does anyone know if i can like block sites from appearing in my google images searches??? i keep getting those awful ai generated things with a hand coming out of a man’s neck and just straight up not what i was looking for, because this was in a search for “curly hair in medieval paintings”. it happens every time i search for anything vaguely art-reference-like and it’s so fucking annoying and it clutters my search results so much. i don’t wanna add specific commands to the query every time too, what i need is like a browser extension or something
please god i am so deathly sick of people saying like “how is this straight the writers are so dumb!” about literal actual gay media i don’t know how to break it to you people but nbc hannibal is about two men who are attracted to each other. jennifer’s body is about two women who are attracted to each other. i know you guys are used to only consuming captain america movies and the occasional mark zuckerburg biopic but there are writers who actually write gay people and they do in fact do so on purpose. you don’t have to say “i can’t believe the writers thought this was heterosexual” they literally did not
actually i cracked the code. you all are like this because you are biphobic
a good thing to do for your friends with anxiety disorders: if you have a question you need to ask them or something you need to tell them, explain the subject of the question/the statement in the same message as your opening one!
so basically: instead of saying “can i ask you a question?” and sending just that (which, as a person with an anxiety disorder, makes my anxiety go into hyperdrive) go “can i ask you a question about ___?”
it’s a little thing but honestly few things make me anxious like “i have a question for you” or “there’s something i need to tell you” without immediate explanation. thanks!
“call me, nothing is wrong, just wanna talk on the phone” would be so much better than “Call me.”
Actually please to all of this please.
YES PLEASE.
YES THIS OK????? Like I have trained my husband to say “nothing bad, I just need to call you because it’s too much to type.” It helps SO MUCH. Just let me prepare myself, because I guarantee my imagination will take me to much much darker places.
Might I add, if someone with anxiety has just said something to you that’s a lot to process, and you need some time to think about what to say in response, please consider a quick “I’m not ignoring you, I need to think about what to say and I don’t want to say the wrong thing.”
Because that definitely saves your friend with anxiety a lot of strife and assuming they’ve ruined your friendship forever. Nothing is crueler than a “Seen 2:25pm” when it’s 10am the next day and you’re waiting on a reply to a huge confession.
Normally I don’t acknowledge my anxiety very much but to any of my friends this would genuinely be helpful. Thanks
Bonus: even if you don’t struggle with anxiety, this can really help cut down on miscommunication caused by text-monotone! My roommate and I use these a lot to keep from accidentally getting into arguments.
THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS
Imma just slap this on a giant billboard, scream it from the rooftops
I become consumed with jealousy every time I look at mudlarking instagram pages.
Imagine living near a river with so so many historical artifacts in it that you actually need to buy a licence to pick them up. absolutely wild.
Me, a Canadian who lives near a river: “Yeah my brothers and I used to spend hours poking around on the riverbank when we were younger, it was lots of fun! We found a few neat bottles and a small handful of pottery shards, but mostly we just found bathroom tiles. Hundreds of little square bathroom tiles, and they didn’t look very old. I guess someone in the area redid their bathroom a decade or two earlier and just dumped them all in the river.”
British people who live near rivers: “Today I’ve found a Georgian cufflink and a medieval pilgrim badge and a beautiful coloured glass perfume bottle stopper. Ooh and here’s another pipe bowl for my clay pipe collection, which I keep right next to my collection of 17th century glassware fragments.”
If you see your USA mutual looking at the news and then producing a burger from their pocket and eating it, that can mean nothing good. This is the »emergency burger« used to strengthen oneself in times of dire need, and resorting to it is an unambiguous sign of great distress
If you see your USA mutual looking at the news and then producing a burger from their pocket and eating it, that can mean nothing good. This is the »emergency burger« used to strengthen oneself in times of dire need, and resorting to it is an unambiguous sign of great distress
wtf i’m literally shaking and crying right now i just saw silver bullets for sale on temu why the fuck are there silver bullets on temu
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Hey. Hey. Look at me. Do you genuinely believe Temu of all places is going to have genuine sterling silver bullets for sale? TEMU. Wish and Shein’s bastard child?
