JUST AS A RAT FOLLOWS ITS NOSE TO CHEESE

Pulling levers. Pushing buttons. Turning dials. Making things happen.

[viralfrog]

[octomorph]

Finally, some decent hijinx around here.

[sweaterkittensahoy]

shout out to everyone who has any sort of maintenance job whether it's a custodian or a mechanic or a furnace repair person or a pool cleaner or a housekeeper or anything where someone shows up or I go to you, and my shit is taken care of.

big appreciation for the maintenance people

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Huge fan of when I have a problem that I have no idea how to handle (or no time/tools/physical strength to handle) and I call A Guy who knows how to handle it and they come and handle it for me.

[goodugong]

I don't know where it came from, but several years ago this idea popped into my head unbidden, and for some reason it tickles me. I don't know if it's funny, but I like it and I made it into a zine, I hope you enjoy it.

It lays out really nicely as 3-up spreads on A4 paper, so you can print, staple and fold it, then cut it into 3 zines. It made it really easy to print up 20 of them to trade at this art social thing I went to

micron, rotring and sharpie on printer paper, coloured and screentoned digitally, 2024

If you want a digital or physical copy

[existennialmemes]

The crux of the anti trans movement is a war on bodily autonomy. They don't want you to have any agency over what you look like, how you dress, who you date, whether to have kids, etc.

They want total control over you. Not just trans people. Not just queer people. You. Everyone.

Trans people are just a scapegoat. They want total control over everyone's self expression. They want the right to mold you into their perfect little cog in their dehumanizing machine.

Happy Trans Day of Visibility. Our rights are your rights. Our destruction is your destruction.

[johntherobotwanderer]

Discworld book where the auditors hear about the phrase "it's not over till the fat lady sings" and hire someone to kidnap all the fat ladies in the world to find the One who will end the world when she sings.

Lady Sybil Vimes is one of the ladies, so Sam Vimes is on the warpath until he can find her, while the watch desperately try to keep all infrastructure from falling apart without all the fat ladies who keep it together on a daily basis

It ends when Sybil leads a hoard of fat ladies into battle, which ends up being so glorious an unrelated time traveler who witnesses it goes back to his native time starts the myth of the Valkyries

[limpurtikles]

Sorry @mypunkpansexualtwin but you ain't leaving this one in the tags boss

[the-big-mood]

SqueezeIt introduce their new “Color Changing Squeezit” 📺 (1996)

[ruinedchildhood]

[things-that-are-not-true]

just drew this all by my self hope you like it

[things-that-are-not-true]

scroll back up. this is an oil painting.

[lavenderlemniscate]

feels like im always recovering. when do i get to live

[lavenderlemniscate]

"it's okay to rest for as long as you need from burnout" how long is it actually going to take though. there's stuff i wanna do.

[2020knives]

ummm was OP on strawberries when they posted this? lol

[elitefourkylewantstobattle]

[notfinancialadvice]

This is so fucking embarrassing. This is one of the most embarrassing business quips I have ever seen in my entire vile career.

[birdsareblooming]

coat bath

[estrogenesis-eeveeangelion]

tag yourselves i'm the GREAT ROOM beside the GOURMET KITCHEN

[pocket-deer-belly]

i remade it in the sims 4

[octomorph]

This is the room where they grow their grout.

[dogpuppy]

[creepycrag]

Needlessly poetic in a way that draws your credibility into question. The whimsical typography also reduces the gravity of the statement. Please see the revised edition attached below.

[a-book-of-creatures]

So uh

They found a whole lot of the rest of Spicomellus, aka one of the oldest ankylosaurians

Turns out it's also the spikiest

And apparently sacral shields and tail weapons go all the way back too

(Image from Maidment et al., 2025).

[i-draws-dinosaurs]

whoa WHAT

this is the guy who was previously known from literally just This:

and was thought to be some kind of weird ankylosaur but WOW this is not how anybody expected it to look, that is WILD

“Bizarre” armoured dinosaur Spicomellus afer rewrites ankylosaur evolution | Natural History Museum

The world’s most unusual dinosaur is even stranger than first realised.

