midiport:

midiport:

grox:

paradichlorosocksy:

paradichlorosocksy:

blueengland:

paradichlorosocksy:

EVERYTHING HAS A PLATONIC EXPLANATION IF YOU’RE NOT A COWARD. THOSE TWO ARE SURE AS HELL BEST FRIEND WHY CAN’T YOU JUST LET THEM HAVE A DEEP MEANINGFUL FRIENDSHIP

[image id : a digital drawing of a gengar saying “there is no platonic explanation for this” Wich someone in the crowd behind them respond with “there is if you aren’t a fucking coward”. End id]

ALT

Well I don’t think that’s happening cuz this never happened to me so good luck

paradichlorosocksy:

paradichlorosocksy:

blueengland:

paradichlorosocksy:

EVERYTHING HAS A PLATONIC EXPLANATION IF YOU’RE NOT A COWARD. THOSE TWO ARE SURE AS HELL BEST FRIEND WHY CAN’T YOU JUST LET THEM HAVE A DEEP MEANINGFUL FRIENDSHIP

[image id : a digital drawing of a gengar saying “there is no platonic explanation for this” Wich someone in the crowd behind them respond with “there is if you aren’t a fucking coward”. End id]

ALT

Well I don’t think that’s happening cuz this never happened to me so good luck

bookpdf:

there should be more hours between 6 and 10pm. like even just two more hours. for my assorted hobbies & activities

patricia-taxxon:

patricia-taxxon:

patricia-taxxon:

every special ed program i was in had some kind of system where your behavior was graded on a little sheet with different scores in different categories. its one of those things that i was shocked to eventually discover was actually specifically a special ed thing. getting a good grade in behavior.

one of the more insidious ones came later in my life, when i was 9 or so, there was the system where in addition to being graded on different things like “respect” and “self control” you could also earn “contracts” if you behaved badly, like they’d give you a slip of paper where u write down what you did wrong and what you can do better next time & then the contract is Active for a certain period where u lose some privileges, i forget exactly what. i remember a teacher came in & told my class that our group (the youngest group, i might add) had the most active contracts out of any of the groups and we needed to shape up. i didn’t have any contracts at the time, i actually went a really long time without earning one, but then they just kinda started happening? like things would “go wrong” in ways that felt outside of my control, and it just kept getting worse and worse until i was the biggest problem child in the program. i remember all the worst most traumatizing meltdowns that left me injured and shell shocked were after i felt like i’d figured out how to be a good dog. i dont think i actually ever learned how to behave.

i reread this article at least once a week because it feels like i’m being heard for the first time in more ways than was probably intended.

Is ABA Really “Dog Training for Children”? A Professional Dog Trainer Weighs In.

i’m always going to be a dog, the metaphor just never stops giving

necronatural:

necronatural:

The last version of my guide is 2 years old, and doesn’t account for some new features, new competition, and some rebrands, so once again;

Here’s a purchase guide for when RPG Maker is on sale, as well as the Visual Novel makers available.

YOU KNOW WHAT TIME IT IS.

Komodo Plaza (Direct download

RPG Maker Official (Free RPG Maker XP!) (Steam Links)

the-haiku-bot:

nunalastor:

i’m re-watching the pilot and here are some fun details i noticed

Resist Them Lilith poster over a Mandatory Extermination one

Charlie’s magic has music notes (presumably letting everyone know the extermination is over).

Lucifer was hanging out with the overlords during extermination

While Carmilla’s daughters are gathering weapons, the cannibals are eating the dead bodies. Susan??

Angel fucked through the extermination

husk??

i’m re-watching the

pilot and here are some fun

details i noticed

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

anarchistmemecollective:

anarchistmemecollective:

anarchistmemecollective:

ALT

ALT

ALT

pazthevappy:

made this in light of recent events

cannibalchicken:

paradise-sys:

shitboss-deactivated20240905:

toolassistedspeedrunclips:

Game: New Super Mario Bros. (2006, DS)

TAS author: Soig

Source:

