Oh, To Be

No, but for real if you are unaware, Russia is full scale invading Ukraine right now. Not just in Donetsk and Luhansk which were the break away regions that Russia recognized as independent. It's in pretty much every major Ukrainian city right now other than Lviv in the far western part of Ukraine.

There have been missile strikes in Kyiv, Kharkiv, and Dnipro.

Here's a video of a missile flying over the head of a reporter in Ukraine.

Putin has basically put out a declaration of war

They're starting by bombing Ukraine's military supplies and then they're going to roll in the tanks. All of this is from the last 30 minutes or so (as of 11:07 pm CST)

Air raid sirens are going off in Kyiv

Skirmishes between Russian and Ukrainian troops are occurring on the border

If you're wondering what you can do to help, here's a list from Ukraine's Minister of Foreign Affairs of what Western countries can do to help.

Call your representatives, pressure your governments into doing everything they can to help Ukraine. Donate where you can. I will not be including donation links as I cannot verify their authenticity but I'm sure you can find some online.

This is not the 2014 Crimea crisis. This is happening all over Ukraine. I hate to say it, but this really could be war.

I know it doesn't mean much, but my thoughts and prayers are with the people of Ukraine.

The latest update is that it is not just Russia, and that Belarus is assisting in the invasion.

This is bad because Kyiv is not very far from the Belarusian border. If Putin moves his troops through Belarus and into Ukraine, they could capture Kyiv swiftly.

Edit: There is now footage of tanks rolling into Ukraine

Last thing I'm gonna put on this post for tonight because as much as I want to witness history, I still have work tomorrow.

There's a Twitter list that was made featuring reporters on the ground in Ukraine that I have been following for most of my updates. Recommend you check it out for further updates.

This action by Putin absolutely breaks my heart. I am not from Ukraine or Russia. I cannot speak from their perspectives. But from my perspective, as someone who studied the region extensively in university, all of Putin's "justifications" for this are a massive pile of shit but I am not surprised that this is happening. I always knew it was a possibility given the strong East/West divide in Ukraine and how Putin has played puppet master with Ukraine for decades, trying to install pro-Russia puppets in the Ukrainian government multiple times.

I never wanted this to happen though. I had hoped it wouldn't. But here we are. The West needs to stand with Ukraine. If Ukraine falls, others are soon to follow.

My thoughts and prayers are with every Ukrainian tonight.

I know I’m the old technology freak but… These new fridges are terrible. Trust me.

I was a tech for a while and serviced them. You’d be lucky to get 3 years without a major failure.

Strong beige box lasts for 20+ years and plus it comes with The Guy

the "came back wrong" trope except like... they didnt. like this mad scientists wife died, and so he studied necromancy, brought her back, and she came back and it all worked. like she came back exactly the same as she was before with literally no difference. but the scientist guy is like "oh no... what have i done.... shes Different now!!!! she came back Wrong!!!!" and shes just like. chilling. reading a book. cooking dinner. shes just so so normal but in the guys mind hes like "oh shes soooo weird" but shes just normal

Peer reviewed tags from @somanyofthekids

NO its a JOKE and YOU DONT GET IT. ITS NOT THAT DEEP

While she was dead he put his memory of her on such a high pedestal that she could never live up to it alive

alternatively‚ she came back perfectly fine but he thinks she came back wrong‚ because the tragic reality is that he never actually knew his wife

im going INSANE thats MY POST.

It's your post but the journey to posting it changed it to such a degree that even its closest intimacies are now foreign to you. Sorry dude.

Another alternative idea, she was also mad scientist before the resurrection, now shes just a regular scientist.

is this even funny i dont think its funny im not putting it in the tags

How has this comic made such a groundbreaking cultural impact without getting over 40k notes

I know some people are worried about Iron Lung and Mark because of the strike, but you don't need to be. Mark is a union member, doing a union movie, he's not crossing the picket line.

To cross the picket line would mean working with any of the four companies the union is striking against. Mark's movie has no affiliation with Disney, Netflix, Amazon, or Warner Bros. The cast is safe, he's safe, the movie is safe.

Unless, for any odd reason, he pays any of these companies, or gets his movie tangled up in them, then he would be in trouble, but he is not going to do that.

With post production almost done, he's fine, he is out of the bigger struggles, and he has no reason to interact with any of those companies. Most of those companies are so big because they fund people's ideas and projects so that they can actually be made rather than struggling with self funding. Mark and his team never needed them because he's funding the movie, and doing the work to get advertising and marketing finalized, and he's not doing any of that through those companies.

