Just Be kind

Call me Sam. Nonbinary (they/them) 24. Pansexual. I love dragons, video games and am kinda a fan of Supernatural still. Life is amazing and way too short to be hating and judging others. So if my blog makes you smile...

[gramarobin]

[carys-the-ninth]

Unquestionably one of the funniest things I own is the draft first chapter of an evolutionary biology textbook written by one of my grad professors, in which he made approximately 1/3 of the figures himself in MS Paint with absolutely no graphic design skills or artistic ability.

[carys-the-ninth]

When I tell you this is one of the most comprehensible figures:

[carys-the-ninth]

I sat through this man's class for an entire semester. I got an A. I learned (this is not exaggeration or hyperbole) absolutely nothing. But I will always treasure these images in my heart.

[carys-the-ninth]

He had been banned from teaching undergrads and shunted to teaching graduate classes, in the hopes that we would be able to decipher his mad genius ramblings. These hopes were in vain.

[ralfmaximus]

This feels like he's just one or two MS Paint bmp files away from successfully cloning dinosaurs and/or accidentally starting a plague.

[actualstuffcomic]

A combination of nature documentaries and crappy horror movies had broken my brain in a very specific way

[bfleuter]

brilliant

[eroscestlavie]

Rose Tyler was so iconic…no job. no father. hopping planets wearing approximately 10 lbs of waterproof drugstore mascara. a man at home who knew full well she was getting her back blown out by debate team captain space alien David Tennant on the regular and would still hang out with her every time she deigned to grace him with her presence. She killed the Devil? what a great character

[eroscestlavie]

yes mama…

[smittymumbles17-deactivated2023]

i guess this bitch is back

[calamitys-child]

I think the best most human thing in the world is strangers doing a silly thing together

[calamitys-child]

Examples:

- guy at work "Yes, and -" ing the bit me and my coworker were doing where we pretended to be owners of a fantasy medieval tavern not minimum wage retail staff

- at the gay club when Die Young by Kesha came on and two hundred people, all dancing and drinking separately, jumped up and down to make the "- beat of the drums *STOMP STOMP*" as loud as possible

- person who watched me stomp round the beach singing a made up song about breakfast foods to name a cat after and suggested more breakfast foods that would be good cat names

- guy who started a dance off with everyone across the road while waiting for the lights to change

- very tiny girl at the pharmacy interviewing everyone in the queue and every single one of us in turn sat down and answered this toddler's questions like we were on Letterman

[calamitys-child]

The three pillars of humanity, in no particular order, are Joy, Absurdity, and Sharing

[only1600kids]

*gets penalty* “that’s bullshit” *watches replay* “.. yeah okay”

[reademmaduh]

This is flawless. I can’t stop watching.

[jupiter-oak]

he really said 😬

[quasarkisses]

jack black is nega adam sandler

sandler still thinks being offensive is funny, while mr. black fucked off for a decade making kung fu pandas one to one million and came back sensitive enough to play a teenage girl trapped in his body without making it transphobic

[wukodork]

- without making it transphobic or sexist

[headspace-hotel]

idea: scene with two characters eagerly stripping each other clearly about to bone, but they keep getting interrupted by finding carefully concealed weapons in each other’s clothing, so they keep just unholstering, revealing and unstrapping increasingly ludicrous amounts of hidden guns and knives as the clothes come off, and it’s lowkey killing the mood a little

[findingfeather]

Alternatively: it's not killing the mood at all but it's totally making both of them giggle like they're twelve and possibly get lowkey competitive in a subconscious way about who has the most to drop.

[beyondthisdarkhouse]

The more that I think of it the more I'm seeing the incredible intimacy of letting someone know where you keep your backup knife.

