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Gender Apathetic. Any Pronouns. Demi/Ace. UK. 30+

[wouldyouliketoseemymask]

[badluckcrow1]

“He’s got a million of them Harleen”

[frickmyrick-deactivated20170811]

DON’T ROMANTICIZE HARLEY AND THE JOKER’S RELATIONSHIP

[postilionstruckbylightning]

I always liked how this scene set up the Joker as someone who’d fooled a lot of people with his lies. Harley doesn’t fall for the Joker’s “tragic upbringing” routine because she’s stupid or lovestruck, she falls for it because he’s an expert manipulator who tailors his stories to whoever he’s talking to.

[calligraphypage]

Just feel like mentioning this real quick because the previous post started it and I wanna add on to it: 

Harleen Quinzel is a psychiatrist. She is educated. She is intelligent. She understands how people work and demonstrates it multiple times in the series. And the Joker got to her anyway, because that is what emotional manipulators do. When Batman laughs at her in “Mad Love”, he’s not mocking her. He’s laughing out of pity because he finally sees that Harley’s too blinded by love to see the Joker for what he really is. (Side note: The few times we ever see Batman laugh, it’s usually out of pity; see also “The Killing Joke”.) 

Good people get manipulated. Smart people get manipulated. What happened to Harley Quinn happens every day, sometimes to the strongest, smartest, best people you could ever meet. Emotional abuse and manipulation victims aren’t stupid, or gullible, or anything like that. And that’s what Harley’s story is meant to show people. Manipulation can happen to ANYONE. 

[deadlykillerqueen]

[switch-up-snowfox]

>They hate Epic Store

because it lacks features that steam has that are expected out of Epic, datamines steam data (which is doubly concerning because Epic’s 40% in Tencent’s pocket, a chinese company which means all the corporate fuckery is amped to 11) and its only competing by essentially poaching exclusives from steam, sometimes last minute.

>They hate Stadia

Because Stadia streams games to your console instead of letting you buy a digital copy to put on your PC or console or even by physical copies, which means there’s gonna be lag unless you get Jesus Himself to work on internet optimization.

>They hate VR

actually most people enjoy VR if only for things like VR chat, they just hate how its super expensive and impractical.

0/10 very cold take.

[newtgeiszler]

how dare…. the consumers of videogames….. have standards about the videogames they consume…..

[asexual-thot]

VR can also make some people sick. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_reality_sickness

[feministism]

[bunjywunjy]

Massive star Betelgeuse continues to act weird on an unprecedented scale, suggesting it might blow

Just a few months ago it was 2.5 times brighter, which means it could be thrashing around preparing to explode.

'acting weird on an unprecedented scale' is the title of my mixtape

[therodentqueen]

okay but

[medlit-study]

a French man will write something like “the structured structure is structured by structuring structures” and the academic community goes bananas

[hedgehog-moss]

I spent a while rummaging through my likes to find this post after stumbling upon this incredible sentence in a book today:

[americasgreatoutdoors]

Some otter nonsense for your weekend! The playful romping of these river otters at Yellowstone National Park is advantageous for them and fun to watch! These antics help them strengthen their social bonds and improve hunting techniques.

Whether you’re visiting the areas of Yellowstone National Park in Idaho, Wyoming or Montana, you’re sure to encounter beautiful scenery and the fantastic hard work of the National Park Service and Yellowstone staff. Please consider taking the #YellowstonePledge – a personal promise you make to help uphold behaviors that will protect the park.

One of the pledge actions is to give wildlife room and use a zoom. The safest way to view wildlife is through a telephoto lens, a spotting scope, or a pair of binoculars. Observing the pledge can insure a bright future of otter videos and so much more. Video of river otters playing by National Park Service.

[art-woonz]

Photographer Tatsuto Shibata 

For more: artwoonz.com

[green-algae]

Just in time for the rosiest holiday of the year, another diver has snapped a rare photo of Inspector Clouseau, the world’s only known pink manta ray.

First spotted lurking in the waters off Australia’s Lady Elliot Island in late 2015, the 11-foot male fish—cheekily named for the detective in the Pink Panther franchise—has been glimpsed only a handful of times since, reports Bethany Augliere for National Geographic. So rare are the sightings that Kristian Laine, the photographer behind Clouseau’s most recent close-up, was certain the ray’s coloration was an artifact of malfunctioning camera equipment.

Clouseau was concealed by seven other male manta rays, all flashing more typical white undersides. According to Australian Geographic, the fishy octet had assembled to vie for the attention of a nearby female—an elaborate courtship ritual that typically involves a lady ray releasing pheromones into the water before zooming away, triggering a train of males into giving chase.

[alliception]

Been rewatching lotr and brushing up on the Silmarillion. I wish we learned more about the other dragons though. Ancalagon sounds cool af!

