Scaredy Cats

For years I've heard that those booby mousepads are actually really good for a person with carpal tunnel syndrome but didn't decide to test that knowledge because I don't want to buy a booby mousepad that would make me some sort of sex pervert, I was raised Catholic I'm a good boy not a sex pervert. But earlier this year I bought a Gigan body pillow as a joke only to find out body pillows are actually really comfortable sleep aids, so... so I bought one... I bought a booby mousepad.

...and my wrist feels so much better when I'm using it.

How many other comforts and aids have I forsaken because they're embarrassingly horny? How many discomforts have I endured purely out of a societal shame about expressing anything sexual? This world is fucked man.

For those curious why exactly this is, it's because booby mousepads are pretty much the only ergonomic mousepads which still use silicone gel. Basically everything else has switched to either air-filled memory foam or a cured silicone rubber – like the kind used in silicone bakeware – because it's not prone to springing leaks and oozing everywhere; unfortunately, it also doesn't work nearly as well.

(In theory, if you're not a fan of boobs you could get a silicone gel wrist pad without the booby design. In practice, good fucking luck; consumer fraud is rampant in non-prescription medical and assistive devices, and the overwhelming majority of non-booby mousepads which claim to use silicone gel are straight up lying – what you actually receive if you order one will be air-filled memory foam or solid rubber at least 80% of time, regardless of what the product description says.)

There's big money in horny, but that money is very discerning about quality and much less forgiving of fraud.

is he okay

Damn he must've contributed so much to Morbius' gross

That's the funniest part. For his Morbius vid, he actually bought tickets to Everywhere All At Once and snuck into Morbius each time as to not play any part in making Sony think that they should make more Morbius.

Not all heroes wear capes, but according to that thumbnail this one does

Competition breeds innovation. The problem is that American capitalists means everything in the supermarket is made by one of three conglomerates and prescription glasses are several hundred dollars more expensive because one fucking company has near total market control.

i have to respond to this because “competition breeds innovation” is one of those thought-terminating clichés that people repeat that isn't even true.

competition does NOT breed innovation. at least not under capitalism. market competition always leads to monopolies in the long term unless the state gets involved and regulates them out. under capitalism and the quest for endless market growth and market dominance, the “winners” of the market either buy up their competitors leading to these massive conglomerates or end up the sole existing business in that industry. these monopolies being so big have a lot of power and control over the market and that tends to shut out any businesses that might attempt to compete.

also, its not hard to see that competition isn't leading to innovation when you look at certain industries. like the tech industry right now especially. so many of these big tech giants see some other successful company (like tiktok) and then implement their own version of their key product (youtube shorts, facebook/instagram reels) in an attempt to recapture the market share. competition isn't leading to innovation there. its leading to a bunch of companies copying each other as they fight to dominate the market. its pretty fucking stupid and unimaginative imo. not even remotely innovative. (and annoying, if i want to watch tiktok videos, i'll open up tiktok, i don't want short videos on youtube. that's where i go for longform video content. stop clogging up my feed, youtube!)

what actually breeds innovation is cooperation and collaboration. this is where ideas are shared and improved upon—collaboratively. this is how human innovation has always worked before venture capitalist investor types fucked us all over. even nature and evolution work more this way when you see it through a more holistic lens. collaboration breeds innovation.

that said, its not like we need competition to have 27 different hot sauces. and since market competition is about market share and stockholder returns and not actually about having a quality product, without market competition/domination we could easily have a lot more hot sauces and a lot more innovation within the hot sauce world. take that capitalist cockroaches!

Not to take your very articulate points and boil them down to a different thought terminating cliche, but the short of it is

Cooperation breeds inovation, competition then inbreeds successful innovation.

There was some person who first said, "chicken sandwich?" To which someone else said, "good idea, but lets make the chicken wider so it takes up the whole bun," and thus through cooperation, the chicken sandwich as we know it was borne.

And then the idea was promptly capitalized upon by every other fastfood company, such that you can get a chicken sandwich at near every fucking restaurant but they're all made out of ticky tacky and they all look just the same.

Except that's quite true, because in pursuit of profits, some of them are worse because of corner cutting. I know of at least one restuarant where for the so-called "chicken sandwich" they have offer, the chicken isn't one tender, but the substancially worse two chicken tenders side by side. And it's obvious that they wanted the success of the chicken sandwich, but didn't want to pay the cost for a new product (the wider patty) so their copycat chicken sandwich just uses the stuff they already had in the kitchen (chicken tenders), inbreeding upon successful innovation to make the product worse but cheaper.

Etc etc.

*watches my only beloved son slide down this and crinkle up like a crushed soda can*

World Heritage Post

“Do the girls back home touch you like I do? No chance.” 😏

Quite the double feature.

Daryl and Marlin, our ship cats! It's Marlin's second season sailing (though he's been with us three years- got locked at the seaport last season for crimes) and Daryl's first! What sweet babies 💖

The people have spoken: What Crimes Has Locked This Poor Soul Away

You are Marlin, ship's cat and mascot of the tallship Lady Washington. It is the summer of 2021, you are about a year old, and full of Mischief.

Lady is docked in the Port of Everett, and no one is paying attention to you- never mind the fact that they're doing their jobs and getting money so they can keep pampering you. No, they're not paying attention to you Right This Instant, so you decide you want to take a little jaunt off the ship and explore on your own.

In addition to the marina, the waterfront, and all manner of other delights, the Port of Everett also has a Naval base, so you decide to check it out! See what all the fuss is about.

Of course, wandering kitties without the proper credentials aren't allowed on high security Naval bases, so when the Marines inevitably capture you and ask you where your people are and what you're doing here and how you got here, you just curl up cutely and bat your eyes and meow the most pitiful meow because these new people are paying attention to you but not the Right attention, no one's even petting you!

