Here And Queer

Oh and if literal grass-touching IS viable, I also advocate for touching invasive grass. Many parks in the US have invasive plant removal volunteer work days. You get some air and some exercise and you can talk to other volunteers if you want or you can just march off into the trees on your own and start wreaking havoc with various hand tools. If you want to do something that is both useful AND destructive, I have found nothing better

funnily enough i did this for the first time today & yeah, i highly recommend, it rules hard

you just show up & they give you a bunch of pre-sharpened loppers & are like "here's what an invasive blackberry bush looks like, go kick its ass"

and then you just get to hack and maim and wreck for FREE for as many hours as you so desire??? good as HELL

Removal of invasive species is one of the best things you can do for the environment. The task can feel overwhelming, you impact may feel small. But each plant you remove stops thousands and thousands of additional invasive seeds from wreaking havoc on our native wildlife.

I do this regularly and can confirm its the best. Go be in nature, go godzilla on some honeysuckle and open up huge swathes of forest to native species that support failing bird and bug populations!

you bottle Miette??

You crush Miette like the grape?

Oh! Barrel for mother!

Barrel for mother for 15 years!

it gets worse lmaoooo

literally. this is it.

this is by far my favorite safety/warning sign btw. they really went off with this one

No cuz I fucking love this sign. It’s not an actual barrier so it’s not like some sort of challenge it simply says “fuck around and you will find out”

Ohohoho I LOVE “fuck around and find out” signs, especially the really dramatic and ominous (but true) ones

(Context for the last one: it’s a WWII era sign posted around the soldiers’ washroom mirror, warning them to never discuss military plans in places where civilians could hear them and report back to the enemy, e.g. in restaurants and pubs in the country. “Loose lips sink ships”.)

I also love these two, which I would place in the category of “You already fucked around, now you’re about to find out.”

Aerated water is fucking scary. It's water that has a fuckton of gas in it, which reduces the buoyancy to the point where you will immediately start to sink if you fall in.

ive been collecting these recently and wanted to add some of my favorites

Official ominous signs

Republicans would never do this for American workers… NEVER…

But Biden did...

As someone who makes less than this and regularly works overtime, this is life changing.

chilchuck going "sorry leave me outta this one. i cant fight" but then hitting literally every precise shot with an arrow or projectile he ever made in the story INCLUDING PIERCING A RED DRAGONS EYE BY THROWING A KNIFE WHILE LEAPING AWAY my bro is a rogue with dex 20 and wants no one to know biggest liar in history

As a fellow union man i can relate - you do not let your employer know you can do anything you don't want to become your job

If humans ever go extinct, I hope some distant future species makes pop-up books with us roaring next to palm trees and volcanos.

The AI tech bubble finally bursting is going to be both catastrophic and very funny.

Like it’s going to be wild, it’s already starting to hit NVIDIA stock. The chain reaction will hit tech giants and everyone depending on them.

Line goes down.

It really is the perfect example of a bubble.

The nature of ai was ESPECIALLY seductive to investors because it promised to be the capitalist holy grail:

The ai bubble wasn’t just a representation of its own overpromised potential, it also inflated every major tech corporation as they all expectantly awaited their first financial quarter with a 95% reduction in labor costs. Some of them prepared to lay off significant chunks of their workforce, expecting a fully automated replacement any day. But customer service chatbots are giving away free flights, some lethally unreliable books on mushroom foraging got published on amazon, and the wonka spectacular guy practically got a public stoning. It’s apparent (and more so every day) that the ai hatchling was pushed out of the nest without any feathers.

Remember when Ben 10: Ultimate Alien had an episode about the wrongful imprisonment of immigrants/refugees? Remember when no one faulted the person who had been in isolation for years for wanting revenge on his captors?

Ben 10 says FUCK ICE!!!!

