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I wish insomnia at least gave you more usable hours in the day instead of just more hours where you are stupid
âIt is extraordinary that nobody nowadays under the stress of great troubles is turned into stone or a bird or a tree or some inanimate object; they used to undergo such metamorphoses in ancient times (or so they say), though whether that is myth or a true story I know not. Maybe it would be better to change oneâs nature into something that lacks all feeling, rather than be so sensitive to evil. Had that been possible, these calamities would in all probability have turned me to stone.â
â The Alexiad, written by Anna Komnene, the daughter of the Byzantine Emperor Alexios I Komnenos, c. 1148.

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this shit owns it's just a number go up idle game except the idle mechanic comes from you writing JavaScript to automate tasks it seems like the end goal of the game is to perfectly optimize against this little arbitrary system they've created. There's not any plot to speak of so far but even though nothing is happening people send you messages through the computer telling you to trust no one as they all have ulterior motives. Very relatable.
You don't have to know JavaScript to get started.
guys be careful. this game may look fun but it's actually a ploy to get you to learn javascript
@ralfmaximus Showers that will kill you
Holy shit I thought this was a Sims bit or someone playing with CAD software, but the last few seconds knocked me out
@thebibliosphere I'm pretty sure you are the appropriate recipient for other people's terrifying home renovation choices
The text reads,
âYOU WERE FRANTIC AND FOOLISH, YOU KEPT NO TRACK OF TIME, YOU RAN YOUR DELICATE BODY INTO ITS NATURAL END, YOU BURNED ALL YOUR CANDLES TO STUMPS, YOU ARE TIRED AND HAVE NO CHOICE BUT TO LAY DOWN, YOU HAVE EARNED THIS REPERCUSSION, THIS REWARD, THIS RECKONING, YOU FINALLY Â NEED TO KNOW
HOW TO DECAY GRACEFULLY
LIE STILL (x13) â
someone said âthis is how they laugh at you in the nightmare scene of a tv showâ and im ctfuuu
So this is not a plea for money. This is something that surprised me, and chatting with people on discord, they were unaware of as well.
Discovered last year I couldnât look at my 2015 MacBook Air without it triggering nausea and migraines, and figured the screen died. Have been getting by on my phone, but concluded I really need a laptop again.
Saved up, realised I could afford a brand new MacBook Neo, and got one.
-And I couldnât spend more than five minutes looking at the screen without massive eye strain, nausea, vertigo, and if I pushed it, I-need-to-lie-down-in-a-dark-room-for-hours migraines.
Looking up MacBook and Eyestrain explained what is going on. The liquid retina displays that Apple currently has uses Pulse Width Modulation or PWM. In order to give the screens a deeper depth of colour and contrast, PWM flickers between several hundred to thousand times a second.
And there is currently no way to turn it off. There are settings and apps to reduce it, but there is no way to stop the screen from flickering. Checked Apple forums, called Apple Support, and the time I could look at the screen kept shrinking. Got the laptop Tuesday, returned it Friday, today is Sunday and Iâm still dealing with a vertigo migraine.
For MacBooks, it seems to vary on the computer model and the software it uses. In retrospect, the issue with my MacBook Air started after a major software update.
And itâs not just an Apple thing. Current Windows and Android screens do the same thing. Thereâs even a Reddit for people who are sensitive to PWM flickers to help find computers and screens that wonât trigger eyestrain and headaches.
So, yeah. This week has been a learning experience. But for those who are prone to headaches and migraines, this may be something to be aware of, cause I was not.

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They Will Kill You dir. Kirill Sokolov | 2026
The real tragedy about the barricade is that we donât know how much is true. Victor Hugo was there at the June Rebellion, so what is fact and what is fiction? That question gives me chills because weâll never know.Â
Charles Jeanne (who I think is probably actual real life Enjolras) wrote an in-detail account of the ACTUAL barricades in a letter to his sister after the fact
you can read it, tenlittlebullets translated it into English :)
itâs really graphic, he leaves no gory details out, just FYI if youâre gonna read it, keep TW: VIOLENCEÂ in mind
#how is he real-life enjolras if he survived (via metellus-cimber)
Iâm so glad somebody asked this, because the answer is: when they finally ran out of ammunition, Charles Jeanne rounded up everyone who was still standing, went, âlook, if weâre going to die, we might as well die fighting,â and led a suicidal ten-man charge against an entire flippinâ infantry column, armed with nothing but bayonets. The first few ranks of soldiers were so unprepared for such a spectacularly insane attack that they were too surprised to shoot. They crossed bayonets and tried to hold the insurgents off in hand-to-hand combat, but Jeanneâs swordsmanship was apparently aces, because he held off a bunch of them at once and covered his friends as they tried to breach the ranks. And once they were in, nobody could shoot them for fear of taking out their own guys.
