Fish? Fish!! FISH!!!!!

It/She

[kamaleons]

im allergic to fruits

[iwishhiwasdeadl]

u don’t understand i have to bite u

[live-through-thiss]

@kamaleons you

[iwishhiwasdeadl]

u don’t understand i have to bite u

[live-through-thiss]

@kamaleons you

[angelspouse]

(with the intention of ordering grapes from the lemonade stand) hey

[itsjesscapade]

the second 'o' in "zoologist" is putting in heavy duty work. girl is working two jobs

[apricops]

that post about “you get bandits when you cut soldiers loose without pay” reminds me of the Thirty Years War, because one could say that beneath all the religious schisms and diplomatic jockeying, the heart of the thirty years war was “what happens when you have a state with just enough capacity to raise massive armies but without enough financial capacity to actually pay those armies” and the answer is that the line between professional armies and roving gangs of bandits disappears and every time you try to raise an army it just becomes another independently acting wildfire devouring the countryside. No matter how bad things get, every day I wake up and thank my lucky stars that I do not live in 17th century Europe. Or 17th century China. Or the 17th century Americas. Or basically anywhere in the 17th century.

[probabilitydirigible]

One of my favorite little anecdotes about ancient mercenaries is that it was tradition for most of history to give your mercenaries two wages- "Bread" and "Gravy." Both were set at a daily value, but where "Bread" was intended to cover regular maintenance and life stuff and therefore paid out frequently (Here's your week's meal and gear repair budget!) the "Gravy" wage was paid out exclusively at the end of the contract as one lump sum. So like, your gravy wage and bread wage might be one silver coin per day each, so you're getting a handful of coins every week to cover food, and then at the end of an 800 day campaign, you get a wheelbarrow with 800 coins.

Employers liked offering this structure because then they didn't have to like, try to guess how long the invasion of spain will take and then carry 800 coins per soldier around the battlefield where it could be captured. It also gives them the chance to budget around the assumption that they take an enemy city and *find* vast sums of treasure even if they don't have the full value at the beginning of the war.

The main flaw of this system is that it's very easy to end up in a scenario where if you have, say, 50,000 guys that have been fighting for 800 days, you now owe 40 million silver to your army, and if the budget has not worked out to a 40 million surplus, you literally can't afford to end the war, but you can probably afford to pay them for a couple more weeks. So then you have to start thinking creatively.

Anyway across all time and history a lot of generals were ultimately beaten to death by men chanting gravy.

[zanmor]

can I get a source on the use of that term, bread and gravy wages?

I assume that's a more modern historian coming up with a clever characterization of army pay, but all I've been able to find is either sites talking about modern fast food wages or else a thousand articles about "why ancient roman soldiers were paid in salt"

if it is a historian's invention I think I wanna read what else this person has to say

[wicker-and-scrap]

Don't know what @probabilitydirigible 's source was, but Bret Devereaux was writing about this subject recently, and mentioned the Classical sources calling them σίτος (bread) and ὀψώνιον (sauce).

(I had a brief moment of recognition reading that, because "opsonins" in immunology are a category of proteins that stick to foreign objects and make them tasty to your immune cells.)

Collections: Ancient Mediterranean Mercenaries!

This week we’re going to take a look at mercenaries in the ancient Mediterranean world! This was one of the runners-up in the latest ACOUP S

[no-sharks-on-the-sun]

[no-sharks-on-the-sun]

they killed him for this

[ifdragonscouldtalk]

Could yall stop shooting each other outside my window im trying to masturbate

[ifdragonscouldtalk]

So this was actually the sound of my car getting stolen

[storm-of-feathers]

EVERYONE STOP TELLING ME HOW OLD YOU WERE IN 2008 I DONT WANNA HEAR THAT SHIT

[storm-of-feathers]

SOME OF YOU SHOULD BE AT THE OPRHANGE

[storm-of-feathers]

preschool. I meant preschool.

[orteil42]

we're overdue for a reactive wave of anti-cozy games. animal crossing but office workers. restaurant management but applebee's. farming sim but all spreadsheets. never see an ear of corn the whole game

[trans-girl-nausicaa]

a young witch trying to solve a gristly murder in the Italian alps during the Years of Lead

[transhuman-priestess]

People act like nuclear bombs are magical omnicide machines, and while they definitely aren’t firecrackers I think a lot of people, especially the kind of people who worry about “terrorist” nukes, would do well to understand the actual capabilities of the weapons like, even a little bit.

