I love Tolkien and mutual aid

leftist, Asexual, He/Him, Revolution is inevitable

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sharing from my Facebook

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True North Aid provides practical humanitarian support to northern and remote Indigenous communities in Canada through community-led project

If you care as much as i do, please donate or at least spread the word about true north aid.

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[ospreyonthemoon]

PUNIC WARS THREE

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[thanook]

PUNIC WARS FOUR

[northirish]

Warhammer 40,000: Darktide - Galvanic Rifle

An absolutely gorgeous model of a weapon and a favourite among Adeptus Mechanicus fans, capable of hard hitting weak spot damage and accurate long range fire. I was hyped for a lot of the weapons coming with the Skitarii class, but this was the one I was most looking forward to. Plus, Garand ping!

[qsycomplainsalot]

Oh lame they made the en-bloc clip behave like a stripper clip.

[misters-secret]

I dunno inkinda like it

[qsycomplainsalot]

Do you like the gun as it is or are you saying you like it more that way than if it behaved like an en-bloc clip and PING'd out of the receiver when you fire your last shot ? Cause I'm not saying the gun isn't cool as is, I'm saying that for an M1 Garand inspired rifle it's an odd decision to make and it reduces my enjoyment of it.

[wabababa50million]

Im pretty sure on the official miniatures those little glowing cylinders come off during reload. Been a while since I built skitarii rangers though...

[qsycomplainsalot]

Yeah as it stands that cylinder mag dealio is useless cause you don't need that much room for 8 rounds. It's probably an energy source if anything.

[northirish]

I was curious about the cylinder myself. Another weapon added to the Skitarii roster in Darktide is the Arc rifle that shoots lightning and that has a very similar cylinder which IS removed to reload the weapon, so I assume at least with the arc it's a battery of some description, so It's probably a similar case with the galvanic rifle only instead of having it be removed to reload that weapon the devs went instead with the reload they chose, I assume to pay further homage to the influence of the Garand in the rifle's aesthetic design

[transmechanicus]

I agree that it’s a battery, especially considering its presence on the flechette carbine, which already has a very identifiable ammunition source. My thinking is that any weapon that has an electrical firing mechanism or guided ammunition needs it. The flechettes are guided to their target following initial impact, galvanic rifle rounds home in on targets in lore and cause an electrical explosion, the Arc Rifle is shooting bolts of lightning using a secondary battery exploiting the voltage difference of the massive upper capacitor.

[maryoliveoil]

LOUDER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[machine-unlearning]

god I'm such a slut for Chinese eggplant in garlic sauce *decides it’s inaccurate to refer to myself as a slut in light of my minimal sexual activity* if The Enemy discovered my ardor for Chinese eggplant in garlic sauce, they would gain a significant strategic advantage

[starpeace]

bad star wars oc idea: a sith who finds out that the jedi think falling to the dark side shows weakness, and gets so pissed off that they insist on returning to the light solely to prove they can

[starpeace]

sith: i will destroy you. i am stronger than you will EVER be

jedi padawan they captured, panicking: oh yeah? then how come you aren’t even strong enough to come to the light? huh? checkmate, buddy!!

sith:

sith: fuck

[verybadatwriting]

wait no this would be so funny

[markovchaingang]

What is "No-Contact Parenting" and How Might it Help You Save More Time to Spend Gambling?

[sleepyjump]

there's this guy who works at the convenience store next to my job and every time i come in he tries to upsell me. i'll get a gatorade and he'll say "that's it...? isn't it snacktime?" i'll get a snack and he'll say "just that? don't you want more?"

one time i got a huge pile of stuff and he STILL said it and i said "dude, you would not be satisfied with all the riches of heaven!!" and he said "i don't even get a commission. i just love doing this."

and then i couldnt come in for a while and then i came in again today for just a charger. and i said "that's it today" with a smile. and he looked at me with a gleam in his eye and said "no it isn't. you'll be back later. you'll have to get thirsty eventually, won't you?" with this conniving smile that made me realize i WAS thirsty. i'm out of my depth here. help

[bonniebugsy]

OP I think that might be the Devil

[guerrillatech]

[lacicapatrera]

Via @rajaeen1 in Instagram

if this isn't a great example I don't know what is

[depsidase]

[alphacrone]

when it finally happens they shouldn’t lower the flags to half mast, they should raise them to 1.5 mast. add some mast to that mast. maybe some balloons too.

[qrgirl-deactivated20220303]

the space race may be the funniest point in history period and i'll stand by that. the US is like "yes whoever gets into space first will prove once and for all that our economic model is superior and that we are, in general, the superior country of superior and smarter people." then the soviets just went and did it and the US freaked out and needed to cover their ass so were like "WE MEAN THE MOON, WE MEAN THE FIRST TO LAND ON THE MOON."

