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Every time I think about, “Did you ever hear the tragedy of Darth Plagueis The Wise? I thought not. It’s not a story the Jedi would tell you. It’s a Sith legend.” I start laughing because IT HAPPENED LIKE TWELVE YEARS AGO and THE ONLY PEOPLE THERE WERE SIDIOUS AND PLAGUEIS like there’s no way for the Jedi to even know this story existed, it’s not a millennia old tale, it was INCREDIBLY RECENT and they were Sith Lords IN HIDING, yet Palpatine just says that entire story with his whole chest like Anakin’s never going to go go the Jedi and say, “Hey, what’s up with never telling me about that Sith Legend Darth Plagueis?” so the Jedi can go “who the fuck is Darth Plagueis????” and Palpatine is RIGHT, Anakin’s brain is just like a hamster on a squeaky wheel, “oh okay I don’t know enough to tell if that’s true or not but I’m just gonna believe it”.  ABOUT A STORY THAT HAPPENED A DECADE AGO, NOT SOME ANCIENT HISTORY.  The absolute gall of Sheev Palpatine, there will never be another villain like him, he’s the bestworst.

#the funniest part about it for me is that it’s probably not even that uncommon of a story with the Sith#say Anakin did go demand the Jedi tell him about this#they’d tell him they’ve never heard of a Plagueis but sure lots of Sith were convinced they’d found the secrets of immortality#never worked out for them#and getting murdered in their sleep by their apprentice? a dime a dozen with the Sith#“the chancellor is probably just conflating various stories about historical Sith…wait why was he talking about Sith legends anyway?” (via @jedi-order-apologist)

I am crying at the idea that Jocasta Nu, after being asked by a manic Anakin Skywalker about the Darth Plagueis legend, says she doesn’t know anything about that name, but she does have a dozen other stories about various elements that sound halfway familiar, so perhaps this is an amalgamation of various other stories, and she dumps like TWENTY VOLUMES of encyclopedias about the Sith in Anakin’s lap and says, okay, everything you need to know is in these books.  And Anakin is saved from diving face first into the dark side through the power of him falling asleep in the third volume in the middle of the Jedi Archives because a) he hasn’t slept in a week and b) they’re not nearly as exciting as he thought they’d be.  Jocasta just drapes a cloak over his shoulders and leaves him be with a soft pat to his back, he looks like he needed the rest.

#the idea of jocasta being like ‘hmm yes im afraid the chancellor only has a layman’s understanding of sith legends’ is soooo funny (via @gil-estel)

Jocasta’s reaction to hearing about Sheev’s story being, “Those citations sound like complete shit.” is absolutely sending me.  If you can’t properly cite your sources, Jocasta Nu isn’t buying your bullshit, Sidious.

#peer reviewed ✌️ #(unlike palpatine) (via @gil-estel)

Jocasta submitting Palpatine’s “story” for peer review, which leads to the uncovering that he’s the Sith Lord because they have to look into his sources, is THE funniest way for the Jedi to find out about him being Darth Sidious.

kedreeva:

In case you haven’t heard yet, Colossal, the biotech company that earlier this year showed off their “woolly mouse,” has announced that they de-extincted “dire wolves.” I put this in parenthesis, because just like with the mice, they didn’t truly bring them back (nothing can actually do that, yet). What they actually did was kind of neat; they took genes extracted from dire wolf DNA and inserted them into the grey wolf genome (replacing grey wolf DNA), to create a wolf with dire wolf genes.

And while that’s not really the same thing as building a dire wolf completely from scratch, so to speak, it’s still pretty cool science, and just like with the woolly mouse, the work COULD apply to conservation of actual species (for example, having the ability to widen the genome of remaining breeding individuals of an endangered species, with DNA from deceased individuals).

Also, they’re pretty cute

As they were born in October 2024, they now have their own 2,000 acre reserve where Colossal is monitoring them closely. There are two males and one female, but as they’ve stated they do not have plans to breed them, I’m not sure where the female is being kept in relation to the males, but I suspect she’s the solo-wolf pictured, vs the pics of the pair.

Anyway, that’s all happening.

nudityandnerdery:

soundlessdragon:

nudityandnerdery:

This is the backstory for how Gritty adopted a new sidekick, right?

I needed the hi-res of this immediately

https://x.com/NBCSPhilly/status/1111056999821774850

The kid throws down the gloves and Gritty picks him up and carries him off, this is beautiful, thank you for the link.

grey-reads-everything:

stripedroseandsketchpads:

punchspeedchunk:

five-rivers:

In honor of a bunch of weirdly aggressive posts I’ve seen this past week:

Is smoking weed in non-smoking locations, including indoor concerts, rude?

Yes

No

I’m going to leave a comment on this specifically because it was a really big problem for me when I worked in Event Services, and I want smokers of all sorts to fucking understand something.

Not everyone has a good time with marijuana. I personally get extremely nauseous from prolonged exposure to it, and headaches.

I also had to work as Firewatch frequently in live concerts, which were held in an indoor venue much like a warehouse. ANY GA event with a fairly young demographic, and my whole fucking night was calling in substance use alerts to security, who couldn’t do much of anything to stamp it out.

