This is the most painfully accurate thing I’ve seen all day.

so happy to see ppl joining the autistic bruce agenda after watching The Batman but never forget our original autistic king bruce rep. u live in my heart forever DCAU batman.  

Something I love about Terry Pratchett's books, and why i love the ankh morpork books so much, is that he also loved civilisation.

And i don't mean "force technological progress, all hail harsh and unforgiving bureaucracies, plow down everything that was before", i mean that when a bunch of people live together, then you need to organise The Public to make their lives good. And not against, but in service of the people living there. The small minded, unpleasant, nosy, selfish people. All of them.

And civilisation needs tireless small acts and work to build something that is larger than the sum of it's parts, and it's annoying, and sometimes hard to see the big picture, and you cannot do it alone.

But, when you don't forcibly stop them, many many people will look at a bunch of resources at their disposal, and say "so how can we organise them so that they help people the most efficiently, that we can make life easier for all people".

And that's why i weep with joy when i see this happening in real life, whenever there is something structured with the goal of people living there (and not just existing and being wrung dry for the benefit of others).

And i feel like Terry Pratchett felt the same.

And while you can also see it in the witch books, and very clearly at that, many people like to idealise rural life and write off urban life as hollow. And that's why i singled out the ankh morpork books, because ankh morpork has all the things people claim as negative about city life, and still says "look at the beauty of humanity and being alive".

The utter beauty of the postal service, of bureaucracy, of maintained streets and the white chalk horse. Of streets so old they burrowed into the ground, of canalisation, of records maintained since thousands of years.

Discworld Heritage Post

William James Webbe (British, 1830–1904), "The Collared Thief", 1860

tumblrinas need to see this

I feel like I literally get 3000 scam calls day so sometimes I entertain it and let the class answer for me😂🤷🏾‍♀️

“Guys, I’m getting a scan call go!”

*whole class makes a chaotic horror score*

doodling a bunny vs doodling a hare

a few more quick doodles, for fun

mythical duo edition - jackalope and wolpertinger

things that you should be careful with:

--uv resin. That includes gel nails and all nail accoutrements. No you shouldn't gaze into the uv lamp either. I mean it, nail glue will fuck you up. Yes it is now less likely to cause cancer in nail techs due to formulation regulations no it is not zero risk.

--epoxy resin. You need a respirator. Ask me about the bloody and blistering rash I had to treat for months if you think gloves are optional.

--most adhesives in fact there's a reason you can huff shoe glue and get high and that reason is "it gives you brain, throat, and lung damage and you need to do this project outside". Krazy glue is an eye skin and lung irritant. I don't know why you people don't read the packaging.

--solvents. Paint thinner. Alcohol.

--paint. Im not sure why you're playing with oil paint in a windowless room. You don't need to paint your bedroom with the windows closed. If it's raining you can wait.

--wood stain. Ask me about the rocking chair incident.

--cleanign supplies. You shouldn't be mixing them. I know what you saw on the internet. Those people are morons. Are you a fucking moron. You will get turbo cancer. And more importantly bronchitis. Glass cleaner on the glass, lysol your fucking countertops, and pour toilet cleaner or pine sol in your toilet. No. Not both. No you don't need to dump all of them in your sink. Leave the door open while you clean.

--if you have unbaked polymer clay you need to paint it after you bake it. After. Not before. It's weird that I have to specify this.

#re the unbaked polymer clay#that you bake in the oven#do any gluing after the bake#super glue does not go in the oven

reblogging for this VERY IMPORTANT ADDITION

hey Rika what’s the rocking chair incident?

Has a worm ever gotten struck by lightning

I’m so shook amazing :0

Man, talk about fuck that one guy in particular.

it's amazing how ordinary objects can become so significant to only the owner

when my aunt's best friend passed away, my younger brother was four years old. at his funeral, my brother went up to her and gave her a nickel. he told her very solemnly that it would make her feel better. she smiled for the first time in days, and tucked it in her wallet.

when my brother was 22, his best friend passed away unexpectedly. my aunt drove three hours to be there for him at the funeral. she went up to my brother, gave him a big hug, and then gave him a nickel. it was the same nickel; she had kept it in her wallet for 18 years, and now it's on a necklace that he never takes off.

what i'm trying to say is that the love you put into the world will always find its way back to you.

Grieve AND organize.

Good article by David Hunter on how to survive the Trump presidency, both on the personal and on the political plane.

This is an excellent article. It talks about the psychology of tyranny, the history of resistance and the paths we have to take to rescue each other and recover.

HOBBES vs. TIGGER cage match TO THE DEATH say goodbye to your childhood because ONE! WILL!! DIE!!!!

Picturing two tiger plushies just kind of sitting there facing each other in Thunderdome

i am picturing it

More of my emails should start “hello pervert.”

Okay, I need to break off here.

This happened to me a month ago and it's terrifying because the email comes from them spoofing your emails.

It's also antisemetic and plays into it at one point. (It claims the spyware used was developed by Israel). No, the "hackers" bought your information from databank lists.

Also it claims to know you're porn history and will use it to ruin your life unless you pay them. With anti-porn laws coming into place, this will get worse.

Please talk about this scam and help people stay safe. It's pretty new.

See, normally I don't go for screenshots with no links. But this is special, because it does not matter when this happened. It does not matter where this happened. It does not matter even if this was somehow all an incredibly unfunny and insensitive "joke"-there is literally no possible justification to have children acting this out. At best, in the worlds-worst-Borat-skit scenario, you have adults using children as puppets to play-act war crimes for shits and giggles. But something about that tapestry in the background and the multiple women in niqabs tells me that this isn't some cheap theater in Los Angeles. Those minor, teeny-tiny little details give the ever so slight suggestion that this is being done seriously. And that? Is vile beyond words.

i agree.

the thing is…i do have the source lol and it’s worse than you think:

and another:

Walnut shells cut in half.

AITA?

So a bunch of teenagers were outside my unit from 2 to 4AM this morning honking their horn over and over again. I haven't slept in about three days for various reasons, so I opened my window and said "Hey, can you stop? We need to sleep", to which one responded, "Go to sleep, then", an honked the horn.

This move struck me as so ludicrously inconsiderate and stupid that I started laughing despite myself, and just managed to hear, "Yeah, I thought that was pretty fucking hilarious".

Cut to about a minute and a half later, I am running down the street in nothing but combat boots, sweatpants, and a binder, and these litte turds are gunning it.

I have no plans to hurt anybody, or even catch up with them, but as they turn the corner off the end of my road I stop in the middle of the street and stare after them, motionless, hands on my hips under a streetlight like Tboy Mike Myers in one of the worse sequels.

I didn't have my glasses on, but it looks as though the driver looked back in my direction before they turned out of view.

Was scaring the shit out of a bunch of dumb city kids a dick move, or was this justified?

The roads were otherwise empty, and it was a Wednesday.

Im not the only tenant in this complex, just th only one who responded.

AITA?

In my defense the alternative was homicide

If you caught up to them, what was the plan?

Other than the potential answer to that, NTA.

I assume the answer is something harmless like run up to the side windows and screech like an angry creatute while waiving your arms around like one of those wacky inflatable fellows, before eventually settling on some form of "okay I'm done" body language and strutting away.

In those situations, never get directly in front of the car, and if you go behind be ready to leap at the first sign of reverse lights.

I hate to give away my favourite techniques but my ripcord for situations like this is to say a random date in the future like "August 22nd 2039" and then walk away without another word

Ask yourself