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btw I've found these stretches from the WAK blog very helpful when knitting a lot:
Plus make sure to take breaks regularly - and stop if anything starts to hurt!
especially with gift knitting I know it can be tempting to push through it for a deadline, but it's really not worth causing long term injury. (And anyone knit-worthy should be understanding of that, imho.) Stay well :)
andy weir was pretty funny for the names in this one you gotta admit. hi here are my characters their names are Strategy and Mercy and you’ll never guess their most prominent traits
eventually we are introduced to my third character who is, by all appearances, a sentient rock. and his name? …heh. well,
They move in together full time and Ilya notices that Anya acts differently with Shane than she does with him, more quiet and less playful, and he worries that means she doesn’t like Shane or is jealous, so he hires a dog trainer to come over and see if there’s anything they need to do to help
After a while of talking about how Anya acts the trainer says there’s nothing to worry about, Anya likes Shane just fine, it’s just that she sees him as the boss and is acting accordingly
And Ilya is like. But. I’m the one who adopted her? And raised her before Shane got here?? And the trainer is just like yeah well she sees you more like an equal. And Ilya is like WAIT she thinks Shane is in charge of both of us?? And the trainer is just like well do you interact in a way that would make her think that?
Ilya’s life flashes before his eyes as he thinks of all the times Shane has come over with a snack for Ilya and a treat for Anya, or all the times Shane has announced they’re all going for an after dinner walk, or pets Ilya’s hair and tells him he did a good job at practice, or the fact that he uses the same warning tone with Anya when she misbehaves as he does with Ilya when he’s causing problems on purpose
Shane comes home to Ilya with his face in his hands going oh god I’m not Anya’s dad I’m her brother and she thinks we’re both your pets. And Shane just goes. What.
since its june i wanted to admit that about 3 years ago i made what is probably my biggest contribution to the internet
Getting a print version of the Onion is a decision I'll never regret
Every one of the 12 "ads" in this version is insulting Musk
i feel strongly about this
‘Nuclear Family Month’ is so funny as a concept. I have never seen a nuclear family worth celebrating.
The Addams
Do Grandmama, Uncle Fester and the rotating cast of possibly existent cousins mean nothing to you? 😔
I may in fact be stupid
So, apparently "animal rights" and "animal welfare" are two completely separate, very different terms, where "animal rights" denotes someone who does not believe in any interaction between humans and other animals, which is obviously just silly, and "animal welfare" is simply about the good treatment of non-human animals. I had no idea that there was such a clear distinction between these terms, and I am interested in hearing your thoughts on this.
I didn’t know it had become that distinct either. I thought “animal rights” just referred to the idea that animals should have, like, a default right not to suffer needlessly.
as somebody who used to be heavily involved in this stuff, yes, these definitions are accurate. “animal rights” is synonymous with “animal liberation”, which is the philosophy coined by peter singer in his book of the same name. (and he’s a truly horrible human being, i highly recommend looking him up.)
“animal welfare” folks accept that human/animal interaction is an inevitability and focus on improving conditions. however, animal welfare runs the risk of getting infiltrated by lobbyists in animal industries and can thus be pretty ineffectual at pushing certain reforms. (sometimes you’ll see “animal interest” which is a euphemism for “screw you namby-pamby liberals trying to wreck my bottom line”).
so in other words, both sides can be a minefield of bullshit and true moderation is extremely hard to come by, just like with anything else.
The difference in a nutshell:
Animal welfare: reputable organizations like the ASPCA
Animal rights: violent cults like PETA and ALF, which actually kill far more animals than they claim to save. PETA kills directly through needless euthanasia of thousands of cats, dogs, puppies, and kittens every year. ALF kills indirectly via releasing farm/lab animals into wild conditions where captive-raised animals either can’t survive, or (in the case of mink) become invasive pests that wreak havoc on native wildlife.
PETA euthanizes thousands of healthy, adoptable dogs and cats per year, usually within 24 hours of obtaining said animals, and without making any effort whatsoever to rehome them, because PETA’s philosophy is that animals are literally better off dead than living with humans: http://www.whypetaeuthanizes.org/ (Warning: many extremely upsetting first-hand accounts and photos of animals killed by PETA staff)
ALF releases thousands of fur farm mink with terrible ecological consequences: http://www.snopes.com/critters/crusader/minks.asp
About the hikers in Indonesia that were killed climbing an active volcano that you are prohibited from climbing, I don’t think local authorities should have to foot the bill for rescue & recovery efforts for tourists that came to their country and turned off their brain. I don’t know what it is about traveling that makes (read: mostly white) people think that that they’re immune to natural disasters, the hazards of the local landscape and wildlife. I can’t afford to go anywhere and if I could afford to go to the beautiful, culturally & historical rich and diverse country that is Indonesia, I would have thousands and perhaps millions of better things to do than scale an active fucking volcano.
And FUCK those 5 Italian fucks who just killed themselves and a rescue diver in the Maldives while cave diving at depths they were not equipped for and not allowed to. OOOOOOH I’M HEATED ABOUT THAT ONE.
Lots of great places to scuba dive in the Maldives, especially for someone with a background in marine biology but nooooooo let’s go in a FUCKING CAVE with a maximum depth of 230 feet.
please god watch this right now
The editing of this video is hysterical and genius- they switch between so many editing styles to reflect exactly what kind of thing they're going for in each segment its GREAT.
No more sleeping with my phone within reach because I was having an extremely vivid dream that I was the victim of some sort of mass-poisoning. the notorious poisoner? "The Centipede Cult." They used a specific type of poison, referred to only by its chemical nomenclature, which I somehow remembered perfectly upon waking. It went: □□ Na({}^{2})
Because that makes sense. Anyway, this poison would submit me to its well-known and much-feared symptom: "17 Day Paralysis" in which you're paralyzed for exactly 17 days and you only chance of survival is to be on full machine support for 17 days.
