i hate to be that guy, but the idea that gender, sex, and sexuality are ontologically pure concepts that can be rigidly defined if we simply police our language enough (our english language, because of course) is—i cannot stress this enough—a total waste of time. you may as well spend your afternoons teaching a brick how to swim
Hmm, this sounds familiar, but I can’t quite put my finger on why…
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Thank you. As someone who studied Holocaust Literature and related topics, I’ve been pointing this out for YEARS now.
Also to people who complain about invoking Godwin’s Law, Godwin himself gave us as a society a pass to draw comparisons between this administration/Trump and Hitler and the Nazis, because there are honestly too damn many similarities to ignore.
So I tend to put on a youtube video most nights to fall asleep to (laptop on a shutdown timer.) And lately, my recommendations are a lot of videogame speedruns or videogame hidden facts.
Last night I pulled up youtube and got a “I played the 10 worst wii games ever” kind of video. ~30 minutes long. Fair enough! Show me the terrible wii games.
I’m paying attention for the beginning, since hey I’m still awake. And maybe like, 6 minutes into the video the guy starts going into heavy detail about how to pirate and copy wii games.
And I’m like, shit, bold, considering this video has 500,000 views. Bravo and all that.
The terrible wii games go on. I fall asleep.
I wake up to the sound of like… mechanical grinding?
Look at the laptop. There’s a guy in a hazmat suit mixing dangerous chemicals, going “hey don’t mix these dangerous chemicals.”
I’m like, “Oh, the video ended. And the algorithm put me on… chemical mixing Youtube I guess.”
I look at the video Title. “I Played The Worst Wii Games Ever Made”
….Oh.
It’s still the video.
So surely he is… mixing chemicals to clean off an unplayable wii disk? Trying to touch up the lone copy of some forgotten game bought off ebay?
No…
He’s just.
Mixing chemicals.
I hover over the video sections.
The 10 worst wii game sections have ended. He played them all.
The last 10 minutes is just dedicated to… him in a hazmat suit mixing dangerous chemicals.
….????
I fall back asleep.
….
I need to go back and check this video to make sure I did not imagine this all in a half-asleep stupor
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if you watch through to the end, the “dangerous chemicals” he’s mixing include salt, flour, chocolate, sugar, and butter.
So I tend to put on a youtube video most nights to fall asleep to (laptop on a shutdown timer.) And lately, my recommendations are a lot of videogame speedruns or videogame hidden facts.
Last night I pulled up youtube and got a “I played the 10 worst wii games ever” kind of video. ~30 minutes long. Fair enough! Show me the terrible wii games.
I’m paying attention for the beginning, since hey I’m still awake. And maybe like, 6 minutes into the video the guy starts going into heavy detail about how to pirate and copy wii games.
And I’m like, shit, bold, considering this video has 500,000 views. Bravo and all that.
The terrible wii games go on. I fall asleep.
I wake up to the sound of like… mechanical grinding?
Look at the laptop. There’s a guy in a hazmat suit mixing dangerous chemicals, going “hey don’t mix these dangerous chemicals.”
I’m like, “Oh, the video ended. And the algorithm put me on… chemical mixing Youtube I guess.”
I look at the video Title. “I Played The Worst Wii Games Ever Made”
….Oh.
It’s still the video.
So surely he is… mixing chemicals to clean off an unplayable wii disk? Trying to touch up the lone copy of some forgotten game bought off ebay?
No…
He’s just.
Mixing chemicals.
I hover over the video sections.
The 10 worst wii game sections have ended. He played them all.
The last 10 minutes is just dedicated to… him in a hazmat suit mixing dangerous chemicals.
….????
I fall back asleep.
….
I need to go back and check this video to make sure I did not imagine this all in a half-asleep stupor
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if you watch through to the end, the “dangerous chemicals” he’s mixing include salt, flour, chocolate, sugar, and butter.
Things are grim right now but a small silver lining is that The Onion bought Alex Jones’s site InfoWars and are going to turn it into “a parody of itself”, using it to make fun of conspiracy theorists and far-right nutjobs.
Some context:
In 2012 Alex Jones called the Sandy Hook school shooting a hoax and accused the grieving parents of being “crisis actors”. In 2022 the Sandy Hook parents won a defamation suit against him and were awarded more than a billion dollars. Which is what forced Jones to now sell his site at auction.
The Onion won the auction with the backing of the parents. And the proceeds from the purchase will go directly to the parents as part of the damages payout, Alex Jones isn’t seeing a dime.
The relaunch of InfoWars is slated for this January. Which would coincide with Trump’s inauguration. I bet The Onion have some plans for that.
we’ve been living in this apartment for two months now, and while we’ve observed most of our new neighbours (my slavic Windowsill Watcher Grandmother gene already activated), I don’t think they had the chance to see us often enough to recognise us yet.
I do know, however, from my observations, that the tiny funny dog upstairs is called Gucio. I’ve passed him once or twice during his walk and heard his owners use the name - and, while both the dog and his owners are oblivious to our existence, Gucio became an apt topic of discussion in our house. you know, we hear barking, ha, that’s Gucio, he must be home alone again! or there’s a stick left by the building door, that must have been brought by Gucio and he was forced to abandon it before entering! a household name, really.
yesterday as I was leaving to go to the store, walking down the narrow staircase, there he is! tiny funny looking dog, slightly startled by me suddenly appearing on the floor he just reached on his tiny funny looking legs.