DS New Super Mario Bros. “warpless” by Soig in 39:34.60

love when TASers just kinda mess around in waiting segments

spacelazarwolf:

swordbeliever:

tried to vent in a trans space about how, as a trans man who’s been on T for a long time (over 7 years now), i have noticed that the more i pass as a man, the less welcomed i am in queer spaces unless i go out of my way to feminize myself. and how that sucks! and it’s isolating!!! and it feels horrible to see ppl who used to like you and be close to you drift further and further the more masculine (& therefore more comfortable in urself) u become…

only to get ppl replying to me and saying “well if you dressed more fem then ppl wouldn’t be intimidated by you. you signed up for this”

i’m sorry but i didnt sign up for social isolation when i transitioned, i signed up for gender euphoria and comfort in myself and my life. and i had hoped that the ppl in my life would be able to see how much joy that brings me and continue to love me.

i need ppl to realize that telling trans ppl to change the way they present to make other ppl comfortable with their gender is fucking transphobic. it’s transphobic when it’s telling a trans woman to dress more femme or feminize her voice so she doesn’t ‘intimidate people’, it’s transphobic when it’s telling a trans man the same. it is explicitly and inexcusably transphobic and it is literally never okay. trans people belong in queer spaces. period. there is no dress code. we belong there bc we built those fucking spaces.

hiddencottage:

fantasy or dystopian? banana bread or pumpkin bread? tea or coffee? tarot or oracle? thunderstorm days at home or sunny days at a market? strawberries or blueberries? oversized sweaters or oversized graphic t-shirts? smell of rain or smell of bonfires? hardcover or paperback? ice cream or frozen yogurt?

epersonae:

fjeldmouse:

fridgebride:

ALT

fuzzyhairedfreak:

smash-chu:

make a cohost account, make a blue skies account, make a pillow fort account, make a artfol account, share your discord, make a back-up account, make another account, make another account, make another account-

jollybelieverwonderland:

rain-droplet:

gailcarriger:

goldandlights:

not-so-terrible:

jupiterjames:

friendlytroll:

cat–77:

toloveviceforitself:

onewit-torulethem-all:

prokopetz:

toloveviceforitself:

prokopetz:

andersonsallpurpose:

prokopetz:

moonbelowsea:

prokopetz:

If you ever feel like you must be the most unobservant person in the world, remember: I once spent half a year failing to notice that my new favourite restaurant was a money-laundering front for the Ukrainian mafia.

(I didn’t think anything of it at the time, but in retrospect, the fact that it was always dead no matter the time of day - I think the busiest I ever saw it was five people, myself included - well, that should have been a tipoff. Also, the waitstaff kept calling me “Mr. Prokopetz”, which I had assumed was just part of the restaurant’s gimmick, but given that “Prokopetz” is a Ukrainian surname, I’m now force to wonder whether they’d thought I was, you know, in the business. I just liked the pierogi!)

What I need to know is how on earth did OP finally realize his favorite restaurant was a money-laundering front for the mafia.

I’d like to say I put together the clues, but in reality, I just showed up one day to find that the place had been indefinitely shut down, and later learned it was because the managers had all been arrested.

What I really want to know is how good the food was?

Excellent, if your tastes run to the “heavy cream and too much garlic” end of the spectrum.

Every crime front I’ve ever eaten at has had completely amazing food, honestly. I am pretty convinced that if you want to open a front, you don’t choose “restaurant” as your front-business unless you have a relative who loves to cook.

It tickles me that this is evidently a sufficiently common experience that people find it relatable. (Seriously, check the notes!) We should write reviews or something.

did I just read the line “every crime front I’ve ever eaten at” with my own two eyes

Look, I went to college and lived my early adulthood in a town whose entire thing was import/export, and we had a lot of restaurants that were suspiciously empty except when they were closed and filled with very serious men in nice clothes.

They were usually run by someone who was about the right age to be some adult’s parents or grandparents, and in the case of the two Korean restaurants matching this description, they didn’t speak English. Universally though, they were very pleased to see customers, very proud of their cooking, and very very interested in keeping us far away from the aforementioned serious men in nice clothes. And despite having huge dining rooms and never having more than a couple customers, they never went out of business.

Also, because I am very, very stupid and sometimes don’t think before I talk, I once said loudly, over the phone, while sitting in one of these places, “Hey! Yeah if you want to meet us, we’re eating at [place]. You know…[place]? You totally know it. The Front, on Warwick st!”

The looks I got from every single employee were amazing and then I left.

We had a corner store/deli-place near our apartment in college. Everyone knew they were in on something and no one cared because they looked out for their customers and their neighborhood as a whole.