Just before the medical team intubated me I remembered I have a Zoom meeting with my academic advisor today (I actually do in real life) and I needed to email him to let him know I was the victim of a mass-poisoning and would need to reschedule.
I kept trying to type the "□" symbol in my dream but could not figure out how and gave up.
I woke up in real life to find I'd begun drafting an email in my sleep to my professor in the Gmail app. I was apparently using talk-to-text (I often do because of my hand neuropathy) but speaking in Irish, which talk-to-text never understands, so other than the words in English "poison" and "centipede" the entire email was complete nonsense.
I told my advisor about this and he said, "well, if you had been poisoned, I would have provided you whatever academic supports available to us."
Bc so many people have asked, the □ in the dream was in fact just a wingdings square symbol. Your phone/browser isn't blocking an emoji. You're seeing it right.
I think ao3 is literally the only site where no censorship means no censorship. you can post the most vile things on there — things that will get taken down on any other platforms — and ao3 will protect you, your works, and your rights to create whatever you want, however you want.
and no, this isn’t me saying “write that messed up, disgusting thing” because while, yes, write it if it’s what you want (I myself enjoy writing dark fics, something I believe would be considered “vile” to a lot of people), this is me saying in a world of censorship and capitalism, ao3 really is a treasure.
everybody say thank you ao3
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Based off hit tumblr post:
THE FUCKING FROG THAT LOOKS LIKE THIS
OH FUCK ITS HIM
i get that americans love their cultural imperialism, but it really does piss me off that june is “international” pride month just because something happened in the united states.
in aotearoa, june isn’t our pride, it’s theirs. marsha p johnson and sylvia rivera are their historical figures, not ours. the phrase that “you owe your rights to Black trans women” is true there, but here we owe our rights to (mostly) Māori historical figures. i have the freedoms i do because of the legacy of an entirely different set of people operating in an entirely different context at entirely different times.
But because of american cultural imperialism, most queer people in Aotearoa don’t even know our own queer history. Carmen Rupe, Ngahuia Te Awekotuku, the Dorian Society, Gillian Laundon, Georgina Beyer, and the Wolfenden Association are some of our queer history. We should know their names! we should know what they did for us! but because of the power of the american imperial machine, we don’t.
our national pride month should be july, the month that the Homosexual Law Reform Act passed in 1986. our two largest cities hold their pride festivals in february and march, respectively. american queer history has very little (or nothing, depending on who you ask) to do with our queer history. anecdotally, from my own queries, queer youth in aotearoa know more about american queer history than our own.
anyway, happy pride, americans. i’m truly sorry that most of you don’t see the negative impact your nation’s culture has on the rest of the world. and to the rest of the world reading this, try searching for your own country and culture’s queer history, don’t accept the american narratives as your own. we deserve our own histories divorced from the cultural hegemony of the USA.
Someone else one here was talking about how CombatUnits might struggle with adapting to freedom in an environment that doesn't need (or want) soldiers and it reminded me of something I've been noodling about for a while.
The text isn't exactly clear on what life is like for constructs between deployments. Murderbot describes scenes of hiding its rogue activities from techs, but at least once describes being "woken up" to await new clients as if it had been shut down in the interim. Between the Ganaka Pit incident and its redeployment, it apparently spent huge swaths of time inactive, "dreaming", only being booted back up for analysis of its systems.
Which says to me there's a good chance that they spend a lot of time in some kind of stasis when not in use. And if CombatUnits have clearance to hack other systems like Murderbot describes, there could be even more restrictions on when they're allowed to be active compared to SecUnits or ComfortUnits.
On top of this, it's not like you'd pull out a CombatUnit to go on patrols, or keep watch. They don't stand around and watch humans do human stuff. They don't get bored. You activate them when you need something dead and you need it dead right now.
Instead, they wake up, and they immediately have a mission. They get their intel, they get transported to their destination if they need it. And then its Go Go Go, Kill Kill Kill, that one's running get it quick, All Clear, Mission Complete, Good Bot, Back in Your Box, and then they're out.
And the next time they wake up they have a new mission.
Do they know how long it's been since the last one? Do they have time to think about it before govmod kicks in and puts them back on target? Do they even spend enough time experiencing the world for it to matter to them? Do they have any context at all for their place in the wider universe?
It's like they're living in a plot-light FPS game. The kind where you just fade to black between levels. They get some context for who they're shooting at, but it isn't important. It's all about figuring out how to meet their mission objective; hunting down targets like they're solving a puzzle. And if they fuck up, chances are good they get repaired and they get to try again next time. (Shit, do they even know they can die?) (Do they know other people can die?)
(Do they know where new humans come from?)
And I think about the one interaction we've witnessed with a CombatUnit in the series, where Murderbot asks it what it wants, and it says,
I want to kill you.
And I think, yeah bud. I bet you fucking do.
You could be kicking so much ass at lazer tag though.
A Trevor Project survey found trans young people who were unable to access hormones were nearly twice as likely to report a suicide attempt
A major new survey from The Trevor Project released on Wednesday (6 May) has found that transgender and nonbinary young people who wanted hormone therapy but were unable to access it were nearly twice as likely to report a suicide attempt in the past year compared to those currently receiving hormones.
According to the report – which included over 10,000 responses from trans, nonbinary, and genderqueer people – 15% of trans youth denied access to hormones reported a suicide attempt, compared to 8% of those able to receive care.
When you advocate for taking medical transition away from minors, you advocate for their death.
