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Ok, this is all entirely brilliant. š

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Hey btw, if you're doing worldbuilding on something, and you're scared of writing ~unrealistic~ things into it out of fear that it'll sound lazy and ripped-out-of-your-ass, but you also don't want to do all the back-breaking research on coming up with depressingly boring, but practical and ~realistic~ solutions, have a rule:
Just give the thing two layers of explanation. One to explain the specific problem, and another one explaining the explanation. Have an example:
Plot hole 1: If the vampires can't stand daylight, why couldn't they just move around underground?
Solution 1: They can't go underground, the sewer system of the city is full of giant alligators who would eat them.
Well, that's a very quick and simple explanation, which sure opens up additional questions.
Plot hole 2: How and why the fuck are there alligators in the sewers? How do they survive, what do they eat down there when there's no vampires?
Solution 2: The nuns of the Underground Monastery feed and take care of them as a part of their sacred duties.
It takes exactly two layers to create an illusion that every question has an answer - that it's just turtles all the way down. And if you're lucky, you might even find that the second question's answer loops right back into the first one, filling up the plot hole entirely:
Plot hole 3: Who the fuck are the sewer nuns and what's their point and purpose?
Solution 3: The sewer nuns live underground in order to feed the alligators, in order to make sure that the vampires don't try to move around via the sewer system.
When you're just making things up, you don't need to have an answer for everything - just two layers is enough to create the illusion of infinite depth. Answer the question that looms behind the answer of the first question, and a normal reader won't bother to dig around for a 3rd question.
This is good advice on worldbuilding.
And also.Ā
I would really like to play a vampire-hunting sewer-nun and her pet alligator in a ttrpg.
Woops uh oh oops woops.
This is brilliant.
Current twitter drama is Europeans confidently declaring that they don't need to drive or use overpriced public transport to get to the MetLife stadium for the World Cup; they will simply walk down the highway to get there. Girl it's New Jersey. They're gonna splatter you for fun.
I think a lot of Europeans think that the stadium is in the middle of a city and surrounded by infrastructure, which is why they keep insisting that they can just walk from point A to point B. It's not! It's in the fucking Meadowlands!!!! You have multi lane highways and a literal toxic swamp and that's it!
"Well if there are a LOT of football fans they'll stop for us!"
There's a video online of a trucker who accidentally hits a flock of sheep in the middle of the highway at full speed and splatters them. Has to turn the windshield wipers on to wipe away the blood. This is what every Jersey driver yearns to do once they get on the turnpike.
girl help they're now demanding NJ build a bridge over the highway (???? from where???) or shut down the fucking I-95 (one of the busiest highways in the country that everyone commutes on) for their little soccer game.
I live close enough to the Meadowlands to regularly curse the hubris of the American Dream mall and this is the funniest shit I have read in YEARS. A lot of the European twitter people seem to think we are DEFENDING the Meadowlands and the general layout of the area like we think it was good urban planning. Girl no! It is a shithole, we know it is a shithole! (Although the actual swamp is kinda pretty from the window of a train heading to Secaucus Junction.) We are not trying to express pride, we are trying to save your life!!!!
I MEAN. I know people talk a lot of shit about American arrogance and they're not wrong to do so, but look at this, my fucking god.
._. Let them perish
Whats funny is they think ppl are defending the infrastructure. Like...no bitch we know it's ass. We are telling you it LITERALLY can't be done
Right like, no no. We KNOW it is horrible. We KNOW it should not exist like that. MetLife stadium shouldn't have been built in a swamp like that. Everything about its existence is bullshit. This is probably the WORST stadium to try and get to, considering that it is illegal to try and walk there.
FIFA has also intentionally MADE it worse. Because they're closing the parking lot. They're also preventing ride shares from what I can tell??
Meanwhile the governor of New Jersey is saying this is going to cost NJ $48 million to deal with the ridership, and wanted money to offset that, which FIFA doesn't ever do. So they decided to massively inflate train fares to offset the cost.
Again, while trying to prevent rideshare services from occurring.
Oh, ALSO people in New Jersey and New York City are all being told to "work from home" on days of the world cup matches because the public transit congestion is expected to be that bad, coincides with rush hour, and because for some of it, they're full closing off public transit to anyone who doesn't have FIFA tickets.
And then there are people complaining about our "shitty national stadium" and I don't even know how to begin to explain that MetLife isn't even the biggest capacity stadium in the US. It's not even in the top ten. (It is #15).
