{ID - a response to the ask, by Toriel and Sans Toriel - I do not know his favourite food, but… Usually I pack him a cheese sandwich, an apple, and some milk. Sans - don’t forget to cut the sandwich diagonally Toriel - Or into a maze. Sans - with traps. Toriel … oh! Do you remember when you asked me to buy those little premade lunch packs, and I thought they were for Papyrus… Sans - nope. those were for me. Toriel - You did not even make the little pizza. You just ate all the ingredients seperately, like a goblin. Sans - she was laughing. she thought i looked cool. Toriel - He looked terrible. He kept groaning. Sans - yeah, and you looked great after you drank three glasses of wine… and started throwing the pizzas at me like frisbees. Toriel - Leave END ID}
Some day the indiscriminate mass killing in Palestine is going to be an event in the history books
and people with the exact same intelligence, conscience, and ability to become informed as you or I will be reading about it, and they will think to themselves, how could so many people see that happening and really believe that it was justified, or that the Israeli government had no choice? The internet had been invented by then, right? I just don’t understand how the government got away with killing 15 times the number of people that died in the terrorist attack and saying it was self defense when they said themselves that they were mostly killing innocent civilians that had nothing to do with it. Look, it says it was known at the time that over 6,000 of the dead at that point were children. It just doesn’t make sense.
They will maybe decide, based on the small information the book gives about us, that people in the past were just more ignorant and closed-minded, that we hadn’t yet developed the conscience of the present, because we were Ignorant Past People that didn’t know anything and didn’t have the same morals.
But then again, the book is not written yet. We can still change it.
Condemning the ongoing genocide of Palestinians doesn’t require you to LIKE Hamas or disbelieve the reports of atrocities committed by Hamas. It’s the opposite!
If you think murdering civilians is bad, and if you are angry and horrified that civilians got murdered in the October 7 attack…wow, you’re going to be LIVID to hear what the Israeli government is doing!
Like…basically every bad thing Hamas does, the Israeli government is also doing to WAY MORE PEOPLE, and the Israeli government also has the most powerful nation on earth which is basically a giant pile of weapons, sending it billions of dollars worth of weapons
The question of what group is, in theory or in creed, more evil is not as important as the fact that the Israeli government is currently doing much more evil, and has much more power to do evil without facing consequences.
I’m an American…I thought we liked supporting the lesser of two evils.
(I’m kidding. But more seriously, many people have said it’s necessary to support the lesser of two evils. And look, here are two evils! Which one do you think is the lesser one?)
@spoonie-waagosh The implication of “supporting” one or the other is kidding, my idea of getting the people reading my post to think about what “lesser evil” means is fully serious.
In the USA, with our own politics, many people understand that there is not going to be a candidate that is “good,” that they are all supporting a crooked and cruel system and willing to be responsible for heinous things, but they still grudgingly decide that one candidate is notably worse than the other. We are using a different judgment on Israel and Hamas, where because one did awful things, the other one must be supported at all costs, no matter what the other one is doing. Is that fair? It seems wrong to use nuance on myself and black-and-white on others.
Everyone says “The murders, torture and rapes are terrible and evil, so the Israeli government should have all the bombs it wants” forgetting the important step of considering that the oppressive behavior of the Israeli government has also been responsible for murders, torture and rapes. Just look up what the Palestinians that get imprisoned in detention without trial go through!
A sudden and shocking event of violence gets lots of attention, a slow rasping grind of violence can look deceptively similar to peace, but we have to realize that these violences are not any different.
Both are unacceptable. That means BOTH! That means we have to be resistant to an idea of “peace” that is just making the violence slower and quieter—peace won’t really exist until everyone has equal rights and is treated with dignity
Hey, so if you have Windows 11 installed and have been losing your mind over the fact that you can’t find your own files because Windows is now prioritizing internet search results first, you can fix it by following this guide:
As someone with over 900 GB of intentionally and properly named files on her computer (I do a lot of digital art and digital media work that requires high-volume files that function off of dependencies), this feature was making me furious. I followed the above instructions and can confirm that the method outlined solves the problem.
