oh my god

OH MY GOD

Probably been done before but idc

@demilypyro

please, please unmute this.

Some crimes can never be forgiven

This is from this youtube channel!!! Uyen Ninh and her German BF are Extremely Relatable to me and my betrothed

Android bodies as a vehicle for erotic body horror is well and good, but I think android bodies as a vehicle for erotic comedy is an underexplored genre. Picture a story about a robot with realistic cyborg genitals misreading their pressure gauge and overfilling their synthetic spooge reservoir, then later they're getting a handjob from their partner and the resulting pressure differential blows their penile coupling and sends their entire dick shooting off like a bottle rocket, out the window and into the apartment across the street. The rest of the narrative concerns their increasingly slapstick efforts to locate and recover their errant member (which is, of course, still transmitting full sensory data via wireless connection – this is porn, after all).

it should be a point and click adventure accompanied by the silliest cartoon sound effects possible filled with interactable visual gags like an nsfw version of a humongous entertainment game.

Refilling the player character's spooge reservoir is the tutorial puzzle. It's actually possible to solve it "correctly" and avoid the overpressure issue, albeit only by using information the player cannot legitimately possess at that point in the game; if you actually do so, the plot's inciting incident is avoided, followed shortly by a non-standard game over in which the player character and their partner are randomly crushed by a deorbiting satellite which lands on their apartment.

(The apartment is also destroyed by a falling satellite in the intended plot sequence, but nobody dies because you're out chasing after your dick when it hits.)

This is so wholesome

Update: he finally got the cat to the vet to see if she had a microchip

I was already on board with his sweet wholesome open-to-love-and-nurturing heart but I was fully unprepared for getting to that last tweet and seeing how off the hook HOT dude is

https://twitter.com/pariszarcilla?lang=en heres his twitter is here there is also additonal cat photos of his children. 

CAT DAD IS BACK

aww, the kids grow up so fast. ;-;

HHHHHHHH I LOVE CAT DAD!

This is, by far, the single most adorable fucking thing I have ever seen. 

update:

I love that he kept …. All of them.

I’ve reblogged the earlier part of this thread before, and the new stuff makes it even better.

This is the Tumblr equivalent of a warm hug on a cold day.

You’re welcome.

I remember this thread, but I never saw the grown-up pics ❤

@every-n-anything

All hail Catdad

I saw Catdad for the first time today, and my day instantly became exponentially better.

I’M CRYING!?

CATDAD HAS REVIVED MY WILL TO LIVE

I live for cat dad-

Cat dad has saved us all

CAT DAD!!

I had not seen the updates. I am so happy that the Cat Gods smiled upon this person and their new family :)

He’s got more recent pictures (and is also an INCREDIBLE artist), but this is the fam circa May 2020 :>

It’s been over a year? Where is cat dad? Where is he?

Fear not, CatDad is still happily with us:

Cat Dad 2022 pic.

It’s been far too long since I saw these guys. “Heartwarming” doesn’t begin to touch it. :)

I think I can trace my intense hatred for the whole "regulations are just corporate bullshit, building codes are just The Man's way of keeping you down, we should return to pre-industrial barter and trade systems" nonsense back to when I first started doing electrical work at one of the largest hospitals in the country.

I have had to learn so much about all the special conditions in the National Electric Code for healthcare systems. All the systems that keep hospitals running, all the redundancies and backups that make sure one disaster or outage won't take out the hospital's life support, all the rules about different spaces within the hospital and the different standards that apply to each of them. And a lot of it is ridiculously over-engineered and overly redundant, but all of it is in the service of saving even one life from being lost to some wacky series of coincidences that could have been prevented with that redundancy.

I've done significantly less work in food production plants and the like, but I know they have similar standards to make sure the plants aren't going to explode or to make sure a careless maintenance tech isn't accidentally dropping screws into jars of baby food or whatever. And research labs have them to make sure some idiot doesn't leave a wrench inside a transformer and wreck a multi-million dollar machine when they try to switch it on.

Living in the self-sufficient commune is all fun and games until someone needs a kidney transplant and suddenly wants a clean, reliable hospital with doctors that are subject to some kind of overseeing body, is my point.

from what I know of just the general history of building codes and osha rules, I would not be the least surprised if every single one of those healthcare codes exist not just to prevent someone from dying, but because pre-code, someone did.

osha rules, building codes, food production rules are all written in blood

I used to have a job that involved enforcing the fire code, like basically just doing the fire equivalent of asking people to wear a seatbelt, and people constantly acted like I was a fucking cop for doing so, EVEN THOUGH this was in a city that had recently had a high-profile fire where multiple people died because of fire code violations. Every time I mentioned the fire code, I could tell people were inwardly rolling their eyes at me, like "there goes the hall monitor again."

I feel like a common misconception about anti-government and anti-capitalist sentiments is that if we go down that path that we have to throw these things away? That in order to move forward with a fair and equitable society we should just get rid of everything from the last one and start from scratch. Like we have to throw the baby out with the bathwater.

But like, we actually don't.

As was already said above, these rules were written in blood. We KNOW the consequences of not following them. We can keep the building codes, the safety standards, the things that have real consequences if we don't follow them, and carry them forward with us.

If anything it might be a lot easier to follow them because we wouldn't have cheap bosses expecting top of the line work requesting dangerous shortcuts, providing poor resources to do the work with, demanding time crunches, and all while devaluing your labour with condescension and poor pay. Imagine being able to do professional quality work without a time crunch, without a middle manager breathing down your neck, and without having to take shortcuts because somebody at corporate arbitrarily decided the stock price wasn't high enough and they want it done now. You could just do your best possible work and at a reasonable/your oen pace.

Like, yes, if we got rid of capitalism and/or government then the overseeing body for these regulations would have to change to something like a safety council or even just personal accountability, but that doesn't mean that we just wholesale throw everything away. You're still going to know the safety regulations, your skills will still be valuable in a new society, hospitals will still need to be stocked and staffed, and so on. The important infrastructure of society that we rely on would continue to exist and need to be maintained, its just that the reason will no longer be for profit, but to carry forward a healthy and equitable society instead.

Like, if you take away being able to afford food to live as a motivator to work or as a barrier to getting good things done for people such as building wheelchair ramps to make more buildings/places accessible and getting wheelchairs to those who need it, how many more of those could we do? How about all of the people who are stuck waiting for expensive medical procedures to save their lives, or are resigned to never get them because the cost is in the way, how many more of those could we do? How many more people could we save and/or include in our society if we didn't have to factor in the cost of supporting them? If we could just support them?

It is telling how pervasive the assumptions of capitalism are, to the point where even when we try to conceptualize and formalize alternative models for resource prioritization and allocation aside from "who has the most money" a lot of people have to come up with substitutes for the Profit Motive, even in a system that ostensibly doesn't have it. Outside enforcement of regulations is necessary as long as the Profit Motive incentive exists to maximize profit at the extent of literally everything else, which is basically an external system of negative feedback that is applied to the capitalism machine in order to moderate it, like a governor on a steam engine keeping it from going too hot, too fast, and blowing up.

The idea of building a machine from the ground up that just does what all these companies are ostensibly supposed to do is so alien to our experiences that a lot of people don't have the ability to conceptualize, never mind the vocabulary to discuss it. Even the people who hate living under Capitalism the most have been fighting it for so long that they don't know how to live in a world where they have beaten it.

The problem is that you're assuming profit motive is the only reason anyone might cut corners or work unsafely, and that's patently absurd.

Most of my coworkers cut corners or skip safety because it's faster, it's easier, and it's less annoying. They do not know or care if our company is making money or not, they care if the safety guy is watching them so they can get up on top of the 8 foot ladder instead of having to haul the 10 foot ladder up the stairs. And the safety guy doesn't actually care if I'm using an 8 or a 10 foot ladder, he cares about whether me falling and killing myself is going to wind up with the company being sued, or about whether an OSHA inspection is going to get him fired.

I can imagine a world where profit motive doesn't exist. I can't imagine a world in which people stop being people and start being perfect automatons whose only concern is the betterment of society and who would never, ever dream of stuffing 8 circuits into a 3/4 inch pipe because the drill attachment they would need to run a 1 inch pipe is on backorder.

I MUST DEFEND WOMEN ONLINE

I MUST DEFEND WOMEN ONLINE

"Pluto isn't a planet" Fine.

"Dinosaurs had feathers" Fine!

"Neptune isn't a beautiful oceanic blue, it's actually the same washed-out disappointing color as Uranus" I will kill you with my bare hands

Look how they massacred my boy

Oh and if you thought Uranus was boring before, boy have I got news for you:

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Glass of water (oil on canvas) Artist / Emma May Riley

OIL PAINTING

this manatee looks like it’s in a skyrim loading screen

It looks like it's making the annunciation to Mary

look i know the szeth prologue carries a lot of introductory information as to the magic system and how it can be used (and if there is one thing the cosmere in general excels at it is using the rules of a hard magic system in interesting ways for fight scenes) but it is so crazy that his internal monologue is so full of grief for what he is about to do and his first spoken line is "what am i? i'm sorry" and then he starts killing people in such an overcomplicated rube goldbergian way. why'd he lash a guy to the ceiling above an upright spear and just wait (fearspren spawning up around them) until the lashing broke and he impaled himself. you didnt have to do that man no one was around to see it

Absolutely bonkers that I'm now one of those weirdos you hear about on Twitter

I committed to the bit so hard that I also committed misdemeanor impersonation of a government official

@huffy-the-bicycle-slayer honestly I think this was a massive missed opportunity on the part of the government. I literally learned stuff from osha-official that I proceeded to use IN A VERY REAL OSHA COMPLAINT that resulted in my (now-former) job facing some very serious consequences (as in “you have 48 hours to present a plan and timeline to fix this or we’re shutting you down” consequences). The OSHA employee who handled my complaint said it was one of the best-written and most comprehensive he’d seen in the 20 years he’d been doing the job. The bullet-pointing and management jargon I learned elsewhere, but the forklift certification issues and the lack of adequate safety exits? That was YOU.

It’s not a joke that your blog may have saved lives at my job, because out of eleven infractions I turned in, five were deemed to be “an immediate threat to life and safety.” The government should have offered you a paycheck to keep going as an actual OSHA employee, because you were absolutely teaching us stuff that makes our jobs safer and told us what resources to use if we needed to swing the OSHA club at our bosses and you were doing it in a format that was accessible and popular with your audience. That should be any organization’s absolute DREAM.

So if they won’t thank you, I will: on behalf of about 100 employees who are no longer working in a building full of flammables with no fire extinguishers and no exits from the entire back half of the building, a building where uncertified forklift drivers rammed into support columns and made the walls shake, a building where the HVAC system was full of black mold, thank you, for giving me the tools and courage to pick up the phone and fix the problem.

thesandmanofficial The Endless have finally assembled: Introducing Adrian Lester as Destiny, Esmé Creed-Miles as Delirium and Barry Sloane as the Prodigal in the next season of THE SANDMAN. It’s going to be one Hell of a family reunion.