I exist, and that's someone else's problem.

Probably a real living person, but not big on sharing. Just another queer, autistic young adult . They/Them please.

[twofingerswhiskey]

reblog if you hate the current interior design trend of painting everything white with hints of grey or black. ignore if you have no taste

[clementine-kesh]

the worf paradox is often pointed to as an example of dissonance between what the narrative tells us (worf is an extremely competent fighter) and what the narrative actually shows us (worf is constantly getting his ass kicked), since in theory worf getting his ass kicked is a means of showing us how tough the baddies of the week are but in practice it mostly just makes it seem like worf is not actually that great at fighting. however in the light of recent discussion around the historical shortcomings of “warrior culture” and the ways it inevitably gets its ass beat by a bunch of nerds who don’t give that much of a shit about fighting but do know how to manage a supply chain i propose a new theory: klingons are the spartans of the trek universe

[theunusualchameleon]

This has some historical justification, too!

In both contemporary and historical eyes, we tend to think of Ancient Sparta as this badass, unbeatable army, when actually they won about 55% of their battles, just barely above even.

I recommend "A Catalog of Unmitigated Pedantry" and their essay about Sparta for more details, but basically this seems to be because the Spartans focused on military power above all else. They had good soldiers, but none of the other things needed to support them. So whenever they fought someone with, say, good soldiers and a bunch of ships to carry them on, or good soldiers and good strategists to put them in the best places, or good soldiers and superior supply lines to let them fight longer and better, the Spartans took a beating.

The Spartans relied pretty heavily on their reputation as badasses. Often their enemies would surrender without a fight, but if they actually pushed through and fought back with a little cleverness or technology, beating the Spartans wasn't too hard.

There's a general rule of thumb that for every soldier, you need at least nine non-soldiers supporting them. This includes cooks, medics, whoever's making the weapons, clothes, and armor, whoever's moving it around, whoever's looking after the animals or vehicles, sanitation, communications, etc.. When you try to mobilize more than 10% of a population, your soldiers are going to be hungry, unequipped, poorly informed, injured, and sick.

Back to Klingons. I suspect that like the Spartans, they've become too blinded by their own reputations. Why wait to make a plan or approach strategically? Klingons are badasses, they can handle it!

From a Watsonian perspective, at least. The Doylest perspective I think has been more thoroughly explored, but keeping in mind popular views of one of history's most famous "warrior cultures" can help us consider how it might have gotten that way.

[orange-catsidy]

sometimes its like. i would love to not have to think about gender and misogyny all the time but on account of us living on the Gender and Misogyny Planet i cant do that. so

[theunusualchameleon]

I'm not particularly attached to being a woman. In a vacuum I'd probably be nonbinary, but the thing is I often find myself as the only or close to the only woman in a room due to my field of study.

The problem is that the more men perceive you as "not like the other girls", the more comfortable they'll feel badmouthing those "other girls", or ignoring the existence of women entirely.

I need to keep being a woman to remind people women exist.

[stjohnstarling]

Inside the Booming Business of Monster Porn

Teratophiliacs were once a niche group that bonded over their sexual attraction to monsters in obscure forums. Now—as online communities pro

Okay guys, we’ve got to wrap it up now with the monsterfucking and find something new to do. It’s getting write-ups in GQ, it’s so over.

[stjohnstarling]

Sometimes, in their obsession with monsters, humans end up finding other humans. In 2019, Cachét developed a crush on Salad Fingers, the main character in a British cult web cartoon. She drew porn of Salad Fingers and sent it to David Firth, the show’s creator. Firth loved it and followed her back. “He thought I was a guy because no girl would draw porn of Salad Fingers,” Cachét says.

They started messaging. Cachét complimented his drawing of a human-bug threesome and asked for a print. Three years later, Cachét and David got married. The human-bug threesome drawing hangs on the wall of their home.

Okay this does kind of rule though.

