In my history class, we were debating about breast feeding and all the boys were like “ew gross women should go in the bathroom or not do that in public” and I never talk in that class, but I felt compelled to input my opinion so I said “men think the display of a woman’s body is good until it’s no longer for their pleasure” and everyone just shut their mouths and looked at me
I’ve never seen so many boys open their mouth to defend themselves and have nothing come out in my life.
official boob post
The boys in your class are very different from the boys in mine, then.
They were once discussing in the middle of a lesson (that had nothing to do with breastfeeding or breasts, mind you) why they believed women should be able to be shirtless in public. Spoiler alert: they wanted to ogle women’s breasts. That was their only reason.
i think that you’re agreeing with them /nm the point they were making was that men think that breasts (and women’s bodies generally) should be a thing that men should be able to look at as they want and they are upset because in the instance of breastfeeding, breasts are exposed but not to satiate their desire for women
ppl are rlly trying to defend being on your phone during a movie in the theater what is going on
using your phone in a movie theater is a symptom of long covid
the defense of being on your phone in a movie theater is who cares? by your own admission, you should be paying attention to the movie. so why do you care what other people are doing? you’re meant to be paying attention to the movie.
“oh no, my audience has begun to guess the big twists of my story and are accurately predicting what will happen!”
incorrect response: write the rest of the story to be as twisty, shocking and counter to expectations as possible, regardless of whether this is a logical or satisfying way for the plot to go
correct response:
can someone elaborate on the “make hoax” and “post angry tweet about “leak”“ part. i’m stupid and don’t understand things
sure!
(you’re not stupid. I posted this thinking it would amuse a handful of mutuals who all knew the context and that would be about it, so I didn’t think about providing any other explanation. I had no idea it would spread this far.)
I’ll start from the very beginning just to be thorough. so this is Alex Hirsch, creator and head writer of Gravity Falls, a show which had a big focus on mystery, conspiracies, codes and ciphers, etc. the whole plot is kicked off by one of the main characters finding a mysterious old journal in the woods, which detailed all kinds of weird and supernatural things, but then ended abruptly with the author saying they had to hide the journal because they were being watched. the central driving mystery of the show, therefore, was the question of who wrote the journal and what happened to them.
now, the thing about Gravity Falls is that, while it must be said that the writers weren’t always quite as sure of their plans as we tend to like to think they are, it is very much a fair play mystery, with legitimate clues to what was going on. but the writers were caught off guard by how quickly the show attracted a dedicated audience, including a lot of people outside the primary presumed demographic, who started solving the clues faster than expected. so some of the fans were able to correctly guess who the author was before it was revealed in the show, and the theory started spreading. this put the writers in something of a panic, because this was THE mystery that the whole story revolved around, with ¾ of the show building up to the dramatic reveal in the middle of season 2. they wanted it to be a mystery that could be figured out, sure, but they weren’t prepared for people to solve it so far in advance of when it was planned to be revealed, which would have really taken away from the big moment. they weren’t going to change the main story itself, but having been caught unaware by how much attention the fans were paying, they wanted to up the ante and make the mystery more complex to solve going forward–but first they needed to buy some time and throw the fandom off the scent for a little longer.
hence, Alex’s plan as described above. they whipped up a fake shot that appears to give away the identity of the author as being another character in the show, put it on a screen in the studio as if it was a real animation frame, took a picture of it, and ‘leaked’ it online. it was initially decided to be a hoax (albeit, I think, presumed to be a hoax originating from outside the production team), until Alex posted this tweet:
…before quickly deleting it (though not so quickly that it didn’t get seen, of course).
it worked well enough to distract most people for a while, and wasn’t revealed as a hoax until a year later, when an episode aired that definitively proved that the supposed screenshot could never have happened, at which point Alex owned up to the whole thing as seen in the tweet above. by then the episode with the real reveal wasn’t far off, and while people did still work it out ahead of time, it was more of an “OH MY GOD I KNEW IT!” moment than a “booooooring, we’ve known that for ages” moment, which of course was what the writers wanted all along.
personally I find this a fascinating approach to dealing with the problem of spoilers, because it doesn’t affect the story itself at all; if you watch Gravity Falls today–or if you were watching it when it aired without any significant contact with the fandom–you’d never know about it. ultimately, the problem the writers were facing wasn’t that some people might guess the answer to the mystery–they never wanted to make it completely impossible to predict–so much as it was that they hadn’t designed the story to stand up to so many people working on the puzzle together, which resulted in a sort of total output of puzzle-solving ability that far outstripped the capability of any one solo human being. so their solution is something that’s very much targeted toward delaying that group problem-solving, without actually affecting the experience of any individual person watching the show.
plus, it’s very in keeping with the overall tone of the show.
