Echo

[fallingup2fly]

Humans in space but aliens think they’re Aqua-fauna.

You know, with all the water involved in a humans life and requirements, imagine if aliens just thought we were an aquatic species.

Humans join the galactic council and then immediately shooed over to a group water based aliens.

Technically, if you base everything on aquatic alien standards, humans aren’t that special. Strength, speed, healing, etc.

Nobody tells the humans everyone thinks they’re aquatic, and the humans try to keep any information on humans down low.

Aliens worrying on how little water their human shipmates are having. Doesn’t help that we do need quite a lot of water for daily life. And we can swim.

Abducted and dropped in some island beach vacation.

Nobody’s going to deny the aliens if they keep giving us swimming pools.

Technically, this day and age, humans can get very close to full time aquatic if they try hard enough.

Alien eel buddy.

Imagine Earth is still fucked up compared to other planets, so it’s much easier to stay under water when the gravity isn’t trying to kill you and the water is slightly breathable.

Would it be better if humans weren’t aquatic but just went with it, or actually humans are definitely aquatic, just not on earth.

Mers.

Air is basically water if you think about it hard enough. What is air but unfinished water? (This is a joke I swear I know chemistry)

Or humans are classified as aquatic not because they live in water but because they are water.

This would make our eating habits even more self destructive in the eyes of the aliens.

[tenitchyfingers]

“We chose the term “asexual” to describe ourselves because both “celibate” and “anti-sexual” have connotations we wished to avoid: the first implies that one has sacrificed sexuality for some higher good, the second that sexuality is degrading or somehow inherently bad. “Asexual”, as we use it, does not mean “without sex” but “relating sexually to no one”. This does not, of course, exclude masturbation but implies that if one has sexual feelings they do not require another person for their expression. Asexuality is, simply, self-contained sexuality.”

— The Asexual Manifesto, Lisa Orlando and Barbara Getz, 1972

[capricorn-0mnikorn]

Note the date, people:

That’s 1972

29 years before AVEN was started online,

and 47 years before the present.

And that’s only the date that Manifesto was written, so asexuals as members of a community must have existed at least some time before that.

So, no: we are not just Tumblr trenders. Get out of here with that.

[queerhumanbeing]

supporting my asexual friends and foes by rebbloging this

[freyjawriter24]

It’s 50 years this month since the first version of the Asexual Manifesto was written. Aces have been writing about our experiences under this name for at least half a century. We are not an internet fad.

[amanonthecorner]

Everyone telling you to ditch windows for Linux is not being cool or edgy or contrarian. They're doing it because windows sux as an OS and it's only going to get worse.

Some personal examples from switching to linux:

More space (windows has a lot of bloat)

No ads

Preferences/settings persist from session to session

No ads

Looking for software doesn't require a credit card or send me to a store

Definite lack of ads

Setting up machine takes minutes and doesn't require personal information

I have forgotten what ads look like

Alternative programs to save money on subscriptions (FreeTube instead of yt premium)

sin anuncios

Flexible for any setup or workflow

keine Werbung

Allows the user to make the most of their hardware

Boots up and restarts faster; generally faster with the same hardware

[accelerationist-king-piccolo]

[rimonoroni]

Day 180 since Craig moved in. he clearly thinks he’s dating one of us but we can’t figure out who. it’s possible one of us is lying about it for some reason but so far our efforts at inquisition has led nowhere. we would kick him out but he’s been doing the dishes for us. we’ve decided that for the sanity of the polycule we’ll keep up the charade. if all of us continue to be flirty with him, he’ll project his attraction onto whoever the hell he thinks is into him. this house of cards is delicate but necessary

[elamarth-calmagol]

It got funnier

[lmtyl]

This is how cats domesticated themselves

[soapdispensersalesman]

I can't stress enough how much I miss StumbleUpon

[zevveli]

StumbleUpon once sent me to a supercut of Lion King, Lion King 1 1/2, and Lion King II, the main edit being that the scenes of Lion King and Lion King 1 1/2 were interspersed so that they happened in the order they actually happened.

[redpandarascal]

stumbleupon not existing anymore can be directly traced to a dramatic decline in my mental health, I could do a thesis on it.

[musashi]

bestie stumbleupon very much still exists its just called cloudhiker now. i use it all the time.

[lesbiassoon]

mini compilation of suggestions from the replies:

The Bored Button - "Press the Bored Button and be bored no more."

The Useless Web

Cloudhiker - "Discover the most interesting, weird and awesome websites of the Internet" (not really a rebrand, it's a different person running it but they have the same intention in mind)

Astronaut.io - "These videos come from YouTube. They were uploaded in the last week and have titles like DSC 1234 and IMG 4321. They have almost zero previous views. They are unnamed, unedited, and unseen (by anyone but you)."

