since chinese new year is next month (Feb 10th) I figured I’d do a poll like this— it also indicates a tumblr age demographic so that’s always interesting
so funny how people on this website are like “how is celibacy sweeping in this poll you guys are all virgin losers. casual sex is awesome you should fuck your friends” until the person having casual sex and fucking their friends is aro. then they start pissing and shitting themselves.
They’re all big into acephobia and compulsory sexuality until they realise it would accidentally affirm alloaros, then it’s bad.
It’s like when transphobes tell trans women “No matter what you do you’ll always be a man, I’m not calling you anything other than that” and then when a cis man likes pink suddenly they’re calling him a girl. Bigotry is not consistent
Yep, aroace person here and I’ve seen both of these expressed sometimes even by the same person. As you said, it’s not about having a consistent take on the matter. People will simply shift the argument to fit the target. In this case, the goal is to make the environment ultimately hostile to both aro and ace people.
You’re fresh out of college and looking for a job. Everyone is hiring. Nobody who’s “hiring” is actually hiring. You finally get a call back from somewhere you barely remember applying to (though the voice on the other end sounds synthesized). You pull up the job listing again real quick. The company name and the fact that the listing is for “Minion” are kind of concerning, but you know what, you’ve interviewed with enough evil corporations by now, you can handle one wearing its true colors on its sleeve. At this point it’s a matter of making rent or moving back in with your parents, and as much as you love your family, you can’t imagine spending another summer dealing with your brothers’ antics. You agree to the interview.
The man who greets you is an enthusiastic older German(?) man who’s either way too into cosplay or just that committed to the bit, judging by the lab coat. He made cookies. The tray of cookies is proffered to you by a ten-foot-tall robotic caricature of a 50s businessman. You take a deep breath to calm yourself. You bite into one of the cookies. It’s delicious.
You ask the boss about his business model. “Oh you know, a little of this, a little of that, I bounce from project to project a lot.” He mentions that his end goal is becoming the undisputed ruler of the surrounding counties. “Really? Not the whole world?” you ask. “I like to set realistic goals,” he replies.
As he gives you the tour of his “evil lair,” ingrained instincts are screaming at you to report this guy to some kind of authority figure. You remember the salary. You decide that you can always bust him after getting your first paycheck.
The boss asks when you can start. Caught off guard, you say “tomorrow?”. Your boss(?) says he’ll see you then.
On the way out, you bump into your stepbrother’s girlfriend. Your boss introduces her as his daughter. You both silently agree to sidestep the subject for now and act like this is your first time meeting.
You show up to your first day of work. Your boss is putting the finishing touches on a giant machine that was definitely not there yesterday. You are nonplussed. You ask him what it’s for and he launches into a convoluted explanation involving his parents always forcing him to put his shirts on backwards so the tag was in front. You think he should probably talk to a therapist.
Your brothers’ exotic pet breaks down the wall. You stare at him. He stares at you. Incredulously, you say his name. “Oh, good, you two already know each other!” your boss says. You mention that you used to live with him. “What? Perry the Platypus, you never mentioned having a roommate.”
This is what I like to imagine Candace Flynn’s life is like, post P&F.
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Thinking about when I worked at a shitty restaurant + one night it was just me + 3 other women on closing shift, so some guy came in the back and waved a knife around, presumably for money but I’m not actually certain, bc he was met with the bartender holding a much bigger knife, a tiny teenager wielding a cast iron pan, an elderly woman holding up a crockpot of clearly boiling water, and me, turning on the meat slicer with eye contact for maximum effect. He left, but the moral of the story is not girl power or whatever, it’s just. Why the fuck would you threaten a room full of underpaid and sleep-deprived blue-collar workers surrounded by lethal weapons.
Even ignoring the quantity of workers or weaponry, I think there’s something special about specifically
One thing I liked about Dune is how Mohiam's "human stuck in a trap" metaphor basically describes the plot of the book: Dune is a trap laid by the Harkonnens, and Paul pretends to be dead for years until he can kill them.
