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thank you to whoever made this meme, it's a big hit in the lab and sends microbiologists into hysterics

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chappell being a "problems on both sides" girlie was not on my 2024 bingo like i knew she had refused to go to the white house over Palestine/Israel and I totally understood that but when you're talking about who to vote for please please think before you speak, like. "Problems on both sides?" Girl one of these candidates is telling people schools are giving sex change operations to children and women are killing babies after they're born and the other is literally calling for a ceasefire, supports roe v. wade being codified, and performed some of the first gay marriages in the nation. now is not the time for "problems on both sides".

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the most disturbing trend in online leftism is outright hostility towards any kind of community building tools and forgiveness whatsoever.

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The book

The movie

The sequel

The prequel

The spin-offs

The reboot

The gritty reimagining

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The reason Animorphs works as a deconstruction of the kid hero archetype is that it comes at it from a place of respect for the genre, and for the children reading it.

It never denies the kids agency, because it is a book for children, who want to read about children being given agency. Animorphs doesn't treat its child soldiers as victims the way a story aimed at adults would. They are full agents within the story who make moral choices. The fact that they are children is treated as a tragedy, but it's not treated as something that absolves them of any responsibility.

It plays by the rules. These kids are the only people who can save the world. They cannot trust the adults in their lives. It just takes that story—the story it's telling—seriously.

The message of animorphs isn't actually of "isn't it fucked up that this book I read when I was a kid sent a twelve year old on an adventure" it just uses its take on the kid hero genre to get across the actual message, which is War Is Hell

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Destroy the myth that libraries are no longer relevant. If you use your library, please reblog.

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If you like the wellerman, try on this classic

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Emma of Normandy's silver gold dress in Vikings Valhalla Season 3

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I’m still thinking about that “is OSHA regulations Cop Behavior” post. Like. You know who thinks regulations are for losers? People who build submersibles out of logitech gamepads and rejected carbon fibre. People who trust starlink as their only surface lifeline.

Do you wanna be like the fine film on the floor of the Atlantic that was once a billionaire? Is that the hill you’re really gonna die on?

We have an expression in my field- “Regulations Are Written In Blood”

People don’t have fucking safety standards as a power trip, we have them because somewhere in the past, NOT having those regulations killed or maimed someone.

A lot of laws out there are bullshit- safety regulations sure as fuck aren’t. I have the literal scars to prove it.

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WSJ shoots at and misses Tim Walz

The Wall Street Journal wrote this thinking it was a criticism:

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Don't know how many times I've showed a non-Tumblr person a Tumblr post and had the whole thing derail because the poor soul actually read someone's user name.

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PUMPKINS HAVE HAD A MONOPOLY OVER FALL FOR FAR TOO LONG. WE MUST REMEMBER THE APPLE.

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(bad) Idea: Pronoun selections for multiple pronoun users where you have the ability to set relative rates of each pronoun. Like maybe like:

See you could set relative frequencies of each pronoun, and order them.

And yes I did mock this up using Visual Basic 6. That's just how my brain works.

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Wow. The patience, kindness and calm communication skills. Outstanding.

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