stop making shows about americans in europe… try europeans in america instead. the outrage of not knowing exactly what something costs at a store,, no public transport,, everyone smiling in your face and waiters scaring you by constantly popping up at your table… ice in your water for some reason,, the kind of culture clash i want to see!!
fuck emily in paris i want françois in texas
ivan in west virginia
all his neighbours immediately distrust him because he’s russian and they haven’t gotten over the red scare and also no one new has moved in to the town in almost a decade
but then he participates in podunknowheresville’s annual lawnmower race with a monstrosity made from scrap metal and far too much duct tape and he wins second place in a neck-and-neck final round against sam americason, the most anti-russian man in the village
and ivan is scared that he blew his one chance to get accepted by the community but then sam jumps off his lawnmower and pats ivan on the back and says “you did good, brother. i’m sorry i misjudged you. looks like hillbillies are the same no matter what country we come from. you’re just like us, ivan. guess our redneck town has room for a little extra red” and everybody laughs and the credits roll while the ussr national anthem gets played on a banjo and washboard
So if you have a pointed space (X,x), a non-pointed space Y, and a continuous map f: X -> Y, then there is a unique point y in Y such that f is a pointed continuous map (X,x) -> (Y,y) (namely if we take y = f(x)). This phenomenon feels similar to taking a Kleisli extension of a morphism A -> T(B) for some monad T, but among other differences it goes the other direction.
Let U: Topₚ -> Top be the forgetful functor from the category of pointed topological spaces to the category of topological spaces. For every f ∈ Top(U(X),Y) there is a unique Z ∈ Obj(Topₚ) and g ∈ Topₚ(X,Z) such that U(Z) = Y and U(g) = f.
This is used pretty frequently in algebraic topology (‘let X,Y be spaces, x ∈ X, and let f: X -> Y be continuous, then f*: π₁(X,x) -> π₁(Y,f(x)), etc.’). I wonder if there’s other scenarios that have the same categorical structure?
I absolutely need everyone to reblog this right now. This is an offline browser meant to read Homestuck as it was intended, with Flash.
This project is absolutely BIG and the person behind it BIGGER, and you guys have no idea how glad I am to have a complete Homestuck archive right at hand that also has stuff like The Baby Is You and Humanimals among so much more. Like what?? It’s the real MSPA.
Please share this. Go to the creator’s Twitter (Bamboshu) and retweet too! Donate.
Also, all the content is less than 4GB? I’d think it’d be way more heavy. You can even save it on a USB and you’ve got the entirety of Homestuck and MSPA in your hands…
“BREAKING: The UN Security Council has passed a resolution calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza for the month of Ramadan. The resolution passed 14-0, with the US abstaining for the first time.”
In response, Netanyahu immediately said he was cancelling his trip to the US.
The resolution, put forward by Algeria, Ecuador, Guyana, Japan, Malta, Mozambique, Sierra Leone, Slovenia, South Korea and Switzerland, calls for an unconditional release of all hostages on all sides.
Russia attempted to put the word “permanent” into the ceasefire language but the US voted against it.
Ilia fucking Malinin’s world record breaking free skate
Oh my God every bit of this is wild
-when he does the first big jump the announcers start screaming. I don’t understand enough of what I’m looking at to get what about this is breaking records but the announcers screaming was a pretty big clue
-He’s dancing to music from Succession????? I don’t recognize all of it but some of it is definitely the theme from Succession. At one point the audience claps along to the music. And I’m not sure if it’s out of support for the skater or because they like the song 🤣
-when he finishes he just lays down on the ice incredible
THAT’S MY BOY!!! I SKATE AT HIS RINK!!!
That first big jump is a Quadruple Axel. It’s 4.5 rotations in the air (you take off forwards rather than backwards, which is the extra half rotation). Nobody else in the world can do this jump it’s so hard. He is the first and only person to ever land it cleanly, much less consistently. He had to land it cleanly here to have any hope of winning the World Champion title.
Yes, he’s skating to music from Succession! The audience is clapping in support because he was doing so well (also because it was hosted in Montreal and the audience was very supportive of all the skaters that evening).
He lays down on the ice because he just broke multiple world records. He landed all 6 types of quadruple jumps cleanly, which no one has ever done at all (again, because he’s the only one that can do the quad Axel), much less in a single program like this. This was an insane feat of athletic ability! If you go watch the other guys who competed against him, Yuma Kagiyama was in second place by 20 fucking points, and Yuma skated with no falls. This is Micheal Phelps / Katie Ledecky levels of smashing the competition (sorry the only other sport I know is swimming).
