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Things worn down by people.

this is unironically one of the most beautiful photo sets i've ever seen

Fellow white people did you know there's this cool youtube hack where you go out of your way to watch videos made by Black people. And suddenly your video recommendations will have loads of cool new channels. And then you realise youtube was literally hiding videos made by Black people from you because they assumed you wouldn't be interested

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For everyone being like "we should talk about racial segregation by algorithms", you'll love Discriminating Data by Wendy Chun! She literally digs up the original study that "proved" people prefer to socialise with folks similar to them and showed that it discarded Black participants.

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A frustrating part of the mainstream vegan “love all animals and protect the environment” mindset is the fact that things need to die in real-life ecology all the time but deer hunting season makes icky feelings and carp culls aren’t cottagecore

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The vegan “any animal death ever is morally wrong” mindset doesn’t hold up when:

We don’t have any of the large predators we used to (black bears, mountain lions, or gray wolves) but still retain large deer populations. If nothing is removing animals, they’ll quickly overload the carrying capacity of the environment and have massive losses to starvation and disease that can also pass on to livestock. Human hunters replace the large predators that our landscape can no longer support.

It’s kinder to euthanize an un-releasable hawk rather than try to find it a permanent home with humans. Wildlife rehabs have extremely limited space and resources and are usually run entirely on donated money and volunteer time. Only a few are large and stable enough to care for permanent residents long-term, and those spots are few and far between.

An invasive species poses a danger to threatened native wildlife. I will admit- Australian possums are adorable. But not in New Zealand, where they’re an invasive species that eats the eggs of ground-dwelling birds that previously had no such predators. The landowners I worked with replanting native bush, all native Maori, had no qualms about setting the dogs on them.

I don’t know how to end this except. Sometimes things just gotta die and acting otherwise just isn’t a realistic expectation.

spontaneousmusicalnumber

Highlights from the notes over the past 6 months include a lot of angry vegans saying “you’re blowing things out of proportion, no vegans actually think like this!” and a lot of people who work in conservation and education saying “Every day. I have to fight people who think like this.”

As a bonus this post was originally inspired by the vegan who called me racist for saying we should kill invasive species

luckycavy117

Might I call to mind the sacred texts:

“Decay is an extant form of life.”

Death and life are forever intertwined, both feeding the other unwanted an eternal dance. The key is that when you must kill, do it mercifully and with respect, and let the remains be of some use- be that eating them yourself or letting scavengers and decomposers perform the last rites

naanviolent

#helping enslaved people escape to freedom was illegal #escaping enslavement was illegal #never use legality as a guide to morality

ahedderick

This is the most beautiful scientific diagram I've ever seen.

Also a great example of why pink is a tint of red, but also a completely different color. Erbium? Neodymium? So beautiful.

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FYI Neodymium glass (aka Alexandrite glass to collectors) appears different colors under different lights:

This image is from a great writeup of why that happens on the Jennii Neutron blog.

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Oh and of course Uranium, Selenium, Manganese, and Cadmium all fluoresce under black light.

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I just finished reading Tevinter Nights and it's a shame how a lot of low income folks like me can't have access to it or any of the other Dragon Age novels or the cookbook or the two editions of world of Thedas *sigh* I did put a photo of my cat right here though if you want to see how beautiful he is, please ignore the loose pdf files in the folder!

Also you can reblog this so more people can see the picture of my cat. And since there's nothing in this post relating to Dragon Age please don't tag it with anything related to Dragon Age because there's nothing related to Dragon Age in the folder I'm just putting it on a blog that is dedicated to Dragon Age because I love my cat

sakuratwilight

a sewing machine is a kind of horse, or a misogynist printer. it cannot be domesticated and it does not fear you.

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ghostdaartist

Bro videos are always 🔥 💯.. instant collaborations

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vampire-loving-vampire

hey white people . if u dont know how to pronounce an ethnic persons name *google it* or if its someone ur talking directly to *ask them*. dont fucking do that "erm i dont know how to pronounce but __" or "im gonna butcher this haha" or "im not even gonna bother trying" . ur not funny. do u know what poc think when they hear u saying that ? u sound like a loser asshole and we dont want to spend time with u . im so fucking tired of watching youtube videos about media from my country and hearing those phrases. im tired of people saying that to my face . i respect someone who clearly looked it up and is tryong but says my name wrong over someone who just goes with whatever bad first guess they had without trying. u have too many resources at ur disposal to keep doing this. for the love of god just Fucking Try. if ur confused Just Try.