So the last stand that the insurgents had intended as a noble suicide ended in them breaking through the ranks entirely and winding up in the next street over, outside the combat zone, going âwell shit, what do we do now?â (Iâm guessing the infantry column wasnât very deep; central Paris at that point was a rabbit warren of narrow twisty streets, and assembling troops en masse for an organized attack was a logistical nightmare.) Unlike the National Guard, the army werenât total chumps and got themselves turned around to give chase and start shooting once they werenât at risk of friendly fire any longer⌠and thatâs when all the civilians holed up in their houses went âno way, youâre not getting your hands on these crazy bastardsâ and started hurling furniture and crockery down on the soldiersâ heads. Jeanne was understandably distracted at the time, but afterwards somebody informed him that the barrage of unlikely projectiles included a piano. A piano. That is some straight-up Looney Tunes slapstick right there. No wonder Hugo went for the heroic death scene instead; if heâd stuck to real life, he probably wouldâve gotten complaints that heâd wrecked his readersâ suspension of disbelief.
Anyway, someone opened an alley gate for them to shelter in and take stock of the casualtiesâmost of them survived(!!!), but a few were pretty nastily wounded. Their host then had to lock Charles Jeanne in to keep him from charging right back out and taking on the whole goddamn army singlehanded. He probably wouldâve broken down the door if the poor man hadnât pointed out that going back out would give away his wounded comradesâ hiding place and the identities of the people sheltering them. They sat there listening to the gunfire gradually slow and go silent, and then in the middle of the night the ones who could still walk were allowed to slip away one by one at long intervals from each other. Charles Jeanne went straight home, slept like the dead for a few hours, was woken up at five in the morning with a warning that heâd been denounced and the building was surrounded, and then slipped out in disguise and managed to evade the police for four months before a former comrade ratted him out and he was arrested.
And this, ladies and gentlemen, is why Charles Jeanneâs letter is an absolute treasure that deserves to be available to anyone in Les Mis fandom who wants to read it. Incidentally, âhow Actual Historical Enjolras survived the barricades by being too good at his suicide missionâ is also one of the stories I tell when anyone asks me what the hell is so interesting about researching people nobodyâs ever heard of from an obscure chapter of French history.Â
Bringing this back for Barricade Day! To answer a few questions that keep coming up in the reblogs: hereâs my translation of Jeanneâs letter, which was my main source. Jeanne stood trial, was imprisoned instead of executed (because can you imagine what a martyr he wouldâve made), and died of tuberculosis just a few years later. Despite his improbable survival story, the RL June Rebellion was not an everybody-lives AUâlike the revolt in Les Mis, it ended in a hard-fought retreat into one of the buildings on the street, followed by a massacre. The guys who led a suicide charge and accidentally won were, unfortunately, the exception.
happy pride month here is your assigned fag reading The Golden Handcuffs of Gay Rights: How Pinkwashing Distorts both LGBTIQ and Anti-Occupation Activism by Jasbir Puar for the Feminist Wire.
also if you want extra credit and are willing to read more check out Against Equality: Queer Revolution, Not Mere Inclusion edited by Ryan Conrad as i will be checking this out too x (downloadable as an ePub here but consider supporting these works if possible)
suck a dick or dont just please dont be a loser!
hey itâs pride month again. reject the manufactured joy of neoliberal inclusion. disrupt the narrative of western nations as queer safe havens. do not allow your life to be used to justify the death of others. repeat our histories of revolt and rebellion over and over until they can never say otherwise. be informed, precise, angry, and engaged.
despite it all, pride month again. abolition and international solidarity stand at the forefront of liberation. queer liberation can never come at the expense of another. never allow yourself to be the oppressor for gains measured only in blood.
