Reblog if you love seeing people comment on your fics and you become a chaotic mess of excitement when you read them
reader LIKED the fic? reader left thoughtful comment because they thought there was something worth analyzing? oh! oh! love for reader! love for reader for one thousand years!
Renegade Legends: Curious Exile, Page 04
In which Risa delivers what is probably the harshest burn in the chapter.
Next Page (coming June 17th)
Done with markers on Bristol, with text added in Photoshop, as always.
Annie are you ok
the editing in this is incredible
I still don’t get tired of this 🤣
Darlings, best boys, saviours of Middle-earth!
Every now and then I get hit with nostalgia and LotR always has a place in my heart. So here's Sam and Frodo!
[ ID: A Venn diagram with 6 overlapping triangles.
One is 'chess openings' which lists Crab, King's Indian, Ruy Lopez, Pirc, Sicilian, and Oxford. Oxford overlaps with 'citation styles' which lists APA, MLA, AP, Chicago, and IEEE. IEEE overlaps with 'shocked exclamations' which lists What the fuck!, ZOINKS, Oh my god!, OH NO, AAAAAH, and Mamma Mia!. Mamma Mia! overlaps with 'Broadway musicals' which lists Wicked, Cabaret, Moulin Rouge, Chicago, and Rent. Rent overlaps with 'things that are too expensive' which lists healthcare, Adobe software, vegetables, and New York. New York overlaps with 'pizza styles' which lists wood fired stuffed crust, Detroit, Chicago, and Sicilian. Sicilian overlaps with 'chess openings' and Chicago is the middle between 'pizza styles', 'Broadway musicals', and 'citation styles'. End ID ]
NYC Data Stories: Allyship
For when people say they’re sick of seeing gay stuff everywhere. Suck it up. 4 years. 4 years. And that’s just on the books, it’s legal. It doesn’t stop shitty attitudes, actions, or straight up violence.
Source: reddit.com
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Note that the context of this GIF is that Zelda suspects the frog in question is psychoactive and is attempting to convince Link to eat it so that she can observe his reaction and determine whether she’s right.
Whether that makes it less romantic or more is left as an exercise for the reader.
no it's romantic. doing experiments on you is one of the main ways that girls show romance
its called peace and happiness and kindness and joy and simple fun. Its called a Good time
I thought this was just hanging out.
The countries that got tea via China through the Silk Road (land) referred to it in various forms of the word “cha”. On the other hand, the countries that traded with China via sea - through the Min Tan port called it in different forms of “te”.
I liked this so much I became curious… and it checks out! The explanation lies, unsurprisingly, in who was interacting with whom in early modern long-distance trade.
Source: youtube.com
person w adhd experiencing symptoms of adhd: why the fuck can’t I do this thing . I wish there was some explanation for this
hexpress
ty for stealing this one much appreciated
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people in the notes suggesting it was "improper" for the juror to do this or that it "introduced bias" to the court proceeding 🙄 the ice agent in question accused a moc of assaulting him / resisting arrest. how is the agent being a white supremacist not relevant. what universe are you living in
As a member of the world’s SECOND oldest profession, I assure you this is just one of many ways the justice system is systematically fucked up.
For anyone who wants to know how to fact check something you are told while on jury duty without getting fined:
First, you need to understand that the rule that jurors can’t just google things is coming from a good place. Like imagine that you are on a jury that’s considering, say, a medical malpractice lawsuit and one of your fellow jurors comes into the jury room and says to you, “I think the victim’s expert was lying because WebMD totally contradicts everything they said.”
And you might be like, “But WebMD is notoriously unreliable website and the expert you’re talking about is a researcher from Mayo Clinic.” But this person cannot be swayed.
Like, we can all agree that would be bad.
So even though these rules can contribute to unjust outcomes as in the case above (and seriously, the fact that the defense attorney didn’t fact check that is probably grounds for legal malpractice), they also prevent jurors from just looking up bullshit online and taking it more seriously than the actual experts the court has put on. And I think in the era of anti-vaxxers/QAnon/COVID denial/etc., we can all understand why it’s a bad idea to trust that people can tell fact from bullshit online.
So in light of this, how do you as a juror fact check something?
The key here is that you have to ask the court for information. Jurors can ask questions of the court during deliberations, so if something you said sounds off to you, you can ask for more information.
The key term you want to use here is “credibility.”
The job of a jury is to decide what are called “questions of fact.” Long before the trial even starts, lawyers will have hashed out all the “questions of law” --- like, what the statute of limitations is; what laws, exactly, were allegedly broken; whether the court you’re in even has jurisdiction; stuff like that. Jurors are responsible for deciding which side’s version of the facts has more credibility.
For instance, if the prosecution’s witness says X and the defense’s witness says Y, the jury is responsible for deciding which is true, X or Y. And you do this by weighing which one is more credible.
So in this case, if the juror had known to, he could have told the judge, “In order to properly assess the ICE agent’s credibility, I need more information about his tattoo. I have doubts about whether he was telling the truth about it, which would impact how credible I would find his testimony. Can the agent please provide evidence that it really is what he says it is?”
There are a lot of problems with our legal system, and I think one of the biggest is that jurors aren’t educated about what they can and can’t do. Juries have a lot of power, if (and only if) they know how to use it.
Reblogging for that last post, because frankly, “what to do as a juror” is one of those things the schools should really be teaching us. Serving on a jury is one of the most powerful rights of citizenship and everyone should be educated in how to exercise it correctly.
I like giving advice and otherwise try to be helpful to complete strangers on the internet, it's like giving back to the community. Growing up as a feral child, I was abandoned into my room at an early age and was discovered and raised by a wild pack of internet strangers.
Toyokawa Inari: Lantern-filled temple complex with shrines & statues, including hundreds of Shinto fox deities. Japan. Photography by ta2funk.eth @ta2funk
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Just saw a high school production of Addams Family and while sure, it was good and all, I’m almost positive the school chose it because they have a 6’9 kid to played Lurch.
Appreciate the excellence of a closed curtain, a hushed audience awaiting the pre-show, and then a giant walks onstage, shows you a cellphone, wags his finger, and then smashes it with a hammer.
Should be standard practice
pioneering something called "gritted teeth optimism" where everything is gonna turn out okay even if i have to bite and claw and gnash my way through it
