MoonyByte

my observation from 2 months of kittens

this is definitely NOT the moon girl episode with a trans character that disney shelved and has no plans on airing and i am definitely NOT advising you to spread it around like wildfire in retaliation to this stupid-ass chickenshit coward decision. i repeat, i am DEFINITELY not encouraging you to spread this episode around like crazy to show disney that trans people will not bow down to the whims of the people that want them dead. definitely DON'T do that. definitely

Here is the archive link in case the video gets claimed by copyright and taken down from youtube

#this is a dog committing what are obviously cat crimes - azzandra

Another case where the camera was clearly set up to figure out how the little shit was pulling it off

my holiday season plans:

and of course, presumably, a drunkard's grave.

I love how this was from a time where apparently cocaine was in the middle of these things

Cocaine was a step on the way to ginger ale.

You'll want to keep the sound off, it's just horrible crackling from me moving the phone. But. I got some REALLY COOL glasses today. They look glass, but they're acrylic plastic. I told my mom I thought that the bottom color would cause the water above it to shift colors, due to the design of the 'pillars' on the outside or whatever, and I was right. Except it's even cooler, because from the side it still looks clear, so I'll get the rainbow shift effect every time I tip it to take a drink. This will be a DELIGHT for me, every time.

Editing to add that this is a "crystal" (collection name) tumbler from Merritt designs. They make others (that I suspect do the same thing), however I think this exact design isn't around on their site anymore so it may no longer be in production.

Oh, it just dawned…It looks clear, but it's actually reflections…You can't actually see through to the opposite side of the glass, making this apperance no different than a cup painted black on the outside, while having an ornate, surreal, multi-colored rainbow design on the inside…

Nope it's clear!

The color just comes from refracted light from the cup design. The only color on it is in the bottom, the rest is clear acrylic.

Without water in it, it only refracts up the pillars on the sides.

"use chatgpt" that's the devil talking. buy four caffeinated drinks and pull an all nighter. this is the way.

i may lose 5% for a late submission, but at least no one can deny that i wrote it with my own tits i mean brain

much better footage of the haka that shut down parliament today

@endless-demon thank you so much for asking! it's a little complicated but I think simplification does a disservice to the issue and is exactly what people like David Seymour rely on to spread lies about historical context and current consequences. I'm putting this in a reblog because it's long, and I'm putting it on this post because I'd rather this video be the one to get seen. as always I'm pakeha and also not an expert, so I'm very open to corrections on details but im confident of the broad strokes.

so when the English first arrived to build settlements in aotearoa, they formed a treaty with Māori (te Tiriti o Waitangi), the people already living there, that the English can govern their own settlements, as long as they allowed for continued māori sovereignty (tino rangatiratanga). there exist two versions of the text, English and te reo Māori, which do not perfectly match. after this, the English settlers began acquiring massive swathes of land by legally questionable means, and asserting absolute sovereignty over these areas. these culminated in the land wars, which then lead to massive land confiscation as a form of both political punishment and colonization. the end result is that now the crown own nearly all land in aotearoa and claim absolute sovereignty over it.

now, the Māori text does not claim sovereignty over the property that the crown recognizes Māori own. the text promises, among other things, self determination for Māori, which is essentially impossible under a westminster system of government because they are currently a demographic minority. it's only very recent in our history that the crown has acknowledged the legitimacy of the te reo Māori text, and even more recently that we began to actually implement any of its principles. one of the biggest ways the treaty is used in modern day is to guarantee Māori have an opportunity at the table for major national decisions (particular those of environmental significance), and to defer organizational power for Māori issues to Māori communities.

the treaty principles bill seeks to water down these promises by allowing these rights to all new zealanders, "democratising" the treaty and removing those guarantees that have been so hard fought for by Māori. but, more importantly, it seeks to seed division and racism within this country to gather more support for the ACT party who are sponsoring this bill.

this bill was part of the coalition agreement by our current 3 party right wing government. the national party agreed to sponsor this bill to first reading (allowing public submission on the bill) but no further. I personally believe, along with many others, that when the time comes to vote for the second reading the act party will threaten to pull out of the coalition if the bill is not passed again, and our prime minister will not have the strength of character to stand up to his deputy. regardless, the relationship between the crown and Māori has already been damaged, both by the simple introduction of the bill as well as all the changes our current government has implemented.

as Paul Goldsmith, Minister for Treaty Negotiations outlined in his speech during the bill, the National party believe that te Tiriti must be killed, not in a single action, but by a thousand cuts, like the removal of references to the treaty from our legislation and curriculums, and the disestablishment of agencies like the Māori Health Authority, cuts to Māori advisors to govt departments, removing māori seats from local government, etc.

there's so much more to this issue, like the centuries of abuse and mistreatment of Māori by the crown authorities, how this abuse is ongoing to Māori children and adults today in state care, how iwi voices are our last line of defence against environmental and ecological damage by industry, the unilateral natural of the treaty reparation settlement process... but this is why this protest was staged in parliament today.

(in fact, there is a much larger protest taking place nationwide, scheduled to arrive the day the bill was supposed to be introduced. the bill was in fact introduced a week earlier, in a move many suspect was done to prevent exactly this kind of protest.)

as far as I'm concerned though? I think te pāti Māori achieved exactly what they wanted by this protest. they forced the government to drop the mask of civility, and force the protestors out of the building. and they showed their supporters that their protests are working - they felt threatened enough by this that they lashed out, felt a need to retaliate by suspending hana-rawhiti maipi-clarke from the house for 24 hours. the coalition are getting nervous

SOMEONE FINALLY PUT IT INTO WORDS!!!

guYS THE FUCKING SIGNS

new variant on “your boos mean nothing; I’ve seen what makes you cheer”

You literally have to understand that ur closest friends and loved ones may very well have kinks or fetishes that gross or freak you out and they simply won’t tell you because they know it grosses or freaks you out. Like you have no way of knowing if your best friend is into necro roleplay if she doesn’t wanna tell you. Sometimes you date someone for years before finding out they have a thing for incest. Maybe your coworker likes ageplay and diapers. Who gives a fuck. Nothing changes between you knowing and not knowing except your own constructed moral outrage.

WRONG!

1. Get comfy doing illegal shit. Laws are made up to enforce whatever the people on top want to enforce, anal and oral sex are technically a crime in several states currently if I recall correctly

2. It’s also illegal in many places to do any kind of play that causes pain to a partner, especially that leaves marks, including bruises.

3. Making judgements about people’s morality and personhood based on whether or not they fall into the class of “criminal” is bad. Stop

I understand that “kink and not a crime” is meant to refer to genuine acts of sexual abuse and rape, but you can just say that. Also we don’t need to bring that up every single time we talk about kink. It just strengthens the connotation between kink and abuse. If we’re talking about kinks and fetishes, we are automatically talking about roleplay and other kinds of consensual play between risk-aware adults 👍🏼

"do you want to go out to dinner?"

"as long as we're eating food and not nuclear waste."

"You don't have to say that every time."

the three genders are girl, bestie, and king

apparently there is a thing called "wanting something" and when it happens to you you're allowed to just do the thing that you want. yep that's right. even when it wouldn't hurt anyone and would make you really happy. does anyone know anything about this

hey girl are you gold and mercury. because. AuHg

don't be funnier than me on my own post

Go, my chaos gremlins! FLY, MY PRETTIES!

german words i wish existed in english

It’s so infuriating how many people don’t take fascists at their word. You should always believe a fascist. Yes, what they’re saying is insane. Yes, what they’re saying would cause mass death and suffering and tank the economy. They want that. Believe them.