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remembering when the something awful forums made a word filter that changed the word "females" so it was surrounded by Ferengi emoji (we called em 'smilies' not emoji back in the day) so it looked like this:

because someone was sick of incels using the word to refer to women

S.O.S. (sick of shitting)

#i know gastro can go on for 72 hours #but emotionally?#the toll!#nausea and the valley of the wind #unsanitary cw #just got off the phone with a nurse (only took 3 hours) and I'm at the point I need to stop drinking gatorade #and hope my partner can pick up some pedialyte

fforsythiaaa

Once when I was in undergrad, someone described something as “problematic” in class and our professor was like, “That’s cool, but ‘problematic’ doesn’t really mean anything. It means that the thing you’re describing has a problem, and in and of itself that’s not bad. Art, especially, should always have problems, or else it’s not interesting and not art, either. It sounds like you’re trying to say that this is bad, but you don’t want to say ‘bad.’ Is that right?”

So from then on whenever one of us called something problematic, he would make us talk it out until we could name the “bad” thing we were hinting at. In this particular class, 7/10 it was some type of oppression, and the remainder was like, “I’m uncomfortable because this is very new/confusing/pushing boundaries that made me feel safe.”

Once we stopped calling things “problematic” and stopping at that, class got way more interesting and... we all had to say, like, “that’s racist” or “that’s misogynistic” or “ew capitalism gross” out loud, which a lot of us had never done in a classroom before. Or we had to be like, “Uhhh... I’m not sure what’s so bad?” and confront our own beliefs and that was maybe even more useful.

Anyway. Whenever I see the word problematic, I can’t help but think of this professor being like, “Good starting point, now let’s get specific.” I think when we have to commit to saying “that’s ___” it requires a lot more careful thought about the truth and impact and complexities of whatever we’re claiming. Sometimes there really is some bullshit afoot, and also sometimes it’s art, and it should be full of problems, because that’s what art is.

fluff-e-boy

Need to be taken apart and reassembled like a broken watch . Not in a sex way I just think they should put my joints together right this time

orkyydorky

this too shall pass

orkyydorky

HURRY UP

tikkety-tok

Harsh, but I accept it I suppose.

youkoartemis

[Transcription: Speaker is a blue-eyed older man with dark blond hair that falls down his back, a round face, and a moustache and beard combo with some gray hairs amongst the blond. His voice is deep, and a bit choked up at points.]

“These are my red flags for women:

If she stabs me more than twice.

If she has a concerning amount of ex-husbands who died on their honeymoon, like... [a brief pause for thought] Like four or more.

If Gozer the Gozerian asks me to choose the form of the destructor and then one of my childhood crushes walks through New York City at 300 feet tall, uh, and steps on a church... [takes a breath and pauses for a second] I mean, it’s not the height! It’s not the height. I like a climb. But, like. [another breath] She stepped on a church. Or any building, really, ‘cause. [deep breath followed by a brief pause] Legally they’re not supposed to be able to ask you about that on like your homeowner’s association application, but- but they’ll ask. They’ll look it up.

If she doesn’t exist in the same physical timeline as I am... [several seconds long pause before continuing, sounding distraught] I’m not doing that again.”

galaxywarp

Greg Universe.

twistcmyk

supreme-leader-stoat

I like your nose laser OP

venndaai

have you guys heard about the greenland shark. some crazy shit happening there.

venndaai

they are sexually mature at ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS OLD.

their (live!) young gestate for. wait for it. eight to eighteen (??) YEARS. can have up to 10 at a time. good grief.

longest lifespan of any vertebrate, up to five hundred years

toxic flesh

has giant eyes but is usually blind because of a weird little crustacean that's evolved to live on and eat their eyes. this doesn't seem to bother them much.

lives in deep cold water and has the lowest swim speed and tail-beat frequency for its size across all fish species. just generally lives life in extreme slow motion

largest genome of any shark

eats everything including moose and polar bears

ma'am you are delightfully strange and I'm privileged to share a planet with you

fluorescentbrains

this post prompted me to refresh my memory on Greenland Shark Facts and this detail about how they feed goes so hard

just vacuuming up their unsuspecting prey. whole !

muffinlance

Good news good news good news! Recent research suggests the eye parasites do NOT blind them!

