Play The Other Game

Mostly reblogs, but sometimes I have a unique thoughts Occasionally NSFW

[distinguishedbaloney]

[eilooxara]

Non cooking spray stick

[eilooxara]

Non spray stick cooking

[that-house]

Non cooking stick spray

[progressivemillennial]

“If I have one message to give to the secular American people, it’s that the world is not divided into countries. The world is not divided between East and West. You are American, I am Iranian, we don’t know each other, but we talk together and we understand each other perfectly. The difference between you and your government is much bigger than the difference between you and me. And the difference between me and my government is much bigger than the difference between me and you. And our governments are very much the same.”

― Marjane Satrapi, Iranian graphic novelist

[velutfortuna]

Goodnight, and rest in peace, Marjane Satrapi. Thank you for your work and your voice. May we hear you.

[pedro-friedeberg]

LMAO

[bdalak]

what gets me is that even if this WERE true what the fuck does hunter biden have to do with any of it. i don't think being the son of the united states of america has anything to do with both america's foreign policy decisions and a foreign nation's conduct during war. is there some HOG (hunter occupied government) conspiracy that i dont know about???

[pusheenthenerdcat]

is it lefty to cancel ppl for the actions of their parents because i think there are some queer folk with homophobic parents who may not be chuffed about that idea

[alkatyn]

Like how his "millennial rebrand" is just him going, "I may have smoked crack. Of course I did. You've all seen the pictures. I didn't smoke meth though get it right." "I never snorted coke,that would be a waste I smoked it" "I wasn't on billionaire pedo island I was having sex with adult sex workers in a motel of the I-95" and people find that level of specificity and honesty charming

[victusinveritas]

[mashivan]

Wait do people who speak in tongues really believe they’re speaking a different language and not just baby babbling

[mashivan]

[chaoticconstellation]

On this day one year ago, I was fired from Crumbl Cookies because my grandfather suddenly died and I cried when I found out and was on the clock. They make you sign a waiver to not talk about the recipes that lasts one year after your termination. Well guess what babes. That day, is today. RIP Nanu, you’ve been missed. But for anyone who likes the Chocolate Chip Cookies or the Iced Sugar Cookies, check out the recipes in the links. Feel free to ask about other recipes, it’s been a year but some things are just reskinned versions of these lol. Good Luck and Happy Baking.

Edit: Here is a Master List of all the recipes I have been able to remember thus far; I will be updating it as I am able!

[donniehaspronouns]

I can’t believe I never posted this tapestry I made

(no I didn’t block it okay)

[afloweroutofstone]

My favorite category of government program to run across is "program you've never heard of doing extremely important work to solve a major problem which you have also never heard of." On that note, the US drops millions of pounds of sterile bugs over Panama each week in order to prevent a parasite infestation from moving into North America. Everyone say thank you to the Panama-United States Commission for the Eradication and Prevention of the Cattle Borer Worm (COPEG)

[afloweroutofstone]

This program had its funding cut during the DOGE cuts last year and now the parasitic worm they were trying to slow the spread of has officially arrived in the United States.

[partywithponies]

Strange racists and homophobes on the internet seem to have access to an alternate way cooler version of TV than me. "every white character on TV is in an interracial relationship" "every show has a gay couple in it" "main characters keep having to secretly be bisexual and nonbinary" "every show has gratuitous full frontal nudity" like damn promise?? What channel???

[urlocalpyshcopan]

as a black gay person real like where y'all be finding this stuff pass the name

[brainsforbabyjesus]

for real though, those DO NOT WATCH OR YOU'LL CORRUPT YOUR CHILDREN lists put out by conservative christian family groups is where I find all the stellar tv shows. Like, shit I didn't know half of those existed, thanks for finding them for me, gonna go watch 30 hours of gay tv now!

[infamousbrad]

I think I know how this works.

For personal context, before I went to the '98 Burning Man festival, one of the things I'd read from a couple different journalists was that "everybody" runs around naked. Which, fine by me, I'd already spent a lot of time in clothing-optional spaces, I'm not fanatic about it but it's nice.

So I got there early and set up a public shade structure on one of Black Rock City's main roads and spent most of each afternoon just watching the crowds go by. I don't remember seeing more than one actually naked person the whole week. I think a topless woman passed by my intersection maybe every half an hour, sometimes once an hour. So why in the hell were people, normally pretty smart and observant writers, coming away with the impression that everybody was naked?

Then I remembered an unrelated passage from Joel Garreau's great book about the history of the outer-ring suburbs, Edge City. Mall developers told him flat-out that they tried to keep the crowds in their malls less than 5% black. Not because they themselves were racist, but because they had determined, experimentally, that if more than 5% of the people in the mall are black, the median white shopper will wrongly describe the mall as at least half black, as mostly black. And not a few of them would describe it, at 6% black, as a mall where "only black people go." Why?

Because, emotionally, they were still upset over the last one when the next one came into view.

Same as the journalists describing Black Rock City as all naked. Same as the right-wing religious culture warriors describing television as entirely mixed-race and gender non-conforming. Not because it's even vaguely true, we know that, but because they haven't gotten over their discomfort over the last one by the time the next one comes along. The anger, not the stimulus, is the part that's continuous, so their mind lies to them that it's "all" the thing they can't get over.

[kagedtiger]

Similar effect for the presence/proportion of women in things, by the way: https://health.howstuffworks.com/mental-health/human-nature/perception/how-17-equals-496-the-amazing-multiplying-women.htm

[jayalaw]

What’s the solution then? Or if there’s no solution, should we make things even queerer and more diverse?

[mashivan]

Research paper that talks about this, with the fun anecdote that in France, white participants estimated the Muslim population to be 4x greater than it was (7->30) with a similar effect in the US. Idk if I believe there’s a 25x multiplier, but it is outrageously high https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8944588/

Also explains the “___ city is overrun with crime!” comments that frustrate me, considering I live there and I’ve seen 0 crime, some homeless white and black people, and 1 uncomfortable encounter.

Our minds are tuned to the uncommon or unexpected in our environment. In most environments, members of minority groups are just that—uncommo

[boombox-fuckboy]

Inspired by @fyeahaudiodrama's do you love the color of the audio drama?, I have finally reorganised the contents of my podcatcher:

[3liza]

i gotta be real with you guys im just sort of stunned tumblr has been running an open-front ZenDesk form for tumblr TOS reporting this whole time that doesnt require any kind of validation except a fucking email address. this one fact alone explains every single "why did so and so get banned for no reason" event of the past X years. however it is equally baffling that i didnt notice it before now. i would say it is baffling they implemented it in the first place but like i said, the management of their website is verifiably not well

[passionpeachy]

The way adult fandom people hold indie online creators and cartoons to a much higher standard than their actual local politicians. You could be putting that energy into terrorizing and protesting conservatives at your town hall and actually make a good material impact on the world but instead you're background checking everything the trans woman who made the amazing digital circus has ever said

[stevishabitat]

Absolutely valid...

[mashivan]

[janmisali]

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[shegs]

I FOUMDH IT

[princess-anri]

Regular Couple

[pawhold-deactivated20180415]

this ended homophobia

[nikoni]

happy pride month

[hungwy]

Another reason why trains would be good is that most people are not good at driving

[mashivan]

So, every few months there’s a post about how X software is tracking everything you do but if you turn off this obscure setting it’ll disable it.

I’m always left with the thought, why does the software even include that toggle anyway?