I forget the exact details, but the “trap” was basically that the Harkonnens launched a massive attack, like a ridiculously huge attack, they hired so many ships it required a bankruptingly huge loan that would take decades to pay off, a risk that the Atreides didn’t see coming and were wiped out by.
but why did it need to be launched against Arrakis? wouldn’t the exact same attack have completely ruined the Atreides back when they were based on Caladan?
space-wizards said: I assume because that would let them snag the ridiculously important/lucrative planet as well? it’s been a while since I read the book.
but the Harkonnens already had Arrakis, it was only them vacating it that allowed the Atreides to take possession! although I can’t remember if the Emperor ordered them to do it, but then again if the Emperor is okay with them launching a violent assault to retrieve it and also lends his own Sardaukar… oh wait yeah it was the Emperor that laid the trap, the Harkonnens were just his witting accomplices and the Atreides knew it was coming but underestimated the seriousness, okay now it makes more sense.
Please, this book sounds like a lazy metaphor for US foreign policy in the Middle East. Oh, the desert country has the precious natural resource? The bad guys can’t just occupy it, so they install a stooge government, but then they lie in wait for a pretext to invade again with billions of dollars worth of fire and fury and occupy them with world approval? Hell, they even named the place Arrakis/Iraqis.
When was it written? After 2003, right?
this analysis would work if Jeb goes native Arab instead of native Hispanic, then when George Bush invades he unexpectedly comes out on a camel and leads ISIS to victory over the United States.
I hope this doesn't come off as disrespectful, because I'm genuinely curious, but like...is alchemy "real"? Because the way you speak about it is how I wish I could, myself, appreciate it and you're the closest I've ever found to a real world wizard which excites me a great deal. I totally respect if for you it's actually just an interesting academic study without intention, I'm just curious for how you view it in that lens.
Short answer: Yes, as in alchemists were real people who could actually do cool shit sometimes, but they weren’t actually transmuting lead into gold, you need a particle accelerator for that.
In the 4th century, you weren’t a scientist, that word hadn’t been invented yet. You were a Natural Philosopher. You studied everything from the stars, to mathematics, to medicine, to the nature of herbs and stones.
In the medieval era, you weren’t an astronomer, you were an astrologer. Telling people’s horoscopes involved a lot of astronomical math. There wasn’t really a difference between astronomy and astrology.
In the renaissance era, you weren’t a chemist. The term chemist didn’t exist yet. You were an alchemist. You tried to make gold sometimes, but you also manufactured dyes, glass vessels, cosmetics, paints, and medicines. You were kind of a whitesmith, and a glass-blower, and a doctor, and sometimes just a con-man.
Alchemy and chemistry have a relationship similar to Astrology and Astronomy. But, don’t think of alchemy as just “Chemistry with magic.” Alchemy is the father of modern chemistry. It is the cocoon that chemistry sprouted out of.
The thing is, alchemy is more “real” than astrology is. You know what a common use of astrology was in the medieval era? Diagnosing diseases. You’d check someone’s horoscope to determine what medicine to give them. This didn’t work. A medieval astrology textbook isn’t going to be useful for diagnosing why your stomach hurts.
But!
Medieval alchemy texts are actually useful sometimes. If you want to dye some copper so it looked more like gold, there are alchemy texts that can tell you how to do that. If you want to distill the mercury out of some cinnabar, alchemists could do that. They didn’t really know how or why that worked, but they could do it! If you want a potion that could make you immortal, the alchemists could make a philter of mercury and lead that would definitely 100% kill you and it would hurt the whole time you were dying. You can’t win em all.
