veilmochi

guess this is how it be

[veilmochi]

For those of you who might not know, my mom has stage 4 terminal cancer. She was a federal employee when she had been diagnosed, and it took everything out of her. Trump had made some sort of deal with a bunch of federal employees back in Feburary or March I think, that if they put in their resignation, they would still be paid and have insurance up until like September. My mom could barely go to work in the first place, so she took the deal because it was a way for her to gain income while trying to find something to help with her cancer.

Trump just cut that, and so come June 1st, my mom will have no insurance or income at all. We're trying not to panic as a family, but that means basically she has no access to any medication, radiation, or any other such things that could possibly help her live for a little longer, or at the very least not in pain- and we as a family will be losing an entire source of income. We really don't know what to do, and I don't know what is going to become of me. My brother, his girlfriend, and I are already working and doing what we can, and it won't be enough without that income from my mom.

If you can donate at all, please do. If you can't, please share if you can.

gofundme

[fairycosmos]

when avoiding the task doesn’t even free you from the obligation of it because youll still be thinking about it fucking constantly

[yanbonbon]

In less than 24 hours, Destiny 2 will stop its live service. I wanted to write my own goodbye message after seeing the VAs and other Guardians say bye to the game

The sole reason why I started playing was because of my dad. As a young girl that enjoying watching my dad playing games, Destiny immediately caught my eye because of its sci-fi and artist elements that are present in the game.

I jumped into the game not knowing how much I would enjoy playing it later on. Finishing Red War - Final Shape brought joy and happiness to my life. Going through Strikes, Gambit, quests, and everything thing else was fun and my favorite part of the game. I'm a simple minded Hunter with a simple minded goal, defend the Traveler while looking stylish and being goofy

Also, Bungie made a bet that Destiny players, veterans and new lights, won't crash the game and I'm not taking that while sitting down and neither should you. Log on tomorrow and let's crash the game

Thank you Bungie for creating a wonderful game and gifting us 12 years of content. Thanks to every Guardian for keeping this game afloat. To close it off, fuck you Sony for taking my game away.

Thanks for reading my long ass tangent

[kaylmao]

10000 YEAR OLD ROCK ART OF GIRAFFES FOUND IN LIBYA LET'S GO

[kaylmao]

YES!!!!!!! YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[lilacchao]

of note: 95% of libya is desert, and giraffes are not found there! but this predates not just the libyan desert, but the entire sahara desert it's a part of! giraffes aren't found there any more and this is a memory of a time when things were giraffier

also apparently this rock art dates across multiple periods spanning thousands of years? but i couldn't find much detail on that so i can't give specifics

but yeah, this isn't just a memory of giraffes, but of giraffes now absent encountered by people just 2000 years (the difference between the late roman republic and today) out of the ice age, in a climate unfamiliar to any of the hundred billion people born since the desertification of the sahara drove the ancient egyptians to the nile, near the start of the agricultural revolution

the time between this and the birth of the sahara was nearly as long as the time between the birth of the sahara and now, in which all recorded history is contained, and all languages we can recognise at all - the language and culture of these people would be totally alien to current libyans, twice the difference between the oldest european language and english, predating all but libya's mountains!

and we have pictures of giraffes of the time! what a beautiful gift from such a distant past

[gnarlyghost]

‘Space Guerillas’

Hit my up for freelance work! Priced individually based on licensing and complexity

[thxrditeration]

i know i've been kinda unserious w a lot of the posting i've been doing re: the d2 situation but let me be real for a sec. as we go into tomorrow please like, make sure you're keeping tabs on your mental health. not just tomorrow but moving forward as well. yes, the community's gonna be pushing as hard as they can to keep player counts up, but please know that it's perfectly fine if you need to step back for a bit for whatever reason. the grief you're feeling isn't any less real just because it's over a video game. if you need to mourn, let yourself mourn; but make sure you're eating/staying hydrated/walking around/etc. while you're at it 👍

see you starside y'all.

[thefirstknife]

One thing i still don't fully get. Is monument of triumph the last destiny content patch or will we be finishing off what Renegades started?

It is the last content patch, but they confirmed that we'll get some sort of an attempt at rounding up some of the story. No idea how much and what exactly, but yeah.

From Alison, the narrative director.