Dorota Skowronska-Krawczyk sits in her office, eyes fixed on the computer monitor in front of her. "You see it move its eye," says the UC Ir

I <3 you a normal amount Greenland sharks

petefoxshend-deactivated2018062

“Big Pharma” okay are we talking about how privatization and monetization has deeply corrupted the field of medicine or are you talking about how you think chemicals in the water are making the frogs gay

greyramblings

“GMOs”? Are we talking seeds that grow sterile plants and patenting genetic modifications then destroying any competition no matter how small they are? Or are we talking life saving rice with vitamin a to make sure kids don’t go blind in regions not suited for other high vit a veg? … or are we talking about your chidoodle?

64mpg

“my friend is ALWAYS sick and cancelling our plans” it sounds like your friends life suuucks and you should check on them

wren-kitchens

happy disability pride month and once again, FUCK lazy subtitles. fuck the [speaks foreign language] instead of actually transcribing the words, fuck shortening sentences and changing whats been said for no reason, fuck censoring swearing in captions but not in audio and fuck anyone who says youre being 'too sensitive' for being upset about a lack of accessibility

copperbadge

I was taking a break from work this afternoon and lying on the bed annoying Polk when I suddenly started shivering. It was 73F in the room and I was dressed; I didn't even feel cold.

I figured my options were to switch on the space heater and sit in front of it or take a drastically hot shower so I did the latter (seemed safer). I didn't think about taking my temperature until I was getting out of the hot shower which raised my core temperature (and starting to shiver again).

It turned out to be 101F.

It's time for a fun game of VIRUS! OR! ANXIETY!

Because apparently anxiety can cause sudden chills and I am highly strung.

It's not COVID (I tested) but it might be a sinus infection or might just be my body fucking with me. I have no other symptoms so far and my temperature is now 99.1 which is normal for me. I'm not dehydrated, my blood sugar and pressure are both fine, I haven't fucked with my meds or eaten anything I didn't safely cook myself. I've got Tylenol and some Azelastine on board. But it's 75F in here now and I'm completely under the blankets with the heated mattress pad on.

KNOCK IT OFF MORTAL HUSK.

copperbadge

I'M ALIVE *waves from under a doubled over duvet*

I got up, ate some food, hydrated, went back to bed. So far I feel okay. There's odds that my body was just upset I wasn't moving around enough and made me vibrate unpleasantly for a while.

When I took my temperature this morning it was 101.9, but twenty minutes later it was 100.2. I feel like at this point it's not the fever that's the symptom but how INSANE it is. Unless I just need a new thermometer.

#mood #this was me tuesday nighr #but now I'm onto the morni g of day 3 of gastroenteritis #yippee :(#but my temperature is normally very low (97.3F)#so anything elevated is feverish for me #even if it still reads in the high 90s

shamebats

People who live in car-centric parts of the world have a lot of trouble imagining a world where cars are not the only/main option. They think of one scenario where a car seems like the only option and immediately give up on the entire concept of not owning a personal vehicle altogether. Meanwhile people who actually live in places that are not as car-centric are always finding interesting new ways to meet their needs for travel & transportation without a car.

shamebats

"what if you need to transport furniture like once a year?" I can rent a transport van or pay to have it delivered to my home, they'll even carry it into whichever room I prefer for me.

I've also seen people transport entire pieces of furniture on public transit.

"what if I can't cycle or walk that much?" electric bikes and e-scooters.

"what if I have nowhere to put a bike/don't want to owm one for some reason?"

Shared public bicycle systems:

"but what about people with kids?" kids can use public transit too.

Also, meet the humble cargo bicycle:

(they can also be electric)

"what if someone is disabled/in a wheelchair?"

If their disability makes driving a car safely difficult, unsafe or impossible for them, but they can use other options, they're so much better off (that's a lot of disabled people, especially the elderly)!

If a car really is the only option, they should be able to use it, and if those of us who don't really need to drive stay off the roads, that will also be a much better experience for them.

Some places also offer special transport vans for disabled and elderly people that can pick you up at your home and bring you wherever you need to go! That means not every disabled person needs to buy and maintain their own adapted car/van.

When you have a hammer that you're paying tons of money for every month, you feel like you have to throw it at every problem you have, even when a different tool would've worked just as well.