Saphire Dance

I realize broad science-literacy problems cannot generally be solved just by shoving more facts at people but I really wish more people understood that the entire purpose and mechanism of a vaccine is to educate your OWN immune system, making it about the most "natural" medical intervention possible

A picture showing 2 spots in sand that go from dark to light using various shells and rocks.

A picture showing 2 spots in sand that go from dark to light using various shells and rocks.

A picture showing a spot in sand that go from dark to light using various shells and rocks.

A picture showing a spot in sand that go from dark to light using various shells and rocks.

“I need to use AI bc idk how to do art”
I just spent three hours on a beach practicing tone shifting with shells and rocks I dug out of the sand around me and some charcoal I found from a campfire. Put some effort into it.

The joy we felt when after hearing repeatedly to not expect anything sooner than 18 months when we were told they'd be rolling something out before the end of the year. The absolute testament to the power and ingenuity of the American system of science. Moon landing level stuff, and now erased.

Keanu was not great in that movie but director and star Kenneth Branagh didn't need him to be great in that movie, he needed him to be hot and occasionally shirtless in that movie, and Keanu delivered on that brief and then some

Image of a circle labeled "Proton", one about he same size labeld "Neutron", and other much smaller labeled "Electron", and a fourth even smaller labeled "Close-Ad-Button"

Something to keep in mind: payment processors "capitulate" to anti-porn activists so easily because they too have a lot of puritans in charge. Which is why it's important to keep up the pressure with calls - because only by making it clear that it'll cost them more to censor than not will they budge

Jim Lovell

Jim Lovell and Tom Hanks, who plays Jim Lovell in Apollo 13 (1995).

Jim Lovell and David Bowie in The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976)

Jim Lovell.

RIP Jim Lovell.

One of the first three astronauts to fly to and orbit the Moon in Apollo 8. Then he survived Apollo 13. . Prior, he flew on two Gemini missions (7 & 12).

He was 97.

☝️He played himself in The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976) and the captain of the USS Iwo Jima in Apollo 13 (1995).

Mastercard has reached the stage of desperately trying to gag people for saying bad things about them

WHAT WE'RE DOING IS WORKING

This means Mastercard in particular is actively afraid of people bringing up Riot's connection to them negatively.

I think people should raid Riot's official livestreams and start spamming things like:

"#SaveSpeech from Mastercard!"
"MASTERCARD HATES THIS --> (.)(.)"
"#stopkillinggames"

and more

Calling all Canadians especially québécoise that want to help the problem in the U.S. Here's your target.

new-old reaction image just dropped

I'm seeing less posts about the Visa and Mastercard situation and I want to make it plain as day. You need to keep calling and bothering them, and losing them money.

Because if we lose this, they are going to cut more and more from what's available until you can only buy what they approve of.

This all day.

When someone is like "yeah I will voluntarily give up privilege and experience the trauma of misogyny AND the trauma of trans misogyny all day every day on top of that"

My first thought isn't "no, mine" it's "damn, ok, you are my SISTER"

A comic of two foxes, one of whom is rosy pink, the other is a peach-colour baby. Rose is looking at Peach gently, while baby Peach looks back at her with full toddler defiance. Rose: Okay sweetie, could you please get in the car for me? Peach: No. Looking sick of the situation, Rose begins to forcibly drag Peach into the car as gently as she can, while Peach fights back, dragging on the ground. Rose: Can you please not act like you are getting kidnapped. Peach: This is an insult to my autonomy! Meanwhile, Blue and Green are sitting in Blue's car, watching the situation. Rose, off-panel: There are people waiting for this parking spot. Peach, also out of view: Death before dishonour! Blue: We should just find another spot. Green: No, I want to see who wins.

Today is an important anniversary

Little sunshine for my tl
I'm a bit under the weather today heh
#Ironleaguer #疾風アイアンリーガー #mecha

Not even in the top 500 most impeachable things that Trump has done in office, but I can't get over how he's defacing monuments to republican virtue in order to turn them into symbols of decadent personalism. Caligula-ass government.

And since I apparently haven't learned my lesson yet (lines also from those @caseywcoller.bsky.social shared a while back)

Two things:

1. Large language models like ChatGPT are statistically likely word generators; they don't have "expertise" in anything.

2. I have seen a team of PhD level experts fail to assemble a dresser from IKEA.

😂🤣😂

I think it needs to be pointed out as well that Visa is clearly losing money off these calls clogging their systems and still thought it was worth the money to re-train their employees/contractors. They're not scared enough to drop the issue altogether, people need to keep calling and snail-mailing.

"I'm just saying," the first witch said. "A cat familiar is more traditional."

"Or a raven," the second witch said. "Where did she even get a dragon from, anyway?"

"She tamed it. In her last job," the third witch said.

"What job was that?"

"Princess."

"Oh. Well. No wonder she changed careers."

LEGALIZE INDIGENOUS DANCES YOU FUCKING COWARDS.

Also: 🖕🏼🧊

"The horrors persist but so do the little treats" meme of a skeleton with a slushie

To whoever made this meme, know that you have a kindred spirit in me.

oh goddaaaaaaamn

23 Days: 7 suspected cases of tuberculosis at Tacoma ICE detention facility housing former Anchorage jail detainees Alaska’s Department of Corrections is now facing accusations that Immigration and Customs Enforcement detainees were exposed to tuberculosis this summer during their 23-day stay at the Anchorage Correctional Complex.

Alaska’s Department of Corrections is now facing accusations that ICE detainees were exposed to tuberculosis this summer during their 23-day stay at the Anchorage jail.

there's an episode of The Simpsons where Marge tries to get a violent cartoon pulled from the airwaves, only to discover that the people backing her aren't going to stop at just the art that *she* doesn't like, and that supporting artistic freedom means accepting discomfort.

It aired in 1990.

when the fic hasn’t been updated in months (i’m the author)