Hi y'all. Things are incredibly hectic in Minnesota right now. For those who have been feeling helpless, this is a huge list of resources to put money and energy towards that can help the people there who are dealing with the absolute chaos ICE is causing!

Please spread this around in places and keep talking about The Twin Cities and Minnesota as a whole, please

@saltyfilmmajor

what’s your “odd” comfort movie? a movie that isn’t stereotypically comforting but does comfort YOU? mine’s conclave (2024)

i find his actions in ep 345 very funny unfortunately

HEY.

HEY YALL.

USAMERICAN DEMOCRATS SUCCESSFULLY REMOVED EVERY ANTITRANS RIDER FROM EVERY FUNDING BILL

Spread the fucking word because LORD knows democrats fucking suck at spreading it themselves and will fail once again to inform their base

But just in case you’re sitting there going “the Dems aren’t doing anything,” THEY ARE

IT IS JUST SLOW

AND MOSTLY INVISIBLE

BUT THEY ARE

Link to the full story!

reblog to stare at your mutuals like this

you are not an endearingly rude and unfriendly cartoon character you need to be nice to people

coming from a place of love btw i still have to remind myself this often. i’m very autistic i know what it’s like to think of yourself as like a lovable character with quirky flaws because your sense of identity comes from fiction but you are a Living Person and that’s not how it works to be a living person

not enough people are reblogging this version which is fine but i think they should. I Know Ball i still struggle with this i Get It

If I were an evil emperor in a fantasy world, I would have a an enormous aviary full of exotic birds that are exceptionally well cared for. They would be from a distant enough land that there would be very few people in my kingdom that knew much about them, they would be a friendly but not overly territorial species, and moderately intelligent. Like puffins. They would not, crucially, be able to imitate sounds and 'speak', but they would be very trainable and curious. Occasionally importing new birds for my aviary would be the Big Frivolous Indulgence that my political enemies make fun of.

I will also have a sorceror in my employ. When a hero or a renegade or a political rival is in a situation where I can safely kill them, they will instead be turned into a bird and added to my aviary. I would not brag about this; it would be a complete secret, known only to me and my sorceror. In situations where I capture multiple people working together, only one would go in the aviary;the others can be imprisoned or killed or whatever. If they escape and I reacquire them later, another one can go in the aviary. The point here is that nobody going in the aviary can safely assume that another bird in there is their teammate.

Because I would be trickling real birds in there, too. And I would train some of them to do 'intelligent' things like tap out prime numbers or scratch shapes into the dirt with their beaks. I would train some of them to pick at the locks and bars as if they were trying to escape. I would not train them all the same way, or train many of them at all.

Sometimes, a new bird goes into the aviary -- fellow revolutionary? Or just a bird? Is it trying to communicate to you that it's human, or just being friendly and imitating you because that's what smart friendly birds do? People would develop opinions and theories over time. They'd amass in a group of the smartest ones, pretty sure that they're closest four or five friends are humans, are using their invented little language of wing-flaps and trills with a human mind behind it... but can they ever really be sure?

Most people, when going into the aviary, would assume that all of the birds are captured enemies. So why are some of them hard to have ongoing communication with, to learn about, to plan with? Are these the natural communication barriers of someone in a bird body, or does being a bird make them stupider over time? Will that happen to them also?

Sometimes, if I capture a pair, I'll imprison them separately, then turn one into a bird and put them in the aviary at the same time as a real bird that's trained to have a couple of their partner's mannerisms.

When I interact with the birds, even in private, I won't secretly mock them or make clever veiled references to their past or act at all like I remember that they were once human. They are my birds, that I imported at great expense. And I've brought a treat for them; some fresh fruit, and another friend to share it with! A new bird!

Or is it?

Hey Derin what the fuck

COLLATERAL (2004) dir. Michael Mann

I don't have electricity, water and heating. Again. And many Ukrainians are the same. When the temperature outside is -8 C° or below. Mmm how unexpected of russians to bomb civilian infrastructure 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻. They want us to freeze to death😐.

While I was typing this, an air attack started. Again. How UNEXPECTED (no). Because of course they won't stop until we are all dead.

Please, support Ukraine. If not with money, then share information about russian crimes. It's REALLY important.

scheming

“fool quail (for its behavior)” ok… rude

its called the clown quail (for its looks) and also the clown quail (for its personality)

Me in 2006: I’m still bitter about that

Me in 2016: I’m still salty about that

Me in 2026, probably: I’m still umami about that

Grips the shoulders of every tankie and reverse American exceptionalism numbskull.

Fascism did not exist in the 1600s. Or 1700s. Or 1800s. It is an invention of 20th century Italy.

Capitalism did not exist as a fleshed out economic concept until the 18th century.

Colonialism is as old as civilization itself, your reverse American exceptionalism is embarrassing.