shoutout to my work friend who shares my lack of shame and/or social filter ill come back from the bathroom and tell her abt the consistency and she offers moral support. true friendship right there honestly
It’s recently been found that even hive insects rest. Bees will play with colorful toys. Ants sleep for about 1 minute but they do it so frequently it amounts to a few hours per day. Even trees take breaks.
The only things that work without rest are machines; literally everything that lives requires rest.
EVERYTHING THAT LIVES REQUIRES REST. STOP JUDGING YOURSELF FOR NOT BEING A ROBOT.
robots require very frequent breaks! welding machines generally have it programmed in that they can’t run so long they melt themselves. ive overseen two different manufacturing robots now and each of them were fragile, finicky idiots that require constant maintenance and repair. they pause in between moves, in between jobs. you’re always keeping an eye on programming errors, on coolant levels, on heat. you’re always pulling bits of scrap out of joints, sweeping up debris, washing off nozzles and untangling hoses. and even then it snaps a chain and takes a whole morning’s vacation.
[Image ID: Tweet from SpookyBritches Jules (@/ SQLPi) on Oct 12, 2020 reading: Reminder that you are an omnivore, a predator, and a pretty big one at that. You are not a bee or an ant. It is, in fact, normal for you to just want to lay around not producing anything. You’re a mammal. Stop judging yourself for not being a hive insect. /End ID]
Plain text: Everything that lives requires rest. Stop judging yourself for not being a robot.
enough about the timeloop I wanna hear about the post-timeloop.
person who just got over the horror of being trapped in a loop and settled into a comfortable routine...but then the timeloop breaks and they struggle to reacclimatize. person trapped in a loop for years who grieved their loved ones—who are suddenly back and acting like nothing happened (because for them nothing did). teenager who aged physically and mentally during the timeloop and now they're so much older than they're supposed to be. random strangers who were trapped in a loop together relieved to get away from each other at last, but feeling oddly bereft of familiar company. service worker who is pissed as fuck to have to go back to work
person who lost their impulse control suddenly living in a world that has consequences again. person who lost their brain-to-mouth filter and now just says things they can't take back. person with choice paralysis because the future was certain and safe and familiar for so long and now who knows what the fuck will happen next. gimme timeline re-entry dysphoria!
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This looks so much worse in retrospect too because the biggest animated movie of the summer is fucking KPop Demon Hunters, a niche story with 0 white characters that never explains anything to the audience at all. Like god. I would be so humiliated. They're trying to blame their failures as a loss of mass appeal while Sony's two biggest films are one about Korean pop-stars fighting demons and another about a black + latino superhero like I'm sorry Disney/Pixar idk if it's unsustainable levels of executives meddling or bad marketing or obsession with mass appeal or what but y'all truly seem to have forgotten how to make and market a good movie and it's wild to blame that on non-white creatives making stories based on their own cultures and histories.
Like it's crazy the Best Animated Picture Oscar has been a thing for the last like 23 years and I can count on just my hands the amount of movies that have won that were not Disney films(only 9), that thing used to essentially belong to Disney, and they haven't won it since 2021. The winners instead have been a Ghibli movie set in post-WWII Japan(The Boy and The Heron), a Latvian indie film made in Blender starring exclusively animals with no spoken dialog(Flow), and Guillermo del Toro's stop-motion Pinocchio which is set during WWI that pulled exactly 0 punches on the topic and is explicitly based on a version of Pinocchio that almost none of the intended audience was familiar with. Just. Where the hell are they getting the idea it's niche cultural films that are the problem, they're clearly very much not. Something at Disney is just fucking broken and until they fix it we're just gonna get incoherent sequels no one asked for and occasional original films which get left to fucking drown by Disney's marketing department like they're trying to Treasure Planet their entire animation department and/or Pixar as a studio.
The best part is OP got fired because their boss asked why they weren’t “incorporating blockchain technology” into the video switcher they were building and OP straight up said “you have no idea what you’re talking about” and went to lunch
People still tend to lump JK Rowling in with the category of ~problematic artists~ and I need everyone to understand that is not the problem with her. She is not comparable to anyone who wrote a piece of fiction you hate, or someone who made rude comments in 2015 and has since learned better.
