Miss Communication

Constance, 30s, Australian. I am a friendly but cautious soul. Spiritually married to Hozier's complete works. For more info, scroll down a tad and click 'About Me'. Any TV shows / movies I will tag if recent, with the title, episode number, and 'spoilers', and try to avoid spoilery text in the tags.

[queerspacepunk]

not to be all "these two words will change your life" or whatever, but I promise you, programming in "good catch!" as your response to people correcting you/pointing out errors or whatever removes so much friction from interactions, and comes with a delightful happy meal toy of "not hating yourself so much for making mistakes"

[madgastronomer]

I use "I stand corrected" a lot. The mild silliness of the outdated language makes it work for me.

[knitmeapony]

I had a high school science teacher who would say "if you admit you're wrong and change your mind..." and the whole class would respond back "... you aren't wrong anymore!"

And when a kid would assert something incorrect In class, he wouldn't tell them they were wrong, he would help lead them to the right answer and then when they admitted/ accepted the new information, he'd say "now we're both right! Nice work!"

For a bunch of gifted kids whose identity and reputation often was staked on knowing more than most people, it was a great safety valve. No shame in making a mistake, because if you accept it you have learned! Now you are smarter! It always made me feel better.

[deviantplum]

In the interest of maintaining karmic balance, as the Catholics go into lent, I will be hitting full throttle on the hedonism. Gonna incorporate new and exciting vices for the next 40 days.

[cuntylestat]

may be the best response to dumb comments like this

[phaeton-flier]

South Korea's ex-president receives life sentence for imposing martial law | CBC News

Yoon Suk Yeol fell from office after an ill-advised attempt to overcome an opposition-controlled legislature by declaring martial law and se

Getting democracy mogged by South Korea

[reasonsforhope]

CONGRATS TO SOUTH KOREA, I AM SO HAPPY FOR YOU GUYS.

May every country with a would-be (or actual) dictator see this kind of justice.

More from the article:

"Former South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol was sentenced to life in prison for his brief imposition of martial law in a dramatic culmination to the country's biggest political crisis in decades.

Yoon fell from office after an ill-advised attempt to overcome an opposition-controlled legislature by declaring martial law and sending troops to surround the legislature on Dec. 3, 2024.

Judge Jee Kui-youn said he found Yoon guilty of rebellion for mobilizing military and police forces in an illegal attempt to seize the liberal-led National Assembly, arrest politicians and establish unchecked power for a "considerable" time. Yoon is likely to appeal the verdict...

A special prosecutor had demanded the death penalty for Yoon, saying his actions posed a threat to the country's democracy and deserved the most serious punishment available, but most analysts expect[ed] a life sentence since the poorly-planned power grab did not result in casualties.

South Korea has not executed a death row inmate since 1997, in what is widely seen as a de facto moratorium on capital punishment amid calls for its abolition...

The court also convicted and sentenced several former military and police officials involved in enforcing Yoon's martial law decree, including ex-Defense Minister Kim Yong Hyun, who received a 30-year jail term for his central role in planning the measure and mobilizing the military...

Yoon was suspended from office on Dec. 14, 2024, after being impeached by lawmakers and was formally removed by the Constitutional Court in April 2025. He has been under arrest since last July while facing multiple criminal trials, with the rebellion charge carrying the most severe punishment.

Last month, Yoon was sentenced to five years in prison for resisting arrest, fabricating the martial law proclamation and sidestepping a legally mandated full Cabinet meeting before declaring the measure.

The Seoul Central Court has also convicted two of Yoon's Cabinet members in other cases. That includes Prime Minister Han Duck-soo, who received a 23-year prison sentence for attempting to legitimize the decree by forcing it through a Cabinet Council meeting, falsifying records and lying under oath. Han has appealed the verdict."

-via CBC, February 19, 2026

[pjharvey]

not the first to say this but it's crazy how republicans have full control of every branch of the american federal government but they're deeply insecure about not having any cool celebrities that will endorse them. all they have is kid rock and nicki minaj and they pull them out for every embarrassing little right wing event

[short-wooloo]

#us politics#it's because they wanted the election to be a referendum on the 'culture war'#a lot of right-wing people have genuinely convinced themselves that any expression of (perceived) liberal/progressive values in pop culture#is inherently ingenuine and the only reason media and celebrities don't reflect 'real' values is because of a left-wing deep state#so they really expected that winning the election meant that everyone would 'drop the act' and agree with them culturally#and they're real mad that that didn't turn out to be the case#because they don't want to accept that people genuinely support 'woke' (perceived) and that there's no nefarious conspiracy behind it

[bemusedlybespectacled]

I think it’s even simpler than that: conservatives don’t just want power, they want to be liked. that’s why you’ve got The World’s Richest Man desperately trying to invite himself to an Epstein party or convince the masses that he’s a super elite gamer, dude. it’s why The Guy With The Fucking Nuclear Codes doesn’t defend any of the things he’s doing in front of reporters (he’s always “looking into it” or “doesn’t know anything about it”) and is a whiny fucking baby over comedians making fun of him.

in the words of the immortal poet Bowling For Soup, high school never ends.

