I lost my best friend, Tres, this past Friday and I am absolutely heart broken. He was the best dog any one could ever ask for, I am the luckiest person to have had him in my life and he's left a hole that just cannot be filled. Rest in peace my friend. If any one wants to see more pictures of the most beautiful boy, I’ve started up a little memorial tumblr from an old tumblr I had of him and I’ll be uploading pictures of him there until I run out. Tres-sleeps.tumblr.com
TV Executives: “if the strike goes on, you won’t get new episodes of your favorite shows! You won’t get new movies you were looking forward to! Isn’t that terrible, what the writers are doing to you?”
Me: Bitch, that might have been an effective threat in 2007, but we have since survived a Covid shutdown and discovered ways to amuse ourselves while we waited, we can outwait this shit, too. I got a pile of shows saved I haven’t even watched yet, and a Mt. TBR waiting for me.
Compensate (and respect) your writers for their work, assholes.
And the thot plickens….
HOLY FUCK
SAG-AFTRA = Screen Actors Guild - American Federation of Television and Radio Artists
More info:
- The actors walk off at the end of June if the studios don’t sit down with the writers
- Rumor is directors will follow. This will grind everything to a halt.
- Nobody is asking for a boycott. Neil Gaiman has pointed out that making Good Omens S2 a huge hit actually puts more pressure on Amazon to negotiate with the writers
- This implies it’s okay to catch up on old streaming content without breaking the line too
- This is a screenwriter strike; books will keep coming out.
- Movies already made will keep coming out for months. Again, actors have not called for a boycott; you aren’t breaking the line if you go see a movie.
- I don’t know where this puts podcasts but none of them have studio funding or platforms so they’ll probably keep going.
- Substack/Tumblr book club are all public domain works and will keep going. In addition to Dracula Daily there’s Whale Weekly, Dickens Daily, My Dear Wormwood (The Screwtape Letters), Letters from Watson (Sherlock Holmes) and more.
- Your local library always needs love. With the Libby app you don’t even need to physically go there.
In summer, the Hitokotonushi Shrine in Ibaraki sets up on oasis for bees where they can safely collect water
world's smallest chihuahua found alive and well resting in a warm corn tortilla
I am finding more and more, I’d rather be listened to at work than right. Unfortunately it’s far too often quite the opposite
Argonath... the gate of kings.
Happy 2 years to this incident
What IS it with tumblr users and “biting” I bet you people have never even bitten someone irl
Damn he's got a great voice. Including the original comic panel below:
[ID: Single panel from an X-Men comic, featuring two younger people listening to the above monologue.]
Very much so. The early comics were written during the height of the Civil Rights Movement by people who had grown up during and right after WWII.
THE STORY OF OUR LIGHTHOUSES AND LIGHTSHIPS by W.H.D. Adams (London: Nelson, 1891) Illustrated.
Saddest thing ever is reading an academic paper about a threatened or declining species where you can tell the author is really trying to come up with ways the animal could hypothetically be useful to humans in a desperate attempt to get someone to care. Nobody gives a shit about the animals that “don’t affect” us and it seriously breaks my heart
“No I can’t come out tonight I’m sobbing about this entomologist’s heartfelt plea for someone to care about an endangered moth”
This is how I learn there's a moth whose tiny caterpillars live exclusively off the old shells of dead tortoises.
[Image description: text from a section titled On Being Endangered: An Afterthought that says:
Realizing that a species is imperiled has broad connotations, given that it tells us something about the plight of nature itself. It reminds us of the need to implement conservation measures and to protect the region of which the species is a part. But aside form the broader picture, species have intrinsic worth and are deserving of preservation. Surely an oddity such as C. vicinella cannot simply be allowed to vanish.
We should speak up on behalf of this little moth, not only because by so doing we would bolster conservation efforts now underway in Florida, [highlighting begins] but because we would be calling attention to the existence of a species that is so infinitely worth knowing. [end highlighting]
But is quaintness all that can be said on behalf of this moth? Does this insect not have hidden value beyond its overt appeal? Does not its silk and glue add, potentially, to its worth? Could these products not be unique in ways that could ultimately prove applicable?
End image description]
because we would be calling attention to the existence of a species that is so infinitely worth knowing
I was so inspired by this I made it into a piece of art for a final in one of my courses for storytelling in conservation
What have unions ever done for you
My union gives me a 7 hour workday.
7 hours & 1 minute gets overtime.
