sam

im a dog :) he/him, tme transhet/dyke, linguistics enjoyer, animation student, and art snob chronically ill (physically disabled, and mentally ill-- hopefully this adds context to some of my posts 👍) im an adult and there will sometimes be "adult" stuff on this blog-- if you would appreciate a topic tagged, please ask im a white guy with an english-language blog mas estou a aprender português europeu :) 🇵🇹 (também adoro outros tipos de português 🇦🇴🇧🇷🇨🇻🇹🇱🇬🇶🇬🇼🇲🇿🇸🇹) i love my friends hoorayyyyy (header and profile art is mine-- i dont post art here or anywhere srry)

[9ieme]

the twelve most terrifying words in the english language are: i'm from the government and i'm here to torture you to death

[nyantara]

Based on tanker-tracking data from Bloomberg and reports on discounts applied to Venezuelan crude, the estimated value of U.S.-controlled oil exports has increased from $600 million in January (about 380,000 barrels per day) to about $3.7 billion in April alone (about 1.1 million barrels per day). The largest recipients of Venezuelan oil since January 3 have been the United States (43 percent), India (26 percent), and Spain (8 percent) [...]

US. President Donald Trump appears satisfied with the arrangement and has praised Rodríguez for doing a “great job.” Rubio also told Congress that Venezuela has agreed to submit monthly budget requests for State Department approval to receive its share of oil revenue.[...]

The Trump administration has issued temporary sanctions relief in the form of waivers (general licenses) that authorize U.S. companies and individuals to do business in various aspects of Venezuela’s oil, mining, and financial sectors. These waivers can be revoked at any time and have been issued in a policy vacuum. [...]

Despite Rubio’s insistence before Congress that commodities trading companies Trafigura and Vitol were a “short-term fix” to quickly sell the first tranche of oil, both companies—each of which has a history of bribery schemes related to oil sales—remain involved in Venezuela five months later. A third trader, GE Warren, has since entered the picture, and the Trump administration has offered no explanation for their ongoing role. [...]

The system’s opacity is not limited to oil. The Trump administration is also controlling Venezuelan gold and other mineral exports. Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum, after leading a delegation of mining executives to Venezuela in March, indicated that he secured “$100 million of gold” and helped broker a deal for Venezuela to sell up to one thousand kilograms of gold to trader Trafigura. Based on the restrictions in the waivers published by the Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control related to gold and other minerals, export revenue is also going into U.S. Treasury accounts under the same opaque system as the oil funds.

The U.S. Took Over Venezuela’s Oil Industry. Where Has All the Money Gone? | Council on Foreign Relations

The American and Venezuelan people remain in the dark about how the Trump administration is controlling billions of dollars of Venezuelan oi

cw: written by democrat neoimperialists that later argues for continuing sanctions for even more regime change

[despazito]

challenging all white women to put in even half the effort they spend on fearmongering to other white women about parking lot abductions to instead support MMIWG initiatives if they want to actually make a difference in protecting women

[mexicast]

Murdered & Missing Indigenous Women & Girls - Assembly of First Nations

The AFN's Seeking have yet to see real, on-the-ground changes to end violence against First Nations women, girls, and gender-diverse people.

[im-mender]

It's important to note that Chekhov's Gun was not originally about foreshadowing, but a piece of advice to playwrights about how every element in a play should have narrative relevance. The corollary to Chekhov's Gun is that if a gun mounted on the wall in act 1 is never used at all in the entirety of the play, then it should be omitted from the play entirely.

[im-mender]

also very true

[anarchautistic]

Very funny example of writing advice that is very specific to its medium getting overapplied outside its scope. Can you imagine how awful set design would be if people tried to apply this to movies. 60 minute post credits scene in the Matrix where Neo has to fire every gun that appears in the "lots of guns" scene

[kikimonstr]

drew chika instead of doomscrolling

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

My favourite thing about games like The Talos Principle is that you can be bashing your head against a puzzle for 45 minutes and then go "fuck it" and go make yourself a cup of tea and then go "oh wait wasn't there a window in the back wall?" and come back and solve it in 45 seconds.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

The concept of a difficulty curve barely exists for me in these games because how complicated a puzzle is has nothing to do with how easily I'll solve it. I'll deduce the correct order of a rainbow of lasers using conduits and inverters and RGB converters in less than ten seconds and then spend fifteen minutes trying to figure out how to get both myself and a box past a force field before realising that I don't actually need the box any more.

