m,y friends keep using ai and its. STOP IT!! STOP IT!! STOP DOING THAT!!!! TALK TO EACH OTHER AS YANDERE MAFIA BOSSES NOT TO THE CHARACTER AI BOT.!! NOOOOOO. YOU SAID YOU HATE AI, DOES THAT NOT EXTEND HERE?
i could be your yandere mafia boss. you just arent considering the opportunities. i could draw that ugly fuckingblue thing for you. YOU could draw that ugly fucking blue thing
m,y friends keep using ai and its. STOP IT!! STOP IT!! STOP DOING THAT!!!! TALK TO EACH OTHER AS YANDERE MAFIA BOSSES NOT TO THE CHARACTER AI BOT.!! NOOOOOO. YOU SAID YOU HATE AI, DOES THAT NOT EXTEND HERE?
i could be your yandere mafia boss. you just arent considering the opportunities. i could draw that ugly fuckingblue thing for you. YOU could draw that ugly fucking blue thing
m,y friends keep using ai and its. STOP IT!! STOP IT!! STOP DOING THAT!!!! TALK TO EACH OTHER AS YANDERE MAFIA BOSSES NOT TO THE CHARACTER AI BOT.!! NOOOOOO. YOU SAID YOU HATE AI, DOES THAT NOT EXTEND HERE?
i could be your yandere mafia boss. you just arent considering the opportunities. i could draw that ugly fuckingblue thing for you. YOU could draw that ugly fucking blue thing
idk who needs to hear this but if you have been putting something off bc it doesn’t need to be done until the end of the month. we are almost done with the teens we are approaching the big numbers (the twenties). that date shall dawn upon you swiftly and without mercy before you know it. psa for everyone except me i got plany off time
imagine if people still took last names from their trade like fisher, smith and fletcher. imagine some guy introducing himself to you as jonathan podcaster
the only time i tried to use betterhelp my “therapist” rescheduled 5 weeks in a row and i just closed my account so im not surprised in the least
oh yay I get to hate on betterhelp. DO NOT USE BETTERHELP. They’re like the gym of fake online therapy; they overcharge you and then make you jump through hoops to cancel their service. They’re taking advantage of both their customers and their employees. They sell your data. You’re better off finding a peer counselling group online that’s free because the quality of care will be about the same.
I’m so mad that a t4 bacteriophage actually looks like that and that it’s appearance isn’t made up
this is how they look in all the models
this is how they actually look
like they really fucking look like that. in real life
viruses are literally such bullshit they have the nerve to look like this and they aren’t even ALIVE
I REFUSE TO ACCEPT THE SHITTY AND ARBITRARY DEFINITION OF LIFE THAT MAKES VIRUSES NOT ALIVE. FUCK YOU THEY ARE ALIVE
Things are heating up in the virus fandom
I have been to multiple astrobiology conferences where the topic of “are viruses alive?” is explicitly banned from formal discussion sessions, because once it’s been raised, even as a joke, a heated argument immediately breaks out and it is impossible to discuss anything else.
I’m so mad that a t4 bacteriophage actually looks like that and that it’s appearance isn’t made up
this is how they look in all the models
this is how they actually look
like they really fucking look like that. in real life
viruses are literally such bullshit they have the nerve to look like this and they aren’t even ALIVE
I REFUSE TO ACCEPT THE SHITTY AND ARBITRARY DEFINITION OF LIFE THAT MAKES VIRUSES NOT ALIVE. FUCK YOU THEY ARE ALIVE
Things are heating up in the virus fandom
I have been to multiple astrobiology conferences where the topic of “are viruses alive?” is explicitly banned from formal discussion sessions, because once it’s been raised, even as a joke, a heated argument immediately breaks out and it is impossible to discuss anything else.
I’m so mad that a t4 bacteriophage actually looks like that and that it’s appearance isn’t made up
this is how they look in all the models
this is how they actually look
like they really fucking look like that. in real life
viruses are literally such bullshit they have the nerve to look like this and they aren’t even ALIVE
I REFUSE TO ACCEPT THE SHITTY AND ARBITRARY DEFINITION OF LIFE THAT MAKES VIRUSES NOT ALIVE. FUCK YOU THEY ARE ALIVE
Things are heating up in the virus fandom
I have been to multiple astrobiology conferences where the topic of “are viruses alive?” is explicitly banned from formal discussion sessions, because once it’s been raised, even as a joke, a heated argument immediately breaks out and it is impossible to discuss anything else.
