「Newsman Go Hell」

「call me News // 29」 〔Non-binary - they/it- none gender with left beef〕 《Jewish // Louisiana born, D.C. raised》

[crypticauthour]

Even Weird Al has had that™ experience with Tony Hawk

[packder]

[roguetelemetry]

Tony Hawk IS Forrest Gump

[foone]

So I looked up why and how this happened, and it turns out Weird Al hired a company called Birdhouse Skateboards to provide some “skate/punk” extras for the video. Birdhouse Skateboards is a company started by Tony Hawk, so not only did Weird Al end up putting Tony Hawk in his video without realizing it, he actually hired Tony Hawk’s company without realizing it! And then Tony Hawk just decided to go along as one of the extras himself.

BTW, he’d already won like 40 contests already, some of them international skateboarding contests. So it’s not like Weird Al cast some unknown skateboarder who ended up becoming World Famous Skateboarder, he was already well known and was running his own Skateboarding company.

[cookingwithroxy]

Think of it this way. This wasn’t ‘Weird Al got Tony Hawk to be in his video’, this was ‘Tony Hawk found a way to be in a Weird Al Video.’

[cryoverkiltmilk]

The chance that Tony Hawk has infiltrated your location or piece of media is low

BUT NEVER ZERO.

[tired-of-white-cunts-deactivate]

Some of you forget that intersex is a sociopolitical label that someone has to self identify with. Yes, you need to have a congenital sex variation of some sort to be intersex, but someone does not necessarily have to identify as intersex if they do have a congenital sex variation if they aren't ready.

Forcing someone who doesn't know or accept that they are intersex out of the closet is, in fact, dangerous. You are, in fact, harming intersex people when you do this. You aren't helping intersex people, and you aren't helping that person who you insist is intersex.

You don't know what environment they live in. You don't know what that person has currently internalized. You don't know that person's mental state. You don't know if this person is ready to unpack and address their own intersexist medical trauma.

Someone with congenital sex variation identifying as intersex is their choice, and their choice only. They will find their way to the community on their own when they're ready. That is not your call to make.

There is a major difference between offering resources and answers when asked, and telling someone "Hey, actually, you're by definition intersex and you have to identify as intersex now."

[foolfortune]

[grayghostofthenorth]

Borzoi White Mohair with zipper (box for pajamas), glass eyes

[elodieunderglass]

It’s so weird that pyjama cases were a thing. They went so abruptly out of fashion, too. The idea was (I think) that it was vaguely indecent to leave your pajamas around, and it definitely spoils the look of your nicely made bed, so lots of people put them under the pillow; but a cuter thing to do was to have a specially made empty stuffed animal or cute purse or pillow thing, with a zipper, and you’d stuff it with your pajamas in the morning and place it cutely on your nicely made bed. Then in the evening, you would unzip and disembowel the soft plump object, and reclaim the pajamas. It wasn’t just a thing for kids; adults did it too. In the kind of pre-1950s novels I like to pick up, authors describe a character’s pyjama case to reveal a bit about the character; but of course they never say why you’d have a pyjama case. “Everyone knows what a horse is.”

I suppose it’s been culturally decided that it’s an unnecessary step in the bedtime process. We’re busy bastards, aren’t we? Who makes their bed every morning, I mean, really?

Perhaps, also, our clothing is no longer of the material and methodology where you have to spend extra time/attention/tools on them. Pyjama cases may have had some benefit - extending the life of the pyjamas, or something. Perhaps it was more common in those days for mice to climb into your silk pyjamas, or they kept them from being attacked by dogs, or something. It’s possible that there are unspoken benefits to keeping your pyjamas in a stuffed toy, which previous generations knew instinctively and we have forgotten. Some people are like that, they maintain rituals and practices that don’t get written down, and so become arcana. My father-in-law owns special clothing maintenance tools such as shoe trees (which you place in your shoes every night at night) and trouser presses (in which you leave your worn-but-not-dirty trousers overnight so they are crisp in the morning). He irons his pocket handkerchiefs - why? so that they fold into a precise pocket shape, with the same fold pattern as plastic-wrapped disposable tissues: the optimised shape for pockets. You are not going to read in the literature about there being a reason for ironing pocket handkerchiefs. It is a habit that is not captured by history. You have to speak to a practitioner to even consider that there is a specific value in pocket handkerchief folding. Maybe we operate at a remove from the people who could have told us why they bothered with the idea and then stopped.

You can buy a selection of pyjama cases online, but with no explanation of why you’d want to, it’s hard to see how this helps. The only real thing i can see is that it’s cute and tidies the pyjamas up, but we’ve all decided that untidy pyjamas are a problem that doesn’t need solving.

Pyjama cases have no Wikipedia article; search engines have nothing to offer. Old books only self-reference them being a normal thing. Someone who knows about pyjama cases or textile history could heroically fill this in. Please do. Otherwise, this tumblr post is going to suddenly become the leading analysis of pyjama cases, and that would be sad.

[h-i-raeth]

What are you doing with your pajamas during the day?