I ended up on r/ADHDparenting (a subreddit about parenting kids with ADHD, not about being a parent with ADHD) and Jesus fuck.
Imagine how much r/childfree hates kids, but the only people allowed to post in this sub are parents.
“My kindergartener asks me a ton of questions every morning i wish i could give her her meds while she was still asleep so that she would shut the fuck up by the time she’s awake”
“My 4-9 year old child is the most annoying person in the planet and I can’t wait until he’s old enough for a prescription because if he stays like this I’m just going to keep hating him.”
“If he’s too young for vyvanse start him on caffeine but no sugar! Half a can of diet cola with breakfast should be a good place to start.”
“I started giving my kid her meds before she gets out of bed so that they kick in by breakfast time and I don’t have to deal with her constant fidgeting and incessant talking.”
Look I do understand the need to vent but an entire subreddit that seems to confirm the worst things that kids with ADHD think of themselves (my parents hate me, I’m too annoying to love, nobody will like me if I don’t shut myself down, everyone thinks I’m loud and stupid and they laugh about me behind my back, my mom wishes i was like my brother, if they could flip a switch to make me into someone else they would, they would rather have any child but me, anybody would rather have any child but me) seems fucking ghastly. THIS is the kind of shit you put in a private discord server, c'mon.
ok but legitimately i think the reason why kids aren’t taking internet safety seriously is because the people who are telling us not to put our personal information out seem so out of touch. no one acknowledges the possibility of meeting very real teenaged friends online, they always say that everyone you meet is a 40 year old white man in disguise. because they aren’t acknowledging things we know are true, it becomes a lot easier to dismiss the rest of what they’re saying as well. internet safety lessons absolutely must keep up with the times and acknowledge the internet’s capacity for good if you want kids to take to heart warnings about its capacity for bad.
Some actual safety tips for teenagers:
1. Have proof they’re a teenager first. More than just a picture, have a video call with them.
2. If you want to meet up with them, have your parents or a trusted adult come with you. Even if they are a proven teenager, its still good to have supervision in case any issues happen.
3. If you are talking to an adult, and they start being sexual in any way, you run the fuck away. It doesn’t matter if they’re 40 or 20. An adult inherently has a power dynamic that teenagers do not. And its up to the adult to act responsible about it. There’s exceptions of course, if you’re 16 and dating an 18 year old, that’s not a problem, we’re not talking about that.
4. Being in a server with adults or ran by adults is not inherently bad. Talking to adults is not inherently a problem, and will likely happen in any number of Discord servers. It is only an issue when they are acting sexual and show predatory behavior.
5. Look out for grooming behavior. It can be difficult, because at first it seems like innocuous behavior, like complimenting or giving gifts. Especially if you feel lonely and have low self esteem. And groomers actively target people like that.
If they start trying to isolate you, talk sexual with you, state they depend on you for emotional needs, blame you for their own actions, try to be secretive about the relationship- Then you need to talk to people you trust, block the perpetrator, and call the police on them.
6. If this does happen to you, remember this: It is not your fault. Even if you didn’t listen to a single thing listed here, it is not your fault. It is the fault of the adults who knew better, and didn’t care. It’s not your fault.
To my followers: if any of you guys are underaged, please be very VERY careful on here, and don’t fall for any of the tricks the groomer would use on you, just block them and report them.
