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Lil Nas X gives a life update.
add on to what that annon said about both of Rebecca Sugar's pronouns not being used in their article. Wikipedia genuinely sucks when it comes to using someone's pronouns, it's literally their policy to use they/them if someone only uses neo/xenopronouns
this is exorsexism
Was about to fall asleep and apropos of nothing was struck out of nowhere by a horrible future vision of a brightly-lit and saccharine 3D-AI Calvin and Hobbes movie with Scarlet Johanssen voicing the mom and Chris Pratt voicing Hobbes and experienced an emotional haptic jerk so chilling I feel like I just foresaw my own death
(Drenched in a cold sweat, visibly shaking) We Need To Warn Bill Watterson
No, we don't.
He knows.
He has always known.
Actual quote:
"I don't want some animation studio giving Hobbes an actor's voice, and I don't want some greeting card company using Calvin to wish people a happy anniversary, and I don't want the issue of Hobbes's reality settled by a doll manufacturer. When everything fun and magical is turned into something for sale, the strip's world is diminished. 'Calvin and Hobbes' was designed to be a comic strip and that's all I want it to be. It's the one place where everything works the way I intend it to"
This was in the 1990's, pre-AI, pre- Chris Pratt, pre- Cinematic Universes, and if he was opposed to it then, he sure as hell wouldn't be okay with it now.
I think he probably experienced the same nightmare dystopian vision of the future you saw, but fortunately he had it like 40 years earlier.
oh thank heavens
I think your perfect dog is in Arizona.
oh.......Bruno......
Of course no heuristic is universally true, but I think if you're an american who considers themselves "progressive" this is a rule of thumb you should probably be considering more often: If the conversation you're currently participating in is only able to happen because someone is going out of their way to speak *your* language, that's probably not the person who's most in need of informing themselves about the other's country in this conversation.
It's just such a common pattern, how when you disagree with an american about something like e.g. the idea that it's unfair to hate members of the US military, the american will always walk into the conversation with the unshakable assumption that the only reason why you could possibly disagree with them is because *you* are not informed enough about *their* country, that you obviously are not aware of how bad veterans have it once they return home, or of the conditions of poverty and systemic inequality that might drive someone to see the military as their only chance for upward mobility, or of how aggressively military recruiters campaign, or how much propaganda they make, or how they take advantage of systemic inequality to recruit from disadvantaged populations, or a million other things which they will inherently assume you lack an understanding of and proceed to condescendingly explain to you.
All the while they refuse to entertain even for one second the possibility that it might be *them* who has something to learn about *your* country, that they might not be informed enough about the violence and terror the US military enacted upon your people, that *they* might lack some awareness or understanding of the cruelty and suffering that those poor, propagandized, systemically disenfranchised kids lied to by recruiters gladly participated in enacting which might drive even people who are fully aware of their conditions to still harbor resentment towards them. The possibility that the other person might have a better understanding of the conditions in their country than viceversa and still disagree with them will never even cross their mind.
for a long time now, one of my go-to phrases is "shake it like a can of beans." im not really sure where this came from, but i've been saying it for three years or so. it never really occurred to me that this was unusual until yesterday when i was bouncing a baby in a rocker a little too violently (he was having a great time, it just wasnt exactly sending him to sleep) and i went "sorry, im shaking him like a can of beans over here" and both my coworkers reacted like i had said something insane
list of other things i've said that my coworkers really like:
everybody in the club getting baby (when 5 or more babies are fussy)
going absolute baby mode over there/he's activating baby mode (when the 10 month old is having a fit)
i play my blue eyed white baby (said when setting a specific baby on the floor)
sick 'em! (said when setting any other baby on the floor)
call her regina, she's a little bit dramatic (this is one of my go to phrases)
into the gladiator pit!/hey have you ever seen gladiator? (when two babies start wrestling/fighting) (i have not seen gladiator)
she's ready for college (when the three month old lifts her head to look around)
lock in, brother (i say this the most)
i say most of these phrases at least daily.
one of the babies was getting picked up and started screaming as soon as her dad pulled her from her crib (where she'd been sleeping) and i instinctively said "that's what we in the industry call: baby moding" and he started laughing so hard he almost dropped her
No, no, and NO.
