Emperor's Workshop

Mostly glorious art, some adult content

[thisiseverydayracism]

https://www.thedailybeast.com/state-department-to-lgbt-married-couples-your-out-of-wedlock-kids-arent-citizens

[thenerdyanthrohistorian]

Watch the white gays start to give a fuck now.

[roughstar]

First it was the Mexicans, legal citizens born here from immigrant parents, that were claimed as non citizens. Now it’s the children of gay parents. Don’t you see what’s happening? Disenfranchisement. Classic fascism. We’re heading towards a totalitarian regime folks. Trump is a white supremacist and him and his administration won’t stop until they’ve recreated Hitler’s Nazi Germany.

[injuries-in-dust]

Hitler didn’t start as histories greatest monster, or he wouldn’t have gained the power he got. It was only after he became too powerful to be removed that he revealed his true nature. You have to look for the warning signs and there are a lot of them with the Trump administration. Like, big red flags with glowing flares.

[misterdoctorironstrange]

The worst thing is that Hitler had to put some effort into gaining his power, while Trump has been waving his red flags as high as possible since the start and no one seems to care…

[immortalcheesewedge]

What. The. Fuck.

SPREAD. THIS. SHIT. NOW. DO. NOT. SCROLL. PAST. DO. NOT. SCROLL. PAST. DO. NOT. SCROLL. PAST. DO. NOT. SCROLL. PAST. LOOK. AT. THIS.  SPREAD. IT.

[sea-anon]

Ten steps to genocide (we are at number 8 now with the ‘detention centers’ by the way. Next step is literally extermination. Just thought y’all would like to know)

Also see poem “First they came”

I’ve been saying this since 2016. I hope you care now that it might affect you.

[infinite-chump]

The best visual gag in any piece of media was the giant vault door concealing a normal-sized door in Portal 2

[infinite-chump]

Actually the best joke of all time period was also in Portal 2 and it’s when Glados says “Well, this is the part where he kills us” and Wheatley follows up “Hello, this is the part where I kill you!” and the chapter card pops up reading “Chapter 9: The Part Where He Kills You” and then you unlock the achievement “The part where he kills you” and the achievement description reads “This is that part.”

[campfireharvest-deactivated2019]

Portal 2 is a fucking masterpiece for hundreds of reasons

[sundrenched-smilez]

the song in that section is also called “the part where he kills you” !!

[cwote]

In Case You Need This Today

you are not a failure

you are not a waste of space

you are loved

you are wanted

i believe in you

YOU CAN DO IT!!

[locatebiome]

minecraft gothic

- You are the only one capable of building complex, planned structures. You are alone. You don’t remember building the temples or houses you come across.

- You are alone. You are the only one like you in the entire world.

- Villagers keep their hands clasped beneath long robes. You’ve never seen a villager’s hand. Sometimes you wonder if they have them at all.

- The villagers all have the same empty green eyes. They have completely different anatomy from you. They’re humanoid, but not human. Are you?

- The undead, however, have your face and your clothes. They seem closer to you than the villagers.

- You’re alone. You are the only one like you in the world.

- All caves are the same. You’ve been in a ravine like this one. Maybe you’ve been in this ravine. You’ve visited it countless times. No matter which way you turn, you stumble into it.

- No matter which way you turn, there’s more caves. Sometimes there’s torches. You’ve been here. You still can’t get out. Sometimes there’s not torches. Sometimes you give up escape and decide to explore ever deeper.

- You wonder if you’ve ever seen the surface, or if you were born in these caves with a vibrant imagination.

- You are the only living thing in this world. 

- You come across dusty, abandoned mineshafts and rusty minecarts with loot at the bottom. You don’t remember building these or leaving anything behind. You wouldn’t shore up the walls with wooden posts. You know this world better than that.

- Then why does shoring up the walls seem logical? You don’t remember a world before this one. Why does this one feel so strange, sometimes even irrational?

- You’re alone. You are the only one like you in the world. You’re being watched. 

