Chrome's random nonsense

I post whatever I feel like posting. I cannot be predicted. My interests only become apparent over time

[chromeknife]

Shit what did I do to my sleep schedule

[chromeknife]

My 2026 artfight card! I'm focusing on the Spooky Scary this year, it seems

[thunderglade]

coughs loudly

[cheetz0]

Iran is slowly coming back online, but by "online," I mean they've moved from whitelisting some websites to blacklisting everything. I had no idea what these terms meant, but living in Iran forces you to know about technical network and connection stuff. Basically, instead of banning everything except for a few shitty malware apps posing as "social media platforms", they have now moved to filter out and ban the same usual things as before (like Telegram, Instagram, YouTube, everything). So what does that mean? It means more IPs will be available to bypass the ban, and VPNs will be more affordable. So more people can access the internet, STILL ILLEGALLY and THROUGH A PAYWALL.

It's currently close to 4 AM now that I'm posting this, and I've been crying non-stop since midnight because my friends came back online one by one through an unstable connection and said: "Hi, I'm alive." I had prepared myself for the funeral of so many of my friends. Some haven't come back online yet, and we've formed small "search and rescue" groups to find their contacts or families to check if they're okay.

What remains a fact amidst all of this is that nobody in the world ever gave a single fuck about us. I was one of the lucky ones to connect during the complete shutdown via some newly invented way we were too scared to even publish on GitHub for fear of getting arrested. In the time I was connected, I felt immense guilt for having access to the internet, and I begged you all on my socials to be the voice of the people who were about to get executed.

Not even once did I see someone talk about the internet blackout in Iran, and it enrages me.

We've been massacred, mass executed, and then silenced by getting our only way of communicating with the world shut off and the world treats it as some background noise, some irrelevant news that isn't even worth spending time hearing about.

So I'm asking you again, please, be the voice for the people in Iran. We are barely surviving.

[chromeknife]

hippity hoppity your gender is now swappity

[cherryhatter-deactivated2015072]

KICK THE CAN!

Let’s play the biggest game of kick the can on the internet.

To kick the can, reblog it. I wanna see how long this can go on for.

[visibun]

the oldest reblogs for this post that i can find are from january 2nd of 2013. this can has been getting kicked around tumblr for almost 13½ years now

[chromeknife]

It's aromantic visibility guess I gotta stop dissociating and be a real extant person for now

[chromeknife]

it's all fun and games until you realize your personality is inconsistent

[thegalaxyinapaperbag2]

everyone talks abt how adrian and rocky are roger and jessica rabbit and how rocky bagged a baddie and shit but what if,,, it was the other way around,,,,,,

(full image under cut)

[racistspiderman]

More women

[sevey6]

Thank god they decided to make more

[somesaypoetry]

Wow

Dolly Parton has really been hard at work

[cumbacon]

But In doing so…she created her biggest enemy…Jolene

[ichikun]

[chromeknife]

I'm not entirely happy with this and it's kinda my first attempt with making a finished Eridian (the others are just sketches) but we ball.This is Devil, named that because of the "horns" (they were really happy once they found out what the name meant because it's badass). They think humans are horrifying in a good way. They're an artist who takes some interest in science, and their older sibling, Ridge, is a skilled diplomat. They're talkative in a slightly socially awkward way

[chromeknife]

I graduated highschool! I'm free! Time to get a job.

[teddythegreat]

Rocky and Grace's relationship really re-defines the term "star crossed lovers." Not romantic lovers where fate and the stars said no, but beings that crossed the stars to love each other platonically.

Conclusion: romantic love kills people, platonic love builds spaceships and biospheres

[chromeknife]

accurate conclusion 10/10

[unlimited-nobu-works]

the floating head of wisdom

[toe-fingerman]

Please don't fall victim to internet misinformation. There is no floating head. It's a regular horse, it's neck is just hidden due to the position of the camera. I made an image to help you understand the what's actually going on.

[pride-knightess]

Thank you for the clarification

[goatmilksoda]

A question I get asked a lot while working at a public library is "how do you deal with homeless people?"

And the answer is, we don't.

The unhoused people who come here seeking refuge 99% of the time understand that they will be kicked out if they misbehave.

