[brain-brain-brain]

Just as courage is to act in spite of fear and not without it, joy is something we can have in spite of our sadness and suffering. That joy is to find something in yourself worth preserving, even if you have to create it yourself.

[universeleads]

I explained the concept of "blorbo from my shows" to my 71 year old immigrant grandfather because I referenced it in passing and I thought nothing of it, until today when he said "I think I'll watch peaky blinders tonight and see my blorbo from my shows" referring, of course, to Cillian Murphy playing Tommy Shelby

[universeleads]

English isn't his first language so he's not super in touch with modern slang, so I've been accidentally teaching him to talk like a tumblr user. His favorite thing to say lately is "me when I'm a little hater" when he's like talking shit about the neighbor's son

[overwhelmedfernfrond]

I explained the “x before gta6” meme to my immigrant father and he, in turn, explained to me how back in his day in Romania, they had the same type of joke, except instead of it being gta6, it was about the imminent death of a singer named Gică Petrescu, who everyone was continuously shocked by because he refused to die. Every time a momentous event happened people would say, in essence: “This happened and Gică Petrescu hasn’t even died yet?!?”

So. He understood the gta6 meme immediately because they apparently had the same thing in Romania when he was young, except way, way more morbid

[dol-makjarcoffeehouse]

I just want to make a quick note about this before people get too silly about the situation. It's very important to remember that Robbie is Native American, and is putting a lot of work into making sure that Kattigan has indigenous cultural touchstones as part of his characterization. And that is the appropriate lens through which we should view his missing and murdered wife and daughter, I think.

I would be reluctant to use fridging in this exact context, because this isn't some imaginary scenario to generate manpain for a white hero, this is a much more common experience of Native American and First Nation people, having their wives and daughters and sisters (in particular, but not exclusively) go missing. And never getting answers, never learning what happened, and not being believed that there's a problem in the first place.

This is like how being rescued from a tower by a prince is not particularly empowering or affirming to cis physically able straight thin perisex white women and girls, but can be for basically anybody else. Particularly black girls and women, who do not get a lot of cultural messages that treat them as people who are so valuable and precious, who may not have the strength to save themselves, or may wish that they didn't fucking have to save themselves (and everyone else) all the time.

White men have this story so often happen that we have a trope name specific to one specific and particularly egregious version of this, but you don't often see men who look like Robbie dealing with this type of story in fictional settings, even though it happens for men like Robbie in real life with horrifying frequency.

Sometimes stories that are old can be new again in different hands, from different point of views, so just... mind how you step here.

[systlin]

My asshole son (Muffin the cat) has been on a diet, on account of him being overweight. I've been losing my fuck damned mind because he is not losing weight, even when sticking to the vet reccomended diet.

Found out that the dickhead (affectionate) has figured out that the food is in the utility room cupboard. He has figured out how to hook his claws into the door, pry it open, and get into the fucking cupboard at night, where he then shoves his head in the bag and eats as much as he wants.

He then exits and closes the fucking cupboard like the genius little goddamn prick he is.

[systlin]

Update; my fluffy 25 pound dickhead of a Maine coon mix Disapproves Strongly of the child locks on the food door. Loudly. Is now attempting to figure out how to work a child lock with his enormous crime paws.

[butchscientist]

you will never catch me complaining about an actress on a tv show having an imperfectly concealed pregnancy or a character going on a sudden trip somewhere while her actress is on maternity leave. so many actresses (and women working in any other field) are fired, punished and pressured into making reproductive decisions for their employers' convenience & if i have to try a bit harder to suspend my disbelief then that's absolutely what i'm going to do if it means people are getting to exercise reproductive & bodily autonomy without punishment

[girltown420]

me before talking to anyone: plz be weird plz be weird plz be weird plz be weird plz be weird plz be weird plz be weird plz be weird

[knightesscordelia]

There are four categories of people you will meet: Underlings, superiors, rivals, and love interests. One of my underlings has been attempting to convince me of the existence of a fifth category, "friend", which appears to have no purpose. I suspect it is a ploy to get out of performing her duties.

[anais-sinclair-official]

If you have enough passion in your heart, superiors, rivals, and even some underlings can also be love interests.

[drcuriouslxix]

an underling love interest isn't a person they are a Toy

[estrogeon]

[katelyn-danger]

Quadrants

Quadrants are the four different types of romance recognized by trolls, first explained through exposition here. As humans are socialised to

Those unaware of history are doomed to repeat it.

[imsobadatnicknames2]

9 out of 10 times I see people on here celebrating a new "landmark piece of anti-AI legislation" the legislation in question is inevitably some variation of "we propose making IP laws more restrictive but presented through the language of opposing AI". But that one from germany about holding google liable for the words of its AI overview feature is legitimately good I think. If they actively choose to shove that thing in everyone's face as the first thing they're going to see when they make a google search then they shouldn't be able to dodge accountability for the information it provides with a little "gemini AI can be inaccurate, please remember to double-check information teeheehee" disclaimer.

[literary-sparks]

“Why don’t you use ai” idk man beyond the obvious environmental and “this machine causes psychosis and encourages people to kill themselves” thing I think asking the equivalent of a solid D student who is also a pathological liar if they can answer my question/do the work for me seems pretty fucking stupid

[princely-matters]

honestly i wish there was more representation of chubby, plus size, and fat trans bottoms!! and more love for us too !!