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I think it would be fun if there were more characters who are obviously self-centered and have a comically superfluously high opinion of themselves, but in a way that’s somehow just genuinely wholesome. Like they just genuinely think they are personally the best and brightest person alive, but the implied thought of everyone else being less and inferior doesn’t cross their mind. They’re too focused on personally being adorable to be worrying about other peoples’ business like that.
Like this character is introduced in such a ridiculously outlandish and flashy way that makes both the audience and the other characters assume this is one of those “why is this guy even popular at all” kind of Smarmy Supposedly Sexy Scumbag characters, but then it turns out that they’re just. Genuinely like that. Not a toxic and evil monster hiding behind a thin veneer of external charm, or a tragic wounded bird hiding their secret intense self-loathing under layers and layers of ironic bravado, but just wholeheartedly thinks they’re the best and charming without needing to put anybody else down.
And it turns out that is why everyone seems to like this buffoon - they’re just an absurd ray of pure fucking sunshine that warms and illuminates anyone their light lands on. Just going around like “I am the most brilliant and most clever around, how splendid are you to be my dearest friend” and legit mean it. This isn’t the “douchebag rival with an implausible fan club” that one would assume by first impression. This is a golden retriever that passes the Harkness test.
i hate you shein. i hate you wish. i hate you temu. i hate you aliexpress. i hate you fast fashion. i hate you consumerism. i hate you planned obsolescence. i hate you plastics.
Some day the indiscriminate mass killing in Palestine is going to be an event in the history books
and people with the exact same intelligence, conscience, and ability to become informed as you or I will be reading about it, and they will think to themselves, how could so many people see that happening and really believe that it was justified, or that the Israeli government had no choice? The internet had been invented by then, right? I just don’t understand how the government got away with killing 15 times the number of people that died in the terrorist attack and saying it was self defense when they said themselves that they were mostly killing innocent civilians that had nothing to do with it. Look, it says it was known at the time that over 6,000 of the dead at that point were children. It just doesn’t make sense.
They will maybe decide, based on the small information the book gives about us, that people in the past were just more ignorant and closed-minded, that we hadn’t yet developed the conscience of the present, because we were Ignorant Past People that didn’t know anything and didn’t have the same morals.
But then again, the book is not written yet. We can still change it.
Condemning the ongoing genocide of Palestinians doesn’t require you to LIKE Hamas or disbelieve the reports of atrocities committed by Hamas. It’s the opposite!
If you think murdering civilians is bad, and if you are angry and horrified that civilians got murdered in the October 7 attack…wow, you’re going to be LIVID to hear what the Israeli government is doing!
Like…basically every bad thing Hamas does, the Israeli government is also doing to WAY MORE PEOPLE, and the Israeli government also has the most powerful nation on earth which is basically a giant pile of weapons, sending it billions of dollars worth of weapons
The question of what group is, in theory or in creed, more evil is not as important as the fact that the Israeli government is currently doing much more evil, and has much more power to do evil without facing consequences.
I’m an American…I thought we liked supporting the lesser of two evils.
(I’m kidding. But more seriously, many people have said it’s necessary to support the lesser of two evils. And look, here are two evils! Which one do you think is the lesser one?)
@spoonie-waagosh The implication of “supporting” one or the other is kidding, my idea of getting the people reading my post to think about what “lesser evil” means is fully serious.
In the USA, with our own politics, many people understand that there is not going to be a candidate that is “good,” that they are all supporting a crooked and cruel system and willing to be responsible for heinous things, but they still grudgingly decide that one candidate is notably worse than the other. We are using a different judgment on Israel and Hamas, where because one did awful things, the other one must be supported at all costs, no matter what the other one is doing. Is that fair? It seems wrong to use nuance on myself and black-and-white on others.
Everyone says “The murders, torture and rapes are terrible and evil, so the Israeli government should have all the bombs it wants” forgetting the important step of considering that the oppressive behavior of the Israeli government has also been responsible for murders, torture and rapes. Just look up what the Palestinians that get imprisoned in detention without trial go through!
