Riots and Weirdos

Tastes like bitter almond

[guerrillatech]

[guerrillatech]

[the-bedheaded-league]

It's so insane to me that so many straight male Sherlock Holmes fans see him as this super badass Masculine Hero who's so cool and Manly and immune to Silly Little Feminine Emotions when in reality he is, and I say this with all the love in my dykey little heart, A Faggot.

Straight men are really out here fantasizing about the Heroic Super-Masculine Toughguy Adventures of a guy who plays violin, builds pillow forts, loves puppies, has a scrapbook, keeps bees, and whose two main hobbies are solving puzzles and taking his boyfriend out on dates. Like I think they've literally just made up a completely separate character in their heads.

[chaumas-deactivated20240115]

the thing that drives me up the wall about “anti/proship” discourse is that it frames grooming as like, primarily an ideological practice in which the threat is that kids will “think adult/minor relationships are morally ok”. which sure maybe that happens idfk but the thing is that grooming is in practical almost entirely divorced from ideology and is so much more about individual exceptionalism… which I think is especially true for fandom-aged demographics! these aren’t kids who are just freshly learning the basics of right and wrong, most of them probably already generally know what pedophilia is and think it’s bad, it’s just that they’re also particularly susceptible to individualized attention that makes them feel uniquely special and mature.

like. I don’t know. it’s just incredibly frustrating to see people continually talking about CSA like it only happens because the perpetrators and victims believe pedophilia is morally permissible rather than because they think that their own personal circumstances exonerate them and make it uniquely acceptable and not harmful.

[chaumas-deactivated20240115]

it is overwhelmingly my experience that kids and teens who met and then “dated” adult partners struggle to think of themselves as victims of CSA because for whatever reason it just didn’t count—not when it was them. they were too precocious, they had too much agency, their abuser didn’t mean any harm, and what would have been a terrible criminal travesty if it had happened to anyone else was just a weird but understandable fluke situation that they brought upon themselves.

[thememedaddy]

[veritasrose]

Please read The Locked Tomb.

[thebellekeys]

And a reminder that higher education cannot be considered truly democratised if students can still be doomed to poverty with multiple or advanced arts and Humanities degrees...

[wetorturedsomefolks]

not to agree with kanye but i do think the best analogue for AI in an artistic context is autotune. like i can remember people saying basically the same shit they're saying about AI art now about autotuned music like 15-20 years ago. and like yeah the straight, boring uses of it envisioned by the least creative people on earth absolutely suck. none of the dumb, lazy motherfuckers using it to "make creating art more accessible" are ever going to do anything worth a damn with it. but eventually someone talented will come along and warp & break & recontextualize it in such a way that people will be more or less forced to acknowledge it as a valid tool and quit making all these dumbass shallow arguments about how it doesn't "have soul" or whatever

[obstinatecurator]

We need such a hard cultural reset on the Dems I'm not even kidding. They ran Kamala into the ground by parading her next to Dick Cheney and George W. Bush and rather then recieve that as a wake-up call they are doubling down on re-inventing their party for a new conservative movement. Consultants are coaching senators to reject small donations from their constituents and instead lean exclusively into corporate donor backing. They are telling them to throw trans people undee the bus to be more appealing to corporate donors. One party state.

[obstinatecurator]

Man I know this is a long shot but who's got the advice on buying Proust translations?

[they-bite]

not having the courtesy to send rejection letters should count against your reputation as a company and i’m so serious about that

[they-bite]

it’s the rock-bottom bare minimum. “you didn’t get the job, sorry, don’t expect any more correspondence from us.” jobhunting is already so user-hostile and companies are getting way too comfortable showing that they don’t give a fuck

[edgebug]

contrary to popular belief i think calvin's adhd is, funnily enough, medicated. he takes extended release ritalin every morning alongside his chocolate frosted sugar bombs. this is because he appreciates being more easily able to focus on his various Schemes, Projects, and Machinations while more effectively ignoring schoolwork

[edgebug]

calvin's dad pulling up to the house and seeing the whole driveway covered in a (completed) snowman recreation of the entire terracotta army and he takes a deep breath and greets calvin's mom with "i see calvin remembered his methylphenidate today"

[naamahdarling]

If they're trusting an ADHD 6-year-old to remember his own meds, they deserve whatever hell they have created. If he remembers to take his own meds, he deserves an award.

[ahsteria]

“the arts and sciences are completely separate fields that should be pitted against each other” the overlap of the arts and sciences make up our entire perceivable reality they r fucking on the couch

[scienceraccoon]

Art vs STEM is a lie created to stop us from turning on the real enemy: business and economics

[sidhewrites]

Arts vs STEM is a lie, the computer that put us on the moon was a loom of woven wires, our space suits were made by hand sewing, we need chemistry to mix paint and we need biology to raise the sheep who make the wool we spin into yarn and crochet or knit or weave and the world is beautiful

[spacefinch]

Reblogging as a science enthusiast and an artist

[personsonable-deactivated201908]

me holding a gun to a mushroom: tell me the name of god you fungal piece of shit

mushroom: can you feel your heart burning? can you feel the struggle within? the fear within me is beyond anything your soul can make. you cannot kill me in a way that matters

me cocking the gun, tears streaming down my face: I’M NOT FUCKING SCARED OF YOU

[miaislying]

Hey OP? What the FUCK does this mean?

[personsonable-deactivated201908]

decay exists as an extant form of life

[miaislying]

That’s a terrifying answer, have a nice day

[haystarlight]

THE ORIGINAL?!?!!!!!!!!;!!!!!!!!???

[lesbianbloodritual]

The Ones Who Walk Into Omelas With Kevlar Vests And Samurai Swords And Desert Eagles And Stare Down All Those Wicked Unrighteous Sinners In Their Droves And Proceed To Totally Fucking Waste Them All In A High Octane Action Sequence That Kicks Insane Amounts Of Ass Think The Raid If It Was Directed By John Woo But When They Finally Get To The Door Of The Basement Where They Keep The Kid Oh Shit It's The Fucking King Of Omelas And He's Wielding The Cursed Obsidian Blade Of The Underworld And They Gotta Waste Him Too But He's Incredibly Fast And Strong Thanks To All The Power He's Getting From The Kid And He Kills Almost All Of Them Until The Leader Draws Him Out With A Double Feint That Leaves Him Wide Open And Cuts His Fucking Head Clean Off With A Single Perfect Stroke And Then They Finally Open The Door To The Basement And Free The Kid

[lesbianbloodritual]

by nk jemisin

[guerrillatech]

[mias-back-from-the-dead]

tbh i think the funniest phenomena that's been happening in the last couple years is "youtuber, having gone too deep into the research hole, has been made an investigative journalist against their will"

[aces-and-anime]

Shout out to the guy who wanted to do some fun & silly little reviews but uncovered an illegal gambling operation

(Review 2)

[json-derulo]

this guy started out poking fun at australian politicians and ended up investigating the firebombing of his own home, during which he uncovered connections between the same politician he was making fun of + major organized crime

[nudityandnerdery]

"So I did what any normal person would do, okay? I bought a hat and some makeup and disguised myself so that I could go undercover and do some digging on what I thought could be an illegal gambling operation that was fronting as a kebab restaurant."

Amazing.

[etrianodysseyobsession-hd-deact]

Any modern reboot of Scooby Doo should make Shaggy a restaurant review youtuber