Heya folks here's a fun fact:
This blog predates the great reddit descent, but I've only now committed to it. Used to be explicitly anti-capitalist, leftist, angry content, and although I'll still post that content(probably the most stuff will be that), I'm also a nerd :|
Sooooo yeah hi everybody :)
Things I think are cool and we deserve more of:
If your city has all 7 in large amounts, it's a good city
Why did you leave the public modifier off of trains? I want cheep tickets and Union staff!
Because if the trains aren't public, I don't care about them, they'll fail and go out of business anyways
i've just had a terrible idea
i present to you the mona lisa:
ok so, for the last few hours i've been making this code that organizes the colors in drawings:
(mostly @metukika's bc her works look really dope and i don't have many like that ;_;)
and these things feel like something that would be sold as a "deconstruction of classical paintings" like the "the kiss" by Klimt, "starry night" by Van Gogh or "Girl with a pearl earing" by vermeer
i can imagine going to an art gallery and finding stuff like this, made by someone who thinks they are so so smart
Ok but this is actually phenomenally cool OP, and a terrific tool for explaining some of the weirder aspects of color theory, especially how to translate color from traditional media to digital.
I'm working on the teaching plan for a digital painting class I'm going to pitch to my illustration school, and I was wondering if you had something I could use to show this concept to the class? (In exchange for full credit and money of course)
Do we just have no standards whatsoever about what things are worthwhile to talk about
Remember when Nat Geo was a prestigious publication?
Oh. I see.
Good news for you, this August 23rd.
It’s that time of year again.
Nice
Guess what today is?
Been slowly scrolling back through my inbox and queuing up answers. Finally got back to two weeks ago when I mentioned the hospital gave me fentanyl, and the number of "alarmed" messages I got from non-followers lecturing me about taking such a "dangerous drug" has me rolling.
Like c'mon. First of all, it was a one-time dosage to knock me out for a procedure that didn't even knock me out, and second of all, I'm not a fucking cop <3
Just so we're clear, anyone can get addicted to drugs, and it can be devastating. This post is not making fun of addicts.
It's taking a knife-swipe at people who swallow copaganda and spout all kinds of anti-medication rhetoric at me and people like me any time we mention managing our pain with anything other than "positive vibes" and exercise.
I've lost so many friends to the opioid crisis -- not from opioid use, but because the response to the opioid crisis was to start denying people (like me) adequate pain management, and they ended up seeking out other means to manage their pain. Non-legal means that killed them.
Me talking about being given fentanyl in a medical setting in an OR should NOT have resulted in as many people as it did, telling me I'm a bad person for "using drugs." (I kept scrolling and found even more, just like wtf)
And also, people who misuse substances are not bad people. They're sick. Usually in immense amounts of pain, be it physical or mental, and they deserve compassion and help.
Do not believe copaganda. Do not send people these kinds of weird moralizing messages about their healthcare because you've swallowed the copaganda. Use your heads.
Do people nowadays not realize that all drugs are medicine and all medicine is drugs??? Like they all have a medical purpose, we just decided that weaving a spiders web of propaganda and bureaucracy around them would save society's moral framework or whatever.
I broke my nose once, know what the hospital did to keep the swelling down? Packed that bitch full of cocaine. While it is possible to suffer withdrawal symptoms after using drugs for their intended purpose, it doesnt make me a deviant for having used them.
I regularly take an alarming amount of speed to treat ADHD. ADHD meds are pharmaceutical grade meth. Am I a meth head? Who's to say?
Fentanyl is a pain killer that is very strong, you give it to people who can't take other meds for assorted reasons like allergies, who maybe shouldnt take a higher dose of other pain meds, or who would have a conflict with their other meds. What you *do not do* is decide that people are bad for needing pain meds, or taking pain meds that you dont like because a cop said they were scary. Cops always lie. They arent magically telling the truth about this one drug.
