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ladies and gentlemen this is your pilot speaking. ummmmm it's bad

beyond parody

people on twitter did some research and discovered that this particular prison was one of the originals to implement the idea of the Panopticon too.

The left never radicalized, the center has just been dragged further and further right until we became radical by not moving.

When I was 10 I asked my dad to explain politics to me and when he was done with his shockingly nuanced description of the American bipartisan system he asked me how I would structure the government if it was up to me. I described a world where everyone was paid what they needed, had a house, and enough food. He said, "Void-juice that's great, but you should know most people call that communism".

I've told this story on here before but @void--juice's story made me think of it again... My dad worked for NASA and he did a lot of work on the telescopes that went up in the late 90s/early 2000s. I was a curious kid and I knew his work really mattered to my dad so I was always asking about when things were getting launched. Often the answer was "we're waiting on Congress for funding" or similar. And one time... I was probably about 10 years old, I said "well... I guess that makes sense. I'm sure going to space is one of the most expensive things we do." And my dad looks at me... I'll never forget the look on his face. He goes "What do you think the most expensive thing we do as a country is?" And I hemmed and I hawed because I was sure it wasn't the space program even though I was sure that had to be in the top three. My first guess was education. Everyone had to go to school. Nope. Roads? Bridges? Cars were everywhere. Nope. What about... things like electricity? Phone lines? Cable? Nope. "The military. By a factor of ten at least." I was gobsmacked. It was peacetime (at least by most reckoning... this was post-Gulf War and well before 9/11). What the hell was the military doing being so expensive if we weren't doing anything with it? So that was the moment I became a "radical." Because that was absolutely stupid and continues to be.

HELP

"the disinformation is so bad on both sides" 37 reporters in gaza have been literally murdered, 2 have had their families murdered, others have been arrested and the rest are operating under a power and telecommunications blackout. everyone else consists of citizen journalists and everyday gazans sharing horrifying accounts from friends and family who are in a state of panic and terror after being relentlessly bombed and under siege for over a month

meanwhile the esteemed western journalists in their big fact-checking corporations are embedded with the idf that shares a minimum of 3 easily-disproved "this tweet has been deleted" propaganda lies daily while simultaneously firing and silencing journalists who show any tendency to humanize palestinians

this is not mere disinformation on both sides and presenting it as such bc some ppl on twitter and tiktok share edits using footage from previous wars in gaza or syria or yemen (because there is such a wealth of images of middle-eastern children being killed) without confronting the primary reason for the lack of verifiable information, which is israel's assault on the truth, is deeply disingenuous elitist racist bullshit

WE MUST NOT LET THE GOVERNMENT COVER UP THIS. IT WAS NOT SUICIDE, IT WAS NOT A PASSION CRIME IT WAS A HATE CRIME AND THERE NEEDS TO BE A THROUGH INVESTIGATION. (A, B, C)

Holy shit I think I just cracked the code of why people think you can’t sell things on Tumblr 😭

I was reading one of the Substacks I subscribe to, talking about how they promote their publication and their various sources of traffic, when I came across this paragraph:

Now I happen to also run a fairly popular Substack (about gay vampires). One whose readers are almost entirely Tumblr users. And Tumblr clicks have just never shown up in my stats, I’m used to it. Naturally I had to comment:

It’s not just Substack’s tracking that doesn’t work on here. NO tracking works on here. Tumblr is just one of the last platforms left that completely obscures its users’ data!

That’s why there’s this persistent myth that you can’t advertise on Tumblr. It's not that you can't sell things here, it's that you can't use the invasive methods that are standard everywhere else.

tumblr has, in my experience, consistently been the best platform to get clicks from for anything i share that i've done, people on tumblr care about your shit and are used to longer form content and willing to click out of their app/site. this is actually impressive because even on platforms like twitter it's insanely hard to get anyone to click on article links, etc without massive clickbait, and that's still ignoring the fact that most platforms other than tumblr deboost posts trying to get users to click away from their platform.

so I was listening to music and got this message… at first I assumed that my boyfriend sent the wrong person a message asking for toilet paper, but when i got up to bring him some i saw his phone on the bed and realized 

he left his phone in the room and only took his switch with him, so all he could do was desperately tweet an SOS

i had to adapt to fucking survive

The lies subreddit is beautiful

Bowser respects gender non-conforming Mario even if he WASN’T INVITED

Yeah this gonna bang on here I can smell it

Altogether, I really like the way americans say "can I help you?" as a polite general one-size-fits-all stand-in for "who the fuck are you/what the fuck are you doing here/how the fuck did you get in here/what the fuck are you staring at/what is your fucking problem." Such a polite way of going "bitch what the fuck."

