I'm just gonna slide this on in here for anyone that is interested in preserving old games. They take it very seriously too, they want an archive of every single game. Like, they have lists of every game ever released for a system, and once that system gets old enough, they add it to their archive and start collecting. Their latest addition was the Xbox 360, they opened that vault up in September 2022, and proudly announced they'd finished their collection of games for it back in April.

Also, while their game archives are almost entirely complete, they've got another project of archiving the manuals that came with those games, and that is... considerably less well filled out. Their collection of Xbox 360 manuals is especially rough, they've only gotten manuals for three games. So if you've got some Xbox 360 games kicking around, and the manual's still with them, please consider scanning them and submitting them to the site!

Game preservation is important, but people rarely consider preserving the manuals as well; I really respect Vimm's Lair for being so thorough in their archival work.

words of power do exist…. i can walk out of my apartment wearing the most fuck shit, e.g. swim trunks as shorts w a zipped up hoodie and no shirt underneath, and just say the words “laundry day” and suddenly it’s way less weird

“laundry day” spell: decreases target’s judgment of outfit by 80%

I picked up a banana print shirt in Vietnam - were talkin LOUD - and the first time someone commented on it I said “It’s banana shirt friday” which stunlocked them and blocked any followup questions.

Turns out that saying “it’s banana shirt friday” enough actually created a holiday at my office where everyone would wear fruit print clothes on fridays! So yes, words of power exist. :)

@cryptotheism relevant to your interests

Spell of Banana Shirt Friday

future archaeologist: these people must have done this for ritual purposes the ritual in question: banana shirt friday

Teferi's Protection

Praetors and Compleated Planeswalkers + Tumblr Textposts

DMX on growing Orchids

Rise of the Pink Ladies was nominated for choreography Emmy this week. You cannot legally watch an Emmy-nominated show because god forbid the studio has to pay workers for it—that’s the state of the industry with streaming right now. That’s why SAG and the WGA are striking.

This sounds like something from The Handmaid’s Tale, ffs.

This was an ad in the early 90's. I first saw it in a textbook in the late 90's, used as an example of the "slippery slope" fallacy.

Now it's over 20 years later. It's happening.

Worker solidarity is the future.

I just think things would be a lot easier if we could all come into conversations around power and oppression with the baseline understanding that while being a victim absolutely does not benefit anyone, being perceived as a victim does grant a certain measure of power.

there's a reason it's so common for abusers to claim victimhood before their victims have even been able to process the violence that's happened to them.

the most advantageous position you could possibly hold is to be perceived as a victim of those you hold power over. to be granted "immunity" from the accusation of doing wrong.

people are tagging this with variations of "cis white women" and I just wanna say: you get it.

this is what "karens" are: cis white women who understand the power of perceived victimhood, and wield it against black men in particular.

this is why so many cis white feminists (TERFs and other radical feminists especially) seem so much more interested in wallowing in all the ways patriarchy makes life scary for them, and all the black and homeless and disabled and trans and otherwise marginalized people who are threats to them, than they are in actual liberation.

this is why they tend to avoid thinking or talking about the ways in which they benefit from the oppression of, or hold power over, other marginalized people- even if they spend time talking about patriarchy, or pay lipservice to racism or other forms of oppression in the abstract.

this is why they tend to perceive guilt as "an attack": it threatens their power as the presumed victim, the person who is supposed to be so powerless she is simply incapable of harm.

the white supremacist patriarchal understanding of womanhood is that cis white women are helpless, and fundamentally incapable of being autonomous. they are also valuable, as potential wives and mothers, and thus worth coming to the rescue for.

this is a bad thing in that it revokes autonomy, but it's a double edged sword: there is a power in being seen as incapable of harm, and deserving of sympathy and protection regardless of situation. and it is very, very difficult to give that power up.

The current WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes are great evidence of how foreign unionization has become to American workers. Currently, only about 10% of the workforce belongs to a union. In the 50s and 60s, that number was more like 30%.

No wonder well-meaning people are confused about picketing, scabbing, and bargaining. Most Americans, particularly those under 40, have no experience with unions.

The good news is the unions will tell you exactly how they want you to support them. Please listen.

2 am thoughts about roommates

30 million loyal friends would be the largest army in human history

The Loyal Friends are marching on D.C.

This has done more positive impact for the autistic community than any autism organization has.

2006-2008 Dodge Ram 1500

Autism be damned my blog can identify a car.

Transphobes who say their pronouns are beep/boop or something else in their bio underestimate my willingness to adhere to those pronouns

I love the normalization of neopronouns for this reason. Transphobes are just gonna get their "ironic" pronouns used and respected lmao. Neopronouns users were so based for doing this.

A classmate in undergrad once tried to test me by claiming she would only agree to respect nonbinary pronouns if I used Her Majesty as pronouns for her.

She lasted 2 days before she realized I had absolutely zero problem doing exactly that and was too embarrassed to ever argue with me about pronouns in class again.

When I was working at the greenhouse, one of my coworkers was getting flustered because he was a Proper Gentleman who called everyone "Sir" or "Ma'am" and was getting genuinely heated that there wasn't a gender-neutral honorific for nonbinary people like me.

"Well, you could always call me 'Your Majesty'." I said.

As a Joke.

Because in addition to looking and sounding like an older Yosemitie Sam, he took me Extremely Seriously and addressed me as "Your Majesty" for the rest of the summer. Which was hysterical because it was things like "Your Majesty? Where is the fungicide?" and *gestures at me* "You'll have to as Their Majesty about the tomatoes." He also would call every single person he could not immediately identify the gender of "Your Majesty" and also everyone that had neon hair.

So yes, you should absolutely rigorously adhere to someone's pronouns (Especially if they're unusual pronouns), because it's respectful, because it's clowning on assholes, and because it is fucking delightful.

The other night husband and I were watching a documentary about the yeti where they were doing DNA analysis of samples of supposed yeti fur, and every one of them came back as bears.

Anyway, the next night we watched a thing about some pig man who is supposed to live in Vermont. People said it had claws and a pig nose but walked upright like a man. Now, I happen to know that sideshows used to shave bears and present them as pig men. So every piece of evidence they gave of this monster sounds to me like a bear with mange.

So now the running joke in our house is that everything is bears. Aliens? Bears. Loch Ness monster? Bear. Every cryptozoological mystery is just a very crafty bear.

Bears. They’re everywhere. Be wary. Anyone or anything could be a bear.

oh shit