[prinnay]

Been making blog posts about the joys (tribulations) of making "artist merch" at home 😅

Part one

Part two

[shiverandqueeef]

how measurements work in canada (ie/ badly)

[your-dads-filing-cabinet]

@/teaboot

[teaboot]

This isn't even a joke it's just what we do

[nitpickrider]

Who would have guessed Superman had such strong opinions on integrity in journalism? Action Comics 668

[thefingerfuckingfemalefury]

I feel sad for what Clark must feel these days, living in a world where his superhearing lets him hear every shitty right wing "news" show and podcast on earth

Not to mention the "True Crime" craze and the shitty shows that it led to as well ._.

[kingofdoma]

"I swear I'm gonna go full Homelander if I hear another WORD said by Joe Friggin' Rogan..."

[thefingerfuckingfemalefury]

"Its so strange that Andrew Tate spontaneously combusted

As if some kind of heat ray was trained on him

The fiftieth right wing podcaster to do that this week"

Superman: NATURE WORKS IN MYSTERIOUS WAYS >.>

[jackscarab]

"I don't know, Lois. What kind of man would I be if I started killing them?"

"Praised."

"I'd rather be good than be praised."

"Well, nice to know I married a Democratic member of Congress. Can't you just drop them in a lake at random times of random days?"

"Yes. But I won't. They have the same right of free speech as you and I do."

"Words are weapons, Clark. You'd break a gun if somebody pointed it at me!"

"Because guns are things! Guns can't choose! People aren't things. People can choose. People can always choose."

"Trump just crashed the national economy because it wasn't white enough. That was his choice. If they don't feel consequences then he and the rest of his fucking reich will keep on choosing harm!"

"The people are delivering consequences. And I don't just mean the Republicans who keep trying to kill him. Look around, Lois. People are protesting. Huge numbers in unexpected places, even if the number is only huge and unexpected by the context of a town hall in Iowa. You should know -- the Planet has the only journalists in the country reporting on it. They're moving slowly, but so does an avalanche at first. Even the men blinded by the greed they were taught was good are seeing it. For goodness' sake, even Bill Kristol is starting to turn blue!"

"You know he called me yesterday?"

"How rude were you?"

"I was concise, thank you. I welcomed him to the right side of history."

"Exactly. The side where we don't kill away our problems."

"I dunno, Clark, I just think evil shouldn't have a monopoly on violence."

"It doesn't. When good people stop fighting, I'll end it in minutes. You know I can. But not until then. People need to have the space to build courage. To build themselves. It's like ChatGPT--"

"FUCK ChatGPT--"

"Yes, Lois. If people let something else think for them, act for them, grow for them, they diminish themselves. Evil would love nothing more. Forgive me for taking a long view, but the best I can do for people is make space for people to be the best versions of themselves. They can't do that if I punch every nose that needs punching."

"I know. Sorry."

"That's what Bruce is for."

"Right. And AOC, hopefully."

"You know she called me yesterday?"

"What, really?"

"She's doing a rally in Wichita and asked if a certain Kansan would like to interview her there. She's really reaching out."

"Well well, is that so. Think you can convince Superman to stop by too?"

"I think he might be in the neighborhood."

[time-traveling-fetus]

oh ok. the dwarves in dungeon meshi live in a steampunk world. good to know. But i love the juxtaposition between elves using magic birds to communicate while the dwarves have straight up telephones

and the gnomes are hopelessly dependent on the orb

[prokopetz]

I want to meet the person who was given the job of designing the communications standard which allows real-time three way calling between a telephone, a crystal ball, and an oracular parrot.

[timeinthetardis]

Went to a con this weekend and saw the best cosplay in the world look at this Rocky puppet I was crying

[moghedien]

One like nitpick thing that drives me crazy is when people call Blue Whales the largest whales or the largest living mammals or some shit like that

Because yes that is true. But when you frame it like that you are completely disregarding the absolutely batshit reality that Blue Whales are the largest animals that have ever existed on earth through the entire history of the planet and they are alive right now today

[throathole]

Oh thanks but what the fuck does any of that mean

[anariel-the-elrond-apologist]

I’ve seen quite a few of these in my time, but this one takes the cake.

[throathole]

This is fucking killing me

Golp: a roundel purpure.

Repeat this to yourself until it begins to have meaning

[a-book-of-creatures]

Okay then since some of you need to be reminded of this:

Roundels are circles in heraldry. They are named according to their color, which also has its own lingo. Let’s meet them!

Bezant: roundel or (gold) 🟡

Plate: roundel argent (silver) ⚪️

Torteau: roundel gules (red) 🔴

Pomme: roundel vert (green) 🟢

Hurt: roundel azure (blue) 🔵

Golp: roundel purpure (purple) 🟣

Pellet: roundel sable (black) ⚫️

If your field is strewn with roundels, you can describe it appropriately as being bezanty, hurty, golpy, and so on.

[cognitohazardous]

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

what's the point of initiating conversations with people when 99.9% of them turn out to be normies

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

okay. how do I put this. if you approach interactions with strangers as if the vast majority of them are unbearable losers who aren't worth your time, you will find yourself not liking most of the people you meet because you'll be looking for any excuse to write them off as unbearable losers. I know this is hard to hear but sometimes the problem is you.

