Struggling On

Aroace woman. 20s. Into many fandoms. Warning: I'm English, so expect random times for posts. Theme is Papercut by peterviandi

[inaturalist-unofficial]

[cuppydogshane]

all the rights that come with marriage you should be able to have without marriage btw. you should be able to designate a person who can visit you in the hospital regardless of your relationship to that person.

[0x-hazel]

you should be able to designate multiple people

[natalieironside]

I still can't believe that Tommy "Karate" Pitera, the mafia boss who was also a karate champion and who killed people by doing karate on them, was a real person. That's not a combination of traits a real guy has. That is a Metal Gear character. That is Chuck Norris playing the heel in a Bruce Lee movie. But no, there was a time not that long ago when people on the mean streets of Brooklyn might whisper "Hey, watch out for Tommy Karate, he'll kill you with his bare hands" with the gravest seriousness.

[garbage-empress]

Was he the one who was also basically a serial killer and grossed the other mafia guys out because of how much he seemed to enjoy dismembering people

[sign-seeker]

This sent me on a wiki crawl, and I cannot believe some of this. I assumed "Tommy Karate, gangster from Brooklyn" would have been some kind of self-aggrandisement but no, he kicked so much arse at a New York dojo as a youth that he won a scholarship to live in Tokyo studying at a famous historical dojo, where he lived for over 2 years, perfecting the art of beating people to death with his bare hands. He apparently was legitimately just that good at Karate. And I say was, but he's still alive! He was only arrested in 1990! Within my lifetime this lunatic was killing people with Karate in New York City and dumping their dismembered corpses in Staten Island!

[sign-seeker]

Oh my apologies to mass murderer Tommy "Karate" Pitera, who despite the nickname actually studied Togakure-Ryu Ninjutsu in Tokyo. We wouldn't want to be inaccurate with regards to the ninja gangster, now would we.

[foone]

Yeah, especially since he's still alive. Sure he's got life in prison, but if he hears us talking shit all about him, he might just kick the prison wall down and come go Ninja on all our asses, collectively and separately

[correctopinionhaver]

me anytime you all talk about some famous youtuber

[vines-are-plant-tentacles]

[depsidase]

[theaceofwords]

It's called the Global Justice Report, it is here. This is an actionable plan which can be sent to legislators and demanded of political parties. We could save the world within our lifetimes.

It has always been possible. It is still possible.

[hooved]

lemon is so so so fucking good in sweet food and savory food and spicy food and salty food and drinks. she has it all

[animentality]

[assiraphales]

remembering the time I called american psycho (a satirical film about toxic masculinity) a dark comedy and the overwhelming response was 'oh so u think men killing sex workers is funny? u think THAT'S funny?' like no I find a patrick batemen listening to 'i'm walking on sunshine', killing jared leto while wearing a clear raincoat and giving a dissertation on huey lewis n the news, using 'I need to return some video tapes' to get out of awkward situations, throwing a hissy fit about business cards, dropping a chainsaw down a flight of stairs, thinking an atm is telling him to feed it cats, and crying hysterically under a desk is funny. but thank u for ur wonderful insight

[bogleech]

[animentality]

[b0nkcreat]

just told my mom i was gonna freak it sensitive style and she hyped me up with “ooh quiet down…. quiet down..” while i was dancing

[b0nkcreat]

live reenactment

[infiniteoreos]

undiagnosed autistic people will be like "I don't get upset when my routine changes though!!" and it's because they've built a set of if-then loops in their head to pick from one of 6 different strict routines and they do get incredibly upset when they're unable to keep to any of the 6 scripts. I'm john normal

[thundercrackfic]

This is called a fault tree. You will always know how to act if your fault tree captures all possible scenarios. In NASA Mission Control during mission critical events like landings there are huge binders with fault tree protocols, kind of like choose your own adventure books except you’re not the one making the choices, the universe is making them for you and you’re just trying to keep up.

The engineers who develop fault trees, I am told, often imagine new ways for their precious spacecraft to die (new branches on the fault trees) either while in the shower or lying awake at 3am, because human

[toothpaste-footlocker]

[yet-another-autistic-blog]

Was just thinking about this the other day. Yeah I have a favorite seat on the bus (middle of the bus, near the back doors, slightly elevated, facing forward), but I don’t get upset if someone is already sitting there, I just pick one of my other favorite spots. Then I realized that most people probably don’t have a favorite bus seat, let alone a series of backup favorites.

[panpteryx]

[enslavedbyfaeries]

Unfortunately this piece became unusable because of the rip in the paper, however it's one of my personal favourites because I painted it from a memory of my childhood in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. I keep in a frame by my bed.

Paper: Fabriano Artistico/ 100% cotton/ cold press

Brushes: Da Vinci Petit Gris Pur mop, Escoda Optimo liner/ Silver Black Velvet rounds

Paint: A. Gallo

[dduane]

Meanwhile, via Bluesky...

[heartnosekid]

antlered flutter flies (toxonevra superba) | this_mama_fetz on ig

[paper-mario-wiki]

this is what moose look like right after they hatch

[acetrainererin]

When I saw this i thought it might've been an edit or even AI or something, but I looked it up and nope they're just like that! You can see it better when they're close up, but their wings have a pattern that just looks like antlers.

They are very cute little dudes that mostly live in the eastern half of the US and some of Canada. Honestly a fly that looks like a moose feels like it just belongs in Canada, doesn't it?

[funny-tik-toks]

[wafflebloggies]

I DIDN'T EVEN HAVE TO UNMUTE,

[megparsec]

Baa baa backstreets, have you any boys