[theorangedead]

[woo-sustainability]

this is here bc i thought it was a shitpost before i realized tumblr was telling me “hey, you follow the sustainability tag, how’s this?”

[turing-tested]

you ever think about how eventually mass portions of the internet will be graves, just holding people's memories and thoughts as if waiting for them to log back in at any moment and pick up where they left off

[mjalti]

[bunjywunjy]

oh it totally does, but you can’t hear it because space is a vacuum and sound can’t travel through a vacuum! 

and that’s a good thing, 

because the roar of the sun would clock in at around 120db heard from earth, about the equivalent to having a train’s horn go off three feet from your face. 

constantly. all the time, even at NIGHT. there would be no escape.

[zeyrablue]

this is simply terrifying. how do you erase knowledge please ?

[kedreeva]

NASA actually recorded the sun, if you want to hear it:

And they recorded the planets too:

[gardeninthevoid]

so, the sun and the earth sound about how i would’ve expected, and a lot of other planets just make strong wind sounds which is perfectly reasonable but venus sounds like pure dread?!?! WHY IS SATURN SCREAMING?!? pluto isn’t bad and is actually kinda nice but it’s very strange to me too like Why Does It Do That. jupiter is super chill 10/10. pluto and jupiter need to collab i would buy that album

[elucubrare]

oh, fuck, guys, you know what this means? it means the ancient world was right about the music of the spheres. 

[fullymechanized-consoomer]

Sun

Mercury

Venus

Earth

Mars

Jupiter

Saturn

Uranus 

Neptune

Pluto

[warriorsofficial]

i can hear these photos and i don’t like it

[buttermilk-thegoat]

Don’t read the comments on this article. The kid did it because he was learning about how teenage girls suffer from depression more than any other age group, and didn’t want any girls going home feeling sad on Valentine’s Day. Ofc half the comments are like “what an EPIC playa, bet he got some action after that hahaha” or “why do these special snowflakes need a handout like this” or “what kind of Richie Rich kid” (chocolate company donated the boxes after learning why he wanted so much) Like… why is humanity like this

[reachmouse]

THIS BURNS MY BACON, LET ME SHARE WHY. 

At the school where I work, we had a similar lovely Valentine’s moment: 

One of our seniors bought hundreds of roses on Valentine’s Day. Every girl in every grade got one; there were enough left over for staff and extras for others who might want one. This is our library bouquet. 

One year ago, our school lost a student to suicide. As Valentine’s Day was approaching, this sad anniversary was all our student body was talking about and remembering. This senior student decided to try to lift us up from that narrative, and literally fill the halls with flowers. The surprise was carried out flawlessly – even his own sister didn’t know what he was about to do. 

I have rarely seen a happier school holiday. 

I’ve seen EXACTLY those comments on social media about what happened with us, and about similar gestures from high school students. Lots of “spoiled kids with money”, lots of “this is just to get laid”. 

I don’t think this diminishes my senior student or his gesture at all, but it diminishes us when good things happen and we turn around and reduce these moments to their most cynical interpretation. And that’s not even touching on what it says when people feel the need to belittle younger people for trying to do good; the kids can’t catch a break from some people.

Can’t we take sweet things at face value the way we do all the darkness out there lately? 

[fierceawakening]

News flash some boys are kind.

Shouldn’t be news to ANYONE but a lot of people sure like to act like it’s utterly shocking.

[ilovemosss]

never be shocked by kindness

[luisonte]

[ceevee5]

For the love of God, sound on.

[myrandomstuffpage]

Ma! 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[chilewithcarnage]

My mans said aspca lmaoooo

[firesidoni]

@kedreeva THANK YOU this is EXACTLY what I was thinking. Also yelling at the screen.

[chatsvoid]

Keep catching yourself. You’ll eventually stop falling.

[radical-eve]

[the-hydroxian-artblog]

“my name… is Tu Gunn

“on account for my two guns, that i dual wield, all the time, and the fact that i use two-times as many bullets than necessary, for each gun.

“in my world, amazon has started using babies for fuel and labor, and their brains for new computers, and only I can stop this travesty from happening.

“I have no memories of my past, and I all have as a clue to my origin is a bar code on my right forearm that looks suspiciously similar to the barcodes the fuel-babies have. I assume it’s a coincidence that isn’t relevant to my story.

“when I’m not on my self-imposed mission to save the world from capitalism or something, I do the akira drift-thing with my bike because I’m a fan of akira as it’s relevant to the setting and world I’m in. I will lampshade the fact that this is the future and Akira was made a long time ago at this point because I can do that. 

“The cyber-police keep telling me that they keep getting noise complaints from all the drifting I do on my motorcycle. But Akira-drifting is my right, one the government is trying to suppress. 

“This oppression shall not stand.”

[politicalsci]