I think smoking with kermit would be insufferable because he’d constantly be namedropping ‘did you know I used to do acid with john lennon’ and i just do not care
Kids don’t even get expelled from school when their parents post violent racism and transphobia online, but of course THIS is where schools draw the line. Fucking hell.
maybe the problem w remakes of old kitschy sci-fi shows is that sci-fi means something fundamentally different than it did when these stories were made, it’s almost a different genre now bc the level of fantasy dramatically goes down the more scientists do the shit we were dreaming about. If u wana do justice by trek u need to remember that it was almost entirely about magic. Automatic doors were magic. Food recycling was magic. people hanging out in space for long periods of time was magic and thats why they dressed like gay cyber wizards and that’s why if u don’t let them dress like gay cyber wizards ur missing the point
Seeing a lot of people not from the uk not understanding who Larry the Cat is and his role in UK politics
Larry the Cat is no. 10’s official mouser. He lives at No. 10 and catches mice. He has held this position for over a decade
When shit is going down and all the news crews are hanging outside no. 10 waiting for something to happen he’s usually also hanging around outside so when there’s not much visual happening but they don’t want to cut away from the outside of No. 10 we all just watch Larry
He is often seen standing by the door waiting to be let in
He is the most competent person at No. 10
Prime minister come and go, Larry shall remain
Larry has been at Number 10 for about fifteen years. Larry has outlasted the Tory Government, and we love this for him.
He also has a neighbour in the Treasury Building! This is Gladstone, the chief civil servant:
i think villains in general provide better, more epic romances because they’re allowed to go to extremes. they’re allowed to put their love over the greater good. they’re allowed to be selfish. the best a hero can offer you is number two, because their duty comes first. villains, though. villains will burn down the world for a last kiss goodbye.
Yea, sure. Until YOU or people you love are among the victims for someone else’s love and the villains won’t care. Would also like to point out that some villians(Kuvira, for example) have been willing to sacrifice/throw away love interests for their own goals.
idk about you but existing in the real world gives me and my loved ones immunity from the actions of fictional villains. hope you manage to get your family out of star wars.
My sort of maybe embarrassing “late to the game” thing I’m learning now is how to tell if oil has gone bad.
I feel like most other foods have obvious visual tells like mold or they end up smelling foul and obviously bad. But I was googling about oil and the internet says “if it smells like crayons, it’s bad” which would not have been my first guess. And I tested it out on my somewhat old sesame oil and was like “by god, I would describe this as smelling like crayons”
Anyway protip if your old oil smells kinda like crayons it’s probably no good 🖍️
i’m at a party right now and i heard someone on a walkie talkie and i turned around and it’s a mom who left her kids home on their own for the first time ever (they’re old enough) and they live a few houses down so she gave them a walkie talkie to call her if they get nervous. they just walkietalkied her for permission to eat ice cream
she told them they can stay up and read for 30 more minutes 🙌🏻
As a brown trans boy it sucked so badly to watch those “gender envy” slides on tik tok and see only white boys with fluffy hair. It was a little thing but it made me feel invisible even in my own community. So these are men that look like me and give me gender envy. If you’re POC disabled/ don’t see your self in common trans discussions feel free to add on.
Adding some nonbinary fashion inspiration for people who aren’t represented enough…..
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Me: Hello, pants. My waist is 36 inches. That’s probably a size 14 US, right? Vint*ge H*vana: Our size 14 jeans are 27.5 inches, actually Me: Well, you’re obviously stupid. Who else? Old N*vy: Our jeans are 32.5 inches Me: Huh. Maybe a size 16 US, then? Old N*vy: We have a size 16 in this style Me: Great Old N*vy: It’s a 28 inch waist tho Me: How…? Never mind. You there, what are your 16 US waist measurements? Democr*cy: 39.5 inches. Univers*l Thre*d: 34 inches. Old N*vy in a hat: 31 inches. Me: Fuck. Okay, so what if I just go with a different sizing system? Who has a size 36? R Je*n: I do Me: What’s the waist measurement? R Je*n: 43.5 inches. Me: Me: What’s an XL, then? Z*raBasic: 35.5 inches. Me: Okay. Okay, so I’m roughly a US XL. Show me more US XL jeans Sh*in: Um actually an XL waist is 33 inches Me: Fuck off, who even invited you Me: Anyone else? H*rd T*il: 33.5 inches Me: Suck a dick. Firefox, what is a 36 inch waist measurement in other women’s sizing systems? Firefox: Well a 36 inch waist should fit a size 16 US Me: Me: Oh my god Firefox: Or you could try an XL
big thank you to the tumblypoos for understanding the spirit of this post (the curse of being chronically online and nosy) and not typing one million comments going “yeah! fuck teenagers,” as has been the trend on twitter
When I was in vet school I went to this one lecture that I will never forget. Various clubs would have different guest lecturers come in to talk about relevant topics and since I was in the Wildlife Disease Association club I naturally attended all the wildlife and conservation discussions. Well on this particular occasion, the speakers started off telling us they had been working on a project involving the conservation of lemurs in Madagascar. Lemurs exist only in Madagascar, and they are in real trouble; they’re considered the most endangered group of mammals on Earth. This team of veterinarians was initially assembled to address threats to lemur health and work on conservation solutions to try and save as many lemur species from extinction as possible. As they explored the most present dangers to lemurs they found that although habitat loss was the primary problem for these vulnerable animals, predation by humans was a significant cause of losses as well. The vets realized it was crucial for the hunting of lemurs by native people to stop, but of course this is not so simple a problem.
