Gimme a Fish

Abbie | She/Her | 20 something | Transfem Deaf Woman | probably bi? sexuality is confusing

[puppygirl-hornyposting]

[syaeris]

who cares how good the tea is when there’s no one around to drink it?

[terraswallows]

Okay seriously question, who of you went through "the boy who avoids photo's because he hates how he looks" to the "I’m a hot girl" pipeline?

[omnicshrimp]

Happy pride month!

[gaystation4]

[a-sentient-cup]

[rpfofficial]

it's crazy how february-june didn't happen

[polpotpie]

What if water didn't have surface tension and whenever you spilled some, the whole floor of your entire apartment was covered in a 2 micrometer deep puddle

[teaboot]

you've taught me to count blessings I didn't know were mine

[elbiotipo]

"warm, shallow seas" is one of the most beautiful phrases in paleontology and it's everywhere... these mollusks lived in warm, shallow seas... scientists think that photosynthetic life evolved in warm, shallow seas... in that era the Earth was covered by warm, shallow seas...

I wish I was resting by an antediluvian warm, shallow sea

[soup-mother]

Americans will painstakingly research the architecture and ecosystem of a real third world country in order to create the most realistic and accurate first person shooter map they can

[estrogenesis-vaporeongelion]

top economists are saying today that so long as the coyote doesn't look down he will never fall

[krookiecookie]

ngl i kinda hate the woke 2.0 and friend that's too woke "jokes" because any bigotry that is normalized enough will have you get dismissed as "the friend that's too woke" for calling it out. like i've seen people called wokescolds and shit for saying it's bad to use mental disorders as an insult. it's basically a way to tell you that it's ruining the optics to point out bigotry or to justify being bigoted since it's to the "right targets"

[krookiecookie]

also it's so unfortunately ironic how racism is downplayed in these ways when the term woke is literally AAVE that got bastardized

[krookiecookie]

being woke is just an aesthetic for so many people and you can really see it in their worldview

[mewvore]

"we detected a mature post" yeah I'm in my 30s

[energyprison]

americans after eating 2 pounds of pasta and getting sick: uh oh im about to enter a serious food coma lol

americans after eating 2 pounds of ginger beef and fried rice and getting sick: the devious CCP has agents everywhere

[mateymedialunas]

has been said before but i also love how when the US elects a nazi who's also bombing every other country on earth we have to feel sorry for them but when a third world country elects a nazi who's mostly fucking over its own population its because we're morally bankrupt and deserve to suffer or whatever.

[kitfreeman]

this is also missing that the USA backed those nazis financially

[communistkenobi]

not mengelecore ask here! just wanted to ask what you think about destructive book scanning. will be moving soon and i have some books i won't bring with me that also aren't available online. i'm tempted to scan them but i'm feeling a bit conflicted. they're old but not ancient and definitely not one-of-a-kind type books. classic dilemma for you.

I think there’s a common tendency to treat physical books as fetish objects (not in the sexual sense) that prevent people from learning from them in a lot of ways. Idk the process of scanning you’re describing, but if that’s how you want to archive them for future use then that’s cool 👍

This is tangential to your point but is related, which is that I think people are afraid to leave any trace of human interaction in books as a result of this. I very frequently write in, mark up, fold, bend, etc books I read (not borrowed ones though obviously) because it’s part of how I learn from them. I would encourage people to do that as well, even if you don’t think you have anything valuable/insightful/funny to say. They are for learning and learning happens in lots of different ways. I think getting into the habit of doing that helps demystify books as inherently sacred objects. I remember my brother borrowed my copy of Whipping Girl and laughed at a note I made where I just wrote “WRONG” next to a sentence I disagreed with. Just have funnnnnnn

[rabbits-of-negative-euphoria]

if they're gonna remake The Princess Bride, it should open with a kid sick in bed scrolling on his phone. his grandpa arrives with a gift--it's a DVD player with a disc already inside. grandpa hooks it up to the TV and presses play. and we all just watch the original 1987 film again.

[dykeselfcest]

holy shit okay may have found a game-changer for web searches...with duckduckgo it's easy to turn off the ai features permanently, but regardless of engine there's the increasing problem of the search results themselves leading mostly to ai-generated articles on random ghost websites that say a lot without any information, and then the information they do give is contradictory or otherwise just wrong. this is especially a problem for me when trying to search for, e.g., a current list of the best products in a certain category.

finally searched for a solution and there IS in fact a giant hand-curated list of sites containing this content. it can be imported to ublock origin on desktop or mobile, and even can be used on iOS via the ublacklist extension in the safari app. it's updated regularly, and importing via the link as described should allow those updates to go into effect automatically.

i've only tested it a little bit, but after importing the list and repeating my duckduckgo search for backpack recommendations, my top results now lead to websites that appear to be linked to actual organizations in some form, with an "about us" page and the name of a founder and everything. the text is still often a bit wordy and SEO-optimized, but it now has actual recommendations that are relevant to the query. BIG IF TRUE???

please do not start talking about The Definition Of Art on this post, or Whether Human Creations Have Souls. i am very tired.

[dykeselfcest]

once I added this it took me 15 minutes to find a backpack that met my needs and order it with free shipping. I feel reborn