[fanderburker]

[skluug]

yeah its cus walking on the moon was cool as hell and all this other boring shit sucked ass

[togglesbloggle]

When I was a freshman in a red-state college, I had a professor who taught Newtonian physics with a super thick Russian accent.  The student body was unusually conservative for a state college, so there was a sort of general bemusement about learning physics from a Russian, but even back then the Cold War was far enough in the past that not even the red tribe was inclined to stir up trouble about it.

He was aware enough of this to get off on trolling the class, though.  Whenever some force diagram in a homework assignment needed to be weightless, instead of being some generic spacecraft it would be “Mir” specifically.  And he’d always use ‘cosmonaut’ instead of ‘astronaut’, that kind of thing.

One day about halfway through the semester, he’s doing this with in-class examples on the board, and one of the students finally gets up the guts to troll back a little.  So this kid shouts from the back of the auditorium, “Hey professor, what’s the difference between a cosmonaut and an astronaut?”

And this beautiful man spins around on one heel to face the class, whiteboard marker triumphantly over his head, clearly having been waiting for this moment the entire semester: “Cosmonaut go to space first! Ha!”

[depsidase]

[bovid-beauty]

"Fascism"—New Federal Rule Would Require Federal Funding Recipients To Deny Trans People Exist

The rule could have heavy impacts towards trans people across society.

Last week, the Trump administration quietly released a sweeping new federal rule that would use funding threats to force institutions across the country to reject transgender people. The 400-page proposed regulation would codify the administration's anti-trans executive orders into binding federal policy, imposing a blanket prohibition on federal funds going toward "gender ideology"

The proposed rule, formally titled "Regulation for Federal Financial Assistance," rewrites the government-wide framework governing all federal grants across every agency. Among its most consequential provisions, it requires that before a federal grant recipient can receive money, the award must pass a "pre-issuance review" conducted by a political appointee—not a career expert or peer reviewer—to ensure it is "consistent with applicable law, Federal agency priorities, and the national interest." The regulation explicitly instructs these appointees to screen for "denial by the recipient of the sex binary in humans or the notion that sex is a chosen or mutable characteristic." [...] An institution that acknowledges transgender people exist—through its policies, its training, its healthcare, its bathroom access, its HR procedures, its name-change processes—could be deemed to "deny the sex binary" or to “support the notion that sex is mutable” and have its federal funding blocked.

Importantly, the gender ideology prohibition has no age limitation—hospitals could be targeted not just for providing care to minors but for providing gender-affirming care to adults, because prescribing hormone therapy to a transgender patient of any age could be deemed promoting the belief that "sex is a chosen or mutable characteristic."

[junequeer]

THIS IS OPEN TO COMMENT UNTIL JULY 13, 2026

[featherandstorm]

This is all very bad and horrible, but I want to be clear that it’s worse and more sweeping than just eliminating trans research.

This torches everything. And I do mean everything.

A very abbreviated list of its ramifications include (but are not limited to):

ending funding for ALL DEI related initiatives

allowing the government to terminate grants at any point for any reason

preventing researchers from publishing, going to conferences, and being part of academic societies

requiring that topics must support the president’s agenda.

What this means, and if anything I’m under selling it, is the death of science and research in America. It allows the government to restrict any topic they please at a whims notice, putting officials who have no background in the topic in charge of deciding funding continuity. It controls what gets researched and if/how researchers are allowed to share their discoveries. There are no books to burn if the government never allows them to be written. This is fascism plain and simple.

Please, if you only ever write one public comment, this is the one to do.

[genderkoolaid]

Bringing back this guide to writing an effective public comment. This gives you the basics you need to know, what you need to include, a basic outline you can follow, etc.

Public comments are not a vote, it is a chance for you to say "here is an issue with this law I think you need to address" and provide justification for legal challenges if it goes forward:

"Comments raise the bar that agencies have to meet when making a rule; “if an agency fails to adequately respond to significant, relevant comments in a final rule, members of the public may seek to challenge the rule in court on that basis and claim it could be struck down.ˮ"

But also, if possible, don't stop at writing a comment. Don't stop at calling your representatives. You should ideally be talking to people in your community about this and organizing resistance on-the-ground; there is a good chance people are already doing that even if you aren't hearing about it.

[pocketss]

Ummm she's literally sensitive :/

[notanupstandingcitizen]

people who learned about greek mythology due reasons that DONT involve having read percy jackson at 12 freak me out, like what the FUCK was going on in your life that you found out that zeus turned into a pigeon to woo his wife like HOW

[cavegirlpoems]

tumblr users baffled by the concept of engaing with things that aren't YA fiction and fandom.

[digitalmyyth]

Hanging out with people will make you remember you're the crazy woke friend for like. not wanting to shop at shien