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[cinematicnomad]

WAKE UP DEAD MAN: A KNIVES OUT MYSTERY (2025) dir. rian johnson

[anotherpapercut]

apparently my boss who is a professor at my school doesn’t have a cell phone and his coworkers were upset by this so they bought him a childs toy phone and labeled it “David’s jitterbug” (for those of you that don’t know jitterbugs are phones made for old people that have like massive buttons and shit) so the other day I walked into his office to ask him a question and he pressed a button on it which made it start loudly playing the ABCs and he said “excuse me I have to take this” and then started singing along to the ABCs while shooing me out of his office

[anotherpapercut]

this is the phone. he apparently was in the middle of a meeting with the department the other day and got annoyed so he pressed a button, said “I have to take this” and left

[beka-tiddalik]

David’s co-workers probably: “This is a valid tactic to embarrass him into buying a mobile phone, right?”

David: “Bold of you to assume that I get embarrassed.”

[just-shower-thoughts]

In Japan, radiation creates monsters (Godzilla) and in America radiation creates superheroes

[mallemerok]

Shockingly, it’s almost like Japan and America have very different narratives surrounding nuclear fallout. Now, if we all think very very hard, maybe someone could think of why this might be.

[mlarayoukai-archive]

trying to watch this video and that team flare pikachu is so fucking distracting. hes just standing there

[mlarayoukai-archive]

OH          MY GOD

[fandomsandfeminism]

His husband is the pokemon fan and picks out a different pokemon plush to sit in the background of each episode. Its ADORABLE.

[reapthegirlwind]

my favorite so far was seeing a notification for him doing a video on the history of spam a little while back, and wondering what the plush choice would be for that, and it did not disappoint.

[phantomswimmingtimemachine]

Im a fan of the hidden Applin in his newest video

[remarkablecows]

[sakrafka]

Custom T4T sphinx tattoo

[whatacartouchebag]

Crawling out of my hole to remind people that with this current update to Firefox (version 144) they've gone and dumped in their lot with a buncha lil AI tools, namely Perplexity as a new search engine.

So if the sound of that leaves your mouth tasting of tar, here's what you want to do:

In the url bar, type in about:config

It'll give you a big scary warning page that you might poke holes in your browser. Good. You want to do that. Click continue.

One by one, you're going to need to put each of these into the search bar in the page, not up top:

browser.ml.enable browser.ml.chat.enabled extensions.ml.enabled browser.ml.linkPreview.enabled browser.tabs.groups.smart.enabled browser.tabs.groups.smart.userEnabled

Each of these are gonna have a lil toggle icon on the right hand side that looks like a funky double-ended arrow. Click that and the value next to it should change to false. It all auto saves as you go. Some of these might already be set to false by default and that's peachy.

The next best thing you can do for yourself is to set your default search engine to udm14 or Qwant, but for now, we're just tidying the garden a lil bit.

Edit: This wildly broke containment for a post that was supposed to be me basically ranting and grumbling like an old man on my porch to my homies. If I’ve inspired you to follow through with this, peachy. That was mildly intended. Better yet, I hope I’ve spurred a buncha you on to do your own bit of digging and research.

If you were one of today’s lucky ten thousand to learn something new, I hope you keep doing it. I won’t be here to hold your hand through it, as I simply don’t have the time nor spoons for it, so I implore you to go down your own rabbit hole and chase knowledge with wild abandon.

[enbycrip]

[enbycrip]

I’m reposting this with a link to some sources from the OP, btw; I’m sorry for not tagging them, but Tumblr won’t let me and I’m guessing it’s a privacy settings thing.

https://www.academuseducation.co.uk/post/ancient-mesopotamian-transgender-and-non-binary-identities

Ancient Mesopotamian Transgender and Non-Binary Identities - by Morg Daniels

There is evidence of complex gender identities in Ancient Mesopotamia, particularly in the cult of the goddess Inanna and her priests.

[podcastwizard]

"yeah i know it's bad for the environment but like so many things are so i just use it anyway" COOL I'M GONNA BITE THROUGH THIS TABLE

[sabertoothwalrus]

yknow how the greener parts of apple skin are tan lines from where leaves and branches obscure the sun? I’m surprised I’ve never seen anyone utilize that for printmaking

[sabertoothwalrus]

finally got an apple that shows this effect well

[sabertoothwalrus]

OH THIS IS EXCELLENT THANK YOU

[dreamsy990]

i saw someone say nobody needs to know what a .txt file is anymore. what the fuck is the world coming to

[dreamsy990]

unironically i think we need to bring back computer labs because APPARENTLY some people WERENT taught basic computer literacy and internet safety in school

