tpwrtrmnky:

tpwrtrmnky:

epicscizor:

tpwrtrmnky:

Something so disgusting about how the original Haitian zombie folklore is “the zombies are victims of a sorcerer who exploits them as slaves” and then modern zombie media is “the zombies just appear from an infection that turns Real People into a rampaging horde serving no other purpose than to threaten Civilization” like.

The Haitian zombie is very clearly metaphorical for the very real horrors of slavery, while the viral zombie is fundamentally about “what if there was a type of guy it was completely okay to kill and you got to exist in a survivalist fantasy as a Badass, also when infrastructure collapses it’s every man for himself and altruism goes away”

And isn’t it super interesting to think about that in the context of historical US-Haiti relations?

Also there’s many of them and they spread and become innumerable hordes who invade your town but also you can kill hundreds of them because they’re individually weak and stupid

A completely disorganized horde of weak, uncoordinated, literally feral humans that a Real Badass can take out by the thousands, but they somehow overwhelm all the regular people and cause the collapse of society. It’s up to the Great Men to fix the problem. This totally isn’t a fascist fever dream.

And this is what we get instead of stories that go something along the lines of an evil, powerful individual or group of individuals turning people into zombies, while a resistance movement fights back. Which would be rad as hell actually.

april:

ⓘ Tip
If you feel unfulfilled by how you spent your time today, you can stay up late to try to combat the sense of dissatisfaction. This will ensure that you feel even worse tomorrow.

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a-silly-poll-side-blog-yay:

the item on your left side just stopped existing, are you ok with it?

yes

no

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

siblings >:)

results

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dramaticwriter:

ryebreadgf:

ryebreadgf:

something something the poetry of science etc

woah

yeah

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biracy:

mifs:

mossdftba:

lilacfarm:

kinda feel bad for millennials who don’t know that Harry Potter is almost a hate symbol now. Imagine that happening to any other beloved childhood media

How do people not know?

a lot of millennials know only the bare surface level of it (jkr = transphobe = bad) but dont really know much further than that so theyre like Okay so its fine if you just pirate the books and dont buy merch! Its fine! Im still a ravenclaw though!

This is already over and I’m not Directly involved* but I also think it’s prob important to mention that the full extend of JK Rowling’s transphobia is really often EXTREMELY downplayed. Transphobia is a form of bigotry not treated with a lot of seriousness and very flagrant and often violent displays of transphobia are seen as “acceptable” or “normal” by enough people (moreso than a lot of other forms of bigotry I would argue; I seriously think “famous children’s book author thinks homosexuality is a mental illness on par with pedophilia” would be treated WAY more seriously than “famous children’s book author thinks transgenderism is a mental illness on par with pedophilia” because most people literally do think being trans is a mental illness) for JKR’s transphobia to be reported on mostly as “the trans community Disagrees with some of JK Rowling’s statements” in its most neutral state and “can you believe the crazy pronoun mob is trying to CANCEL Harry Potter just because of a GENERATIONAL DIVIDE?” in its most nefarious. The idea that JK Rowling “just said a few things wrong and didn’t use totally up-to-date language” is STILL how most cis gays especially above a certain age think about “the JK Rowling drama”. The actual reality, which is that JK Rowling has spent years and years of her life not only donating to anti-trans orgs, not only publishing thinkpieces about irreversible damage and tomboy extinction and rapists in women’s bathrooms, but spending basically every day on Twitter arguing with pro-trans tweets with literally three views (not likes, views), just is not reported on by mainstream media outlets. Cis people continue to treat “the JK Rowling discourse” as crazy triggered snowflakes blowing a few out-of-context comments made years ago out of proportion because they hate Harry Potter/women/family values/etc., and not more akin to the “Kanye West said he loves Hitler and somehow basically nothing has happened to his career” type situation it actually is. I just don’t know how “canceled” someone really is if they still own a fucking theme park. I feel confident in saying that there is not a single trans person on this Earth who is as influential and successful as JK Rowling continues to be.

