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*sniff sniff* Why is he so angry?

The ultimate lifeform vs shadow

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Today's Pride Month fundraiser is for my friend Letrune, because she is just a very nice lady and I think she deserves more money and support!

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Was browsing for references and found these fun stock photos. :) "Some days you just can't get rid of a bomb..."

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Blazing Saddles (Film Review)

After my last experience with a work of satire being a depressing disappointment (coughpostal2paradiselostcough), it was very nice to finally watch this classic film in full and see social satire done right!

Bart and Jim disguise themselves in some goofy KKK uniforms

The film centers around a black man named Bart, who starts the story as a downtrodden railway worker, having to deal with all sorts of abuse from the local racists. Eventually, though, a corrupt politician named Headly Lamarr decides to make Bart the town sheriff, expecting it to ruin the town so he can steal the land.

Bart and Jim's friendship is delightful!

Things to do initially go quite poorly for the Sheriff, as the town is full of racist idiots. But over time, things start to shape up for Bart - he befriends a nice fellow at his office named Jim (played by Gene Wilder!) and as the villainous Headly launches various schemes to take down the Sheriff, they all end up backfiring. First he sends a big fellow named Mongo whom the Sheriff outsmarts, and then he tries to get a lady named Lili to seduce and trick the Sheriff, but she only ends being super sweet on him instead!

Lili is super sweet on the Sheriff but doesn't get to see him for the rest of the movie after they meet. I hope she gets a happy ending of her own too, poor gal.

At his last straw, Headly decides to just go to war - he rounds up all kinds of unwholesome characters ranging from western outlaws to nazis, in hopes of having them destroy the town themselves. Thankfully, The Sheriff works together with both the townsfolk and the railway workers, and they defeat the army of baddies with some clever tricks!

In the movies final act, the 4th wall is obliterated and things descend into mayhem as characters run in and out of the film itself, wreaking havoc all over Warner Bros studios. When all the chaos is settled, we get to see a happy ending for the Sheriff and his pal Jim. Hooray!

Now, for folks not familiar with the films legacy, it is one of those classic comedies that shithead conservatives like to tout as something from "the good ol' days when things weren't so P.C. hurk a durk durk!" - seeming to completely miss the point that the satire of this film works because it is mocking people like themselves - stupid racist bigots. It's a good example of well-done satire that punches up, instead of punching down (or punching everyone). And that is why it's so fun! The humor also goes beyond satire and also includes a great mix of slapstick and absurdist humor as well, delivering lots of great laughs, especially every time the Sheriff outsmarts a baddie with his Loony Toons antics. :)

If you can handle all the slurs in the film (context matters, kids!), Blazing Saddles is a lot of fun and highly recommended! You can find dvd copies of it pretty easily as well as online downloads if you know where to look.

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Villager holding cat🐈

(Minecraft Villager and Tuxedo Cat)

The villager I met in One Block at a Time Update :22w13oneBlockAtATime snapshot, holding a cat was so cute…<3

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Another good lesson learned....

Please folks, clean the inside of your microwaves, or better yet, get a splatter guard to keep inside of them!

Our microwave had gotten so dirty and gone without cleaning so long the food gunk corroded the inside lining and the microwave started zapping itself!

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Today's Pride Month fundraiser is to help some local gals Move to Minneapolis!

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As I had gotten back into collecting some more wrestling games, I was inspired to make a set of wrestling themed music playlists, too! Spotify playlist is below and the soundcloud one is here.* *link was broken, but it's fixed now!

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You know, I constantly see raccoons and opossums included in trash gang but how come skunks hardly ever get included? they are objectively part of trash gang and yet? I see them very rarely given the same attention.

Anyways I love skunks I love them so much

Used to have one that would walk past my window at night and sometimes would wake me up bc he was such a stinker, I hope he's doing okay. Haven't smelled him in a while

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HELP SHIRA SURVIVE A TRANSMISOGYNIST ATTEMPTED MURDER

Shira is a Turkish trans woman who was the victim of attempted murder by a man on the street who realized she was transfemme. After he stabbed her, dozens of people walked by her on the sidewalk until a teenager stopped and helped her.

Shira is now in the hospital in critical condition. She’s undergone emergency surgery and will need multiple operations and long-term care to recover—physically and emotionally.

Shira has no close family nearby, is not accepted by public organizations in Turkey because she is trans, and she’s unable to work while she heals. Her friends are raising funds to cover her medical bills, therapy, and basic living expenses during this painful time.

As of me posting this, the fundraiser has €125 out of a €12k goal. If you can’t give anything to help a trans woman survive a horrific attack, please at least reblog this, set it on your queue, whatever you need to do to make sure others can see and help. Thank you.

https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-shira-recover-after-a-transphobic-attack

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Plenty of offline versions on the internet archive too! (though they may not work "right out of the box" like the web version)

I feel like it's important for everyone to know that you can still play the original kid pix, unchanged, for free on your browser. sometimes we do get to keep the wonderful things in our life.

kidpix.app go forth and create

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the possibilities are never ending

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and sometimes they still don't care...

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Very glad to see Vibrant Visuals go live! It seems to kill my frame rate on the computer - but thankfully we also have the game on Xbox One X and it seems to run nicely there. It's pretty but totally changes how to game feels so it will probably take me more time to get used to. One of my favorite aspects of it is the glowy torches and the water shaders that reflect lights. Very nice. :)

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we might not always have it in us to take direct action, but what we can do is...