[charlesoberonn]

[gotouhitori]

What?

[supreme-leader-stoat]

No, What's on second.

[viralfrog]

[resetmyfeelings]

[40ouncesandamule]

this post had everything I could hope for

[bunnydracula]

moment i experienced in a hospital elevator last month

[2020knives]

ummm was OP on strawberries when they posted this? lol

[softwaring]

made a pride flag using landscape photos ive taken <3

[cannibalchicken]

[zluty-spendlik]

[geeseareassholes]

[wordfather]

idk if this is an usamerican thing or not but it always blows my mind as a small european country resident that yall have many names and types of apples???? what do you mean its not just red yellow or green??? why is it so complicated??? who is granny smith????

[wordfather]

'whats your favorite apple' 'red' 'no i mean like what type' '??????' actual conversatiom i've had with a mutual from usa

[mythandlaur]

Quick is this a red yellow or green

[wordfather]

ah, this is our complicated one. this is red-yellow

[urgetocreate]

Claude Monet (French 1840 -1926), The Artist's Garden at Vétheuil, 1881, Oil on canvas, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.

[politijohn]

Source

Happy Pride Month!

[keatxu]

abandonware should be public domain. force companies to actively support and provide products if they don't wanna lose the rights to them

[omikronsoul]

Game companies hate emulation, but none of them seem to understand that a lot of us would just buy ROMs from them directly if we could. I don't want a fifth remake of Final Fantasy IV, I want to pay five bucks for the 3MB file you already made bank with thirty years ago. Nobody who wants to play something for the purpose of retro gaming is going to consider a $40 remake as the alternative option, and we're certainly not going to let the original dissappear. They're crying about opportunity cost for a product they're not even selling.

[justletmeremember]

op i know you're probably talking about like, video games, etc, but this is also critical for research science - my lab has so much abandonware, either because the company's out of business, or the company decided to not maintain it, and it's a fucking nightmare. we have two windows 95 computers that are CRITICAL for performing experiments/data analysis because the software needed is abandonware. one of the main roles for a guy in my lab is to maintain these little dinosaurs because if they go out, we lose access to ~20 years of raw data for research. part of why is that these companies also make their own file types, and make it difficult-to-impossible to convert those file types without their specific software. by habit, i convert all research files to more generic versions (txt, pdf, tif, etc) so that i minimize risk of losing my shit, but some stuff can't be converted.

for example, we have a microscope that is perfectly functional, good microscope, but its software is abandonware because the company refused to maintain it. the company is still in business, still makes essentially the exact same software, but they made all of the old tech incompatible with new software to force people to buy the new microscope tech. it would cost a quarter million dollars to replace this microscope. this perfectly good microscope.

so like, i know a lot of people look at the original post here and go "well op just wants old video games to play" (which is valid! games companies should not be able to push shit to abandonware and then close it off) but also this is critical for like. biomedical research. if y'all had any idea how much basic infrastructure built on science relies on shit that is technically abandonware, you would probably be horrified.

[torstherapy]

[oberonsson]

Dame Archer kicks McDougal’s Scots ass there in the rain at the Washington Midsummer Renaissance Faire - August 11, 2018 - Photo by Douglas Herring

[anarcho-wormism-deactivated2019]

😮

[garrettauthor]

Oh NO.

[treacleaergia]

me, a sheltered noblewoman: Pray who is that brave knight? Dame Archer:*turns around* me: gasp! *instantly in love*

[dirtyriver]

Alicia Archer

[ex-sang-uination]

my bi heart………

[ohmightysmiter]

I’VE NEVER SEEN THE ADDED PICS

[hrefnatheravenqueen]

[nyx-belial]

*dies*

[garrettauthor]

Oh shit.

[notlostonanadventure]

GAY KNIGHTS

[unicornofdarknessstuff-deactiva]

Fellas I’m real gay

[thecarrott]

@0hheytherebigbadwolf HELP!!

[0hheytherebigbadwolf]

Every June this inevitably winds up back on my dash. And I appreciate that. And I will reblog it. Every time.

[rockitcat]

Hey, it’s @archerinventive, and the Pride Knights!

[woman-respecter]

someone post “i dont dance. anyways whats gay pride day, what are they proud of?” please

[woman-respecter]

i have to do everything around here. happy pride or something. tch.

[magnetictapedatastorage]

Almost every day I think about how if you raised a daughter exactly, precisely like a son, it would be seen as vaguely progressive, but raising a son exactly, precisely like a daughter would be seen as sexual abuse.

[magnetictapedatastorage]

Imagine a 12 year old boy being taught to shave his legs.

[magnetictapedatastorage]

I’m using this specific example because it only seems abusive when applied to boys. For girls, you could say “Well, it’s annoying, it’s unfeminist, but it’s not abusive because it’s not abnormal. We’ve all been there. It could be worse.” The problem is that something being common or ‘not as bad as it could be’ does not make it right. That’s why what is “annoying” or “discouraging” for a girl seems “horrifying” or “abusive” for a boy.

It’s shockingly un-shocking to teach a child, a non-teenager, to remove the hair from her legs. But for boys, it screams “pedophillic grooming”, brings to mind a nauseating image of a pre-teen boy with no idea what he is doing or why it is deemed necessary, it creates the idea of a leering adult who simply wants the boy to look prepubescent. There is no normalization to hide behind. By doing this to a human being (that is, a boy) we defamiliarize it, unmask it, and can finally begin to understand how deeply sick girlhood is.

[blogg1sh]

This makes me nauseous

[floridensis]

in my last botany lab the professor had a prepared slide of diatoms set up for us to look at and i was not prepared for how delightful the slide looked

[carebewear]

I do often think about how the origin of “he would not fucking say that” was in reference to a post which depicted Cartman SouthPark responding politely when asked for his pronouns

[schistcity]

meme phrases are so mobile and versatile and that's really really beautiful but i'm always thinking about the first "she x on my y til i z" being "she ebbin on my neezer til i scrooge" and the first "fork found in kitchen" coming from a tweet about sehun from exo being spotted at a gay bar. like sometimes you just utterly nail it the very first time and no variation of the joke is going to be better.

[schistcity]

EXACTLY.

[schistcity]

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