a message from your local friendly kobold

this is the representation nepo babies deserve

I think it's important to know, there's an older picture of David signing stuff, with his father-in-law WHO WAS THE FIFTH DOCTOR, holding a very similar sign behind David's back. I don't have the pic, but you can probably find it if you look a bit.

The Force: bad things are gonna happen

Jedi: ????? What bad things

The Force: watch out

person who thinks they have anxiety but really they're force sensitive

Jedi who thinks it's the Force and it is but it's also anxiety

sometimes people talk about eventual disability+ the fact that anyone can become disabled to act like disability is some sort of great equaliser. like. no it's not lmao. rn there are disabled people living radically different lives from one another with significant differences in their situations, even with the same diagnosed disability and possibly even with the same symptoms. if anything disability is a stress factor on every other inequality that exists in ur life

I can’t draw very well and hated that I couldn’t draw my DnD character, a tabaxi cleric named Merry Thing, but then I remembered I’m pretty good with a needle and thread so I made her

All made by hand, hand embroidered details, and I even crocheted the lace trim on her shift!

Update: I made Thing’s twin brother, Cheeky Night! Cheeky is my favorite npc in the campaign and I couldn’t have a Thing without him. He’s an absolute bastard of a man but I love him so much. The belt he’s wearing I wove by hand with embroidery floss, and the designs on his vest are symbolic to the campaign and his character.

Anyway I love him, I love my tabaxi twins, and I never want to use metallic embroidery floss ever again.

These guys have been getting notes again so I thought I’d mention that they got me a full time job at my favorite locally owned fabric and yarn store.

that is exactly my point of view. if all people were given universal basic income, we could have tens of thousands of boring, tedious, dangerous, and long term harmful jobs done by robots, while humans are free to explore their passions without fear of poverty and homelessness.

in a good society, automation means a boom in the arts. language, painting, music, dance, writing, philosophy, architecture, etc. these are the sectors that advance tremendously during periods of human health and flourishing

Back in the 1960s, we were told that automation and rising productivity would mean shorter work weeks with higher pay. Instead we have multibillionaires, growing poverty, and crumbling infrastructure. The money is all there, it’s just being hoarded.

skate or die

(based on this post, under the cut):

The trolley problem: Here you are, at the scene of a disaster that someone set off long before you arrived. You could help, you could take action, but that would mean you also take on responsibility for the outcome.

Would you rather act to save people, knowing that by choosing who to help you are implicitly choosing who to let die? Or would you rather keep your hands clean by letting the disaster unfold on its own, regardless of how much worse it will be because you didn't act?

Half the people on this fucking site: the second, absolutely the second. How dare you ask me to compromise my shining moral purity for pointless complications like 'who's in charge of the government' or 'harm mitigation'.

And then I very carefully went back to sleep

so ummm welcome to my jar:) lemme show you around! theres some holes poked in the top so i can breathe, theres some leaves to munch on, and ive even got a twig! #mytwig

I love you jar fairy

Spring carried on wind

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trying to sip some water

no there's like a whole story here

because the burn isn't meant on her. it's meant on the lamp oil company

R.E. Danforth's Non-Explosive Burning Fluid came to be notorious in its time, because it apparently had a habit of giving off flammable fumes after the manner of gasoline. people didn't expect that, because most lamp oil only burned when lit directly. even though they'd grown up with such lamps, all the safety advice they knew was wrong for this stuff- which the company never told anyone, natch

without having a sample or the original formula, we can't say what the issue was now for certain. but it's believed to have contributed to the sinking of the steamship War Eagle the same year as Ellen's death. six people died in the incident, and an inquiry into Danforth's by the New York Board of Health (since it was produced in NY) deemed it a "murderous oil" (source)

Ellen Shannon was a hotel maid in Girard, Pennsylvania. Irish, judging by her surname. another faceless worker, by the standards of mainstream 19th-century society. nobody was going to speak up for her on their own- so her family commissioned her gravestone like this as a way to hold the company accountable

Our health and safety regulations, like consumer and worker protections, are written in blood. When politicians and business people cry for deregulation, they're crying for blood.

Zuko's unkillability should be utilized more in post canon. Every fire lord Zuko headcanon is all "poor Zuko, having to deal with so many assassination attempts, this boy is hanging on by a thread." But listen, my guy has already survived being burned, blown up, electrocuted, fought three agni kais, faced the Avatar numerous times. It becomes something of a meme in the FN that no one can kill the firelord so you shouldn't even try, Zuko ends up surviving increasingly elaborate and unlikely assassination attempts. He develops an immunity to poison after having been poisoned so many times. He's just like "huh, you thought THAT would kill me?" at this point.

#he IS holding by a thread. but it has more to do with the paperwork and tight schedule than the assassination attempts#they actually break the monotony a bit#atla

Firelord Zuko, after spending the entire day in diplomatic meetings with people he'd rather throw hands with and having to sign documents that make him want to punch something, upon being met with an assassin with a knife: FINALLY

While I'm posting here and no longer under any obligation to rep the company, I might as well share this incredibly funny story from behind the scenes that I don't think ever got out: Due to the constant problems we had around "The Chaser" being also a name of a sex thing online (you would not BELIEVE the kind of confused fan mail I had to sort through), in 2019 we had very seriously planned to rebrand our online channels.

After a laborious process whittling down hundreds of potential names we settled on another alcohol related term, a popular Australian slang term for wine, as we thought that was in the spirit of "The Chaser" but also uniquely Australian.

Literally the only reason we didn't end up rebranding was the whole company fell into an omnishambles in 2020, and we were all too busy both figuratively and literally putting out fires to even think about doing a full company rebrand.

And that, my friends, is how The Chaser through sheer dumb luck, managed to avoid what would have gone down as possibly one of the worst company rebrands in the history of everything, when that same name came to mean something else VERY different a few years later:

For those saying they hope this is real, just dug into my old emails and found this gem of a subject line: