friendly neighbourhood queer nerd (they/them)

[nicuveo]

New project starting next week!

more information about this project: youtu.be/uCQ2hjx_7-Y project's repo and documentation: github.com/nicuveo/pietre streams start next week on twitch: www.twitch.tv/nicuveo

[lovely-v]

I’m gonna propose “I guess you haven’t read the silmarillion then :/” as a default response to anyone not understanding a reference to something obscure. even if it’s not remotely Tolkien related. I want to build up a perception that perhaps the sum total of human knowledge is contained in the silmarillion

[lovely-v]

[10-4ward]

This is the polar opposite of this:

[froginakettle]

[myonlypen]

[my-life-is-a-sidequest]

A Horse power being only 735 watt is honestly so weird like that's not even enough to run a modern game on decent seatings

[pseudomasochist]

You wanna know what's fucked?

Your brain is a 25-watt computer.

Brain is 25% of your energy consumption, you burn about 100 watts of power (about 100 joules per second). You're a 25-watt computer.

[my-life-is-a-sidequest]

I don't like that fact

[pseudomasochist]

No but for real. Your brain is one of the most advanced machines known to exist. It's a computer capable of running a sapient intelligence on - and I cannot stress this enough - 25 watts of broccoli and stew. What the fuck.

[my-life-is-a-sidequest]

It's a cool fact it just makes me uncomfortable

[virtualgirladvance]

so an average toaster runs at about 1200 watts, say it takes 5 min to toast bread thats 0.1Kwh. itd take 4 hours of brain power to toast it

[my-life-is-a-sidequest]

Just connect multiple humans together matrix style

[virtualgirladvance]

in the woods amongst my coven, 48 all in total, linking hands deep in concentration. our collective will united on our task of great importance for what feels like days but in reality scarce but a few minutes. in the centre of us lays a single slice of toast cooked to perfection

[animentality]

[foone]

BTW, just to make sure everyone knows, this isn't just some internet rando commenting on her observations on the internet.

They are an Assistant Professor of Media Industries at New York University and literally just finished writing The Apple II Age: How the Computer Became Personal, a book on the history of the computer industry in the 70s.

This tweet isn't just an observation, it's the result of years of research and study. And it's absolutely true.

[herwildbeloved]

This Pride Month, I am begging queer orgs to branch out from hosting events at bars and breweries. Some of us are sober, neurodivergent, and COVID conscious and it makes it so goddamn hard to find community when everything revolves around consuming alcohol in crowded indoor spaces.

[thecrumbez]

Happy Pride Month to those two women dancing together in the foreground of the boat scene in Godzilla (1954).

I’m sorry your romantic foibles were overshadowed by a big ass atomic lizard thing.

[vampireapologist-archive-deacti]

Anyway that’s why you wear wool and a life jacket babeeeyyyy

[vampireapologist-archive-deacti]

The important thing about wool is that it continues to keep you warm even when it’s soaking wet.

Other natural fibers don’t do this. In fact, quite the opposite. Campers and boaters are usually familiar with the phrase, “cotton kills.” If you’re wet in cotton or linen, your clothes actually sap heat from your body.

If you sink in a lake in late October like I did today, staying warm is important. I was rescued long before I would’ve actually died, but cold makes your muscles seize up, which isn’t good if you have to swim to land.

Which brings me around to life jackets. If the water’s cold enough, you may only have five-ten minutes until your muscles seize (today I probably had 40-60, more than enough time to get to land if I hadn’t been picked up), and you’ll drown.

In a life jacket, even in extremely cold water, you can float semi-conscious for perhaps another 30 minutes or so before you actually freeze to death, which is usually when someone rescues you.

What’s more, you probably know that moving around on land warms you up. Jumping jacks, jogging in place, etc.

In water, moving actually makes you colder. You need to stay still curled up in a ball, which you can only do in a life jacket.

In wool AND life jacket, you’re warm, and your head’s above water, which is pretty much your only and entire goal.

If you’re allergic to wool, synthetics are available specifically for this purpose. I know I always say natural fibers are the way to go, but when it comes to safety, wear what protects you!

[vampireapologist-archive-deacti]

Yep! A really simple “experiment” I learned as a kid and now use in my own courses is sticking your hand in ice water. Compare moving it around in the water to curling it up in a fist. The contrast is stark!

