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okay heres the new pinned post. whats up im manfred (he/occasionally they) and welcome to the place where i talk about side characters from fullmetal alchemist and whatever else i feel like (but mostly the former). for goofy fma comics drawn by me go to @funnybido. elicia hughes dni
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click the readmore for a tiny png of bido going "ei!"
took a nap this afternoon, dreamt that bernie sanders got eaten by a large amoeba that steals your body and memories. youll never guess what happened to his body and memories
I'm so sick of seeing this guy when is someone gonna torture him in a shipping container
It's really funny that this guy didn't fundamentally change as a person unlike many other people and still remains in his 2014 anti-sjw era of contrarian conservative politics. No growth whatsoever.
takashi0 replying to people's posts with some insipid pseud bullshit in 2026:
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when (some orb-weaver?) spiders are hungrier they build/adjust their webs so the strands are more taut, meaning the web is more sensitive, and smaller prey than normal will make it vibrate (every bite counts when you're starving!). but ALSO: if you station a well-fed spider on a web that was built by an extremely hungry spider, that spider will go capture the kinds of tiny bugs that the looser web it would have built itself wouldn't have alerted it to. they outsource the decision-making for which prey to go after to their web! they just adjust the settings til they seem about right for the moment and then go along with whatever the web picks up. "the spider will eat whatever it's aware of, and it sets the bounds of its awareness by spinning different kinds of webs." that's so cool....
like i know. i know. its so easy to call out cis peoples hypocrisy when it comes to gender affirming care and whatnot. but the impulse to point a finger and go "lol youre acting just like US isnt that FUCKED UP and WEIRD" is not a particularly helpful tactic i dont think. if your goal is to make there be Less transphobia in the world. which i hope it is
"wow young cis men are getting increasingly obsessed with conforming to white supremacist gender roles. thats so weird theyre basically acting TRANS" -my fellow trans men on youtube, i guess, for some reason
UPDATE apparently he is directly quoting clavicular so my apologies to this youtuber for assuming he came up with this terminology. but also there are 2 awesome punctuation mark we can use in these situations > " "
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the unfortunate side effect of developing a more critical eye for fan behaviour as a product of society™️ is that new fan takes on a piece of media become fairly predictable. oh the white guy with daddy issues is your favourite? you think the asian man is an adorable subby cinnamon roll? you think the woman in a position of authority is either mom-coded or a total bitch? say less
Here is an article from NPR about it (May 22, 2026):
Carolina Milanesi, an independent technology analyst, said Google is trying to make its cash cow business — search — richer and more personalized, and it will make shopping easier. But there is a risk that users may have fewer choices about what to click. "Right now it's: I ask a question, I get a bunch of answers and I feel that I'm in control as to which answer I take, or if I'm looking for something, which product I'm going to end up buying. That is going to be less so going forward," she said. Milanesi envisions AI-enabled search and agents proposing products to consumers — perhaps even those they have requested — but with less clarity or choice around where it's coming from. "If you're going to say: 'I want a pair of Jordans, go find them,' you're not necessarily sure what steps have been taken and whether the AI has used a source or a store that was paid for and therefore came up in the search results," she said, "or if AI actually went and did their due diligence and picked the best for me as a customer."
And here's one from Time magazine (May 20, 2026):
While Google already has “AI Mode,” the company will now power the whole search bar through its new Gemini 3.5 Flash model. Instead of the classic list of blue links, Google Search will now also generate a custom page with an AI-generated summary of what you’re searching about, which will then trigger a conversation with AI Mode on the main page, allowing users to ask follow-up questions—similar to the kind of layout you would see when opening ChatGPT.
And a little more from Time's article on how this may affect the websites that we are trying to search for:
When Google first started implementing AI-assisted results, news publishers warned of “catastrophic” impacts on the industry, much of which relies on Google search to drive users to their websites. Last year, news websites saw significant traffic declines as chatbots increasingly replaced Google search as the primary way to find sites and ask questions. Small businesses also noted drops in traffic to their sites from Google, which has traditionally delivered customers. Lily Ray, vice president of SEO strategy & research at Amsive, a digital marketing agency, warned as early as last year that Google’s planned changes to search are “going to have a devastating impact on the Internet.” “It will severely cut into the main source of revenue for most publishers and it will disincentivize content creators who rely on organic search traffic, which is millions of websites, maybe more,” she told Technology Magazine.
This is you reminder that, even in Google's own Chrome, you can set the default search to DuckDuckGo.
i understand the temptation to do it but it makes me sooooo annoyed when people flatten flints character throughout the seasons as if hes always working towards the same thing or so they can be an apologist for him in the first couple seasons (i will be an apologist for some things but certainly not all lmao)
like i think one of my favorite parts of black sails and him as a character is how he grows and changes!!! he becomes both more radical and more gentle and he starts listening to and collaborating with other people as he gains a more developed understanding of how oppression works and how revolution is necessary and what that'll look like!!!
like if you try to flatten things and act like his individualist goal for revenge at the expense of other people in s1 thats nominally against the british empire but still full of colonialist and monarchist sentiment is the same thing then thats so boring. and you're gonna alienate people going into the show that are expecting him to be more radical but then seeing him complicit in colonialism and slavery who will understandably just walk away from it like 'oh ok people were exaggerating and i guess theyre ok with overlooking this to celebrate this guys "gay rage" or w/e thats upsetting'
same thing obviously applies to his 2nd season politics. and at that there are just like wayyyy too many people i've seen in the wild that somehow come away from black sails thinking flint should still be working towards thomas's pardons i feel insane
i also think this is at least one way that people with bad opinions who think silver was right during [redacted] develop lmao
exactly! This is what I always say about Flint but better.
