KamikazePenguin

Started using the phrase “that’s cilantro to me” to refer to the presence of a story element that completely ruins a piece of media for me, disproportionate to its actual badness.

Lolling forever at the article picture, which was taken by Brian Gratwicke in the rainforest of Ranomafana back in 2014 during the ACSAM 2 (A Conservation Strategy for the amphibians of Madagascar) meeting. Pretty standard photo of my face to be honest, very good.

we need to invent a way to explain how deep running and pervasive and subliminal racism and antiblackness is without immediately sounding like an insane conspiracy theorist

female characters are always lighter than male characters. strong characters are almost always dark. aggressive characters are almost always dark. peaceful and intelligent characters are almost always light. even amongst darker characters the lightest one is usually either the leader or the girls. dark is evil and light is good.

if you try to explain this to a white person they look at you like youre insane

just watched a star trek episode about a planet that relied so heavily on it's computer system that they all forgot the basics of their own knowledge. and that allowed them to miss the fact that they were being posioned with radiation and nearly ending their civilization. because they couldn't use their own knowledge to figure things out. i bring this up for no reason in particular

Reblogging specifically for JJAbrams and any other TrekBros who might have, like the 1960s censors, missed the glaringly obvious critiques on machines, computers, social issues, women’s issues, and race which were “hidden” haha behind the science fiction.

under socialism we will make it illegal to name illnesses after countries

Okay genuinely the damage that naming the Ebolavirus has done to tourism in the DRC, an already impoverished country, is devastating. No one wants to visit the Ebola River. Coronavirus is named after a shape. There are so many ways to name a pathogen or disease without harming the people of the region where it was discovered.

it also discourages even informing people of the pathogen, scientists and doctors who are the first to inform people for their safety have to go in knowing the racism and racial namings that will happen just because they tried to protect and inform people. even when the naming isn't a race or place people get racist to the discovery place as it happened with covid, therefore even more so when it's named after places

Help I made dinner that's too tasty. Now I have eaten too much.

I made like 3 days' worth so this problem will be ongoing

Is that 3 day's worth before discovering it's too tasty, or 3 day's worth accounting for the eating too much?

I ate one third of it

simply make more

Opposite of helping

simply make less.

The cans of beans and tomatoes are a set size, there's not a lot I can do.

simply make it worse

A workable solution!

sometimes people think I am on Mad At Them Island, when in fact I am far more often paddling around in the waters of Slightly Annoyed With Their Recent Behavior Bay, or perhaps on the beautiful Peninsula of Get Well Soon But I Will Not Be Engaging With All Of That

Yes, I absolutely do accept Must the frog.