despair-tea

I highly recommend Forvo.com, the website where native speakers of a language contribute their time and voices to read words and names in their own language. It is a fantastic way to expand your world, open up your ears, and it's way more likely to nab a hit than just googling.

vampire-loving-vampire

wow , I didn't know this existed, thanks so much for sharing the resource !! I will absolutely be using it now too 🖤

vampire-loving-vampire

hey white people . if u dont know how to pronounce an ethnic persons name *google it* or if its someone ur talking directly to *ask them*. dont fucking do that "erm i dont know how to pronounce but __" or "im gonna butcher this haha" or "im not even gonna bother trying" . ur not funny. do u know what poc think when they hear u saying that ? u sound like a loser asshole and we dont want to spend time with u . im so fucking tired of watching youtube videos about media from my country and hearing those phrases. im tired of people saying that to my face . i respect someone who clearly looked it up and is tryong but says my name wrong over someone who just goes with whatever bad first guess they had without trying. u have too many resources at ur disposal to keep doing this. for the love of god just Fucking Try. if ur confused Just Try.

despair-tea

I highly recommend Forvo.com, the website where native speakers of a language contribute their time and voices to read words and names in their own language. It is a fantastic way to expand your world, open up your ears, and it's way more likely to nab a hit than just googling.

vampire-loving-vampire

wow , I didn't know this existed, thanks so much for sharing the resource !! I will absolutely be using it now too 🖤

stargirl230

been busy but made time for some dcmk doodles!

i'm realizing this sequence makes it look like kaito was murdered but he's fine promise

(no reposts; reblogs appreciated)

persephoneme

you can't say "hey has anyone noticed that M/M fic outnumbers F/F like 100:1” or “it feels racist that only 3/202 characters on the ao3 top 100 ships list are Black and two of them are Alastor HazbinHotel” bc some ppl will start going like “oh so you think we should FORCE people to write about things they DON’T CARE ABOUT for WOKE????” and you’ll be like “no, i’m pointing out that the conditions that created this disparity are informed by racism & misogyny” and ppl will say “it’s not BIGOTED to only care about WHITE MEN” and then the gargoyle king appears

dashcon-two

VirtualDash Schedule for 2026! 2.0

Hi everyone! If you saw a previous version of this post, please reblog this one instead! We forgot to add some information before, so this is your up-to-date VirtualDash post :)

We are so excited to share with y'all a *locked in* version of the schedule, beautifully visualized by our social media team on our instagram!

Don't have your VirtualDash ticket yet? Get it here!

A VirtualDash ticket gets you access to livestreams of all the IRL panel rooms, a Virtual-exclusive track of panel programming, the VODs of all these streams, lets you try out our all-new Virtual Ballpit, gets you a vote in the democratic execution, invites you into the attendee server for an immersive convention experience, and much more! Also, 10% of our Virtual ticket sales goes towards the Rainbow Railroad charity <3

↓ View all of our Virtual-exclusive programming below the cut ↓

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if you're a pixel artist and never tried working with a reasonably accurate CRT filter I HIGHLY recommend it

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i'm definitely reaching for colors and techniques that i otherwise wouldn't use

it feels a lot more sculptural

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oh, and you can pull bullshit like this:

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I mean, not necessarily. There are color palettes and techniques that look fantastic on a flat screen, but horrid on CRT.

Like, look at this kitty:

Looks great here, but with a CRT filter? Completely obliterated.

Pixel art that wasn't designed to look good on a CRT doesn't always look better on CRT.

He has to be built with a completely different approach:

kuttithevangu

OK I keep seeing people refer to the Michigan parasite outbreak and then others will chime in “it’s in my state too!” so to clarify this for everyone it is a NATIONWIDE outbreak reported in 31 US states as of today, July 12th 2026. There is no reason to assume it is not present in the rest of them

NBC News’ tally shows at least 26 states have reported cases of the parasitic stomach illness, as health authorities race to find the source

proteusolm

The Ojibwe nailed it. Wawa is exactly the right name for a goose.

happilyloudwonderland

Speaking of Ojibwe! There’s a new point and click game to help teach the language! It’s called Reclaim! Azhe-giiwewining, and is currently on sale on Steam!

ndnbutch

fyi. being intensely self critical is not the same as being self aware. if you’re really self aware you’ll be aware of the good stuff too. just in case anyone needs to hear it. don’t mistake constantly dissecting what you see as your flaws for some kind of personal enlightenment.

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If you ever wonder if you're being too self critical, ask yourself "would I speak to a friend in this way" and if the answer is no, treat yourself with the same compassion you give to others

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