[theforsakenprince]

wanted to whip something up really quick before June 9th rolls around. Thanks Destiny, for everything.

[lemmegettamcpictwo]

Happy Pride Month, Saint-14 is going to rip open Xivu Arath for dissing his husband

[lemmegettamcpictwo]

I've nearly forgotten,

[swhftt]

SWHFTT 107: Do not go gentle

[plumslices]

If we don’t microdose delusion we won’t make it through this reality babe….

[leebrontide]

So I remember reading about this study in grad school where they have a bunch of clinically depressed people and a bunch of non-clinically-depressed people a game that was partially chance and partially skill, and asked them to estimate how much control they had over the outcome.

The depressed people were far more accurate in estimating how much influence their actions had on the outcome of the game compared to their nondepressed counterparts, who consistently overestimated the effects of their own choices on their chances of winning.

Then I remember this other study (CW animal testing) where they put rats in a bucket of water that they couldn’t get out of, so they’d have to swim. There was a fairly consistent point at which the swimming rat would falter, and stop swimming, fated to drown.

Except that that’s when the researchers would pull the rat out of the bucket, give it a nice rest warmth and a meal.

When those SAME rats who had been rescued before were put in the same situation again, they swam much LONGER than they had before.

Why? The risk was the same either way- drowning. You’d have thought that the fear of drowning would keep them swimming to their maximum length no matter what.

The researchers conclusion was that the rescued rats had something they hadn’t had the first time- they had more hope. A miraculous rescue could come, and that let them swim for longer, just in case.

I think we do microdose delusion because sometimes that little overestimation of our chances, of our luck, keeps us swimming that little bit longer, just in case something good happens. And sometimes, that little margin really does make the difference. 

[vanwolffen]

“All right," said Susan. "I'm not stupid. You're saying humans need... fantasies to make life bearable."

REALLY? AS IF IT WAS SOME KIND OF PINK PILL? NO. HUMANS NEED FANTASY TO BE HUMAN. TO BE THE PLACE WHERE THE FALLING ANGEL MEETS THE RISING APE.

"Tooth fairies? Hogfathers? Little—"

YES. AS PRACTICE. YOU HAVE TO START OUT LEARNING TO BELIEVE THE LITTLE LIES.

"So we can believe the big ones?"

YES. JUSTICE. MERCY. DUTY. THAT SORT OF THING.

"They're not the same at all!"

YOU THINK SO? THEN TAKE THE UNIVERSE AND GRIND IT DOWN TO THE FINEST POWDER AND SIEVE IT THROUGH THE FINEST SIEVE AND THEN SHOW ME ONE ATOM OF JUSTICE, ONE MOLECULE OF MERCY. AND YET—Death waved a hand. AND YET YOU ACT AS IF THERE IS SOME IDEAL ORDER IN THE WORLD, AS IF THERE IS SOME...SOME RIGHTNESS IN THE UNIVERSE BY WHICH IT MAY BE JUDGED.

"Yes, but people have got to believe that, or what's the point—"

MY POINT EXACTLY.”

-Terry Pratchett, Hogfather.

[syn0vial]

hey, don't just leave the quote there! the last line is what MAKES it!

"YOU NEED TO BELIEVE IN THINGS THAT AREN’T TRUE.  HOW ELSE CAN THEY BECOME?"

[darkestbrook]

Oh waiter! Waiter! More art of them cuddling, please! Yes, yes, with the xenonite barriers. I like my fluff with a pinch of angst.

[poltergeist-404]

Based on this tweet!

[increasingpanic-deactivated2024]

[shello-hi]

ignore my subpar editing skills. i felt like this was a necessary edition. they are transmasc transfem solidarity

[shinosarna]

[floofle-universe]

Adrian and Grace are still getting used to each other, I like the idea of Rocky and Grace already having an established dynamic, one that Adrian is perfectly okay with of course but she’s still warming up to Grace themself. And unexpectedly they start to have interest in getting closer.

[djpachipikachu]

in an eridian mood … give them some paws

[donutdrawsthings]

I was thinking of a pride art challenge people could do with their OCs, because I thought it'd be cute! A queer/trans artist with their creations.

but then I realised that same challenge would be infinitely more funny with folks who have atypical or horror OCs