dont you think its weird. dont you think its weird that the space race last time was two of the biggest powers in the world. and now its a handful of rich men. dont you think its weird they can afford that. dont you think its bad that rich men can afford the same things as the government.
dont you think its weird that while the world is suffering and poverty is everywhere, where there’s wars and climate change and human pain and homelessness. the same month I’ve watched people die on the news from unbearable heat and unprecedented flooding. that a rich handful of men are going to space, causing more carbon emissions. dont you think its weird that instead of putting their vast amount of money to use for good they’re using it to find a way off the planet theyre destroying.
“C'mon Olympians it’s bedtime, time to go to your anti fuck beds!”
wtf is the “weight of one person”?
they’re acting like some of the athletes aren’t 95lbs and others 300lbs+
Yeah, you bring a good point. I know weighlifters and other fat athletes get treated like shit on the daily, but this is excessive
this is completely fake btw. these beds are intended to be recyclable and can hold up to 440lbs/200kg. there are no reputable outlets reporting on this “anti-sex” beds and the only ones that do are citing the tweet above. here’s another article disproving it like yes fat athletes get treated like shit and it’s important we talk about it but this whole anti sex bed thing is 100% untrue lol
I am in borderline tears that the anti fuck beds are fake. This was supposed to be the highlight of my July
U know when avatar does that thing where it flashes back to a childhood memory of a character and then focuses on their face and fades back in on them at the same angle but older and changed……. gets me every time
EXACTLY!!!!!!!!
Thank you all for successfully breaking my heart!!!! Well done everyone if anyone needs me I’ll be off Coping with this collection of images
big oof.
Excuse me @aucatgirl but how am I supposed to deal with these tags 😭
“C'mon Olympians it’s bedtime, time to go to your anti fuck beds!”
Between this and the decision not to offer condoms, it’s fascinating to see how the American Christian Right has managed to convince the world to ignore statistics and believe that you can actually get people to be abstinent by withholding supplies.
Hopefully no one throws out their back or cracks their head open in the shower.
Lol like the most physically gifted people in the world dont know how to have sex against a wall.
mayhap they will even discover a radical new solution called “putting the mattress on the floor and fucking with condoms they bought themselves”
“-it breaks in any sudden movement” The sex thing aside, isn’t it rather dumb to risk that your athletes aren’t going to be as well-rested as possible the nights before their competitions because, say, they turned over in the middle of the night too fast and were woken up by their bed falling apart? Or couldn’t fall asleep in the first place because of a lingering concern about that very thing?
I probably worked too long on this but wanted to contribute something to the small natm fandom with my one of my favorite ships ever since the movies came out. I like to think Octavius is shy at first when he starts realizing his feelings for Jedediah, but as soon he finds out that Jed might feel the same he can’t help teasing and flirting with him. I also feel like Jedediah is not use to being in love and given romantic attention so he gets easily flustered. Oof I love these two so much.
the one thing thing funnier than this caption is that the only reason they stopped doing it was that the ferret shit in the tube
That photo makes Felicia’s work seem much more recent than it is. Here’s a picture of the world’s smallest particle physicist herself.
They didn’t stop because she shit in the tube - she had a diaper on because they knew poop would obstruct the particles as well. She eventually stopped running through the tubes because they became too long for her. At that point she was retired and became a pet!
I love her
working weasel
One of my favorite animal scientists
right up there with that Siamese cat that co-authored all those papers
Friendly reminder that GIMP does pretty much everything Photoshop does, and it’s 100% free. Fuck DRM and the license culture, we have plenty of open source options available to us as a consumer.
Lightworks is a freeware video editor on par with Premiere
Blender is an excellent freeware 3D renderer,possibly better than After Effects
Audacity to replace Audition (I also received a free version of Pro Tools with my Scarlett Solo audio interface)
If Adobe is going to be greedy shitheads, then fuck ‘em. Don’t use their stuff. Freeware can be just as good, if not better, than Adobe CC.
reblog to save a digital arts major
Reblog to save an artist.
oh jEEZ
I will keep saying this: GIMP sucks butts.
- Medibang Paint and Fire Alpaca for more cartoon style illustration
- Krita for painting
- Clip Studio Paint (not free, but often on sale and cheap even at full price) is better than PS for art and I’m about to cut adobe entirely. Even does some photo editing.
- Paint Tool SAI (again, not free but cheap) old but good, there’s a ton of hacked copies around too. Not hard to get for free.
- Open Tunez for animation.
I’m currently using Affinity Photo and it’s a great Photoshop alternative. One time fee only and it’s not really expensive, plus supports PSD formats. Free trial available too!
Davinci Resolve for video editing is amazing as well! :)
Another great art program to include in the list is the completely free, no download, browser recreation of photoshop, Photopea! It has the potential/customizability to be as robust as a full copy of photoshop while also being perfectly accessible to anyone looking to just do some quick edits with no strings attached.
anyway shout out to transhet men and transhet people in general. you’re amazing and you didn’t “betray” anyone or “abandon” anyone or “become the enemy” - you deserve love, respect, and happiness
Trans men have been demonized completely by the very community that’s sposed to protect an love them.
It’s unfortunate. I genuinely think they’re joking and don’t realise how much some people actually believe that shit and how it actually changes how trans folks view themselves.
I actually don’t really think they’re joking. I think that a lot of people in the queer community don’t realize how much the political lesbian/radfem simplistic view of “men bad” has infected the community as a whole.
You see it in the “my sexuality is every girl and precisely one man” which is hugely widespread in the way m-spec women discuss their sexualities. (Which is not to say that a lot of women don’t feel that way, just that when I’ve pointed this out to my friends, and how shitty it made me and other transmascs/men feel, a bunch of them went ‘oh shit, you’re right.’) You see it in how m-spec women are made to feel like they should apologize for being attracted to or involved with men/mascs, and how lesbian/sapphic/queer spaces eject – sometimes violently – m-spec women in “straight-passing” relationships. (This also happens to m-spec mascs/men, but not so loudly, and in a different way.)
You see it in the long and storied way that transmascs and trans men have been treated in our community. This isn’t the first time that trans men have been told they are 'giving up womanhood’ and how dare they. There’s a scene in The L Word, a show that ended 12 years ago, which has a character literally saying that to a trans man, that he’s 'giving up the most beautiful thing’ by transitioning, and that thing is 'being a woman.’
This isn’t a new message, that men are the enemy, and that anyone who voluntarily chooses masculinity or manhood (whatever form of masculinity or manhood they choose) is a gender traitor, “joining the enemy,” deluded, attempting to “opt out” of misogyny, or any number of other loathsome ideas. This spills over into the idea that transmascs/men have “aligned interests” with TERFs, that we don’t actually face societal transphobia, that we aren’t targeted by institutional transphobia in any way, that we’re 'collateral damage’ of the “real” transphobia that transfems face, that we magically just gain male privilege the moment we start transitioning, that we’re never targeted by misogyny, that we don’t face physical violence, that we’ve “joined the oppressors” and are somehow capable as a class of being the oppressors of transfems rather than simply another oppressed class (which is its own topic that deserves like, a whole-ass essay, but whatever) that transmisandry isn’t a “real” thing and transmascs don’t face any sort of specific-to-us discrimination or issues… and all of those ideas damage our ability as a community to discuss and ameliorate these sometimes-fatal and always-damaging ideas.
Hell, to listen to people within the community talk, you wouldn’t think that JK Rowling’s horrible essay didn’t spend a huge chunk of time misgendering and gaslighting transmascs, or that one of the big “bibles” of TERFery (Ab*gail Shrier’s 'Irreversible Damage’) wasn’t targeted very specifically, fucking laser-focused, on transmascs, including non-binary transmascs. And this all spills out from the idea that we don’t face any 'real’ oppression because we’ve 'joined the majority/oppressors,’ and “men are bad,” which is such base-level 1970s retro radfem nonsense.
And honestly, at the end of the day? It doesn’t matter if it’s a joke, and I’m pretty displeased with “oh they don’t understand that it’s serious and they think it’s just a joke.” These sorts of “jokes”, levied at transmasc people, aren’t okay. Maybe if it’s just you and your buds who have given each other permission to shit-talk each other, and you know each other and have personal context with one another, sure. But in this sort of open, parasocial context where you have people who don’t know these two transhets, it is always damaging, and saying “gosh I think they just think it’s a joke” does the opposite of excusing it.
This lateral aggression shit is terrible and damaging to lots of people – I honestly think there’s no segment of the queer community that this doesn’t directly damage, and we should challenge it whenever we see it, not make excuses or permission for it in the slightest way.
I’m big dumb, but you see it on any type of positivity post for men. People responding to “men are pretty and handsome” with don’t you mean women and things far less kind. Even posts about “how loving men is good actually”!?! As if homophobia is suddenly cute?
No that’s truly a fact and it’s ugly. People should knock it the fuck off.
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Since its installation Mr. Trash Wheel has intercepted over 3 million pounds of trash, making the harbor not only cleaner and more beautiful, but also a nicer home for local wildlife as well as waterfront businesses. Four different wheels now sit in Baltimore’s rivers, and soon more will be helping clean other cities across the globe.
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“If you go to MrTrashWheel.com you can actually download a spreadsheet of every dumpster we’ve pulled out of the harbor over the past seven years, with an estimate of different types of trash that was in that dumpster,” Lindquist said. “We know that we’ve pulled out over a million styrofoam containers from the harbor, and that’s the sort of information, data and photos that we share with our elected officials to let them know just how big of a problem this is.”
They’re also hungry, with a reputation for being able to gobble up larger pieces of trash, including a guitar, a full-size beer keg and on one occasion a ball python who escaped from its owner and made a home for itself on the warm battery casing of one of the Trash Wheels. Because the Trash Wheels don’t harm animals, they’ve become a kind of refuge for creatures seeking a safe place to nest. A mother duck once laid its eggs under the conveyor belt, and fish enjoy the oxygenated water that’s created as the wheel turns in the river during the summer.”
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If you’re a city leader or official, you can adopt your own Trash Wheel at MrTrashWheel.com.
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ALRIGHT EVERYBODY TIME TO CONTACT YOUR LOCAL OFFICIALS
