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while being depressing, this is also sort of fascinating to me bc there’s something so…inauthentic here. what i mean is that if you saw something like this back in say 2001 (which you probably wouldn’t, at least for carl’s jr. but i digress) it would seem tacky but in a “sex sells” sort of way.

seeing this in 2025, it’s clearly purely a political statement and you can tell partially bc the image itself is so oddly sexless. it’s like there’s more titillation in the prospect of “owning the libs” than in the image of the scantily clad blonde white woman itself.

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Photographers all know about polarizing filters. They remove reflections off the surfaces of objects. We use them to see into water or windows that are obscured by those reflections. But anything with an even slightly glossy surface has a layer of reflection on top. So if you have a shiny green plant, it can remove the shiny and reveal a very saturated green underneath. Polarizers also remove a lot of scattered and reflected light from the sky. Which reveals a deep blue color you didn't even know was there.

Here is a photo I took of my circular polarizer.

And the first thing I noticed when walking outside during the eclipse was the color of everything was more saturated, just like in that circle. Apparently, an eclipse significantly reduces polarized light and I got this creepy feeling because I was only ever used to seeing the world like that through the viewfinder of my camera.

The other thing I noticed was my outdoor lights. I leave them on all the time because I never remember to turn them on at night. And usually the sun will render them barely visible during the day. On a very sunny day they almost look like they are off.

But you can clearly see they are shining and even flaring the camera during the eclipse.

Our eyes adjust to lighting changes very well so it was hard to tell how much dimmer things were, but that is a good indication. I took this photo a few minutes ago and you can see how dim the lights appear after the moon has fucked off.

I did a calculation using the exposure settings between these two photos. The non-eclipse photo has 7 f-stops more light. That is 128 times or 12,700% more light.

A partial Pringle eclipse cut the sun's light by 99.2% and somehow our eyes adjusted to make it seem like a normal sunny day (with weird ass saturated colors).

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reddit but in the pokemon universe, part 3 [1, 2]

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I’m convinced if ppl on this site knew how crappy gifs look before you color them properly, they would appreciate editors more

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Y'know, if a formerly well-behaved straight A student suddenly starts almost not passing their classes and crying all the time and getting into trouble, maybe the default conclusion from every authority figure should not be that they are lazy and simply need to pull themselves together. Maybe instead you should give them stimulants or HRT or let them kill their parents and see if one of those three things resolves the issue.

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there is no magic "the new generation will be more progressive as the old one dies" btw history has only had things get better because of people who didn't act like it was inevitable and acted like things needed to get better here and now and that will always be true

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stone cold facts

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I just looked this far into what this even is and, oh, ok, I can’t be allowed any closer to this thing or I won’t think about literally anything else for a week

well I accidentally got sucked into reading multiple chapters of An Unauthorized Fan Treatise. I am Compelled

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ADHD pro tip: Use psychological warfare on yourself.

For example, in order to do long tasks, like folding laundry, I put on the Mario Hat:

The main feature of the Mario hat is that my headset does not fit over it, so when The Bees™ try to put me back in front of the screen, the headset issue forces me to remember why I put the Mario hat on, and back to the task I go

As a bonus, the Mario hat is also a very clear indicator to my housemates that business is getting done, and they have learned not to distract me when I'm wearing the "goofy-ass cosplay hat"

It's not stupid if it works.

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i feel p strongly that steve rogers still thinks of himself as skinny

like, he knows he’s big and tall and strong, he’s got mirrors, but i think when he dreams he’s skinny, in the same way you can be 45 years old and dream you’re late for school

steve’s been big for– what, 5 years now? he was skinny for 25 years before that– i think in his head he thinks of himself as skinny, and in his head this all still feels pretty temporary. his body is just a thing like tony’s iron man suit or bruce’s hulk form, except that he can’t take it off; he has a big body, but he is a skinny person

because this was something he did for the war, wasn’t it? he wanted to fight the war, so he volunteered to turn his body into a weapon. and if his body is still big and strong, then the war can’t be over, so he has to keep fighting, and he still needs this big strong body to fight it

but i think somewhere in the back of his mind there’s this quiet unconscious assumption– someday the war is going to end, and i’ll go back to normal again, and i’ll go home

because every other soldier saw 1945. every other soldier saw the end of the war. that’s what fighting in a war means, is that when the war is over, and they don’t need you any more, you go home

so steve rogers is always going to be skinny, i think, in his dreams, in the same way he’s always going to be a kid from brooklyn, and bucky barnes’ best friend, and an artist. he’s doing this other stuff, yeah, but he’s just waiting until the war is over, and then they’ll send him home again

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My family has started calling my cat "the beast" which is very funny considering she's a 19yo arthritic old lady who needs help up and down the stairs. Not to mention she doesn't really meow any more, just sits and stares at you, and im the only one who can reliably guess what she wants, so my parents are constantly messaging me "The beast awakens... I know not what she desires 😥😥" i feel like the chosen prophet of an eldritch god

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I kiiiinda want to go read Animorphs from the beginning but I’m not sure I actually want to read *every* alien-of-the-week book. Is there, like, an abridged list of Animorphs books somewhere for getting the main arc/the highlights?

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I can't be the first to make this connection

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whenever a kid is signing up for a library card and they and their parent have good silly vibes i like to treat it like a knighting ceremony. i'm like "jacob, child of hannah, i bestow unto you this card of great freedom and power. are you prepared to take on the literary responsibility of your very own library card? i believe you are." and it always makes them laugh and feel very important it's so much fun. like yeah we do a little improv at the library we do some bits

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This website is elite. This website is the blueprint, it's the pinnacle. There is no website like it. I lwill never leave this website

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