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rewatching s1 for like the 100th time--at what point does all the brilliant animal sight gag stuff (eg the croc wearing crocs) get added? is it like, we need to have a croc wearing crocs, where can we fit this in? or do you start out by needing someone to guard the food and say let's do a crocodile--hey, he should wear crocs? or some kind of total afterthought, or something else entirely? thanks. love the show, my favorite of all time.
Hello! I am going to answer your question, and then I am going to talk a little bit about GENDER IN COMEDY, because this is my tumblr and I can talk about whatever I want!
The vast vast vast majority of the animal jokes on BoJack Horseman (specifically the visual gags) come from our brilliant supervising director Mike Hollingsworth (stufffedanimals on tumblr) and his team. Occasionally, weâll write a joke like that into the script but I can promise you that your top ten favorite animal gags of the season came from the art and animation side of the show, not the writers room. Usually it happens more the second way you describedâ to take a couple examples from season 2, âOkay, we need to fill this hospital waiting room, what kind of animals would be in here?â or âOkay, we need some extras for this studio backlot, what would they be wearing?â
I donât know for sure, but I would guess that the croc wearing crocs came from our head designer lisahanawalt. Lisa is in charge of all the character designs, so most of the clothing you see on the show comes straight from her brain. (One of the many things I love about working with Lisa is that T-Shirts With Dumb Things Written On Them sits squarely in the center of our Venn diagram of interests.)
NOW, it struck me that you referred to the craft services crocodile as a âheâ in your question. The character, voiced by kulap Vilaysack, is a woman.
Itâs possible that that was just a typo on your part, but Iâm going to assume that it wasnât because it helps me pivot into something Iâve been thinking about a lot over the last year, which is the tendency for comedy writers, and audiences, and writers, and audiences (because itâs a cycle) to view comedy characters as inherently male, unless there is something specifically female about them. (I would guess this is mostly a problem for male comedy writers and audiences, but not exclusively.)
Hereâs an example from my own life: In one of the episodes from the first season (I think itâs 109), our storyboard artists drew a gag where a big droopy dog is standing on a street corner next to a businessman and the wind from a passing car blows the dogâs tongue and slobber onto the manâs face. When Lisa designed the characters she made both the dog and the businessperson women.
My first gut reaction to the designs was, âThis feels weird.â I said to Lisa, âI feel like these characters should be guys.â She said, âWhy?â I thought about it for a little bit, realized I didnât have a good reason, and went back to her and said, âYouâre right, letâs make them ladies.â
I am embarrassed to admit this conversation has happened between Lisa and me multiple times, about multiple characters.
The thinking comes from a place that the cleanest version of a joke has as few pieces as possible. For the dog joke, you have the thing where the tongue slobbers all over the businessperson, but if you also have a thing where both of them ladies, then thatâs an additional thing and it muddies up the joke. The audience will think, âWhy are those characters female? Is that part of the joke?â The underlying assumption there is that the default mode for any character is male, so to make the characters female is an additional detail on top of that. In case Iâm not being a hundred percent clear, this thinking is stupid and wrong and self-perpetuating unless you actively work against it, and Iâm proud to say I mostly donât think this way anymore. Sometimes I still do, because this kind of stuff is baked into us by years of consuming media, but usually Iâm able (with some help) to take a step back and not think this way, and one of the things I love about working with Lisa is she challenges these instincts in me.
I feel like I can confidently say that this isnât just a me problem thoughâ this kind of thing is everywhere. The LEGO Movie was my favorite movie of 2014, but it strikes me that the main character was male, because I feel like in our current culture, he HAD to be. The whole point of Emmett is that heâs the most boring average person in the world. Itâs impossible to imagine a female character playing that role, because according to our pop culture, if sheâs female sheâs already SOMEthing, because sheâs not male. The baseline is male. The average person is male.
You can see this all over but itâs weirdly prevalent in childrenâs entertainment. Why are almost all of the muppets dudes, except for Miss Piggy, whoâs a parody of femininity? Why do all of the Despicable Me minions, genderless blobs, have boy names? I love the story (which I read on Wikipedia) that when the director of The Brave Little Toaster cast a woman to play the toaster, one of the guys on the crew was so mad he stormed out of the room. Because he thought the toaster was a man. A TOASTER. The character is a toaster.
I try to think about that when writing new charactersâ is there anything inherently gendered about what this character is doing? Or is it a toaster?
ASK ME QUESTIONS ABOUT BOJACK HORSEMAN.
what if we all explode
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