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@noroquian
EBAY ARE ADDING AI TO THEIR SITE. YOU HAVE AUTOMATICALLY BEEN OPTED IN. GO AND OPT OUT.
you cannot turn it off via the app or mobile site, you HAVE to be on desktop.
To turn this off, sign into your account click on the Hi (your name)! > My eBay > Account > AI training preferences and you can toggle off the permission.
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I had trouble finding which menu it was under, so here is a direct link:
get thinged idiot
Making gifs is hard
All this effort ...for this
it's looped so perfectly i feel like im watching them in the microwave
Bob is made by Japanese artist Ahnitol! He holds pens! He comes in many colors!
I love Bob, his many colorful family members, and their friend Shrimp
i know we all like to hate on the tumblr radar but im just so jazzed about this cube look at it go
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That cat is absolutely an orphan-generating coal baron. The mustache and top-hat are there in spirit, if not actually. Legally, that cat's name should be Reacher Gilt.
Apparently this comment got screenshotted, escaped containment, and made its way back to the owner of the cat who found me.
Hew name is Lucy, she is well-loved, and she just looks like that all the time:
feminism WIN: the orphan-generating coal baron cat is a GIRL
I just got described as an "ad hating commie" by someone because I said a minute of youtube ads is unpleasant. fully spent 5 minutes arguing and defending youtube ads. insane stuff
reblog if you are an ad hating commie
i love you, Two Catfish as Street Musicians in the Kashina district, ca 1855 of an unidentified artist, you go so hard
Sir for the good of the company we need you to keep posting mad shit
My writing needs to be weirder and spookier.
Your writing needs to be weirder and spookier.
Reminder to everyone this isn't spooky season dependent.
Whoever you are random artist, your writing should be weirder and spookier.
Cat enjoying beach
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I love animals that are, like, the opposite of cryptids: we know for a fact they exist and have a clear idea of what they look like because we have photographs and individual specimens, but we haven’t the faintest idea where they’re coming from - they just keep showing up out of nowhere, and the locations of their actual population centres are a complete mystery.
I so want examples. anyone who knows of any should post them in notes
You know, like giant squid and such. We know the bastards exist, we have credible first-hand accounts stretching back thousands of years and dead specimens washed up on shore and such, but in centuries of searching we’ve managed exactly one well-documented encounter with a giant squid in its natural habitat. We have no idea what their native range is or what their life-cycle looks like, let alone how many of them are out there.
Are there any reverse-cryptids that /aren’t/ at the bottom of the ocean?
The red-crested tree rat, for one. There have been only three well-documented encounters since 1898, and they just plain disappeared from the zoological record for over a century. The only reason we know they’re not extinct is that one walked right up to a couple of wildlife research interns at a Columbian nature reserve back in 2011, apparently out of pure curiosity, and allowed itself to be photographed and observed for several minutes before disappearing again.
That’s genuinely pretty cool and all, but I absolutely need to talk about how the picture in that Wikipedia article looks like a tiny eldritch horror disguising itself as a peach.
To be fair, based on the actual photos from the 2011 encounter, they really do look like that:
Somebody might have pointed this out before, but how exactly did Aang & Co. get back to the fire nation with a defeated Ozai in tow?
Awkward bison ride in the saddle listening to him rant about ethnic genocide? Did they strap him to one of Appa’s legs? Dangle him from a basket? Leave him on a cliff for somebody else to come collect??
The bison was already at the Fire Nation! Katara and Zuko flew to the Capital City on Appa. The only option for the gaang to get out of that giant rock pillar forest was for Sokka and Toph to repair any damage to the airship Suki commandeered and fly back.
They probably just let Ozai sit on a chair in the employee lounge for the ride back. Probably didn’t even bother to tie him up, since, as Sokka loudly pointed out, he wasn’t a threat to anyone anymore.
Would Ozai’s introduction to metalbending be when Toph causually reconstructs a fallen airship in front of him while shit talking Sokka and/or Ozai?
Because talk about a terrifying thing to encounter on the heels of losing your bending. Four children just took down you and your entire fleet and as far as you can tell two of them are borderline gods.
(I think Toph would need to be talked out of enthusiastically mounting him on the front of the airship like a figurehead on a boat. She would appreciate the symbolism, and the screaming.)
