I love Ramen noodles

Punk boydyke, Australian, Broke as hell, Over 18, disabled, pronouns are whatever, safe space for everyone except bigots, no terfs (also does anyone know who made my header? I wanna credit them)

[mangonetics]

hello welcome to post apocalyptic video game. this weapon you find is a gun made from plumbing and other garbage using no power tools. it was smashed together by a Raider (a discrete category of person, ontologically evil) while high on Drugs, and is an example of how stupid and primitive the people of The Wasteland are. it is fully automatic, has a rifled barrel, never jams, and has interchangeable magazines that are compatible with every other garbage gun made by other Raiders elsewhere in the world.

[alwayswasalwayswillbeourland]

Rallies to demand federal action over NT’s 'human rights crisis'

Rallies will be held in Darwin, Alice Springs and Sydney on Tuesday, demanding the federal government take action against the Northern Terri

[lumsel]

I think the types of oppression that are the most intense are the ones that apply to me personally. For some reason they're just so much more visceral and personally affecting than the ones that don't affect me, which all seem distant and abstract and not as big a deal. If you don't restructure your worldview around this I will decide you're part of the problem.

[crazy-brazilian]

[lethalwizard]

the hottest 100 introducing a way to filter for australian artists only, enviromental story telling

[lethalwizard]

from 29 australian entries in 2024 to 54 this year you truly love to see it

[awfulbastard]

There are so many people that are pro disability rights until they find out disabilities can be gross sometimes. It's so wild seeing the same people advocating for more mental health talk losing their shit over a depressed person not brushing their teeth or cleaning their spaces, or people who totally support physically disabled people until they find out I once pissed in a cup because I was in too much agony to get out of my bed, or that sometimes cups and food sit in my room longer than they should because I physically can't get up to put them away. Disabled people sometimes have incontinence, disabled people sometimes have bad hygiene, and still deserve to be supported. It's so fucking performative and it pisses me off. Even other disabled people act like this. Shaming people for stuff they can't control doesn't help anyone, just makes you an insufferable person.

[sonar-taxlaw]

when i am rotating The Character (tm) i am:

putting them in a centrifuge

putting them on a lazy susan

holding them in my hand and moving them around

putting them on a hamster wheel

putting them on a merry go round and spinning it really fast

putting them in the dryer or washing machine

other

Voting ended onJan 26

[overfedchud-deactivated20260306]

ewww you know thats a nazi symbol right ? (points to the usa flag)

[happyllamaglama]

when the weird relative shows up to the farm

[krisrisk]

i have never seen an animal moving this silly

[bluewizardnonesense]

“Camels are far too intelligent to admit to being intelligent”

“Camels are largely made of knees, going in all directions”

“Camels gallop by throwing their feet as far away from them as possible and then running to keep up”

-Sir Terry Pratchett, discworld series

[tamanduaclaws]

Seconding @ellynneversweet's tags 😂

[ratbastarddotfuck]

really not sure when it happened or why but personally I'm pissed that the queer community at large seems to have given up ground on the "people with penises/vulvas/testes/ovaries" language to sex & gender essentialists in exchange for the much less precise, much more demeaning "AGAB" language.

is it because you're scared of the word vulva? of acknowledging out loud that some people have penises? of recognising that many many people, including but certainly not limited to trans people, have mixed sex characteristics that cannot be accurately summarised by "afab/amab" as shorthand for "female/male"?

"in [GENITAL RELATED] situation AFABs will need to do X and AMABs will need to do Y" there are "afabs" with penises and "amabs" with vulvas. Saying this shit makes you look so unserious & honestly transphobic (given the ongoing erasure of post-op trans people within broader community). Intersex people and GRS have both existed for long enough (fucking forever and, decades, respectively) that we should well past making this basic fucking mistake.

quit referring to people by a vague & often violent event that happened at their birth as though it defines ANYTHING about how they & their body currently operate, and start using precise language so you at least look like you know what you're fucking talking about.

