talesfrommedinastation:

orientalld:

dayyjournal:

Obi-Wan wears like 53 layer of robes so everyone assumes he’s kinda soft especially compared to his ‘in the prime of his youth’ former Padawan but then one day he goes shirtless to spar and he’s shredded, he has an 8 pack. Clones and Jedi alike are choking on drinks and tripping into walls. Ahsoka is covering her eyes and screaming because that’s basically her grandpa. Anakin has to throw a robe over Obi-Wan like The Birth of Venus. 

I BLAME YOU ALL

Why isn’t this in the Met or the Louve, I ask kindly.

sluttyquarantinetheory:

One aspect of DS9 that doesn’t get discussed often is how it actually discusses the history of racism and the lasting effects that still has on future generations existing well past the end of that discrimination. It shows how some people will not care much that historical aesthetics come from a time period deeply entrenched in oppression while others are deeply uncomfortable with the entire prospect of playing pretend in a faux historical setting that never existed.

A lot of Racism is Over Now settings like to either show a black man being blatantly racist to some fantastical being to illustrate how the times have changed or just pretends that the entire generational baggage of racism would simply disappear. Deep Space 9 is one of the few shows I can think of that actually discusses what the lasting impacts of our deeply racist society would mean in a post scarcity world.

thedoubteriswise:

nothing funnier to me than when AI does math wrong. like I get why it happens, it’s a language model that’s treating the numbers you feed it as words rather than integers and then giving you an answer based on how those words typically appear in a block of text instead of actually performing a calculation. but the one thing computers are genuinely incredible at. you fucked up a perfectly good calculator is what you did, look at it it’s got hallucinations

secondlina:

How to draw some meeses. Some cheese bois. Some rodent squadron.

allthatispeculiar:

duztdevl:

when you test out the new behavioural program (manwhore.exe)

dirtydragonthoughts:

Why yes. I did report the ad (with the AI-generated Trump standing in front of an AI-generated crowd of blue-collar people) which implied that the tariffs were going to bring about a new age of economic prosperity, click here for more info…

For being offensive or inappropriate.

It would be great if there was an option for “this ad is misleading or a scam” like other sites have, so I just picked the reporting reason that seemed most appropriate.

teaboot:

teaboot:

I love having a cat because who else will sit with me for four hours solid while I sort aquarium gravel by colour composition surface texture and patina

Sometimes he tries to eat the rocks but I’ve honed my reflexes to a razor’s edge for just such an occasion

theunvanquishedzims:

beemovieerotica:

pirates of the caribbean really introduced an eldritch octopus man who kills indiscriminately and torments the dead as their poster villain and then you watch the movies and it’s like, “oh no, actually the worst villain in this series is a small white british man who functions as the herald of capitalism” and that was very very brave of them

#here is a man so heartless he has literally cut his own heart out of his chest #but he’s still not as evil as the fucking east india trading company

maruposting:

The double flan emojis make the identity theft scam just a little more enticing.

opensuse-official:

daemonhxckergrrl:

opensuse-official:

daemonhxckergrrl:

still mad about smart TVs. that shit should be in a separate box like you can literally buy one of them androidtv boxes for £30. it doesn’t need its own ip address it doesn’t need its own app store it doesn’t need to replicate the functionality every device plugged into it already has

Smart TVs are one of the great evils of the modern era tbh. If I wanted spyware on my TV I should have to download it myself

i keep promising myself i won’t become another technophobe yelling about those “dang newfangled machines” or whatever. that i won’t Get Worse until going back to punchcards unironically seems like a good idea. that i’ll enjoy new things as they come out.

but so much is actively evil, hostile or otherwise enshittified. i don’t want to track my greebles with splorp i don’t want to pay a teehee subscription to get round cacophany’s file limits i don’t need 17 ways to skrimple my scronk 7 of which secretly activate scrungly plus ultimate i don’t need to link it to my flowolf account i don’t want to manage it with the flowby mowby i don’t care if poob does or does not has it for me. i don[’t care

i want a big screen whose ENTIRE job is to show me whatever device i plug into it. and also audio. i want to save my documents. on the computer. that i’m using. i want to own the media i buy. i want tech that is fat, properly cooled, simpler, serviceable by a normal person, and not forcing me to constantly select the “onlly spy on me a little bit” box every couple weeks.