I WAS annoyed at him during the first season. but mostly because having started watching almost ten years after the ending, through fandom's exposure I was lead to believe exactly what op said, that Flint was a radical figure since the beginning working for a revolution, and so I found his lack of radicalism and vague project of recreating a standard colony with himself (or one of his ally) as the head of the new power structure kind of boring, and not enough of a noble goal to justify all the personal sacrifice and sacrifice of life made in the name of this goal.
Which doesn't mean that I can't enjoy character whose politics I don't agree with or think they are outdated, but because Flint was hyped to me as a character working toward a revolution since the beginning (even if I know the reasons for it would have been explained later), I was underwhelmed by his lack of not-individualistic revolutionary sentiment.
I like Flint as a symphatetic tyramn in season one, I didn't root for him or see him as a revolutionary hero because well. He didn't sold me ideas that I found inspiring enough.
And "discovering" (what I already know) that he was gay in season two didn't change this fact.
Now I do love Flint more but because I have understood him as a character whose sense of community and understanding of the world are meant to change and grow with time and experiences, and in season one he thougght he was at the end of his journey but he was actually always in the beginning.
And I think he is a good character because his flaws and blind post that get either overlooked or demonizes by many fans (or others characters) in early seasons change and mellow gradually in a very human way.
So yeah season 3/season 4 Flint (no spoiler for the end please) is in a very different place, politically, ideologically and even in term of how he has learned to interact with the people fighting with him (and not anymore just FOR him) than season 1 Flint, or even season 2 Flint.
And while "character did nothing wrong" is a common form of fandom joke, I think thinking that for real about Flint and esp to discuss early seasons Flint makes very difficult to appreciate his journey from individualistic rage to working with others to end all oppressions (including the ones who don't affect him personally, like slavery or racism).
And also his growth from a self-made tyramn who didn't listen or respect anyone's opinion others than his own and felt disdain for the very people he said he was fighting for ("fuck these men, fuck their short-sight" very understable sentiment regard Dufrene and his band of idiots but also you can't say you are going on a mission for the future of men like this while also constantly thinking of yourself as innately superior and smarter than them in any occasion lol) to a leader who is willing to discuss military strategies with co-leaders he respect, and who listen to them, and feels a genuine desire to improve the life of the people fighting his war, for theirs own sake, and not just for honoring the memory of a ghost from his past.
Which doesn't mean Flint stop being a general or a very closed-off individual, but you know. Now he has more radical and less individualistic ideas for a better world and respect more the people close to him and fighting alongside him, and those two things are connected.
And deny that he does NOT have them in the beginning of the show is denying his journey (painful, but also full of surprise and new bonds) that brought him here.
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queer muppet moments i would make happen if i was in charge of the muppets:
the electric mayhem (minus animal bcs hes their kid) arent a polycule, theyre monogamous. but specifically they break up and date each other one at a time. they have a chart.
animal is genderfluid. this is mentioned exactly once bcs kermit calls her he and she starts yelling "SHE/HER!" kermit corrects himself and the show goes on
rizzo made out with gonzo once but he still considers himself straight bcs gonzo is not a guy, he's a whatever. gonzo agrees with this
uncle deadly dated tim curry. it did not end well.
actual emotional scene of gonzo talking about how he feels abt gender. no jokes.
kermit: no matter what, gonzo is still gonzo, and we're always going to support gonzo no matter what gonzo decides- gonzo: kermit. i still use he/him
statler and waldorf wedding episode. theyre divorced by the next
beaker trying to ask bunsen out on a date. in the end it turns out bunsen thought they'd been dating for years.
miss piggy hanging out with drag queens
related, miss piggy starting to present butch and kermit being Really Into It. hes embarassed abt it
pepe begins a story with "when i was a little girl...."
janice decides to start using just she bcs "like, i could never be her"
rowlf mentions having a husband. even kermit is like "??? since when??!"
actually i change my mind. genderfluid animal is mentioned a second time when dr teeth is calling for instrument and mic checks, he turns to animal and yells "animal! pronoun check!" "HE/HIM" "alright!"
Swedish Chef neopronouns: bork/bork/bork
& btw bido and co are trapped in another gacha game and you have to like and REBLOG to free them
at leasd they have each other ............
& btw bido and co are trapped in another gacha game and you have to like and REBLOG to free them
Palestinian children were prevented from going to school by razor wire and israeli soldiers — so they sat down and studied right in front of them (via AndreyX)
11 year old Huda, April 26, 2026, via CNN