[innerchildabortionclinic]

there's a certain derogatory stare/reaction you can get when you mention a step-parent among people with more conservative family values, and it's so funny to me. why are YOU mad MY parents got divorced and remarried

[theunusualchameleon]

I have this on steroids. My parents are polyamorous, so when I say things like "Yeah my mom's boyfriend paid me and my sister to assemble some furniture for him" you can see them start to get judgey and I'm just like. The truth is ten times cooler than you've ever perceived.

[wiremotherworshipper-deactivate]

"i just don't like masculine women" literally i'm so sorry for you loss. i hope you get well soon

[mimosa-sexypeople-contests-2026]

Muscular women are a national treasure

[theunusualchameleon]

Well I do. Outta my way straight boy I'm about to get it.

[queer-as-city-folk]

Genuinely we should have killed Graham Platner with rocks after the Nazi tattoo scandal

[queer-as-city-folk]

In general I think that we now have to recognize that we should listen the first 70 odd warning signs someone might be a piece of shit even if he says things we like

[queer-as-city-folk]

He did 3 tours in Iraq and was a mercenary in Afghanistan, but like he says he's changed so who could have seen him being a bad person coming??

[theunusualchameleon]

They really acted like he was the only white working class guy in the entire state.

If there's absolutely no one else you could run from that demographic, I don't think it's one worth bending over backwards to appeal to.

[moonbugggy]

Choosing to believe this confirms my headcanon that bots talk using speakers instead of using their mouth parts to make sounds. Swerve somehow figured out how to make the sound like a human would and no one else knows how he's doing it

[teaboot]

Someone in my apartment complex is playing the bagpipes at bagpipes volume

[introvertia]

Unless you’ve ever been in a room with a bagpipes player you have no idea how fucking loud bagpipes volume is.

[teaboot]

I have in fact several times been in a room with a bagpipes player and can fully confirm that this is absolutely the volume at which bagpipes Are

[theunusualchameleon]

There's an old joke that goes something like this:

A young Scotsman had just moved to an apartment in London for the first time. After a few weeks, he calls his mother.

"My neighbors are horrible, mother! The lady below me is always hitting the ceiling with a broom handle, the ones to either side yell and throw things, and the ones who live above me always thump around and scream at me!"

The mom goes "Oh, how dreadful. Londoners are all the same. You shouldn't talk to people like that."

The Scotsman says "Of course not, mother. I just stay inside, practicing on my pipes."

[tahthetrickster]

just so we’re clear if you’ve never actually seen a cybertruck in person and have only seen photos of them i cannot stress enough how much worse they look in real life. like i honestly don’t know how it’s possible. most things look basically the same in pictures and in real life. but as stupid and ugly as cybertrucks look in photos, every person i’ve spoken to who has seen one in real life agrees that they somehow look even worse in person. and i know you’re thinking to yourself “tah they already look so bad in photos, how can they possibly look even worse in person?” I DONT KNOW. the first time i saw one on the road i was on a phone call and i literally cut myself off in the middle of a sentence just to be like “oh my GOD.” just an incredibly, laughably, unbelievably bad vehicle. i’ve never experienced anything like it. they’re just so bad

[theunusualchameleon]

The CIO at my community college drives a cybertruck. It's colored with a red-green gradient using the worst shade of both colors you could possibly imagine that somehow look worse together. On the back is a decal that says 'cybertruck' in a font that's probably supposed to look like blood but comes off a lot more like someone smeared it with jelly.

All this gives you a pretty good idea of the guy's personality, but every single professor in the technical building will gladly complain about him at length. He gutted the CAD lab to make an "AI research and learning center".

Really we should cut out the middleman and airbrush "I am a dingus" on the side of every cybertruck as it comes out of the factory.

[isdonaldtrumpdeadyet]

on the 4th, donald trump is going to be giving a 2hr long speech outdoors during a heat wave. heat stroke can happen within less than 20 minutes if the conditions of the weather and the person’s health are bad enough. so what im saying is.. if he keels over from heat stroke, i wont be surprised.

Sun I’m begging you GET HIS ASS

[theunusualchameleon]

Hoping to break the world record for most fireworks used in a single show, Trump is planning to detonate ~850,000 fireworks over a span of 40 minutes. So much smoke is predicted that the National Park Service is classifying it as an air quality hazard and advising DC residents to wear masks and stay indoors.