Yes, Ozai’s introduction to this half of the Gaang would be watching a fifteen-year-old walk a lap around and then figure out how to repair the ship that took dozens of his best minds to design, instructing a twelve-year-old how to reshape massive swaths of metal with her bare hands as casually as Ozai would instruct his tailors to lower the hem of his sleeve. The other girl keeps playing with a steel fan in front of him. Is she trying to intimidate him? He’s already intimidated enough. Where did she even get that fan, though?
Okay but Sokka’s leg is super duper broken at this point, right? So he isn’t walking a lap around the airship and then figuring out how to repair it at a glance – The Avatar is like, floating him around on a throne of stone, or airbending him regally around so that his feet never need to touch the ground.
And then this little gremlin of a human, who is displaying the greatest bending prowess Ozai has ever seen outside if another twelve-year-old handing him his own ass a little bit ago, is listening to what this random Water Tribe kid has to say.
Queue the existential crisis of Ozai’s life over who this all-powerful teen must be, and what kind of bending prowess he has to have that the Avatar is serving him as a palanquin bearer
don’t leave this in the tags, @erisenyo
Computers are very simple you see we take the hearts of dead stars and we flatten them into crystal chips and then we etch tiny pathways using concentrated light into the dead star crystal chips and if we etch the pathways just so we can trick the crystals into doing our thinking for us hope this clears things up.
How does it feel to be the most Galaxy Brained person in this entire thread
Well that certainly belongs on the post
Unmute !
I fully understand that the preponderance of evidence is that George Lucas put absolutely zero thought into what Naboo’s culture was actually supposed to look like outside of what we see on screen, but as far as unintentionally effective worldbuilding goes, establishing that Naboo a. has a tradition of electing literal children as figurehead rulers of its planetary government, and b. apparently also has a tradition of assassinating these children with sufficient frequency that dressing up a bunch of other children as decoy targets has become standard operating procedure by the time of Padmé Amidala’s reign suggests that maybe the fact that this random backwater is a breeding ground for Sith Lords isn’t as unlikely as it initially appears.
#yes! this is what i’ve been saying! #i’ve always headcanoned that the reason they have child monarchs in the first place #is to try and discourage the assassination attempts #like #alright i know you’ve poisoned our last five queens #but this one’s an adorable child! #you wouldn’t poison a CHILD would you? #and even if you would no you wouldn’t #because ACTUALLY you’ve poisoned the decoy
#and like… headcanon part 2: if I were trying to discourage assassination attempts #you know who I’d recruit to be my handmaids and decoys? #that’s right: the daughters of my political rivals #you thought you poisoned the queen? #psych you idiot that’s the minister of finance’s niece #fuck it maybe that’s YOUR niece
#sure you haven’t seen her since the Queen ‘invited’ her to join the Royal retinue #but are you really gonna risk it? #better to just cool it on the poisonings for a bit isn’t it? #try out this fun new thing called ‘diplomacy’ i really think you’ll like it!
#and like– maybe they did cool it and Naboo as a society moved on from that era #and kept the trappings as a reminder of how far they’ve come #or maybe they didn’t and the whole system is just threats behind smiling faces #who knows! certainly not us outsiders! I’ve heard Naboo’s a peaceful society and very fond of diplomacy actually #and what a quaint little government they have! their queen’s fourteen i hear #how very… sweet (via @allogrim )
Y'all forget the most important factor, which is that historically, under-age rulers were quite popular because you can install a regent who ACTUALLY controls the court but is not at the centre of representative power, and this regent can be, but not necessarily has to be a relative (i.e. an opportunity for power-hungry courtiers who would have no chance at ruling otherwise).
Japan actually used to have a system in which the reigning emperor would abdicate, put his minor son on the throne, and then reign in his stead, and the same was also done via the under-age emperor’s maternal grandfather.
I can't believe my first thought seeing Star Wars prequel 1 was basically "yeah that makes sense; she's been elected because of family ties (which I later found was true) and qualified because of the same reasons as historical monarchical figures, such as potential for a suitor when she's older, like the English did, and coercibility, like basically every empire treated young rulers"
(although it wasn't that eloquently, since I was like, 8 when I saw it as part of Revenge of The Sith releasing)