I genuinely do hope everyone is just being a bit of a troll when they say they're going to walk on the 95 or some shit because people will 1000% die. I don't even know what a comparable metaphor for this is.
But you cannot just shut this road down:
#europeans owning the yanks by walking through the areas where the mafia dumped bodies#that twitter post that was like ājust put it on pay per view and let americans watch europeans walk through new jerseyā#that european gene that makes them refuse to listen to ~the colonists~
I mean... All of that, but also, pedestrian traffic is illegal on interstate highways, so I'm sure the law enforcement will see nothing but $$$ in this crazy idea from rich European soccer tourists... Which could potentially save their lives. There is also the possibility that the LEOs will be too entertained by the splatter potential to save people for ticketing, though...
This will be interesting, that's for sure.
I have three monitors on my desk. The left one shows the order book. The middle one shows Truth Social. The right one shows the investigation queue.
On April 21st, the left screen moved first.
I am a Senior Surveillance Analyst at a commodities exchange. I have held this position for nineteen years. My job is to monitor trading activity for suspicious patterns and generate compliance reports. I am employee of the quarter. I have a mug.
At 19:54 GMT on April 21st, someone placed 4,260 sell orders on Brent crude futures. They did this during post-settlement. The window after the market closes when daily volume is typically in the dozens. Sometimes single digits. Sometimes I watch the screen and nothing happens for forty minutes and I think about whether my daughter is happy.
On April 21st, someone placed $430 million in directional bets in 120 seconds during that window. One hundred and twenty seconds. I timed it on my watch because the system clock rounds to the nearest minute and I have found, in nineteen years, that precision matters to no one but me.
At 20:10 GMT, the President posted on Truth Social that he was extending the Iran ceasefire.
Brent dropped from $100.91 to $96.83.
I flagged the trade. I flag a lot of trades. I want to tell you what happens to my flags.
My flags go into a system called TRACE. Trade Review and Compliance Evaluation. I did not name it. The system generates a report. The report goes to a committee. The committee has a name I am not allowed to share but I can tell you it meets quarterly and the conference room has a credenza with bottled water that is sparkling because someone once put still water in the room and a managing director sent an email about it that was longer than most of my surveillance reports.
The committee reviews my flags. The committee has reviewed all of my flags. Here is the complete record of actions taken on my flags in 2026:
Reviewed.
That's it. "Reviewed" is a status. In compliance, a status is the absence of an action that has been given a name so it looks like one.
Let me show you my flags.
March 9th. Someone bet millions on oil falling at 18:29 GMT. Forty-seven minutes later, a CBS reporter posted that the President said the Iran war was "very complete, pretty much." Oil dropped 25%. Forty-seven minutes. I flagged it.
March 23rd. Someone sold 5,100 lots of Brent and WTI crude futures between 10:49 and 10:50 GMT. Fourteen minutes later, the President posted on Truth Social about a "COMPLETE AND TOTAL RESOLUTION" to hostilities. Oil dropped 11%. Over 13,000 contracts traded in sixty seconds after the post. Fourteen minutes. I flagged it.
April 7th. Someone established a $950 million short position in oil futures at 19:45 GMT. Three hours later, the President declared a two-week ceasefire. Nine hundred and fifty million dollars. I flagged it.
April 17th. Someone placed $760 million in bearish bets twenty minutes before Iran's foreign minister confirmed the Strait of Hormuz would reopen. Seven hundred and sixty million. I flagged it.
April 21st. The $430 million. Fifteen minutes. I flagged it.
That is $2.1 billion in directional oil bets in April alone. Every one of them landed on the correct side of a presidential announcement. Every one of them was placed in a window so narrow you could measure it in bathroom breaks. I flagged every single one.
The CFTC chair told a Congressional committee that his organization has "zero tolerance" for fraud and insider trading. I wrote that quote on a Post-it note and stuck it to my right monitor. The one that shows the investigation queue. The investigation queue has not moved since March.
Zero tolerance. Zero staff. Zero budget. Zero prosecutions under the STOCK Act since it was signed in 2012.
Fourteen years. The law has existed for fourteen years and has been enforced zero times. In compliance, we call that a compliance rate of one hundred percent. No cases filed means no cases lost. You cannot fail an audit you never conduct. We call that excellence.
Last month the White House sent an internal email to staff. I was not on the distribution list but I have read reporting on it and I need you to sit with what I am about to say. The email instructed White House staff not to use insider information to place bets on prediction markets.
The White House had to send a memo telling its own employees not to insider-trade.