TL;DR millennials and older still manage to “not know” about JK Rowling (and by extension Harry Potter, because unlike most other “canceled authors” JK Rowling has outright said that she considers any and all mildly positive engagement with her work to be a signal of support of her ideas about trans people; I need to emphasize that this is Not Common and also not the actions of someone who got taken out of context by the crazy woke mob) because transphobia is so undervalued as an actual serious force of bigotry that mainstream media does not report on JK Rowling as a very serious and devoted bigot, in perhaps the most extreme example of “only trans people are expected to care about and notice that this is happening”

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hellenhighwater:

If you were ever wondering why someone would put up with a cat that’s as much trouble as Mayhem (you weren’t, she’s stunningly cute) just know that most nights she climbs onto my chest and sleeps the whole night like this. Ultimate baby technique

azspot:

“Rich kids should go to public schools. The mayor should ride the subway to work. When wealthy people get sick, they should be sent to public hospitals. Business executives should have to stand in the same airport security lines as everyone else. The very fact that people want to buy their way out of all of these experiences points to the reason why they shouldn’t be able to. Private schools and private limos and private doctors and private security are all pressure release valves that eliminate the friction that would cause powerful people to call for all of these bad things to get better. The degree to which we allow the rich to insulate themselves from the unpleasant reality that others are forced to experience is directly related to how long that reality is allowed to stay unpleasant. When they are left with no other option, rich people will force improvement in public systems. Their public spirit will be infinitely less urgent when they are contemplating these things from afar than when they are sitting in a hot ER waiting room for six hours themselves.”

— Everyone Into The Grinder

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scottpartridge:

Day 12 of #birbfest hosted by @monkeymintaka is Common Redpoll.

thriceandonce:

marlinspirkhall:

jackofacetrades:

ospreyonthemoon:

ospreyonthemoon:

cannibalcaprine-deactivated2024:

ninjakittenarmy:

cannibalcaprine-deactivated2024:

nwmo:

NEW FISH JUST DROPPED

I KNOW that playing God is morally wrong, but holy HELL, it looks fun.

Why is it playing God? We aren’t violating any natural laws. God set the parameters of the universe to allow these things. There’s nothing wrong with it, there’s no hubris in learning more about how to manipulate the universe around us.

We made a whole-ass fish.

The reason this was accidental BTW is because they used paddlefish eggs as a negative control group for a breeding experiment on sturgeons because the scientists, quite naturally, assumed that they were SO unrelated it would be genetically impossible for them to mate. Like. I cannot stress enough to you how these creatures last related ancestors were

140 MILLION YEARS BACK.

If you don’t know how far that is, that’s basically the start of the cretaceous. Let me simplify that for you even further. Chimpanzees and humans seperated, what, 5 or 6 million years ago?

This is basically like if humans could hybridise with THESE THINGS.

This is the sort of thing that should be impossible. They used those eggs to be ABSOLUTELY 100% SURE NOTHING WOULD HAPPEN.

And then THEY GOT FISH OUT OF IT.

Like. You can quite clearly understand why they didn’t think anything would happen. WE ARE MORE RELATED TO BLUE WHALES THAN THESE THINGS.

THE AMERICAN PADDLEFISH AND THE STURGEON ARE SO COMPLETELY UNRELATED THAT THIS IS NOT PLAYING GOD. IF ANYTHING THIS IS AN ACT OF GOD.

THE SCIENTISTS HAD NO BLAME IN THIS BECAUSE NOTHING LIKE THIS HAD EVER HAPPENED BEFORE

It sort of goes against the rules of genetics a bit.

Oh i forgot to add

THESE THINGS, FOR HYBRIDS, HAD A REALLY HIGH SURVIVAL RATING. LIKE 70% OF THEM SURVIVED.

To put that into perspective, getting a blue whale and a squirrel and trying to hybridise them is more sensible, and that wouldn’t produce anything but getting you banned from science. Most animals that aren’t plants can barely hybridise two degrees away from each other.

BUT THESE TWO ENTIRELY UNRELATED FISH create PERFECTLY HEALTHY HYBRIDS.

the scientists literally had to do the tests AGAIN just to be like “okay this is real right. This is actually like, not a fluke, this works right” and it worked again. They just Can!