If the heat doesn't kill him, the smoke might.

[inhumanliquid]

So apparently the speech itself is going to be late tonight after it's already mostly cooled down.

But the sun has no impact on smoke, so...

[theunusualchameleon]

Eh, I live kinda near DC and it was still almost 90F at midnight last night. Heat islands last longer in cities too, where there's lots of concrete.

Realistically they're probably going to put up an ice wall or something, but we can hope.

[prokopetz]

Order of monks figures out the curse on the Tome of Cursèd Knowledge has a range limit, so they've got the book propped open on a pedestal while a guy like a hundred feet away peers through a rudimentary telescope to transcribe it. The acolyte turning the pages is blindfolded so they don't accidentally read it from within range.

[theunusualchameleon]

Not super attached to my gender until I enter one of my technical classes and then I'm like "hey isn't it super weird that I'm the only woman here?"

[isdonaldtrumpdeadyet]

on the 4th, donald trump is going to be giving a 2hr long speech outdoors during a heat wave. heat stroke can happen within less than 20 minutes if the conditions of the weather and the person’s health are bad enough. so what im saying is.. if he keels over from heat stroke, i wont be surprised.

Sun I’m begging you GET HIS ASS

[theunusualchameleon]

Hoping to break the world record for most fireworks used in a single show, Trump is planning to detonate ~850,000 fireworks over a span of 40 minutes. So much smoke is predicted that the National Park Service is classifying it as an air quality hazard and advising DC residents to wear masks and stay indoors.

If the heat doesn't kill him, the smoke might.

[mini-wrants]

Outdoor in sun perfec t place for president to do speech! Outdoor very warm very soft put old man on green lawn under sun. Put old man in warm sun. no problem ever in warm sun because good view and audience can see long speech. Nice podium outdoor sunny perfect place for old president can trust warm sun to give nice view to President good luck to President. friend sun.

[theunusualchameleon]

The fireworks afterwards are going to be so big it'll be a massive polluting event and people in DC are advised to wear N95 masks or stay indoors.

If we're lucky, the combination might kill him.

[todaysbird]

A vulture cloud to start off your Wednesday!

[theunusualchameleon]

Fun fact, this is how they locate leaks in very large pipelines! A chemical that smells strongly of rotting flesh is introduced to whatever the pipe is carrying (usually nat gas) and they watch the length of it to see where the buzzards circle.

Probably very confusing if you're a buzzard looking for some tasty dead things, but it gets the job done.

[what-even-is-thiss]

My middle school gave you detention if you didn’t turn in your homework on time did I ever tell y’all about that

[what-even-is-thiss]

I mean they called it “homework lab” but it was detention. I had to do it a few times. They kept everybody in the cafeteria and spread them far apart and patrolled the aisles to make sure they were working and not talking.

I mean it made no difference to me because I stayed after school in the library to do my homework anyways. The only problem was that they called your parents if it happened. So.

I would’ve gotten away with it too if it weren’t for that meddling answer machine.

[theunusualchameleon]

Freshman year I had a French teacher that was kinda insane. He gave long homeworks every day, handed out detentions like candy, and would give pop quizzes on the exact wording of questions he'd put on the board weeks ago.

(After the first such quiz, which the entire class did badly on, he made us collectively write letters to our parents explaining the bad grade. Each sentence was provided in both English and Spanish options and had to be copied word for word.)

Being fourteen and an overachiever (and already knowing a little French) I became one of his favorites, and I still got detention like seven times before we all had to quarantine in March. There was also what he called "the homework club" of people who didn't turn in their homework. They had detention every day until they got it in order.

In detention we didn't just sit around. No, we worked. We tidied the classroom, sorted paperwork, organized his desk, and graded quizzes (of which there were many).

Crazy Teacher didn't show up again after we all came back to class. I found out later that he'd been fired for appearing naked on camera during virtual classes. Most sources agreed it was some sort of accident, but I never got another detention again after leaving his class.