• I am Rhi, I am from Wales, I am in my 30s. Hi.
• Queer is a good word.
• Singular they is another good word.
• I will live to see a free Palestine or will haunt Jerusalem until every settler leaves.
• I’m not sure DNIs really work but I’m fat and a victim of CSA so… you know we might not get on if you’ve got Views in those areas.
• I tend to be long winded, talk in the tags, all that been here forever shit.
• I have been here forever.
• All military are bastards. Yeah even your peepaw meemaw squeesaw.
• Pretty much every purchase link shared on Tumblr (except the very obviously handmade stuff) is dropshipping. Please please go on Aliexpress, it’s not hard, do not get charged a 1000% markup and don’t share those posts either.

jackironsides:

irlactualhuman:

fuctacles:

exhuastedpigeon:

clusterbuck:

someone on twitter is trying to claim that use of an em-dash is an indication of AI-generated writing because it’s “relatively rare” for actual humans to use it. skill issue

I can admit this is a little out of hand, but I promise AI didn’t write my 150k fic 😂

Reblog if you’re a human that uses em-dashes

I use them in posts. It’s a handy device to help frame a thing in a more relatable – ultimately more human – way that conjures a voice in the readers head capable of pausing and thinking. It gives your voice texture.

I use it like I use vernacular. It helps me more closely follow my natural speech patterns. This is a more fun and interesting way to write – for me, at least.

That middle example is stylistic, by the way. You can either use unspaced em rules/dashes, or you can use spaced en rules/dashes. So both of these are correct:

Bob was tired—exhausted, really—but knew he could not rest.

Bob was tired – exhausted, really – but knew he could not rest.

If you’re submitting a manuscript for publication, said publication will often have a style guide which will tell you which they prefer you’d use, along with other things like variable spellings (organize vs organise, for example), and whether they use single quotes or double quotes (so ‘Is that what she said?’ Lizzie asked vs “Is that what she said?” Lizzie asked.)

En dashes should be used for ranges as shown above, but they should be spaced if the date range is more than just a single item on each side, viz:

1900–1905

1st January 1901 – 29th October 1902

(There are other specialist uses for en rules/dashes, but they’re not something most people need to worry about.)

Apple said it was “gravely disappointed” that it would no longer be able to offer the security feature to British customers, after the UK government asked for the right to see the data.

It said the removal of the tool would make users more vulnerable to data breaches from bad actors, and other threats to customer privacy. It would also mean all data was accessible by Apple, which could share it with law enforcement if they had a warrant.

😬

egberts:

egberts:

egberts:

just found out people ship sonic and knuckles

big time

just found out i meant shadow

I think it’s only right to share a link to the art in question

chaoticneutralcunt:

dear god please 🙏 let elon musk die in the most pathetic humiliating way possible and please 🙏 please 🙏 make it happen soon please 🙏 amen p.s pretty please for the love of you

what-even-is-thiss:

what-even-is-thiss:

I’ve realized over the years that a lot of startups are trying to do things you can already do for cheaper and for more convenient through other methods and I’m not exactly sure why it took me so long to pick up on that

Before I knew that Hello Fresh was a scummy company I bought it a few times on a discount.

And then I realized that hey. I can get a very similar experience by just getting my groceries delivered. And it’s cheaper to do that. And grocery delivery has been a thing for ages.

And those pre-made refrigerated meal things. I bought into that too for a while before I realized that hey, grocery stores sell meals you can just pop in the oven. There’s higher end frozen meal companies that are more nutritious than like hungry man but still cheaper than those meal delivery companies. And you can get those delivered through the same methods as other groceries.

And there’s even streamlined methods to let someone else decide what you’re gonna cook. Cooking blogs have been putting out sample dinner menus forever. You can buy books that’ll tell you how to eat if that’s what you want. If you need someone to tell you what to eat for dinner there’s probably an app for that.

Not to mention that you can get takeout from a local sit down place for less than what these startups charge.

I don’t know why it took me so long to realize all of this. I don’t know why these startups seemed so appealing to me.

Like wait a minute. I don’t even have to try that hard to get the exact same thing that they’re offering from other sources for cheaper. Why did I let them convince me that this was a good idea?

