A Repository of Things

I will not claim to have all the answer or even some othe answers. All I can says is that I stand here with you screaming in to the dark

[local-dragon-haunt]

Has this been done yet

Edit: was not expecting this to blow up, and I've seen some people mistake this as an original idea, so here is the original post this is based on

[autumngracy]

Saw this twitter post and instantly started looking for pictures of Stratt to use it with

[drchucktingle]

oh dang the most important review of all just came in

[caffeinewitchcraft]

A 75 yo man proudly came into the cafe wearing an Ultra Maga hat. I excused my barista from the register to handle the transaction.

"The hat is customizable," he said, struggling with the velcro patch on the front. "If I need it, I have an ICE one too. I pick based off the business i walk into."

"Customizable is an important hat descriptor," I said. "what can I get you?"

"You wouldn't believe how offended people get these days," he said. "And I'm supposed to do something about it if you're offended? You chose to be offended!"

"We all have hundreds of thousands of decisions everyday," I said. I thickened my accent. "That's what my stepdad always said. But I can make one easier - we have a delicious Ethiopian roast available."

"Like if I told you you have a bull ring," he said, "because bulls have rings in their noses. Is that offensive?"

I laughed. "I've heard that before."

"It's a joke, but people get offended. Maybe you're offended."

I looked at him. I smiled. "You aren't trying to offend me though, right?"

Of course he was. I was being friendly and the friendlier I was, the faster he switched topics. He was saying anything inflammatory he could think of to see if I'd take the bait. After about 20 minutes of my redirecting and deescalating, he settled into a more normal interaction. He took up too much of my time showing me a product I'd feigned mild interest in to get him to stop talking about getting accused of inappropriate behavior at work. When we finally disengaged, he spent 10 minutes trying to catch my eye again. When he failed, he left.

There's this new breed of customer who insists on trying to incite political conversation through their clothing and, when that doesnt work, their snide little comments. If I owned my own business, maybe I would have given the guy the fight he wanted. But I work for a corporation and I love paying my bills so I deescalated.

Anyone wearing that type of shit and preying on workers for their own spank bank material is a brainless fucking sheep.

[headedoutleft]

something i want to mention because i’ve seen it growing as a trend online is that not only do people do this just for their own gratification, but watch for glasses. smart glasses are a growing segment of the consumer market, and creeps like this are harassing people in public in order to gather content without the victims being aware they’re being filmed

good job on how you handled it, op!

[ralfmaximus]

Indeed, spotting Meta glasses in the wild just got harder in 2026.

They are no longer exclusively Ray-Bans.

[lastoneout]

Here's my real tip for anyone moving out on their own for the first time; when you buy a set of measuring cups or spoons buy ones that have the measurement engraved into the cup/spoon and do NOT buy ones where it's just printed on. Because that ink/paint/ect. can rub off and then you'll have a bunch of useless little spoons and cups you have to get rid of bcs they no longer say what size they are. Don't ask me how I know, just trust me that you wanna buy engraved ones.

[wobbegong800]

Woe. Little Baby Man be upon ye.

[1300marshall]

so hiccups are a human thing right?

[owlservice]

Huntington's disease successfully treated for first time

One of the most devastating diseases finally has a treatment that can slow its progression and transform lives, tearful doctors tell BBC.

[phrenic-a]

Every molecular biology and genetics class I have ever taken uses Huntington’s to demonstrate the tragedy and heartbreak genetic disorders can inflict on peoples lives. This is truly an amazing feat.

[livinghalfway]

Stowaway

When Danny left the vigilante life to become a paramedic in Gotham he didn't think he'd ever step back into that scene. Much less in this way, because now Danny has Robin riding along with him in the ambulance every shift he's on. 

He didn't think Robin would even remember him after he had helped the kid take care of a hurt and sick kitten at the end of his shift. How wrong he was though because the next night Robin was suddenly in the ambulance saying that he would be shadowing Danny from this point forward. Danny's coworkers were also no help in getting the kid to not do this. 

Robin called this an intern opportunity to learn more about medicine and how to treat people. Danny called it a HIPPA violation. What he thought doesn't seem to matter though as everyone is always just excited to talk to the kid. He ultimately decides to just let it go and be the unwilling mentor to the young vigilante. 

It really isn't until Danny is being cornered after one of his shifts by Batman demanding to know what he's doing to Robin that he wished he had fought harder to convince Robin to not ride along. 

