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dankxsinatra

Where's his Oscar?

#my kid said I have to reblog this #they're very correct

viralfrog

littlegingermochipie

lmao the guys are indonesian so basically what they said throughout the video is "le, le, le! oper, lae!" (le, le, le! pass it to me, lae!) and then "masuk! masuk! masuk!" (get it inside! get it inside! get it inside!)

note: this funny video made by user ahmaddolisir on instagram

#get fucked fifa #these are the real world cup winners to me

caduceus-clay

WEIRD KIDS (2025-) 1.06 Saturdays, Mornings, & Cartoons

#taliesin jaffe #ashley johnson #lol #for folks who don't follow this show it's called weird kids #and taliesin and ashley just talk about their weird eccentrics mostly related to being child actors but also somewhat just who they are #and it's delightful and non judgemental #which makes this bit extra hilarious

maimonideznuts

Wait. So the Trump administration really cut funding to the program that would research and respond to the spread of New World Screwworm past the Darién Gap because they blamed it on climate change, and left the joint international program to Mexico and the Central American Countries... And are panicking now that it's reached Texas, and only now that the flies have already made it all the way from Panama to Texas are they building New facilities to produce the sterile male flies needed to eradicate the pest?

I'm sorry to everyone who lives on the entire continent.

America is Trump's pump and dump scheme. If he's not getting a third term then he'll break the country for whatever poor soul has to clean up his mess.

wyf-of-bathe

New World screwworm had been eradicated from the US since the 1960s, Elon Musk brought it back in a year.

Notably, DOGE cut the funding a few days before the US resumed imports of cattle from Mexico... the imports that had been suspended because of the screwworm outbreak in Mexico. So we've had a year of importing cattle from Mexico during a screwworm outbreak without monitoring the outbreak that we already knew about. Mexico's outbreak is pretty bad btw, and cases have been found not just in cattle and dogs but also humans. I assume the rest of Central America too. Not that many people seem to give a fuck about them ig.

thatdisasterauthor

In exactly the same vein, the department meant to deal with things like bedbugs...is now infested with bedbugs.

onebadlich

Alright I gotta correct some information on this post because y'all have stumbled into a topic I am passionate about. First of all, fuck Trump, fuck Elon, and fuck DOGE. They 100000% have made this fight harder. However let's make sure we're getting our accusations right so they pack the appropriate punch.

1. In 2023, NWS broke containment from the sterile fly barrier that the U.S. and Panama has established over the Darien Gap. There are many hypotheses as to what happened here (funding issues impacting the sterile fly program? fly behavioral changes causing them to prefer wild type males? Realistically probably both and more). None of those hypotheses can tie back to DOGE because it didn't exist yet other than in Elon's wet dreams.

2. After breaking containment the fly spread north through Central America and into Mexico very quickly. This is partly because flies... fly. But a lot of it was due to illegal cattle movements in the region. These types of movements are common and have existed for a while, which is part of the reason the region has a hard time containing other animal diseases (bovine tuberculosis being the first one that springs to mind). So nothing new, but now those movements are spreading NWS.

3. In 2024, NWS hit Mexico and USDA suspended imports of (most) live mammals from Mexico. Trump's administration DID immediately reduce those restrictions upon taking office in January 2025. Also DOGE cut a shit ton of employees and funding from USDA in 2025, including the agency responsible for NWS preparedness. Feel free to be mad at them for that; I will not stop you.

4. In May 2025, the administration re-suspended imports of most live mammals from Mexico. They tried reopening in July 2025, but it only lasted a day before they had to close it again. Live animal movements from Mexico have since been suspended. There are normal exceptions here for certain species undergoing certain preventions. Here's your source if you want more nitty-gritty details: https://www.aphis.usda.gov/sites/default/files/import-alert-nws-mexico.pdf

Anyone claiming the border is open to cattle hasn't been paying attention at all the HEAVY impacts the border closure has had on the Mexican and U.S. cattle economy. While no one wants the fly, many ranchers are going out of business without feeder cattle from Mexico flowing into the United States. Yes, this is one of the reasons beef prices in the U.S. are so high. But it was also to delay the arrival of NWS, so opinion is mixed as to whether it's worth it.

