argumate:

argumate:

European governments are shockingly unprepared after decades’ worth of wakeup calls.

It’s been almost four months since Trump’s election victory, yet they seemed to have no plan. It’s also been three years since Russia’s 2022 invasion, a decade since Trump and his America First movement became a major political force, 11 years since Russia invaded and annexed Crimea, and probably half a century or more since Washington began prodding Europe to take greater responsibility for its own defense.

worldbuilding-tomfoolery:

asmuchasidliketo:

parrhesiac:

drtanner:

iosonomer-blog:

GO BABY GO

I love this. I *love* this.

Not only does the child have the rhythm and their part down precisely, but also, they are clearly doing the very-small-child thing of reserving exactly nothing.

Children have to learn not to use all of the force they’re capable of, adults mostly never use all of the force they are capable of, but here someone has given this child exactly the opportunity to use all of the force their body can produce, and do it musically.

The glee of that all-out effort in a context where clearly the people around them approve and appreciate their contribution? Amazing.

Took some searching, but I found him!

His name is Hinata and he’s a 5th generation Taiko drummer who was born in September (maybe October) 2020, so he’s about 3 ½ in this video.

THAT is hitting your feelings with sticks!!!!!

basyacriptid:

its just one of those days

gunpowderpercy:

gunpowderpercy:

I still can’t get over what brits call musical notes like bro please I’m trying so hard to take this country seriously

roxylalonde:

worsecats:

bagofbirds:

when you have a cat you can experience sensations! some of them are soft. some of them are painful. many of them are wet

beaft:

me when someone abruptly asks me if i want to go and do something fun together but the fun thing wasn’t part of my daily plan:

nothorses:

transfaguette:

astropuff:

cleverthylacine:

transfaguette:

insane levels of misogyny of people saying Grimes having her child abducted and paraded around by her uber powerful evil ex is a “leopards ate my face” situation. or saying “well what did u expect?” do u guys like give a shit about abuse at all or. i’m not asking you to feel any particular emotion for Grimes but your willingness to whip out these victim blaming statements is concerning and you should reflect on that. cuz other victims of abuse are not gonna see that and feel good or safe around you. and yknow not to mention. THE CHILD.

Especially when Vivian Wilson is around to tell us what Elon’s A+++ parenting is actually like.

The same Grimes who said she loves misogyny and is friends with Nazis? Who had kids with a man who said he wanted to have as many genetically superior children as possible? And is surprised his eugenics loving ass isn’t helping their sick kid? Yeah she’s no victim. If anything her child is a victim of her and elons facist and poor decision making 🤷🏾‍♀️

i literally don’t care about Grimes. I care that ppl so readily use victim blaming rhetoric because i think it hurts all victims when you do this. Think and feel whatever you want abt her as a person! Thats your prerogative and i’m not telling you any differently.

my mom was abusive. she was also abused. she did not deserve that. additionally this is part of a very obscure phenomenon known as “the cycle of abuse” which I’m sure you’ve never heard of before, so of course the logic “if someone sucks then what happened to them wasn’t abuse” might have made sense before now, but hopefully this clears things up xoxo

mangiobaby-deactivated20250421:

The judge refusing to have Luigi’s shackles removed due to “safety” concerns just shows how this case has been nothing but the presumption of guilt over innocence. They’re trying so hard to make him look dangerous when in reality I’d feel safer alone in a room with Luigi than with any of those NYPD officers around him :/ I have no words

derinthescarletpescatarian:

darkenedyeastextract:

derinthescarletpescatarian:

thelongestway:

derinthescarletpescatarian:

Do you guys think maybe I left the weeding a bit too long

biodiversity bed

Oh there was no diversity in there. The whole thing was this leafy bullshit, and invasive ivy.

why is the greenery invading your home like how bears in north america do

The weeds get away from you if you hate going outside

theconcealedweapon:

kianf1sh:

roach-works:

ethicallysourcedsustainablepolls:

pick one

leather jacket*

denim jacket

See Results

*faux leather no animals were harmed! :)

faux leather is pleather, which is plastic. the process of mining, refining, and fabricating plastic causes enormous environmental damage at every step of the way. oil refineries regularly cause massive die offs of birds, small mammals, and EVERY local invertebrate. the degrading plastic from pleather garments (which break down after only a few years) produces microplastics and leads to groundwater contamination, killing off amphibians and, later, sea life. faux leather can’t be repaired or recycled, only replaced by a new, equally toxic product.

tanneries are not exactly fountains of health, but a leather jacket uses the skin of a domestic cow that was already killed for meat. leather jackets can also be refurbished or recycled. once entirely discarded, leather will rot in place, rather than fragment into toxic forever particles.

leather is the product of an animal’s death in a tangible, recognizable form that you can immediately assess. one jacket, one cow. you touch the skin of that dead animal and you flinch from it.

pleather can tell you that no animals were harmed, because it harms animals that you will never see. it outsources responsibility. you’re not touching the skin of the birds that drowned in oil spills and the tadpoles that hatched into toxic rivers. the fish that will choke on the microplastics of your new jacket aren’t born yet when you walk out of the shop. the material of the jacket is so abstract and your culpability is so obscure that you can believe what you are told: it is clean. you are clean. no harm, no foul.

but that’s still not true.

