Nobody likes surveillance!

I like how the temperature goes up from the wolves breathing on the camera

my dad took some ancestry tests and eventually found out who his father was (and that he has 5+ siblings who are also finding all of this out) and honestly it's been pretty bizarre and emotional so far, naturally

but one of the biggest changes for me is no longer having to give the whole spiel of "oh i know i'm racially ambiguos but hey there's a whole story behind it because this that and here's my father's backstory"

like no i... i just have a grandpa from Nigeria now

...that's way less mysterious >:(

edit: my brother has made a tiktok on the whole situation

worst update ever it just hit me that my long lost family members now know my name and that i am an artist with a small online presence and thus almost certainly know by now that i (on occasion) draw gay people having sex

we have to ban growth hormones for our trucks :( it’s hurting them

Okay, not be the that guy, but I do want to talk about this. So, you might be saying, it’s not a fair comparison since one of those is a half-ton or three-quarter-ton truck (can’t tell if that’s a 150 or a 250) and the other is an Asian-style compact pickup (the Toyota in the foreground). BUT! Actually this is very funny and very true. Say that’s a F-150 in the background. I’m nearly sure from the body styling that it is. 2010’s, which places it firmly within what we call “NBS” or “New Body Style” Fords. At one time, the f-150 would have been much lower and much less likely to have a four-door cab. It would still have been clearly a much bigger truck and a different class of vehicle than that Tacoma in the foreground, but not even nearly to that extent. From about the late 60’s to various points in the 90’s and 2000’s, an equivalent light pickup from Ford, GMC, Chevrolet and even Chrysler/Jeep were about the same dimensions. With modification and effort you can even take a 60’s Ford body and mount it on a 90’s Ford frame. But something changed in the late 90’s. With the 1997 model year of Ford F-150, suddenly the cab was much taller, significantly longer, with far fewer flat panels, the bed was substantially redesigned and did not tend to be as long proportionately. Rear seats became more common and the depth of the rear seating increased across both two door and four door trucks. Front bench seats vanished, and 40/60 seats quickly followed, to be replaced with oversized bucket seats. I’m sure different market forces drove this change. But the consequences could not have been fully intended. After this point, Americans started to buy trucks that replicated the functionality of an SUV but with added cargo space. Suddenly the market is incentivized to build these gas-guzzling land battleships with luxury interiors, a full SUV plus a full or slightly abbreviated pickup bed, all on a frame and drive-train set up for towing and all-terrain driving. And like, if you’re rich and own a farm or if you’re rich and move a lot of furniture or whatever, I see the fucking appeal. I can imagine wanting bucket seats in my old F-350. I can imagine wanting full AC, a good radio, more passenger space, power windows and power seats in my old F-350. What I cannot imagine is PAYING for it. So essentially pickups have been gentrified away from their original market, and you know what has had to fill the vacuum? The same pickups that were filling that role twenty-five years ago and counting. So now anything you NEED a pickup for, if you don’t have Mercedes-Benz levels of cash to drop on it, you have to use a vehicle that potentially has 300,000 miles of heavy use on it, without modern conveniences and more importantly modern safety aparatus, and which are almost certainly worse for the environment. And more and more older pickups are aging out of service, while ten-and-fifteen year old pickups hold just enough of their market value to still be out of the working person’s price range, while beginning to suffer failures of all the plasticky electronic gadgets and doodads that were crammed into them. This means that prices go up on all trucks, not just the new ones, and leads to a genuine scarcity. And because capitalism is irrational in its pursuit of profits, the arms race between truck manufacturers has led to taller and taller trucks among other things, leading to a case where, as you can plainly see, that F-150 is, unlike even the gen-10’s that began the new style, totally unsafe to drive around pedestrians. It’s just too big and too tall. And the Asian light trucks, the Mazda-based Ford Ranger, the old Toyota Tacomas, what some people affectionately or perjoratively call the fishing truck? Gone, disappeared largely from the market.

TL;DR:

OP raises a great point even though they chose a jokey example: new pickup trucks have become, almost as a class, gigantic luxury SUVs, which means that the people who actually need pickup trucks for utility purposes are forced to rely on older models, which are at the same time aging out of service and not being replaced, causing a horrible crisis in this segment of the market.

Handers hug..in color!

Miles should know better than to look directly at the sun ☀️

Wait, fuck. I just realized something.

If republicans boycott every restaurant that “goes woke” soon they’ll just have to eat at home. Then they’ll have to learn how to cook. The price of seasonings is gonna go through the roof 😩😩😩

Have you seen TikTok trad wife cooking videos? You won’t have to worry about seasoning demand rising

PLEASE tag ur reasoning im trying to prove my gf wrong

Every vowel is in an odd position of the alphabet, so the “vowels are even” crowd is free to get destroyed by facts and logic

Vowels are smooth like even numbers and consonants are spiky like odd numbers.

love reading public comments on water treatment infrastructure from the 1920’s. these guys are debating whether decreasing the rate of death by typhoid is worth having to build a sewage treatment plant. everything is the same forever

another fun thing is when towns that are downstream of really big cities are like hey so here is a fun concept. please make our dipshit neighbors treat their water. because ALL OF THEIR POLLUTION MOVES DOWNSTREAM. and the cities go :/ um we tested our water and it's literally fine.

and the other towns must again reiterate that it doesn't matter if the Upstream Drinking Water is Fine. Because the Wastewater is what flows DOWNSTREAM

update from the 1920's. an argument was made (repeatedly) that if everyone would simply get vaccinated against typhoid fever and boil all of their water before using it, then they didn't NEED a sewage treatment facility, and building wastewater treatment infrastructure would be a waste of tax money. i wonder why this sounds so familiar.