The local Malagasy people are dealing with extreme poverty and food insecurity, with nearly half of children under five years old suffering from chronic malnutrition. The local people have always subsisted on hunting wildlife for food, and as Madagascar’s wildlife population declines, the people who rely on so-called bushmeat to survive are struggling more and more. People are literally starving.
Our conservation team thought about this a lot. They had initially intended to focus efforts on education but came to understand that this is not an issue arising from a lack of knowledge. For these people it is a question of survival. It doesn’t matter how many times a foreigner tells you not to eat an animal you’ve hunted your entire life, if your child is starving you are going to do everything in your power to keep your family alive.
So the vets changed course. Rather than focus efforts on simply teaching people about lemurs, they decided to try and use veterinary medicine to reduce the underlying issue of food insecurity. They supposed that if a reliable protein source could be introduced for the people who needed it, the dependence on meat from wildlife would greatly decrease. So they got to work establishing new flocks of chickens in the most at-risk communities, and also initiated an aggressive vaccination program for Newcastle disease (an infectious illness of poultry that is of particular concern in this area). They worked with over 600 households to ensure appropriate husbandry and vaccination for every flock, and soon found these communities were being transformed by the introduction of a steady protein source. Families with a healthy flock of chickens were far less likely to hunt wild animals like lemurs, and fewer kids went hungry. Thats what we call a win-win situation.
This chicken vaccine program became just one small part of an amazing conservation outreach initiative in Madagascar that puts local people at the center of everything they do. Helping these vulnerable communities of people helps similarly vulnerable wildlife, always. If we go into a country guns-blazing with that fire for conservation in our hearts and a plan to save native animals, we simply cannot ignore the humans who live around them. Doing so is counterintuitive to creating an effective plan because whether we recognize it or not, humans and animals are inextricably linked in many ways. A true conservation success story is one that doesn’t leave needy humans in its wake, and that is why I think this particular story has stuck with me for so long.
Customer started yelling at me because I was 1 minute late to open the shop so I banned him from shopping with us and locked the door on him. Play stupid games.
This man had the audacity to come back at the end of the day as I was closing up by the fucking way. Ranting and raving about how he had been mistreated and that no one had even bothered to reply to his complaint email all day
Well I had the UNBRIDLED joy of informing him that not only had I seen his email, which was insanely abusive towards me for the crime of being 1 minute late and not putting up with his shit first thing in the morning, but that I was also the manager who he demanded to speak to, and I’d now also had our IT team block his IP address from being able to contact us or order with us ever again.
I should’ve been allowed to castrate the man but this will have to do
This also very much applies to fanfics. Some people need to take a step back and think before they make straight fools out of themselves.
listennnnn, please say it louder for the folks in the back.
y’all gotta learn to be ok when things aren’t about you/catering to your wants. and if you can’t learn to be ok, just don’t subject artists and writers to your whining.
This also very much applies to fanfics. Some people need to take a step back and think before they make straight fools out of themselves.
listennnnn, please say it louder for the folks in the back.
y’all gotta learn to be ok when things aren’t about you/catering to your wants. and if you can’t learn to be ok, just don’t subject artists and writers to your whining.
This also very much applies to fanfics. Some people need to take a step back and think before they make straight fools out of themselves.
listennnnn, please say it louder for the folks in the back.
y’all gotta learn to be ok when things aren’t about you/catering to your wants. and if you can’t learn to be ok, just don’t subject artists and writers to your whining.
love seeing revisionism in the wild “free the nipple never meant you can walk around topless every where that’s still sexual harassment it just meant for like breastfeeding and stuff”no it literally means you should be able to walk around topless anywhere because get this. breasts aren’t fucking sexual organs.
I remember when I was about 12, I watched a show on TLC that followed people as they got somewhat uncommon medical procedures.
There was one episode with a trans woman getting different gender-affirming operations, including breast implants. It showed the procedure, and (what I found so fascinating that it’s stuck with me for decades), as soon as the doctor put the implant in, a censor blur popped up on the nipple.
And you just know there was a meeting between the TLC lawyers and the editors and producers of the show to discuss what the difference was between a “man nipple” (can be shown) and a “woman nipple” (no no must obscure, ‘tis naughty). And they decided that as soon as the implant goes in and the nipple has more mass behind it, that’s the moment when it becomes a woman’s nipple and must be hidden to comply with TV rules.
