trying to conceptualize the immense human costs of the US imperial rampage around the world is something that feels like it stretches the boundaries of comprehension. like it’s possible to read the numbers and know from personal experience or read accounts or what have you. but a single human life can only hold so much grief. how can any individual human comprehend the worlds upon worlds which Capital and its supplicants have tragedied day in and day out for decades? take a single human life, utterly and completely saturated with tragedy, grief, and heartbreak. magnify and multiply that life across countless millions. every individual grief itself a soul-tearing, monolithic, cosmological cataclysm. imagine every single person you hold dear murdered in cold blood in front of you. imagine being tortured, alone, with no hope of salvation, for years. now imagine that experience and multiply it by the populations of entire nations over entire decades. how can we begin to grasp the scale of this atrocity? how can any person who wishes to remain human hold anything but a seething, blinding hatred of this empire? it is a miracle of humanity that so much of the world chooses to stand up against this level of atrocity, that so many millions have been broken on this wheel and still millions more continue and will continue to fight for the cause of humanity. it is a horror, it is a sorrow unknowable, it is a miracle of miracles of resistance. the US empire must end and the world must be afforded the beginning of a long process of healing and grieving. there will be a day after all of this has passed. there will be a world after this, at all costs, because it is the only path towards a world after this. the US empire is an existential threat to not only all of humanity but to the essence of humanity itself.
Moreover, the United States Empire must be destroyed.
trying to conceptualize the immense human costs of the US imperial rampage around the world is something that feels like it stretches the boundaries of comprehension. like it’s possible to read the numbers and know from personal experience or read accounts or what have you. but a single human life can only hold so much grief. how can any individual human comprehend the worlds upon worlds which Capital and its supplicants have tragedied day in and day out for decades? take a single human life, utterly and completely saturated with tragedy, grief, and heartbreak. magnify and multiply that life across countless millions. every individual grief itself a soul-tearing, monolithic, cosmological cataclysm. imagine every single person you hold dear murdered in cold blood in front of you. imagine being tortured, alone, with no hope of salvation, for years. now imagine that experience and multiply it by the populations of entire nations over entire decades. how can we begin to grasp the scale of this atrocity? how can any person who wishes to remain human hold anything but a seething, blinding hatred of this empire? it is a miracle of humanity that so much of the world chooses to stand up against this level of atrocity, that so many millions have been broken on this wheel and still millions more continue and will continue to fight for the cause of humanity. it is a horror, it is a sorrow unknowable, it is a miracle of miracles of resistance. the US empire must end and the world must be afforded the beginning of a long process of healing and grieving. there will be a day after all of this has passed. there will be a world after this, at all costs, because it is the only path towards a world after this. the US empire is an existential threat to not only all of humanity but to the essence of humanity itself.
Moreover, the United States Empire must be destroyed.
fuck all philosophy except for whatever the hell Diogenes was trying to teach
direct action
How about just being polite & going into a debate with those who hold diffrent beliefs then you?
how about you eat my shit and hair
staying true to spirit
the OG of the vicious burn
Diógenes said you couldn’t spit anywhere but in the face of a rich man because once this rich dude invited him into his house and literally told him you can’t spit on anything that touches the floor so Diógenes spit in this guys face
here is a very good painting of Diógenes in his tub that i had the good fortune of actually seeing earlier this year
I love that Diogenes is making a comeback in the twenty-first century.
We actually have no evidence on whether or not diplodocus causes gonorrhea.
For various reasons the scientific community is not inclined to expose live diplodocus to enough test subjects to determine whether or not it causes gonorrhoea.
A week or so ago I was “half-lucid dreaming” (aware I was dreaming but not nearly as conscious as daytime self, and still somewhat “on rails”). I decided to try and turn it into a sex dream, walked up to a door and went “ok, when I go through this door, on the other side there will be attractive people to have sex with”, and then upon going through it was a large space (IIRC like a high school gymnasium) that was dark, cold, and completely empty. There were even cobwebs hanging from the ceiling. It was cartoonish in its lack of subtlety.
Friendly reminder that the reason you feel so much better is because of your meds, don’t stop taking them unless you talk to your doctor first, you really do need them, I promise.
Around June I stopped taking my eye medication because I hadn’t had a problem with my eyes in months. I got really lazy about doing it; then I stopped them altogether.
Turns out, the reason I stopped having problems with my eyes was because I was religiously taking my medication. Whodathunk. Now I have to work to get back to the place I was before I decided I was “better” (I wasn’t!).
If you thought this post was just about anti-depressants or lithium, it could be! For me, this post is about eyedrops, for you it might be about antibiotics, or it might be about zoloft. Whatever it is, please consider talking to your doctor before making a sudden shift to stop taking it. It’s not bad to be on medication. It’s not bad to need it.
