spooky reminder that i made a VR map of the Magnus Institute you can go explore on vrchat. Its interactable. Its unhinged. its buggy. its full off references. dont take it too seriously.
The average human bite force is between 120-160 PSI (pounds per square inch). However, this pales in comparison to many wild animals and monsters.
died badly
MEGALOVANIA | Super Smash Bros. Ultimate
[Source: Undertale]
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this slaps
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Y'all. Heartache and Bonetrousle play in the background at certain parts. Because they’re the themes of the people Sans cared about the most.
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You might think that I'm joking when I say that we need cyborg rights to be codified into law, but I honestly think that, given the pace of development of medical implants and the rights issues raised by having proprietary technologies becoming part of a human body, I think that this is absolutely essential for bodily autonomy, disability rights, and human rights more generally. This has already become an issue, and it will only become a larger issue moving forwards.
No but seriously we need cyborg rights, in case you don't know how many people count as cyborgs here are some examples;
- People with cochlear implants are cyborgs
- People with pacemakers are cyborgs
- People with insulin pumps are cyborgs
There are even edge cases revolving around how much electricity and integration into the body are necessary to make someone a cyborg.
- People with replacement hips or other bones are by some definitions cyborgs
- People with implanted medical devices such as artificial valves or stents are by some definitions cyborgs
- People with prosthetic limbs are by some definitions cyborgs
- People with ostomy bags are by some definitions cyborgs
- People in wheel chairs, electric or not, are by some definitions cyborgs
The list could go on but I think I made my point that cyborgs are a lot more than just people with robot arms, they are the disabled deserving of the rights to the technology their lives literally depend on.
This is needed.
Earlier this year, a woman was forcibly deprived of a brain implant that was treating her epilepsy because the company that made the implant went bankrupt. Here's a link to one of several articles about it:
This story happened back in the 2010s according to the first article but is still relevant. Also if my cochlears were repossessed by the company for some asinine reason I would literally stop being able to do 80% of the things I do and my future would be ruined. Cyborg rights are necessary and should have been codified decades ago
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dont worry i only have about 1 million of these
Advertising is an incredibly wasteful, ecologically destructive industry that intrudes on our everyday lives pretty much constantly. We’re absolutely fucked if we can’t even question one of the most distinctly obnoxious and useless facets of the ecocidal economic system we live in. Like this isn’t even something that powers our day-to-day existence like the energy sector (literally killing us but also keeping our AC/heat, transportation, etc running)—advertising just pollutes, wastes, and annoys, yet it’s been assimilated into many peoples’ sense of self and their ability to “enjoy things”
Contrary to the claim of free-market ideology, supply is not a response to demand. Capitalist firms usually create the demand for their products by various marketing techniques, advertising tricks, and planned obsolescence. Advertising plays an essential role in the production of consumerist demand by inventing false “needs” and stimulating the formation of compulsive consumption habits, totally violating the conditions for maintaining planetary ecological equilibrium. The criterion by which an authentic need is to be distinguished from an artificial one is whether it can be expected to persist without the benefit of advertising. How long would the consumption of Coca-Cola or Pepsi-Cola go on if the persistent advertising campaigns for those products were terminated? Such examples could be indefinitely multiplied.
“Of course,” pessimists will reply, “but individuals are motivated by an infinity of desires and aspirations, and it is these that will have to be controlled and repressed.” Well, the hope for a paradigmatic change in civilization is indeed based on a wager, as propounded by Karl Marx, that in a society freed from capitalism “being” will be valued over “having.” Personal fulfillment will be achieved through cultural, athletic, erotic, political, artistic, and playful activities, rather than through the unlimited accumulation of property and products—the sort of accumulation induced by the fetishistic consumption inherent in the capitalist system, by the dominant ideology, and by advertising and having nothing to do with some “eternal human nature.”
As capitalism, especially in its current neoliberal and globalized form, seeks to commodify the world, to transform everything existing—earth, water, air, living creatures, the human body, human relationships, love, religion—into commodities, so advertising aims to sell those commodities by forcing living individuals to serve the commercial necessities of capital. Both capitalism as a whole and advertising as a key mechanism of its rule involve the fetishization of consumption, the reduction of all values to cash, the unlimited accumulation of goods and of capital, and the mercantile culture of the “consumer society.” The sorts of rationality involved in the advertising system and the capitalist system are intimately linked, and both are intrinsically perverse.
Advertising pollutes the mental landscape, just like it does the urban and rural landscapes; it stuffs the skull like it stuffs the mailbox. It holds sway over press, cinema, television, radio. Nothing escapes its decomposing influence: in our time we see that sports, religion, culture, journalism, literature, and politics are ruled by advertising. All are pervaded by advertising’s attitude, its style, its methods, its mode of argument. Meanwhile, we are always and uninterruptedly harassed by advertising: without stop, without truce, unrelentingly and never taking a vacation, advertising persecutes us, pursues us, attacks us in city and countryside, in the street and at home, from morning to evening, from Monday to Sunday, from January to December, from the cradle to the grave.