Some of it is definitely decontextualisation. You can look at a box of Hello Fresh and it’s, idk, £30 or something.
And so it’s £30 for “food” in general, nice big box of it, and it doesn’t seem as bad, but if you were in Tescos and they wanted £10 for a very average meal and you had to fully make it yourself you’d go get something else because that’s taking the piss.

Some of it’s overwhelm. People don’t know how to cook, it seems intimidating, you’ve got to get all of the ingredients, and then you’ll have some left over and you have to think about what to do about that (my advice is that you’ll think of something and even if you don’t you’ll still be up from a financial standpoint and even an ecological standpoint- all those tiny little plastic sauce packets, that weird wool stuff they pack in, the shipping and the processing they had to do… you’re fine if you end up binning a few rubbery carrots at the end of the week).

And of course normalisation, which is what all the youtuber ad reads and friend referral schemes are for. Seems expensive? Hmm, other people can manage it. Maybe you’re just cheap 💅

jakeperalta:

saw this very [ben affleck depressed smoking image] comment and thought why does blue job / pink job sound like an established concept so I looked it up…..

what’s next?? having a bank account is a blue job 💙🏦☺️ not being legally recognised as a person in your own right is a pink job 🩷🥰💅

teaboot:

rslashrats:

rslashrats:

rslashrats:

saw a post on bluesky that boiled down to saying the trans flag was ugly and some reply was like “it’s not even nice colors it’s fluorescent teal and hot pink” and like. i’m sorry but neither of those colors are present in the trans flag. are we looking at the same flag

how is this not “pastel”

decided to make whatever twisted dimension flag this person sees int9o a real flag

Ok but like. Give To Me

wizardarchetypes:

transhuman-priestess:

transhuman-priestess:

transhuman-priestess:

transhuman-priestess:

you know how you can go and watch a movie you watched a bunch as a kid and the version of a song in it is different? like they actually changed it since you were a kid? that isn’t normal. we didn’t do that until like, the last ten years. it’s fucked up.

This is a post about how the Extra-Special-Super-Limited-Collector’s-Wet-Dream versions of Neon Genesis Evangelion that cost $250 on ebay don’t have “Fly Me to the Moon” in the credits even on the ADV dub.

i know I’m playing this off as me being pedantic but i really shouldn’t.

Up til about the last 10 years it was widely understood that if you licensed a song to be used in a film or a video game or a television show that that song would be in that film or video game or television show in perpetuity.

Then, about a decade ago, things started changing. I don’t know the exact point in time it changed, but the first time i became aware of it was around 2017 or ‘18 when some video game, i think it was Grand Theft Auto IV, got a big patch that did exactly one thing and that was remove a bunch of songs that had been in the game because the licensing expired.

And I remember being angered by that but going “oh well, that’s video games, right?”

But then a couple years later when Netflix got the rights to Neon Genesis Evangelion and not only put out a new dub but took “Fly Me to the Moon” out of the show, even on the above ultra-fancy collector’s Blu-ray set, which included the old dub.

And then recently i was watching From the Earth to the Moon, a HBO miniseries about the Apollo program that I’ve watched many many times in my life. It was one of my favorites as a kid, and i saw that it was on HBO Max. The thing that made me wanna watch was that it was remastered in 4K. Up til a couple years ago the only version available had been on DVD and I was, you know, really excited because I’m a bit of a cinephile (as you all may have gathered from my, uh, everything) and it’s something I’m very familiar with.

Now as you might expect from a docudrama about the Apollo program, there’s a lot of 50s, 60s, and early 70s music in it. Episode 5, “Spider”, opens with a montage of space age art set to the theme song for Fireball XL-5.

So I’m watching this episode, which mind you, is one of my absolute favorites both as a space nerd and a machine fucker. (When you are done reading this post, please take the time to watch this clip that was formative to me as a robot girl.) So I’m on my nostalgia trip and i get yanked the fuck out because the song playing is not the right one.

It’s still the theme song to Fireball XL-5, but its a cover, clearly recorded much later than the original, and it’s really fucking jarring. Because the original is the exact sort of kitschy, early-60s space-age stuff that is being montaged in this opening scene.

And the really nutso thing is, I can’t find anything about this anywhere. It’s not that I’m crazy or that it isn’t happening, its that it’s just…gone. They do that now.

This is not normal.

It is not normal for companies (because this is 100% corporate pissing contests) to be able to retroactively change pieces of art because they don’t want to lend their “intellectual property” to it anymore.

