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Sorry I’m late I was obsessing over herb spirals

Delicious. Finally, some wholesome fucking spirals

let’s have another round tonight

17776 IS A YEAR OLD HAPPY BIRTHDAY YOU FUNKY SATELLITES

Please read 17776.

17776 is legit one of the greatest sci-fi stories I’ve ever encountered, please read it

This is amazing. Dedicate a couple hours to reading/watching this as it is a masterpiece. I’ve never read anything quite like it and I doubt I will again.

Just…trust me.

happy 2nd year anniversary!

If you haven’t had the pleasure of this multi-media story, please take the time to check it out!

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I want one.

thought that said angels, which is objectively cooler

This post went from cyberpunk dystopia to fantasy revolution real quick

Holy shit take a look at some of the other things on that page that people have made. If the face bedazzling, the specific clothing patterns, the projector that gives you multifaces (like that one keanu reeves movie), or the other crazy masks aren’t a sign of a growing cyberpunk distopia era I don’t know what is.

I wish we didn’t have to live in any dystopian future but I would rather us slowly grow into a cyberpunk one rather than the shitty one we currently have…

Do you realize how important this is though?! Like, the society-wide social upheaval happening in Sudan, Hong Kong, Lebanon, and Iraq will happen in the US. Not ‘might’ - WILL. And all of us will have to make a choice between sitting out or risking our lives against our government. These designers are giving current and future protestors the protections necessary to fight for their rights without governments annihilating their families and their lives and that’s amazing.

Yes it’s dystopic. Reality is too - suck it up. And let’s take these tools and get to fucking protesting

Here’s an invaluable writing resource for you.

Was looking for this information just yesterday. Thanks so much.

Y’all I could have used this so many times before oh my good god

Also a fantastic resource for D&D

Iconic.

Their names, ranks and kills in case people went to know;

First row – Guard Staff Sergeant, VN Stepanova: 20 kills, Guard Sgt JP Belousova: 80 kills, Guard Sgt AE Vinogradova: 83 kills.

Second row – Guard Lieutenant EK Zhibovskaya: 24 kills, Guard Sgt KF Marinkin: 79 kills, Guard Sgt OS Marenkina: 70 kills.

Third row – Guard Lieutenant NP Belobrova: 70 kills, Lieutenant N. Lobkovsky: 89 kills, Guard Lieutenant VI Artamonova: 89 kills, Guard Staff Sergeant MG Zubchenko: 83 kills.

Forth row – Guard Sergeant, NP Obukhova: 64 kills, Guard Sergeant, AR Belyakova 24 kills.

Total number of confirmed kills: 775. Photo taken in Germany, May 4, 1945.

And this hasn’t been made into a movie or mini series?

The cool thing is, there’s still one person missing: Lyudmila Pavlichenko.

She was one of the deadliest snipers of World War II, and is regarded as one of the deadliest snipers of all time. Over the course of one year (June 1941-June 1942) she racked up a count of 309 kills, 36 of which were enemy snipers. Her prescence in the picture alone would have brought the total number of kills from 755 to 1064.

Goddamn.

Icons.

Every one of them.

There is a movie about Lyudmila Pavlichenko: Battle for Sevastopol (2015). It is a foreign film told from the Ukrainian/Soviet perspective, and it does get pretty grim (war trauma, suicide ideation, PTSD — not an exhaustive list), but there's a lot of good stuff in there too, and it's a good movie. You can find it on Amazon Prime.

opposite of toxic masculinity. in this house we love and cherish warriormale.

@warriormale is the perfect example of how things like fighting don’t HAVE to be toxic. The examples he shares are of men who have consented to fighting each other using an agreed-upon set of rules in a controlled environment as a way to train their bodies, shed extra energy, and build friendships. He’s spoken out in favor of defending the innocent and strongly AGAINST things like domestic violence. And he’s in favor of men being able to share things like hugs and kisses as a way to express emotion without those actions having to be tied to sexuality!