Honestly this NWS arrival in the U.S. became inevitable a while ago. You can blame Trump and DOGE for many things, but they didn't cause the fly to break containment and they haven't had permissive import policies. Pests and pathogens don't give a flying fuck (if you'll forgive the pun) about politics, though of course funding for disease prevention and response deeply matters in how these fights go. The EU, Asia, and Africa are fighting foot-and-mouth disease and African swine fever; the Western Hemisphere is fighting NWS; the whole world is fighting avian influenza. The politics differ deeply here, but inadequate funding for any reason will always be a driver of failed disease eradication campaigns.

Ok, rant over.

#vet med #screwworm

teaboot

One time when I was like three years old I was laying in my mom’s bed, and I don’t remember what we were talking about except I was being fussy about having to do something, and just like whenever I was being like that she asked, “are you trying to pick a fight?”

And I didn’t really know what that meant, only that I always said no, but for some reason or another I was very annoyed and a fight sounded pretty good so for the first time ever I said “yes”

And I don’t know what I was expecting to happen, but I remember my mom just going “Okay, then. Let’s fight. What do you want to fight about?”

And I remember it occurring to me all of a sudden that the onus was on me to generate the energy to pick something to be mad about, and wishing she’d just do something worth fighting FOR me, but she just went, “I’m not the one who wants to fight. If you want to fight, you have to pick something to fight about”

and I just went ugh. Never mind, that’s too much work. So said “I don’t wanna fight actually, I’m just cranky” and she told me “okay well just say that next time” and in hindsight that was actually probably a very important formative experience

ahundredhundredheartbeats

Saying “you wanna GO?!” to a toddler as a means of teaching emotional awareness and social skills

#as the parent of small children let me commend your mom on finding exactly the right age to teach you that lesson #2 year olds will throw hands but more in a sensory seeking how-does-my-body-work way so this lesson would have meant nothing at 2 #3 year olds are at the point of trying to decide whether to choose violence #4 year olds have decided that the answer to that question is yes #it is always time for violence at 4 #my 4 year old would have thrown a punch before I'd even finished offering #they then spend all of 4 being furious at the world for getting annoyed at them #and somewhere around 5 reason enters the room #I love my children and these stages are important #but 4 is to be survived #ideally without anyone getting traumatized

krestawo

and my hawke ⚔️

#dragon age 2 #da2 #fenris #absolutely gorgeous

kushichiba

#aftg #all for the game #I've always loved how much Neil hated having his father's smile #this is a great depiction of what that might look like

tswizzlesfan

happy pride month to mr. be gay do crime and mr. be crime do gay 🌈

(ft andreil by @dshr-art aka actual perfection)

#aftg #all for the game #God I love them both so much

morggo

2026 - 2025 - 2024 - 2023

in spite of it all, happy 2026 pride.

you can download current and past hi-res versions of these over at my ko-fi (ok to print for personal use): https://ko-fi.com/mxmorgan/shop/freedownloads

you can also snag shirts here which go to various orgs: https://mxmorgan.threadless.com/collections/pride

these get reposted a whole lot from here to reddit to twitter to tiktok and on and on, and i don't personally care whether or not i'm credited. i made these for everyone to use, enjoy, and find meaning in them. i appreciate folks who do credit me, but if able, please at least link to the threadless shop in the previous post - folks can get an official shirt where 90% of earnings go to trans led orgs focused on mental health (which is an important matter in general, but very personal to me) and not from a scam bot site selling AI-churned maga garbage where you probably won't get one anyway. i also suggest downloading the files from my ko-fi - they are free/PWYW and you can use them to make your own shirt, patch, embroidery project, whatever. tips are always nice, cuz i do like a pizza now and then, but never required for download.

final thought - breaking the pride tradition and more than likely won't make a new piece. the top one from TDOV is all i'm making this year. i have my focus on other projects currently and i don't want to force a poster design. these came from a specific head space and my current head space is Very Tired lmao so i wanna work on other things. 👍