- The caves aren’t yours. You’re the only one in them, but they’re not yours. They belong to something else - someone else, and you both know it.

- You’re alone in the world. You’re not alone in the caves. Their breathing and occasional humming echo in the stony corridors.

- Maybe the caves themselves are breathing. Singing.

- You are the only living thing in this world. The world itself, however, is alive.

- You make up stories for everything you build. You forget they’re just stories.

- The world sings to you. You clutch its music close and hope it never stops. In the silence after each song, you’re alone.

- You’re alone. You are the only one like you in the world, for this world is honest. You are being watched, for you are not.

- You’re the only living thing in this world. The world is alive. You are not alive the same way.

- The world exists to for you to live in it, and you think it resents that.

[mango-habanero-autism-deactivat]

Also why do lefties who worship nuclear energy suddenly get sulky when you’re like “yeah good luck getting indigenous nations on board with that when you look at *takes out a comically oversized piece of paper with all the indigenous communities harmed by uranium mining and nuke testing and starts to let it roll down until it snakes out the door and down the hill* history”?

[baeddel-of-color-deactivated202]

it’s pissed me off my entire life that people can be like “yeah, let’s just test those bombs in the desert and dump the waste out there too.” like, people live out there jackasses! people on reservations and in small towns went blind from the trinity site tests, we have that shit recorded! and not to mention the ecological damage it does, and the fact that nuclear waste will be around for -millenia-. they don’t wanna admit it, but the left is just as guilty of wanting instant gratification and to cling to middle class comfort as the right.

[repost-this-image]

Um. Nuclear power plants and the horrific shit we did in the 40s and 50s are two very different things.

In seventy years there have been thousands of nuclear power plants all over the world. Only THREE, in all that time, have ever had containment problems, and in all 3 cases, it was from asshats cutting corners with safety equipment to “save money.”

We can name every single nuclear plant that melted down. Three Mile Island. Chernobyl. Fukushima. But can you name the nuclear power plants that are already running NOW in the US? Because there are hundreds.

So it sounds like the main issue is “how the fuck can we convince the people we kicked around for 400 fuckin years that we’re actually going to be responsible and honest this time?” which, honestly, is the kind of uphill battle that even Sisyphus would back down from.

[mango-habanero-autism-deactivat]

Who is the royal “we” here? I (OP) and the person who commented after me are both indigenous.

I want you to examine your assumption that non-Indigenous people DESERVE have any sort of decision-making and building power, instead of just assuming you need to “convince” us, it’s still cloaked in the language of ownership and entitlement, and betrays a thinking that indigenous people are an obstacle course to getting what you want, not the stewards who care for the land and are the only ones to be trusted with decision making power over things that impact the plant animal (human and nonhuman) and spiritual life.

[leadmetosymphonies]

The Lakota scientific community has been doing research on uranium mining in the Black Hills (and surrounding Oceti Sakowin territories in South Dakota) for years as a way to combat continued and further attempts at it in the future:

https://solve.mit.edu/challenges/indigenous-communities-fellowship/solutions/6195

https://nativesciencereport.org/2015/03/oglala-lakota-college-challenges-safety-of-uranium-mining-in-black-hills/

http://www.cleanupthemines.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/URANIUM-IMPACTS-IN-LAKOTA-TERRITORY.pdf (PDF file for those who missed it in the URL)

Rundown on mining in South Dakota (with historical context): https://www.counterpunch.org/2014/03/07/the-curse-of-uranium-in-the-black-hills/

[corvid-420]

I don’t have access to my files on my computer so this source will do, but the largest nuclear accident in the United States wasn’t three mile island, it was a spill of 94 million gallons of radioactive waste into the puerco River that poisoned the Navajo reservation, whose “anniversary” is coming up, coincidentally.

