I watched this as a kid and internalized it for forever
Lilo and Stitch really said “This is my family. I found it, all on my own. It’s little, and broken, but still good. Yeah. Still good.” And i still live by that
a family can be your gay uncles, the best disney prince, and your parole officer
i think a really funny project that a statistics professor could have their class do is like. put a bunch of random, patently untrue demographic statements into a hat. “the most popular tv show among white men ages 24-27 is Bluey.” “the majority of business majors are middle children.” “bisexual women love hot chips.” and each student picks one out of the hat and you gotta like. design a whole study and survey a group of people to specifically achieve that result. you have to prove it true. by whatever means necessary. you have to construct the most biased study possible and wrangle in your exact demographic to make that statement a statistical reality. i think people would learn a lot.
CLARIFICATION: students would be forbidden from recruiting participants with any communication that contains more than 1 demographic qualifier!!
e.g. they can put out an ad for “female study participants” but not for “bisexual women who like hot chips”
this forces them to design a screening process that narrows it down to their desired group. “yeah sorry the survey takes 2 hours, and it’s right during lunch, but we do have an unlimited supply of hot chips you can eat.” and then occasionally a beautiful butch woman walks by the windows idk im still brainstorming
pros: you get to feel clean. you get non greasy hair, non oily feeling skin, it just in general makes you feel better, more energised, refreshed.
cons: there are so many steps. oh my god are there so many steps. before getting into the shower there are steps. during the shower there are steps. and once youve gotten out of the shower? guess what!!! more fucking steps!!!!!!!! UGHHHH
I love how humans have literally not changed throughout history like the graffiti from Pompeii has people from hundreds of years ago writing stuff like “Marcus is gay” “I fucked a girl here” “Julius your mum wishes she was with me” and leonardo da vinci’s assistants drew dicks in their notebooks just for the banter and mozart created a piece called “kiss my ass” so when people wish for ‘today’s generation’ to be like ‘how people used to’ then we’re already there buddy we’ve always been
The Hagia Sophia has inscriptions that were considered sacred for centuries until they were deciphered in the 70s to be Nordic runes saying “Halfdan wrote this”
my old english prof told us that theres a cave in Scandinavia where a viking gratified some runes like 14 feet up on the wall and when they finally reached it all it translated into was “this is very high”
Ancient Shitposting
Now on the History Channel
‘People have literally just always been people’ is genuinely my favorite fact about the world
“Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.” - Marcus Tullius Cicero, 106 BC - 43 BC
Reblogging again with a more serious addition:
This is why fascists spend so much time trying to create this false understanding of the past that makes modern people seem uniquely unintelligent or uniquely crass and that “civilization is falling apart”. Fascists say shit like “Our ancestors used to build monuments that would last centuries meanwhile people my age are hooking up on Grindr” as if the Romans wouldn’t have LOVED Grindr.
It’s refreshing to know that people don’t really change and we’ve always been like this.
I love how humans have literally not changed throughout history like the graffiti from Pompeii has people from hundreds of years ago writing stuff like “Marcus is gay” “I fucked a girl here” “Julius your mum wishes she was with me” and leonardo da vinci’s assistants drew dicks in their notebooks just for the banter and mozart created a piece called “kiss my ass” so when people wish for ‘today’s generation’ to be like ‘how people used to’ then we’re already there buddy we’ve always been
The Hagia Sophia has inscriptions that were considered sacred for centuries until they were deciphered in the 70s to be Nordic runes saying “Halfdan wrote this”
my old english prof told us that theres a cave in Scandinavia where a viking gratified some runes like 14 feet up on the wall and when they finally reached it all it translated into was “this is very high”
Ancient Shitposting
Now on the History Channel
‘People have literally just always been people’ is genuinely my favorite fact about the world
“Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.” - Marcus Tullius Cicero, 106 BC - 43 BC
Reblogging again with a more serious addition:
This is why fascists spend so much time trying to create this false understanding of the past that makes modern people seem uniquely unintelligent or uniquely crass and that “civilization is falling apart”. Fascists say shit like “Our ancestors used to build monuments that would last centuries meanwhile people my age are hooking up on Grindr” as if the Romans wouldn’t have LOVED Grindr.