[transhuman-priestess]

Missiles can’t be “recalled” once launched

Large multi-megaton weapons require an extensive manufacturing base.

Substantial fallout only occurs if the detonation is at or near ground level

Suitcase nukes do not exist. The closest thing was a backpack mounted device with a yield of 500 tons.

The United States, Russia, China, India, Pakistan, North Korea, The United Kingdom, France, and Israel all possess nuclear weapons as of time of writing.

Only one nation, the United States has ever used nuclear weapons in war, and it used them to target civilians.

[lesbian-toddhoward]

tiktok teen lgbts would not survive in the 80s and 90s when lesbians called gay guys fags lovingly and gay guys would call us dykes lovingly

[lesbian-toddhoward]

now rebloggable. fuck with me

[yosaplyop-deactivated20230729]

Why the fish

[wizardgoblin]

The fish is what makes the post rebloggable

[theonlycabbage]

The fish is what makes this post fuckable

[mapswithoutwyoming]

happy flat fag friday

[orcposts]

TOOLTIP: you can get more funny juice by performing the "jerking off" activity. find it by selecting genitals from your inventory!

[goblinposts]

> use genitals

[orcposts]

You can't use that right now!

[goblinposts]

> use hand on genitals

[orcposts]

You can't use that right now!

[goblinposts]

> use genitals on hand

[orcposts]

You can't use that right now!

[goblinposts]

> help

[orcposts]

I don't know that word.

You are clobbered by the OGRE!

You have lost your genitals. . .

[goblinposts]

man fuck this game

[transhuman-priestess]

Some of you were never freaks against your will and it fucking shows.

[transhuman-priestess]

Some of you view weirdness and normalcy as a choice you only made as an adult and it shows.

[transhuman-priestess]

Some of you only ended up an outcast after your time in public school and it shows.

[transhuman-priestess]

Some of you were good little Sunday school boys happy to pick on icky queers until it turned out you were one of them and by god, it fucking shows.

[transhuman-priestess]

Some of you never confronted how your worldview is based on segmenting the entire population into “us” and “them” and the only thing that changed when you came out was the definitions of “us” and “them” and it shows.

[transhuman-priestess]

Some of you would gladly call the cops on a homeless person screaming outside your apartment and it shows

[northirish]

The lion does not concern himself with mod load orders or with mod managers. The lion is going to completely raw dog this shit on vibes alone

[northirish]

The lion's game has crashed nine times in a row

[madnessofmen]

[tacofriend]

Something that I think should be an important part of solarpunk aesthetics is screws.

Look at your smartphone. No screws. You've got to have specialized tools to get inside your phone to repair something. There are certain pieces of tech that are glued in place and glue can't be undone without permanently breaking the bond.

But screws!

You can take apart a broken old radio, repair what's broken, and, if you were careful in taking it apart, you can put it back together and have a fully functioning radio and all you need is a common screwdriver!

It's hard to build screws and other mechanical fasteners because it requires more planning than clamps and glues, but isn't that what solarpunk is all about‽ It's about care and sustainability and and a radio or a computer built carefully with repair in mind is a sustainable computer that stays out of landfills and in use.

[foone]

Screws are proof that God loves us and wants us to fix shit

[eagle-writes]

Screws are proof that god loves us and wants us to fix shit

[foone]

Awesome!

[spinfader]

Trans girls, in my experience, have largely lived an existence in which for the vast majority of our lives, we've never been anybody's first choice romantically. That's if we're chosen at all.

Second choice? Yeah. Back up plan? Happens. Fetishized? Always.

But never just chosen. Never just pursued. Never loved quite as much as we need. Never the object of obsession. Never the focus of passion.

Every love feels like it's one better option disappearing like a vapor in the wind.

So I say all that to say, if you're romantically inclined, and you love a trans girl. Choose her. Really choose her. Choose her in every moment. Make her feel like she's the only one that matters and do it every day, because it's possible, likely even, that she's never felt that before.

Really choose her, or you will break her heart.

If you're not willing to do that, leave her the fuck alone.

[storyweavingspider]

ALSO. FLOWERS. FOR THE LOVE OF GODS GET HER FLOWERS SHE HAS PROBABLY NEVER BEEN GIVEN FLOWERS ROMANTICALLY IN HER LIFE.