Remembering the largest radioactive spill in U.S. history - New Mexico In Depth

July 16 will mark 35 years to the day in 1979 when a dam on the Navajo Nation near Church Rock, N.M., broke, releasing 94 million gallons of

nmindepth.com/2014/07/07/remembering-the-largest-radioactive-spill-in-u-s-history/

[hroakie-blog]

one of the smaller more subtle things about video games that i absolutely love is when your footsteps sound different depending where you’re walking like hell yeah

[shymagnolia]

so I got into grad school today with my shitty 2.8 gpa and the moral of the story is reblog those good luck posts for the love of god

[shymagnolia]

okay so i just got my dream job??? a week after applying to it?? and now i’m thinking….maybe this is the good luck post

[dorkyfictionalother-deactivated]

This is the good luck post, yo!

[historicallyrelevant]

Hopefully this works across all parts of my life

[frogitivity2]

Please take good care of them!

[franni-ghost]

some Portal doodles I forgot to post on here…

[gogomrbrown]

https://openstaxcollege.org

FUCK CAPITALISM! This didn’t cost tax payers anything. You don’t need to be a governing body with a police force to do decent things.

stanfordetc freedomofscreech

[hagiographically]

THANK

[kaciart]

Just going to pop this here for you guys.

[englishlit-chic]

Important ☝🏼️

[studyybri-deactivated20161220]

REBLOGGING THE FUCK OUTTA THIS

[officialdavepeta]

@cosmic-rumpus

[from-the-west-meadow-deactivate]

It’s actually/now https://openstax.org/.

[shittynewyorkercartooncaptions]

[roger-taylor-owns-my-wigg]

every person can feel freddie’s presence in their souls when they sing MAMAAAAAA UUHHHH, I DONT WANNA DIE, I SOMETIMES I WISH I’VE NEVER BEEN BORN AT ALL with all the air in their lungs i’m not joking

[peachdisco]

it’s fucking crazy to think about the amount of people who have sung bohemian rhapsody? like it’s such a unifying song, by nature of the fact that so many people know it. it holds so many good memories for me and other people. it’s a song you scream in the car with your friends while you drive around your boring hometown, it’s a song you drunkenly sing with your arm around your best friend, or a song you sing along to with strangers when it’s on in public. it’s bittersweet to think about freddie’s legacy carrying on like that through his masterpiece. freddie carries on because he’s a part of so many people’s good memories and bohemian rhapsody is a huge part of that.

[deathbutwithfuzzyanimals]

Reblog if you have sung bohemian rhapsody with your friends

[turing-tested]

not to sound like a commie or anything but I hate how it costs money to be alive

[lmm-43]

2020 is in 6 months. Don’t let anyone waste your time.

[1o9]

Imagine being able to talk to people without sounding like a fuckin idiot

[brainstatic]

Everyone’s like “those Germans have a word for everything” but English has a word for tricking someone into watching the music video for Rick Astley’s Never Gonna Give You Up.

[queenrinacat]

English has a lot more words created for very specific phenomena! It’s not just rick-rolling. Language is always evolving and it’s super interesting! Here’s a list of hyper-specific/untranslatable words in English.

[officialtokyosan]

[ephemeralhorror]

why are cyberpunk tabletop things so obsessed with decency and personhood being tied to how many surgeries you haven’t had

[ephemeralhorror]

“if you have a prosthetic it takes out a part of your soul” like thanks shadowrun

[rlyehtaxidermist]

in early cyberpunk, the point was more along the lines of “if we integrate technology into our bodies we risk becoming dependent upon the people and institutions who control that technology, who would then use that to enrich themselves at our expense”

unfortunately that was too anti-corporate for American mainstream culture so as cyberpunk moved out of its niche it became “uhhh it eats your soul I guess”

[the960writers]

tags by @rubyvroom: 

#this is important context #if you weren’t around at the time it is easy to miss but #anti-corporate sentiment was pretty much the lynchpin of cyberpunk until there were movies and games making money off it #it was the 1980s you guys #the entire point was that corporations are evil and technology should be used to circumvent them and escape their control over our lives #and not be used to make ourselves into another product #now that the internet is entirely monetized and corporate it’s harder to remember that originally it was synonymous w freedom & independence

Yes, exactly. Cyberpunk is anti-corporations, not anti-body-modification.