the tomatoes out?” a seemingly innocuous decision on the surface, but 2 hours or whatever later when you’re done cooking, you open the oven to find a complete mess! just a pot full of baked vegetables, none of them congealed or somehow unified. what happened to your beloved ratatouille? so you take to google and find that actually the tomatoes are an essential ingredient of ratatouille, as they form a “sauce” of a certain kind that makes the whole thing work. and so a seemingly innocent decision has destroyed the very foundation of the established order with disturbing ramifications towards the whole. in this essay i will examine how martin luther’s 95 theses lead to protestants being more boring than catholics

This is the opposite of a recipe blog

s0mber-radi0-deactivated2024021:

KEEP EYES ON SUDAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! DONT LET THEIR SUFFERING GO UNSEEN OR UNHEARD OF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

theauthor27:

Author’s my middle name actually,

my first name is The.

hadal-blacksite-system-deactiva:

omegaverse:

moonmangarrett:

omegaverse:

Every january goth couples are fucking hard to try and have a halloween baby they’re gonna name ophelia or some shit

I’m a Halloween baby but my parents are normal so I’m Garrett

Hi garrett

happy birthday garrett

netherator:

undeniable logic

super-lazer-piss:

Amateur filmmakers are making movies on freaking YouTube about video game concepts like “What if the ‘respawn’ mechanic of games wasn’t flawless technology and sometimes when they respawn they come back wrong” and “What if the mindless NPCs you interact with in games suddenly became sentient and turn on the player character out of sheer confusion and cosmic horror” meanwhile Hollywood’s like “What if we did 'You die in the game you die in real life’ …again”

powerburial:

not going to lie to you they are charging to muuch for all this crap at the store

supreme-leader-stoat:

pengychan:

“Oh the media being biased/silent on Gaza is a conspiracy theory”

I am a literal journalist and this is what happened when I pitched an article to a magazine I write for:

We covered conflict before. We denounced PMs’ positions as wrong before. But this is where the editor balks - anything that makes it look even vaguely like we might, possibly, support Gaza. Even if the article itself would not have been an opinion piece, but a news feature about events on the ground.

We have free press, baby! But avoid the matter entirely if you can. It’s delicate and depressing, why would you talk about it? Don’t rock the boat. Be quiet. You don’t need to go there.

Self-censorship is alive and well.

sliceofdyke:

great-and-small:

I hate that I’m always trying to find cool biology themed stuff to wear but all the “nature inspired” clothing companies just have like two crossed arrows or a minimalistic mountain on a sweatshirt. Fucking lame, that’s barely even nature-adjacent. Put the life cycle of a salamander on a jacket, put hyena skeleton patterns on leggings, put a damn field guide of birds of prey on a peacoat and THEN you can have my money. Do NOT give me a shirt with a leaf on it that says “stay wild” or some bullshit I would much prefer clothing that broadcasts to everyone around me how many teeth an adult Jaguar has or how some pitcher plants can catch and digest rats.

recommendations from the notes :)

• studio 252MYA (paleontology)
• ray troll’s webstore (surrealist fish designs)
• liberty graphics t-shirts (biology/dinosaurs)
• present indicative (science-themed clothing + home items)
• donbea tees - something fishy collection (silly fish puns about substance use)
• camp mustelid (nature themes)
• crime pays but botany doesn’t (botany/biology)
• umvvelt (marine biology patterns)
• morningwitch (nature patterns)
• svaha USA (science patterns)
• cognitive surplus (some clothing, but mostly home items)

symphony-calamity:

i-am-a-fish:

pro tip

ur friends don’t hate you

nobody is secretly mad at you

you have anxiety and that’s ok you are loved

Reblog to reassure your mutuals you aren’t secretly mad at them

lavarend:

Tumblr so far has just felt like screaming into the void until it starts screaming at you.

heartsutra:

warcrimesimulator:

That’s not even.. what’s going on (re the last tweet). People with ocd aren’t contemplating sexually abusing kids, they’re afraid they might sexually harm a child by mistake, or be a pedophile without realising, or any number of similar anxieties, but the point is that it becomes an anxious fixation because the person finds it so repellant. It’s such an incredibly common ocd symptom, but most people are understandably terrified to talk about it

