I’ve made this as a logo/seal thing for a body in a fictional country’s government. It would be helpful if you, the one reading this, could answer the following:
What do you think it could be a seal/logo for?
Let’s assume you guessed right. How could I improve it?
the second one was what I was thinking of but it still looks off to me somehow, maybe cause the dots are smaller now?
also what if you rotated the parliament by 90° counter-clockwise and then have the fist above it? maybe that would look more like the parliament having the power?
Yeah… The reason I didn’t design something like the second one at first is because I don’t want it to look like an agency of the UN
probably feels good as fuck to be a 1960s house wife blissfully dissasociating on barbiturates and speed and your husband comes home and starts screaming at you for no reason and in the state of fugue you calmly grab the hot pan of oil off the stove
For anyone who hasn’t been up to date on the clown show that is the American news, I’ll give a quick recap because oh boy.
So Jeffrey Goldberg is the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic. One day, he gets a notification on his phone from the messaging app “Signal”. He sees that he’s been added to a group chat called “Houthi PC small group”. He thinks nothing of it at first, until a couple days later he sees on the news that the U.S. is bombing Yemen. He takes a look and sees that he has been added to a group chat by the National Security Advisor Mike Waltz.
Plenty of government officials including vice president JD Vance were in this conversation, and they were discussing their bombing on Yemen. And Jeffrey Goldberg, editor-in-chief of The Atlantic, was added by mistake.
So Goldberg approached the White House, who confirmed that he had been accidentally added to the chat. He then posted part of the conversation in a news story on the front page of his news website, omitting any classified information as to not get arrested for that level of security breach.
The response from the administration has been wild. They’re all smearing the journalist, obviously, but their responses at first varied from “he made it all up” to “he must’ve hacked is way in” to “big deal, people add people to group chats on accident all the time”. Eventually, they were put in front of Congress to testify under oath, where they said that nothing in the conversation was classified information like military hours or types of weapons used.
In response, Goldberg said “Oh, so it’s not classified? Okay then! That means I can do this,” and then he released the full unedited conversation. The conversation was nothing but classified information like military hours and the types of weapons used.
Not only are they communicating on private phones on third party apps as a way to circumvent the Presidential Records Act (the chat was interestingly set to auto-delete messages after 4 weeks), but it really kinda highlights the incompetence of America’s leadership right now.
we went to bed at 6pm last night and whenever i woke up my brain would try to slowly reconstruct the phrasing and imagery of McDonald’s Honey Bustard Pickled Sea fuck meal and as soon as id get it right i would fall back asleep happened about a dozen times
voice acting as a profession is so funny because you’ll see someone being like “voice actors need to be paid better! like [obscure person you’ve never heard of]” and you’re like “oh I wonder who that person is, maybe I’ve heard them voice a character” and you look it up and it turns out they voice 137 characters in Futurama and 94 characters in The Simpsons and 96 characters in Adventure Time and every one of the My Little Ponies and 27 characters in Arcane and 96 characters in Kim Possible and 4 characters in Phineas and Ferb and 296 characters in Dexter’s Laboratory and all of the main cast of Fairly Odd Parents and at least 6 characters in every Pixar movie and almost every animated depiction of Superman and 473 SpongeBob characters and they’ve been in every installment of Mass Effect and Halo and The Elder Scrolls and Fallout and Call of Duty and they were in Star Trek and Law & Order and they were 12 characters in the MCU and they also invented t-shirts and the colour green and they got paid a sum total of $3.27 and a mothball for all of it combined. then you go burn down David Zaslav’s house with him inside
voice acting as a profession is so funny because you’ll see someone being like “voice actors need to be paid better! like [obscure person you’ve never heard of]” and you’re like “oh I wonder who that person is, maybe I’ve heard them voice a character” and you look it up and it turns out they voice 137 characters in Futurama and 94 characters in The Simpsons and 96 characters in Adventure Time and every one of the My Little Ponies and 27 characters in Arcane and 96 characters in Kim Possible and 4 characters in Phineas and Ferb and 296 characters in Dexter’s Laboratory and all of the main cast of Fairly Odd Parents and at least 6 characters in every Pixar movie and almost every animated depiction of Superman and 473 SpongeBob characters and they’ve been in every installment of Mass Effect and Halo and The Elder Scrolls and Fallout and Call of Duty and they were in Star Trek and Law & Order and they were 12 characters in the MCU and they also invented t-shirts and the colour green and they got paid a sum total of $3.27 and a mothball for all of it combined. then you go burn down David Zaslav’s house with him inside
I’ve made this as a logo/seal thing for a body in a fictional country’s government. It would be helpful if you, the one reading this, could answer the following:
What do you think it could be a seal/logo for?