#happy pride

softlyfiercely

i love how weird kids are. they make up the most bizarre stuff when left to their own devices and it's never what an adult would naively predict a kid would do in their imaginative play

my friend's 5 year old recently got a toy veterinary medicine set - it's super cool, like one of those mini play kitchens a lot of kids have, but it's set up to pretend to be a vet (it's this thing) - it has stuffed animals and things to weigh them, give them medicine, take x-rays, write on their charts, etc.

so this kid, who is five and to my knowledge has no experience in the administrative bureaucracy of modern healthcare, puts a stuffed pig named Piggy on the exam table. she pretends to draw blood from Piggy using a fake syringe, and the blood goes into a toy test tube vial that she calls "the resulter"

i'm playing with her, right, so i'm like, awesome, what are the results of Piggy's blood test? and she says "we have to send it to the scientists." so we send the vial to the scientists (put it in her bedroom) and when we get back to the vet playset i'm like awesome what did the scientists say? and she says they have not gotten back to us yet

so she rolls her eyes, exasperated, and says we have to call the scientists. she pretends to call them. apparently, they tell her that Piggy's blood test is "at the bottom of the list" and "we have to WAIT." she frowns. we wait a bit longer and call them back. they tell us it will be a while! she says we should go ask the scientists in person so we go back to her bedroom and she inquires at this imaginary lab, at which point the scientists yell at her and tell her now they will make us wait even longer!

keep in mind she is 100% directing this play. she is making all this up. she is fully in control of this game, and she has decided that what we are going to pretend is that we are dealing with this exhausting nonsense, not actually treating Piggy.

finally the blood tests come back. they are inconclusive. the scientists do not know what is wrong with Piggy. the little girl walks back to the stuffed pig on the exam table, sighs deeply, and says in a very serious voice "we can never help you."

i'm obsessed with this kid. when given complete control over a make believe scenario, instead of becoming the heroic rescuer administering effective cures, she is instead a beleaguered vet making multiple calls to an overworked lab only to be left unable to help her patient.

10/10 no notes. kids are amazing

#vet med #it does feel like this sometimes

fresh-bag-of-ham

Copyright governs who has the "right" to produce and distribute "copies" of books/music/movies/creative works. This is where fair use doctrine applies, because most creative works are referential by nature.

Weird Al is allowed to parody everything because he's operating under copyright law, not trademark law.

Trademark governs who can "trade" under what "mark" i.e. the brand identity of a company. Companies don't own their trademarked word forever, but they maintain the exclusive right to sell things under that brand in their specific market sector. Patagonia doesn't own the name of a geographical region, they just own the right to be the only company using that name to sell clothing and outdoor gear.

A drag queen name can be a parody of a clothing and outdoor gear company.

A company's trademarked logo can be used in parody creative works, with more leeway if it's not for commercial purposes. Trademark parody is allowed! Patagonia has been aware of and allowed Pattie Gonia's trademark parody for years.

Trademarks are specific to market sector. Actress Chase Infiniti could start a makeup line named after herself and her trademark would not infringe on the Infiniti car brand because they are different markets and there is no risk of confusion. Pattie Gonia could probably trademark her name to sell frozen veggie burgers and Patagonia would not care.

Drag queen Jan Sport did a collab with JanSport bags. What Jan Sport almost certainly did not do is independently apply to register "Jan Sport" as a trademark in order to sell bags on her own, because that would infringe on JanSport's own trademark in the bag market sector.

What Pattie Gonia is not allowed to do -- the thing that Pattie Gonia actually did do and is being sued for -- is apply to register "Pattie Gonia" as a trademark to sell clothing, because apparently Pattie is in talks with North Face and HydroFlask to sell "Pattie Gonia"-branded gear. These companies probably won't finalize anything unless Pattie shows that she actually owns the trademark. Unfortunately, "Patagonia" is already a registered trademark in the clothing market sector, and these two names are too similar to exist in the same sector (see: "likelihood of confusion" legal standard).

Your drag queen name can parody a clothing company. You can parody the trademarked logo of a clothing company. But you cannot use the same name to then go on to also become a clothing company.

In order to maintain their own trademark, Patagonia must sue for trademark infringement. If they don't sue, and Pattie Gonia gets her own trademark, Pattie could sue Patagonia for infringement on her trademark. You can see why Patagonia won't be dropping this suit no matter how much you harass them.

