honestly guys the world could be Great

~ Cait, 27, white cis lesbian, she/her ~ icon by @cactuarkitty

[immortalbeingz]

[tirsynni]

If Trump wins in November, it won't be because of this weekend. It will be because his people will show up. They will not lose focus. They will vote.

I'm so tired of the defeatist talk. The anti-Trumpers outnumber the Trumpers by a lot. We could win in a landslide if people just showed at the polls and voted for Biden. The problem is that so many people let themselves decide that their vote won't matter or decide to divide the vote for short-sighted reasons. I can already imagine the sheer amount of people who see the events of this weekend, decide that Trump won, and decide that there's no point in voting. NO. Fucking VOTE.

Specifically, vote for Biden. Do not let psyops or idiots convince you to vote for a third party. Third parties do NOT win presidential elections. That is how Democrats have REPEATEDLY lost presidential elections. No, this time will not be different. You need to vote, and you need to vote for Biden. Otherwise, we get Trump in office and you can kiss your rights good bye.

This weekend didn't decide anything. All that matters is who shows up and votes. By the numbers, if people actually vote, the Democratic party will win. That simple.

[chaumas-deactivated20240115]

the worst part about cardio is the laundry

[chaumas-deactivated20240115]

“ancient Greeks exercised naked for spiritual or sexual reasons” no they exercised naked because they didn’t own automatic washing machines

[ironedorchid]

This is galaxy brain thinking

[stevishabitat]

[theweirdwideweb]

I think it's stupid when people say political violence has no place in this country when our government uses violence against poor people every day. Why does a person sleep outside in the cold when the car dealership is heated all night? Why do people go hungry when grocery stores pack dumpsters with perfectly edible food? Because of the threat of violence. Because someone with a gun will show up if you even try it.

[slavicafire]

we've been living in this apartment for two months now, and while we've observed most of our new neighbours (my slavic Windowsill Watcher Grandmother gene already activated), I don't think they had the chance to see us often enough to recognise us yet.

I do know, however, from my observations, that the tiny funny dog upstairs is called Gucio. I've passed him once or twice during his walk and heard his owners use the name - and, while both the dog and his owners are oblivious to our existence, Gucio became an apt topic of discussion in our house. you know, we hear barking, ha, that's Gucio, he must be home alone again! or there's a stick left by the building door, that must have been brought by Gucio and he was forced to abandon it before entering! a household name, really.

yesterday as I was leaving to go to the store, walking down the narrow staircase, there he is! tiny funny looking dog, slightly startled by me suddenly appearing on the floor he just reached on his tiny funny looking legs.

"good morning Gucio!" I say joyfully, the most natural thing in the world.

well. remember that Gucio doesn't really know me. so he looks at me in the most flabbergasted way a dog can look at a person. he is positively aghast. agog! not sure how aware dogs are of their own names but he seemed genuinely puzzled at the apparent stretch of social convention.

and as I try to contain my laughter, I see his owner standing on the stairs below. the woman is sort of awkwardly frozen, speechless, and she looks at me.

"you... know each other?" she asks.

is that not the funniest way to phrase it. is this not the funniest question she could have asked. ma'am do you know my dog? you went to school together perhaps? you've met? do tell, are you old friends? maybe you worked together? you know each other, my dog and you? this dog? you know him? he knows you? he never mentioned you I'm afraid

[clairosgrlfriend]

this is what everyone has been saying!! no one is looking at celebrities for political statements, but they should and must use their platform to amplify the voices of those who need and most importantly be against this genocide!!

[nicolasbitch]

Just to add a bit more context: the fundraiser Ariana shared was started by Nicola Coughlan. This is the second or third fundraiser Nicola has had since October and those only ended up getting about $10 - 25k, not that that isn't a huge amount of money. This fundraiser, however, is almost at $685k since I last checked, when I looked the other day (May 27th) it was sitting at around $23k. Nicola has only recently reached 4 million followers on IG, when she had fewer followers the fundraiser was able to reach a pretty humble amount of funds collected. When Ariana, with 379 million followers, shared this fundraiser, donations grew exponentially, about 2700% (my math may be a little off but you get the picture). Do you see what happens when people with large platforms and followings speak up? Mind you, sharing a link to a fundraiser is the bare bare bare minimum, but it is still something.

[catgirlmimikyu]

[Image ID: A quote retweet of a tweet by @/PopBase. The original post reads, "Ariana Grande shares donation link to the Palestine Children's Relief Fund on her Instagram story." Attached is a professionally done photo of Ariana as well as a screenshot of her instagram story showing a donation link for the PCRF.

User @/elwashell replies, "$20,000 was raised in less than an hour of her posting this. 379 million followers. this is why using your platform is important. no, your activism shouldn't be centered around celebrities, but it IS important for celebrities to use their platform, at the very least like this." End ID]

[onlinebeast]

What do you call these.

Clackers

Grippers

Spatula

Grabbers

Pick-ups

Pincers

Forceps

Nippers

Claws

Something else

Voting ended onJan 17, 2024

[bunnybruises-blog]

[whitepeopletwitter]

[sindri42]

So I looked this up and the whole story is wild.

