It's fine to disagree with the IAU about the definition of "planet"; however, if your definition includes Pluto but not Ceres, Orcus, Haumea, Quaoar, Makemake, Gonggong, Eris or Sedna, you don't actually care what a planet is â you just want the exact list of nine planets you learned in primary school back. Your cute little Pluto-including orbital distance mnemonic ought to be at least seventeen words long, and good fucking luck with the Q!
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i love how weird kids are. they make up the most bizarre stuff when left to their own devices and it's never what an adult would naively predict a kid would do in their imaginative play
my friend's 5 year old recently got a toy veterinary medicine set - it's super cool, like one of those mini play kitchens a lot of kids have, but it's set up to pretend to be a vet (it's this thing) - it has stuffed animals and things to weigh them, give them medicine, take x-rays, write on their charts, etc.
so this kid, who is five and to my knowledge has no experience in the administrative bureaucracy of modern healthcare, puts a stuffed pig named Piggy on the exam table. she pretends to draw blood from Piggy using a fake syringe, and the blood goes into a toy test tube vial that she calls "the resulter"
i'm playing with her, right, so i'm like, awesome, what are the results of Piggy's blood test? and she says "we have to send it to the scientists." so we send the vial to the scientists (put it in her bedroom) and when we get back to the vet playset i'm like awesome what did the scientists say? and she says they have not gotten back to us yet
so she rolls her eyes, exasperated, and says we have to call the scientists. she pretends to call them. apparently, they tell her that Piggy's blood test is "at the bottom of the list" and "we have to WAIT." she frowns. we wait a bit longer and call them back. they tell us it will be a while! she says we should go ask the scientists in person so we go back to her bedroom and she inquires at this imaginary lab, at which point the scientists yell at her and tell her now they will make us wait even longer!
keep in mind she is 100% directing this play. she is making all this up. she is fully in control of this game, and she has decided that what we are going to pretend is that we are dealing with this exhausting nonsense, not actually treating Piggy.
finally the blood tests come back. they are inconclusive. the scientists do not know what is wrong with Piggy. the little girl walks back to the stuffed pig on the exam table, sighs deeply, and says in a very serious voice "we can never help you."
i'm obsessed with this kid. when given complete control over a make believe scenario, instead of becoming the heroic rescuer administering effective cures, she is instead a beleaguered vet making multiple calls to an overworked lab only to be left unable to help her patient.
I used to watch a toddler and this one time she decided that my arm stretched across a doorway was a magic portal to other lands. My arm was a boom gate type of thing that had to raise up to let her go through the portal. I was like, cool, we're gonna go on adventures in some imaginary world full of stuff she likes.
Nope, she spent an hour troubleshooting and repairing the gate, which was broken in multiple ways. We never activated it.
I think a fun way to have he/she pronouns would be by helping other avoid the ambiguous antecedent problem and taking on the pronouns that are less represented in the current group.
got a crick in my neck and a frog in my throat and a chip on my shoulder and a stick up my ass and now you're gonna stand there puttin words in my mouth? haven't I been through enough?
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I WAS FUCKING WONDERING WHAT THOSE DIGITAL PRICE TAGS WERE ABOUT SUDDENLY i had hoped they were so the workers didn't have to finagle those little papers into the slider part anymore đ
Hi, yes, that is the OFFICIAL excuse made to me by the guy replacing the paper tags with digital ones at my local Walmart, but the end goal is to remove the numbers off the shelf entirely, replacing them with QR codes that you have to scan with the appâŚ. Which requires your login informationâŚ.. and also stores your card information so even if you didnât use your Walmart account at the physical checkout, if you used a card they recognize, they assign that purchase to your Walmart account purchase history.
I explained very clearly to the manager my issue with the meat section not having the price tags listed, and they claimed it was only going to be for the meat, since meat is by weight, and the price of each item is printed on the packs of each item.
Sure. Thatâs how they get their foot in the door. Fast forward not even two weeks, and here we are:
Bar codes. No prices, no item descriptions. No price stickers on the individual items. Heck, not even the name of the item that is SUPPOSED to be there.
No. The only way to see the price is to scan it on your phone app, which is also recording what you looked at recently, as a way of gauging what you might be looking for in the future.
So hereâs what weâre gonna do gang:
Every time you go into a store that has implemented these price-less tags:
Take 1-3 items up to the cash register. Ask the cashier for the price, or hit the price check item on the self checkout, which will likely call over the attendant.