I want you to read that sentence again. Not because the instruction was unclear. Because the instruction was necessary. Because someone in the building looked at the same pattern I have been flagging for months on my three monitors and decided the appropriate response was an email.
The President's son sits on the advisory board of Kalshi. He is an investor in Polymarket. Both are prediction markets. Both saw accounts created days before U.S. military action.
One account. I cannot stop thinking about this account. It was called "Burdensome-Mix." It was created in December. On January 2nd, it placed $32,500 on Venezuela's president being removed from power. On January 3rd, Maduro was seized by U.S. special forces. Burdensome-Mix collected $436,000. Then it changed its username. Then it disappeared.
One account is a coincidence. But there were six.
Six accounts were created on Polymarket in February. All bet on U.S. strikes on Iran by the 28th. When the President confirmed the strikes, the six accounts collected $1.2 million between them. Five of the six never placed another bet. The sixth went on to correctly predict the ceasefire date and made another $163,000.
My surveillance system logged all of this. My system logs everything. My system does not have opinions and neither do I. I generate reports. The reports go to committees. The committees meet quarterly. Between meetings, the windows get shorter and the bets get larger.
March 9th: 47 minutes. March 23rd: 14 minutes. April 17th: 20 minutes. April 21st: 15 minutes.
The window is compressing. In March, you had time to make coffee between the trade and the announcement. By April, you had time to send a text. By summer, at this rate, the trade and the announcement will be the same event.
The spokesman said any implication that administration officials are engaged in insider trading is "baseless and irresponsible reporting."
Then the White House sent the email again.
I have been in compliance for nineteen years. I have seen insider trading run out of strip mall offices by men who could not spell "derivative." I have seen pump-and-dump schemes coordinated over WhatsApp by people who used their real names. I have seen a man try to manipulate soybean futures from a Panera Bread.
I have never seen $2.1 billion in perfectly timed trades across five presidential announcements in a single month go uninvestigated.
But I have also never seen a compliance system work this beautifully. Every trade flagged. Every report filed. Every committee briefed. Every quarterly meeting attended. Bottled water: sparkling. Minutes: distributed.
Zero prosecutions.
As long as the flags go up and the cases don't, my performance review says I am meeting expectations.
I am meeting expectations. The system is meeting expectations. The $2.1 billion is meeting expectations. The fourteen-year-old law with zero prosecutions is meeting expectations.
The left screen moves. The middle screen moves. The right screen stays perfectly, immaculately still.
In my field, we call this price discovery.
I can't even feign surprise, much less shock.
Spitballing with the fellas on discord and we've come up with a Star Trek character we want to see: A 200-year-old top Vulcan diplomat attending a function and laughing boisterously and slapping backs with everyone and then just relaxing into resting bitch face the moment nobody is watching him. He takes his job deadly seriously and studied parties extensively in the diplomatic academy. Every year he's brushing up on new developments in party theory. He knows every party nuance you could possibly think of, for the sake of intergalactic relations. Peace in the galaxy depends on it. It's weird but you gotta meet people where they're at, he thinks.
Sarek fucking hates this guy and it's 100% envy
human diplomat: [laughs at joke]
vulcan diplomat (to himself): this is great. Iām going to get a good grade in Party, something that is both normal to want and possible to achieve,
I love this.

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Can confirm. My BIL is a retired rocket scientist, and he often wears a shirt that's says "Save the Earth, it's the only planet with beer.". He also lives on a lake.
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The locs inspo: bat_bleed in twitter
Omgosh, this is so cute!!
No. I'm fine, really. I'm just ugly crying about Carroll crater. A bright spot on the far side of the moon. I'm fine. I'll stop crying eventually.
That's beautiful.
i loveeeee how cleo and joe won their respective mc tumblr sexyman contests!! they're the sexyman-iest duo alive šāāļø
Indeed, anon
~ Moderator Radiator
Absolutely.
crazy how much i could get done if i didn't have "doesn't want to do things" disorder
Seriously!!!
AND it's combined with whatever undiagnosed "never had energy" disorder this is, and it's all just BS. They coordinate their attacks. So when I want to do a thing, I can't. And when I can, I don't want to.

