any body part is automatically more erotic when viewed from an uncommon angle, like looking up at a dick, sideboob, backsack, etc. this is known as the Rare Sex Pepe Effect
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theres some lady on instagram who goes to thrift stores and buys cute homemade quilts and cuts them up to make staggeringly ugly jackets and i know it shouldnt matter to me but my god
theres some lady on instagram who goes to thrift stores and buys cute homemade quilts and cuts them up to make staggeringly ugly jackets and i know it shouldnt matter to me but my god
I seriously want to know why they took her body. I also want to know (and pardon how ghoulish this is) if she still has all her organs, given the reports of bodies being desecrated and harvested.
There is no justice in this world, my days, she was just a little girl.
Adding to the point of organs being harvested:
I want the idiots who keep “debunking” the stolen organs thing to understand, that even if it wasn’t for organ harvesting, the Israeli army has shown us enough of their depravity to understand that they could be doing this just for the sake of violating the body. We’ve seen and heard how they violate the living; now imagine what they can do to the dead who cannot resist or fight back.
Remember that we’ve only seen the crimes FILMED and shared. How many more couldn’t be filmed, and how many more were filmed but couldn’t be shared?
when one guy (afflicted by an insaitable hunger) meets another guy (afflicted by an insaitable hunger) and they’re both outwardly arrogant and privately terrified and on the run from a higher power and also (this is essential) they are both fucking losers
why do they want to make discord more inconvenient for everyone? first it was the whole ui change, now its click on the plus sign to add a picture but u have to click another thing first to choose what to add, and now also its when i click off a discord server, then click on it again, it puts me in the first channel instead of the one i was just in. so annoying! stop make me click when i didnt have to before!
Happy tenth anniversary to this comic. I just learned that it’s still being shared constantly on Tumblr. I don’t totally understand why people like it so much, but I like it too.
we should talk about water more often that shit is crazy
it is literally one of the most normal things
you can’t even begin to understand how insane water is
Water as a molecule has SO many absolutely bonkers properties that no other substance has and it’s that combo that makes life as we know it possible in this universe. that shit IS crazy.
Solid water floats in liquid water. that’s not normal. It expands and arranges a repeating lattice structure that creates a crystal which isn’t super strange but it drops in density by 11% which is. It’s polarized. It dissolves EVERYTHING. The latent heat properties are insane. the emergent properties are also insane. the nitrogen cycle takes a whole bunch of effort and enzymatic processing, but the water cycle runs off the sun and the chill of space.
Just because you are a bunch of squishy bags of complicated water, doesn’t make that a normal thing to be. the vast majority of the universe does not have that. water is very VERY special.
a team of the most skilled writers in the country couldn’t achieve the same visceral reaction to anything that this clip got out of me the first time i saw it
finding out there’s a frankenstein ballet and that it was in october of last year…DEVASTATING
look at this. look at these. im foaming at the mouth
It was stupid good. So good in fact that the bbc filmed a version and put it on dvd when it debuted. I bought that dvd after I saw the show and put it up on the Internet Archive. The audio is not great but the dancing is spectacular. Ever see a pas de deux around an anatomical dissection? You will.
torn between how many lives could have been saved by someone pinning a scrawny nerd to the mat and the thought of whether Burmese people can’t resist killing their neighbours unless a content moderator in San Francisco tells them not to
I turn 30 next month so here’s what I learned in my 20s:
—don’t work for startups, they’re always one ‘innovative idea’ away adding ‘sell your kidneys on the black market’ to your job description.
—keeping a collection of basic OTC medicine on you will save your life one day. I recommend Advil, Imodium, and TUMS.
—those little single-use glasses cleaning wipes are 1000% worth the money
—overly self-depreciating jokes just make people uncomfortable, wean yourself off of them
—you can buy dehydrated mini marshmallows in bulk online and they’re a godsend for hot cocoa
—people don’t care if you have fidget toys on your desk they just want to play with them
—try to go to bed BEFORE the existential ennui kicks in
Also drink water and eat a plant
This is all GREAT. I turned 40 last week, so permit me to add what I learned in my 30s:
keep on not working for startups
sometimes there comes a point where the thing (fandom, hobby, friendship, romantic relationship) you loved no longer brings you joy. And that’s okay. Try to mourn the loss, take joy in the memories, and don’t burn any bridges in case ten years go by and you find yourself back in that fandom/hobby/relationship again
it turns out that (ugh) moderate regular exercise is (spit) good for you. The sooner you make it part of your life, the easier it’ll be
related: if you throw yourself into a new exercise regime too hard and too fast, without stopping to rest or consider whether a particular move is good for you … well, shoulder injuries are painful and consults with orthopedic surgeons are expensive
knees are bastards too
don’t even get me started on ankles
there may come a time when your digestive system is too fragile for ibuprofin. I’m sorry
one day you’re gonna wake up and realise you no longer give any fucks about some things that used to bother you
on the other hand, you might be alarmed to realise what you still give a fuck about
never get down on the floor without an exit strategy for getting back up
I turn 50 this year. what I have learned in my 40s:
“loving yourself” is less of a feeling and more of an action. you can start doing it any time and it will make your life better and better as you go on
this will happen incrementally - be patient
along those lines, if you haven’t started making an active effort to quit shit-talking yourself, suck it up and do it
no, shut up. do it. “but it’s haaaaard!” don’t care. do it.
whether you like it or not, you are mortal and you need to go to the doctor for an annual checkup
stretch regularly - your future self will thank you
at some point you will encounter people much younger than you arguing passionately and incorrectly about history you personally remember and experienced
this will be infuriating and annoying
otoh, most other things just… will not matter to you as much
at some point you will shift from wanting to go out to being like “eh” and deciding to stay in. this is okay.
you will have absolutely no idea what The Youth are talking about and you will not care
but if you keep your mind open to new ideas you’ll never be irrelevant
your company still doesn’t love you - don’t give them more than they pay you for
get a fucking hobby, especially a hobby that involves physically creating/handling something and/or moving your body in physical space. it will do you more good than you can imagine
Just turned 60 and let me say:
Find joy, every kind, it’s always worth it
I’m talking that massive, never-ending Discord chat with your bestie? The one that makes you giggle through the day? It’s not a “waste of time,” it’s what time was made for
If that’s fanfic for your favorite characters who never even met on screen celebrate that!
