TIL anyone who’s going to overwinter in Antarctica has to have had their appendix out. Because removing an appendix that’s not causing any trouble just as a precaution is way better than having one that’s about to burst when you’re on the ass-end of the planet with no way to be rushed to a hospital if shit gets real.
No, by the way, we absolutely did not think of this ahead of time. A dude named Leonid Rogozov got appendicitis in Antarctica. Fortunately, the expedition’s doctor diagnosed him quickly and knew how to remove an appendix. Unfortunately, our man Leo was the expedition’s doctor.
What did he do? Well, he set up a mirror, gave his belly a shot of novocaine, presumably told a colleague, “hold my vodka,” and he removed his own fucking appendix. He survived.
i think i said this one before but i remember we used to go to church and one day on the way i just out of the blue asked the car “how do we know god is real? what if people just made him up” and the adults all got super mad at me and gave me generic answers like “we just know” and stuff and my ass was fucking CURIOUS so when church started i asked the Sunday School teacher and she was like “well the bible was written about him” or something like that and i was like “but someone wrote Curious George and hes not real, what if someone made him up too” and she was like irritated but was like “he’s a talking monkey of course hes not real, children just like fun stories” or something like that and i don’t remember exactly what i said but it was something very close to “but adults like stories too! how do you know he’s not made up so because adults want to believe in something too?” and she got SUPER mad and i had to apologize in front of the church but i saw an opportunity so i was like “but no one answered me so i still dont know and i guess you guys don’t either” and [everyone] got super mad and none of us could go to that church anymore
the adults were okay to go to church again but me and my siblings had sundays off from that point on and that was kind of a catalyst for the way my brother and sister perceived religion
I’m so happy to see Black people parenting differently from their own upbringing. Why subject your child(ren) to the trauma you endured and hated from your parents? I’m especially happy where little Black girls are concerned. When young, we were labeled “sassy”, we needed an “attitude” adjustment, ‘we thought we were grown’ and blah blah all because no one told us how to express ourselves. And even if we did know how, we were told to hold our tongues out of respect. And if we were allowed to speak, our feelings were immediately invalidated because the adults taking care of us had problems worse than ours and we didn’t pay bills.
Some of the kids are alright.
My little cousin was just diagnosed with ADHD and the doctor said in girls, anger is a symptom. Made me wonder how many Black girls were labeled with “bad attitude” when in reality they couldn’t focus on the task and just pissed at the adult in their face demanding and threatening them over something outside of their control
As you know, you can make writers lives easier by doing unnecessary exposition scenes in real life, thereby making them realistic.
Thank you for making this post on the hip social media site that we frequent at this point in our lives. I’m reblogging it both because it’s funny and because I consider us friends
Yes, in the early 21st century we often consider people we only interact with over social media as friends, even if we have never met them in real life. And that’s why I have not only reblogged this post, but also liked it (by clicking a button with my mouse).
But also, you and I are not “internet friends,” but I’m sharing your post by reblogging it just because I saw it and liked it! A lot of the userbase thinks that this is what keeps the website interesting, and contributes to the unique culture it has.
For example, most people on this site know about the video of a crushed pineapple squirting juice labeled “me when my werewolf boyfriend pulls out,” meant to conjure the thought of a werewolf having sex, ejaculating in his lover (pussy or ass is not specified), and copious amounts of semen leaking out from his lover afterwards.
It’s so well-known that people will joke about it on unrelated posts about pineapples, and that couldn’t have happened if strangers hadn’t shared it each other!
I vividly remembered when Kimberly Jones said this. The truth of it. My god. We (by we I mean my fellow white women) can’t keep stealing very keen observations by BIPOC women, dulling the edges and then applying them to ourselves.
That’s a pretty cool political opinion you got there dude. Did your web of online friends and mutuals who all subconsciously monitor each other and self-correct in a panopticon-esque fashion to ensure that your views all stay in line with each other’s at all times pick it for you?