She is far more like Elon Musk. She is a radicalized person with an extreme amount of social and financial power, and for YEARS she has been using that power to try to influence her government into hurting vulnerable people, on purpose. And she has succeeded. THAT is the problem with her, and THAT is why spending money on her books is so dangerous, not because her books aged badly.
Critiquing her work is fine, of course (I personally was never a fan so I really don’t care) but you NEED to understand that fiction is not the main issue here. And I truly think acting like she’s the same as the rest of any giant list of ~problematic creators of the week~ waters down how dangerous she is.
Lads, this woman has completely lost the plot— and done what so many boomers (especially cis het white boomers) have done— gone 180° from ‘white labour liberal’ to full-blown MAGA mouthpiece. (Frankly I think she was always there, but she claimed to be labour liberal (but there is no longer a difference between Labour/Reform/Tory anymore).
She’s now claiming that Nigel Farage is too woke.
Nigel.
Farage.
For those not too embedded into UK politics, he’s a monster. He’s the current lead for UKIP/Reform (UK’s version of MAGA— tho frankly I cannot tell the difference between UKIP, Labour and Tories anymore). He’s a massive racist, and spearheaded the monumentally horrific Brexit campaign.
I have lost count of the racist, xenophobic comments he has made.
He fucking praised Andrew Tate as being a great model for masculinity.
He has had multiple investigations into corruption, including financial corruption and repeatedly lying to the public. Even the fucking BBC— which puts up with EVERYTHING— has had investigations on him.
He’s admitted spreading misinformation. And, as status quo for the UK, he’s still allowed to do whatever the fuck he wants cos rich cis het white man.
Nigel Farage, a pivotal figure in Brexit, is known for his controversial stance on immigration, alleged links to Russia, and financial probe
No surprise it's over trans women
THIS IS THE MAN ROWLING THINKS IS TOO WOKE. Nigel. Fucking. Farage.
Lads, this woman is losing her fucking mind because M&S had an advert for trans women to do bra sizing.
She is not just a best-selling novelist with bad opinions. She purchased the anti-trans/enby/intersex Supreme Court ruling earlier this year that is destroying lives. She has a massive amount of power here.
She absolutely is the Elon Musk of the UK.
Stop letting her get away with this shit.
And just a reminder, again, she has pledged every penny she makes on the new Potter series to further her anti-trans agenda. And since we know she has the ear of Keir Starmer and the UK government, it won’t be long before she purchases more laws to further criminalise us. Bathrooms were just the start.
Please. I’m begging you not to engage in the Potter series in ANY way. Don’t hate watch it. Don’t pirate it. Don’t click on interviews or articles about it. Don’t buy new merch. Just. Completely forget it exists and go out of your way to avoid anything to do with it. Because every penny goes to destroying queer lives.
Support M&S. Support trans orgs and queer media. Fuck this insane woman, and fuck Farage.
I've been doing a lot of thinking about my family and how I was treated as a child, and honestly, my father has never seemed more amazing in my eyes.
I used to love Luigi(Mario's brother) when I was little. Like, he was my favorite character ever, and I had multiple plushies of him. Didn't give a fuck about Mario, vaguely tolerated Peach, but I loved Luigi.
On my first day of kindergarten, my dad gave me the number for his work phone and said it was Luigi's phone number. "If anything happens at school, call Luigi."And not even twenty minutes into my first day, I was having a panic attack. So I went down to the principal's office and called "Luigi."
Now, at the time, my father was in a meeting with his manager and his supervisor, along with most of his coworkers. And when I called, he picked up before he even left the room.
And he put on a very awful Italian accent and said, "Itsa me, Luigi! Whatsa the matter?"In front of his boss and coworkers. Without telling them what was going on. So they were absolutely bewildered, and he carried on like they didn't even exist. He only explained what was happening after I had calmed down and hung up, to which most of them responded with "Aww, cute."
