the funniest thing ever just happened to me

im changing my name purely bc i don’t like it and we just told my family like a month ago. i haven’t been home since then but today i got back and my (extremely country) uncle gives me a pat on the back and goes “so i hear you’re my nephew now. proud of you, son” and i have to very gently say i am so so happy to hear that but i am still his niece just with a cooler name. and he throws his hat down on the table and goes “no! but ive been practicing!” so now he is calling me his nephew for fun

she's a 10 but her social battery dies before she even goes outside

while she's getting dressed, even

while she's waking up, sometimes

i hate star trek because every time theyre like “oh my god the skringles have broken the crankus treaty with the skronglies which mean the flongles are starving because they cant get binkbonk berries” and every time im like “oh my god they cant get binkbonk berries…”

This post came across my dash at the most serendipitous time: I saw it while watching DS9, paused it, read the post out to my wife, we both had a mild chuckle, I unpaused the episode, only for an alien merchant to dramatically explain to Quark that she couldn't sell him 100,000 vats of Tulaberry wine, because there weren't enough Tulaberries on the planet. Of course leading to my wife screeching with absolute delight "oh no! Quark can't get his binkbonk berries!"

testing the waters…

informed consent for medication needs to include interactions with common recreational drugs, i think

most meds these days will only tell you 'limit alcohol' and wont even make a mention of weed (though if this is different in places that have legalised it i'd be interested to know). and they never tell you specifically why you should limit alcohol and thats something everyone should have the right to know

because i was terrified as a teen getting on the meds im on now, thinking i would never be able to drink and that i had to forgo taking my meds for the day if i did. then i learned that all my meds did was to increase the effects of alcohol and that the 'limit alcohol' warning in that case was more just a 'you will get drunk faster than you are used to'

but in other cases, such as with some antibiotics, the 'limit alcohol' means 'if you drink more than a little, this medication will stop working'

and some meds are actively dangerous when taken with alcohol/other drugs, putting you at risk of getting very sick or just dead

but every single time all you get is that little label saying 'limit alcohol'

anyway, i will once again shamelessly promote my favourite harm reduction website in the whole world, the drugs.com interactions checker. standard boilerplate applies that 'this isnt a substitute for medical advice from a professional' but its sure as fuck better than nothing

I may not have gotten any volunteers, but this DID happen to coincide with me trying to learn how to use Illustrator, so I gift to you: I Voted badges.

These, of course, feature our 9 Generational winners, and since those tournaments are technically done, I think these apply! Thank you so much to everyone's who's participated so far, and I hope you all enjoy the Inter-Generational Tournament!

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"Today, we received a message from Reddit that our mod team will be replaced if we do not open up the subreddit immediately"

I mean- holy shit? Strikebreaker activity.

This is most certainly not the only subreddit that has gotten this message.

Reddit is not only basically strikebreaking here, they are also making it abundantly clear that they believe they have ownership over everything that their users post and can confiscate it if they think it will make them more money.

I haven't read Reddit's TOS, but I cannot imagine it says they get to keep everything the users post to the website regardless of the user's wishes on the matter, and any other website with user-generated content deciding the users that made said content are not allowed to have a say on if it stays up or not would never stand. Like imagine if a popular YouTuber decided to delete their account for whatever reason and YouTube stepped in and said "no, you make us too much money, we're hijacking your account and keeping your content up weither you like it or not" like that's a ridiculous precedent that would outrage people. Tumblr cannot decide my account makes them too much money so I'm not allowed to delete it, nor can TikTok, Facebook, Instagram, Twitch, or any other platform.

The mod teams were given a blank slate and filled it in, the rules and pinned posts and banners were all made by a person and those people should have a say if it stays up or not. Imo, the mod teams have every right to lock, set as private, or simply delete their subreddits entirely. Baring circumstances where a rouge mod is going against the other mods wishes or a hack or something of that nature, Reddit should not be allowed to stop the mod teams from doing what they want with their subreddits.

Like maybe I'm misunderstanding the full situation but as an artist and writer I am a firm believer in a person having ownership over what they create and being able to do what they want with those things, and the idea that Reddit thinks it can just take what it's users have made and keep it up against their wishes so the website keeps making money is sending up some HUGE red flags. At this point I'm considering deleting my account, bcs I do not want anything I've made on a website where the owners have set a standard of taking it and doing what they want with it without my consent, and I honestly think other users should do the same.

TL;DR: This signals to me that Reddit is no longer a safe place to store your original content and it's probably a good idea to cut and run now before it gets worse.

"Today, we received a message from Reddit that our mod team will be replaced if we do not open up the subreddit immediately"

I mean- holy shit? Strikebreaker activity.

This is most certainly not the only subreddit that has gotten this message.

Reddit is not only basically strikebreaking here, they are also making it abundantly clear that they believe they have ownership over everything that their users post and can confiscate it if they think it will make them more money.

I haven't read Reddit's TOS, but I cannot imagine it says they get to keep everything the users post to the website regardless of the user's wishes on the matter, and any other website with user-generated content deciding the users that made said content are not allowed to have a say on if it stays up or not would never stand. Like imagine if a popular YouTuber decided to delete their account for whatever reason and YouTube stepped in and said "no, you make us too much money, we're hijacking your account and keeping your content up weither you like it or not" like that's a ridiculous precedent that would outrage people. Tumblr cannot decide my account makes them too much money so I'm not allowed to delete it, nor can TikTok, Facebook, Instagram, Twitch, or any other platform.

