this is a shadow of Sky Tower, the tallest building in the city of Wrocław (Poland), regarded as the city’s penis.
it does indeed look like one. it is also so tall and in such a flat area that you can easily see it from kilometers away. and at all times the penis shadow is cast upon the oblivious sheeple.
Fairly certain its neither– I believe it’s a hawk. Judging by the look of the streaking, in the genus buteo, and guessing location its most likely a broad winged hawk or red tailed hawk. juve red shouldered is also possible, but the tarsi length and outerwing coverts have me leaning BWHA
“Meatless alternatives are getting so good, you should try them! I bet you wouldn’t even be able to tell the difference! In fact….”
Please
Please
Please stop trying to sneak-feed me meat alternatives.
I am willing to prepare and share a vegan meal with you, I’m willing to skip animal products in our group spaces.
Please.
Stop trying to sneak-feed me meat alternatives.
Mycoprotein is fucking cool, vat-grown meat is fucking cool, believe me I am fucking down for figuring out efficient calories and I’m interested in attempting to reduce or eliminate animal agriculture but you wouldn’t want me to sneak-feed you cricket flour, you don’t get to sneak-feed me your stuff.
I wouldn’t mind if you snuck-fed me cricket flour, actually. If cricket flour is indistinguishable from regular flour then sure, go for it.
I really don’t know what the initial gripe is about, though. The anonymous person you quote is not trying to sneak-feed you anything. They outright say “meatless alternative.” Is your problem that they may have GMOs? I genuinely have no idea what your complaint is, because you’re talking about people sneak-feeding you meatless stuff but your pics are all about GMO corn starch or whatever.
I have celiac disease and a corn allergy and a relative who wanted to try to pass off impossible burger as ground beef to prove how good meat alternatives are.
I don’t care about “gmo” and I dont care about the fact that it’s “textured protein” I care about “corn” and “wheat” and I care that people without food allergies rarely know how inescapable some of those allergens are.
“Oh, I checked the ingredients, it doesn’t have corn”
Okay but does it have maltodextrin, modified food starch, xanthan gum, caramel coloring, dextrose, or glucose syrup?
If it does have any of those things do they specifically say “from potatoes,” “from tapioca,” “from cane sugar” or “from rice”?
If it didn’t did you check the manufacturer’s website? If that didn’t say did you call the manufacturer?
Sometimes I’ll use almond or coconut flour as a replacement for wheat flour when I’m cooking. I do not try to pretend that my alternate flour chocolate chip cookies are wheat flour chocolate chip cookies because most people don’t expect to run into coconut or almond when they pick up a chocolate chip cookie. I don’t try to hand them to people, wait for them to eat a cookie, and say “hah, bet you didn’t think gluten free cookies could taste good, huh?” because if I did that to someone with a severe allergy it could kill them, but also because people should have a say in what they’re eating.
I’ve got no problem with beyond beef or impossible burger describing their products as meat alternatives, I’ve got no problem with GMOs or the fact that quorn is made out of a heavily engineered protein. That’s all very neat, actually.
But I do have a problem with people trying to sneakily serve meat alternatives without considering that doing so is shitty for a number of reasons.
Also, insect protein can cause severe reactions to people with shellfish allergies, so that’s another reason not to feed cricket flour to people without telling them.
Honestly, there’s no good or reasonable reason to lie to anyone about what you’re feeding them. It’s not your body, you have no right to decide what goes in it.
Also, I do have questions about the relative ecological benefits of a lot of these products when you account for the level of processing required and the agricultural processes they use. Especially if you’re comparing to small-scale, local level animal agricultural (rather then focusing exclusively on horrendous factory farming practices). I think the issue is a lot more complicated than a lot of people on both sides are willing to admit.
Super fucked up that I can’t be a master-level expert in knitting AND woodworking AND silversmithing AND embroidery AND soap making AND spinning AND -
“Who would ever want to be immortal? Can you imagine the loneliness, knowing that there’s no one else like you, cursed to outlive -” shut up!! Some of us have shit to do and aren’t cowards!!
Immortal, but trapped under the weight of centuries of unpainted minis.
This is an interesting thing. Looks like testimonies of people who left the MAGA movement- how they got into it and why.
Leaving a cult is really hard, so I really respect the people who are speaking from this place.
Yes, actually.
Look, I know people want to react to the ‘leopards eating faces party’ with a big fat 'told you so,’ but these are ex-cultists who are reaching out to people who may need an exit with a soft landing.
People who are deeply in a cult are afraid to leave it and MAGA is no exception! There’s a fear that once you leave, you won’t be accepted by anyone, so they stay even if they no longer believe in their rhetoric.
A very intelligent person can fall for a cult if they feel that it can offer them something they’re missing. The outside world is perilous and you can be safe here. Your friends will reject you now that you’ve joined us, but we will accept you. Decisions are hard, we can make them for you. The secular world has broken you, we can give you new life through christ.