I remember reading a study where a therapist was helping people with similar anxieties - though not involving children - work through them. One client said she was afraid she was going to murder the therapist, not that she wanted to but that she’d somehow lose control of herself or an accident would happen. The solution? The therapist brought a kitchen knife to an appointment (with the patients consent), handed it to her and basically said “okay, what now?” Turns out nothing now, nothing happened, and it helped the client deal with the phobia

Obviously that approach isn’t workable with something like pedophilia/csa anxiety but I think it highlights the true nature of what the anxiety actually is. It’s irrational anxiety that comes from a deep fear and disgust of csa, not a desire to perpetrate it

eyrex:

benepla:

im screaming i was playing civ V and there was a little island only 1 tile big that only had foxes on it

little fox island

No items fox only final destination

bucketbunny:

omnicat:

badgraph1csghost:

badgraph1csghost:

whisky-gerblin:

asortoflight:

themodernsouthernpolytheist:

xakumi:

hydro-punk:

rox-and-prose:

yay855:

sisterofiris:

Hey students, here’s a pro tip: do not write an email to your prof while you’re seriously sick.

Signed, a person who somehow came up with “dear hello, I am sick and not sure if I’ll be alive to come tomorrow and I’m sorry, best slutantions, [name]”.

I mean, if someone wrote that to me, I’d probably believe they were sick.

“Slutantions” has me crying laughing

i once emailed my professor with a migraine. a mistake.

“I amsick will not to choir because i have a heache. i Hope its very and i am so sorry

love,

blue”

the subject line was “OW”

THE SUBJECT LINE IS THE BEST PART JSJFJSJDJS JUST IMAGINE GETTING AN EMAIL WITH NO CONTEXT OTHER THAN “OW”

As someone who has taught college, please send those emails because 1) We WILL believe that; no one would write that on purpose and 2) we need a laugh sometimes.

On the other side of this, once after getting taken to the ER by ambulance, I got an email from the professor whose class I’d passed out in, and the message had no text, just the subject line “you good?”

Reblogging for the last addition

Claritin makes me weird, but I have allergies so there’s about a month and a half block of time where I’m taking Claritin and am just weird most of the time.

Anyway, my last year of college, I got the flu or something in late March and was also taking Mucinex. I told my professor I couldn’t come to class one day by email except I couldnt think of what to say, so my medicated ass decided to make a Fry meme. I think it said something like “Not sure if I can go to class with a head the size of Texas, bottom text.” I didn’t think until the next day that it probably wasn’t socially-acceptable to tell your philosophy professor you weren’t coming to class via Tumblr style memes. When i got back to class, i found that she’d printed it out and taped it to the classroom bulletin board.

Oh shit you guys i turned on my WinXP laptop that I used to use back then.

IT WAS ON THE DESKTOP. THIS IS WHAT I SENT.

It’s even worse than i remember it

I laugh myself hoarse every time this post comes around, so here it is again.

Once emailed a professor from my hospital bed high on painkillers after a really bad car crash which my heart actually stopped the email “Dead cant class sory”

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danger

softandorsweet:

being fat is hard because you don’t just run into inaccessibility that affects only you. for example, if i’m bigger than a car seat is built for, then i inconvenience those sitting next to me. if i’m bigger than a room is built for, i encroach on others space. it makes the fat person feel like it’s a personal fault, and skinny people are often not kind to fat folks who take up space. i want to make this clear: it is Not the fat persons fault AND i understand the strain and shame it can cause fat people. this world is built to exclude fat people. fitting of my favorite phrase inspired by the social model of disability; it’s not the fat persons fault, it’s the worlds fault.

weaselle:

psst. hey

people who are legal adults who want their tubes tied or top surgery etc etc should be able to do so full stop.

“oh but what if they regret it for the rest of their lives”

okay. so what.

Adults make decisions about our lives, that’s what being an adult is. We may decide to get a face tattoo, or quit a promising job, or join the army, or move to another country.