Basically, market research for japanese bakeries determined that a) they sell more breads and pastries the more different varieties they have, and b) japanese bakery customers prefer items which are not wrapped, because individually wrapped things give the impression of being like, preserved or something instead of fresh and good I guess? So the obvious solution is to sell as many different kinds of unwrapped breads and pastries as you can.

But! In actual practice, that’s a nightmare. No packaging means no barcodes to scan, so the cashier needs to know all like 200 different (often very similar) items by heart and add them up manually, which means training new employees is a slow and painful process and customer service in general suffers badly. And having a person handle all those un-packaged foodstuffs to count them or examine them, in addition to being slow and clumsy, is unsanitary as fuck.

So one bakery chain owner approached this computer guy in 2007 asking for a system to automate the checkout process. It took five years and the company barely survived a financial crisis in the middle, but long story short they developed a highly specialized AI that will look at the pile of bread a customer picked out and automatically identify everything, tally it up, and charge them correctly, while the live cashier is free to make small talk or help people out or whatever. The whole process is simple, fast, sanitary, and pleasant for customers and employees alike, and to an outsider it looks like fucking magical bullshit.

But then in 2017 a doctor saw an ad for this bakery scanning system and it occurred to him that cells under a microscope don’t look all that different from weird loaves of bread. And it turns out that yeah, you can use almost all of the same code to analyze a tissue sample and pick out any potentially cancerous cells in it. Other people have started buying the same program for everything from analyzing the readout from big physics experiments to labeling charms and amulets for sale at shrines to detecting problems in the wiring on jet engines.

[gailcarriger]

I knew pastry would save the world one day.

[mercuryfountain-deactivated2024]

I don’t think I’m better off for having a computer in my pocket at all times. I was better off when the computer was a thing I booted up to play Zoo Tycoon.

[amateur]

[nixieteeth]

LEVEL 11 TEACHER PANIC EVENT

KID WROTE "MPREG VORTEX" ON THEIR DOODLE PAD AT LUNCH CLUB

I ASKED THEM TO PUT IT AWAY

ANOTHER KID MUST HAVE SMELLED MY HORROR

ASKED "MS DO YOU KNOW WHAT THE OMEGAVERSE IS"

SAMANTHA YOU ARE THIRTEEN WHY DO YOU KNOW WHAT THE OMEGAVERSE IS

[nixieteeth]

@too-many-muses I went full on startled prey mode 😭 I froze, shook my head way too quickly and then started aggressively cleaning the whiteboard lmaooo

[nixieteeth]

don't you fucking DARE I cannot go down in history as the omegaverse teacher

[nixieteeth]

I know for a fact that they think tumblr is dead as they have told me I look like used to have tumblr before it disappeared lmao

[medievalthymes]

side eyeing everyone who has an nhl twitter/blog but isn’t hyping up the pwhl right now. like get on that immediately please

[medievalthymes]

like this is so important yet yall keep hyping up the most basic hockey guys I have ever seen. please for the love of god support women’s hockey and help ensure these women can keep going.

[medievalthymes]

IT’S QUEER WOMEN ON ICE!!! WHAT MORE DO YOU WANT!!!

[medievalthymes]

recap for those who don’t know/weren’t aware WHY this league is so important and why we should support it — this is the first season of the professional women’s hockey league (pwhl) in which these female athletes (olympians, former u18, and college stars, ect) are being properly compensated for their skills — AKA making enough to not have to work two jobs while also playing hockey — it’s not millions but it’s enough — starting at 35k, average at about 55k, and each team will carry a minimum six players signed to three-year contracts paying them $80,000 annually. The highest salary is rumoured to be at 120k. The league already has a collective bargaining agreement as well that covers the next eight years. There have been successful women’s hockey leagues in the past, but none began with the kind of staying power this one has.

it has 6 teams

Toronto

Boston

Minnesota

Ottawa

Montreal

New York

The first season began on Jan. 1, 2024, with each team playing a 24-game schedule, 12 games at home and 12 away. All games are be streamed FOR FREE on the pwhl’s youtube channel. In Canada you can also catch the games on sportsnet, cbc, and tsn depending on the day. Link to the schedule.

This is so big for not only women’s hockey, but women’s sports in general. This league was crafted together as a labour of love by women’s hockey alumni like Jayna Hefford and other female athletes such as Billie Jean King. People who love the sport, and women’s sports in general and want to see it develop and succeed so little girls can have a dream and goal of playing professionally like boys do.

support this league. It’s our best shot

[quillwritten]

[maculategiraffe]

baby had wandered into the next room and I heard a clatter and then "oh no. ba spill everywhere"

[asmuchasidliketo]

[guooey]

[quietwingsinthesky]

the fact that you get the “best” ending (the one where shepard lives) by first gathering all the power in the galaxy behind you and then choosing the option which will murder an entire species and also your actual friend who has been on your squad this whole game is so. like i am convinced they aren’t saying anything here, they are literally not saying anything because it’s the mass effect 3 ending and they ran out of fucks to give but. it’s so bleak, right?

[rimonoroni]

do you ever hear people talking about something and you’re like. fuck. let me be real for a second. i’m too much of a commie to have this conversation

[rimonoroni]

“of course this is the bare minimum amount of labor someone must perform to be a human being worthy of being alive! what do you think, rimon?” brother if i told you what i think about this your head would fucking explode.