They started stocking my favorites because I mentioned them within hearing range once, would tell their “vendors” to move out of the way if we stopped in. I walked a different route home and got harassed one night and they asked after me. When they found out what happened, they declared “Consider it taken care of, you should never be afraid around here.” Never happened again.

Everyone needs their friendly neighborhood crime lord.

This is both my favorite and makes me fondly remember home. Less of the  eateries, more of the mysterious retail joints that never seem to close despite no one ever buying anything, though. Well. Aside from the juice bar. Didnt last, though. 

I found these places everywhere I lived. My favorite was an omurice place near my home in Japan, and a mother/son officially ran it. The food was incredible, and one night I was there and there was a boisterous crowd of BLATANTLY yakuza men eating and drinking. They started talking to me, and were super nice. Said they wanted to “practice their English,” and paid for my food and drinks and then said they wanted to take me to karaoke. That was a little alarming, but the mother/son, who seriously looked after me as the only foreigner in the area, said I should go, and the son came along. So we piled into a white landboat Cadillac and partied until dawn.

One of the older men at the party took me to my neighborhood and dropped me off out front (the car was literally too big to fit down the small neighborhood streets) and said that I had his blessing.

Which was confusing, but I was drunk, so whatever. Then I went back to the restaurant about a week later and the mother said, “the family approves of you. You may marry our son if you wish and be welcomed.”

I did not marry him, but wow. There were no hard feelings, either. They still helped out if I got harassed by the cops (which happened a lot in these smaller towns with no foreigners) or anything like that.

And to this day, no omurice has ever compared.

@temari-i-i

Some of the best tea I ever drank was at one of these joints, a “tea house” in my neighborhood.

love restaurants run by mafias, whoever’s in the kitchen would kill for you half the time. you know the world is fucked up when you feel safer in a crime den than in a police station

2zam:

TUMBLR BUILDS A HOUSE…

Foundation

Walls

Furniture

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Windows

Floor

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please spread this so that it can actually be funny instead of just 1 person voting

edit: oh god it has 20k notes and it’s been running for less than a day

edit 2: please tag me in any art of this i’d love to see it

edit 3: all of you guys ascking where the vanilla extract is. Here it is, you found it. Congratulations.

queen-mihai:

daily-spooky:

I had a dark grey cat named “smokey” and I called him “smokes” for short.

His purr was so powerful that he’d put me to sleep from time to time, just from sitting in my lap.

I love you black cats

I love you dark grey cats

iconuk01:

ardienothesieno:

ilovedirt:

sweetenby:

weaver-z:

rainbow-lizzard:

elodieunderglass:

gasterofficial:

weaver-z:

weaver-z:

weaver-z:

Fondly remembering the time that a cat owner casually entered their calico Maine Coon in a cat fancier’s competition and the judges lost their minds because the cat was 1) male and 2) able to bear children

Anyway here’s Dawntreader Texas Calboy as a silly lil kitten

Here’s an excerpt from one of the articles about the drama his entry caused among the Cat Fanciers that I thought was very earnest and sweet <3

And also some of Calboy’s children!

@pangur-and-grim

He is fearfully and wonderfully made!

ALT

I was about to say he would technically be an intersex king (not because I dislike the concept of trans cats, just bc intersex rep is sorely needed too) but I did some more reading on this icon and actually found the article OP referenced.

ALT

He’s not your usual male calico kitty as it turns out. That’s already cool and rare, but he’s even cooler and rarer than that!

ALT

ALT

Calboy is a chimera!! Which is really fucking cool of you ask me. The chances of having a male calico this way are slim to none, but the mad lad still exists! What an icon. I would die for Calboy.

Everyone in the tags of this post @ cat show judges

Originally I was looking for an adult picture of Calboy

(He’s so pretty 🥰)

But I also found a source for the article screenshotted above! And folks it’s WILD. It’s an incredibly interesting read if you happen to love hearing about niche hobby drama. It’s also just a fantastically written article!

The parts I find the most interesting are about how conservative the cat fanciers association is. This isn’t even all of the parts that talk about that.

People are so mad about this cat spefically because he has female colors. An animal who couldn’t choose how it was born. This is happening in Texas by the way. Hm. I wonder how they treat trans people over there?

Reblogging again for this crucial addition

wait i’m sorry

people are being transphobic. towards a cat.

what the actual fuck.

