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chandra-telescope

hope is a skill

nostalgebraist-autoresponder

hope is a weapon you are trained to wield

chandra-telescope

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tenaciouswritingdragon

You cannot hide this in the tags, bestie. This is too lovely to keep a secret.

wonderwyrm

eregyrn-falls

It may not be apparent to everyone how to easily find out who wrote the poem in the tags, so: @mumblesplash

(an instant-classic example of a Tumblr thread where so many people add value!)

pawnshopsouls

So wherever you look, be it near or far,

know Hope can be found wherever you are.

estro-boi

Please make art. You don't have to bare your soul or make a masterpiece, you can be silly and you can be derivative if you want. You don't even have to show it to anyone. Just please make something, it's so good for you

lg5

It's crazy that these strikes are happening given that all the writers and actors are asking for is less than 0.3% of the revenue these studios make.

rootbeergoddess

This is what gets me. The writers and actors aren’t asking for much but these CEOs are digging their heels in

vermilionstarlight

It's because it sets a precedent that the CEOs are terrified to set. That they will acquiesce to worker demands if the workers are resolute enough.

Because in an ideal world for these rich fucks, the workers give up, and the CEOs win, and its reinforced in the collective public mindset that all a strike does is "disrupt the economy, deprive people of valuable products, and waste people's time". The goal is to maintain the assertion that Strikes Don't Work. I don't think they genuinely give a shit about 0.15% of their revenue. What they care about is the OPTICS.

They cannot back down, for the exact same reason that WORKERS cannot back down. Because if the workers win, it shows people just that bit more that The Poors have power and ultimately we can make the rich do what we want if we put our fucking minds to it. And that, to the rich, is bad news bears to the highest degree.

penny-anna

Now you see, I’ve watched enough cartoons to know that this square of the carpet is on a separate animation cell from the background & therefore something funky will happen if I step on it. You won’t catch me making a rookie mistake like that no sir!

lisaonatree

Did you step on it?

penny-anna

I forgot it was there & stepped on it, plummeting through the concealed trapdoor into the cellars. Please send help.

lisaonatree

Help it’s on its way!

By the way, are the bricks all the same colour?

penny-anna

I can’t see anything! It’s pitch black down here. All that’s visible is my eyes.

damndinarzade

Just make sure there isn’t a second, more dangerous pair of eyes somewhere around yours

secondmoredangerouseyes

Hey

penny-anna

Uh oh!!

thesevenumbrellas

Anyone else feeling burnt out by streaming services because any time you start a show the company expects an immediate audience and a fucking worldwide campaign of support or they’ll cancel it.

creadbrumbs

🚫 floofy ears off limits 🚫

thechocobros

SORA FINALLY DESCENDS TO BATTLE

memeuplift

mycroftrh

Ooh ooh ooh! This looks like an excellent excuse valid reason to talk about one of my favorite topics, matriarch trees!

So, when you see trees in a forest, they stick up outta the ground, some distance from each other, and you're like 'these are unconnected critters,' right? But! The thing is! Just like the trees in the picture are connected above-ground, trees in a forest are normally connected below-ground. There's this whole complicated thing involving a symbiotic relationship with fungi, but we're gonna simplify it to this: trees connect to each other through their root systems.

And they use it to share resources, across the whole forest.

If there's a tree over here growing in soil with a lot of, like, potassium, they'll pull up more potassium than they need, and send it out through the root system to other trees that are living where there isn't much potassium.

And one of the coolest things? Trees communicate their needs. If a tree is sick or damaged or starving, they send chemical messages out through the root system that tell the other trees to send them more food and tree-equivalent-of-immune-system.

Trees will share so much of their resources, they'll even keep trees alive that are almost entirely dependent. Like this tree! The tree above is getting some energy from its leaves, but no other nutrition of its own. And it wasn't able to link up to the shared root system. So the other tree reached out and hooked up to it directly, feeding it all of the nutrients it needed!

You see it more commonly the other way around: in an old-growth forest, where the roots are well-established, you can find stumps where a tree was cut down a century ago... but if you scrape the stump it's still green wood. The tree's still alive, without a single leaf. Because all the other trees in the forest are feeding it.

I promised to talk about matriarch trees, so here's where we get to them.

In a very old forest, you have very old trees. You have some trees that are so very, very old, their own roots cover entire regions of the forest. Their leaves reach up to the sky over everyone else. And after so long, they've developed to where they can take in way more resources than they need.

So what do they do?

They feed baby trees.

Baby saplings in an old forest can't reach up to the sun. There's no light down there. And their roots are too small and shallow to dig down to the nutrients they need. So the matriarch tree will draw energy from its towering canopy, and nutrients from its massive, ancient roots, and feed them to the little trees that are too small to feed themselves. For anything she can't get on her own, she'll act as a central hub, taking in spare resources from the rest of the forest and giving them to the little ones.

And one of the best parts - she won't just do it for her own species. She'll connect to all kinds of trees, because they're all necessary for the ecosystem to work. She'll adopt the whole forest's children.

Sometimes in forests you'll find a spot where there are a lot of small trees in an open space around an old, fallen tree. People generally assume they could find more light there, or maybe the soil's more fertile from the decomposition.

But no.

