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“One more thing, sir. You told me you couldn’t possibly have been at the crime scene at that time on account of your alibi, that being that you were at home playing your PlayStation 3. Now, forgive me, but if that’s true, I just gotta ask– how could you have been playing your PS3 if the PS3 has no games?”

giantkillerjack

“Why, Lieutenant, the PS3 is backwards compatible with many PS2 games. I was simply playing one of my many PS2 games at the time of the murder. Surely you are at least familiar with Kingdom Hearts? I’d be happy to show you my save file if it would put your mind at ease.”

drememoto

“Ah, gee. Kingdom Hearts… Yeah, that one’s a classic. one of the best ones, even. My wife loves that little Sora guy. No, I agree. You’re right, sir. I should’a thought of that. Well, I’ll get outta your hair, then. — Oh, one more thing…

I just remembered something you might find a little interesting. See, you’ve got one of those black models. With the top-loading tray. And those PS3 models are backwards compatible. … but only for PS1 games. Kingdom Hearts wasn’t on the PS1, though, was it? …”

giantkillerjack

“Oh… yes, how very… observant of you, Lieutenant. Well, I… suppose I must have been mistaken. My memory of that dreadful night - it’s all jumbled, you see. It must have been one of my other games from my PS1 library. Spyro, perhaps. Or– yes, now I remember. It was Final Fantasy 7 - the character of Cloud is in both that game and in Kingdom Hearts. I must have simply gotten my wires crossed. How silly of me.”

drememoto

“All right, then. That explains it. Well, have a good night, then. … Oh, uh… I figure I oughta let you know … we did have your memory card searched. We didn’t see Final Fantasy VII on there. Must’ve been a glitch or something. Might wanna get that checked.”

giantkillerjack

“Now, see here, Columbo, perhaps if you were spending more time looking for actual clues, rather than harping on my gaming habits, you might have caught the real killer by now!

If you have anything more to say to me, you can kindly say it to my lawyer.

So, if you’ll excuse me, I have a Twitch stream scheduled for noon, and I do not care to keep my followers waiting. Good day, sir.”

drememoto

“Certainly, sir, I’ll be outta your way now. Oh, – gee. Gosh, I nearly forgot. I figured I’d mention. We did get one lead. On the murder, sir.

We determined from Mr. Elbertson’s autopsy that he was repeatedly beaten in the back of the head with a small, blunt object. No bigger than about 157 mm longways. Likely a, uh … analog gamepad of some kind. Dualshock, that’s what the lab boys told me. You got any idea what sorta console uses those? I only ask ‘cause you seem to know about these sorta things. What with you being– well, being a gamer.”

thefeminineurge

randomfae

“come back with a warrant”

i felt that. i shall start using that answer. it’s perfect.

traumasurvivors

Consent does not just apply to sex. It goes for anything. Whether that is hugs, or a pat on the shoulder, or even a handshake.

People also do not need to disclose their trauma as validation for why they do not want to be touched. People are allowed to say “no” to any form of contact, whether they have trauma or not.

Quit taking “please don’t touch me” as a personal attack on you.

Respect people’s bodies. Respect their boundaries. Please.

traumasurvivors

Consent doesn’t just apply to physical things either. You should have someone’s consent for emotional things too. Emotional boundaries are valid and deserve to be respected.

golden-x-mage

owning cats is mostly just about getting meowed at

avoiding-claws

And “WHAT” in response as you and your cat just look at each other like

👁 👁

👁👁

vetisntdead

Getting meowed at is an essential vitamin

commradequestions

blacktailcat

@maximum-mom

internet-sentences

bingly-eyes

ITS FUCKING REAL???

bingly-eyes

The Bongcloud Counter-Gambit: Hotbox Variation

#chess people are weird

siphonophore-collective-deactiv

maximumsunshine

I'm making a new post because I've lost track, slightly, of how much was donated as I've paid bills and gotten necessities up until this point.

Hi I'm Max. At the end of June 2021 my gallbladder went on a rampage. It was formally evicted August 25th. But there were complications. Ask me about my Belly Bile Bag! Or don't. It's gross. Anyway, my insurance 100% covers the surgery, the ER visits, the hospital stay, the drain being put in, and the Sepsis treatment. Financially things could be like a hell of a lot worse. Seriously.

But 2 weeks out of work has turned into 3 and only a tiny bit of my leave was covered. I'm a single mom of 4 kids, though 1 turned 18 and flew the coop recently, and I have rent and utilities, and kid expenses to stress over. It's a lot. My income goal is to make 2k a month. I get paid on the 8th and the 23rd of each month and when I get my 40 hours I about make that goal. I also Doordash a little to make up the difference when I can. (I can't currently. Pain from the drain and surgery itself.)

My mom is a huge help but I'm stretching her really thin. I'm not getting my full 40 hours at work and she's been sending me money twice a month. It hasn't been a whole lot, but it adds up.

This check I'm due to get on the 23rd? I'm going to need the full 1,000$ from somewhere. Mom will make sure it happens but it'll royally fuck her over. She's like that (loving, grateful, frustrated). (She's retired and thus on a semi fixed income.) So I'm going to try to raise as much of the 1k as I can via donations.

Go to paypal.me/karenmarrs and type in the amount. Since it’s PayPal, it's easy and secure. Don’t have a PayPal account? No worries.

Ignore my deadname, yeah?

Every little bit helps. It really does add up! And reblogs are how things like this happen!