That’s practically all we do as adults. We make decisions that effect the rest of our life, and then we live, or sometimes die, accordingly. Maybe i’ll spend the rest of my life regretting telling my influential boss he doesn’t know his ass from a hole in the ground, but, as an adult, that’s the kind of life decision i am allowed to make for myself. And after all, it might be the best thing i ever did. It’s my life, and i get to do all the fucking around and all the finding out i want to.

surgical transition, or sterilization, or whatever… is exactly the same. If you aren’t going to let a legally adult person decide for themself about that stuff, then you can’t let them get a tattoo or move to Florida either

ceasarslegion:

Ive noticed recently that my generation has… no concept of what the various economic classes actually are anymore. I talk to my friends and they genuinely say things like “at least i can afford a middle class lifestyle with this job because i dont need a roommate for my one bedroom apartment” and its like… oughh

You guys, middle class doesnt mean “a stable enough rented roof over your head,” it means “a house you bought, a nice car or two, the ability to support a family, and take days off and vacations every year with income to spare for retirement savings and rainy days.” If all you have is a rented apartment without a roommate and a used car, you’re lower class. That’s lower class.

And i cant help but wonder if this is why you get kids on tumblr lumping in doctors and actors into their “eat the rich” rhetoric: economic amnesia has blinded you to what the class divides actually are. The real middle class lifestyle has become so unattainable within a system that relies upon its existence that theyve convinced you that those who can still reach it are the elites while your extreme couponing to afford your groceries is the new normal.

smilesrobotlover:

I was thinking about this new story idea about people in space doing their own thing, they’re all homies and they’re all vibing, and then suddenly mysterious things start happening, things are being sabotaged and ruined, and then murders suddenly start happening, and the astronauts are trying to figure out who the murderer is before everyone dies, and I thought that that would be an awesome idea for a horror movie or something

And then I remembered that it’s literally the plot of among us

dracenines:

it is way too easy to accidentally follow people on this site. sorry to the person I just accidentally followed and then unfollowed, I’m sure you’re perfectly nice

cats camouflaging themselves

callmebliss:

vividaway:

So now that we have all the backgrounds, when do we get the pictures of the cats?

nateconnolly:

[Image ID:

A picture that says “A student once asked anthropologist Margaret Mead, “What is the earliest sign of civilization? The student expected her to say a clay pot, a grinding stone, or maybe a weapon. 

Margaret Mead thought for a moment, then she said, “A healed femur.”

The second picture is a news headline. It is bolded and a much larger font. “27-year-old who couldn’t afford $1,200 insulin copay dies after trying cheaper version.”

The third picture is the same font and size as the Margaret Mead quote. It’s a continuation. It says, “A femur is the longest bone in the body, linking hip to knee. In societies without the benefits of modern medicine, it takes about six weeks of rest for a fractured femur to heal. A healed femur shows that someone cared for the injured person, did their hunting and gathering, stayed with them, and offered physical protection and human companionship until the injury could mend.” 

The fourth picture is another headline. It is in a large and bolded type. “Dying man who couldn’t afford to go to hospital after vomiting blood"

The fifth picture is a screenshot of the Margaret Mead story.

Mead explained that where the law of the jungle—the survival of the fittest—rules, no healed femurs are found. The first sign of civilization is compassion, seen in a healed femur. 

The next screenshot is of a slightly different font. The letters are pointier and the lines are a little curvier. It says, “Susan Finley returned to her job at a Walmart retail store in Grand Junction Colorado, after having to call in sick because she was recovering from pneumonia.

The day after she returned, the fifty three  year old received her ten year associate award — and was simultaneously laid off, according to her family. She had taken off one day beyond what is permitted by Walmart’s attendance policy.

After losing her job in May 2016, Finley also lost her health insurance coverage and struggled to find a new job. Three months later, Finley was found dead in her apartment after avoiding going to see a doctor for flu-like symptoms. 

A screenshot of a bold, bigger headline. It says ‘The house always wins’: Insurers’ record profits.