You should be angry about this. It’s disgusting. And it was not normal until the last decade.

Reading the notes on this it’s apparently an even more prevalent thing than I realized????

in 2020 i went to rewatch season one of supernatural on netflix and carry on my wayward son didn’t play during the episode “the road so far” recaps anymore and a lot of the other songs were removed as well like “don’t fear the reaper” at the end of the first episode featuring reapers. which is crazy bc the classic rock genre is like. intergal to the story’s mood and motifs

i ended up looking it up & that’s when i found out about all this. it’s crazy to me. writers choose specific music to shape entire scenes and arcs and seasons in visual media and removing that music can literally devastate a story so it’s wild this has just become so common.

When I was in the Cheers zone, there was one bit where they played a song and it was so obviously the wrong song even though I’d never seen that episode before that I had to go look up what it was supposed to be.

And the original would’ve worked better, obviously, almost as if it was carefully selected for the exact scene and not something they could get cheap and overlay later.

isawken:

specialmouse:

musicallyseducingallthehotties:

No, not really. I just really, really like girls.

<But you have banged transwomen before.>

So? They’re ladies too. You saying the ladies aren’t ladies, grandpa?

<Ninja Brian is not saying that banging transwomen makes you gay. But…..>

Uh… where are going with this?

<…had you ever heard of the term gynesexual?>

…no?

<How can Ninja Brian describe this… Gynesexual is the attraction to feminine primary and secondary sexual traits, regardless of the gender of the individual.>

Sooo you’re saying that if I saw a dude with moobs or a dude with a slender frame, I could get a boner? Last time I checked, I don’t spring amazing wood the moment I watch ice skating or see some guy’s moobs.

<Yeah this definition isn’t working with the scenario present. Ok, Ninja Brian is no psychologist, but from his history with you, you tend to gravitate towards people and things that have this sort of feminine aura. Yonic structures, objects that look like breasts, even subtle curves are enough to set you off. You have always seen structures like that as a manifestation of the woman within it and you always imagine the full woman.>

<In other words, you like women so much that it transcends beyond gender identity and even humanity itself.>

<…At least that’s what Ninja Brian thinks.>

…..does that make me bi?

<Do you like dudes?>

Nope. Don’t swing that way.

…then what am I supposed to be?

<Danny Sexbang. World’s Most Amazing Lover.>

…..ohhhhh! I get it now! Sexuality isn’t a label that determines whether or not you like dudes or chicks, it’s whatever gives you the boner!

And sometimes its not as easy as “I like dudes” or “I like chicks”, it’s just as multifaceted and complex as the individual themselves!

<Now you’re getting it.>

Hell yeah I am!

I AM DANNY Y. SEXBANG! WORLD’S MOST AMAZING LOVER!

AND I FUCKING LOVE AAAAAALL THE LADIES! AND I DO MEAN AAAAAAALL THE LADIES!

WHETHER ITS PHYSICAL, SPIRITUAL, METAPHORICAL, OR SYMBOLIC, I’M TAPPING THAT ASS!

<Ninja Brian thinks that was pretty unnecessary.>

I beg to differ. Man… it feels soooo freeing to actually have a word for what I like. It’s like a whole new world of possibilities has opened itself for me!

<That could be the testosterone talking.>

Yeah, and?

I’m a hotblooded American man, and this hot body of mine is telling me to go out to the club and start exploring this new aspect of my sexuality!

Imagine all the kinds of pussy I would be pounding! Imagine all the kinds of genitalia I would be playing with! I would get more experience with lady wangs! Maybe there’s some kinds of genitalia that I’ve never seen before! The possibilities are endless and I’m getting hard just thinking about it!

Look out world, here I come!

Oh my god

helloitsbees:

mist-the-wannabe-linguist:

luxxlunaae:

mortimermcmirestinks:

grimauxiliatrixofficial:

lilkearnsie:

theshockinglyeloquentdog:

gluten-free-pussy:

teathattast:

WHAT

Pusheen is married?!?

PUSHEEN HAS BABIES?!?!?

Queen Of Keeping Personal And Professional Lives Seperate

SINCE WHEN IS PUSHEEN A GIRL

an absolute queen. her birthday is febuary 18th

she’s Irish

everyone say happy birthday pusheen