The Colour of Manic

I regret that transcribing every single one of these slides for those of you with difficult with images would take a lot of time and space.  It’s a comprehensive guide to reading discworld by tumblr user @blackboard-monitor and contains their opinion of the best books to start with and what reading order to use. HOWEVER if you do want this information written down for you, either in part or in whole, feel free to send me an ask/message and I will make the effort. In one of the slides, blackboard-monitor also invites the reader to ask for advice via ask so I’m assuming they would also happily transcribe it for you.

the second poster from my fake vintage ad for monsters serie after 84 years

because it’s hard not to hit an artery when you’re hungry

More vintage ad by monsters, for monsters:

zombie

And FYI the answer to this is “bash him with the pommel”.

Also - shields can be used to kill. Just sayin’.

When you’ve smashed your opponent so many times that his armour, and especially the helmet started resembling a crushed can, but you could still hear the poor sod wheezing and gurgling somewhere in there, then you would probably feel sorry for him. As a good Christian and what not. So you took this thin little bugger:

If someone who claims to love you says the problem isn’t the fact that their actions hurt you, but the way you’re experiencing or expressing that hurt - or that you’re expressing it at all - then something is drastically wrong.

(I mean, yes, clearly there are ways this can be exploited to control or abuse; a partner who is upset by your boundaries or autonomy is not someone you can have a healthy relationship with. Conversely but just as clearly, they don’t get to be abusive to you in expressing that upset.

And my new favorite:

Hello there! / GENERAL KENOBI

It’s over, Anakin. I have the high ground.

Not only the men, but the women and children too

UNLIMITED POWER

The Empire did Nothing Wrong Movememt

So you spend your life split between being academically smart and then also unable to do basic, day-to-day functions and being told that you’re “too smart to struggle with this”.

Like, I do believe that neurotypical “gifted” kids are also fucked up by the system, but the majority of people who I personally know who complained about the system turned out to be neurodivergent in some way but didn’t know when they originally started in “gifted child” discourse.

And I’m going to take a stab and say that the people hit the hardest by this are probably women with ADHD, as their presentation usually looks like their life falling apart at/post-uni.

“Is it possible to turn things around by 2050? The answer is absolutely yes,” says Kai Chan, a professor at the Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability at the University of British Columbia.

Many scientists have been telling us how the world will look like, if we don’t act now. However, others, like Chan, are tracking what success might look like.

They are not simply day-dreamers either. They aren’t being too optimistic. They are putting together road maps for how to safely get to the planet envisioned in the 2015 Paris Agreement, where temperatures hold at 1.5 degrees Celsius higher than before we started burning fossil fuels, this article from July states.

“Three decades is enough to do a lot of important things. In the next few years—if we get started on them—they will pay dividends in the coming decades,” says Chan, the lead author of the chapter on achieving a sustainable future in a recent UN report that predicted the possible extinction of a million species.

Making these changes won’t mean years of being poor, cold and hungry before things get comfortable again, the scientists insist. They say that if we start acting seriously NOW, we stand a decent chance of transforming society without huge disruption. 

No doubt, it will take a massive switch in society’s energy use. But without us noticing, that’s already happening. Not fast enough, maybe, but it is. Solar panels and offshore wind power plummet in price.  Iceland and Paraguay have stripped the carbon from their grids, according to a new energy outlook report from Bloomberg. Europe is on track to be 90 per cent carbon-free by 2040. And Ottawa says that Canada is already at 81 per cent, thanks to hydro, nuclear, wind and solar. 

Decarbonizing the whole economy is within grasp. We can do this.