The Carnival of The Random

Mesdames, messieurs et d'autres, bienvenue au carnaval de l'aléatoire. Expect everything. Cis woman, she/her, doing my best to fail better, Social Justice Mage, Slytherin, Chaotic Good IRL. If you value anything I've got to say, and would like to buy a girl a drink, or contribute to my tattoo fund: PayPal.me/kristenmchugh22 After 8 years, the raison d'etre of this blog is to open a window into and out of my brain. (There's a lot of stuff crammed in there.) Things that happen here: Political rants, thinky thoughts, some personal things, a lot of the SHINY, media criticism, kittens. I am a geek, a pop-culture addict, an activist, a maven of eclectica, a comics writer, a poet, a spoken-word performer, and while my day job is saving the world, you'll find a wide variety of the things that fall out of my head here. There will be squee, grover-flailing, and pterodactyl screeching on occasion. Things I fan out about: Black Sails Hamilton Supernatural The MCU Comics

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[carnivaloftherandom]

@sheergeekypanic

Tentacle pottery.

[srdcovka]

WHAT

[cparti-mkiki]

it's not particularly gruesome by the standards of sexual assault and crimes against women but it's been a long time (maybe since the pelicot case) since i've been as disgusted by a news piece as i am by the christian nègre case... they know he drugged and humiliated some 200 women - using his position as a high ranked official in the french ministry of culture to pretend to interview them for a job - because he admitted it and they're all there in a detailed excel file he kept for sexual gratification purposes but the investigation has been going nowhere for years and he was able to get another job and then retire in peace. come on man

[millenniallust4death]

Here is a link to an article in The Guardian about the case.

Officers found a computer spreadsheet titled “Experiments”, where he had allegedly noted the times of druggings and the women’s reactions.

I don't have any words.

[carnivaloftherandom]

tw on the article.

[millenniallust4death]

I’m paying to force seven thousand strangers to see a photo of my late husband having fun with his dog. Tumblr Blaze is totally worth it. XD

[1los]

[10knotes]

omfg that is just too adorable

[satanic-b00ty]

This will always be one of my favorite comics ever. It gives me warm fuzzies~

[hello-missvixy-deactivated20160]

This is the most perfect.

[thefingerfuckingfemalefury]

This kitteh having a little halloween adventure is one of my favourite posts of all time :)

[wonderhawk]

Every fall like clockwork this photo set pops up and we all must reblog it

[zooophagous]

ITS TIME

[dduane]

Always will reblog.

[trilliath]

Scaredy Cat Mini Book — Heather Franzen

On a dark night, a little kitten curiously wanders into a pumpkin patch. He soon becomes scared of the pumpkin patch's inhabitants and wishe

Remember to support the real artist - it makes a great gift for any little ones or witchiness-inclined people in your life.

[nighthaunting]

thought too hard about MRI machines today and had this come to me in a vision

[beesmygod]

mri accident is literally one of my biggest anxiety freakouts. i dont care about being in the tiny loud tube, im so scared of a secret piece of metal i dont know about in my body will tear through me like a knife through butter. what if i ate a quarter in my sleep

[neutral-wizard]

Quarters George who eats a $10 roll of quarters every night is shredded into a fine mist my the MRI

[its-grape-juice-i-swear]

TIME TO POST ONE OF MY ALL TIME FAVORITE IMAGES!!!!

Back when I worked at the hospital, I had to take MRI training and it was my favorite thing every time. It was only like 10 minutes long and went a little something like this:

Hey. The MRI is basically a really big magnet and by basically I mean it is and we literally never turn it off. It's like really big. Really really big and powerful and The Magnet is always on. We don't turn it off Ever, for any reason. We mean it bro, The Magnet is literally always on. It's crazy strong and will definitely kill you. So don't bring any metal into the MRI room, man. You will fuck up the machine (because The Magnet is always on) and then you will die (again, because The Magnet is always on). Here's some fun questions for you to test your understanding!

1) The ______ is always on.

2) The Magnet is ______ on.

3) How often is The Magnet on?