AND I WOULD RATHER DIE THAN WEAR A JACKET

ESPECIALLY ONE OF DENIM

armengoldira:

tiktoksgay:

sacred-portal:

batsies-little-monster:

Everyone needs a Girl Buddy and a hate interest.

lenovo-real:

kde-plasma-official:

@lenovo-real

(source)

…

welp I guess it’s now the tracknipple, or trackclit.

now let me see if I can make this idea even funnier.

replacing the sound with “bruh” of different variations. or just dank memes in general that just play at random without the intensity of the input as a variable.

definitely putting this in the group chat to see what happens to it

emacs-unofficial:

From where I post

crossdreamers:

Lynn Conway, pioneer computer scientist and transgender activist, has passed away

Lynn Conway has passed away at the age of 86.

Born in 1938, Conway made significant contributions to the field of computer science. She was fired by IBM in 1968 after transitioning, but she went on to make major advances in her field, including revolutionizing the chip design process.

She was a trailblazer for transgender individuals in the tech industry and fought against discrimination and the pathologization of gender variance.

Trans activist Andrea James writes:

In keeping with her passion for innovation, Lynn was also a pioneer in online transgender resources. Among her most valuable early contributions were lists of successful trans people that inspired many in their own transitions.

Advocate has more.

See also: Lynn’s story.

Illustration by Sophie Labelle.

crossdreamers:

Lynn Conway, pioneer computer scientist and transgender activist, has passed away

Lynn Conway has passed away at the age of 86.

Born in 1938, Conway made significant contributions to the field of computer science. She was fired by IBM in 1968 after transitioning, but she went on to make major advances in her field, including revolutionizing the chip design process.

She was a trailblazer for transgender individuals in the tech industry and fought against discrimination and the pathologization of gender variance.

Trans activist Andrea James writes:

In keeping with her passion for innovation, Lynn was also a pioneer in online transgender resources. Among her most valuable early contributions were lists of successful trans people that inspired many in their own transitions.

Advocate has more.

See also: Lynn’s story.

Illustration by Sophie Labelle.

wayfire-official:

mint-official:

ailelie:

Installing Linux (Mint) as a Non-Techy Person

I’ve wanted Linux for various reasons since college. I tried it once when I no longer had to worry about having specific programs for school, but it did not go well. It was a dedicated PC that was, I believe, poorly made. Anyway.

In the process of deGoogling and deWindows365'ing, I started to think about Linux again. Here is my experience.

Pre-Work: Take Stock

List out the programs you use regularly and those you need. Look up whether or not they work on Linux. For those that don’t, look up alternatives.

If the alternative works on Windows/Mac, try it out first.

Make sure you have your files backed up somewhere.

Also, pick up a 5GB minimum USB drive.

Oh and make a system restore point (look it up in your Start menu) and back-up your files.

Step One: Choose a Distro

Dear god do Linux people like to talk about distros. Basically, from what all I’ve read, if you don’t want to fuss a lot with your OS, you’ve got two options: Ubuntu and Linux Mint. Ubuntu is better known and run by a company called Canonical. Linux Mint is run by a small team and paid for via donations.

I chose Linux Mint. Some of the stuff I read about Ubuntu reminded me too much of my reasons for wanting to leave Windows, basically. Did I second-guess this a half-dozen times? Yes, yes I did.

The rest of this is true for Linux Mint Cinnamon only.

Step Two: Make your Flash Drive

Linux Mint has great instructions. For the most part they work.

Start here:

Choose the right edition — Linux Mint Installation Guide documentation

The trickiest part of creating the flash drive is verifying and authenticating it.

On the same page that you download the Linux .iso file there are two links. Right click+save as both of those files to your computer. I saved them and the .iso file all to my Downloads folder.

Then, once you get to the ‘Verify your ISO image’ page in their guide and you’re on Windows like me, skip down to this link about verifying on Windows.

You are being redirected…

Once it is verified, you can go back to the Linux Mint guide. They’ll direct you to download Etchr and use that to create your flash drive.

