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30/they, please no kids
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Pinhead & co. have to undo the effects of the Elysium Configuration from the end of Bloodline. Will they be able to do it? Subscribe to this fic to find out!
https://archiveofourown.org/works/62929165/chapters/161145817
Update: Chapter 7 is now up! Jump to latest chapter here.
can we reintroduce “disturbing” back into the popular lexicon in place of most uses of “traumatizing”
“This experience puts me in a worse mental state and my well-being will be compromised…”
Lots of people who totally blew it in November are soooooo mad that liberals were completely correct about the high stakes of the election, which were broadcasted clearly in bright red lights every single day leading up to November 5th. But they could've chosen not to do that.
They're not mad that Republicans are doing horrible things; they're mad that everyone knows Democrats warned them this would happen and they can't save face to anyone with a functioning memory
"Democrats should be doing something" you took their power away from them Barbara. Like you wanted.
Hey. Look at me. Please leave yourself a note somewhere you'll see it later that says "it is going to take years if not decades to get the United States government to the level of functionality it had in November of 2024." If we elect a democrat in 2028, we are not going to be up and running by 2032.
Please make sure you have a reminder in your phone reminding you to not look at 2028/32/36 Democratic candidates and say "why are they not promising/delivering Cool Shit?" because you are going to understand that to get Cool Shit we must have competent people running a decently funded government, and we are not going to have that.
We are not getting UBI. We are not getting single payer healthcare. We are not getting free college or free preschool. We are not redistributing wealth on a large scale. We are not getting free internet. We are not getting ranked choice voting.
If we are lucky, we are going to get an IRS that can collect taxes, qualified schoolteachers, research grants, Social Security, and a government that thinks maybe it should be a priority for people around the worlds to not have AIDS, malaria or TB.
Wild that folks keep saying beekeepers abuse bees as if bees are not both venomous flying animals and fully unionized
Hubris to think you COULD abuse bees
I think that if you see a balrog in an unlocked kitty kennel then you can assume that it wants to be there
Actually, beekeepers take many precautions to keep their bees from leaving.
many clip the wings of the queen, destroy new queen cells, cull queens they don't like and use bee pheromones to prevent a hive from naturally swarming or absconding. They also try and prevent mating with the African honey bee, which makes them less docile among other things. During artificial insemination of queens, drones are crushed and „spare“ queens are killed.
and commercial beekeepers even cull their hives during winter, or when they are not producing well.
Coupled with the fact that there is evidence that insects do feel pain, this is not great.
(Not to mention that honeybees are an invasive species in most places, competing with native pollinators and spreading disease)
It is so fucking bold of you to link the exact same paywalled book thirteen times in your reblog to throw people off the fact that you're using one source from 1859.
I don't think there's ever been a funnier vegan response in the history of this hell site. This is actual gold. If you cited an argument like this in a first year undergrad intro to bio module, then your lecturer would be legally entitled to fire you out of a cannon. I think I'm dying
Its weird how quickly stereotyping cats based on color has taken off online now
I'd say its just people wanting to lovingly tease their pets, but I've come across several conversations recently of people wondering what genetically causes orange cats "to be that way". I think it's because they are a cat.
It's even weirder because people act like "orange cat behaviour" is a long-standing cultural stereotype and not something that popped up in the last five years!
Oh some of my favorites include "my tortie loves to [insert normal cat behavior here], and only torties act that way!" and "I could never get a calico, they are mean!" Like bitch what? You think fur and skin color determines personality? You're cat racist. Make it make sense.
we used to pay humans to be computers before computers took their jobs
Genuinely I wonder what current anti-automation campaigners would say if they were sent back in time with knowledge of the present, to before "simple automation" was widespread across society and everything was performed by a human working by hand with pen and paper.
Because I genuinely do see and understand the point being made about the real world short term impact on people's lives from automation threat. But the fact is that the shape of that argument was exactly the same 60, 50, 40 years ago when it came to deploying computer processes/digitalisation/running simple algorithms - like, people were losing the jobs they'd trained for in exactly the same way.
But I feel like it's hard to argue, from a modern perspective, that the world is worse for having invented and rolled out the personal computer.
I mean I feel like the answers I'd mostly be given on this would be cop-outs centered on specific examples that wouldn't address the broader point. But it's a dilemma I genuinely struggle with myself so I'd like to see someone take a full on crack at the matter too see if I end up agreeing or not.
do y'all remember when they found all that tf art in Osamu Tezuka's drawer post-mortem because I think about it often
anyway keep chasing your bliss and draw weird shit, god knows we need that right now
Symptom X is associated with Mental Illness You're Diagnosed With, Other Mental Illness You're Diagnosed With, Thing You Probably Have But Have Never Been Formally Diagnosed With, and Stuff That Runs In Your Family.
There are no treatments. Or it can be treated in 50 differently ways, most of which won't work for you and all of which will take weeks or months to get diagnosed with enough to get treated.
The thing about Leverage is that even on the rare occasions where I don't believe a normal person would fall for something, I 100% believe a billionaire who's never been told "no" would. This is the same group of people that tried to visit the Titanic with a video game controller