…and on a related note, do not let anyone tell you that because you start feeling worse if you don’t take your medication, that means you’re “addicted”. That is not how addiction works.
Okay everyone reblog this version
Recently I realised that – entirely subconsciously – I had reasoned “I’ve been taking ibuprofen at the very first sign of a migraine and then not having migraines? So perhaps I don’t actually have a migraine problem and I should stop?”
Guess how I realised I’d done that.
I KNEW the adhd meds/anti-depressants version of this rule. It hadn’t occurred to me that sometimes “It’s the meds, idiot” is about ibuprofen.
Also: not finishing a course of antibiotics can result in stronger, more resilient strains forming.
Okay, 1) Why did wikipedia decide to feature this as one of todays fun facts and 2) whose tumblr ass art is this isnt this a homestuck characterOkay yeah i looked it up it’s homestuck. Homestuck mpreg on wikipedia good job everyone
For reasons and also causes I have recently written the wikipedia article for mpreg and am trying to find an illustration for it. Do I happen to know any fanartists who want to release some (ideally sfw) mpreg art under a wikipedia compatible license* for eternal glory and wikipedia bragging rights?
*the short version is “anyone can do anything they want with your work forever as long as they attribute you”. For the long version, look up CC-by-4.0.
ok
@icedcoolatta, could you add something like “I am the author of this image and I release it under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license (CC-BY-4.0)”? or pick you own license from here.
I am the author of this image and I release it under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license (CC-BY-4.0) !
also, characters owned by andrew hussie
@icedcoolatta thank you!! two more questions, sorry: was this the first time you posted this anywhere, and if not when was the first time? (I need “date work was created or first published”). also, which characters are these? I don’t strictly need a detailed caption but it’d be nicer
this was first created and posted on Thursday, January 30th, 2025, and these characters are Dad (right) and Pre-Scratch Roxy Lalonde, or Mom (left)
For reasons and also causes I have recently written the wikipedia article for mpreg and am trying to find an illustration for it. Do I happen to know any fanartists who want to release some (ideally sfw) mpreg art under a wikipedia compatible license* for eternal glory and wikipedia bragging rights?
*the short version is “anyone can do anything they want with your work forever as long as they attribute you”. For the long version, look up CC-by-4.0.
ok
@icedcoolatta, could you add something like “I am the author of this image and I release it under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license (CC-BY-4.0)”? or pick you own license from here.
I am the author of this image and I release it under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license (CC-BY-4.0) !
also, characters owned by andrew hussie
@icedcoolatta thank you!! two more questions, sorry: was this the first time you posted this anywhere, and if not when was the first time? (I need “date work was created or first published”). also, which characters are these? I don’t strictly need a detailed caption but it’d be nicer
this was first created and posted on Thursday, January 30th, 2025, and these characters are Dad (right) and Pre-Scratch Roxy Lalonde, or Mom (left)
Okay, 1) Why did wikipedia decide to feature this as one of todays fun facts and 2) whose tumblr ass art is this isnt this a homestuck characterOkay yeah i looked it up it’s homestuck. Homestuck mpreg on wikipedia good job everyone
hey man. i didn’t see you at the ambient red lighting and horse store. you ok man?
This is the kind of post that is baffling until you see the next post and it’s a store with a horse in it but everything’s red. except. there is no second post
telling a joke on tumblr is fun but watch out! if it gets over 1000 notes your joke is automatically exposed to people who have never once heard a joke in their life.
“why would you say that” because it was funny. “but that isn’t true” it’s the funniest way to express that sentiment. “why would you do that” because it’s a joke.
you guys would never believe what’s happening to this post
hey man. i didn’t see you at the ambient red lighting and horse store. you ok man?
This is the kind of post that is baffling until you see the next post and it’s a store with a horse in it but everything’s red. except. there is no second post
i love when a song is an acquired taste. you can listen to something once and go huh. there’s something here even if im not quite ready for it yet. and you listen a couple more times. and then bam a couple weeks or months or years later you listen, youve finally worn the song in and it’s the most beautiful thing you’ve ever heard
i sometimes like characters that fucking suck. when a character is a shit head in just the right way it can be so funny and/or compelling. like this is my beloved character, Asshole The Hater. they suck and i love them. someone dropped them into a ditch on the side of the road and i picked them out of the ditch and put them in my pocket
for those unaware, the spaghetti wall of letters and numbers is a base64-encoded JPEG image (and not a URL as some guessed). in certain cases when you tried to insert/paste an image into what’s ostensibly a text-only box, this could happen.
the thing that’s bugging me however is that there’s image data there. we have fairly a clear (albeit with JPEG artifacts) screenshot of text that, thanks to how Windows ClearType renders text, each character is identical to each other, that is to say, an uppercase Q will always look more or less pixel-perfect each time, meaning we don’t have to guess what a Q looks like, we simply have to pixel-accurate match it.
