I love it when people use “shrimp” to mean “beyond the human range”. like “shrimp colors” but applied to other things. “shrimp emotions” “shrimp sounds” “shrimp morality”, as if shrimp are living some kind of transcendent existence that humans can never comprehend
will never forget the parents who lost all 8 of their kids saying “they slept hungry, we were trying to get them a piece of bread but they were killed”
we are witnessing a population run out of food. WFP said a few days ago that half of the population are starving, nine out of 10 are not eating every day.
keep in mind that not having enough food, even when you’re not literally starving to death, makes your body heal slower so all these people (who have all sorts of wounds from the bombing and everything else) are all physically healing much more slowly than they would be if they had any food to eat. it also causes you to have difficulty regulating body temperature which means that these people (who had to leave their homes with no winter clothes to speak of) are much more susceptible to the cold than they would be if they just had food.
the current problems every gazan is facing right now all exacerbate each other.
At some point, South Africa might as well just watch Israeli Parliamentary proceedings and watch how these war criminals tell on themselves openly and publicly. Joe Biden got John Kirby acting like South Africa’s 80+ report is not them just them just Google translating what Israel loudly broadcasts.
me: two redbull and an adderall for breakfast is the most important meal of the day
my guardian angel (currently taking the form of trent ‘The Nine Inch Nails’ reznor to try and get me to listen to him): do we think maybe a vegetable would cause less 'Hurt’?
why can’t there be a boob transfer system for all women?? like, a girl can be like “I have an F cup and I really want to go down a couple of sizes because my back hurts” and a girl with an A cup could be like “Oh could you transfer some of ur boob tissue to me because I’d like to go up a size” and it would be done
do you have any idea how great that would be
ok but imagine if trans boys could donate their boobs to trans girls
I need non autistic people to realise meltdowns are a real debilitating thing that has a serious effect on your mental and physical health NOWWWWW!!! The way its been trivialized and lessened pisses me the fuck off. It’s not a tantrum and it doesn’t come from “being too weak-willed” it’s painful and it’s embarrassing AND MOST OF ALL IT’S INVOLUNTARY!! Don’t claim to be an ally to autistic or disabled people and then make fun of people who have meltdowns. Literally get the hell out of my sight
Hurriyet Daily News reports that Albayrak had been hired to photograph the July 5th wedding at Turgut Özal Nature Park in the eastern Turkish province of Malatya. On the day of, when he noticed that the bride-to-be didn’t look like an adult, he asked the groom her age and learned that she was only 15.
“The groom had come to my studio some two weeks ago and was alone,” Albayrak tells the Daily News. “I saw the bride for the first time at the wedding. She’s a child, and I felt her fear because she was trembling.”
Albayrak then reportedly refused to continue as the wedding photographer and attempted to stop the wedding.
The argument soon turned physical when the groom attacked him as he was attempting to leave, Albayrak says. The photographer ended up breaking the client’s nose in the fight, according to local reports.
Albayrak confirmed the reports in a Facebook post, which has been met with widespread approval, attracting thousands of Likes and hundreds of overwhelmingly positive comments.
“I wish this had never happened, but it did,” Albayrak writes. “And if you were to ask me if I’d do the same thing again, I’d say ‘yes.’ Child brides are [victims] of child abuse and no power on earth can make me photograph a child in a wedding gown.”
The legal minimum age for marriage in Turkey is 18-years-old for both sexes, and child marriage is punishable by imprisonment for men who marry underage girls. Despite being outlawed, however, child marriage is still prevalent in the country and remains a controversial political issue.
btw - let’s remind ourselves, americans, that unlike turkey, in the US the legal minimum age for marriage is only 18 in two states. in alabama, you can be married as young as fourteen years old if you have “parental permission”. in california, you can get married under 18 if you go to counseling, have a parent with you when you apply for the marriage license, and appear before a judge. in some states, there isn’t even a specific minimum age for marriage.
the minimum marriage age for girls in new hampshire is 13 years old.
child marriage is not an “over there” problem, it happens right here, legally. any one of us might find ourselves called upon to break somebody’s nose if we encounter something like this occurring. we also have a responsibility to support groups and laws trying to end child marriage in this country.
Florida judges have approved child marriages of children down to age 11.
I am calling for help. I’m currently living in an extremely abusive situation, both mentally and physically. My girlfriend is beating me. She has always had a bit of a hang up on me being trans but I ignored it bc I’m madly in love. She calls me derogatory terms like tr.* nny and transvestite. She beats me and I haven’t ate in two days because I require help with daily living activities like making food and she’s been starving me. I have a plan to escape. I just need funds to keep me up in a hotel. pls boost.
