Blocking people prevents them from interacting with your stuff. Which is good if that’s what you want annoying people not to do. But sometimes I find someone’s posts annoying as hell and I don’t want to see them. I’m pretty sure blocking doesn’t make that happen. I want people to know that the way to make that happen is to put their username in the “filtered content” section of your settings. And you don’t even have to block them if they’re a person who like you actually don’t mind if they interact with your posts but you just don’t want to have to see their shit. You CAN block them. I’m just saying these are two different mechanisms you can mix and match to curate your experience. Do with that what you will.
Ozai is so pathetic, like that “take his bending away haha he’s harmless now” trick would never have worked on Zuko, if you took his bending away he’d just grab his swords and come at you twice as hard, Azula doesn’t have swords or anything but she’s pretty good at hand to hand and amazing at talking her way out of problems, Iroh bust himself out of prison with no bending at all, meanwhile Ozai? Gets his bending taken away and then just collapses, doesn’t even try anymore, then just sits in prison and tries to get into Zuko’s head some more, he could have trained up and tried to break out too! But no! Bet he can’t break steel bars with his bare hands. Bet he can’t kick a steel lever in two. Bet he can’t even do a flip.
Also we never really see him do any really impressive firebending apart from when he has magic comet power, I guesss he shoots some lightning at Zuko, but that’s it and Azula is still better at the lightning thing. Azula has blue flames. Zuko can do firebreakdancing and bend with his swords. Does Ozai, who is not 14 years old, have blue flames? No he doesn’t.
He didn’t even do his coup himself, Ursa had to kill Azulon for him! Could have just challenged Iroh to an Agni Kai for the throne but he didn’t bc he knew he’d lose.
And then he only ruled for like 6 years! He lost a war that had been going on for 100 years bc of a bunch of kids.
Loserlord indeed
Ozai was the weak failure that was projecting on everyone else.
Ozai was the weak
failure that was projecting
on everyone else.
Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.
I am American and I have never seen photos like this. I had no idea there are borders like this. Even though I LOVE the idea of open borders, I am staring at these pictures like “wait…people can just…walk across some stones or grass and BE IN ANOTHER COUNTRY??? and nobody stops them?? how does that WORK?!” So you can tell that my country’s propaganda has gotten to me by convincing me that this CAN’T work even though…it…obviously can.
These pics just seem unreal to me. I’ve been taught my whole life that this can’t exist. In 27 years no one has ever sat me down and gone, look, here’s how it is elsewhere. It isn’t impossible at all.
I want to add something, but I’d just be restating what they said. I.. didn’t know peace and kindness like this was possible.
All of the above, and …
Why did the chicken cross the road?
To get to Belgium, apparently.
🐓
This also leads to some funny images like: GuEsS wHeRe ThE bOrDeR Is XD
this is real, but it also gets at why hopeful stories are so important - its real hard to make a better world if you cant even imagine it existing
In the town where I grew up, there was a large statue in one of the parks, of a famous historical white colonizer. I’m not going to say who specifically, suffice it to say that it was someone who wasn’t worth memorializing for their deeds. And as you can imagine, this statue was a frequent target of vandalism, with paint or toilet paper or eggs on multiple occasions. Now, the local council was generally pretty lax when it came to repairing potholes or other public damage in the town, but every time, 24 hours after this particular statue was hit, the same person would always appear in a Hi-Vis vest, hat, mask and sunglasses, carrying a bucket of water, and wash it clean. They would do it as quickly as possible, but always made sure the face and the name carved at the bottom were generously scrubbed. This only encouraged people to do it again, and so it became a vicious cycle.
Within a year, the statue had sustained so much damage that it was unrecognizable and the lettering unreadable, so eventually the council came and took it down. Also apparently, the person in the Hi-Vis vest didn’t even work for the council. They were supposedly just some ‘good samaritan’ who cleaned it, often before the council even discovered it needed cleaning, so they just let them do it and ignored the problem. They didn’t bother putting the statue up again.
