I’m holding out for a Bozo ‘til the end of the night He’s gotta make jokes, entertain all the folks, and never cause no one a fright I need a Bozo I’m holding out for a Bozo with a big bow tie And party balloons and a big pair of shoes and a good throwing arm with a pie
Somewhere after midnight, at the circus of my dreams Somewhere out beyond the crowd, there’s someone making jokes at me Racing on a small trike, flying by on a trapeze It’s gonna take a funnyman to put my mind at ease
I NEED A BOZO
Up where the tent-poles meet the canvas above Out where the strongman lifts the tree I could swear there is someone, somewhere Pranking me
Through the lions and dancers and stilts and the smoke and the light I can hear his nose honk like a horn in the night
We wrote the ICE media office to learn more: “Do we have a list of these ideas? Are there examples of ideas that ICE has prevented from illegally entering the country? Are there any task forces devoted to preventing these ideas?” We will update if and when we hear back.
ok, can people start using 1984 as an reference at this point?
cause the government literally gloating about blocking foreign ideas from getting into the country sounds very much like 1984
The group behind the “Hands Off 2025” protests in the United States is quite literally just a Democrat party front group serving to funnel energy against Trump away from progressive forces and to a pro-NATO, anti-Palestine Democrat movement - it’s the typical Democrat strategy of cooptation, but this time without directly associating it with the Democrats, because they are simply too unpopular now for that to work. Here’s their about page:
They treat an attack on one as an attack on all - unless Palestine is under attack! Their leadership page lists only these two executive directors:
The purpose of this group is to funnel people and resources into phone banking and canvassing for Democrats, protecting bourgeois rule and serving as another mechanism for subtly repressing the development of progressive groups. It’s a way to take highly motivated and politically active people who are dissatisfied with the existing system in the US and funnel them right back into that system, preventing them from joining or starting revolutionary movements.
looked at this and freaked out because I noticed that it said “petrolatum” and not “petroleum”.
My whole life I thought that it was some weird byproduct of the oil industry, and I never questioned that belief.
I suddenly remembered every time I had called it “petroleum jelly” and thought that I must’ve looked like a massive idiot.
Anyway, anything that enters my brain is immediately converted into the action of pulling up a Wikipedia article, and as it turns out, it actually is called “petroleum jelly” (which consists of white petrolatum) and is a weird byproduct of the oil industry
lord give you the strength to read the rest of the post 🙏
any time i hear the insufferable transphobic athlete arguments i think of that one time in middle school when my boys lacrosse team did a full-contact scrimmage against the girls team (who typically play with limited contact) and i, a six-foot, 180lb defender, got utterly laid-out by this 5-foot-nothing girl experiencing the newly-unleashed animosity accompanied by violent sport and as i looked up at my assailant from flat on my back i experienced a brief bout of heterosexuality and fell wildly in love and then had to be taken to the ER because i had a concussion
“from flat on my back i experienced a brief bout of heterosexuality” took me out
tumblr is such a different animal than other social media platforms for so many reasons obviously but one thing i really find funny about it is how on other sites if i see something that doesn’t interest me i don’t follow or don’t like the post. but on here if someone i follow starts posting exclusively about something really niche that i have no interest in my reaction is never to unfollow. its just part of the natural environment. like oh mutual is now really into pro wrestling? ok i guess ill be seeing these guys around now
wheres that picture of like the performers at the bolshoi or somewhere reading about gagarin going into space during intermission while all still in costume
hell fucking yes
When playing Civilization and someone gets a Science Victory
I’m not anti-AI because all art needs to have a soul or whatever. I’m anti AI because it’s making my clinicians dependent on the internet in a place that loses power often. I’m anti AI because I’ve seen it miss things a technician would have caught on microscopy. I’m anti-AI because it’s killed my patients.
Medical AI software companies are rolling things out too quickly and making promises they can’t keep. We’re buying into it because capitalism is demanding everyone work faster on more patients but refuses to provide more staff or more support.
If it’s bad enough that I’m seeing it in veterinary medicine, I’m terrified about what that means for patient care in humans.
I used to work on the manufacturing side of the medical industry. Before I left, management was pushing for us to figure out how to use generative AI to machine translate device documentation. I wish I was joking.
Is there even an anti-zionist/non-zionist congregation in the US? Because good Lord, the list of such congregations are abysmal
There are several altho many are not very loud about it or don’t meet every week. (Tzedek Chicago being one of the exceptions, being vocally anti-Zionist and having multiple services a week.)