Express that you didnât actually want it, you just couldnât see on the shelf how much it was.
POLITELY, AND WITH A THANK YOU FOR THE PRICE CONFIRMATION, Give the items to the cashier or attendant to put back.
When they inevitably try to push the app, politely decline. If pressed for why not, say you donât want to have to carry your phone in-hand the whole time you are shopping in order to see how much things cost. (Not having cell service or data to use the app is NOT a valid excuse, as stores already often have complimentary WiFi AND more stores will provide WiFi rather than give up on this push for surveillance pricing)
If itâs a shelf-stable item, the cashier will have to set it aside, taking up room in their limited operating space, and eventually pass it off to someone to put in a holding area to put back later. If itâs a fridge/freezer item, it might have to get tossed due to food product sale regulations.
In either case, you are making it a pain in the ass for them to have these digital bar codes. Tie up the checkouts. Give the employees more busywork that the company has to pay them to do. Hurt their bottom line having to toss the pint of ice cream you carried around in your cart for 20 minutes before giving it back to the cashier.
Yes, call your reps. Yes, push for more legislation like this in more places. But also take an extra minute out of your shopping trip to MAKE IT HURT for companies to pull this shit.
I've seen some people in the notes express (very fair) concern that this is only going to inconvenience already under-paid laborers, and not have any impact on corporate. While I can't speak for every company or every store, I do work in a grocery store and I can tell you this is precisely the kind of thing that would have an impact, especially if people are doing it en masse. Stores absolutely track their shrink numbers, and they do draw distinctions between what gets stolen, damaged, or wasted for other reasons. If people are making it clear that the reason they're bringing things to the cashier is that the prices are not adequately represented on the displays, and rather than improving business it's wasting product, slowing down transactions, and causing confusion and mistrust in customers, that is a language that shareholders speak.
I worked in retail for years. If this had happened while I was working retail, I would have been delighted and felt great solidarity with anyone who was wasting my employer's time and money and giving me busy work as an act of protest. In point of fact every moment the employee spends carting items back to the shelves is a moment not spent standing at a register.
Little comic thingy (actually the first comic I've ever done lol) based on Device Theory and the idea that DEVICE_FRIEND is just Gaster's anti-Annoying Dog OC
[ID: A short Undertale/Deltarune comic about Gaster. He presents Device_Friend to Asgore.
Gaster: Its a black cat from hell and it has heterochromia and is super evil and cool and shows up in different dark worlds and is super evil and--
Asgore: With all due respect doctor, I do not see how your OCs will help us escape the Underground.
Live Gaster reaction: A blank face of shock and dismay.
Later in the void, Gaster crytypes with a gamer keyboard. "Asgore gets divorced by his wife and is poor and lives in his failing flower shop and is gonna get evicted and also got fired from his police job and his best friend has cancer and his adopted human child is scheming behind his back and my (crossed out) coworker-son-brother? bones his ex wife and also he dies in Chapter 5"
[ID: A Deltarune comic about Berdly working a library shift. The striped bird monster that frequents the place is staring at him uncomfortably.
Stripes: The books⌠The books upstairsâŚ
Berdly: âŚ
Berdly (to himself): This guy is seriously freaking me out. Yhey've been coming here /every single day/ for weeks now,
Stripes (in Berdly's memory): I love reading books. Especially the books upstairs. The books⌠upstairsâŚ
Berdly (continuing): âŚand all they ever do is linger by the stairs for hours- Going up and down over and over, muttering about the 'books upstairs.'
Berdly is visibly sweating and his face darkens with anxiety.
Berdly (to himself): I'd much rather have Kris making a mess here than deal with⌠/this/! But I can't just kick them out for being mildly disconcerting⌠(It's not like they've done anything wrong.) Ah, it looks like they're finally leaving. (Good riddance!)
Stripes: The booksâŚ
As they pause on their way out, the entire page greys out, artifacts, and distorts.
Stripes: The books upstairs⌠I love reading books⌠⌠especially the /books/!
Then they're gone, and the door shuts behind them. Berdly freezes where he is, and after a moment takes his glasses, puts them back on, looks around, and takes them off again. Now he's really nervous.