Yes, Pattie's legal fees to fight this will cost more than the $1 she's being sued for. Pattie could also not fight this, withdraw her trademark application, not spend any money, and carry on being an environmental activist drag queen named Pattie Gonia. She would probably be better off making nice with Patagonia in the hopes of a Jan Sport-esque deal where Pattie designs an exclusive fabric and Patagonia maintains the trademark, but apparently Pattie's legal team has been sassing off to Patagonia in their communications for years, has applied for a trademark they should 100% know they'll never get, and has now decided to play the victim on social media just in time for Pride month, so I don't know how likely that is. I guess we'll see!

sexshopshenanigans

This is mostly correct, but I’d like to offer a small correction. The product deal with Hydroflask and North Face apparently occurred in 2022, and HydroFlask got Patagonia involved to make sure everything was in the clear. It seems like Patagonia was very agreeable about everything at the time, and only asked that Pattie Gonia and her partners avoid using the Patagonia logo and font or similar images, and to avoid putting the words “Pattie Gonia” on any products. This is the email exchange from 2022, from the recent Patagonia trademark complaint, including Pattie Gonia apparently agreeing to the limitations.

The new conflict is from Pattie Gonia using the Patagonia imagery and the Pattie Gonia name on her own merchandise. This is the email Patagonia sent, with the images they feel conflict with the 2022 agreement.

Pattie responded to that by disagreeing that she had broken any agreement, and also obliquely threatening to expose Patagonia for making tactical gear for the US military?

It’s possible that Patagonia understood the terms from 2022 to be a good-faith ongoing agreement about keeping the brands separate, and Pattie interpreted it as an agreement limited to the now-ended North Face and Hydroflask collaboration. It’s also possible that Pattie Gonia didn’t believe she was actually agreeing to anything at all, since her responses were very neutral, though positive in tone, up until 2025. The email chain does, however, show what I think is a very clear effort on Patagonia’s part to protect their trademark while also showing support and goodwill towards Pattie in her use of the Pattie Gonia stage persona.

scarlet-rosepetals

Reblogging this because I think it provides an interesting explanation of the legal side of this whole mess, but to be clear the Only Correct Reaction here is to understand that copyright and trademark are Fucking Stupid, not to get out your torches and pitchforks to defend teh poor innocent cowpowation from a scawy yucky-wucky dwag queen.

Pattie selling shit with her stage name on it Really Obviously isn’t going to have any negative effect on the continued lining of Patagonia CEO pockets, as if that even fucking matters, and no amount of waxing poetic about “well they have to 🥺🥺🥺” is going to make me say anything other than “fucking stupid if true then”.

Y’all gotta stop jumping to defend corpos just because blah blah trademarks blah blah copyrights. As the famous post implies y’all are not temporarily embarrassed vivzipops.

fresh-bag-of-ham

You will struggle to defend Pattie Gonia with the argument that "trademarks are fucking stupid" when this all started because Pattie applied for a trademark of her own.

In terms of whose pockets are being lined:

Rather than selling the company or taking it public, Mr. Chouinard, his wife and two adult children have transferred their ownership of Patagonia, valued at about $3 billion, to a specially designed trust and a nonprofit organization. They were created to preserve the company’s independence and ensure that all of its profits — some $100 million a year — are used to combat climate change and protect undeveloped land around the globe.

The unusual move comes at a moment of growing scrutiny for billionaires and corporations, whose rhetoric about making the world a better place is often overshadowed by their contributions to the very problems they claim to want to solve.

At the same time, Mr. Chouinard’s relinquishment of the family fortune is in keeping with his longstanding disregard for business norms, and his lifelong love for the environment.

(NYT Gift Link)

Since 2022, 100% of Patagonia's profits have gone to climate and environmental causes. They have completely restructured the ownership of the company so that this will continue in perpetuity.