They call the number on your collar, which goes to the captain of Lady at the time, who... is on leave. In Florida.

"Ma'am? Is this your cat?"

"Oh god yeah where was he?"

"A high security government facility. Can you come pick him up?"

"Considering I'm on the other side of the country, no. Let me get in contact with the crew to send someone."

"Thank you. Also he's very cute."

"I know."

So the captain does just that, playing telephone while trying to find someone to go pick you up. Except by the time a viable crewmember is chosen and calls back to confirm, you've gotten bored and decided you want to leave.

So you clawed the Marine holding you and escaped.

You get a smidgen more exploring time before you're captured again and taken to your crew and back to the boat, but at this point no one is happy including you, because no one pet you the Whole Time you were off adventuring and that's a damn travesty.

And not only that, when you get back to the ship, you're locked up tight in the aft cabin because no one trusts you anymore not to wander off and break into government facilities when they're not looking, and then when the boat gets back to her homeport in Aberdeen, they do you just the WORST injustice and lock you inside there! For the whole winter! And then the following summer, because you are now a Criminal and Criminals don't sail.

Except this season, you made Big Pouty Eyes at everyone, and they caved and let you back on, so you are a very happy kitty now.

With a tracker in your collar so this doesn't happen again.

David Shrigley, This huge cat (2022)

So the James Webb telescope just took a picture of a galaxy that is 29 million light years away.

If that wasn't cool enough NASA decided to peel away all the cosmic dust in order to see the bones of the Galaxy itself.

AND IT'S BREATHTAKING

Janet does have a thing she can say that does make me realize she is really not her. I called Janet "girl," but she didn't say, "Not a girl. " The real Janet always says, "Not a girl. "

Good Omens (2019 -) // The Good Place (2016-2020) // Nimona (2023)

I am compelled to note that the Uhura line was an ad-lib. I love it so much more for that.

Draw the cat eye sharp enough to kill a man.

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i think the kids are moving on too soon from the fact that we got You Are In Love as a surprise song this week

It still makes me emotional to think about it, because we got to relive all of the past YAIL lore. The “on the way home” post, all of her snow globe references (SO MANY SNOW GLOBES, the Shanghai performance, the Lover video, the freaking timing because of the Best Best Friends video etc

It’s a lot. And it’s amazing. Even if you don’t believe the girls are still together, I don’t know how in the hell you can’t root for them. It’s such a beautiful story and this is only a tiny little portion of it. So many people are willfully missing out and it’s a shame.

It breaks my heart to see how underrated pigeons are. The fact that we had literally domesticated them, making them absolutely dependent on us and now that we've abandoned them, we treat them poorly when they try to coexist with us. It's our responsibility for how they have adapted, how they can't build nests and how they try to find food wherever we are. Please be nice to pigeons

whenever im sad i just think about how the welsh word for microwave is popty ping

OH FOR SHITTING GOD’S SAKE

JUST WHEN I THINK I’VE EDUCATED THE WORLD ABOUT THE WELSH WORD FOR MICROWAVE THIS PIECE OF SHIT POST MAKES AN APPEARANCE IN MY LIFE SO LISTEN UP YOU GULLIBLE PLANKS AND GET YOUR SCHOOL BAGS READY BECAUSE I’M ABOUT TO EDUCATE THE ABSOLUTE ILL-INFORMED SHIT OUT OF YOU

THE WELSH WORD FOR MICROWAVE IS MEICRODON WHICH IS A LITERAL FUCKING TRANSLATION OF MICROWAVE WHEREAS POPTY PING MEANS ‘PINGING OVEN’ AND LET ME TELL YOU NOW THAT NO ONE FUCKING SAYS POPTY PING IN WALES AND IF YOU HONESTLY THINK WE EVER USE POPTY PING AS A TERM I WILL PERSONALLY DELIVER MYSELF TO YOUR FRONT DOOR AND SHOUT AT YOU FOR TEN DAYS STRAIGHT

ummm this is obviously a passionate subject and im sorry i was just wondering if anyone knows how this got started? was it a knowing prank, or like someone’s aunt in wales who didn’t really speak welsh panicked when asked “what’s microwave” and said “popty ping” and the lie escaped

Oh damn, this post is old now!

It’s a children’s word. It’s exactly the same as how children in English call a train a ‘choo choo’. And then English people thought it sounded a combination of cute and stupid, which tied in with the whole ‘Welsh isn’t a real/valid language’ thing, and from there it continued because no one listens to Welsh people (I’ve literally had more than one conversation where I’ve explained all this and an English person has looked me in the eye and said “Well I prefer it so I’m going to keep saying it’s popty ping, tee hee”. I also vividly remember an English person on Tumblr - who is otherwise lovely - responding to me on this topic to explain to me that if people start using a word then it becomes a valid word, so actually popty ping now IS the Welsh word for microwave, and I had to explain back that no one is using it outside of nurseries and English people, now please will you actually believe us.)

Basically… imagine if the internet decided that “the English word for a set of carriages pulled on rails by an engine is a Choo Choo” and then either patronisingly simpered about it or sneered about how your language should therefore be wiped out about it and you have the issue

And as a final note, the whole thing is extra ridiculous because Welsh has three different terms for ‘jellyfish’ and every one of them is way more charming and batshit than popty ping on its best day AND are the actual genuine terms, so it’s a missed trick

c'mon Shaharazad, tell us about the jellyfish

Your wish is my command

i think people need to stop glorifying sassiness and bitterness and start promoting the idea of actually being fucking nice and civil to people who did nothing to you.