realizing I could technically say “yeah my mother wanted a girl so she dressed me like a little girl” to explain my childhood photos and it would technically be correct and win me much more sympathy than just saying I’m trans
“you’re right it IS weird to force children to live as a gender they know they are not”
“Anne Bonny and Mary Read were pirates, as renowned for their ruthlessness as for their gender, and during their short careers challenged the sailors’ adage that a woman’s presence on shipboard invites bad luck.”
Sculpture by Erik Christianson.
I’m not entirely sure that the statue really needed to have a tit out.
How dare women try to have nipples.
Actually I’ve seen this before and I can tell you— it’s because these women were bad ass pirates and when they killed someone they’d expose one or both breasts so that when their victim died, (s)he knew that they were killed by a woman.
ACTUALLY Anne Bonny purposely wore loose fitting clothes and displayed her breasts openly at all times during battle - mainly because men were distracted by them, and she took pleasure in killing said men while they were too busy staring at her breasts. Mary Read dressed mainly as a man (after posing as her deceased brother, Mark, for the entirety of her childhood) and both ladies cross-dressed from time to time, hopping between ships. They were known as the ‘fierce hell cats’ due to their ferocious tempers, and were key elements to Captain ‘Calico Jack’ Rackham’s crew - they were the only two known female pirates in the Golden Age of Caribbean piracy. IN FACT, when the ship was captured by the British Navy, Anne and Mary were the ONLY TWO pirates who fought while the males of the crew hid - they were all tried to be hung as pirates but Bonny and Read were both pregnant and were pardoned.
Calico Jack was a lover to Bonny, and as he was to be hung, Bonny’s final words to him were, “Had you fought like a man, you need not be hung like a dog.” Bonny and Read were possibly two of the most badass fucking pirates and they were FEMALE. The more you know.
And on top of all that, exposed breasts have a long and storied history of symbolism in art. They mean all sorts of things. The sculptor may have chosen to expose her left breast specifically to denote her courage–her heart is exposed–or to evoke comparison to Amazon warriors, who cut off their right breasts.
Titties are complex in art.
Fascinating!
official boob post
i can’t decide if this is the single coolest girl in the world for making danger her middle name or the silliest for not seeing the raw power of “millipede danger” which is the greatest name i have ever heard
'Bout the same usable width, too. Those luxotruk beds tend to have big fat wheel hubs in them. Kei truck beds are completely flat.
how DARE you keep this in the tags!!!
Because apparently folks are confused and not looking shit up, this is the missing “sub”. It’s literally a metal tube.
It fits 5 people.
There’s no crew y’all. This isn’t Disney’s Atlantis. There’s one guy who presses a button on a Logitech controller to go up and down. Everyone else is whoever can afford a ticket.
Hope this helps cause I’m seeing some wild ass claims in the comments.
elon should take his submarine and personally lead the expedition to find them in the icy depths, with any luck he'll get lost down there as well and we'll be free of the emerald boy
I highkey think this is HILARIOUS. Because it’s a bunch of rich hacks paying 250k a seat in that nightmare tube. And the Chief Executive Fuckwit of that nightmare himself is in the thing this time. Mans thinks safety features is wasting money it’s why no one can find the thing there’s no “we’re lost and need help” bonus safety features on the tub.
And even funnier imo is I heard that like. They’re bolted in from the outside? Even if they manage to surface they can’t get themselves out without someone on the outside letting them out.
Safety features exist for a reason and y’all just potentially killed yourselves.
As someone who’s training to be a deck officer, I think I can add some of my own knowledge here:
In the maritime world, there are organisations called classification societies that basically inspect vessels and make sure they’re up to international standards. This submersible was never inspected by any of these bodies, so it was never deemed to be up to standard by anyone.
Even better… the company itself posted this article that attempted to explain why this was. Apparently, most maritime accidents are operator error and not due to the failure of the vessel itself…
Which is usually true, because vessels are safe because they are inspected and up to standard. Titan was not. And evidently, their steps to keep the submersible safe didn’t work either. So why was the vessel unclassified?
Because the CEO complained that the regulations for passenger vessels were ‘obscenely safe’ and prevented ‘innovation.’
If innovation is making a shitty pressurised tube and sending it to the bottom of the ocean that’s new to me. So basically this idiot ignored every chance he could have to make this disaster sub safe, and is now paying the price because he’s presumably a fine pulp on the ocean floor right now.
Even better… the company itself posted this article that attempted to explain why this was. Apparently, most maritime accidents are operator error and not due to the failure of the vessel itself…
No one explained the concept of survivors' bias to these people
Does anybody here like pretty, customized old-school game consoles??
I did this last year & I'm still kinda proud of it.
i like the way my DM does skill checks. 1 is not failure and 20 is not success, its "worst outcome" and "best outcome". if my artificer rolls a 1 on welding two simple pieces of metal together, im not gonna forget how to do it suddenly, its just gonna look like shit and be hella embarrassing. there are also different passing numbers for different characters. an 18 for a character who never paid the gods much attention, but does have an interest in history, might get "the writing seems ritualistic, and the tools you assume were used to make it date back to 2,000-5,000 years ago" where a paladin might know exactly what they mean on a 12. similarly, the ranger could roll nature to see if a potion is poison, but a character who isnt from the area and wouldnt know shit about the ingredients could roll deception on the person offering the potion to see if theyre being a suspicious lil bitch
it feels like my backstory and personality matters, yanno?
