Enjoy an old doodle of A grumpy SeaSerpent! with a handsome prince on that ship.
getting used to & comfortable with your own bare chest as a neutral & not inherently gendered thing over the course of an evening alone and then having to go out in public again the next day & feel weird about it again like prometheus and his liver except every day you're forced to regrow an awareness of society gendering anatomy
sending people wikipedia articles is my favorite form of humor. one time a long time friend of mine asked why i was using a different name and acting different i sent him the wikipedia page for DID. ryder just asked me why its 108 degrees in nevada right now and i sent him the wikipedia page for global warming and the season of summer.
i see you all in the tags going "this is so funny" you better not steal my fucking bit. im copyrighting this joke
you cant do this to me
Basically: WHY IS ALL THE PUBLIC OUTREACH ABOUT CLIMATE CHANGE ALL "YOU HAVE TO GIVE UP ANOTHER PLEASURE OF YOUR LIFE TO FIX CLIMATE CHANGE" and not "SEE LOOK HOW WE'RE RULED BY A GROTESQUELY ILLOGICAL DEATH CULT"
but we have to ask the question to hear the echo of the silence that answers it!!
*taps the glass* hey, y'all know that what you might want isn't necessarily what's best to legislate?
Explanation:
- You cannot be judge, jury and executioner because the division of powers was created for a reason; to remain impartial and try to keep corruption to a minimum.
- Every single living person has human rights. Including the most evil people you could ever meet. Those people have a right to live, to get healthcare, to eat and to have a job. YES, even evil people.
I've seen a lot of people talk about abolishing prison, because it's the cool, new hip thing that everyone is talking about. And instead of understand what it means, they think it's the liberation of wrongfully imprisoned minorities - which it is. But also:
Prison abolition means setting up a system of psychological and physical help for the people whom are deemed dangerous to society. Yes, that includes Evil Fucking People. Recovery and rehabilitation should be the goal, not incarceration. THAT is abolishing prison.
Of course I want that abusive piece of shit father who abused his children to die. I want him dead! DEAD. But it does not mean that that's what I want as an official law, because as much as I'd love to see him dead, the betterment of society and the rehabilitation and development of a human fucking being is important.
The benefits to prison abolition are ENDLESS. But it is also a struggle, and y'all can't keep going through life with a 5 year old's justice mentality. I swear, fandom has rotted your fucking brains off, because we NEED ACTIVISTS. We NEED TO KNOW WHY WE WANT WHAT WE WANT, AND WHAT IT ENTAILS.
You believe in something? Look up the activists who are doing work there. Read up on it. Look up videos. Follow them on their social media. Work in your communities, if you've the opportunity.
And stop being so fucking stupid about abolishing human rights. You're doing the work for the far right when you call on all pedophiles to be executed on sight. Not even twenty years ago, gay people were mostly thought of as PEDOPHILES.
You see how this shit goes? Yeah?
Then figure yourself the fuck out.
“I really want that fucker to suffer, but I don’t want a society run by my worst impulses” is a really important moral principle that more people need to learn.
Pay heed to Klaudia Amenábar's words! Don't let the executives weaponize fandoms. WGA Strong.
My guys it is starting to work, I've seen some people I know complaining about the writer's strike and turning against them because their favorite shows and/or movie got put on hold. Please do not be fooled like this, this is exactly what the corporations want. It can wait, I promise you will find other things to focus, but writers need this.
Reword every headline they put out. “Due to not wanting to give writers money, Marvel has shut down pre-production on…” You can end this strike any time you want to, pal.
"Marvel too cheap to pay writers, production shuts down"
"Disney too greedy to pay residuals, deletes shows/movies"
"Studios cut corners on safety, production values, writing, acting, etc. in order to make more money; won't share with anyone below CEO level"
This.
100% this.
Scooby Doo, Where Are You! - "Hassle In The Castle" (1969)
I can make post after post after post explaining WHAT dinosaurs are and HOW birds are living dinosaurs as CLEARLY as I can and point to FREE RESOURCES for people to learn more and yet I *STILL* get ignorant CRAP like this filling my notes EVERY DAMN DAY
- dinosaur means a descendant of the most recent common ancestor of Megalosaurus and Iguanodon. "terrible REPTILE" is what we named them because HUMANS NAME THINGS.
- birds descended from that ancestor. thus, they are dinosaurs.
- neither dinosaurs NOR birds are lizards. lizards are their OWN DAMN HYPERADAPTED THING that are super weird and nothing like birds or dinosaurs.
- i am a PALEONTOLOGIST and it SAYS SO IN MY BIO so CLEARLY I KNOW WHAT I AM TALKING ABOUT
- you can also GOOGLE THIS. AND GOOGLE WILL TELL YOU THE SAME THING.
like, let's put it this way:
I have known, my entire life, a particular truth about the world. The majority of evidence has continued to support that truth, throughout my 30 years of life.
And yet, every five seconds, I get a million people telling me, with their whole chests, that I am wrong, even though, I am not.
What I'm saying is I'm constantly being gaslit by pretty much all of humanity apart from my comrades in arms and that has, in fact, contributed to my mental health issues.
This is not okay. Willful ignorance is not okay. We all need to be more okay with admitting we don't know things and looking them up. I don't know *lots* of things. And that's okay! I look them up! I learn!
Be okay with being wrong! Be okay with learning!
Stop gaslighting scientists! We're really tired and really scared bc the planet is on fire and no one is listening! Thanks!
Basilosaurus is my favourite lizard -- surely if I base my thoughts solely off the Latin name I won't be surprised by anything crazy. Taxonomists are always correct when naming things!
imagine thinking the names we give organisms have any meaning beyond "humans need a word to call this thing so other humans know what they mean"
couldn't be me
Ah yes, Agra sasquatch must certainly must be a real bigfoot and not, say, a beetle.
Can’t believe Tyrannosaurus rex has the devine right of Kings
*reaches through your screen and shakes you by the shoulders*
accessibility goes beyond what the government decides is accessible!
disability is more than what the government decides is disabled!
*shakes Americans harder* the ADA is not enough and should not be the stopping point for accessible advocacy!
*reaches through your screen and shakes you by the shoulders*
accessibility goes beyond what the government decides is accessible!
disability is more than what the government decides is disabled!
*shakes Americans harder* the ADA is not enough and should not be the stopping point for accessible advocacy!
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“Eliot and Parker have a very specific relationship. It’s not brother/sister, it’s not boyfriend/girlfriend, but it is I know the pain you’re carrying because I carry a version of it. And Eliot, in a lot of times, is the only one who can reach across to her across that gulf.” - John Rogers, ‘The Long Way Down Job’ DVD Commentary
I feel like they should just print this out and hand it to any reporter dumb enough to ask about recovering bodies
^ that pairs really well with this quote too
my favorite part about this mspaint is how succinctly it depicts the Titan. it was just a fucking tube with titanium endcaps.
do you want to see a submersible that's capable of reaching the titanic and has been in operation since 1964? yes this has been in operation for almost 60 years:
look at how this thing was designed with safety in mind:
the part where the crew sits is entirely made out of titanium, and it's a sphere. why? because a sphere has less weak points than a cylinder. it's more or less uniformly strong in all directions
if you look at other deep sea subs that support a crew and you'll notice a pattern. while their superstructure that is not pressurized may vary, the pressurized compartments are spherical. take a look at this pretty comprehensive list of manned deep-sea submersibles and click through to some that are on the list of the deepest dives
I referenced the Alvin first because it was famously used to explore the titanic but the list goes much deeper (remember the titanic is at about 4000m depth)
Here's a cutaway of the Challenger. Notice anything?
the titanium sphere used to house the crew?
now look at the Titan:
its an accident waiting to happen.
the Alvin designed 60 years ago is still diving to the depths beyond the titanic, and has completed around FIVE THOUSAND DIVES because it was designed with safety in mind
the Titan got crushed into a billionaire smoothie maker because the CEO who commissioned it designed it to carry as many paying customers as possible for the lowest cost, and by his own mantra of "safety gets in the way of innovation"
you can't innovate your way around physics! the physics that led to the design of the Alvin in 1964 are the same physics that made gogurt out of you and your passengers mr stockton rush. no amount of free market entrepreneurial spirit is gonna make your tube go super saiyan at 4000m and prevent the mathematical certainty of physics from taking your life