Random blargens flargens from a dingus

No Soliciting. Look I'm 35, I just want to read the funnies and put some random thoughts out there. I really suck at small talk and I worry about bots, so if you're a mutual, I'm not ignoring you, I'm slow to respond to DMs. No Solicitation.

[superhiro220]

Deleted the pinned post by accident, soooooo...

New fun fact:

Birds are immune to capsaicin because their guts don't destroy the seeds.

Still tired

Still whimsical

[daughter-of-sapph0]

"you shouldn't speculate on a dead person's gender"

no one needs you to protect the inherent assumed cisness of someone who very obviously didn't fit the mold of what cis men are expected to act like, who died far too young and never got the chance to tell us how they identify as, who ended their own life the way so many trans women closeted and otherwise do due to transmisogyny.

instead of getting mad that someone said Kurt Cobain was a trans woman, instead ask yourself why being a trans woman is a fate worse than suicide in your eyes.

[dodykeahedron]

Not to mention that people speculate on the orientation of dead people CONSTANTLY. "Historians will call them good friends" was a meme that got turned into a goddamn song. Why is being transfem different.

[free-my-mindd]

[wyrm-boy]

[himynameisjesyblue]

Rule #32: Enjoy the Little Things

[queen-mihai]

Literally I've been fixing things most of my life

"Fixed" does not mean it will never return to your shop again

"Fixed" doesn't mean it's never going to have that problem again

"Fixed" doesn't mean it's not gonna get broken in a different way

"Fixed" doesn't mean some fucking user isn't gonna try to destroy it the moment you send it outv into the world

"Fixed" doesn't even fucking mean "as good as new"

What FIXED really means, is that something has been returned to a state at which it can function to some minimally acceptable degree

"Fixed" for some things means it can turn on and move.

Or it will transmit and receive and the noise levels are acceptable

Fixed could mean a pipe that flows now that you've patched it with enough fucking caulk duct tape, hot glue, and fucking HOPE that it won't leak and you can get the fucking thing home to have the actual pipe replaced. It's fixed for now, it's working, it'll probably be okay BUT THE REAL WORK is gonna be time and labor intensive, so be fucking careful because:

Just because I got it WORKING doesn't mean you can ABUSE IT.

And guess what

People work the FUCKING SAME

[for-those-who-wait]

Forgetting your friend is both blind and a professional ragebaiter

[analogdelight]

wait, you're telling me some "boys" didn't grow up feeling like a lesbian trapped in the wrong body? i thought that was normal!

[analogdelight]

get peer reviewed, because fucking. yeah.

[doyoulovethewayzeylily]

she had a different name three days ago

[herpsandbirds]

Indian Bullfrog (Hoplobatrachus tigerinus), mating, family Dicroglossidae, India

In the breeding season, the males turn bright yellow.

photographs by Gursewak Singh

[cutecipher]

List of terfs to block:

pimpslaprickey

genderisareligion

bushpropaganda

vintage-bentley

[cutecipher]

lesbecofem

[cutecipher]

kindradical

[assignedmale]

[woman-becomer]

thanks to compilation efforts, three posts regarding the gneep gnorp population are able to be read together in a single post, and they are now the most documented species out of all creatures on earth

[57circlesofhell-deactivated2015]

I once tried to explain depression to someone as like if one day you gradually started to lose both your sense of taste and your ability to feel full. And you don’t know why, but now everything you eat tastes like mashed potatoes and nothing you eat is satisfying. You keep eating because you must eat to live, but the effort that it takes to prepare food is taxing and there is no pay off. You just know it will taste like mashed potatoes. You just know you will still be hungry. So you stop bothering with seasonings. Then you stop bothering to use ingredients you used to like. Then you start to wonder what the point of eating is because there is no payoff. You still feel hungry and you’re sick of the taste and you don’t know if you will ever enjoy food again and you don’t know why this is happening.

If someone comes up to you in this scenario and says, “Well have you tried spicing your food? Using different ingredients? Eating foods you used to love?” It isn’t necessarily helpful because the reason you stopped doing all that in the first place is that everything…tasted…like mashed…potatoes.

[asparrowdraws]

Gaming Dice.

I learned a lot about edges and light and color relationships here.

[greywolfheirs]

PAINTING!!! THIS IS A PAINTING

[sensoryscorpio]

CHAT THIS IS A PAINTING!!!

[almaignismare]

I went over this post twice before realising. I was like "oh it's just set up like a still life painting, right". NO IT'S FUCKING NOT!

[asparrowdraws]

Gaming Dice.

I learned a lot about edges and light and color relationships here.

[greywolfheirs]

PAINTING!!! THIS IS A PAINTING

[sensoryscorpio]

CHAT THIS IS A PAINTING!!!

[almaignismare]

I went over this post twice before realising. I was like "oh it's just set up like a still life painting, right". NO IT'S FUCKING NOT!

[superhiro220]

I'm a fan of Andy Weir's book, The Martian. I got project hail Mary some time ago. I see a lot of through lines from it to this. The man knows how to craft a survival tale among the stars. I thoroughly enjoyed the twists and turns. I like that the science feels fairly grounded, anchoring the more fantastical elements. I often listen to the Martian, it's a go to of mine. project hail Mary is joining that list promptly. I'm also glad that there are others that enjoy it enough to feel inspired to make art. It's nice to see people enjoy something I like. Happy happy happy. I really like the art of eridians.

[bunchashapes]

[fightingbymoonlight]

Seeing people I know and like using AI is making me understand the protagonists of those old time sci fi dystopia's.

"Oh I don't normally use AI, I just wanted it to plan my trip"

You lived on this planet for decades, you know what you like, there are hundreds of websites where you can type into any search engine " things to do in [area]" and have at least a hundred different options.

"Oh I only use it so I can figure out what to make during the week with what I have"

The most popular website as you type in "recipes" into google have sections where you click dinner- quick and easy and those usually rely on staples + 1 or 2 items. I found 30 recipes on chicken alone.

"I had a writing idea, so I typed a few sentences into Chat GPT and I was able to write 20 pages with it."

Youdidn'twriteit.Youdidn'twriteit.youdidn'twriteit.youdidn'twriteit.YOUDIDN'TWRITEIT.YOUDIDN'TWRITEIT.YOUDIDN'TWRITEIT.

[superhiro220]

Yeah, the major issue is that it rewards starting something without finishing it, making one feel like they completed it.

[qwestleon]

YOUR LIFE WILL GET 10X BETTER IF YOU LISTEN TO JAZZ MUSIC

[doyoulovethewayzeylily]

imagine you had a friend who constantly made jokes at the expense of something you loved. they're never funny, but they seem to expect you to laugh even though the punchline is just, "this thing you love sucks ass". it's not even really a joke, there's nothing funny about it, you can tell that they genuinely actually believe it. but they insist it's just a joke!

no matter what the situation is, they're always bringing the social interaction to a screeching halt with these jokes. nobody ever wants to participate in this joke with them. nobody agrees with the premise. nobody ever knows what to say afterwards, it's just an awkward moment and a subject change. but they just keep doing it.

you have to stop with the self-deprecatory "humor", it's not fun for anyone including you.