All-Purpose Geekery

Since, for some reason, there has been an influx of followers (hello actual new people, goodbye bots and people of questionable morals I’ve already blocked), here is a PSA: I am a 30+ grown woman and I swear like a sailor.  I also almost never tag things.  If you are a minor and/or any of that bothers you or would put you in an awkward situation at work or home or whatever, you can unfollow me now, because that ain’t gonna change. (You take care of you, sweetpea.)

Now time to clear out the riffraff:

Black Lives Matter.

Billionaires neither earned their money nor deserve it, fuck capitalism.

Climate change is real.

Defund the police.

Fuck Fascists.

Fuck Nazis.

Fuck White Supremacists.

And that includes Trump and the American Republican party.

I am an atheist, however being an atheist does not make you better than a believer. There are plenty of godawful fascists, eugenicists, racists, misogynists, and otherwise assorted fucknuts in the ranks of atheists and they can all rot.

If your feminism is not intersectional, it doesn’t count for shit.

Vaccines do not cause autism. Even if they did, why would you prefer a DEAD child over an autistic one? You sick bastards.

Also fuck Autism Speaks.

Queer is not a slur and no ignorant teenagers/20-somethings buying into TERF rhetoric on Tumblr will change that.  It was reclaimed before you were born and I guarantee more of you have had “gay” lobbed at you as a slur than “queer”, but I don’t see you bitching about that word. (Gee, wonder what the difference is?)

Asexual and Aromantic people belong in the LGBT+ community because they have always been here. You can’t refuse to “invite” people into a community they fucking built, you shits.

That goes for trans people too. Yes that includes agender, genderfluid and non-binary people.

Trans women are women and trans men are men, with or without medical procedures.

And quit fucking with intersex people before they’re old enough to consent to shit.

Thin does not equal healthy and fat does not equal unhealthy, and even if it did it still doesn’t make fat people lesser humans than thin people.  If you are encouraging people to obsess over calorie counts, purposefully showing gross pictures of food to dissuade people from eating, and saying that being the “fat friend” is worse than hunger pangs, you have a disorder and you are encouraging disorders in others.  Get the fuck off Tumblr and go to a therapist before you kill somebody. (Yes this is directed at one blog in particular that tried to follow me and got immediately blocked. Seriously gtfo with that shit.)

Shut up and let people enjoy things that aren’t harmful, in ways that aren’t harmful. (That includes the furries and the “cringey” teenage girls, btw.)

You can be critical of media and recognize its flaws while still enjoying it.

And fuck pedos.

I think that about covers everything.

Here's a useless thought my head just supplied me with that I absolutely can't use.

Co-op game where if one player sees another, they die.

Both die? Just the one who does the seeing? Just the one who is seen? All players or just one crucial character? Do reflections count?

"Don't turn around. I'm right behind you. I'm going to put the mcguffin down behind you and go around the corner, I'll tell you when it's safe to turn around; let me know when you're looking away again."

Tags from @spectroscopic-gayety

Yes this, I love this idea

I started a new game to play the new farm but😭😭 I forgot how mean used to be Shane at the beginning

It's been a while since I've drawn this guy

You guys just have to trust me on this one and click here okay?

OH MY GOD I NEEDED THIS

For the chronically anxious and/or otherwise mentally ill:

This is not a screamer, jumpscare, or any other kind of horror link I don’t know the name of. It will not cause you to question reality and as far as I’m aware, there is no reason it should cause any kind of hallucinations or psychosis. I don’t want to spoil the surprise because it’s DELIGHTFUL but I am happy to tell you it’s very sweet and gentle and also great lowkey stress relief. This is a cinnamon roll link appropriate for all ages (yes, all the way down to babies) and you will enjoy it if you click it. ❤️

This makes me so happy

Fans celebrate the casting of Nichelle Nichols as Uhura as a moment for actors of color, which they should be.

But I also wanted to spotlight the casting of these iconic secondary characters, seen in episodes of TOS.

Percy Rodriguez was cast as flag officer Commodore Stone, who was Kirk's superior in the chain of command. Stone is one of the officers that presides over Kirk's court martial.

Booker Bradshaw was the original Dr M'Benga, seen in two episodes of TOS. at the time, M'Benga was Starfleet's first and only medical specialist in Vulcan Physiology, having spent a year's residency on Vulcan.