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That's a decent analogy, there.
my dnd party has run into an npc who may or may not be evil and may or may not decide to betray us and the dm was in chat today likeĀ ājust so everyone knowsā¦not addressing this comment at anyone in particularā¦his favorite colors are red and blackā¦winkā so now iām desperately trying to get a real physical friendship bracelet done before session tomorrow in the vain hope that i can somehow stop this npc from trying to do a murder on my party
UPDATE: the npc was in fact a shapechanged adult black dragon with violence and conquest in his heart. however he did let merry put a friendship bracelet on him and then when she was likeĀ āhm okay how big is your wrist in dragon formā he was likeĀ āyou wanna see?ā and then turned into a dragon and let merry measure him for a second, dragon-sized friendship bracelet. the dm described him afterwards as being deeply confused as to why he did this or let any of this happen to him. call that the merry effect
this guy is now a recurring npc because merry was SO determined to make him her friend that it actually somehow worked.Ā he cast dream to talk to one of my party members likeĀ āheyā¦howās it goingā¦how are the tieflings in the partyā¦not that i careā¦also iām not lonely. byeā and the player was likeĀ āis he still wearing merryās friendship bracelet in this dreamā and the dm was likeĀ āyeahā¦ā
fsdfjhskdf the dm just sent us all this image
so merry taught naeric (the dragon) the power of love, obviously, and because his heart was open and beautiful he started datingā¦a SECOND evil dragon. and then that gf betrayed him and cast ninth level imprisonment on him so now naeric is our damsel in distress and we have to save him from his girlfriend, the actual villain. how the turntablesā¦
and. in the most horrible plot twist of all. the gf stole his friendship bracelet.
#HOW DARE SHE THATS JUST CRUEL OF HER #IT SOUNDS LIKE MERRY WOULDVE MADE HER ONE HADE SHE JUST ASKED! (via @thelittleredheadedmusician)
i NEED to defend merryās honor here. merry made shanneth the evil dragon lady a friendship bracelet MONTHS ago. shanneth just didnāt want that one, she wanted to steal naericās. because she is evil.
OKAY. with the power of friendship we have finally beaten shanneth!!! and freed naeric!!!!! WE DID IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! šššššš
shanneth is NOT dead because merry still firmly believes that shanneth can should will and must be her best friend. but shanneth left the planet so merryās just going to be bugging her every day over sending until shanneth succumbs to her charms. just like her ex did. SPEAKING OF: merry recovered naericās friendship bracelet and made shanneth a new one to make up for naericās!
(btw the convo went like this:
merry: if youād wanted another friendship bracelet i could have just made you one!! shanneth: i didnāt want another friendship bracelet. i wanted to steal this one. to be mean. merry: oh! well it didnāt work. it didnāt seem mean, it just seemed like you wanted to be friends!!! shanneth: i- merry: whatās your favorite color? :) shanneth: i mean. itās green.
)
and then naeric and the party had a sleepover in his cave and we all painted each otherās nails and gossiped and did quizzes from fantasy tiger beat. he is open and willing to love again! so if you are single and you are an adult evil dragon who is willing to be evil towards everyone EXCEPT your boyfieā¦hit him up via sending. or hit merry up via sending and sheāll pass it along.
me and the bestie :ā) heās still wearing merryās friendship bracelet on his horn! because friendship always wins.
I love this so very much š
anyway really big fan of a weapon who is aware they are a weapon and has no real feelings about it until someone looks at them like they're worth something and is thusly filled with such self-loathing for tricking someone so good into thinking they're anything more than a weapon but contents themself with being a weapon if it means protecting something so precious. no matter what it takes
Yeah, definitely remember Casey in that list somewhere. Not that he's my favorite or anything.
Post That Criticizes Feminism Because of Its Lack of Intersectionality In Relation To Autistic and Neurodivergent Women
Since I started to talk about this Iāve gotten literally dozens and dozens of messages and asks from autistic girls and women who feel alienated from feminism due to things related to their autism. So Iām gathering this message into a call to action:
Conversations about makeup culture and about performing femininity need to take into account that autistic women often canāt fully āpresentā in a feminine manner due to sensory issues and the difficulty of understanding social rules about these things. We donāt make an active choice to present āGNC,ā people will often read our femininity as wrong or off no matter what we do. We often have experienced a lot of coercion and social pressure related to makeup and feminine dress and behavior, and itās frustrating to hear it discussed as if this doesnāt happen.
Many, many autistic women feel more comfortable in male-dominated social groups, and there are real reasons for this. Itās been extensively discussed how women are socialized to be more sensitive to others and less direct in expressing disagreement and dislike. This makes being autistic among women often very difficult. The social rules of interacting tend to be more subtle and complex among women, and interaction between women tends to have more social ritual, in my experience.
