Bread(he/they) || 35 || dyke || white I love my cat Horton more than life itself. he has his own blog tho @dailyhortonpics. pedophiles, rapists, and neo nazis should be set on fire also white people shouldn't wear dreads. it will fall out and/or otherwise get nasty. matted hair happens and I hope it's removal won't be horrible for you but like it's not healthy for you at all it's not even dreadlocks it's just gnarled hair straight hair doesn't lock unless it's Broken and sticky which is a whole like Thing. also why ya shouldn't tease straight hair regularly like ya big 80s glam volume but like at what cost man at what cost “The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality.” -James Baldwin
This is my daughter Lia 💔 Her dreams have become so small, just to live without fear and to eat when she is hungry.
I am a mother and I feel helpless every day in front of her. She lost her school, her childhood, even her simplest rights
Her father is injured and lost his job, and I am now pregnant with a baby who will be born in a tent with winter coming. We have no home, no safety, and not enough food.
I write to you with a heavy heart and I ask you to please help us, even a little. Believe me, any donation no matter how small can make a big difference for us, a loaf of bread, a box of milk, a blanket.
We are close to reaching our goal, and any help or sharing from you could give my daughter some of the safety she deserves.
Nedda, her husband, and their young daughter lost their home in Gaza when it was destroyed by a rocket during the recent war. Like many othe
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in elementary school i figured out how to customize the classroom desktop's autocorrect to make Word change whole sentences. this made it appear almost like the computer was responding to you. you could, for example, type in "where did i put my keys", hit enter, and watch it switch to "you put them under the couch". this was before chatbots, and we were all 9 so i considered it closer to a magic trick than a tech one.
i immediately scripted out a dialogue exchange between me and a girl who had died by the swings (classic). i invited another student over and told them i had found a ghost, then proceeded to type out the pre-scripted exchange. i was immediately pulled into the counselors office. the kicker was that none of the adults could figure out how i did it. i had to show them the menu and everything.
I am so tired of short-attention-span, trim-the-fat culture.
All writing advice these days is for how to write like Chuck Palahniuk. "Cut 'think', cut 'feel', cut 'wonder' - only action, only pushing forward, show and move and move and move." What if I could emulate this style, and still don't want to? What if I want to write like Henry James, with three paragraphs of introspective musings between each dialogue line?
The music advice is, "make it shortform, make it Tik-Tok compatible, make it punchy, hit the refrain as soon as possible." What if I want that 10-minute prog rock piece? What if I want that symphony? What if I want it slow and luxurious and lazy?
Movies. Series. Poetry. Bodies. Everything is "trimmed trimmed trimmed trimmed, stripped bare, you have three seconds to win me over, make it airport chic." I don't want to win you over, then, I guess.
I want the fat left it.
I want the pleasure and the indolence and the indulgence.
Fuck this art-advice that's always "your art needs Ozempic."
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“we live in an uncaring universe” yeah dude and I live in an uncaring house. and I shit in an uncaring toilet. but do you touch an uncaring lover? do you comfort an uncaring child? do you guide to sleep each night a cold and uncaring self?
"In the same way your heart feels and your mind thinks, you, mortal beings, are the instrument by which the universe cares. If you choose to care, then the universe cares. If you don't, then it doesn't." - Brennan Lee Mulligan, Fantasy High S1E17
okay i have A Thought, specifically Iron Lung related.
SPOILERS below if you haven't seen the movie—
We know for a fact that one of Simon's Eden brothers was in the SM-13 before him, the guy that told him to cross the wires. Which btw is one of my favorite expansions they made from the game, having the note found on the floor of the sub be instead the actual voice of someone The Convict might have known or had some emotional connection to? Just the tip of the iceberg in the phenomenal storytelling that went into the movie.
BUT, my thought about Brother Crossed Wires has two tangentially related conclusions:
1. Simon's Mutated Hallucination.
Twice (? I think it's twice, correct me if I'm wrong), Simon sees a mutated figure in the sub, clearly someone who drowned in the radiated blood and became part of the eel. Now most people theorize that Simon is just seeing a hallucination of his future mutated self, and this is a valid theory, as it foreshadows what happens to him.
BUT, my thought is: the mutated figure he sees is actually the ghost of the Brother of Eden that told him to cross the wires, based entirely on the very first time he sees the figure.
When Simon first sees the mutated figure of a man, it's near the beginning of the movie. He only glimpses it out of the corner of his eye, before it hides... where? Around the corner, where the computer is. Like it's leading him to the panel with the note to cross the wires.