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they had wooden stakes on there too i’m actually fearing for my and my partner’s lives right now
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Yeah I bought some wooden stakes from Temu and they broke instantly. I wasn’t even using any force to put them in my lawn as it rained quite recently. I wouldn’t worry too much about any silver bullets you find. They’re probably just silver plated.
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Can confirm- Temu silver isn’t real and can’t hurt us. I bought a bunch of silver jewelry off there because I can’t afford anything the legitimate stores are selling and when I tried them they barely even burned. Not worth it.
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Why on earth would you, a werewolf, buy silver jewelry???
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well for me it’s a sex thing.
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Why would you voluntarily wear jewelry from Temu? Did you at least sanitize it first???
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Uh… I licked it first. Werewolf saliva can disinfect surfaces right?
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YOU WHAT
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Oh my g-d just because werewolf saliva can make your wounds heal faster doesn’t mean it works miracles!!!
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Wait how would you know that?
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@.daddy-fenris is not the brightest sometimes.
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oh my god IT WAS ONE TIME why do you have to put me on blast right now
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The world needs to know. Roadkill please go see a doctor or a vet or something.
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i feel like this is taking away from the real issue at paw
I need people to understand that Uranium is an eldritch horror
I’m not talking about radiation, or nuclear weapons, or anything that you can do with uranium, I mean its mere existence on Earth is a reminder of cosmic horrors on a scale you can barely conceive of.
When a nuclear power plant uses Uranium to boil water and spin steam turbines to keep the lights on, they’re unleashing the fossilized energy of the destroyed heart of an undead star.
Allow me to elaborate:
In the beginning, there were hydrogen and helium. The primordial fires of the Big Bang produced almost exclusively the two lightest elements, along with a minuscule trace of lithium. It was a start, but that’s not much to build a universe out of. Fortunately, the universe is full of element factories. We call them “stars”.
Stars are powered by nuclear fusion, smooshing light elements together to make heavier elements, and releasing tremendous amounts of energy in the process, powering the star and making it shine. This goes on for millions to billions of years depending on the stars mass (although not how you might think, the bigger stars die young), the vast majority of that time spent fusing hydrogen into yet more helium. Eventually, the hydrogen in the core starts to run low, and if the star is massive enough it starts to fuse helium into carbon, then oxygen, neon, and so on up through successively heavier elements.
There’s a limit to this though:
This chart shows how much energy is released if you were to create a given element/isotope out of the raw protons and neutrons that make it up, the Nuclear Binding Energy. Like in everyday life, rolling downhill on this chart releases energy. So, starting from hydrogen on the far left you can rapidly drop down to helium-4 releasing a ton of energy, and then from there to carbon-12 releasing a fair bit more.
But, at the bottom of this curve is iron-56, the most stable isotope. This is the most efficient way to pack protons and neutrons together, and forming it releases some energy. But once its formed, that’s it. You’re done. Its already the most stable, you can’t get any more energy out of it, and in fact if you want to do anything to it and make it into a different element you’re going to have to put energy in.
So, when a massive star’s core starts to fill up with iron, the star is doomed. Iron is like ash from the nuclear fire that powers stars, its what’s leftover when all the fuel is used up. When this happens, the core of the star isn’t producing energy and can’t support itself anymore and catastrophically collapses, triggering a supernova explosion which heralds the death of the star.
What kind of stellar-corpse gets left behind depends again on how massive the star is. If its really big, more than ~30 times the mass of the sun and its probably going to form a black hole and whatever was in there is gone for good. But if the star is a bit less massive, between 8-25 solar masses, it leaves behind a marginally less-destroyed corpse.
The immense weight of the outer layers of the star falling down on the core compresses the electrons of the atoms into their nuclei, resulting in them reacting with protons and turning them all into neutrons, which creates a big ball of almost pure neutrons a couple miles across, but containing the entire mass of the star’s core, 3-5 sun’s worth.
This is the undead heart of the former star: a neutron star.
