“not even trying to be reactionary or "edgy” or say this shit for shock value. i genuinely mean what i say. corporations giggle at protesting. why would anyone ever willingly come down off their throne that they’ve spent years building off the suffering of their fellow man? nobody is getting visited by the ghost of christmas future. no one is having a change of heart, it’s simple. you make them fear for their lives and hit them in the only place they hurt or nothing will ever get done. i don’t even see how that’s an incredibly radical idea. it seems quite straightforward to me. “violence is never the answer” wrong. sometimes it is ¯\_(ツ)_/ “
"the world is burning and it’s very clear who’s holding the matches”
thought it was a one-off thing, but i’ve now seen multiple pictures and videos of red-bellied woodpeckers touching other birds with their tongue at bird feeders. why are they suck little freaks?
there’s a really funny 3d printing controversy going on btw.
if you don’t know, there’s a very popular 3d printing model out there called “benchy”. this is used for benchmarking your 3d printer because it’s a difficult print and will help test it out.
this is so widely used that people make their own little versions of it, remixing the 3d model to make benchy look cooler and stuff. however, a new company owns the benchy license. they are sending copyright takedowns to all those who wrongfully uploaded the benchy model.
of course, this is pissing off the 3d printing community greatly. everyone loved benchy and have used it for years. so someone on reddit decided to make a new model that is designed as a 3d printing stress test. one that works a lot like benchy, and people are freely able to edit it as they please. you know what they called it?
gender-affirming surgery is a months-long dark comedy. what the fuck do you mean you’re charging me double for everything. what do you mean they itemize the bill by left and right ball. what the fuck.
i just want the vast majority of media to be by and for trans lesbians, ok? the rest of you can have other stuff sometimes i guess.
stoppp posts like this are why the TERFS hate us 😭
I really need you to understand this, because I say it from a place of care, and one of understanding: there is no shape you can make yourself into that will make them accept you.
They don’t hate us because we’re annoying, nor because we ask for too much. They hate us because they are bigots, and we face discrimination because transmisogyny is a pervasive and dominant force within our society. The amount of space they want us to take up is Zero.
We cannot make ourselves small enough to please them, and trying will only make you miserable, I know, because I spent a long time doing it.
Ninjas don’t wear black. They used to disguise themselves as civilians. Unlike ninjas in movies, the real guys were smart enough to know that wearing a black outfit with a face mask wasn’t the best strategy for blending in. Source
But this leaves out the really neat part! The reason we equate the above image with a ninja comes from Kabuki theatre. Within Kabuki theatre there’s a convention of having Kuroko (stage hands) dress in all black (with a full face covering) and move around among the costumed actors in full view, moving scenery, props and costumes. In a similar way, Bunraku puppeteers dress in all black, and only the lead puppeteer’s face would be uncovered. The audience knew to ignore these people and focus on the actors, and to only see that the scene was “magically” changing. So when a play called for a ninja assassin to jump out of nowhere and kill someone, the easiest way to create the surprise reveal was to disguise the ninja in the all black garb of the Kuroko and to remove the face covering and start acting at the last second. This would shock the audience, who were conditioned to not focus on them. Pretty cool, yeah?
WHAT THE FUCK I THOUGHT “STAGE NINJA” WAS JUST A CUTE THEATER TERM FOR CREW. THERE WERE LITERALLY GOD DAMN STAGE NINJAS
AS A FORMER STAGE NINJA I CAN CONFIRM THIS IS BOTH A THING AND AWESOME.
there’s a really funny 3d printing controversy going on btw.
if you don’t know, there’s a very popular 3d printing model out there called “benchy”. this is used for benchmarking your 3d printer because it’s a difficult print and will help test it out.
this is so widely used that people make their own little versions of it, remixing the 3d model to make benchy look cooler and stuff. however, a new company owns the benchy license. they are sending copyright takedowns to all those who wrongfully uploaded the benchy model.
of course, this is pissing off the 3d printing community greatly. everyone loved benchy and have used it for years. so someone on reddit decided to make a new model that is designed as a 3d printing stress test. one that works a lot like benchy, and people are freely able to edit it as they please. you know what they called it?
Me, my grandma and Oreo, my Hampshire pig. Circa. 2005.
If you’re wondering how we ended up with a pig, one of my friends was given him by her aunt as a gag gift on her 4th birthday. This was obviously intended to upset her mom, who was, no offense intended, a neat freak. The baby piggy sat in a cold cardboard box on their porch the entire rest of her birthday party. My mom is a kitten rescuer and had no experience with pigs or knowledge of how big Hampshire pigs get (huge meat breed, 550 to 750 pounds) but couldn’t bear the thought of this tiny piglet being left in the cold. So she took him with us when she left.
