Another piece based on a Hero Forge miniature, I loooove bringing these characters to life! ✨

Stunning MarVari

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I dreamed that I was playing mariokart and there was a track that took 3 days to complete and when I somehow managed to get 1st place a popup came onscreen that had a pic of koopa troopa and text that read “congratulations!! you’re gonna have so much sex” and I started laughing so hard I woke up

hold on let me google something

what the fuck

happy Boston Molasses Flood to all who celebrate

We have already averted truly apocalyptic levels of global warming.

Yes, read that again. Let it sink in. This is what the science now says. We have already averted truly apocalyptic global warming.

To quote David Wallace-Wells, author of The Uninhabitable Earth, from his huge feature in the New York Times:

So we've already averted truly apocalyptic warming, and we've already cut expected warming IN HALF in just the past five years.

The pace of technology, of innovation, of prices, of feasibility, of discovery, of organizing, of grassroots movements, of movements in other countries around the world, have all picked up the pace so fast in the last five years.

Renewable technology and capacity are both increasing at an exponential rate. It's all S-curves, ones that look like this:

-via The Economist, June 20, 2024.

How much more will we manage in another five years? Another ten? Another twenty?

I know the US is about to fucking suck about the environment for the next four years. But the momentum of renewable energy is far too much to stop - both in the US (x) and around the world.

(Huge shoutouts to India, China, and Brazil for massive gains for the environment in renewables, and Brazil for massive progress against Amazon deforestation.)

We're going to get there.

Say it with me. We're going to get there.

Re: a couple people in the notes:

Some real talk for the new year, about where we now stand, and what the next years are going to look like. (Still ends on a "be hopeful or else" kind of note, but definitely gets into some heavy truths about the meaning of recent events.)

Keep going. I know it's difficult; I know the despair is real. But so is the hope. So is the fact that in spite of the people trying to drag us down for profit, there are SO MANY MORE people who are actively trying to fix things! We don't always show up in the media because these quiet efforts don't always make for good headlines. But anyone who is educating others on climate (yes, sharing stuff on social media counts!), or who is working on habitat restoration (including as a volunteer, or a home gardener), or choosing to make a few small personal changes to lessen their impact, or yelling at major corporations and elected officials through email, Twitter, whatever--all that and more is a part of this.

You aren't alone. We aren't alone. Yes, the situation is still very real and very dire and we aren't at all out of danger yet. But. We have already kept it from being worse than it is! That's SO IMPORTANT! And I so appreciate all of you who care, even if you don't have the energy or time or other resources to be an active part. You remind me that I'm not alone, either. Thank you.

🍾TONIGHT! The season finale of Dirty Laundry launches on Dropout at 7PM ET / 4PM PT. Featuring host Lily Du, bartender Grant O'Brien, and stars from 'Star Trek: Lower Decks' from Tawny Newsome, Noël Wells, Gillian Vigman, and Eugene Cordero.

Catch up on the season before tonight's finale on Dropout

铁柱 (Tiezhu; "iron pillar") attempting to pengci*

*type of scam where a person sets up a situation to create an accident in order to demand compensation for damages. Often seen where the scammer pretends to get hit by a car.

English added by me :)

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if you're aware of the Vulture article on Neil Gaiman, there's not much i can add; if you aren't and you go looking, my only advice is that if you hit a point where you're wondering if you should bail, do so, because the details of his behavior only get more vile as it goes along.

however, one thing i WILL say is to be on the lookout for smear campaigns against the sources and/or the journalist, Lila Shapiro, in the coming weeks and months. i cannot stress enough how brave this article is. if there's one thing more hazardous to your reputation than blowing up a rich and influential serial predator in the entertainment industry, it's making the church of scientology look bad, and she's managed to do both in one stroke. remember Lila Shapiro's name, and be extremely skeptical if it suddenly turns up later this year as the target of some slimy allegation.

in mesopotamia there were no 'cover letters' or 'curriculum vitaes'. there were just, pots.

And copper ingots. Very high quality ingots from a very reputable merchant

#tumblr's dedication to dragging ea-nasir from across history is one of my fave things about this hellsite

#somewhere in the afterlife #ea-nasir is gaining power #and he has no idea why

Y’know, that’s a really good point. Are we sure we want to be giving the worst businessman in known history more power in the afterlife?!

Yes, because when Trump dies and thinks he’s going to be king shit in the afterlife, ea-nasir is going to one-shot him with a shitty copper ingot upside his empty orange fucking head

Each Reblog adds another copper ingot to ea-nasir's afterlife pile. Each like improves his aim.

Saw a tiktok of a guy saying he doesn’t feel comfortable talking to minors because he’s 19. And it’s just. I’m so fucking tired of this.

And like to be clear, I’m speaking as a victim of pedophilia when I say: We need to get over this collective fear of endangering children. Because holy shit, this stuff is getting out of hand.

The average person is not a threat to a child.

And also!!! It is actually really really good for kids to have friendships with adults that aren’t their family.

Having friendships with adults when you’re younger prepares you for adult life in a better way then only interacting with adults that are family members or teacher as well.

And also if there’s any sort of weird behavior happening with adults or teachers, it’s very helpful to have unrelated adults, you can go to, and also have a model for what normal adults are supposed to look like.

And also! You’re just making it way easier for pedophiles to prey on children when you completely avoid interacting with them as an adult. Because kids are naturally inquisitive and curious. They are going to want to interact with adults and they are going to want to ask questions. And if the only adult adults that are willing to interact and speak with them or adults who have ulterior motivations. Guess what’s gonna happen.

Also on a more general note. Having a model for what a normal healthy adult is supposed to look like makes it way easier for kids to be able to recognize and identify when adults in their personal life are being weird.

there's a really funny 3d printing controversy going on btw.

if you don't know, there's a very popular 3d printing model out there called "benchy". this is used for benchmarking your 3d printer because it's a difficult print and will help test it out.

this is so widely used that people make their own little versions of it, remixing the 3d model to make benchy look cooler and stuff. however, a new company owns the benchy license. they are sending copyright takedowns to all those who wrongfully uploaded the benchy model.

of course, this is pissing off the 3d printing community greatly. everyone loved benchy and have used it for years. so someone on reddit decided to make a new model that is designed as a 3d printing stress test. one that works a lot like benchy, and people are freely able to edit it as they please. you know what they called it?

boaty.