Rabbinical schools have prevented anti-Zionists from enrolling for several generations, and even today students have to keep quiet about it/only leave Zionism after ordination, so you end up with very few anti-Zionist rabbis for the number of anti-Zionist Jews there are in the USA.
Technically one can receive smicha (ordination) from another rabbi without attending a particular institution, but as with the liberal church in the states, liberal Jewish denominations have become intensely bureaucratic in their ordination processes.
The congregations fitting the bill that I’m familiar with are with are Tzedek Chicago (top recommendation, I have attended MANY Tzedek events so I’m biased), Hinenu in Baltimore, Kadima Reconstructionist in Seattle, Kolot Chayeinu in Brooklyn, and T'chiyah in Detroit. As well as Kol Tzedek in Philadelphia, which I do not endorse due to some inclusion concerns.
And those are the ones whose rabbis are pretty “out,” so to speak. I know that Rabbis for Ceasefire and JVP maintain lists of congregations that may not be openly anti-Zionist but are welcoming to anti-Zionists and non-Zionists, do not have flags on the bimah, and do not do state prayers.
“A new class of supply chain attacks named ‘slopsquatting’ has emerged from the increased use of generative AI tools for coding and the model’s tendency to "hallucinate” non-existent package names.“
btw i’m not pushing like “boycotting the lilo and stitch is the greatest act of activism you can do in today’s climate”
i’m just like “not watching this movie is literally the bare minimum you can do to help not push an imperialistic tourist agenda that’s destroying native Hawai‘i. just don’t.” and im already pre-irritated bc i know like thirty people are gonna be like i knowww but. i just wanna.
I don’t mean to be old but computer used to just have games. U didnt have to pay for em either but if u wanted u could get a little CD that put the game onto the computer and you could play it forever and ever even if the company that made it went to hell and shit. You didn’t even need the internet or wifi or anything. And it was pretty neat
It would be a finished game, too. If you played long enough and did really good you could go to all the places and get all the stuff. You never had to pay more money later it was just there. onn compter
I don’t mean to be old but computer used to just have games. U didnt have to pay for em either but if u wanted u could get a little CD that put the game onto the computer and you could play it forever and ever even if the company that made it went to hell and shit. You didn’t even need the internet or wifi or anything. And it was pretty neat
It would be a finished game, too. If you played long enough and did really good you could go to all the places and get all the stuff. You never had to pay more money later it was just there. onn compter
you CANNOT hold me accountable for accidentally making a homestuck reference when i’ve never read homestuck. if you recognized it that’s YOUR problem it’s YOUR sin.
People love to be like “oh hee hoo hoo I caught you making a homestuck reference” as if it isn’t like a billion pages long and presumably mentioned everything in existence at least once
“WHAT THE FUoh it’s art WAIT, THAT’S ART? HOLY SHIT THAT IS GOOD and the political themes are great”
…I reblogged this before but uh didn´t know it was art WOW
Even reading the tags, it took me a bit to realize the sign was indeed fake. I didn’t think a city would actually mist with corrosive acid, but the building in the back looks like a college academic building, and I could definitely see a chemistry department thinking this was a funny joke.
the reporting system on tumblr is genuinely awful. why does it take this much extra time to report hate speech again?
you can report something as sexually explicit in 2 seconds with no burden of proof. if you want to report hate speech you have to go into a submenu and then explain *twice* why it counts as hate speech. you have necessarily created a system where people can easily mass report trans women’s selfies as being sexually explicit while at the same time making it incredibly difficult and tedious to report users for calling black people slurs.
i genuinely rarely bother reporting transphobia on this fucking website because i do not want to type out a whole two messages explaining that it’s transphobic every single time i see someone being bigoted, reporting bigotry should be easy, come the fuck on.
americans are like fuck america until it’s time for fahrenheit-celsius discourse 😒 then you mfs basically pull out the pledge of alliance 😒 like ok fourth of july. didn’t know units of measurement had oil 😒
“it’s the superior system for the human experience” no it’s just intuitive to you because since you were a kid people around you would refer to temperatures in fahrenheit so you developed an understanding of what a certain number of degrees in fahrenheit means. also ‘human experience of temperature’ like yeah i’m sure a norwegian and a pakistani have the same human experience of temperature. or even someone from minnesota and someone from arizona but okay. “it’s better for colder areas” then why aren’t icelanders or siberians using it. maybe because they don’t see a negative number and panic cos that’s too scary for them. “it’s more precise for body heat” we have decimals. is anything that’s not a positive integer scary
Every time this comes up I’m so baffled by the sheer number of people in the notes who think that 84 °F is just an inherently comprehendable number that people understand intuitively and 29°C isn’t, even though thats like saying English is inherently more comprehensible than French. Like yeah, to YOU, because thats what you learned.