0/$1,000

maximumsunshine

9/15

5/$1,000

maximumsunshine

9/16

55/$1,000

maximumsunshine

9/17

55/$1,000

maximumsunshine

9/18

55/$1,000

maximumsunshine

I'm actually really scared that like I'm just not going to get donations beyond this. And I'm not going to lie. I had to take this 55 on a pharmacy run for essentials. Which is fine. It's the purpose of it all. But my mom is really struggling to help and she will make it happen because she's a good mom but it will be a hard and unfortunate sacrifice on her part like seriously.

maximumsunshine

5/19

55/$1000

#please help my good friend #they're an amazing parent and a lot of people rely on them

yijinheedo-deactivated20220316

An eye-opening perspective (Source)

onlyfangz

the queer stereotype cycle often goes "queer group starts making inside jokes > these jokes are overheard by cishets > cishets now start using these inside jokes against queer people > these inside jokes fall out of favour > because queer people aren't a hivemind some queer people keep making these inside jokes > these queer people are then attacked by other queer people for perpetuating stereotypes > nobody criticises the cishets who made it into a bad thing in the first place" and youse just keep letting that go round and round.

takashi0

You really gonna spout this when "Queer" was a slur to start with huh

onlyfangz

yes <3

dead-dyke

Queer legit follows the line OP uses. It was are word first and than cishets starting calling it us in a derogatory manner (just like they use gay in a derogatory manner), and now queer people get attacked for using an ID that has always been ours and has legit been RE-claimed.

dovewithscales

Queer was always our word.

guerrillatech

thechanelmuse

Houma, Lafitte, Vacherie, and Port Fourchon are underwater as well due to Hurricane Ida. I’ve read some rescue tweets of people stating there’s a number of residents (one being a pregnant woman) who are trapped in their attics after trying to escape the rising water. There’s power outages in New Orleans and other Parishes. as well as some parts of Mississippi.

All of this in the middle of a pandemic…

I have friends in New Orleans that I haven’t heard from since yesterday. I’m hoping they received that alert that the electricity isn’t estimated to be returned until a month from now for New Orleans and other Parishes. Yes, a whole fucking month. However, the transmission tower is nonexistent at this point.

From this:

To this:

Was the 30-day estimate for everyone to receive power before or after they seen this demolished structure? I can’t even wrap my head around this. Complete devastation from what they’re experiencing and the lack of media coverage.

kingfucko

very proud of the currently-growing generation’s ability to take consent seriously

incredibly disturbed by the way some of them have really vocally decided that consent culture applies to literally everything, up to and including other people’s right to literally just exist in a public space

kingfucko

it starts with something like “all nudity is sexual” or “wearing kinky clothes is inherently a sexual act” with the accompanying “since it’s sexual it requires consent from all involved parties, and seeing it is a form of involvement, so you need my consent to go out in public where i might see you” and once you start with that it has historically been – i’m as leery of slippery-slope arguments as anyone else but it *has historically, repeatedly been demonstrated* – a very, very short trip from there to policing gender expressions and etc and you know, we still live in a deeply homophobic and transphobic society, the whole thing where people are trying to make it illegal to exist in public while trans is … a thing, in real life, right now? and your “wearing a collar in public is an act of bondage sex to which i do not consent” bullshit is absolutely 100% in support of the evangelical puritans’ “existing while queer is an offense against god. jesus did not consent to you wearing clothing inconsistent with the gender i believe you should be presenting” i’m sure there are a number of people who KNOW those are the same thing with the same end goals/results and are doing it on purpose; i know that there are in fact bad-faith actors repurposing social justice language in service of oppression, you can watch it happen, see also all the conservatives currently parroting “my body my choice” as they endanger everyone around them during a global pandemic. but i think some of them are just naive and genuinely believe themselves to be both correct and leftist, and like. nope

kingfucko

it wasn’t all that long ago that people were in fact regularly getting arrested for wearing clothing inconsistent with their assumed gender. like it was illegal to cross-dress and the cops would go out and arrest trans women and trans men and butch lesbians and effeminiate gays, because of trans- and homophobia, and wearing the wrong clothes was literally the offense used as an excucse to enforce those -phobias. i am not eager to return to that in any way. you cannot argue that your imagined rules against “sexual clothing” would somehow not be used against trans people because, get this, there ARE people in the world for whom cross-dressing is a sex thing, even though the vast majority of trans people are not doing it for any such reason. if you think it’s acceptable to literally police the actions of everyone based on the fact that there are people who might get off on it, then your beliefs are, in actual practical fact of effect, in support of arresting trans people for failing to conform to gender presentation

#agreed #but to be clear #wearing vaguely 'kinky' clothing in public #vs like actually doing a scene in public #aren't the same thing #at some point you can actually be involving people in a sexual scenario that they didn't consent to be partof #but 'the way you dress makes me uncomfortable' and 'the way you are behaving towards me is inappropriate' are not the same thing #and it's important to recognize where that line is

glozirina

bass-borot

officialmacgyver2-deactivated20

Some ya’ll who are younger need to google Frank Serpico and read about his time in the NYPD and what the cops did to him and attempted to do to him up until the late 90′s. He literally had to go into hiding in Italy and Switzerland and multiple times people tried to kill him. He only came back to America after the mafia (who hated the NYPD a lot, obviously) said “you’re under our protection.”

darthbob88

Also Adrian Schoolcraft, who recorded corruption and abuse at the NYPD, and in response they kidnapped him and sent him to a psych ward. ACAB, but NYPD are special bastards.