It’s refreshing to know that people don’t really change and we’ve always been like this.
By using antibodies from a human donor with a self-induced hyper-immunity to snake venom, scientists have developed the most broadly effective antivenom to date, which is protective against the likes of the black mamba, king cobra, and tiger snakes in mouse trials. Described in the journalCell, the antivenom combines protective antibodies and a small molecule inhibitor and opens a path toward a universal antiserum.
This guy Tim Friede wasn’t any kind of researcher or doctor. He was just a snake collector who thought it would be cool to try and become immune to snake venom by injecting small amounts and working up. For 18 goddamn years. He nearly died at least once.
Later, actual scientists heard about him and realized that since he survived his blood must be full of antibodies that neutralize many kinds of snake venoms. Using a sample of his blood they were able to develop an antibody cocktail that seems to be effective against many types of tropical snake bites, a sort of universal antivenom.
I’m tired of people saying that this is ‘a safe space for all’ but when I talk about my cursed amulet one time suddenly I’m 'a danger to us all’ and 'need to destroy the damnèd thing’. Honestly you people
i feel like counter-trolling is an essential skill that kids online aren’t learning and it’s kinda worrying
like back in my day, the day of online forums, learning how to trick someone in to getting themselves banned was an essential skill. if you could tell someone was a chud, you would ask them short, leading questions and watch them get frustrated and post longer and longer rants until they said something that would catch a mod’s attention and get them banned and/or at least publicly humiliated.
and guess what? that’s the exact same tactics the alt-right use now. these people are exclusively acting in bad faith. every interaction these people post online is done with the intention of getting someone to respond to them so they can screenshot the massive paragraphs of text and laugh
so, what’s the solution?
dare ‘em to post dick pics.
don’t acknowledge the content of the stuff they post. if you see someone trying to engage you in bad faith just dare them to post pictures of their penis until they either get frustrated and leave or get frustrated and do it. either way they lose.
this is the tactic used by the fans of a podcast (that i haven’t listened to) called the Chapo Trap House, and 4chan’s /pol/ users fucking HATE them. they hate Chapo Trap House and think they’re crazy because Chapo Trap House fans refuse to engage in meaningful debate and repeatedly demand dick pics. they get frustrated and leave. it works.
Some of you never used your position as a mod on an a series of unfortunate events forum to get a racist troll to post evidence of their tax fraud and it shows
…that second comment is oddly specific and I’m a little scared
I watched someone get a bunch of cops banned on twitter by repeatedly replying to them saying that all cops have small dicks and that’s why they went into the police force.
Eventually the enraged pigs posted their hogs and got instantly banned
academic dishonesty is not something you can spin as moral lol i do not want to share a career field let alone a social sphere with a bunch of chatgpt using ass bitches
“you’re just scared your diploma is going to devalue” i’m afraid you dumb bitches are going to become my colleagues and drag social services to hell
What if we aesthetic girlypopped the madonna whore complex?
Not even presenting it as a spectrum obscures that love and carnality are positioned as opposites, and is purposely perpetuating the view of “girlhood” through a Madonna Whore lens.
Also there is much to say about the use of “girlhood” here and “I’m just a girl” type self infantilization.
It’s honestly such a shame that we’ve made such a huge thing out of swimming and swimsuits and looking good in swimsuits and fat people not looking good in swimsuits. Swimming is actually the perfect exercise for fat people because it puts zero pressure on the joints, which is a much bigger concern for us than it is for skinny people, and lets you exercise basically every muscle group without straining too much and risking injury. Yet somehow this is one of the least accessible exercises to fat people due to nothing more than a culture of body shaming. The work to unlearn all the shame to be comfortable in a bathing suit in front of strangers is huge even for conventionally attractive people, but I could probably count on one hand the number of fat people I’ve met who were confident enough to get in a bathing suit and go swimming in public.
