aquarium advertisments say stuiff like discover the longtooth grouper this friday
I see that, and raise you my local aquarium's advertising.
Vancouver Aquarium has similar ads!
They also have some SERIOUSLY inventive ones:
(High and Low Tide ^)
the only type of advertising that should exist: "ooooohhhh you want to come look at the animal"
actually it would be funny if you did destroy and recreate your consciousness every time you had restful dreamless sleep, but that was why you needed it to live, like how you need to power cycle your router because it gets into a fucked-up state
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
He trained himself to give this speech by practicing and then implementing limits on food and water intake leading up to this. He cut out food for days, then cut out water the day before.
He then went to do an appearance on Maddow after yielding.
When my mom was growing up, her household didn’t have a home security system, so my grandpa, a physicist, brought home a disused “Warning: Lasers In Use” sign from his workplace and displayed it to deter break-ins. It cracks me up imagining a potential burglar going “No… surely not…. but maybe I should pick a different house to rob, just to be safe.”
i love antique stores you go to check out & theyre like “where the hell did you get this”
But there’s also the curses
I've been looking through the tags and I'm cracking up.
Common themes:
-antique store worker confirming they REALLY don't know how something got there
-other retail employee (especially Barnes and Noble????) saying this isn't antique store specific
-guy who is definitely going to have to call a priest
-tales of excellent thrifting experiences that I'm going to share in this and subsequent reblogs
tes THDPSSSSPS 💜
wgat did u say
“If you watched her bounce on my strap you would think twice about calling pillow princesses lazy” okay but do you still want the pillow princess if they’re too unable to move? Or do you only want pillow princesses if they’re able bodied?
Like okay, I personally can’t move when I’m having sex. I maintain stability in my joints and body through tension in my pelvis — when I loosen up my pelvic floor to receive penetration, my body loses all stability and I basically go limp.
In my case, my partners gain enjoyment from watching my back arch, or seeing my eyes roll back, or watching me (feebly) reach to caress their cheek. They can hear me moan and whine and whimper (and scream, if they fuck me good enough). I stim by wiggling my body when I’m happy, so they can feel my hips shake when they praise me. Or they can feel my legs tremble, because my nerves do not connect properly to my muscles and that gives me tremors.
My point is that disability can be inherently erotic, without being fetishizing. Just like how an able bodied pillow princess can still give pleasure without touching you, disabled pillow princesses can give pleasure without moving.
before it gets bad I'm just gonna tell y'all certain rich people have literally only recently noticed Open Source software availability compromises the bottom line of their proprietary investments so if you see little chickadees on this website talking about the dangers of Open Source software all of a sudden it's cuz they accidentally sipped some koolaid mixed up by the far right yacht people to fuck with peoples software sovereignty and right to repair, modify, and redistribute robust codebases that become a problem when 30% of your portfolio is in, oh, say, adobe or openai.
This is your unfriendly neighborhood computer fucker telling you not to fall for it and to demand your right to digital sovereignty rather than trusting companies to make correct choices about what to do with the parts of your life they would very much like to have in the cloud to continue improving their products.
Doris Humphrey in “Soaring" 1920
im fucking SICK
Listen, folks, I also hate generative AI and do not think it is an effective accomodation, but if your argument against it is "Oh, you think [task] is hard? What a stupid idiot baby!" then I'm sorry to say that is Literally Just Ableism. Please think about what you are saying. The point should be that it doesn't actually work to solve the problems that people are struggling with, not that they're wrong for struggling in the first place.
Delainey Hayles as Claudia in INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE | SEASON 2