AO3 does not live in “the cloud” because that is other people’s computers, and other people’s computers are vulnerable to censorship.
AO3 is on its own computers. It does still have to be housed somewhere, and I suppose a determined enough hater could try to find that place and go after it, but it’s a lot harder than sending spurious complaints to Amazon or whomever going “BadWrong things are hosted on your cloud service!”
Owning the servers is a core tenet of OTW/AO3.
Warming up a new database server….
When people involved with AO3 talk about “the cost of servers” they don’t mean “the cost to pay Amazon for space on their servers.” They mean, like, the cost to physically own them, and eventually replace them with new ones. And the operating costs to run them.
AO3 is not “in the cloud.” AO3 is stored on physical machines that the OTW owns.
While this is not a solution that can work for everyone who wants to deal with controversial content, it is why AO3ple sneer at alt-righters who complain about getting thrown off hosting platforms.
been thinking about grace and adrian being alike
Felis Concolor the Mountain Lion
mountain lions are the biggest of the small cats (Small Cats can purr but can't roar and are all more related to each other than to any of the Big Cats, who can roar but not purr and are all more related to each other than they are to any of the small cats. Basically.)
they can get to be 200+ lbs, hold on
okay do you know how hard it is to find a picture of a large mountain lion next to a human that is NOT a picture of someone bragging about how they've murdered it? Finally found this, from a team tranquilizing mountain lions to put tracking collars on them
if you can't make out the writing, it says: "Brian Kertson, right, and Bart George sit next to a 197-pound cougar they caught and collared on Monday, March 5, 2018. Kerston, who is 6-foot-2 and 270, said the tom cat’s forearms made his arms look puny. (Brian Kerston / Courtesy)"
when they aren't drugged they look a liiiiitle more impressive
they are incredible climbers and astounding jumpers.
They can leap 20 feet straight up in the air from a stand still. That's from the ground to the roof of a two story apartment building. With a running start they can jump across a 40 foot river.
Their favorite hunting method is Jump Upon Creature, often from a high point on a tall rock or from in a tree. And that means you get pictures like this
everytime this crosses my notes again and i see that bottom picture i'm like "aw, BABY"
that one on the bottom is about 9 months old imo
The fur is texutred in a way that my brain reads as juvenile and not the smooth uniform adult coat, but idk how reliable that is.
For sure tho the body proportions look young, and it looks young in the face. Plus you can still see some of the stripey spots they have as kittens left over on the legs
Cougars kittens start off spotty, like so
Some of the spots can be kinda stripey, especially on the legs and tail. As they grow up, the spots fade, and from what i've seen, seem to stay longest or most noticeably on the legs
on the one jumping, you can see what looks like the remains of juvenile spots
the spots are usually faded almost completely by aroooound 6 months old.
I think the mountain lion in the bottom pic of the original post
is probably a couple months or so older than this one, which i would put right around six months maybe
baaaybee
And look at the muscles on that one in the snow
I was climbed like a tree by a panther kitten in a controlled environment.
She was about twenty pounds and a couple of months old, and was absolutely going to try and take down my niece, who was a toddler at the time.
Shown here gnawing on my ex.
we are in the midst of a friday ass thursday. keep your wits about you.
The Weather Channel's AQI is broken (apparently the entire planet is hazardous to breathe right now, oops) but the scale only goes up to 500 so I am in tears at how the little indicator loads in upon a refresh.
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shipping a consensual, safe & sane pairing all the while i'm shaking my head in disapproval so the audience knows i still love wildly toxic abusive fictional dynamics