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RaptorJules

@raptorjules / raptorjules.tumblr.com

Creator of the webcomic Seemingly Dark and the podcast Mil-Liminal. RJ/Johnnie. They/Them. Punk. Taller than you. Texan in Norway ART account @seeminglydark podcast account @mil-liminal

Cory Booker has been talking in the senate for over 20 hours now

Heโ€™s not filibustering. Heโ€™s protesting the current administration.

For those of you from outside the US or those of you who didnโ€™t pay attention in government class, in the US senate thereโ€™s really no limit to the amount of time a senator can speak. So sometimes if they donโ€™t want a bill to pass they just. Donโ€™t stop talking. To hopefully get past the deadline to vote on a bill. This is called filibustering.

Senator Cory Booker isnโ€™t doing that. Heโ€™s disrupting โ€œthe normal business of the United States Senate for as long as I am physically ableโ€. Just in protest. This doesnโ€™t usually happen.

Heโ€™s less than 20 minutes away from breaking the record of the longest speech given on the senate floor

Cory Booker has officially broken Strom Thurmondโ€™s record for longest speech on the senate floor and heโ€™s still going

For those of you wondering what heโ€™s been talking about this whole time, his staff wrote down a bunch of stuff for him to read like stories from people across the political spectrum opposed to what the administration is doing. Heโ€™s also been telling personal anecdotes about meeting important civil rights leaders and other democratic senators have been pausing him for โ€œquestionsโ€ but the questions have been as long as a small speech and have both served the purpose of giving him a second to sit down and updating him on the news that heโ€™s been missing while heโ€™s been talking.

He has yielded the floor at 25 hrs and 4 mins. His eyes are so wide they look like theyโ€™re going to bug out of his skull so I donโ€™t blame him for stopping. He said to go out and get in some good trouble.

โ€œShadow and light are the most stable and perfect tools of creation: they unite colors, shapes, and dimensions,โ€ says Moldovan artist Sergiu Ciochinฤƒ, adding that โ€œshadows move us through diversity, enhancing our perception, while light fills us with the joy of discovery.โ€ In saturated hues, he captures dappled sunlight as it filters through the trees and the rich tones of the golden hour as it casts deep bluish-purple shade onto the sides of houses.
Taking cues from the Impressionists, Ciochinฤƒ focuses on the nuances of light and its ability to reveal outlines and forms. He works in thick, impasto oil paint on board, emphasizing the shapes of windows, doors, and stoops and transforming otherwise ordinary buildings into compositions glowing with the patterns of foliage, architectural angles, and the texture of brushstrokes. โ€œThe symbiosis I create between nature and architecture is intended to evoke a love for space,โ€ he says.

on Sergiu Ciochinฤƒ

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crack open an ice cold spotted cow ale, throw a grilled cheese on the grille, celebrate Wisconsin today

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A new Seemingly Dark update on Webtoon and Tapas today! And don't forget, you can read ahead on Tapas and Patreon for mere pennies and support an artist you might kinda like (meeee!)

or here on Webtoon

Listen to the Podcast associate with the comic, The Mil-Liminal Podcast where ever you get your audio fiction <3

it really is crazy how quickly people were willing to just let chatgpt do everything for them. i have never even tried it. brother i don't even know if it's just a website you go to or what. i do not know where chatgpt actually lives, because i can decide my own grocery list.

I am once again begging you to get your hands on physical media and/or save your fave stuff OFFLINE.

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It's Trans Day of Visibility (and @gayballs-mcgee tagged me) so here I am. A republican in a gay bar told me I was kind of terrifying after I wasn't having any of his smarmy "how do you define a man" gender pedantry, and I think he felt my teeth brush his ear when I told him good.

iโ€™m going to hold your hands when i say this and i am only going to be kind about it once: ai does not belong in fandom spaces, ever. not in writing, not in art, not in video, not at all. it does not matter how bad you want to see your favourite characters kiss, or how much you need a bit of help finishing a chapter, or whatever.

make friends with artists. commission somebody. learn to draw yourself. ask for a beta read. try a writing partnership. fandom spaces are communities, so engage with them! it is about the journey and the fact that we all love something enough to create and build together about that thing.

spending 30 seconds to kill a tree and get an AI to push out some soulless empty piece of โ€œcontentโ€ is antithetical to the entire point of being engaged with fandom, and if youโ€™ve taken to doing this you should really reconsider if you belong in these spaces with the rest of us.

Update from the man himself

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The Porn Guy aka The Nice Guy aka The Canadian side of Pornhub aka SFW Pornhubโ€™s REAL NAME is Ryan Creamer. No joke, that is legit his real name.

Also this.

Which led him to this.

Bless this man.

I can appreciate him and the service heโ€™s providing independently of the shitshow that is the platform heโ€™s hosted on.

He remains just as funny and weird on other platforms dw

By the way, the topic he was presenting was

โ€˜Can I get an Honorary Degree if I Just Ask Really Nicelyโ€™

I know that realistically you can only fit so many movies into a list of approximately 100, but I cannot take that "How many of tumblr's favorite movies have you seen?" list that's been going around seriously because there are some truly egregious omissions.

Some of it is very clearly recency bias, which makes me wonder if the op truly wasn't on here in 2013 or so, but you're telling me you made a list of "tumblr's favorite movies" that doesn't include Pacific Rim or Mad Max: Fury Road? Because, like, I was there, Gandalf.

I'm a ridiculous human and genuinely couldn't sleep until I tried my hand at a better, more balanced list -- though of course, I have my own biases when it comes to what corners of this website I've lurked in over the years. For what it's worth, I did consult the last several Years In Review, while also drawing on the fact that I've been here for over a decade. But if there's anything that truly doesn't feel like it should have made the cut, blame my mutuals for putting it on my dash all the time.

(And apologies, but I couldn't seem to find Goncharov among the website's listings)

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