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I was walking through the toy aisle at Target when I found this thing and had a VIOLENT AND IMMEDIATE FLASHBACK to when JP first came out and they had a bunch of REALLY COOL T Rex toys that I would have sold one of my scrawny small-child limbs for but my mother wouldn’t get me one because they were “too violent and also ate people” :(

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hnn I WANT IT SO BAD

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on closer inspection, it makes a lot of really obnoxious noises and is also Too Expensive. BUT FEAR NOT I found this slightly smaller dude wedged in the back!

IT HAS BITE ACTION, AND THAT’S THE ONLY THING THAT MATTERS

bunjywunjy

now we enter the testing phase

yup. looks good.

bunjywunjy

Extreme Chompin T-Rex says IT’S NEVER TOO LATE TO FOLLOW YOUR DREAMS

digitaldiscipline

Can we take a moment to appreciate that we can use this as a rosetta stone to say “EXTREME CHOMPIN’ “ in four languages?

bunjywunjy

OH SHIT YOU’RE RIGHT, let me check the garbage to see if it’s still there! hopefully I didn’t destroy it in my excitement

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*roar sound effect*

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IMPORTANT UPDATE:

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update update: I re-sized her collar and found a bag of toy bones at the craft store. I haven’t put this much effort into a non-school thing since my last job search, help

(secret bonus: the other side of her tag)

crochetninja

There’s more!

nuggsmum

I love.

bunjywunjy

I saw that people are reblogging the thread again, so I thought I’d give you all an update on how Wexter is doing!

(just fine)

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Wexter And The Case Of Her Continuing Marvelously Naughty Garden Adventures

OP and Wexter can break all my toes and I would still send a thank you card

bunjywunjy

Wexter says SHE WOULD NEVER DO SUCH A THING (but she might chew your ankles a little bit maybe)

bunjywunjy

so it’s come to my attention that at some point this weekend Wexter blew past 100,000 notes, and I for one think that’s very cash money of her.

bunjywunjy

it’s been a few weeks, I suppose we should check up on the AHSGSHGAFB?!

ajdhf.

well that’s just,,,

REXCELLENT

bunjywunjy

two hundred THOUSAND notes???!?!

bunjywunjy

HELL

YES

HELL

FUCKING

YES.

Nearing on 375K Notes!!! What in the Paleolithic are y'all gonna do when they top 400K?!

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cry, probably

splendentgoddess

Reblogging to get you one note closer to crossing the 400k mark!

subbyboymax

IT’S TIME

bunjywunjy

YOU MANIACS. okay, here we go!

HAIL TO THE QUEEN

LONG MAY SHE REIGN!

(she was a skater Rex, she said see you later Rex, she’s finally hit 400k!)

bunjywunjy

we’re coming to you live from Halloween 2022, where Wexter continues to be ridiculously jawsome!

this year we’re doing a much-beloved character from classic literature, “Dracula with inappropriate straw hat”

thanks everyone, may your weens be hollow and your candy be many!

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World Heritage Post

rocktheholygrail

oh? 👀

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doctorofgonzo

So what we got was the non-kinky version?

swamp-spirit

My dog's really a study in Buddhism. He can see my muffin wrapper and he's miserable. Crying. He needs to eat my muffin wrapper so bad.

I get up and throw it away. He forgets about it immediately and happily goes to sleep.

You are not sad because you do not have a muffin wrapper, my beautiful boy, you are sad because you want the muffin wrapper.

liminalbeauty

That’s actually pretty deep. Excellent explanation.

doctorofgonzo

Or you could just give him the damn muffin wrapper. Quit holdin out on the pup.

jkottke

“We’ve crushed fascism before and we’ll crush it again.” A 98-year-old WWII veteran demolishes a Tesla with a Sherman tank. (Love the replays from several camera angles.)

pink-fuchsia

this reads so much like a tumblr text post that I had to do a double take before clicking the link to watch the video.

He did drive that tank over that tesla and he looked cool as hell doing it.

hapalopus

Scandinavians when outdoor string lights were invented

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Scandinavian trees from October to March:

useless-denmarkfacts

Before this we would mostly just set things on fire to keep our spirits up

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Scandinavians before outdoor string lights were invented:

lhpics7

this game needed all untied players to have guns

doctorofgonzo

I’ve really come to appreciate renaissance art.

playwrongs

In King Ludwig II’s defense, if I had basically infinite discretionary funds, was accountable to absolutely no one, and was king of a country full of picturesque landscapes, you couldn’t stop me from building myself a big gay fairytale castle on a mountaintop either.

playwrongs

This post is spreading and I feel bad about it because it contains misinformation, so for the record: Ludwig II did not in fact have infinite discretionary funds. He only acted as if he did. He never dipped into the public coffers for his building projects, but he spent his own fortune extravagantly and borrowed heavily from everyone he could think of. By 1885, the year before his death, he was 14 million marks in debt.

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~ ✨✨ 14 million marks in debt ✨✨~

centrally-unplanned

I always find this inspiring because try to name another prince of a German state. What did the rulers of Hamberg do? The Grand Duchy of Hesse? Gone with the wind, no one knows them anymore. But Mad Lad Ludwig built a top 5 most famous castle in the entire world. Money is fake, castles are real. Go broke and die like a winner.

doctorofgonzo

“Go broke and die like a winner.”

athleticfeed

CHELSEA SET A CONFERENCE LEAGUE RECORD FOR THE LARGEST MARGIN OF VICTORY IN COMPETITION HISTORY

doctorofgonzo

Apparently I have my own Football Club in the Armenian Premier League

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princessnijireiki

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wetwareproblem

Literally anyone who’s read the results of any other time this experiment has been tried. Why are we still trying to prove the concept?

kedreeva

Here’s the link if anyone wants it!