Let’s assume you guessed right. How could I improve it?
I believe that one of the greatest thrills in life is that slumdog millionaire type flashback to a bizarre and unique bit of obscure knowledge that gives you an incredibly unlikely advantage at a critical moment.
What nobody tells you is that if you collect enough weird knowledge and experience you can ride that particular dragon minimum once a month
Powered by the force of Autism, ADHD, and Unparalleled Childlike Whimsy, I hope to increase the frequency of these lil muchahos 300% by 2035
oh so the Yankees made their bats thicker and hit 20 runs bc of it and the league is just like yeah they’re allowed to do that?? this whole time apparently it’s been perfectly legal to just change the bats to make it easier and no one tried it until right now?? 150 years this sport has been around and suddenly someone had a bright idea??
look at this shit man
so ESPN is reporting that MLB is preparing to ban these bats. not bc of concerns about the integrity of the game but bc they are throwing off the over/under sets and their gambling partners are losing money bc everyone is betting over when these bats are used and winning
I like when people like a character so way too much that it transcends even self shipping or kinning and becomes more of a patron saint that you pray to type of deal
“patron saint” stop using catholic figures in a blasphemous way! it’s disrespectful to catholics.
yea in my opinion english language is prudish. my mother has an unspoken rule that screaming FUCK SHIT CUNT is equivalent to saying ouch, but a single blyat gets you a smack on the lips and a lecture. i still swear like a sailor in ukrainian, a language rich with hundreds upon hundreds of variations of swear words and “swearifying” any verbs and nouns, but when i curse in english it doesn’t even register as profanity. i fear there’ll come a time when i give an important speech in english, using “fucking” as an adjective to fill in the gaps, and not realise i’m using foul language tm
I’ve made this as a logo/seal thing for a body in a fictional country’s government. It would be helpful if you, the one reading this, could answer the following:
What do you think it could be a seal/logo for?
Let’s assume you guessed right. How could I improve it?
that right there’s a parliament
I think official government seals wouldn’t really have overlapping symbols tho cause that could get messy in print or bad lighting conditions or on a flag or something
so maybe have the dots inside the wreath instead of overlapping
and then maybe the fist inside the wraith too where there’s open space (on the right side if the dots are aligned the same way
problem with that could be that it starts to look more authoritarian? but idk what other symbol you could use to fill the open space so idk
You guessed correctly! It is the Commission of State, the upper house of parliament
Thanks for the feedback! I will try it out for sure
I’ve made this as a logo/seal thing for a body in a fictional country’s government. It would be helpful if you, the one reading this, could answer the following:
What do you think it could be a seal/logo for?
Let’s assume you guessed right. How could I improve it?
the dots in the semicircle make it seem like the symbol for some legislative body, and the blue fist in the background seems to me like a symbol of socialism/workers rights.
the biggest feedback i have is that it’s kind of cluttered. maybe you could use fewer dots or have less going on in the bg, but overall i think it looks cool!
I intentionally tried to make it more clustered because…
I mean look at the average government seal:
I don’t think I could match that kind of complexity, so I overlayed stuff to make it busier
Also, it is a legislative body! The Commission of State is the upper house of the parliament
actually made this before the election tho seems slightly more relevant after watching CA vote no on things like rent control and, like, Prohibiting Slavery
I’ve made this as a logo/seal thing for a body in a fictional country’s government. It would be helpful if you, the one reading this, could answer the following:
What do you think it could be a seal/logo for?
