[katenotbishop]

quick reminder that i'm jewish and from israel and if you don't vive with that then 1. how does it feel to be an antisemite 2. block so won't have to see you in my notifs

[inolienkiki]

Upsetting DARK fact of the week #8

[stitchposts]

what is your LEAST favorite stitch?

I don't like counted work at fucking all. So: the cross stitch.

[rabbitindisguise]

reading this as someone who does cross stitch but is scared of the other kinds of embroidery is like overhearing an incredibly tall and buff person say they have beef with Mr. Tom, the kitten that chills at the bookstore

[stitchposts]

FUCK Mr. Tom and his stupid little fluffy tail ok. And his little charted designs.

[the-dragongirl]

Okay, but this neglects the true villain of embroidery stitches: the French knot

[stitchposts]

Don't you dare malign my girl again

[im-a-dream-wizard]

Ok the french knot is very useful but it is a BITCH to do it consistently

[stitchposts]

[ao3-anonymous]

We talk about how this website’s hate mail game is insane, but this might just be a new level

[talbatross]

"skill issue" made entirely from French knots is a next level roast. no coming back from that one. damn

[prokopetz]

Wrong: Ada Lovelace invented computer science and immediately tried to use it to cheat at gambling because she was Lord Byron's daughter.

Right: Ada Lovelace invented computer science and immediately tried to use it to cheat at gambling because that was the closest you could get in 1850 to being a Super Mario 64 speedrunner.

[bear-disguised-as-a-human]

This is how I found out that Ada Lovelace was Lord Byrons daughter

[prokopetz]

Well, yeah. That's why she received the unusual education which laid the foundation for her later discoveries in the first place. Her mother, Lady Byron, firmly believed three things:

It was her responsibility as a mother to ensure that Ada didn't turn out like her father;

Fundamentally, the thing that was wrong with Lord Byron is that he was a poet; and

The opposite of poetry is math.

Ada Lovelace's biography handily illustrates how well this theory worked out in practice.

[arqueete]

Hark, a vagrant: 298

[timeturner-jay]

I told my friend that tumblr would love her shirt, don't let me down guys

[comicgeekscomicgeek]

Well, you’re not wrong.

[iamgayjew]

Progressives in 2022: You have to watch out for nazi dogwhistles!

Progressives in 2026: I hate those zio jewish supremacist genociding ZOG organ stealing AIPAC imperialists

[edenisquiet]

i love your ewc comics guys can i join

@justcakethanks thank you for the template

[aridoesthing]

finally hopping on this trend! the creator of this template in particular has mentions off i think but their name is on the template right there. i dont remember who started the trend tho T-T

this one honestly isnt that good but i just liked the idea of the eridan neutral committee that sends messages that dont technically have anything wrong with them but are still kind of threatening with no context.

[drfronkensteen]

'Why is this superhero comic book focusing on stories about vigilantism instead of the benefits of ground based community work and therapy' BECAUSE IT IS A SUPERHERO COMIC BOOK

stooooop reading things you clearly hate. do something else.

"why can't this thing change everything about itself to better accommodate my individual preferences and tastes" it's not about you!!!

[imsorrybruce]

Part of reading comprehension is understanding what you can and can not reasonably expect from a given genre

[my0clonic-jerk]

[cardassiangoodreads]

Genuinely, one of the measures that's stopped book banning the most when districts implement it, is having the would-be banners fill out a form that demonstrates if they've read the book or not. Like where they have the summarize the plot and characters and do a mini book report and give a review. It stops them in their tracks. This is why in my high school, every time someone wanted to ban a book it ended up going nowhere. There was one where a conservative student wanted to ban the manga "Legal Drug" for having a marijuana leaf on the cover, then got the form that required them to actually read and either balked, or read it and realized it was not pro-drug at all. (The other one that reduces book bans even further is "requiring the would-be banner to be affiliated with this actual school in some way, either by being a student, faculty/staff or a parent of a child at the school" because the vast majority of bans are "activists" with no affiliation with the school who just travel around trying to do this in districts all over the U.S. IIRC a few years ago someone crunched the numbers and just 51 parents were responsible for all the book bans that year nationally. 51! In a country with 50 states, with over 300 million people total!)

[tjalexandernyc]

Laws like this indeed do a lot to stop fascist book censorship. They can also help legally protect librarians from getting fired or harassed for keeping books on the shelves! Some states like Rhode Island have already passed these laws. If you're in a blue state, look up whether you have laws like this on the books. MAYBE your state is trying to get one passed right now, like New York's Freedom to Read bill. call your state elected officials to voice support for it.

[littlefankingdom]

"Batman can have his no kill rule but other heroes should kill. Like, Oliver Queen should kill."

So, a man among the 1% should be killing whoever he thinks deserve it, abusing his power.

"Wonder Woman and Superman should kill"

So, two beings who are not humans, and way more powerful than humans physically, should be able to kill any human they think deserve it. Wonder how people would feel safe with them.

"Jason should get to shot people in the head"

So, a white man can go shot and kill drug dealers, like the cops aren't enough. Wait, this one is working outside the laws, so he cannot even be punished.

"Heroes that don't kill are pushed unto us to try to manipulate us into not using violence to fight back against oppression and the system."

3 words: you are stupid. Killing people labelled "criminals" is peak fascism. All humans life is sacred, even bad people's lives, is the base of the human rights. Fights against the death penalty and cops having the right to murder are done by leftists. I just have no words for how stupid y'all are.

[imsorrybruce]

These people's ideal "hero"

[imsorrybruce]

Flashpoint (2011) #5

@occasionalauthoring

[key-pair]

in case folk outside the UK aren't abreast of our news, the British press just hounded a black academic to death

[key-pair]

a rough timeline of events (from memory, there may be inaccuracies, feel free to correct me if I'm wrong)

Cambridge professor of sociology Jason Arday is accused of plagiarism by another academic

the accuser is a "race realist" who believes that in a true meritocracy all university professors would be white. this is somehow not acknowledged much during the entire ordeal

this leads to several days of media coverage demanding an investigation, or that Arday is expelled from his post immediately

somehow this accusation that has no effect on the lives of 99.99% of the population becomes FRONT PAGE NEWS in all the newspapers for multiple days, above anything else happening in the UK or the world at large

following intense media scrutiny, Arday resigns his post as a Cambridge professor

today, august 14th, days after resigning, Arday is found dead at his home in Battersea

the British tabloid press remains, and will always be, fucking evil

[cantdrawtosavemylife]

Went to google more news about professor Jason Arday, and I swear to God the first two pages of research are rancid propaganda sites smearing the man's reputation, up to and including popular Brazilian news magazine Veja.

This article by professor Kehinde Andrews clarifies more about the story of racist harassment Arday has been suffering since he fucking got a teaching job at Cambridge in the first place, in 2023, as the FIRST Black professor in that fucking stupid institution, who sure is taking it's sweet time defending their worker, despite already fucking checking his work for plagiarism and saying he didn't do it:

https://www.voice-online.co.uk/opinion/comment/2026/08/07/ardays-resignation/

A dark agenda lies behind Jason Arday's resignation - Voice Online

Arday's resignation has reignited questions about race and who is truly accepted at the highest levels of British academia

Several of the academics who harassed this man into suicide do not seem to have suffered at all in their academic careers. Actually, Dave Harris, who lost his Emeritus title for his racist behavior back in 2024 (something the news only call "criticizing Critical Race Theory", instead of "sent racist emails to fellow black academics"), was defended by Plymouth University, where he used to work, and fucking got the title back earlier this year.

[cannibalgender]

A couple things about the above.

1. He wasn’t the first Black Professor at Cambridge, but he WAS the youngest X

2. He was ALSO autistic, and nonverbal for the first 11 years of his life X

The rest of the story unfolds pretty much as described. And he was a fucking Sociologist studying racial equity in schools and academia. They publicly bullied a black autistic man to suicide for being imperfect whilst asserting a place for blackness in academia.

[themathomhouse]

[purpleweredragon]

Jason Arday: Demand a public inquiry now | Good Law Project

Commission an immediate public inquiry into how to ensure a responsible press given its contribution to Dr Arday’s tragic death.

[daughterofhecata]

Going into DARK, I was aware of Jonas being involved in Fuckery, I knew of The Stranger, I was aware Mikkel was important, I was aware of Noah's existence. What I was absolutely not prepared for was fucking ULRICH. Fucking madman. Absolute legend. Committed to exactly two things. A) getting his son back and, if he can't do that, B) fucking with Egon as much as possible.

[homunculus-argument]

Peacocks are hilarious, really. They really are just like

[zutalorsihavemissedone]

[is-this-fascism]

its funny to me how warmups for instruments generally sound nice and pretty. like just basic scales or chords. the exercises i do on my guitar could be mistaken for actual music at times.

and then vocal warmups are shit like. bark like a seal. grunt like a thwomp from mario 64. now sing the melody but instead of the lyrics youre saying 'moo moo mee mee mah mah' even the scales you gotta moo mee mah through that shit and its just so goofy every time. and this is why im not a singer

[is-this-fascism]

see this is exactly what i mean. i thought someone was having a mental break of some kind in my notes until i remembered what i had posted last night

[is-this-fascism]

its funny to me how warmups for instruments generally sound nice and pretty. like just basic scales or chords. the exercises i do on my guitar could be mistaken for actual music at times.

and then vocal warmups are shit like. bark like a seal. grunt like a thwomp from mario 64. now sing the melody but instead of the lyrics youre saying 'moo moo mee mee mah mah' even the scales you gotta moo mee mah through that shit and its just so goofy every time. and this is why im not a singer

[is-this-fascism]

see this is exactly what i mean. i thought someone was having a mental break of some kind in my notes until i remembered what i had posted last night