My hat is a raindrop; your argument is invalid

Bouncing my reality checks since 1985. | I'm here, I'm queer, I'm over it. | I'm not a minor and that's all you need to know. | Apparently my purpose in life is biting transphobes. I'm cool with this. | Fanfiction.net profile:  https://www.fanfiction.net/u/1389324/ | AO3 profile: https://archiveofourown.org/users/Vanshira

[evvrythingisawesome]

... I think I might have been insane for this 😳

Same pattern, different modifications. The parts that made me question my sanity the most: on the left, the double 500+ stitch Latvian Braids, and the fact that I had to remake it three times because the colors kept bleeding even after pre-washing the yarns; on the right, FOUR i-cord loop braid sections, and several false starts before I finally got the colors right 🫠

BTW if the one on the right makes you go "haha cool that middle bit kinda looks like a Stargate" that was ON PURPOSE. These are both Fanart for my Teen Wolf/Stargate crossover series ❤️

[themarshmallowreturns]

oh. ponchos.

@jacktheeldergod2 look, ponchos. cool things. look at them. observe the stuff. see this cool person who made cool stuff.

[dogpuppy]

[mandywondering]

I mean, in some very interesting Technically Correct ways, they didn't actually die? Now, they're very much no longer alive. But the forces involved are such that they didn't get any of the usual cellular processes of death, they simply went from biology to physics in less time than it takes a signal to travel down your optic nerve.

[dietspam16]

if you go from biology to physics without dying first you don’t go to heaven the uber driver went over this already

[sixthrock]

I feel like the oceangate incident is one of the only times you can accurately describe people as getting “unalived”. like “death” doesn’t seem like quite the right word for what happened to those guys but they sure as hell are Not Alive

[themarshmallowreturns]

they were quite literally deleted so, uh, yeah? has this even happened before?

[vanshira]

here's a list of some of the people it's happened to before

[gemennair]

“Crowley? Crowley, it’s time to wake up.”

Crowley heard the familiar voice calling him, but didn’t quite want to open his eyes yet. He had the distinct impression that he’d been having a lovely dream, and even now the echo of a nearly forgotten melody played in his head. Soft breeze brushed his cheek, lifting the hair from off his forehead.

“Crowley, you’re safe now. Please, I need to see you open your eyes.”

It was a voice he could never resist, and so he forced his eyes open.

He was greeted with the light of thousands of stars, covering his body, and emitting a warm luminescence that caused the face of the angel bending over him to glow. Crowley was tucked safely into Aziraphale’s arms, the angel’s wings curled around him, those, too, decorated with starlight.

(Link to the fic below)

Keep reading

[dduane]

Meanwhile, via Bluesky...

[rogue-ai-cat]

And here is the resulting image. There is at least Someone in the U.K. government who is actually doing their job, and it is Chief Mouser to the Cabinet, Larry the Cat.

Source

[elodieunderglass]

He’s 19, which is a good age for a working cat!

[padawan-historian]

Centering Black environmental thought and indigenous medicine ways is to recognize that food deserts are not naturally occurring but designed to displace people from resources for profit. Food deserts are in fact food apartheids.

[anarchistmemedistro]

[isuggestrevolution]

i have a suggestion

[isuggesteatingtherich]

me too

[op1umtr33]

I live in a food desert, and most days I starve.

Prices are expensive even when I can make it to a store and my meager salary causes issues.

[bloodonmybarbieshirt]

How Walmart And Pepsico Rigged Prices And Supercharged Food Inflation

A newly unredacted FTC complaint shows that Pepsi and Walmart worked together to rig grocery pricing and protect Walmart’s dominance.

The FTC under Biden was investigating and suing about this. The trump admin dropped this.

The worst part is that this is a systemic problem of capital that actually could be fixed by government action, easily. To keep the Waltons rich, there are genuine and huge conspiracies dedicating to destroying everywhere else you could buy food.

[asmeesh]

Crawling out of a five day migraine hole

[asmeesh]

Added to this original piece

[pseudomantis]

Scientific fraud is the most baffling thing ever to me like do they think they're just going to make a huge breakthrough and no one will notice that it's fake by trying to replicate their results

[pseudomantis]

Yeah actually I just discovered how to turn plastic into gold. Oh you want to know how I did it

Starts running away cutely

[jonnywaistcoat]

[bildadthefuckingshuite]

I was bored

[mizuthe-cat]

don’t ask chatgpt I can lie to you for free

[teammatesfriendstohellwiththat]

hello mizuthe-chat how many provinces are there in the united states

[mizuthe-cat]

7

[teammatesfriendstohellwiththat]

wow this feels like it's less than it should be but I'll believe you if you provide visual evidence like a map

[mizuthe-cat]

Of course! Let’s dive in—the seven different provinces of the United States of America are: The Beast Coast, Luigiana, Better Wisconsin, Minigan, Long California, Texas, and Canada+!

[dduane]

Oh great, who needed THIS?!

(Info's here: https://www.seriouseats.com/salmonella-egg-recall-july-2026-12026708 )

[was-once-somewhere-else]

I just saw a video title on YouTube that said something like “Why is glass transparent?” And that’s an interesting question and I’m sure it’s great that the video exists but my first thought was like “Because glass is terrible, obviously.” Because it’s unwieldy and let’s out warmth and needs to be heated to hundreds of degrees to be shaped and turns into hundreds of tiny daggers if you drop it. Why the hell would we bother with that if it didn’t have some magical quality like being totally transparent despite being solid? Glass is transparent because if it weren’t, we’d use something else.

[was-once-somewhere-else]

looking through my “me” tag and this is apparently what I was thinking 3 years ago

[totally-a-wizard]

If you’re still curious we did not start working glass for its transparency.  It was most likely started as a sanitary concern.  Glass is easy to clean with soap and water, once it’s cleaned out you can use it again for anything and no germs or flavor from the previous meal or drink will remain.

Other materials at the time, namely clay, would absorb flavors and germs meaning that if you ate beef off a clay plate your next meal with that plate could have beef flavor and microbes common on cow meat on it.  That would leak out seemingly at random no less.  Heck imagine a sick person coughing into their soup bowl and then months later their germs hiding in the clay would pop out to infect whole new people.

Also the earliest human use of glass we know of is for its sharpness.  Pre-historic people would use volcanic glass as sharp knives for food preparation.  Also beads.  Pretty much any new substance humans get their hands on for most of our history we immediately try to make into beads.

The fact that it could become see through was a side benefit.

[was-once-somewhere-else]

this is amazing and I’m really glad I reblogged that old bullshit post because I got to learn this

[rumwik]

It's the Care Bones! ⭐🌈

[maculategiraffe]

the thing is that every time they invent a new thing that everybody has to be able to do to get along in society, that also involves making some people disabled who weren't before, because they can't do the thing. and they never could do the thing, but it didn't used to be a disability.

driving a car. making a phone call. navigating the internet. getting a mortgage. you know? they keep adding new things that everybody has to be able to do or else there's something wrong with you. well maybe there's something wrong with driving a car. maybe it's a hideous activity. did they ever think of that

[knittingontheroad]

As a trucker and professional driver, I think about it EVERY DAY.

EVERY TIME I have to drive through a city and look down on cars, changing lanes with no signal, eating/drinking coffee/smoking/putting on makeup while driving, PHONE IN HAND, going 85mph through 55mph commuter traffic, crossing 3 lanes of traffic to shove their car into the exit backup because they're too special to be in the (too slow for them) exit lane. And half the time with their kids in the car, for whom they want ME to be careful.

EVERY DAY these people make this same trip to work and back home, and EVERY DAY THEY ARE BAD AT IT.

You are absolutely right. For most people, driving a car is a hideous activity.

[creative-anchorage]

Tags by @pyrebomb:

#the way people don't even question shit that has been a 'standard' for less than a century drives me up a wall #driving is a big one because like #it is genuinely INSANE we expect everybody to be able to operate a 2-ton death trap in order to get anywhere #like that seems like the type of thing you would only want highly specialized well-trained people doing #and yet thanks to henry ford!

[captain-price-returns]

the average red state is closer to Sharia Law than Zohran’s NYC

[darkcomedies]

evoking bertholt brecht’s “the way people cast a play!” quote as a spell against prescriptive, stereotypical, fatalistic typecasting

[darkcomedies]

idk what to tell you except go look at the fishwives

[weepingwidar]

Gérard Dubois (French, 1968) - Moby Dick (2023)