I continued to call him whenever I got upset at school, and eventually his coworkers got in on it. I distinctly remember one of them impersonating Toad. I don't know why I'm telling you this, I just thought it might make you smile :)
adventure time fandom wherever you are i’ve got a few questions regarding Marceline’s “drinks the color red” shtick
like. we know she can drink the color pink as a form of “low-grade red” as seen in S5E38 “Red Starved”, so can she drink other colors that contain the color red (orange, purple)? does draining the red out of an orange thing leave it yellow? and will it still taste the same to a normal human after having the red sucked from it?
and then that opens a whole ‘nother can of worms of the taste of red like do different red things taste different? she has red erasers packed as snacks in “Red Starved”, but do they taste like erasers or do they just taste like red? and if so then what does red taste like? does pink and other colors containing red taste different than straight up pure red?
and do they have different nutritional benefits for vampires? maybe pink is the equivalent of like candy for vampires- tastes sweeter but is far less filling and/or energizing than actual red. then orange would be like junk food like chips or pretzels or whatevs. but then what the fuck is purple?
i’m totally overthinking it but like. i need answers
@ractalbleeding omg i didn’t even think about this. if a vampire was red-green colorblind would they have to rely on someone else to pick out red stuff for them? that would really suck. pun entirely intended
i was playing pokemon blue on stream earlier at 350% speed and i got to thinking
what if the reason nobody in the pokemon world has any good teams is because its considered a dick move to have a proper team comp
like culturally everyone is like “haha pick the pokemon you want! if you’re happy with three geodudes, thats you and your life!” and then you’re supposed to just have a friendly battle with any other pokemon trainers and whatever pokemon they just happen to have
like the average trainer is probably just walking around with a growlithe because that’s their pet, or a hiker has three geodudes because the geodudes help him with hiking. and if this pet owner and geodude hiker meet, you’re supposed to have a friendly battle but nothing too serious
now imagine the 10 year old kid that has six pokeballs on their belt comes up. you’re like “haha, we’ll have a friendly battle!” and you throw out your geodude
and they throw out a fucking gyarados, and it one-shots your geodude
and then you throw out your pidgey you have because the pidgey helps you navigate mountains because you’re a hiker
and then electricity crackles around the gyarados and a thunderbolt flies off of this giant dragon and evaporates your pidgey
so you’re down to your last pokemon. you tell them you’re gonna send out your bulbasaur. the ten year old is like “oh okay in that case i’m gonna pull out my vulpix.” like not only is this kid walking around with an amped-up super dragon, but theyve also got multiple pokemon specifically for making type advantage counter-picks?
this kid’s a fucking asshole! really, kid? what are you trying to prove here? this is a friendly match between strangers for fun! why are you composing real-ass competitive teams? what a fucker!
i mean if you look at how npc’s talk about their pokemon, they’re service animals mostly. some of them are just pets. apparently they really enjoy sparring, so you let them battle other people’s pokemon for socialization, it’s like going to the dog park.
hell yes i’d be mad if i took my chronic pain support chow-chow to the dog park and some asshole with four rottweilers and a husky was like SIC EM THUNDERNUTS even if my dog enjoyed the tussle at first.
look, kid, the paras helps me weed the garden. it’s not a special forces attack paras. it’s just a bug that eats dandelions. please calm down.
It’s not the trainers’ fault, they’re going about their god damned business trying to get badges and go to the Pokemon League and stop legendary Pokemon from fucking shit up and save the world, but they’ve got fuckin’ Hiker Willy stopping them on the path and running over here like;
“PLEASE WILL YOU STOMP MY TWO GEODUDE INTO THE EARTH!”
Like, fuck off, if Willy didn’t want my Swampert to one-shot his hiker helpers then he shouldn’t be trying to harass unaccompanied 10-year-olds halfway up a mountain. I mean, at some point, ya gotta know what a trainer looks like, and the majority of them are little tweens running around by themselves. These are little twerps trying to go up against the Elite Four, they’re not messing around.
Hiker Willy is asking for it. He’s asking me to kill his Pokemon.
there are few things sadder than a great blog being banned. they don’t show up in your Following list anymore. If you manage to find a relic of their existence, the unique soul and charm of their pfp is gone. you can’t even look through their page anymore—clicking on their username is met with a brick wall. the search bar yields some results in finding old posts, but it’s not the same. they’re gone and they may never come back.
it especially sucks when you know the only reason she got banned was because she was a trans woman speaking about being a trans woman.
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