And what is the exercise that somehow everyone thinks they should do instead? Jogging. It’s more accessible, sure, it’s easy and costs nothing to go outside and run. But I need you to understand telling a fat person to go running is basically telling them to go destroy their knees. Not to mention it’s probably one of the most physically uncomfortable exercises to do when you have a body that jiggles even with compression garments.
Imagine a world where everyone had the ability and equal access to whatever exercise fit them best and helped them be happy and healthiest. Imagine a world where fat people go swimming.
Before any of the zero reading comprehension bitches get a hold of this post and do to it what they did to my other swimsuit post by saying the most annoying things on the planet: I go swimming. I am not self conscious in a bathing suit. I also don’t shave my legs. I’m always the weirdest and most off-putting thing in the pool. I go swimming anyway, because I love it. Telling me “there’s nothing stopping you from going swimming, just do it” would be completely missing the point. My point is I would like for it to be easier for others to get where I am, because I know how hard it was to get here.
call your senators and keep calling every day. Tell them to vote no and tell them to do everything they can, including procedural actions and filibusters to stop it. Call over and over again with this message, whether your senator is red or blue. And get the word out to as many people as possible that they’ve gotta start calling too.
Actually do it. You have to call, write, email, whatever you can do. Don’t just reblog this post.
I was wondering when the enabling act would come, and this seems like a test to see whether there would be too much internal pushback and people ready to properly oppose them. Trump has already done the classical “declare state of emergency” and “abuse emergency powers relentlessly” thing and an enabling act would be the logical next step since the United States doesn’t have a convenient martial law for him to declare like South Korea’s President recently tried.
I expect the democrats will only apply mild pressure and not actually take any kind of principled stance, after all Hitler’s enabling act passed with the Nazis only holding 43.9% of the votes in the election just before it.
autistic but my special interest is masking so nobody knows. i walk into da break room at work, everyone gets a chill up their spine but they cant figure out why
Seconding this. It’s not fun and it’s not cute when you get hurt in a way that can’t be fixed. Even if it feel like just pretend to you it is still real life with real people, and can have real consequences.
These are good tags I hope you don’t mind me taping them here <3
Making a line up / redraw of all the TROD AU Ocs with some updated clothing and backstory. Here’s some of them, including some that are in the written work already but I havent drawn yet
whenever i think about how crazy social human beings are, i lose it. cutting us off from other people is literally defined as torture. we grow attached to inanimate objects and treat them as friends. we deliberately seek out other species of animal and try to make them our friends, and that’s why we have pet stores and livestock and working animals. we are so full of love! we are uniquely full of love
i do want to mention that skarsgård nailed it as murderbot. the facial expressions are perfect. every interaction with a real life person is excruciatingly awkward. body language is hesitant, and avoidant and just generally uncomfortable. that look of absolute horror when the team asked to talk to murderbot in crew uniform instead of its armor? the visceral disgust when it’s forced to say the word ‘sex’ out loud? the way its speech is either halting and nervous, or too-fast and not following the conversation queues from the rest of the group? perfection.
After many years of selective breeding, they’ve finally developed a breed of phoenix that, rather than self-immolating itself into ash, instead roasts itself to a perfect internal 165° F while burning off all the feathers, resulting in an instant, ready-to-eat poultry dinner.
[Tweet from @/fozmeadows: “human gender and sexuality are very much like animal taxonomy, in that both look structured and simple on the surface, but once you start investigating, it turns out there’s actually no such thing as a fish despite the fact that we all know what a fish is, and that’s okay”]
As a biologist, that is a fantastic comparison.
We talk about “fish” (which, cladistically, do not exist, there is no monophyletic group of “fish” that simultaneously includes all organisms we understand to be “fish”-like while also excluding, say, humans) because, despite the utter fiction that is fish, it’s still a useful label when we talk about certain features that “fish” tend to have in common.
murderbot is really like “thru the power of all of the tv i have watched and my robotic components which include a lot of weapons, I can handle any situation”
“Any situation in which nobody is looking at me and I’m not having feelings.”