Unless you literally watch someone snort it off the hood of a cop car while shouting that they got it illegally, you should probably assume most drugs are for legitimate purposes and fulfil a real and present need.
i actually want to expand on this point for a second: conservatives very often don’t perceive their beliefs as hypocritical because they don’t believe in equality. they don’t believe that black people are the same as white people, or that women are the same as men, or that foreigners are the same as their neighbors, or that rich people are the same as poor people, or that THEY are the same as YOU.
‘isn’t it hypocritical to say a woman should cover up her legs when you, a man, are wearing shorts?’ not if you think men and women have fundamentally different bodies and that their exposed skin serves completely different purposes.
‘isn’t it hypocritical to complain about homeless people on welfare but not bat an eye at all the government subsidies your farm rakes in?’ no! hardworking farmers are the backbone of america, no matter how much tax payer money they blow through to toodle their fuckin tractors around the cornfield, and bums are vermin.
‘isn’t it hypocritical to freak out at the idea of trans women invading bathrooms to creep on children when you keep voting for politicians that are repeatedly accused of sexually abusing underage girls?’ not if you refuse to believe that any of the politicians actually did that, OR that any of the trans women never actually did that.
‘isn’t it hypocritical’-- look. it’s like this. if a good guy and a bad guy do the exact same thing, it’s good when the good guy does it and bad when the bad guy does it. this is a collection of christian notions gone very wrong--that the devil can do things that look good just to trick people, and that sometimes doing the right thing hurts and has sad consequences--but it feels great to believe, so people are just going to keep doing it.
it’s fine that so many republican politicians have raped so many girls that don’t count and aren’t real. it’s fine that cops use our money to kill the poor people we deny the money to be safe and healthy. it’s fine that women are paid less, that blacks are policed more, that refugees are shot for approaching our borders. it’s fine. it’s right.
they do not want a world in which everyone is equal. they do not perceive that as fair. they want this world, in which everyone is respected according to how human they are, and the measuring stick starts at their feet.
sorry don’t usually rb politics but this^^
Saw a video explaining how simplistic arguments sound more correct such that a simple lie has more sway than a complex truth. Because understanding a simple lie is more comforting than acknowledging that you aren't amongst the most knowledgeable people on a given topic.
If real world issues like climate change or school shootings or giving rights to oppressed groups means acknowledging that parts of the status quo are flawed, it's much easier to convince yourself the issues aren't real and choose not to believe in it.
It also means the police aren't the good guys.
"Obey them so they don't kill you" is usually said to people being mugged or taken hostage.
"The trannies should be able to piss in whatever toilet they want and change their bodies however they want. Why is it my business if some chick has a dick or a guy has a pie? I'm not a trannie or a fag so I don't care, just give 'em the medicine they need."
"This is an LGBT safe space. Of COURSE I fully support individuals who identify as transgender and their right to self-determination! I just think that transitioning is a very serious choice and should be heavily regulated. And there could be a lot of harm in exposing cis children to such topics, so we should be really careful about when it is appropriate to mention trans issues or have too much trans visibility."
One of the above statements is Problematic and the other is slightly annoying. If we disagree on which is which then working together for a better future is going to get really fucking difficult.
I think this is something young people in particular are confused about. My dad has always had a slightly off color sense of humor, he always feels the need to privately ask me “boy turned girl or girl turned boy?” if I mention a friend and stress said friend’s pronouns, and yet when we had repair work done in the house and the worker was listening to a podcast discussing the evils of transgender people and how to cleanse society, he went out of his way to contact the owner of the business to discuss his disappointment with that worker’s conduct and stress the negative effect that could have had if there had been trans kids in our home.
Our allies will never be perfect. They will never use the perfect language or have the perfect politics. But we have to appreciate those allies and meet them where they are, especially if they are willing to learn.
this just in: social media platform that bans all adult content introduces ads that promote adult content
the amount of people in the replies saying “what career” lmao
Gladly
Don't forget this meme exist because everyone on the set was hating him and they get super happy when he died.