A sudden and shocking event of violence gets lots of attention, a slow rasping grind of violence can look deceptively similar to peace, but we have to realize that these violences are not any different.
Both are unacceptable. That means BOTH! That means we have to be resistant to an idea of “peace” that is just making the violence slower and quieter—peace won’t really exist until everyone has equal rights and is treated with dignity
Guy On Bicycle gets so smeared he leaves his hat behind to escape!
All Victorian ADULTS. Awesome.
I love this so much. Someone slowed it down so it’s not the old-fashioned herky-jerky of old films, now someone colorized it…the past feels like the present because, well, people. Lookit them having fun! *beams at everyone*
Turns out with the Affordable Connectivity Program, ISPs CAN NOT shut off your internet.
Seriously. If you’re living in the US, and you’re at or below poverty line, sign up for the affordable connectivity program. it gives you like $30+ a month off your current internet bill and it makes it so they can’t disconnect you if you don’t pay them.
Yep! You don’t even need to be at/below the poverty line… you can qualify if you make up to +200% poverty level plus there are a number of other ways your household may be eligible.
Turns out with the Affordable Connectivity Program, ISPs CAN NOT shut off your internet.
Seriously. If you’re living in the US, and you’re at or below poverty line, sign up for the affordable connectivity program. it gives you like $30+ a month off your current internet bill and it makes it so they can’t disconnect you if you don’t pay them.
Yep! You don’t even need to be at/below the poverty line… you can qualify if you make up to +200% poverty level plus there are a number of other ways your household may be eligible.
do y’all remember before direct messages tumblr had a dumbass ask limit of 10 per hour and communication was impossible until they introduced dumbass fan mail and we were basically sending telegraphs back in forth trying to communicate those were…dark times
Do y'all remember when they finally gave us direct messages and instead of doing it normally, they gave it to a few people at a time and we had to infect each other with it like a virus
remember when any post with more than like 6 people talking was unreadably smushed except for the last few additions remember when any post of over 500 characters became a link back to op’s blog readmore style remember when video and audio posts had about a 10% chance of working when you click play
As a recent user I love finding out shit like this from older users. What the fuck guys???? Why were you USING IT AT ALL?!??
believe it or not, we liked that more
its worth noting that immediately after these updates that made everything better, we were all angry about it
Look, I know we’re all tickled that the Gävle Goat has been pecked apart by birds, but as far as omens go, it’s a bit like flipping a coin and having it land on the edge
the omen is that there is strength in numbers and that even incremental change destroys the goat
you could never make blazing saddles today. movies take a really long time to film and it’s already 11am on the west coast. also most actors and film staff would probably like to spend christmas eve with their families.
This is my friend TJ, wearing a costume she made for Halloween, 1977. She was 16 at the time.
Now, keep in mind: there was no internet to search for images. She could not have rented and paused the movie, because it wasn’t released on video until 1982. No, TJ just went to the movie a bunch of times, took notes with a flashlight, drew a bunch of sketches, and put this together.
In 19-fucking-77. So let’s bury this bullshit about how women didn’t grow up on Star Wars.
Like, beyond the whole reading speed discourse (I genuinely think you should let people read slow or fast as they damn well please) there is a deliberate commercial aspect to the notion of reading lots of books per year. It didn’t sprout out of nowhere. Goodreads challenging you to read as many books as possible cannot be divorced from the fact that books are a physical product that someone is trying to sell to you.
if you learn to love bugs with all your heart the world will feel half as hostile and a thousand times as big
There’s a sentiment I’m noticing in the tags that I’d like to address. I don’t think learning to love bugs with all your heart means forcing yourself out of discomfort you have with them overnight. It’s about observing a different sort of being going about its life and deliberately trying to reframe your observations through a sense of wonder and delight. It’s about cultivating a positive interest and curiosity for their ecology and behaviors. It’s especially about trying to uncouple the value we find in them from how ‘convenient’ they are to us; to face head on the part of us that wants to assign moral evil to another organism who just happens to live life in a way that is not harmonious with ours. You can love insects in this way and still recognize your own health and safety needs. We are animals living side by side within a biosphere. This is how it is, sometimes.