Berdly (to himself): I've officially lost it. Is⌠is this stress?? Am I stressed??? Academically stressed???? Have I finally overworked my brain juices that I'm starting to see visual anomalies?! Or could it be from my excessive gaming sessions?! (I knew I shouldn't have played RE10 at 3 AM!)
He jams his glasses back on and is still lost in a sea of sweat and panic when Kris walks in behind him, oblivious. He startles instantly and leaps to take their hands.
Berdly: Kriiiiis!!!! You're not busy today, right� Could you, um, stay here with me? For my whole shift..?
Kris:âŚ
the persecution of lefthandedness is insane to think about because it was so intense for so long, in some places still is, without any clear profit motivation. sheer love of the game. as late as the 70s at least they were smacking my stepdad's hands for it with a wooden ruler at school, to this day he's in weird ambidexterity situation where he's not great with either side and notably clumsy due to poor hand-eye coordination. just wtf
It is fascinating to me that people also think of handedness as an example of bigotry that just...went away. As you note, it...hasn't in some places. I know people who grew up in the mid-late 90s who still had this problem.
But also, and this is really important to keep in mind regarding bigotry that still causes in many ways larger problems, that the structural problems are not actually fixed.
If you go to any computer lab or public library, the mice will be on the right side of the computer. Sometimes they can be moved. Sometimes they can't. Many computer mice are curved to only fit in right hands.
It is impossible to find lefthanded scissors without going to a specialty store, because most scissor makers don't even make them. And it's not just a matter of grip; the slicing side of the blades is obscured if you use righty scissors in your left hand, so your cut is off.
All those signing pads with the little chained styluses? Almost always on the right side, often not even long enough to stretch to the left. Makes signing for lefties extremely difficult.
I caused actual muscular problems in college having to twist around in order to write at right-handed desks in college when there weren't enough lefty desks--and there never were. Some classrooms didn't even have a single one.
I could go on.
But the point is, bigotry isn't just a mindset shift. People can't just decide they're not bothered by that particular difference anymore and everything's fine, because society is still structured and designed to cause problems for marginalized people. And they're never even going to notice all the little ways their life is bent to convenience them that inconveniences others.
When kiddo was learning to write, their teacherâwho was a beautifully kind, caring, compassionate person who even thanked me for making them aware of certain kinds of left/handed supplies, because their new toddler was a lefty and theyâd never even thought about itâwas teaching the kids a method for word spacing that involved placing their free index finger down at the end of each word and then writing the next one.
Pause for a moment, especially if youâre right-handedâand Iâm being serious here, physically do this if you have two functioning arms and handsâand grab a writing tool in your left hand. Now place your right index finger down and try to start writing a word next to it.
Yeah. Great technique, huh? Really convenient and comfortable and easy. đ
I sent in a small baggie of small popsicle sticks Iâd custom painted for them and labeled with their name for kiddo to use instead, but ultimately they stopped because it wasnât as convenient when nobody else had to get something out.
Writing in English is difficult enough when youâre left-handed (most of our letters are designed with pull motions, but lefties must push), but even other foundational basics are made more difficult than they have to be, because their needs arenât considered, even in situations where overt hostility isnât intended.
Even now, in an older grade, theyâre now all sharing a lot of the supplies, but my kiddo has their own pair of labeled lefty scissors they keep in their personal cubby. Teacher was 100% chill with me sending them in, but didnât even consider to take the step further when Iâd asked about whether or not they had them to just⌠get some for all the lefties. I know there are other kids, know some of them personally. (I made a set of writing spacing sticks for the single one that I knew of back in 1st grade.)
Regarding computer mice? Kiddo had standardized testing last year. They do it on chromebooks now at their school. They did their entire first day with the track pad instead of the mouse, because none of the teachers proctoring or assisting even knew you COULD switch the sides/toggle a setting to switch which button was the dominant select. We happened to have one at home thanks to remote learning during Covidâs early days, so that night we sat down together and found the setting ourselves so they could fix it the following day. But on a student account at school, they couldnât change that setting. And? None of those teachers knew enough about technology to be able to override it. So even when I went above and beyond and personally sought out the skills and tools to help my child level the playing field on their own, the teaching staff was so unaccustomed to even considering this as a need or problem, that they werenât able to remove the incredibly basic barriers to a fair schooling experience.