Much later, we found out that the anonymous 'samaritan’ had been deliberately washing the statue with a bucket of saltwater, which had dramatically corroded it, causing irreversible accumulative damage far worse than spray paint ever would have done. It’s even theorized that they were also often the one spray-painting it, just so that they had an excuse to come back after a day to wash it.
so like up until the 1600s, people believed that plants got their mass by eating dirt, because where the fuck else would they get it from. a guy named jan van helmont thought this sounded kind of funky and decided to test it by planting a willow tree sapling, letting it grow in a pot for 5 years, and measuring the soil before and after. lo and behold, at the end of the 5 year experiment the weight of the soil was basically the same. he decided that the mass of the growing willow tree would HAVE to be from water, because what the fuck else could the plant possibly eat, am i right lads???
anyway what im trying to get at is that its actually a really common misconception that plants eat dirt. they do not eat dirt. they get their mass from carbon dioxide in the air that they converted into sugars and starches in photosynthesis. yes, they get nutrients and stuff from the soil, but the bulk of what you see in terms of like, leaves and bark and Non-Water Plant Stuff™ was made from materials converted from carbon dioxide in photosynthesis.
jan van helmont did not know this. jan van helmont self-identified as an alchemist and spent most of his time thinking very hard about how eating things worked while under the assumption that plants apparently got bigger from only water and absolutely nothing else. this, although some sort of mood i can’t pin down– a small worm, a similar hat, if you will– is not a life style i would encourage
This is a weird callout post for a guy who made the most logical deductions he could have given the resources and tools he had at his disposal.
i wrote this trying to find a funnee joke way to correct the ‘plants eat dirt’ misunderstanding but u know what? this is valid. post cancelled jan van helmont didnt deserve this
I mean to be fair the chain of “sounds sensible” is directly inverse to the chain of “actually true”
“plants eat dirt” ok sure, there is physical mass (dirt) and then there is physical mass (plant), most plants can’t survive when taken out of the dirt, this checks out.
“plants eat water” I mean he did weight the dirt so I guess that one’s debunked, and there’s nothing else plants will die without, and I mean they do have sap and so on inside them, we know the water goes into the plant. sure! weird but okay!
“plants eat air” get out of here. you’re just making things up now.
In his defense. They do also eat small amounts of water.
i wish i could test bite things with no repercussions. just a light little bite, i wanna know what the hardness level is, what the texture is, all that good stuff. just a crunch. a cromch if you will. please.
as someone who has adored and obsessed over sharks for about 13 years, i love this actually
The Sahara can reach temperatures of over 100°F, but the fennec fox’s ears act like an air conditioning system by cooling the blood in a network of veins. BBC Earth
I had a dream humanity had to live underground for years because of an unspecified cataclysm that happened years ago so we lived in underground cities with highly advanced technology until one day all of France suddenly ran out of electricity and most adults disappeared too so I went on a quest to find my tumblr mutuals by going to the surface. This could be a cool videogame I think
I also remember how I found some of you you can ask if you want
You people will just say anything you want about Korea, North or South.
Before I scuttle off, though, please ask yourself why articles like these that talk about birthrate or lack of 1st graders or whatever in South Korea almost never discusses the fact that recently, the far-right capitalist regime has made it even harder for couples to afford kids, or historically, the fact that the decline in birthrate being sharp coincides with far-right regime at enforcing lower birthrate + “democratic” regime’s neoliberalization in social welfare policies after the 1997 Asian financial collapse. It’s almost as if critique of capitalism and its tangible harmful impact on human lives is impossible to conceive of (no pun intended) for these people. Women aren’t “withholding reproductive labor,” yankee reading this from their shitty suburban dwelling. People can’t afford to see a gynecologist because the far-right regime modeled its social welfare policies after the USA’s social welfare policies.
I thought I was done with this post (and this addition probably won’t spread), but I wanted add one more thing that bothered me about the Other Post.
This isn’t even the age that kids start school in South Korea. If Korean cis women really did do this since 2019, the kids that enter first grade would be….
2-3 years under the age that they normally enter kindergarten (kids do not just pop out of the woman right after sex! You’d have to account for the 8-9 months of pregnancy!). So now, we have to look at what happened 8-9 years ago. So what did happen 8-9 years ago?