Also, as a somewhat northerly Canuck, the idea that the temperature at which water freezes is completely irrelevent to human life is VERY funny to me. Id go so far as to say that for half the year, whether the number is + or - is the single most important piece of information the forecast provides.
Oh my god thank you! Especially for the temperature in which the water freezes - this is very important to know if there’s a chance the rain that fell last night will be a nice, super slippery layer of ice today.
americans are like fuck america until it’s time for fahrenheit-celsius discourse 😒 then you mfs basically pull out the pledge of alliance 😒 like ok fourth of july. didn’t know units of measurement had oil 😒
“it’s the superior system for the human experience” no it’s just intuitive to you because since you were a kid people around you would refer to temperatures in fahrenheit so you developed an understanding of what a certain number of degrees in fahrenheit means. also ‘human experience of temperature’ like yeah i’m sure a norwegian and a pakistani have the same human experience of temperature. or even someone from minnesota and someone from arizona but okay. “it’s better for colder areas” then why aren’t icelanders or siberians using it. maybe because they don’t see a negative number and panic cos that’s too scary for them. “it’s more precise for body heat” we have decimals. is anything that’s not a positive integer scary
Every time this comes up I’m so baffled by the sheer number of people in the notes who think that 84 °F is just an inherently comprehendable number that people understand intuitively and 29°C isn’t, even though thats like saying English is inherently more comprehensible than French. Like yeah, to YOU, because thats what you learned.
Also, as a somewhat northerly Canuck, the idea that the temperature at which water freezes is completely irrelevent to human life is VERY funny to me. Id go so far as to say that for half the year, whether the number is + or - is the single most important piece of information the forecast provides.
Oh my god thank you! Especially for the temperature in which the water freezes - this is very important to know if there’s a chance the rain that fell last night will be a nice, super slippery layer of ice today.
americans are like fuck america until it’s time for fahrenheit-celsius discourse 😒 then you mfs basically pull out the pledge of alliance 😒 like ok fourth of july. didn’t know units of measurement had oil 😒
“it’s the superior system for the human experience” no it’s just intuitive to you because since you were a kid people around you would refer to temperatures in fahrenheit so you developed an understanding of what a certain number of degrees in fahrenheit means. also ‘human experience of temperature’ like yeah i’m sure a norwegian and a pakistani have the same human experience of temperature. or even someone from minnesota and someone from arizona but okay. “it’s better for colder areas” then why aren’t icelanders or siberians using it. maybe because they don’t see a negative number and panic cos that’s too scary for them. “it’s more precise for body heat” we have decimals. is anything that’s not a positive integer scary
Every time this comes up I’m so baffled by the sheer number of people in the notes who think that 84 °F is just an inherently comprehendable number that people understand intuitively and 29°C isn’t, even though thats like saying English is inherently more comprehensible than French. Like yeah, to YOU, because thats what you learned.
Also, as a somewhat northerly Canuck, the idea that the temperature at which water freezes is completely irrelevent to human life is VERY funny to me. Id go so far as to say that for half the year, whether the number is + or - is the single most important piece of information the forecast provides.
Oh my god thank you! Especially for the temperature in which the water freezes - this is very important to know if there’s a chance the rain that fell last night will be a nice, super slippery layer of ice today.
americans are like fuck america until it’s time for fahrenheit-celsius discourse 😒 then you mfs basically pull out the pledge of alliance 😒 like ok fourth of july. didn’t know units of measurement had oil 😒
“it’s the superior system for the human experience” no it’s just intuitive to you because since you were a kid people around you would refer to temperatures in fahrenheit so you developed an understanding of what a certain number of degrees in fahrenheit means. also ‘human experience of temperature’ like yeah i’m sure a norwegian and a pakistani have the same human experience of temperature. or even someone from minnesota and someone from arizona but okay. “it’s better for colder areas” then why aren’t icelanders or siberians using it. maybe because they don’t see a negative number and panic cos that’s too scary for them. “it’s more precise for body heat” we have decimals. is anything that’s not a positive integer scary
Every time this comes up I’m so baffled by the sheer number of people in the notes who think that 84 °F is just an inherently comprehendable number that people understand intuitively and 29°C isn’t, even though thats like saying English is inherently more comprehensible than French. Like yeah, to YOU, because thats what you learned.
Also, as a somewhat northerly Canuck, the idea that the temperature at which water freezes is completely irrelevent to human life is VERY funny to me. Id go so far as to say that for half the year, whether the number is + or - is the single most important piece of information the forecast provides.