If this step is too tricky, then please reconsider Linux. Subsequent steps are both easier and trickier.

Step Three: Restart from your Flash Drive

This is the step where I nearly gave up. The guide is still great, except it doesn’t mention certain security features that make installing Linux Mint impossible without extra steps.

(1) Look up your Bitlocker recovery key and have it handy.

Find your BitLocker recovery key - Microsoft Support

I don’t know if you’ll need it like I did (I did not turn off Bitlocker at first), but better to be safe.

(2) Turn off Bitlocker.

(3) Restart. When on the title screen, press your Bios key. There might be more than one. On a Lenovo, pressing F1 several times gets you to the relevant menu. This is not the menu you’ll need to install, though. Turn off “Secure Boot.”

(4) Restart. This time press F12 (on a Lenovo). The HDD option, iirc, is your USB. Look it up on your phone to be sure.

Now you can return to the Linux Mint instructions.

Figuring this out via trial-and-error was not fun.

Step Four: Install Mint

Just follow the prompts. I chose to do the dual boot.

You will have to click through some scary messages about irrevocable changes. This is your last chance to change your mind.

I chose the dual boot because I may not have anticipated everything I’ll need from Windows. My goal is to work primarily in Linux. Then, in a few months, if it is working, I’ll look up the steps for making my machine Linux only.

Some Notes on Linux Mint

Some of the minor things I looked up ahead of time and other miscellany:

(1) HP Printers supposedly play nice with Linux. I have not tested this yet.

(2) Linux Mint can easily access your Windows files. I’ve read that this does not go both ways. I’ve not tested it yet.

(3) You can move the taskbar (panel in LM) to the left side of your screen.

(4) You are going to have to download your key programs again.

(5) The LM software manager has most programs, but not all. Some you’ll have to download from websites. Follow instructions. If a file leads to a scary wall of strange text, close it and just do the Terminal instructions instead.

(6) The software manager also has fonts. I was able to get Fanwood (my favorite serif) and JetBrains (my favorite mono) easily.

In the end, be prepared for something to go wrong. Just trust that you are not the first person to ever experience the issue and look it up. If that doesn’t help, you can always ask. The forums and reddit community both look active.

👀

Can confirm that HP plays nice with Linux. I’m able to both print and scan wirelessly with ease and relatively little hassle to set up.

Little tip for the scanning: if your scanner has airscan then you can use that with a special sane plugin. I highly recommend

wayfire-official:

mint-official:

ailelie:

Installing Linux (Mint) as a Non-Techy Person

I’ve wanted Linux for various reasons since college. I tried it once when I no longer had to worry about having specific programs for school, but it did not go well. It was a dedicated PC that was, I believe, poorly made. Anyway.

In the process of deGoogling and deWindows365'ing, I started to think about Linux again. Here is my experience.

Pre-Work: Take Stock

List out the programs you use regularly and those you need. Look up whether or not they work on Linux. For those that don’t, look up alternatives.

If the alternative works on Windows/Mac, try it out first.

Make sure you have your files backed up somewhere.

Also, pick up a 5GB minimum USB drive.

Oh and make a system restore point (look it up in your Start menu) and back-up your files.

Step One: Choose a Distro

Dear god do Linux people like to talk about distros. Basically, from what all I’ve read, if you don’t want to fuss a lot with your OS, you’ve got two options: Ubuntu and Linux Mint. Ubuntu is better known and run by a company called Canonical. Linux Mint is run by a small team and paid for via donations.

I chose Linux Mint. Some of the stuff I read about Ubuntu reminded me too much of my reasons for wanting to leave Windows, basically. Did I second-guess this a half-dozen times? Yes, yes I did.

The rest of this is true for Linux Mint Cinnamon only.

Step Two: Make your Flash Drive

Linux Mint has great instructions. For the most part they work.

Start here:

Choose the right edition — Linux Mint Installation Guide documentation

The trickiest part of creating the flash drive is verifying and authenticating it.

On the same page that you download the Linux .iso file there are two links. Right click+save as both of those files to your computer. I saved them and the .iso file all to my Downloads folder.

Then, once you get to the ‘Verify your ISO image’ page in their guide and you’re on Windows like me, skip down to this link about verifying on Windows.

You are being redirected…

Once it is verified, you can go back to the Linux Mint guide. They’ll direct you to download Etchr and use that to create your flash drive.

If this step is too tricky, then please reconsider Linux. Subsequent steps are both easier and trickier.

Step Three: Restart from your Flash Drive

This is the step where I nearly gave up. The guide is still great, except it doesn’t mention certain security features that make installing Linux Mint impossible without extra steps.