[walmartnoodle]

Wdym you hate Stratt? Without her you don’t get a story

[its-too-many-fandoms]

Omg I love this piece. Grace the hanging man, content with his life but cannot avoid the changes coming; the ship his noose, the rope that binds him to his fate; the blood red stars beside him, Olesya and Yáo the angels haunting him in the background. Eva Stratt, the one who holds it all on her back, the world is literally on her shoulders, the Petrova line on her neck. She will not falter, cannot afford to move, and yet still she glares at us. Eva challenges us, daring us to ask if we could do better, if we could hold her burden for even a fraction of the time.

Eve, the mother of sin, who held the world in her hands and was cursed for not knowing.

Eva, director of the task force, who now holds the world, and still must curse man to save it.

In the end, it always falls on a woman. I could never hate you Eva Stratt

[vintagewildlife]

"I can't believe humans would hunt the thylacine to extinction, humans are fundamentally evil" Hey, did you know that extinction was long thought to be impossible, and within 50 years of humans realizing that extinction via overhunting was a possibility it practically stopped happening? Did you know that humans are so desperate to prevent more losses that they're funneling millions of collective hours and billions of euros into helping other species? Hours and euros that could be spent on humans, and species on whom humanity's own survival does not depend? Did you know that due to an accidental introduction of rats, the Lord Howe Island stick insect population was brought down to 24 individuals and now there are tens of thousands of them?

This bug. This bug that, to most humans, is utterly useless, relatively gross, and completely foreign. Humans saved it because humans do not want to cause another extinction ever again if they can avoid it.

[untimelytophat]

@crabussy

[crabussy]

as someone in the field of ecological conservation, I can promise without a shadow of a doubt that people DO care. SO MANY people care.

I have to race to sign up to volunteer trips because even with dozens of spots available, people rush to devote their unpaid free time to helping the environment. these trips often fill up within hours. people care.

you will see a lot of bad news because that is the kind of news that people pay the most attention to. I know this more than you'd think from my optimism- not only do I live somewhere facing some of the most extreme ecological issues on the planet, I also spend my time studying the Bad Stuff every single day.

to see all of this firsthand and stay hopeful is proof enough that there IS hope. I promise there is good news, brilliant news, all the time. it's just less visible. but it's no less important or impactful.

[headspace-hotel]

the nature center I work at has classrooms of kids and parents with kids coming in all the time, and I am amazed at how adults treat kids and behave around kids.

Not even always the sense of being openly mean to the kids, but in the sense of acting like they must behave rigidly a certain way at all times and that if anything is one minute off schedule or if kids have any unstructured time at all it is the End Of The Fucking World.

So many adults hustling kids from activity to activity, all snippy and harried as though every single thirty minute Scheduled Activity Block is an unmissable appointment and the whole building will blow up if someone is five minutes late to something.

We have these exhibits with animal bones and rocks and pressed flowers and stuff that are clearly placed at child height and the way parents will SNAP at their kids to DON'T TOUCH THAT DON'T TOUCH ANYTHING amazes me.

There is so little tolerance for kids acting silly or just being playful or anything, the adults will act so annoyed and stern and harsh for the littlest things.

In those kids' situation I would be shitting my pants with anxiety all the time, The level of uptightness and intolerance for any little bit of disorder makes me secondhandedly anxious.

[headspace-hotel]

Are kids even allowed to play without having predetermined activities scheduled for them down to the minute that they have to line up neatly for.

I saw on pinterest a few years ago some 14 year old girl's school schedule (written out as a cute thing like here's how I plan my day!!) and she had literally every activity down to like, 15 minute blocks scheduled in. and I was like. who could do this without wanting to set themselves on fire. School dominates kids' lives to the point that they don't have time to learn how to be human beings and it doesn't even successfully teach kids to fucking read.

It's like the momentum of tyrannical institutions and structures increases to where nothing the institution is supposed to do even works any more and it's just a bunch of rules and punishments and uptight, stressed wannabe tyrants suffering under their own tyrants, and it can't stop itself even when nothing is fucking working.

It annoyed me because the article I read that was like "Kids These Days don't have enough discomfort tolerance because adults coddle them too much" alluded to kids not being able to engage in risk play and have unsupervised play time, which was so close to an actual point that it made the rest of the bullshit more infuriating.