If you read some of the testimonies (and so many of them are young people) you’ll see how much of it is 'I didn’t see it, it took someone I love to show it to me, I can’t unsee it now.’ We’ve all done things we regret. Some regrets are bigger than others. I would rather forgive them and allow them to do good work than berate them for a decision they made when compromised by anxiety.
Hello. I usually write silly monologues in Japanese, but I have something I really want to tell you, so I’m going to write in English. I’m using a translator, so I’m sorry if the sentences are strange or unpleasant.
First of all, I want to express my gratitude as this is the first time my illustrations have received such a response. Thank you for finding my illustrations. It’s the first time that so many people have looked at my illustrations and responded to them, so I’m so happy my head feels like it’s going to explode. I want to keep drawing more.
However, although I have a lot of desire to draw, I caught a cold and I’m not feeling well, so I may not be posting for a while. 🤒However, I’ll post again when I’m better. Although it’s an older illustration, I’ll post an illustration of indigopark break and the icon I used before. ☕️
Everyone, please take care of your health and don’t push yourself too hard (๑•̀ㅂ•́)و✧
life becomes so beautiful when you start cooking rice in liquids other than water
put that basmati rice in the cooker with coconut cream and chicken stock and an entire onion that you’ve diced and sauteed with garlic until transparent. and some salt and pepper. Trust me
“Uncle Benadryl’s one minute rice” one minute what? awake? left to live?
this is one of my favorite videos on the internet, and it kills me that the source has been silenced by youtube’s copyright system, so I’m putting it here!
I have seen a version of this on tumblr before, but the audio in that one is just a little bit off because that person edited it back in themselves
but today, I am proud to present the original video, sent to me by Crispy Crungy, who gave me permission to upload it here and share it with you all!
Ok I don’t mean to be doing this too often but I literally just wrote a paper about this so I thought I would comment! The English translation is The Cursed Woman but the original French is La Femme Damnée. “Femmes Damnées” was the title of a Baudelaire poem from his acclaimed 1857 book Fleurs du mal, which was known, among other things, to be a collection that famously dealt with the subject of lesbians. The poem tells the story of the desires and passionate love between two lesbians: Delphine and Hippolyte. As a result of this poem and of the book as a whole, the terms “fleurs du mal” and “femme damnée” became lesbian monikers of the turn of the century. Though some have deemed the term “damned women” to be accusatory of some moral dissonance, the poem it is derived from is actually quite sympathetic to the condition of lesbian love as it is a love which is unable to fully flourish in that time. Regardless, the translated title of Tassaert’s painting is misleading, as the original French is less accusatory and more identifying. The title is more accurately “the lesbian.”
I don’t normally post photos or talk about the protest actions I participate in, but I was at the Chicago Stand Up For Science rally on behalf of my job recently and this sign took me out at the knees.
ive said it before and i’ll say it again but carrying a weapon does not make you safer, it gives the person assaulting you a free weapon. i know we live in a time where fear is profitable and the cute pink stun guns make feminism sexy but they do not work like you think they do.
there is an extremely slim chance you will be able to deploy the pepper spray/taser/gun in a way that does not harm you at all. pepper spray blows back, guns miss, tasers slip. there is a much much larger chance things go poorly and you end up getting hurt worse than originally intended because now your assailant is pissed and more heavily armed.
im not talking out my ass here, i’m a case manager at a homeless shelter for addicts. we have a lot of violent behavior. none of our staff carry any sort of weapons. we are trained to de-escalate or remove ourselves from the situation. i have worked there over two years without being harmed despite intervening in many fights and having weapons pulled on me.
there is safety in numbers. there is safety in well lit streets and staying on your phone and knowing when to scream and run. there is no safety in “personal defense items”.
it’s an illusion. it’s a mental game. a weapon is a safety blanket that will sooner kill you than stop someone else from doing so.
we are also not in PVP grand theft auto. as scary as things seem, humans are not out there re-enacting the purge 24/7. there are lots of people who benefit from you being afraid of everyone you pass on the street. a lot of those people will try to sell you things to keep you safe. don’t fall for it.
It’s fantastic actually, I love living in a place where a big chunk of the random population isn’t just carrying around dangerous weapons. A weapon turns a shouting match between strangers into a violent confrontation. The last time I was attacked was several years ago now, I was punched by a drunk man on a bus, and let me tell you there is no weapon in the hands of anybody (including me) that wouldn’t have made that situation much worse. I would be a lot more scared (and in a lot more actual physical danger) living somewhere where people just carried weapons down the street to defend themselves from the other people just carrying weapons down the street. The last time I handled a gun was hunting on the farm and I like it that way.
I just had ‘how to avoid dog bites’ training at work- and we were essentially told, there is no version of this where you win, regardless of weapon. So even in a fight in which the aggressor isn’t even able to pick up the stun gun or knife; you still lose.
I assume the same policy applies (at least partially) with dogs as it does with humans - do not become the aggressor, do not attack. Because if you attack, you better be prepared to keep attacking until they can’t come at you. You better put them on the ground and make sure they don’t get back up.
People (and dogs!) are more likely to disengage if the fight isn’t escalated. You pull out a weapon - you’ve just escalated this whole situation, big time.
