Comic I drew that twitter and tiktok seemed to really like so why not here :)

Aw man I’m gonna have to break this up into 3 parts oops

Ok bye :3c hope you guys like it

Astronaut tweets

anyone else wanna hug astronaut Reid Wiseman and weep?

This is so cool

Cats painting studies by Paul Rabaud

@amarcia

being autistic is beautiful and then you're afraid of abandonment because your brain has picked up on the exact patterns that signal another loss and then you step outside and there are patterns in the sky in the grass in every touch and every laugh. someone looks at you and there is a shift in their gaze to tell you "i know you're wrong. you are something wrong." something between pity and embarrassment and you want to rip it out of your body for a second and then you listen to music and the euphoria makes it all worth it because they could never experience this joy. you're sky-high. you look in the mirror and your eyes appear inexplicably vacant and then you read about how so many autistic kids are cleverer than everyone else as children and then the opposite afterwards. at a certain age you equalise. you grow sharper teeth and you bite off more than you can chew and you chew it all anyway. there's spring in the air and your brain functions like a scattergraph and when you think about it hard enough it's impossible not to fall in love. if you're an alien you're a lovely one. one day you fall in love and you know it's more intense than it should be but you love her anyway, knowing how it will end. are you invented for grief? are you invented for love, carrying grief?

truthfully being autistic puts a gun full of love to your head. i will always be a little bit more alone than everyone else but the shades of green seperate into a spectrum of feeling and this schematic of an engine is a poem to progress and every song i love is a holy hymn and when your brain is a scattergraph, once you love something, you love everything. you're more alone than everyone else and the least lonely creature on earth, even in isolation.

when gerard way sings "the broken, the beaten, and the damned" and when kermit the frog sings "the lovers, the dreamers, and me" they're talking about the same people btw

humans don’t have enough ornamentation. where’s the plumage, the antlers

i could go for a good vibrant throat sac i could display as i sing in the mating season

Humans have some of the most extreme hair variation over their bodies in the animal kingdom, with hair on some parts of our body a few millimetres long and fine enough to be almost invisible, and hair in other parts a good metre long if not artificially trimmed. Part of the inside of our mouths are turned out to make our lips bright red, we have comically oversized breasts and lack penis bones to make erections more indicative of impressive circulation, and have some of the most complex behavioural adaptations to self-ornamentation for courtship seen in anything that doesn’t spend half its life collecting blue bottle caps. How much ornamentation do you want?

I’d like antlers, as previously stated

I want bioluminescence

Sonar

Flared webbing would be nice

Unfortunately— and literally no one is talking about this— if you buy many many little treats for yourself, cumulatively, this can add up to a larger amount of money, if you add the numbers together. I’m not sure if there’s anything to be done about this but thought I would bring it to the attention of my beloved and far-reaching audience

take this down

You’re right. Marx wants me to buy kpop photocards. I bet his bias would be Hyunjin too

Those poor 🐌

my tweets sure go viral a lot on here! LOL

And here’s the thing. It’s one thing to, say…build an actor for a few minutes if the actor died during filming. (I’m explicitly thinking of Carrie Fisher here.) You use the AI to finish off lines that person already signed off on, already agreed to. And then you put them to rest. I can understand it as a stopgap “we were 95% done with filming, we only had reshoots” measure.

But to just…decide you get to put words in their mouths forever?

That’s how you end up with Mr. Rogers saying it’s good to beat the woke out of your kids.

It needs to stop.

Im Very Pleased to share this website my partner directed me to. You’re interested in retro techand/or robotics, The Old Robots is a unique and surprisingly thorough archive of all sorts of real robots from as early as the 1940’s to as late as the 2000’s. I especially love the dated nature of its aesthetics. But, seriously- there’s pages and pages worth of these robots. Many robots also include videos embedded in the site to show them in action.

An excellent resource for those interested in robotics, the history of robots, robotic toys, or just goofs like me that love to see little funny hard metal and plastic fellas.

mantras for a new generation

Evansville Press, Indiana, February 8, 1913

It’s finally happened.