“I’m safe from having my political views dictated by others because I’m catholic” is probably the funniest thing you could add to this
ID: “This Pride remember to respect all trans people : Trans women who don’t shave with a drawing of a woman whit a yellow and pink beard, trans men who don’t bind, masculine trans women and feminine trans men with a drawing of a trans woman with short pink hair wearing a yellow baseball T-shirt holding hands with a trans man with a yellow crop top and short curly blue hair, fat trans people with the drawing of a fat trans woman with short white hair, dark skin and a pink cropped top, disabled trans people with a drawing of a wheelchair and a walking cane in the color of the trans flag, neurodivergent trans people with the symbol of the autistic community, trans people who are sex worker with a drawing of blue bra and pink underwear, poor trans people who can’t afford transition, trans people who aren’t out yet with a drawing of a closed door, trans people who don’t plan on transitioning, black trans people with a black fist holding a trans flag, and any trans people who isn’t white with multiple hands of different skin tones, muslim trans people with a drawing of someone wearing a hijab in the color of the trans flag, jewish trans people with a drawing of someone wearing a white shirt and a kippah in the color of the trans flag, non binary people even those who don’t identify as trans with the non binary flag, those whose identity you might not understand with the genderfluid flag, the agender flag, the demi gender flag and the genderqueer flag, trans people who don’t pass and don’t want to with a drawing of a trans woman with a beard and dark skin raising her fist, every pronouns with dialog box in which are different sets of pronouns, trans people of every identity with the gay flag, the lesbian flag, the ace flag, the bi flag, the pan flag and the aro flag, every trans person is beautiful and deserving of so much love so don’t forget the T.” End ID
P.S. : can someone tell me if I did the image description right cuz I have no idea
Please have a moment of silence for the people who were killed instead of freed when news of emancipation finally reached the furthest corners of the american south.
have another moment for the ledgers, catalogs, and records that were burned and the homes that were destroyed to hide the presence of very much alive and still enslaved people on dozens of plantations and homesteads across the south for decades after emancipation.
and have a third moment for those who were hunted and killed while fleeing the south to find safety across the border, overseas, in the north and to the west.
black people. light a candle, write a note to those who have passed telling them what you have achieved in spite of the racist and intolerant conditions of this world, feel the warmth of the flame under your hand, say a prayer of rememberance if you are religious, place the note under the candle, and then blow it out.
if you have children, sit them down and tell them anything you know about the life of oldest black person you’ve ever met. it doesn’t have to be your own family. tell them what you know about what life was like for us in the days, years, decades after emancipation. if you don’t know much, look it up and learn about it together.
This is Juneteenth.
white people CAN interact with this post. share it, spread it.
Do you think theres someone out there on this site who is completely non lgbt yet has all their identity written out in their bio in the format of someone with detailed microlabels
I found him!
Hey now he’s as much just who he is as any of us. He’s doing fine in my opinion
They paved paradise and put up a parking lot because our economic system incentives people to leave land vacant and let it accumulate value without out giving anything back
People can and will hold onto vast amounts of land and refuse to sell till the price gets high enough, this hoarding of land leads to a worsening of developer capitalism as only the most wealthy can afford to buy land off these hoarders and our cities suffer for it because they are either left hollow and empty or are under the control of an incredibly small powerful minority with the funds to shape the form of our cities
Couldn’t this be accomplished by ordinances as well? Like if you’re land is valued above a certain fraction of the structures and business that it holds (with exceptions for existing inhabited residences), you are required to start building/improving something that meets those requirements or put it up for sale? I’m just concerned that taxing the value of the land itself might downside poor people whose neighborhoods are already being gentrified.
Poor people don’t tend to own empty lots, the policy is often accompanied by a reduction on taxes on buildings to incentivise people to build on the land. We can’t force people to build, we just have to heavily encourage it through things like changes to tax structure.
dunmeshi is one of those shows with the power of making people reveal they think of the autism spectrum like it’s a Yu-Gi-Oh power level with normies on one end and perfect sexless innocent uwu cinnamon rolls on the other
“Laios would never-” if i took Laios to a kink mosh he would do things that would make you fucking hurl
I do digital, watercolour and beadwork commissions specialising in creature and character design and illustration. I can do fantasy, sci-fi and horror; for more examples please see my portfolio.
I am happy to work from photo or art references, writen descriptions or stick-figure drawings, and I will always send a sketch for your approval before finalising it. I ask for payment upon completion but before delivery, upon receipt of payment I’ll provide high and low resolution versions of the image, as well as a version optimised for printing.
Traditional Art
Primarily watercolour paintings, my traditional art is priced by the size of the finished piece. If you want me to send you the original I will be happy to do so as long as you are happy to cover the shipping cost.
A5: Small paintings
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Digital Art
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Simple digital piece
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Complex digital piece
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Beadwork
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The car dealership near my apartment has a digital sign that rotates through different sales and offers but it also seems to have a bunch of stock photos in there too and one of them is a macro shot of a snail
