The Phineas and Ferb Star Wars Supercut.
Enjoy the complete (and definitely entirely canon) Star Wars experience!
I was in line at Aldi and this girl with two toddlers in front of me had her card declined and she looked so fucking sad and said “let me call my husband real quick” and it was only 18 dollars, so I just paid for it, and she was very sweet and then as she walked off, the lady behind me said `”You know that was probably a scam, right?” and like, even if it was, like what a sad fucking scam, right? 18 dollars at the Aldi. If you’re “scamming” me for some Tyson chicken and apple juice and cauliflower, then just take my fucking money.
“A scam” people are fucking wild.
This happened to me, too. A woman had used WIC for the majority of her stuff (which I say from personal experience is such a long and embarrassing process) and to buy the remainder of her groceries, which included diapers and wipes, she used a card, and it got declined. I bought the other $30 of her groceries because hey, I’ve been there, and now I’m not. She was extremely emotional and began to cry and even hugged me. My mom called me on the drive home and could tell I had been crying myself, asked what was wrong, and when I told her what happened, she berated me for being “duped.” I couldn’t believe she could be so disappointed in one of her children for doing something- nice? Is that the hill you want to die on? Getting mad about people needing groceries?
I once paid for a woman’s bill at the vet…it wasn’t a big one, but she was trying to pay for some medication for her dog, and her card was declined. And her lip started trembling, and she says “I don’t get paid until Tuesday, would he be ok until then?”
So I just told them to add the $20 something onto my bill, and I thought she was going to break down crying right there.
And I don’t care if it was a scam or not. Just do nice things for people sometimes.
therealflurrin
Do good recklessly.
I think “Do good recklessly” would be fantastic word art to hang on one’s wall. Artistic people, go!
"Do good recklessly" is such a philosophy of life.
Trope Hall Of Fame: When the Deadpan character makes a statement about the current state of things, and the Chaos character does something in the background that makes the Deadpan character revise their statement without even blinking.
they’re opening up a new sister store in a different province and they asked me to do some email correspondence with my joint health and safety counterpart out there to help him get set up and run the team, but they warned me before hand that he was “notoriously difficult” so i was absolutely dreading this thinking “shit, he’s gonna be one of those guys who thinks taking direction is an insult to his masculinity and he’s gonna be rude and suck”
but it turns out he’s just really autistic and needs super clear direction + he writes his emails like a 1911 telegram. i LOVE this guy. i’ve never worked with someone who wrote so clearly and in such detail, and absorbs everything i say. plus whenever he gets an email he responds immediately with “received. response to follow. thank you.” top 10 coworkers of all time. top 5 even.
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About two-thirds were transgender boys, meaning boys who had been assigned a female gender at birth; about one-third were transgender girls.
Solely on the social transition front, Olson noted that over five years only about 7% of the children transitioned back at least once.
By the end of the study period, 94% of the kids continued to identify as the gender they had embraced when first socially transitioning. (That figure includes the just over 1% who had at one point re-transitioned back to their birth gender, before then returning back again to the gender to which they had initially transitioned.)
Of the 6% who did not stick with their initial transition, a little more than 3% described themselves as non-binary by the end of the study period, while just under 3% said they identified with their birth gender. (Identifying with one’s birth gender was notably more common among kids who had socially transitioned before the age of 6.) “Interestingly, we are (italics) not (end italics) finding that the youth who re-transitioned in our study are experiencing that as traumatic,” Olson noted. “We’ve been finding that when youth are in supportive environments — supportive in the sense of being OK with the exploration of gender — both the initial transition and a later re-transition are fine.”
Indeed, “socially transitioning youth are [simply] making the same ‘decisions’ that cisgender children are making, in that they are seeking clothes, hairstyles, names, accessories, activities and playmates that reflect their gender identity and the resources in their community,” said Matt Goldenberg, a psychologist in adolescent medicine with the Seattle Children’s Gender Clinic.” End description]
People get really angry and scared about this but have a great deal of trouble articulating why exactly.
I genuinely have no idea why “Using different pronouns for a while and wearing different clothes and then deciding not to a few years later” would involve some kind of massive psychological trauma, or an ideological scaffolding more complex or emotionally destabilizing than any other identity that kids try on.
Nobody’s going around like, “Little Kenny can’t join the baseball team, because what if he decides he doesn’t want to play baseball forever?! It would be so traumatic!”
It's a pretty good point, and of course goes hand in hand with "To prevent any psychological trauma, I must isolate my child from the evil Gender Ideology and suppress all possible forms of self-expression that could relate to it. Any observable trauma in my child is probably due to some previous exposure to Gender and definitely not my fault."
Just a few short months ago, the UK was admonishing Russia for repressing protests against its invasion of Ukraine...
blank sign protests will never stop being fucking awesome for the way they make police look like complete tools
Our son Sam has told us that the D&D art file we use for a screensaver on various devices bothers him.
Because it makes him frustrated that he can’t look at some of them longer. He wants to know what is happening in some of them.
I told him that is one of the reasons we play Dungeons & Dragons, so we can go find out together, in our collective imagination.