[onlytiktoks]

[wella333]

Having to show your papers to masked goons on the street with no ID themselves is not what free people do. These detention center/concentration camps are ALL for profit, making corporations like Amazon and others an absolute fortune off our Tax dollars.

[srdcovka]

Kaori Sakamoto, Alysa Liu and Ami Nakai at the Milano Cortina 2026 Olympics Women's Figure Skating podium (February 20)

[fsmilanocortina]

Михаил Шайдоров Mikhail Shaidorov (KAZ)

2026 Olympic Winter Games Exhibition Gala (Kung Fu Fighting)

[redshift-13]

Alysa Liu, Winter Olympics 2026

[psuedofolio]

3am

[mommahoney]

[withdreamsofhereafter]

Hexagonal growth in a black olive tree

[peppermintsolarpunk]

Let's play: Is it AI or Real?

Red flags: Unbelievable nature you've never seen before!, no external source cited, low image quality could be hiding AI artifacts, lacks scientific name for plant, OP is an aesthetic blog (no offense, I see you credit most of the artists you post, OP <3).

Green flags: Common name of the tree provided (although the leaves don't look like any olive tree I've ever seen).

Reverse image searches and citation trails all seem to lead back to now-deleted Reddit posts. Google Images says it's this one in r/NatureIsFuckingLit, and TinEye says it's this one in r/interestingasfuck. Both were posted back in 2020. This is important because the rise of AI images was in 2022.

People in the comments of places this image is posted throw around botanical terms like "dichotomous branching" [branches split into two at the nodes] and "divaricated" [branches grow far apart from each other], which are cool, but don't tell me what the tree is.

Searching up "Black Olive" on iNaturalist finally got me some answers, and it turns out that YES. This is a real tree! This tree is a Dwarf Black Olive (Terminalia molinetii, Formerly Bucida spinosa). The above photos are some particularly nicely framed shots of a tree with particularly small leaves, which really highlights the branching structure. I really wish we knew the photographer's name. Here are some more photos of the same species:

Terminalia molinetii by jriveracruz50 on iNaturalist, posted under a CC BY-NC 4.0 license.

This tree is native to Southern Mexico, Belize, the southern tip of Florida, and Cuba. Dwarf Black Olives are completely unrelated to Olive trees in the Olea genus that I'm more familiar with (the former is in Order Myrtales [Myrtles, Evening Primroses, and Allies], and the latter is in Order Lamiales [Mints, Plantains, Olives, and Allies]).

Stay critical, and –more importantly– curious, y'all! The world is a beautiful place, we don't need fictional plants passed off as real ones for that to be true.

[savedgame]

A tortious is sponsoring posts

[neuronary]

‘redditors need to know this’, ‘twitterinas need to know that’… no. you need to know one thing and that is that you are not allowed to complain about werewolf fuckers. this is the werewolf fucking website. grow up and go fuck a werewolf.

[once-a-polecat]

[were--ralph]

What does this gif have to do with werewolves?

[flizaa]

if you have to ask you’re not ready

[were--ralph]

can you explain? i don’t get it

[thefirstanomally]

This is like someone just informed the newcomers about the devils sacrament taking place every full moon and the devil itself popped up asking “what sacrament?” with a cheshire grin.

[fuckyeahchinesefashion]

how to wave magic wand by 街头尬术师【魔法披风】

[eightyonekilograms]

“That’s cool and all, but why even bother if you aren’t going to dress like… ah there we go.”

[megafaunatic]

see her fabulous

[socialmaya]

[lierdumoa]

This is why I have no sympathy whatsoever for anti-intellectuals who complain when discussion posts use too much academic language. "You can't expect me to whip out a dictionary every time you post—" BITCH I LOOKED UP "AHEGAO" FOR YOU. OUT OF THE GOODNESS OF MY HEART.