Had a dream there was a new six hour long HBomberGuy video that starts with him tryingnto debunk Daniel Molloys novel “Interview With The Vampire” as a fun short video. After thirty minutes in and pulling a “so obviously vampires arent real” thing he launches into a three hour tangent bringing up all the weird historical details that are completely accurate when you accounted for stuff like Louis saying the wrong cemetary or church name
Four hours in he breaks down and says “okay so, this would all point to actual pop rock artist Lestat De Lioncourt being a real vampire, and Kate pointed out he was playing in my town a couple weeks from when we were covering all this. So I called and asked him for an interview to see if I couldnt get a better feel for what was going on”
He then proceeded to take out colored contact lenses and remove the gloves hed been wearing the whole video to reveal he was a vampire and the title card just popped up saying “GUESS WHAT FUCKING HAPPENED” and I woke up before the next two hours of video could play
Specifically, to “swash a buckler” referred to the act of pounding a buckler (small shield) against one’s own chest as a sort of macho display.
Mmmm… close, but no cigar.
To “swash” is to make a noise by beating one’s sword against one’s shield (or against others’ swords). Via the OED (it’s definition #3 below):
And that “bucklers” are involved also tells you what kind of sword’s involved: not a big expensive longsword of one variety or another (for which you’d realistically need a way bigger shield for any kind of protection), but the shorter, lighter, cheaper weapons you might expect in back-alley street fighting among the (let’s all sneer decorously now) plebs and real-swordfighter-wannabes.
best thing you can do with a repressed character is hit them with various hammers and sharp objects until they crack open to reveal beautiful sparkling homosexuality inside. geode guy
All these billionaires who invested in the metaverce and Neuralink must be questioning their life choices looking at what what furries are doing in VR chat.
I’ve been on this project for nearing 3 years, now! Here’s the repository for anybody interested. We support loads of different EEGs, but most initial testing was done on our Muse 2 headbands (you can find em on ebay for around $120. They fit under VR headsets just fine).
If that picture doesn’t sum all the FurAffinity hijacking that went on from late August 20th to the 21st, then I’ll explain it.
FurAffinity got hacked by an individual(whose handles keep changing, so no official identity as of yet) who did this for a reason that was bound to fail: To scam people into purchasing a cryptocurrency literally no one cares about. This also went onto FurAffinity’s official Twitter/X account(which has been reclaimed since), in order to shill his cryptocurrency.
The hacker hijacked their DNS(Domain name System) to redirect those who clicked fA’s links to redirect them to a number of websites(its most recent being Kiwifarms) as part of a major cryptocurrency purchasing scam.
The moderators of Kiwifarms has confirmed that they had ZERO involvement in this hijacking, so now this crypto-scammer is going to get their just desserts and pay lots of bills. Need I also add that this person accidentally revealed their name/address and got themselves doxxed in the process?
Look me in my four eyes and tell me that the motivations behind all this are NOT stupid and petty. It’s bad enough that crypto’s already at a downturn, but this is just ridiculous!
this isn’t shooting yourself in the foot this is launching an atomic bomb at your foot
All these billionaires who invested in the metaverce and Neuralink must be questioning their life choices looking at what what furries are doing in VR chat.
I’ve been on this project for nearing 3 years, now! Here’s the repository for anybody interested. We support loads of different EEGs, but most initial testing was done on our Muse 2 headbands (you can find em on ebay for around $120. They fit under VR headsets just fine).
All these billionaires who invested in the metaverce and Neuralink must be questioning their life choices looking at what what furries are doing in VR chat.
I’ve been on this project for nearing 3 years, now! Here’s the repository for anybody interested. We support loads of different EEGs, but most initial testing was done on our Muse 2 headbands (you can find em on ebay for around $120. They fit under VR headsets just fine).
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Y'all should Google the article, it’s actually pretty neat. Basically, the Aldabra Atoll was once inhabited by the Aldabra Rail, a flightless species of bird that had diverged from the flying White-Throated Rail when a section of the population landed there and found they had no natural predators. However, the Atoll occasionally gets completely submerged, and all of the flightless Aldabra rails were wiped out. But then, after the Atoll re-emerged, a bunch of the EXACT SAME species of flying White Throated Rail decided to settle there again, and immediately proceeded to evolve into flightless birds AGAIN.
i used to work for a nature center and we would constantly have wild owls come and call out to the owls in their cages and try to 1.) get them to follow them or 2.) they were looking for a mate
in the spirit of this post: when you live in areas with wild horses, the number one culprit for horse theft is actually other horses, because the young stallions that get chased out of the herd wanna start their own, and oh, look, look at all those cute mares in just,,,,a fenced off grassy area,,,how easy would it be to lure them over the fence,,,like some four-legged yodeling pied piper,,,
i think about this a lot
This is so cute wtf
Social animals will see another animal amd be like: Is anyone going to befriend this? And then not wait for an answer.
