garmrin:

i-dont-think-thats-true:

garmrin:

postnuclearophelia:

why is computer fun and phone evil

Because of the Lich

I don’t think that’s true

It is my phone tole me.

albaake:

*eldritch blast @neon-virus and @skyartworkzzz*

This took way longer than I intended but I just wanted to draw the sillies because of how different they are and I just like drawing Neon’s and Sky’s lambs alot-

For the last pic, I like to think that the lambs haven’t called their Nari’s “my lord” in such a long time that seeing one that does makes them mildly concerned about their well-being. (Rightfully so cause what emotionally well person let their crown stay looking like their brother all the time and becomes a workaholic to cope-) The same with the Naris, they’re like “You really done fucked up for your lamb to not even call you by name-” Lol.

fieriframes:

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[There can be no evil, nor any good, without intent.]

creepymutelilbugger:

op turned reblogs off but this post must live. it must live and spread malignantly .

eebie:

princesscas:

“edit images with AI– search with AI– control your life with AI–”

i keep getting grammarly ads and one i just saw made my blood boil because they hired some dude to say “this AI generative stuff is fantastic! i used to be sooo bad at writing, now i’m so much better!! i love AI :)” YOU STUPID FUCK. you didnt get better at anything. You did JACK SHIT….. You sat back while an algorithm evaporated the atlantic and punched 30 fistfuls of plastic straws down a seaturtles throat all just to generate the worst shit anyones ever read!! im going to put my hands around your neck and wring out all of your blood and then im gonna start whipping people with your limp corpse like a wet rag

doggiewoggiez:

reblog to be so niceys to the person you reblogged this from and give it lots of treats and petting and stuff

magnetothemagnificent:

magnetothemagnificent:

Randomly remembered how as a kid my mom would always fast forward through the beginning of ‘Finding Nemo’ because she thought Coral’s death was too violent, so for years I never knew why Nemo was raised by a single father and assumed Nemo’s parents had gotten fish divorced and Marlin had won custody of Nemo. My dad’s biological parents divorced when my dad was young, so I always knew what divorce was and I knew my Grandma had gotten primary custody of my dad, so I just assumed that’s what happened with Nemo. It wasn’t until years later when I watched Finding Nemo with my grandparents without my mom and they didn’t know to fast forward through the beginning that I finally knew what happened to Coral and I was *devastated*.

#this is why ya gotta show your kids age appropriate scary things#otherwise they inflict the legal system on unsuspecting fish

I am fast approaching the limits of this mortal form

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(5000 is the maximum number of blogs you can follow)

I don’t know how to rectify this

caitie-potatie:

WIP Naris being freaky

valtsv:

expandable list of the worst possible situations in which to refer to a group of people as “chat”:

• delivering a sermon in church
• defending yourself in court
• while performing surgery
• in a survival horror situation where tensions are already high and food supplies low enough that someone is definitely getting killed and eaten
• during your wedding speech
• at a funeral wake

screenshotsofdespair:

shehungthemoon:

televisionenjoyer:

gordonstanheight:

this is kind of my favorite genre of image ever. like THIS is what the internet is for

the-nyanguard-party:

Amid the uncaring void, alien to every form of life and sentience, a strange vessel drifts. Ion thrusters correct its trajectory every so often as imperceptible forces act upon it. Within, you are carried before a throne surrounded by weapons of war, the tools which the Paw of History must wield in order to make them obsolete. Upon the throne, elevated as to command worship, the symbol of order and progress: a single tabby cat sleeps on a crimson velvet pillow. The dimly glowing green flesh beneath her grey fur catches your eye - it reminds you of stories told about a terrible formless being dug out of the depths of the sub-surface oceans of Europa, which brought doom to a Federation research mission… Or perhaps a new, higher purpose. After a second, she wakes up, her golden eyes staring into you. She demands you pet her.

tvrded:

thememedaddy:

keepcalmandcarriefischer:

maybethings:

shallow-between-stars:

seananmcguire:

narcissistcookbook:

sandersstudies:

Sometimes I see some variety of North American Little Guy (opossum, raccoon, etc. ) and I’m like “okay”

BUT THEN I start thinking about how excited somebody from not-North-America would be to see this Guy. Like, would an Australian be excited to see the only marsupial not from their country? Are there raccoons in zoos on the other side of the world that are regarded as unique and exotic creatures? Idk but it’s made me more excited to see Guys in my area.

it’s me, i’m the person described in the tumbl

I went to a zoo in England this past summer, and there were crowds around the skunks, raccoons, and coyotes.

