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[mug-wortz]

Saw a funny comment on a funny post and decided I had to draw it. Enter: Ryland Grace starring in the UNESCO Incident

Time: 2 hours 25 minutes

(Impressive for me I usually average 7hrs)

Inspiration:

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@bubbles-in-the-clouds @ironychan

[rafagrunje]

Gabriel Van Helsing - (Hugh Jackman)

Van Helsing: O Caçador de Monstros 🎬 2004

[ame704022]

Grace finally does something impressive to rocky

[starmage2]

What if he starts stacking like this. Imagine how mind blowing this would be.

[astronautvibess]

Colt and Ryland twins au

I have been eating up twins Colt and Grace content recently and I just had this thought.

Because I love love love them both getting a happy ending together, but Rocky HAS to be there.

So I was thinking, what if the events of PHM happened gracefully? Grace still gets shot up into space, but maybe with some added bs about how there isn’t really time dilation or smt.

Grace and Rocky save stars™.

And we still get Grace in his little enclosure with his bestie, and Adrian is there ofc.

Rocky knows all about the shit Stratt pulled and was definitely not happy to find out they strapped Grace to a rocket unwillingly and erased his memory, which has to be done even worse sounding to an Eridian because they never forget anything.

But Grace opens up about missing his twin and mourns the fact that he left on bad terms without ever getting to say goodbye.

And Rocky deliberates and of course lands on:

"Rocky fix."

Because by now the Eridians have fixed the Hail Mary, but let's imagine they discover some way to make it way faster than the first trip there.

In the spirit of not scaring the shit out of all of humanity, they send the Eridian equivalent of a beetle over with a message.

Adrian had to video it himself because Rocky is still pissy about them hurting his friend.

But it essentially goes along the lines of:

"Hello Earth. Message from Erid. Friend Grace made home on Erid after saving stars with Rocky. Friend Grace happy, but Friend Grace sad. Friend Grace misses cluster mate. Would like cluster mate Colt to visit Erid to make Savior Grace happy happy happy. NO STRATTS ALLOWED. Ship on way. One week Earth time :)."

Meanwhile, the events of The Fall Guy are beginning with Colt on the run after being framed by Tom.

Then suddenly all charges are dropped and there is a global manhunt for him?!?

And Tom is PISSED because suddenly the spotlight is completely on COLT and his—much better looking twin—and not HIM

[starmage2]

I find hilarious how you call Grace the much better looking twin.

[tilthat]

TIL “Yankee Doodle” was written by the British to mock americans. “Doodle” is thought to come from the German “dödel”, meaning “fool” or “simpleton” and “macaroni,” a flamboyantly stylish type of dress, painting the Yankees as morons who thought placing a feather in one’s cap made them a “dandy.”

via reddit.com

[toastpotent-deactivated20250619]

so you’re telling me that “stuck a feather in his hat and called it macaroni” would be like saying “wrote a G on his belt and called it gucci”

[beggars-opera]

that’s…a pretty good analogy actually

[ti-bae-rius]

US moron came to town

Hunting for some coochie

Wrote a G up on his belt

And this bitch called it Gucci

[ti-bae-rius]

Seeing my notifications get flooded with this every July 4th is the only thing I respect about America

[stupidavi]

Van Helsing

My obsession

[starmage2]

Great work

[loganmeowlett]

no wolvie wednesday today, but it's still hugh related does that count? 💖a little extra gift i included in a recent commission for a very good friend who was so patient with me. @veryliteralsin

van helsing and her oc! 🐺👑

[starmage2]

This is lovely.

[aroace-get-out-of-my-face]

Don’t we make a lovely couple?

I think redrawing this scene from Van Helsing (2004) (Aka the best vampire movie ever change my mind) is a requirement for them.

[and-corn]

are evil dragons really evil, or are they just vitamin D deficient?

