noo little german boy, don't put on the cat ears!

he/him

[unpeeled-human]

idk man. id say im trying but honestly i feel like a ouija board- the ideas come, they use my frail body and arms to make themselves real, and then im left broken wondering what it is i was used to make.

[rhapsoteas]

spamton was pronounced deceased yesterday after being consumed by a northern pike

[deaddogbrain]

imo the way you feel about groups it's fully socially acceptable to hate (like children or polyamorous people, among others) is the canary in the coal mine for underlying bigoted beliefs. if you're only supportive of marginalized groups when it's cool to do so, probably you don't actually care about marginalized groups, you care about other people thinking you care

[deaddogbrain]

there are 1 trillion people in the notes of this post saying "yeah! i mean i hate kids but they should have rights!" you hate kids? you mean you hate all members of an oppressed group solely for their membership in this group? right. why do you hate them? because they can't take care of themselves and need help? because they don't understand social norms and can be "annoying" and disrespect boundaries as a result? because they can be messy? because they don't understand things in the same way as you do? that's awesome. how do you feel about disabled people btw

[cheezestixk]

please tell me nobody’s done this one yet

[cyberimplant]

[cyberimplant]

[revenantghost]

[dogpuppy]

He is my princess diana

[mrspizzle]

I’m actually fucking dying

[3rd-r8-watrbendr]

[probablyasocialecologist]

“Musk talks about Mars as a lifeboat for humanity, which is among the very stupidest things that someone could say,” says Adam Becker, an astrophysicist and author of the book More Everything Forever, which outlines the messianic, sci-fi fantasies of the tech oligarchs. “There are so many reasons why it’s such a bad idea, and this is not about, ‘Oh, we’ll never have the technology to live on Mars.’ That’s not what I’m saying. What I’m saying is that Earth is always going to be a better option no matter what happens to Earth. Like, we could get hit with an asteroid the size of the one that killed off the dinosaurs, and Earth would still be more habitable. We could explode every single nuclear weapon, and Earth would still be more habitable. We could have the worst-case scenario for climate change, and Earth would still be more habitable. Any cursory examination of any of the facts about Mars makes it very clear.”

What You’ve Suspected Is True: Billionaires Are Not Like Us

[wire-smith]

I really like sci-fi stories where people have to go off and terraform a planet, or figure out how to rebuild civilization after some disaster, or ideally both. "The last ark-ship leaving Earth right before it becomes uninhabitable" sort of deal. But lately I've been coming around to this same idea, that it will always be more practical to try to save Earth than to try to start over elsewhere.

I was reading one story where the apocalypse was impossibly-rising oceans. Like, water is appearing from *waves hand* the Earth's crust or something, and literally all dry surface land on Earth is going to become underwater in X years. Part of the story was about a giant research project to invent FTL to send a few hundred humans to a nearby star which might have a habitable planet. You know what they were hoping to find? A planet with liquid water. Their plan was to descend from their starship and restart civilization using just the tools they brought with them, on a world with no life and no breathable air and the wrong gravity and the wrong temperate and the wrong sunlight and the wrong day-night cycle, just because it had liquid water. You know where else has liquid water? The flooded Earth you just abandoned. Instead of researching starship technology, you could have spent that time loading up all the same civilization-restarter tools into boats.

And this is really true of any futuristic apocalypse scenario. If you can terraform Mars to have a thick oxygen atmosphere, why not just do that to Earth? Even if you smash an ice comet into Earth and destroy basically everything, Earth will still be more habitable than Mars! It'll still have roughly the right atmospheric pressure, and magnetic field, and heat balance, and it'll still have whatever life the comet didn't kill... Same with a starshade to cool Venus. Same with excavating asteroids into city-stations. Same with abandoning Sol System entirely and heading to another star. If an ark-ship arrived in a new star system and found Earth-but-choked-by-climate-change, the crew would be ecstatic. They would never have thought to get that lucky. So why bother with the trip? Just stay and fix the damn Earth.

[persianmom-deactivated20260602]

obsessed w this nail art by @manicures.nyc

[bish0ps]

omg if i was an oracle i would be LYYYYYINGGGG

[emmaklee]

Nishimoto Ryota

a piece of wood carved to fit perfectly into a zippered plastic bag

[troublepunk-ldn]

I'm so fucking compelled by this comment I can't stop thinking about it.

Not useful at all and probably very time consuming to make but very satisfying to look at <- guy who's never seen a piece of art before identifying the three key traits of basically every art piece.

Like they're 100% right but who says that? this art piece isnt useful? yeah thats why its an art piece and not a tool. Oscar Wilde said this about a hundred years ago. this art piece probably took a long time? ?? you think??? you think michelangelo's david took a little while, too, huh? you think a handmade quilt took at least a few days?

Like i'm not trying to be meanspirited here this comment is just so baffling to me. you have a perspective of the world that i cannot understand.

[toskarin]

do you ever daydream about suddenly losing your ethical background and making your fortune off of inventing something like Runic Astrology

[toskarin]

such norse gods as yggdrasil and the rest of the pantheon

[plus-size-aesthetics]

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

this one time I was sitting in a train station with a bestie and this dude very earnestly introduced himself and said he couldn't help but overhear that we kept saying the word "marry," which had caught his interest because he was a wedding photographer about to launch a whole podcast about weddings. and if was obvious that this poor dude was about to try and sell us on his podcast and then all his plans came to a screeching stop when we had to inform him we'd been referencing marriage so much because we'd been playing elaborate games of Fuck Marry Kill

[fursonas]

"sorry for party rocking" I don't think you are. I think you're sorry you got caught

[queenofnots]

[medusaspeach]

Doing the Queen's Makeup - Iris & Hera

Thought it'd be cute for Iris to have a little crush on Hera, and for Hera to be oblivious to it.