Finally finished this piece.

seems like there's a whole genre of:

just because I understand doesn't mean that I agree

At some point in my childhood someone quoted, "You've gotta know the rules to break them," at me and I took it to heart

An Egyptian Wood Mummy Mask 19th/21st Dynasty, 1305-956 B.C.

I mean Jesus fucking Christ this is not right

My friend told me the best example to explain the vast difference between a million and a billion

"A million seconds ago was last week. A billion seconds ago we were still dealing with the Soviet union."

This is why when we talk about “rich people” who aren’t paying taxes or who are wasting money, we’re not talking about the person who makes 1 or 2 grains of rice worth of money a year. We’re talking about the person who makes the giant fucking Costco sized pile of rice.

theres bikes around the city you can rent but you have to use an app that needs your drivers license. theres buses that drive right to your destination, but if you dont have change you need the app. you can wash your car here if you sign into the app. you can go to the bathroom here you just have to unlock it with the app that needs your location on. you can order at this restaurant if you scan the code and download the app. im losing my freaking mind

I got my phone and wallet stolen once and the amount of things I couldn’t fucking do without The App was bonkers. I couldn’t order an Uber or the bus home because no phone or wallet, so I had to walk home based on directions written on a sticky note. I couldn’t do my laundry even though I had change in my apartment because my building’s laundry machines required The App. I couldn’t log into my school email because my school’s email requires two factor authentication and will ONLY take a phone number, not another email address. I had a hard as fuck time getting new cards set up with my bank because in order to do that I needed to log into The App. I couldn’t get any packages that were delivered to me because my building’s locker system was app based. So on and so forth.

We should not have this fucking single point of failure like this.

You discover that you have control over a certain thing, as determined by spinning this wheel. We're talking full-on magical girl/superhero/supervillain/your label of choice control.

The tiger

He destroyed his cage

Yes

YES

The tiger is out

it's been quite difficult to do things lately, drawing included, but making this weird thing was pretty relaxing ^_^ it is a friend

you can certainly try, i don't think this one would mind it. but.. it's pretty difficult to do any of that on a physical level - imagine trying to touch light

had a dumb idea because i just remembered i used to have one of these old toy tape recorders when i was a kid and id record stories i came up with

Honestly, with all the tradwife cooking trash circulating, it only makes me love B Dylan Hollis more for baking vintage recipes while being openly gay, making sexual jokes, and screaming at the ingredients. He's the antithesis of every soft-spoken cishet woman cooking for her husband and children. You don't have to be an idyllic cottagecore housewife to cook.

The swearing is essential. That's what "made with love" or "the secret ingredient is love" means. It means, "I love you so much that you're worth this fucking bullshit."

the recreation + child-making area is right next to the septic outlet. if humans were 'intelligently designed' it was by a civic engineer that should've been fired

We literally give birth to premature infants compared to other mammals bc we evolved large heads faster than we evolved larger hips lol humans are the last example anyone should point to for evidence of “intelligent design”

ever since we developed sapience we've desperately been trying to turn that shit off. We literally developed civilisation so we could get hammered more easily. We are every single trope of a suicidal AI designed by a bad engineer.

We got bipedal but are still yet to develop knees that support that fact for longer than about the first third of a human lifespan.

Fun one I encountered recently: Our messed up meat-brains are capable of a whole lot of higher level reasoning and emotions, which is great if you’re into art or culture or whatever.

But, for some reason, all these emotions are flagged to stay weak and suppressed in daily life, letting a modern human take constant torture up until they start experiencing physical pain. Then, the brainstem shoots all those emotions out at once and totally destroy our poor human mentally!

Good tactic for running from bears, not so much for coping with labor alienation :/

On top of putting massive stress on leg joints, walking upright requires tight pelvic floor muscles. This makes childbirth much more difficult compared to animals that walk on all fours.

Male gamates -- sperm cells -- cannot form inside the body. 98.6° is too hot. That's why the testes have their own little shed outside the house.

Something like 60% of human pregnancies miscarry. Sometimes we know why but most of the time we don't.

This does explain a lot.

On the plus side we can hallucinate SO HARD that we can heal from wounds and diseases that would otherwise kill us (placebo effect)

We're not fast, not strong, have no natural weaponry, but we never get tired compared to other animals (we're natural persistence hunters)

We can survive pretty much any injury that isn't life-threatening - injuries that would kill or otherwise doom other animals - up to and including losing limbs

But yeah knees suck

-John Chrichton, Farscape

don't forget these guys!

if you aren't familiar, these are babirusa pigs whose teeth grow back in and can pierce their eyes or skull

I knew about them and I forgot what they looked like and I saw those photos and I 😳😨

You can break your asshole by doing the thing it was meant to do, even if you do the thing the way you are meant to do it.

There's a lot of receptors in your ass to make you feel good, and some people get the bonus package, but we aren't supposed to stick anything in there. Same for your ear.

You can hear phantom screeching 24/7 and nothing can be done for it.

Your teeth are temporary. They have nerves. And ligaments.

If you sleep too long you can get tired.

Our spines are basically unstable stacked Legos, and the most important shit in our body runs down through the middle of them just as if nothing is wrong with that.

You can be allergic to the sun, or water.

Migraines.

I could go on.

Your body can dislike you eating certain proteins enough that when you do, your body's security system attacks your brain.

screechinge like a banshee because somebody told me whot to do

Eldritch Pomegranate

There’s this guy in town who owns this little house, and a while back he rescued a street dog that was going to get put down. Turned out she was pregnant.

Problem is, he has mental health & drug issues and couldn’t afford to get them all spayed & neutered, so now there are 6 grown bitches with 15 puppies total, and they’ve dug under his fence in multiple places but he can’t afford to fix it so they go roaming all around town. (When I say can’t afford it, I mean his house is currently running on a generator because he can’t afford his electric bill.) He’s also a day laborer so he cannot take multiple full days off work to take them to the vet an hour away. He’s in a really rough spot.

He’s not a bad person. He’s just overwhelmed.

And this little conservative town with 6 churches for 300 people, have they tried to help their neighbor? Have they adopted the puppies he’s been trying to give away? Have they offered resources?

NOPE! All they wanna do is talk shit about him and complain about the dogs but never lift a finger of their own. And they come to his house to yell at him and cuss him out about the dogs, which does not exactly engender in him a cooperative attitude, as you might imagine.

So after a while of this going on, my mom gets fed up with all the NIMBY bullshit and starts talking to the guy, because she’s done animal rescue for 20-odd years and has Connections. He’s resistant at first, but when he realizes she’s not being an asshole to him on account of his addiction or the dogs, he decides to let her help.

She gets to work organizing and networking. Finds a non-profit that will cover vaccinations, spay/neuter, and flea treatments for all the dogs. Talks the next-door neighbor into paying for materials to fix the fence, since this guy can do the work of it himself. Gets him in touch with another non-profit that will adopt out the adult dogs.

Less than 2 weeks after she decided to do something, all puppies have been to the vet, 10 puppies and 4 adult dogs have been adopted out, and the second non-profit is coming by next week to pick up the remaining 7 dogs to ship them out for adoption.

I’ve learned a lot of things from my mom—some good, some bad—but I think the most important positive message she lives as an example of is this: sometimes, when something needs done and no one else is willing, you gotta stand up and say “I’ll do it.”

The most mind-blowing revelation I received on this lesson happened to me when I was in college.

I was driving along a mountain road with a person I kinda knew in the passenger seat (like a roommate of a roommate or something). The road was very narrow, very twisty-turny, steep cliffs on both sides. I came around a blind curve to see a huge tree branch in the road. I managed to swerve just in time to avoid it, and also not veer the car into the sheer cliff face going up on the left, or of the sheer cliff face going down on the right.

"That's so dangerous. Someone should move that." I said.

"You're someone." said my passenger.

I very slowly pressed the brakes, my car slowly rolling to a stop as what he'd said started to sink in to my brain.

It had never occurred to be before, in all my life, that I could be the "someone" who could fix the thing. Not ever.

It was dangerous to stop here. If another car came, they could easily hit me, as it was a blind curve. We talked about it, decided it was worth the risk to possibly save a life, and we quickly ran to the branch and moved it to the side as best we could, then hurried back to the car.

It changed my life. After that, every time I have the thought "Someone should _____", I now hear that voice. I'm 'someone'. Now I evaluate whether I'm able to do something about a situation- that doesn't mean I always can! Sometimes I truly don't have the energy, knowledge, or time or money to fix something. But I should at least think about doing it myself- consider that I could, and weigh the options, which I never did before that moment.

Non cooking spray stick

Non spray stick cooking

Non cooking stick spray

yeah okay ill reblog that

Yuko Noire aka ゆこ aka Yuko aka XxxYono aka Forêt Noire (Japanese) - 夜行 (Night Travel), Paintings: Acrylic, Pencils, +Digital