I do think people should embrace blurring the line between strong platonic and romantic love. I think time spent with loved ones these days is time well spent.
bitch this is all you’re gonna get. this life, this face, this body. you better not ‘maybe in another universe’ your way out of everything. sit your ass down and face this. go make tea and have a picnic and read a goddamn book. kiss your loved ones, send that damn text, and hug your siblings. this is all you’re gonna get.
People who don’t want to read The Martian in case the science is too complicated should be informed that it contains the lines “The best way to store the ingredients of water is to make them be water”, “It is of course dangerous to set off an explosive device on a spacecraft”, and “If I cut a hole in the wall of the hab, the air won’t stay inside any more”.
I love this fucking book
“I’ve said the words kilowatt-hours-per-sol so many times they’ve lost all meaning so I’m going to call them pirate-ninjas.
“So I need to generate nine hundred pirate-ninjas…”
there’s an entire chapter dedicated to him wondering how the cubs are doing while he’s stuck on mars, dying
I like the part where the guys on Earth are like “He thinks we all gave up on him, and that he’s completely alone. I wonder what he’s thinking about right now.”
And he’s like “How come Aquaman can control whales?”
“
As with most of life’s problems, this one can be solved by a box of pure radiation.
“
“Actually, I was the very lowest ranked member of the crew. I would only be “in command” if I were the only remaining person.”
Two pages later… “What do you know? I’m in command”
“Me: “This is obviously a clog. How about I take it apart and check the internal tubing?” NASA: (after five hours of deliberation) “No. You’ll fuck it up and die.” So I took it apart.
And my personal favorite :”
Also, I have duct tape. Ordinary duct tape, like you buy at a hardware store. Turns out even NASA can’t improve on duct tape.
Yes, of course duct tape works in a near-vacuum. Duct tape works anywhere. Duct tape is magic and should be worshiped.”
One of my favorites:
“Each crewman had their own laptop. So I have six at my disposal. Rather, I had six. I now have five. I thought a laptop would be fine outside. It’s just electronics, right? It’ll keep warm enough to operate in the short term, and it doesn’t need air for anything. It died instantly. The screen went black before I was out of the airlock. Turns out the “L” in “LCD” stands for “Liquid.” I guess it either froze or boiled off. Maybe I’ll post a consumer review. “Brought product to surface of Mars. It stopped working. 0/10.”
I fell asleep in my friends’ arms. It was eleven at night, we were tired, curled up in a small pile on my tiny bed. I had my head buried in my roommate’s side, and one of my closest friend’s hand on my shoulder, steadying me. It was quiet and nothingness and peace and their heartbeats in my ears, my hands in their hair.
“there is no platonic explanation for this–”
We pack four people to that little bed, you know. Laps used as footrests, collarbones as pillows, little lights like moonlight in rustic yellow bathed on their faces. The TV plays an anime. The words are repeated by my dear friend on my shoulder, curled close. My legs are asleep; my roommate may be, too.
“there is no platonic explanation for this–”
The cat curls on top of our criss cross mess of legs and arms and heads on chests to absorb the warmth of us all. She purrs in contented peace. When my roommate and I are left alone in the quiet, she cries, and watches the door for our friends’ return.
“there is no platonic explanation for this–”
I will never kiss them but the top of their heads. I will never touch but the warmth of their arms. I will never take more than what’s freely given, and in return I put my glasses on the bedside table fashioned from a guitar amp, and when I lean into their sides, I pick up my vulnerability and place it in their capable, tender hands.
“there is no platonic explanation for this–”
I sing for them. I cry for them. I work and I run and I withstand the worst of the world for them, because some days I get to cradle their forehead on my shoulder and some days I get to see their shining eyes.
“there is no platonic explanation for this–”
Maybe to you. But look beyond explanation. I love them. With my heart in my unsteady hands, with my nose pressed to the side of their head, with the buzzing in my feet and the warmth all around Iike the sunset pushing into the window.
“there is no platonic explanation for this–”
Is it enough to say I love them? With no strings attached? With reckless abandon and utter devotion and freedom and kindness and fear?
“there is no platonic explanation for this–”
I cannot explain it any clearer. I love my friends. There is no more to say.
