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Absolute Bizzaro

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Absolute Superman!

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Outfit swap - Reborn Suit

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Inspiring hope to others.

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This is the funniest tweet I’ve ever seen.

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these are my 16 kids, pawn, pawn, pawn, pawn, pawn, pawn, pawn, pawn, rook, knight, bishop, queen, king, bishop, knight, and rook

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In Yoshi's Island, the Sluggy the Unshaven boss in World 5-4 has a weak point, a visible heart, that is protected by his gelatinous body. Normally, Yoshi must shoot several eggs at the body to create an increasingly deep dent in it to reach the heart.

However, there is an oversight in the code whereby the heart's hitbox has a greater active distance than the gelatinous substance surrounding it. As such, by very carefully timing egg shots and running back and forth so that the body is out of frame when the egg would be touching it, but barely in frame when it would reach the heart, the egg will bypass the body and only hit the heart.

Main Blog | Patreon | Twitter | Bluesky | Small Findings | Source: Brooklyn9d5

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Absolute Martian Manhunter #2

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Absolute Martian Manhunter #2 (2025)

written by Deniz Camp art by Javier Rodriguez

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Reblog to give a trans person a fresh and perfectly ripe mango wait huh

It's the wikipedia image??? How big could it be

What

Huh???

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I know it's been a while since Elemental came out but I really love the Movie and Firish, I even came up with a word for it! which is Light! Fshâi - Fu-sha-a-i. I couldn't find the word anywhere which is surprising to me given Firish is all about Fire. So I was curious about what Light was from you guys! I'm also curious about a few other words like Wood, Strong, Wind, Air, Stone / Rock those kind of words.

The word for "light" is tìsh—and it's kind of an important one, since tìshók' derives from it. You can find that entry (and more) here:

I've recently started getting the Ts'íts'àsh stuff in there, so there's a good chunk of vocab. I also added the writing system there, so you can see how things are spelled.

Incidentally, I know there are a number of Ts'íts'àsh asks in my inbox. I'll get there. Somehow I always get there. Like a turtle on holiday.

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Big day for trans people tomorrow

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something about that one narrow staircase in Spadina station is deeply haunting to me, what do we think?

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If you’re wondering what the whole drama regarding tieflings is in the Dungeons & Dragons fandom: basically, capitalism ruined tieflings, and for once that’s not even slightly a joke.

Tieflings were first introduced as a playable species in Dungeons & Dragons 2nd Edition, via the Planescape campaign in 1994. At the time, there were no particular rules regarding what a tiefling was supposed to look like. The text explicitly stated that their basic physiology could vary wildly depending on what their fiendish ancestor was, and one of the first major Planescape supplements even included a table for randomly generating your tiefling’s appearance, if you were into that sort of thing.

This continued to be the case up through the game’s Third Edition. However, when the Fourth Edition rolled around in 2008, the game’s text suddenly became very particular about insisting that all tieflings looked pretty much the same. Some campaign settings even provided iin-character explanations for why all tieflings now had a standardised appearance. Understandably, this made a lot of people very annoyed.

There was naturally a great deal of speculation concerning what had motivated this change. It was widely cited as “proof” that Dungeons & Dragons was trying to appeal to the World of Warcraft fanbase – which was nonsense, of course; nearly all of the Fourth Edition’s allegedly MMO-like features were things that popular MMOs had borrowed from Dungeons & Dragons in the first place, and to the extent that tieflings’ new look resembled a particular WoW race, it was in that they were both extraordinarily generic.

In reality, it was a change that had been lurking for some time. Though Dungeons & Dragons is directly published by Wizards of the Coast, Wizards of the Coast is in turn owned by Hasbro, and Hasbro has long regarded the D&D core rulebooks as a vehicle for promoting D&D-branded merch – in particular, licensed miniature figures.

This was a bugbear that had reared its head before. When the Third Edition received major revisions in 2003, Hasbro corporate had ordered the game’s editors to completely remove any discussion of how to improvise minifigs for large battles, and replace it with an advertisement for the then-current Dungeons & Dragons Heroes product line. Implying that purchasing licensed minis wasn’t 100% mandatory simply would not do.

If you’ve gotten this far, you’ve probably already guessed where this is going: tieflings having no standard appearance made it difficult to sell tiefling minifigs, as any given minifig design would only be suitable for a small subset of tiefling characters. In the brutally reductive logic of the corporate mind, Hasbro reasoned: well, if we tell tiefling players that all of their characters now look the same, we can sell them all the same minifigs. So that’s what the game did, going so far as to write justifications into several published settings for magically transforming all existing tiefling characters to fit the new mould!

This worked about as well as anyone who isn’t a corporate drone would naturally anticipate – and that’s the story of how capitalism ruined tieflings.

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"Booker began speaking on the Senate floor at 7 p.m. Monday evening to protest President Donald Trump's policies.

At 7:19 p.m. on Tuesday, Booker broke Thurmond's record of 24 hours and 18 minutes, which he made while speaking against the Civil Rights Act of 1957, the first major civil rights bill since Reconstruction."

"Booker said that he decided to undertake the marathon speech because Democrats have a "responsibility" to "do something different" in the face of the unprecedented changes taking place in the first few months of Trump's second term as president.

"I've been hearing from people all over my state and indeed all over the nation calling upon folks in Congress to do more," Booker said in a video posted to X before taking to the floor. "To do things that recognize the urgency, the crisis of the moment."

Booker said he plans to speak for as long as he is "physically able to." He cannot sit or leave the Senate floor for a bathroom break; otherwise, he would lose his right to hold the floor. If he doesn't leave or sit down, no senator can stop him."

USA Today

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Senator Cory Booker (D-New Jersey) has been holding the floor in the Senate for 18 hours now, speaking about Trump, Musk, and DOGE and the negative impacts they have and will continue to have.

This is not technically a filibuster, as it's not in opposition to any specific legislation, but it follows basically the same rules: he is not allowed to sit, not allowed to leave the floor, and not allowed to stop talking unless someone asks him a question (he cannot sit even during questioning). (Side note, yes, filibuster rules are super ableist; no, I don't know what would happen on the sitting rule if the Senator was in a wheelchair.)

Many times when the filibuster (which I will call it for simplicity's sake) is used, the Senator will resort to reading from the phone book, or potentially some piece of literature - while 1984 might be appropriate, Senator Booker has remained on topic for almost the entire speech (a few light-hearted exchanges when asked questions as the only exceptions). He has read parts of letters from constituents, as well as elaborated on his own thoughts on several issues.

I know some people are probably reading this and asking in disgust why he doesn't *do something* instead of just talking. The answer is that this is one of the few things he, as a member of the minority party which has proven willing to roll over and pass Republican spending bills, this is one of the strongest things he can do in the Senate building.

He can't be removed from the floor as long as he doesn't sit (he had an aide remove his chair to remove temptation), stop talking (he is allowed to be quiet while questions are being asked), or yield the floor on his own. While he continues, no other business can come before the senate.

Obviously, he can't continue forever. The longest filibuster on record in the US is just over 24 hours (courtesy of noted racist Strom Thurmond, protesting the Civil Rights Act). Once he's done, business will continue. But it's the legislative equivalent of a lunch counter sit-in, and it's the most spine a Senator has shown this administration. (Most spine by a legislator in this administration is still held by Representative Al Green (D-Texas), who had to be removed during Trump's address to Congress a month ago.)