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This is all forms of collaboration

This is the most honest comment I’ve ever seen

Whumpee who keeps forgetting they're injured. Keeps tearing their stitches or reopening a wound not because they're stubborn but because they really can't process that something Bad happened

I would also like it to STAND on my TITS and SNIFF my EYES.

Also you don't get to set the time for waking up. That is a very important feature of this type of alarm clock.

Bothersome beast, comforting friend

Odysseus of Ithaca?? In my Hades 2 Game??

A Conversation with Richard Siken by Thomas Hobohm

My brain: You have so many tight deadlines. So many things on your weekly schedule. So many important jobs. You have to get important work done!!!

My hands:

It's a

Hat tip @evilferretoverlord-blog ! Thank you!

people on my "making AUs for OCs" post keep going like "oh you mean like a STORY? like a BOOK? OP that's just a STORY!!" like no you don't get it. you don't get how much my friends and i play with our ocs like dolls. we're talking swap AUs. homestuck classpecting. MLP AUs. evil AU. "so just making stories" you're like a little baby to me. leave my sight

Al Jazeera is banned in Israel. This means reporters, but not only that. I can't even access the site.

An Al Jazeera reporter from East Jerusalem lists impacts of this bill:

Access to the website is banned.

The Al Jazeera TV channel is obviously banned too.

The host of the website's domain can be fined for hosting the website??

Holding offices or operating them in the territory of Israel, banned.

Any device used to provide content for Al Jazeera, including a personal mobile phone if it's used to gather news, can be confiscated by Israel.

The only democracy in the Middle East never heard of freedom of the press I guess.

Byung-Chul Han, from an interview published in ArtReview

I love this phenomenon. I'm sure there's a better terminology for it than my ramblings, but I see it everywhere, it goes beyond foreshadowing and into things like subtext, and I don't think it's necessarily accidental.

A very common example you see in online spaces are trans folks drawing themselves as the opposite sex long before the realize years after the fact that that might mean something.

Hayao Miyazaki has the most chaotic way of making films that I've ever seen. He has no idea how the story is going to end when production starts. In Spirited Away he described the flooding at the end as a fortunate accident. He wanted the train scene to be completely barren in contrast to all the previous visual noise, and was relieved when he realized he had foreshadowed it.

There's a fun interview with spielburg about close encounters of the third kind where he's confronted with the interpretation that the movie ends with music and computer science coming together which were the respective professions of his parents, so it was a scene about him reaching out to communicate with his parents, and he laughs because he didn't realize that when he made it.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton said “Talent does what it can: Genius does what it must.” and I think that describes this perfectly. You know what a 4 act structure is in basic terms, and there's nothing particularly superhuman about recreating that formula, but there's this small but significant part of you that, unbeknownst to you, is intentionally calling shots and turning that work into something more than you intended.

You could call it accidental, but you did it. Another good quote from red letter media: "You may not have noticed, but your brain did."

Goes into effect September 4.

whether you win or not is up to you. but could you take them

Explain your reasoning plzzz

They really need to teach financial literacy better in schools

I’d take the lump only because I don’t trust the 1K/day for life to actually last that long.

How is this money going to arrive daily for almost 30 years just to meet the lump sum? Also, due to inflation, each instalment is worth less and less.

Anything could happen in the next 25 years. Hell, I could die from covid or a million other things and my mrs would be left without.

Right now I could use that lump sum money to pay off the mortgage, get so much work done on our property, and still have some left over to tuck away for retirement.

If we were talking magic guarantees of an ammout equaling $1000 in today’s spending power delivered to me with no downsides for at least 30 years… I’d take that just for the guarantee of 30 years alive.

Since that WASN’T promised, I’ll take the lump sum tyvm.

I hope everyone understands, when I say “most endangered habitat on earth”, I mean temperate grasslands.

They’re more endangered than tropical rainforests, coral reefs, the arctic tundra, all of those go-to environments that get more of the spotlight.

Where I live, maybe 25% of the prairie remains in a natural state and that number is dropping. Even these fragments are mostly missing the keystone species that maintain their health, like bison, wolves, and prairie dogs. I know this is the case for other grasslands like the pampas and steppe as well. Vast lands empty of many species that used to call them home.

If you live on temperate grasslands, hold onto them tight, because they’ve been exploited like no other land and most people don’t even know how far the devastation goes.

please please pleaseeee listen to this post and learn the value of temperate grasslands. it makes me very sad that not only have these landscapes been destroyed by colonizers, but even most of the people who live there now don’t see their value. when i say i love midwestern landscapes, people call me crazy just because they’ve never seen the beauty of the tallgrass prairie :(