Oh hey, another dipshit went to The Island Where They Kill You.

This one's not a missionary, apparently (I know, I was surprised too) but apparently a "danger tourist" who was filming himself.

Frankly I think he should go to forever prison, because he could have killed them all by exposing them to diseases they have no immunity to. Which is WHY IT'S ILLEGAL TO GO THERE.

To all my writers who have a tough time with smut terms and not knowing which ones to use, I have found the holy grail for us.

This reddit user took a poll of 3,500 people and went really in depth with asking their favorite terminology, along with actual pie charts on what the readers preferred to see in their smut.

Here's the direct link to the Google doc with all the info!

A treasure! Especially the Notable Omissions sections.

Now that's interesting. I like great polls and this one is enlightening. 😆🤭

i got into star trek as a bit and now unfortunately ive realized its one of the most beautiful shows ever. its about love and family and exploration and warmth and possibilities and a hopeful and wonderful future. and its also so so fucking stupid

🌊✨ mermen

Nintendo is at this point a Prestige Gaming Brand, or at least they like to think they are. There's a reason your grandpa thinks every game is a Nintendo, they've been around fucking forever and have Disney level brand recognition. The Nintendo seal of quality might as well be an Adidas logo. These are not children's games everybody gets to play anymore, these are luxury items that show you have money.

Just don't fucking buy the Switch 2. Give it a year or two, it only has like 3 exclusives anyway. Go play an indie game or emulate something old, it's literally so easy. Don't get caught up in wanting the shiny new thing.

perhaps now is the time to finish the games we already have, for example

With stroke going on and everyone catching up on shows/movies they couldn’t watch

I highly recommend watching old OLD films

Btw there’s YouTuber that posts film noirs with backgrounds on actors, sets, and directors AND there are zero ads

eleanor shellstrop one of the protagonists of all time honestly. woman who sucks so much who gets put in a situation specifically made to make her worse and instead she gets better. filled with love for other people but replaced it with malice for as long as she could because love got her nothing. went from being selfish for survival to selfless for survival and in the end she lands on being selfless for selflessness's sake. she even has mommy issues. she's even bisexual.

Schwarzenegger winning seemed like the most embarrassing thing that would ever happen in politics at the time and now he’s to the left of every elected Republican and a few Democrats and just makes videos going “young men, my fadda was a Nazi and he was a contemptible loosah”

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RELEASE THE BUBBLE HORSE

Apparently the US have been detaining European greencard holders, upon their return to the US after travels. Some have been deported to their countries of origin, some are held in prison in the US. A French man has been rejected entrance into the country over him having messages on his phone criticial of Trump, he was sent back to France after overnight detention. A German woman with a tourist visa was equally rejected and send back after overnight detention without access to her medication.

As of yesterday Denmark, the United Kingdom, Germany, Finland and Canada have revised their travel guidelines for the US. This includes warnings over being denied entry despite a visa, detention and the US no longer recognizing the X gender marker in passports.

Glass of water (oil on canvas) Artist / Emma May Riley

OIL PAINTING

Impressive, but IMO so photorealistic there seems no human input. A Canon DSLR could do the same job with far less effort.

There is art that speaks to the soul and there is art that is pure skill. But I have always found the pure skill art is just as moving - not because of the image it presents, which is a near direct copy of the world - but because of the passage of time and effort that went into it.

Paintings such as these evoke the same sense of continuity as meticulously carved arabesque. They are a reflection of entropy in the opposite way a knife worn to a sliver of metal is. This was hours upon hours of human effort and precise movement, years of practice, distilled into a mundane image of a class of water, that could easily be photographed a million times by the phones we all have in our pockets.

How gloriously absurd all human endeavors are, to have done such a thing.

And that is art.

when will my thesis defend me

To clarify a bit further:

Take the cat to a vet and get it checked for a microchip. If chipped, contact owners IF they've bothered to register it or keep their contact information updated (who wants to guess what happened with the chip in so many of the few few chipped cats that came into the shelter when I worked there?). But intact cats are very unlikely to be chipped.

If no chip, contact your local shelter. Say you found this friendly intact stray with no chip and you'd like to report it found and ask what are the laws on fostering it in your home and for how long the stray hold period would be. Or see if you can be told when the cat is going up for adoption so you can adopt it from the shelter.

But either way, pick up that cat and see if you can make its life better!

IT’S THE “AGED 27 1/3” BIT THAT MAKES ME CRY WITH LAUGHTER

this kills me!

They actually did it, too.

this is the most adorable thing i’ve seen in my life

I guess you can say that 3 year old was “spot on”

this post has nothing to do with my blog but I love this so much and I had to share

I could see it being called Leopard Bread, too. But Giraffe is even better.

This is utterly adorable

I thought maybe somebody shopped the bread name as a cute accompaniment to the letter/story, but

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-16812545

The article ends with the fact that Chris King, the customer service member who wrote the letter, quit Sainsbury’s and went back to college to become a primary school teacher, which I think is a great epilogue!

HOLY SHIT???

God I love it when people mash classic arts and modern art together, it creates the most incredible things

Now with her name