i like splatoon

[lunar-mantis-sideblog]

my main -> @lunar-mantis

[tilthat]

TIL that the reason lead levels in children’s blood have dropped 85% in the past thirty years is because of an unknown scientist who fought car companies to end leaded gasoline. He also removed it from paint, suggested its removal from pipes, and campaigned for the removal of lead solder from cans.

via ift.tt

[squeeful]

Yep.  It also correlates extremely strongly with an increasing decrease of violent crime.  One of the symptoms of low level constant lead exposure is increased aggression and volatility. 

[kurowrites]

“Unknown scientist”? That was Clair Cameron Patterson.

[solarpunkcast]

Gas companies are still so mad at him he’s “unknown scientist”, know his name

[bogleech]

Daily reminder that health and safety standards like these are what politicians mean when they talk about “deregulation.”

[prismatic-bell]

Patterson died 5 December 1995.

Petition to make his date of death a Tumblr holiday celebrated by talking about cool shit the gas and petroleum industries don’t want us to know about, and fighting to continue his work.

[kittydesade]

Happy Clair Cameron Patterson day!

[ailelie]

Oh, hey, it’s almost Clair Cameron Patterson day!

[brasilando]

tennis is such a beautiful sport because its like what if we all went reaaally quiet so we can hear these people moan when they hit a little ball

[melodicwriter]

[depsidase]

[flower-crowns-and-combat-boots]

Every time you have GenAI make you an anime waifu with three titties and a dumptruck ass a family doesn't get to have a drink or bathe.

Every time you ask Copilot to write you a PowerShell script to stroke your boss' ego, a city experiences a brownout.

Every time you chat with your AI "girlfriend" a farmer doesn't get to water their animals.

Using these tools actively hurts you and your community, while at the same time enriching some shitheel who would happily step on your neck to make an additional dollar. Don't use them. Actively remove them from devices you own. Disable them whenever possible. Go out of your way to avoid them. It's honestly not hard. You've been using the internet just fine without GenAI hallucinating at you.

[tiggymalvern]

AI Data Centers Accused of Creating Major Problems for Local Water Systems

A county where Meta built an enormous data center is set to be in a water deficit by the end of the decade.

[thefleetingflashofa-sword623]

Im probably never going to get to blow up a gas station before I die

[mousegirlheart]

[heartapnea]

this quote from hbomberguy’s plagiarism video really resonated with me:

“creative people have trouble recognising their skills as skills, because eventually they feel like second nature. […] this stuff really is valuable. if it wasn’t, people wouldn’t be stealing it. creativity doesn’t feel special or unique until you realise people have to plagiarise it”

your craft is and always will be valuable, please never let anyone make you doubt that

[serdunkthelunk]

actually THIS is my new favorite doesthedogdie comment

[rule0frose]

This is mine. It's on turning red

[protoformx]

this comment on a transformers comic page has always killed me

[goofygoobermember]

I hope you guys are ready for some more terri and terry sketches!!

[apolloendymion]

since mrs, ms, and mr are all descended from the latin word magister, i propose the gender neutral version should be mg, short for "mage"

[apolloendymion]

some people think this is a shitpost so i want to clarify that i am dead fucking serious. make mage the official gender neutral honorific NOW. i want it on my passport. i want it on my bank account. i want doctors and judges to use it for me. i don't care if it sounds a little silly. people thought "missus" sounded crass at first. call me mg.

[apolloendymion]

benefits of mg:

easy to pronounce, even for children (though kids 4 & younger may pronounce it more like "mayd" or "maygh")

ONE SYLLABLE!!! ("individual" is too goddamn LONG.) you have to be able to say it quickly and casually

ends in a soft vowel sound, so it'll flow right into the next word ("ind" halts the whole sentence)

fits neatly into the existing structure as a relative of master/mistress that can be abbreviated down to an m and one other letter

distinct enough that it can't be mistaken for either gendered term (if you call me mix I'll kill you. it sounds like miss with extra steps)

wizard.

drawbacks:

there aren't any

yes, i know about milligrams and magnesium. i don't give a shit. ms can also mean microsoft. who cares.

[kapreday]

I had to find this from somewhere and reblog it again because I work at a high school summer camp and told the kids to call me Mg. Day during our first day programming today.

They went NUTS for it! Not only did they love it, but there was an immediate click in understanding about they/them pronouns *from the entire cohort* that I haven’t experienced in 3 years of programming.

And linking it back to the root words Mister and Missus as OP so wonderfully provided helped establish that using they/them or neopronouns isn’t just playing around or “Miss but different” the way it can be with Mx. I used to try to go by Teacher Day because I was still getting she/her’d all the time but that also came with the problems of the students only being able to see me in the role of Teacher and being intimidated by the educational institution and their grades (I don’t even work for the school I’m external staff I don’t even have WiFi access). And I’d still get she/her’d all the time.

As soon as I introduced Magister they saw that a nonbinary person could be an Adult with a *societal* role outside the binary. It was immediately visible in their ecstatic faces. And I didn’t get misgendered today.

The only downside is I’m gonna have to practice my card tricks because I did promise I could do magic!

[astro-inthestars]

@the-archivists-corner @water-mellie-seeds @chipistrate @ayyyyysexual go my strange gender people! i want your opinions on this in my tags

[goofygoobermember]

frat farm au, sorry about your death you get five big booms

[omtai]

browsing social media in 2025 feels like this. ragebait. fearmongering. ragebait. ragebait. misinformation. straight up lies. ads. engagement bait. more ragebait. doesn’t matter. don’t care. cute cat picture

[tbdagent]

are you ever like damnnnnnn why cant it be easier

[spindlewashere]

[goofygoobermember]

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im embarrassed of these but i want to be free posting these

[penny-anna]

So like Rimmer sometimes needs to have his battery charged when they're separated from the ship. Do they have to plug him in. Does he charge off a USB-C cable or what

[penny-anna]

It's lucky for Rimmer that smartphones have become obsolete by his time period or the rest of the crew would be unplugging him constantly to charge their phones. If the Red Dwarf future was more 21st century flavoured he'd be stuck w a flat battery all day bcos the Cat wanted to charge his vape.

[penny-anna]

When it's the Cat's job to plug him in to charge he tries 3 or 4 times to get the USB cable the right way around and then goes u know what this isn't worth the effort bye Rimmer

[penny-anna]

#you have to change him like a camera battery there is a doc you put the bee in #he refuses to disappear during it so he’s stuck basically sitting on it for hours #it’s very funny

yeah Rimmer's recharging at his dock and Kryten decides to be Companionable and charge in the same room so he's standing there w his charging prong inserted (guess where it goes lol) trying to make polite conversation and Rimmer is there like 'kill me.kill me'