Not really D&D related- but I feel compelled to add to this that not only are these GORGEOUS pixel arts- they are also in fact not animated. There are no frames used. There’s no extra pieces of art. Just one layer.
These pieces are so old that they stem from a time where animating cost way too much memory and/or only 256 colors could be used at one time, so the motion is achieved by ‘color cycling’. Half the available colors would be reserved for that very color cycling. It’s mchecking bonkers, please go watch this video if you feel like learning the technical details of how these artworks were made! They were screensavers that would match the actual time of day that you were in. Somehow. Just by cycling color palettes. Wild shit.
(Especially relevant time stamps for color cycling: 5:50, 9:55, 37:26, at 49:54 he gets into the technical side of HOW this even works)
I’ve always enjoyed how they depicted some of the landscapes at different times of the day/weather/season.
Like these two areas. Daytime and nighttime at the village by the waterfalls.
And the high mountains hidden by rain in one and visible in the other.
These are by Mark Ferrari!
You can find his gallery here, including options to view the scenes at different times of day some with sound: http://www.effectgames.com/demos/canvascycle/
The tech underlying some forms of digital art is so ephemeral. Never assume that it will last, or even the memory of it… (sad smile)
Hold on, this is fascinating. Reblog this and tell me in the notes how old you are and if you ever had typing lessons.
What in God’s good name is a “typing lesson”
I can’t tell if you’re being serious or not
I’m serious what is a typing lesson? What would they teach you? To type? My brother in Christ it is like writing with a pen but technically easier.
Before home computers were very common, people typically only typed for business-related things, so the only people that actually knew how to use typewriters and word processors were authors, secretaries, accountants, etc. These people would take classes for typing bc it was seen as a skill. This gradually fell out of fashion, much like teaching kids cursive
Typing is only intuitive to gen y & z bc most of us learned through computer games or had someone tell us where to rest our fingers. People who never learned to type use just their index fingers, hit one key, take a long time to find the next letter, hit it with an index finger, and repeat until finished
34 i played this:
I learned to type on Kewala's Typing Adventure like a walking 90s Australian kid stereotype.
(Note for all non-Australians: koalas do not look like this.)
honestly more than anything having a constitutional monarchy is just deeply embarrassing for everyone involved.
for the royals it's like. yeah you guys can play-act just like it's the old days, except we keep your hands off anything important, so we're really only humoring you for entertainment.
for everyone else it's like. imagine being willing to pay 100 million pounds a year to watch people larp at one of the most inegalitarian, oppressive political structures in human history.
#1 queen respecter
#1 dead queen respecter
Gotta be real with you, you have like a mountain of TERFs and British patriots to go past before you can reach #1 on that list.
it’s a shame that Charles III didn’t pick a new reign title like “Optimus Prime” or “Motherfucker Unlimited”, technically they couldn’t stop him
The feeling of coming up with an awesome, unbeatably cool reign title before your coronation, only for them to add "II" to the end of it.
"What do you mean, His Majesty King Mighty Fearsome Dragonslayer Plentifully Endowed Of Manhood and Estates THE SECOND??"
“well, what happened to the first one?”
“choked on a chicken bone, tragic really”
"Motherbleeper Unlimited IV is considered by scholars to be part of this naming convention rather than the first of a different name[23], since special consideration was given to the fact that he chose his reigning title upon ascending to the throne at the age of 10 and still considered swearing to be rude[citation needed]."
it’s a shame that Charles III didn’t pick a new reign title like “Optimus Prime” or “Motherfucker Unlimited”, technically they couldn’t stop him
The feeling of coming up with an awesome, unbeatably cool reign title before your coronation, only for them to add "II" to the end of it.
"What do you mean, His Majesty King Mighty Fearsome Dragonslayer Plentifully Endowed Of Manhood and Estates THE SECOND??"
it’s a shame that Charles III didn’t pick a new reign title like “Optimus Prime” or “Motherfucker Unlimited”, technically they couldn’t stop him
The feeling of coming up with an awesome, unbeatably cool reign title before your coronation, only for them to add "II" to the end of it.
I think it would be funny if Danny has literally zero trauma about being half-ghost, like Vlad is trying to bait him into falling into angst and evilness and Danny's just like "what are you talking Vlad being half-ghost is pretty cool actually I can shoot lasers from my hand."
Jazz: Danny you actually died. We have to talk about it sometime. You can't just run from that forever. Talking about it will help you process the trauma. Danny: What kind of trauma? I just got microwaved by the hole in the wall and got cool powers, it's all good. Jazz: *visible horror*
@floq WE DID INVENT THE TRAUMA OMG
I'm sorry but this is the funniest Danny Phantom post I have ever seen.
Felt like compiling all of Vincent Martella's tweets about the Queen's death.
guy who would become infatuated with any cryogenically frozen people he encountered or learned of
Reverse Gideon Graves.
One of the least believable aspects of Thor: Love and Thunder was that Thor could ever be jealous of Jane Foster wielding his old hammer, when he has a new, much bigger and much cooler axe that can also operate the Bifrost somehow.
