Random Thoughts

[onedirectionforever]

“you support gay rights so you must be gay”

i support animal rights do i look like a fucking alpaca to you

[onedirectionforever]

turns out i am gay

[monsieurenjlolras]

holy shit how’d this alpaca learn how to type

[mywitchcultblr]

Diversity win! The alpaca is gay!

[adreamthatsworthkeeping]

[thebirdkiwi]

he was a llama

[bansheeschampion]

[thesuperheroesnetwork]

Texts From Superheroes

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[luminouslumity]

[faustique]

there's a special place in my heart for people who made an effort to be my friend regardless of how quiet or distant i can get at times

[reappearedinavision]

[chkq-deactivated20260531]

what

[tim-ee-sis]

[entrapped]

[stedesparasol]

Film Fortnight: Comedy What We Do on the High Seas (a.k.a Interviews With Some Vampirates)

[yourreddancer]

The European Union already forced Apple to abandon its proprietary charging port and adopt USB-C across its entire iPhone lineup. It just did something bigger. A new EU mandate requires every smartphone sold in Europe including Apple devices to feature a battery that can be replaced by the user without specialist tools, without voiding a warranty, and without sending the device to a manufacturer approved service center. Batteries must maintain a minimum capacity threshold after a set number of charge cycles and replacement parts must remain available for up to ten years after a model goes on sale.

The consumer electronics industry built its current business model around batteries that degrade, cannot be replaced at home, and create a natural upgrade cycle every two to three years. The EU just legislated that model out of existence in the world's largest regulatory market.

Apple, Samsung, and every other manufacturer now faces a choice between redesigning their devices for the European market or accepting that their current hardware architecture is no longer legally sellable there.

Given that no company walks away from European consumers voluntarily the phones are going to change and once they change for Europe the rest of the world will ask why theirs still do not.

[raptorific]

[oldshowbiz]

[seasonofhorror]

Addams Family Values (1993) | The Devil Wears Prada (2006)

[philomenacunksmatepaul]

[thesuperheroesnetwork]

Texts From Superheroes

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[thebelchers]

[porterdavis]

[mrorel]

On February 3, 2026, Rep. Ted Lieu (D-CA) stated in a press conference and on social media that recently released Jeffrey Epstein-related documents contain "highly disturbing allegations" that Donald Trump raped and threatened to kill children.

Lieu accused House Republicans and the Justice Department of attempting to distract from these allegations by focusing on others, and he pushed for full transparency.

[tyrannosaurus-sock]

Vice Chair of the Democratic Caucus Ted Lieu (D-CA) tells reporters the Epstein files contain allegations that President Trump raped and thr

Wish the video had been included in the OP rather than some random screengrab, since you can't embed videos in replies on tumblr.

[typhlonectes]

[digital-magus]

The left never radicalized, the center has just been dragged further and further right until we became radical by not moving.

[90377-sedna]

When I was 10 I asked my dad to explain politics to me and when he was done with his shockingly nuanced description of the American bipartisan system he asked me how I would structure the government if it was up to me. I described a world where everyone was paid what they needed, had a house, and enough food. He said, "Void-juice that's great, but you should know most people call that communism".

[littlethingwithfeathers]

I've told this story on here before but @void--juice's story made me think of it again... My dad worked for NASA and he did a lot of work on the telescopes that went up in the late 90s/early 2000s. I was a curious kid and I knew his work really mattered to my dad so I was always asking about when things were getting launched. Often the answer was "we're waiting on Congress for funding" or similar. And one time... I was probably about 10 years old, I said "well... I guess that makes sense. I'm sure going to space is one of the most expensive things we do." And my dad looks at me... I'll never forget the look on his face. He goes "What do you think the most expensive thing we do as a country is?" And I hemmed and I hawed because I was sure it wasn't the space program even though I was sure that had to be in the top three. My first guess was education. Everyone had to go to school. Nope. Roads? Bridges? Cars were everywhere. Nope. What about... things like electricity? Phone lines? Cable? Nope. "The military. By a factor of ten at least." I was gobsmacked. It was peacetime (at least by most reckoning... this was post-Gulf War and well before 9/11). What the hell was the military doing being so expensive if we weren't doing anything with it? So that was the moment I became a "radical." Because that was absolutely stupid and continues to be.

[thebelchers]

Bob’s Burgers, It Snakes a Village (S03E18)