Oh my god thank you! Especially for the temperature in which the water freezes - this is very important to know if there’s a chance the rain that fell last night will be a nice, super slippery layer of ice today.
americans are like fuck america until it’s time for fahrenheit-celsius discourse 😒 then you mfs basically pull out the pledge of alliance 😒 like ok fourth of july. didn’t know units of measurement had oil 😒
“it’s the superior system for the human experience” no it’s just intuitive to you because since you were a kid people around you would refer to temperatures in fahrenheit so you developed an understanding of what a certain number of degrees in fahrenheit means. also ‘human experience of temperature’ like yeah i’m sure a norwegian and a pakistani have the same human experience of temperature. or even someone from minnesota and someone from arizona but okay. “it’s better for colder areas” then why aren’t icelanders or siberians using it. maybe because they don’t see a negative number and panic cos that’s too scary for them. “it’s more precise for body heat” we have decimals. is anything that’s not a positive integer scary
Every time this comes up I’m so baffled by the sheer number of people in the notes who think that 84 °F is just an inherently comprehendable number that people understand intuitively and 29°C isn’t, even though thats like saying English is inherently more comprehensible than French. Like yeah, to YOU, because thats what you learned.
Also, as a somewhat northerly Canuck, the idea that the temperature at which water freezes is completely irrelevent to human life is VERY funny to me. Id go so far as to say that for half the year, whether the number is + or - is the single most important piece of information the forecast provides.
Oh my god thank you! Especially for the temperature in which the water freezes - this is very important to know if there’s a chance the rain that fell last night will be a nice, super slippery layer of ice today.
americans are like fuck america until it’s time for fahrenheit-celsius discourse 😒 then you mfs basically pull out the pledge of alliance 😒 like ok fourth of july. didn’t know units of measurement had oil 😒
“it’s the superior system for the human experience” no it’s just intuitive to you because since you were a kid people around you would refer to temperatures in fahrenheit so you developed an understanding of what a certain number of degrees in fahrenheit means. also ‘human experience of temperature’ like yeah i’m sure a norwegian and a pakistani have the same human experience of temperature. or even someone from minnesota and someone from arizona but okay. “it’s better for colder areas” then why aren’t icelanders or siberians using it. maybe because they don’t see a negative number and panic cos that’s too scary for them. “it’s more precise for body heat” we have decimals. is anything that’s not a positive integer scary
Every time this comes up I’m so baffled by the sheer number of people in the notes who think that 84 °F is just an inherently comprehendable number that people understand intuitively and 29°C isn’t, even though thats like saying English is inherently more comprehensible than French. Like yeah, to YOU, because thats what you learned.
Also, as a somewhat northerly Canuck, the idea that the temperature at which water freezes is completely irrelevent to human life is VERY funny to me. Id go so far as to say that for half the year, whether the number is + or - is the single most important piece of information the forecast provides.
Oh my god thank you! Especially for the temperature in which the water freezes - this is very important to know if there’s a chance the rain that fell last night will be a nice, super slippery layer of ice today.
People straight up do not realize that part of the reason manufacturing is not returning to the United States in massive waves is because we have things like “OSHA” and “environmental laws” and “minimum wages.”
It’s not even just about fair wages. It’s literally about the fact that you can’t dump industrial waste in a river here anymore.
Our cheap goods are so cheap because South American and Asians environments are being destroyed so you can buy a $40 pair of shoes every 3 months.
Cutting granite countertops has lead to a rapid increase in silicosis in the lungs out in California. All the working men and women in my family have died from pulmonary fibrosis. They were carpet layers, Post office workers, floor tilers. Staying safe in manufacturing jobs is annoying but also very, very expensive. Real manufacturing factories belch smoke and dust and grime that causes asthma and birth defects in surrounding communities. Everyone wants their manufacturing jobs back until they realize their kids are living directly under the Asthma Plant.
There will come a time when the workers in these countries rise up and demand better and things will start to even out, but if you want to honestly “do your part,” you gotta stop buying cheap shit for no reason.
Not every event needs to be celebrate with a baseball cap or a coozie or a t shirt or a keychain. Not every wall in the house has to have a picture or a cute phrase on it. The knickknacks are killing people.
I came across a xiaohongshu post that showed pictures of an abandoned traditional village in a mountainous region of China with very little surrounding greenery that had the captions: “so sad how traditional villages like these are empty and abandoned”
But the top comment was: “I am so happy for the villagers who finally made it out of the mountains and into new homes in prosperous cities. It often takes multiple generations of hard work to get the entire family out. Every family in this village achieved this. What you are looking at is the evidence of their success!”
