Cute, Cuddly, and Cannibalistic

Whatever it is you followed me for... you are getting a lot of random other stuff too.  Things I like: monsters -Pacific Rim--Good Omens-- animals (especially hyenas)-stupid horror movies where people are eaten--- personal stuff is mostly about small town politics and organizing Pride events. Logistics and infrastructure, it's hella gay!She/They -Old enough to remember when the internet made a noise.

[thundergrace]

that's hot

[detectivehole]

unless its egregious, i'm not embarrassed to be fooled by ai. "oh i got lied to via something made by the Lying Machine the machine we made to Lie really well" like it's gonna happen it's no egg on your face. just be chill about it

[detectivehole]

don't get me wrong. it's always devastating always humbling. no one wants to fall for the lying machine it just sounds bad. but you can't dwell

[phantomrose96]

Hey kids, you need to start worrying a little less about getting “#mogged” and a little more about getting “#smogged”. This is an Air Quality Index public service announcement.

[kat4t0nix]

Trans Girl Seeking Roommate(s)

Hey there, I'm Kat. I'm a 32 year old trans woman. Some of you may have seen my posts floating around, or have seen them reblogged by others.

I've been in an incredibly precarious mental state. I've attempted to kill myself three times in the last few days, and part of it is due to the fact that I'm in an oppressive environment that's harming my mental health, and I desperately want out of here. I want to do... something to make myself better. Making this post is my taking that first step to getting better.

I've also been on a waiting list for affordable housing that's tied to my income for nearly two years, however, I can't keep waiting for something to happen. I truly need a place to be where I can feel happy to be who I am, and not where I'm regarded to be an ideology to be believed in, or not...

I currently reside in Ontario, Canada and am looking for a place here, however, if need be, I can relocate to another part of the country, but I likely won't be able to fully afford travel to other parts of the country. I'm also able to provide/split on rent, however, my income is limited, but I can provide enough to make an impact, and make things work.

If there's anybody out there. Anybody at all that's looking for a roommate here in Ontario, or another part of Canada, please, PLESE reach out to me and send me a DM.

Please help me get better, and get out on my own. Please. I want so badly to live, and to not live in a place where I'm made to feel unwanted as a trans person.

[kat4t0nix]

Reblogging this again because I just had to bare witness to not one, but two of my family members go on a conservative tirade about how poor people are losers, that people they don't like, need to be put to death, and that trans people like me educating kids by reading them stories, is somehow wrong.

PLEASE, IF ANYBODY IS OUT THERE THAT'S LOOKING FOR A ROOMMATE, PLEASE HELP ME GET OUT OF THIS SITUATION

[chimaerakitten]

Oh hey, all you Library-Loving Libby users out there. A piece of advice for you. Go to your search engine of choice and type in “[your local library] reciprocal agreements”.

Might pull up nothing, but chances are there are somewhere between two and seven other Library systems in your state that you can get a card at perfectly legitimately simply by applying for one with your current address and proof of having an active card at your local library. You can then log into Libby with these and use them even if you never manage to go to a physical building of that library. (Though you should take advantage of the physical library too if you can) Some of them might have significantly larger or at least different ebook/audiobook collections for you.

[mosylu]

Yes and!

There's a website (https://reciprocard.com/) that will pull up this info if you put in your hometown library, and gives you a link to apply to the different libraries. Sometimes you don't even need to apply. My library is in a consortium that just uses my card to cover all the other libraries. I use the same card number.

Your results page also lists some libraries that will let you get a non-resident card, usually for a yearly fee. (Frex, I decided it was a way better use of my precious dollars to get a Queens Public Library card for a year than to pay for that streamer I never watch anything on.)

[ecchima]

Some ineffable husbands kissing to start the week end right

[ID: Aziraphale seating on a plush couch, a book in his lap. He's pulling Crowley by his turtleneck for a kiss. Crowley is happy to oblige and holds Aziraphale's shoulder in one hand and a glass of wine in the other.]

[ecchima]

I saved them together because it's a pair, do not separate.

...And also they deserve their own post.

[ecchima]

Very big picture that I managed to draw all in 2 days because I have too much work yaaaaaay HAPPY BOOK OMENS WEEK EVERYONE!!!

[ecchima]

What if they’d taken the bus instead of stealing a jeep just after they did frankly quite little to help stop the Apocadidn’t?

[sprouch]

short film by jonathan djob nkondo, posted to tiktok by the artist who did the sound, nicholas snyder

[libraford]

One of the schools I photographed had a boy on the volleyball team because there wasn't enough interest in having a boys volleyball team. They made an exclusion for him to be on the girls team.

So when I hear people saying stuff about trans athletes and phrasing it as 'boys should not play in girls sports,' im actually thinking about that kid.

[heyfruitcake]

Now that everyone is discussing Nolan's Odyssey movie, I feel like it's a good time to let non-Italians know that the production dumped plastic props into the Italian sea. Weirdly enough I could not find any article in English about it but it's a fucking problem nonetheless.

I might translate this article later today. This one was the most complete one, even in Italian news it's not talked about that much.

