#exception regime

[victusinveritas]

My man John Leguizamo out here just saying with his full chest to get these fascists and never give them a moment of peace and can I just say I've always been a fan of his.

[mollysunder]

For anyone that doesn't know LoL's updating their Lore Tips on the League client and the update will include Arcane canon. From the data mine LoL confirmed Ekko's parents are alive, or at least in Act 1 of s1 anyway. Apparently it says, "When Ekko's parents were at work, they sent him to Benzo's workshop, where he tinkered on his first inventions.".

That statement does track with the one time Ekko mentioned his parents in Firelights Reignite.

Even though this lore addition feels pretty last minute I am very curious to see Inna and Wyeth in Arcane's world, because they're very much normal people with exploitative factory jobs as engineers in their earlier lore.

I'm inclined to think they're still alive because if they were dead, it'd be weird that Ekko has a whole wall dedicated to other people in his life, and his parents weren't included. It's even weirder that in an alt!timeline where everything's better neither he nor any of his friends mention his parents, he doesn't even go visit them. Maybe later lore will say they worked in one of the mining colonies Jayce mentioned?

[pupuseriazag]

Istg if I see any more gringos say they're going to boycott salvadorean produce to ""show bukele and trump whose who""

[malchiusoportone]

[...] Victorian shampooing was not the ideal method to cleanse one’s hair of everyday dirt and grime. In order to do that, most ladies had a complete regimen of haircare which encompassed everything from regimented brushing to egg washes and perfumed pomades made of bear grease.

Mimi Matthews (2018). A Victorian Lady's Guide to Fashion and Beauty

[luxfuxxvii]

i accidentally neurodivergenced my way out of brainrot. youre telling me that most people do not feel the need to use their critical thinking skills on every single piece of media they consume (aka hyperfixations)??????? youre telling me they dont have opinions on it????? youre telling me theyre not relating to characters??????? youre telling me theyre not analyzing media and coming to conclusions about who they are as a person because they saw a character do it in a movie????? read about a character who did it in a book????? youre telling me that social media completely obliterated most individuals' sense of self????????? and i didnt because i deleted tik tok at 14 years old??????? and i didnt because i sometimes accidently get hyperfocused on national institute of health articles just to prove that im right??????? and i didnt because i feel the need to gather evidence?????? to fact check????????? to read??????? to write??????????? literally what????????????

you're telling me..... that when other people absorb media...... theyre doing it..... as....... a brain break?????????????????????? every single time?????????????????

wtf.

[sunlight-shunlight]

A United Nations conference co-hosted by France and Saudi Arabia aiming to set out a roadmap for recognising the state of Palestine has been postponed following Israel’s strikes on Iran, two sources told Reuters.

The high-level meeting had been scheduled to take place in New York between June 17 and 20 and was intended to bring together international delegations to discuss Palestine’s future and bring to an end the genocide in Gaza.

A Western diplomatic source in Riyadh said the conference would be delayed, citing the Israeli strikes as one of the reasons.

man. even the most limp, half-assed diplomatic measures get derailed by israel using its One Trick of just wildly bombing everything.

[bisexualmikisayaka]

as discussed last? season with the disappointing resolution to the robby & miguel conflict and the introduction of the baby as something that healed all wounds, and now with the focus on johnny and carmen needing to be married to sort of… idk, cement? solidify? progress? their relationship as their daughter is born, there’s just something so evil about the in-universe veneration of the nuclear family when johnny has not only been absolved of completely fucking over his biological son through becoming a “proper” man (Man who is Married To Woman, becoming Correct Father), it also completely negates the positive influence growing close to miguel had on his life before they were (step)father and (step)son, which itself was deliberately evocative of the original mr miyagi and daniel bond, and that itself was deliberate in transcending the constraints of the nuclear family and connecting two people across regardless of age or race or life experience. they shared something that meant everything to them and in turn they lifted each others’ lives up. it just feels like another way the show falls into its own trap and completely misses the point of everything positive from the source material it draws upon

[pr4yerp0sition]

Awww, the delicate nature of half the roster being supportive by making their loves one coffee or tea. The gentleness that comes in preparation, patience, the knowledge this will be savored by the one you hold close. Regardless of platonic or romantic vibes, it’s such a cute scenario to write. The early lazy mornings spent, laughing, cooking, talking about the mundane while it feels like for a second time itself stops.

[victusinveritas]

Reddit post here.

Glad to see US military folks realizing that they can just shoot ICE and be given a wrist slap by any military court that tries them because everyone hates ICE except for Trump and his goons.

So, remember: you can always just blast away at unidentified people in masks trying to steal folks away. There's no proof they work for anyone federal and so you're really just protecting your community. Sure you might have to deal with the criminal and legal fallout, but you're probably aware of that going in, otherwise you wouldn't be doing that in the first place. Or shouldn't. Don't go in half cocked and guns blazing, no matter how tempting that is.