Like my god, the trust involved in letting someone undress you and learn your secrets instead of popping into the bathroom to change where they can't see and hiding all your weapons under the sink

[headspace-hotel]

...Oh

[brainsforbabyjesus]

second alternative: you go to hide all your weapons under the sink but there’s already a bunch of weapons hidden underneath the sink.

awkward

[tyrannosaurus-trainwreck]

It’s not that there’s already a bunch of weapons hidden underneath the sink that makes it awkward so much as that there’s so many weapons hidden underneath the sink that they fall out of the cabinet with the unmistakable sound of a knife-alanche, and then the other person comes in like “I can explain!” and you’re just dead-ass standing there with your own armload of weapons like “I can also explain.”

[fenrislorsrai]

Married version is shoving your hand in your partner’s clothes when you’re out of weapons because you KNOW where their spare is.  Or wearing a weapon in a spot you can’t draw from yourself because its now spare storage for your spouse’s weapons.

[whitepeopletwitter]

[sohorny-weaver]

The year is 2250, your great great great great grandchildren are in school. The teacher calls role. The roster is dominated by the last name “Fromgrindr.”

[heidelbro]

Idk I’m thinking maybe grindr hookups won’t result in subsequent generations

[afronerdism]

One day we need to have a conversation about how the majority of HR professionals are white women and how they operate as the single largest barrier to entry for non white people in corporate.

[afronerdism]

I but like this is just one of many reasons y’all have to stop believing that white women are this ultra oppressed group with limited power. Yesterday a white woman in HR submitted a report to me trying to throw out a perfectly qualified black woman’s resume because she “giggled too much” in her screening.

[afronerdism]

When we have a salary budget of 6 figures, who do you think says “but I think we can get them for 60”.

White women are powerful. Very very powerful. Don’t believe the damsel in distress hype.

[afronerdism]

The next time you go through an interview process, I want you to count how many white women you have to go through before you even get to the white man in charge.

[embersandcoals]

Addendum: nowadays, the first person that contacts you is probably a recruiter, someone you’ll never see in person that reads 800 resumes a day. They just need the numbers and don’t care who gets hired as long as someone gets hired. The second person you talk to? That’s the corporate white woman in HR. If she arrived late to your interview, if she was mean to you, if she changed the conditions that first person had outlined in order for you to get the job, if she lowered how much money you were going to get paid (or refuses to tell you), etc, call the recruiter. Even if you get a formal rejection (you probably won’t), call the recruiter, and tell them what happened at your interview. Racism and disclination hinder the effectiveness of recruiter’s work by adding secret “must be white and must vibe with the HR gal” scouting requirements; recruiters hate that no matter their stance on you personally, your race, sexuality or anything. Recruiters need the numbers. Trust me, they’re having calls with the HR white women asking WHY you were rejected, and getting vague ass answers, if they get answers at all. BUT If they get enough of YOUR calls that convey “the woman was rude to me so fuck this job”, they have evidence against her and can report her. I’ve seen them go after being reported a couple times, and look, it’s not about the company caring about you, or racism or anything.

It makes the White Guy on Top lose money. Call the recruiter. Be polite, but be clear. The recruiter wants you to get that job. (To make money, of course.)

[depsidase]

[catchymemes]

[diplododocus]

I love when people credit artists. This is French circus artist and choreographer Yoann Bourgeois, probably in Tentatives d'approche d'un point de suspension at hangar Y in Meudon a few days ago. Most of his work is an exploration of balance and equilibrium, he has several variations around the stairs/trampoline thing (fugue-trampoline, this one, cavale, l'art de la fugue…)

[mckitterick]

well if that isn’t a metaphor for life

[asingularcanadian]

my best friend is a retired gymnast and now coaches the sport, I asked how you could be sure to land on the steps you wanted to every time and its a combination of knowing which muscles to tense and not tense, the exact angle of how you and and how hard you’re throwing urself at the thing which in this case just looks like effortless falling, and I think that’s fucking amazing

[northern-punk-lad]

Straight White women are the biggest treat to the lgbt+ in the uk

[waddleplush]

Ok I haven’t been following the news, what happened???

