Ummmmmm here’s a crop

Gruiformes order - RUNOFF

Cranes are great but please vote for the Endangered New Zealand Orb.

Here is one feeding a fluffy baby orb.

This is 100% the gay supervillain music video I’ve been waiting for.

I love campy gay villains, but gay villains of this type are amazing too and sorely underrepresented.

…Oh, so by “gay”, you mean. Actually gay.

I don’t usually reblog stuff like this but tbh this is the kind of content I live for.

Happy 10 year anniversary to these two, specifically

(single dropped Dec. 3, 2015, music vid hit youtube Jan 12, 2016)

Gideon the Ninth, first flower of my House.

Easily Paleo-ified with some tweaks to the stir-fry sauce.

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After the hell of the past two days, this reminded me of what America could and should be about. It’s a little pocket of hope when our administration is trying to extinguish diversity and community and basic human decency and replace them with fear and hate and division.

HAMMOND B3 ORGAN CISTERN by GABRIELLE CALVOCORESSI

Vision I had

love these little ideology descriptions from the old za/um site that they slaughtered

Kinda fucked up that the first name Harry gets after waking up without his memories is "Detective"

@angelsarecomputers

YOU. You get it! He literaly tried to kill himself to escape his life as cop but it didn't work and now he gets to unknowingly do it all again! Unless something changes he's just trapped like that.

hi guys! discord is doing a survey on how people would like ai to be integrated into discord. take it and say fuck no to every question. when you get to "in general, how do you feel about discord inegrating ai features?", respond that you would actively get everyone you know off of discord and wouldn't pay for nitro or other shop items if they added ai features.

watch out for the trap! there's ONE QUESTION where the last option *isn't* the max 'no AI' option, read each part carefully to be sure

So I’m listening to the Rogue Protocol audiobook (it was the one that didn’t have a waitlist at the library) and I’m mostly just losing it thinking about how from the perspective of any human in the series, Murderbot is actually the BIGGEST Deus Ex Machina. It’s particularly evident in RP, but it holds up for the whole series: ASR: To all of the survey team members, It’s basically like their normal jobs all of a sudden went to hell BUT luckily for them, their amazon Alexa had already rebelled against its controllers and was capable of saving all their lives. Like there was no way they could have or would have expected that, and in-universe that sequence of events was astronomically unlikely. AC: To Tapan and the rest of the polycule, an incredibly cheap, fantastically competent, unreasonably loyal and helpful security consultant just showed up exactly when they needed it, saved their lives multiple times, and then got their data back, before vanishing into thin air.

RP: This is honestly the biggest one, but like, literally a random SecUnit appeared on an empty station at the exact moment that it needed to to save Abene’s life, followed immediately by it killing a bunch of combat bots and rescuing the team from the security they were supposed to have. And then it just…leaves. Via hull breach.

ES: At this point Pin Lee, Gurathin, and Ratthi do know about MB so it’s more of a Chekhov’s gun to them than a deus ex machina, but it still fits the space in the story from their perspective: their negotiations to get Mensah back have been going nowhere, they’re all feeling pretty hopeless, and then BOOM, the rogue SecUnit which ran off and they haven’t seen in months shows up boasting a bunch of upgrades and a makeover and pretty much handles everything for them.

NE: Again, most of the people in this book are familiar with MB so it’s less deus ex machina to them, but to ART’s crew? They’ve been kidnapped, their ship compromised, possibly in the worst situation they’ve ever been in as a crew, and then Peri’s SecUnit Friend which it found randomly a while back just shows up to get them out of a bad situation. (They don’t know about the alien remnant wormhole drive or the kidnapping at this point there’s honestly no reason for Peri’s SecUnit to even be in the system.) It manages to do this twice simultaneously.

Anyway I’ve said all this before but I just think it’s great, especially because Murderbot totally does not see what all these people must be seeing, which is the most helpful person imaginable wondering in to rescue them over and over again

SecUnit doesn’t see this even when it learns that ART does

in a kill it with your sword kill it with your sword amen mood today

Somebody please give the WSDOT social media folks a raise.

John Darnielle I’m obsessed with your brain never stop making art

[id: a gif from the Jan 4 2026 Minnesota Frost @ Montréal Victoire hockey game. Minnesota's Britta Curl is skating backwards while Montréal's Laura Stacey is skating forwards in her direction. Stacey lifts her stick up so that Curl skates right into it and immediately flips facedown onto the ice. Stacey turns around and raises an arm as if to say "what the hell". /end id]

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