I showed this to my partner to gently tease them and they said so sadly “the thing is when you came in I was eating peanuts and reading the Wikipedia page for peanuts”
when we were studying the bible in literature class (so we have the context necessary for later works that reference the bible), i think we were at the book of jonah, and one of my classmates was studying the text very intently, and then looked up and earnestly said “professor, i don’t understand the will of god”
the teacher was just like. well sadly i am a literature teacher and not a priest so i can’t help you there. but if it helps, many people throughout history had the same problem.
*me, owning a strange boutique housegoods/book store selling a variety of mystic, occult objects but no one realizes I live there, this is literally my living room*
How much for this stick I can shake at God?
10 bucks
can i get these three backscratchers with a bundle discount
15% discount for 3 or more
How bout this book? I think it’s look cool with a cosplay I’m planning
40 bucks but never attempt to read or open it
How much is the doll?
Oh that? Just take it. Take it far far away and do not allow it to return
How about this?
$29.99. Just be careful not to leave the candles burning at night, the gremlin comes alive and likes to wander around and go through your stuff
Hey this chair looks cool, how much?
the chair chooses its owner. sit down and see if it likes you
How bout this
Excuse me that’s my great-uncle, he is family
What about this?
that’s not a sale item, that’s my dang lunch
How much is this neat tea set?
OH GODS YOU’VE SET THEM LOOSE
What about this super creepy cool chair?
that’s Lionel. they’re sleeping and I suggest you do NOT wake them
How much for this dandy fellow?
YOU WOKE IT UPWHY DID YOU WAKE IT UP???
How much for the guy that claims to be my childhood friend but remembers things slightly differently than they happened?
i think we as a society need to use cell phones/laptops/cars/backpacks to flesh out characters
like. a character has a cracked phone screen and a dozen stickers and a glittery case and a photo of their dog as a background. that says so much
or a character has a completely plain phone with no decorations and a default home screen and all the contacts are people’s first names with no profile photos. except for one contact which is a stupid nickname and a shot of someone taken at a very unflattering angle. you know?
or cars!!! someone who has a disgusting car, with trash everywhere and mud caking the seats, but the passenger seat is always clean, because someone else always cleans it for them.
this has potential to become a blorbo post so now i want everyone to describe what they think their blorbo’s phone/laptop/car/backpack looks like in the tags because i like reading these things
I went in the code again and saw the new Boop paws were vectors this time, so I converted them into some good sized pngs that are a little easier to work.
im in a very noble mood today.. my viziers are plotting against me i swear it.. if i were to die mysteriously my lands would fall to my bastard brother.. none would recognize his legitimacy.. my realm would fall into chaos..
my liege, perhaps it is in your best interest to find a consort who can actually, y'know, sire you an heir?
i appreciate your suggestion and it has been duly ignored.. bring in another transfem my servant.. this time itll work!! i swear!!
[image description: a tweet by user @indigenousAI saying
“fun fact: as a DV survivor i cannot register to vote because doing so makes my address public. anyone who is fleeing or hiding from an abuser is automatically disenfranchised from the political process and this is a feature, not a bug”]
I don’t know of the original poster might not be aware
but!
if you’ve been a victim of domestic violence, sexual assault, or stalking, you can enroll into the address confidentiality program (free of cost!) and be registered to vote as an absentee voter and your name and address will not be made available for the public
it is super easy to get enrolled - the application takes like 5 minutes, but it has to be with someone who is certified to do it (most likely an advocate! try going to a family justice center in your area or calling the Attorney Generals office in your area!!!!)
ALSO :
you don’t need to have any police reports or have a protection order to qualify!!! you just have to sign stating that you’ve been a victim of one of the aforementioned crimes.
Links to the info for every state in the Wikipedia article:
it’s a great time to be a hater, many things are bad and lots of stuff sucks. it’s also a terrible time to be a hater, because many people will insist that you have to like the bad thing because a company spent millions of dollars making it and it’s just not very nice to say it’s bad
hating is ultimately a philosophy of optimism. the knowledge that things could be better, and the desire to see them improve, differentiates it from the pessimism of idle consumption.
For people who think boycotts /BDS doesn’t working —
My last job was at an ad agency and Burger King and Hershey’s were one of our clients. We’ve received several briefs on how to combat and address boycott sentiments because it was affecting their market shares.
And our other clients frequently check to make sure they’re not being boycotted
Wizard who goes to wizard duels and never casts any protection spells. They’re a masochist and want to see what the “seven hells testicular torsion” spell feels like to get hit by.
Unfortunately they’re now too good at wizard duels (thanks to attending way more than the usual number of them) and it’s getting harder and harder to find someone who can make them lose, or even hurt them at this point.
They’re now going after some lower-end gods just to feel something. The God of Bicycles may be a pushover as far as Gods go, but they’re still a God. They might spirit bomb you with the wishes and dreams of every cyclist in the world and that shit adds up fast.
Their next plan is to try and become a kaiju and attack a medium-sized city. Just what are the defenses of Freeport, Kaya Sona? How we they deal with a 50 foot tall wizard approaching from the west?