I think this is important to cultivate because, if you are alive at all, you are coming into conflict with countless other people and things that don’t owe you an apology for their existence and needs. If you are alive at all, you are encountering countless other people and things that harmful bias and personal discomfort have made repulsive to you. This is about bugs, but its also about way more than bugs.
Several recent ADL employees connected the ADL’s current divisions to a May 2021 speech in which [ADL CEO Jonathan] Greenblatt announced that “antizionism is antisemitism,” and pledged to “apply more concentrated energy toward the threat of radical antizionism” from left-leaning and pro-Palestinian groups that he described as “the Radical Left, the photo inverse of the Extreme Right that ADL long has tracked.”
At the time, some then-staffers objected to Greenblatt’s announcement, “not in spite of their Jewish identity,” a different former staffer told The Daily Beast, “but because of it and how Jewish history and the values they get from their faith compel them to identify with the violence and trauma inflicted on Palestinians.”
But that former employee and others said their dissent was not well received. “There was no space for any real conversation, as an organization, on what that stance was,” another said. “We would be told as employees, if that’s something that we disagreed on ethically or morally, then we can leave and find another place of employment.” […]
The ADL’s comments about pro-Palestinian groups have put it in opposition to other civil rights groups.
In its own letter to university leaders this month, the American Civil Liberties Union wrote that the ADL “recently issued an open letter to university presidents alleging, without citing to any evidence, that pro-Palestine student groups are, through their words, providing material support to Hamas, a designated Foreign Terrorist Organization, and have urged sweeping investigations into these groups for material support of terrorism.”
The letter went on to state that, while the ACLU does not take positions on other nations’ conflicts, its staff “strongly oppose efforts to stifle free speech, free association, and academic freedom here at home. In the name of those principles, we urge you to reject calls to investigate, disband, or penalize student groups on the basis of their exercise of free speech rights.”
Meanwhile, staff at the Southern Poverty Law Center, a civil rights organization that also monitors extremism, expressed frustration with the ADL’s public stances since Oct. 7. Multiple SPLC staffers, speaking on the condition of anonymity, told The Daily Beast that the ADL’s position had driven a rift between the organizations.
“I see no reason to work with an organization that draws such false equivalencies between actual neo-Nazi terrorists and anti-war student groups,” one SPLC staffer said. “The idea that, as Greenblatt has proposed, student groups ought to be investigated for providing material support for terrorism is such an atrocious and despicable idea to begin with. But to propose that and then still call yourself a civil rights group? It’s unforgivable.” […]
Former ADL staff also described themselves as occasionally blindsided by their employer, and that ADL-wide policies sometimes came with little notice from Greenblatt, even at times contradicting other departments at the ADL, or appearing to undercut the organization’s own work against bigotry.
In one instance, the former staffer said, Greenblatt appeared to agree with Fox News when the right-wing media giant accused the ADL’s educational materials of promoting so-called “critical race theory” due to the inclusion of concepts like “structural racism” and “intersectionality.”
The ADL released a statement acknowledging that some of the materials were “misaligned with” the organization’s values, and that the ADL would “launch a thorough review” of its educational content.
“Jonathan threw the education department under the bus,” the former staffer said. “That was done over the heads of comms [communications] department. When the education department asked which materials weren’t in alignment with ADL values, and which values, they never got a satisfactory answer.” […]
The ADL has previously documented Musk’s flirtation with the far right and antisemitism. When Musk announced plans to buy Twitter last year, the ADL’s Center on Extremism published an article titled “Elon Musk Plans to Buy Twitter. Right-wing Extremists Rejoice.”
But in a CNBC appearance shortly ahead of Musk’s Twitter purchase last October, Greenblatt suggested that Musk might be a good steward for the site and help it clean up its “toxicity.” “Elon Musk is an amazing entrepreneur, an extraordinary innovator. He’s the Henry Ford of our time,” Greenblatt said in the interview.