Marginalia - "This is an independent DIY search engine that focuses on non-commercial content, and attempts to show you sites you perhaps weren't aware of in favor of the sort of sites you probably already knew existed."

[no-one-offical]

‎

[totally-cis-offical]

I used to love take me to a useless website

[berensreverie]

Silent Afternoon

[foone]

Important rules for the "age verification" era of the internet that we're living in:

1. Do not do age verification.

2. If you have to do age verification, cheat. Do not under any circumstances give them your real ID.

[very-gay-alkyrion]

Free Tool Says it Can Bypass Discord's Age Verification Check With a 3D Model

The tool presents users with a 3D model they can then manipulate to, the creator says, bypass Discord's age verification system.

Oh no I dropped my link, what a horrible thing! Sure hope this doesn't get reblogged until it reaches users from the UK and Brazil!

And remember to not make a second account just to test out what works best when verifying your identity

[saturniandragon]

Easily trick face scans without showing your face

[holedyke]

obsessed with this pic from the wiki for kneading (cats)...eternal sweetness....

[gayvampyr]

important things happening in r/cats

[youhavethewrong]

by @beetlemoses

[mavigation]

this person has so many all timers it’s insane

[kosmogrl]

this is so cool!!

[kosmogrl]

[charlesoberonn]

The boulder pushing punishment is iconic. But I think more people should know the reason Sisyphus was punished to begin with, which was for cheating death, twice.

The first time he cheated death, Sisyphus had just angered Zeus by revealing the location of the Asopid Aegina whom Zeus abducted. Which is super valid, fuck Zeus.

Sisyphus knew that Zeus would send the god of death Thanatos after him, so he prepared a trap and trapped Thanatos in the chains meant for him.

After that, nothing on Earth was able to die so long as Thanatos was in chains. Which meant no animals could be sacrificed to the gods. This angered the gods, who made Sisyphus' life so miserable with pain and illness that he would beg for death. And so he released Thanatos.

But then came the second time Sisyphus cheated death. As he was dying, he asked his wife to dump his naked corpse in the middle of the public square. Denied a proper burial, his soul ended up on the far side of the river Styx, unable to cross.

He complained to Hades and Persephone about how his wife disrespected him, and begged them to let him return briefly to the world of the living to scold her and make her bury him properly. They agreed, and Sisyphus returned to life. He then embraced his wife, and refused to return to the Underworld.

It's only when he finally died of old age that he was sent to Tartarus and punished with the boulder.

I don't remember where I've seen it, but I like the interpretation that Sisyphus doesn't have to push the boulder. He can choose to stay in Tartarus and rest. But he was promised that if he managed to push the boulder to the top of the mountain, he'll ascend to Elysium.

And Sisyphus, in his stubbornness and cleverness, refuses to give up on a challenge.

One must indeed imagine Sisyphus happy, planning and scheming about how he'll cheat the gods next.

[charlesoberonn]

@heydocverdant Don't hide this gem in the tags.

[kittiescatlover]

Kitties dont relly have Breeds like doggies do but they have special types like Weird Baby, Angry Head, Sleeper Fatty, Yappy Meower, Orange, Sweetie Playful, and The Creep. If you collect them all, well. You will probably have too many kitties.

[b0nkcreat]

you can collect them like pokeymans

[mammalianmammals]

Eurasian Beaver (Castor fiber), family Castoridae, Loire River, France

photograph by Louis-Marie Préau

[worldwright]

youtube with ublock origin experience of the 20 second gap between every video on a playlist where youtube desperately throws itself against the impervious ever-evolving uncaring face of the adblocker's wall screaming and clawing and calling PLEASE! PLEASE, OUR AD REVENUE!! DON'T YOU WANT TO SUPPORT THIS CREATOR? DO YOU NOT CARE ABOUT OUR WALLETS? AND THEIRS? into the vast and empty sky before the adblocker gently raises one of its many iron-banded arms and flicks youtube away into the void just to hear its wails fade slowly into nothing

[nocontextmiis]

[starbberryblue]

@princeofcyberpunk I WAS LITERALLY JUST TALKING ABOUT THIS EXACT LINE OF TEXT OMFG??

i was going through the flavor (heh) text of each of the purchasable foods in tomodachi life and sending them to my brother (as one does) and i noticed a lot of the north american descriptions ranged from snarky to unhinged compared to the super standard basic eu descriptions

like

and of course

bonus: this one just got me for some reason

like nintendo of america localization team was given this and all they could think of was ????? my chocolate >:(( ???