One of the finest minds in computer technology in the 23rd century, and creator of the duotronic computer, Dr Richard Daystrom, was played by William Marshall, whose work in Shakespeare, and his roles as Paul Roebson and Frederick Douglass, added to the gravitas of his portrayal.

A flag officer, a specialist in Vulcan medicine, and one of the finest minds in a field of technology, played by actors of color, during the turbulent 1960s.

Cat sounds compilation.

Don’t let the short duration of this video fool you - it is VERY good.

For anyone who hasn't seen them before, Hidden Search Operators are handy tricks you can use when you're either searching or filtering AO3.

summary: string is a generic way of explaining that you can search AO3 for a specific word that appears in a summary. You can do this from the search bar in the header, from the Any Field box at the top of the Advanced Search form, or from the Search Within Results box at the bottom of the filter menu.

Examples:

You need to put quotation marks around your search term if it is more than one word. The quotes make sure that the site searches for those two words together.

The other two operators listed work best in the Search Within Results box.

expected_number_of_chapters: 1 will return results where every fic has only 1 chapter currently posted.

You can use expected_number_of_chapters: -1 if you want results where every fic has more than 1 chapter currently posted.

otp:true will return results where there is only 1 relationship tag on the fic. If you want results where there are 2+ relationship tags (and no fics with only 1 relationship tag) then you can use otp:false

the most disorienting thing thats ever happened to me was when a linguistics major stopped in the middle of our conversation, looked me in the eye, and said, "you have a very interesting vernacular. were you on tumblr in 2014?" and i had to just stand there and process that one for a good ten seconds

The Beholding

Should go without saying but never date a cop and christ never marry one. Rule of thumb if he's legally untouchable he's ethically unfuckable. You don't like that cop, you like buff men in tight clothing. I can show you more of those, better ones. Take my hand.

Hi guys. This post ain't about stereotyping random professions (farriers????), it's about how cops are effectively legally untouchable and if they hurt you, you have virtually no recourse. A quality that none of those other professions have. It's the inherent power imbalance of being bound to someone who can't be prosecuted.

The "firemen cheat" thing is actually a myth, union workers are both hot and professionally stable, paramedics are stressed out but otherwise fine, physical workers are not inferior to "thinkers" don't be fuckin classist, and "watch out for Farriers" is maybe the funniest thing anyone's ever said on this post.

like the fuck are they gonna do lmao

Having beef with the horse cobbler is objectively hilarious

new favorite reddit user

So in my class we name our glue sticks to stop the kids losing or mistreating them - they're much less likely to lose a glue lid if you're shouting "oh no, Alfred's been decapitated". It's fun.

Now, I'm a big batfam girlie ✨ so naturally I named all our glues after these characters. We have Richard and Bruce and Stephanie and Barbara etc. you see the point.

Recently, the first glue stick ran out. It had to go in the bin so unfortunately it "died", and you'll never guess which glue stick was the first to die...

It was Jason.

You could not conceive the sound I made as I had to throw Jason in the bin as all the children shouted things like "Jason's dead" and "noooo Jason!"

Worst things worse, I couldn't even explain how ironic that was that Jason, the second robin, was the first glue to go!

one of the most infuriating things about becoming an adult is when you realize that it actually is 10x easier to solve problems by making a phone call vs literally any other communication method

Every time I see this I lose my marbles I love it so much. "For some reason I yelled who is in here as I was falling" is the point where my soul leaves my body. God I love.

Loving reminder from your land history auntie:

North American golf courses have had 50-100 years of arsenic and mercury based fungicide and herbicides applied to their soils.

Do not eat anything that has been grown on a golf course or downstream from a golf course. I know it sounds cool and radical, but you are too valuable to poison yourself with heavy metals.

Protect each other, turn your local golf course into a pollinator garden, not a sex forest or community garden.

Grow sunflowers on your poisoned land, for at least five years if not a decade. Do not eat the seeds. Collect the long stalks and treat them like nuclear waste. The sunflower stalks will remove the heavy metals from the soil.

Test your soil before growing food!!!

TIL that the Audubon Society has released official statements on the difference between a "bird", a "birb", and a "borb", featuring such gems as: