[pancakeke]

can someone translate this? i need to know what level of hell am i going to for ordering groceries online when my spinal fluid was fucked up

[baybelletrist]

Americans Are Cutting Down Flock Cameras. The Company Calls Them Terrorists.

This month people have been tearing Flock cameras off their poles.

This month people have been tearing Flock cameras off their poles. Perched above public streets, they are birdlike things, weatherproof, and they photograph every passing car and file it in a searchable national database. Somebody cut two of them in half at Washington Avenue and Westcott in Houston, spray-painted the wreckage, and left an American flag on one of them. Police were notified on the morning of the Fourth of July. Somebody severed a camera in Rutherfordton, North Carolina. The police department posted the photograph itself and collected more than twenty thousand comments. “Not all heroes wear capes.” “Give them a medal.” Here is what the cameras do when nobody cuts them down. Cops use them to hunt immigrants and to follow ICE targets across state lines and to find women who ended pregnancies in states where that is a crime and to watch exes and to watch women they want, without a warrant and without a judge. A cop types a reason in a box and the box does not check. A man in Burleson, Texas, told deputies his girlfriend had taken abortion pills. He showed them the photographs, the FedEx envelope, the instructions. Deputies opened a death investigation into a non-viable fetus, and the district attorney told them the state could not charge her, and they searched anyway: 83,345 cameras across 6,809 networks, a month of everywhere she had been. The reason they typed was had an abortion, search for female. The search reached Illinois and Washington, where what she did was legal. They found her in Dallas. She came into the sheriff’s office a week later, and they thought she had come to explain the fetus, and she had come to report that the man who called them had put a gun to her head. A sheriff in Jerome County, Idaho ran his wife’s plate more than seven hundred times in three months. He typed the same reason every time. Test. The attorney general found nothing to charge him with. He retired in April. The Institute for Justice counts at least twenty-two officers who used the system to track people they were romantically interested in, and calls that almost certainly an undercount. And the cameras keep falling.

Become ungovernable.

[bold-baddie]

[fanghaunt]

a bit of an experimental jax piece :3

[furbasement]

Art by yuuko891

[xylophonetangerine]

[sailatina3]

Tumblr.

[funkmclovin]

Living in Portland

[chernobog13]

The animatronic Godzilla Cybot, constructed for 1984's The Return of Godzilla (aka Godzilla 1985).

Standing in front of the robot is actor Ken Tanaka, who played reporter Goro Maki in the film.

Sadly, forty years later this seems to be all that's left of the Cybot. Such an ignominious end for a once-magnificent creation.

[tekabecca114]

Sorry I'm not dead I just couldn't fit inside

[zer0wlet]

A lovely big creecher for the even lovelier @tekabecca114 !!

[tekabecca114]

Two cat-kids on a train. Nothing bad ever came from that, I think.

[tekabecca114]

[daily-hex-maniac]

Neco-Arc Maniac

Redraw of a 2024 piece!

[legendofnerd]

Tsareena doodle

[kirbins]

Isn't she Loooovellyyyyy ~ 🎶✨

[kirbins]

Long way down.

Edit: soooo…. How we feelin’ after episode 8? 😅

[Commissions OPEN]

[kat-in-a-trashcan]

shout out to my local hot topic with this display in the window

[the-irreverend]

I heard about Sam Neill's passing, I thought I'd take a moment to talk about perhaps my favourite moment involving his character, Dr. Alan Grant. I know some people look at this line and think it's random or corny or what, but for me personally, it really makes this scene that much more meaningful.

Because ANYONE could look at an entire ecosystem of animals brought back from extinction and say something like, "That's amazing!" or "They're back!" or "They're alive!" or something like that. But only Dr. Alan Grant would look at all of this and say, "They do move in herds."

He's witnessing animals that haven't been on the planet for tens of millions of years, and the only thing that guy can think about is that dumb little theory he's been arguing about for most of his paleontology career being validated before his very eyes. Heck, I'm sure you've felt the exact same way he does right here when you watched your favourite fan theory or OTP become canon!

It takes what could have been a bog-standard reaction scene and makes it unique to his character, making him understandable, relatable, and that much more human instead of just an amalgamation of tropes and cliches.

What else can I say? It's a beautiful scene of a well-written character perfectly executed by a brilliant actor. Rest in peace, Neill.