(1) Look up your Bitlocker recovery key and have it handy.

Find your BitLocker recovery key - Microsoft Support

I don’t know if you’ll need it like I did (I did not turn off Bitlocker at first), but better to be safe.

(2) Turn off Bitlocker.

(3) Restart. When on the title screen, press your Bios key. There might be more than one. On a Lenovo, pressing F1 several times gets you to the relevant menu. This is not the menu you’ll need to install, though. Turn off “Secure Boot.”

(4) Restart. This time press F12 (on a Lenovo). The HDD option, iirc, is your USB. Look it up on your phone to be sure.

Now you can return to the Linux Mint instructions.

Figuring this out via trial-and-error was not fun.

Step Four: Install Mint

Just follow the prompts. I chose to do the dual boot.

You will have to click through some scary messages about irrevocable changes. This is your last chance to change your mind.

I chose the dual boot because I may not have anticipated everything I’ll need from Windows. My goal is to work primarily in Linux. Then, in a few months, if it is working, I’ll look up the steps for making my machine Linux only.

Some Notes on Linux Mint

Some of the minor things I looked up ahead of time and other miscellany:

(1) HP Printers supposedly play nice with Linux. I have not tested this yet.

(2) Linux Mint can easily access your Windows files. I’ve read that this does not go both ways. I’ve not tested it yet.

(3) You can move the taskbar (panel in LM) to the left side of your screen.

(4) You are going to have to download your key programs again.

(5) The LM software manager has most programs, but not all. Some you’ll have to download from websites. Follow instructions. If a file leads to a scary wall of strange text, close it and just do the Terminal instructions instead.

(6) The software manager also has fonts. I was able to get Fanwood (my favorite serif) and JetBrains (my favorite mono) easily.

In the end, be prepared for something to go wrong. Just trust that you are not the first person to ever experience the issue and look it up. If that doesn’t help, you can always ask. The forums and reddit community both look active.

👀

Can confirm that HP plays nice with Linux. I’m able to both print and scan wirelessly with ease and relatively little hassle to set up.

Little tip for the scanning: if your scanner has airscan then you can use that with a special sane plugin. I highly recommend

lifeafterpsychiatry:

You can in fact advocate against something you used to do in the past. That’s not called hypocrisy, that’s called growth.

mapsofnonexistentplaces:

dualboot-dollbot:

soup-mother:

red blood cell girl bringing you oxygen on a cute little platter and then curtseying

white blood cell girl fucking killing people for being slightly rude to you and then curtseying

hadleyfrasergender:

linecoveredinjellyfish:

hadleyfrasergender:

hadleyfrasergender:

things that are gay sex:

• cannibalism
• surgery
• russian roulette
• braiding/brushing hair
• fishing
• hunting
• gutting animals
• stabbing
• drinking blood from the wrist or neck
• autopsies
• shootouts
• boxing/wrestling
• digging in the ground

• lighting someone elses cigarette
• blood transfusions
• poker

• vivisection
• adjusting collars
• doing up armor straps
• treating wounds
• that scene with the acid from fight club
• eye contact (done correctly)

• prayer
• stick & poke tattoos
• doing eyeliner
• eating meat off the bone with just yr teeth
• tying lures

derinthescarletpescatarian:

boltlightning:

not watching severance and succession means i log on the day after an episode and everyone is like SCREAMING CRYING THROWING UP THEYRE SO INSANE FOR THIS and the image cited is a man in a suit standing still in an otherwise blank, fluorescently-lit hallway. i’m happy for you guys or sorry that happened

#im still confused what is about#i thought it was like. a realistic gritty business drama and then i heard people talk about like. rituals???#What are they Doing in that office job man

Severance and Succession are two very different shows with very different premises. One is a gritty office drama (I’m told, I haven’t actually watched Succession, office dramas don’t interest me) and the other one is a science fiction story about the victims of memory-blocking brain chip technology and the powerful company/cult that’s using them to run weird experiments.

tamathena:

anarcho-mom-unist:

windstalkerwolf:

Transportation

Okay but I love pictures of animals carrying their babies in slightly precarious looking ways, and the baby looks mildly concerned or displeased

lydiadotnet:

argumate:

gabriellemeantime:

argumate:

who exactly is the central bank in all the metaphors about tech debt, who is setting the risk free rate of return on this stuff

Ironically I think it’s the actual US Fed, thanks VC funding.

programmers are free in the zero interest rate environment!

argumate:

Coco: starts with major act of individual transgression, ends with a celebration of Official Traditional Cultural Practices and a reminder that maintaining the harmony of the extended family is the most important thing in life.

