For great Justice!

[abihuluv2hate]

[checkyourasianbias]

[creatingblackcharacters]

Shit, the way things are going, racial slurs, racist jokes, and the N word have become socially acceptable too. The bar, already in hell, has gone lower and still!

[kosmogrl]

Dont blame yourself for not having known a lesson only time could teach

[banhmigoddess]

My one boring tip to anyone in their 20s is to resist the temptation to rot in your room every time you get a free moment. Dismiss any neuroses you have about going outside and "being perceived". Be a dictator about it, plan your hangouts like they are binding commitments. No excuses! Go to the bar with your friends. Be kinda hungover at work. Socializing is like exercise; even if you don't feel like you want to, you should still do it because it's good for you.

[tahthetrickster]

socializing works a little bit like a car battery and alternator. if you continue to make yourself go out and do things, your social alternator makes it infinitely more manageable for you to continue to go out and do things. if you let yourself be completely idle for too long, the alternator doesn't get to keep charging your battery and eventually it runs completely down and it's nearly impossible to go out and do stuff with a dead social battery. you can always get it jumped again by a friend who's willing to do so, but as with a real car battery it's kind of a whole Thing and the first time out with a jumped battery is still really shaky and weird and anxiety-inducing and all of this could've been avoided if you'd just gone to the arcade or whatever

[wilwheaton]

“Donny is frustrated. The Wall Street Journal reports that at a recent White House meeting, President Trump “launched into a tirade against Iranian leaders, calling them scumbags and lunatics, and unleashing a series of expletives.” He is worried that the war is “consuming his presidency.” He doesn’t understand why those silly mullahs don’t understand that he’s Mr. Art of the Deal.”

—

Trump Just Gave Us a Horrible New Reason to Worry About the Iran War | The New Republic

Hey, stupid, maybe you shouldn’t have started a war you can’t win! Or maybe you shouldn’t have started a war that countless intelligent people told you would go exactly this way! Or maybe you should have thought more than one move ahead! Or you should have thought at all!

Fuck everyone who voted for this piece of shit, and fuck every republican in congress for enabling this disaster.

[punissuer]

Especially the latter. They had every chance to reign him in, and he gave them more than enough reasons and opportunities to do so. But instead they did the exact opposite, backing his escapades every step, even going so far as redefining basic units of measurement to keep themselves from doing so… There needs to be a Nuremberg style trial when this regime finally crumbles.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/10/us/congress-johnson-calendar.html

[wilwheaton]

“Only George H.W. Bush successfully prosecuted a short war. Why? Because the Persian Gulf War had one very specific and contained goal: force Saddam Hussein out of Kuwait. One can agree or disagree with his decision to launch the war, but at least it was aimed at doing one and only one small and specific thing. The neocons were imploring him to march on to Baghdad. He said no, you people are crazy. Then his dumb son got to the White House, and he put the crazies (led by Dick Cheney) in charge, and they launched a war based not on one specific goal but on a theory—that regime change in Iraq would help spread democracy throughout the Middle East. Do we think Trump gave these matters two minutes’ worth of thought before he decided to start this war? We know the answer to that question. Of course he didn’t. Because to Trump, the laws of history don’t apply to him. He’s different. And Benjamin Netanyahu, who according to Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan did the lion’s share of the work of convincing Trump to do this, knew perfectly how to feed Trump’s vanity and take advantage of his total historical ignorance.”

— Trump Just Gave Us a Horrible New Reason to Worry About the Iran War

[punissuer]

Democracy is the last thing the US wants in the countries they're getting the oil from…

[oneheadtoanother]

[punissuer]

Frogs are a symbol of resistance now, so

[laughingsquid]

Artist Creates a Giant Pill Bottle Side Table

[fuckyeahchinesefashion]

How to do heart-shaped cat-eye nail art BY a a金库

[penny-anna]

Now you see, I’ve watched enough cartoons to know that this square of the carpet is on a separate animation cell from the background & therefore something funky will happen if I step on it. You won’t catch me making a rookie mistake like that no sir!

[lisaonatree]

Did you step on it?

[penny-anna]

I forgot it was there & stepped on it, plummeting through the concealed trapdoor into the cellars. Please send help.

[lisaonatree]

Help it’s on its way!

By the way, are the bricks all the same colour?

[penny-anna]

I can’t see anything! It’s pitch black down here. All that’s visible is my eyes.