[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)

[dracofidus-deactivated20200523]

If you EVER think Anthony Head is anything less than an angel then you’d best remember that I have always been a huge fan of his and we’ve always had a little contact over the years and he heard I’d come out as Trans and was having a hard time and that I was kind of sad that the photos I had from conventions with him were of me with long hair and no binder and they were all signed to “Sarah” and so he invited me to spend the day with him at his farm and he picked me up from the station and we just hung out and had lunch and he insisted on paying and took loads of photos and had them printed on photo paper the same day so he could sign them to Jay, along with other photos of him as Giles and Uther and he literally spent five hours chatting with me and got all of the pronoun stuff right every time and then he dropped me off at the station, gave me a final massive hug, waved me through the ticket barrier and insisted I message him when I got home so he knew I got back safe. (More HERE)

[javierbardem]

If I show up at your door, chances are you did something to bring me there. GROSSE POINTE BLANK (1997).

[ampervadasz]

[knightoflodis]

Dude

[transmadotsuki]

He’s just up there

[din-of-hyrule]

Story time about something similar, actually!

I’m a pilot, and thus like 85% of my friends are ALSO pilots and one of them is just this delightful older guy that named Bruce. Bruce is a man of simple pleasures, he likes mediocre bbq and to take his vintage J3 Piper Cub out like, every other week just to have the old girl not look so sad in the hangar. We also live about 30NM south of an air base and, according to him, there was a squad of fighter planes out and they wanted some guys to go up in their planes for intercept practice (with pay, obviously) so the guys could get real time practice looking for unfamiliar aircraft.

Bruce, a man who doesn’t need it but wants to say he flew with some fighter jets, takes them up on their offer and takes the old girl up for them. Now, if you’re unfamiliar with a J3, this thing is slow as shit. Like, horrendously slow. And there was a decent headwind that day blowing in off the coast and Bruce gets the brilliant idea that he’s going to do something they can’t. So Bruce turns that old cub into the wind and just flies slow enough that he’s genuinely flying BACKWARDS and the next thing he knows are these three jets screaming past him, wings wobbling something fierce as they’re all about to stall, and the pilots yelling over the radio like “How are you DOING THAT” 

He likes to say he owned the air force something awful that day.

[identifying-planes-in-posts]

Cessna 172 Skyhawk

[homunculus-argument]

Smokers: Do you check whether an apartment building is "no smoking" or not when looking for a new place?

Yes, I don't want to move to a no-smoking place.

No, I don't care whether or not I'm "allowed" to smoke in my own damn home

No, I wasn't aware of "smoking/non-smoking" apartments, but I will from now on

Yes, I go out of my way to smoke in them because fuck you.

This doesn't apply to me (I don't smoke/those aren't a thing in my country/etc)

Remaining time: 3 days 18 hours

[homunculus-argument]

Somehow it had not occurred to me to clarify that "no smoking" means "no smoking in the yard, the balconies, or anywhere on the property", because I forgot that there are places in the world where people will just smoke inside their own home like some kind of an animal.

[ineedcymbals]

I once lived at an apartment where the previous tenant had smoked in the bathroom, using the exhaust fan to draw up the smoke.

Obviously this didn't collect all of the smoke, so there were substantial tobacco tar stains on the bathroom walls, ceilings, and inside the vent.

Landlords being what they are, they just painted over the tar. Which is why every time I took a shower, and the steam created condensation, rivulets of tobacco juice would run down the wall.

[stuffaboutminneapolis]

omg

[dracula61]

[azspot]

“Because the truth is, tech doesn’t have an image problem. It doesn’t have a message problem. It has an intention problem. What’s wrong with the axe murderer who broke into my house is not that he hasn’t successfully persuaded me to buy into his narrative. What’s wrong is that he’s trying to kill me with an axe. Similarly, when you launch a product that’s designed to put millions of people out of work, block access to sources of verifiable truth, replace human creativity with slop, and lower the barriers to every sort of atrocity, the problem isn’t that you haven’t told the public a good story about those things. The problem is that you are trying to do them.”

— The 40 Most Rage-Inducing Problems in Tech

[santhipoma]

[maimonideznuts]

Wait. So the Trump administration really cut funding to the program that would research and respond to the spread of New World Screwworm past the Darién Gap because they blamed it on climate change, and left the joint international program to Mexico and the Central American Countries... And are panicking now that it's reached Texas, and only now that the flies have already made it all the way from Panama to Texas are they building New facilities to produce the sterile male flies needed to eradicate the pest?

I'm sorry to everyone who lives on the entire continent.

America is Trump's pump and dump scheme. If he's not getting a third term then he'll break the country for whatever poor soul has to clean up his mess.

[wyf-of-bathe]

New World screwworm had been eradicated from the US since the 1960s, Elon Musk brought it back in a year.

Notably, DOGE cut the funding a few days before the US resumed imports of cattle from Mexico... the imports that had been suspended because of the screwworm outbreak in Mexico. So we've had a year of importing cattle from Mexico during a screwworm outbreak without monitoring the outbreak that we already knew about. Mexico's outbreak is pretty bad btw, and cases have been found not just in cattle and dogs but also humans. I assume the rest of Central America too. Not that many people seem to give a fuck about them ig.

[ineedcymbals]

This is from September 2025, but still has relevant information.