If, like many stars, this one wasn’t alone but had a sibling, it can end up with two neuron stars orbiting each other, like a pair of zombies acting out their former lives. If they get close enough together, their intense gravity warps the fabric of spacetime as they orbit, radiating away their orbital energy as gravitational waves, slowing them down and bringing them closer together until they eventually collide.
The resulting kilonova explosion destroys both of the neutron stars, most likely rendering the majority of what’s left into a black hole, but not before throwing out a massive cloud of neutron-rich shrapnel. This elder-god blood-splatter from the collision of the undead hearts of former stars contains massive nuclei with hundreds to thousands of neutrons, the vast majority of which are heinously unstable and decay away in milliseconds or less. Most of their decay products are also unstable and decay quickly as well, eventually falling apart into small enough clusters to be stable and drift off into the universe becoming part of the cosmic dust between the stars.
However,
Some of the resulting massive elements are merely almost stable. They would like to decay, but for quantum-physics reasons decaying is hard and slow for them, so they stick around much longer than you might expect. Uranium is one such element, with U-238 having a half-life of around 4.5 billion years, about the same as the age of the Earth, and its spicier cousin U-235 which still has a respectable 200 million year half life.
These almost-stable isotopes were only able to be created in the fiery excess of energy in a neutron star collision, and are the only ones that stick around long enough to carry a fraction of that energy to the era where hairless apes could figure out that a particular black rock made of them was emitting some kind of invisible energy.
So as I said at the beginning, Uranium is significant because it stores the fossilized energy of the destroyed heart of an undead star, and we can release that energy at will if we set it up just right.
When you say it like that, is it any shock that the energy in question will melt your face off and rot your bones from the inside if you stay near it too long?
His gaze shifting from the terrestrial planet out to the expanse of the universe and then back, The Lord Almighty, Our Heavenly Father, reportedly wondered aloud Tuesday just how far He could throw the Earth. “Oh, yeah, if I got a really good windup I bet I could chuck it four or five thousand light-years,” said God as He eyed the third planet from the Sun, adding that He could probably toss it right into the Pleiades star cluster with His eyes closed.
Everytime someone says that being trans is just a phase because there are no old trans people, I think of situations like this. So many people hid who they were because the world wasn’t as accepting.
i dont consider myself a ‘fashion guru’ by any means but one thing i will say is guys you dont need to know the specific brand an item you like is - you need to know what the item is called. very rarely does a brand matter, but knowing that pair of pants is called 'cargo’ vs 'boot cut’ or the names of dress styles is going to help you find clothes you like WAAAYYYY faster than brand shopping
this also goes for aesthetic or -core titles. 'y2k tank top’ is going to get you resellers and fast fashion brands advertising to people looking to meet a current trend. 'thin strap crop tank top’ is going to get you a diverse group of results and not upcharge you to hell and back
additionally, shop second hand when you can, second hand and thrift sites typically organize clothes by the cut and color. theyll be more affordable than a depop seller curating you a style to sell you
useful terminology for different kinds of clothing shapes :)
this is mind boggling levels of insane. if you’ve never done needlefelting you can’t quite comprehend how fucking difficult it is to not only make things so precise at such a small scale but like, not get the fibers tangled into literally everything else they interact with. and then ANIMATING it??? bro this is witchcraft
this is mind boggling levels of insane. if you’ve never done needlefelting you can’t quite comprehend how fucking difficult it is to not only make things so precise at such a small scale but like, not get the fibers tangled into literally everything else they interact with. and then ANIMATING it??? bro this is witchcraft
how terrifying metamorphosis must be for the caterpillar has no concept of what it is doing, or what a butterfly is, or what will happen to it as it spins itself the cocoon. we r more alike than different
Story time: I’m a trans guy. I have an identical twin.
We’re both tall, androgynous, and have naturally deep voices
In high school a rumor was spread that one of us was trans. For years, everyone in school had convinced themselves that my twin was “the trans one”. She rolled with it to keep me safe, and said it felt like a compliment to be mistaken for a trans woman since she looked up to a lot of trans women. That didn’t stop the bullying, but it’s easier to deal with when it’s directed at the wrong person.