This kind of physicality is what all men should aspire to and it’s part of why I follow him even though he’s 100% not the kind of thing I normally have on my dash. I’m proud to have him as part of my Tumblr community.

Thank you all for these tributes.

These are very kind.

WarriorMale

This post is just so humbling.

Thank you for the show of Respect.

WarriorMale

imagine if the oceans were replaced by forests and if you went into the forest the trees would get taller the deeper you went and there’d be thousands of undiscovered species and you could effectively walk across the ocean but the deeper you went, the darker it would be and the animals would get progressively scarier and more dangerous and instead of whales there’d be giant deer and just wow

you have a beautiful imagination

this gave me chills

HOLY SHIT

first of all ^^^ I love this^^^

secondly, I’ve said it before, but 

this is exactly what the Old World was. Off shore there was Ocean, and inland there was Forrest

Here’s an Old World tree still surviving in a modern forrest of “large” trees

That’s just what trees used to be like.

And wandering among those trees, one might have encountered, yes, deer larger than a modern moose, but also, depending on what year, pigs bigger than grizzly bears, beavers the size of modern wolves, ground sloths the size of modern elephants, and bears nearly that big. Not to mention the insects and snakes and shit.

I could keep going, like, you might have crossed paths with a whole herd of these

or a family of these.

Like, 29,000 years ago, the last of the Neanderthal had just died out. Humans and this thing definitely lived at the same time.

And they didn’t live in the Forest, but there is one ice age creature that’s still alive, if you want to see what life was like back in the day. We used to think the Musk Ox was a type of bovine, or cow, which is how it got it’s name. BUT. See this?

that, my friends, is an ice age GOAT. That’s right, that’s a 900 pound GOAT. Here, take another look

anyway, yeah, the wild used to be a lot more Wild. Old Forest was definitely the inland equivalent of Ocean, and everything back in the day was turnt the fuck UP

This post was made by someone’s genetic memory of those scary fuckers

Can god please rerelease the Old Forest again

reminder to myself about the process of drafting & revising:

This is the most important thing I’ve learnt in writing my novel. Have fun the first time but know your first pass isn’t going to be perfect

amazing double dance by hao ruoqi ( in blue)and wang xuerou(in red)

OH MY GOD OH MY GOOOOD A FEW THINGS ABOUT THIS:

For those wondering, the dance is based on a soul-switching scene from the movie Painted Skin II: The Resurrection and the music is Su Yunying’s Moment.

A Quiet Moment

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I recently saw a meme on Facebook that said something along the lines of “how to make a millennial panic: lock them in a room with only a phone book and a rotary phone and write the instructions in cursive!” It had this smug “aha, gotcha” vibe oozing out of it, and it…just sort of made me laugh. Like, really? Really? But it also made me think…

Beyond the fact that I know how to use both a phone book and a rotary phone and can read cursive (as long as it’s not too horrifically messy), I think it was the attitude of “Oh no, we’ve got you because you couldn’t possibly figure out how to use something that’s new to you” that really made me snort. But I think that’s the key to this and similar memes that I’ve seen.

They don’t think we could figure out how to use something new to us, because they can’t do it. 

Like, if you presented a millennial with a rotary phone or a phone book and they had never, ever used one or seen one used before, I can guarantee pretty much any millennial could figure out how to use it. Because that’s what we do: we adapt. We’ve been through so many variations of technology and seen so many new forms of technology emerge that we’ve had to learn to adapt swiftly and fluidly. It’s second nature to us.

Put a boomer in a room with a smartphone, laptop, and tablet however, and well…different story.

I’m not sure if they literally don’t understand that presenting a millennial with something they haven’t encountered before would not be an obstacle and certainly not a panic-inducing one, or if they just say things like that to make themselves feel better that they couldn’t do the equivalent, or if it’s a combination of the above.

