louis-damien:

Hearing them get so excited over the whale fall is so fun I love hearing people who are passionate about their work

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purplesaline:

Free serotonin from Honey the Italian greyhound

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princess-of-purple-prose:

[ID: A Star Trek TOS gifset. Spock asks, “Has it occurred to you that there’s a certain inefficiency in constantly questioning me on things you’ve already made up your mind about?” Jim, smiling, replies, “It gives me emotional security.” Spock looks at him with an obviously pleased smile. End ID]

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scaplays:

brokeshibe:

y2kaestheticinstitute:

corporateslut:

astrolantern:

background music from windows xp installation. few people actually heard it, because it was set to play before the audio drivers were configured.

filepath: C:\Windows\system32\oobe\image­s\title.w­ma 

Background music from the Windows XP installation (2001)

peak windows is setting the smooth club hit of the millenium to play BEFORE THEY SET THE AUDIO DRIVERS TO CONFIGURE in their own installation

This is just what all software sounded like back then.

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fierceawakening:

ashelyskies:

Heroforge added top surgery scars!

ALT

I don’t usually post about heroforge here but I had to for this because holy shit!?!

There are also scars for several other surgical procedures, and they added stretch marks too!

Shoutout to heroforge for being fucking awesome, y'all!

I was remiss in not posting about this. HF is fucking amazing.

(Also it’s less obviously intended as inclusive than this but the bust size of a mini is… just a slider, like height. Male settings for whatever race default to smaller busts and larger height and females to larger bust and smaller height, but you can pretty easily end up with a character who began with default female settings but now matches default male ones, etc.)

I get the same feeling hanging around their user base as I get hanging out at my local game store which is staffed by multiple queer people. “Everyone belongs here, if that’s weird to you it’s your issue to get over, not something to make a fuss about.”

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twlvie:

william-snekspeare:

huffylemon:

huffylemon:

an important addition

creacher

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maximumsunshine:

Can this poll end on exactly 69,420 votes. Not notes, votes.

Of course

Yes

Maybe?

No

Hahaha funny number but no

Max you’ve been here 10+ years you know better

Vanilla Extract will equally help and hurt

Button

Another Button

Jesus with the buttons Max

Unfortunately, this will require reblogs.

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spatziline:

I finally watched Good Omens and I love it

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lunarr-stuff:

i think they are cute :3

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lizardsfromspace:

lizardsfromspace:

Oh my god Wisconsin’s governor just used a line item veto to secure school funding increases every year through 2425. He struck out a line so it now reads “through the 2023-2425 school year”. He’s allowed to do this lol

Coastal Dems: now we can’t go too far now haha, we can’t. We’ve got to be reasonable, you know, also eight of us might defect to the Republicans if you’re mean to us

Midwest Dems in control of no legislative bodies:

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mostly-funnytwittertweets:

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fursasaida:

Men are hunters, women are gatherers. That was the assumption. A new study upends it.

The implications are potentially enormous, says history professor Kimberly Hamlin: "The myth that man is the hunter and woman is the gathere

NPR

turns out not only were a lot of remains misclassified due to gendered assumptions, but also a lot of data that did in fact report women as big game hunters (ethnographic and burial finds) was just…never evaluated as a whole picture, and so cases of women “unexpectedly” being hunters and not only gatherers were treated as outliers when they aren’t. it’s not even that all the data was hopelessly biased “in its time” - plenty of it was in fact recognizing and reporting that hunting was not a particularly gendered activity! but nobody looked at the whole picture across datasets at once because it was assumed there wasn’t a question to answer. hilarious

in a brilliant comedic flourish, one of the critics of this study they found to quote for the article is saying that this is really too small a sample to generalize from. presumably that was also true before, but that is not going to stop this guy.