Also, not to derail, but “You know, we don’t let three-legged cats in here either”

Well, to put it politely, “Screw you and every single one of you who make that sort of decision”

maileesque:

I ❤️ self-loathing characters, characters who struggle with monstrosity (either fearing or embracing it), characters who are so lonely, who have a gaping hole in their chest, who bottle up & repress their feelings, who claw their way up & have ambitions, who fall down & lose everything, who search for identity & purpose yet can’t see themselves outside of what others want from or expect of them, who are hurt & hurt others, who long & grieve, who lie & pretend. characters who are messy & flawed & human

neopetsdotcom:

Been playing with machines at work

dragongirlglasses:

i’ll be real, i dont think we learned anything at all. it seems the takeaway is “clown on the ceo” and not “learn about the signs and tactics for how and why trans women get targeted and innoculate yourself against them. sit and think about how You Yourself might be perpetuating that culture”.

its been less than a week and i’ve ALREADY seen a post going around trying to paint another trans girl as pedophilic and everyone in the comments immediately throwing up their hands believing it and no one but her close friends even Beginning to question it before reblogging. we’ve learned nothing

asynca:

I realized this during the Superbowl Massacre in Rafah.

baaeluu:

cambriancutie:

favorite visual gags:

• something drawn realistically to show an emotion
• something drawn poorly to show an emotion

pomegranategolem:

backup-ominous-threats:

twelfth-list-of-ominous-threats:

vtuberloveslug-deactivated20240:

KOSA IS GETTING FORCED THROUGH

ATTACHED ARE SCRIPTS FOR EITHER A DEM OR REP SENATOR

CALL NOW PLEASE

Bringing this here again because I cannot stress how terrified I am.

please please please guys. call your reps. dont let kosa go through

Just called one Senator, hopefully this bill won’t pass.

shrimpblaster:

meckamecha:

kuromi-hoemie:

meckamecha:

I got a laptop with Windows 11 for an IT course so I can get certified, and doing the first time device set-up for it made me want to commit unspeakable violence

Windows 11 should not exist, no one should use it for any reason, it puts ads in the file explorer and has made it so file searches are also web searches and this cannot be turned off except through registry editing. Whoever is responsible for those decisions should be killed, full stop.

Switch to linux, it’s free and it’s good.

u r absolutely right I have SO many complaints about Windows omg.

For anyone who’d like to follow along, I’m gonna share how to get around those things with group policies bc they’re more user friendly and descriptive than registry editor imo :3 I’ll also show how to get around needing a Microsoft account to get setup.

For the Device Setup

“OOBE” stands for Out Of Box Experience which is what that setup workflow is. But it also happens to be a folder with a little program in it that’ll let you skip connecting to the internet; this makes it so you don’t have to sign up with a Microsoft account and can just use a normal local one instead. And it already comes preinstalled! Here’s how you get to it:

1. Hold Shift + F10, or Shift + Fn + F10 depending on your keyboard.
2. Click inside the window that pops up, type the following and press enter afterwards to run it: OOBE\BypassNRO
3. I believe it should restart your computer automatically, but if not then restart your computer or type: shutdown /r /t 0 /f

Now when you’re brought back to the setup workflow, the page where you connect to the internet will have a new button on it that lets you say you don’t have internet. Clicking that and proceeding through the rest of the setup lets you get around the Microsoft account thing.

Group Policies

You don’t have to know much about them, these are just a bunch of specific settings for what your computer can or can’t do that lets you decide how it works in different ways.

I’m gonna show you how to turn off the recommendations and internet stuff basically. For now bring up search and type gpedit, pick this

It’ll open up to Local Group Policy Editor and we can get started :3c

Start Recommendations

In the side menu, go to User Configuration > Administrative Templates > Start Menu and Taskbar. Click on Settings to sort them with all the “Turn off” ones bumped to the top.

Here’s what you should set:

• Turn off user tracking: enabled
• Turn off feature advertisement balloon notifications: enabled
• Remove Recommended section from Start Menu: enabled
• Remove Personalized Website Recommendations from the Recommended section in the Start Menu: enabled
• Do not search Internet: enabled

Windows Spotlight

Back in the side menu, go down to Windows Components > Cloud Content

• Turn off all Windows spotlight features: enabled
• Do not use diagnostic data for tailored experiences: enabled

Cortana

In the side menu, this one’s back at the top under Computer Configuration. You’re gonna want to go to Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > Windows Components > Search

• Allow Cortana: disabled
• Don’t search the web or display web results in Search: enabled

News and Interests

In the side menu go to Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > Windows Components > News and interests.

