With Just A Look, They Shook

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[necropolistheatre]

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I'm not going to start shit about this, it's not even this post in particular, it's more this flavor of post where people are using their understandable dislike for genAI chatbots in order to insist that Good Teenagers Experience Social Trauma. That's really fucked up of you all.

And I'm really tired of reading posts that describe my relationship of very nearly two decades, and then it turns into a fetishization of the idea that the relationship will dissolve into toxic psychosexual disaster where the people involved will lose their very sense of self, and we're talking about real people - teenagers! - not a fun fictional story.

I also did have relationships like this and they did not do anything good for me, my sense of self, my ability to socialize, or my artistic skills. And I also fucking hate this cheeky tone that promotes maladaptive daydreaming in a way that genuinely, for me, further developed my DID. and again, this is how you're talking about real teenagers, not fictional characters, so i think you're all fucking gross.

I would rather teenagers explore aspects of their sexualities that they're uncomfortable with through chatbots than through a toxic dynamic with another teenager. I would rather teenagers not hurt each other. I would rather adults not be so fucking wistful looking back on what was fundamentally real trauma, and that it's not even in the sense of writing a fucked up story, it's about chastising real teenagers. Fucked up!

[mckitterick]

Deadly egg recall

The FDA has upgraded an egg recall issued last month to “Class I,” its highest risk level, as it warns the public that consuming the products could cause “serious adverse health consequences or death.”

The recall of 1,589,577 dozen white-shell eggs and brown cage-free shell eggs was initially issued by Midwest Poultry Services in late July, which warned they might be contaminated with Salmonella Enteritidis.

According to the company, the eggs were produced and distributed from farms in Texas between June 6 and July 3 and have sell-by or best-by dates between July 20 and August 17. The recalled egg cartons have either the code P-1950 or 0840962 and Julian Dates between 157-184.

source: X

[prof-grace-aspen]

Recalled eggs were shipped to foodservice and retail customers in Texas, Oklahoma, and Louisiana.  Recalled eggs were available to consumers at Kroger stores in Texas and Louisiana; Brookshire Grocery stores in Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Louisiana, and other smaller retail and foodservice outlets in these states plus Mississippi and New Mexico.

Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Arkansas, Mississippi, and New Mexico are the currently affected states.

[prokopetz]

Doug Jones and Danny DeVito in a buddy comedy about a couple of elderly former henchmen unwillingly dragged out of retirement for one last caper. There's a running gag where they claim to be the original duo that the "one of them is short and fat and the other is tall and thin" trope is based on.

[prokopetz]

Playing against the trope's conventions (but to the actors' respective strengths), DeVito's character is the talkative one while Jones' character hardly says a word. The former argues that popular media always has it the other way 'round due to prejudice against short people.

[vaporwavelich]

NooooOoooOOOOoOoo not kingdom hearts getting me in my feelings again 😭

[himynameisemail]

[unionizedwizard]

[oujamon]

[spin-the-wheel-polls]

you have to get this piercing!

Do you like it?

I have it!

Yes!

yes but I wouldn't get it

No

Wouldn't be worth it

Results/other

Remaining time: 5 days 56 minutes

[peach-bat]

[lickscrumbs]

Meet me at the combination Pizza Hut/Pizza Hut 🍕

[robertseanleonardthinker]

the puppetry in phm is just so fucking good dude. think abt how much improv there was. the dancing/mimicking scene when rocky and grace first met? that was improvised. that means that 5 people were so in sync with each other on this puppet that they were able to mimic ryan gosling in real time with no plan. bro. BRO. ouugghhhhh rocky puppeteers i love u

[espanolbot2]

‘Sesame Street’ Delivers the ‘Knives Out’ Muppet Mystery the Internet Has Demanded

Benoit Blanc is rendered in felt to solve a culinary crime.