[damndinarzade]

Just make sure there isn’t a second, more dangerous pair of eyes somewhere around yours

[secondmoredangerouseyes]

Hey

[medieval-madness]

Let’s look at some elephants

*insert Backrooms reference here*

Okay where to start…first of all, the trunk isn’t too far off from reality, yeah the opening is too big and too round but they still got the wrinkles on the trunk correct so I’ll give them props for that. They got the tusks pretty close too. As for everything else? Well…yeah 😬

First of all, that tiny round ear…no elephant in the world has ears that shape, they make it look like this elephant lost his real ears in a terrible accident and had to get mouse ears transplanted onto him for whatever reason.

And the body…why’s the chest so square??? He looks like he can’t even raise his head. Tbh his body almost looks like a horse (except for his feet, which I’ll get to later), he even has a horse tail. Could the person who described elephants to the artist have used horses as a comparison maybe? That comparison wouldn’t make sense considering an elephant’s body looks nothing like a horse but idk…maybe the body wasn’t described to them so the artist just made a guess. But yeah, elephants don’t have long, thin, rectangular bodies, elephants are ROUND, baby.

Anyway, I find it amusing that the artist gave them toes and little claws. Elephants actually do have toes irl, if you look at an elephant’s skeleton you can see their feet actually have a pretty similar bone structure to a human foot (including toe bones), but we obviously can’t see them due to the stumpy shape of their foot. They do have toenails though, but definitely no claws.

So yeah, they did an okay job with the trunk and the tusks but everyone else…not so much.

Since this post is about elephants, I’m just gonna comment on the elephant here and leave the dragon out if it.

Anyway, like the caption says, this guy has no ears and a castle on his back. Let’s talk about the lack of ears first: jeez, you think the first guy having tiny mouse ears was bad? At least he has ears, this poor guy has none 😔

As for the castle on his back, is there some kind of mythology to that or did the artist just think it sounded grand to have a castle sitting on top of such a massive animal? If it’s the latter then that would make sense because they’re totally right, that’s awesome as hell lmao.

This one has a rounder body shape compared to the first one so that’s definitely an improvement. They still didn’t get it quite right though, it makes me think of a pig more than an elephant, it even has a curly tail. The feet are stumpier this time but the legs make me think of a horse, especially the hind leg. It does look like they added toenails to the elephant’s feet, so at least they kinda got that right, even if they are drawn pretty awkwardly (I also just looked up how many toenails elephants have: African savanna elephants have 14 (4 on the front feet and 3 on the back), Asian elephants have 18 (5 on the front feet and 4 on the back), and African forest elephants have 18 (5 on the front feet, 4 on the back).

This guy also has human-shaped eyes that are obviously way too big for him, but honestly I’m okay with that because it makes him look adorable lol. The way he’s looking up and frowning makes him look annoyed though, I wonder if he’s unhappy about having a castle on his back or if he’s annoyed by the dragon. Maybe both lol.

This trunk is smoother than the first elephant and has a similar round opening, also the lower lip is too long. The tusks are shaped pretty well, but it looks like they’re jutting out of his chin instead of his jaw lol.

Overall, definitely another very inaccurate design but still very cute.

Again, I’m only gonna comment on the elephants here.

First of all, even though those trumpet-shaped trunks are obviously inaccurate, I don’t mind at all because that’s clever as hell lol. Especially since the humans are playing trumpets of their own. The artist must’ve been aware that elephants make a trumpeting sound.

Everything else is once again wrong. Those tusks look more like a wild boar’s tusks or like two large fangs, an elephant’s are waaaaay longer than that.

The artist was almost close to making the ears look accurate to an Asian elephant’s ears but unfortunately they came out looking more like floppy dog ears. The forehead shape also makes me think of Asian elephants.

These elephants have long necks, something elephants very clearly don’t have. These body makes me think of a pig once again, their feet even look like pig trotters.

Obviously very inaccurate overall, but still a cool creature design (especially the trumpet trunk).

Another instance where the trunks look like trumpets lol. Strangely enough, their ears look trumpet-shaped as well, albeit very short ones. Now I’m imagining elephants that trumpet out of their trunks and ears lmao. That would actually be pretty cool, I’m ngl.

The tusks on these guys are pretty accurate. The lower lips are once again too long though.

The heads on these guys are way too small for their bodies, a problem every elephant in this post has had so far except for the earless guy with the castle on his back. An elephant’s massive head is one of the most noticeable things about them so it’s funny seeing how small they are in a majority of medieval manuscripts.