You are so incredibly right

We neutered our smart tv by declining the user agreement and hooking it up to our desired devices. It’s really upset but it doesn’t even have the wifi password. Suck it, you dumb hunk of plastic.

meikov1:

sometimes u need a best friend to vent to

cygnahime:

someoddmix:

greentrickster:

greentrickster:

greentrickster:

greentrickster:

Frankenstein AU where the Creature, upon returning to seek terrible vengeance on Victor after realizing the tragic existence he’s been forced into, takes a few days extra to actually, you know, observe Victor and see what he’s like, to learn how best to enact his revenge. And he comes to the conclusion that, “Actually, I don’t need to do anything, this idiot’s going to ruin his own life without any outside interference, and I kinda wanna see how he does it.”

Victor then proceeds to continue with his previously demonstrated levels of making good life choices, while now also constantly looking over his shoulder for his Creation and having the vapors at every little thing because oh noes, it’s The Monster come back to Get Him-!!!

The Creature: (watching all this unfold through binoculars like it’s a soap opera while sneaking in to help himself to Victor’s larder and library when he feels like it, and also occasionally hiding small but vital objects, like Victor’s keys or shaving blade, in weird spots in the house) Wow, it really does take an incredibly smart man to be quite this stupid, doesn’t it?

At one point, Victor finally starts to unwind and relax a bit, has a string of good luck, looks like he might actually be at risk of Getting His Shit Together. So that year the Creature sends him a birthday present - a bible with ‘To my father from his beloved son’ inscribed on the inside and 'Your me!’ written next to a little arrow pointing at the first use of the name 'Adam’ in the text.

He does nothing else, just sits back and lets the carnage unfold as Victor proceeds to regress into full-on post-Creature-creation breakdown and no one else knows what the fuck’s going on, because he refuses to tell them, because No One Can Know My Terrible Deed, even though he’s certain They All Suspect.

They Do Not, in fact, Suspect, the actual main theory is that he just fucked around in a normal manner for Young Aristocracy of Standing in the era and now some no-better-than-she-should-be chit is trying to shame him for knocking her up.

Another running theory is that Victor actually sent the bible to himself in an attempt to become more interesting again, because he’s cringefail like that and can’t stand the idea of not being seen as interesting or special.

The Creature is drinking hard lemonade and having a jolly old time watching the proceedings. He’s got a 'when do I get to meet step-mother?’ letter all planned out for next time Victor seems to be at risk of becoming chill, and, while still lonely as hell, is definitely enjoying this much more than the murder spree he initially had planned.

@someoddmix #adam frankenstein engages in psychological warfare against his creator and has A Great Time #because Victor is pretty good at psychologically torturing himself lol #MEET STEP-MOTHER LMAOOO

Psychologically torturing Victor is great, because it’s basically revenge on easy mode. This is the revenge equivalent of one of those mobile games that plays itself for you, and all you need to do is let it run in the background and check in for daily log-in bonuses.

Also, because people have always been people, eternal loneliness is sad, and probability means he’s bound to luck out eventually, I'mma be kind and say that at some point in all this, Adam gets caught sneaking food in the kitchen by one of the maids who’s also an old maid (so you know, like… early thirties). And he’s frozen in place, because Oh No, this is generally When The Screaming Starts, and she’s also frozen in place, because she’s experiencing an Awakening (because people have always been people and if tumblr existed back then this woman would have three accounts and a The Shape of Water poster).

Then she notices that Adam’s got like… half a loaf of yesterday’s bread, a couple of apples, and one of Master Frankenstein’s scientific journal-type books, and asks, “Wait, are you the reason Master Frankenstein thinks someone’s out to get him?”