Ecosocialism, Michael Löwy
Legitimately abysmal. Like a dog finding a secluded place to die alone because it feels itself growing weak and you can’t explain to it that veterinary medicine exists
THAT was one of the best eps i have ever seen
Posting this iconic piece of media that I just NEVER found online isolated except in an archived reddit thread
is that a sense of impending doom, or just the summer pollen? probably just the pollen.
anyway, i don't plan on posting full chapters like this too often but take this as a reminder to go check out Ad Astra Per Aspera on its neocities page, where it updates every Friday! In case you’re into comics about things that already exist.
i was thinking about that post comparing Jessica Rabbit as an asexual to Barbie and an asexual and then i thought of the Neil Gaiman post (was it a post?) about Crowley and Aziraphale being asexual and then this happened.
anyways. thoughts?
You are so brave and correct for this
redditors coming to tumblr is gonna create a spike in people figuring out they're trans that will rival even the first 6 months of quarantine
it's ok, boys. i was once as you are. let the questions bloom & the answers enfold you 🌸
PSA to newcomers! if you:
- constantly think about what it would be like to be another gender
- feel envy towards another gender (sometimes mixed up with attraction to that gender)
- believe anyone would choose to be that other gender if they could because it’s simply the better option
- feel like you lost a genetic coin flip at conception because you could have been another gender
- feel anguish and longing because you’re not “one of the girls”/“one of the boys” or because you’re excluded from gendered activities like girls’ nights
- have dismissed the idea of transitioning yourself because you wouldn’t be “real” enough, or because “real” trans people know for sure when they’re young
then uhhhhhh you might want to think about that a bit! if any of those things rang a bell, then DM me and we’ll chat about it 🩵🩷🤍 😘
And always remember -- you never need the "whole thing". Gender identity and expression are both vast spectrums.
It's way more useful, rather than trying to answer the big question of Am I Really A Girl (tm), to break it down into individual subunits:
- What aspects of my current body and/or gendered existence (social interaction, name, pronouns, terms of address, etc etc) am I unhappy with?
- What aspects am I neutral about, but could be better?
- What measures of transition exist to address those needs?
To use myself as an example: I genuinely hated the way that testosterone made me feel, emotionally and physically. Going on testosterone blockers was a way to solve that problem.
But I like my facial hair, especially after estrogen, so I kept it.
If you feel like aspects of being your assigned gender are painful to you, but you're not sure you're Really A Woman/Man (tm), figure out what'll make you happy and just do that. Take my hand, and join me in the big wide world of gender homebrewing.
Please add a custodian paid $12/hour cleaning the whole fucking office complex (who the boss doesn’t even give healthcare coverage to) for added accuracy
Let me stress once again that THIS is capitalism. Not “free markets”, not “advertising”, not “consumerism”. Those things predate capitalism by millennia.
Capitalism is about having a class that owns most of the capital (capitalists, in the classic definition, businessmen or investors in modern lingo), so they end owning the means of production (as in the tools and organizations needed to create value by doing any labor), so the people doing the labor yield to give them most of the product of their work in exchange of using those tools or being part of those organizations. So they end getting most of the profit from the people doing the work without actually doing anything themselves, just by owning the capital.
GRADE SCHOOL SJWS stop using social justice language to explain shit to your conservative parents IT’S NOT GONNA GO THROUGH now all they have are some new words to make fun of. don’t tell your mom she’s being fatphobic tell her she’s being a dick
You gotta use their language to get through to them. Don't talk about the evils of capitalism, talk about rich assholes stealing the blood, sweat and tears of hard-working Americans (or whichever equivalent). Don't talk about privilege, talk about people being spoiled and having it easier, or being out of touch with the real world. Bond over distrust in the government, then slowly explain what it is that government is actually doing.
This one may be more US centric, but many bigotries can be dealt with by talking about freedom and American values of being founded on immigration and equal opportunity. If they're mad about violent protest, tell them freedom is worth fighting for.
This won't always work, but I've changed a lot of minds this way. Deprogramming a cultist mindset isn't easy, and it takes time. But they're being fucked over by the same people we are. The trick is to get them to see it too, and stop supporting their own oppressors. Once the big lie is exposed, they'll begin to question every other bullshit thing they were conditIoned to believe. That's when the real healing can begin.
Hear me out: Witch! Jon and bodyguard Lonley knight Martin
just a lil conversation that doesnt go anywhere cause sometimes I think up random dialogue 💅
The Scooby-Doo Project is a Halloween special that aired in commercial segments during Cartoon Network's Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! marathon on October 31, 1999.
Each "commercial" was a mix of live action handheld footage with traditional hand drawn animations which parodied its source material, The Blair Witch Project (1999), very well. You can watch the 20 min youtube video (linked above) which pieces all of the segments together.