The people you have to watch out for are Jessica, who only came because the kid she didn't want had to visit for a homework assignment and she just *needs* to yell at her child for asking to borrow two books or stay an extra five minutes, or Michael, who came in to look at porn on our computers for whatever fucking reason, or Karen who just wanted to come by to throw a fit that the particular book she wanted was checked out and harrass our staff about our collection being too limited.

99% of the time, the people we need to ban are middle to upper-middle class white people while the homeless and mentally ill/disabled people mind their own damn business and are honestly some of the best patrons we have.

[goatmilksoda]

I bring this up because today we had a man come in. He stopped at the desk, pulled up a chair and said "I'm newly homeless and was living in my car. I'm disabled. It was impounded. It's raining. I don't have a phone and I don't know where to go tonight."

And we did what we could to help. He was incredibly kind and patient despite his obvious anxiety and stress, more than most able bodied, housed patrons are to us under much less dire conditions. I liked knowing that we were the first place he came.

We have so many people like this who come in everyday. Many are quiet and keep to themselves, but sometimes they talk to us.

They tell us about how they're taking a few courses on a scholarship they applied for from our library's computer at the local community college to get their diploma. Or ask about a manga or dvd or book we might have to help them pass the time.

One woman, who comes in daily with her tattered walker always says hello to me and likes to work on the new jigsaw puzzle with me when we set one out.

So like, treat unhoused people like people. Treat disabled people like people. I don't want my library to feel like the only safe space in the world, but I'm glad it can be one of them.

I'm so sick of hearing about how "the homeless are ruining everything" when they are some of the kindest, most respectful people here. Sometimes they mutter, might not have had a place to shower, and might need a little extra space for their backpacks but that's FINE. It Doesn't Matter Actually. None of that is a problem or any of my business to care about (unless they request help/services), and I also don't think it's any of yours.

[pusheenthenerdcat]

libraries provide vital and lifesaving services and i will die on the hill you have to let people who are mentally ill and disabled and homeless and politically disagreeable to you still access those rescourses. its simply too important to society

[minart-was-taken]

Many such cases

[cheeseanonioncrisps]

So, do we think Stratt tells people about the Grace thing after the mission left?

Cause like, she definitely doesn't have to. Yes the guards and Carl and people are in on the secret, but they've probably been sworn to secrecy and also aren't likely to be broadcasting that they're accessories to murder.

And people liked Grace. He was a popular person on the project, he was Stratt's fun little sidekick who ended up being the only guy who could save humanity. People are going to want to believe that he was brave and he went voluntarily.

If Stratt says “Grace panicked at first but then realised he had to do it for humanity” people will likely go along with that.

Stratt won't go to jail for ordering his murder on top of all the other things she's definitely going to jail for. (Listen, regardless of whether it saved humanity, what they did to Grace is definitely murder legally.) Grace will be remembered as a hero, like she promised.

And she will watch this one act that she knows he didn't do eclipse everything he ever actually did in his life.

Who's going to really remember the fun science teacher? The guy who did experiments with stuff he bought from the hardware store? The goofy guy who kept everyone's spirits up on the aircraft carrier?

If Grace's story ends with him nobly sacrificing himself to save humanity, then everything he did up to that point is re contextualised. Stratt will watch people memorialising a man that she knows never really existed, while the real Grace and all the good he actually did is wiped from history.

Equally though, if she tells people what really happened, then everyone is definitely going to judge Grace harshly.

Like, never mind that he only had a few hours to decide, never mind that he had already voluntarily done so much for the mission, never mind that he was scared to die (never mind that Stratt can still see the look on his face when he realised that he had no choice). He's the guy who tried to put himself over all of humanity.

He was empirically the most selfish any human has ever been, even if only because no human has ever been put in a position to be that selfish before. Sure, a lot of people would probably react the same way in the same situation, but nobody's going to admit that out loud.

People are going to compare him to the other astronauts on the mission (who had months to come to terms with their decision) and he's going to look like a piece of shit.

Everyone on Earth has a personal stake in this decision. Everyone will have strong feelings about it. Grace is either going to be the martyr, the saint, the saviour of humanity, or the guy who tried to destroy them all to save his own skin.

Eva Stratt has to live with the knowledge that she killed Grace (at least the version of him that lived on Earth) more totally than she thought she could, because no matter what she does, nobody but her is going to remember him as the good but not perfect man that he really was.