I carry a knife in my work pants, because I open boxes, and need to poke weird things, and various other work related bits and pieces - this is the only way I’m legally allowed to carry it in Australia. I’ve never had a problem with police about this, probably 50% because I’m a small skinny white woman, and 50% because I’m clearly dressed in a work uniform that would make sense for me to have a knife or other items (steel cap work boots, cargo pants, reflective jacket etc).
When I lived on a farm the farmers all wore pocket knives on their belts into town and nobody gave a shit about it. Farmers use pocket knives for stuff, I don’t think it would’ve occurred to a cop that it would count as a weapon unless they were looking for a reason to have trouble with you. (But to be fair, a pocket knife would also be a terrible defensive weapon. By the time you’ve gotten the fucking thing open, your nose is already broken.)
That is so true. The simple truth of the matter is that there aren’t too many fights where carrying a defensive weapon is going to change the playing field. An inexperienced user, even one who’s taken self defense courses, is liable to panic and hurt themselves, but even if you know exactly what you’re doing and you’re calm and competent under conflict, the weapon is much more likely to be a hinderance than a help. Either you already have the upper hand in the conflict, in which case all a weapon is gonna do it help you grievously wound someone you didn’t need to wound, or you don’t have the upper hand (the other guy is bigger/better trained/less inebriated/outnumbers you), in which case they’re much more likely to end up with the weapon than you, and by drawing it you’ve escalated the fight to ‘dangerous weapon’ territory. Congratulations, those three dickheads following you down the street threateningly and calling you names are now three dickheads with a knife who may or may not decide to stab you since you made this a knife fight. The only situation in which carrying defensive weapons is a good general life policy is if you are actively looking to start a fight.
I mean, I live in a rural area- not uncommon in the slightest for someone to have a multi-tool or pocketknife on their belt. Mine is… not exactly that, probably a 12cm blade that flips out of the handle.
We do also only have like, uh, four cops, and they’ve got bigger shit to deal with than me for sure (it’s a day that ends in Y, so there’s probably a car on fire somewhere).
For me personally, part of my work is rocking up to peoples isolated rural houses and telling them things they don’t want to hear (you need to stop dumping rubbish in the creek). The most likely version of an incident is me being threatened with a gun, or alternatively being set on by an attack dog. Either way, I’m fucked. Me pulling out a weapon makes that situation infinitely worse. Best case, I’m still in the car, and I just… leave. Second best case scenario - I’m still in the car- and a couple tonnes of metal and my commitment to being alive means I’m running your ass over.
They’re talking (post ‘don’t get bit by dogs’ training) about getting us extendable batons (and the restricted weapons licenses required to have them) in order to help prevent dog attacks. Not to hit the dog if it attacks, but essentially to extend and hold across the body and shove into the mouth of the dog, so it bites it and not you. Gives time to keep the dog off you, and get to an escape route. We’ll see what happens with that, but theres also the chance we’ll go down the ‘riot shield’ pathway, which would be preferable- no license needed! And also in the case of incidents when there’s human members of the public about- a riot shield looks very much like ~not a weapon~
A riot shield is probably also easier to block a dog with, just in terms of surface area
If I were the exploding bear I’d make all the clocks move 5% too slow during the day and 10% too fast at night. Sleep deprived teenagers are unfocused, irrational and emotionally volatile. And sometimes during the day they’d move normally or 5% too fast so that people couldn’t adapt.
Every now and then I would do a food delivery that is nothing but milk and flour. Then back to normal the next day. Zero explanation.
I’d lock bedroom doors at random, trapping people inside or outside. Relying solely on death threats and isolation is for amateurs. You need to remove their sense of security and stability.
These kids are wholly dependent on you and you alone for every resource and privilege they have and you’re not leveraging that in your despair games? You just went straight to elaborate executions? Did you put any thought into this facility at all, exploding bear?
Embarrassingly unoptimized child abuse 😔
We have data on this. It is so fucking easy to abuse children or prisoners and these guys are both. Plenty of parents do it BY ACCIDENT. Guy couldn’t read one book about torture?
Oh I wouldn’t do this to MY students, that would be unprofessional. Kidnapped death game participants only. I don’t want to lose my blue card.
We know that Facebook is brainscorching your parents and tiktok is brainscorching your cousins, but some of you refuse to admit that you got your brain scorched here. However unlike those sites there isn’t an algorithm here you just make bad choices.
That’s all we ever wanted. To arrive at Hell as a result of our own dubious navigation skills instead of as the result of Satan owning all the road sign companies.
id: 1) photo of an unbloomed patch of flowers, arranged in five horizontal stripes of blue, pink, white, pink, blue. 2) photo of the same patch, now blooming.
I wasn’t crazy about this piece so I wasn’t intending on publicly posting it again, but it keeps getting stolen every five minutes so I figured I’d put it here so people at least know who to attribute the original thing to lmao
[Digital illustration, Procreate App, 2020]
Yes, this is a drawing lol here’s the original photo it’s based on next to the drawing itself. If you zoom in on the pine trees you can see the stray scribble / pencil brush texture marks
