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20s - any pronouns - this blog is 18+

[memecucker]

Apparently one type of deer hunting practiced in the Middle Ages was using “stalking horses” which involves crouching behind horse in a forest and slowly guiding it towards a deer that’s been tracked because deer are not frightened by the sight of other tall quadrupeds and I like how “horses as a form of camouflage” is belongs to the list of uses for domestic horses

[chillyfeetsteak]

i gave the venus of willendorf a brewski

[verins-little-notebook]

venus of chillendorf

[imsobadatnicknames2]

All of the evil shit walter white did in breaking bad is masterfully foreshadowed in the first episode when we're shown that he's the kind of man who names his son after himself.

[imsobadatnicknames2]

Of course he had no qualms about poisoning a child or selling jesse into meth slavery. That's just what men who name their child after themselves are like.

[tlirsgender]

Homeschooling can't be done ethically until we abolish The Family cause otherwise there's just 0 oversight or intervention at all. Like the school system is also fucked in its current state but I cannot stress enough that homeschooling is putting kids under the totalitarian control of their parents like even more than usual & just kinda *hoping* they don't get abused. Can't exactly "tell a trusted adult" if you only know three people, innit? What happens if your entire life is behind closed doors & you're legally their property

[figofswords]

i miss my beautiful wife joann fabrics it feels as if eons have passed since i last saw her. this guy michael keeps waving her visage in front of me and saying she’s living in his house but he is lying to me. i know this because i went into his house and found only fragments and memories of my beautiful wife joann and pictures of her shadowed face labeled “online only”. michael won’t even let me order swatches from him

[aqwult]

it doesn't have to get done, it just has to be perfect

[roaldamundsen]

yeah boss....yeah we hired a new goon.... he's all ethereal and pretty like a baby fawn sleeping in a morning dew sprinkled clearing with a ray of sunshine spilling right on him through the branches of the trees. just how you like them boss

[ziggystarling]

I downloaded an app on my phone to remove backgrounds and after removing the background of this pic of Bowie it showed me a bunch of templates I could put the image in. Losing my shit rn

[ziggystarling]

[charl0ttan]

"kill them with kindness" FALSE! task manager🧮

[pangur-and-grim]

I've read a few recently published books, and there's this recurring pattern where if anyone does anything bad and interesting, they have to later talk about it in a way that makes it clear that it was a misunderstanding/ justified/ not their fault, so they're still a good person. and if they have a disagreement with another character, they have to therapy talk it out, regardless of their background. it doesn't matter if this is a street urchin with three teeth who just stabbed and kidnapped someone, you will get eloquent sterile therapy speak that will smooth out any possible emotional tension. and everyone asks for permission before they kiss, and waits for a clear enthusiastic yes. again, doesn't matter the character's background or situation, they will ask "can I please kiss you," because if they didn't, that could get all yucky and uncertain, couldn't it? and if a character is from a rich family, they will hate being in a rich family, and hate wealth signifiers, and actually be all for class equality. and everyone is casually queer, without thought being put into how that would mesh with the society that is being described. like yes, this is violent class-based system obsessed with inheritance, but no, it's not actually a problem that the child they've coldly groomed to take on the family mantle is unwilling to beget an heir because of gay. the parents might be terrible, cruel and fascistic, but they're not homophobic! I don't know, it just seems like EVERYTHING that could actually be messy gets sanded and sanded until it's smooth as a shark, but the Fun Violence is allowed to stay, because bloodshed doesn't actually bother anyone or have any consequence apart from your rogue character shrugging and going oops, was that me? the rogue is still a good person though. if you think they're not, just wait for the two solid pages of introspection. and yes they started the book by slitting two throats, but that was fine. they will ask permission before hugging you.

[pangur-and-grim]

[pangur-and-grim]

my bad. I will steer clear of the yucky genre fiction of Ursula K. LeGuin, Octavia Butler and Susanna Clarke, and will instead read Infinite Jest.

[captainjonnitkessler]

Babysitting a toddler is a lot like being the narration in a point-and-click adventure game. Watching him knock on the doors of empty rooms and saying "hmm. I don't think anyone's in there". Watching him attempt to use [spoon] on [cat] and saying "I don't think those things go together". Watching him throw a cup of water onto the floor and just commenting "the floor is wet now" when he looks up at me to see if I approve.

[christianstepmoms]

RIP in Piss Chuck Norris

[christianstepmoms]

Reddits favorite epic chungus punchline was an outspoken Reaganite, Zionist, and homophobic bigot.

Good riddance.

[lordcapricorn]

“Oh but the memes are so funny” yeah here’s my favourite

[sufjansjoy]

next up! faggot shit bag of chips as laser manelli,

[sufjansjoy]

it’s my favorite image on the planet

[mangled-by-disuse]

people have this tendency to view the wheel as a benchmark of human development.

and i feel like people forget just how many parts of the world didn't use wheels consistently until the last couple of centuries

like. not because they were "primitive" or hadn't thought to invent it, but because there are terrains and regions where wheels just aren't useful. in deserts. on islands. in places with a lot of bog or heavy snowfall.

in the upper pennines, wheeled carts only came into common use when the coal industry grew in the 18th century and the gravity train was developed. until then, roads were too hard to maintain and most people just used horses, mules, or sleds for heavy transport.

in argyll and the west of scotland, where mountain terrain hits the coast and where the lochs mean that there is a lot of coast, it is much easier to use boats and rafts than to try to transport freight overland. so small freight was similarly carried by livestock or dragged, and only as far as the nearest body of water.

in the southern fens (before they were drained) rafts were more common than carts, usually being dragged over mud and bog rather than floating in deep water.

and it is relevant to note that all of these were in England and Scotland, places which had, on aggregate, been using wheels since the neolithic. none of these places failed to invent the wheel. they just uninvented it. because it was useless. other cultures in broader terrain areas (like the steppes, or the deserts, or the Arctic) may never have invented the wheel at all, bc, like, why would you? it's useless.

and. idk. i think about that a lot when people talk about progress and universal human development. it puts me in mind of a book from the 1860s i read that was like "and those backwards people in subsaharan africa haven't even thought to invent doors! on an unrelated note all the houses we, the Enlightened Whites, build in the area are unbearably hot and full of flies. wonder what that's about." like. wow. you really are just of the belief that the ideal technological development looks the same wherever you are, huh?

[sreegs]

A DOLLAR

[sreegs]

this is like if you walked by a new neighborhood restaurant that serves EXACTLY what you want to eat and you only had to pay a dollar once to eat there forever how do you say no to this?

[sreegs]

not only that but there's an active modding community that offers to tweak or expand the menu even further for free

[sreegs]

i've also heard this game makes you trans but that hasnt been working for me. i'm not sure if i installed the right mods

[megapope-deactivated20220531]

you sad little pervert

im happy big & sexually normal

[podracer]

Dune if I was in charge