[bluefox4]

But, my father kept insisting, the Yeerks on their home world have been peaceful, these years since the attack that destroyed his honor. I didn't point out that the Yeerks on the home world had no choice: An Andalite fleet was parked in orbit above them, ready to shred anything that tried to come or go in the system. p. 34-35

How much does the Yeerk Homeworld know and support the space-faring Yeerks? How much of a split is there on the homeworld? We don't really know. Because their is an Andalite Fleet parked at their homeworld ready to blast everything.

So that also means that Yeerks like Esplin 9466 Prime that were born on the Yeerk spacecraft don't really have the option of just going home if they decide that they don't want to conquer other species. We know that some of the other Yeerks in his training program didn't like it but they really can't just leave.

The Yeerks that went willingly into space are one thing but the Yeerks born in space? They are born probably just to be more soldiers. Get the ones that don't want to fight to become parents because that process kills three Yeerks but get hundreds of new potential soldiers out of the deal. Sounds like a win-win for Yeerk high command. Pressure decenters out (tell them that they need to mate if they aren't going to fight) while getting more troops that you just have to feed the right propaganda to while young.

[zarohk]

OK, but given how little yeerks know about anything beyond their world before the andalites came, and how low-tech they and the gedds are, how many yeerks even though that they are? And of those who do how many even know why?

[thejakeformerlyknownasprince]

There's a really interesting question about thrownness and settler-colonialism in there. Like, suppose you're a guy with French parents and French culture... and you were born in Algeria in 1904. And you've never seen France. And now it's 1943 and France is occupied by Germany, and they're also invading Algeria.

Like, what do you even do in that position? You could do your best to be nice to your Algerian neighbors, but that won't stop them killing you first chance they get because you're on their parents' land. You could try joining that rumored Anti-Colonial League, but that wouldn't necessarily help Algeria and might even accelerate the rate at which Germany takes over the entire planet. You can't go back to France — it's occupied, you've never been there — but staying in Algeria makes you part of the problem. You could join the military, because at least then you're protecting your own, and you're helping prevent Germany wiping out Algeria entirely... but likely as not you'll get sent to "quell unrest" in Algeria instead.

I dunno. I feel like a lot of the ordinary yeerks are caught in a system too big to do anything about, and probably do their best not to think about it while also telling themselves that at least they're nicer to their hosts than the people on the aquatic hork-bajir project.

[zarohk]

My above response was supposed to read

OK, but given how little yeerks know about anything beyond their world before the andalites came, and how low-tech they and the gedds are, how many yeerks even know that they are going into space? And of those who do how many even know why?

Thanks for replying in such depth of knowledge!

[ritahayworrth]

happy fourth of july to the philippines ONLY

[ritahayworrth]

link to article

[cassiterite-tenring]

hi, filipino here. just want to say that our independence day is june 12, not july 4. july 4 is when the united states government decided that they would recognize our freedom, specifically because it is your independence day and they wanted to cement their cultural hegemony over our country. and because of their influence on our country this was recognized for a time as our independence day. we still commemorate it, but i hope you can understand why we don’t want our independence day to be associated so closely with our former colonizer. it wasn’t even a work holiday for us.

june 12 is the day that we filipinos declared our own independence for ourselves, and that is what we celebrate as independence day

[houseofglass]

happy june 12 to you

[vinceaddams]

It's nice that loud noises don't stick to clothes like smells do. That would be really bad if they did.

[fellator]

this fetish stuff is getting out of hand what the fuck is word play

[somekindofstray44]

testosterone is fucking awesome. wdym im hard AND wet rn. i can hump things like a mutt til my cunt gets wet n then use that as lube to jerk off my dick ??? transsexuals are angels.

[roboco-san]

the distortion of "there is potential profit we did not earn" as "there is money we lost" is fascinating and disgusting to me. "megamediaconglomerate lost $1,000,000,000 to piracy this year" is a flat out lie. it is not true. they did not have a billion dollars, that they now do not have. they felt entitled to one billion dollars, that they did not have, and still do not have. it's an infuriating perversion of the truth

[bananonbinary]

cant believe i lost $1000 when i told some guy at walmart to give it to me and he said no

[decompose1]

ohhhh shit. target is recalling their up & up baby wipes (fragrance free & fresh cucumber scented) because they're contaminated with Burkholderia cepacia complex and Burkholderia gladioli, multiple people are reporting discoloration & infections. i just got a call about it cuz i had purchased those but i've already gone through them 😅 so no refund for me. but im fine. if you have these they're saying you need to immediately stop using them and bring them back to target for a full refund. this bacteria can cause life threatening infections in children/infants and people with compromises immune systems (ESPECIALLY cystic fibrosis!!) and i know lots of other chronically ill people follow me!!!!

[decompose1]

Hold on i should've been more specific.

First: THIS RECALL IS NOT STATE SPECIFIC. IT IS NATIONWIDE.

here are the specific products and dates:

FDA page on this:

Target Recalls Up & Up Fragrance Free and Fresh Cucumber Scented Baby Wipes Due to Potential Microbial Contamination

Target is voluntarily recalling Up & Up Fragrance Free and Up & Up Fresh Cucumber Scented Baby Wipes following customer complaints of produc