im going to post old cat images now

ceiling cat

monorail cat

long cat

the OG can i haz cheezburger cat

the lesser known graphix cat

invisible bike cat

my planet needs me cat

cat with the gat

Good lord we need MOAR of the original LOLCATS (or cat macros, as they were originally known)

the OG memes

This post is missing Keyboard Cat!!!

Here are 3 exercises that are sometimes misunderstood (and how you can benefit).

-Fingertip Pushups -Clutch Flags / Human Flags -Muscle ups

Have a wonderful day!

Seeeee??? It's just so beautiful 😻

What do you mean? This isn’t a parody?

Oh my god he actually responded like this. He actually said those words on the debate stage when they did the smallest amount of debunking of the racist lie he’s been running with for weeks now. He actually said this.

How is he so bad at doing this??

I didn't watch the debate so I just assumed this was a meme. Are you fucking kidding me?

Wow. It's really real.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/01/us/politics/cbs-debate-fact-checking-vance.html

And because nytimes is paywalled:

https://www.salon.com/2024/10/01/you-werent-going-to-fact-check-vance-gets-his-mic-cut-after-fuming-over-fact/

This is canon???

Yes.

The story of Jordan Blisk, as told by Jess Ruliffson. I love reading trans stories with a happy ending.

The devil’s bargain that the military provides to marginalized people in this country is just infuriating. 

One of the fun benefits about being picky about formatting is that sometimes I see folks in the notes who clearly never learned that italics denote the proper title of a long-form work and are confused why I'm being so vehement about Batman.

Batman, plaintext, is the name of a character.

Batman, in italics, is the title of a long-form work in which we might suppose a character named Batman probably appears.

(When the title of a work is also the name of a character who appears in said work, the formal term for this is that the character in question is the work's titular character, which is a very fun word to say. Titular.)

The one I struggle with is when to use quotes vs. italics.

I usually use quotes for everything, unless I don’t want to and use plaintext. But it would be nice to have a way to remember the distinction, which is more than ‘shorter things are more likely to use quotes’.

You're not alone in your confusion.

The rule used to be italics for standalone works, quotation marks for titled portions of a longer work, or for works which would customarily be published as part of a titled collection.

So, for example, the title of an album gets italics, but the title of a song gets quotation marks, because songs are customarily published as part of titled albums; the title of a novel gets italics, but the title of a short story gets quotation marks, because short stories are customarily published as part of titled anthologies. Research articles get quotation marks because they're customarily published in titled journals. In each case, the title of the collection gets italics, and the title of the thing that goes in the collection gets quotation marks.

Then the Internet came along and fucked everything up by making it feasible to publish short-form works primarily or exclusively as standalone pieces, so that rule doesn't work anymore (except in the case of titled portions of a longer work, in which case it's still fine).

Ok, to prove to my husband that this is more a European device than a U.S. device I am going to need more non-US people to reblog this.

Do not reblog for science. No science will be happening. Reblog to help me prove a point!

(If I am right I will show him this poll. If I am wrong he will never know this happened)

I am from the U.S. and I know what it is BUT ONLY BECAUSE my wife was raised in Europe!!!

AGATHA HARKNESS + hands

cannot recommend more putting secrets and hints in your creative work that you dont expect anyone to figure out

act like youve got a ravenous fanbase of a million people poring over every detail, cuz then if nobody figures it out you feel cool n smug knowing something nobody else does, and if someone does figure it out then its like theyve joined a secret society

this speaking as a cis person. Nothing brings me more joy seeing people find gender euphoria in becoming a mediocre representation of humanity. And I mean that so genuinely. Local boy finds joy and fulfillment wearing a cargo shorts and t-shirt combo. Local girl has transitioned to look like someone's disheveled aunt, has never been happier. Local person experiences gender euphoria rocking the world's worst bowl-cut. Without a scap of irony, this shit makes me see the wonder and whimsy in just, being a human. An average, person going through their day-to-day, is a wondrous thing? That's amazing. And heteronormativity has stripped these experiences of their joy. Like you're right, wearing a basic girlypop skirt should make my heart sing. Why not? Why are these expressions lesser because they're normal? All this to say. Shoutout to all the basic bitches out there. Yes that polo shirt does make you look like a divorced golfer dad. Yes, that too is kind of a slay, now that I think of it.

Me: I mean if I don't believe in the divine and don't keep kosher and can't read or speak Hebrew why even bother trying to convert to Judaism?

Also me: *cries when I read Jewish prayers*

Me: fine whatever I'll keep working on it.

CHALLENGERS (2024) dir. Luca Guadagnino

(Source)

Alex Jones, the ultra-right-wing conspiracy-theorist, was forced to sell InfoWars in a bankruptcy lawsuit.

This actually happened.

I love the idea of Spock being super queer, highly expressive and very emotional from a Vulcan view point. Like...

What humans see:

What Vulcans see:

i love how this implies that gritty is how vulcans see jim

incredibly necessary context