After almost a decade on this site, I found another Tumblr user in the wild. I stopped to tie my shoe with rainbow laces this morning outside the silversmith at Colonial Williamsburg, and I heard it.

“I like your shoelaces.”

Oh. Oh no.

I responded the only way I could. “Thanks.” And then I reluctantly added, “I stole them from the president…and if that makes sense to you, I’m very sorry.”

The poor man, in full Colonial dress, stared at me for a long moment. And then burst into laughter. And said, “I haven’t thought about that in YEARS and this has never happened to me before.”

Yeah. Me neither. Not until today.

Tumblr rite of passage. Achievement unlocked.

@victoriansecret I found your friend!!!

THIS IS AMAZING

ngl, I'm beginning to take issue with how in conversations about anti-intellectualism almost automatically, the face of girls and women will be slapped on the problem.

Peer Reviewed your tags, OP.

There is so much to unpack here but honestly I have a life to live and manuscripts to turn in, so I'm going to try to keep this short.

I think a lot of the contemporary "anti-intellectualism" movement started as a reaction to the success of media that centered escapism through privileged characters without questioning the power structures that create and sustain that privilege. Particularly when these works are praised with terms like "wholesome" or "clean."

What it's become, in a very painful irony, is a thought-terminating cliche. If you and your buddies dismiss a book, a genre, a category, a social media platform as "anti-intellectual", you don't have to engage with its creators or audience as equals. This in turn becomes a moral position to justify harassing authors for "ruining literature", policing what others are reading, dismissing anyone using a specific platform, and, yes, lampshading misogyny under the guise of crusading for the soul of literature.

And this would be easier to ignore if the people doing this weren't organizing around the need to call others anti-intellectual, or my favorite new buzzword-to-slap-on-anything, incurious. I cannot explain the dissonance of the time I posted "in my opinion, YA does [x] well because of [industry standard]" on twitter and got brigaded by hundreds of people knee-jerk regurgitating the same tired vitriol: YA books are just products, YA authors are ruining literature, anyone who reads YA is mentally impaired, and—you guessed it—YA is "anti-intellectual."

At no point did anyone stop and say to themselves, gosh, maybe the person who has written, edited, and published multiple books in this specific field might actually have some professional insight that I don't. They were too busy racing to be seen performing outrage that someone might praise a category they'd deemed anti-intellectual.

And that's just my personal experience. I am begging folks to actually interrogate this mindset, the reactionary vitriol it's producing, and the subtler echoes seeping into seemingly neutral rhetoric. I can't tell you how many ostensibly earnest posts I've seen bemoaning how no one is horny in books anymore, how no one is fucked up in books anymore.... when horny, fucked up books are the bread and butter of BookTok, my god. They're right there! Or posts saying "gosh, well, I just wish these ~people~ would free themselves and apply their analytical skills to real literature," as if they need to be re-educated and liberated from their own tastes.

Anyway. I have more books to write. Moral of the story is, if you actually give a damn about anti-intellectualism, stop policing what people read, and start fighting book bans. Soapbox concluded.

The fact that you can’t talk about raising taxes on billionaires even a little bit without them pouring money into fascist political movements is an excellent argument for why billionaires should never have been allowed to exist in the first place.

Spotbot 5407 (Potch) “The playful bump & run robot dog!” by Tomy, Japan (1985). “Put a battery in and make him squirk. The cutest robot dog ever. He wags and chases his tail, shakes his head, runs foward, and bumps his nose and changes direction.”

Spider-verse in the shop for 48 hours. Grab ‘em while you can! https://chunlo.threadless.com/

FUCK it the universe is our friend and the mars rovers our siblings. [EXPLODES]

We are so so sleep deprived. The statement above still stands tho

Okay but get this. Everything is the universe. We are all different parts of the same thing. We allow for the universe to know itself, ourselves. 

YES!!!!! WAS JUST THINKING ABOUT THIS!!! YOU GET IT!!! :D