[todaysbird]

the spotted harrier, sometimes known as the smoke hawk, is a medium-sized australasian bird of prey. the bird has a distinct facial ruff, much like ones frequently found on owls, that gives them the appearance of a broad head in relation to their body. the tail is prominently barred with black markings, and the wing tips are black as well. the bird stands tall on long yellow legs, a distinguishing feature that makes them easy to recognize. like many other members of the family accipitridae, they are sexually dimorphic, with females being significantly larger than males. they are terrestrial birds often found in open grasslands and woodlands; while they are most often spotted in native grassland, they can also be found in agricultural land and inland wetlands. they primarily feed on terrestrial mammals, ranging from bandicoots to small rodents, but will also hunt small birds, reptiles, and even large insects on occasion. in the past, the species heavily depended on introduced rabbits for prey, as many of their original prey sources suffered sharp population declines. however, after the spread of rabbit calicivirus, the numbers of introduced rabbits dropped sharply, and the birds were forced to once again diversify their diets. spotted harriers lay small clutches of 2-4 eggs. clutches are laid within stick nests lined with eucalyptus leaves; females are primarily responsible for building the nest. they are most vocal during the breeding season, when males deliver food to their mates or when defending territory, but are largely quiet otherwise. they are currently designated as a species of least concern, with a large population size and broad range.

[penroseparticle]

My favorite thing is that Europe is spooky because it’s old and America is spooky because it’s big

[meduseld]

“The difference between America and England is that Americans think 100 years is a long time, while the English think 100 miles is a long way.” –Earle Hitchner

[burntcopper]

A fave of mine was always the american tales where people freaked out because ‘someone died in this house’ and all the europeans would go ‘…Yes? That would be pretty much every house over 40 years old.’

‘…My school is older than your entire town.’

‘Sorry, you think *how far* is okay to travel for a shopping trip?’

*American looks up at the beams in a country pub* ‘Uh, this place has woodworm, isn’t that a bit unsafe?’ ‘Eh, the woodworm’s 400 years old, it’s holding those beams together.’

[bedlamsbard]

A few years ago when I was in college I did a summer program at Cambridge aimed specifically at Americans and Canadians, and my year it was all Americans and one Australian.  We ended the program with a week in Wessex, and on the last day as we all piled onto the bus in Salisbury (or Bath? I can’t remember), the professors went to the front to warn us that we wouldn’t be making any stops unless absolutely necessary.  We’re headed to Heathrow to drop off anyone flying off the same day, then back to Cambridge.

“All right, it’s going to be a long bus ride, so make sure you’re prepared for that.”

We all brace ourselves.  A long bus ride?  How long?  We’re Americans; a long bus ride for us is a minimum of six hours with the double digits perfectly plausible.  We can handle a twelve hour bus ride as long as we get a bathroom break.

The answer.  “Two hours.”

Oh.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

English people trying to travel around Australia and wildly underestimating distance are my favourite thing

[marzipanandminutiae]

a tour guide in France told my school group that a particular cathedral wouldn’t interest us much because “it’s not very old; only from the early 1600s”

to which we had to respond that it was still older than the oldest surviving European-style buildings in our country

[iguana-sneeze]

China is both old and big. I had some Chinese colleagues over; we were discussing whether they wanted to see the Vasa ship (hugely expensive war ship which sank on it’s maiden voyage after 12 min). They asked if it was old, I said “not THAT old” (bearing in mind they were Chinese) “it’s from the 1500s.” To my surprise they still looked impressed, nodding enthusiatically. Then I realised I’d forgotten something: “…I mean it’s from the 1500s AFTER the birth of Christ” and they went “oh, AFTER…”.

[ceescedasticity]

My dad’s favorite quote from various tours in Italy was “Pay no attention to the tower – it was a [scornful tone] tenth century addition.”

