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me coming back to this website after all these years

Sam Reich on Game Changer: Service Dom Sadist

Will Arnett on Lego Masters: Service Sub Masochist

Alex Horne on Taskmaster: Service Switch Switch

all game show hosts (/personal assistants to game show hosts) can be thus categorized, please add the alignment of your favourite game show host (/personal assistants to game show hosts) in the tags

sapper-in-the-wire-old

people today with access to more raw information than any other period: the earth is flat

german artilleryman in 1916, who barely washes his own ass: I need to account for the curvature and rotation of the earth when plotting my firing plans

thefloatingstone

Eratosthenes, an Egyptian, in 3750 BC when fucking mammoths hadn’t even gone extinct yet: Oh hey I can use these two obelisks to calculate the earth’s entire circumference based on the length of their shadows and the Earth’s curvature. Neat.

alaija

Erastothenes was born in 276 BCE.

The last mammoth died on in island off the northeast coast of Siberia in ~1650BCE.

And as I’ve pointed out previously, the Coriolis effect was known even earlier than that, although it may not have become important to gunnery.

ultramaga

I find it utterly bizarre that humans saw these megafauna.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/02/science/woolly-mammoth-extinct-genetics.html “ In fact, the Wrangel mammoth’s genome carried so many detrimental mutations that the population had suffered a “genomic meltdown,” according to Rebekah Rogers and Montgomery Slatkin of the University of California, Berkeley. Analyzing the Swedish team’s mammoth data at the gene level, they found that many genes had accumulated mutations that would have halted synthesis of proteins before they were complete, making the proteins useless, they report Thursday in PLOS Genetics. “ That “genomic meltdown” is one of the reasons feminism is so potentially lethal, because they keep pushing for asexual reproduction, or trying to combine ovaries, when the most likely outcome is a population running about - unable to reproduce sexually since the whole “male genocide” bit - with incredibly damaged chromosomes. Sex exists for a reason, and no, “because it’s fun” is not the answer, sorry. It works better than reproduction otherwise. Which is why every complex species uses it. Intelligence requires a lot of things to be working correctly, and if you have an all female species that is over the tipping point of idiocy, then there won’t be enough people to maintain the technology to continue to reproduce. And humans will go the way of the Wrangel beasties. Fortunately, feminists are horribly lazy bastards, so i doubt they’ll continue to get their way, but it does made for a decent plot for a dystopian fiction…

iron-sunrise

What …the fuck?

smitethestate

That went off the rails so suddenly like I thought I was just gonna learn something cool about mammoths and then WHOA.

kiwianaroha

I scrolled past this thinking “the earth is round, yes, something, something, mammoths…’

But the second time it came past I saw

That “genomic meltdown” is one of the reasons feminism is so potentially lethal

And I think I got whiplash from that pivot. I also laughed so hard that I couldn’t breathe.

nyokoko

I’m????

prince-atom

Point and laugh at the MRA, kids.

lyricwritesprose

How … does he think … mammoths reproduced …

Never mind, not sure I want to know.

sarkos

reblog to support Mammoth Feminism,

ignore for G E N O M I C M E L T D O W N

lankyguy

I here af for my Feminist Mammoth ladies, bring the species back!

DOWN WITH GENOMIC MELTDOWN

lavvyan

I… what exactly is combining ovaries supposed to achieve? 400 lazy feminist babies at the same time?

telesilla

Shhhh…you weren’t supposed to tell anyone.

curlicuecal

FEMINISM KILLED THE MAMMOTHS

indiestripper

I did not think this was where I would end up

rejectedprincesses

Virginia Hall (1906-1982): The Most Dangerous Spy of All

Book 2 available here. Full entry on the website - with footnotes and citations - available right here. Art notes after the cut.

Keep reading

rejectedprincesses

I can’t believe I forgot to mention this (blame not sleeping all night) - her story is already in development as a film. Daisy Ridley (Rey from Star Wars) is set to play Virginia. More here.

This movie has been in various states of development for like a decade, but I think it’s got incredibly good odds of being in the current development climate.

And while we’re here, have a cute picture of Virginia and Paul (he’s the one on the right). The other two pictured are OSS reinforcements who came in along with Paul, but neither stuck around very long - so I relegated their presence in the story to a footnote.

#this story is pretty great #even if she did join the cia

truly-fantastic-me

“wouldn’t you rather earn something than have it just handed to you?”

Yeah when it comes to actual awards and fancy goods, but when it comes to basic needs, basic human decency, and accomodations, those things should always be handed to people. No one should have to “earn” those things.Value people as people, not base it on how much they produce.

mythiass-deactivated20230515

yeah but that creates a severe dependency that could be exploited easily, and creates a slippery slope @musical-clarity

thebaconsandwichofregret

Actually studies show that people who live in places with universal income (who are given money with no strings attached just for being citizens) do far better work than those who don’t and are more enthusiastic to do work.

This is because they still want nice things and will work for those but the part of their energy that was devoted to worrying about if they have enough money to pay the rent and bills this month is now freed up to do other things.