i've been thinking about hobie spiderverse since i came out of the movie theater, about how on a superficial level he acts like every other stereotypically alt character, stealing and instigating and bantering and being chaotic and rebellious and looking Cool™ but on a second look it's so so clear that every single thing he does is motivated by kindness and compassion towards his friends in general and miles in particular, and that's so viscerally truly punk of him

the already famous palm suggestion that makes miles break out of miguel's containment thing. miles initially reads this as condescending but hobie's genuinely trying to help

already he's looking out for miles by trying to keep him away from hq, a place where he knows miles isn't welcome and might be in danger

now, they get to hq and he immediately starts lifting stuff to homebrew a watch for miles, a guy he's known for five minutes (bc you can't convince me he didn't already have a bunch prepped for gwen and the other spider-people he trusts). he even lampshades it with the line above.

he's questioned miles' motives to join the spider society and he knows they're the same as his own: it's literally just to get a watch, to have a means to travel dimentions, to see his friends, to build community. he's already made the decision to grant that ability to miles without subjugating him to the oppressive restrictions and requirements of the spider society. at this point we know he's strongly ideologically opposed to the society and he later in this scene admits he's only there to look out for gwen, just like miles

this one makes me insane. it's a "are you safe at home in your dimension? do you have one? do you need a place to stay?" bc we know he's given one to gwen, who's not safe and does not have nice parents and has been crashing in hobie's dimension for the previous months

and then he tries again to warn miles off the spider society

and when push comes to shove and all the other spider-people are set on stopping miles from going home and changing his timeline he's the only one in miles' corner

btw notice how the palms thing is the first and last thing he says to miles in this film?

anyway. he was in this movie for like 15 minutes tops, showed up exclusively to hype up his friends and protect them by whatever means necessary, adoption papers and illegal interdimensional tech included, and he looked that cool the whole time while doing it. most character ever.

I say this with genuine love: I love this rash of small time internet creators starting the most unlistenable tabletop roleplaying podcasts you've ever heard. It feels like a companion to how every group of 20somethings in the 1990s used to have a shitty garage band. We need more of that shit.

One can only spend so long watching the big name actual-plays studiously pretend that they're not workshopping the hell out of their character concepts and major plot points and that the professional voice actor GM's clever monologues aren't 100% rehearsed before it starts to feel strangely refreshing to listen to a group try to wring a coherent narrative out of a group of player characters who barely occupy the same genre and a pre-written scenario that the GM is clearly reading for the first time as they're running it.

twilight princess funniest zelda game ever made

one of the reoccurring minor plots is that a 3 year old with the mental capacity of an adult is trying to abolish capitalism in the big city. there's a yeti couple living in an abandoned mansion and the guy yeti is like 10 times the size of and more visibly monstrous than the girl yet they made him a malewife. you can collect insects for a little girl that is insane about them and gives you strange and off-putting dialogue about each bug everytime you give her one and practically threatens you if you try to leave her home without giving her bugs she doesn't have yet. one of the modes of transportation in this game is being shot out of a giant canon by a depressed clown and landing on your feet with no injuries. there's a spaghetti western style minigame where the objective is to talk to 20 different cats. a chicken attempts to flirt with link. they made tingle into a sexyman caricature.

i completely forgot about ooccoo while making this post. this fucking thing:

and, of course, her son too

Every time someone says that Twilight Princess is too grimdark and serious, I want to point them to this post. It’s a very silly game.

How Matt Walsh lied to get good people participate in his transphobic propaganda movie.

Nandini Jammi explains how Matt Walsh and his crew cheated and lied to get trans people to take part in his transphobic "What is a woman" movie.

Jammi tells the story about interviewees who, when they found out that the movie was made by the reactionary Daily Wire, were ignored when they asked for their footage to be removed.

Nandini Jammi is an American activist and brand safety consultant.

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She is….flattened

back at work

late summer / early fall thoughts

It’s never a good time for any app to replicate Twitter but I find it especially mind-boggling that Tumblr and fucking Discord are backpedalling on all of their unique and good features in order to become a clone of a website that is actively losing money and most of their userbase.

Discord is especially egregious considering that it’s NOT EVEN A FUCKING SOCIAL MEDIA WEBSITE. IT’S A GODDAMN MESSAGING APP. It’d be like if whatsapp decided to recommend other family group chats for you via an algorithm

sometimes I randomly think about the time a girl posted in this girls only Facebook group I’m in telling everyone how she broke up with her boyfriend and he lied saying that he lost the spare key she gave him, only to then break into her apartment when she wasn’t home and steal the cat they’d adopted while they were together, but then he denied having done this and she didn’t really have proof that he took the cat since he wouldn’t let her come into his place and look for it. And then another girl saw this post and knew her ex-boyfriend, and she was like “girl. I used to hook up with your mans back in xxxx and I still have his number. If you want, I’ll hit him up and get him to invite me back to his place and see if your cat’s there.” And the OP was like “bet.”

So this woman hit up homie dog, asked him out for drinks, went home with him, slept with him, and then woke up in the middle of the night and TOOK THE CAT. Like she had only said that she would confirm if the cat was there but then she took it upon herself to steal this woman’s cat back. Like she full on Trojan horsed this man and then hit up homegirl like “I got the goods. Where you wanna meet.” And then the two of them posted a photo of them together with the cat to the group.

And I just think women supporting women is so beautiful.

replayed awakening. need a minute to think abt this.