Let’s assume you guessed right. How could I improve it?
In case you haven’t been following, here is a short summary of the misnamed Russian-American “peace process” regarding Ukraine.
The US demands that Ukraine accept an immediate unconditional ceasefire. Ukraine agrees.
Russia rejects any talk of such a ceasefire, and instead asks for a halt on strikes on energy targets, an area where Ukraine is hurting Russia. The US agrees and Ukraine agrees.
Russia within one day violates the terms of its own proposal, attacking Ukrainian energy infrastructure along with other civilian targets. There is no US response.
Meanwhile Russia insists that the United States enforce on Ukraine Russia’s war aims, even though they are outrageous and even though Russia is not winning the war. The US agrees.
The United States also insists that Ukraine concede its mineral wealth in exchange for nothing at all.
This has not been a peace process. It has not even been appeasement. It has been the US throwing its power on Russia’s side in a war of aggression.
was playing 20 questions on the 8 hour drive to visit my grandparents & after like 10 minutes of utterly fruitless questioning my brother suddenly asks me with such exasperation & contempt “is it some sort of petrified remains”
Maybe it’s time for a Sad Bastard Cookbook sequel? Maybe a spin-off for parents of small children? Maybe both?
I’m new here. What’s a Sad Bastard Cookbook?
Glad you asked! We wrote a cookbook full of judgement-free recipes you can make when you’re suffering from mental illness, physical disability, poverty, or anything else late-stage capitalism throws up that makes basic self-care feel impossible. Some of the recipes were our own, some we collected from the community.
The ebook is free–you can download a copy here if you wanna check it out.
I’m a community! Or at least, a Person! Can I contribute my recipe for survival food?
YES PLEASE.
If you have a survival recipe that you make for yourself, or to feed a baby, toddler, or small child, please share that recipe here.
I’m a fan of the original Sad Bastard Cookbook—when will the new ones be here?
We really have no idea. We’re in the very early planning and writing stages of the two projects, but when we have more information, you’ll probably see it here first!
“If you vote now you’ll have to vote again later, so it’s better to just have a single party system” Ok. If you brush your teeth now you’ll have to brush them again later so it’s better to just gargle bleach.
I know this is a joke but like, yeah. It is. I promise you.
See, I had graduated early from highschool and then got my associates in Zoology. But then, from ages 18-23, I was medicated with antipsychotics and (for those last two years) a deadly combo of sedatives due to misdiagnosis after misdiagnosis, and then a psychiatrist who was legitimately on drugs and just writing random shit that almost killed me.
Anyway, needless to say, my brain turned to mush and stopped working, and it took me 6 years to get some sort of bachelors degree (in fashion??) and I graduated at the bottom of my class.
And then I got properly diagnosed (the “psychosis” was just narcolepsy) and got off all those meds. And I was so afraid my brain was permanently fucked. And it is, cause of the narcolepsy part, but the narcolepsy doesn’t kill the parts of your brain where your smarts are.
But I went back to school. Got another bachelors studying sustainable tourism. Turns out my smarts hadn’t gone anywhere when my brain turned to mush. I graduated with a 3.98 GPA.
Now I’m getting my masters in biology studying the intersection of tourism and the conservation of the critically endangered Cozumel raccoon. And doing well. 🤷🏻♀️
Your brain is not a muscle in the literal sense, but it is a muscle in the sense that the more you use it, the better developed it becomes. Not using it might make its usefulness dip for a bit, but that doesn’t mean it’s gone forever. You might have to work your way back up, start with easier exercises (puzzles, creative exercises, critical thinking questions) before jumping back into the stuff you used to do, but like a couch to 5k slowly ramp up the difficulty and you’ll get there in the end. No one’s brains are useless, you just gotta meet ‘em where they’re at.