L'Odissea di Nolan tra "scheletri spazzatura" e relitti: Arpa al lavoro in Sicilia, che succede

Non è la prima volta che la produzione solleva un vespaio in Sicilia. A Lipari una squadra di sub sarebbe però già impegnata a bonificare i

[ignitelimelight]

They dumped plastic skeletons in environmentally protected areas, against the literal contracts they had to sign to get the permits to film in environmentally protected areas. Like they not only did a bad ecological thing that freaked out some divers, they literally broke environmental protection laws and their contract with the Italian government

[kintsugi-my-soul]

Concerns about prop disposal as filming on new Nolan film comes to a close | www.italianinsider.it

Here’s one in English.

[rainydaypaperback]

Dear Wendy's Sophie and Jo, two aromantic and asexual college students, engage in an online feud while unknowingly becoming friends in real life, in this dual POV Young Adult contemporary debut from Ann Zhao

Sophie Chi is in her first year of college (though her parents wish she'd attend a “real” university rather than a liberal arts school) and has long accepted her aroace (aromantic and asexual) identity. She knows she’ll never fall in love, but she enjoys running an Instagram account that offers relationship advice to students at her school. No one except her roommate can know that she’s behind the incredibly popular “Dear Wendy” account.

When Joanna “Jo” Ephron (also a first-year aroace college student) created their “Sincerely Wanda” account, it wasn’t at all meant to take off or be taken seriously—not like Wendy’s. But now they might have a rivalry of sorts with Wendy’s account? Oops. As if Jo’s not busy enough having existential crises over gender identity, whether she’ll ever truly be loved, and the possibility of her few friends finding The One then forgetting her!

While tensions are rising online, Sophie and Jo grow closer in real life, especially once they realize their shared aroace identity and start a campus organization for other a-spec students. Will their friendship survive if they learn just who’s behind the Wendy and Wanda accounts?

Exploring a-spec identities, college life, and more, while perfect for fans of Alice Oseman’s Loveless, this is ultimately a love story about two people who are not—and will not—be in love!

Book club book for July 18th, 2PM meeting at Rainy Day Paperback, 81 Greenwood Ave. Bethel, Ct

Looks good and you want to read it? you can support the shop by ordering print or ebook version from Bookshop.org or the audio through Libro.FM Purchasing ebook or audio through those links helps support Rainy Day and means that billionaire, Jeff, doesn't get a cut!

[workingclasshistory]

On this day, 18 July 1969, Black Panthers held a conference in Oakland alongside the predominantly white anti-racist Young Patriots Organisation and Puerto Rican street gang-turned-radical group the Young Lords. A KPIX news report described the event as an “unconventional convention” which was nevertheless “well-organised and orderly”, and explained that the Panthers’ motivation in holding it was to emphasise “class struggle” and “revolutionary unity”. The Young Patriots were a group of poor, mostly Appalachian migrants in Chicago. Although they opposed racism, they originally wore Confederate flags, which they believed were a symbol of rebellion. Leading Panther Fred Hampton played a key role in building links with them and other white working-class youth, until he was assassinated by police. In his speech, William "Preacherman" Fesperman of the Young Patriots, argued for armed self-defence against police brutality: "A gun on the side of a pig means two things: it means racism and it means capitalism and the gun on the side of a revolutionary, on the side of the people, means solidarity and socialism." Later, the Young Patriots abandoned the Confederate flag symbol as an irredeemable symbol of white supremacy. As former-Patriot Hy Thurman explained to Redneck Revolt: “As we grew politically and respected the Black Panthers and the Young Lords we determined that there was no place in the movement or the world for the Confederate flag. It symbolises a period of time when our Black brothers and sisters were mere property to be sold or destroyed at the white man's convenience. And that the Confederate flag was created to serve as a symbol of plantation owners to perpetuate slavocracy.” Learn more about the Panthers in these books by former members: https://shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/all/black-panthers

[st-just]

'giant speculative investment bubble creates massive amounts of new grid capacity/crashes energy prices to sub-zero' feels like one of those things that industrial planners dream of engineering. Like of all the possible things to have a ton of spare capacity laying around to buy/use for a song of. Oh no, however shall anyone ever come up with new ideas to use cheap electricity...

[ip2lb]

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[thehappysnail-deactivated202210]

Holy fuck

[musingsofaraven]

This works best if you keep windows closed.

Another design is using 2 20x25x1 filters, taping them to the sides of the box fan and then to each other so they sort of make a triangle, then cutting cardboard to make a top and bottom to the triangle.

This was discovered as a more effective design during the 2020 US west coast fires.

https://tombuildsstuff.blogspot.com/2013/06/better-box-fan-air-purifier.html

Better Box Fan Air Purifier

A better more efficient and odor eliminating homemade air purifier than just taping a 20x20x1 filter to a box fan. Sometimes you need to

[runcibility]

If you live on the west coast of the United States, fire season is coming and this is vital.

[turtlesandfrogs]

We’ve been using one, and they’re great. Might try to make the double filter version this year.

[objectconstancy]

theyve been doing a bunch of studies on this during the pandemic and this design is best! 4 filters and a shroud to optimize flow rate.

Corsi-Rosenthal Cube

Corsi-Rosenthal Cube

https://encycla.com/Corsi-Rosenthal_Cube

[0fficelady]

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