And this is honestly a good school, with staff that care and work hard and take 99% of bigotry concepts very seriously, teach about truth and compassion and how to recognize at this kid level a lot of the basic seeds that can grow into hate and hurt and also healing and helping. But the fact that left-handed needs are different? It is so ingrained to default to right-handed layouts that even left-handed staff donât conceptualize these problems, because they were taught the exact same way.
Iâm bigender and use any pronouns. People mainly just use she/her for me, which I donât mind, but fairly often peers in my Latin class will refer to me with masculine adjectives (Latin has grammatical gender) and it feels really nice.
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Folks, if you don't know who Emi Koyama was, you should. Her website (eminism.org, which is a delightful pun) has a ton of her work entirely for free.
You can read the Transfeminist Manifesto in particular here. Emi considered it a historical document and she wrote a very good self-critique in 2008 (included in the document) on the subject of the Manifesto, white feminism, and the lack of inclusion of trans and genderqueer people who aren't trans women. I highly encourage everyone who wants to involve themselves in transfeminism to read her work, not because it is perfect, but because I do think Emi Koyama's Manifesto represents the best intentions for transfeminism: the desire to challenge cissexism, to take activism seriously and compassionately, and a commitment to being open and honest about where we fall short and how we can do better.
I really appreciate this quote from her, which I hadn't seen before, on the subject of feminism needing to "fit in" trans people:
Cis feminists do not own feminism. We don't need to "fit trans people into feminist theory"; we simply need to challenge cissexism in feminist movements and theories. Trans people do not need to be explained by feminist theory; we need to start from the fact that trans people exist and matter.
And it would be a crime to not mention how hard she fought specifically for women of color, to challenge racism and imperialism (white/western and non-white/non-western) in feminist spaces and in general, as well as her intersex activism, and far more. She had such a drive to contribute to, engage with, and push for more and better feminist discourse.
You will be remembered fondly, Emi Koyama. Thank you for all your work and for all your life.
More works need to take a lesson from The Silt Verses and include a whole episode of shmoopy cozy romance and then have those characters die badly and then look the audience square in the face and ask âWhy does this feel so much more tragic to you than other charactersâ previous deaths? Why do you assume having a romantic partner makes someone more deserving of a happy ending?â
And also the aromantic protagonist is having an enemies-to-friends arc with an ex cop turned anti sacrifice cultist by arguing about misremembered song lyrics in the background
That was what that was? I've been so confused about that episode, just a random time out from stuff I was interested in to watch some more shit happen to random people.
Also it had way more foley work than normal and I ended up checking the script to understand what was going on, but I also did not give much of a shit.
#I mean they didn't deserve what happened to them #but that's true of most people
I think the motel episode was an incredibly thematically rich episode, and thisââthey didnât deserve what happened, but thatâs true of most peopleââ is one of the huge points it was making.
The episode was very interested in happy endings, and who deserves them, and who gets them. I saw this, first and foremost, as a microcosm and a warning: do not expect the characters you love to get a happy ending, even if they deserve it after all they've been through. Because deserving a happy ending doesn't guarantee you'll get one - and conversely, ending tragically doesn't mean you did something wrong. There is no poetic justice in the world of The Silt Verses, where the good people are rewarded and the wicked punished. There are only people trying to survive in this world, and making decisions about what they can live with doing to survive. And dying isn't a cosmic punishment for being wrong. It's an episode that reinforces the show's themes of sympathy, of empathy, of understanding that it's not fair that the world works the way it does, and it's not your fault for failing to resist it and succumbing to it.
The idea of deserving has been raised before (prominently with Carpenter's righteous axe-murder rampage that made nobody feel better and accomplished nothing material) and comes back strongly in the finale, with Val and Carson - and equally so does the rejection of the idea of deserving. Did anyone Val did horrible things to deserve that? No. Did the people she did nice things to deserve a happy end? No more so than any of the people she killed. Deserving just, does not come into it. Val consciously decided to give Carson a gentle end because dealing death and violence has never once actually accomplished anything good. Her retribution against the people-she-made-into-her-mother over and over never made her feel better, her destruction of Nesh didn't actually make the world better. She felt better when she sent Chuck Harm away from the carnage and gave him a happy alternate life with his five dogs. Did he deserve that? He was a war journalist, a propagandist, a coward, and one of the first people ever to express concern for Val, all at the same time. Did he deserve a happy ending or not? Mu. It's an irrelevant question. Val could give him mercy, and so she did. As for Carson, I wanted to see Val cathartically rip him apart for so long - but then, there was no catharsis in her other violence, and at the end of it all, she could try something different. Something kind. And Val giving Carson a false happy life and peaceful death far away from war and politics echoes the Rapture and Rest giving Seb and Dev their false happy life and death in the motel.
Happiness and peace aren't a reward for being good enough, they're what we all deserve by virtue of being alive and what we all owe to each other by virtue of being fellow humans. Simultaneously, death and tragedy aren't a punishment for being bad or wrong, they happen to people both good and bad, both brave and cowardly, both humble and hubristic, the people who turned their lives around and the ones who never did. Because this world isn't fair, and it's not a reflection on them or what they deserved.
And when The Silt Verses says the world isn't fair, it's not in a smug or spiteful or cynical way. It's in a deeply empathetic way. The Silt Verses says, you don't deserve to be suffering like you are. I understand. We live in a world whose structures are built to use us up and discard us when they're done, where our lives are only worth what can be extracted from them, and it's not right, it's not fair, and it's not your fault for being ground up and spit out by it.
So the motel episode was a thematic setup, and also a warning shot: don't expect poetic justice. Not here. These randos you don't know or care about will die despite doing their best, and eventually so will the protagonists you love.
However, The Silt Verses is ALSO extremely interested in amatonormativity, and the motel episode was an exploration of the theme of deserving in terms of amatonormativity as well. It sets up a cute cozy romance between two sad men who have not done anything more wrong than anyone else in this world, finally finding a modicum of understanding, of happiness, of peace, in their romantic connection. And then the episode rips it away and kills them both. I saw it as very blatantly turning to the proverbial camera and asking: was this uniquely tragic? Was what happened to Seb and Dev sadder than what happened to Vaughn, to Hembry, to Eliza, the Linger-Straits woman Val turned into her mother and then dismembered? Did Seb and Dev deserve life and happiness more than the others? Why? Because they were in love? Why does that make happiness more real, and tragedy more tragic? They didn't deserve to get consumed by this god and then die. Of course they didn't. And neither did Vaughn, or Hembry, or Eliza, or the Linger-Straits woman. The kind of relationship they're being ripped away from - a lover, a friend, a sibling, parents, the self - doesn't make a person's death worse, doesn't make someone deserve it less. And that was a big thing I got from "All Lovers Part As Dust" too, that questioning of amatonormative narrative expectations that says that finding romantic love is a unique happiness and losing it is a unique tragedy. It's all happiness. It's all tragedy. No one deserves to be eaten by a hungry god or an uncaring capitalist system. And yet it keeps happening.
group of people who should be dead keep getting attacked by the same guy but with different personalities every season and the main character has an unhealthy obsession with vehicles
(agents of shield)
@waytoomarvelobsessed @sarkastic1515 @sufferingfromsimp @qu4k33 (guys did i do a good job at aos i was struggling) @i-love-my-gays @queer-enby-cat01123 @yourlocalchronicdaydreamer
something tragic and just chaotic and unrealistic happens every episode and somehow the main character has cheated death for the whole 22 seasons despite being in explosions, drowning, plane crash etc and only about 3 of the main cast remain - the rest have left or been killed off
@equippedtolove @geraniumnecromancer @i-love-my-gays @qu4k33 @redwinesupanover @sarkastic1515 @wisegirl42 @wallyblack1925-offical @your-fav-idiot-lesbian @yourlocalchronicdaydreamer - sorry if youâre already tagged, i never remember peoples users and just honestly tag whoever i recognise đ
group of mentally ill traumatized losers get thrown in a town where two of them are actually ancient beings. blah blah blah homoerotism blah blah blah blood drinking blah blah blah yuri wins and yaoi loses
jeff bezos crashes the olympics to announce he's summoning satan into local football fields to solve an energy crisis that will occur in 1000 years. the person to stop him is the 10-year old currently winning said olympics
Uh uh ok how about another fiction podcast currently taking over my brain: amnesiac stuck in the woods finds out his boss isnât actually his boss; he is his own boss (at least thats my theory for whatâs happening, havenât finished it yet)
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don't depreciate your thoughts and suggestions with "i think"! you should have more self-worth. you should command me to build winding miles of labyrinths and erect endless omnipresent obelisks