Adam: …yes?

Maid: Well done you, then, he’s insufferable. Here, let me get you some ham to go with all that, a big, strapping fellow like you needs some proper meat in his diet if he wants to keep his health.

Adam has never encountered this sort of reaction before and doesn’t quite know how to handle it. Thus he ends up just standing there silently as she bustles around, gets a basket and puts his bread and apples in it, adds ham and some cheese and a nice jar of pickles (“You’ll need to bring the jar back when you’re done with them, though, jars don’t grow on trees, you know”!“). By the end of it, she’s introduced herself as Gytha, and he’s introduced himself as Adam for want of having any other name, and he’s somehow agreed to meet her in a specific clearing in the woods not far from the house on her next day off so he can tell her what his (she (accurately) presumes to be extremely justified) deal with Victor is.

Gytha has gained one (1) life-long devotee who has never before experienced the warmth of human kindness like this.

Adam has gained one (1) co-conspirator on the inside.

Victor is about to lose ten (10) more years off of his ever-dwindling lifespan.

Life is good.

@baggebythesea #Gytha deserves a little bit of Adam. As a treat

Gytha: (staring up at Adam, all eight canonical feet of him, formed with the intent he be a physically perfect specimen, only then he actually got brought to life and now he’s got kinda yellowy-transluscent skin and weird eyes that are also yellowy, and is frankly considered by most to be very uncomfortable to look at)

Gytha: …

Gytha: …Gytha deserves a lottle bit of Adam as a treat…

She is also of the mindset, "Well, I’ve already spent a most considerable amount of time with him completely unchaperoned, enough to be a thoroughly ruined woman by this point. Therefore I see no reason not to show him my ankles and let things progress as they will.”

Things take awhile to progress, mostly because Adam has an understandably difficult time just internalizing the fact that not only is Gytha willing to spend time in his presence, she actively enjoys his company. That she may wish to commit sins of the flesh with him due to finding him genuinely desirable is too anathema to all he has ever experienced for him to even consider. But progress they eventually do, because Gytha’s no quitter, and they progress to a most definitively mutual pleasure at that!

(Father Thomas over at the church had been under the impression he’d weathered the worst of what life/Gytha had to throw at him by the time she was twenty-five and that he mostly had how to handle her visits under control by now. He was Very Wrong, and not only that he’s having to deal with it while young Master Frankenstein is having yet another continuous crisis of everything.)

Father Thomas, unwilling participant in The Drama XD

I don’t know how to surmount the many legal and religious difficulties, but I don’t think the Creature would be opposed to making an honest woman of Gytha, and it would be a perfect capstone for Victor to encounter at church the banns posted for Adam(?) Frankenstein and Gytha [surname]

cleoselene:

steelbluehome:

I’d just like to clarify some things about Senator Cory Booker’s marathon Senate speech in protest of the present administration and everything they are doing to the American people.

Senator Booker was NOT allowed to sit down, eat, or use the bathroom during his speech. Sitting or leaving the room to use the bathroom would be considered yielding the floor. Eating would have interfered with his speaking and the person who has the senate floor must continue to speak, except when listening to questions that they will then answer.

He only took occasional sips of water.

The person who previously held the record for longest speech on the Senate floor did have bathroom breaks and also did things like read from the encyclopedia.

Senator Booker did not do that. His speech was to point out the damage that this administration is doing and he stayed on that subject.

Senator Booker’s speech did reach many people. It wasn’t a silly stunt that was done so that he could take the record for longest speech. He wanted to show the country that democrats will do something to bring attention to the problems we are facing. That democrats are listening to them.

Senator Cory Booker spoke for 25 hours and 4 minutes to “make good trouble.”

also like, a Black man breaking Strom Thurmond’s record is absolutely *chef’s kiss*

for those who are too young to know about Strom, he was literally a white supremacist

And Strom Thurmond was filibustering the Civil Rights Act. Which is why it’s so awesome Senator Booker wrecked his record