my blog’s theme is me. a compilation of every single thing i love. every interest. every musing. and everything in between.

My cartoon for this week’s New Scientist magazine

one of the greatest skills you can learn is how to be alone.

There's an EU initiative going on right now that essentially boils down to wanting to force videogame publishers with paid games and/or games with paid elements such as DLC, expansions and microtransactions to leave said games in a playable state after they end support, or in simpler terms, make them stop killing games.

A "playable state" would be something like an offline mode for previously always online titles, or the ability for people to host their own servers where reasonably possible just to name some examples.

I don't think I need to tell anyone that having something you paid for being taken from you is bad, which is a thing that routinely happens with live service and other always online games with a notable recent example being The Crew which is now permanently unplayable.

Any EU citizen is eligible to sign the initiative, but only once and if you mess up that's it. You can find it here. (https://citizens-initiative.europa.eu/initiatives/details/2024/000007_en)

Even if you're not European or you signed it already, you can share this initiative with anyone who is, even if they don't care about videogames specifically because this needs a million signatures and there is different thresholds that need to be met for each EU country for their votes to even count and could also be a precedent for other similar practices like when Sony removed a bunch of Discovery TV content people paid for.

SUPPORT BELOW 50% OF THE THRESHOLD IN THESE COUNTRIES:

Bulgaria - 35% Croatia - 45% Cyprus - 12% (!!!!) Czechia - 47% Greece - 27% Italy - 41% Latvia - 43% Luxembourg - 20% Malta - 11% (!!!!) Romania - 48% Slovakia - 47% Slovenia - 38%

SEVEN countries out of 27 have met the threshold so far. Deadline is 31st July, 2025.

He is sealed in there for all of mankind’s safety

shoutout to the guy who ran for "class president" (not a real role at this school) in 7th grade and just put up posters everywhere about how he would bring steam powered rail back. no other policy. hope you're doing well.

"it's all in your head" correct! unfortunately I am also in there

a love letter to myself

Marta García was leading the GT3 category in the Le Mans Cup when Eliseo hit her from behind. Her car crashed into the barrier, ended up in the middle of the track with other cars still coming, caught fire, the door jammed, and Marta inhaled smoke before the marshals managed to get her out. I don’t know how many Gs she took in that impact… but what really gets me is that despite everything and even though it wasn’t her fault (Eliseo even apologized publicly) the comments on Autosport were full of men saying she “can’t drive.” Guys who probably never raced professionally, didn’t watch the race, but have car emojis and Ferrari pics all over their profiles. Pure envy. Marta did nothing wrong in fact, she was having an amazing race. And still, all she gets is ridiculous hate just because she’s a woman. Then people say F1 Academy isn’t needed anymore because “there’s already inclusion.” It’s insane that barely anyone is talking about this. And even worse that Eliseo didn’t get a harsher penalty for that crash.

tumblr friendships are hard to maintain like im sorry i know i havent talked to you in 5 months but you’re still super rad and i still consider us friends im just dumb

#if you’re wondering if this is for you #it’s probably for you

If I have ever messaged you or messaged me and never heard from me again, I still consider us friends. I just suck

To everybody I’ve done this to I’m VERY sorry

Me sending vibes to my tumblr friends instead of talking to them:

/!\ BROADCAST TO ALL MY MUTUALS /!\

rb to tell prev they're being so brave right now and pat their head a little please

☝️

university professors love to create the most fucked up pdf ever known to mankind. it's enrichment for them.

what HAPPENED here

As an alternative to 'sugar, spice, and everything nice'

I present: 'salt, vinegar, and everything sinister'

have you guys done that “what kind of reader are you” quiz and if so what did you get

here’s mine

ah here’s the link guys