[marithlizard]

(via bsky)

In case anyone hasn't heard, the cyclospora outbreak affecting tons of people in the US right now is coming from Taylor Farms produce. Best to stay away from bagged lettuce and prepared salads completely right now, but especially the ones mentioned in the screenshot:

Taylor Farms Earthbound Farms Little Salad Bar (Aldi) Marketside (Walmart) Kroger House Brand Target private label greens Costco salads and greens etc Trader Joe's chopped salad kits and fresh produce Fast food: McDonalds, Taco Bell, (Yum! Brands), Chipotle, Subway, Pizza Hut, KFC, Olive Garden, Top Golf, Red Lobster, Burger King, etc.

This is not the first time I've heard about a Taylor Farms foodborne illness outbreak. I stopped eating their salads after reading a description of the conditions in their facilities. Doesn't sound like they've improved anything.

We need a fully funded and staffed FDA, and regulations with teeth - and that's exactly what we don't have under Trump. To make things worse, the CDC is no longer tracking these outbreaks. We're on our own.

[jey-chan]

Danny and Flash are Time friends.

Both had meet during so many time travel things to the point that both of them started calling eatch other when they are about to do some changed in the timeline or when they suspect someting.

So it thanks to this that Flash belived in the newly named Red Robin when the kid said that Batman was in the past.

It was also thanks to a mesage sended by the Time Mentor of Phantom that he could only help the kid with some things. Like giving them special meds and distract the leage so the bird could rescue theyr dad.

It was also this friendshup that made Flash aware of the Anti-ecto act and put a end of that before it started.

But now- well they did not have time to do some manbo jambo, save the universe, give a head ups to the cientific and save the anonimus of the kid in the heroes database.

Flash was just about to run to have some extra time to beat up the baddie of the month, when a green note apear in front and made him trople.

"Hey Batman, be ready to do a lot of damage control. Im calling the med bay in advice And DO NOT SHOOT ANITHING THAT COMES FROM A GREEN PORTAL"

And a portal did opened. Out of it comes a mildly injured and glowing with so much emotions Phantom. A hurt and pised our Phantom.

Flash knows instantanly.

And just pointed to the big bad of the week, stoping the teammates that wanted to run and help the kid and or scole them.

"Someone mesed with his grave. The kid is pissed of. And helping him indulge induging on one of his Obsesions can acelerate his healing. That, and he needs to ler oit some fumes."

"Flash. Who is this?"

[afanofmanyships]

Part 1

Later that day, the same task force member who was fist-fighting Bruce Wayne is now holding his own against Batman.

And in a moment of frustration, he yells out the words, "God damnit! First that charade's billionaire and now this! When I first applied to the job, I didn't know I'd have to fight a dirty-ass SUNDUCKER!!"

Batman: ...

JL: ...

Suicide Squad: ...

Oracle over the comms: ...

Task force member #2 to the other task force members: "...When he said that'll he would get real racist to repeat offenders during training. I didn't think this was what he meant."

Task force member #4: "Yeah, he's like the most nicest guy I know."

Task force member #3, taking a sip from his water bottle: "Well, you clearly never sparred with the guy."

"How dare you stop fighting me, you cryptic daddy issues wanna be motherfu-"

Red Hood, shouting from the side: "Hey, wait! You can't insult him unless you're a Gothamite."

Without hesitation, the task force member slapped the Gotham Knight's emblem to his chest with his birth certificate attached to it, showing that he was born in a Gotham hospital, with another form attached to it showing that he renewed his Gothamite passport yesterday evening. (Author's Note: he does not care 🤣)

Danny Fenton to the task force captain: "Should we stop him?"

Task force captain: "No, maybe, uh. Give it five minutes."

[captain-price-returns]

Literally cartoonishly evil.

[hightide-error]

the poster that this incredible illustration is based on is extremely striking. but while searching for it, I also found earlier posters for conveying this message along with a corresponding one for summer, and I fucking love them. absolutely lovely graphic design work. (both are from 1924, artist is Austin Cooper)

the one I was looking for originally also has a summer variant. (artist is Frederick Charles Herrick: 'it is warmer below' is from 1927, 'it is cooler below' is 1926)

[elodieunderglass]

I also like Edward McKnight Kauffer’s London Underground posters, the 1923 Natural History Museum one is such cool piece of visual art