Welcome To My Mind

Just a place to share things I like :) (He/Him) | Has Survived for Over 20 Years

[marian-devotee]

I took my little brother (autistic, mostly non verbal) out and he was using his voice keyboard to tell me something, and this little boy (maybe 4 or 5?) heard him and asked me "Is he a robot??" I tried to explain to him that no, he isn't a robot, he just communicates differently, but my darling brother was in the background max volume "I am robot I am robot I am robot I am robot"

[marian-devotee]

My little brother insisted if I was going to post about him, he wanted a cut of the "profits". When I explained to him that Tumblr isn't monetized, and is pretty pointless, he and my older brother pointed out that he'd still be bringing me "fame and notoriety" if the post got "big". So we agreed, if the post hit 10k notes, which seemed extremely farfetched and silly at the time, I'd take my little brother out for sushi (his favorite food) and let him eat as much as he wants.

I guess God wanted the little robot to enjoy some sushi 🍣 🥲

[thetruerarkher]

[ralfmaximus]

Years ago back when I worked in cubicle land, we were hiring junior software developers. They didn’t have to have a ton of experience, just a willingness to learn, and some demonstration of their software skills. Like: show me a program you wrote (any language) or a web site you designed. Anything.

And there was this one guy I talked with who seemed super sharp, but had virtually zero experience writing software. When it came time to do the show-n-tell part of the interview he whips out his laptop, brings up a website, and spins it around to show me what he made.

A website of tiny ceramic frogs.

Not for sale. Just… all these ceramic frogs, organized into categories. Frogs on bicycles, frogs with hats, frogs sitting on lily pads. It was a virtual museum of ceramic frogs in web form.

I scrolled through his online collection of frogs, slightly baffled.

“This is your website?” I asked finally.

“Yep!”

“You coded this yourself?” I popped into view-source mode and poked around some incredibly well-formatted, well-commented html. I nodded slowly. This guy was meticulous.

“Yep!”

“So… where’d all the frogs come from?”

“I made those too,” he says, beaming. 

And while I’m processing this he rummages in his bag and pulls out a little ceramic frog working at a computer terminal. He places it on the table before us, next to the laptop.

“And THIS one,” he says, “I made for you! As a thank you for the interview.”

It was adorable. I hired him on the spot. I mean, why not? Worst case he’d wash out in 90 days and we’d hire somebody else. He turned out to be one of the best developers on our team. 

And yes, his cubicle was loaded with ceramic frogs.

[hiveswap]

Everyone go look up the song nasa banned from space

[hiveswap]

Don't forget to play it loud as fuck

[kowai-kabuki-tanuki]

please….listen to the whole thing. And imagine that you are IN SPACE in 1973 and you JUST woke up. Every time you adjust…it escalates somehow.

This song had to be designed in a lab for the sole purpose of fucking with astronauts. whoever added it to the NASA playlist was a genius.

[hiveswap]

It took them two tries to ban it?

[kvotheunkvothe]

[abruhkuhdabruh]

"Jaspers and his owner" for Art Fight 2026.

https://artfight.net/attack/13599860.jaspers-and-his-owner

[demilypyro]

OKAY RIGHT I promised I'd post about Satsuki.

So Satsuki Kiryuin is so interesting to me. Because she's impressively charismatic, and powerful, and authoritative. And she's wrong.

She's presented as perfection. Pure white dress, long jet black hair. A beautiful swordswoman. A traditional Japanese beauty. Noble, strong, and perfect. Everything about her is "pure." Her appearance, her motivations, her mannerisms. Even her kamui's name means "Purity." Though her methods are cruel, she believes wholeheartedly that she's right, and that everything she does is for the greater good. If it leads to defeating Ragyo, then she is in the right.

Except she's wrong.

