this is excellent proof of how cops train each other to think. merely wearing protection against possible cop violence IS an escalation in their view. like how dare you prepare for me to become unhinged, now my repeated violations of the geneva convention are your fault >:(
two weeks ago, someone threw a bomb at the new japanese PM, and it landed "near him", and *went off*! but he was fine! wtf! what kind of shitty bomb!
New era of Japanese political assassination attempts with shitty improvised weapons has been ushered in. I'm so excited.
setting up a Rube Goldberg contraption to drop a grand piano on a member of the Japanese House of Representatives but when it falls on him he just woozily gets up and opens his mouth to reveal his teeth have been replaced with piano keys
Pictured: the Cringe Pipe Bomb
tweets so incelpilled that they make community notes break character
So, let me see if I've got this straight.
When Overwatch 2 launched last October, it was framed by Blizzard as a PvP-only early access preview of a game which would eventually include a substantial PvE campaign, to be added in a later patch.
Today, Blizzard's representatives admitted not only that the PvE campaign mode has been scrapped, but that the internal decision to do so was made in late 2021 – meaning they'd been knowingly lying about the game's planned feature set for nearly a year at the time of the October 2022 early access launch.
Is that about the size of it?
y'know. i admire that this game appears to be exactly what it says on the tin
I think the most unintentionally pretentious part of me is I genuinely forget that most people do not have a near-encyclopedic knowledge of mythology and folklore. I literally just assume most people know at least the name of every Greek god. My mom and I were watching the Banshees of Inisherin and at the start, she asked "Do you know what a banshee is?" and I was so stunned because it would never occur to me to ask that question because I would never assume the average person doesn't know what a banshee is. The average person knows what a banshee is right. You know what a banshee is right. You know the names of the greek gods right. You know that norse myth where loki fucked the horse right. Right. RIGHT
the dry erase calendar in my doctor's office says 'Narch'
the receptionist will def notice if I try to take a picture so here's my best artistic rendition of what it looks like
Last chance to reblog before Napril
Can't wait for Nay
galaxy brain humor in the notes rn
several people have added "it's gonna be nay" and I want them all to know that sounds like some kind of parody medieval song about abstaining from sin and vice
after nearly 2 years of near continuous isolation from the global pandemic i can say that the guy from the shining was a bitch i could do his job and not try to kill my wife and son. i havent tried to kill my wife once and ive spent way longer going insane
Do you have ghosts and demons tho?
being online is the same thing as being psychically attacked by ghosts and demons
another heavy handed symbolism moment: my mom has a potted sunflower in the kitchen. because it is a sunflower, it keeps turning towards the light from the window. my mother keeps rotating it so it faces inward because she wants "to see its beautiful petals and have it really brighten up the space!" . the sunflower is visibly wilting .
drake and josh was ultimately a show about how good it feels to place the onus of guilt upon the innocent
bitches be sucking farts there
Some union basics:
1. Striking is the LAST RESORT. If a union is at the place where a strike is being proposed it is because they have been bargaining for a long time and exhausted all their other options.
2. Before a strike happens, all the members vote. Everyone is very aware of the status of negotiations long before they’re made public. But if a strike is occurring it’s because an overwhelming majority voted to strike—you want almost everyone in the union to agree before you take such a huge step.
3. Strikes are difficult but necessary demonstrations of workers’ collective power. The hope is that your labor is so essential that the bosses lost profits will make them come back to the bargaining table. The bosses are hoping that the workers will starve to death.
4. Working during a strike is called scabbing. Coming in from an outside industry to do work during a strike is sometimes called crossing the picket line. Both send you straight to hell.
The whole "grooming" panic targeting trans folks was to dilute and distract from the actual preying on children being legalized by Republicans across the US.
I think the most interesting ancient superweapon story would be one where the weapon is just one more artifact and had nothing to do with the civilization's downfall. Like:
You're walking in the countryside in England or Syria or some similar place and you come upon a patch of smooth, flat stones all laid out neatly in a line. "Why, it's a Roman road!" you exclaim. How'd it come to be in this state of obscurity and disrepair? People used these roads well into the middle ages, so it would be silly to blame it on "the fall of Rome" as if the people here have some deeply ingrained cultural trauma related exclusively to roads. The truth is mundane but it's also touchingly melancholy; over time, as it fell into disrepair and as people found other ways to get places, fewer and fewer people used it until, one day, nobody did.
Now replace "road" with "giant space laser."
I'm halfway through writing a story where a lonely giant space laser is one of the characters.
Like it's an orbital asteroid defense satellite but due to some catastrophic solar event most of the planetary civilization got wiped out and over time it's just become the last one functional with nothing to do because there haven't been any asteroids in centuries so it just sits there in orbit with no one to talk to.
@natalieironside you literally just described the plot of the last Dark Tower novel.
No, that's just one example of the type
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