[asteroidtroglodyte]

Me, tears streaming down my face, sobbing, as I stare at the stars: it’s just so beautiful

The medieval peasant I went back in time to give a bag of Doritos to, concerned: what terrible and powerful sorcerers they must have in your age, to be able to veil the vault of heaven itself from view, as you say

Me, sniffling: I didn’t realize, I can’t, it’s so much, I, I… are the chips good, at least?

Medieval peasant, trying to make me feel better: they’re… magical, strange traveler

[anonymousanomalyinthebuilding]

[thefemaleterrorist]

anti pornography feminist protests

[myjetpack]

My latest cartoon for New Scientist

[voroxpete]

To be clear, this isn't a bit. This is what they actually did. "Its too late" is the new "Climate change isn't real"... And its still a lie!

Every serious climate scientist agrees that there is no such as thing as too late, just as there is no such thing as too early. We should have done a lot more than we have to fight climate change, and the world will suffer for our inaction, but there is no point of no return. We can always work to reduce the amount of suffering that occurs, and eventually turn things around to the point where our planet is healing once again. Do not believe anyone who says it's "too late".

[spiderbitesandvampirevenom]

can we bring back the term "fair-weather friend" bc I feel like if fair-weather friends got called that more this whole argument about whether or not you should be there for your friends when it's inconvenient/at what point of personal inconvenience it's ok to bail on your friends would kinda fall apart bc like. we literally have a word for "friend who's only there when you don't need something from them" because the baseline expectation is that a friend should be there even when it sucks. like we used to make fun of people for bailing on their friends.

[jchance4d4]

You're right that it's a useful term, and there really has been an awful overcorrection. That overcorrection was against a previous distortion, I will say, though--I really did use to see a "jump on every grenade" kind of attitude that was just as unhealthy. Ultimately, you can't make simple cheatsheet rules for social interactions, and people wanting them leads to all kinds of foolishness. What's fair to expect depends on the nature of your relationship (not a binary between "good friend" and "stranger", as observed elsewhere in the notes), and what the other person can handle doing, practically and psychologically (and i mean this in the sense of serious distress, not simple inconvenience).

[paranormal-taters]

"i feel besquintled", said no one ever. because that's not a word.

[paranormal-taters]

okay nevermind it IS a word now and this is exactly what it means.

[paranormal-taters]

EVERYONE SHUT UP AND LOOK AT THIS NEW AND BETTER WORD

[marbleguard]

I work at lab that ONLY looks at breast tissue for cancer. So we get a never ending deluge of breast biopsies, frequent breast reductions, regular lump removals, and the occasional cancer removing mastectomy. Over the past ~5 years, I have watched “bilateral mastectomy for gender dysphoria” creep up and then lap the number of cancer mastectomies, the number of lumps, and then even the number of reductions. It’s currently behind biopsies, barely. But the number is getting higher, and the age is getting younger. So many 18-25 year olds - the other day, one of the doctors looked at a case and went “wow, 36 is old for a dysphoria mastectomy”. Which it is, because most of them come in even younger, but 36 is so young!!!!! Way more people are getting this than people think - people are always shocked when I say how many I see, and how young the patients are.

I feel really conflicted about this, but I don’t know what to do. We’re not doing the surgery, we’re just checking the tissue for cancer, so I don’t feel like I can morally object to doing the work. I have found occult cancer in breast reductions and prophylactic mastectomies before, it’s worth it to do.

But when you see how much $$$ plastic surgeons and anesthesiologists bring in doing these surgeries, and therapists bring in referring clients, I am completely unsurprised that so many doctors have signed off on the idea. We’ve had to hire on additional people JUST for the mastectomies. Of course they think treating a mental illness with surgery is a great idea. Whenever I see trans people get online and talk about how encouraging their surgeon is, it just makes me sick to my stomach. It’s like 10/10 auto mechanics agreeing that buying the expensive oil conditioner whatever they try to upsell you is a great idea.

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[haunteddollsgeorg]

A lesbian couple in their 70s bought this plate from me yesterday, and as I was wrapping it up, one of them remarked that not so long ago they couldn’t even say the word “lesbian” aloud 😭 Those women have been together for almost 40 years and for the first two decades they couldn’t even call it what it was. What a precious reminder of how far we’ve come and how much the generations before us have been through— I’m so emotional that this piece find the perfect home

[suigintou]

my apologies to the lovely lady who had only just begun constructing her beautiful spiderweb in the immediate path of the side door this morning when i, in my self-centered desire to vacate my home of assorted household refuse, came oafishly barging through the sum of her efforts. i shall meditate upon my actions and how they harmed not just her, but all women of the world, and endeavour to do better

[taurzza]

Hi may I suggest a white rabbit and a Abyssinian cat interacting with a spotted dove? Thanks

okayy

[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.

[jollysunflora]

#there is so much abandonware just...out there being used and carefully maintained#because nothing quite replicates the functionality

[captain-price-returns]

A real page on the White House website

[oatmilktruther]

TMZ Archives

TMZ Archives

at the time of viewing that is indeed text on the actual white house dot gov website 🚬🧅

[dragirlinstall]

taking my gamer dog out for a walkthrough

[epicsause-official]

d*mn!

[hyenaswine]

i think people are starting to confuse class analysis with bioessentialism. like... no not all men do this, but Men as a constructed social class do do this. that's still okay to say. that is regular material analysis of the world around us.

[hungwy]

[mareshida]