“good morning Gucio!” I say joyfully, the most natural thing in the world.
well. remember that Gucio doesn’t really know me. so he looks at me in the most flabbergasted way a dog can look at a person. he is positively aghast. agog! not sure how aware dogs are of their own names but he seemed genuinely puzzled at the apparent stretch of social convention.
and as I try to contain my laughter, I see his owner standing on the stairs below. the woman is sort of awkwardly frozen, speechless, and she looks at me.
“you… know each other?” she asks.
is that not the funniest way to phrase it. is this not the funniest question she could have asked. ma'am do you know my dog? you went to school together perhaps? you’ve met? do tell, are you old friends? maybe you worked together? you know each other, my dog and you? this dog? you know him? he knows you? he never mentioned you I’m afraid
we’ve been living in this apartment for two months now, and while we’ve observed most of our new neighbours (my slavic Windowsill Watcher Grandmother gene already activated), I don’t think they had the chance to see us often enough to recognise us yet.
I do know, however, from my observations, that the tiny funny dog upstairs is called Gucio. I’ve passed him once or twice during his walk and heard his owners use the name - and, while both the dog and his owners are oblivious to our existence, Gucio became an apt topic of discussion in our house. you know, we hear barking, ha, that’s Gucio, he must be home alone again! or there’s a stick left by the building door, that must have been brought by Gucio and he was forced to abandon it before entering! a household name, really.
yesterday as I was leaving to go to the store, walking down the narrow staircase, there he is! tiny funny looking dog, slightly startled by me suddenly appearing on the floor he just reached on his tiny funny looking legs.
“good morning Gucio!” I say joyfully, the most natural thing in the world.
well. remember that Gucio doesn’t really know me. so he looks at me in the most flabbergasted way a dog can look at a person. he is positively aghast. agog! not sure how aware dogs are of their own names but he seemed genuinely puzzled at the apparent stretch of social convention.
and as I try to contain my laughter, I see his owner standing on the stairs below. the woman is sort of awkwardly frozen, speechless, and she looks at me.
“you… know each other?” she asks.
is that not the funniest way to phrase it. is this not the funniest question she could have asked. ma'am do you know my dog? you went to school together perhaps? you’ve met? do tell, are you old friends? maybe you worked together? you know each other, my dog and you? this dog? you know him? he knows you? he never mentioned you I’m afraid
has anyone noticed lately how black friday deals or any type of “sale” deals aren’t actually deals. like i had something on my amazon wishlist that was $19.99 before, and now it’s saying it WAS $49.99 but is on sale for $19.99 for a “black Friday deal.” as if it wasn’t just $19.99 two weeks ago at regular price. like these damn websites atp are straight up lying and trying to trick people into thinking something is on sale/is a good deal when it’s not. and this isn’t exclusive to that one item or even just amazon. i’ve been seeing it everywhere. the fuck
There are a several sites for tracking this kind of thing, depending if you’re looking at a particular product or a particular market.
For Amazon, I like to sanity check Camel Camel Camel if a particular deal seems too off.
For example, Amazon is listing these headphones as a -43% sale at $199.99.
CCC backs that up! But also, looks like they do go on fairly frequent (if smaller) sales. Good to know!
This kind of thing doesn’t help if they make a dozen listings, or if they have one listing with several options that change the pricing. Still handy though.
This is a helpful tool! This applies moreso to Americans (though non-USAmericans can file reports), but if you notice activity described by OP, that’s called “deceptive pricing” and is illegal under FTC regulations. The FTC has a pretty simple reporting system here. This reporting also applies to all sorts of fraud, from scam calls to identity theft. It may not immediately resolve your personal issue, but it can help the FTC gather enough data and proof to bring a lawsuit against the company.
He’s being housed at the oceanarium temporarily so I’m going to have to go visit him
This split color called a chimera, and it’s caused when two twin lobsters fuse together before birth and the twins happen to be different colors. If the twins are different genders you can also end up with a half-male, half-female lobster split down the middle! This only occurs in about one in every 50 million lobsters so it’s very rare.
hot take maybe, but my opinion of you automatically dives if the first reaction you have to a cool character is to ask if there’s a c.ai bot of them. write shitty fanfic like the rest of us, or just maladaptive daydream if you must. find a community and rp online!! we’re losing important social and writing skills to a tech product controlled by and overseen by the slimiest, most exploitative billionaires silicon valley has seen in a generation and we’re doing it willingly???
like sorry, but in THIS socio-political climate? it is inconceivable to me to ever build a mental dependency on a PRODUCT built by, and controlled by the ultra-1% to systematically exploit and make obsolete entire industries of jobs. imagine the sheer embarrassment of chatgpt going down and suddenly being stranded, left to your own devices and finding them painfully painfully lacking.
