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I had the dumbest, least-canon idea of all time and had to put it in comic form. Enjoy!!

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Rion and Dessa frienderisms! They're so funny to me ❤️

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starwalk

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Genie

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I've never wanted to have sex with an airplane but I think it's cool how some people want to have sex with airplanes. I think the world is a richer and more colorful place for it.

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Schwarzenegger winning seemed like the most embarrassing thing that would ever happen in politics at the time and now he’s to the left of every elected Republican and a few Democrats and just makes videos going “young men, my fadda was a Nazi and he was a contemptible loosah”

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Re: Pervertin or how German Supersoldiers High on Crack travelled through Space and Time Buy my Book

I came across a post on the bird site yesterday calling into attention the use of pervitin, more or less adderall, among German troops during WW2. For context pervitin tablets were indeed issued to a lot of military personnel back in those days, specifically to aircraft pilot and sometimes tank crews on long missions. The drug as some of you may have heard keeps you awake and alert, along with a slew of side effects and a non negligible chance of addiction. In a discussion that brought to view just how willing people are to buy into Nazi propaganda in the year of our f*cking lord 2023, I pointed out a few things, uphill and having to indulge a lot of sidetracking. The use of pervitin has always been a little overstated ever since it came to the internet's attention, and I certainly would never call it a key component of the Blitzkrieg when, in the theaters of war where actual Blitzkrieg was employed, its success was more due to a combination of innovative doctrines, intact fuel supplies and a big fat helping of dumb luck. It was a bold move highly relying on capturing enemy fuel depots with fast, surprise deep strikes supported by a lot of armored and air forces, and it was only sustainable in neighboring, industrialized countries. One can argue if the USSR was industrialized at the time, but it stopped mattering when the Russians removed their entire industry from the West to beyond the Ural mountains. The Blitz stalled there.

"But if it didn't work, then why did the Nazis do it so often ?" Well the answer to that is twofold. The first, longer answer is that Nazis were a bunch of f*cking morons. Maybe not one by one, but as a government in charge of military procurement, they were one bunch of goofy motherf*ckers. Gaggle of functional shit-for-brains really. The Nazis gave every one of their tanks in the middle of the war two coats of anti-magnetic paint, which took almost a full day to cure, despite being the only major nation to use magnetic antitank mines. The Nazis kept using slave labor drawn from their prisoners of war, including in the manufacturing of their overengineered armored vehicles, resulting in poor quality products or, you know, a few rivets in your magnificent Tiger tank being replaced by a cigarette butt. The Nazis spent more than half the cost of a strategic bomber on every V2 rocket, not including design costs, for less than half the payload. It ended up killing more Germans and slave workers than British people in London, for literally no strategic or tactical result with 0.4 person killed per every rocket. The second, shorter answer is that pervitin was not used that much. A lot of the arguments trying to boost its importance come from a single book, "Blitzed" by Norman Ohler, now available in twenty languages apparently, where grand claims are made by a historian who was probably more than a little tired of seeing Buzzfeed rack in the big bucks instead of him.

End note; I was called out by a bird siter after the conversation that inspired this post for even beginning to fact-check this, which they considered, and I quote, "fangirling over nazi stats". I cannot stress this enough, learning the 'bad' parts of history does not make you bad person, it is how you interact with the resulting knowledge. Unlike what they implied, I had to look for those supporting evidence. I had a hunch that such a grabbing headline about super-drugs would be fake, I knew offhand that V2 rockets killed more blues than reds, but when I had to research all that jazz about Nazis and their superweapons it was to dunk on them, not make another History Channel documentary about a time-travelling bell. Stay critical, fascists can eat shit.

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I was sitting out back and I heard a bird sing a tune that sounded kind of like a few notes of Pink Pony Club and I envisioned training a bunch of wild birds to sing for food, and I posted a video on tiktok and it went viral and suddenly people were training birds to sing worldwide and then other birds realized they could get attention/food from humans by mimicking this behavior and then there were big roaming flocks of songbird choruses, and then record companies started trying to copyright strike -birds- and it was so unpopular that media corporations started running absurd anti-bird campaigns trying to manufacture consent for exterminating all birds and it got wild traction with conservatives to the point where they were killing birds in the streets and like gloating about their bird kill counts and then every day there were stories like “all flamingoes are gone” and john oliver was like ummm guys flamingoes don’t even sing but eventually all birds were gone and there was weird discourse like some people would argue that platypuses count as birds because of their beaks and there was a really popular influencer who like posted videos about baking with reptile eggs and life on earth go so profoundly fucked without birds that whole food chains started to collapse until all basically all life withered away and I was sitting out back of my house (somehow, I was still here where I heard that first bird) and it was so, so quiet

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what if it GETS her though 😥

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elf liberalism probably goes insane

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"I'm worried. I'm afraid that this might get worse. That I might lose control." "Well it'll be okay one way or another" "It will?" "Yep, 'cause if it gets worse than that, if I get a flicker of you being a danger to this team, I'll put a super-mat. round through your skull before you can blink." "...Thank you, Abraham."

new Evolve comm, this time from @streamdotpng of Kala. Very happy with this!

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As the Ides of March approaches, let us all remember it not as the day Caesar was stabbed a whole bunch, but for what it truly was: the day a group of organized elected representatives killed a sitting unelected dictator.

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Trying to relax on my day off 😇 😈