A final screenshot of smaller text with a slightly gray background. It says “We are at our best when we serve others. Be civilized.” /end ID.] 

agnoll:

agnoll:

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for everyone asking for what article this is i actually went back and found it again and you’ll never guess who it’s about

ladyoftheharbour:

ladyoftheharbour:

that picture of the little boy holding a puppy and smiling with the writing on the bottom that says hi daddy this is my doggy chelsea isn’t she cute i love you and the picture of the cat with the writing that says our michael… pet photos of all time

these ones

aliceundrground:

moss-monger:

vaspider:

gayadvicefairy:

tartrazeen:

allthecanadianpolitics:

Proposed Ontario law would ban sex offenders from legally changing their names | CBC News

Registered sex offenders in Ontario would not be able to legally change their names if a bill that’s before the legislature passes. 

The legislation jointly introduced this week by Progressive Conservatives Laurie Scott and Laura Smith is all but ensured passage, with their party – which has a majority in the legislature– supporting it.

“This bill, if passed, will stop the Karla Homolkas from becoming the Leanne Teales,” Smith said, referring to the infamous killer and her name change.

“We just feel that the right to change somebody’s name should not be abused. We want to strengthen our province’s commitment to zero tolerance to these offenders and their heinous crimes and put our full support behind the victims and the families … We have to close up this loophole.”

Continue Reading.

Tagging: @politicsofcanada

oooooh i don’t like where this is going

lots of people in the states being changed to count as ‘sex offenders’ thanks to a lot of anti-trans bills, and with Saskatchewan passing their shitty “need parents’ permission to change pronouns” law that just passed…

😬

Your reminder that - yea, even in extreme circumstances like these - rights are rights, not “good boy privileges”.

When we take away the rights of undesirable communities, we give the oppressor the tool by which to disenfranchise anyone who opposes them.

There are a not-insignificant number of older queers who are sex offenders for doing things like “hitting on another adult of the same gender” here in the US, so that … scans.

Long ass addition. you have been warned.

alright so. lets start with this:

People are people. People who break the law are people. Yes, even people who do heinous shit. Yes, even sex offenders.

People have rights. This of course includes basic needs, like food, hygiene, shelter, water, healthcare. They also, quite crucially, have the right to privacy. Yes, even sex offenders.

The next logical step here would be to define what a sex offender actually is. Unfortunately I have no idea how to figure out what exactly constitutes a sex crime in Ontario. I believe it may involve wading through a lot of legal crap and I don’t have the time, energy, or expertise to do so. But, here’s what I have been able to gather:

Some crimes that we tend to think of first when we hear the words “sex offense”/“sex offender” Include: rape, incest, sexual abuse, sexual assault, bestiality, csa, child porn, sex trafficking, genital mutilation.

Some crimes that can be sex offenses that we don’t necessarily think of in this context:

• Prostitution (also probably prostitution related charges, such as the kind that basically prevent sex workers from receiving money from others because sometimes in some places that’s a crime under anti-pimping laws? Philosophy Tube’s video about sex work references this, iirc. Feel free to correct me on this.)
• corruption of a minor (I literally have no idea what this is, found it on this webpage, if anyone knows please tell me)
• sodomy (legal in Canada, illegal but not enforceable in 12 US States; still, point about older queers stands
• unlawful imprisonment
• indecent exposure
• public urination (they really do love criminalizing homelessness)
• Transporting a person across jurisdictions with the intent of engaging in sexual activities (this is different from sex trafficking? not sure how this one works, it’s also from this webpage.)

I put these ones in a bulleted list so my commentary in parentheses is easier to discern. I pulled this list from a combination of American and Canadian sources, and I couldn’t really find a solid definition for what a sex offense is in Ontario specifically.

So, there’s a lot to unpack just with this. This isn’t even getting to the actual degree of effectiveness of sex offender registries and other laws pertaining to sex offenders. Which is questionable at best, but downright invasive and sometimes inhumane at worst. Many of these laws are driven by skewed ideas of the commonality of certain types of crimes/moral panics. There’s also the whole thing about punitive vs restorative justice in there, and I’m an anarchist so you can guess where my views fall in that regard.