as an aside, this is why regular OCR struggles so much with this kind of data retrieval, such as code even when it’s clearer than a physical paper scan. ordinarily, OCR will try to best-guess every single letter because it expects each letter to be slightly different from each other (as would be the unpredictable nature in a scanned document), and on top of that most OCR today will try to autocorrect because it expects the scanned text to contain words in some human written language.
so, all we have to do is make a program to recognize each character and piece back together the whole base64 string, right? well…
first i stitched all 7 images back into a single block of text, observing the consistency of the line spacing. some of the screenshots have little bits of the previous one sticking out of it, which helps with alignment and to make sure they’re in the right order.
after that i had to sample every single letter off this file. this means going around the file and finding one example of each different character we’re trying to identify, saving it as its own separate file so that the program can load them as references to compare against in the full image. for base64, the alphabet consists of a-z, A-Z, 0-9, +, / and =. once i had the initial code in place…
…close! but oh so far. if any one single character in a base64 string is wrong or missing, the resulting decode will be wrong. the issues i was having were mostly with the lowercase r and j because of how the kerning affected the pixels around those letters. i was also getting false matches for r where there should be an m. what followed was grueling hours of tweaking the matching code and my known font set to better fit the original image and get as close as possible to a 100% match. here is the resulting code, maybe it’ll be useful for someone and this won’t have been a complete waste of time.
once i was confident through the verification image that i had all characters recognized, i put it through a base64 to JPEG decoder. i actually did this several times as i improved the recognition and what follows is the best result that came out of it yet. i suspect some of the data might be missing (perhaps a line or block of text got lost in between screenshots), or i have a wrong character somewhere resulting in a wrong value. this is the image extracted from OP’s base64 string:
we can finally know what they meant when they said “me in a relationship” and i can finally go the fuck to sleep.
update: i found that the string that i used to decode the image in the previous reblog actually had one letter wrong.
with this it still doesn’t parse as fully valid base64 in strict mode so i think there’s still another letter in there that’s wrong, but i couldn’t find it. however this gives us a better look:
and this is finally enough to do a reverse image search. i present to you, the HD version of our intrepid massive backpacker:
still have no idea what they mean by “me in a relationship” with that, though.
Starting to think we told children that The Fair Folk were out there to trap you in twisted words and doublespeak and clever traps that take what you say and turn it against you for cruel and mischievous purposes just to drive home the importance of critical thinking and analytical skills
If we don’t start putting funding back into the education system I’m gonna invent a creepy pasta that steals your face if you can’t recognize media bias
I was gonna make a guy for the bit but I just realized “guy who kills people who can’t interpret elaborate or figurative language” is just The Riddler
long distance mutuals <- used to be in the same fandom together and have both moved on to other fandoms but stay mutuals and wave at each other when passing by (scrolling on dash) and catch up when we can (liking each others posts)
crazy to me that I’ve been on tumblr long enough to see the vast majority of posts i see on a daily basis evolve from superwholock and fandom shit to this
Is your refrigerator running? Then you better go catch it. Sure sounded like a good idea (“they’ll deliver themselves,”) but now it’s a huge pain in my ass. I’m a Fridge Runner.
Nobody thought of the consequences of mixing internet-of-things garbage with self-ambulatory refrigerators, until suddenly they came downstairs for breakfast and found that Belorussian crypto kings had stolen the eggs in the fridge – along with the fridge. Cops busted a warehouse yesterday that was just thousands of Maytags wandering around in a circle, beeping as their batteries ran low. Sent me out there to put them all down and bring them home.
People ask me what they can do to keep their fridge from getting jog-jacked. Really, the best thing you can do is to go find your own fridge when it decides to run an unexpected half-marathon. If you just now noticed it’s gone, it probably hasn’t gotten far. Ramming through the nearest exterior wall or window slows them down quite a bit, and they lack hands to operate fence gates. Stairs? Not great at those either, if I’m honest. Calling the technical support people to send someone like me out after it is going to take a couple extra days, minimum, and by then your entire vegetable crisper will be a write-off, even if I can catch it before it crosses the state border and becomes a legal voting citizen.
We’ve got it barely handled for now, and there is some good news. Ovens and microwaves are pretty light, so they haven’t added legs to those suckers yet. I can only imagine how many people would be having a bad morning if their gas range decided to go walkabout. They will add legs one day, though. They always do.
That’s actually a brilliant idea, even from a strict effectiveness standpoint.
Pity they got shut down.
Some examples:
Just goes to show how much data facebook/insta collect about you that gets sent to advertisers. Also facebook responded by effectively saying ‘yes we collect the data but we dont allow advertisers to say that they’re using this data’ after trying to accuse Signal of pulling a ‘PR stunt’. Facebook is so scummy.