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somerandomdudelmao:

danksy-ns:

YES

Incredible art by @somerandomdudelmao

It…IT FITS SO WELL??????

lyricwritesprose:

three–rings:

mikkeneko:

doctorbluesmanreturns:

pennie-dreadful:

fluffmugger:

godlessondheimite:

#so did they miss the part where gatsby ends up floating dead in a pool and all the miserable deaths in wuthering heights#or did they miss that because there weren’t any chapters titled In Which The Sinners Are Punished For Their Errors#like. even if you require explicit moral instruction from literature it’s pretty hard to miss the comeuppance in those.

“What I assume my teachers were trying to teach me”

Huck Finn is about a white Southern boy who was raised to believe that freeing slaves is a sin that would send you directly to hell who forges a familial bond with a runaway slave and chooses to free him and thereby in his mind lose his salvation because he refuses to believe that his best friend and surrogate father is less of a man just because he’s black. Yes it features what we now consider racial slurs but this is a book written only 20 years after people were literally fighting to be allowed to keep other human beings as property, we cannot expect people from the 1880s to exactly conform with the social mores of 2020, and more to the point if we ourselves had been raised during that time period there’s very little doubt that we would also hold most if not all of the prevalent views of the time because actual history isn’t like period novels written now where the heroes are perfect 21st century social justice crusaders and the villains are all as racist and sexist as humanly possible. Change happens slowly and ignoring the radical statement that we’re all human beings that Twain wrote at a time when segregation and racial tensions were still hugely prevalent just because he wrote using the language of his time period is short-sighted and foolhardy to the highest degree.

I’m really kind of alarmed at the rise in the past few years of the “and we do condemn! wholeheartedly!” discourse around historical figures. it seems like people have somehow boomeranged between “morals were different in the past, therefore nobody in the past can ever be held accountable for ANY wrongs” to “morals are universal and timeless, and anything done wrong by today’s standards in the past is ABSOLUTELY unforgiveable” so completely, because social media 2.0 is profoundly allergic to nuance

please try this on for size:

there have always been, in past times as today, a range of people in every society, some of whom were even then fighting for a more just and compassionate accord with their fellow man and some of whom let their greeds and hatreds rule them to the worst allowable excesses. the goal of classics and history education is to teach you enough context to discern between the two, not only in the past but in the present

My mind just boggles at the “There’s Racism In That Book” argument.  Yes, there is racism in that book, because that book is ABOUT RACISM.  The message is that it is BAD. 

My high school English teacher, who was a viciously brilliant woman, used to say that when people banned Huck Finn they said it was about the language, but it was really the message they were trying to ban, the subversive deconstruction of (religious) authority and white supremacy.

Huckleberry Finn can actually be seen as a powerful case study in trying to do social justice when you have absolutely no tools for it, right down to vocabulary.  And in that respect, it’s a heroic tale, because Huck—with absolutely no good examples besides Jim, who he has been taught to see as subhuman, with no guidance, with everyone telling him that doing the right thing will literally damn him, with a vocabulary that’s full of hate speech—he turns around and says, “I’m not going to do it.  I’m not going to participate in this system.  If that means I go to Hell, so be it.  Going to Hell now.”

(I used to read a blogger who insisted that “All right, I’ll go to Hell,” from Huckleberry Finn is the most pure and perfect prayer in the canon of American literature.  Meaning, as I understand it, that the decision to do the right thing in the face of eternal damnation is the most holy decision one can make, and if God Himself is not proud of the poor mixed-up kid, then God Himself is not worth much more than a “Get thee behind me,” and the rest of us should be lining up to go to Hell too.  Worth noting that this person identified as an evangelical Christian, not because he was in line with what current American evangelicals believe, but because “they can change their name, I’m not changing mine.”  Interesting guy.  Sorry for the long parenthetical.)

Anyway, the point of Huck Finn, as far as I can tell, is that you can still choose to do good in utter darkness, with no guidance and no help and none of the right words.

And when you put it like that, it’s no wonder that a lot of people on Tumblr—people who prioritize words over every other form of social justice—find it threatening and hard to comprehend.

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mostlyghostie:

What books have you done this to?

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