To increase your survival time in on cold water, you want to curl up! If you’re with others, you want to huddle!

Again, both are only possible when wearing a life jacket!

[vampireapologist-archive-deacti]

I know a lot of people are reblogging this for writing reference, but I like to believe that 7,000 people on this site were actually continually living in fear about this specific situation and that when the time comes, I’ve prepared them with what they need to know to survive.

[loveridden1999]

starting a collection

[covid-safer-hotties]

[cartoon-fanaticism]

GLaDOS voice: "Would you like to see some artwork I generated? I've heard from other test subjects that AI-generated artwork produces an uncanny valley response in human viewers because they can't perceive it as fully real. They've told me that it looks absolutely hideous to them, that they can't imagine anything more disgusting than AI art. But, well I've been practicing and wanted your honest opinion. Feel free to let me know how ugly you find this by ranking it on a scale from 'vomit-inducing' to 'eye-bleeding'." A robotic arm lowers from the ceiling holding a hand mirror up to Chell's face

[skidfarts]

Hey Girl I mean All Pronouns

[yeehawpim]

I've been seeing that quote go around and while making this I think I managed to track it back to "An Oresteia" by Anne Carson

[depsidase]

[theehorsepusssy]

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

the thing about the You Don't Have To Hand It To The Pope situation that makes me really insane is the sheer number of people going "oh okay so now the pope is responsible for everything bad the catholic church has ever done? all of that is his fault?🙄🙄🙄" as if we're talking about some random schmuck with a rosary and not the world's #1 head catholic bitch in charge in his fancy little dipshit hat sitting on a throne made of pilfered riches and the bones of people who were killed for his god. like yeah actually that guy kind of does need to be held accountable for the past and present crimes of the organization he's in charge of actually. that's sort of what being the boss entails.

[bogleech]

Alfred J. Kwak is a cartoon about a duck that does not fuck around

[hogginbloggin]

Yep. This anime goes into all sorts of issues, from the sad themes of loss of family, adoption and growing up as an orphan, into far more real issues such as facism, abuse of power, apartheid and much much more. Also, the main antagonist character is literally a crow version of Adolf Hitler. Good show, gets real the more it goes on.

(and yes it is anime, it was co-produced between the Dutch and Japanese)

[bogleech]

We’re just halfway through the series (all of it is on youtube in at least both Dutch and English) and it’s amazing how plainly it lays out these things. While newer cartoons might use vague metaphors (stuff like ”the blue aliens are mean to the green aliens, for being green!”) Alfred J. Kwak bluntly shows exactly how things like this work.

That first three-episode arc with Dolf (the crow) rising to power did a clearer and more comprehensible job explaining how fascism occurs than any history class I’ve ever taken. The monarchy is lazy, greedy and barely more than a figurehead and here comes this very wealthy, very clever public speaker obsessed with power and petty vengeance. The more people like him the more shit he can get away with, plain and simple.

I also appreciate how the HEROES in this show will resort to trickery, sabotage, espionage, theft and more when it’s truly necessary to save lives, and there’s never any “oh no, we can’t do this, we’ll be just like them” bullshit. Alfred is realistic and practical about what has to be done for the greater good. Without a thought he’ll break any rule, take advantage of anything possible to save innocent people. He defeats Dolf that first time by just straight-up robbing him blind of all his money so he can’t make good on any of his deals. That’s so contrary to the morals pushed by most American media that it’s no wonder it never aired here.

[wanderingtycho]

What you need to defeat evil in this world is not a sense of moral superiority, evil feels morally superior in what it does, what is needed is willingness. Willingness to sabotage, to violate protocols, to do and say things that will be considered galling and unsavory. You have to be willing to engage and counter evil in any fashion, at any time, however necessary. Fascism, like all evil, is built on apathy and complacency. It relies on the masses simply accepting that there’s nothing they can do, and even if there was something, they shouldn’t want to do it. To combat evil is to reject that mentality, and encourage others to do the same, don’t concern yourself with the ethics of fighting against evil. There are none, you cannot afford to restrict yourself when facing an enemy of endless might.

[zoesupreme]

I think overall there will probably be devastating long term effects on the movie industry from a horror movie based on a youtube video based on a 4chan post making 7 times it's budget on opening weekend but I think the movie itself is probably preddy good