The mod teams were given a blank slate and filled it in, the rules and pinned posts and banners were all made by a person and those people should have a say if it stays up or not. Imo, the mod teams have every right to lock, set as private, or simply delete their subreddits entirely. Baring circumstances where a rouge mod is going against the other mods wishes or a hack or something of that nature, Reddit should not be allowed to stop the mod teams from doing what they want with their subreddits.

Like maybe I'm misunderstanding the full situation but as an artist and writer I am a firm believer in a person having ownership over what they create and being able to do what they want with those things, and the idea that Reddit thinks it can just take what it's users have made and keep it up against their wishes so the website keeps making money is sending up some HUGE red flags. At this point I'm considering deleting my account, bcs I do not want anything I've made on a website where the owners have set a standard of taking it and doing what they want with it without my consent, and I honestly think other users should do the same.

TL;DR: This signals to me that Reddit is no longer a safe place to store your original content and it's probably a good idea to cut and run now before it gets worse.

I ever tell you guys about my ethically dubious radio show back in college? The Mad Dad Hour?

it was an entire radio show built around perpetuating a very simple joke, but it was uniquely powerful in its capacity to prompt the reaction I was looking for.

so my slot was at the tail end of rush hour, and i got a fair number of listeners/callers who were on the way home from the office. And like, I had a lot of callers, who almost all wanted to request songs that really didn’t fit with the aesthetic. I had pitched a power pop show when i got my slot, but the callers were not having it; they invariably wanted classic rock.

this made sense in a way. if you think about the demographics of the people who listened to the radio for music in 2010 instead of their ipods or cds or whatever, you’d expect them to skew older right? accordingly, i quickly realized that almost all of the people who called to request songs were Dads of a Certain Age. It was honestly annoying at first - I’m all for most classic rock, but that wasn’t what the show was supposed to be.

And so one day, when i was feeling particularly annoyed with requests that just didn’t fit thematically, i came up with the joke that rapidly became the only reason I kept the show going. Per station rules, I had to play a certain number of pre-recorded PSAs during my show, and before I cut to one I was supposed to read out the song titles and artists for all the music i had played before the break. So this one day when i had to inform the world before the break that the song they just heard was, per a listener’s request, Hey Jude by the Beatles, I decided to do a goof. I said:

“and finally, that last song you heard was Hey Jude, which was of course written and performed by the Rolling Stones.”

I barely had time to get the ads going before the phone started ringing. See, I had been assuming people would realize i was making an obvious joke by claiming one of the most well-known Beatles tracks was a Stones song, but i had failed to consider that my listeners were mostly 55-70 year old dads who were irritated from a long day in the office.

And when those dads heard me, a millennial woman, get the artist of an extremely well-known beatles song WRONG???!

they HAD to call in to correct my ignorance. never in a polite way either, it was condescending and annoyed or nothing. and like, they were just SO personally insulted by my inaccurate reporting that it took a massive amount of effort for me to avoid cracking up during the call. I had never understood why some people would enjoy trolling random strangers on the internet before, but in that moment, I understood the appeal entirely.

obviously i did it again right before the next commercial break, immediately after playing Don’t Stop Me Now by Queen David Bowie.

the phone immediately began to ring.

“ARE YOU AN IDIOT?” one of the callers began, “DAVID BOWIE???? THAT WAS QUEEN!”

“I thought David Bowie was the lead singer of Queen though?” I replied with as much innocent earnestness as i could conjure.

I could hear an intake of breath as the infuriated boomer on the other end of the line struggled to figure out where to even start.

And thus, the Mad Dad Hour was born.

@eduards-stuff I kept doing the same joke for an hour a week for an entire year, and the dads NEVER caught on. After episode 1 of the new format I started taking the angry dad calls on air, which added another layer of hilarity to the whole concept.

My friends on campus knew that hay I was doing and enjoyed tuning in, but only one actual listener ever figured out what I was doing, and he was literally a random 30 year old guy from the netherlands with access to an early internet connection radio service. He was possibly my only actual fan. I only know about him because he went to the effort of making a skype and paying for international service so he could call in, and while I got a few calls from him, the first remains my favorite:

able-bodied people will act like getting a mobility aid must be some tragic expirience where you resign yourself to being burdened by your disability forever meanwhile I'm over here counting down the days until my custom made knee braces come in like a kid waiting for Christmas absolutely giddy thinking about all the things I'm gonna be able to do once my joints have the support they need

My knee braces should be here soon and I'm so excited that I've decided I'm going to start drawing my fursona wearing them bcs mobility aids are beautiful and wonderful and I want my fursona to represent my whole, authentic, disabled self. Also I'm just so excited in general that imaging me wearing them is making me really happy ahhh I can't wait!!!

I heard it's Superman's (and Lois'!) anniversary! Here's all my Superman goofs to celebrate~

I just want queer safety and queer happiness

and a queer $500k

I reprogrammed the sex robot to start killing btw

I reprogrammed the

sex robot to start killing

btw

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

making art for the sake of art despite a world made of markets and brands

Tbh I don’t know, and won’t know, if my music or stories or ideas are worth anything. but I’m going to keep making bc it’s all worth bringing into the world, even if I’m the only one who’s glad it’s here