we get shot at too.

Portrait commission for Tadpoletalks on twitter of their OC Changjoon

Thanks so much for commissioning me! Always fun to paint older men, never have enough of characters in that age. 

HDJKDKHJFHJKDKHJFDHKJFK LOOK AT THIS 

Weightlifting is a great way to pick up something heavy and then put it back down again

Forgive yourself for the coping mechanisms you adopted during challenging times.

C'mon don't be losers, instead of doing Watcher subscription giveaways just literally buy esims for Gaza or donate to non-profit charities like Care for Gaza, which actually help affected Palestinians and deliver food and other necessities to them. There's also a bunch for Sudan like the one set up by the ICRC. Don't give $6 just for a man to eat expensive shit on camera when that $6 can do so much for an entire nation of starving people.

Transfem to Transmasc solitary must exist as much as any trans solidarity must exist.

Protect my boys.

Trans masc to trans fem solidarity must exist as much as any trans solidarity must exist.

Protect my girls.

Non-binary to binary trans solidarity must exist as much as any trans solidarity must exist.

Protect my girls and boys.

Binary trans to non-binary trans solidarity must exist as much as any trans solidarity must exist.

Protect my pals.

I keep seeing people reblog this with their own mention of solidarity and I'm really touched by how much everyone has jumped on board with this because yes, you understand! We're to be here for each other!!!! I love you!!! ♡♡♡♡♡

"No climate justice on occupied land"

They switched up from golf clapping to police brutality real quick when she started talking about their racism.

Genuinely, I don’t know how else to get the word out, but I feel like if your home-cooked dinners don’t taste right, you're missing either paprika, sugar, butter, or chicken bouillon.

Still not right? It might be missing one of these: Mustard powder, soy sauce, fish sauce, vinegar. MSG. Ketchup. Mushroom powder. Maple syrup. Honey.

i already have a job and it's called keeping myself alive. why do i have to be employed on top of that

there’s a war between Sucking and Fucking

you people cannot be trusted in the war room

So Fox News ran a story about how they think libraries are turning into drug-infested sex dens and I am shocked, shocked that I was never offered any drugs during my 15+ years working in libraries.

Where do they think the sex is happening?? Every single aisle is lit in that horrible LED lighting. The teens don't even make out here anymore.

As a state certified librarian I can assure you that you just have to go into your local library and ask if they're participating in the new Fox News Hysteria program smh. If they're not, you'll just have to renew your library card and use the fun and valuable resources they're offering right now, such as wifi hotspots, museum passes, dvd lending, mid level adult erotica, ebook lending, and printing! 😔

Oh god, the printing...

This sudden hate of libraries is partially because people who do not have homes spend lots of time there. It is a safe place where they can sit down for awhile without having to buy something, or worry that the police are going to yell at them (or worse).

Another reason they hate libraries is because they think all librarians do during the work day is lie in wait so that they can foist immoral books into the hands of innocent children.

Oh, and lets not forget - libraries are where Drag Queen story time started.

These attempts to direct a moral panic at one of our most treasured and important national institutions (the library system ) can seem ridiculous on the surface, but if you look just little bit deeper it stops being funny and becomes genuinely frightening.

lmaooo

We love to see it

#oh my god#all of them???

Yes! All of them! It's not a defect, it's a design flaw! They made an accelerator pedal that can accidentally wedge itself down flat!

I know I'm reblogging this again but I have to add my own two sense on the matter. Most other auto manufacturers have had the stuck accelerator problem in the past due to floor mats and they have all learned a very important lesson: if BOTH accelerator and break are all the way down, apply the breaks and cut the throttle.

And even then they also have it so mashing the start/stop button or pressing and holding it kills the car

From that one report of the cyber truck crashing even when the brake was pressed, it seems like Tesla has not done their research and may not even have a contingency in the code for this. So it's a hardware AND software problem

From what I understand, it's not so much a design flaw as a production flaw; they made a change in manufacturing. They used a different chemical for something at some stage and that's what caused the pedal cover to slip off.

This was a failure of process.

I assure you, every major manufacturer in the world is either in the process of examining their processes to make sure that this particular issue isn't going to affect them, or has already done so. (I'm willing to bet that, in most cases, the investigation consisted of confirming that they don't use the chemical in question, along with some kind of "...because we're not idiots" notation in corporatese.)

What a lot of people don't appreciate is that corporate bureaucracy exists for a reason. Bureaucracy is the corporate equivalent of legislation-- every layer of it was born in red ink. As someone who has managed software deployments in production environment on systems used by millions of people each day, let me tell you, every step in that process is necessary. Oh, sure, it might seem like a lot of rigamarole for a minor change, but the problem is that people are notoriously bad at judging what a minor change is. I have personally been frustrated by a two-hour process (preceded by a week of paperwork, meetings, and approvals) to make a change in production that I knew full well would have no impact that, in actuality, took seven seconds and didn't require the traffic routing, load testing, etc. And I was right, it went without a hitch. Then two days later I spent fourteen hours on a call where half the system was down and it turned out that someone made a very similar change, and didn't say anything the entire time because he honestly didn't see how what he did caused what happened. "It shouldn't have affected anything!" If he'd followed process, there would have been no impact at all.

These tech bros think that they can revolutionize an industry by "streamlining the process" when they don't understand that the existing processes are the streamline. Sure, if they'd taken a week to test the impact of the change in process, it would have cost them a week, but it's gonna take more than a week to collect the information necessary to find out how much money this cost them. It's not just the cost of the recall and repair, it's the immediate impact this is going to have on sales, the long-term impact on consumer confidence in the brand, and, of course, a stock chart that looks like this:

That is a bad chart. And it's not going to get better.

Oh, look.

It may help highlight just how massive this failure is to know that we're well past the first quarter of the year, and here's how car sales are looking for some popular overlanding vehicles: 2024 Subaru Outbacks: 35,213 2024 Honda Pilot: 30,051 2024 Toyota Tacoma: 21,558 2024 Dodge Ram: 89,416 Source: goodcarbadcar.net

humans are beautiful and i hope someday everyone can see that were not a parasite. were not destroyers and killers and polluters by nature We help each other. We help other species. We continue to fight for better rights and better treatment of others We sing together. We cook together. We create art and traditions and languages and cultures. We save the last bite of our favourite food to share with our friends. We are lovely!

i KNOW its hard to see when youre in an awful position in life i know its not easy to see pretty things when there is so much ugly around but something that i started doing many years ago is keeping a log (whether a journal or a private discord or a jar that you fill up with paper) I write down a note of something i saw or something someone did that made me happy. i put it in a place i called The Star Jar When I feel bad I try to look through it and remind myself that there is good. There is.

Drawing in mspaint? Cool, impressive,  But whenever I see that, I think about the person who makes their art in power point  Every time I see them it boggles me

(their account)

Y'all if you like this PLEASE check out @lylahcomorbid she paints in Microsoft Word and it looks AMAZING

I can barely put an image and text into word what magic is this

Gonna have to complete this group with Tatsuo Horiuchi, the 80 year old Japanese artist who makes his paintings on Microsoft Excel:

the right way to wear a coat

[when i woke up…] (slightly older nahida)

sometimes i think about how rukkha using her powers to protect everyone causes her to become small and vulnerable, yet she never had someone (like a familiar) there to protect and take care of her during those times… i wish nahida never has to wake up alone and confused again.

biblically accurate arlecchino !!! 🥀