I genuinely think there was no greater insight into the modern Christian mindset than when the Pope said he very much hoped Hell was empty and he was absolutely hounded by both Catholics and Protestants outraged at the idea of a man who wanted a place of infinite suffering to have nobody in it.
okay also semi related post. I think it is really silly when people make all these posts about how adderall is so different than meth and start saying demeaning stuff about meth users when they’re discussing the artificially created adderall shortage. the two drugs are both stimulants and yeah they are not chemically identical but they are enough the same that I currently know of a clinical trial where people are piloting adderall as a form of MAT for meth users. (Which has been really popular with the participants so far, people were telling me they liked having access to a consistent supply of adderall and were interested in reducing their meth use to only a couple times a week instead.) so maybe we should start thinking a little bit more about how there’s a lot of propaganda sensationalizing and stigmatizing meth use and stop blaming people who use meth for a shortage that the DEA is causing!!!
meth and adderall are not only both stimulants but they’re both *amphetamines*. adderall is dextro and levoamphetamine, meth is methamphetamine. they’re more closely related to eachother than other stimulants like cocaine and ritalin.
meth is also a prescription drug for ADHD, too! many people don’t even know that — meth is not a schedule I, completely banned drug. the brand name is desoxyn.
Iirc dexto & meth are mirror to each other, so while they are made of the same things, the arrangement is opposite. This was explained to me to mean that they “fit” into different receptors. That’s the only real difference.
I’m far from a chemist, but I find stimulants fascinating chemically, so I went reading some more, and Adderall is a racemic mixture of different compounds that have different effects between them (I knew this part, but the next I did not). These compounds, levo and dextroamphetamine, are enantiomers. I read an explanation of how enantiomers are like the “left and right hands” of the drug, so they create non-superposable mirror images of each other.
This is what amphetamine’s “left and right” hands of levo and dextroamphetamine look like!
Meth’s left and right are levomethamphetamine and dextromethamphetamine.
Interestingly, prescription meth like Desoxyn is not a racemic mixture and is a pure enantiomer of dextromethamphetamine, so its amphetamine equivalent would be the prescription drug Dexedrine, which is just the enantiomer of dextroamphetamine. It seems illicit meth can be a racemic mixture of dextro and levomethamphetamine, similar to how Adderall is created.
I didn’t read further at this time, but I’m guessing that much like the levoamphetamine in Adderall, levomethamphetamine extends the duration of the effects, which would be more desirable.
The molecular structures of methamphetamine and amphetamine also practically are a copy of each other, with one difference:
TOS: what if, one day, we get past all of this? What if we get past all the wars, past our own prejudices, and support each other? What if we actually learn to work together?
TNG: and what if we keep going? What if we get past some more prejudices (surprise - we weren’t actually done with that one yet by a long shot, and we may never be actually. But we’ll keep trying)? And what if we get past our consumerism and manufactured scarcity? What if we give everyone what they need to survive and thrive without requiring anything of them in return? What would we become, when we don’t have to be anything? What do people do when they don’t have to?
DS9: and what if these ideals meet more complex situations? What if they meet complex cultural interactions, and the horrors of war? What if they meet people who disagree with them outright? What if we’re confronted with the way that building our ideal little world has isolated and abandoned some of our own people in the process? How can those ideals persist? And should they?
VOY: and what if you’re alone? Truly, utterly alone. With no backup coming, no reputation to carry you. What if it’s just you, one tiny little ship, and your ideals, in a vast quadrant that either doesn’t know them or opposes them entirely? Can Federation values persist? Can we stick to them and survive?
ENT: and what if we’re not even there yet? One day this path may be a major highway, but what if you’re the first one to take a step on this journey? Can we even get there?
DIS: and what if we’re just too far gone? What if you acted against those ideals, and did unspeakable, unforgivable, unredeemable things? What if the people who are supposed to support and represent those ideals the most lose their way, and weaponize them, and weaponize you? What if it’s all been lost? And the worst has happened? What if you find yourself in the aftermath of a war and disaster you can’t hope to understand? What if you aren’t just alone, but you’re alone and everyone here already knows you? Not just that, but they laugh at you when you try to make a difference? What if hope is lost? Can it ever come back? Sometimes today’s world makes me wonder. If we are more far gone than any of us imagined possible, can we still get back to the world that TOS and TNG promised?
SNW: and what if asking all these questions has taken us away from the mission? What if we’ve lost the plot? What if we take all those things that TOS and TNG were trying to do and update them to a modern world? Do they still fit? Is that form of hope, by itself, still relevant to a modern world?
PIC and most of the movies: and what if everyone tells you to step down, to yield to progress, but you aren’t done yet? Should you? Can you?