But it’s the same nipple. On the same person. I know what it looks like; I just saw it. But TV and obscenity rules are rules, and the rules say woman nipple = sexual and therefore explicit, but man nipple = neutral, just fine.
“Free the Nipple” was calling out arbitrary bullshit like that, because someone just existing with their body parts should not be considered obscene, and the double standard that men can be topless but women can’t is so blatantly ridiculous. All nipples are just nipples. If you get turned on or bothered by them, that’s on you.
When you’ve been cooking for long enough, you stop making recipes and start making “shit in a skillet” and “whatever soup”
The truth is, cooking is just a basic skill set, and once you have that skill set down you can make almost anything. It’s like drawing/painting, once you learn what you’re doing, you can do anything.
It’s weird how everyone hating you when you’re nine years old still affects your self esteem when you’re 26 like yeah nobody came to my birthday party but that was like 17 years ago why is it stopping me from going to a gay bar
okay context for the non-italians. long story short: it’s pretty much impossible from an engineering perspective. there are very strong and swirly currents that make it not feasible to just build a bridge where the coasts are the closest - it would have to be built in a spot where the distance between the coasts is wider, a little too much for a bridge possibly, but also, like, outside of the cities, which means it would still be quicker for people to step on the ferry than drive all the way to the bridge. the ferry is quick, cheap, also they’ve introduced sustainable non-polluting boats, so, literally no one in either sicily or calabria wants a useless bridge, even if it could be built safely.
on top of that… it’s a seismic area. you really don’t want to make engineering experiments there.
governments have tried to figure out a way to build that bridge at least from the 60s, afaik, but engineers have just come to the conclusion that nope.
also: people in sicily and calabria have reason to believe that if a project like that gets given the green light, it will end up fattening the pockets of corrupted politicians and mafia groups.
pretty straightforward right? yeah… NOPE!
the italian right has been waving the proposal of building that bridge for decades. every once in a while, when you think you’re free, BAM the right-wing politician genius of the moment comes up with the law proposal to build the bridge. it used to be berlusconi, now berlusconi is dead, recently it’s been salvini. they propose to build the bridge, the left says “what the fuck”, and the right goes see!! the left doesn’t want progress and development for the country!! they want the country to languish and die!!
(in the meanwhile taxpayers’ euros go into paying commissions that need to figure out how to build the bridge, ignoring that there’s been a billion commissions over almost a century that have all come to the conclusion that nope.)
(also remember what i said about corrupted politicians and mafia groups? well try to guess the reason it’s the right-wing parties that keep insisting on building this fucking bridge.)
it’s become a total national joke. mention the bridge on the strait to an italian, they’ll laugh as they go through the 5 stages of italian political grief.
Noo haha don’t project the mechanics of negative past experiences into a blanket rule that all good things are false and fleeting babe haha don’t perpetuate your own suffering by fulfilling your own prophecy lol your sooo sexy
what do u mean by the tattoos on your face comment? i cant guess what youre getting at :( is it that theyre in more danger of violence if the police were to be called? so u want them to think of self preservation?
Not entirely, it’s just that there’s five bazillion brown haired brown eyed Caucasian males in their mid to late 30’s between 5'8" and 5'10" wearing blue jeans and a black shirt in my city but if it’s Mark Douglas, 34, DOB May 3rd 1990I’m gonna ask the elderly man in the parking lot who nailed his car and he’s gonna say “that little shit with the knife tattooed on his forehead” and the RCMP database that noted it as a distinguishing feature after a DUI back in 2014 is gonna send a patrol officer to his door at 3:30 in the afternoon
not only bc itd be hilarious but also to exemplify that this is precicely the kind of humor this website has thrived on for months and predstrogen got permabanned and threatened with feds for saying this about matt. My guy I downloaded this from tumblr.
i think we should be clear that as funny as it would be for matt to be a little pissbaby who shit his pants bc somebody made a threat of cartoon violence against him that this was not why avery got banned and he wants us to believe that it was.
avery got banned for being a popular trans woman. thats it. the original communications she got from tumblr didnt include any mention of harassment or threats of violence. they alleged she had been banned for sexually explicit content. there has been no proof provided that avery ever posted anything out of community guidelines on what sexually adjacent content is allowed. the most popular post she has that got marked explicit was a fully clothed, sfw, shoulders-up before-and-after photo of her one year into transition. that’s it. (if anyone has the screenshot of that post id appreciate it getting added here.)
matt’s claim that avery was “threatening him” is so obviously an attempt to make it seem like this decision was about anything other than her daring to be a trans woman who had a following. the fact that he wasn’t able to pull up any better proof than this shit is evidence that it isn’t anything to do with the reason for her banning.
she was banned because tumblr thinks transfeminine people are sexual. thats it.
This is it, this is the post. She got banned for this.
Honestly, you gotta hand it to Seward for pioneering the classic video game trope of “environmental storytelling via ominous, scattered audio logs in which a tortured scientist explains How It All Went Wrong,” not just decades before the invention of video games, but like thirty years max after the advent of recorded sound. Talk about being ahead of the curve!
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