[copperbadge]

My last boss was Chinese, and she said when her parents came to visit her from Beijing they pronounced Chicago “A very nice village.” 

[blondegingersaxon]

This post keeps getting better

[kaimaciel]

European problems include:

- Missing a turn and now you need to cross the border;

- Towns built 500 to 800 years ago with really small roads where cars can barely fit;

- That road/parking lot/etc they were building is gonna take twice the time to finish because they found Roman ruins AGAIN!

[abz-j-harding]

European problems extended: 

 WW2 bombs.

[loverofmythology]

I love this post but also hate it because people never acknowledge the structures of native and indigenous people in America and Canada. We literally have pyramids here in Illinois that are thousands of years old.

There is stuff here from the Aztecs, but since it wasn’t made by settlers people think that America is only as old as when Europeans came over.

The population that got wiped out and displaced by Europeans is still here and needs to be acknowledged. America and Canada aren’t “young” and have more history than most ppl acknowledge.

[rivertalesien]

RT only for the last post. 

[tackedtothewall]

[Image description: headlines of WWII bombs either exploding unexpectedly in European towns and cities or being found during road works. /ID]

I went walking on some public footpaths in England and everyone was like “oh this one was a Roman roads, these are so ancient!” and I ended up cranky because there are ancient or at least hundred of year old roads in the Americas, we just don’t pay attention to them because Colonization.

To be clear - I don’t have any issue with OP’s statement (or even any of the reblogs). Im just cranky at the US educational system. And boomers, a little.

[theshehulkproject]

Where do you think the oldest shoes in the world are? China? Greece? Iraq?

they’re from Oregon:

Catalog #1-33612 and #1-31699 Sagebrush Sandals: Fort Rock Cave, Oregon, ca. 10,000 years old

[secretly-sirens]

There’s history older than colonialism that is ignored by those who don’t dare to face it.

[theramins]

And Indigenous Australians are one of the longest surviving cultures in the world, with one mob having dreaming stories about a volcano that erupted 30,000 years ago in Victoria, and paintings that carbon date to 80,000 years ago up in the Northern Territory, and song lines following rivers that have since been eroded into the ocean by time; an almost unfathomably long unbroken chain of oral history, leading up to, and past the start of the blip that is the colonial history of Australia.

[bungerc0re]

im really big on how focused the earlier witcher novels are on the maintenance of equipment. not from a logisticial perspective its just something you have to spend a lot of time doing and its nice to see that time represented in fiction.

[fanonical]

i honestly don't mean to keep ragging on heated rivalry, and i'm not, because as i say i haven't watched the show and i'm not talking about it, i'm talking about the fandom

so i've seen a lot of posts about heated rivalry cross my dashboard, and here's the thing, i could not tell you one thing about what this show is actually about. or what the characters are like. what i can tell you is how they have sex and the times they have sex and the places they have sex and the ways they have sex

and this is the fucking thing, right, this is what i am saying when i criticise migratory slash fandom, or fandom's focus on sex above all else. this is just a perfect microcosm of it

some shows i am sold on because i see people talking about them in interesting ways and talking about characterisation and story and themes and, yes, sometimes sex and relationships, but it's always balanced with the other things

but then there's some fandoms which literally just talk about fucking all the time and it's like, does this thing have a plot? presumably it has a plot? i would not get the impression that it has a plot from the way people are talking about it

it's 'omg read this book it's gay!' all over again

[bungerc0re]

liking the witcher series is fucked because its just a worse version of the asoiaf problem and theres no way to differentiate that you're talking about the books apart from like. switching to polish.

[toskarin]

What do you think is the common ancestry between the Master Chief and Minato Kageaki that both their suits jack them off?

smiling warmly as I read the first half of this ask, thinking I was going to get the chance to explain the influence of Starship Troopers on both, and then I got to the last three words

[dailyclassicart]

Joseph Farquharson - "When the West with Evening Glows" (1901)