There’s a lot of reading out there regarding this subject. Here’s some more, separated by 'free to read’ and 'you might need a library card/school account to log into JSTOR for these.’ If ppl really care about this addition then I can always download pdfs of the latter and put them in a google drive folder.

Free

• Some Recent Research on Sex Offenders and Society’s Responses to Them
• Do Sex Offender Registries Make Us Less Safe?
• Do Sexual Predators Have the Right to Privacy?
• Halloween a night of security theater for sex offenders
• Sex Offender Laws: Fair for Some, Draconian for Others
• The Sex Offender Next Door: Why Reintegration Helps
• The Illusion of Safety: The Right to Privacy of Sex Offenders
• Sex Offender - Wikipedia

JSTOR

• MYSPACE, YOURSPACE, BUT NOT THEIRSPACE: THE CONSTITUTIONALITY OF BANNING SEX OFFENDERS FROM SOCIAL NETWORKING SITES
• Juvenile-Sex-Offender Registration: An Impermissible Life Sentence
• Do Sex Offender Registration and Notification Laws Affect Criminal Behavior?
• U.S. SUPREME COURT DECISIONS AND SEX OFFENDER LEGISLATION: EVIDENCE OF EVIDENCE-BASED POLICY?
• Chemical castration for sex offenders
• Sex Offender Registries: Fear without Function?

So, I personally think people should care about this in that justice should be humane and restorative, not vindictive and cruel, and sex offenders are already heavily penalized and somewhat marginalized in our society.

And I haven’t even mentioned the way folks who don’t engage in any of the crimes I mention might fall under the label of “sex offender” anyway. The way anti-trans and anti-queer laws have been ramping up in the US is one of the most obvious; anti-drag laws are also likely going to affect certain racial groups (often POC, especially Black women are labelled/considered less feminine/“mannish.”) They’re also likely to affect fat people; a common form of fatphobia is acting as though fatness disqualifies one from their gender. And they’re not likely to stop at trans people; they’re going to come after queerness on the whole, too. (And in some places, they already are.)

There’s a whole moral superiority complex that I keep encountering up here in Canada, especially when any reference to political issues is made, but the anti-trans sentiment is getting worse. The recent legislation in Saskatchewan is not going to be the last of it. About a month ago, there were massive anti-trans “parental rights” protests in multiple cities across Canada. Me and my queer friends have been feeling and fighting the change in our communities.

This entire thing is terrifying. On a similar note to what user gayadvicefairy said above, passing this law would grant our oppressors more tools with which to disenfranchise us. We do not need more surveillance. We do not need more punishment. We need rehabilitative and restorative justice. We need liberation.

A bit of light for the end of this- while there was hateful protests across Canada, there were also massive counter protests which hugely outnumbered the protesters, in some areas more than 10 to 1. Here’s a few pics courtesy of a friend from our downtown after the protests-

valtsv:

valtsv:

i know it’s because they didn’t have the kind of modern medical knowledge we do back then but reading about polar exploration history is hysterical in hindsight because so many of these guys heard accounts from their fellow explorers describing the absolutely hellish obstacles they faced from both the extreme environment and their own mental and physical deterioration and were like “skill issue” and then went there to prove it and encountered the exact same problems

“vitamin deficiency is a mindset”

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amvs:

the-haiku-bot:

anxious-possum:

funny-tik-toks:

This is basically like a modern Vine, the vibe, the humour, the length…

Amazing

This is basically

like a modern Vine, the vibe,

the humour, the length…

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

dragonbleps:

what artists dont tell you is that every compliment is actually 100 compliments because they’ll go back to re-read it 100 times and it’ll make them feel fuzzy all over again every single time

vilkalizer:

kyraneko:

teratocybernetics:

wizardshark:

liberalsarecool:

Let’s have the conversation about UBI.

Let the actual data and facts end the bad faith arguments.

I was a participant of the now cancelled UBI pilot in Ontario Canada. I was happier, safer, was able to move and work at better jobs.

And oops there it is. Better jobs.