He was an exceptional pig with a fantastic piggy personality. He stayed with us for a year and a half until he officially outgrew his enclosure and became a breeding boar at a local farm (this is not a “we sent him to a farm upstate” fairy tale, we saw him often afterwards and he escaped and returned at one point). He liked eating my mom’s tulips, he tucked himself in bed under his blanket every night and by the time he was rehomed, he had somehow figured out how to open doors and let himself in the house. He was clever, dramatic, extremely stubborn and very affectionate.
Don’t give animals as gag gifts, especially intelligent, beautiful, huge creatures.
Powerpuff Girls was actually a show about a group of small children crushing the patriarchy and no one will convince me otherwise
Anyone who tries to convince you otherwise obviously wasn’t watching the same show.
reasons why i love this show so much
I love that the most tiny feminine delicate sweetheart of the three does the traditionaly masculine chores. Kinda makes me wanna see a teen Bubbles change a tire in a pretty dress and hair bow.
honestly i think my fav part of this gifset is the fact that those last two are probably supposed to be Their Chores but only Bubbles is doing them like that is peak sibling energy, flawless execution
Didn’t PPG have a villain that was specifically meant to mock feminists as man haters that use feminism to harm others?
They did and if you watch the whole episode you see the PPG get tricked into letting the villain committ crime out of female solidarity.
Then several women step in to talk to the PPG about how the villain is using feminism as a scapegoat to get away with toxic and criminal behavior. And how what the villain is doing isnt actually feminist at all.
Like that episode was very good about addressing toxic behaivor from people who are supposedly woke or whatever.
An episode a lot of Tumblr should watch given the rampant radfem and terf ideology that gets spread on here.
in conclusion
stan powerpuff girls for clear skin
Additionally: look at Bubble’s smile and pure joy when her sisters bring up her role. That’s not a child who’s getting shunted with the sibling chores, that’s a child who decided one Sunday morning “I’m going to wash the car, it sounds fun!” and no one has stopped her since.
i try to avoid making predictions. but i will make one for 2025. i suspect the surveillance state goes into complete hyper drive starting next year. it’s always been here, obviously. sometimes obfuscated poorly, sometimes not. but this definitely feels like things are evolving and not in a positive way.
i think it started with the campus protests. Luigi accelerated it to break-neck speed. and now, watching some of this New Years Eve coverage has me convinced that we’re moving into an even more advanced, new state of normal regarding perpetual, heavy-handed state surveillance.
this is not meant to be doom posting or conspiratorial, by the way. as i said, it’s happening already here and elsewhere in the world.
Seattle turned down Shotspotter but then turned around and implemented “real-time crime center” software, CCTV cameras on street corners and automatic license plate readers.
and it’s not just big cities like Chicago and Seattle. Glendale, California (pop. ~200k) is getting a 6-person “crime control center” that “takes live streams from hundreds of city and police cameras scattered throughout Glendale and routes them into a six-person control room at police headquarters.”
Customs & Border Patrol are engaged in a massive surveillance campaign at the Mexican border and have looked to “drastically expand its surveillance capabilities with new towers, artificial intelligence, drones, and even four-legged robots.”
meanwhile, don’t forget to look up. because in the north, Canada is getting ready to start it’s own border surveillance crusade in response to Trump’s bloviating, which “includes expansions of border technologies, including RCMP counterintelligence, 24/7 surveillance between ports of entry, helicopters, drones and mobile towers.” as the article linked outlines, this will increase the number of deaths of asylum seekers.
and naturally because we’re living in the late stages of a capitalist hellscape, as you should already know: law enforcement are not the only ones engaging in mass surveillance. the FTC is (was with Trump taking over) investigating vendors for “surveillance pricing.” essentially, credit card companies sell your personal information to vendors who use it in order to ultimately increase the amount you pay at checkout.
this is just scratching the surface. i can also give you recent examples from some places that perhaps you’d expect - Russia, Pakistan, India.
conspiracy theories are more prevalent than ever and it’s important to be wary of them. this, however, is not one of them. every last one of the stories that i’ve linked above are from the last year. there are going to be a lot more like them in 2025.
i just think i should have the power to control thousands of knives, swords, or perhaps shards of glass synchronously with my mind. i will use this ability purely for culinary endeavors. you can trust me
in absolute tears about the pride module at my work
HOLY SHIT GUYS, I WAS INSPIRED BY THIS POST TO TRY MAKE THE SONG AND YOU WOULD NOT BELIEVE THE SCREAM I SCRUMPT WHEN I DRAGGED THE TRAINING AUDIO OVER THE BACKING TRACK AND IT LINED UP PERFECTLY
The slur songSLRSLR
Tempted to actually put this on spotify so I can secretly stream it at work…
Tagging @batshit-auspol because as an Australian you’re the only big account I know who might share (sorry).
