Pigs might fly.

In this house we only loosely acknowledge current MCU canon. In my mind it's still around 2014-15. Winter Soldier just came out. We have such high hopes for the in-depth character arcs of our main babes, not to be turned into cash cows milked dry of any soul. The Avengers still all have their own floors in the tower and Bucky is coming to live in as Steeb's emo plus-one.

Something wonderful about my relationship with my wife @cannilyuncanny is that we both have a deep love of cooking. I'm someone who likes to "measure with my heart" rather than follow recipes, so I do a lot of improvised cooking. My wife is very precise and likes to measure and follow recipes, so she is the one who does the baking.

She has learned to make foccacia, pita, and no-knead bread. A couple of years ago she received a sourdough started from a friend and made potato kulchas with it. One thing that she loves about this is that humans have been bread-making for over 30,000 years, and so making bread connects her to her ancestors and to people all over the world.

People in Gaza are being denied access to these simple, fundamental ingredients to make bread, to nourish their bodies and spirits, and it breaks our hearts. The Israeli government, with the support of the United States, blocks vital food aid from reaching the Gaza Strip. This has led to extreme price inflation for the little food that remains in the markets. The only alternative to paying these elevated food prices is to go to Israeli-US controlled food sites that function to draw in large numbers of starving people past Israeli snipers where they can be massacred. Hundreds of people have been killed this way.

Palestinians are suffering and dying of hunger. In this overwhelming context, two Palestinians, Ahmad Al-Gharabli and his friend Abdulsalam are starting a mutual aid project in Northern Gaza called Palestinian Community Kitchen, to feed as many people as they can in Gaza. They have a tumblr blog @palestine-charity-kitchen where you can learn more. Like everyone in Gaza, they rely on donations.

Palestinian Community Kitchen was brought to my attention by my friend Nader @abdalsalam2000 who has been trying to raise money to feed his family (#4 on the gazavetters list). He is very close to his fundraising goal, 94% of the way there.

Nader also hopes that you will help him to direct attention to his friend Mariam. She is 20 years old, and was a university student before the war made classes inaccessible to her. Her campaign is new (July 13, 2025) and so far she has only received €42 out of her goal of €35,000. She needs donations for food for her family.

Nader also asked me to encourage you all to donate to Ahed, an aluminum technician in Northern Gaza with three young daughters: Fatima (9), Iman (6), and Noor (2). Ahed has only raised $1,068 out of his $30,000 goal so far and desperately needs food for his little girls.

you put that back in your mouth we're on a prophesy boycott untill shit get sorted or untill people start prophesying something more pleasant

fenhawke brainrot hit out of nowhere so. yeah

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God. Insane about the new short story. Recontextualizes that scene in Network Effect like craaaaazy. Murderbot you fucking idiot Iris didn't recognize you because she thinks you're that dangerous rogue SecUnit from TranRollinHyfa, she recognized you because she thinks art is IN LOVE WITH YOU

Just saw a YouTube short pointing out the "mistake" of Dedra Meero claiming to have been raised in an "Imperial" kinderblock, despite being old enough to have lived through the fall of the Republic. Unlike Dedra, the Galactic Empire isn't old enough to buy revnog and peezos. So what gives?

The thing is, plenty of characters in Andor refer to the late Republic as "Imperial" in the present day of the story. For example, on Ferrix we hear that Kenari was the site of an "Imperial" mining disaster. But in Cassian's flashback, the mining disaster has clearly already happened - yet Maarva refers to the approaching threat of a Republic warship.

These inconsistencies aren't mistakes - they're worldbuilding. It illustrates that to people in the world, the distinction between the late Republic and the Empire has started to blur. Imperialism extends its influence not only in the spatial realm of planets and sectors, but also in the very minds of its subjects. Additionally, it mirrors something from the Prequels - by the end of Attack of the Clones, when we see Stormtrooper-like Clones boarding proto-Star Destroyers as the Jedi Council looks on, we are meant to understand that the Republic-Imperial transition is already well on its way.

The fact that Andor understands this, builds on it and communicates it to the viewer without banging us over the head with exposition-laden dialogue is just one example of why it's the best piece of Star Wars media produced... maybe ever? And the fact that this is lost on the Star Wars Content-Industrial Complex is disappointing, if not unexpected.

Just saw a YouTube short pointing out the "mistake" of Dedra Meero claiming to have been raised in an "Imperial" kinderblock, despite being old enough to have lived through the fall of the Republic. Unlike Dedra, the Galactic Empire isn't old enough to buy revnog and peezos. So what gives?

