“Put him on his knees give him something to believe in” has the exact same energy and depth of meaning as anything Hozier puts out on the regular but since it’s sung by Megan Thee Stallion no one takes it seriously. In this essay I will-
To flesh this out a little bit more: both Megan Thee Stallion and Hozier write and sing really sexual songs, but they’re different in that Hozier’s music is typically “let me worship you” while Megan’s is usually “I’m worshipping myself,” which makes all the difference because it’s an acceptance of power rather than the giving of it. He’s the sinner, she’s the saint. However, taking their difference in genres out of it, people don’t usually seem to take Megan Thee Stallion’s music seriously in comparison to Hozier because a) her lyrics are more overtly and blatantly sexual and b)she’s claiming her sexuality for herself, and that scares a lot of people. The secret, no-one-wants-to-talk-about reason is that she’s a confident black woman, which terrifies people way than sex does. In conclusion, Hozier and Megan Thee Stallion are two sides of the same poetic, sexual coin, but people just don’t want to admit it. Which is WHY a collaboration between Hozier and Megan would be so powerful that it would change the timeline as we know it yes I will elaborate
andy weir's first and third books make you feel hopeful and weirdly calm because they revolve around the deep truth of 'when you put intellectualism and empathy above all else you are capable of solving each impossible problem put in front of you over and over and over again until you're home."
his second book is about 'what if you were a COOL GIRL JANITOR who had to ROB THE SPACE MAFIA on THE MOON with a GAY GUY YOU HATE'
That's why I love Artemis though -- it doesn't take itself too seriously. But even so, it still delivers on a satisfying character arc for Jazz.
Sure it's not as grand as all of humanity pulling together to save Mark, or Ryland being ready to sacrifice himself to save Rocky, but it still has heart.
Like, you're introduced to this sarcastic, self-serving character that's maybe not the most likeable. But then you see more of her and realize all she's doing is trying to atone for her mistakes.
Spoilers below:
At the beginning of the book you wouldn't expect her to risk her life for anything without a dollar sign attached to it. But by the end, you're rooting for her to do the right thing, and it's perfectly believable when she does.
Also a detail that gets me every time:
The very specific amount of money she's been aiming for since the beginning was to pay back her dad. But she never outright says it, so the reader is left to assume she's just got elaborate plans for after she gets rich.
Then it's finally revealed what she's been saving before this whole time, and you realize that hidden under all the guilt for her past mistakes, Jazz Bashara was a decent person all along.
andy weir’s artemis finally in movie pre production. no one gives a fuck about it more than MEEEEE. audiences are going to fucking hate jazz so much THATS MY BITCH!! SHES AN ASSHOLE AND I LOVE HER!!!
Apparently juries in Texas are now issuing life sentences for possessing information ?? There was no terrorism involved, no assassination plot; the couple mentioned in the article did not do or plan to do any violence. They literally just got sentenced to life in prison for being associated with anti-fascism (aka... a pro-democracy movement).
So just to be clear:
Attack the US government and attempt a coup = Pardoned and free to go!
Be present at a protest or in possession of leftist information = Life sentence.
Daniel Sanchez Estrada’s 30-year sentence for moving a box of pamphlets is likely just the start for criminalizing possession of information
Advocates sound alarm after zines were used as evidence to convict protesters of terrorism charges tied to 2025 protest at Texas ICE facilit
Last year on the Fourth of July, a small group from Dallas-Fort Worth held a night-time noise demonstration, setting off fireworks outside the Prairieland Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention facility south of the cities, in solidarity with the detainees. A few protesters broke away and spray-painted graffiti on employees’ cars and a security post, slashed the tires on a government van, and broke a security camera. The facility’s guards ordered the protesters to disperse, and most of them did. When a police officer arrived at the scene, drawing his gun, an armed protester shot her rifle, hitting the officer in the shoulder. The officer survived.
After a three-week trial, a jury found eight of nine protesters guilty of “providing material support to terrorists”, among other crimes.
For the Sotos, this “material support” included owning a “printing press” used to print anarchist zines and being part of a leftist book club, the federal government argued. The couple had already left the scene by the time guns were drawn. All eight of the defendants sentenced so far have received unusually harsh sentences – 30 to 100 years – essentially life in prison.
Their attorneys announced their intention to appeal, but many supporters are doubtful that anything short of a presidential pardon from a future administration would free them.
