Gilrandir

My favorite response to "hey, that's illegal!" people is to sing at them "it's only illegal if you get caught~"

You make a really good point about it being a brand rather than a movement... The sad thing is, it kinda makes sense that the only way to bring this many people together all at once (especially in this country) *is* through a blank-slate brand that people can take to mean whatever they want

A meme that is divided into 4 quadrants. The top left quadrant is a text box saying "Watching a lion eating a zebra in a lion documentary". The top right quadrant is an image of a person with an excited happy face. The bottom left quadrant is a text box saying "Watching a zebra get eaten by a lion in a zebras documentary". The bottom right quadrant is an image of the same person, but with a distressed unhappy face.

Reminds me of this meme lol

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Yew Berry Tart | Fergus The Forager If you know anything about the toxicology of yew, you might consider this recipe as being the plant-based wild food foragers version of the notorious Japanese Fugu or blow fish dish. Hence…

I've eaten the outer red squishy bit of yew berries and they are indeed sweet and delicious :D

Someone also came up with a pie/tart recipe for them: fergustheforager.co.uk/recipe/yew-b...

My dad once took teenage me to a banquet with his all-male colleagues, and there was a dish of chicken testicles. I knew what it was, but out of a sense of mischief, I "innocently" asked what the dish was. Everyone hemmed and hawed, and then one man said, "Just eat it, it's good for your yang qi."

So much of Chinese banquet food is just elevated starvation food.

I LOVE MUSHISHI

Ginko is one of my favorite characters of all time XD

Fullmetal Alchemist (the manga, and the newer "Brotherhood" anime version, *not* the 2003 anime) has all of the above XD

The mangaka (Hiromu Arakawa) also did Silver Spoon which is a cozy Japanese agricultural high school slice of life/coming of age story (and also has an anime version).

A picture split vertically in half: on the right half, there is a map image of Taiwan (an elongated yam-shaped island country) with major cities labeled, on the left half is a brown tabby cat laying on a cream carpet, with forelegs tucked in and one back leg sticking out, and its silhouette resembles the shape of Taiwan.

Flip you around and you'd make a pretty passable Taiwan! (Image from this Reddit post, which is apparently a repost of a Tweet www.reddit.com/r/taiwan/com... )

(Which is to say, everything you said above is extremely relatable to me XD )

I've discovered that outside of the growing season, just standing in my yard passively soaking in the sun is surprisingly not as restful for my brain, because the active process of "unfucking my plants" is what makes my brain switch gears and engage with the world differently.

*immediately sends this to my chemical engineering friend for his entertainment* XD

(He periodically rereads the "Things I Won't Work With" blog by Derek Lowe, for fun)

I feel like conspiracy theorists have poisoned the messaging well because it's hard to raise any urgent alarms without sounding like a fucking crank =_=

I feel like white people tend to especially fetishize The Law like this, which yes is "not how it works actually" but I also can't help but think about how much WORSE some of them could be if they weren't conditioned to think about it this way and realized all the things they could do with impunity.

Screenshot of a tweet by @DobesCrusher that says "I don't have friends on 'both sides', I have friends in 400 varying leftist splinters and they all hate each other"

This tweet is sadly perennially relevant

Ways that I explain my asexuality:

1. "Y'know the amount of sexual attraction that straights feel for the same gender, or gays/lesbians feel for the opposite gender? That's the amount I feel for EVERYBODY."

2. "It's like appreciating the aesthetics of a painting, and also not wanting to boink it."

Same tbh
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Breaching the Trust Thermocline Is the Biggest Hidden Risk in Business Companies have no way back from a sudden loss of trust

The trust thermocline hasn't been breached yet, but... hopefully soon...

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Tumblr post by dostoyevsky-official quoting an NYT article: "The [George W. Bush] aide said that guys like me were 'in what we call the reality-based community,' which he defined as people who 'believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernable reality.' I nodded and murmured something about enlightenment principles and empiricism. He cut me off. 'That's not the way the world really works anymore,' he continued. 'We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality -- judiciously, as you will -- we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors... and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do." October 17, 2004.

A country where government officials can say, believe, and behave like this, and aren't immediately smacked down hard enough by reality.

(from www.nytimes.com/2004/10/17/m... )

I think there's a spectrum of humanity ranging from "easily demagogued" to "not easily demagogued" in every country, but not many countries get to create their own hegemonic exceptionalism-ridden bubble insulated from the reality of "the rest of the world".

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A seal-point Himalayan cat sitting in a bucket so only its very fluffy head and neck are visible above the rim. The back part of a toilet is in the background. This cat really likes to hang out with us in the bathroom.

Collections: The Fremen Mirage, Part I: War at the Dawn of Civilization This week’s post is the first in a four part series (II, IIIa, IIIb, interlude, IV) looking at what I’m going to term the Fremen Mirage (a play on Le Mirage Spartiate, which we’ve…

That saying "good times make weak men" makes me think of this series of essays on "the Fremen mirage": acoup.blog/2020/01/17/c...

The US has much more British heritage than it likes to admit. Yeah yeah you fought a ~*~revolution~*~ in the 1700s but also you just Brexit'd yourselves without even an EU to scapegoat.

Walking through the local cemetery at night is actually quite nice. It's like a lovely, well-tended little park, with dead people in it.

聽不懂就是聽不懂, 懂嗎?? 這些腦袋空空的老外當然不懂 =_=

Monolingual people, man. (This is also my pet peeve with movie/TV shows portraying fictional language barriers in which that shit ends up *working* when the protagonists do it because the people creating the media have never had to seriously deal with another language in their entire lives)

Schroedinger's Joke: it is both a joke and also not a joke, depending on audience response.

OH SHIT I completely forgot I stuck pawpaw seeds in the back of my fridge last fall to stratify them o_o And did not consider them in this year's garden planning o__o Aaaack (thank you for the reminder) (as I quietly panic XD)