Oh you're gonna love the things people do with friendly language in the South.

Did they let the fucking guy out

in case you needed to hear it today:

autumntides

10h

"In the instance an employer makes an illegal request for a photograph as part of a job application, you may submit a complaint to the United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission." Successful violation fee collections are paid partially to the one who suffered the violation, which in many cases exceeds a year of work at these shit jobs. There's only two weak points to a corporation, and those are in the budget and in the supply chain. Hit them where it hurts.

Fucking word.

Learn your rights!

AUTO REBLOG IN CASE YOU MISSED THIS THE 1ST TIME AROUND.  It is important to KNOW YOUR RIGHTS.

(you need to view the image or you'll just like the post)

Since people liked it i made a toy that works on the computer: https://nick-nonya.itch.io/trampoline-toy Have fun!

silly little app

So a friend sent me this, thinking I'd get a kick out of it, and it was fun. But it triggered me autistic infodumping about the topic for like ten minutes, running around my house to get pictures for illustration lmao, so I figured I'd share this weird little cassette lesson with y'all!

So the joke here is, of course, that a pencil will fit into the cassette wheel to manually move it, rewinding the tape that has come out. Not true! While a standard #2 pencil is the perfect shape for the job, it's too small. Isn't tight enough in the cassette wheel to rotate it, just spins in place.

So you don't use a pencil, you use a pen. Specifically, a BIC pen will fit the wheel perfectly and rotate it easily. But this joke with the pencil doesn't come from nowhere. The reason it used a pencil is because most people think a pencil is how you do it, and there's a reason.

See, the pencil is the wrong size... in America! But most cassette manufacturers are Japanese companies (Sony, TDK, Maxell, Nakamichi, etc.) and in Japan, the standard pencil size is bigger while the shape is the same. As a result, in Japan, a pencil IS the perfect tool for the job.

And those Japanese manufacturers bringing their products to the US and Europe during the 70s and 80s would translate their cards, but not change the pictures. So while it never quite worked, the pencil is shown on every cassette instruction card as the tool to rewind an unwound cassette.

As a bonus, another tool that fits perfectly? Finn's sword from the deluxe edition of the 3DS Adventure Time game works like a charm, and is usually what I use :p

please do your part to end this genocide. please do your part to end this occupation. please don’t stop speaking up. palestine is no longer trending on here and i can see a steady decline in people interacting with posts as well.

please don’t forget that this isn’t a trend. these are people’s lives. this is about their rights. their freedom.

please keep speaking up. please remind everyone that it’s not over. that isn’t not the new normal. that this isn’t something we should just accept

this is unacceptable. please speak up against it. 10569 killed not counting the missing people under the rubble is a huge number. heck, even 569 would be huge. this is genocide. please speak up. please voice out.

donations are not helping them right now. but your voices will. your voices will amplify the voices of the palestinians being shut down by biased western media and propaganda. please keep speaking up on their behalf.

imagination (1963) - harold ordway rugg

"chekhovs cat / schrödingers razor / occams gun"

Chekov's Cat: if you see a cat in the first act, it will probably be relevant later. (example: Alien)

Shrodinger's razor: an unopened box may or may not contain the solution to the story; there's no way to know without opening it. (example: Monk)

Occam's gun: the simplest way to kill off a character is to shoot them. (example: Bambi)

i have been cracking up at this for the past 3 minutes

Chekov's Box: If there is a container introduced in the opening act, it will be opened later.

Schrodinger's Gun: Treat every gun as if it's loaded unless you've checked it yourself.

Occam's Cat: If you hear strange noises at night, it's probably a cat.