[llanosning]

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Inspired by the great Devin Elle Kurtz!

[yamino]

It took me forever to work on in short bursts while still injured, but sometimes and idea just sinks its teeth into you and won't let go. 🦁

[snapscube]

Can I interest you in our desert menu?

sure what have u got

[snapscube]

thanks but i’ll pass

[tartrazeen]

Neapolitan sand

[asteroidtroglodyte]

TIL the reason you don’t find much Lyme’s Disease in California is not because we don’t have Ticks, or Lyme Disease Vectors; but rather: because the Western Fence Lizard (if you live anywhere in California this is your regular Garden Variety Lizard) has adapted a passive immune response that makes their blood lethal to Lyme Disease Bacteria. Any Tick that feeds on one gets its gut cleansed of Lyme Disease as a side effect.

Fucking neat.

[iheartvelma]

There is a new vaccine going into Phase 3 trials from Valneva and Pfizer as well as a monoclonal antibody-based prophylactic treatment being researched at UMass!

[dragon-in-a-fez]

"the only cure for this weird disease is the special lizard blood" is a Star Trek TOS plot that escaped into the real world

[macden]

[catasters]

[halorocks1214]

obsessed with the shape of this creechur

[only-cat-memes]

[syinthome-kaleidoscope]

[whatcoloristhatcat]

red mackerel tabby with low white spotting

[gothdoggygirl]

this frame from the fallout tv show is so funny i nearly puked watching it

[meow-moment]

[babyanimalgifs]

rain doggo 

(via)

[willfully]

golden retrievers are still the only breed i’ve ever worked with that go absolutely WILD with excitement for the rain most dogs tolerate it, some hate it, but golden retrievers, man. they’re on another level

[lady-byleth]

lost in the sauce

[peachie5000]

he flat

[gayvampyr]

wet beast wednesday

[screampotato]

Suddenly struck with a need to explain to you how boat pronouns work (I work in the marine industry).

When you're talking about the design of the boat, you say "it".

When the boat is still being built, your say "it".

When the boat is nearing completion, you can say "it" or "she".

When the boat is floating in the water you probably say "she", unless there is still a lot of work to be done (e.g. no engine yet) then you say "it".

When the boat is officially launched and operating, you say "she". If you continue to say "it" at this point you are not incorrect but suspiciously untraditional. You are not playing the game.

If you are referring to a boat you don't really know anything about you may say "it" ("there's a big boat, it's coming this way"). But if you know its name, it's probably "she" ("there's the Waverley, she's on her way to Greenock").

If you are talking about boats in general, you say "it" ("when a boat is hit by a wave it heels over")

If you speak about a boat in complimentary terms, it's "she" ("she's a grand boat"). If you are being disparaging it may be it, but not necessarily ("it's as ugly as sin", "she's a grotty old tub").

If she has a boy's name, she's still she. "Boy James", "King Edward", "Sir David Attenborough"? The pronoun is she.

If it's a dumb barge (no engine), you say it. But if it's a rowing boat (no engine), you say she.

I hope this has cleared things up so that you may not be in danger of misgendering floating objects.

[glitched-out-mess]

[andhumanslovedstories]

NO NUANCE POLL: do you think a year from now, your life will be better than it is right now?

Yes

No

Voting ended onSep 5, 2025

would be fascinated if you added the metric by which you measure the concept of "a better life"

[andhumanslovedstories]

And how confident are you that you answered correctly?

Absolutely certain I picked the answer that will be true

Confident in my choice

Eh fifty-fifty

I’d be surprised if I was right

I have zero confidence in my ability to predict my future

Voting ended onSep 8, 2025

[andhumanslovedstories]

And btw to be clear, you KNOW I’m queuing this up to reblog in exactly a year

[professionalchaoticdumbass]

its labor day where the fuck is homestar runner

[professionalchaoticdumbass]

gotta do everything my damn self around here

[prokopetz]

At times I suspect the real reason we're still having dumbfuck "who is working class?" arguments is because in spite of our pretensions, most of us are still operating on the tinker-toy version of labour theory we learned on social media in high school which requires the existence of a monolithic working class where every single member has identical material and political interests, and the unspoken goal of all the theory we're reading is to finally delineate the boundaries of that monolith and declare everyone else a perfidious imposter. Half of us are about two hairs shy of having an "are women bourgeois" moment.

