honestly it’s heartbreaking to see more and more people dismiss all the Palestinian GFMs on Tumblr as scams, no matter how many people are working tirelessly to make sure real people get direct aid. like literally nobody is denying there is a scambot problem. people are trying to debunk the scambots, but people will still be like “oh i didn’t say you shouldn’t donate to Palestine. I just said I block and report literally everything I get without looking at it anymore and outright said multiple times that you really can’t trust the vetters either.” and then when they get called on this because it is frankly a bad take, they get patted on the back by the fucking Tumblr hug circle of utterly spineless uwu white liberals who honestly just didn’t want to have to feel a negative emotion about themselves like “oh you’re so brave for saying this. having to think about bad things happening to other people was practically an assault on my mental health. thank you for validating that I’m the real victim here.”
This comic isn’t perfect. I started it back in October 2023, and every time I picked up my pen, I wept.
I bring this to you today, on 9/11, in hopes that you reflect on this day a little differently than how most Americans would. Let it move you to continue to boycott, protest and challenge your family, friends and colleagues. You have a bigger impact than you would believe.
a few years back my car insurance company offered me a discount if i stuck a dongle in my car that would tell them how i drive (specifically reporting hard accelerations and stops), with a base discount of 10% even if i drive like a madman up to 40%ish if i drive like a grandma. and of course naturally my first thought was “huh i bet i could make something running off an Arduino that filters hard brakes and accelerations out of the incoming data stream to get that 40% discount” and i got as far as looking up OBD2 protocols before realizing that that would just be insurance fraud. yes im an engineer raised by two engineers how could you tell
you could also try driving safer. that’s a better way to do that
it’s been said before and it will be said again but i’m begging you all nicely to restrain yourselves from being so casually aggressive and rude and obnoxious in the tags & reblogs of a complete stranger’s posts. no one wants to know that you hate [tv show that op giffed]. no one wants to know that you hate [character that op drew]. no one wants to hear you being ugly and negative for no reason. say what you want to say in your own post. don’t hit the reblog button. blacklist relevant tags. unfollow or block relevant accounts. log out. shut down. get help.
I love getting unaccompanied minors (kids flying alone) who so clearly just. Don’t want to be here lol. Sometimes I get to know a little of their story, like their parents are divorced, or a family member died and they’re heading to the funeral, but usually they just don’t want to talk about it and that’s fine. But I always treat the flight like it’s a challenge to make them smile. I offer them snacks and soda but that’s never enough, that’s whatever, they could get those from an airport vending machine. Chump change. So then I tell the worst jokes. Just the most embarrassing, kindergarten teacher, annoying dad jokes you can think of. And those always get a groan, or a “Seriously??” And that’s my in! Now I can say “Why, what’s your idea of a good joke? No, come on hotshot, make your best joke, let’s see it.” And they hem and they haw but of course they eventually tell me their very best joke because kids are little competitive comedy goldmines. And it’s always super funny, so I laugh, and that’s where they slip up. Because you know what you almost always do when your joke successfully makes someone laugh? You smile. And I’m like. Gotcha. Rookie move. Now you’re going to end up having a good time in spite of yourself. I win.
Did this with an 11yo u.m. today and he said “What did the ghost say to the other ghost?” And I said “What?” “Nothing. Ghosts aren’t real.”
I’m literally a flight attendant, offering snacks and drinks is my job
everybody loves autumn until it’s cloudy outside and the lighting makes the inside of your house look like you’re living inside of a feature film documentary about mental illness
…implying that isn’t one of the things people love about autumn?
There’s no one’s wisdom that’s less valuable than this
What source of passive income allows him to just print money like this?
An ‘unlimited’ annual pass with free parking is $1600/year (up from $1400 when he completed his record 2012-2020). And yeah, that’s over $116 a month and not how I’d spend my money but it’s not obscene.
Plus, he’s an older dude with free time every day. DL is a safe venue to walk around and kill time if all you have is time to kill, and from the article it seems he’s built quite the social network of Disney regulars & cast members. So good for him.
The Disney corporation hates people like him, btw.
Disney considers AP holders parasites, clogging the parks, taking up space that could be better utilized by Big Spending out-of-town visitors. Which is why the price for an AP has gone up so dramatically ALONG WITH a zillion new restrictions like blackout days + reservation requirements.
Up until 2013 or so it was common for local families to buy their kids Annual Passes then drop them off at the park every day during summer as cheap childcare. Seriously, $100/month is a bargain.
thats just the admission and parking though, the park tends to be pretty strict on how much food and drink you can bring in and none of the options inside are cheap, even with the like 10% discount before tax and tips the annual pass holder gets.
You’re absolutely right!
But AP holders usually don’t buy food & drink inside the parks… unless you’re DisneyFoodBlog or Jenny Nicholson. Another reason Disney hates on passholders.
Most AP holders hit one of the kazillion affordable restaurants outside the park on their way in or out, then carry a water bottle once inside to stay hydrated. And most visits aren’t the all-day-long thing out of towners do; AP folk will kill an hour or two, ride Indiana Jones or the Matterhorn then leave.