I left the situation but im sleeping on the street tonight in the middle of Canadian winter. I need enough for an accessible room. I am in dire straits 🥹
Just found out I was thirsty not by receiving a signal from my body about it but by dozing off and dreaming about cold water from different alluring angles. This is great. I think all my wants and needs should be revealed to me this way
people are drawing Steamboat Willie Mickey doing all this crazy shit and whatnot, but you could always do that. you can do that now, with current Mickey, just fine. it’s fanart and it’s legally protected. hell you could take Disney-drawn Mickey and put a caption about unions or whatever on it and it would still be protected under free speech and sometimes even parody law.
what is special about public domain is that you can SELL him. you could take a screenshot and sell it on a tshirt. you can use him to advertise your plumbing business. people have already uploaded and monetized the original film.
you could always have Mickey say what you want, but now you can profit off it.
in honor of this becoming a world heritage post or whatever
a long awaited squeakquel i meant to make months and months ago
to everyone in the tags with the “homophonic bowser” “so long gay bowser” and “love DOESNt win”
your all wrong, bowser is just already in a committed relationship
to everyone saying mario is a homewrecker, heres the truth
they just have the same taste
for some reason yall have stuck around this long so now your gonna get the MOST self indulgent sammi posting with the awnser to this
we go back to 2014 when i first watch that shitty live action mario movie, it was so bad i loved it so much. i knew it sucked but i was SO into it i loved it so much
and i specifically had a small crush on the lady who played the character big bertha, who was based on a one off comic character who was a giant cheep cheep who had a crush on mario. and in the movie was was also into mario. and let me tell you 14-15 year old cringe ass sammi drew SO much fanart of her as a mermaid who was in love with mario
so this one goes out to little crange ass baby nae nae sammi
mario and his giant spikey mermaid gf
Hey OP, I hope you know that this went from an amazing post to literally the best post on this site
Queer history fact: Frieda Belinfante, the first woman in Europe to be artistic director and conductor of an ongoing professional orchestral ensemble, joined the CKC resistance group around the beginning of WW2. CKC included other queer members, such as Willem Arondeus. In her interview with the Holocaust Museum, she claims that she was the one who pointed out that if they were going to forge documents, they also had to destroy the originals so no one caught on. This led to the destruction of the Amsterdam public registry on March 27, 1943.
As a woman, Belinfante herself was not allowed to go on that mission, so she only knew that her fellow group members were captured when her right-hand man didn’t show up to the meeting spot. She immediately abandoned her home and disguised herself as a man. It was only later that she learned the others of the group had been executed.
Thinking about androids with disabilities. Weak servos, faulty wiring, damaged vocal processors, cognitive corruption, anything and everything that humans struggle with having a robotic equivalent. And just because they’re mechanical doesn’t mean it’s an easy fix, these are parts that cost thousands of dollars and need a specialized technician if they can be replaced at all. Disability does not disappear even if we can leave our flesh behind.
The reason the English language’s rules for constructing compound words don’t seem to make sense to speakers of more reasonable languages is because, in this respect, English obeys Roger Rabbit logic: in, for example, German, you can construct extemporaneous compound words whenever you like, but in English, you can only do so when it’s funny.
As a german i would like to do some outpointing and show that the english wordconstructionability is only held back by deciding whats right and what is wrong, and not by your ability to convey meaning
It’s a bit more subtle than that. Because there’s this tacit agreement that constructing nonce compounds in English is only “correct” if it’s funny, any time you do so it automatically sounds like you’re doing a bit. You can’t avoid that by deciding it doesn’t apply to you – your words gain a humorous subtext whether you want them to or not.
I must show disagreeability at the notion that funnymaking is the onlyest use of wordcombinification
im trying to go to sleep but i cannotttttt stop thinking about this and laughing
Listen, we have to keep this thing circulating on the internet for at least another two decades, because I have to believe that one day that little girl will be grown enough to stumble upon it and She Will Explain
Jay Eazy sucks you think just because he uses the word rock that's enough to make it about megaman? thats such a leap like they might as well just say cookies and act like the song about santa claus... sorry that you're tired of the slander btw, since the whole internet is still slamming him
I woke up, went to brush my teeth and using my toothpaste spoon I put toothpaste from my toothpaste bucket onto my toothbrush, only to realize that it was not my toothbrush, but my mom’s. My toothbrush was not in the toothbrush cup, so I looked around and realized it was in the sink, covered by foam from someone washing their hands previously. I didn’t know what to do, so I just woke up for real.
