These are for Dauma, not Dauma? Gtfo kthx

[lesbeansoups]

I think we need to appreciate this part of Brennan Lee Mulligan's WIRED interview a lot more:

"The evangelical right in this country needs to manufacture outrage to hold onto its voting block. [The satanic panic about DnD] was arbitrary, as the targets of their outrage always are. Fight the power."

[armengoldira]

Guy freezes his hair and it stands tall.

[interstellar-backwoods]

[firbolgonmain]

[b-u-i-l-d-i-n-g]

Jenna Marbles would like a word

[apricior]

i remember when i was a child internet safety was like "if you even hint at the country you live in, you're gonna get kidnapped and murdered", and nowadays it is encouraged or even necessary to give corporations every single personal detail if you want to use anything because if they can't sell your information they cry so hard they throw up

[aokozaki]

Okay honestly it didn't hit me how funny the concept of Weird Al's Even Worse album is until I found out they'd have gone on sale side by side.

"Hmmm, do I want Bad, or Even Worse?"

[valleyhowler]

There are hardly any female werewolves because they break all the classic rules of femininity. They force you to confront female violence, strength, size, grotesqueness and uncontrollability. Historically female shapeshifters always shift into something dangerous (snake) or sleek (cat) or dainty (bird) but female werewolves ignore the masculine gaze completely. They're distorted beasts that have no ulterior motive except to destroy. Nothing about them is nurturing or modest. They're the opposite of what a woman "should be." Their omission from pop culture is not an accident.

[readingtheentrails]

I know this is maybe not the point of the post, but this reminded me of this beautiful poem called When My Wife Is A Werewolf by Rosamund Taylor which I really adore so I thought I would share it.

This is taken from a collection of contemporary queer Irish poetry called Queering the Green, which has some truly wonderful work in it and is available from The Lifeboat Press (currently sold out but hopefully available again soon if you're interested).

[catasters]

[nonbinary-octopus]

love when you see pets have a very specific weird game that they are very clearly enjoying and participating in

[edgebug]

need a bi4bi t4t m/f pairing where the girl is a giant freak and not in the "cute manic pixie" way but in the "unethical experiments in my fucked up laboratory" way and the guy is a golden retriever who thinks he can fix her. and he brings her cute bento lunches and she's like "bradley shut up put on your fucking gloves and hold this possum down so i can graft these giant grasshopper legs to it"

[edgebug]

your brain is unfathomably colossal

[corvophobia]

whoa look who just appeared in my hades 2 playthrough... crazy

[elierlick]

This is one of the oldest surviving recordings of a trans person.

Masoud El Amaratly (1897-1944) was an Iraqi trans singer who became famous in 1920s Baghdad for his folk music. He worked as a farmer before transitioning in his teens. The mustarjil, a term similar to trans man, then moved to the city and sang in cafés. A music agent discovered him there and his fame spread across West Asia.

Enjoy this 1925 recording of him singing the traditional Iraqi song, "Khadri al Chai" ("Please Make Tea"). Check out Ajam's website for more.

[no-thats-absurd]

[howlbear]

I never want this game to end

[nateconnolly]

Anyways when I was sixteen I wrote a story about a spaceship's communications officer (think Uhura) who was given a brain implant when he was a baby that automatically translates every language in the universe, but which interferes with his ability to perceive and process subtle changes in tone. He hears an emotionless automated translator voice inside his head rather than hearing the real voices being physically carried by air vibrations. So he has the ability to interpret every word in every language, but he can never interpret tone of voice. And the ultimate message of the story is that understanding every possible text isn't enough -- if you don't understand subtext, you'll be isolated. The "communications officer" actually struggles to communicate more than anyone else on the ship.

You'll never guess what they diagnosed me with a year later.

[monsterbutch]

this is one of my favorite reddit posts of all time

[formlessdemi]

God forbid Chippy do anything

[frankiedotbiz]

depressed steampunk guy: like nothing makes me happy anymore i feel like my fantastical flying contraption just ran out of coal

[frankiedotbiz]

do you think steam just magically comes out of nowhere im so sick of these people who dont understand steampunk it makes me want to get into my submersible bathysphere and never reemerge

[t00thpasteface]

idk why people always use "fever dream" in a derogatory context because i'm still very sick and i just had the best dream ever. i was carrying a baby seal around and hand-feeding it spaghettios. it was so soft and it loved the spaghettios so much

[t00thpasteface]

who's a hungy baby

[puddox]

I see the original post going around every so often and it saddens me a little that it's never accompanied by this thread explaining why it's completely understandable how a child would arrive at these spellings in accordance with english phonetics

[girard]

the extent that i would be at emo night at sneaky dees every single weekend is crazy. you would think i was canadian.

[piercedneckboy]

@amtrak-official

[queer-as-city-folk]

So connect the Windsor-Quebec Corridor and the Northeast Corridor with HSR, that isn't that bad of an idea. It doesn't even need to be that distant dream that is Meglev, just making it fast frequent rail would do it, I would prioritize getting a connection between Boston and Montreal in this system but it is an exciting idea

[queer-as-city-folk]

Anyways the travel times on that map are insane, but it would be a good system still. Anyways here is a picture of the proposal from a geographic map instead of a stylish visual

[queer-as-city-folk]

So anyways I decided to edit this to make it more of an interconnected system but adding Boston to Montreal via Albany and Boston to Toronto via Buffalo as well as a Chicago Connection

[tim-official]

fwiw: these maps were made by @segregationbydesign on Twitter, based on an analysis of flight patterns, who does incredible Transit related work. Here are the extensions they proposed:

[queer-as-city-folk]

Bringing this back up because it is one of my favorite posts I've been a part of

[explorerrowan]

I want High Speed Rail so bad. There is very little I want more from my government.