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The best part is OP got fired because their boss asked why they weren’t “incorporating blockchain technology” into the video switcher they were building and OP straight up said “you have no idea what you’re talking about” and went to lunch

*becomes a vtuber and does nothing but play solitaire on stream for 5 hours straight without winning a single game*

im not one to gatekeep anything but sometimes in my writing classes i begin to believe maybe you do need to be a little miserable or fucked up to be a good writer. i had to edit some guys personal essay that was supposed to be about overcoming struggle and he wrote about the stock market crash this year and how it effected his discord server

*sees my friends* *hugs them so closely i clip through their geometry and see the inside of their mouth and their eyeballs*

Here’s the new 24 hour comic I drew this year!  This one is called THE KING’S FOREST.  cw: blood, violence

Tardigrade corn maze at Treinen Farm in Wisconsin.

theres something deep about such a small animal being drawn on such a large scale like do they know does the tardigrade know of their own portrait that is comparable to thousands of universes in length on their scale? a portrait drawn by beings that they know nothing about, but whom know so much about them? beings who live in an entirely other world, yet still admire the small tardigrade? admiration enough to give a tardigrade a glimpse of a micro and macro world in mirror, to let the tardigrade feel what is felt by those who know them? im not crying about the tardigrade cornfield, im not 

Can you imagine, though, if there are beings as big to is as we are to tartigrades? And they made a portrait of us out of galaxies or something?

That's a fun thing to think about.

this is exactly what moved me to reblog, but the feeling was so immense that i couldn't make words around it.

adding highlights to my drawings while not knowing or ignoring where the light source is

Upper Paleolithic hunter-gatherers around 50,000 years ago

Desire paths are just the best human invention because cities will spend millions on sidewalks and yet. Our little foraging brains will think ‘too far cut thru grass for food’ and others will be like ‘other human have good idea. I follow’ until there’s a beaten path when there’s perfectly acceptable sidewalks to either side

For example

I was told that after laying out new buildings at Oklahoma State University a few decades ago, they held off on both sod and walkways for several months. People complained mightily about the dirt and occasional mud, but then the construction crews came back in and put paths along all the worn areas and sod where no one had walked. After that, no more complaints and the paths exactly matched where people wanted to walk.

That's the only reasonable way how to build paths. No matter how great right angles look like, people won't follow the grid. We are not a packman.

tell me something nice

if you grow mushrooms over a toxic waste site, chemical spill, or other polluted growing medium, they will suck up the toxins into their fruiting bodies with such effectiveness that they are being studied for their ability to clean up tainted industrial sites. it’s called mycoremediation.

if you do this with edible mushrooms, they are no longer technically edible, but on the other hand they make a great way to poison your enemies. this is called murder and it’s usually frowned upon, but they won’t see it coming and you get bragging rights afterwards about your ability to kill people with a pizza topping.

Sorry this was not precisely most people’s idea of “nice.” Let me add that you are a glow of comforting absurdity in an ever-more-fucked-up world.

I love everything about mycoremediation, but also

I experienced this when I used to pay Pokemon competitively back when I was in college. I decided to throw a little casual tournament for fun and to get people together. 

First I was bombarded with questions about a prize. I mentioned one on my flyer, and many people were expecting cash. When I informed them the prize was minor (a rare in game shiny pokemon), half of the entrants dropped out. Several of them went to lengths insulting me in my email for wasting their time. 

Next it was about the rules. People were wondering if I was using the “official Smogon rules” for the tourney. I told them no, this is a casual tournament, that’s a little too serious for this. I got dozens of emails proceeding to tell me how wrong I was, how dare I blaspheme the gospel that is the Smogon rules, and it just never ended.

In fact, it pissed me off so much I banned any “official Smogon” recommended moveset. People were furious and told me that I can’t do that. I informed them its my tournament, I can make any rule I damn well please. This instance was one of the few things that made me give up competitive play. 

Basically, anyone who takes a game meant for fun and takes it way too seriously just ends up ruining the fun for everyone else. To them its not fun, its a full dedicated passion to proving they’re better than you, not a jolly good time its supposed to be. 

this happened twice to me. the first was when i was in japan and i stuffed my luggage with calbee cereal. the TSA person asked me why on earth i just have cereal and i explained that im addicted to it and my country sells it for twice as much so i just gotta hoard it

second time was when i flew within US. my luggage was full of snacks and the TSA agent said “wow ur afraid to be hungry huh” i just sheepishly smiled as he tried to zip my luggage full of chips and chocolate

hey man I’m loving these goggle instructions I found, I feel they have real meme potential

Men who are over 6 ft are fruity

What do you need to be that tall for? To hold other men?

and don’t even get me started on men under 6 ft. why are you so short? to be held by another man?