4) The Magnet is always __.

5) The Magnet is always on. T/F

6) The Magnet is usually on but we know to turn it off for you because you're a very special boy :) T/F

7) My weak fleshy body can survive the wrath of The Magnet. T/F

8) Look at this 500 lbs steel hospital bed, which The Magnet has crumpled into an origami crane. Imagine if that was you.

9) Is The Magnet ever off?

10) Sometimes we turn The Magnet off. T/F

Thank you for taking MRI training. We hope you learned that The Magnet is always on, because it is. It's on Right Now and it will be on every time you come to the MRI. Have fun and remember: The Magnet is always on!

I love you MRI training. The Magnet is always on.

[yellowlink]

@thebutter

[thebutter]

it costs half a million dollars to turn off the magnet, therefore The Magnet is always on.

[fan-person-forevernever]

@vague-magnus-archives

[witchern]

guillermo del toro said so many insightful and funny things last night at the frankenstein q&a that i started taking notes. these are all direct quotes. i love this man.

[zubbyzub]

[aceofstars]

I HAVE BEEN LAUGHING AT THIS FOR LIKE 10 MINUTES STRAIGHT OH MY GODD

[naamahdarling]

Except I can never NOT parse the “hieroglyphs” on the far right as reading “I dig that ass.” Which still works, TBH.

[chongoblog]

The Steven Universe fandom might be “cringe” and “bad” but imagine a fandom so bad that a bunch of fandom members had ran a scheme to say “if you pay us money, your blorbo will know you’re valid” and the fandom permanently split over a 95 paragraph callout post of these people.

[chongoblog]

I cant do the story justice myself. Google “The Protestant Reformation” for more details, I hear a few people have done deep dives

[trickstertime]

[ash-rigby]

[ash-rigby]

some additions 👊💥

[anarchistmemedistro]

[elbiotipo]

Also I am asking all of you, once again, to learn about ecosystem conservation and restoration instead of wallowing in "we are already past the point of no return" or that it will take "millennia" to restore ecosystems.

You have to understand that nature does not work in the same timeframe as ours. Protecting and restoring ecosystems is RIDICULOUSLY inexpensive and requires very little industrial technology; shovels and saplings are not exactly high-tech. But it takes time and long-term projects with people determined to do it. Maybe we are too focused in our "we want it now" thinking, but what you see today is not what you may see in 10, 20, 50, even 80 years if you live that long.

But it works. It's working right now, and when capitalism is replaced by socialism and we stop thinking on short-term gain, when our societies are focused into the common welfare instead of accumulation, it will even work better. Again I could point out to individual examples but instead, I encourage you to learn about ecology. We are well past from the catastrophic "Earth will die and there's nothing we can do" predictions from the 80s. We know what to do, we know it can work.

[elbiotipo]

First-of-its-kind study definitively shows that conservation actions are effective at halting and reversing biodiversity loss

A new study published online today, April 25, in the scientific journal Science provides the strongest evidence to date that not only is nat

This article talks about this very much in the "see? ecology can help the economy too!" tone that unfortunately is sort of necessary to convince people in the current capitalist system. But I don't want you to focus on this right now.

I want you to KNOW how doable this is. How inexpensive this is, how POSSIBLE THIS IS. That people working and loving the land and nature they live in is possible. That these projects WORK, THEY DO restore and preserve ecosystems. That humanity is neither a plague that destroys everything or a passive bystander on its own destruction but that these are actual things that can be, are, and will be implemented, backed by actual science and results. This is not empty #hopecore #hopepunk feel good stuff, these are things you can learn about, even work towards, and you can most certainly demand they are part of our society.

Are you listening to me?

[solarpunkcast]

"I'm just losing hope." Then get some fucking conviction. Millions of people around the globe are working their asses off and seeing results. What they are doing IS WORKING.