Pyjama Case

On bed (near pillows/folded neatly)

Hung Up (Hooks/bedposts/etc)

Floor Time/Laundry Chair/Wherever

On Bed (chaos version)

Straight To The Dirty Laundry Basket

Back in the drawer/closet

I wear them?

I don't wear pajamas ;)

IDK Man It Depends

In the bathroom

Something else?

Voting ended onJul 30, 2025

[akaanmo]

picture-perfect

[tlirsgender]

You ever think about how crows are acting not unlike how early humans probably did and you're just like. Oh ok

[tlirsgender]

I saw a Thing one time about how the earliest sign of civilization is a healed femur because that shows that we were taking care of each other because if we Didn't a broken leg would mean you Die because you can't. Do things

And I was thinking about this and I remembered also seeing an article about this one mated pair of crows where one of them broke its beak and thus couldn't properly feed itself on its own. So the other one helps

So basically I have connected the two dots ("you didn't connect shit") I've connected them

And also they not only use tools but teach each other how to construct them, so uh

Really makes you think

[tlirsgender]

Realistically I know immortality would kinda suck but I'd love to see where crows are going with this

[findersfeeders]

Fun fact, there is little info on crows (as far as species of interest go) because they're so good at evading human tactics for collection and observation. I had a friend who studied them in grad school. Not only do they describe humans to each other (so crows you've never seen before will avoid you), they also learn the precise distance of net cannons (for trapping and tagging) after 1 encounter and then stand at that distance the entire time (making naive researchers think maybe they can juuuust caych em). So basically you need to befriend them (a common strategy), or find a murder that's never seen you before (researchers wear presidents masks to throw them off, but then they remember and describe the cars). In this case, you have one chance to collect enough in the group to get good data. Whatever crow you catch once, you probably will never catch again, ruling out biosensing devices (like they use with other birds and turtles n junk).

The latest big finding about crows is that they have a grasp of knowledge breadth, meaning they "know what they know" meaning they are conscious (self aware), have subjective experiences and can reflect on their knowledge. (Source) This also implies they have an understanding of the unknown.

Look up Andreas Nieder and Jon Marzluff's work if you want the deep skinny.

[loverinstinct]

@todaysbird

[amorkuku]

the only one allowed in crime alley 🐦

[rrbobani]

Captain of the Guard

Just a late night doodle of our favorite Ta-matoran soldier, Jaller~ This design would be for his unpowered form, so this is his look before Mask of light, MNOGII, etc.

I'm looking forward to doing his toa form~

[andthespacebetween]

Oh hey!! I put out an album of my own music!!!

[itzitxou]

I want a massive three-headed puppy too.

[andthespacebetween]

I commissioned one of my best friends to do the cover art for my upcoming album, and they gave me THREE!! FULLY PAINTED CANVASES!!! They’re each different but still represents the music, I think. It’s genuinely going to be hard to pick which to use.

But my favorite thing about the pieces, something that no generative AI could ever replicate, is that they’re the results of my friend’s synesthesia responses to the music. Not only is that just cool on a surface level, it’s so profoundly human. It’s not just an output, it’s an act, it’s art as a verb. That’s so beautiful to me

[bebsi-cola]

disabled people are worth whatever cost or resources is needed to keep them alive. disabled people are worth it even if they don't live long. they're worth it even if they will need extra support and resources for every day of their life. they're worth it even if they spend all they life indoors. none of it is wasted. none of it is in vain. time, effort, money, resources spent on a life are not wasted. these things have served their purpose. the joy of someone's existence is not undermined by not lasting forever. there's no meaningful point, some threshold where you can say "okay this is enough. after that it's not worth it." it's always worth it.

[predstrogen]

i have hired this fucking thing to stare at you

[maythray]

im rehiring this fucking thing to stare at you

[onmywayoutokay-deactivated20240]

[andthespacebetween]

I'm so close to being done with my first full-length album and holy shit I'm terrified lol

[txttletale]

something that annoys me about responses to criticism of d&d is that imo people will give the game credit for things it did not do. "i have fun playing d&d" -- of course you do! you're meeting up to talk to your friends for several hours, that's inherently fun regardless of the activity. if i met up with five of my besties every week to dig holes in the desert we'd have a great time but that doesn't speak to the merits of digging holes in the desert. people will talk about cool shit their DM came up with singlehandedly (because d&d gives DMs absolutely no useful guidance or support) and act like that vindicates the game itself rather than their friend who designed a cool encounter/told a cool story

[play-now-my-lord]

i agree with you but "digging holes in the desert" is the worst example you could have come up with because the good time you had with your friends is in that case directly because of the healing, friendship-building power of digging holes in the desert

[txttletale]

i think digging holes in the desert is good but only if you homebrew it to digging trenches instead

[peachfromcmbyn]

If I were famous I would remain closeted exclusively so people could speculate on my sexuality. I want to get somebody canceled on Twitter for asking whether or not I the faggiest person alive is gay.

[andthespacebetween]

I see you only in color

I can’t feel aught but the waves

It’s tunnel vision but it’s so damn clear