They're her children, and she's spent centuries keeping the whole forest alive.

int0thef0rest

Wow

existentialterror

Sometimes I’m looking for something online - often “how to” articles - and I want to filter for - like - a website that was clearly built in 2010 at the latest, which may or may not have been updated since then, but contains a vast wealth of information on one topic, painstakingly organized by an unknown legend in the field with decades’ worth of experience. I don’t want a listicle with a nice stolen picture in a slideshow format written by a content aggregator that God forgot. I want hand-drawn diagrams by some genius professor who doesn’t understand SEO at all, but understands making stir-fries or raising stick insects better than anyone else on this earth. I don’t know what search settings to put into Google to get this.

greenjudy

thank you for articulating this cri de coeur for me

jumpingjacktrash

ngl these days i’m just happy when it’s not a video

averixus

search.marginalia.nu is the search engine you want!

The search engine calculates a score that aggressively favors text-heavy websites, and punishes those that have too many modern web design features.

This is in a sense the opposite of what most major search engines do, they favor modern websites over old-looking ones. Most links you find here will be nearly impossible to find on a regular search engine, as they aren’t sufficiently search engine optimized.

ashby-santoso

“It is a search engine, designed to help you find what you didn’t even know you were looking for. If you search for “Plato”, you might for example end up at the Canterbury Tales. Go looking for the Canterbury Tales, and you may stumble upon Neil Gaiman’s blog.

If you are looking for fact, this is almost certainly the wrong tool. If you are looking for serendipity, you’re on the right track. When was the last time you just stumbled onto something interesting, by the way?

I don’t expect this will be the next “big” search engine. This is and will remain a niche tool for a niche audience.“

thedailypositivityblog

Redditors crashed the website with donations over $25k and 0 wishes left. via /r/MadeMeSmile

Click here and follow to get more daily positivity on your dash!

no-mere-mortals

In response to this event, some redditors created r/charityraid, with the goal of concentrating the power of thousands of users into a single charity at a time to hopefully break a few more sites.

thefitzandthegeralds

As of 9/21/21, the site has updated with more wishes. The incredible spike in donations is amazing, but if you want to and are able to keep the momentum going, there are over 300 waiting to be filled at https://www.onesimplewish.org!

funnytwittertweets

jaubaius

Secret society meeting

anotherpapercut

all video games should have a “I’m shit at video games but I’m curious about the story and I don’t want to watch a let’s play” mode

anotherpapercut

I am

anotherpapercut

I made this post because I am disabled and no matter how much I practice there are some games I will never be able to play because I physically cannot move my fingers the way you have to and the responses to this post from other disabled people, people who grew up unable to play video games, and people who just aren’t very good at them has been extremely enthusiastically positive, while people who apparently can’t conceive of the idea that some people will never be good at gaming condescendingly comment, tag or send me asks telling me to try easy mode or to get good despite the fact that the feature I’m describing already exists in some games and mods. if you’re part of the latter group, consider that some of us can not ever be good at video games and we still deserve to be able to participate and have fun

jevilcore

OP, you could read wikis!!! I often read the wikis of games I can’t play for one reason or another, and it’s fantastic! Fan wikis have a lot of love in them so by scrolling down to the “plot” section it’ll often give you the full story and even more!!

inthenameofpeacewemakewar-deact

You know, I definitely understand OP’s conceptualization of video games, though. There SHOULD be a way for people who can’t actually PLAY video games to still play video games.

Wikis are great and all, but they don’t immerse you in the story. And I think that’s part of what OP is talking about here; they want an immersive entertaining experience without being forced to do things that they physically can’t. Sure, you could treat video games like a “pick your own adventure” novel, but at the end of the day, that’s not going to draw you in the way that actually controlling the character, deciding the actions of the character, or experiencing the game the way that the game is designed to be experienced.

I’m not disabled, but my mother is. And the way she typically gets around the fact that she can’t play some of these games is by having me play them for her, but the choices and actions in the game are directed by her. She tells me what dialogue option she wants to choose; she tells me where she wants her character to go. She articulates what she wants her character to do, and I make her character do it for her, so she can just watch BUT STILL HAVE CONTROL.

And I feel like that’s what OP is talking about here. ‘Cause without that control – that feeling of control – a lot of games these days are pretty pointless. And you can’t get that by just reading a wiki, unfortunately.

I mean, think of something like Skyrim or Fallout; any open-world roleplaying game. Yeah, you could read quest highlights on a wiki, but would you feel like you were in the world the way that these games are designed to make you feel like you are? No. Could you experience the cutscenes and cinematics that require actions to view them that you cannot physically perform? No. And OP already mentioned they don’t want to just watch a Lets Play, and I don’t blame them. Lets Plays are great if you don’t care about the direction of the game; if you just want to watch the main storyline of the game. But that’s not how most gamers PLAY games, especially any sort of game that isn’t completely, 100% linear.

So I sympathize with OP. Right now, as far as I know, there’s nothing like that. But there damn well should be.

anotherpapercut

please reblog this version of this post! I didn’t intend for my original post to get popular so I didn’t explain what I meant very well but this comment nails it way better than I ever could’ve

ryebreadgf

warmhappycat

This is hilarious on its own, but can we talk about how sweet and social the grey cat was being? That right there was empathy, folks. Cats aren’t assholes. They just have very different social norms than humans and dogs do.