a write-only reblog collection

[trainsinanime]

When I read the word “stakeholder”, I always think of Buffy Summers.

[necarion]

I'm taking a course on systems engineering, and one thing that keeps coming up is the need to comply with stakeholder requirements. And I keep thinking of that in terms of, like, designing a new vampire-killing system for Buffy, the lead stakeholder.

[the-world-annealing]

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that's really cool, personally I don't give strangers false information and then get mad at them for believing me

[penny-anna]

Rocky on the trip back to Erid registering that Grace has defaulted to using he/him for him for sexism reasons and that they don't actually have to go by he/him. xe does some research on the human computer and spends several weeks cycling through different pronoun sets. starts switching so frequently Grace becomes convinced sie has started being difficult on purpose. after a while Grace is like omg will you just pick one and stick with it. Rocky is like okay i have decided. rock/rocks. rockself. Grace like well i can't argue with that.

[penny-anna]

#see the hill that I will die on is that if Andy weir was cooler rockey would use either they them or xe xir#you’re telling me cool middle school teacher Ryland grace is unfamiliar with the concept of fun new genders#absolutely not. his students have taught him about singular they them and neopronouns

Grace trying to explain to Rocky that they can be whatever they want to be and presenting a whole list of different pronoun options and Rocky (who has no concept of gender) being like 'why would I care about any of this'

[penny-anna]

Rocky: which pronouns does Grace use question?

Grace: he/him

Rocky: okay. Rocky will use he/him too

Grace: okay but I feel like defaulting to he/him promotes a patriarchal kind of mindset and we should be more thoughtful about it

Rocky: okay so use the other standard pronouns

Grace: she/her?

Rocky: yeah

Grace: okay but that feels weird too

Rocky: why weird question

Grace:

Grace, later, lying awake: I never considered that Rocky might wanna be a she... Am I a bad person?

[penny-anna]

Rocky: Grace mix it up suggestion

Grace: I guess I could

Rocky: Rocky he/she/they/it

Grace: I don't know if you can use it

Rocky: why not question

Grace: it's just considered dehumanising?

Rocky:

Rocky, being a little shit: I choose it/its

[penny-anna]

Rocky: this conversation boring, let's go back to Grace tones

Grace: okay so you won't pick a pronoun but I have to pick a tonal inflection?

Rocky: my thing more important statement

Grace: okay fine can't you just your tones for me?

Rocky: but Grace not qualified engineer

Grace: well is there a schoolteacher tone?

Rocky: uhh no

Rocky: schoolteacher not

Rocky: schoolteacher not prestige profession statement

Grace:

Grace: WOW.

[penny-anna]

Grace: is there not like a default tone to use when you don't know all this stuff about a person?

Rocky: yes but very rude to use for close friend statement

Grace: wait hold up 🤔 you think of me as a close friend?

Rocky: yes maybe Grace shut up now

[penny-anna]

Grace several years into their voyage, finally getting good enough at understanding Eridian to clock when Rocky has switched back to using the Neutral Tone for him, thereby implying that they are no longer friends: HEY??

[penny-anna]

Grace, in the middle of a big argument: did you just. dead person inflection me?

Rocky: uh-huh

Grace: does that mean what I think it means

Rocky: it means what it means statement

Grace: come ON

[notbecauseofvictories]

This audience engagement survey from the Chicago Symphony Orchestra is poetry to me.

[splendidcitrus-arts]

with silksong as context, i can understand why the weavers didnt like the pale king so much

[liskantope]

Stop being a white woman.

...is how some articles such as this one end.

It reminds me about the public memo issued by Starbucks (or a similar company?) during the racial moral panic of 2020-2021, imploring its employees to "try to be less white"*.

Anyway, this sort of language is used now and again, and I understand, in terms of persuasive content, what is intended by this artful rhetorical flourish.

But I do wonder, are those who write with such turns of phrase willing to put the teeniest tiniest modicum of effort into not completely alienating the part of the desired audience demographic which is not already on board with their ideology?

Or is displaying an unwillingness to put any such effort into one's preaching precisely the deliberate goal in the first place? Is it even a form of countersignaling, perhaps?

*Or did this actually happen? I Googled to try to find the exact wording, and Google is having trouble providing me with confirmation of this, not even the use of "be less white" with any meaning other than "have a lower composition of white people for the sake of DEI". I distinctly remember it being talked about at the time, by podcasters I consider fairly intellectually honest although readily inclined to acknowledge that "wokeness" was going too far at the time.)