Also, community defense is great. Form a local affinity group, stay strapped, try hard not to shoot other armed affinity groups. Learn from Salt Lake City's fuckup. I know I'm not taking the official Terminally Online Leftist view here, but I kind of think both parties were at fault but also...this sort of thing happens, tragic and all that, yeah, but all we can do is learn from it. Showing up armed is great, bitchin', rad, hopefully your hands remain free of gunshot residue and your bullets in your magazine. The thing we should learn from all this, again, to my mind that's been staring at all the discourse...is not that "the libs are stooges for the fascists" and cause more trouble than not and should be excluded from protests, but that maybe more coordination before protests might be, perhaps, good? Maybe. But I'm just an anarchist with a slight limp and not really a fan of guns, personally. I think it's great that folks like the SRA and John Brown Gun Clubs etc are out there armed, truly, but I like blunt force and sharp things. Call me old fashioned and useless, I'll live with that until I catch lead. Then it won't be a problem, just dig me a grave and cover it with flowers and sing a round of 'Bella Ciao.'

This popped up in my recommended gifs. It wasn't what I was looking for, at all, but here we are. Have a silly gif.

[balkanlila]

For the human body thing, can I have the eyes? 💜

i would LOVE to draw this for you, but it's one of the 3 lessons i have yet to hear this semester. i took pictures of eye related elements from my atlas for you tho!!!

sharing some anatomical fun facts because we covered this in anatomy already. okay, so the eyes are so beautiful because they are literally an extension of the brain in embriologic terms so they're basically your brain peeking out... the mechanism of the optic nerve is also the main precondition for inherent contradiction humans are built on. simply put, because (some of) the fibres of the optic nerve cross the whole body followed (it would be too difficult to have one mechanism in one part of the body and a completely different one in the other... or it's just the human instinct to follow what somebody else is doing and it's a chain reaction🤣 so once one element fucked up...) this is the explanation for that thing where left brain controls the right side of the body and vice versa. why the fibres cross in the first place has more to do with physics and how light enters the eye which i'm not an expert on, but i have a friend who is so i might add to this some time in the future.

[quixoticanarchy]

i am reverting to my high school self so hard lately... back in the phil ochs spiral, trying to radicalize my friends, read 4 foreign policy related books in the last 3 days, etc. this may not quite be good for me but man the shell game of the self sure can contain so many other buried selves within it

[kenslilove]

barou is actually so horny all the time y’all. I know it, I know he is. His cleaning his a form of regulation, so is his strict regime. If he allowed it to falter the first thing he’d do is pull up a pretty picture of you and fist at his dick

[blondemadona]

What’s funny is whenever I announce I have a headache one of my parents will inevitably tell me to go have a cup of coffee to fix it

[grandwretch]

I love that every video game about being a border worker is low-key like "yeah this is fun bc you're a nerd and love paperwork but uh. you are actively killing ppl and are contributing to the fall of society. btw"

[tiggymalvern]

We now live in a version of the USA where any person of colour with a name that isn't traditionally Caucasian can be snatched off the street and held on false charges until someone can prove their citizenship for them and apparently this is Normal and Fine Actually.

A U.S.-born citizen was arrested in Florida on Wednesday and charged with illegally entering the state as an “unauthorized alien.” Twenty-year-old Juan Carlos Lopez-Gomez was detained for a day at the request of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, despite his mother producing his birth certificate and Social Security card at a court hearing.

Leon County Judge LaShawn Riggans inspected the birth certificate during a court hearing on Thursday, confirmed it was “an authentic document,” and said she found no probable cause for the charge, the Florida Phoenix reported. But a state prosecutor said that because ICE had asked the local jail to hold Lopez-Gomez, the court did not have the authority to grant his release.

[whencartoonsruletheworld]

candace flynn is THE most teenage girl character of all time. she is at level 100 anxiety 24/7. she shows her love for her brothers by trying to get them in trouble constantly. her neck is as long as her forearm. she features on a blues album after having an allergic reaction. she has a shrine to her boyfriend in her room. she can't live without her phone. she has a panic room in the basement. she plays 20 instruments that all start with the letter B. she read all of sherlock holmes in one night. she's seen their platypus running around as a secret agent more than once, assumed she was hallucinating each time, and moved on with her life while telling no one. she likes wrestling video games. she was rutabaga princess. she has a billion people to email memes to but when she's trying to think of friends she can only think of four people and one of them is her mom. most animals hate her except monkeys. she invented grilled cheese flavored ice cream. she pretended to be irish for a week. she's autistically obsessed with her universe's version of barney. she writes marvel fanfiction. she does parkour. there's an entire archive of her voice actress screaming just in case her voice ever gave out while recording. she sees her brothers build time machines and rollercoasters every day but doesn't believe in santa. when she starts scheming the wicked witch of the west theme starts playing in the background. she was elected queen of mars. she won a "mayor for the day" essay competition. there's a random person in town who's been avoiding her to the point she doesn't know he exists. she learned how to parallel park by driving a monster truck. she thinks the plural of moose is "meese." she tracks her mom with a GPS. she doesn't know her little brother's full name. she's scared of heights, spiders, and the number seven. when her boyfriend told her he'd call "soon" she started doing complex math to try and figure out when exactly that would be. her first thought upon seeing her royal doppelganger was to go to the laundromat and fill all the dryers with cheese. she earned 50 not-girl-scout patches in one day through sheer determination. she can run fast enough to catch up to moving cars. she can sense when ground is broken in the backyard and when people are judging her. one time she got her face caught in the sink. her brothers carved her into mount rushmore. every now and again a magical zebra appears, calls her kevin, and then disappears again. she killed 99% of an alien invasion with a t-shirt cannon. in an alternate universe she's leading a regime-destroying resistance at the age of 15. she's being accidentally gaslit every day of her life.