So for those who don’t know what the original fishes look like, this is an American Paddlefish:

And this is a Russian Sturgeon:

So honestly, saying the hybrid is “weird looking” is a bit fort de café when you see its parents. I think the sturddlefish looks cute.

“these creatures last related ancestors were 140 million years back”

(glances at fish)

Yeah that’s exactly what I thought you’d look like, you Mesozoic fuck

#Holding a red squirrel in my left hand and a blue whale in my right desperately hoping to make a purple squale (via @dykepuffs)

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redshift-13:

Bandcamp dumps the slop, bans AI music

Bandcamp dumps the slop, bans AI music

AV Club

headspace-hotel:

therushingriver:

renthony:

renthony:

Three things to always do in rich neighborhoods when you’re poor:

• Thrifting
• Yard sale browsing
• Dumpster diving

Explanation:

• People with a higher amount of disposable income are more likely to get rid of clothes that are still in good condition, while poor people are more likely to wear clothes until they fall apart. Donating old items to thrift stores has exploded in popularity over the past few years. Shopping at thrift stores closer to wealthier areas means you can usually find really good-quality stuff, especially clothing, at a higher rate than shops in poorer areas.
• Yard sales in rich areas are almost always either estate sales or hosted by someone who’s thinking, “I don’t really need the money, I just want to get this stuff out of my house, so I’ll take whatever you offer for it.” My mom has scored super expensive stuff for like $5 because the seller was more worried about unloading old stuff than making a profit. I’ve found rare books for fifty cents. It’s dope as hell.
• Rich people throw out so much shit that’s still usable. Furniture, clothing, electronics, even food that’s still good and in the packaging. I have scored so much shit that rich people just tossed in the trash. It’s great. Shops in rich areas have dumpsters overflowing with high-dollar items. (Disclaimer: dumpster diving can be risky, do it at your own risk, etc., etc.)

Also in my experience dumpster diving at dorms at the end of the school year is awesome. I have seen working tvs, couches, paintings etc it sucks that they’re just throwing stuff in the trash but you can save it andget a bunch of cool stuff!

Pro tips

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junk-thunder:

junk-thunder:

these buttons from the dying party city go so hard

you see my vision

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lovelikethesunset:

micamone:

rosslynpaladin:

szyszkasosnowa:

Holy shit guys I just duck duck went Moby Dick and THE LOGO TURNED INTO AN UNHOLY HYBRID BETWEEN A DUCK AND A WHITE WHALE????

I can’t get over DuckDuckWent as a past tense of using duckduckgo as a verb. Like yes youre right BUT

i am so so happy to tell you all i found another

ALT

wiwiwi….

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heliotropist:

“The Trevor Project, known for its hotline for LGBTQ+ youth, received $45 million from billionaire and author MacKenzie Scott at the end of 2025, the organization said Monday.

The gift is the largest in the organization’s history but also a major boon following years of management turmoil, layoffs and the loss of significant federal funding over the summer.

“I literally could not believe it and it took some time. I actually gasped,” said Jaymes Black, CEO of The Trevor Project, when they were notified of Scott’s gift.

Scott, whose fortune largely comes from her ex-husband Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, gave more than $7 billion to nonprofits in 2025, but this gift to The Trevor Project was not included among the donations she disclosed on her website in December. Scott previously gave The Trevor Project $6 million in 2020.

In July, the Trump administration stopped providing specific support for gay, trans and gender nonconforming young people who called the 988 National Suicide & Crisis Lifeline. The Trevor Project was one of the organizations staffing that option and lost $25 million in funding, the nonprofit said.

The Trevor Project continues to run an independent hotline for LGBTQ+ young people that Black said reaches about 250,000 young people annually, but they served another 250,000 callers through the 988 Press 3 option, which was tailored for LGBTQ+ young people.”

The Trevor Project receives $45M from MacKenzie Scott after difficult years and federal funding cuts

The nonprofit Trevor Project received a $45 million gift from billionaire MacKenzie Scott at the end of 2025.

AP News

riftclaw:

stonefemmesiren:

a lot of you really need to internalize that acting avoidant isn’t cute at all and that it will cost you experiences and life outcomes if you don’t change course

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