Maybe the wizards of the city will join together and summon some cthulhu-motherfucker from the deeps of the Glowing Sea. Maybe they’ll combine their energy and hit the wizard with one of those beams that’ll take out small planets in scifi movies. Maybe they’ll just fling 900 fireballs at the stompy giant wizard. Either way, it’ll probably hurt a lot.
They’re thinking about one day taking on the God of Pain, but while that’s obviously a good idea from their end if they lose, they’re a little worried about what’ll happen if they win. Killing a God is a dangerous thing: either you radically change the world until another can be elected, or the universe decides it can’t keep the wheels turning without that God’s domain, and it immediately elects a new god: the person who killed the last one.
And the last thing a magical masochist wants to be is the nigh-omnipotent being who rules over the domain of pain, a caretaker of a promised land they can never enter.
So it’s risky. But it’s either that or eventually they find a God or wizard that can stop them. So far, they’ve found neither, and the world is filling up with dead or bruised wizards and Gods in their wake.
I picture him doing it and getting hit with the “time isn’t real, you were always the god of pain idiot were the same person”
Wizard who goes to wizard duels and never casts any protection spells. They’re a masochist and want to see what the “seven hells testicular torsion” spell feels like to get hit by.
Unfortunately they’re now too good at wizard duels (thanks to attending way more than the usual number of them) and it’s getting harder and harder to find someone who can make them lose, or even hurt them at this point.
They’re now going after some lower-end gods just to feel something. The God of Bicycles may be a pushover as far as Gods go, but they’re still a God. They might spirit bomb you with the wishes and dreams of every cyclist in the world and that shit adds up fast.
Their next plan is to try and become a kaiju and attack a medium-sized city. Just what are the defenses of Freeport, Kaya Sona? How we they deal with a 50 foot tall wizard approaching from the west?
Maybe the wizards of the city will join together and summon some cthulhu-motherfucker from the deeps of the Glowing Sea. Maybe they’ll combine their energy and hit the wizard with one of those beams that’ll take out small planets in scifi movies. Maybe they’ll just fling 900 fireballs at the stompy giant wizard. Either way, it’ll probably hurt a lot.
They’re thinking about one day taking on the God of Pain, but while that’s obviously a good idea from their end if they lose, they’re a little worried about what’ll happen if they win. Killing a God is a dangerous thing: either you radically change the world until another can be elected, or the universe decides it can’t keep the wheels turning without that God’s domain, and it immediately elects a new god: the person who killed the last one.
And the last thing a magical masochist wants to be is the nigh-omnipotent being who rules over the domain of pain, a caretaker of a promised land they can never enter.
So it’s risky. But it’s either that or eventually they find a God or wizard that can stop them. So far, they’ve found neither, and the world is filling up with dead or bruised wizards and Gods in their wake.
I picture him doing it and getting hit with the “time isn’t real, you were always the god of pain idiot were the same person”
Let them swear, let them say fuck and asshole and anything else they want.
Let them program their devices to say ‘fuck off’ instead of just ‘leave me alone, please’. Let them have language that’s adult or even offensive! Give them the ability to communicate the same as anyone else- let them have the option to be abrasive and even rude for when people are being assholes, let them swear casually so they can joke with their peers and say shit like ‘can you pass the damn ketchup’!!!!!!!!
Today I learned that wordpress has introduced an AI “assistant” to help people write and I learned this by having the thing king hit me out of nowhere by warning me that “immediately” is a “complex word” and I know it’s just a stupid robot with no context but this thing warning me, a writer, that the science fiction story I’m writing has a “complex word” (so watch out!) and that word is the dirt basic word “immediately” filled me with a moment of incandescent rage the likes of which I’ve never felt before and I’m awake now.
Anyway it’s easy to turn the robot off but this reminds me of the time I got grounded for using the word “transportation” as a teenager and this time there’s not even a person doing it.
just wanted to say that i’m seeing headlines everywhere say “floridians rejected an amendment to secure abortion rights” and that is NOT TRUE.
we voted ~57% to enshrine abortion rights in the florida constitution. amendments for our state require a supermajority, aka 60% to pass. this is bullshit and we were set up to fail.
If you are a USAmerican in a relationship that might be affected by legislation that dissolves same-sex marriages, who may no longer be recognized as next-of-kin, especially if you have children, get your rights in writing!
Your marriage certificate may not be enough to prove you have rights to make medical decisions for non-biological children or for a same-sex spouse or partner.
Go to a lawyer, get it spelled out as clearly as possible that you have a voice in emergency medical and legal situations.
For those of us who aren’t lawyers or well-versed in law generally, can someone clarify what kind of document, by name, people should be drafting with their lawyers? Is it a type of letter, or is there a name for this classification of document? I’m aware that it probably varies by US state, but a lot of people are likely feeling extremely lost right now and don’t know where to start on this. I definitely don’t. I live in a state that isn’t likely to nullify existing marriages or prevent new ones from taking place, but who knows what they’re going to try at the national level and enforce from the top down.
Power of Attorney should cover most partners and spouses to ensure that they will be making each other’s health care decisions in cases of serious illness. LGBTQ+ spouses and domestic partners must execute proper Health Care Power of Attorney documents listing each other as the highest priority agents for making each other’s health care decisions in case of incapacity.