Humans are, delightfully, nowhere near the only ones who do this.
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i’m gonna cry it’s raining right now and i just passed by a family where both parents were without an umbrella but their kid who couldn’t have been older than like 3-4 was proudly holding this GIANT umbrella whose diameter was as tall (if not taller) as the kid. both the parents were getting absolutely drenched but u could tell the kid was just so happy to have an “adult” task and carry the umbrella themselves and i think that sacrifice is what love is all about
hastily-made artist’s recreation in the five minutes it took to get to my stop
Sometimes I put my face up against my dog while he’s sleeping to feel his little lungs expand and his little heart beat and I am struck by the beauty of of life and the miracle of nature to evolve for thousands of years just to create one little guy and put him in my house
Yesterday my little brother told me something very sweet and touching, that when he was a kid and had nightmares about monsters chasing him or whatever he would be able to end the nightmare by finding me in the dream and I would protect him by fighting off the zombies, or carrying him away. This is adorable, and makes me feel like the greatest older sibling in the world, but the hilarious thing is that when I was a kid I had nightmares of needing to save him from zombies and such. so many dreams where he was in trouble and I needed to save him. Like my nightmares began where his ended. Low key I think he mastered the ability to psychically transfer his nightmare to me as a child and I’m kind of annoyed with him.
the more i try to explain gender to cis people the more i understand plato’s allegory of a cave
plato: the shadows are like a surface level understanding and coming out of the cave and seeing the actual objects is what being a philosopher is like
me: this is stupid and pretentious
cis person: girl is when pink and flower and boy is when blue and guns
me: oh no theyre still in the cave
FUCK.
Ahh, Plato. A surefire way to make me reblog.
At first, the philosopher is fixed in place, unable to even turn his head, trapped in the rigid structures of the beliefs and ideas of his society. Even of his fellow man he sees only the shadow, the outline.
Then something happens and his bonds loosen, he is able to turn his head and see the other prisoners, the priests carrying the items, the fire that casts the shadow. And he sees it for the puppet show it is.
Some people cannot handle this, they choose to reject the nuance and the depth of the real world and instead retreat to the simple, easy shadows of curated pseudo-reality.
Of course, many never even get as far as turning their heads, of looking sideways at the world and questioning what they’re taught. but the philosopher, he breaks free of his bonds, rises to his feet, and explores the cave.driven by curiosity and a need to understand, He meets the priests. He examines the fire, he tests the objects.
Some who get this far choose to join the priesthood, to use their rudimentary understanding to become a part of the puppet show and control what others see.
But the philosopher sees that the fire itself is but a manmade construction. A flawed and pale reflection of something greater, so he searches for a way out of the cave. And on the surface he sees the sun.
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Comparing this to the exploration/presentation of gender, from my position as only a poor philosopher myself
So many people never see beyond the surface presentation. The pink and the flowers, as OP said. They are locked into that rigid understanding our society raises us with, albeit perhaps a little more flexible than in decades past. They never even question it.
Some of us stop to question our own identities, and perhaps we see flaws. Ways in which we don’t line up with ’the way things are’ and so we try to conform, suppress the ways in which we think we fall short of the expectations placed upon us. I know I’ve run afoul of that many times. Even now that I’ve begun transitioning, I’m still trying to conform, just to a different set of standards.
Some people though, they push back against the social construction. They rebel against the strictly delineated gender roles and in so doing, change them. Of course there are those who instead seek to change them back, to constrict instead of expand. These are the priests, deciding what shadows should be cast on the wall. Controlling what the prisoners see.
What it means to see the sun, I do not yet know. But I can speculate. Gender is a construct. An inexpertly crafted set of rules and conventions assembled by group consensus; What it means to be masculine or feminine. What makes a person attractive. What their proper place and role should be. And I’ve seen these things shift and change even in my own lifetime, almost unnoticed.
And I’ve met people who have revelled against the very core concept. Who dress and act and present entirely for their own comfort and happiness, and not for the benefit of society’s judgement. I aspire to that.
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