He owns the movie, he paid for the movie, he wrote the movie script, he's the main actor in the movie. Even when he pays for scheduling and buying spots in theaters, he still won't be working with the big four, he'll be competing against them as an independent movie.

He's pro union, he's fine. It's how he did in space, and maybe even heist. At the moment, he's basically functioning as a small creative company, and one that's probably better for his workers, and paying them better than those who are marching with their picket signs. Crossing the line would be actually having to cross those people to get to the big four, and he's not involved with Hollywood, he isn't in that world, he sits beside it.

Now the edge of sleep, that might be a different story. I don't think Mark is allowed to talk about the show already since he hasn't talked about it much so far. He did leak some on stream once, and was kinda stressed about it, but it turned out alright. He doesn't talk about the show at all so he's probably under contract. I don't know how the strike will affect it since it's probably going on streaming (Netflix), and if it's already ready to go and waiting on a time slot then Mark will have to be unaffiliated with the rest of the project. He won't be able to talk about it at all, no promotion of it. If it changes platforms to something else like, HBO, Hulu, or Peacock then maybe it'll be fine (unless those are under any of the four, and I don't honestly know if they are.)

Oh okay so it's good then

Jason reliving his child of divorce era

Jason continues to not beat the adoptability allegations

I need UK journalists to not show 43 degrees is not beach weather like people are gonna die

Americans do not interact

Im Australian, and 43C is NOT beach weather. That is VERY hot, even for us, but for the UK its apocalyptic. At 43C you should not even be going outside if you can help it, treating it like beach weather is a one way ticket to heatstroke.

I agree with not going outside for long periods of time but you will have to plan something to reduce the heat within your households. Especially if your house is designed to retain heat

Fans pointed at open windows will pull out hot air and allow it to circulate - don't put them IN the window, leave some room by the side for extra air to get drawn in.

If you can't afford cold packs (and if you can, stock up on some NOW), get some ziplock bags and freeze them, with wet washcloths or ripped up towel inside. You want them to be ready in the freezer when you need them. Wrap them in a tea towel and put them on your wrists and ankles.

A big bowl of ice water in front of a fan will blow cold air into the room and make a massive difference. Again, if you don't have ice cube trays get some and freeze them *now*, don't wait until you're already in trouble (although I am melting at quarter past nine but my thermoregulation is bollocks so I don't know if that's the heat or just the me). If you can't afford to get any, clean out empty yoghurt pots or Tupperware or whatever you have that can hold water. Even if you end up with a giant ice cube from a lunchbox, it'll help.

Even just opening two windows at a crack will allow some air circulation - I sometimes prop open my bedroom door and leave the bathroom door open, both windows are locked at a crack because of the cats but it creates a nice little line of wind along the landing.

If you're someone who needs something on them to sleep, take your duvet out of the cover and just use the cover.

Remember that water acts as a lens - you do NOT want to wear a wet t shirt in the burning sun. I did this when I was 8 and if I tan on my back you can still see the scars.

Read the instructions for sunscreen carefully, and use the highest spf you can find. Reapply as per the instructions. If you get burned, Malibu do an amazing aloe-based spray on after sun, I got mine from Savers for 3 quid and it lasts ages. I keep it and any other after sun in the fridge, which means it's incredibly lovely to put on. Aloe is magic for burns so definitely gravitate towards that if you can. My son got badly burned (he's ginger, he went to an outdoor pool and they forgot to give him sunscreen) and he's had 2 helpings of it and you wouldn't believe how much better he is (he couldn't even really wear a shirt).

Make sure your pets have plenty of fresh cold water to drink, and if they usually have dry food consider giving them some wet food for one of their meals (cats are notoriously not always great drinkers but wet food will get them some liquid). Keep the curtains and/or blinds closed in south-facing rooms. I have blackout curtains in the front room and the front bedroom (my son's) and they make a MASSIVE difference to the heat. Make sure pets have access to these cooler spaces if you can create them.

Keep oven/hob use to a minimum if you can. I like making a massive pot of something that can be reheated in the microwave if necessary - the oven especially adds a lot of heat. Or get some wraps and ham and cheese and eat those.

Cordial or fruit juice can be better than water if you're sweating a lot. Cordial is cheap as chips. Salty snacks are also good.