I’m engaged to a feminine cis guy who is several inches shorter than me. I have 20-30lbs on him and I can dead lift him. He’s more delicate and soft both physically and socially. He cries during sad movies, owns half a million stuffed animals, and clings to my arm when he’s nervous or it’s cold out (oh yeah, also he’s adorable)
Whenever the topic of being trans comes up, cis people tend to think he’s the one who is trans. Direct all “what do your parents think?” comments onto him. Completely ignore me. Ask him invasive/transphobic questions about his body. Tell him “you pass so well!” through grit teeth. Like with my sister, I get pretty pissed about this, but there’s not much I can do about it.
I have had to argue with cis people to establish the fact I’m trans because they don’t believe me & think I’m joking. they’re like “but he’s - no, she’s trans!” and frantically point fingers at my fiance and sister. Because there’s no way an adult cis woman could be taller than 5′9 and choose to be bare-faced, and an adult cis man could love How To Train Your Dragon 2 with a fiery passion, enough to watch it 3 times in the theatre.
Terfs take one look at us and try to convince my sister she’ll never have a uterus or that she’s “appropriating women’s spaces”. Transphobes say my boyfriend will “always be a girl” and call him gendered slurs. They talk over them, block them, and grill them about what genitalia they have online. Completely unknowing that they’re talking to two cisgender people who are gay and gnc.
@ young, closeted, scared trans people: any cis person who insists they can somehow “know” your “birth sex” by looking at you because “it’s so obvious!” is full of shit. people come in all shapes and sizes regardless of gender. Not only are they being transphobic, but they’re being homophobic too.
An animated comic based on the end scene from “Not What He Seems”
This is only the first page! See the rest HERE !!
So Gravity Falls has quickly become one of, if not my favorite, shows on television right now. Like most, the latest episode had a huge impact on me. I loved everything about it, the writing, the animation, the visuals, the voice acting, characterization, etc. There was so much love and thought and talent that had gone into every aspect that it really inspired me to make an homage to my favorite scene. So I hope you enjoy! And join me in pensive agony as we wait for the next episode this summer.
10/16/2024 EDIT:
So I’m updating this post! I’ve been seeing enough people re-discovering it that I figured I’d take out the broken link and put the rest of the pages up. Hope y’all enjoy =]
An animated
comic based on the end scene
from “Not What He Seems”
Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.
Me talking to my air fryer: Help me. I am a 8 year old boy living in the illegitimate Yankee Capitalist regime. President Xi, our shelves are empty and we are hungry. I am asking you to liberate my state of Connecticut with your Chengdu J-20 Stealth air superiority fighters and your Dongfeng 41 Missiles.
I’m an electrical engineer and for the longest time I was saying that electricity and electronics isn’t magic, but think about it.
You literally have to collect rare stones from remote locations, put them into specific formations to work. All of this gets written down in symbols which don’t make sense to the uninformed. It gets powered by energy which can not be seen in most cases.
Like what else do you want. What’s your standard for calling something magic.
- posits England still being relevant on the world stage in 1964
- author mouthpiece character trashes Big Bang theory (I mean the scientific theory, not the fucking show)
- “the novel has a recurrent theme of the duplicity and shallowness of politicians compared with scientists”, because of course it does
- Richard Dawkins claimed it was “one of the greatest science fiction novels ever written”.
Sure the international theatre was all about the Cold War and Vietnam War, with civil rights and anti-segregation movements domestically, but the theatre theatre was still British!
I mean, 1964 was literally the year of the famous ‘British Invasion’, and the biggest international hits in terms of albums, novels and movies were all either British-made or set.
Funnily enough a bunch of them (Le Carré and James Bond) were positing Britain as relevant on the world stage in a more political sense at the time. I suppose the last dominoes of the Empire were still standing at this stage, but not for much longer.
(Of course, you get political thrillers and so on portraying Britain as relevant on the world stage today, and indeed it sometimes is in the glorious role of ‘America’s sidekick’.)
But in terms of science I think British academics were still pretty relevant. Well-surpassed by Americans, but making up a good chunk of the advances of that year and taking home a Nobel Prize for the team.
