Tired

every fucking time I see this I miss the "7 month old" part, then when I see the image I fucking lose it. god fucking dammit

glad that skyrim chose the most horrifying way ever to have mannequins

when i walked into a room after a loading area a mannequin turned its face to look at me and then it just froze in that postion

once i woke up in the house in raven rock and all the mannequins near the bed had stepped forwards and i never did sleep in there again

I'm glad op clarified that this was about skyrim because I kinda thought the screenshotted post was just making a hypothesis about real life

Whoever PREFERS cold weather you're literally so so so wrong

"You get to be snuggly under blankets! Hot drinks! Jumpers!" It is my desire to have my arms and cock out and be sweating gulping iced water this is peak comfort to me I do not take joy in layering and sitting in cold rooms and feeling my toes get numb. that shit sucks supremely

Sometimes I’m looking for something online - often “how to” articles - and I want to filter for - like - a website that was clearly built in 2010 at the latest, which may or may not have been updated since then, but contains a vast wealth of information on one topic, painstakingly organized by an unknown legend in the field with decades’ worth of experience. I don’t want a listicle with a nice stolen picture in a slideshow format written by a content aggregator that God forgot. I want hand-drawn diagrams by some genius professor who doesn’t understand SEO at all, but understands making stir-fries or raising stick insects better than anyone else on this earth. I don’t know what search settings to put into Google to get this.

thank you for articulating this cri de coeur for me

ngl these days i’m just happy when it’s not a video

search.marginalia.nu is the search engine you want!

“It is a search engine, designed to help you find what you didn’t even know you were looking for. If you search for “Plato”, you might for example end up at the Canterbury Tales. Go looking for the Canterbury Tales, and you may stumble upon Neil Gaiman’s blog.

If you are looking for fact, this is almost certainly the wrong tool. If you are looking for serendipity, you’re on the right track. When was the last time you just stumbled onto something interesting, by the way?

I don’t expect this will be the next “big” search engine. This is and will remain a niche tool for a niche audience.“

i clicked around for a few minutes searching various things and I now have two fourteenth century pie crust recipes and an apple filling recipe i want to try, so thanks!

it has been twenty minutes and I am deeply in love with this search engine.

INCREDIBLE. I *do* want to know how to test Windows 95 for Y2K Compliance and I am glad that someone is still hosting step by step instructions for that.

tl;dr: search.marginalia.nu for the old or old looking and just plain serendipitous stuff that google or Duck duck go are gonna not find/bury on the 20th page. For perfectly good reasons, but …

My absolute favorite part of having made this post - other than causing people to be introduced to this site - are the people in the tags/comments talking about their interests and stuff they found about their hobbies.

Good luck out there surfing the cyberweb, you crazy cats. I love the shoelace website too - Ian’s Shoelace Site [link], unless there’s another. My personal favorite old-school site is Alysion’s string figure collection [link].

can i get a “hey i miss you ” from you?

these people are fucking deranged wtf

I'm a historian.

Honestly? I wish we'd had Facebook or whatever inhuman wasteland this is during WWII so Germans couldn't cower behind the "we were all seduced by that wicked sorcerer Hitler" excuse and claim there wasn't a single Nazi in the whole damn country outside of the Führer's inner circle.

It is these records that are crucial in demolishing the convenient mutually consensual fictions of collective innocence that have fueled so much impunity for atrocity's lesser agents.

i understand why people like the queue and i do respect you guys for using it but that is just not how i roll. if i think these 37 posts are funny you’re seeing them right fucking now

Okay but if you support Scadrial please kindly DNI

I don't care what you call it, the way they study less-developed planets is colonialism and that is NOT OKAY!

They literally withhold technology and information that could save hundreds of thousands of lives on EACH PLANET so they can exploit the native people for information and supplies

Let me repeat: they keep a monopoly on life-changing information to fuel their sense of superiority over the "simple-minded natives." (This is genuine language they use. It's sickening to even think about.)

No I don't care if Allomancy is "cool" or that they're so "technologically advanced" or "giving us a better understanding of Investiture"

There are better methods of studying Investiture than invading other worlds. Besides, yall know they're weaponizing their research wherever they can right. It's not some benevolent volunteer group of scientists, it's a literal military operation

TLDR; Scadrial is a colonialist planet and yall need to stop acting like they're so perfect

No, they're not. They're letting civilizations develop naturally instead of giving them too much all at once. Do you want them to give people with no understanding of investiture the power to end their planet? They need to understand how it works before being given that level of power.