Some people will always be lazy and take advantage of the system, but they are always a tiny percentage and it seems ridiculous to me to punish the majority and severly hamstring their abilities just because a handful of people will simply live of basic income rather than work.

tiwaztyrsfist

It’s been tested a couple times. In Canada, in some European countries, and the results are always the same. There are two groups of people who show a statistically significant (Greater than one half of one percent, or 1 in 200) increase in Not Working and living off the guaranteed income. Parents of Children under school age, and full time students. Among ALL other groups, employment actually INCREASED. Why? Because guaranteed minimum income means that homeless people can get at least a basic low end apartment. It’s hard if not impossible to get an above board job without a permanent fixed address. Also more people were able to have and maintain a BANK ACCOUNT. It is often hard to get a decent job without an account that can accept Direct Deposit for paychecks. Also, lost work time due to illness and injury decreased across the board. It turns out if people are getting a decent amount of money each month they can A> afford to eat better, and B> obtain decent medical attention both preventative and emergency. Crazy right? So why hasn’t it caught on? Because it doesn’t directly benefit the people in power, and it increases THEIR PERSONAL taxes, their CORPORATE TAXES, and thus decreases their PERSONAL INCOME. So, because Jeff Bezos and Alan Greenspan might fall from making 100 billion dollars a year to making 99.8 billion dollars a year, it’s a hard NO and we can all fucking die.. The End.

scoobydoos

winter-wise

what shuri did not do:

delete the footage of t’challa getting thrown across the lab

what shuri did do:

set the footage of t’challa getting thrown across the lab to “mmm whatcha say” and post the video to the dora milaje groupchat

seashellronan

Constantly torn between “my sexuality is none of your business” and “lmao I hope they don’t think I’m straight god forbid”

steinpratt

I'm pretty sure my Trunk Club stylist thinks I'm straight (the first trunk I got is very "straight Brooklyn hipster") and I was struggling to figure out how to tell her to gay it up without saying that explicitly

(I resolved the issue by saying I wanted to dress more like Tan from Queer Eye)

superscavenger

Friend: Wanna come see Murder on the Orient Express? It’s got Daisy Ridley, Michelle Pfieffer, Leslie Odom Jr., Johnny Depp -

Me:

Friend: Johnny Depp dies 20 minutes in…

Me:

I've been away from Tumblr for...a year? Maybe more? Anyway I can't believe it's 2018 and people on this website are still posting long-ass text posts without a cut

somagramme

historymeming

Neko Atsume x Poets and philosophers through history

lesbianrey

you hear that?? feminism was practically invented by kyle ron 😩 need me a freak like that!! 💯👌

hankscorpio

When he lets you wake up in your own time before the torture session #bae

ashdemonsrun-deactivated2016121

get a man who let’s you sleep in before he tortures you😍😍✨

some tumblr post: creative writing programs don't actually teach you anything

me, descending from your attic through a trapdoor in your ceiling: actually I feel that this kind of dismissal of the formal study of writing is directly related to the devaluing of the act of writing itself and the denial that writing is work. of course, I would never say academia is the ONLY way to learn to write but to deny that writing programs have anything to teach you is essentially to deny that writing is a skillset that can be taught and I really don't see how that's helpful to anyone.

you, waving a baseball bat: who are you. how did you get in my house.

pervocracy

🔥non-dysphoric trans people

You mean trans people who’ve transitioned and now feel self-actualized in the correct gender? I’m very happy for them!

…That’s probably not what you meant.

So I actually have a lot of trouble saying that I have dysphoria, not because I don’t want to transition, but because it’s hard for a fish to say “I’m wet.” I’ve lived in this body and assigned gender my whole life. I don’t necessarily notice dysphoria, except when certain events sort of rub my nose in it. What I notice more is a glorious, soaring euphoria when people recognize me as male and when I perceive myself as male. Is that euphoria just the way normal life feels to people who don’t have dysphoria? I don’t know. I’m a fish.

Therefore, I have plenty of empathy for trans people who don’t describe their experiences in terms of dysphoria because they’re like me, unable to put a label to it because they’ve never experienced anything else.

But I’m sure, because Tumblr is vast and contains multitudes, that there are some people out there who would object to that characterization, who would say that they have perfectly good insight into their own dysphoria and they seriously don’t have any, they just feel trans regardless.

…And heck, you know what, I support them too. I don’t think that gatekeeping who gets to be trans is ever a good thing. It doesn’t make medically diagnosed dysphoric trans people look more legitimate; it just spreads the idea that trans fakers and wannabes are a serious problem that everyone should watch out for.

Just as I think “sexuality is fluid, and many sexualities are okay” is a better narrative for LGBQ people than “we were born this way, so let’s make the necessary accommodations for our unfortunate situation,” I think “gender is fluid, and many genders are okay” is a good narrative for trans people.

Right now, I’m in my fifth month of intensive screening for being a Fake Trans before getting any kind of medical transition treatment. And I’ve got it easy compared to trans people in a lot of places. I don’t think “trans people aren’t doubted enough” is a problem we need to be fighting super hard.