I actually read that this was a direct reference to Guantanamo Bay

Turns out you’re right! From Peter David’s blog:

“Although I was listed as the sole writer of the episode, the concept was very much driven by Dwayne. When we sat down to break the story, we started talking in broad strokes about doing a story involving an alien prison. As we got more specific, he said he wanted it to be a metaphor for Guantanamo Bay, because he was outraged that it had ever existed in the first place. He also wasn’t thrilled that Obama was dragging out the shut down. The notion that people could be held indefinitely with no trial, no sentencing, just on suspicion…Dwayne was just furious over it. He said it was as if the government had lost sight of what America was supposed to represent.

“The concept was that, under Area 51, the government had created an indefinite holding facility for aliens who had come to earth, operating on the assumption that if they were here, they were intending to conquer the world and that their very presence was a security threat. Since they were not like us, not even human, they had no rights and anything that was done to them was fair game. Higher values, such as morality–not to mention truth, justice and the American way, which is very much in the current news cycle–didn’t factor in. And the story would be propelled by the idea that one of the aliens had escaped, an alien who had done nothing wrong but was now seeking out payback for the way he’d been treated.

“Dwayne had me research how many prisoners had been held at Guantanamo during the height of its “popularity.” After checking several sources, the number I came up with was seventy hundred and seventy five. That’s where the title came from.

“What I find interesting is that after I watched the episode with Caroline last night, she said, wholly unprompted, “That’s just like when they made Japanese Americans prisoners a long time ago and they hadn’t done anything.” Because when you’re eight years old and you’ve gone out for lunch with George Takei, you find out about these things. And her observation underscored how much things change but also how much things stay the same, and how much we never learn. But I think Dwayne felt (and I agree) that the only way we’re going to learn is to educate youngsters so that they won’t make the same mistakes.”

Bill Watterson · Calvin and Hobbes (March 20, 1987)

direct action

fascinated by all the content violations when this seems to have been a Calvin & hobbes old comics about trees???

Eighty Percent

You know what, since I'm thinking about it anyways, let's talk formalwear accessories. Most of these are traditionally menswear but a bit of gender fuckery is good for the soul, and frankly most of these are about making your mass-produced clothing fit and lay properly without having to go to the tailor.

Shirt stays: these go around your thighs to hold your shirt down, so that it stays smooth and tucked in. They're usually elastic, with 1-3 clips, and if you wear skirts frequently this is a GREAT way to make sure your top doesn't ride up. The clips will be visible if you're wearing something tight, so loose pants or skirts are where these do best. There's also an insane version that clips to your socks, but that is for lunatics. If you wanted, you could also use one of these clips to hold up thigh-highs.

These do a great job of smoothing and narrowing the waist area by keeping your shirt from bunching there.

Sleeve garters: usually metal, leather, elastic, or silk. These are usually worn with button-down shirts to adjust where your cuff falls on the wrist or hand. They're properly worn on the upper arm, and you pull the fabric of the sleeve above the garter until you cuff is where you want it. Because this creates a puff of sleeve at the bicep, it also broadens the appearance of the shoulders. It's great if you're working with your hands or if your sleeves are often too long for your preference.

Waistband clip or belt adjustment clip/buttons

Three different ways of tightening the waistband of a pair of pants or a skirt. You're not going to get more than an inch or so tighter without weird bunching, and for most of these you'd want them to be hidden under a shirt or jacket, but they do the job if that's something you're having issues with.

Collar pins: There are so many fun ones out there, both with and without chains. They're not terribly practical, though the slight weight may help keep your collar where you want it. Also consider collar tips, which pin (surprise) to the very tips of your collar points.

Sweater clips/guards: meant to hold your sweater or cardigan mostly closed. Great if your cardigan doesn't button, or if you don't like it to be buttoned all the way.

There's tons of other stuff out there like this--etsy is a great place to find this stuff. A lot of these are old solutions to the very modern problem of mass-maufactured clothes not being as one-size-fits-all as advertised, but they're also a fun way to put a bit of personality into businesswear.