I Live For Spite

They/them, TME, white

[what-even-is-thiss]

Listen guys witch hunts were bad but they weren’t a universal phenomenon in the past. Western Europeans and colonists just had a collective freak out for about a hundred years around the 17th and 18th centuries and then they mostly calmed down.

At the time Eastern Europe was also freaking out about vampires. Everybody was just having a rough century.

[n1k05t4n5byl3r]

In England only about 300-500 women were killed for being witches (I'm pretty sure) over 100 years I thought it was waaaayyy more

Still not good tho

[what-even-is-thiss]

Yeah it’s one of those historical things that was indeed bad but at the same time wasn’t nearly as bad as people think it is.

It’s like if in the future people thought that every time 21st century Americans went to school they had to hide from a guy with a gun. Like no no no gunmen in school happens way too often but it is not by any means an everyday occurrence or an accepted practice that everybody is okay with.

Like people seem to think that if you did anything out of the ordinary in the Middle Ages you’d be accused of being a witch. And it’s like no no no that’s mostly an early modern phenomenon and while it should never have happened at all it didn’t happen nearly as often as you think it did and a lot of people weren’t okay with it at the time either.

[thepromiscuousfinger]

I love very specific cakes

[easily-evi]

I had to redraw this cake 🍰

[sweaterkittensahoy]

A companion:

[gothhabiba]

I love not playing along

[gothhabiba]

"she's gained a lot of weight lately" "oh, good for her"

"on the wrong side of 40" "huh, which side is that?"

❗️I am not playing along with you❗️

[notahorseindisguise]

one of my least favourite things about this website. "op have you considered that [the thing op was saying]"

[notahorseindisguise]

giggling at this because this is ALSO awful and is ALSO the exact opposite example of what i was saying in my post i love this

[armengoldira]

The Panama Canal

[malinastharlock]

[afloweroutofstone]

Sorry to everyone who’s enjoyed the last 130 years of science and culture journalism, but Disney needs the money to fund Toy Story 9

[artofjoshuaclarke]

The slow death of interesting things for the sake of unceasing cancerous growth and ephemeral content.

[yookay-times]

[duchessvongooseberg]

[comeonamericawakeup]

Trump has no leverage over Iran. In his terms: they have all the cards.

The only thing he could offer them that would be of interest to them is his head or Netanyahu's head. The day will come when Iran bombs Trump properties overseas. None of this will be over until Iran exacts revenge on Trump. HATE endures in the Middle East. It is culturally taught and carries forward. Trump has no off ramp. He will end up capitulating with a deal far, far worse than what Obama had negotiated.

LOSER

[ickaimp]

So this is not a plea for money. This is something that surprised me, and chatting with people on discord, they were unaware of as well.

Discovered last year I couldn’t look at my 2015 MacBook Air without it triggering nausea and migraines, and figured the screen died. Have been getting by on my phone, but concluded I really need a laptop again.

Saved up, realised I could afford a brand new MacBook Neo, and got one.

-And I couldn’t spend more than five minutes looking at the screen without massive eye strain, nausea, vertigo, and if I pushed it, I-need-to-lie-down-in-a-dark-room-for-hours migraines.

Looking up MacBook and Eyestrain explained what is going on. The liquid retina displays that Apple currently has uses Pulse Width Modulation or PWM. In order to give the screens a deeper depth of colour and contrast, PWM flickers between several hundred to thousand times a second.

And there is currently no way to turn it off. There are settings and apps to reduce it, but there is no way to stop the screen from flickering. Checked Apple forums, called Apple Support, and the time I could look at the screen kept shrinking. Got the laptop Tuesday, returned it Friday, today is Sunday and I’m still dealing with a vertigo migraine.

For MacBooks, it seems to vary on the computer model and the software it uses. In retrospect, the issue with my MacBook Air started after a major software update.

And it’s not just an Apple thing. Current Windows and Android screens do the same thing. There’s even a Reddit for people who are sensitive to PWM flickers to help find computers and screens that won’t trigger eyestrain and headaches.

So, yeah. This week has been a learning experience. But for those who are prone to headaches and migraines, this may be something to be aware of, cause I was not.

[kasiopea-9000]

@winampskinmuseum

[milktea-grn]

caught up on bobs burgers and i miss my family

[leebrontide]

This may be my favorite ever translation from cartoony to realistic style.

[flyinghellfish]

[krafterwrites]

[powerfulwizard]

I had a dream last night that I ran away from fascists and ended up at this farm that was full of this weird but very large prehistoric animal that was like a fluffy Tapir and I want to know if it actually exists. It was about the size of a Dairy Cow.

[powerfulwizard]

Like this but with big fluffy hair with white streaks

[powerfulwizard]

Oh my god

[prokopetz]

This is 100% me being a crank, but I'm getting real annoyed at seeing Ancient Traditional Crafts™ videos that depict people grinding minerals to make pigments with no respiratory protection. Like, yeah, an N100 mask isn't Authentic and shit, but do you know what powdered mica does to your lungs?

