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they should hold 4 versions of every olympic event in this order to witness the full breadth of human capabilities:
primary schoolers
random nonathletic adults
olympians
olympians roided and doped up to the max
#5th version olympians who do a completely different sport#i wanna see the weightlifters do table tennis. chuck a bunch of archers in the pool & see what happens. give the gymnasts gun
How does it feel to be the most correct person to have ever drawn breath on planet earth?
life's too short to write for an imaginary critic that you fear will hate what you wrote
to be clear, odds are good that someone will hate what you wrote, but that doesn't mean the writing is bad. That means they aren't part of your audience.
don't write for them.
cant tell you how bad it feels to constantly tell other artists to come to tumblr, because its the last good website that isn't fucked up by spoonfeeding algorithms and AI bullshit and isn't based around meaningless likes
just to watch that all fall apart in the last year or so and especially the last two weeks
there's nowhere good to go anymore for artists.
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ok you know what yeah, yeah my tags Should be part of the post. they're important.
Let me tell you about Oregon mail in voting because I fucking love voting in this state.
They send you an entire book with information on all the candidates and bills right there. The way proposed bills and amendments are formatted is they have a neutral, plain language summary, the actual text of the bill, and then arguments for or against submitted by various groups. It's a solid summary of the issue being voted on and its various sides delivered right to your doorstep. Sometimes the sheriffs claim something that's the literal opposite of what the bill says and you can see the blatant lies because the text of the bill is literally on the previous page. It's great, everywhere should do this.
The arguments section is usually like 2-3 pages, 4-6 if its a controversial issue. The arguments section for this amendment was TWELVE pages long with not a single argument against. 12 whole pages of unanimous bipartisan support. Bills dealing with gun control and drugs haven't been this long!
We did it. We found the bipartisan agreement everyone's been looking for and its that senators should have to show up to their fucking jobs. Truly everybody disliked this.
So as the GOP throw their little tantrums, please know that their own voter base was absolutely dragging their asses over this and laugh at their baby tears.
a horror movie about making a horror movie. wait, don't walk away. a horror movie about one of those grueling seventies productions that broke every OSHA rule—long, exhausting shoots in the middle of the woods, presided over by one of those directors convinced of his own genius and certain the only way to get the performances he needs is to relentlessly isolate and gaslight his female lead. the crew are terrified of the director's outbursts and so are going along with it. there's one other woman in the cast but she plays the one who takes her shirt off earlier in the film and then dies, and the director has done everything in his power to turn these two people against each other, the better to keep his female lead unbalanced and unsure, and when the deeply disquieting scary stuff starts happening for real, the female lead has nobody to confide in and assumes it is the director very characteristically going out of his way to fuck with her. one of the camera operators gets possessed and is being flung around the trees, head spinning as he oozes an acidic black liquid and the female lead is like, "i can't let fucking jerry think he's getting to me." and then—this may be too much, idk—the only way the two actresses can figure out what's really going on is to acknowledge that they've been pitted against each other and that they really don't have any reason beyond this not to trust each other, so they compare notes and that's how they discover that hey, this production actually is cursed.
Con sonido! 🔈🔉🔊
The face of a woman regretting the music lessons.
This is fairly close to the relationship I had with my mom.
i love those little moments where her face lights up because the joy of the joke far outweighs how sick of it she is. like the moment with the star wars music? *chef’s kiss*
They are both clearly having SO much fun, I love this
Solar energy has so many benefits. Raising salaries for teachers is such a needed narrative.
One thing the conservative news cycle is EXTREMELY invested in is the idea that WE CANNOT SPEND MONEY ON THINGS; WE ARE TOO BROKE.
(Meanwhile, while running their own private businesses and investments, they are quite comfortable with the idea of spending a little money to get a lot more money. They’re quite familiar with it, because that’s the most common way get more money than you can acquire with your basic human labor. You spend money to get even more of it. That’s how investments work.)