(pt 2)

[and-corn]

wait why is this now labeled as mature content :(

[spiteswallow]

I humbly suggest that true crime freaks should get into learning about scammers instead of serial killers. I LOVE reading about fraud and grifts and pyramid schemes. true crime ppl have all this paranoid energy about murder, which is rare in the grand scheme of things.....maybe instead that could be channeled into some productive rage toward capitalism.

[spiteswallow]

And u know a side effect of learning about scam artists is that you start to understand certain things about economics, and just how STUPID these systems are and how easily they are taken advantage of....and I'd much rather people gained a passing familiarity with economics than whatever armchair psychologist shit these true crimers get on. We need fewer people who think they're experts on "sociopaths" and more people who understand how people like Elizabeth Holmes and the WeWork guy were able to do what they did

[lindstromm]

Here are some of my favorite books about financial scams:

The Wizard of Lies: Bernie Madoff and the Death of Trust by Diana B. Henriques.

The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine by Michael Lewis (about the 2008 stock market collapse).

The Caesar's Palace Coup: How a Billionaire Brawl Over the Famous Casino Exposed the Corruption of the Private Equity Industry by Max Frumes and Sujeet Indap. (I admit I've never finished this one; the writing is hard to read.)

The Great Beanie Baby Bubble: Mass Delusion and the Dark Side of Cute, by Zac Bissonette. I bought this book because of the subtitle and I have never regretted it. You must read it.

Catch Me If You Can by Frank Abagnale. They turned this one into a movie! The book was very different and is worth reading.

The Cult of We: WeWork, Adam Neumann, and the Great Startup Delusion, by Elliot Brown and Maureen Farrell. I haven't read this one yet, but it's on my tbr pile!

Opus: The Cult of Dark Money, Human Trafficking, and Right-Wing Conspiracy Inside the Catholic Church, by Gareth Gore. I'm reading this one right now. The author is a financial journalist who stumbled onto this story by unraveling a bank failure in Spain.

And here's a list of more non-fiction books about fraud and financial scams. The first book on this list is about Theranos and Elizabeth Holmes, which I also haven't read yet.

Enjoy!

[lilithsaintcrow]

"This week I discovered the same pattern, executed by Google. Google Chrome is reaching into users' machines and writing a 4 GB on-device AI model file to disk without asking."

Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent. At a billion-device scale the climate costs are insane. — Th

Google Chrome is downloading a 4 GB Gemini Nano model onto users' machines without consent, with no opt-in, no opt-out short of enterprise t

[spockvarietyhour]

Google Chrome Secretly Downloads Huge Local AI Models

Google Chrome automatically installs local neural network components on user systems via default configurations. The browser downloads a 4GB

Procedures for disabling it

[deafeningcreationearthquake]

[athelind]

Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin - Wikipedia

This Month in Physics History

APS Archives

Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin: The woman who first grasped the elemental power of stars

Cecilia Payne: Discoverer of the Chemical Makeup of Stars | AMNH

What are the stars made of? At 25, Cecilia Payne answered this fundamental question in her Ph.D. thesis.

Amazing.

[sushi1056]

deactivated

So thoroughly nuked that there isn’t even any record of their original blog url

[ivys-garden]

The Forbidden Knowledge

[bisexual-engineer-girl]

not even any notes. I feel like I’ve stumbled upon a plot-advancing skeleton’s notebook

[corvidexoskeleton]

I was looking at the imdb page for van helsing 2004 and I'm losing my fucking mind at this

[starmage2]

So if you ever listen to the director's commentary he talks about this on the dvd. When they did test screenings the woman were enjoying Hugh ass instead of being sad about Anna's death. So to help keep the focus on the emotional moment they covered his ass with the cgi torn pants.

[paper-mario-wiki]

in case you haven't thought about switching to firefox yet, here's an extension that will...

Notify you if a website you're on has employees that are on strike

Bypass paywalls for major news outlets like the New York Times

Change the browser theme based on the time of day

Directly install third party non-extension scripts

Save individual browser sessions to be reopened at any time

Use the TV format of YouTube in-browser

Make all chrome extensions compatible with Firefox

Turn YouTube dislikes back on

Fix Twitter and make it way less fucked up

Automatically remove trackers from URLs

And many more!