Hey, so–we cooled your boyfriend down to a hundredth of a kelvin above absolute zero. Yeah, it was so cold that all of the chemical reactions in his body ceased. Sorry. We, uh, yeah, we used him as a dielectric material in a tiny qubit. And then we quantum-entangled him with another qubit, just to see if we could. Sorry. Yeah, anyway, we thawed him out after two weeks and apparently he’s doing fine now. Didn’t really teach us anything about how quantum processes work in biological systems, but it sure was, uh, cool. If you’ll pardon the pun.
THIS POOR, POOR, TARDIGRADE (and every other tardigrade) would NOT EXIST without Cyanobacteria
Tardigrades are animals in the phylum/clade of Tardigrada, which is part of the clade Panarthropoda. Other members of Panarthropoda include Arthropods and Velvet Worms (Onychophora. I made a post about them recently). They are known for being able to survive in extreme conditions, and for (possibly) being the only living organisms that currently inhabit the moon (Tardigrades on the Moon - Wikipedia).
Just like all other animals, Tardigrades breathe O2 (though they can survive for a very long time in anoxic environments by going into a cryptobiotic state). All O2 that Tardigrades - and all other animals - breathe was originally produced by Cyanobacteria, which continue to supply all of us with our O2 to this day. O2 from these Cyanobacteria was also used in the Bereshit lander on which the aforementioned Lunar Tardigrades ventured to the moon.
So we’re just going to skip over the fact we quantum entangled a living thing then
QUANTUM ENTANGLEMENT WOULD EXIST without Cyanobacteria
Quantum entanglement is a phenomenon in physics (specifically quantum mechanics) where multiple particles become entangled such that the quantum stage of any of them cannot be described without also describing the quantum state of the others. This is true even when the particles are extremely far apart! The phenomenon has been demonstrated with various subatomic particles, but also with diamonds and even a Tardigrade!
Of course, since quantum entanglement has been around since basically the beginning of the universe, it considerably predates Cyanobacteria and is not impacted by them at all (although I would love to see some Cyanobacteria get entangled too!)
Looks like @staffmistakenly censored this comic, which is an ironic and very funny thing to happen
Here it is again. You might want to save it just in case an accident like that happens again
EDIT: HMM. LOOKS LIKE OP WAS BANNED TOO. WHAT A FUNNY. IRONIC. ACCIDENT
[Image ID: a black and white comic of two men, one in an american hat and sunglasses representing the government, the other wearing wearing a suit and is labeled “corporate media”.
A box lays on a table between them, labeled “US Govt. CONTROL of INTERNET SPEECH”
On the wall behind corporate media there are two rolls of decorative paper. The first has american flags and stars, labeled “anti-terrorism”. The second has simple flowers, smiley faces, and animals and is labeled “protect kids”.
Corporate media asks the government, “how would you like this wrapped?”
Artists creating derivative or transformative works (without AI) have blanket permission to use this and all photos in the repository as references, including works that will/may be sold. The Exotic Animal Photo Reference Repository is an independent, permanently open-access project.
mercy seems like a long shot here, so my prayer for inauguration day 2025: may they be incompetent. may they just be really bad at implementation. may their egos choke their effectiveness. may they drown themselves week by week with infighting and selfish posturing. may they be easily distracted. may the very governors and senators and agencies and religious leaders that the new administration expects to be friendly force endless stalemates to preserve their own power. may every delay turn into a three ring blame circus so chaotic that no one remembers what they were doing. may the good and necessary parts of government be too boring to draw attention and keep running quietly in the background. may the next four years be full of sound and fury and signify nothing.
Adult Transgender Legislative Risk Map, November 2024
This map is made and maintained by transgender journalist Erin Reed. She read all 550 bills targeting trans people in America in 2023 and 586 so far in 2024 and she scores state safety based on proposed and enacted legislation. She regularly updates the map (including explanations of recent legislative changes) on her site. She has a separate map for trans youth (which: warning, is even more scary), since a lot of policies target minors specifically.
It’s depressing as all hell, but Erin does great work and I’ve been using her maps to plan my career and vacations for years. It’s helped me figure out where to apply for grad school, and helps me keep track of what states I cannot do a layover in while flying because of bathroom bills.
Earlier I was scrolling Reddit and I come across a post in r/shrooms, a sub reddit dedicated to psychadelic mushrooms and frequently featuring entries from users who are posting during a trip.
A guy posts, freaking out, that the delivery person who dropped off his food had a huge snake wrapped around his neck and the snake was talking to him and tripped him out.
He shares a picture ne sneakily took of the delivery driver.
The delivery driver actually does, in fact, have a live 7 or so foot long boa constrictor draped across his shoulders.
Can you fucking image. Being blasted out of your gourd on hallucinogenic substances, getting a random knock at the door and the guy has a live gigantic snake just chilling. Your head would explode