Understand that even if you are in a huge indoor venue, the ventilation is NOT good enough with so many other people in there for you to argue that your smoke and smell isn’t going to bother anyone. IT BOTHERS EVERYONE. THIS INCLUDES VAPING.

I would be feeling so fucking ill by the time I’d take my half hour, and more often than not these concerts were 8 hour shifts from start to finish, so even when the concert is over and you’ve gone. that smoke is still fucking hanging around, and so are the symptoms of reactions to it. And Firewatch HAS to be in the building so long as anyone else is.

Fucking MISERABLE shifts, all because you think you need to get your hit while listening to live music in order to enjoy it for some fucking reason. Willing to bet plenty of patrons who paid money to enjoy those bands also had their time ruined by people deciding that smoking/vaping in an enclosed space where they had no way to get away from the smell and smoke was totally fine.

Not even getting into the safety risk part that necessitated having Firewatch wardens on shift for idiot shitheads who think lighting shit up inside is a good idea.

I literally couldn’t give a fuck if you like to smoke pot, I am pro legalising it, but I want to rend you limb from limb with my teeth if you ever think its OK to smoke indoors or in ANY space where other people do not have the option of getting away from you, which is MOST communal/crowded spaces.

Don’t be an absolute fuckshit. Smoke or vape your crap at home or in your car or off in a side street BEFORE you go to the concert and DO NOT, EVER, UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES, SMOKE IN A FUCKING MUSIC VENUE. EVEN outdoors. People CANNOT get away from you and you are pissing off and ruining the fun of every asthmatic and every person who has bad reactions to your substance.

Have some basic fucking consideration for other people I am BEGGING you.

SMOKING WEED IS STILL SMOKING.

Non-smoking spaces exist because many people are immediately negatively affected by the presence of smoke secondhand. Including but not limited asthmatics, people with lung diseases, elderly people, and babies/children.

I don’t care if it’s legal or if weed doesn’t have carcinogens baked into it or you don’t believe in contact highs or whatever, it is not about any of that. “There is smoke here” is enough to be a problem for lots and lots of people! Any smoke!

If an area says “no smoking” DO NOT SMOKE ANYTHING THERE. And for that matter, don’t vape either.

I am asthmatic and I frequently have to leave events early, both indoor and outdoor, because someone decided to light up or vape in a crowd full of people. And if I can’t get far enough away from the smoke, I end up in the emergency room, with all the related expenses. Even if I do get away fairly quickly, I usually feel like shit for several hours afterward. If you cannot go the entire event without tobacco/marijuana, stay home or choose a non-smoke method like edibles or chewing tobacco or something.

And fyi, just because your vape smells like bubblegum instead of cigarettes doesn’t mean it’s not bad for the people around you.

sparrowlucero:

sparrowlucero:

the “dire wolves are no longer extinct” stuff is gonna be the most annoyingly persistent science misinformation for the next decade at least

my theory is they went with dire wolves because it’s the easiest pop culture-famous extinct animal to evoke. anything people would see as cool or notable enough to care about, like a dinosaur or a woolly mammoth or a dodo, is really hard to genetically edit into existence; the exception being dire wolves, which people both think of as an epic game of thrones fantasy creature that also looks exactly like a normal wolf (as opposed to a large bush dog that isn’t that closely related to grey wolves)

I am a little confused, because I was under the impression dire wolves are just fantasy souped-up wolves? And hadn’t heard anything about them not being extinct any more?

I do know that scientists in the Third Reich tried to breed the Aurochs back into existence - that’s the predecessor of tamed cows, big beefy things, probably quite aggressive. They didn’t have much luck, and their experiments were sent to live wild in a wood in Poland - a wood that the Polish Resistance were hiding out in. The experimental cows all vanished by the end of the war.

beardedmrbean:

queen-of-hobgobblers:

icantspellthings:

Im sorry but it is so funny how people outside of tumblr view us. Like why are the tiktokers treating tumblr like some professional ass website you need to do extensive prep before you begin posting on. And the follower farming advice is so fucking funny to me when this is the website where people actively hate getting new followers

Tumblr is the website where you ramble to yourself like a madman until someone decides they like you and put you into their pocket like a shiny rock. That’s how you get followers

TBH I have been following that advice for my sideblog, but I also know full well that I’m not Tumbling properly on that blog - I just didn’t want the bother of learning another platform for the blog.

itstimeforstarwars:

itstimeforstarwars:

For five years we have been complaining that it’s dangerous to unload trucks outside and asking for rolling barricades to block it off before someone gets hit by the many cars that speed through at 45mph and don’t pay attention.

For five years the district safety guy has been like “no you can’t block the driveway off you can’t have barricades it’s not unsafe just pay more attention.”

Well.

Guess fucking what just happened.

Just fucking guess.

Luckily no one was seriously injured but it’s really annoying that it took one of us literally getting hit by a car for the district to take our concerns seriously.

And now the district safety guy is running around all apanicked like “oh gee oh wiz we gotta get you guys some safety barricades or fences or something!!!”

Like. Yeah. Maybe next time the girl paying more attention to her text can hit the barricade instead of the fucking forklift. That would be nice. It would have been nicer if you had listened to us five years ago so that this event did not take place but. At least you’re doing something I guess.