as much as i love seeing orcas launching what appears to be intentional coordinated attacks on human ships it also makes me very sad because if it starts to become a genuine problem or even an extremely minor disruption to business people are going to just start killing them and i don't know that the orcas really understand the power differential they're dealing with here. that is why i am starting an organization whose mission will be to establish communication with the orca populace and provide them with equipment and training in order to level the playing field and empower them to take control of the seas, with the potential to open up trade and diplomatic relations on their own terms

Nautilus expedition live streams (+ their commentary) 2020 / 2021 / 2022

I feel a lot of people have moral systems that are completely detached from centering avoiding real harm to real people and are mostly based on completely arbitrary obsessions with symbolic and abstract "wrongs" and gut feelings, and then they join progressive politics and make an absolute fucking mess out of everything with their weird little moralist obsessions that actually don't help improve anybody's life or serve any purpose besides making a few people feel morally superior. This is why for example anti-kink politics went from having a pretense of being about protecting vulnerable women from abusive men to just being very blatantly "if you have ever done kink at all you're ew ew ew ew ew ew ew ew ew ew".

I think if you cannot describe the mechanism through which an action brings harm to real people then you probably don't have an actual argument as to why you consider the action in question to be immoral, and even if you can, you might find some people don't agree with your definition of harm or find the evidence for the existence of this harm mechanism to be lacking. Secular morality is a lot more complex than a lot of angry social media users might want you to believe it is.

‘being grossed out’ is not the same as being damaged, either. disgust is an emotional concern about hypothetical damage. the gross food might poison you. the gross person might sicken you. the gross behavior might endanger you. it’s just a pop-up alert that you might be in trouble if you continue. it’s just a warning sign. and everyone deserves to deal with that sign on their own.

Nefarious things are happening on twitter rn

me logging onto tumblr

Recreating “Guardian Sword++” from Zelda Breath of the Wild

while the latest website revisions are classic tumblr bunglefuckery, it would bring a smile to my face if prev tags finally died as a concept

Prev screen omgggg

A woman whose epilepsy was greatly improved by an experimental brain implant was devastated when, just two years after getting it, she was forced to have it removed due to the company that made it going bankrupt.

Specifically, because she couldn't afford to buy the implant from the company. They basically took her implant back to recoup their losses. This is what happens when you privatize healthcare and health research. The group providing her with this implant should not have been able to go bankrupt in the first place, let alone repossess her implant to pay off their debts.

This is what disabled people mean when we say that cyberpunk horror is just a reality for us. This woman was literally forced to undergo a surgery because she couldn't pay to keep the implant already inside her brain. How long till companies start repossessing pacemakers and transplants?

This is the first use of my art degree

can you believe i got a promotion

Pls watch this I nearly got fired for this

IM F***ING DEAD?????

But Tim Curry isn’t.

Reasons my cat has bit me:

- petted him

- stopped petting him

- picked him up

- wouldn’t pick him up

- fell asleep

- woke him up

- fun

- flinched

We're all adults now but I wanna read the room

you can really see how the majority of the userbase of this wretched website is usamerican huh

I think calling the reddit situation a "boycott" is misrepresenting how that site operates at the scale it does and also why this is even remotely effective

reddit uses volunteer moderation and community management by design, so unlike other social media where a boycott would just result in a tiny dip in engagement at best, this is much more equivalent to (unpaid) employees (with no obligation to the company) walking out

in other words, you couldn't really do this with facebook or twitter or tumblr because you, as a nonemployee, are entirely incapable of causing disruption of service

if the top 100 biggest discord servers locked down in protest, it also wouldn't disrupt service in a meaningful way because (despite everything they do) discord's primary service is DMs and small chat servers

Welcome to our hellsite, Redditors!