The Prairieland case was the first tried and convicted under the Trump Department of Justice’s “counter-terrorism” initiatives targeting “antifa” – short for antifascist – a decentralized movement the administration has officially categorized as a “domestic terrorist organization”. The federal government argued the Prairieland defendants, what they called a “North Texas Antifa cell”, had planned the demonstration as an assassination attempt against a law enforcement officer. The government alleged this conspiracy even though the defendants were loosely connected, and some who attended the protest did not even know each other.
So being anti-fascist is llegal and worthy of going to prison for life in the United States.
Among the evidence used against them was a banner that said "ACAB," the fact that they were members of the Emma Goldman book club which focuses on "leftist and anarchist literature," an anti-swastika sticker, and an "FTP" sticker found in their home.
Whoever started the unrefrigerated eggs are fine as long as they come from a farm and aren’t washed before being stored myth, I have so much beef with you. It genuinely doesn’t matter what the fuck has been done to the eggs (except maybe pasteurization), for maximum food safety, those babies need to be in the FRIDGE.
Explanation under the cut.
Many backyard chicken farmers and homesteaders have never read Storey’s Guide To Raising Chickens 4th Revised Edition by Gail Damerow and it fucking shows.
If they had, they would know that the increased spoilage/bacteria resistance found in unwashed eggs comes from a natural antibacterial layer secreted by the hen onto the shell, which is called ‘the bloom’. Here’s the thing though, this is not foolproof! It is not a guarantee that dangerous pathogens won’t infest the yummy eggs that are sitting on your kitchen counter at dangerously close to ideal incubation temperatures.
So if you have your own chickens, feel free not to wash eggs until use (although please do wash them before use at the very least, no one wants traces of chicken feces in their food); it may help extend the freshness of your eggs. But DO NOT rely on the bloom layer to defend you from food borne pathogens.
Instead, collect eggs early after laying, refrigerate immediately, & thoroughly cook eggs before consumption.
Also would like to note that waterglassing IS NO LONGER CONSIDERED A SAFE PRESERVATION METHOD.
Discord is supposedly saying this is going to affect "only 10% of users", but I really don't believe them at all. It's always going to be way worse and affect more people than what they claim.
So in case anyone needs it:
After Discord announced plans to require age verification for all users, a free, HTML-based tool emerged that aims to bypass facial scans on
The AFAA art book showed that colonel Quaritch actually has his own personal quarters at Bridgehead — a modular unit that was shipped to Pandora together with his body years ago. It has a work-desk, a shower, a vanity table, some top shelves and two beds.
Headcannons:
When the squad made their periodic returns to Bridgehead for resupplying and reports, Spider crashed at Q’s place. Quaritch justified it with being the prisoner’s ward and having a better eye on him that way.
Spider definitely snooped all over the place and opened every drawer, closet and compartment he could find, but discovered nothing interesting. Colonel’s apartment is sickeningly sterile at first.
Spider takes the top bunk, naturally, and Quaritch often wakes to him hanging half-way off the edge, his painted hand dangling just above his chest. He tried more than once to hold it without making the boy bolt awake (forest survival instincts)
Spider loosing his mind from boredom and turning the flat into a hurricane site as Quaritch is trying to get some work done on the computer (he does that on purpose).
Giving him a tablet usually helps though.
Coming back from the failed mission, the room became a cold reminder of the person now missing from Quaritch’s life.
Quaritch spent hours lying awake, looking at the top bunk, trying to process the fact that he’ll never see an unruly teenager hanging half-way over the edge again. A loss he himself caused.
So the big pool thing. Did they not chlorinate it or what? Did they not know you have to chlorinate it? I'm really baffled about what the fuck even happened there. SURELY they chlorinated it.
#Algae in the pipes#This isn’t the first time this has happened it’s become victim to new pond syndrome every time it’s been refilled in recent years#And they are treating the water#(Hydrogen peroxide not chlorine)#It shouldn’t have chlorine in it it’s massive and would fuck with the wildlife#The project itself is incredibly obnoxious but the pool turning green isn’t really an orange specific problem
Oh okay good. I was terrified that their level of incompetence, which is already comical, had jumped to truly incomprehensible. I am so relieved to learn that this makes sense and it's only their twitterposting that makes them seem unhinged about it.
See, you also don't want hydrogen peroxide in the water, either.