[lick-the-saltlamp]

New!!! Favorite!!! Guy!!!

[hidden-but]

Let me once again highlight the fact that this guy has bony spike on its ribs.

to quote the NHM article linked above:

“This is completely unlike any animal living or dead, and raises real questions about how this animal moved,” Susannah explains. “Normally, bones like the ribs are used for muscle attachment, but because of the spikes it’s hard to tell where the muscles could have gone.” “Frankly, we have very little idea about how this dinosaur would have moved at all.”

Like, the extreme spikes on the neck and above hips are one thing, and they hypothesize on their evolutionary origin and relation with other ankylosaurs, but wtf was it doing with a spiky ribs.

[octomorph]

Punk's not extinct.

[foone]

I accidentally glitched out an animation I was working on and created a perfect example of what the passage of time feels like to someone with ADHD

[tmbgareok]

How was YOUR Record Store Day? Lists of hauls, photos, tales of digging welcome.

[octomorph]

Don't blame me if the guy's a nut!

[seat-safety-switch]

In recent years, there have been a lot of arguments about the nature of objective truth. Because it's so easy and fun to lie, people do it a lot. Sometimes, people do it so much that other people find it hard to understand what "lies" are anymore. Then they start lying to themselves. Science was supposed to fix this, but it turns out that science is not very good at being as entertaining as the liars. That's why we invented fiction.

In case you're unfamiliar with the concept, head on down to your local library. Then, ask the librarian to take you to the section that's full of lies. Yep, that's right: the fiction section is books about things that didn't happen. They're not real. Even if there's real people in this book, the things they're doing are fake. You can finish the book, and not call the cops afterward because you have a hot tip on "the Little Red Riding Hood murders." She killed that wolf in self-defence, anyway, even if it was execution-style at point blank range.

Now that you know there's a convenient place to go get entertaining lies from, you can be more suspicious about everything else you read. See a news article that made you hyper mad about something that you don't really understand? You just checked out like thirty books and you gotta finish them all before you have to give them back to the library. No time to be mad, only time to discover what really happened to that band of intrepid British teenagers who travelled to the Tomb of the Underdeep in order to liberate Milton Friedman's bejewelled skull. Crooked politicians won't be able to send you text messages about child-eating foreigners while you're busy reading, and you'll probably cancel family dinner with your more reactionary parents in order to dive into a murder mystery, too.

Through constant exposure to low-grade, non-threatening lies, you will become resistant to them being shoved down your throat in the future. Like a magic potion of resistance; what boring people would call a "vaccine." Of course, you can always go read the non-fiction section if you want to keep track of the world around you. Why would you, though? It's much more fun to read about dragons than penguins.

[batmanbeyondrocks]

Black Menswear modelled by Black Men

Creative Director Rock Mitchell

[kowabungadoodles]

[octomorph]

23 seconds in and it's already over for the rest of 'em.

[punkitt-is-here]

nothing I take less seriously then people who say "oh my gods" come on now girl

[zonky420]

americans know that theres religions that have more than one god, right?

like i can give you a list of polytheist religions if you need it

[punkitt-is-here]

i would post this shit if I was a natural born citizen of Jupiter

[punkitt-is-here]

I'm seeing some replies and I wanna add these tags since it's on the money, haha

[legendaryvermin]

If nothing else, it's deeply uncreative. Like, by polytheistic standards is kind of a brick headed minced oath.

It's the result of people coming into polytheism while living in the intense background radiation of Christianity. "Don't take the Lord's name in vain" made "Oh my God" a swear on par with "Jesus Christ". People start messing about with polytheism and end up just mincing the existing oath they've always used, where -devoid of the context of Christianity's treatment of the name of God as sacred and status as deity singular- it comes out clumsy.

Swearing is about transgression and the profane. Fuck is a swear because of taboos around talking openly about sex, shit about poop, and "oh my God" falls in with those. There isn't, in a polytheistic world view, much that's profane about invoking the idea of multiple gods alone.

"Thor's balls" on the other hand-

[octomorph]

"By the Gods!" is a little archaic, but it works if you can pull off a decent Brian Blessed voice.