“that’s just the way the world works” it literally doesn’t have to be but okay

if anyone ever tells you “humans are just selfish / life is cruel / that’s just how the world is, get over it” be critical of them bc there’s a 75% chance they’re just using that as an excuse for their own shitty behavior so that they don’t have to put an effort into being better, kinder people

Finally, a sane celebrity who doesn’t bend the knee to feminist bullshit.

Source

My god I love her.

I know people are gonna get salty af about this but by God she’s RIGHT.

When Brad Pitt did Fight Club, he was cutting weight for every single scene to maintain his physique at 155. I’ve you’ve ever cut weight, you know how horrible that must have been. He did it because they needed a “look”.

Changing Tatum said his Magic Mike body doesn’t last for more than five days. He starved down and dehydrated his already fit physique for a “look”.

The male soldiers on Spartacus: Blood and Sand were eating pretty much chicken and veggies for every meal to maintain a “look”.

Why is this such a big deal? Because all these characters are considered physical goals for men. These are actual unobtainable physical standards for men. Male body image issues get swept under the rug so often that some people don’t even think they exist.

You want proof? Just check out that scene in Captain America: First Avenger where Cap just transformed into that beautiful beefcake of a man. Agent Carter’s actress just HAD to touch them muscles, it was completely unscripted.

Chris Evans had to wear shirts so small they physically hurt, and he dislocated a shoulder during the helicopter scene in Civil War. But who cares, girls got to wet their panties watching Captain America flex.

If we are talking about unrealistic physical standards of male fitness given to us by movies, I would like to mention Hugh “Wolverine” Jackman here.

Yeah, he is ripped, isn’t he?

Well, it is true, but to get that kind of definition, he went through 36 hour period of dehydration, which caused him to temporarily lose 10 pounds of “water weight”. 

Thus during the fight scene he was filming, he was a hair breadth from blacking out whole time, just to look unrealistically muscular.

As he said during interview with Steven Colbert, “If You go three days without water, You will die. Then, when You are halfway there they shout ‘Roll it!”

It’s the same with professional bodybuilders who get into periods of extreme fasting and dehydration to lower their fat-to-muscle ratio to inhuman levels, all in hopes of making their muscle definition a bit better.

According to experts, healthy body fat percentage for a healthy male ranges from 8% to 20%, depending on height, lifestyle and numerous other variables. 

Fitness model and professional bodybuilder Helmut Strebl also known as “World’s Most Shredded Man” as he supposedly managed to get his body fat percentage below 5%…

… But only when he partakes in competitions, since it is not humanly possible to live with such low fat percentage of one’s body for longer periods of time.

I mean, yeah, he keeps a draconian training regime, as well as a very strict diet even off-season, but looks much more human then…

There are documented cases of incredibly fit and muscular bodybuilders fainting on the stage in the middle of their flexing routines, as well as several who outright died, because of cardiac arrest caused by their blood becoming too thick, due to long dehydration…

And let’s not forget about Muscle Dysmorphia, colloquially known as “Megarexia” or “Bigarexia”.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muscle_dysmorphia

Yeah, it’s a thing, but it’s barely talked about, since it’s apparently not manly to admit to having problems like that, which also creates problems with researching this particular disorder…

So… Thanks Hollywood?

I had no idea that most people who looked like this are dehydrated until I read posts like this.

dehydrated to the point theyre about a day away from actual organ failure okay so chris hemsworth is a absolute god of a man, but hollywood says ‘thats not good enough’ and for the thor movie he has to spend several days having the juice squeezed from his body untill he looses about a gallon of whats supposed to be him so that he can do 2 days of shooting scenes without his shirt, after which he has to have recovery time before he is hospitalized because i am not joking about ‘one day away from organ failure’ thats the benchmark- look at chris hemsworth and process that he is told he isnt suitable for a shirtless scene without prepping for three days and nearly fainting

real feminism acknowledges the unhealthy standards that men are held to. radfems brush them off as non-existent

guys, feminism is for you, too. it’s for all of us.

Unrealistic body images helps no one and actively hurts men too!!

since the discussion of that they put henry cavill through for the witcher is floating around my blog, i want to add this too,.

one of the reasons producers get away with this in men and no one criticizes it is because we are fed the lie that this body type is 1) attainable and 2) healthy.

We know starving women down to skinniness is unhealthy, but you see an overmuscled man and you don’t immediately think dehydration. 

i love this whole thread but uh

this IS feminism. being able to speak out about that? that’s the most feminist thing she could have done. don’t call it bullshit, because this is IMPORTANT. these men are being starved and dehydrated and basically just hurt over and over again so that people can drool over their muscles and no one (by which i mean the audience) realizes something is wrong. so don’t say that this isn’t feminism, because it is. it really, really is.

^^^

Remember when Zac Efron ate pasta in his Netflix show and cried afterwards?

Also that Natalie Dormer headline is 100% feminist thank you @crying-at-ikea for your service.