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Jess. Jub. Jubjub. 23. South African in the US. Bryn Mawr '18. Nerdy poetry-loving kid. Dancer, actor, aspiring data scientist. Loud. Extreme passion for ice-cream. Pretty darn queer.

[greylunar]

I made a quiz, its 36 questions, and y’all, I play-tested this, I got feedback, I hyper-analyzed, its good. I wasn’t like, I was gonna just let hogwarts houses die but apparently y’all be like,,, not knowing what a slytherin or hufflepuff is no shade and if all these quizzes are gonna ask you this question anyways: this is it. Idiot tested. Idiot approved

take it here! or copy paste if you need to https://uquiz.com/oz0xOu

[bunjywunjy]

I thought this was going to be another funney haha wizard quiz from those books you grew up reading but it reached into my torso and ripped out my spine

[stevebucky-deactivated20221119]

being bi is just having a crush on a girl and being like “damn if i only i was a hot mediocre dude with cheekbones then she would like me :/” and then YOU end up ALSO being attracted to hot mediocre dudes with cheekbones…..the self betrayal

[fourteenth-doctor]

[claudiamatossilva]

Hilda by Duane Bryers

[badkidgorgug]

More Hilda!!

[themockingcrows]

in this family we love and support Hilda.

[i-am-the-narwhal]

Yes! Hilda!

[luidilovins]

What i love about this artist’s depictions of women is even the sexualized ones the woman is always genuinely happy and enjoying herself. Frolicking or making funny faces, she’s living her life and looking sexy while doing it, not sitting in a sexual pose for the audience’s view.

[squish-this]

I always forget about Hilda and am so pleased when she randomly shows up on my dash. Always makes my day

[snailfarts]

I love Hilda so much and I want her to be happy

[smuttine]

more Hilda!

[fozmeadows]

Watching my toddler figure out how to language is fascinating. Yesterday we were stumped when he kept insisting there was a “Lego winner” behind his bookshelf - it turned out to be a little Lego trophy cup. Not knowing the word for “trophy”, he’d extrapolated a word for “thing you can win”. And then, just now, he held up his empty milk container and said, “Mummy? It’s not rubbish. It’s allowed to be a bottle.” - meaning, effectively, “I want this. Don’t throw it away.” But to an adult ear, there’s something quite lovely about “it’s allowed to be a bottle,” as if we’re acknowledging that the object is entitled to keep its title even in the absence of the original function.

[legit-writing-tips]

Another good post to read for those writing small human characters. 

[jennytrout]

My son was about three when he came to me in the middle of the day and said, “Mommy, there’s a knight behind the bush.” I thought he meant a toy knight or something. So I follow him outside and he goes, “Listen. Do you hear it? It’s night behind the bush.” It was a cricket. A cricket was standing in the little patch of shade under the bush, chirping. So, my son saw this dark area with accompanying nighttime sounds and decided, okay, well, that is a night right there. Their brains are incredible.

[deleted20211121]

My little bean knows she’s two, constantly saying proudly ‘I’m two!’ And the other day she saw this very frail old lady who looked one foot in the grave, pulled a face and said ‘oh shiiiit. She’s three.’ I almost screamed.

[cantnotknope]

I live in Korea and have a lot of international friends, and the same is true with language barriers in adults. 

*Looking at a bowl of pears* “Can you please pass me the… apple’s friend?” 

[masterofbirds]

OH SHIT SHE’S THREE

[d0gbl0g]

[melgillman]

Here’s HSTHETE, the 24 hour comic I drew this year!  Thanks to everybody who followed along on twitter this weekend as I posted these pages <3

[cheaphalloweencostume]

this single panel of a popeye comic @fleetwoodbrak dug up while he was spelunking on the popeye wiki is the only thing keeping me alive

[cheaphalloweencostume]

this one too

[dani-draws-201]

[themetaisawesome]

[funkyness]

king

[ladyloveandjustice]

I watched this part a while ago, but honestly, I’ve been haunted by it ever since. I just can’t stop imagining what it would be like to be Barbie, who one day several years ago, wakes up with this THING on her stomach nobody else has, nobody else in her world has even HEARD of, yet she knows what it’s called. It was bestowed on her and her alone by those mysterious, unknowable gods and it’s a part of her now. And these things happening to her, these bizarre inexplicable miracles that nobody else could ever possibly hope to understand, her body transforming, her life turned upside down- it happens so often at this point the events all blur together. She can’t remember when she got the “belly button”, this thing everyone else is shocked and baffled by- it was just another day for her at this point. What a lonely, terrifying existence.

At least Ken remembers though. He keeps careful track of every horrifying thing his girlfriend tells him happened to her. He’s memorized it. It’s all he can do. Compile the data. Look at it over and over again. Trying to understand. Trying to get everyone else to care to no avail. Trying to find an answer.