The second (?) time he sees it, it's sitting in the chair at the console. Yes, he's hallucinating the whole movie, it could just be him envisioning what he'll become. OR. It could be indicating that the figure he keeps seeing out of the corner of his eye was a sub pilot before him.
Which leads me to my second conclusion:
2. How the Crossed Wires Brother died.
We can assume, based on the fact that the convict reintegration thing is a whole program, that it's likely the Crossed Wires Brother was also a convict. But in the message he leaves for Simon, he says "they will get their execution", implying that he'd rather die than help the C.O.I. And it's standard procedure in prisons to make sure that the prisoners do not have easy ways to commit suicide (i.e. removing belts, shoelaces, toilet seats, and any sharp objects).
So the Crossed Wires Brother pretty much only had two options: make his clothes into a noose, or ram his head into the wall enough times or with enough force to cause lethal blunt force trauma or break his neck. The clothing noose would be the easier option (as blunt force trauma is hard to estimate unless you know exactly how much force you need), but wait.... there's a third option....
Because at the beginning of the movie, Ava mentions to Simon that they salvaged the porthole glass from Filament Station. Now, why would she mention that? True, it could be a guilt trip (or, in a metatextual sense, a way to bring up Filament Station for the sake of the viewer), but you know why I think it was? Because they just recently had to replace it. (Well, and also a guilt trip, bc it's Ava.)
Think about it. A ghostly voice, crackling over the speakers, talking about salvation? A desperate member of a religious death cult would be perfect pray for the eel. All he had to do to be saved was to open the porthole window and drown in the blood.
But Crossed Wires Brother is human. Regardless of religious dogma and hopelessness, we have a very strong biological sense to survive. And the ever-present theory of a ghost is that it's a human that didn't want to die, so they stuck around. So imagine, as his skin boils from radiation and thick blood fills his eyes and lungs... He thinks 'I don't want to die'. So what happens? He sticks around, the tiniest trace of him, mutated beyond belief, to warn Simon, his spiritual Brother, of what could happen to him.
It would also fit with this theory why they might've added a switch to close the porthole window from the tow ship, a detail not in the game— to prevent Simon from repeating his brother's suicide. And why they would've left a prisoner, a hopeless convict on a one-way trip, with ample means of killing himself just in case: his belt.
Yet another American forever war on the Asian subcontinent. I am so sick of the news focusing on the flimsy ceasefire negotiations that the U.S. and Israel immediately violate instead of the environmental and human aspect. It’s not going to be over soon, the U.S. and Israel do not want it to be over soon, they want to do as much damage and exploitation as possible.
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upon reviewing the notes I'm changing my position. games must be <50GB. no more mandatory 8k uncompressed textures!!! I don't believe in 8k I think it's fake
to be clear games really ought to be around 20 gigs or less. but I think in the spirit of generosity and mercy we won't criminally prosecute the developers until the file sizes breaks 50
just looked it up. holy fuck. they did it by de-duplicating assets. I'm just. my jaw is on the floor. supposedly duplicating assets helps load times on HDDs but. holy fuck at what cost
it's worse than that: The Helldivers devs were told that duplicating assets would help HDD load times, but then they actually tested it and it had basically zero effect on load times!
So they had more than sextupled the size of their game by following industry standard practice that actually did basically nothing!
You may notice that stoning someone is considered violent, but getting stoned is generally a good time. Similarly, getting your shit rocked is usually bad, but rocking someone’s world is almost always positive. This is because we rocks are very nuanced and complex
The American aid centers, as you have heard about them, are centers for a game of squid, a sport of murder practiced against the Palestinian people.
These horrific crimes have become widespread daily because of the American aid centers; every day an unknown number of people are killed.
In central Gaza, there was an American aid center, one of the centers where most people were killed.
Near that center was a water well that for decades irrigated the orange, olive, and palm groves that were widespread in that area, but none of those trees remain due to the destruction and deliberate uprooting of the trees.
The old water well has been transformed from a source of water for the trees into a cemetery where bodies are collected and dumped at the end of each day at the American aid distribution center.
That well became covered with the smell of death and decomposing corpses instead of the scent of roses and oranges.
microdosing on catharsis by watching a fictional character or persona i relate to have an emotional breakdown until my chest starts to ache from the amount i've repressed
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A watercolor painting of a swimmer encoutering some sapphic mermaids, edited slightly for tumblr. (The titty-out version is over on my bluesky at juliedillon.bsky.social )
