Please help us escape death from Rafah .. my friend posted here and I’m forever indebted to all of you for your generosity.. we started to lose hope. please help and share .
that scene where a sexy lady at a fancy party pulls out a cigarette and a bunch of men swarm to light it but it’s me at the lesbian biker bar and i need something with a sharp edge so i can shotgun my rolling rock and a half dozen beautiful dukes surround me to offer their six inch stone handle folding knives
I kind of think that the reason why solarpunk hasn’t taken off is because solarpunks don’t like it when you crowd out their aesthetic with anything so vulgar as a plot.
Actually, you know what? Fuck it.
WRITING CHALLENGE: A hard-boiled detective story set in a solarpunk society, circa 2100. Proposed tagline: “It’s hard to be noir when it’s so fucking sunny.”
PARAMETERS:
Science fiction rather than fantasy. Nothing unambiguously supernatural.
The society must be central to the plot: its mores, its modes of production, its culture.
The society must come across as markedly preferable to the one in which we currently live, but it should have its own problems
The society must be an extrapolation from our own. No alternate histories.
PRIZE:
The off chance of actually helping to jumpstart a genre/movement that has been revving its electric motor in place for the last 15 years.
I’ll probably read it at some point if you tag me.
I’m pretty sure open portals are against OSHA regulations
It took me a few moments to realise that these people are inside a warehouse type building and have opened a door to show the wild weather outside they are not in fact outside opening the door of their warehouse to show us the weather they are keeping inside
I’m pretty sure open portals are against OSHA regulations
It took me a few moments to realise that these people are inside a warehouse type building and have opened a door to show the wild weather outside they are not in fact outside opening the door of their warehouse to show us the weather they are keeping inside
I’m not like Mad at anyone who does this and I’m obviously not in charge of how anyone else tags shit on their own blogs, whatever, but it’s always bummed me out when my sex Ed posts get reblogged and tagged with 18+, minors dni, etc. personally I actually very much want teenagers to learn about their bodies and safer sex but I guess I’m just the guy who wrote the thing.
by and large I am not an angry man but once I watched a fellow sex educator present to a room full of college students and, upon being gently challenged by one of the students who objected to them describing sex as something that happens between adults, said with very palpable disdain “I don’t want to talk about kids fucking.” and I was so angry about it that I made myself nauseous.
not just teens, either. every couple years I give up my Sundays for a few months to teach sex ed to 4th-6th graders, unpaid. and I don’t do it because it’s always fun or easy or great for my health, I do it because those are human people with changing bodies and feelings who deserve to have someone who gives a shit take the time to talk honestly with them so that they might make less painful mistakes later.
ah, this has gotten notes. now we begin a game of Is Someone Going To Call Me A Pedophile For This.
and the ironic thing is that teaching comprehensive sex ed as young as possible (to an age appropriate extent of course) is like literally the best way to keep kids safe bc it allows them to know if what’s happening to them is wrong. especially since the most likely abuser is a parent. who’s obviously not going to teach them that they deserve bodily autonomy. it sounds icky but teaching kids about sex is what lets them know if they’re being raped, and unfortunately a scarily high amount of kids are preyed upon.
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people say folks with adhd struggle with “delayed rewards” aka long term goals and as such we tend to focus more on short term rewards. what they don’t talk about is that at when we Do accomplish long term goals we don’t actually feel anything proportionate to the amount of work we did to achieve it. In my head I suffered for a while and then money spontaneously appeared in my bank account.
people say folks with adhd struggle with “delayed rewards” aka long term goals and as such we tend to focus more on short term rewards. what they don’t talk about is that at when we Do accomplish long term goals we don’t actually feel anything proportionate to the amount of work we did to achieve it. In my head I suffered for a while and then money spontaneously appeared in my bank account.
Effeminate dentist: You need to brush more on your gums– hold on why am I “effeminate?” What? I’m literally just a normal dentist. A masculine one, even.
Me: (struggling to speak through the dentist’s fingers) youw weren’t shupposhed to shee that
Effeminate dentist: You need to brush more on your gums– hold on why am I “effeminate?” What? I’m literally just a normal dentist. A masculine one, even.
Me: (struggling to speak through the dentist’s fingers) youw weren’t shupposhed to shee that
someone needs to say very loudly that peaceful protests are not morally superior to violent riots or any other form of violent resistance. people do whatever works for the specific goal in their situation. if the university students are peaceful it is because that’s what their strategy is. it is not because peace and dancing is the only legitimate response to seeing a child on your phone with half his head blown open.
went to a discussion led by elliot page earlier today and there were many good things said but at one point the other presenter asked him “what’s a cool thing about yourself that has nothing to do with being trans?” and he said “uhh this is all I’ve got going for me” and then paused before adding “if anyone has three oranges, I can juggle”
Children’s oppression and lack of humanization is one topic that makes my insides feel like they’re rotting and I’ll die on the hill of defending them and pointing out how fucking gross it is every single time people act like it’s cool actually to hate a group of people who are the least able to defend themselves in any terrible situation
Y'all will scream “protect queer kids” “protect trans kids” “protect kids of color” then forget all that and proudly stand behind “well kids are fucking annoying in public actually so it’s fine when I talk about wanting to have grocery stores and planes that are child free :)” individualism has killed humanity so deeply
I’m kind of at a point where the “queer spaces” i feel safest in are the ones that have a pet cishet dude or two hanging around
When a space cares a lot about making sure its members are queer enough to participate, you get a space that aggressively polices the queerness of its members. There’s no way around that, it’s pretty much tautologically true. Only by paradoxically not actually caring if you’re queer or not can a group really accept the full range of what queerness can look like.
