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Remember calming cat? Remember when tumblr was this color? If you don’t that’s fine. I just feel old and alone.

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Scout Paper-Mario-Wiki Needs Help

Hey all. It's gotten bad for me.

Me, and the people I care about the most, need to leave the country, and I can no longer rely on my full time job to provide me with the funds I need to do so. This is not a matter of comfort for us, it is a matter of survival, and I don't say that lightly.

I do not feel good asking for this much assistance, but I need it, and will be doing whatever I can to make it happen.

For the first time in 4 years, I'll be opening up voice acting commissions, and I've also started a fundraising campaign.

If you'd like to support me, please click any of the links below.

Chuffed campaign

Donate on cashapp

Donate on paypal

Email me for a commission at chasejoven@gmail.com (starting at $100 for short jobs, willing to negotiate if the commission is especially small. I'm also more than willing to do non-voice-acting work if you have something else you know I can do for you.)

Pay-what-you-want for my music

Thank you very much for reading, and thank you for your help.

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Founder of Kellogg's is John Kellogg

Some names just sound so ridiculously fake that had they been fictional, people would’ve rolled their eyes in complete disbelief. Like seriously. Wdym there’s a mf called Galileo Galilei. Stfu. You just made that up

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*through gritted teeth* the world is GOOD. people are kind. Humans are NOT inheritly selfish. you will make it through this year. recovery is possible. people you don't know yet will love you. You are going to do things you can't even imagine right now. You are going to read a rlly good book. You are going to eat some rlly good food. You are going to experience joy again. Things can get better. Situations can change. You can choose to be kinder. The world can change for the better.

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anti-ai reactionary explain why ai is irrecoverably bad challenge. extra hard mode: don't defend copyright, don't be ableist, and don't invoke spiritual concepts

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"Punishment works!!!" We're drowning in three to four generations of people so pants-shittingly terrified of ever being wrong that half of everyone has constructed a worldview wherein they never even consider the possibility that they could be wrong and the other half behaves like one wrong move will make anything or anyone explode violently into a million irreperable pieces. I don't think it works guys

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Violet bc I am once again sick in the head for a video game soundtrack :)

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if you can accept that there will be trans men who look virtually indistinguishable from cis women, than you can accept that there will be trans women who look virtually indistinguishable from cis men. either by choice or by circumstance. and if you can't respect them the same as you would anybody else, you need to examine why that is

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The Food and Drug Administration is warning the public not to eat, sell or serve certain Great Value raw frozen shrimp sold at Walmart due to possible contamination with Cesium-137, a radioactive isotope.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection alerted the FDA about possible Cesium-137, or Cs-137, detected in shipping containers at four U.S. ports, the FDA said Tuesday in a press release. Testing on frozen shrimp from the distributor, Indonesia's BMS Foods, also tested positive, the FDA said.

However, no shrimp that has tested positive for Cesium-137 has entered the U.S. food supply, according to the FDA.

The FDA is still recommending a recall on all products from BMS Foods that were shipped after the company's shipping containers tested positive for Cesium-137, even though the products themselves have not tested positive.

The following Great Value brand frozen shrimp products should not be eaten, sold or served:

Great Value brand frozen raw shrimp, lot code: 8005540-1, Best by Date: 3/15/2027

Great Value brand frozen raw shrimp, lot code: 8005538-1, Best by Date: 3/15/2027

Great Value brand frozen raw shrimp, lot code: 8005539-1, Best by Date: 3/15/2027

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every time i draw bucky barnes i crank up the cro-magnon dial another notch. unfrozen caveman soldier

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we live in a deeply unsexy time sluts literally need to reclaim society

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Reminder that the label NSFW (or versions like nsft) is not a moral judgment. "Not safe for work" literally means "if your boss glanced over and saw this on your phone or computer screen, you could get penalized or fired." That's why nudity is labeled as NSFW because even if nude bodies aren't inherently sexual, your boss probably still wouldn't be thrilled to see naked people on your screen.

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A lot of criticism of modern art boils down to, “I could have done that!” And a lot of defense of this is, “well it was dealing with big questions/it has circumstantial significance/it’s taken out of context” etc.

But I’ve realized that these defenses aren’t really needed because you can make the same claim about any art. “What’s so great about The Mona Lisa?” Like, you could maybe, maaaaybe convince me that Leonardo DaVinci was the undisputed best painter who had ever lived when he painted The Mona Lisa. But we’re centuries on, now. And the world has 8 billion people in it. There’s zero fucking way that nobody else has come along who could paint better portraits in an Italian Renaissance style. But nobody gives a fuck about them because they weren’t painted during the renaissance.

Picture an art gallery. You see a sign: to the left, faithful renaissance style portraits painted in the last ten years by people you’ve never heard of. To the right, The Girl With The Pearl Earring, St. Jerome in his Study, and The Last Supper.

We all know which gallery is gonna be busier. And that’s exactly what would happen if you tried to do readymades, or 60s style minimalism, or De Stijl or whatever in 2025. That moment is over. We more or less learned what we needed to learn from canvases with a single line, or a row of bricks on the ground. Sure, you could make that now, but could you have done it before it was accepted? Could you do the next thing in art now? Okay fine, you’re not in the inner circle, it’s a big unfair gatekeepy world, it’s all so unfair. Well any finance douche on Linkedin will tell you that networking is a skill, bub. (A skill the Dutch Masters had too, btw.)

What I’m saying is, in a post-photography world, the “easy” modern art gets famous the same way the “difficult meritorious masterworks of our glorious western heritage” did. The fact that representative painting requires specific skills and talents to pull off has nothing to do with it; those skills had a kind of endogenous value before photography was invented, but in this century they are basically a party trick.

There are a lot of people doing incredibly difficult things to make beautiful objects for absolutely no reward because although their appeal may be easier to understand, nobody really cares. Prettiness is cheap and plentiful, we scroll past it with zero thought. You might even have taken the time to write a kind comment on the realistic oil painting you saw on reddit, but do you even remember what it looked like?

And no, I’m not saying that memorability is the only merit, nor that skill and talent have no value. I’m just stating some rather brutal truths; the indifference the world has when you’re a creator is shattering, devastating. It’s enough to drive you insane. Skill and talent are beautiful things, but they do not guarantee fame and success. And that doesn’t mean that art which is more concerned with concepts and processes than simple beauty is evil. What it all means is that there is no karmic jury out there in the ether making sure that art is fair. The art world is brimming with grift and nonsense. But it’s also humanity’s way of dealing with existence. So you shouldn’t give up on it.

Learn to stop worrying and love the Rothko.

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i feel like high school/middle school sitcoms set the unrealistic expectation of being able to have lunch time outside

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There. Now it's art.

^^^^character dynamic i need to do more with .EVERYONE SEES YOUR WORTH EXCEPT FOR YOU💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