The guy in the article appears to have visited once a day just to walk a lap or two for exercise. He wasn’t staying all day, dealing with hotel room reservations, rental car, airline tickets, souvenirs, or any of the expenses a tourist would have.
The real insanity is how the US is so lacking in safe public third places that for some people, an annual pass to Disney is their best shot at having a walkable outdoor space and some semblance of community.
and, if you can’t get toasted pearl Couscous handpicked and blessed by a Moroccan shaman on the first tuesday of the winter harvest for your Sautéed Escarole then store bought is fine
Men are just as human as women, they have just as much negative internal dialog as we do, and they need people to be strong for them sometimes. Stop teaching boys they have to bottle up their emotions, that they are weak if they cry, and that they have to always be strong for everyone else. Teach them it’s ok to express their feelings and tell others what their emotional needs are! I lost my father this way. I’d give anything to go back and let Daddy know it’s ok to not always be the strong one and that just because he couldn’t physically do what he did before didn’t mean he didn’t have monumental value to us and value just being in this world!
Also I can make a less insanely boring persona for myself if i’m not stuck with my real name and identity
Has no one heard of stage names anymore this day and age? Or pen names? Not using your real name even in indisputably professional settings is nothing new or scandalous
One of my favorite thing I’ve learned about animals studies is that you should avoid using colorful leg bands when you’re banding birds because you can accidentally completely skew the data because female birds prefer males with colorful bands
Apparently if you put a red band on a male red wing blackbird his harem size can double
So like you can completely frick up the natural reproduction of a group of birds by giving a guy a bracelet so stylish that females CANNOT resist him
Me, putting a red bracelet on the leg of a male red wing blackbird: ON GOD we gonna get u some pussy bro
I remember reading a study where researchers realized that female birds of a certain species preferred males with a darker breast. So they created what they literally called a “Super-Sexy Male” by catching a male and coloring his chest with a marker. They then ran dna tests on the eggs in the area.
Previously when the researchers had run these tests, they found a certain amount of infidelity was common for these birds. Somewhere around 10% of eggs were fathered by males who were not the primary mates of females.
After the advent of the Super Sexy Male, however, stuff got crazy in bird world. Infidelity skyrocketed, with upwards of 25% of ALL EGGS in the area being fathered by this specific male. Furthermore, his mate’s eggs were 100% his.
This is just insane to me. Just imagine you’re living your bird life when suddenly somebody scribbles on Dave’s chest and the ladies can’t stop throwing themselves at them. It’s stupid that we theoretically can wreck this kind of havoc on an ecosystem.
why is this so powerrful… krita wow like ??? are you serious ?? this is making me insane its coloring it in and getting drawn and an outline at the same time and being easy to animate and being able to change the outline color so easily and gaaah Im so happy using this this was two minutes and no effort and its a colorful animated cat on my screen now ;w; AND I CAN EXPORT IT AS A GIF THAT ISNT HUGE THIS IS MY DREAM COME TRUE!!!
So been binging a couple of food competition shows recently on Netflix, and I absolutely don’t understand how Netflix haven’t cracked the formula on this.
So many shows have one or two hosts and only two judges? The hosts don’t do any judging and just exist to awkwardly quip. Two judges means there’s never any serious disagreement so episodes consist of them basically spectating competitor fuck-ups as opposed to judging innovation or anything.
And Netflix shows also seem to do two rounds, a challenge round and an elimination round but the winner of the challenge round never gets any advantage or protection from elimination.
This is what Masterchef Australia nailed from the very first season, and I do not understand why it’s hasn’t been duplicated everywhere. In this video essay I will…
also like 10-15 years from now I hope someone makes one of those inspirational sports movies except it’s a 50 year old woman who wants to play competitive online games and everyone tells her she can’t because she’s too old, her reflexes are too slow, etc, and she gets this grizzled trainer except they’re a 19 year old kid who had a promising career until carpal tunnel syndrome ruined their chances of becoming the world champion so they train her and she fuckin wins, the end. movie of the year.
The Grandma(ster)
and her game handle (is that what it’s called?) can be grandma.ster or some variant
I’m sorry. Why are we calling a 50 yr old a grandma? That’s literally just a regular lady with a fun hobby 😂
She had kids young
My mum was a grandma at 50? That’s not even young to be a grandma? I mean, it’s on the younger end of grandmas, but it’s absolutely not unusual. Perfectly normal grandma age.
Grandmas, believe it or not, are regular ladies with fun hobbies.
her son is at first angry and embarrassed and derides her ambitions and tells her to get a Real Hobby like quilting
but he watches her dedicate herself tirelessly to her craft and also get griefed by the rival bully character and so the son eventually takes up her cause and becomes her first stan
in the final triumphant tournament match we see her son jumping up and down and cheering for her and waving her baby granddaughter in the air like LOOK THATS GRANDMA SHE’S A CHAMPION and the son’s wife has to hastily grab the baby back before she gets thrown around like a beach ball at a concert
but he watches her dedicate herself tirelessly to her craft and also get griefed by the rival bully character and so the son eventually takes up her cause and becomes her first stan
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