Moana: starts with major act of individual transgression, ends with a celebration of Ancient Traditional Cultural Practices and a reminder that maintaining the identity of the tribe is the most important thing in life.

Mulan: starts with major act of individual transgression, ends with reconciliation with the Patriarchy as represented by Emperor, Father, and (potential) Husband.

Little Mermaid: starts with major act of individual transgression, ends with King Triton going yeah sure whatever marry your human prince I don’t care just keep him the fuck away from my ocean, that boy’s dangerous.

argumate:

realmarysue:

strange-aeons:

YOU FREAKS CRASHED THE DASHCON SITE AND THEN SOLD OUT THE TICKETS IN UNDER 30 MINUTES

I need you all to understand this is a post from February 22, 2025.

oh fuck it’s real

argumate:

realmarysue:

strange-aeons:

YOU FREAKS CRASHED THE DASHCON SITE AND THEN SOLD OUT THE TICKETS IN UNDER 30 MINUTES

I need you all to understand this is a post from February 22, 2025.

oh fuck it’s real

rezmacro:

transdickhandhookcardoor:

Graffitto in the stall of my local queer furry bar

the fuckin

underneath

fluffmugger:

meret118:

viewparadise:

It’s all fun and games and laughing at BookTok until you can’t get on AO3 anymore, as someone who likes both romance and fanfic.

Vote Blue if you want to be able to read what you want to!

“I’m an english lit major and all I did was turn my love of the written word into a completely indoctrinated judge of "worth” that I can use to mock other people like a complete jackass"

angelicguy:

Want one of your fishmongers to return? Just to go your MyMonger tab, click on “banished” in the dropdown menu, and select the gear icon to manage your shunned mongers.

angelicguy:

Want one of your fishmongers to return? Just to go your MyMonger tab, click on “banished” in the dropdown menu, and select the gear icon to manage your shunned mongers.

argumate:

Three financial warning signs are flashing red. First, the Kremlin’s traditional cash cow—Gazprom—is posting record losses following Moscow’s decision to close the gas tap to Europe. The firm used to bring in 10 percent of state revenues, so this is a significant shortfall. Second, Russia’s state-owned banks are increasingly reluctant to buy the country’s sovereign debt, raising questions regarding Moscow’s ability to finance its budget deficit at a time when sanctions curb its access to international markets. And third, new sanctions imposed by the Biden administration during its final weeks in the White House are biting: Russia’s liquefied natural gas plants in the Arctic have gone dark, and many Russian oil cargoes are idling for lack of fools willing to defy U.S. secondary sanctions.

To continue financing the war, the Kremlin has been drawing on the savings of its National Welfare Fund. Yet even the largest of reserves will eventually run dry, and the fund is no exception. Its liquid assets have shrunk by about 60 percent since the start of the war, although exact figures have been hard to gauge since Russia’s Finance Ministry shut down access to the relevant data. (This is a sure sign that alarm bells must be ringing in Moscow.) The Kremlin’s last-resort scenario—financial support from Beijing—is highly unlikely to materialize, which Putin surely knows. Since Trump’s return to power, China has been keen to avoid antagonizing the United States in order to avert a damaging trade war at a time when the Chinese economy is already struggling.

Moscow’s financial difficulties can only worsen, unless a sudden lifting of U.S. sanctions gives the Kremlin fiscal breathing room—by placing external debt and selling more hydrocarbons, for example. That is precisely what Putin is hoping to get from Trump, with as few concessions by Russia as Trump can be flattered into. Putin also knows that the longer the war continues, the higher the risks are that bleak economic conditions will fuel popular unrest (or, worse for him, a coup). If Trump wants to project strength, he would be better off playing the long game until Putin is in such a hurry to end the war that he makes far fewer demands.

how neocon influence has faded, how they must be cursing missing this incredible chance to bring Russia to its knees

lonestatus:

*visibly shaking* has anybody else noticed how beautiful everything is?

everythingfox:

What a smart doggy

iftadwascool:

David Lynch on Twin Peaks

scleroticstatue:

p0tat0-g0ddess:

scleroticstatue:

p0tat0-g0ddess:

p0tat0-g0ddess:

i am actually insufferable once I get comfortable with someone

Be My Friend and gain access to top hits such as

• wild mood swings
• constant need for attention
• hearing about All my problems
• crying
• having my latest hyperfixation explained to you in excruciating detail
• forgetting what I’m doing every 5 seconds

What a beautiful thing to be someone a friend feels safe to be vulnerable with

how dare you turn my self-deprecating midnight rambles into a hopecore positive post

Get hoped

mrscancelled-1: