yup

he/him

[logmore]

Gather Ye Power #32

Yep, we got a new one fresh off the vine. Fridge-cold. Factory-sealed. You can smell it. And then you can view it https://www.webtoons.com/en/canvas/gather-ye-power/list?title_no=327553

[socpens]

when a negative influence looms over you, it's easy to get caught up in its tantalizing pull. even when there's a clear voice of reason, sometimes you just need to face to consequences in order to learn from your mistakes.

this is a story about one child's heartbreaking mistake.

https://youtu.be/ULb5WjSr51k

[tpwrtrmnky]

Tbh I think the "but data centers are important infrastructure, not just AI" talking point misses that like

Ok so roads are important infrastructure. A lot of stuff that's important happens on roads. Now, let's imagine that quadrillionaire Matt Stench has decided that the next big tech innovation is the Wide Car. It's a car that takes up six lanes despite seating only one passenger.

The Wide Car is supposed to be the future, and everyone's going to be driving Wide Cars, even though nobody who makes Wide Cars is turning a profit. Employers are offering Wide Cars as an employee benefit, and getting "nah." Some employers are going as far as demanding their employees drive Wide Cars, and the result is that people take time out of their workdays to get in the mandatory gas usage for their Wide Car before driving home in a regular car.

In spite of the fact that the Wide Car is clearly set to fail, there's an enormous push to expand to twelve-lane roads to accommodate a bunch of Wide Cars that simply will not materialize. This is not an organic response to demand, but a speculative investment that amplifies the existing issues with road development for no good reason.

That is the problem.

[tpwrtrmnky]

Oh and the road infrastructure project is buying up resources other people could have used for literally anything else. With money they promise they'll be making from Wide Car sales any day now.

[tpwrtrmnky]

Okay so what I'm getting from the notes is that when you try to transplant some techbro nonsense into an offline equivalent, you have to be careful to avoid simply inventing something the Americans are already doing in real life

[weepingwidar]

Nicko Cecchini (Canadian, d.o.b. unknown) - Defensive Measures (2026)

[inaccessiblitykilledchaoticbuggy]

hate how I will have a very simple thing (tagging flashing lights is a bare minimum of accessibility) and people crawl outta the fuckin woodworks to tell me how stupid that is like bro

[inaccessiblitykilledchaoticbuggy]

Banging my head against a wall literally you’re correct and it is blatantly ableist to say otherwise

[morning-stars-avenue]

[Image ID: Two Tumblr hashtags which read "like hey guys. people can die from that." and "it isnt stupid people can fucking DIE if you dont tag for it". /End ID]

[inaccessiblitykilledchaoticbuggy]

reblog this version please

[inaccessiblitykilledchaoticbuggy]

Tags: please remember epileptics like me. Seizures can kill people at any point and not just from injuries they cause. Literally it’s called sudden unexpected death by epilepsy. additional tag: disability awareness

[saveaboud]

1000 DAYS OF GENOCIDE IN GAZA.

[saveaboud]

[saveaboud]

The war took our father. Our home is gone. My mother is dying. My little siblings are living in a tent on the street, and I am suffering from severe anemia.

[saveaboud]

After 1000 days, we have lost almost everything.

I need treatment costs for this month. Please donate, and if I die, please don’t forget my little siblings.

Chuffed – PayPal – Verified

[crabussy]

hi trans kiwis and friends. if you haven't seen the news, they're trying to pass a frankly insidious bill in aotearoa to define the terms 'man' and 'woman' based on biological sex. this unsurprisingly reflects a lot of similar cruel efforts happening overseas at the moment. IT HASN'T PASSED YET, but I figured I should speak up about it because this is happening as we speak.

(screenshot from the linked RNZ article)

it seems very fucking bleak!!!! please don't lose hope! it hasn't passed yet and a lot of the shoddy bills suggested by the coalition have been shot down already. it's still worth knowing about. you don't have to share this post if you don't want to. I just know that a lot of my followers are kiwi. if there are any updates as to what we can do to push back against this, I'll make a relevant addition. kia kaha, okay? love you all.

[elierlick]

Does she not realize she’s the Nazi in this scenario? It's not a bad metaphor; she’s actually correct for a change.

[butcherdyke]

if you’re trans and you have any level of background in STEM I do think you’ve got some level of duty to help preserve the information they’re working to destroy.

whether it be through traditional archival methods or by educating your people about HRT, how it works, what it does, what it doesn’t do, and risks associated, it’s becoming increasingly clear to anyone with an ear to the ground that nobody is coming to save us.

when myself and my peers were growing up, there was a noticeable absence of queer elders. 40 years ago it was AIDS. now it’s this. if you don’t work to preserve our science and our history, nobody else is going to do so either.

I’m begging you on behalf of our children, be they blood relatives or not. preserve yourselves. preserve the knowledge that got you here today. educate those who ask you earnestly.

we are all that we have.

[nanaosdailylife]

I'm adapting to life down here.

[charlesoberonn]

This looks like a fucking parody post, or an edgy edit, but it’s 100% official real Flintstones.

[charlesoberonn]

Clarification: I don’t hate this book, I love it, it’s amazing. It’s just that taking a step back and looking it out of context is still really funny. Especially the line “We participated in a genocide, Barney.”

[femboy-fever]

ok but imagine them in their cartoon forms saying this dialogue i’m

[wondermanaging]

can we have some context to this, perhaps?

[charlesoberonn]

Bedrock is having a mayoral election. One of the candidates is a violent war mongering asshole that riles people up against the lizard people. This reminds Fred and Barney of their time in the army.

Back then the father of said violent candidate was riling people up against the “tree people”. Fred, Barney, and other soldiers fought what they believed to be a defensive measure against the tree people. Turns out, it was actually an invasion, in order to kill off the tree people and take over their forest to build Bedrock.

That’s what Fred means when he says he and Barney participated in a genocide. They literally did.

(Extra fun fact, Barney adopted a tree person baby after the war, and his son Bamm-Bamm is the last tree person.)

[connard-cynique-deactivated2024]

just fucking read it

http://readcomiconline.to/Comic/The-Flintstones

[fuocogo]

There are a lot of interesting things about this post but the AK-47 shaped spear is what really got me

[actuallyjuststealingmemes]

This is just as wild with the context

[birdscreaming15-deactivated2020]

[charlesoberonn]

Some of my favorite moments in the series

[esoteric-merit]

From the foreword to 2021 print of the comic.

[charlesoberonn]

I’m glad people want to read it but don’t it on the pirate site linked above, though. It’s full of malware and annoying ads.

The omnibus of the full series is only about $30 online.

[piscesintherain]

If you don’t have $30 going spare, check your local library. If they don’t have it, they can help you with interlibrary loan. Or they might just buy it - libraries want to carry books people will read!

[baaulp]

[gregtom]

[k-simplex-deactivated20241001]

Happy Pride

[logmore]

Proud to show off this design I made for SFAC's pride month campaign! They are super awesome and gave me the opportunity to represent pride and community as I saw fit, so I wanted to shout out the space where unbreakable bonds are formed: around obscure 90s fighting games. You can get stuff here: https://stream-for-a-cause-shop.fourthwall.com/collections/sfac-ex-collection

[wayneradiotv]

When You Tell The Priest You Agnostic And All You Get Back Is That Catholic Stare

[wayneradiotv]

Half-Life 2 VR but the AI is Self-Aware ACT 2 is OUT NOW!

Gordon and his fellow Antiscience Team members roll out on their journey to Black Mesa East alongside their newest companion, Stain. Can they show him the best first day outside ever AND not die..? FIND OUT

(and ACT 3 will be streamed LIVE on tuesday, june 16th @ 8pm EST!)

[crumb-crumblet-s-crumbington]

i turned 21 today, all i can say is that it gets better

[masonicbeheadingritual]

[schistcity]