They aren't "invading" worlds. They come down for research and do as little interference as possible. They could easily take them over but don't. It should be obvious they're not invading.

Also, they're not weaponizing their research. That's Rosharan propaganda and you know it.

You mean to tell me that the Scadrian government is doing secretive and obscure experiments on unknown worlds simply for the sake of scientific understanding? Give me a break.

And they aren't witholding information to "protect people" and you know it. They're using their knowledge as bargaining chips. They hold information and technology ransom until they can gain access to the resources they need-- regardless of if that information coild save lives (see the Canticle documents that leaked a while back). That's not benevolence, that's (lowly) colonialism

Also it's not great that you believe it necessary to withold knowledge on Investiture until a society is deemed "ready." Who gets to decide if they have enough knowledge to not destroy themselves? A strange people group decending upon a "lesser" one and making decisions for them disregarding their own right to rule? Where have I heard that one before?

spore airplane

@sporesgalaxy

lost my shit when that lil guy went pitter patter

I think a man will see a very beautiful girl expressing her loneliness and melancholy and he will think to himself "hm i can save you from that" and she might let him in and when he does get in he will not understand how deeply she feels and she will feel burdened by his presence and he will think to himself "you're not like i imagined" and she definitely is not like what you imagined because you don't even have half the mind to fathom what she is and what she feels and what she thinks about because in your mind is a made-up fantasy of a sad, desperate girl waiting for you to save her and you will not do any of that, you will just play with her like a child with a toy and break her heart!!!

I love this person so much for writing this.

If you're looking for more narrative indie games by Asian devs and exploring Asian diaspora experiences check out Venba!

It just came out recently and is available on all major platforms, including Steam and console!

Oh look ive stumbled into a party with all the cosmere protagonists!

Susebron, Elend, Raoden, and Adolin are talking books, Adolin looks quite bored but everyone in the party is extremely enthusiastic.

Huh their wives have grouped up too. I think they are having a sassy comment competition. Sarene is giving a good effort but Shallan and Siri are running away with it. Siri's hair is bright yellow and they all have those smug grins on their faces. It looks like Vin is sticking with her court persona and seems to be discreetly judging if the others can fight.

Oh good! Raoden noticed Adolin was bored and switched the conversation to responsibility. They are all now talking animatedly about what they owe to their people.

I know I never thought I would make it to 20 but boy am I looking forward to 30. and 40. and 50. and 75. growing old is exciting and it's a gift

when I was 16 and lorde said "feels so scary getting old" I felt that in my heart but now I'm 25 and the mountain goats say "it's real sweet to grow old" and I sing along as loudly as I can.

sometimes getting older is an act of spite. a rebellion against a world that does not want you to survive. it's how we say "fuck you" to a society that tries to kills us. but sometimes growing old is gentler. it is joyous. it's something we do because we love the world and we want to see more of it. and the world, in return, loves us and wants to see more of us.

so when straight people ask me why I say I’m “queer” or “gay” instead of sharing my actual identity as a panromantic demisexual non-binary sapphic queer I just tell them “ok look, when you’re talking to someone who isn’t local and they ask you where you’re from and you either say the name of the largest city nearby or ‘town name, suburb of large nearby city’ so they can get some geographical context of where you’re located right, bc they’re probably not going to know the name of the little town you actually live in.”

but if you’re talking to a local you can say the name of your actual town bc they have a greater chance of knowing where/what that is.

ok well when I’m talking to a straight person I start with queer bc chances are they aren’t as familiar with the context of all the little towns in that big queer city and need gps (gay positioning system) to find me.

if I’m talking to another queer person and I say I live in a suburb of gay city in a town called panromantic on the demisexual side of the tracks which is in the county of queer and I live off the intersection of non-binary and sapphic, they’d probably be able to find me with little to no problems, make sense?

Also because my exact address in Queertown is usually nobody's business.

Made this today. I freaking love Tulin

After the hospital bombing, I finally heard back from my grandmother and confirmed that several of my relatives were murdered by Israeli bombing. Seven of them, to be precise. Three are still going, including her. We've been talking constantly ever since.

Asked if it was possible to head south, and was told they did but were also bombed there. So they decided to go back home, in Zeitoun. Their home was bombed and they were pulled out of the rumble, then driven by ambulances to the al-Ahli Arab Hospital. There were people in every corner. Gazans sheltering, sleeping on the floor. Gazans dying on the floor, waiting for beds.