The bodies once again make me think of a pig, although here the legs are too long and they have tiny paws like a dog or a cat. An elephant’s big stumpy feet and big toenails are also one of the most noticeable things about them, why were the people who described elephants to these artists so bad at describing things lol.

The rails are pretty accurate though.

Once again very inaccurate, but I also wanna point out how cute it is that the bottom picture has a mom cuddling with her baby.

That’s all for now 🐘

[maniculum]

IIRC, the castle-elephant thing goes like this.

Medieval Europeans were very aware of the concept of “war elephants”, as they show up in a number of classical sources & said classical sources are where they get most of their conception of What Am Elephants. Alexander “the Great” is the origin point here, as he often is — he’s said to have captured some war elephants from the Persians, thought they were awesome, and immediately set about getting more & integrating them into his army. Medieval Europeans love Alexander, so now that’s wedged into the zeitgeist.

One of the effective uses of an elephant in pre-modern warfare is as a mobile weapons platform: you put a squad of archers or whatever in a howdah, and now they have the high ground no matter where they go. This is also sometimes the command post, because (1) it provides a vantage point from which one can see more of the battlefield and (2) officers considered riding around on an elephant to be sick as fuck.

Texts that talk about howdahs often refer to them as “turrets” or “towers”. A military howdah is usually made of wood & leather, of course, but Europeans don’t have a clear sense of how big elephants actually are, so they imagine actual stone towers or even full castles.

This castle-elephant iconography actually survives into the present day, in at least one form that I guarantee everyone reading this has seen:

Yeah, what did y’all think was letting those castles move around the board like that?

[oneheadtoanother]

[enki2]

[punissuer]

[ID: "maddie" (@madsssagascar) answering to Sen. Markwayne Mullin (US Secretary of Homeland Security) tweeting "ICE agents aren't Disney villains. They're our neighbors, friends, and loved ones/ These Immigration and customs enforcement officers are red-blooded American patriots doing a tough job to k…" by quoting Karl Stojka (Austrian Romani holocaust survivor): "It was not Hitler, Göring, Goebbels, Himmler, or whatever the others were called, who had me dragged away and beaten. No, it was the cobbler, the neighbor, the old man, the milkman, the postman, those without a form suddenly given armbands and a cap on their heads and then they were the master race."]

[punissuer]

Seems to be the same sentiment Ex-president Lyndon B. Johnson described: "If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you."

[punissuer]

What will happen, should they complete their goal of deporting all the "illegals"?

"Gesetzt den Fall, wir würden eines Morgens aufwachen und feststellen, daß plötzlich alle Menschen die gleiche Hautfarbe und den gleichen Glauben haben, wir hätten garantiert bis Mittag neue Vorurteile." ("Should we wake up one morning and find all our prejudices gone, people were all of the same color and status, guaranteed, by noon we had new ones.")

With that level of violence by then thoroughly normalized, who's gonna be the next scapegoat for why the country hasn't transformed into utopia yet?

[enki2]

[punissuer]

[ID: "maddie" (@madsssagascar) answering to Sen. Markwayne Mullin (US Secretary of Homeland Security) tweeting "ICE agents aren't Disney villains. They're our neighbors, friends, and loved ones/ These Immigration and customs enforcement officers are red-blooded American patriots doing a tough job to k…" by quoting Karl Stojka (Austrian Romani holocaust survivor): "It was not Hitler, Göring, Goebbels, Himmler, or whatever the others were called, who had me dragged away and beaten. No, it was the cobbler, the neighbor, the old man, the milkman, the postman, those without a form suddenly given armbands and a cap on their heads and then they were the master race."]

[punissuer]

Seems to be the same sentiment Ex-president Lyndon B. Johnson described: "If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you."

[enki2]

[punissuer]

[ID: "maddie" (@madsssagascar) answering to Sen. Markwayne Mullin (US Secretary of Homeland Security) tweeting "ICE agents aren't Disney villains. They're our neighbors, friends, and loved ones/ These Immigration and customs enforcement officers are red-blooded American patriots doing a tough job to k…" by quoting Karl Stojka (Austrian Romani holocaust survivor): "It was not Hitler, Göring, Goebbels, Himmler, or whatever the others were called, who had me dragged away and beaten. No, it was the cobbler, the neighbor, the old man, the milkman, the postman, those without a form suddenly given armbands and a cap on their heads and then they were the master race."]

[elisecairo]

[xsugarxglass]

This is some Scooby Doo shit XD

[pleatedjeans]

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