PRO: and what if you aren’t even there? What if it’s just the ideas and the means to carry them out? Is that enough? Is that enough for someone, even a child, even a group of traumatized and scared children, to adopt those ideals and carry them forward? Do they actually work without you forcing them? Do they have value devoid of cultural context?
LD: and what if you’re not the hero? What if you’re just some dude, just doing a job, just living a life in this world? Is it really all it’s cracked up to be? At the end of the day, can you still build community, and discover yourself, and grow?
Star Trek: no matter how dark things get, can we still hope?
I want to play Two Point Museum (procrastinating) but it’s $48 and I am philosophically against spending nearly fifty bucks for a game that I know will be fundamentally identical to Two Point Hospital and Two Point Campus. I have to wait for it to go on sale for like. Moral reasons. I will not condone this pricing structure by giving them that much.
I take this line about a lot of things and no one understands me. No, I will not be buying that it is deliberately overpriced. My wife tries to help: “it’s okay, we can afford it.” But that’s not the Point. Moral reasons.
You get it! It’s not about what I can afford, it’s about accepting a pricing standard that I am not willing to accept. I’ve had people offer to buy me games like this as Christmas presents or whatever and it’s like nono, your money spent on my behalf is as bad as my money. I am choosing not to have this transaction happen until the other party is being reasonable.
(the tightrope of emotions I walked searching for this website by name istg)
Guybrush’s calculation includes the cost of printing and distribution of game CDs or cartridges. Digitally distributed games should be cheaper, same as ebooks should be cheaper than paperbacks.
Also this is a maximum, doesn’t mean every game is worth 47 bucks and 28 cents. I already own this game twice in different skins Guybrush, keep up with modern game development practices.
My partner and I have a rule about games, which is never pay more than $1 for each hour of gameplay.
So a $40 game with only 10h of gameplay can wait till it’s ten bucks. A game I know I will spend 500h on I’m happy to spend 80 bucks.
I’m baffled by digital preorder though where you don’t even get a real object for the extra money. Like preorder used to be to ensure you got a copy on release day, but there is no limit to digital copies. Steam isn’t going to run out? Why am I paying upwards of $30 extra for an in game cosmetic that isn’t even a physical object I can put on my shelf.
someone on twitter is trying to claim that use of an em-dash is an indication of AI-generated writing because it’s “relatively rare” for actual humans to use it. skill issue
I can admit this is a little out of hand, but I promise AI didn’t write my 150k fic 😂
look i gave them clothes good job being clothed everyone. i am getting better at the cloth
i didn’t actually write about them dancing but sure- they do. narinder being like “how do i folks dance? i must do it good because i must be perfect at all things,” and completely not seeing how he’s being looked at
heads up i am going to take a 3 week break from posting chapters
so i can work on my jam game then do some remapping for subplots. not going anywhere and have many things queued. i started viewing this as a personal challenge to keep scheduled and on track- it’s very fun! and nice practice
While it might be a bit anxiety inducing for some, there is a Project 2025 tracker so that you can easily keep up with what Trump is doing and what things are currently in progress. Without having to sift through tons of depressing news coverage.
You can use the in progress filter to quickly find out where the fight is at currently, and you can also see which agencies have and have not already been impacted.
January 1, 2025 - A stray dog in Petea receives applause for being the first to cross the newly visa-free border between Hungary and Romania, as Romania joins the Schengen area.
For context this was in response to someone saying their cybertruck was heavy duty
oh no no NO no no I am sorry my dear @thebirdtm you are NOT underselling one of the most seminal pieces of television of my entire childhood like that on MY watch.
“How is claiming they drowned a Hilux possibly underselling it” GREAT question.
To start with a little disclaimer, Top Gear’s Hilux did not start off, as in the video above, in pristine condition. It started off with nigh-on 300k kms (for you yankees, that’s about 8.4 million Boeing 737 wingspans) and a condition to match.
And it’s only once careless driving around town yielded zilch in given shits…
(look, I found a local newspaper picturing it being driven around!)
…that they decided to drown it. Now, the underselling part: if you told me that they drowned a pickup the first place my mind would go to would be “driving it through a river a bit too deep for it, perhaps as deep as its height, until it stalls and then tugging it back out. You will concede that’s rather different from tying it down on the seashore with the second highest tide in the world…
…and leaving it there until it engulfs the whole truck…
…only for the ropes to snap…
…and for the truck to be lost to the tides for FIVE HOURS.