I like Pattie Gonia and I admire her environmental activism, but Patagonia's $100 million toward climate causes every year forever has orders of magnitude more impact. I support Patagonia maintaining its trademark however necessary to continue this work, and it is actually deeply distasteful to me that Pattie is willing to spin this routine trademark suit as "a corporation trying to erase an activist" when there is very obviously no path to legal victory and the only possible outcome is reputational damage to the only major corporation literally ever that has been singularly, intentionally, innovatively, and against all odds structured to give a fuck. Patagonia is a unicorn among corporations and we are starting a smear campaign against it for what. Selling slightly different t-shirts? Crab bucket ass activism.

#patagonia #there is literally one corporation on the planet I will defend and it's Patagonia #for the reasons outlined here #and also because I used to work with an impoverished population overseas #and several folks I worked with were out in the rain day after day with no rain gear #so I asked Patagonia if they'd be willing to donate a couple of rain jackets to them #and they sent me DUFFELS of free clothing for them #and continued to do so for a couple years #and the only thing they asked in return was a single photo of some folks wearing the jackets that they could put in their newsletter #so yeah #this is one company on the planet that is doing almost everything right #if you look at the lawsuit they are doing the absolute minimum they need to do to avoid a larger legal issue #and it pisses me off that people are not looking into this closer

point-maitimo

Oh, I completely forgot to share - yesterday was my birthday!!! I would be grateful for reposts, and thank you so much for supporting my art! I'm so glad to share my paintings with you 😄🎉

#dragon age #mass effect #y'all need to follow them #their art is so ridiculously good

geyfrog

*puts my hand on your shoulder* Don’t worry, I have your back. We’re gonna turn this crisis into a crwaswas

#lol

saiintval

So what if I teach myself to animate so I can make andreil kiss hehe

#aftg #all for the game #andrew minyard #neil josten #oh shit #this is incredible

cleo-fox

Writing tips:

“You feel the bulge in his pants” - implies that you are feeling some guy’s penis, may be sexy depending on context

“You feel the bugle in his pants” - implies that this guy has a military horn in his pants, invites confusing questions like why does he have that and how big are his pockets

maple-seed

Both options convey that he's horny

cleo-fox

How dare you be funnier than me on my own post

#lol

nixkxart

apologies in advance—

#aftg #all for the game #andrew minyard #I love this so much

redstonedust

for the record im not technially 100% anti-AI, in the sense that its a broad category of tech being lumped under one umbrella term so it feels over-zealous to say i hate all of it all the time forever. but i also think trying to discuss what it actually IS good for is difficult right now when i cant take one step without something trying to convince me to use chatgpt to summarize my life and speed up my hobbies and turn my friends into chatbots and optimize my life into oblivion. i am certain there is nuance to the topic but can we stop cramming the square peg into the round hole before you start trying to sell me on the legitimate benefits of the square peg. please.

ralfmaximus

Neural Nets have existed for decades and are genuinely useful. It's a form of AI that recognizes patterns, and can do stuff like identify cancer cells, tell whether an egg is fertilized or not, detect fraud, and optimize routes.

Those are Expert Systems, tuned to do exactly one thing. If you (say) ask a medical expert system a question about financial law, it's useless. The autopilot that flies a 787 has no idea how to drive a truck on the freeway. A Coulter Counter is excellent at identifying lymphocytes in a blood sample but can't predict the next card in a blackjack game.

And so on.

The problem with so-called generalized AI (AGI) is that we don't have that yet. It doesn't exist. It MIGHT some day, but AGI has been "10 years away" since the 1980s. The goals keep moving as we learn more about how people and machines process data.

But the current crop of AI techbros have been selling generative Large Language Model AI (LLM) as AGI because generative systems do a good job of faking it. There's no actual thought going on, merely the illusion of thought via predicting the next word in a sentence accurately.

If you let a human toddler listen to 800 hours of YouTube car influencer videos, that toddler might end up sounding like a car influencer. They'd parrot horsepower numbers and 0 to 60 times, mention EV range and MSRP numbers.

But they wouldn't understand any of it.

That's ChatGPT.

And yeah, it's worse than useless because it doesn't even know when it's lying or hallucinating. It just babbles convincingly until you stop it.

But for techbros to make money selling that as "AI"? It's the perfect scam, especially if you don't understand how it works.

I fucking hate it.

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