curious bc i sometimes go to say things to people online before realising i sound literally evil
guys please 😭 this isn’t about being overly blunt or not being able to take back your words in person or a lack of tone tags, its about telling your buddy he dresses like if wallace from wallace and gromit was a faggot
you there. high quality production youtube channel with a team of people. why are your captions autogenerated.
you there. high quality production music video with access to the lyrics already written for you. why are your captions completely disabled all together.
You there. Small YouTube music video with captions beautifully hand rendered and part of the video, not just YouTube captions. Can I kiss you on the mouth.
SOMEBODY ON YOUTUBE HACKED THE GAME SO THEY COULD GET SKITTY TO DO THE LIGHT THAT BURNS THE SKY AND ITS SO FUCKIGM FUNNY I WANT TO CRY LOOK AT HOW SMALL SKITTY IS COMPARED TO HIS ENERGY THING IMANAJA
The situation in the Jabalia refugee camp in north Gaza needs attention!
Not only did Israel declare that their operations in the north had ended, only for them to return in full force, but Israel’s nonstop strikes are targeting a densely populated area as well as invading UNRWA schools.
Each of these UNRWA schools has been sheltering about 10,000 people. Six of these schools are being directly targeted right now and reports are saying that tanks are approaching the entrance of these schools.
Also, if you know anything about refugee camps you know how houses are almost on top of each other with barely any space and alleyways are so narrow sometimes only allowing one person to pass through at a time. This can paint a picture of the amount of destruction and death that will be caused by Israel’s invasion and strikes of the Jabalia refugee camp.
As a reminder there are no fully functioning hospitals in the area and the wounded are expected to die as a result of not only lack of medical support but also because Israel makes it impossible for ambulances or people to get to the wounded by targeting the ways leading up to them.
Everything I mentioned above has been something we have at some point screamed about during the past months and in fact the past years. None of this is a new tactic or approach by Israel. Yet, this continues to happen because despite its obvious crimes, Israel is allowed to enact with complete impunity. We were worried about allowing Israel to set a precedent, but what does it tell you now that Israel had repeated the same heinous crimes over and over again while they’re being televised?
the genius of megamind (beyond the obvious genius ofc) is that it’s superman parody actually presents a genuinely unsettling depiction of the “hero” that I like wayyy better than “what if superman was evil” or “what if superman was wrong”… it’s “what if superman didn’t care”
I wouldn’t say he “didn’t care” more like he was burnt out
He played the role since he was a child and now is in his what 30s? 40s?
He knew there was never any real danger with Megamind in charge so decided to pursue something that’s a passion and doesn’t come naturally easy to him
One of the things that always jumped out to me about this reveal is that it implies that Metro Man was also the very first person to recognize that MegaMind wasn’t really evil. He knew his nemesis wouldn’t actually hurt anyone if he won, he knew that this universally reviled pariah never really had any more choice than he did.
The rest of Metro City treats MegaMind like a real, sincere, serious threat once he’s unopposed, and it takes them a while to learn otherwise. But Metro Man? He’s not surprised to see him and Roxanne working together, he doesn’t act like there’s any kind of threat beyond his cover being blown. He wastes no time in coming clean once the cat’s out of the bag. He’s been working with this guy all his life. Besides his own mental health, I get the impression that he also recognized that this would be good for MegaMind too.
I just really love how in a superhero pastiche that asks “Is the villain really so bad, and the hero really so good?” the answer is “no, but that’s okay”. It’s okay that Metro Man isn’t a paragon. It’s okay that he has to take care of himself. It’s okay for him to step down and live his own life. It wouldn’t be okay for him to leave people in danger, but it’s pretty clear he knew he wasn’t doing that.
And it carries to the end. MegaMind becomes the city’s new protector, but it’s clear that he’s still got some issues to work through, and he’s getting help working through them. He’s got a support network, he’s willing to put in the effort, but he’s not the shining paragon Metro Man was believed to be. And he doesn’t NEED to be that paragon. He’s still good. He’s still protecting people. And he’s not alone in it.
God, there’s just so many shitty “Superheroes would have character flaws too, and that’s why they’d actually suck” deconstructions floating around, it’s nice to see a story that acknowledges that no one can live up to that kind of role, but that’s okay!
megamind once again proving to be the best modern superhero movie
children existing in public spaces is genuinely like. necessary for the continuation of society. it doesnt have to be your kids you dont have to volunteer at a daycare or whatever but you need to be able to tolerate the presence of someone who is learning how to exist as a human and interact with people
I’m on the bluegrass music part of youtube right now and i stumbled across this comment on a really talented banjo cover
The idea that some serbian dad is in the same part of youtube as I am and his 5 year old son is hearing this fire banjo rendition of Foggy Mountain Breakdown for the first and going absolutely ape shit he likes it so much that he’s running and jumping all across and around their house is just sending me. Peace and love on planet earth.
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