I just realized that the original meme is also, quite accidentally, basically describing the principle behind….. escape rooms.

You know, the recent popular trend in participatory entertainment in which thousands of millennials literally go out and pay money to voluntarily be locked in a room where they have to solve puzzles under a time pressure, often using antiquated or analog technology, secret codes, and mechanisms they don’t yet understand, all without using their phones/the internet. For fun.

For many of us, that’s not panic-inducing, that’s just our idea of an enjoyable Saturday night out with some friends!

Now I’m just laughing even harder.

Speaking as someone who used to work at an escape room? YEP. YEPS. THIS. The millennials and gen-z kids were ALWAYS faster and ALWAYS more comfortable and having fun. They’d identify the problems, divvy them up, and get to work. The boomers? “I don’t understand this. I don’t get it. I don’t see why we’re doing this, Helen!!!!!” and then someone would have a tantrum and sit in the corner with their arms crossed. They’d be obsessed with everyone working on every single problem together, and arguing about it (too many cooks in the kitchen) and if someone managed to solve a puzzle on the other side of the room, the boomers ALWAYS give them hostile interrogations about how they did it, wasting their time. Millennials and Gen Z? “Oh, you solved that!? GREAT, what’s the answer?” and they’d just accept that the person had gotten the right answer. 

What I don’t get is … I’m a millennial. And I’m 32. How young do they think we ARE? How long ago do they think these things were commonplace?

Cursive? Learned it in elementary school!

Phone books? I know my first apartment definitely had one - which I actually did use - and that was only 2007 or so.

Rotary phone? I can’t say for certain if I ever used one properly, but I seem to recall being very young and some adult or other snapping at me to stop playing with it. I know that I saw them in real life AND saw them being used in movies/on tv, and I understand the principle.

Capilano Suspension Bridge

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Mozilla updates its "Privacy Not Included" gift guide for 2019

As with last year, the Mozilla Foundation’s privacy researchers have produced a guide to electronic gifts called “Privacy Not Included,” which rates gadgets on a “creepiness” scale, with devices like the Sonos One SL dumb “smart speaker” (Sonos ripped out all the junk that isn’t about playing music) getting top marks, and Ring Security Cams, Nest Cams, Amazon Echos, and other cam/mic-equipped gadgets coming in as “Super Creepy!” (the exclamation point is part of the rating).

These rankings are purely about privacy, so there’s plenty of stuff that’s extremely proprietary and hooked into app stores and other ecosystems that allow the manufacturers to control how you use your property after you buy it, as well as giving them the ability to censor the kinds of information you can receive. Many of these devices contain copyright locks (DRM) and onerous terms of service that would make it a potential felony to have them independently repaired, too, so the manufacturer gets to decide what can and can’t be fixed, and unilaterally declare that it’s time for your device to become e-waste in some distant landfill (Apple is notorious for this, and they led the charge that killed 20 state-level Right to Repair bills last year, and CEO Tim Cook started 2019 with an investor call last January that warned investors that Apple was facing a crisis because people were not replacing their devices as often as they used to, opting instead to repair them).

And this kind of thing also matters for privacy! If not for the independent repair sector, we’d have never found out that Google had made a “smart speaker” with a secret, hidden microphone, so if you were relying on the manufacturer’s specifications to evaluate the privacy dimension of a product, you could land in trouble. Likewise DRM: because security researchers face felony prosecution and massive civil liability if they reveal information that weakens a DRM system, devices with DRM (to ensure that you only use approved apps, parts or consumables) are less likely to be independently audited, and when they are, there’s a greater likelihood that the researchers will delay or bury their assessments. That means that security defects in DRM-equipped devices (many of which get top marks on privacy) can fester for longer and do more damage before coming to light.

https://boingboing.net/2019/11/27/creepiness-scale.html

Nice, I didn’t know about this guide.

Bioluminescence series by Rob Rey

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This is so goddamn beautiful