[dreamsy990]

things about computers/the internet i think kids should be formally taught in schools because theyre important to know and the amount of soon to be grown adults i know who know NOTHING about any of these is quite frankly almost all of them (and resources to learn if you dont know these things, because its never to late to get better with computers)

how to troubleshoot by yourself when you have a technical problem

what common file types are

some very basics on how to use ""developer tools"" on your computer (because i cant think of a better way to refer to them) like task manager and command prompt (and their mac equivalents, terminal and activity monitor ofc)

how to read and understand a privacy policy and what your personal data is, as well as what it being collected actually means and steps you can take to keep it private

how to understand terms of service (hey. if you have trouble with reading legalese and worry about being able to understand these policies anyways, here's a site that gives basic summaries of privacy policies and ToS)

what a cookie actually is

internet privacy and your digital footprint!! seriously i dont know why we stopped teaching people that they shouldnt be putting their entire real identity online in a world where your online actions can ruin you irl

basic safety measures like antivirus software (and why you should use it or if the built in one on windows or mac is enough for you) and backing up your computer (also a mac guide)

common keyboard shortcuts (and on mac)

as an additional note: things i think everyone should know on computers and the internet but schools may bit hesitant to teach about for whatever moral/legal standards schools pretend to operate on

vpns and adblockers! (btw for most of these where you can pay for things im purposefully not recommending any specific software but seriously just use ublock origin for an adblocker)

how to not get a virus while pirating something

what a temporary email is and when to use one

red flags that you shouldn't trust a website (and how to quickly check the security of a site)

what javascript on a website does and how to disable it to get around paywalls

[dreamsy990]

ok one last addition! if you want to take it one level higher, i think learning the very basics of at least one programming language is good for people. it makes computers less scary and it makes you feel very cool, and a lot of people get discouraged about it because it seems overly complicated and hard to learn outside a formal classroom setting, so heres some resources for learning the very basics of python (because i consider it the easiest language to learn and knowing one language will make it easier to learn others)

an online compiler so you dont need to download anything or worry about running code directly on your computer if that makes you nervous

a basic video guide to introduce you to python and walk you through beginner steps

a guide to some syntax and commands you should know (this was literally my lifeline in my first CS class)

some performance tasks to give you things to code to practice and assess yourself

[pocket-deer-belly]

artists who are so technically competent it makes you angry cause the subject matter is some trite bullshit you've seen glorified a william times

[pocket-deer-belly]

the most wonderful rendering you've ever seen in pencils and guess what. it's another sexy skinny guy

[patricia-taxxon]

usually people say an artist is "wasting their talent" when they cone across really well rendered gross fetish porn but I think we should reserve it for walter white facing forward and woman surrounded by nebulae

[pocket-deer-belly]

i used to watch this youtuber who made tons of watercolor drawings of pretty white women surrounded by flowers and he told stories about his art teachers thinking his art was unimaginative and begging him to experiment more and they were right actually.

[patricia-taxxon]

i know that motherfucker, im trying to find it

[lonely-space-egg]

I also vividly remember watching a video like that, is this the one?

[patricia-taxxon]

thats the bitch.

[proustianrevelry]

"They said my art was boring, so I decided to paint pictures of people's faces a slightly different way."

"They said that was still boring, cliché and impersonal, so I painted pictures of myself and my identical twin brother"

...I love that by round three, it still hadn't occurred to him to try and paint a picture of any object that wasn't a human face. Not even, like, human hands! Or human silhouettes at a distance! He's still just doing close-ups of faces! I wonder what the other students' work looked like.

[pocket-deer-belly]

YES THATS HIM!

[aintmyjewelry]

watching Trump’s press conference and yes he is blaming autism on Tylenol. I hope Tylenol lays down the craziest lawsuit on Earth. I hope it makes their reaction to the 1980’s Tylenol murder look like child’s play

[swanpaw]

#the 80s what

the 80s tylenol murders. tl;dr: you know that tamper seal on new bottles of medicine everyone hates? those are there because in the 1980s, some freak went into a pharmacy and poisoned a bunch of tylenol. 7 people died in the initial crime, more in subsequent copycat crimes. they never caught who did it.

Chicago Tylenol murders - Wikipedia

Chicago Tylenol murders - Wikipedia

[alex51324]

Another thing here is that the company's response to the crisis is, to this day, frequently taught in business classes as a model of how to handle a crisis.

Even though they weren't doing anything differently from other medication companies that made them vulnerable to this--and it remains unclear whether the tampering was happening in the factory, the stores, or some other part of the supply chain--they moved very quickly to recall products and develop tamper-resistant packaging, and as a result they regained the public's trust a lot more quickly than you might guess. (And the new packaging they developed also became the industry standard.)

So part of the comparison here, is that if Tylenol manages to pull off a similarly effective response to this, it could be a playbook for other companies and organizations to resist Trump's baseless attacks.

[rotsuko]

is this even funny i dont think its funny im not putting it in the tags

[fembutchboygirl]

How has this comic made such a groundbreaking cultural impact without getting over 40k notes

[fembutchboygirl]

Happy over 100k notes to this cultural wonder

[brackenfur]

warrior cats fans are the backbone of the youtube animation community

[brackenfur]

and wc fans back in the 2000s-2010s were creating three to four minute animations w ms paint and windows movie maker with genuine storytelling and FLUID animation......for almost every viral animation in some fandom it generally can be traced back in some way, some form, to warrior cats fans and i love that. thank u youtube wc fans for keeping the fandom alive and thriving for so long

[guerrillatech]

[segamascott]

like to charge reblog to cast obviously

[sunsbleeding]