hate how this 1) manages to make fun of Belgium without bothering to mention us 2) every single person in the notes knows this 3) it's true

thanks for the research help, and sorry for the probably most confusing insight into what im working on rn

this piece sure is already turning out to be A Wild Ride just based on the running list of content warnings i have to put on it so far

THis is such solid advice? Like oh my god why did no one tell me this earlier?

imagine being the random guy running the rigged “hold onto this bar for 100 seconds and win!” game at the Gotham carnival, only for an entire family of strangely fit, beautiful people to come up, try it one by one, and hold on for the entire time — every single one of them, even the grandpa.

but of course it would be a competition to see who could be the most insane so here i give you what they all did after a round of holding on like normal:

alfred doesn't go again as he is filming everyone's attempts to save for the christmas video

tim held on with one hand

damian held on with 3 fingers purely to one-up tim

duke does it with one finger

steph did one-handed pull-ups

cass did it one-handed too but alternated which hand she was using by pushing herself into the air and catching with the other hand

jason did it with dick hanging onto him like a koala

dick started spinning around the bar and doing flips in the air. the worker claimed he didn't complete it as he didn't actually hang, so he goes again and hangs by his feet

bruce does it with everyone hanging onto him, like all 7 kids just holding him. he proceeded to do it again in the bat cave with one hand whilst doing pull-ups with everyone in gear, and that footage somehow made it's way to the JL, which then inspired everyone else to try and one-up batman (not clark or diana as it was obvious that they would win)

For Writers:

Reblog if it’s okay for your followers to leave you an ask telling you what the one thing is they remember you for as a writer.  Is it a scene or a detail or a specific line? Is it something like style or characterization?  Is it that one weird kink they never thought they’d be into, but oh my god wow self-discovery time?

there are so many tags on this like ‘lollll this is my friend its so annoying’ or ‘lol literally theyre just like this but i still love my tswift mutuals 🥰’ like NO!!! FREE YOURSELF!!!!! THESE PEOPLE CANNOT BE REASONED WITH!!!!

No cuz I had a mutual on tiktok that said unironically that tswift was the greatest queer artist of this generation and I said that was insulting to actual queer folks making art and music and they said "you just don't get it and that's okay 😌" and to this day I want to fight that person like middle schoolers on a bus

It is extremely insulting and deranged to say that tswift has done anything for the queer community at all

i feel like i'm losing my mind why has the AI debate pivoted away from material/labor concerns back to debates about Real vs Fake Art. cannot express just how little i care about relitigating Art and high art and low art and skilled vs unskilled art. what i care about is the treatment and compensation of workers, the power corporations are exerting over intellectual property and creators, the continued extraction of resources, and the omnipresent glut of spam and disinformation with few regulations and resources that filter out the SEO AI generated nonsense

that muppet post reminded me, most if not all of the main muppets have twitter pages. Fav has gotta be Miss Piggys, which is filled with selfies and vaguely uplifting text thats also egocentric. all the comments are people complimenting her and being like “YAS QUEEN”

Close second is Gonzos. Which is just…unhinged

okay poll time

we need to figure out a way to make doing dishes less annoying for everyone. and we need to figure out how to make cigarettes healthy. and we need gay sex

It's nice to be able to check in on the cats while I'm out.

If you're struggling to spot Malice, it's because she's a formless blob.

Well she's mostly staying in the basket, but she's definitely not dead.

Beafts

He's checking the perimeter

Home soon, terrible beasts...

Mostly likely an RFID tag. A simple unpowered device that emits a signal when excited by an external magnetic field.

The fun part is that RFID chips are incredibly easy to break, and incredibly easy to clone/copy. Imagine buying your drink, then intentionally burning out the rfid chip with an extra-strong electromagnetic field and raising a stink because the machine won’t give you what you paid for. Free meal vouchers, maybe? Better yet if you can get behind the counter and burn out the chips on every cup at once.

You could also buy a cup, then scan and clone the RFID tag, and see what kind of system they’re using to keep track of what cups have refills left and which ones don’t. I’d bet money that it wouldn’t be complex or hard to reverse-engineer, and then it’s as simple as spoofing the correct information to the RFID chip reader at the drink dispenser, and you get 8000 refills for the next 99999 hours or whatever.

It’s shitty and dystopian when companies do stuff like this, but fortunately they usually do it in a very stupid way that’s easily exploitable if you have the right know-how and some tools.

it's october. it's autumn. it's time for long walks, reading sessions, writing, baking cookies, carrying books in tote bags, listening to soft music as it rains, more reading and more writing.

OKAY YEAH I REMEMBER THIS ONE Basically it came from a survey done by Bank of America.  Of only their customers.  Of only those customers that had a long term savings account with them.  And only surveyed 1500 of them.  And that, friends, is how statistics is used to lie!!

Always ask who ran the survey, the study, the poll, ask how many people were involved, and ask about the breakdown of the demographics.

As someone who had to study statistics, this is important to know. So important that it’s one of the first things they taught me. “You can prove anything with statistics.”

“You can prove anything with statistics.”

THE WRITERS STRIKE IS OVER!!! UNIONS WIN!!!

CONTINUE SUPPORT IN SOLIDARITY!!!