Use the Sword as a Sword

By and large, I am Bi and large

[barstoolblues]

mozzarella and parmesan is kind of like the age gap yuri of cheese

[uss-emberprise]

[hydrachea]

> turns on my computer

> disables a new AI feature that was turned on by default

> opens my email

> disables a new AI feature that was turned on by default

> launches a software

> disables a new AI fea

[feldfrog]

If a fantasy world has an ancient tree of wisdom, that means it must also have young trees that are dumb as shit. Just giving terrible advice like, "the evil wizard is kinda hot"'

[sexhaver]

lmfao the Scots in town for the World Cup have made a pilgrimage to Boston's world-famous Cop Annihilating Slide

[sifu-kisu]

[monstersovka]

🌙🏠 DREAMCORE 🌈☁️

[gaytanic-panic]

[junk-thunder]

me: ok ok sorry, i promise i'll stop coming up with weird euphemisms for hitting the weed pen

me 5 minutes later: yall mind if i go ruin christmas?

[toskarinfr]

my ability to take this 🫢 emoji seriously has been obliterated by that one image

[toskarinfr]

getting this image beamed into my head psionically whenever i see it used in any context

[moonssnail]

Piranesi concept art!

I hadn’t seen anyone really tackle the drowned halls yet (as far as I know) so I thought I’d take a crack at it to practice painting environments

[evilvarric666-archive]

Literally obsessed with this image.

[fandomsandfeminism]

For the curious, this is not a statue.

It's a still from a super artsy 1995 claymation short.

More info: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0164317/

(Trigger warnings for depictions of sexual violence)

[bird-cannibalism]

this video is auto-playing with sound for me. unrelated note, did you know? tumblr is pvp-enabled.

[fandomsandfeminism]

That is a setting that is pretty hidden- but you can change it.

Go to your account settings, scroll down to Media autoplay, and you should be able to disable it there.

[mindblowingscience]

Coral study could help explain infertility and ovarian cancer by decoding cilia-driven fluid flows

A study by researchers at The University of Manchester, carried out alongside the Universities of Melbourne and Copenhagen, could hold the k

A study by researchers at The University of Manchester, carried out alongside the Universities of Melbourne and Copenhagen, could hold the key to understanding the causes of long-term health problems, such as infertility and ovarian cancer. The study, published in PRX Life, used a combination of high-resolution imaging, flow measurements, and mathematical modeling to examine fluid flows around corals that are driven by cilia—densely packed tiny hairs on the coral's surface. The collective beating of the cilia contributes to the movement of fluid around the surface of the coral, regulating the animal's immediate environment through the transport of particles such as oxygen.

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[orcboxer]

got a crick in my neck and a frog in my throat and a chip on my shoulder and a stick up my ass and now you're gonna stand there puttin words in my mouth? haven't I been through enough?

[ezlo-x]

[fforsythiaaa]

Once when I was in undergrad, someone described something as “problematic” in class and our professor was like, “That’s cool, but ‘problematic’ doesn’t really mean anything. It means that the thing you’re describing has a problem, and in and of itself that’s not bad. Art, especially, should always have problems, or else it’s not interesting and not art, either. It sounds like you’re trying to say that this is bad, but you don’t want to say ‘bad.’ Is that right?”

So from then on whenever one of us called something problematic, he would make us talk it out until we could name the “bad” thing we were hinting at. In this particular class, 7/10 it was some type of oppression, and the remainder was like, “I’m uncomfortable because this is very new/confusing/pushing boundaries that made me feel safe.”

Once we stopped calling things “problematic” and stopping at that, class got way more interesting and... we all had to say, like, “that’s racist” or “that’s misogynistic” or “ew capitalism gross” out loud, which a lot of us had never done in a classroom before. Or we had to be like, “Uhhh... I’m not sure what’s so bad?” and confront our own beliefs and that was maybe even more useful.

Anyway. Whenever I see the word problematic, I can’t help but think of this professor being like, “Good starting point, now let’s get specific.” I think when we have to commit to saying “that’s ___” it requires a lot more careful thought about the truth and impact and complexities of whatever we’re claiming. Sometimes there really is some bullshit afoot, and also sometimes it’s art, and it should be full of problems, because that’s what art is.

[kushblazer666]

[flowercrownsylveon]

[tarragonthedragon]

in 2026 i am wishing for all of us the energy of bilbo baggins, who was headhunted for an extremely well paid role he had no qualifications or experience for, blagged the interview, and within his first week found a magic ring that does the job for him