The thing is, plenty of characters in Andor refer to the late Republic as "Imperial" in the present day of the story. For example, on Ferrix we hear that Kenari was the site of an "Imperial" mining disaster. But in Cassian's flashback, the mining disaster has clearly already happened - yet Maarva refers to the approaching threat of a Republic warship.

These inconsistencies aren't mistakes - they're worldbuilding. It illustrates that to people in the world, the distinction between the late Republic and the Empire has started to blur. Imperialism extends its influence not only in the spatial realm of planets and sectors, but also in the very minds of its subjects. Additionally, it mirrors something from the Prequels - by the end of Attack of the Clones, when we see Stormtrooper-like Clones boarding proto-Star Destroyers as the Jedi Council looks on, we are meant to understand that the Republic-Imperial transition is already well on its way.

The fact that Andor understands this, builds on it and communicates it to the viewer without banging us over the head with exposition-laden dialogue is just one example of why it's the best piece of Star Wars media produced... maybe ever? And the fact that this is lost on the Star Wars Content-Industrial Complex is disappointing, if not unexpected.

it's absolutely not the same thing, but as a former insurance agent i would like to shout out Pin-Lee for the way they LOCKED that case the fuck down the second they realized what was happening. code switching into legal lingo Immediately. fortifying the fuck out of their details. grasping onto their targets and allies the MOMENT they realized the stakes. it was sooooo fun seeing them jump into their element and hit the ground running like a champ. i fucking love bitches who understand every single word in the terms and conditions and contract and they WILL make this your life's problem

Captions shouldn't be censored. If the video says fuck or cum or cunt the captions should say the fucking word.

Unless it's a slur! No one needs to see that.

If they say a slur in the video, the captions should reflect it. The disabled are not little babies who have to have life sanitized for them.

okay but I feel like ur forgetting that slurs don't just apply to the disabled... children don't need to be seeing the n-word or other racial slurs??

but children DO need to be hearing it? are you actually reading the post here?

Here's how it works when subtitles are done properly:

Audio: Let's BEEP go! Subtitle: Let's (censor tone) go!

Audio: Let's fucking go! Subtitle: Let's fucking go!

Removing swears and slurs from the subtitles without removing it from the audio is implying that deaf/HoH people need babying, unlike their hearing friends and family sitting right next to them. Which is frustrating.

The point of subtitles is to give the same experience to everyone watching, regardless of ability—not to be a more palatable version of what's being said.

Losing my mind over this exchange bc it happens apropos of literally nothing. Murderbot just says shit and ART matches its energy without hesitation. Two weirdos who are the same brand of insane about each other <3

I think my favorite part of the new short story is that we've had several instances between artificial condition and network effect where MBs been like "ART would be good at this." "I wish ART was here" and seeing ART do virtually the same thing with learning how to hack secsystems and wanting intel drones and developing subtle deflection materials. I SO think its probably thinking "MB is so good at hacking. It would want more drones if I ever met it again. I wonder if I can make armor for it that won't get it clocked as a secunit"

POV you’re art and your bestest most specialest SecUnit goes “hey can you make a copy of me specifically to die” and you go “that’s an awful idea” and it goes “no fuck you it’s a great idea also you asked something to send to die so you can have me” and you shout “i didn’t mean you!” and it goes “stop yelling at me” which is maybe the first time it’s verbally pushed back on mistreatment in its life so you go entirely quiet because you are so so angry with it but also you can’t yell at it because it asked you not to

and then you send out the copy of it anyway to save your crew, and it saves your crew and another SecUnit and also itself

and then it dies

ART beefing with Tarik is comedy of all time because it’s obvious that the reason ART dislikes Tarik is that it wishes its best bestie Murderbot were here running security instead of stinky old Tarik.

This is even funnier because of all the similarities between Tarik and Murderbot. Sense of humor. Unaffected by ART’s intimidation and posturing. Observant and knowledgeable in security expertise. Calls ART out and grills it in front of everyone. He even has a tragic backstory in a Pit.

Something I noticed when I listened to System Collapse is that Murderbot comments multiple times on the high quality of ART’s equipment. Like it pauses in its spiraling multiple times to go “Wow, ART has such nice stuff. I never thought I, a crappy company rental unit, would ever get to see/use anything this nice.”

This is now really funny to me with the context of Rapport. MB honey, my gender-neutral dude. ART was researching drone specs and stealth body armor from the minute you left. It wants you to have nice things so bad.