@official-persephone well the toothbrush cup is just a cup where you put the toothbrushes. toothpaste spoon is just a fancy way of saying toothbrush. but WHAT THE HELL is a toothpaste bucket????
TOOTHPASTE SPOON IS A TOOTHBRUSH? THAT CAN’T BE TRUE
I HAVE REREAD THE POST AND IT IS NOT. A TOOTHPASTE SPOON IS PROBABLY JUST A FUCKING SPOON. YOU DIP THE GODDAMN SPOON INTO THE BUCKET AND GET YOURSELF SOME FUCKING TOOTHPASTE. I HATE THIS POST
A Very Short “Essay” On Why They Should Teach Philosophy in School (and Why You Should Learn It Anyway)
Something I’ve realized formally studying philosophy now is that holy mother of all gods, this stuff would be super useful to teach in school. Why? What are Plato, Aristotle, and even modern philosophers going to teach us that’s useful for adulting as many people are concerned about now when it comes to high school? Philosophy boils down to how to live a good life, a civic one at that in many cases! It’s how to be a good person and how to have direction in life. Honestly, that’s something I think a lot of people need right now. There’s no one philosophy either, there’s so many schools of thought, so you can find the one that fits for your life.
Other than this though, philosophy also helps deal with a few other surprising things: misinformation and being a fudging a**hole. Misinformation is rampant in online spaces, HBomberguy even highlighted how misinformation from James Somerton led to it being accepted as fact by some people. Philosophy is a counter to this. It asks to think critically of life, of the things we encounter in it, and how we accept it. Misinformation thrives on either willful ignorance, or a simple laziness to not fact check what you’re hearing. Sometimes that’s understandable, like with the case with James, people trusted him and the information he shared. However, spreading something like that like fact yourself requires you to first confirm the information, often from an additional source (always have multiple sources for information, it’s a life saver). Philosophy itself as a subject is the art of critical thinking, and this is exactly what critical thinking teaches us, to never trust the words of just one person. Get different views, look into it yourself! Teaching philosophy can reinforce this idea and help folks avoid falling down rabbit holed that lead to social isolation in the cases of things like flat earth and climate change denial.
I also mentioned preventing a**holes. A**holes are a pretty common problem. Just look at Elon Musk, Trump, or rich guy YouTubers like Logan Paul. Why does this happen? It can be a mix of social pressure, how they were raised, and even the very institutions of our world that can lead to it. A**holes: A Theory, by Aaron James, is a great way to learn more about this, but to put it plainly, a**holes often exist because they feel an entrenched and high sense of entitlement. They won’t apologize for their actions in a meaningful way, and they certainly don’t see you as having the same moral standing to them. They’re a bane to a cooperative society. So, how do we deal with this? James suggested a few ways, landing on that there’s an understanding that life kind of sucks. However, if we, as cooperative people, unite, we can life a little less sucky, and by virtue, better. Philosophy comes into play here yet again. It teaches social values, how to be a good person, how to be a civil person. Being a civil person means we can meet that call, we can make society less sucky, and make it better. If we understand our civic duties to one another, learn critical thought, and have meaning in this turbulent boat of world, we can be better people, we can live better lives! Teaching philosophy does that.
In the end, life sucks, but it doesn’t have to. In fact, I’d say there’s hope. I know some schools (especially in the States, I’m Canadian myself) already teach philosophy. Does it help? I can’t quite say. I can tell you it’s helped me when I learned it just as an interest by myself, but my peers who did go to schools with it often share that they were the better for it when I ask them about it. So, give it a try. Explore philosophy a bit! It can truly be a delight.
Scar: You had a fake ID? With a fake name and everything?! Mumbo, sweating: I-I can explain … Grian: He used it to get a second library card so he could take out twice as many books at once.
My 14 year old brother just took a drink of hot chocolate and hissed like he’d knocked back a shot of vodka then set it down and went “ah… that’s the good stuff.”
Concept: A claw machine with a massive soundproof glass container, with my work station inside of it. There’s no prize, you don’t win anything, but for a small fee of just a few coins, you get to purchase the privilege of fucking with my shit for a minute or two. The container is soundproof so I don’t hear it coming, and also soundproof so you don’t hear what kind of curses I’m yelling at you. Somebody once managed to grab my ink jar and toss it over my nearly finished page.
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