If that’s building a tiny fleet of snake villagers for your snake town and they just cover your mantel hell yes!
If that’s collecting pillows and making a fort of them every weekend I’ll be right over
Feeling and sharing joy is the whole point
This is too tempting…, so, I’m 74, and: don’t fund startups
Please keep stretching and exercise enough NOT to need an elaborate strategy to get up from the floor. IT MAY SAVE YOUR LIFE
Say bye to your employer as early as you possibly can, unless you really love your job. You won’t be sorry.
Keep doing the annual checkups 🙏🏼
Enjoy that fucking hobby you’ve acquired in your 50, or find something new. Do try new things & adventures.
does anyone have that video where toby fox is giving a speech in japanese about video games n when he says the “project” part of “touhou project” he briefly drops into the strongest american accent I’ve ever heard n then immediately switches back to perfect japanese pronunciation. been thinking about it all day
trying your best does not mean putting an unbearable amount of strain on yourself.
Realizing that my best was not putting in 110% every day until it very nearly killed me was an incredibly hard thing to unlearn. Still unlearning it a little more each day.
If you’re catching yourself thinking “that piece of media can’t possibly be old enough to [X]”, remember the 5/10/20 rule:
If it’s five years old, it’s old enough to have been a formative influence for up-and-coming artists; this is when all the people who had their brains fucked by it as teenagers start hitting their 20s
If it’s ten years old, it’s old enough to have crossed the irony threshold; if it’s the sort of media that’s amenable to deconstructions (or “deconstructions”), expect them here
If it’s twenty years old, it’s old enough for the first wave of nostalgic revivals, often as a delayed reaction against the above-cited deconstructions; otherwise known as the “retro” event horizon
Yes, this does mean that, for example, Gamecube launch titles are retro now. That is how time works.
(For the Gen Z folks in the notes making fun of Millennials for not knowing how old the Gamecube is, I will remind you that the Xbox 360 also turns 20 next year. None of you are safe!)
Having a traumatic childhood means you cannot talk even objectively about your basic foundational experiences without it being “venting”, even if you’re not actually venting. You just straight up have a huge chunk of your life you can’t talk about, full stop, without it being trauma dumping.
And it not being socially acceptable to talk about your own childhood is super alienating. Sometimes people want to know why, and any answer you can give them is going to be off putting.
It’s to the point I get irritated when something I said is framed as venting when I’m literally just talking about my life experiences, doing my best to keep emotion out of it.
when I was in high school, I overheard two older students talking about a friend of theirs.
One of them said something like, “it doesn’t bother me that [Friend] was in residential mental health treatment, I just wish they wouldn’t talk about it ALL the time”.
The other replied, “Well, that was all of last year for them. So when they say ‘when I was in treatment,’ it’s like when you say 'last year’.”
I try to remember that any time someone says something that sounds Shocking to me. sometimes one person’s scary special crisis is another person’s last year.
i actually find this really funny because if i’m not mistaken this is supposed to be a can of A&W root beer, and Japan HATES root beer Apparently it’s a thing in Japan, it’s like black licorice to them, no one likes it. medicine for kids has ingredients that make it taste kind of like what root beer tastes like so whenever they get root beer it tastes like medicine pretending to be a soda to them so it’s like giving an american a huge bag of black jelly beans and labeling it “Why would you put these death nuggets in your body you ridiculous lout”
*packs bags and heads to Japan to chug root beer as a street performance*
*packs bags and heads to
Japan to chug root beer as
a street performance*
Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.
“If you’re one of those. ‘I love Pink Floyd but I can’t stand Rogers politics’ people. You might do well to fuck off to the bar right now” -Roger Waters This is Not A Drill Tour
I have to say, it’s really affecting as a trans fan of Pink Floyd who connects with their music so much (and especially Roger Water’s baby “The Wall” which got me through middle and high school) to see in huge letters in all caps up on a giant screen at a Roger Waters concert “TRANS RIGHTS”.
It’s so comforting and beautiful that one of the members of my favorite band is willing to say publicly, obviously, and unequivocally that he cares about the rights of people like me. Thank you for sharing this OP, and I hope Roger Waters knows how many people he’s touched with his music and these statements.
As someone who has personally had to take those calls, they do matter. It just doesn’t matter what you say in the call: the only way your calls actually reach the politician is a tally sheet of each call received on different topics. End of the day/week, the politician gets told “you had X many calls about people wanting you to do this, Y many calls about people wanting you to do this, etc.”
Individual calls matter little, but if they get tons of calls on one topic then they take it seriously. The example above was probably during a time where the office was flooded with so many calls at once that they took the phones off the hook, which actually means that calls are working especially well. When the phones are blowing up, everyone in the office notices.
The best call to your representative does not involve you making an impassioned and well-argued case, because you’re probably talking to an intern. The most effective call you can make takes 15 seconds: “I am from [place in your district] and I am very pissed about [topic].”
OI. PEOPLE IN THE THREAD. CAN WE REBLOG THIS VERSION PLEASE. DON’T STOP MAKING CALLS.
But also as another person further up says, don’t let your activism start and stop with phone calls either.
DON’T TRUST ANYONE WHO TELLS YOU NOT TO PARTICIPATE
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