Better jobs

It’s a class barrier. They need a poverty class to function

#people being able to leave jobs that maltreat them is a threat to capitalism

Being able to force every last job in existence to make itself sufficiently respectful, acceptable, and worthwhile to the worker that someone will choose to do it when NOT goaded by the threat of starvation is probably both the greatest positive effect UBI would accomplish AND the real reason it faces so much opposition.

#people being able to leave jobs that maltreat them is a threat to capitalism

quasi-normalcy:

quasi-normalcy:

Being opposed to the mass killing of Palestinian civilians does not make you a supporter of Hamas, and the only ones advancing this argument are doing so disingenuously.

Being opposed to the mass killing of Israeli civilians doesn’t make you an imperialist, and the only ones advancing this argument are doing so disingenuously.

bright-ascension:

derinthescarletpescatarian:

rubensmuse:

witches-ofcolor:

duckbunny:

“biblical angels” you do realise there are angels in the old testament that are literally just regular looking guys, right? you do know that the hallucinogenic incoherent descriptions are in like. two books. and the rest of the time angels are just guys. you know that, right?

and I’m not saying don’t have fun with weird angels. I’m saying, either the eldritch forms are for special occasions, or the society of the angels is Many-Eyed-Many-Winged-Interlocking-Circles, Four-Faces-Six-Wings, and Mike.

Literally Raphael is just a normal person!

this is what the heavenly breakroom is like

So weird that there’s a biblical angel who looks just like a water cooler

you fool. that’s god.

tarynel:

seakingmario:

daisyannewinchester:

tikkety-tok:

they looked at each other and said “can you believe this woman???” 😂😂 😂

BEtrAyAL! BeTRaYaL oF MoThEr! MOtHer DOeS nOt LOvE uS! AbANdoNmENt! MOtHeR HaS BetRaYed Us! BEtRayAL oF ThE HigHEsT oRdEr! DeAtH FoR MoTheR FoR A thOuSaND YeARs!

DECEPTION!!!! DISGRACE!!!!

secretmellowblog:

secretmellowblog:

🚨 SCAM JOB ALERT🚨

Watch out for any job listings that claim you’ll cruise the seas for American gold, fire no guns, and shed no tears. These are all scams and the job is NOT as advertised. Source: I fell for it and am now a broken man on a Halifax pier

More testimonials from the tags:

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Stay safe out there you guys 🙏🙏🙏

the-haiku-bot:

sprout-fics:

awsydawnarts:

wild-moss-art:

This is why I read the reddit comments

Reblog this with the most obscure thing you’ve had to research for fanfic

Reblog this with the

most obscure thing you’ve had to

research for fanfic

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

purple-ladys-stuff:

hils79:

black-pill-becky-deactivated202:

So cutie potato 🥔🥔🥔

geometricfractal:

geometricfractal:

It occurred to me just after I posted my last poll that polls serve a very interesting second purpose, on top of causing fights over food choices and determining the best blorbo. The little “67 votes” marker is perhaps the most accurate look at how many people have seen any given post, and it is always far bigger than the number of notes! A poll with two reblogs might have fifty votes! There’s so many people on this website, it’s amazing!

So I want to try something. An experiment, if you will, to see how many people actually see a given post. For science. And for the little gremlin in me who likes experiments and numbers and statistics and wants new experiments and numbers and statistics to play with.

Will you participate in my experiment?

Yes

No

I refuse to be fooled by catch-all poll questions

*climbs into a test tube*

See Results

It’s ok, there’s plenty of space, you can come on over anyway. A yes vote comes with a bonus test tube!

prudencepaccard:

prudencepaccard:

these tags are so incredible

psychotic-gerard:

do you all remember in the early 2010s where people were talking about freeing the nipple and that mixed-gender sports should become a thing and the removal of period tax and all of that and then some people realised that would mean trans people too ans they instantly decided to revert to bioessentialism 101 and now i have to see grating sentences like Well maybe jeopardy should be gender-segregated because males have a biological advantage in pressing a button

boreal-sea:

nope-the-weeb-deactivated202408:

boreal-sea:

I really think everyone needs to truly internalize this:

Fictional characters are objects.

