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Coming back in this trying time to hereby inform you that I am part of the Mutant Mixtape 6: Home booklet! If you don’t know, Mutant Mixtape is a collaborative charity mixtape which includes a variety of diverse artists, both audio + visual, with exclusive tracks by Arca, Andy Morin (Death Grips), Merzbow, Glass Beach and many other talented people! 

You can buy and/or listen to it on bandcamp. All proceeds go to Red Comunitaria Trans.

I can only post this preview of my piece. 

Be safe, be cool and remember to animatedly hate tumblr staff and apple store! 

Fun fact! We don't actually know that's what the Pacific ocean looks like because we can't get imaging deep enough to actually check. This model is simply assuming the ocean floor is there due to projections based on the bits we can get to. And I think that's fun.

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We’ve known what the floor of the pacific looks like for decades.

This is from a nat geo in 1969. We’ve done sonar imaging of the two deepest points in the Marianas Trench and sent multiple exploration vehicles into the trench. James Cameron has sent exploration vehicles into the marianas trench ffs. If we can explore the deepest trench in the pacific then we can get imaging of the rest of it.

Y’all really just get on tumblr dot com see a post and go “I think I will lie today.” don’t ya.

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The original image?

That's now what the Earth would look like without water.

That map up there has extreme vertical exaggeration added to it.

Now look at this diagram:

You see this? You see how smooth it is? You see how you can barely even see the continents?

Continental crust is upwards of 40km thick. You see the upper mantle/aesthenosphere? That's 660km. You think 40km is gonna look like ANYTHING compared to that?

It doesn't.

Yeah. The Earth is fucking big and continents and mountains are piddly and small compared to the diameter of the Earth.

"So you need to read theory to realize that it's nice when people don't starve?" yes you DO absolutely need to read theory.

like. people on the internet often mistake ethic statements for critique. "i don't think it's moral that people starve" is ethics. Why are people starving in the first place, what is keeping that starvation and how to overcome it is critique, and you can't realize that stuff alone overnight.

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I really don't understand these arguments against regulating the exotic pet market. These unicorn owners who are doing everything right and saving rare species from extinction are so few and far between and so outnumbered by the bad husbandry. If you're this committed to the animals what's wrong with an extra step of licensing to weed out neglectful owners??

Remember when that girl tried to say that firefox was bad because a former CEO was homophobic and I pointed out why that was a terrible take (throwing out the baby [open source non-google web browser with great extensions] with the bathwater [dipshit who left like ten years ago and also developed javascript and i don't see you ditching all sites with java for your principles]) and she went and looked through my posts and tried to call me out for supporting hyperconsumptive capitalism and encouraging anorexia because I'd reblogged a photoset from a runway show and I was like "bitch I don't care about fashion, I've got a latex fetish" and then she blocked me?

That was very funny.

HEY THERE THAT GAME I MADE IN 2016 WITH A FRIEND ABOUT ROMANCING GIRLS NAMED AFTER ROMAN EMPERORS AS A GIRL, UNDER FASCISM (huh?), IS OUT

I’d be very happy if you played it. I’d be even happier if you liveblogged my ear off.

But I would not be happy if you ignored the CONTENT WARNING: fascism, misoginy, homophobia, comphet, murder. “Hey can I have a crumb of happiness” I swear the good endings are good!! (watch out for the bad ones though)

Feels weird to get it out from dev hell but I’m just so happy these kids are available to the whole world now… 6 years of headcanons later