Feel free to add any other firefox extensions you think are slept on.

[quinintheclouds]

also, Firefox's adblock actually works on youtube, since, y'know, it's not owned by Google

[systlin]

Did you hear the scientists have found a way to grow colored cotton? Thoughts?

It’s not a ‘scientists have found’ and much more ‘people have been already doing that for thousands of years and it’s just gaining more attention recently’

[beowulf22121]

Scientists didn’t know. It should be “Scientists just found out”

[systlin]

There’s actually been a load of vitriol leveled against folks who try to raise traditional colored cottons, because a lot of cotton growers don’t want the colored cottons cross-pollinating with their standard white cotton.

But anyway cotton can be grown in lovely natural shades of greens, reddish-brown ochres, and browns, all of which deepen with a good boil in water with a bit of washing soda thrown in.

The color obviously doesn’t fade or run, because it’s not dye. It’s the intrinsic color of the fiber itself.

[angry-cajun-lady]

I....I want clothes made out of those colors. They don't hurt my brain!

[systlin]

Aren’t they lovely?

I’m biased because I love the natural earth tones of many fibers, of course...browns, blacks, creams, copper-reds, ect...but I think they’re just gorgeous.

[systlin]

https://www.vreseis.com/shop

If anyone wants to know where you can get yarn or cotton like this!

[carolxdanvers]

Scientists did not "just find out", and this is more of the same anti intellectual bs as the post that goes around claiming archaeologists were too stupid to know that hair could be sewn for elaborate styles.

Anyway, scientists DID figure out how to grow colored cotton. They genetically engineered it to be bright fuckin pink, and they didn't "just find out" about it, they already knew which is literally what inspired them to attempt the thing they just accomplished. Begging y'all to stop pretending that scientists don't know things, don't have interests, don't grow up in farming communities or have family who taught them this. Scientists are people. Do you seriously think people who use genetic engineering to make eco-friendly pink cotton don't know anything about textiles?

Anyway. Bright pink cotton without dyes, because science is awesome

[gamerwoman3d]

Yes. CSIRO scientist Doctor Colleen MacMillan led the team that figured this out. They used tobacco plants for testing because of the genetic similarity. Basically if the tobacco leaves produced colors when injected with a bit of the experimental genetic material, the scientists on the team already understood that the color change would affect cotton bolls as well.

They grew bright red and bright yellow in a petri dish.

And yes, Doctor MacMillan knows lots of things. Here's a list of some of her publications.

@csirogram on Instagram

Additionally folks are researching how to create flame resistant cotton and black cotton. If a variety of black cotton becomes viable, it can stop a LOT of environmental damage caused by chemical manufacturing of black dye.

[nartoq]

THIS. Every damn botanist I know, including myself, is at the least tangentially interested in fiber arts and indigenous methods behind things like that. Scientists have hobbies and we're all goddamn nerds so a lot of those hobbies are more niche. The anti-intellectualism is insane. I swear half of y'all think scientists are all evil cackling old men devoted to holding up colonial power systems. The work done by Dr. MacMillan is crazy cool and should be celebrated

[tothechaos]

phones love to go "do you want to clear up .3 GB by deleting these cherished pictures that you havent looked at in more than 30 days?" while also installing random apps and AI bullshit you didnt ask for. and you cant even uninstall half the apps

[tonystarksanxieties]

No, but literally

[anxiousmercy]

seeing this reminded me to finally get rid of that Damned Thing that keeps installing random games on my phone

The mobile services manager app performs many functions including installing and updating apps, controlling some Android settings

[tothechaos]

anxiousmercy im giving you my first born and the keys to the city for helping me disable that damn thing that has infuriated me for years

if you have an android, follow the steps in the article to stop random, unwanted apps from being installed on your device!