The comparison to Ford raised eyebrows within the ADL, former staff said, because Ford was a notorious antisemite. The ADL has devoted significant space on its website to detailing Ford’s role in promoting anti-Jewish bigotry in America. Greenblatt later walked back the analogy, stating that “admittedly, the Henry Ford reference was wrong even though he was an innovator in the automobile industry. I certainly was not trying to praise Ford and didn’t intend to minimize his contemptible antisemitism in any way.”
In summary, Jonathan Greenblatt:
Is remarkably deferential to the sensibilities of Fox News pundits/viewers, to the point of letting them guide the ADL’s messaging if not its policy
Has repeatedly endorsed or affiliated with promoters of Great Replacement theory, Fox News among them
Is so ignorant of basic historical facts about antisemitism as to endorse an antisemite (and later Great Replacement theory promoter) by comparing him favorably to another famous antisemite
Is so ignorant of, or hostile toward, civil rights law as to assert that speech acts (protest chants and signs, open letters, etc.) should constitute felonious “material support for a terrorist organization,” despite “material” being in the name of said felony
All of which makes him approximately as competent and in-touch and as much of a subject expert as the average American CEO. So in that sense, maybe not much to see here? Still, what better person to lead the charge against anti-Jewish bigotry at this critical juncture.
they’re huge-nosed, money hungry, ugly, primitive, golem-making explicitely-non-human humanoids. unless of course they’re the evil dark-magic practicing main villains of the universe (who are also huge-nosed ugly non-human humanoids). And people still deny how antisemetic the designs are, despite the fact that Villagers were designed by Notch, also known as Markus “Q is legit. Don’t trust the media” Persson.
So! I decided to fixit.
I could just make them humans, but I’d prefer keeping to canon and having players be the only humans. So, let’s make them anthro animals like Piglins!
I think sheep is the best animal, as they can be docile symbols of peace like Villagers, or aggressive headbutting gremlins like Illagers. The lore of villagers and illagers shown in MC Legends is basically that they both blindly worship humans, right? Might as well make them literal sheeple!
(Yeah, turns out it’s ridiculously easy to make a resource pack that replaces models.)
Introducing: Lamblets & Ramlets!
The two species differentiated by the Ramlets having horns, while the Lamblets do not. However, that might not always be enough to differentiate them at a glance. Not as easily as you can with the vanilla beige vs gray skin. Therefore, there’s four versions of the pack, to suit your preference of what type of balance you want between gameplay and variety.
Simplicity The most similar to vanilla - Lamblets have beige skin and white wool, while Ramlets have gray skin and dark gray wool.
Variety Lamblets have beige skin and Ramlets have gray skin. Both have one of 6 random wool colors - white, gray, dark gray, black, brown, and rarely, pink.
Diversity Lamblets have random wool and one of 4 random skin tones - beige, white, gray, and black. Ramlets have random wool, but always gray skin.
Canonicity Both Lamblets and Ramlets have both random skin and random wool.
Hello yes! A Science Birb, here to explain the science!
Birb have VERY LARGE EYE in skull. Very good for seeing! But not space for muscle, birb cannot move eye. For mammal to make steady image, keep focus on single thing, always moving eye! Tiny movements, sometimes not even know. But birb cannot make tiny movements! So, birb must move whole head. And that is why the birb can keep steady the head when the body is amovering!
Thank you for listening to a science
I’m crying
That was the greatest scientific explanation I have ever read
I had a dream me and my friend turned into a rat and got bowls of noodles. The old lady who owned the restaurant didn’t shoo us away like the other customers.
[ID: Tweet from Berwyn Choobs (@/ sabantonFan69) on 11/18/22 reading: “Hewwo?” (pleading face emoji) a woman feels a tug on her pants at the club and looks down to see me, a man a mere half a foot tall drinking a tinenken, a beer made for mini men.
“Have u heard of Bruce Sprinky? He’s like Springsteen but for lil guys like me!”