Go to Iceland and buy a billion lolly ices. It's especially a good way to make sure kids stay hydrated.

I realize op asked for Americans not to interact, and whether or not they're being cheeky, I feel obligated to reblog this to save lives.

That temperature is absolutely murder, even moreso with humidity.

Please, be safe and stay hydrated!

For reference, 43 degrees celsius is roughly equivalent to 109.4 degrees fahrenheit. That’s bad.

This is nearly DOUBLE the typical average temperature of the UK. I don't care if you grew up in Satan's asshole, if you woke up one day and it was twice as hot as it usually is, you're gonna have a bad fucking time. The infrastructure is not built for 40+ degrees, and with the government doing... The thing it's doing, I doubt they're gonna even bother to help people, so people need to see things like this post to be able to help each other instead.

Heads up UK folks, we're looking at hitting 40°C again in about two weeks. Now's a great time to prepare however you can, figure out what you can do to make things more bearable

Putting a wet tea towel in the freezer for 20 minutes (in a freezer bag so it didn't stick to anything) then tying it to my wrists/ankles helped a lot last year, so I'll share this post in the run up in case it helps anyone else

Keep an eye out for people struggling, including yourself

For people with latex sensitivities: aloe contains a natural latex, so do not use it on any burns you may get during this, it'll just feel worse

Having your own personal blog is honestly quite a nice change of pace compared to Reddit. I could put a funny GIF of George Bush getting hit by a shoe on here and the worse case scenario is that no one even notices.

You put that on a big subreddit and you get your eyes gouged out and a heap of political discourse underneath your post.

fun fact about me is that when i was a kid id write capital E’s with as many of those little horizontal lines as possible and id call them ladder E’s and adults fucking hated them

artistic rendition

All capital letters should have a leveled-up form

So far I’ve got

Please add your own unsettling godtier capitals!

New alphabet dropped!

oh my god, it’s beautiful

(future handwritten notes are gonna be so wonderfully cursed now, thank you! :D )

well it’s going to take some getting used to, @ceekari (don’t mind the redacted letter between T and U)

But I think i’ve taken a real shine to it! 

recursive

So i may have done a thing in an insomnia fueled jaunt into insanity.

find an .otf of the font here

This is how new alphabets get invented.

Tags that absolutely wrecked me. I think about this all the time. My little boy sleeping right next to me right now and I know that this love and joy will one day be followed by unbearable grief that I'll never be ready for

reblog to shlop your friends

Hi, My Name’s Clementine, I’m 6 Months Old, And I Hate The Smell Of Mint

#cats will walk up to a thing take a whiff and immediately announce their opinion™

Tonight in ‘reddit headines that made me laugh’

I like in the comments some people are like “well, obviously people are getting body mods and who wouldn’t choose to make themselves hot?” and it’s like.

Folks.

If we’re living in the cyberpunk dystopia and I’m getting myself modded up I’m not going to go for “sexy kewpie doll.” I’m going to have myself turned into like, a 7-foot tall monstrosity with Doc Ock arms and laser eyes.  Look, I don’t care if some extra bulk has to be added around my midsection to support the infrastructure, I could give a shit about my waist-to-hip ratio, I just want to be able to scale walls, snatch helicopters out of the sky and throw them at Jeff Bezos.

cyberpunk future where society is divided between supermodel/anime esque exaggerations of the idealised human form, and inhuman utilitarian agglomerations of cables and lights and technology. 

ah yes the two genders, ‘kpop star’ and ‘tank’

you would not believe this song has been here for quite so long and that tomorrow’s its date of birth

nine years in a waking dream and now with a comeback meme the parodies spring up from all round the earth

Happy birthday

"writers deserve attention more than actors" literally only 2% of actors can pay the bills with acting. For every megastar on screen there are a dozen other people in the shot who are SAG. Acting gets so glamorized but there are SO MANY people in SAG who NEED residuals to live on. Background Party Girl #4 needs her check too!!!! There are people who play recurring characters on syndicated shows who cant afford health insurance!!! Ke Huy Quan gave an oscar winning performance and LOST HIS HEALTH INSURANCE the next year.

For the record, accidentally tapping on Tumblr live when it randomly appears every week does not count as using Tumblr live for the sake of this poll. This is only referring to purposeful use of the feature.

I'd appreciate it if people could share this for a larger sample size!

@staff

Does he mean anything to you