I guess the author was a famed anti-big banger so he couldn’t keep his protagonist from agreeing. Didn’t he coin the term ‘Big Bang theory’ (not the TV show, although I guess indirectly he also has that on his conscience) as an insult?
No defence for Dawkins. Just grateful he didn’t say “since the Bible.”
yes, Britain is still punching above its weight in terms of cultural exports today, although that’s kind of inevitable given it’s English speaking but a relatively small market.
the worst part of mariah carey season is walmart does everything in its power to not play her songs for some reason so we end up with all the worst versions of her christmas bops and none of her its borderline a hate crime
one thing im a little worried about is that since tadc is so short, with no “filler” really, once a character has “their” episode, thats sorta it for them? like, since kinger’s had his episode, we wont dive deep into his character again for the rest of the series, yk?
but! its only a small concern, as i am loving this series so far and trust your writing will be amazing as it goes on either way :)
Final Pre-Election 2024 Anti-Trans Risk Assessment Map
Erin Reed has presented a new version of her Anti-Trans Risk Assessment Map over at Erin in the Morning.
She writes:
The elections have tightened across the United States, and anti-trans ads have become a major part of the 2024 campaign cycle. As such, the risk has substantially raised for nationwide laws targeting transgender people in the coming years for both youth and adults.
For states, the state of Texas has been upgraded to Do Not Travel, only the second state to receive such a recommendation. This comes as Odessa, Texas becomes the first city in the nation to pass a $10,000 bounty on transgender people inside of bathrooms.
i like seeing like non-sexualized designs of “what if this character grew up” or “this older character in their younger years” it’s literally so fucking cool to see
to
is so fucking raw i will never be able to visualize anything like this in my life but this eats so much
Fun Story: My director kept telling me and my tenor sax buddy to play softer. No matter what we did, it wasn’t soft enough for him. So getting frustrated, I told my buddy “Dont play this time. Just fake it”
Our Band Director then informed us we sounded perfect.
To my readers: “p” means quiet, “pp” means really quiet. I’ve never seen “pppp” before haha.
On the contrast, “f” means loud, and “ffff” probably means so loud you go unconscious.
I had ffff in a piece once and my conductor told me to play as loudly as physically possible without falling off my chair…
Me and my trombone buddies had “ffff” and he sat next to me and played so hard that he fell out of his chair.
The lengths we go for music.
Okay yeah so I play the bass clarinet and the amount of air you have to move and the stiffness of the reed means it only has two settings and that is loud and louder, with an optional LOUDEST that includes a 50% probability of HORRIBLE CROAKING NOISE which is the bass equivalent of the ubiquitous clarinet shriek.
One day, when I was in concert band in high school, we got a new piece handed out for the first time, and there was a strange little commotion back in the tuba section — whispering, and pointing at something in the music, and swatting at each other’s hands all shhh don’t call attention to it. And although they did attract the attention of basically everyone else in the band, they managed to avoid being noticed by the band director, who gave us a few minutes to look over our parts and then said, “All right, let’s run through it up to section A.”
And here we are, cheerfully playing along, sounding reasonably competent — but everyone, when they have the attention to spare, is keeping an eye on the tuba players. They don’t come in for the first eight measures or so, and then when they do come in, what we see is:
[stifled giggling]
[reeeeeeally deep breath]
[COLOSSAL FOGHORN NOISE]
The entire band stops dead, in the cacophonous kind of way that a band stops when it hasn’t actually been cued to stop. The band director doesn’t even say anything, just looks straight back at the tubas and makes a helpless sort of why gesture.
In unison, the tuba players defend themselves: “THERE WERE FOUR F’S.”
FFFF is not really a rational dynamic marking for any instrument, but for the love of all that is holy why would you put it in a tuba part.
This is the best band post
Everyone else go home
Oh man, so I play trombone, and we got this piece called Florentiner Marsch by Julius Fucik, and we saw this
which is 8 fortes. We were shocked until,
that is 24 fortes who the fuck does that
Who does that?
This guy. Take a good look - that is the moustache of a man with nothing to lose.
Julius IdontgivaFucik
More like Julius Fuckit
Pyrozod’s tags for this were too hilarious not to share
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