if i ever interacted with you and it was awkward just know im sorry and painfully aware that sometimes i come off like a person who is having the first conversation of their life
if i ever interacted with you and it was awkward just know im sorry and painfully aware that sometimes i come off like a person who is having the first conversation of their life
BRUH a dude I know from work came in for the first time in months and I thought he looked different but couldn’t figure out why?? So I asked if he’d changed his hair and he was like “BITCH I GOT TOP SURGERY”
This is fake. They haven’t been sat on that rock for 50 years. If you look closely you can clearly see her swimsuit is different in the second photo, it has stripes on it. And the guy’s shorts seem to have a more floral pattern in the latter photo.Also, if someone sat on a rock for 50 years, it would have made the news. My theory is, they simply returned to the same location 50 years later, and recreated the original photo.
no way man this was taken at the beach that makes you old
I (16F) am with my boyfriend "Allen" (24M) since I was 13 and he was 21. I'm an unwanted child (my parents had me when they were in high school and I was raised by my maternal grandmother who never wanted me) and he was the first person who actually cared about me. I got pregnant when I was 14 and my grandmother kicked me out, so I went to live with him.
My boyfriend has to travel a lot for work so he would only stay home two weeks per month, and the rest of the time I would be alone with our kid. I had to quit school and I lost all my friends because of it, so Allen and my son are everything I have. Even though he's absent, Allen never let us have any sort of difficulty and he's a good boyfriend and father.
Except I found out he's married and has two other kids with his wife. I found out through social media - I have a secret Instagram account for posting texts I write and, although he always claimed he has no Instagram, I found his account with a lot of pictures of his family. He probably blocked my regular account and that's why I couldn't find him at first.
When he returned from his last trip I confronted him about what I found and he begged me not to tell anyone. I asked him when he got married and he said when he was 20, so he was already married when we met.
I was furious. I told him I would tell his wife because she deserved to know (he has her @ on his Insta bio so contacting her would be easy) and he started to panic. He said he didn't love her, that he only married her because she got pregnant, but her father is a cop and he would kill him.
So that's when I had the idea. I told him I would keep quiet about it if he gave me money. Lots of it. I know he has a good salary and he has savings, so I asked him for a lot of money (I don't leave in the US so our currency is different, but it was enough to live well for a while) and let me keep the apartment. I also wanted him to stay away from me and our kid, I was clear I only wanted his money.
We settled a deal and he gave me the money. I feel guilty for what I've done because his wife deserves to know and blackmail is something really awful to do, but I'm a teen with a baby with no education and no job, no friends and no family. I want to get a job, but I need time for that and I need the money while I'm unemployed.
Sorry for the weird English, it's not my first language.
People literally calling the Public Domain a graveyard have no clue what they’re talking about. Without the Public Domain, most of your beloved childhood Disney movies literally would not have been made, because they are literally based on stories that were in the Public Domain.
Please unlearn capitalistic propaganda before you go saying things like “the public domain is the graveyard of ideas”. Literally the only people that benefits are giant corporations like Disney who don’t want you using the Public Domain like they have been this whole damn time.
i was trying to put tom scott underwaterr to make it look like he was drowning but i think i just accidentally created something beautiful here. he is in awe of beauty of the self and nature
actually no make this a thing. itd probably be so good for making trans girls feel safe
im glad like at least 500 people can agree that gender affirming prosthetics shouldnt be exclusive to just trans people. honestly this goes for cis guys too feel free to get some breast forms. just dont be surprised if afterwards you decide you dont want to be a guy anymore
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If you want to look like you pay your employees well, then pay them well. It’s not rocket science.
If I ever had a boss look me in my face and tell me that I’d be like “I got a mint condition vintage leather trench coat for $12.50 and the coat, same style and same brand, for $300 on the website. On what earth am I gonna turn my nose up at a $12.50 to impress someone who pays me the minimum?”