Some other notes for everyone:
Ilia listed that first jump as a Triple Axel on the sheet you give to the judges, meaning that he wasn’t committed to doing the Quad Axel. (Technically you’re not committed to anything on the sheet but it’s generally your “plan” for the program.) He also doesn’t do a quad axel in the 6-minute warmup beforehand when he does go and do it in the program, so it was a complete toss-up as to whether he was going to go for it. It’s incredible that he manages to land the jump so perfectly without warming it up first!
He was 3rd coming into this skate from the previous short program. (All skating competitions require you to skate 2 different programs, 1 short and 1 long.) In order to win the title, he was going to have to skate without any falls, especially because his one strong point is his jumps and other skaters are stronger in other areas. There are many, many skaters who fall on their quad jumps, even when they’re just doing one. It is so fucking hard to do even one of the 6 types of quad jumps. And he just does all 6! In one program! Insanity!
He did a 4 Lutz - 3 Flip at the halfway point of his program. Almost no one puts a Flip on the end of their combos, it’ll usually be a Salchow instead because it’s much easier. The only other skater I can think of to put a Flip on the end of a combo is Shoma Uno (who was also at these championships but didn’t have a good skate).
His last jumping pass was a combo that was supposed to be a 3 Lutz - 2 Axel. He decided, in the moment, to change the 2 Axel to a 3 Axel. Nobody else has ever attempted this, much less succeeded. It is orders of magnitude more difficult to do another rotation to the second jump in a combo, at the very end of a 4.5 minute sprint no less.
In short, this kid is wild, had the performance of a lifetime, and I had the blessed opportunity to witness it.
The /gardening subreddit is actually full of hippie anti-plastic anti-lawn freaks (affectionate) and I find it enjoyable and I saw a nine-word horror story I thought tumblr would enjoy
I…tried to make a meme and got carried away and made A Thing that is like partially unfinished because i spent like 3 hours on it and then got tired.
I think this is mostly scientifically accurate but truth be told, there seems to be relatively little research on succession in regards to lawns specifically (as opposed to like, pastures). I am not exaggerating how bad they are for biodiversity though—recent research has referred to them as “ecological deserts.”
Ilia fucking Malinin’s world record breaking free skate
Oh my God every bit of this is wild
-when he does the first big jump the announcers start screaming. I don’t understand enough of what I’m looking at to get what about this is breaking records but the announcers screaming was a pretty big clue
-He’s dancing to music from Succession????? I don’t recognize all of it but some of it is definitely the theme from Succession. At one point the audience claps along to the music. And I’m not sure if it’s out of support for the skater or because they like the song 🤣
-when he finishes he just lays down on the ice incredible
THAT’S MY BOY!!! I SKATE AT HIS RINK!!!
That first big jump is a Quadruple Axel. It’s 4.5 rotations in the air (you take off forwards rather than backwards, which is the extra half rotation). Nobody else in the world can do this jump it’s so hard. He is the first and only person to ever land it cleanly, much less consistently. He had to land it cleanly here to have any hope of winning the World Champion title.
Yes, he’s skating to music from Succession! The audience is clapping in support because he was doing so well (also because it was hosted in Montreal and the audience was very supportive of all the skaters that evening).
He lays down on the ice because he just broke multiple world records. He landed all 6 types of quadruple jumps cleanly, which no one has ever done at all (again, because he’s the only one that can do the quad Axel), much less in a single program like this. This was an insane feat of athletic ability! If you go watch the other guys who competed against him, Yuma Kagiyama was in second place by 20 fucking points, and Yuma skated with no falls. This is Micheal Phelps / Katie Ledecky levels of smashing the competition (sorry the only other sport I know is swimming).
Some other notes for everyone:
Ilia listed that first jump as a Triple Axel on the sheet you give to the judges, meaning that he wasn’t committed to doing the Quad Axel. (Technically you’re not committed to anything on the sheet but it’s generally your “plan” for the program.) He also doesn’t do a quad axel in the 6-minute warmup beforehand when he does go and do it in the program, so it was a complete toss-up as to whether he was going to go for it. It’s incredible that he manages to land the jump so perfectly without warming it up first!
He was 3rd coming into this skate from the previous short program. (All skating competitions require you to skate 2 different programs, 1 short and 1 long.) In order to win the title, he was going to have to skate without any falls, especially because his one strong point is his jumps and other skaters are stronger in other areas. There are many, many skaters who fall on their quad jumps, even when they’re just doing one. It is so fucking hard to do even one of the 6 types of quad jumps. And he just does all 6! In one program! Insanity!
