Nick's Randomness

Anything and everything

[foxes-in-love]

[foxes-in-love]

[iinsawdious]

"this movie doesn't hold up bcos of dated special effects :(" to you, maybe. i would clap at a bat on a string

[iinsawdious]

reblogs are back on for october! limited edition

[dduane]

GOP Senator Mike Lee's bill to make all pornography a federal crime in the US has advanced to a committee for review.

Get. Onto. Your. Representatives.

(And romance fans / writers? THIS MEANS YOU.)

[gayforcarstairsgirls]

"came back wrong" but it's food that you heated up in the microwave

[abalidoth]

OK SO

For anyone who hasn't heard my Microwave Rant:

Microwaves are designed to be used at a broad range of power levels. If you're getting bad results reheating your food, and you're doing everything on full blast, try a lower power setting! 50% power for twice the time, just give it a shot. It gives the heat time to spread evenly, and prevents overcooking of parts that are exposed to more radiation.

People complain about reheated pizza a lot -- that's bc overheating the crust makes it tough and chewy. I usually do pizza on 30% power for THREE times as long because it's especially vulnerable -- and my crust always comes out nice and tender.

I think there's a good metaphor for Came Back Wrong here too: if you actually take the time to do your necromantic ritual and/or unholy experiment right, and don't rush it at 100% power, you're likely to get better results.

[mouseonamoose]

Since reading this post and following its advice, my microwaved good comes out so much better.

[archenarrow]

Since reading this post a d following its advice, my necromantic rituals have come out so much better.

[justheretobreakthings]

So within two days of each other, Fox News writes an article comparing aromanticism and asexuality to pedophilia, and then Matt Walsh releases a video saying asexuality is a mental illness and asexuals are tricking teenagers into having depression.

Not sure what’s going on right now over in Conservative World, but it’s a hell of wild U-turn for them to suddenly switch from “Oh no! The left is sexualizing our children!” to “Oh no! The left is asexualizing our children!”

[ohnoitstbskyen]

It’s a reminder, I guess, that they’re coming for all of us. The fash and the white supremacists will not make nice distinctions between the queers when they put us up against the wall. There is no gatekeeping, no label-policing, no purity-purging and no assimilation that any of us can do that will save us. They want us dead, and while they’ll start with whoever is most vulnerable at any given time, they’ll get around to all of us eventually.

Queer solidarity means all of us because the fash are coming for all of us.

[karmiccollector-deactivated2024]

All Dividers are Feds. Stand united or die separately.

[hazel2468]

ANYONE who is trying to divide our community is a fucking Fed. That includes other queers who like to argue about who is and isn’t “allowed” in our community.

[nudityandnerdery]

Reminder with Joanne sniping at asexuals a week or two ago.

[thememedaddy]

[dikdikpronouncedxylophone]

[nicholasrowan]

It seemed like a good idea. I needed some pan amigurumi, so I started 3 each of t Rex, triceratops, mini jellyfish and full sized jellyfish.

While I had the hot pink out, I decided to do 8 stripe Pride critters. While I had the red out for that, I decided to add 6 stripe pride.

And that is how I ended up making 36 amigurumi in one week

This picture shows

$860 worth of crochet

8 butterfly magnets (will add bodies after washing)

24 dinosaurs

11 mini jellyfish

10 full jellyfish

1 blanket yarn jellyfish

4 rectangle head scarves

5 triangle head scarves

[shinseifer]

"average cat owner spends 3 years in prison" factoid actualy just statistical error. average owner spends 0 years in prison. Miette's mother, who kicked her body like the football and went to jail for One Thousand Years is an outlier adn should not have been counted

[avidreaderffn]

I love how every single Georg post observes the original's typo

[bananonbinary]

i like that you said "observe" instead of "preserve," implying this has religious importance.

[foxes-in-love]

[dramatic-dolphin]

a while ago I read this sci-fi short story from the 50s where a guy is kidnapped and interrogated by aliens using a very sophisticated lie detector, but he realizes that the lie detector works off technical truth, and with some careful phrasing and misdirection, he manages to make them believe that humans are a race of immortal, overpowered, omniscient telepathic beings. and it works.

my favorite part is when he tells them that humans are "capable of transportation without the aid of spaceships or any vehicles, just by using mental power to control physical matter". it's true, we can. it's called walking.

[dramatic-dolphin]

okay I found it, it's The Best Policy by Randall Garrett

and it has other gems such as "I know beyond a shadow of a doubt what every member of my race thinks of you" (they don't know you exist) and "every human knows exactly as much about the location of your home planet as I do" (nothing)

[vaspider]

I had to go find this bc that style of dishonesty is exactly how my wife plays her Mage character that she's had since like 2008 and yep, the Lesja vibes are superb.

Here's a PDF with just that story in it.

[foxes-in-love]

[yorickish-deactivated20240629]

energy policy would be much better if we still had a tradition of animal sacrifice I think. people would be way more chill about nuclear energy if they could see a large and proud bull being ritually sacrificed every month or so at the base of the cooling towers to keep the plant safe

[yorickish-deactivated20240629]

[fishgummy]

new eevee evolution called ibuprofeon

[psychedelic-lemur]

[solarsyrup]

I extend my hand like a mob boss and allow you to kiss my ring but when you lean closer you see it's one of those glo-in-the-dark spider rings you win at arcades

[solarsyrup]

*godfather voice* you disrespec me... and eat my spooky spida ring, which cost me 50 tickets at funtime arcade and pizzeria... vinny, hit her with da sticky hand

[digitaldiscipline]

Georg, I trusted you. I brought you out of your cave, on this, the day of my daughter's wedding, and this is how you repay me?

[ctimenefic]

Seasonal Affective Disorder is just emotional scurvy, all my core wounds are reopening and they won't be fixed until the big lemon in the sky comes back

[nudityandnerdery]

"Hey, what do you want for Ch-"

I don't know, as soon as you started the question, I somehow momentarily was struck with such a lack of desire for any material goods that there's now a school of thought in Buddhism who reveres my ADHD riddled brain as a potential speedrun to enlightment.