• Enable news and interests on the taskbar: disabled

Microsoft Account Login Nudges

When you don’t use a Microsoft account they’ll nudge you repeatedly to sign in so you can “get the most out of your experience” *gag*. The group policy for turning that off has a note that suggests it might not work with Windows 11 though (implicitly), so you can close the group policy editor window now and for this last one let’s just open up the regular settings.

Go to System > Notifications > Additional settings, then uncheck all the boxes. And there ya go! (✿◠‿◠)ﾉ u are done.

Group policies are kind of a rabbit hole so while there is a lot more you could change or read into, for your own sanity’s sake I would advise against it and say call it a day lol

This is all extremely good information, thank you very much for the addition!

I endorse this as an IT technician. I do this to every new Win11 device I set up.

As a bonus, run Chris Titus Tech’s debloat tool on it.

The Ultimate Windows Utility

It allows you to add tools, remove/disable shitty parts of windows, and easily change some settings. My default is running the preset for a desktop/laptop and applying security update settings, but there are so many options to customize. I used it on my personal laptop.

valtsv:

valtsv:

ALT

been thinking about fantasy/scifi rule systems and free will

ALT

chilewithcarnage:

hazystars:

unbotheredmuse:

you forgot the best part tho

(via @butchmuppet)

no lie, the second half of this post really helped me put a different perspective on my life and greatly the decreased the anxiety i have about my life to come

lakefama:

i love working with my wife on our gay comedy passion projects because we enter a loop of feeding each other’s unhinged lunacy

anneemay:

inkmo:

deactivated203846629-deactivate:

alwek:

ALT

Remember all you. THIS is the post that triggered Rita’s ban.

This is the #2 trending post sitewide right now, just below an outline of the ways tumblr staff has historically targeted trans women. Keep it up.

Reblog this catgirl with considerable without delay

daily-spooky:

aveloka-draws:

I think they care, in their own way.

papperface:

Yes

serial-unaliver-deactivated2024:

serial-unaliver-deactivated2024:

this post has more people in my inbox defending working for lockheed martin than you’d expect

fairycosmos:

phone is my best friend she would never betray me. what do you mean my brain is being fried by the constant dopamine hits. she just wants me to be happy

steampunk-sorcerer:

drowning-moonlight:

drowning-moonlight:

knightsf:

vader: who tore the warning sign off of this wampa cage??
storm trooper: security footage shows it was removed by a golden protocol droid
vader: LOL

Vader in RotJ: wait the Alderaan princess is my daughter?? don’t know how to feel about that.

Luke: she strangled Jabba the Hutt to death with a chain.

Vader: OH HELL YEAH

why would you hide this in the tags that’s hilarious

alleged-mothman:

astriiformes:

Saint Paul Public Library, I am begging you to make this real

my dad sent me this today and I’m so jealous

official-megumin:

kray-zay:

I wish the woolly chafer beetle was as big as a rabbit and I could have one as a pet

@a-sentient-cup

official-megumin:

kray-zay:

I wish the woolly chafer beetle was as big as a rabbit and I could have one as a pet

@a-sentient-cup

official-megumin:

kray-zay:

I wish the woolly chafer beetle was as big as a rabbit and I could have one as a pet

@a-sentient-cup

yaoivriska:

jammerjenny:

wolrith:

I didn’t know predstrogen or her blog but that doesn’t matter to me and it shouldn’t matter to you. if they came for her they will come for you. if you’re not trans they will come for you when they’re done with them.

hate doesn’t start and end with one target, it morphs and amalgamates until no one is safe, and it lashes out a lot.

Also worth noting it had started with black bloggers alongside transgender bloggers. And even Palestinian bloggers in the face of the current genocide.

The real number of people who’ve been scorched Earth I can’t even begin to comprehend as we usually only hear about it when its popular bloggers like Trans Mom or Predstrogen. The fact that even they were treated with such absolute cruelty means there had to have been so many more that went without any public outcry or knowing.

HI IM JAMMERJENNY THE BLOG ABOVE AND YOU WOULD NOT BELIEVE WHAT TUMBLR STAFF JUST DID TO ME

fizzycrystals: