netherworldpost:

alleecatblues:

doubleca5t:

killrockstar:

tiktok porn is so so funny.

why even try at this point

Imo the funniest part about tiktok is that despite how ridiculous and pervasive the censorship is, there’s no evidence that any of it actually works. People get videos with allegedly suppressed words to go viral all the time. The Washington Post’s social media team even did an experiment where they tried to get a video suppressed or banned by saying as many “bad” words in it as possible only for it to become their most popular video by a wide margin. Hell, the only tiktok to crack a million views on my account is also one of my most profane, and some of my other most popular vids are jokes about BDSM with no censorship.

The practice of self-censorship was developed because people saw that their videos were flopping and assumed it was because they were getting shadowbanned for mature content rather than accept the reality that The Algorithm is random and unpredictable.

That entire app has made it standard practice to use Orwellian newspeak euphemisms for everything for literally no material reason. It’s like the online equivalent of every desk fan in south korea coming with a timer because a huge swath of the population there believes with no evidence that you can asphyxiate if you sleep in a room with a fan running overnight.

A similar phenomenon happened on Twitter. People straight up believe they can’t say words like “commission” or “fundraiser” or “auction” or else the algorithm will hide their posts from people, but the fact is people just tend to interact less with posts asking for money or advertising a product. Despite several tweets debunking it, I still see people still to this day censoring the word commission because they think it will help more people see their posts.

Mythology is not an ancient rock but an ongoing, unceasing river in the bloodstream of all humanity. Ignore the presence and flow at your own destruction.

wizardlyghost:

natalieironside:

natalieironside:

Writing pro tip: If you can’t figure out how a section of your story is supposed to go, just include a frame narrative about how you’re actually translating a Medieval manuscript and write a translator’s note explaining that that section of the manuscript was damaged

It’s not a “plot hole” it’s a lacuna

the dog ate my manuscript

aplpaca:

I got a fish book from the library and I just think everyone should know that archerfish aka the guys that spit jets of water at bugs to knock them off plants and eat them aka these guys-

-are a social species (like a lot of fish), and that the jet spitting is actually a learned behavior rather than one they just do instinctually. They have to watch older members of their social groups do it a bunch of times (like up to thousands) before they’re able to successfully do it themselves. If you take a young one and isolate it from its species, they just never get good at it (they also catch prey like “normal” fish tho, so an archerfish that can’t archer won’t starve just bc of that)

When they do learn to do it tho, they can compensate for light refraction, vary how much water they spit based on the size of the insect they’re aiming for, and will learn to shoot insects that are midflight by spitting in the bug’s flight path rather than where the bug actually is

oleskellybones:

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grandadtwelve:

hey so I’m sorry to break it to you but your girlfriend… well she kind of ripped open your time-space machine and looked into the time vortex…. yeah…. she’s kind of an almighty deity of unlimited power now… yeah she’s playing with life and death… it’s kinda… hot actually… like I wish my girlfriend was an almighty deity of unlimited power…. lol…. so like…. are you guys in a committed monogamous relationship? or….

thecrownedgoddess:

The Palestinian Ministry of Health released a full report with names, ages and IDs of those who were killed – maybe at least in part as a fuck you to Western media and the US president who suddenly cast doubt on the number of fatalities. Over 7000 people died. Whole families wiped out forever. It’s beyond comprehension. May their memory be eternal.

thehelplessmortals:

We had a history club event tonight where we painted pumpkins and I saw an opportunity I couldn’t waste

Little guy is generic warrior. I will call him Πέτρος and I love him. I freehanded him with a fine tip sharpie. He is my child.

Also the solid black got scraped on the way home so I need to repair him but he’s sitting on my dorm bookshelf looking like some fancy antique but he’s a pumpkin

nativenews:

A genocide researcher who is also a genocide survivor is rejected for job because of her evidence-based posts on an ongoing genocide.

zoethebitch:

Biden says he has 'no confidence' in Palestinian death count

U.S. President Joe Biden said on Wednesday he has "no confidence in the number that the Palestinians are using" for the death toll in the Ha

Reuters

the Palestinian Ministry of Health has released the names of every casualty in response to this. there’s 150 pages full of names and ID numbers and ages and then they list just the children that have been killed and there’s 50 more pages of only the children’s names.

siphersaysstuff:

marlynnofmany:

sodorz:

thinking abt how fucked up steam engine boiler explosions can look. theyre just pipes under there

gives me the idea of a ghost/monster engine that looks normal, albeit a bit battered, only to swing their smokebox door open and a myriad of pipes come bursting out like fucked up tentacles

I didn’t know a train could be an eldritch horror, but here we are.

The Call of C'thchoochoo.

zooophagous:

Theres a fuckin duende in my house

sanguchito:

iamnotlanuk:

French tips? umm I don’t take advice from the French. frosted tips? whatever you say Tony I mean Mr. the tiger

advancedtreelover:

iamalivenow:

Creeeeedit… It’s Grupa MoCarta, Polish comedy/cabaret string quartett

greatcheshire:

greatcheshire:

You should never forget literally the best line in all of video games

Too many people in the reblogs saying this has to be fake. I need you to know this is absolutely 100% real and in the game and it’s not even the craziest thing in Metal Gear Solid 2