(and for those wondering, yes, just as promised, well within an hour and the mandatory limits of basic tools and no spare parts, up the mechanic made the thing fire and away the presenter drove it - I must imagine doing a number on his clothes in the process.)
Oh also I would have mentioned the caravan.
Or at least the wrecking ball.
But hey, at least the fire was mentioned.
Still, I feel it’s criminal to leave out how they celebrated it surviving all it did: by parking it at the top of a 23 story building for all to see! :)
Wait NO-
Well, that was uncalled for. Given what it survived, it deserved to rest in a museum instead of being unceremoniously cleared out with the other chunks of public housing that buried it.
Or at least, given that buried it wasn’t…
…to be tumbled down from the rubble utop which it sat…
…and be fueled up.
"be fueled up”, pfft, what for?, I hear you say. And you are right.
Look at that thing, you say.
Let’s be serious now, however pretty of a story it would be that’s not a truck that will do anything remotely in the ballpark of firing up, let alone running.
And again, you are right.
The battery was disconnected.
Sorted that, tho
“You can’t be serious.” Oh darling I sure can! “Well the presenters can’t then” no no, I assure you, it lived. Go see it for yourself! It’s at the National Motor Museum in Beaulieau, England!
I grew up watching Top Gear and it shaped me in many ways. My adoration of old Toyota Hiluxes is one of them.
The Toyota Hilux is absolutely the small god of endurance and defiance (and possibly masochism).
yes I’m reposting about a small god truck are you kidding me
Fever is a hilarious immune response. Our bodies tell the disease “hey, wanna see which one of us dies of overheating first? No? Too bad.” and honestly they’re not even the winners a decent chunk of the time but it works often enough that we never evolved it away or anything. Fantastic work.
this reply is killing me
Our bodies adapted the same response to disease that Japanese honeybees use against Japaneae giant hornets: Biologically cook it to death.
The problem is that our bodies aren’t well designed for this, while the bees are, and instead we just cook ourselves instead.
What I’m saying is that colonies of bees are smarter than our biology. Yet another strike against creationism and intelligent design. If any god designed a perfect creature, it was a Japanese bee god. We’re just pale imitations.
Confirmed: Our white blood cells are just worse honeybees. Thanks, science side of tumblr!
I just love having washing machines tied to electronic payment systems! There are just so many cheerful ways that they can prevent you from doing your laundry that just never come-up with coin-op systems! Digitization is great!
I LOVE that the touch screen selects a random dryer that’s still full of clothes! It’s fantabulous!
I need to resist nostalgia for the early 2000s, because I know intellectually that I was pretty much just miserable all the time then and that homophobia was both socially acceptable and socially expected, and also that it was the War on Terror and so many of the links in the chain currently being used to throttle us were being forged back in those days, but like…
I miss the good Internet. I miss the way it was before it went all corporate. I miss when it was all anarchic and gave us stuff like “Trogdor the Burninator” and “The Adventures of Dr. McNinja” and not crypto-scams and fascist memes and ai-generated shrimp jesus slop.
Shout out to the little girl at my store today who had a shirt that said “skeleton mouse” and she was carrying around a plushie of a rat, had hair clips in her hair that had rats on them, and a necklace with a rodent skull on it.
As I was checking her mother out at the register she pulled out a handful of rubber rats from her pocket and put them on my counter, to which her mother sighed and said “no sweetie, he doesn’t need rats” to which I just looked at her like this
The original video, for anyone who hasn’t seen it:
And the relevant album cover:
Sessler was a teenager when “We’re Not Gonna Take It” it was on the charts. Probably had MTV so he saw the video.
No fuckin’ idea how he thought it was in support of “traditional American values.”
Never not reblog. Dee Snider is iconic and queer as fuck for a cishet man.
-fae
No one disrespects my man Dee in this house.
Never forget when he sat in front of a congressional hearing about Lewd Music Corrupting the Youth and completely shut that shit down in the most professional manner that no member of that committee expected from a hair metal musician. They thought they’d get easy points off of a dumb metalhead and this man not only knew exactly what the fuck he was talking about, he tore their arguments apart.
DUDE THE VIDEOOO
For those unfamiliar with this ICON
This is why my working definition of queer is “queerness is that which accepts queerness.”
It encompasses a radical welcome and celebration of things that deviate from “the norm” and a fierce willingness to defend them from people who think mere deviance is worthy of vicious and violent bullying.
Dee Snider is the embodiment of “Queer as in fuck you.”