[prokopetz]

@sawdust-emperor replied:

Watching any green or blue-green mineral being ground to make pigment in these, praying it's just rough glass or some shit and not any of the almost always notably poisonous green minerals:

Being as I've also seen examples where the craftsperson is handling what appears to be raw cinnabar with their bare hands, I wouldn't say the odds are good there.

[ajaxgb]

[haljordangetpregnant]

Someone here said if you read enough actual books you wouldn't enjoy reading DC comics (or Marvel) anymore and honestly there's some truth to it but also like, yea I agree but like, yea... I mean... But my blorbo.. but also you're right but also... Also... Uh... Hal Jordan is hot...

[rucolaruquette]

Also that is just… patently not true.

Definitely not to brag, but me, my sister, my uncle, my best friend, and my buddy who is the LCS owner, are some of the MOST well-read people I know.

If there’s a literary classic, either historic or contemporary, English language or translated, I can guarantee you that at least 2 or 3, if not ALL of us have read it. And those folks ARE my irl comics community.

My uncle minored in English lit, my bestie majored in ethnomusicology, I have degrees in opera and neuroscience, my sister has a masters degree in music history, and my buddy has a masters in psychology.

All of us have published research papers or had articles published in literary and scholarly journals. Two of us are members of literary writers’ salons, and one of us regularly writes scripts for indie animation.

Humble brag over— point being!! Reading “real literature” will not make you love comics less, and whoever said that is spouting elitist nonsense. Comic geeks (generally speaking!) are smart and well-read.

[haljordangetpregnant]

No no it's just a joke hahahaha, I enjoy reading them of course, I just saw that take on Tumblr and wanted to make a joke about that lol hence the shitpost tag lol

It's srl just about how I got blinded from Hal Jordan's hotness that I do not care for all the bad writing hahaha

On that note but more serious, I believe that if you have that mentally then eventually you would not enjoy anything and it would be very depressing to live

[rucolaruquette]

LOL me taking everything way too literally. The autism won today, rip me. To be fair I didn’t think *you* were buying into the notion, I was just taking the original shitpost opinion too seriously hahaha

Hal Jordan’s prettiness is blinding though, the shit writing we willingly slog through on account of his beautiful face and perky butt, I swear :’)

[haljordangetpregnant]

No no I understand how my wordings can be a confusing, it's not you hahaha

Sometimes some of my homeland jokes and humour cannot be translated properly to English 😭

the post was supposed to be sarcastic and the sarcasm was supposed to emphasize Hal's hotness lol (That I do not agree with the OG post, but not out of a logical reason, but rather a perverted and funny reason, instead haha)

[noknowshame]

clearly some of you have not been to the labyrinth of pestilence deep beneath kentucky

[noknowshame]

alright so when I was a teenager I went to this bug-themed summer camp for socially stunted nerds and on the way back from it I visited the university of kentucky. I met with an entomologist there and while we were touring the department he asked "wanna see something cool?" so he took me down an elevator to what must've been a sub-sub-sub basement on a card-access only floor, and after turning several more corners we went through two sets of (I'm not even exaggerating) 12-inch thick doors, opening onto one long as fuck corridor. each side of this hallway was lined with about 50 refrigerators. and each and every single one of these refrigerators was filled with hundreds of thousands. of live. bedbugs. the very reasonable explanation for this was that they were doing research on insecticides and needed to test them on real samples, but they could not under any circumstances allow them to escape, so they had to be kept under area 51 levels of overkill containment. but reasonable or not that was very much not what I anticipated seeing that day. so yeah. I decided after that I did not want to become an entomologist

[curlicuecal]

absolutely baffled to get to the end of that story and hear you decide NOT to be an entomologist but possibly that's the entomologist in me speaking

[noknowshame]

as this breaches containment it is vital to me that The People know my problem with the bedbug labyrinth was NOT the bedbugs. that was obviously sick as fuck. the problem was it dawning on me how much entomology research is anti-bug instead of pro bug. weird girl equivalent of realizing how much time veterinarians spend putting down dogs

[pixeljade]

the thing about all this "tma vs tme" "trans infighting" discourse is that its all pretty easily solved by caring about and listening to transfems instead of viewing us as rapists waiting to happen. Like thats really 99% of what is being asked of TMEs on this site. Thats all it takes but you cant even manage. instead you cry crocodile tears over being treated like an "oppressor"

[pixeljade]

Sometimes i do come across TME trans folks who genuinely seem to think they don't view transfems as rapists waiting to happen, but they are. You can see their guards go up the minute they realize theres a transfem present. And like, if you were truly able go get over your preconceived notions you wouldnt do that.

[pixeljade]

"But its work to get over my preconceived notions!!!" yes it is. but its necessary work. Idk what to tell you! I dont get to ignore unlearning racism just because its hard, and you dont get to ignore unlearning transmisogyny!!! Oh no you have to put in effort to be a good person!!! Get. over. it.

[threedollarsdotcom]

this is the fifth fucking geode ive crakced open whys its all meat

[low-polly]

my liege those are crab rangoons