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2242937-universal-basic-income-seems-to-improve-employment-and-well-being/

Finland’s two-year test of universal basic income has concluded that it doesn't seem to disincentivise working, and improves recipients’ men

kayasurin

We’re still trying to prove the concept because in the West, Big Business and their owners, The 1%, are screaming at the thought of having to give up a little money so everyone can get universal income that supports life - meaning jobs either have to pay you to put up with the literal shit or people can walk away from them without becoming homeless.

comicgeekscomicgeek

Our entire system is basically based on people being so afraid of homelessness and starvation that they’ll accept any shit job for shit pay.

jenniferrpovey

Past experiments have shown that UBI:

Increases high school graduation rates

Reduces:

Domestic violence

Alcoholism

Emergency room visits related to mental health

Road traffic accidents.

All while not disincentivizing employment for most groups (the exceptions being high school students, who were able to focus on their studies, and new mothers…who were using it as maternity leave!)

People, for the most part, want to work.

UBI would allow us to expand the definition of “work.” If somebody can live off of UBI, then they can devote themselves to things which we don’t currently value financially such as the arts, raising children well, etc.

And if somebody wants to stay home and play video games all day…then so be it. Not that many will.,..and of those who do most will probably find some way to make that into their “work,” whether by providing play throughs and tutorials or competing seriously.

jabberwockypie

If somebody stops working all together as soon as they get UBI and stays home to play video games, they probably desperately needed a break.

There are so many people who are struggling with mental and physical illnesses, and chronic pain, who are still breaking themselves working because they don’t have another option - because it can take years to get on disability, and it’s not enough to survive on, so people keep going as long as they possibly can.

Even if it’s not a matter of disability, as such … people get burned out?

We’re not really built to do school and work with minimal breaks to the extent that we do.

Despite what our puritanical culture says, there’s no shame in needing a break.

anarchapella

The reason we don’t have UBI is not because it costs too much money like they say it’s because it would take away the leverage businesses have over their employees (starvation and death)

the-tin-dog

UBI would also increase art/culture of a country as well? Especially in the modern era where it’s easier to become an independent artist than it ever has been? Like if we had UBI here in the US, I’d probably quit my day job, and focus on my music and directing career. Live off the basics but I wouldn’t have to worry about constantly needing another 1099 contract set up, or I could spend my days rehearsing and practicing instead of needing to go to work to pay rent, and then being too emotionally exhausted to actually better my art.

I know I’m not the only artist in this position either. UBI would allow musicians, writers, actors, painters, even cosplayers or independent video game designers to focus on their craft, get better at it, and be able to live without a concern about the inconsistency that is “gig work”

saccharinescorpion

That design document predated the decision to exclude gay relationships in the game. Its pages described a web of social interactions, in which every kind of romantic relationship was permitted. That week, Barrett confounded the expectations of his disbelieving boss. He successfully wrote the basic code for social interactions, including same-sex relationships.

“In hindsight, I probably should have questioned the design,” Barrett, who is gay, said. “But the design felt right, so I just implemented it. Later, Will Wright stopped by my desk,” Barrett said. “He told me that liked the social interactions, and that he was glad to see that same-sex support was back in the game.” Nobody on the team questioned Barrett’s work. “They just pretty much ignored it,” he said. “After a while, everyone was just used to the design being there. It was widely expected that E.A. would just kill it, anyway.”

In early 1999, before E.A. had a chance to kill the design, Barrett was asked to create a demo of the game to be shown at E3. The demo would consist of three scenes from the game. These were to be so-called on-rails scenes—not a true, live simulation but one that was preplanned, and which would shake out the same way each time it was played, in order to show the game in its best light.

One of the scenes was a wedding between two Sims characters. “I had run out of time before E3, and there were so many Sims attending the wedding that I didn’t have time to put them all on rails,” Barrett said.

On the first day of the show, the game’s producers, Kana Ryan and Chris Trottier, watched in disbelief as two of the female Sims attending the virtual wedding leaned in and began to passionately kiss. They had, during the live simulation, fallen in love.

TIL i learned that the team behind The Sims had originally decided to leave same-sex relationships out of the game until a newbie on the team by the name of Patrick J. Barrett III coded all basic interactions of the game due to one of his senior team members being on vacation, TIL Barrett unknowingly had been given an old design document and everyone just assumed someone else had reversed their previous decision and rolled with it, and TIL that all that plus a rushed demo led to the team’s presentation at that year’s E3 featuring an unplanned lesbian kiss

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DJdrummer (2021). Saturn Devouring His Son [Balloons].

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cundtcake

oh my god

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[ID: tweet by Josh Billinson @ jbillinson reading “The Suez Canal Authority hasn’t gotten the ship unstuck yet but they did make this great sizzle reel of them not getting the ship unstuck set to what sounds like a royalty-free version of the Tenet soundtrack” with a link to the Suez Canal Authority’s facebook. end ID]

[Video description: A series of clips of the Ever Given, a ship lodged sideways in the Suez Canal. Clips of various crewmembers and authorities in masks attempting to solve the situation are interspersed by clips of the boat filmed from a distance, surrounded by several tugboats. end ID]