They are not people. You cannot “objectify” them, because they have no personhood to be deprived of. They have no humanity to be erased. You cannot “disrespect” them, because they are not real.

I know this has good intentions, so I will just add the “how you treat them, even as objects of fiction, can speak about your own character, be careful out there”

Your addition is actually completely antithetical to my message. It is literally the opposite of what I am conveying.

Stop telling people to encourage the cop inside their head.

How you treat fictional characters, given they are entirely objects of fiction, does NOT necessarily speak to your own character, and you do not need to be “careful”.

It is not dangerous to imagine dark things happening to fictional characters. It does not mean you are secretly a bad person. It does not mean you unconsciously want to hurt people in real life. It is not a “slippery slope” to doing bad things to people in real life. You cannot damage your brain or turn yourself into a bad person by consuming “dark” fanfic.

I can write tentacle noncon of my favorite character all day long and be a fierce anti-sexual assault advocate in real life because what I do in my head is not the same thing as what I do in real life.

peach-pot:

peach-pot:

I’m all for going about queerness with the goal of not being able to be understood by outsiders but like. you’ve GOT to be normal about aro & ace people if you do. you can’t go on about being confusing to cishets for fun and then complain about ace & aro people who go about sex and romance and attraction in ways that don’t make sense to you.

supporting queerness that confuses others should include queerness that confuses YOU too even if you’re queer yourself.

absolutely-feral-deactivated202:

hamletthedane:

Okay be honest, because I feel really dumb right now:

Did you know that the moon was a blistering 200F/93C when the Apollo astronauts landed on it???

IT WAS HOT??? I ALWAYS THOUGHT IT WAS FREEZING THAT’S SO FUCKED UP. WTF???

I learned that in like elementary school but it’s still so fucked up

Yeah duh everybody knows earth’s orbit zone is scorching w/out an atmosphere.

I didn’t know that for a fact but I’m not surprised (you aren’t???)

I have zero reaction to this information (how???)

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(Like, am I the only one who thought it was like -80F/-60C daytime range???)

geometricfractal:

I helped at a cookie decorating table for kids today. It was a Halloween party. There were pumpkin-shaped cookies. And the whole time, I couldn’t stop thinking about that poem I’ve seen, the one about the little boy who would draw the wildest things, and then he went to school and he was taught to draw the red flower with the green stem. Remember that poem? Yeah.

The adults were obsessed with how these kids were decorating their pumpkin cookies. Constant questions. “You want me to get you the green icing for the stem?” “Oh, don’t you want to give it a green stem?” “Here, let me give you a hand with that.” Parents looking at their child’s orange pumpkin with a green stem and saying “oh, I like the stem!”

No one complimented the ones that were different, the ones that were brown and orange and green frosting mashed together, with sprinkles scattered haphazardly on top. They weren’t rude about them, no. But there was very little praise for the artistry of those chaotic cookies. An “oh, look at that, you made an icing pile, you want to eat it?” perhaps. An encouraging voice. But no compliments.

I made a cookie for myself at one point. A brown pumpkin, with an orange stem. I wanted the brown icing, it was chocolate. And the stem…at that point I had heard too many people pushing for the green stem. Maybe I had to prove to myself that I still had my creativity. Maybe I was trying to prove to the kids that they could do it too. They could paint outside the lines. Their cookie didn’t have to look like all the others.

Their flower didn’t have to be red with a green stem.

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rocketplane:

vaspider:

My new favorite random fact is that it is physically impossible to exceed the weight limit on a USPS Priority Mail small flat-rate box.

Look it up.

Oooo, oooo, I’ll help! I’ve heard this before, but I’ve never seen the analysis, so lets do some physics!

For those not in the know, the United States Postal Service has a flat-rate shipping service if you use one of their standard boxes, A small flat-rate box is 8.625" x 5.375" x 1.625" on the inside. All flat-rate mail is limited to a maximum of 70 pounds per package. I’m going to convert this all to metric for my benefit.

Dimensions: 21.9 cm x 13.7 cm x 4.1 cm

Volume: 1235 cubic cm (cc)

Max weight: 31.7 kg

Anyways, you know what’s heavy? Water. Water’s pretty heavy. Water is right around 1 gram per cc (g/cc), so a box full of water is 1.235 kg. Hm. Unimpressive. We can do better.

