Milly

Today is Holi! Here's my thread on the story of the holiday. May your faith remain strong and bring you triumph over injustice!

A photo of the Green Chemical Futures building

Reminds me of the Green Chemical Futures building at Monash

That helps me a lot, at least!

My eyesight isn't 20/20 even when corrected, and I did think it was called The M_chine for a while. It took looking at the full cover at a bigger size that I could see "lucky".

Every Metal Gear Solid game I play unlocks a swathe of internet jokes I never understood before, some I didn't even recognize as referential humour!

Putting ChatGPT in charge of US military actions does feel a little too far for a reference though.

Yo a METEORITE just burned up over Vancouver!!! I heard the windows shake while I was chatting with @shivambhatt.bsky.social and thought it was just the neighbours slamming a door above me, but it was the sonic boom from the bolide!!! That's so cool!!!

“If [wealthy, powerful people] can get us to accept that the future’s already settled, AI is already here, the end is already here, then we will create that for them. My most daring idea is to refuse.” — @tressiemcphd.bsky.social

It's a tearjerker but Red Dog is an amazing Australian film. I love Strictly Ballroom too, that's a 1992 one!

Read this whole thread up and down. Delilah explains the damage and hazards of Orientalism so well.

FFXIV continually steps on this rake, and they aren't the only game to do so.

Orientalism assumes that “the Orient” (North Africa, the Arabian Gulf, South Asia, Türkiye, and sometimes even SEA and East Asia) are all one big (ignorant) blob. It stems from Eurocentrism and colonialism.

It waters down dozens of cultures by reducing them to vague similarities.

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The best way to learn how to honour a culture is to learn about it first. Learn about its people, their traits and habits, humanise them and respect them. Even with incorporating fantasy elements, you’ll find that each culture is rich in folklore and mythology to draw inspiration from. 🩷

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An image (source unknown) depicting the various types of Palestinian dress by region. Top, left to right: Bi’r as-sabaa, Gaza, Ramallah, Nablus Bottom, left to right: Al-Quds, Bethlehem, Al-Khalil, Yaffa

An image by Assas depicting the various types of Saudi Arabian regional dresses. Top, left to right: The Southern Region, The Eastern Region, The Central Region Bottom, left to right: The Western Region, The Western Region (again), The Central Region, the Northern Region

Take, for example, these images. The details of each one are in the alt text, but the main point is that each country has its own countless subcultures. Ignoring these distinctions inherently communicates that they’re not worth learning about because the “Orient” is inferior.

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holding the impossibly nuanced position that an imperialist war against a country is still bad even if its government is bad

Oh no... I need to finish buying some physical copies before this crashes and burns. Sigh.

Feeling so proud of being energetic and productive all weekend, until I sit down and utterly crash into an unplanned nap

Not the result I wanted but it was fantastic to watch, really physical too!

The golden eyes take a faceoff at home ice

C'mon, tie it up Goldeneyes!!!! Let's go!!!!!

nobody asked for this game but I'm making it anyway 👍🚄

Mel Medarda and Sevika in fantasy styled clothes in a parody of "reincarnated into villainess" webtoon covers

Comic of Mel Medarda in the modern AU transmigrating into the fantasy book she's reading based off Arcane as a villainess. She decides to take matters into her own hands to resolve the plot and ends up finding Sevika in Madam Babette's pleasure house

“I reincarnated into the villainess” power fantasy webtoons but I make it #melvika

I don't care about TMNT and this set made me realize aesthetic appeal contributes more to my enjoyment of a magic set than I may have previously assumed.

Maybe some complaints are overstated but social media doesn't affect sales as much as we pretend, and sales are down. Apathy isn't forced.

Marathon, Reprise I’d been feeling all kinds of uneasy ahead of the currently-ongoing Stress Test for Marathon (2026), in that I had such a potently bad experience last couple...

I wrote about Marathon (2026) again, trying to figure out why it pushed me to tears.

blog.aurahack.ca/marathon-rep...

"How can you oppose war when Khamenei was evil?"

Simple. If you killed Donald Trump by nuking Washington DC, I would not mourn Trump but I'd still say you're an evil war criminal who belongs in the Hague. It's really not hard.

the voices won

I admit I'm skipping out on this one, it's partially that TMNT isn't a franchise I have interest in, but it's primarily that it's so soon after Lorwyn that I'm not ready to spend money on Magic again yet. If they keep releasing at this cadence, I'm only going to play every second set UB or not UB.

pombon in the style of Pom gets Wi-fi

Browt eyebrow meme where it slams its face into the table where the leaves perfectly align to its brows , idk the origin of it

#fanart #pokemon

sorry had some shitposts ideas too

drawing of a browt from pokemon, but it's an ugly falcon chick

welcome to the world, my scrungly son

Since I didn’t see this until today. For anyone that missed Scott’s drawing or didn’t win and want another shot I’ll add five sets of the 15 count pens to another round of drawings. Trans alterists or inspiring alterists reply here with what you want to alter and I’ll pick five winners on Monday.

David introduced me to the Resident Evil games, and so I will not play the new one until we can play it together

But I am so exciiiiiteeeeed I don't even want to go to ECCC, I just want to play RE9 🤩

But also I'm debuting a new cosplay at ECCC so that's hype too

Sorry I could not deliver something better but here they are, the three starters! #pokemon

The banjo giveth and the banjo pusheth away