[northern-punk-lad]

Well the usual terf shit

Graham Norton is a famous UK gay man he got this backlash for saying “listen to trans people about the trans issues not online celebrities”

The majority of the trans hate group LGB alliance is straight white women

And most of the pushers for homopbic and transphobic laws to be put in place are straight white women

And then there’s liz truss who wants to bring back section 28

[ginalr]

Graham Norton is a national fucking treasure and what he said was so inoffensive, reasonable and not at all threatening or whatever to Rowling and still her and the terf army lost their shit?

[bundibird]

Literally the guy was doing an interview, and the topic was "'cancel culture,"' and Graham was kinda not really engaging in the topic as much as possible, and then the interviewer was like "well what about JKR? People are cancelling HER, what's your take on that?" And he was like "look I'm not actually sure why people want the opinion of celebrities on things like this -- I'm not involved in that whole topic, and I don't have any authority to speak to it, and what I think we SHOULD do is listen to those who DO have authority on the issue, such as trans people and the parents of trans kids and doctors who are experts in that field. I'm just a bloke in a pink suit and I have no business weighing in on the topic, and idk why anyone would want me to."

He was literally like "yo don't drag me into this, but if youre gonna insist on it, then I'm gonna direct you to the experts on the topic, since I'm decidedly not an expert." He didn't even say her name. It was the most polite "this isn't my wheelhouse" I've ever heard.

And JKR lashed out at him and accused him of siding with rapists and abusers who hate women, like??????? Lady what the fuck. He literally never even said your name.

And then of course her troll army descended upon Graham's every online presence, and then next thing you know, the gay man who said "let's talk to experts about issues rather than celebrities like me," is being driven off social media.

[jensteed]

Graham Norton is a national fucking treasure but he's not a famous UK gay man, he's a fucking famous IRISH gay man. And fucking Rowling of Terf Island had a bash at him and he's had to pull back

[catchymemes]

[mtndewloyalist-iii]

“Look at it, you know I can’t!”

Handicapped people continue to be the funniest mfs alive

[taahko]

i dont know exactly how to articulate this in a way other people havent but everything is too fast now. 24/7 news cycle, online focuses that last for hours instead of months or years, songs written just so ten seconds can go viral. movies and books churned out to meet some nebulous income quota. idk. im motion sick

[dragonflavoredcake]

Bill Watterson, 1995

You're not alone or the first to feel like everything is going too fast

[twilightmademegay]

In the Twilight universe, “vegetarian” vampires have golden eyes from drinking animal blood, a more ethical source than human blood, which would give them red eyes. It has also been established that a diet of human blood makes vampires physically stronger. So, if the Cullens wanted to become stronger without jeopardizing their morals, could they consume mosquitoes instead? How many mosquitoes would they have to eat to survive? Since mosquitoes drink from both humans and animals, what color would their eyes be? Orange? In this essay, I will

[gaydenali]

on average an adult has about 4.5-5.5 liters of blood circulating in their body. a female mosquito, when completely full, can hold up to 0.001-0.01 milliliters of blood in their abdomen depending on the species. if we take the average of both (5 liters & 0.0055 milliliters), it would take around 909,090 mosquitos to equal the amount of blood in a single human. although there isnt an exact number of the entirety of the mosquito population, we can use fermi estimation. there is about 57 million square miles of total land area on earth, while say 50 million square miles are habitable for mosquitos. with a rough of estimate of 1 mosquito per 50 square feet (overestimate due to area and time of year). after multiplying the numbers and fixing the units, there is a rough estimated 70 quadrillion mosquitos. theoretically, if a vampire lived in a mosquito dense area, such as brazil, indonesia, malaysia, thailand, etc, and could sustainably hunt around a million mosquitos to fill themselves every time they needed to feed, there would be enough mosquitos to survive on due to their large population and fast reproduction.

[twilightmademegay]

This is honestly everything I have ever wanted thank you for your contribution to the cause

[forlovefromfear]

Hey guys I think I figured out why vampires can turn into bats