[prokopetz]

(I'm not just making a Disco Elysium joke with that last bit, either. There's a big chunk of that shitty "trans women can't be working class" discourse that comes around every few months on certain segments of this site that carries the unspoken-but-very-much-present subtext that women are natural class traitors!)

[prokopetz]

"Problems that only exist on Tumblr" buddy, the whole "women are natural class traitors" thing is a conversation that was being taken seriously by self-labelled leftists at my old university as recently as 2008. I have been party to the are-women-bourgeois argument in actual lecture halls. Did you really think someone just made it up for a video game?

[fatfemmefreaquency]

if I have to hear one more self-described “comrade” argue to me that sex workers or anyone engaged in criminal behaviour are class traitors I will unironically lose my mind

these are very real conversations I’ve had with so called leftists this year. 2025

[prokopetz]

Based on past experience, I'm half-convinced that the real reason a lot of leftists are so weird about freelance labour is specifically because we don't want to have to count sex workers as working class.

[the-gamling-dog]

I'm sorry, I can follow the steps in "self-employed person is the pettiest possible bourgeoisie", even if that is so ridiculous a claim as to entirely collapse the entire labour exchange model. Stupid, but I see the thoughtless steps that led there.

How does being a woman make you a class traitor?!

[prokopetz]

Historically, the argument was often something along the lines of "women can escape the working class at any time by 'marrying up', so it's always in a woman's material interest to betray her working class peers". These days, you're more likely to bump into lines of reasoning like "women are genetically programmed to hoard resources for the benefit of their own offspring, and thus are biologically incapable of class solidarity", or "feminism is a frivolous distraction from real class struggle, and the existence of feminism as a political project shows that the material interests of women as a class are incompatible with those of the true (male) working class". It's a broad field of bullshit.

[unisex-muffin]

Things you can watch/do instead of YouTube, For those who may have trouble finding things to do.

1. Internet Archive. Has plenty of videos to watch, plenty of games you can play that are emulated right on the website. You can also find entire collections of roms. For emulators, check out Emulation General Wiki to find the best emulator for the system you want to emulate.

2. r/piracy has a wiki full of safe places to read comics and manga, to watch anime and cartoons, and to watch movies.

3. Virtualbox, you can set up a Windows XP virtual box and get old PC games from Internet Archive. You can also check out CD Game World if you need a no-cd patch.

4. Saltybet. A Livestream of MUGEN with thousands of characters fighting against each other, sometimes things get hilarious. Runs 24/7.

5. The Cutting Room Floor, spend hours reading up on cut content from your favorite games.

6. Lost Media Wiki, read up on lost movie, books, animation, video games, etc.

7. Neocities, learn coding and make your own website!

8. WebDSR, explore shortband radio

9. Radio Garden, listen to radio stations from around the world

10. Every Noise At Once, explore the widest archive of music genres, with samples and Spotify playlists

11. My Retro TV, pick and era and watch popular television from that time period

[lizardlicks]

12. Get a Dropout subscription

[oliviawhen]

Doggust 23: Harrier, and their little hat. Feat. angel's trumpets flower (brugmansia.)

[tubeon-deactivated20260110]

Bc he’s black

[lemonfizzyy]

im glad to see other ppl have headcanoned Duke having this sense of humor. this has been my self-indulgent headcanon for the longest time because i make the exact same jokes all the time.

i dont think anyone has have laughed at my "its cause im black, isn't it?" jokes in over two years but I WONT STOP BECAUSE ITS SO FUNNY TO ME

[swordbisexual-deactivated202601]

“I am no expert in magic staves, but isn’t that the wrong end?”

“I don’t need either end to kill you.”

“And why haven’t you?”

“I’m asking the questions here.”

“Oh? I’ve yet to be asked one.”

“Fine. Are you always this… this… infuriating?”

“Often.”