Men’s 38-in-one night time sickness cold & flu shampoo & conditioner toothpaste and mouthwash combo (plus nourishing skin formula with hydrating aloe)
be right back guys i need to run out to O'Reilly’s Auto Parts and get another jug of Boy Juice to soak in, got a big day tomorrow and want to wash up, brush my teeth, take care of these sniffles, and exfoliate
Folks, this exists and it’s called Dr. Bronner’s castile soap.
Men’s 38-in-one night time sickness cold & flu shampoo & conditioner toothpaste and mouthwash combo (plus nourishing skin formula with hydrating aloe)
be right back guys i need to run out to O'Reilly’s Auto Parts and get another jug of Boy Juice to soak in, got a big day tomorrow and want to wash up, brush my teeth, take care of these sniffles, and exfoliate
Folks, this exists and it’s called Dr. Bronner’s castile soap.
[image ID: A tweet by Gemma Amor @/manylittlewords that reads, “The fact that some people can’t distinguish between etymology and entomology bugs me in ways I can’t put into words” /End ID]
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Hi! Someone call for me? I’m a superhero who specializes in the study of God’s creation of Man in the Book of Genesi– HOLY SHIT A GIANT BUG!
People get so fucking weird about leather like it’s literally just clothes. “Ooh kink in public ooh I’m not consenting” to somebody else’s outfit? You know wearing clothes isn’t a sex act, right? That’s not how anything works. Btw are you normal about women? Probably not indicative of any weird ideas about clothing and sexuality, right? Ok just checking
Have you ever noticed how outside the kink community the conversation around “kink in public” is never about like straight people wearing vibrators in their panties or something, anti kink people just think it’s morally degenerate if a gay dude wears a vest. Which could mean nothing
It gets especially goofy when you remember how much kink gear is like visually indistinguishable from alt fashion. Or even just regular fashion. You’ll never know who’s lowkey fagging out because being into leather doesn’t mean you’re walking around cumming in your pants a lot of it is just like “I feel hot wearing this, which is a normal reason to wear clothes” or “the texture is oddly comforting to me” or etc etc etc. Whatever. (Gay voice) I didn’t consent to seeing Your shoes with that belt, honey!
There’s something that I find equal parts hilarious and terrifying.
On one hand it is so funny watching the generation previous to mine (I was born in 84) absolutely say the most unhinged shit online, doxx themselves, and get fired, after spending my entire childhood teaching me online opsec because every stranger was a potential murderer. Social media done rotted their brains.
But on the other I’m seeing kids coming up, seeing them spew all their personals online, and using that to model their unsafe behavior and put themselves at incredible risk because the internet actually got way more dangerous than it was, ironically, when I was coming up being told I had to basically outsmart the fuckin CIA. Now the actual CIA and other bad actors (government, private, and individual) really are out there and these kids are watching fucking meemaw post a photo of the front of her house practically captioned with her fucking SSN and thinking, “yeah, sure, the adults know what’s safe.”
I gotta be a fuckin millennial about this and beg younger folx to listen to the VCR generation: hide yourself online. Nothing should go there you wouldn’t want in the hands of the person who hates you the most.
the :) AO3 gives you after telling you you’ve already left kudos on a particular fic is my archenemy because what do you mean :) ? what do you mean I’ve already left kudos here? have you read my favorite author’s work? look me in the eyes and tell me one kudos is enough. I’d give them a thousand kudos and my kidney plus my firstborn. what do you mean I can only give them one kudos??????
I am so emotionally feeling this post. I should be able to give EVERY CHAPTER kudos. I should be able to give kudos when I return to a work for the first time in longer than a week. I should be able to give kudos for any time a fic makes me cry, or laugh, or feel the big feels.
Be prepared for the all federal government services to become more dysfunctional and expensive than you could possibly imagine. Need to apply for a passport? Go through customs? TSA Precheck? Court cases? LOL hope you’re prepared to wait and/or pay a small fortune.
Loved the how well it worked letting Boeing police it’s own quality inspection? LOL enjoy more plans falling out of the sky.
Food safey inspections? Drug approvals? Patents? Processing your tax return? LOL. Enjoy all the food poisoning and the IRS taking longer than ever to send back your money.
To the people in the OTW Tumblr Inbox asking about how the OTW is responding to the American Election.
This is a separate post (and not a response to a specific message) because we all need to see it.
Folks have been asking Support (through the form) as well as the other social media mods, and we have now been given the following to tell you.
We are continuing to closely monitor political developments that may affect AO3 and the OTW as a whole. First, we want to assure you that there are several factors that tend to protect AO3 and its users from legal risks and challenges. These include that we are a non-profit, do not host images, do not use algorithms to promote or advertise content to users, are not aimed at children, and collect very little user data.
The results of the 2024 U.S. election are deeply concerning, but the OTW remains committed to providing an inclusive space for fannish expression and will continue to fight for fans’ free expression, both in court and through legislative efforts, in the U.S. and worldwide.
We have seen that fans are a powerful force for promoting free expression, and we will continue to inform people about opportunities for their voices to be heard. If a bill is likely to be passed in the future that could impact our ability to provide services, our legal team will be prepared to offer updates, guidance, and legal support to our users.
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