You can't dismantle fascism from within the system. She herself taught that lesson to Ryuko and Mako once, in the Fight Club episode, but she failed to see the bigger picture: that by using Ragyo's methods, she was doing the exact same thing. For all her willpower, all her training, all her charisma, all of her uncompromising strength of character, she cannot overcome this. Because her perspective is limited by what she knows. What she has experienced. And what she has experienced is force. She only knows pain, and manipulation, and pressure to be perfect. And she thought these were sources of strength. But they were just the abuse of an unloving mother.

By making Satsuki a protagonist in the back half of the show, the writers almost flub the message by justifying her actions. But they save it by making her fail, and when she reconciles with Ryuko, she makes the point of it all very clear. In her own words:

In the end, she throws it all away. She doesn't need to be perfect. She doesn't need to be powerful or beautiful or intimidating or larger than life. She's just a girl. A young woman, just 18 years old. She cuts her hair short, distancing herself from that symbol of traditional Japanese purity. And she just lets herself be a person. A loving sister to Ryuko, and a close friend to the elite four.

She's one of my favorite characters in the show.

[riotbreaker]

i really liked last months' coloring page for patreon. mostly i just really like kim and roxie

[satan-is-a-heterophobe]

mcqueen

[itsthemink]

mcqueen

[illinoisiest]

im begging of you please dont take my man

[crowns-of-violets-and-roses]

Discussions of trans women in sports often focus on elite/professional sports which honestly I find it hard to care about but the more common scenario of “we’re going to legally ban a high school girl from playing sports with her friends because she’s trans” is just profoundly evil

[zzzucker]

i remember when utah's (republican) governor ended up vetoing a law banning transgender students from playing high school sports when he looked at the numbers, and there were only four trans students in the state playing sports at all. he released a clumsily worded but surprisingly compassionate statement about the decision.

I must admit, I am not an expert on transgenderism. I struggle to understand so much of it, and the science is conflicting. When in doubt, however, I always try to err on the side of kindness, mercy, and compassion. I also try to get proximate, and I am learning so much from our transgender community. They are great kids who face enormous struggles. Here are the numbers that have most impacted my decision: 75,000, 4, 1, 86 and 56. 75,000 high school kids participating in high school sports in Utah. 4 transgender kids playing high school sports in Utah. 1 transgender student playing girls sports. 86% of trans youth reporting suicidality. 56% of trans youth having attempted suicide. Four kids and only one of them playing girls sports. That’s what all of this is about. Four kids who aren’t dominating or winning trophies or taking scholarships. Four kids who are just trying to find some friends and feel like they are a part of something. Four kids trying to get through each day. Rarely has so much fear and anger been directed at so few. I don’t understand what they are going through or why they feel the way they do. But I want them to live.

of course, it didn't amount to much. they overrode his veto. it's just so cartoonishly evil. an entire state's political body so desperate to terrorize this one little trans girl.

[deluzzie]

themes and such

[parkchanwoohoo]

I'm in fucking stitches dude

[dokusoo]

which are you? Explorer, Builder or Miner?

[pics-that-make-you-go-hmm]

[fluff-a-fluffs]

Omg this looks like some sort of Fairytale Horror; like, a town with trees that have missing pets or people etched into them- coming off naturally enough to be dismissed as bark/tree discolouration

[questions-within-questions]

The framing of this image is just perfect subtle horror. 

[squareenix-official-deactivated]

Chill it’s a pole

[spider-hands-mannos-deactivated]

you missed the tree entirely didnt you buddy

[squareenix-official-deactivated]

HOLY SHIT WHAT THE FUCK

[supreme-leader-stoat]

"This story is a tragedy because it didn't have to end this way."

vs

"This story is a tragedy because it was always going to end this way."

[sindri42]

I submit for your consideration:

'this story is a tragedy because along the way we got just enough glimpses of alternate timelines and barely-averted prophecies to know that somehow, the way it turned out is the best it could have gone'

[supreme-leader-stoat]

Finally, a worthy challenger!

"The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true." - James Branch Cabell

[skate2victory]

Nights to Come

[carlosmarcosapproved]

[spaceshipsandpurpledrank]

[zigdirty]

We're not leaving this gem to languish in the comments:

[ceruleanheaven]