Bear that in mind when you see conservatives attack plans to improve infrastructure. They’ll complain about raised taxes, the lack of a magical money tree, the fact that some left-leaning people have not spent money well, the fact that all of these (potholes/unhoused people/crime/crumbling windows/closed-down libraries) indicates that THERE IS NO EXTRA MONEY AND PEOPLE ARE POOR AND THOSE NASTY LEFTIES WANT TO STEAL EVEN MORE FROM YOU.
It is vitally important to the operation of conservative power that everyone be in a scarcity mindset. Everything from Sam vimes boot theory on how The Poors have to buy things, to how The Poors expect our tax money to be administered, is beneficial to conservative power; therefore it is of great benefit to them that everything The Poors want has to be framed, first, in the idea that “we are too poor and can afford nothing.” In fact, it would be perfect for the conservative governments of the world if The Poors agree on being too poor and self-absorbed in our collective poverty to invest in anything at all - not education, not trains, not clean water or safe air or a stable climate or pretty wild birds - those things are nice to have, we already agree, but we really can’t afford them: and are distrustful of anyone so unrealistically rich that they think we can. The self-imposed austerity mindset is perfect for a secure power conservative base. All they have to do is regularly remind The Poors that we can’t afford anything, and we’ll do the rest of the work.
This solar panel story is great because it has a clear trajectory from beginning to end. The school gathered supporters and funds; they spent some money (and time, and research, and faith, and trust) on solar panels, and ended up making a profit. In fact they made so much money that they could spend it on other things. You can take two seconds to look at the story and agree: infrastructure usually pays its dividends. Infrastructure, in fact, is an investment.
Bear in mind that there are many delightful projects, actively happening around you right now, that will be killed at the moment their parents start trying to gather money and supporters for them. The cry will go up “we can’t afford that.” “We aren’t made of money.”
Where possible, I advise: take the two minutes of attention that you spend on the satisfaction of the solar panel story. Take those two minutes to unpick whether the project is actually an investment. Many budgets can afford investments. Most budgets appreciate having assets even more.
So that’s another thread to weave in; once upon a time, these solar panels happened because people made a good argument, and other people stood with them. It cost something to make it happen, plus a lot of work, and that cost was repaid. That is a narrative that happens too; so sometimes, even if we are afraid, it can be worth investing in the future.
the "i'm not pretty like the other girls because i'm pale and skinny" female protagonist trope is something i loathe more than almost anything else in the world but i'd be more willing to forgive it if the author was brave enough to commit to it. if your "unattractive" female protagonist is a snow-white waif then i'd better see you emphasising how nauseatingly corpselike she looks. how people shudder when her maggot-flesh fingers touch their bare skin because they're expecting her to be cold and damp. how her birdlike bones and dainty waist are contemptible rather than desirable. maybe even have her develop a degree of beauty by gaining some weight and colour for a change. put down the necromancer barbie template and show me a proper little freak.
“magic isnt real” — plants just grow out of the ground. for free. everywhere.
"It doesn't stop being magic just because you know how it works."
-Terry Pratchett
it is so insanely insidious to me that we are at a point now where A.I. can be completely passible to people that don't know what to keep an eye out for & it sucks ass that this content is infiltrating tumblr. its sooooo cool and fun having to study pics extra hard to figure out if im being spoon-fed a lie in image form
I wouldn't worry about it
we are in a world where basic comprehension skills are on the decline and a realistic, convincing image can be generated with a simple prompt. im going to worry about it a lot, actually
fountain in italy
This is what I tried to explain to US platforms like Patreon when they suspended my account for having a nude statue as the background image: I live in Europe, I can go and see a nude statue within a 5 minutes walk. Children can see them, they're not in some 18+ container. I will never understand those policies.
The UK have discovered they have in fact reached the “Find Out” part…
This conversation needs having and action taken to change it.
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My sister, a lawyer, has argued that a warrant is technically an invitation from the state; if the nation-state and its laws are generally accepted as valid and enforceable then so is the invitation.
So, like, Archduke Gortash could issue a warrant permitting a vampire cop inside a home. Boo the miniature giant space hamster could not. Strahd von Zarovich could theoretically issue warrants to vampire cops, Blinsky the toy maker could not. Etcetera.
