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today's bright spot:

In a convergence of Events, I ate almost 100% free food from work today, including

2.5 bagels loaded with butter, veggies, and a heap of smoked salmon

A bomb pop

One slider

6 crab cakes

2 glasses of wine

A couple slices of bread/pita with hummus

A cucumber

A small plate of olives, salami, and cheese

hometoursandotherstuff

#dragon

testing if a reference makes sense:

You know how when you're lucid dreaming, you just know things? Like, for example, if there is another person/character in the dream, you know what they are feeling/thinking. Not like you can read their mind, you just have an inherent sense. And you can even change what they do (although if you push to hard it will break the dream and you will wake up).

Yep 100%

Not how I usually dream/lucid dream but I've experienced that

I don't lucid dream but that sounds kind like how I pictured it

Owl what the fuck are you talking about

That's not a good way to describe it, it's more like [details in the comments]

Remaining time: 1 day 15 hours

carriesthewind

5 pm filing deadlines are a cruel and unusual punishment

carriesthewind

I should be able to file my briefs at 11:59 PM on the day of the deadline, the way god intended

5 pm filing deadlines are a cruel and unusual punishment

seeing the texture of discussions of Nolan's Odyssey movie across different media platforms is fascinating. I'm not interested in seeing the movie (not my type of thing, regardless of whether it is good or bad, although all the discussion is kind making me want to reread the epic, so....points for that at least?). But there are so many different kinds of conversations going on and its fascinating on a metatextual level.

And part of the reason I love tumblr? Is that the texture of the all convos I've seen on here is that we're all a bunch of NERDS. And I love it.

#don't ask my how many copies of the odyssey i own #i haven't checked and i'm afraid to find out

tanoraqui

extremely funny that Kel’s primary assessment of Baron George Cooper of Pirate’s Swoop is “not hot enough for the Lioness.” I disagree with her, but I do respect the opinion.

tanoraqui

she meets him a second time and has 0 further takes on him. When The Gang is sneaking into Scanra and Neal explains that he knew the smugglers because, “You meet the most interesting people, riding with the Lioness. They’re usually friends with her husband,” usually-astute Kel asks, “What does Lady Alanna know of spies?” and completely ignores his second sentence, despite someone else pointing it out to her and repeated allusions to “the Whisper Man.” Kel pov of the Lord & Lady of Pirate’s Swoop is truly like,

✨🦁🗡️!ALANNA THE LIONESS!🗡️🦁✨

and some guy

#alanna the lioness #kel kel kel

FYI if you are in the US and looking for something you can do to help folks right now:

Build the Emergency Fund that protects families when everything feels uncertain. The end of TPS. Increasing ICE actions. Families losing wor

carriesthewind

my jurisdiction's civil case search has recently switched to a new captcha system that is entirely made up of (really bad) ai images and it's driving me insane. I should not need to guess at whether a bot has tagged this distorted rectangle with random protrusions as a "hat" or a "chair" to be able to look at my client's docket

carriesthewind

Chairs:

Hats:

And of course, my favorite hat and chair:

Can you guess which is which?

#ai bs

my jurisdiction's civil case search has recently switched to a new captcha system that is entirely made up of (really bad) ai images and it's driving me insane. I should not need to guess at whether a bot has tagged this distorted rectangle with random protrusions as a "hat" or a "chair" to be able to look at my client's docket

went on a run and now it is my mission to track down and consume every carb in this apartment

footlongdingledong

idk man not to sound like a cartoon hippie but if your entirrrrre blog and dash is about how the world sucks and everyones bigoted i think you are going to give yorself brain worms

footlongdingledong

"ah but all of this is important and true and if i dont reblog all of this important stuff waga baga THE WORMS! THATS WORMS! THE BRAIN WORMS!

footlongdingledong

i do not think you are doing activism chief i think what you are doing is sitting in your room flagellating yourself expecting something to happen

allcops

“The police spend very little of their time dealing with violent criminals—indeed, police sociologists report that only about 10% of the average police officer’s time is devoted to criminal matters of any kind. Most of the remaining 90% is spent dealing with infractions of various administrative codes and regulations: all those rules about how and where one can eat, drink, smoke, sell, sit, walk, and drive. If two people punch each other, or even draw a knife on each other, police are unlikely to get involved. Drive down the street in a car without license plates, on the other hand, and the authorities will show up instantly, threatening all sorts of dire consequences if you don’t do exactly what they tell you. The police, then, are essentially just bureaucrats with weapons. Their main role in society is to bring the threat of physical force—even, death—into situations where it would never have been otherwise invoked, such as the enforcement of civic ordinances about the sale of untaxed cigarettes.”

— An excerpt from Ferguson & the Criminalization of American Life by David Graeber (via actjustly)

noneedtofearorhope

since i think many will have had the memory slip with just how many other atrocities have occured in the past 11 years, or are simply too young to remember, the last bit about the sale of untaxed cigarettes isn’t just some hypothetical, it’s a reference to the killing of eric garner

this is the origin of the slogan “i cant breathe”, which was revived in the wake of the killing of george floyd.

alanshemper

On this day, 17 July 2014, Eric Garner was murdered by police enforcing a civic ordinance.

#the criminal injustice system

I finally watched Project Hail Mary and it was great, love me a story about the power of love (platonic).

But I also think the fandom has dramatically missed meme potential:

"Get in the fucking spaceship Grace."

carriesthewind

This the report that JK Rowing doesn't want you to see. This report scares her so much that she is trying to destroy Amnesty International, a human rights organization, to stop you reading it:

Amnesty International put out a major report documenting the influence of UK based anti trans gender critical organizations and their fundin

(Amnesty already pulled the report because of JKR's threats. Of course that didn't and won't stop her - capitulating to fascists and bigots is never the answer. Alejandra captured the report and posted it, so you can read what JKR doesn't want you to know.)

sanguinarysanguinity

Bluesky thread is a lot of screenshots (which I find impossible to cope with), but if you scroll far enough down, there's a link to the full pdf:

carriesthewind

My good folks? Please stop reblogging this with incitements to violence. If you do, I will assume you are a terf fedposting, and report and block you as such.

pepurika

Fun experiment idea/proposal: if it isn't too much trouble, I would find it tremendously funny if you put a button on the comic website, along with your patreon, bluesky, rss feed, etc., that simply says "Kill Rakkatak" that doesn't do anything but record the number of clicks it gets, and see how many times people click it between now and the end of the comic. Having a button beside it that says "Save Rakkatak" would also be funny, what with how no one's going to click it.

Love your work, love how much you (like me) appreciate ancient life on Earth, been following Tigers for years, and I look forward to your next project.

Have a nice weekend, whether you're interested in the above experiment or not! *waves companionably*