[heydocverdant]

I FREAKING CALLED IT

[alteredpanel]

[studentofetherium]

i hate that "that that" is grammatically correct. why is english the joke language

[studentofetherium]

by the way, this post was inspired by some writing i was doing last night where i wrote "that that" and got so mad that i had to take a break for the rest of the evening

[toskarin]

it's understandable that that "that that" that ended your writing session would inspire a post like that

[oak23]

One of my marie kondo tidbits is that one time she really did throw out everything that didnt spark joy including her screwdrivers and thought she could get away with tightening a screw with one of her favourite rulers but instead ended up snapping it in half

So when she tells people to consider how an item helps you not fuck up your shit and thats how you find joy, just know its from experience

[dependell]

I am always thinking about every line of dialogue in the first 50 seconds of Garth Marenghi's Darkplace.

[shining-supernova]

HELLO?

[biggerchallenge]

Darkplace is a key example of how in order to truly master making art that is "deliberately bad" you need to have a thorough understanding of what the medium considers the rules for "good form" so that you can than break every single rule.

[pencilium]

[puppygirllaika]

this show is the prime example of "on a true or false test, 100% and 0% both require you to know all the answers"

[teethwreath]

god this tickles me

(OP's tiktok here)

[hellenhighwater]

If you are laboring under the misapprehension that Vice is my clingiest cat because he follows me around everywhere, talking loudly and constantly asking for approval, let me correct that conception.

Vice is clingy during the daytime. The second I lay down, it's Malice's turn to need constant attention and a relentless supply of forehead kisses.

She is very soft and she needs cuddles immediately. Also she wants her hands held.

[hellenhighwater]

It's morning, and therefore time for a shift change. Malice heads out, Vice clocks in.

[hellenhighwater]

And let's not disregard the hard work of the burrowing blanket weasel.

[prokopetz]

The real reason your sapient dragon character needs a "rider":

Dragons on the wing are vulnerable to being mobbed by smaller, more agile flyers, particularly in your large rear blind spot, like a bird of prey being mobbed by crows. Having a human armed with a long spear perched on your back helps to dissuade anyone from getting any funny ideas.

Breath weapons are impressive enough on the ground, but in flight they're really only good for strafing stationary targets; trying to use your breath weapon in an aerial dogfight is a good way to get fire up your nose. A real fight calls for sterner measures – and, concomitantly, a crew to aim and reload the cannons.

In today's competitive world, it's not enough to devour a flock of sheep and call it a day if you want to keep your edge. You're accompanied at all times by a qualified personal alchemist tasked with carefully regulating your internal furnace to ensure peak performance, and sometimes you even listen to them.

No dragon of any quality would be caught dead without their valet. It's not as though you can announce your numerous long-winded titles yourself when introductions are called for, can you? You suppose next you'll be expected to pick up the spoils of your conquests yourself, like a common brigand. Perish the thought!

[mikkeneko]

[vaporwavelich]

no sorry i'm still on this i guess

it's really not even fair to compare it to the undertale needle cookie incident. okay. opening your post about the raw food at whatever con or event this was by comparing it to the undertale needle cookies makes me think that there was intention and malice, that people were purposely served food to make them sick with the express purpose of causing harm.

and not, like. overworked volunteers and poor education on food safety. the fact that refunds are being offered by the organizers says to me that none of this was intentional, they just got in way over their heads without any idea on what it takes to serve food safely. and no, it's not that hard, but i promise you, as a kitchen worker, that the bar being low does not mean people are consistently failing to meet it.

like. serve safe training is a thing in the restaurant industry for a reason. most people don't actually know how to prepare food safely. and, from an american perspective at least, the education system doesn't do anyone any favors toward a willingness to learn.

genuinely i think the people involved here just did not know any better or, as i suspect to be the case with certain people i work with that are frequently pissing me off, they genuinely think that it's not that serious because they're used to being given arbitrary rules with no explanation, and once they start breaking those rules and facing no consequences, they think it's that way for all rules. and once they enter the workforce they're often no longer even willing to hear explanation because they think they've already figured it out.

not an age specific problem, either. a smarter person than i could articulate how this is connected to the emboldened state of conservative thought regardless of ones personal political beliefs.