He did a 4 Lutz - 3 Flip at the halfway point of his program. Almost no one puts a Flip on the end of their combos, it’ll usually be a Salchow instead because it’s much easier. The only other skater I can think of to put a Flip on the end of a combo is Shoma Uno (who was also at these championships but didn’t have a good skate).
His last jumping pass was a combo that was supposed to be a 3 Lutz - 2 Axel. He decided, in the moment, to change the 2 Axel to a 3 Axel. Nobody else has ever attempted this, much less succeeded. It is orders of magnitude more difficult to do another rotation to the second jump in a combo, at the very end of a 4.5 minute sprint no less.
In short, this kid is wild, had the performance of a lifetime, and I had the blessed opportunity to witness it.
it’s always bad for adults to interact with minors, which is why when I was born my mother was positioned at the window and I was birthed down a giant slip n slide that safely transported me to the hospital grounds, where I was quickly accepted and raised by a gang of feral babies who were born under similar circumstances. and that’s why my posts are so bad
Love how much is illuminated by landlords making a meme which equates the idea of tenants rights w like being murdered by the fuckin red guards
I like “fix my ac” being included here right next to parasite when that is literally their job to keep their property in good repair. Maybe if they don’t like being called a parasite they shouldn’t act like doing the bare minimum of work required is an unconscionable imposition.
Nobody forced them to buy more property than they could maintain. Choke in an ocean of dicks, landlords.
I genuinely wish I could sentence Ben Shapiro to working non-managerial retail for the rest of his natural life
I’ve had a fair number of people saying “why not sentence him to death” or sentiments along those lines. I know it probably sounds like a cliche, but death would be way too fucking easy.
Ben Shapiro is an influential conservative talking head, to put it politely. There is a nonzero chance he could get what he wants: an end to retirement at 65.
And the thing is, I’ve already known people who couldn’t retire at 65. I worked with a lovely old lady who had already collapsed due to cardiac issues at work multiple times, and she had another medical emergency while I worked there.
Do you know what it’s like when some strangers want you to call 911 and you don’t, because you’re not doing that until she says she wants to go to the hospital or loses consciousness, because you know her, and American healthcare is ridiculously expensive, and this would be her third ambulance trip in a year?
I want him to know how being that old and infirm and unable to retire feels. I want him to contemplate his mortality and will to survive when all he’s got going for him is keeping the coffee brewing and the roller grill cooking and taking out the trash. I want him to know what it’s like to have well-meaning people not care about his feelings and call 911 because that’s what they’ve been taught that’s what good people do in an emergency. I want him to know what it’s like to insist that he should just rest for a moment, sitting on a hard chair among the Tornados and hot dogs and coffee while concerned strangers are terrified he might die and wonder why his friends don’t seem to want to help him.
Do you understand? Death means his problems are over. I want him to experience the cruelty he demands.
it is crazy how “if this childrens show doesn’t kill their villain at the end it’s irredeemable media” became such a popular opinion here. like people were calling steven universe fascist apologia. and to be clear I don’t even think that would be the case for non childrens media, either. perhaps holding every single story up to the same standard of “does it follow the acceptable narrative path or is it evil propaganda” isn’t the most anti-fascist thing, either. maybe.
“you are morally obligated to murder your enemies” is also perhaps not the most anti-fascist thing
“The death penalty is the only true form of justice” is not actually something I think children should be taught.
Hey, new writers. Hi. Hello. Love what you’re doing there. Please, for the love of god remember to use paragraph breaks.
I love reading work by my students but because of my adhd when one of them decides that they’re allergic to paragraph breaks I start crying. It takes me like ten tries to read a single page. My eyes can’t focus on any of the writing. I literally get headaches sometimes from it.
I’m not exaggerating here for funny internet points. Please use paragraph breaks.
A US prisoner doing slave labour for 13 cents an hour donates his $17.74 paycheck to help Gaza while the government that uses him as slave labour sends billions to Israel.
This is the conservative/christian sign for abortion. This is the sign used by those who are pro-life. This is a sign that is sexist, that demonizes abortion, that is anti women’s autonomy and female rights. It declares fetuses as full babies someone is throwing away. This sign can be genuinely triggering to deaf women who have had abortions.
If you want to go full-neutral, you can finger sign abortion.
Or, the scientific version (pregnancy-remove) that is considered the leftist way –
Do not spread the pro-life version. Conservatives specifically try to push their ways to sign things as the default. You are unintentionally helping overpower deaf women’s rights advocates.