[klapollo]

the mandela effect is so funny bc almost all of it can be boiled down to "you were a kid and memory is highly unreliable," "you assumed how a word was spelled based on how it sounded," or "you're confusing two different things"

[noelle-ism]

the mandela effect can be summarized as "you'd rather create an alternate universe where you're right than admit that you are wrong"

[amazoogle]

it's Tuesday all day today and there's no known way to prevent this

[textpostscymraeg]

mae'n ddydd Mawrth drwy'r dydd heddiw a does dim unrhyw ffordd hysbys o atal hyn

[i-am-bic]

"There's no platonic explanation for this" <-you need to be nicer to your friends. Right now

[eingedeutscht]

„Hierfür gibt es keine platonische Erklärung“ <- Sie müssen unverzüglich netter zu Ihren Freund*innen werden.

[translatingpostsintoafrikaans]

"Daar is geen platoniese verduideliking hiervoor nie" <- jy moet gawer teenoor jou vriende optree. Onmiddellik

[punkedupfae]

Alright ive seen enough

Someone put a blanket over my cage.

[translatingpostsintoafrikaans]

Oraait ek het genoeg gesien

Iemand gooi 'n kombers oor my hok.

[translatingpostsintoromanian]

Fun Fact - the letter 'ș' is pronounced the same as 'sh' in english :)

[translatingpostsintoafrikaans]

Fun Fact – the letter combination 'sj' is pronounced the same as 'sh' in english :)

[translatingpoststoyiddish]

Fun Fact — the letter 'ש' is pronounced the same as 'sh' in English [but only most of the time] :) It can also sound like 's', but often, certainly not always, that's written as שׂ in Yiddish.

[translatingpoststomarathi]

Fun Fact — the letter 'ष' is pronounced the same as 'sh' in English (also the letter "श" but thats less fun)

[wawa-pi-wawa-pi-wawa]

Fun Fact — the letter 'sh' is pronounced the same as 'sh' in English (but is a distinct and separate letter from 's' or 'h')

[oldenglishtextposts]

Fun Fact - the letter combination (digraph) 'sc' is pronounced the same as 'sh' in english :) (except in a few specific circumstances)

[yoshidinosaur]

[patheticspineless]

the best thing about being alive on earth is that sometimes there is a kitty

[skeletonislandtheme]

columbo villains are addicted to logically explaining why they can’t be the killer. columbo will ask them a question and they can never be like omg I have no idea I was in shock, they always gotta be like. ah, lieutenant, I assume I must be your prime suspect since I stood to inherit my great-uncle’s litter of solid gold puppies? well just to clear that up, old man George the puppy smelter can tell you that I entered the barn at precisely 11:53 so I could not possibly have been at the scene of the crime when someone murdered my poor great uncle at 11:55. also I’ve been carrying around this letter which proves that I won’t inherit the puppies anyway just in case you asked me such an insulting question

[txttletale]

HEARTWARMING:

Mo & Krill is Overwatch's FIRST gay character! This is a BIG WIN for diversity in gaming, folks!

[txttletale]

nobody expected anything else but its disgraceful that burnham is keeping mahmood and philipson in post lol. meet the new party leadership same as the old party leadership

[recreationaldivorce]

sex testing isn't making people discover that they're intersex, it's making people intersex. if someone's sex characteristics are imperceptibly different to what sex defines they should have, it wouldn't have placed them in a different social category until both the technology and the drive to test were there. ppl just don't really believe that sex categories are also socially constructed and fluid. things like hormone levels naturally wildly range between people before it gets to a point where someone looks noticeably "different" for their sex—a cafab person with testosterone levels deemed high today would not have been intersex 200 years ago unless they displayed noticeably masculinised features, because nobody would have known anyone's testosterone levels and therefore can't use that as a basis for treating someone differently!