This is pretty good advice!
I take it one step further - I never, ever embarrass or humiliate characters. Ever. If you're a skilled Artificer and you fail to weld two plates together it's because your equipment failed or someone interrupted or the copper was shitty (and now you'll have to go beat up the shifty merchant who sold it to you).
I don't want to sound like one of those Tumblrinas who missed the point by focusing on one specific part so I just want to be clear here I'm adding to the point - best and worst outcomes are great! Take it one step further and remove fault from the character at all.
Better yet, ask yourself why a skilled craftsperson is rolling for something as basic as simple welding. Before calling for any roll, especially in D&D where you have an equal chance of fucking it up as succeeding every time, consider the question: what would be interesting if this went wrong?
If the answer you come up with doesn't further the story or open an opportunity for character development then don't call for a roll!
Solid GMing advice
Hello I am Australian. Do your roads not all look like this. Why would there be billboards in the middle of nowhere aside from the occasional "take a rest every 2 hours" notice.
Yeah, America sacrificed beautiful land for advertising space long before I was born, especially on freeways.
That sounds wildly impractical from a cost and maintenance perspective.
THIS TOOK A FAR DIFFERENT TURN THEN I EXPECTED
I HAVE NEVER SEEN THE SECOND PART
The notes on this!!
Awww
“Can i pick u up on thursday?” AWWWWWWW
lol he just wanted to buy her some superman pjs that werent on sale??! ~
can they see this right now??
OMG HE’S ADORABLE
NiceGuy™: “I hope my crush wears sexy underwear to bed”
Actual nice boy: “gosh I hope she wears pjs to bed so I can get some for her”
The thing about the D&D movie which is absolutely genius is that the game mechanics basically insulate them against any of the most frustratingly fun sucking movie criticisms. “But why were the guards looking the wrong way?” Failed their perception check. “Why did the spell stop RIGHT before they would have died” Dropped concentration. It gets to be dumb and fun anyone that TRIES to be the plot hole police gets ever increasingly obscure D&D rulebooks thrown down in front of them and called a fake nerd. There's NOTHING those type of guys hate more than being a fake nerd. This movie is untouchable.
the context feature is so fucking funny i hope this fucks every single advertiser ever for the rest of time
FINE PRINT UNDER EVERY AD BY THE END OF 2023
BEAT THEM UNTIL THEY ARE DEAD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
when people ask how long you’ve been online
In before I start seeing people bitching about rainbow capitalism MY favorite rainbow capitalism story is about Subaru. Yes the Japanese car company.
In the nineties, they were struggling. They were competing with a dozen other companies targeting the main demographic at the time: white men ages 18-35, especially after a failed luxury car launch with a new ad agency. “What we need is to focus on niche demographics,” they decided, and then focused on people who enjoyed the outdoors. The Subaru was excellent at driving on dirt roads that many other vehicles couldn’t at the time, so it was perfect for all those off-road campers; they started making all-wheel drive standard in all their cars to help with that. And the people who wanted cars to go do outdoor stuff? Lesbians.
Okay. Of course it wasn’t only lesbians buying Subarus. They’re on the list with educators, health-care professionals, and IT people. But the point is, this Japanese car company interviewed this strange demographic (single, female head of household) and realized one important factor: They were lesbians. They liked to be able to use the cars to go do outdoorsy stuff, and they liked that they could use the cars to haul stuff rather than a big truck or van. Subaru had a choice to make then. They had four other demographics they could market to, after all–the educators, the health-care professionals, IT professionals, and straight outdoorsy couples. Their company didn’t hinge on this one “problematic” demographic.
And they decided “fuck it,” and marketed to lesbians anyway. This included offering benefits to American gay and lesbian employees for their domestic partners, so it didn’t look like a cash grab. (This was not a problem. They already offered those in Canada.)
Yes, there was some backlash. They got letters from a grassroots group accusing them of promoting homosexuality, and every letter said they’d no longer be buying from Subaru. “You didn’t buy from us before, either,” Subaru realized, and ignored them. It helped that the team really cared about the plan, and that they had many straight allies to back them up. There was also some initial backlash when Subaru hired women to play a lesbian couple in the commercial, but they quickly found that lesbians preferred more subtlety; “XENA LVR” on a license plate, or bumper stickers with the names of popular LGBTQ+ destinations, or taglines of “Get out. Stay out.” that could be used for the outdoors–or the closet.
Subaru said “We see you. We support you.” They sponsored Pride parades and partnered with Rainbow Card and hired Martina Navratilova as spokeswoman. They put their money where their mouth is and went into it whole hog. In a time where companies did not want to take our money, Subaru said, “Why not? They’re people who drive.” And that was groundbreaking.
It wasn’t blatant, it was cheeky and pretty low key, but really really effective. It played into the “if you know you know” vibe in exactly the right way.
Oh THAT’S why lesbians love Subarus
Description: Woman stands in her yard in a dress, sunglasses and with a white cane and says, "I'm blind and my white cane is great and all, but lately I've just been feeling like people aren't giving me the space I need when I'm walking down the street."
The same woman stand in the same place with her white cane replaced by a whippersnipper and says, "So I've been trying this new cane that promises to command respect and give me the space I deserve. On the downside it's a little hard to hear the traffic!" She revs the whippersnipper. "But people definitely do move! Coming through!"
I'm sorry a weedwhacker??? I mean I guess it does whack weeds but weedwhacker?
I know a guy, but the guy is Google