So, as an Australian, going to the zoo in China with a USAmerican and a Jamacian was an experience.

The first thing you should know about this experiences is I’m a fairly bush-raised child. Not entirely, but the vast majority of my school holidays were spent camping or on a property or otherwise out in the bush. (Not the Outback, although sometimes, but definitely the Bush. The great south-west forests, to be specific.)

I have seen more than my fair share of actually wild Australian wildlife. I am severely immune to snakes, spiders, frogs, kangaroos and wild foxes, rabbits and pigs (those shouldn’t be in Australia, but they are. Also, if you ever see evidence of pigs in the bush, you leave immediately.)

So here we encounter jarring moment of dissonance the first.

We were walking past the kangaroo paddock and I’ll admit I didn’t even give it a second glance - it was a case of “Oh, kangaroos, how normal,” And moving on. Didn’t even register that they would be something to get excited about. It was literally like seeing a bird or the neighbour’s cat.

Anyway, after awhile I noticed that I was no longer with my fellows because they were amazed by the kangaroos. They were staring, they were laughing, they were paying money to feed the fucking kangaroos like they were some sort of weird, special, exotic animal.

“Oh for fuck’s sake, guys, they’re just kangaroos!”

And then I realised I was with non-Australians and felt properly shamed.

We spent some (far too long of a) time with the kangaroos and moved on.

Anyway, as we were leaving we were walking through the American animals section and I’ve stopped dead in my tracks and squealed with excitement and raced over to an enclosure to coo and generally be a weird, animal-obsessed little moron. I’d never seen this animal in real life before but it was adorable and lovely and the cutest thing ever. And my Americas friends were looking at me like I’d grown another head because the animal that I was enamoured with and had never seen in person before, the animal that I was most excited about out of any that was there (including the baby tiger that I actually got to hold, guys)

The animal was a raccoon.

Your trash creature is someone else’s treasured encounter

When my father visited a Zoo in Germany, he was amazed to find people eagerly watching what appeared to be a large patch of dirt with holes in it. It took him a minute to realize that the exhibit was for prairie dogs and everyone was waiting to hopefully see one pop it’s head out. Dad, who went to school in Eastern Oregon and regularly harassed the local prairie dog population there, had long known how to call them. So to amuse himself, he gave the high whistle he used to use at school and, sure enough, about 15 little heads popped up to see what was happening. What was happening was the local German patrons all losing their god damn minds

usertoxicyaoi:

smilesession:

not normie enough to fit in but not fringe enough to lean into being a freak, worst of both worlds, pure liminality, just the weird coworker, and unrelatable classmate. and your mutual

smilesession:

not normie enough to fit in but not fringe enough to lean into being a freak, worst of both worlds, pure liminality, just the weird coworker, and unrelatable classmate. and your mutual

smilesession:

not normie enough to fit in but not fringe enough to lean into being a freak, worst of both worlds, pure liminality, just the weird coworker, and unrelatable classmate. and your mutual

cabalt:

Getting a bit sick of all the “ooh I’m so glad Laios has a soft body!” “Laios is built like an average guy” style posts. Because he doesn’t and isn’t.

Laios is built like a fucking professional wrestler. He isn’t like, super chiseled or anything but he does not have an “average” body, he his built like someone who does a LOT of physical effort and training.

boag:

argumate:

argumate:

zvaigzdelasas:

argumate:

zvaigzdelasas:

you’d think that if all that motivates US policy-makers is “we have to beat The Chinese”, then this should be plenty of motivation to actually start taking covid seriously

I mean, it will go on another ten years? almost certainly, in the absence of a totally game changing vaccine, in which case it will go on another five or six years.

And those five, six, or even ten years are five, six, or ten years where more & more people will be protected from the worst outcomes of “let er rip”. Protecting people is so evil and authoritarian 😥😥😥

Videos posted on Chinese social media site Weibo showed people rushing to the park’s gates following the announcement but finding them already locked.

However, those awaiting their freedom at Shanghai Disney can console themselves with one positive: rides are continuing to operate for those trapped inside The Happiest Place on Earth.

love this!

