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in happier pride news i actually found this deeply heartwarming

that's solidarity baybeeee

Further context: Durham city council (Reform UK) cut funding and support for Pride. The Durham Miner's Association and other trade unions raised enough money for Durham Pride 2026 to go ahead - a direct call back to when Lesbian and Gays Support the Miners (LGSM) raised money for mining communities when Margaret Thatcher seized union funding during the miner strikes of 1984-85.

At the 1985 Labour party meet, the motion to support LGBT rights as a party was passed due to a block vote from mining unions.

Stephen Guy, the chair of the Durham Miners’ Association, said that when it became apparent Durham Pride was under threat, he took it upon himself to “encourage the trade union movement to step up and do the right thing, and stand shoulder to shoulder with the LGBT+ community […] They not only raised funds for us, but came to our communities, uplifted our spirits when they were down, and showed their solidarity.”

upamilion

realistically i dont think i fit in anywhere, but im just trying to enjoy life for what it is

blazemalefica

evidently-endless

so the childhood yearning to live in a fantasy world just never goes away huh

a-really-bad-decision

Dragon age origins is like…. You’re nineteen, new in town, and it’s your second day at pizza hut. You don’t even know how to work the register yet and you just watched your manager get carted off by the paramedics. You have no contact info for him, his next of kin, or corporate. The only other employee is the guy who’s been here for two weeks and is a bit of a doofus, and neither of you really know what you’re supposed to do now. You both desperately need this job though, and the doofus at least has a drivers license and *kiiinda* knows how to use the oven so you just. Shrug, and start taking orders and making pizzas and praying to god that the bills are on autopay.

And weirdly enough you’re really good at this: making pizzas and dealing with shitty customers and breaking up fights in the parking lot and pretending to be Duncan’s cousin on the phone so the utility company doesn’t cut off the power. But running a store is a lot of work for two dumb kids, so slowly you start accumulating a bunch of competent weirdos to help out, like the nun who left her convent because god told her to help you make pizzas, and the elderly school teacher who just survived a mass shooting, and the guy the papa johns down the street hired to run you over. And really there’s no way any of this should be working as well as it is - you’re absolutely committing fraud of some kind here - but you’ve managed to dodge the landlord every time he’s stopped by, and the health inspector never shows up to tell you to stop letting your dog hang out behind the counter and you’re all still kinda looking at each other and asking ‘are we allowed to just do this?’ before shrugging again and continuing to make pizzas, until somehow, through a series of unlikely technicalities, your doofus coworker ends up on the ballot for governor.

And after like five months of this the regional manager wanders in out of nowhere and you’re sure he’s about to chew your ass out for this mess, but it turns out he’s pretty chill and honestly kind of impressed with how you managed to keep the place up and running all on your own. So now you’re all thinking ‘thank god, there’s someone here who actually knows how to run a Pizza Hut’ only for him to get hit by a car two days later on the night of the Super Bowl.

stealingpotatoes

the other day the vet referred to me as my cat's mum, as if he's my son and not literally my noble eunuch advisor and most trusted vassal smh

velnna

My honest reaction to news of literally anything being turned into a live action show

#is nothing sacred

seven-oh-four

why do ducklings travel in such an obviously chain-lightning-able formation? are they stupid?

darksteel-relic

Other way around, Chain Lightning was designed to counter formations of ducklings.

fatguarddog

"Yeah I get really turned on when people are kinda forward about wanting me" - person who struggles to feel desirable

crabussy

crazy how much your life can improve if you just Move Somewhere Else

crabussy

my mental health was abysmal when I lived next to a 10 lane motorway in a tiny cramped city that was too hot for me... as soon as I moved back home to aotearoa and got to live by the sea in a small town with lots of green spaces and libraries and cafes and art galleries and sea lions and dolphins and penguins and native birds my mental health SKYROCKETED to the point where it's honestly ridiculous. like saying "I LOVE BEING ALIVE... WOW WOW" out loud on occasion ridiculous. I'm so happy.

crabussy

moving somewhere better is lifesaving. wishing everyone trapped in a shitty area the absolute best of luck moving somewhere someday that makes you glad to be alive [: it makes such a huge difference.

anxeious

kosmogrl

there’s something very beautiful about being able to try again tomorrow

#we optimistic

hungwy

CHORE IVE PUT OFF FOR 2 MONTHS DONE RAAAAAARGHHHHH POWER OF THE DRAGON

ouroborosorder

speaking as a video game tech artist - i think a lot of the "video game graphics plateaued really hard a long time ago" discussion ultimately focuses really hard on the diminishing returns on high-fidelity graphics styles. Which, yes, I do agree with, I don't need my horse's testicles to shrink in the cold.

However, the part I disagree with is the idea that it has plateaued entirely. Often, after making this claim, good stylization is often praised as being timeless, needing no high-tech or high-fidelity solutions.

When in my opinion, it's overshadowing the fact that good, timeless stylization is fucking hard as hell. And the tech to do stylization in games has improved so fucking much over the last decade it's genuinely unbelievable!! The things we can do to 3D models now, the fidelity we have with stylized VFX and high-quality exaggerated animation rendered realtime the way it is, it's kinda unbelievable. Like. I'm playing Hundred Line RN and the ability to make these characters LOOK like Rui Komatsuzaki's art even in 3D is genuinely insane. I keep looking at how their noses switch between a hand-drawn line and a 3D rendered model, just absolutely enthralled. This shit is impressive as fuck

ouroborosorder

the thing about fighting games is that to get into them you have to be a sicko who is both pathologically obsessed with failure AND pathologically obsessed with personal growth

ouroborosorder

fighting games are a machine that turns self-destructive freaks into confident self-improvement freaks