And then I’d expect an answer. You want me to pay for $300 fucking coat. I need $300 coat money.
eBay keeps sending me $5 vouchers and I keep not spending them (which is presumably why they keep sending them), it’s like an elaborate game of psychosexual chicken and I’m losing track of who is taunting who
I finally ended up spending one, I don’t know if that means they won or I did
Bro I hate fundamentalists and culturally-fundie parents they’ll say shit like “spare the rod spoil the child am I right haha yea my parents used to have to beat my ass with a switch almost everyday but I sure did learn my lesson” but like??? no you didn’t??? you were hit multiple times for something you very obviously did not, in fact, learn
Like studies about how harmful even lightly spanking children is aside, you’re literally contradicting yourself?? Some even admitted they got worse as they got older cause they wanted to see how far they could push their parents before they got punished
And studies not aside, you’re gonna get child raising advice from the same book that tells you to stone your wife if her hymen doesn’t break on your wedding night instead of the decades of research we have now?? Just say you’re a bad parent and move on my guy. Skill issue
You know, when I see fictional characters who repress all their emotions, they’re usually aloof and very blunt about keeping people at a distance, sometimes to an edgy degree—but what I don’t see nearly enough are the emotionally repressed characters who are just…mellow.
Think about it. In real life, the person that’s bottling up all their emotions is not the one that’s brooding in the corner and snaps at you for trying to befriend them. More often than not, it’s that friendly person in your circle who makes easy conversation with you, laughs with you, and listens and gives advice whenever you’re upset. But you never see them upset, in fact they seem to have endless patience for you and everything around them—and so you call them their friend, you trust them. And only after months of telling them all your secrets do you realize…
…they’ve never actually told you anything about themselves.
Adding onto this: characters who are so deeply repressed that they don’t even realize they’re not fine, or at the very least not supposed to be fine. Characters who do tell you about a situation they’re in that should be bad, but instantly laugh it off saying they can handle it (spoiler: they can, in fact, not handle it). Characters who laugh with you and listen to all your woes and much later you learn that they were actually going through something at least equally bad at the time, but they wave it off and don’t want to speak of it. Characters whose main coping mechanism seems to be “don’t think about it” on endless loop.
Basically, the fictional embodiment of the “this is fine” dog.
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Nightshade works similarly as Glaze, but instead of a defense against style mimicry, it is designed as an offense tool to distort feature representations inside generative AI image models. Like Glaze, Nightshade is computed as a multi-objective optimization that minimizes visible changes to the original image. While human eyes see a shaded image that is largely unchanged from the original, the AI model sees a dramatically different composition in the image. For example, human eyes might see a shaded image of a cow in a green field largely unchanged, but an AI model might see a large leather purse lying in the grass. Trained on a sufficient number of shaded images that include a cow, a model will become increasingly convinced cows have nice brown leathery handles and smooth side pockets with a zipper, and perhaps a lovely brand logo.
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AJSJJDKSJD THE QUILTING SHOW MY GMA WANTS TO GO TO HAS A “FREE TICKET FOR UNDER 30s” IM!!!!! that’s SO funny ?? They wanna encourage young ppl SO much to get into quilting
what i imagine the quilting convention back room looks like
this is happening tmrw im soooo excited!!! my gma is bringing her walking stick for age related reasons but also so she can quote “knock those old ladies OUT of my way”
y’all it was so much fun, there were so many Incredible quilts there, i had an awesome time. here are some photos i took of the quilts, forgive me for how crooked most of them are, i took them v quickly bc my gma was getting tired
i wanna shout out this last one—ITS ALL THREAD PAINTING. THE WHOLE THING. it’s. i should have got a close up of it but it’s all thread painted it’s so so cool
& yet MORE quilts…
i wanna shout out the top picture — the skull quilt was so cool first of all & it’s ALSO the artists FIRST QUILT??? it was so incredibly cool & detailed I rly loved it. i also wanna point out the last quilt here, all of these flowers are applique & i had so much trouble keeping from TOUCHING it (which ur not allowed to do ofc). it was so gorgeous. the close up square above it is from the same quilt. just wow!
Reminder to everyone to go join your local quilt guild.
the nurse warned me after my surgery that I may experience bowel problems from the medication, so she told me to eat a lot of fiber… and my spouse and I just looked at each other smirking and I literally said out loud “I’m fiberpilled”
Nurse: you should make sure to eat a lot of fiber.
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