[aslongasitsrealtoyou]

Eyes wide, eyes wide open Will you be my future or just an escape?

[ohlexa]

Kit: Fashion Icon

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[the-future-now-deactivated20170]

That’s Louis Rossman, a repair technician and YouTuber, who went viral recently for railing against Apple. Apple purposely charges a lot for repairs and you either have to pay up or buy a new device. That’s because Apple withholds necessary tools and information from outside repair shops. And to think, we were just so close to change.

Follow @the-future-now

[dopeluminarydreamer-blog]

Reblog if you:

Have an iPhone and are in need of repairs

Have a friend with that problem

Hate Apple and are more than happy to spite them in some way

No one will know which is it

[weaselle]

This guy inspired me to repair my own macbook. First of all, you should know that I am not… like, I have to look up HOW to look up what my computer specifications are. Tech, that ware either soft or hard, is not a subject in which I experience comfort or competence. But my puppy peed on my keyboard, and I asked the apple store, or the fucking mac cafe, or the godsdamn Computer House Chill Zone or whatever cute ass name they have for their bullshit store, and they said it would be TWELVE HUNDRED DOLLARS TO REPLACE MY KEYBOARD. I’m not even exaggerating.

So I asked the internet, well how hard IS it to repair? And I saw this guy’s video, and while I am no techie, I AM fueled by spite, so I was all “oh, they do that shit on purpose specifically so they can charge me $1200 bucks or make me buy a new computer hunh? FUCK THEM” and I bought all the tools I needed for about $25 and I bought all the parts I needed for about another $25 and I watched a few tutorial videos, and I replaced my own keyboard.

So, once you are doing the actual deed, it becomes pretty obvious that they are finding creative ways to make this much harder than it has to be on purpose. On thing that stood out to me is, instead of all the tiny screws being the same size, there are about two dozen very slightly different sizes. They could easily be all the same size, or like, two sizes at most, but no.

These mother fuckers will take a panel that screws into place and they’ll use a different size screw for each corner. They are so close that you almost cannot tell them apart visually, but they each will only screw into the matching corner. Like, it’s a pretty clear “fuck you” to anyone trying to do repairs.

anyway, this guy is also fueled by spite, and doing holy work, and I have mad respect

[tinfoil-crown-deactivated201801]

‘Rat Park’ -Stuart McMillen

You’ll never think about drug addiction the same way again after reading this comic.

[elodieunderglass]

What I found absolutely impressive and stunning about this comic is the way the artist explained the identification and elimination of the confounding factors in the Rat Park study. This is one of the hardest parts of experiments to explain to the public, and I think it was just brilliantly done.

[jenroses]

This is one of the most important pieces of research done in the last 50 years. 

[wrigglesandgiggles-deactivated2]

Read this!

[jerichocaine]

A beautiful experiment and so simply explained for even the most naive layman to understand. I love it.

[awed-frog]

Okay, you need to make sure you play this game at some point. Maybe not today or anything, because you’ll need about thirty minutes and a serious willingness to understand how it works, but - it’s so worth it. It’s basically an answer to our occasional frustration - why do assholes always come out on top? - and the beautiful thing about it is that not only does it explain how that happens, but also how we can change it.

“In the short run, the game defines the players. But in the long run, it’s us players who define the game.”

[youngnoblewoman]

This is fascinating if you’re into math or sociology or computer programming or all of the above.

[skeptictankj]

Everyone, everywhere, without exception, should play this thing through.

[anathaeum]

Don’t check just this - check out all of Nicky Case’s work. They’re a brilliant creator and I heavily recommend checking out at least one of their projects.  Their website can be found here.

Parable of the Polygons - an interactive experiment that shows how tiny individual biases can collectively cause segregation on a massive scale.

To Build a Better Ballot - an interactive experiment that shows the alternatives to the voting systems we currently use and how they can be more representative and democratic, along with their faults.

Coming Out Simulator - a short interactive story/novel about coming out, based off of Case’s own experiences. Not one I’ve played myself but still one I can recommend.

Loopy - a very simple but useful tool to show how systems interact with each other and how things can self-propagate.

We Become What We Behold - “ a game about news cycles, vicious cycles, infinite cycles.“ A short five-minute game about news and media. Warnings for violence, blood, death and stress.

[jonghyunkazoo]

Granny: No printer, just fax!

[texanadmirer]

[caram3lk1ng]

The laborers of the world need their own UN💯

[dritte--reich-deactivated201703]

[hauntedfruit]

as a russian speaker i will verify that this is actually the correct translation and not a meme

[rosenrotxiii]

“You know, one MAY take the romance as a hopeful one.” - Patrick Weekes

I desperately cling to this statement about romancing Solas when I think about DA4.

[jubblybubbles]

I choose to be hopeful about the eventual outcome of all my romantic relationships. Just because this one is fictional and way wayyy less likely to turn out any better than the others doesn’t mean a damn thing, you cowards.