What’s heavier than water? Stones sink in a lake, right? Let’s pick a fun one, say… granite. That’s a good stone. According to Wikipedia, granite is around 2.7 g/cc (coincidentally about the same as aluminium.) This comes out to 3.334 kg. Still pretty weak. We can do better.

You noticed I mentioned aluminum up there. Aluminum is a metal. Pretty well known for being a structural metal used when steel is too heavy. So what about steel? Steel has a density somewhere in the range of 8.7 g/cc, depending on which particular steel, but hey, close enough. This come out to 10.7 kg. Pretty heavy, but barely 1/3 of the way there. Can we do better?

Okay, let’s cut to the chase. Here’s some common elements that are more dense than iron:

Lead, 11.3 g/cc: 14.0 kg (pretty sure this falls under hazmat restrictions. Please don’t ship this through the USPS.)

Mercury, 13.5 g/cc: 16.7 kg (I’m POSITIVE this falls under hazmat restrictions. Definitely don’t ship this through the USPS.)

Gold, 19.3 g/cc: 23.8 kg (this is roughly $1.4 million market value, btw. The standard insurance isn’t even close to covering that should they lose it in transit.)

Okay, okay, okay, still only a little over 2/3 of the way there. Is there anything “less common?” The densest element on the periodic table is Osmium. It has about half the abundance in the Earth’s crust as gold and a density of 22.6 g/cc. Even at that density, that’s still only 27.9 kg. Close, but no cigar!

“But Rocket,” I hear you cry, “there’s got to be a way!” Not really! That’s the best we can do here on Earth. But if we go off of Earth and search the cosmos for one of the most ridiculous things to exist, maybe, just maybe we can pack more than 31.7 kg into a USPS small flat-rate box. If we ignore black holes, which are sorta infinitely dense, we find neutron stars. These are dead stars that were, in life, many times more massive than our own Sun. The reason that we can only fit so much mass into a given space is that atoms are mostly empty space! The protons and neutrons that are the “dense” part of the atom only take up a tiny fraction of the volume of the atom. The electrons whizzing around the outside of the nucleus have very little mass (~0.01%) of the nucleus, but they all have negative charges that make sure that the electrons of neighboring atoms don’t get close (relatively speaking) with each other. By this measurement, an atom is roughly 10,000 times bigger than its nucleus.

Now neutron stars, they sorta just…. ignore all that. At standard physical scales, the forces between electric charges swamps anything gravity could do by so many orders of magnitude it makes the mind spin. That’s why you can stick a static-y balloon to the ceiling and it just sorta hangs out there instead of falling to the floor. But neutron stars have so much mass that the gravitational forces actually overcome the force of the electrons keeping the nuclei of the various atoms apart! So that atom is now 1/10,000 as big as it was before, but it still has the same particles making it up… which means that it’s 1,000,000,000,000 (that’s 12 zeros) times more dense. (The actual number is more like 14 or 15 zeros, but that doesn’t really matter here.) The other interesting thing that happens is that since the electrons and protons are no longer separated from each other, they basically combine and become neutrons. So you have a giant ball of neutrons that is more dense than “normal” matter. Finally, our box now weighs somewhere in the neighborhood of 5x10^17 kg (that’s a 5 followed by 17 zeros). While this isn’t quite as much as the Earth (6x10^24 kg, a 6 followed by 24 zeros), it’s likely a million times more massive than the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs.

Only problem is that before you were able to scoop a bit of neutron star up with the box to prank the USPS, the atoms in the box would also turn into neutron star. Please don’t waste the USPS’s boxes, that’s a good service there! :P

I just paused the Great British Baking Show to read this out loud to Evie and Emet. Evie pointed out that your hand would also become a neutron star, so please only do this if you, too, want to be a neutron star.

If it makes you feel any better: you would not transform into Neutronium like some kind of science fiction Midas touch, but rather: you would collide with / splat against the Neutronium. Which would then absorb you like the earth does meteors.