In December 2022, China finally ended its draconian zero COVID policy. Following the sudden opening, the number of positive cases and deaths skyrocketed. The reasoning behind this change has been baffling scholars. Not long ago, the official media praised the zero COVID policy as “most economical and most effective.” Perhaps more surprising was that there seemed to be little preparation for the opening. Soon after the opening, hospitals faced overcrowding, and medicines were sold out.

lol, lmao even;

but seriously I think my assessment remains the same as it did two years ago: the early Chinese lockdowns were a success that helped reduce deaths by curtailing the spread until widespread vaccination, while the later lockdowns were a failure that just increased the cost of the pandemic without helping at all to prepare for the inevitable collapse of the policy and abrupt transition to the “let her rip” approach.

China still did better than America on a per capita basis as a result, but the crisis painfully highlighted the weaknesses of the system as well as its strengths, just as it did for every other country.

argumate:

centrally-unplanned:

argumate:

centrally-unplanned:

argumate:

centrally-unplanned:

Willing to say now I was wrong about the protests in China - I thought they would be outlasted, pushed down, and then quietly zero-covid would be abandoned a bit later slowly, to send the message that protests dont work. Instead they massively succeeded, and the Chinese government has done the most abrupt about face possible in abandoning virtually every aspect of the program. You even have some peak Orwell in the state propaganda channels advertising how Omnicron is mild and shouldn’t be feared in the same exact spaces preaching victory or death a week before.

My best hypothesis for the extremity of the response is that the inner circle was far more divided over zero covid than we thought. I have seen some say the switch is a sign of the ‘tyranny of xi’, that he snapped his fingers and now everyone is overcompensating to switch, but i think that doesn’t gel with how much the old policies were abandoned. Instead i think the protests must have pushed the end-zero-covid faction over the threshold of having power and now they are rushing to cement the new status quo before any slipback on the changes. How bad zero-covid has been for China’s national power is I think a good motivator for the intensity; if you frame this as an issue of national security it makes sense.

the turnaround has been very dramatic!

and the R value may be as high as 16 now, which is certainly consistent with anecdotal experience.

That is the ‘other theory’, essentially that zero-covid was already failing dramatically in obvious ways to state authorities, the protests (coincidentally?) lined up with those failures, so it was a bit of a two birds/one stone situation. I personally am on the fence on that - from my read zero-covid has been failing for a while, case rates in China have been way higher than official estimates. But since they were falsifying data its really hard to say on the outside. 

A big tell is going to be what the ‘peak’ of the infection wave is - if it truly hits the highs being predicted by naive estimates then yeah, natural immunity was that low. If it comes out a good deal below a bunch of explanations for that will exist, but “there were previous waves they were just unreported” is gonna be a big one.

we know there were previous outbreaks across multiple cities in 2022 but this is qualitatively different, however it did start building about a month before zero covid officially ended I think that’s one reason why it’s hit like a hammer now

(for example the outbreak was already slowly spreading through Guangzhou, but once zero covid ended it immediately consumed every surrounding city in like a week)

Certainly it will be qualitatively different, but I have seen estimates putting China’s true covid case rates at 100x or more the official numbers, its definitely possible a huge part of the population has already been exposed, in outbreaks we barely even heard about. Zero covid was both bad policy and also they weren’t particularly good at it! Its going to get bad regardless of course - in particular given the population views covid as highly dangerous I would expect severe hospital strain.

(also I can’t find any of those older estimates now because googling “China covid case true rates” get you absolutely swamped with current news)

I’m not so sure, just going by anecdotal evidence, of ten people I happen to know in China none of them caught covid over the past three years and all of them caught it in the past week.

(one of them is a nurse at a hospital, so some indirect insight into outbreaks is available through that channel as well).

disabled-dragoon:

originalleftist:

figuring-421:

Don’t let anyone silence your voice or steal your power, which is your vote.

Your vote is private. Your vote is your own.

Vote accordingly.

How many “Trump votes” are abusive MAGA husbands or boyfriends who essentially got two votes, while their wife or girlfriend got none?

To be clear: abusive men may think their wife or girlfriend belongs to them, including their vote. But legally, this is voter fraud.

Report these criminals.

