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24 hours left 'til Turtle Time!

The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Pack unlocks tomorrow, July 28th.

So if you wanna play Aang and SpongeBob vs. Leonardo and Raphael you can't do it on either Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl 1 or 2, but you can on a Sonic Racing game.

#Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

depsidase

aheartofdawn

You have to go visit the Titanic in a submarine you designed yourself. Don't listen to experts or regulators, you're the trillionaire and they're not. You got this.

hailraykin-deactivated20230814

Reblog to give mutuals a break from whatever they're been going through

hbbisenieks

normal people in SF are fucking sick of every billboard being for AI slop

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takes a real artist to go "i have to deface this billboard promoting an evil corporation's evil product. but crucially☝️the typeface and kerning must match or else it's cringe"

ignescent

If you make it look official, people will leave it up. I knew someone who replaced all the motivational posters at work with 'demotivation' versions and corp didnt notice for like 2 years.

John Fitzgallop Kenneighdy

#Honestly who makes a post unrebloggable? Now you're literally forcing me to steal content... whatever it's your loss.

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hahaalaine

This is leaving out the most crucial piece of why that was a normal reality: UNIONS. Union participation percentage is a measly 10% across all industries for the latest statistics in 2025. Unions are the ones who could fight against the requirement for everyone and their mother to need a minimum of a bachelor's degree. they could fight for working hours to be properly compensated so that the work week was actually 40 hours or less and everything over was actually paid for. The reality of the work place and why we work so much more for so much less is because we are not unionized. the reason europeans seem to have it so much better is because of their strong union culture. there are solutions to these problems and we need to stop obscuring the why.

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strix-returns

Actually though, predators of all types want to blend in to avoid suspicion, and that means appearing as normal and unthreatening as possible; e.g. serial killers usually appear unremarkable and mild mannered to their victims.

There is no way in hell someone who wants to commit sexual assault would draw everyone's attention to them by being publicly trans; even if they genuinely had gender dysphoria they'd never be out, because they know that trans people get a lot of scrutiny and suspicion.

And as a consequence, by accepting this prejudice we're making it easier for real sexual predators to get away with their crimes by giving them a convenient red herring to use.

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commandrogyne

It can also mean:

- didn't want to go to a shelter 20-50 miles away from any remaining support system

- was not comfortable with the strings attached to the services (religious obligations (incredibly common), police/government involvement, mandatory treatment, etc.)

- inadequate or non-existant support for withdrawl symptoms (MASSIVE issuse, withdrawl can kill!)

- other residents of the shelter with personal (even violent) history with the person in question

- horror stories about a particular organization or shelter (real or not, when you're dealing with this population, word of mouth and reputation are huge!)

- related to above: fear of disease, hygeine, pests, etc. in a specific shelter or location

- inability to get to the shelter or location of services (frequently no public transit)

Among many, many more very understandable reasons. Source: working in SUD recovery and social services for 2+ years

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slowpocalypse

The OP (Jeremy Kauffman) has a Wikipedia page which may provide some missing context here, but this seems like projection to me. He wants to eliminate those he perceives as his enemies, and assigns the same logic to others, thus making himself into a victim.

pengosolvent

this one’s a few days late due to having a lot of doctors appointments sorry it’s just 9 pages, and about some rats… it’s more symbolic than anything really

(it’s completely unrelated to any of my songs that have to do with “puzzleboy”) Patreon: www.patreon.com/PengoSolvent

rubykgrant

I’ve seen this comic several times, but am only just now noticing-

The scientists are not humans, but seem to be larger, anthro-rats (which is several more layers of symbolism and such)

the-haiku-bot

I’ve seen this comic

several times, but am only

just now noticing-

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

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tall

procul-negotiis

they should make an awake that makes you feel like youve slept

chirasul

we got a full redbox and now we're playing go fish with the redbox movies

chirasul

I would never pay money for a redbox. if you ask politely and are very very persistent (i.e. annoying) they will let you take it away

here's my dad and i taking it away

a redbox makes a wonderful addition to your patio

fishmech

for those wondering why they're free to take now, it's because the company that made those "chicken soup for the soul" books bought them a few years ago and then completely collapsed so bad they couldn't afford to dispose of or even take the blu rays and dvds out of their kiosks all over.

so any of them is free game because they're all located on other business' property and they usually don't want to have to pay to get rid of them either. so asking the store manager usually gets you the ok to pull it out and keep it.

chirasul

there was a period of time right after their bankruptcy where you could put in any debit or credit card and it would spit out movies without charging you. you could even put in like an expired or deactivated card, or a visa gift card with a $0 balance, didnt matter, they'd just start spitting discs out. a lotta people raided redboxes for movies for a couple months, with some people doing what me and my brother and my dad did here, taking the whole box and signs and marquees as well. because managers sure as hell don't want a big abandoned piece of trash on their sidewalk disappointing customers. BUT they're also often too cheap to pay someone to remove it. so they just sit there.

luckily there are no shortage of freaks like us who will just take them away on our own volition. we did it all "by the book", too: we set up cones and caution tape, disconnected electricity properly, used an angle grinder to grind down the bolts in the concrete so nobody would trip on them, then cleaned everything up afterward and sealed off the electrical panel so the store would know everything is safe and tidy. though they were hesitant when we were first contacting them, they were honestly very relieved and grateful when we finally took it away, especially once they saw that we "knew what we were doing" (we don't) and look like we've "done this before" (we haven't).

the fun part: the reason why this redbox, in particular, was completely full and unraided is because the computer hardware inside had failed some months before the bankruptcy, and a failing company sure as hell wasn't gonna send a tech out to our podunk dipshit city to fix it, so it was impossible to rent movies or take any discs out. plus, for who knows how long, people were returning old redbox discs to this machine and not taking any out, leading to a much higher variety of movies than your average redbox.

there is a thriving community of redbox hackers and modders out there, as well, creating open-source software for repurposing the machines and not letting their very interesting and robust disc-management hardware go to waste. this one belongs to my brother (who was very annoying persistent and did all the legwork of contacting managers and securing permission) who is a programmer by trade and will be hacking it into a family-access movie library, with whatever discs we want. i mean the machine is completely weatherproof and has a built-in AC unit, it would be such a waste to not try to turn it into something cool.

if we get another one, i'm gonna try to mod it into some sort of art or zine vending machine. the disc boxes are just the right size for small print art or stickers. would make a great "little free library" too.

remember: the rules are made up. act like you belong there and you can get away with anything. this applies to your own life

yorgen-sh

The Chinese shoe manufacturer decided to demonstrate the indestructibility of their shoes

scarlettohairdye

And also the indestructibility of that woman's ankles

teaboot

This is Peak Yuri media and I hope my beautiful feral daughters love each other forever

belliferouskit

For anyone looking, I believe the brand is named Wudashu, founded by Wu Nan (who also sometimes models his own heels!), and can certainly be found on Taobao, though I'm unsure about elsewhere. Also, a few people have pointed out that the video has some odd warping that may indicate AI use. However, the creator, Jiùshiliánglì (Just Liang Li) has been making videos in a similar vein for a few years now and every instance of warping or flickering in this video can be attributed to the video having been run through watermark erasing software.