The administration either got rid of or didn't listen to people who could explain the algae problem, and decided that the problem was because other administrations were just stupid and didn't know how to take care of the pool, and also saw an opportunity for grifting some money.
So they painted the bottom of the pool dark blue, which absorbed more heat from the sun and made the algae bloom faster than ever. So they dumped hydrogen peroxide in it, which only killed the algae around the edges and also made the new paint job peel.
So folks were taking pieces of the bottom as souvenirs so now we have National Guard and deputies from several states who are just arresting people for as little as putting their hands in the pool.
Oh HEY so like, the Obama administration renovated the reflecting pool to draw from the Potomac rather than municipal water, and installed an extensive filtration system, and APPARENTLY at some point in the last 10 years Trump ripped it out or stopped maintaining it, and look, algae.
It's very likely that the paint was not appropriate for the usage to start with, and that that was on purpose. It's a standard shady really-the-mob contractor thing to guarantee more work, I'm told. It's quite possible that himself agreed to it, even, because he gives no fucks about national monuments, but does like handing out favors to friends, like this no-bid indefinite contract.
Worth noting is that problems with the pool date back to its construction. It was sited on land not really suited to the purpose, and over time the pool became unstable and leaky. Did they know this would happen when it was built? I don't know (I suspect not, and that at least part of this is due to infrastructure and population change--it was opened in 1922, and DC looked very different then), but it is a longstanding problem.
By the time Obama rocked up and it became his issue, the initial issues had compounded with "it's old as balls" and "this was never designed to have this many visitors." Obama undertook a massive renovation that included stabilizing the pool structurally and rerouting the water source, as noted above. He was aware that this was only a partial fix to the problem--there's only so much you can do with a megastructure that was built improperly when cars were still a novelty and that sits in the middle of one of the busiest metro areas in the US--but he did what he could. Perfect is the enemy of "mostly right."
Now if you wanted to fix the pool properly, the way to do it would be to tear the whole thing out, go back to the original blueprints, and have a modern architect look at what needs to exist as substructure to make the superstructure viable. That is, understandably, not a cost we can really afford right now. And replacing it with a different form of monument somewhat less problematic, like a garden, would be extremely politically fraught. So "we're going to deal with problems as best we can when they crop up" is the name of the game.
TRUMP TRIED TO REMOVE OBAMA'S RENOVATION. Like. The thing that meant he had a pool to paint in the first place.
This fucker really rolled in and went "this is flawed but hanging in there. Destroy it."
He took it out because it was installed by a black man.
Trump did this because he is a racist piece of shit who cannot stand anything that was done by a black man. It must be removed and replaced with something done by a white man.
And every time he does this he makes things worse.
Trump is objectively proving over and over again that minorities and immigrants are tremendously beneficial to our country, because every time he says "WHITE MAN DO THIS, NOT BLACK MAN" it's complete fucking dogshit because racism is stupid and economically contraindicated
you would think, like, "oh, we've already thought of all the metaphorical ways we can say penis/vagina. we've already come up with the full list of nicknames. we have exhausted the list of innuendos. there is nothing else new to be said about this" and then you'll open a random explicit fic and make the most improbable linguistic discovery of all time
they should make it illegal to end your story with an epilogue where your main female character is suddenly randomly married and has children when she's never once expressed a desire for this previously
um actually there's nothing wrong with letting cats be outdoor pets. your cat is depressed locked inside forever. it's animal abuse. let it outside. more cats should be let outside more often. especially overnight.
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I mean, as someone who as worked in a zoo, this is fairly true.
Obvious disclaimer that you shouldn't have wild animals as pets.
But like, cheetahs are the only large cats that keepers will do free contact with. Hell, even most small cats don't get free contact. (Because small cats can be VICIOUS. They'll have a baby pallas cat wearing thicker gloves than when handling an owl. Because small cats can just be vicious.)
Like I think the only other cat at our zoo where I've seen free contact with was servals? Because I know they've used servals in shows to demonstrate their natural jumping ability. But I know servals can sometimes have a mean temper as well. Meanwhile they'll do the cheetah run and afterwards put the mic by the cheetahs and it's just like an engine with them purring. It's fascinating to watch when the message in every other large animal is "no free contact because it's dangerous even when they're born in captivity".
Legit if any wild animal could be adapted to a pet it would be cheetahs lmao. Only problem is they can be skittish and very anxious and that's why they're often raised around dogs in zoos to gain confidence.