[ID1: Screenshot of a reply chain showing part of one and two other messages. The earliest poster Darrel Owens @/IDoTheThinking said “Bro I phonebank for Harris and this shit happens all the time. God awful husbands swearing up and down no Democrat lives there when the wife is a Democrat. Women who whisper "I agree with you” and hang up the phone because they dont want their MAGA luna..“. The first reply is from Tom Cox @/OBC15u, "That’s why I make my wife do a mail in ballot so I can make sure she votes for Trump, she’s not gona vote behind my back”. Second reply from edgykristinahart, “Can someone check on Tom’s wife or…” /end]

[ID2: Screenshot of a post with a photo attached. The post says “If your husband has forced you to vote you CAN INVALIDATE YOUR VOTE. Contact your local election officials. Your vote is your own.” The image in post reads: “Text contains those laws in effect on October 30th, 2024 / From Title 52-VOTING AND ELECTIONS / Subtitle I-Voting Rights / CHAPTER 103-ENFORCEMENT OF VOTING RIGHTS / Jump To: "§10307. Prohibited acts / (a) Failure or refusal to permit casting or tabulation of vote / No person acting under color of law shall fail or refuse to permit any person to vote who is entitled to vote under any provision of chapters 103 to 107 of this title or is otherwise qualified to vote, or willfully fail or refuse to tabulate, count, and report such person’s vote. ”(b) Intimidation, threats, or coercion / No person, whether acting under color of law or otherwise, shall intimidate, threaten, or coerce, or attempt to intimidate, threaten, or coerce any person for voting or attempting to vote, or intimidate, threaten, or coerce, or attempt to intimidate, threaten, or coerce any person for urging or aiding any person to vote or attempt to vote, or intimidate, threaten, or coerce any person for exercising any powers or-“ /end]

ches-nogat:

disgustinggf:

Huh

yeehawpim:

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a comic with some norse mythology

squidsmeister:

Yknow how people say they picture senshi and it helps them cook? I think I’m doing something wrong (DO NOT DO THIS)

everydaylouie:

everydaylouie:

the far side (in 3D)

i’m sorry but i can’t let this allegation stand. i composed this scene and made this lumpy man with my own two hands…and many cubes…

thebreakfastgenie:

if you’re shipping two thirty-year-old dudes in a fifty-year-old show that’s not [old man] yaoi that’s old [man yaoi]. don’t forget order of operations.

amazoogle:

hungwy:

organizing my digital library

👆

mrsterlingeverything:

segamascott:

Welcome baby animal

bucket-of-cheese:

more snails

starbuck:

“…to me” is one of the most powerful disclaimers we have on here… is this character analysis accurate? debatable. but it’s real… to me.

gosty3:

Happy Halloween!!

rickybabyboy:

ALT

did you knowed it? my tornado attack

ID: Orange and white tabby grabbing and kicking a hand (playing)

beachghoulz:

how the fuck am i supposed to go to sleep when four years ago he said i love you and then got sent to superhell

davereed:

partlysmith:

“Funny you should say that, Mr. Frog, but those coffee grounds we found at the murder… Well, they were Wilkins Coffee. Now see, the thing that bothers me, is that the victim… Well, he didn’t drink Wilkins.”

This is a funny, niche joke.

peperomint:

do u ever send smth in a chat thats not even risqué like “i luv salsa” but no one responds so u start overthinking it like…. maybe one of their parents died making salsa…… maybe they were all just talking abt how they hate salsa……. maybe salsa isnt evn real and they have no idea what im talking abt

gosty3:

encounter

foop204:

This season is awesome

alaa-gaza3:

Vatted by association click here

Hello guys today I feel hopeless and frustrated my orphan girl is sick and suffering from viral infection in her stomach and she has Entamoeba histolytica worm infection due to water and food pollution and lack of vitamins she has weak immunity due to the lack of suitable food for her

so please help us any small donation may make a difference in our lives and save us from danger

Donate to Save my daughter to leave Gaza, organized by Alaa Mahmoud

rhfffas:

rio vidal the lesbian icon that you are😭

rhfffas:

rio vidal the lesbian icon that you are😭

spongebobssquarepants:

ikol-cosplay:

felagund-fell:

official-lucifers-child:

gaycism:

This is.. the sweetest thing I’ve read

that is so amazing ohhhh my gods, this guy absolutely is not the asshole that is just???? amazing platonic intimacy and affection?? which is good????

“I kissed the homies, as is custom.” Blessed sentence

Can we please normalize kissing our friends (with consent obv) 😭