Once a Nerd, Always a Nerd

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[bl00dline]

YALL ITS A NATIONAL HOLIDAY

[bl00dline]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MY LOVEEEEE

[honeytoasts]

🐰🍉 (care for gaza, esims for gaza, pcrf)

[poniesart]

Bisan Owda's call to action

eSims For Gaza

For USAmericans: Call your reps | Email your reps It takes only a few minutes and there are scripts if needed. If you call after hours, you can leave a voicemail.

US Campaign for Palestinian Rights Action Toolkit

Jan 26th Int'l Day of Action Toolkit

Google Drive of posters to print

Other infographics about the strike: here and here

I will be queuing this post for every day this week. IDs in Alt text!

[dtacore]

[daughter-of-sapph0]

op link the fucking article

[dtacore]

https://www.sbnation.com/a/17776-football enjoy reading about football :)

What football will look like in the future

Something is terribly wrong. Something is terribly wrong. Something is terribly wrong. Something is terribly wrong.

[daughter-of-sapph0]

thanks. what the fuck

[yourfriendlyneighborhoodcatfish]

Wow

[a-teacup-of-golden-cracks]

They actually posted this. Did they even bother reading it after they fed the prompt to the AI do you think?

[ruffboi-mags]

tell me you didn't actually read Jon Bois' award-winning, Hugo-nominated serialized speculative fiction story "17776" without telling me you didn't actually read Jon Bois' award-winning, Hugo-nominated serialized speculative fiction story "17776".

[dislocated-cannibal]

🍀🎈🌈🌟🌠🌟🙏🔥🔔🍀

emoji spell for:

EXTREMELY GOOD LUCK™️

like to charge and reblog to cast!!!

[yars]

[supersexyawesomeness]

[tevruden]

[x]

[angelwalking]

#get with the program the new humor is benevolent surrealism (x)

[agentsnark]

I always wanted to know what to call it.

[froborr]

This is something I’ve been meaning to talk about, and I may do a full blog post at some point, but here’s a capsule version:

The Benign Violation Theory of humor, which is probably the best one out there, suggests that something is perceived as funny when it is simultaneously perceived as violating how the world “should” work and as benign. Something like the “gun” meme, for example, is funny because it violates our sense of how a joke should progress, and at the same time it’s harmless. 

Racist/sexist/etc shock humor violates our sense of how the world work–in either a “that’s not true!” or “you’re not allowed to say that!” way–and therefore whether you find it funny is based on whether you find it benign, which is to say either you think it’s harmless or you don’t care about the people it harms. (This is the root of the punch up/kick down distinction–jokes that punch up are funnier than jokes that kick down because the people they target are less vulnerable and therefore less likely to experience harm.)

So yes, science agrees that if you think racist jokes are funny, the reason is that you don’t care about the feelings of the people the joke is about. There’s a word for that.

[reimaginingmylife-deactivated20]

Biden has won. Celebrate today but get back to work asap.

This win does not mean everything that has happened in the United States this year or over the years should be forgotten.

Black Lives Still Matter. Police Brutality is very much still present in the american system. White Supremacists unfortunately still exist. Sexism unfortunately still has a place in society. Women are still not considered as equal.

LGBTQIA people matter. BIPOC matter. Racism is not okay. Being ISLAMOPHOBIC is not okay. Climate Change is real. Science is real.

There is a lot of work that needs to be done. We rejoice today and tomorrow we got back to educating ourselves, educating our community, learning about our privileges and doing our best everyday to make our environment a better place and hence make the world a better place.

Also WEAR A MASK.

[vickisigh]

morticia and gomez are my favorite couple…..cara mia ❤️

[thestateonmtv]

living in the suburbs is like mall. Movies. Mall again. Go to target. Go to gamestop. Back to the mall. Barnes and noble. Back to the mall. Chili’s. Back to the mall. Eat hot chip. Lie. And I’m SICK of it!!!!!

[thestateonmtv]

I’m sorry god please forgive me I would give anything to go to Barnes and noble and then dinner at Chili’s with a lava mountain cake please lord take me back I’ll never complain again

[confusinglycarnivorous]

Not a day goes by that I don't think of this post

[vonisv]

No amount of graphical advancements in gaming will ever surpass the raw emotion of the side-eye the Chorus Kids give you when you're off beat

[vonisv]

Unparalleled

[tracing-rivers]

I apologize for the harshness of my words, Miss Bennet, but your family is just so cringe

[argumate]

I simp for you most ardently

[ursulaklegun-deactivated2024122]

Oh my god the question at the center of death note isn’t “how do we make the world a better place” it’s “if a cop’s son had the power of a god, would that be fucked up or what”

[kat1793]

Chris Wallace during that whole shit show

[zombiepatch]

anyone else feel like youtube is getting too fucking comfy w/ the multiple ads before every fuckin video?? 

[popokko-deactivated20210315]

it’s still funny to me that the justification for taking away link’s iconic hat in botw was “to make him look cool.” okay why’d you put him in khakis then

[popokko-deactivated20210315]

i think the problem is that link is just uncool. you can’t make him cool. its not in his nature. he’s weird. he’s a weirdo. he doesn’t fit in, and he doesn’t WANT to fit in. have you ever seen him without his stupid hat on? that’s weird

[dioptre-hertz]

I had a very interesting discussion about theater and film the other day. My parents and I were talking about Little Shop of Horrors and, specifically, about the ending of the musical versus the ending of the (1986) movie. In the musical, the story ends with the main characters getting eaten by the plant and everybody dying. The movie was originally going to end the same way, but audience reactions were so negative that they were forced to shoot a happy ending where the plant is destroyed and the main characters survive. Frank Oz, who directed the movie, later said something I think is very interesting:

I learned a lesson: in a stage play, you kill the leads and they come out for a bow — in a movie, they don’t come out for a bow, they’re dead. They’re gone and so the audience lost the people they loved, as opposed to the theater audience where they knew the two people who played Audrey and Seymour were still alive. They loved those people, and they hated us for it.

That’s a real gem of a thought in and of itself, a really interesting consequence of the fact that theater is alive in a way that film isn’t. A stage play always ends with a tangible reminder that it’s all just fiction, just a performance, and this serves to gently return the audience to the real world. Movies don’t have that, which really changes the way you’re affected by the story’s conclusion. Neat!

But here’s what’s really cool: I asked my dad (who is a dramaturge) what he had to say about it, and he pointed out that there is actually an equivalent technique in film: the blooper reel. When a movie plays bloopers while the credits are rolling, it’s accomplishing the exact same thing: it reminds you that the characters are actually just played by actors, who are alive and well and probably having a lot of fun, even if the fictional characters suffered. How cool is that!?

Now I’m really fascinated by the possibility of using bloopers to lessen the impact of a tragic ending in a tragicomedy…