And the second highest liked comment was: “You can tell this area has poor agricultural resources. The ancestors of the villagers were likely forced to settle here because more powerful villages have occupied the attractive fertile lands. Who knows how long they had been trapped here? I’m glad they finally made it out!”
Another comment with high likes: “My grandparents’ village was like this. Poor air quality from burning coal in poorly ventilated buildings. Bitterly cold in the winter. Dry and hot in the summer. Short growing seasons. And there was always a shortage of water. My parents got factory jobs in the city and after working and saving for years, they finally got all of us out.”
And it occurred to me how when we romanticize old fashioned villages and mourn the loss of the type of community they provided, we sometimes downplay and overlook the extraordinary liberation and agency that industrialization brought and brings to people who in previous generations had no option but to remain where they were born for most of their lives.
I came across a xiaohongshu post that showed pictures of an abandoned traditional village in a mountainous region of China with very little surrounding greenery that had the captions: “so sad how traditional villages like these are empty and abandoned”
But the top comment was: “I am so happy for the villagers who finally made it out of the mountains and into new homes in prosperous cities. It often takes multiple generations of hard work to get the entire family out. Every family in this village achieved this. What you are looking at is the evidence of their success!”
And the second highest liked comment was: “You can tell this area has poor agricultural resources. The ancestors of the villagers were likely forced to settle here because more powerful villages have occupied the attractive fertile lands. Who knows how long they had been trapped here? I’m glad they finally made it out!”
Another comment with high likes: “My grandparents’ village was like this. Poor air quality from burning coal in poorly ventilated buildings. Bitterly cold in the winter. Dry and hot in the summer. Short growing seasons. And there was always a shortage of water. My parents got factory jobs in the city and after working and saving for years, they finally got all of us out.”
And it occurred to me how when we romanticize old fashioned villages and mourn the loss of the type of community they provided, we sometimes downplay and overlook the extraordinary liberation and agency that industrialization brought and brings to people who in previous generations had no option but to remain where they were born for most of their lives.
One of the things that sucks about being an animation nerd is having to live with the fact that, from a technical standpoint, the Hotel Transylvania movies are absolutely ground-breakingly staggeringly incredible.
As completely ignorant on animation, why is that? How is Hotel Transylvania any good??
The short version is that they’ve been figuring out how to plug the strengths of traditional animation into cg animation.
Longer version: cg animation is essentially puppet animation. You build a model, paint it and dress it up, and then move it around. That’s why Pixar’s first animated film was about toys, and their second one was about bugs: it’s much harder to make something look convincingly soft and fleshy than it is to work with something that’s supposed to be rigid.
Working inside this paradigm, the progression that makes sense is to work on developing more and more articulated puppets. Figure out how to add fur (Monsters, Inc.), move fish (Finding Nemo), get to the point where you can actually make human puppets who look appealing (The Incredibles.) In 2012 the big animated feature films showed off huge strides in particle physics (The Guardians), and hair (Tangled, Brave). Character effects and lighting were really hitting their stride, and the general movement was towards more detailed models, increased realism, richer and more intricate environments. The models only had so much range before they started to break, so squash & stretch was never going to be as pronounced as something from drawn animation could be. Hotel Transylvania challenged that.
As a show creator and director, Genndy Tartakovsky’s always shown a preference for stylization. He’s also got a reputation for incredible and deliberate timing, spectacular silhouettes, dramatic movement and clear staging, and just overall really good at directing animation. He wanted Tex Avery-type animation in CG and by golly, he did it.
Look at how exaggerated those shapes are, and how snappy, smooth, and fast the transitions between each one: that’s not something that was really being done. The motion-blurring alone was so defining that apparently Sony calls it a “Genndy blur.”
Animation is essentially the art of movement: the better the movement, the better the animation, and the Hotel Transylvania franchise has spectacular movement.
The model is actually being resculpted for maximum exaggeration, and the smears and blurs make the transitions between each pose fast, energetic, and snappy.
Like. Look at that movement. Look at how tightly he’s rooted while the follow through of his clothing sells the hard stop of each hip bump. Look at how sharp and deep his knees are bending, the way his weight shifts onto his heels and that tiny little side step at the very end, where he keeps his weight on his right foot for a split second before popping over to his new position. And he’s dancing the Macarena because he had to find the most brain-dominating, toe-tappingist song in the universe to win a DJ battle where a Kraken was being driven into a murderous rage by a mystical melody and it had to be counteracted by another song.
Yeah.
Somebody once described the Hotel Transylvania franchise as “like seeing Lamborghini making a clown car,” and honestly, that’s kind of what it’s like.
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