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A hot piece of mediocrity

[radiation]

Small mockup/proof of concept of an experimental video technique, one which I have dubbed "Jumpcalm". I am looking to further develop this idea for use in psychotherapy and mental health practices at scale.

[3liza]

genetics are so funny because a lot of (maybe most) mutations that get established do so not because they provide any kind of benefit, but because they just dont kill you fast enough to prevent you from reproducing. once you start looking at evolution this way, everything is a lot less mysterious

[desolationlesbian]

People who insist tumblr must be 90% LGBT because their self-curated dash is have never gotten a weird comment on a post and went to check the person's blog and discovered an entire deep subculture of christian and tradwife users reblogging anti-abortion quotes and transphobia between each other. I promise you they're on here.

[jettkuso]

this is just what it's like being on a platform that doesn't necessarily push inflammatory people and things toward you on purpose

[fromspheretosphere-blog]

[datadegroove-deactivated2026042]

products are so bad now that i have to do approximately 8 hours of research before i buy anything

[ralfmaximus]

Seriously, if you're planning to spend a coupla hundred bucks on an appliance, or thousands for a car, spend $4 for a month of Consumer Reports (consumerreports.org).

They're a not-for-profit consumers union, dedicated to fair and honest reviews of everything people buy. Totally worth the membership.

And yeah, if money is tight you can join for a month then cancel the membership easily when you're done with your research.

[amindamazed]

Also check to see if your local public library has a subscription, either in print or digital format (might be listed as a database rather than a magazine - that's the case at my library in Canada).

[fyeahgothicromance]

[inbetweenis]

[prozdvoices]

"An anime dub is a transformative piece of art"

[rocketbirdie]

GUY WHO HAS EVERY PROBLEM EVER

[nyctosaurid]

barnyard the original party animals is the uncontested lord of bad implications in childrens movies

[nyctosaurid]

ok so like “the secret life of x” movies tend to not strongly explore the actual reasons why, exactly, their life has to be secret… they don’t really focus on it within the narrative. They do usually have some small justification for why animals or video games or toys or whatever have never just revealed themselves:

There’s no stated reason. They just pretend to not be alive. We usually can suspend our suspension of disbelief here because when it’s something like a video game or an emoji because any odd occurrences is perceived as a glitch or something similar but the actual reason why they aren’t too hung up on this kinda shitty lot in life isn’t said

They get something out of their current relationship with humans (like in toy story)

They have some specific reason to hide that they’re alive, like they die if they’re seen (like in the christmas toy)

They perceive themselves as sentient, talking creatures, but humans can’t understand them. They just see a squeaking mouse or an inanimate hot dog or whatever. 

and the last one is what most animal movies do, and it’s like, not devoid of weird implications but you can see where it mostly works.

but barnyard is the outlier here: it goes with tier one: the animals can talk and walk on two legs but just pretend that they can’t for unstated reasons. 

in the history of the barnyard world non human animals, at some point, decided to just pretend to be unable to speak. a “cow” or a “coyote” or a “hen” do not exist as we know it in the barnyard universe. the baa of the sheep is false; the ewe doesn’t understand it either. they only made up that noise to hide the fact that they speak human languages. a dog barking and running on all fours is a facade. animals naturally walk on their hind legs and made up whole postures just to appear non sentient.

and for what? what do they gain from this? they have no rights and no voice by their own choice. at one point a donkey claims the farmer is a good person because he’s vegan and a pig mentions bacon - this is not a fantasy universe devoid of death and misery and meat. do animals, in hushed whispers, remind their children not to sob in their real voice as they’re taken away? do the dogs not beg for kindness when they’re tied up and hit? do cows and chickens not cry for their life in the slaughterhouses? does a rat not scream a human scream when the trap misses their neck and only breaks their spine? Why? what is the point? They loose so much and have everything to gain.

anyways does everyone remember this really awful cat. it only appears in one scene but i can just sense the porn of it that would pop up if i googled it’s name

[inkthecryptid]

This post is like being tied to a chair as a a joker-style villain monologues and presses a gun closer and closer to my head as he reaches the climax of his rehearsed piece on the flaws of society and when he finally pulls the trigger it’s a little flag that says “bang!”

[kindlyanni]

Darlings 💞

[future-crab]

So I follow N. D. Stevenson (comics writer and animator, most famous for Nimona and She-Ra and the Princesses of Power) and his husband Lee Ostertag (also a comics writer and animator) on Instagram. When I started following them, they were both publicly presenting as women, and then a few years ago N. D. came out as transmasc nonbinary, and then earlier this year Lee also came out as transmasc. Anyway this is all setup to say that Lee had the chance to make the funniest post of all time and he took it:

Absolutely iconic.

[fearoftheminotaur]

I want to throw in that part of the context behind this meme was N.D. talking about how he sometimes gets hatemail for marrying a man as a former lesbian, and how many people seem to think he divorced his wife.

I have not managed to find anyone who thinks that in the wild, but it is so damn funny.

[stupot]

Yesterday a kid said to me "excuse me? Your hair looks like beautiful anime hair" which is already amazing and then she said "watch me on your camera when I go down the slide I'm going to do the Peter Griffin death pose when I come out" and she sure did.

[stupot]

Illustration of events

[secondbeatsongs]

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"HOT TO GO!" with every second beat removed

[tiredqueerwriterscorner]

I've been slacking but I actually like Hot To Go so Lyrics as follows:

I've dicks I've seven ay-

I could one new diction, Only one fiction, Don't world, take ditty, Cup girl, cat pretty

Baby like bee, Eat a settee, Hundred-nine bree, Doin' me, Doin' me

H-O Toh-Geoh, Now then touch a toe, Raise your body roe, Dancin ah to go, H-O Toh-Geoh, Snap and touch a toe, Raise your body roe, H-O Toh-Geoh,

H-E Toh-Yoh, You take I go! H-E Toh-Yoh, You take I go!

Ay my bones ab kneelin' Haich I care burt's mealin's Don't dare Peter Griffin! Once air damn hangin,

Baby like bee, Eat a sleepy, It's hundred-nine breathe, Doin' me, Ooin' me

H-O Toh-Geoh, Now then touch a toe, Raise your body roe, Dancin ah to go, H-O Toh-Geoh, Snap and touch a toe, Raise your body roe, H-O Toh-Geoh,

H-E Toh-Yoh, You take I go! H-E Toh-Yoh, You take I go!

What's a tissue? What's a tweel? Hurry tense up, Order hunter-gun, What's a tissue? Hurry in the cold, Hurry tense up, Order hot goooo,

H-E Toh-Yoh, You take I go! H-E Toh-Yoh, You take I go! (Hot Goo!) H-E Toh-Yoh, You take I go! H-E Toh-Yoh, You take I go!

Yeah, Ass hot? Wheew, ho with? Ok, its hot, call the cat

[highlandcattleofsaarela]

[thememedaddy]

[effiecalvin]

I have this idea for a video game called Are You Out There? where two players control two different alien civilizations and the goal of the game is to invent spaceflight and then manage to find one another in a ginormous universe. You can try to leave signs for each other to find, or send out probes and radio waves, or colonize many systems so you're a bigger target, but its hard because the universe is really big.

Idk just a thought.