[artbyblastweave]

Been a really long time since I've watched Daredevil but I do remember coming away from it feeling like it presented a pretty compelling internally-consistent moral justification for the vigilante thing. You're not planet-crackingly powerful, it's just that you can hear, in detail, every awful thing your neighbors are doing to each other, every night that they're doing it. You can't not know and you can't pretend not to know and when the kid tells you the next day that he just fell down the stairs you can't fall back on the provided ambiguity to absolve yourself of your responsibility to act. Semi-relatedly, you're really really good at martial arts. Start the clock

[mikkeneko]

[intearsaboutrobots]

chip zdarsky's daredevil run shows this v well imo when matt stops his vigilante-ing - he still hears every violent act around him and he's still compelled to do Something, even when he's renounced martial arts

[marimbles]

underrated tumblr feature is being able to catch up to yourself on your dash. so there is an END POINT. and you can say “ah, I have reached where I left off, there is no more to see! I’ll take my leave now and come back later when there are new posts.” instead of being stuck forever in a bottomless algorithm pit digging deeper and deeper till you have to summon monumental strength to climb out

[catgirl-kaiju]

Has anyone else noticed recently that when you press the 🅐 Button while in the air you can hardly find the strength to do a Double Jump anymore? Go ahead and try if you want, but it won't work.

[catgirl-kaiju]

Nothing's been the same since she... fuck... I'm sorry... since she... since she left this world. If only I'd remembered that holding and releasing the 🅑 Button would've allowed me perform a powerful Spin Attack. If I hadn't forgotten, she might still be here today. Shit... fuck... I can't handle this anymore, I'm sorry.

[catgirl-kaiju]

There's a Save Point over there. They say if you stand on it and press 🅧 you can save your game. But can any of us really be saved? I don't think so. Not after everything we've done.

[catgirl-kaiju]

Press the 🅜 Button to undo the damage from this War. Oh? There's no 🅜 Button on your Controller? Funny that.

[chasedbybuildings]

Artwork by Robert Tinney. 1982.

[agnesmontague]

ive invented (note: dubious claim) something i call the bear diet which is mostly fruits and vegetables with fish as the main protein source and something like once a month you eat a few hyperprocessed foods of your liking because that is when you, the bear, raid a dumpster in the suburbs

[stellarskyes]

after the hyperprocessed foods, do you take tranquilizers to simulate getting captured by animal control and returned to the wild?

[agnesmontague]

i would settle for melatonin gummies but well. knock yourself out

[the-dao-of-the-zerg]

You wished for the cure cancer, and the genie was feeling generous: you got two cures!

Unfortunately, the cures are the work of a malicious genie: if you release the first cure for cancer, five random people will die. If you release the second cure, one random person will die.

Which cure for cancer do you release?

Release them both & kill 6 people

Release first cure & kill 5 people

Release second cure & kill 1 person

Don't cure cancer / See Results

Remaining time: 2 days 23 hours

The cures are otherwise identical. There is no risk of any further maliciousness from the genie - he just likes using wishes as an excuse to cross people off his incredibly arbitrary hit-list. Being on the genie's hit-list does not really correlate with being a bad person, just being slightly annoying at the wrong time. Also the genie likes to speed, so some people get added just for going the speed limit.

[orcinus-veterinarius]

As a veterinarian, and as a lifelong dog lover, one thing I need dog owners to understand and accept is that dogs can be extremely dangerous, especially large ones. Sometimes they don’t even mean to be, but that doesn’t change the fact that they can do serious harm to a human being. They are very powerful animals.

You should not let your dog free-roam. You should not force your dog to accept touch. You should very heavily supervise interactions with children, and with certain dogs, these interactions may never be safe. You must learn to read canine body language. And if a veterinary professional recommends a muzzle or sedatives for vet visits, take these recommendations seriously.

“But I care about my dog more than people” this is in your dog’s best interest. If they maim or kill a person, especially a child, they will be euthanized. You do not want lose them in that traumatic way, ending their life and ruining your own (and those of others) in the process. You do not want to be responsible for the loss of a human life.

Every dog, no matter how sweet, should be muzzle-trained in case they ever need to wear one. Pain and fear can make them act out of character. And if your dog has aggressive tendencies, especially with humans, seek out professional help and take measures to protect both your dog and people.

Signed,

A vet who wants people and dogs to be safe

[cymae-mesa]

This is *especially* true if your dog is really friendly and well behaved and you love them very much.

The worst dog owners with the most uncontrolled and dangerous dogs always think their dogs are really friendly.

[stsoc-thedryad]

I… I was given a cookie too.

[elesdecroisa]

I'm back at mimicking artstyles of games heh.

[elesdecroisa]

Today I found out that the Yummy Cookie from Tezcatara can have different shapes, all are the playable characters (I have only encountered the cookie once, and I didn't recognise it as it was shaped like the Silent and I thought it was some weird hooded mf instead of her thanks to it not having horns).

When viewed in the Compendium, the shape of the cookie changes randomly when you exit the game.

[grubgrub]

Deca and Donu.