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[finalgirlguy]

this is how i talk

[egberts]

"i ate too many cookies" is truly an ageless problem. an unlearnable lesson.

[spin-the-wheel-polls]

You are now this random animal, you can't go back!

Do you like it?

Heck yeah!!

I'm down for this

Eh, not mad

Nooooooo

Help I wanna go back

WHY WOULD YOU EVEN ADD THIS

Results/other

Voting ended onAug 7

poll submitted by anonymous!! thank you anon!!

[moodyymu]

mood recently

[endreal]

Solid medications (pills) really do be coming in two varieties - edible plastic, and smarties (derogatory)

[endreal]

Spoken like a person who truly knows what it is to have Ailments

[earhartsease]

when they get stuck halfway down and Burn

[monkeyislandtwo]

i think "[sic]" is one of the funniest things of literature. like yeah this guy really wrote it out like that

[legendaryvermin]

For the uninitiated, you write [sic]—literally "this" or "so" in latin—to indicate that you haven't altered the wording or spelling. While it can be used to preserve a joke misspelling (aminals) or indicate that you know it looks weird (the Toronto Maple Leafs), it is also the most biting three letters that you can throw at a motherfucker who should know better.

[marlynnofmany]

Somebody made an error here and it sure wasn't me (derogatory)

[bogmonstergirl]

Honestly im rly curious and i think the other poll's range is a bit ridiculous:

What temperature would you rather spend all day doing errands in

100° F (37.7° C)

0° F (-17.7° C)

Voting ended onFeb 14

[canadianlucifer]

Would you rather spend a day running errands in + or - 30°C?

30°C (86°F)

-30°C (-22°F)

Voting ended onFeb 12

[reblogsbycow]

I've never been anywhere colder than -3°C but I'll still choose freezing over sweating.

[filthburger]

over a quarter of those polled says they'd rather die horribly of hypothermia than get a little sweaty and i really really try not to go here but yeah i dont have trouble believing this is the celibacy website. extremities rotting and falling off like "yeah but i can always put another layer on"

[handsomeboymodelingschool]

Everyone's way too soft on dog owners. They should have to pick up the pee too

[do-not-u-dare]

I’m like a hopeless romantic but for friends. A hopeless platonic.

[starlightshadowsworld]

And oh do I yearn

[chamerionwrites]

“Crystalline Light,” reduction linocut, 2025. By William Hays

[testosterowned]

SCROLL UP THAT'S NOT A PHOTOGRAPH!!!!

[neonkarkki]

Okay but I don't think "that's not a photograph" is enough for this. That's a reduction linocut and I'm just going to assume a whole lot of the people here won't know what that means or google it. It means that the artist has had a linoleum block and has made this image by carving pieces out of it bit by bit, printing layers upon layers at different stages of carving to get the layered colours on the final print. Hypereaslistic paintings and pencil drawings and such are impressive, but I beg you all to look up how linocuts are done to get an idea of how this has been done.

[tlirsgender]

Yeah yeah yeah scroll back up it's-- LINOCUT?

[madnessiseverything]

the artist has a youtube channel, and there's MORE stunning linocuts on it! here's a video for this particular print and then another that shows this print in different stages of creation

[theinternetarchive]

'a study,' john singer sargent, lithograph, not dated.

[commanderbabyboy]

don’t forget about disabled people in your walkable cities i’ll kill you

[do-not-u-dare]

I’m like a hopeless romantic but for friends. A hopeless platonic.

[starlightshadowsworld]

And oh do I yearn

[partywithponies]

I don't think adult humans get enough cuddles and I am so serious.

You look at almost any other species of mammal and they give each other physical affection all the time, but for some reason we've decided that physical affection when you're an adult should be exclusively romantic and to want frequent physical affection from your friends or family is strange or sus or a sign you actually view them romantically, and this can't be good for us I don't think.

[scarlettohairdye]

This is probably a little too much nuance, but whenever I see a "all borders are violence" post (a political position I generally agree with!) I always add a little asterisk that says "*but the border checks that keep you from bringing homegrown produce into big agricultural areas to avoid the transmission of parasites and invasive species are actually fine and if we were more vigilant about that kind of thing maybe we wouldn't have spotted lanternflies in the states."

That doesn't work as well as a slogan, though

[karpad]

This Black History Month, reflect for a moment on the fact that George Washington Carver, famously "the inventor of peanut butter and more than 100 industrial uses for peanuts" wasn't, like, Doc Brown fucking around in his garage because he really liked peanuts but was specifically trying to introduce larger use of a nitrogen fixing legume into crop rotations against cotton monoculture which was destroying yields, livelihoods and the biosphere, and how most agribusiness farming now just destroys that topsoil on purpose and continues to grow a cotton monoculture (or soy or corn or whichever local monoculture is profitable) using petrochemical derived fertilizer, which is one element driving climate change

Daniel Hale Williams performed the first successful heart surgery. He also founded the first nonsegregated hospital in America because he was keenly aware of disparate health outcomes by race which is still a problem today.

WEB Dubois was a part of the delegations for the birth of the UN. His proposal to include in the charter that "the colonial system of government … is undemocratic, socially dangerous and a main cause of wars" was not adapted for the final draft. We might see inaction against colonial violence to this day as part of the failure of others to heed his warnings there.

I feel like so often when we look at Black History Month so much of it is driven by factoids but when taken as history in context its about a direct line from decades and centuries to what is happening right now.