Four were declared dead on arrival, three were in need of surgery and other three were just bandaged. Then, a bomb was dropped in the parking lot that made parts of the ceiling collapse, like Dr. Ghassan Abu Sittah reported in that horrific conference/interview. Those in need of surgery died.

By the way, just in case you didn't know: the Church of Saint Porphyrius, the third oldest in history, bombed by Israel a few days back, was located near the hospital.

When looking for new shelter, they saw schools with signs hanging outside, "We can't take any more families." They met families, sympathetic but already sheltering too many people. They're now staying in an apartment building they found empty. Sleeping in the corner of the living room. If the family comes back, they'll apologize and leave.

Told me she was saving her phone battery for when the bombing stopped, and she had to ask for help to rebuilt the neighborhood. But she doesn't think it's gonna stop anymore. The ones still with her are mute most of the time, like they're saving energy, but she feels lonely and wanted to talk. There's no internet and to connect to WhatsApp, people are buying "a card from the supermarket, there's a password and username." Not sure what she meant. Still, the internet is inconsistent and won't load neither videos or images nor pages, so she doesn't know what's happening on the outside world.

Told her there were a lot of people protesting to stop the genocide, she replied, "The bombings are getting worse by the day." The bombing yesterday was the worst she ever witnessed. The entire neighborhood is infested with the smell of death, of decomposing bodies. Bodies are piling up in the streets and she's not sure if it's because they ran out of places to store them, but most of them are in bags. The smoke of the bombings hide the blue sky—she hasn't seen the clouds for a while.

Asked if I could share their pictures, names and dreams with people and was told, of which I partly agree, "they're not entertainment." If anyone genuinely cared, they would be alive—I'd argue there are people who do care, but I'm not gonna lecture her pain. And they don't deserve to be used to fulfill someone's sick fantasy. Told me to remember what some Israelis do with pictures of dead Palestinians. And I do.

For those of you who are not familiar, many times before settlers got together to celebrate the murder of Palestinians. For one, in 2015, Israeli settlers set a house in Duma, West Bank on fire. An 18-month old baby, Ali Dawbsheh, was burnt alive. Both parents later died of wounds and only a 5-year-old, Ahmad, survived, although severely injured.

Two celebrations of their murder are widely known, one at a wedding and others outside the court in which two were indicted for the terrorist attack. In the wedding, guests stabbed a photo of the toddler, Ali, while others waved guns, knives and Molotov cocktails. Israel's Minister of National Security, Itamar Ben-Gvir, was present.

That's what happens in an apartheid. Palestinians are so abused by authorities that their "innocent civilians" come to accept the brutality as necessary or are desensitized by our suffering. After all, it's been 75 years—get used to it!

So I won't risk the image of my loved ones, in fear they are used in these kinds of depravity. I will say, though, the world lost a young footballer. Lost a female writer and an aspiring ballerina. Lost a kind father, who was also a great cook, and a loving mother that enjoyed sewing and other types of handicraft art. Lost a math teacher and a child that wanted to become one.

People think Israel is testing new weapons on them. There's civilians arriving at the hospital with severe burns, which they thought was from white phosphorus, but apparently the pattern is different from the one caused by white phosphorus. It's widely believed Israel tests weapons in Palestinians.

They've ran out of drinkable water and the "aid" Biden sent was only for the South of Gaza and no fuel, for hospitals, was allowed in. Many shelves in the supermarket are empty. She said many are convinced that if they don't die from the bombing, they'll die from starvation or dehydration, or whatever disease will develop from the dirty water they're drinking.

Told me all people do now is pray, cry and die. Told me she hopes West Bank is spared. Told her Israel bombed a mosque in West Bank and dozens of Palestinians in West Bank are being murdered by settlers, so she bided me goodbye.

click and drag to take maisy car for a drive around your dashboard

if you are on mobile good news! you can just move your phone around and it is like you are driving maisy car around the real world!

Aging is hot. Gray hairs are hot. Smile lines are hot. Get with it.

Baldness is also hot. Literally get with it.

Everyone reblogging this post to add that people don't exist to be hot and bodies can be neutral: you're right. Make your own post about it. This post is about signs of age being hot. I am an adult attracted to other adults. People don't exist to be hot but if you have these traits you are hot, perhaps against your will. Sorry. Happy milf monday.