THAT’S RIGHT! IT’S ALWAYS BEEN ABOUT LABOR! Park Geun-hye’s awful far-right regime has made it impossible for Korean youth to even survive, let alone think about kids 9 years ago! Did you know that if you’re working 60+ hrs a week because you lost your benefits in your “contractor” job, you tend to stop having sex (or any other leisure life)? It’s always been about capitalism and its impact on human lives! Pretenidng otherwise is literally letting the capitalists hijack the narrative about their failure with flashy “causes” that do not line up! Reject any “analysis” that ignore the actual, tangible material causes to the phenomena in favor of sensationalism! It’s like a key dangling in front of your face!
If you get a captcha asking you to identify the tents or the RV’s, request a new captcha. Stop snitching now includes making sure you’re logging in online ethically I guess?
Stories like Lama and Haya’s can never be forgotten and it is our humanitarian duty to keep their voices aloft and alive. Free Palestine now and always! 🇵🇸❤️
hello ms. fish may i please get a voice line of you yelling "POLYAMORY BLAST" for i would like to do a little sound designing of said blast thank you very much ily
After the White House cancelled the annual Iftar due to Arab and Muslim Americans collectively rejecting the invitations, the WH turned it into a small ‘meeting’ with six Muslim Americans including an Imam. Dr. Thaer Ahmad, a physician from Chicago who had traveled to Gaza earlier this year with a delegation of doctors, showed up and handed Biden a letter from an 8 year old girl in Gaza. He then walked out, saying “I wanted a chance to stand up and walk away from the people making decisions the way they are walking from my people.”
“what’s Mr. Nightmare doing signing paperwork all day”
“is he catelogging aus”
“is he signing 100 treaties”
“is he writing fanfiction”
NO. (well. maybe the fanfic.)
you guys what if Nightmare is just a landlord
over the last 500+ years he’s accumulated property after property and he makes fucking bank. gramps just monopolized the housing industry (s. plural industries. multiversal)
why does he need money? because he wants it duh. also leverage, he can bribe anyone who won’t be intimidated by him.
he pays for his castle of course! he’s much harder to trace if the records for his property are that of an honest, tax paying citizen!
who’s to say nightmare didn’t build the castle himself at this point!
he’s managing legions of properties and renters on the daily, very high maintenance, lots of paperwork to file and mail to send daily.
Belle has Stockholm syndrome because she falls in love with the Beast, her kidnapper.
Woke:
Stockholm syndrome was coined to slander a woman who had been in a hostage situation but openly criticized the poor police response which recklessly put her in more danger and escalated the violence. She was then belittled and discredited publically by the police for this.
So. Yeah. Maybe Belle does have Stockholm syndrome actually.
If anyone is curious here is the wikipedia section describing this.
[ID: Gif image from Disney’s Beauty and the Beast with Gaston leading a large group of villagers down the road holding a torch. The atmosphere is dark.
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According to accounts by Kristin Enmark, one of the hostages, the police however was acting incompetently, with little care for the hostages’ safety, which forced the hostages to negotiate for their life and release with the robbers on their own. In the process the hostages saw the robbers behaving more rationally than police negotiators and therefore developed a deep distrust towards the latter. Enmark had criticized Bejerot specifically for endangering their lives by behaving aggressively and agitating the captors. She had criticized the police for pointing guns at the convicts while the hostages were in the line of fire and she had told news outlets that one of the captors tried to protect the hostages from being caught in the crossfire. She was also critical of prime minister Olof Palme, as she had negotiated with the captors for freedom, but the prime minister told her that she would have to content herself to die at her post rather than give in to the captors’ demands. Ultimately, Enmark explained she was more afraid of the police whose attitude seemed to be a much larger, direct threat to her life than the robbers.]
Hope the ID helps, it’s my first time writing one.
Excerpts from “See What You Made Me Do: The Dangers of Domestic Abuse That We Ignore, Explain Away, or Refuse to See” by Jess Hill
Here are some other facts you should know about Nils Bejerot: He had a major influence (this involved founding the “Swedish National Association for a Drug-free Society”) on Sweden’s zero-tolerance approach to drug use.