This orange peel story was huge years ago: https://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode/a-fruitful-experiment-in-land-conservation/

Beavers reintroduced to historic wetlands improve them at such a level that we can see the improvements from space: https://news.mongabay.com/2023/09/nasa-satellites-reveal-restoration-power-of-beavers/

Africa is successfully slowing desertification and restoring historic farming soil with their Green Wall project: https://welcomeafrica.org/en/africa-combats-desertification-with-a-belt-of-life/

There has even been success at regrowing coral reefs--something which I am old enough to be told was impossible. But people have been hard at work for decades since then, and this is one of the results: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2024/03/240308123248.htm

REPAIRING THE DAMAGE IS ENTIRELY WITHIN THE REALM OF POSSIBILITY.

THERE IS ALWAYS HOPE IF YOU HAVE THE CONVICTION TO BACK IT UP.

[isuggestlandback]

I have a suggestion

[katestewartt]

"I can give you the exact play-by-play that was happening in my mind when everyone else was projecting something entirely different."

[aearyn]

[digitaldiscipline]

unfuck google drive by shooting gemini

Hey folks! Google is fucking you via sneaky enshittification again!

Want the shit in your google drive to load instantly again, instead of taking for-fucking-ever?

Open your gdrive (web OR app) Settings > Manage Apps

Gemini was checked "use as default" (and i sure the fuck didn't set it that way, this was a silent push)

Nuke that, and suddenly, folders that took up to a minute to populate and sort do so in a fraction of a second.

[hamthezombie]

Do check this out people. I had manually switched all the gemini nonsense off months ago, but when I went and checked just now it was all switched back on.

[voidspacecowboy]

Not only should it be law that anything AI generated on the internet should be labelled as such but every website, app, and digital service should have a button I can click that removes any AI from my interactions with that site/service. I don't want your AI assistant I don't want your AI-generated ad copy I don't want this insidious little thing that has crept into so much of the internet that I can be using it without even realising or knowing. If you couldn't be bothered to have a human make it I can't be bothered to look at it sorry bye

[meowth]

[foolishfools-deactivated2024062]

#that little bat has no clue that it is embodying halloween right now #because it does not understand what holidays are #it does however #understand what pumpkins are #as it can eat those #it cannot eat halloween #bats

I needed your tags I’m sorry.

[doublechocolate]

@veradragonjedi

[ftmtftm]

Trump isn't destroying the White House because he feels really strongly about destroying a symbol of American imperialism.

He's unceremoniously tearing down the imperialist monument TO REPLACE IT WITH HIS OWN.

This is literally actually Nazi shit and you're too preoccupied with "death to America" blinders on to realize that yeah. They are killing America. And replacing it with something Exponentially Worse that's going to cause direct and tangible harm to way more people.

[ftmtftm]

Actually making my tags part of the post. I'm also on board the "Let's dismantle the American Establishment" train, but like, I don't fucking know, let's do it in a way that ISN'T SPEARHEADED BY WHITE FUCKING SUPREMACISTS.

I FEEL LIKE THAT SHOULD BE SO OBVIOUS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'm rattling the bars of my enclosure. Can anyone hear me? Can anyone fucking hear me? Hello????

[cleolinda]

In case you're out of the loop:

East Wing of White House reduced to rubble as part of Trump’s ballroom construction

Despite president’s promise to preserve it, the eastern section of the building is now completely destroyed

Demolishing the White House East Wing to build a ballroom embodies Trump’s heritage politics

President Donald Trump is trying to prescribe the style and content of many federal sites to highlight his own authority and promote a parti

5 takeaways from the demolition of the White House’s East Wing

The East Wing of the White House is no more. Aerial imagery showed the wing of the nation’s most famous building, used by first ladies for d

[carnivaloftherandom]

I can't remember the attribution, but the quote is, "Remember that the first country Ad*lph H*tler invaded, was his own."

The US is now experiencing what it is like when an Empire invades and colonizes. We haven't experienced that before.

(If your response is, "Of course we have...Columbus, Pilgrims, Roanoake, etc," then consider this: the people who were colonized were not white europeans, they were Indigenous. Black Americans are predominently descended from the people Europeans abducted and trafficked over centuries.

White Americans have never experienced settler colonialism as the victims, before.