Virtually every autistic women has been hurt by other women because of things related to her autism!!! Many of us have had traumatic experiences being bullied as children or teenagers by other girls. Discussing the āsisterhoodā we supposedly have while basically saying that female bullies are a made up patriarchal trope and that oppressive and harmful standards for women are only enforced by men comes off as REALLY tone deaf to us because many of us are messed up well into adulthood from the things other women did to us.
Making an active choice not to perform femininity for Feminism reasons and being chronically unable to demonstrate that you can are wildly different things in how other women respond. No matter how supportive female social groups are of people rejecting āfemininity,ā acceptance among them (read: being thought of as Normal) often involves showing that you can perform femininity. Some level of gender conformity is a part of being read as ānormal.ā
Please stop talking about those annoying men who are obsessed with some war in history or with their music or something and how cringy they are. All we can see in it is how similar we are. Iāve had similar super niche special interests. (One was Lewis and Clark.) In general stop making nasty jokes about men who are weird or socially awkward. They really, really donāt come off like theyāre truly about them being men.
if you make fun of men for autistic traits, youāre showing you donāt support autistics, the end.
Stop having the face of internalized misogyny be a girl with few or no female friends, who isnāt overtly feminine, and who thinks sheās ānot like other girls.ā This stereotype is so obviously autistic/neurodivergent-coded it makes my eyes bleed, and it makes me so uncomfortable when ānot like other girlsā girl is openly portrayed as wrong or irrational for not embracing the friendship of other girls, when 99% of the time in real life she was abused, mistreated and rendered a social outcast by them in the first place. Portraying her as the enemy and full of superiority and hatred feels so insidious when many of us were that girl and would have burned our eyeballs out to have female friendships. That comic going around where āNot Like Other Girlsā girl falls in among a group of girls she used to disdain and finds friendship there makes my heart hurt and I hate that what weāre supposed to get out of it is that she was wrong about the āother girls.ā I canāt describe how wonderful it would have been to be accepted like the girl in the comic is.
Youāve got to understand the amount of anger a lot of us still have over this stuff. It wasnāt a choice! A lot of our anger comes from how desperately we wanted those female relationships when we were younger!
For every post you make urging girls to overcome their āinternalized misogyny,ā and surround themselves with other women, you have to make a post about how girls bullying other girls is real, is abuse, and should not be tolerated. thatās the rule now.
The ableism of women hurts other women. Get rid of the ableism first, and THEN talk about āsisterhood.ā
Supporting autistic girls isnāt just reblogging a post that says āsupport autistic girls,ā itās also learning about autism and being accepting of autistic qualities
Btw, saying autistic trans people only think theyāre trans because theyāre autistic is messed up. Weāre not incapable of understanding our own identity and existence due to being autistic. Your take on how autistic girls are made to think theyāre trans because of being gender nonconforming isnāt as helpful as you think it is, youāre just making your transphobia ableist. Trans autistic women are women and trans autistic men are men.
@autistic girls: your abuse was real and it shouldnāt have happened, and you didnāt deserve it. Youāre not alone in feeling alienated and rejected by feminism. Iāve gotten more messages about my posts on this subject than about ANYTHING else Iāve ever posted. I hope we can make feminism better for autistic women. I love yāall and things will get better.
Iām also tagging this with adhd because I feel like my adhd girls out there also might be able to relate. Feel free to chime in if you want.
I am not autistic, but I am certified brainweird, and I share a lot of these experiences/memories.
I identify as transmasc now, but I... really don't think some Magic Maleness-Dar is why this happens. This happens because we don't girl right, not because we boy right.
There are SOME vaguely GNC social roles for girls, like tomboys or a certain particular brand of bookworm, but we're typically too weird just to be that, and get punished for it.
Welcome to the mcyt spotlightnrackets!
The goal of this blog is simple, make sure all the smaller creators get the light they deserve, and find once and for all, which of them we should make the next big thing!
A total of 96 creators, ranging from just under 250k subscribers to under 50, will be present, so be sure to pick your favorite!
We are in round 1.2!
I am searching for a second moderator, if anyone wishes to apply, do it through private messages/inbox :)
This is all in good fun, and we aren't deciding who is better than who. I would also greatly recommend at least try to interact with content from each creators, but we don't have all the time in the world, and some of them are hard to find. So at least try to find some new fan-favorites!
We will not condone any hate, bashing or others shitty actions by anyone. Please keep this civilized.
we are two admins!
mod Star - any/all; i'm the main mod, you may know me for like 7-8 other minecraft brackets
mod Sydney - they/it/void/star
How fun!! Hoping to find some new favorites once I have reliable signal again. š

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i feel like a lot of fandoms pride themselves on being gayer than the source material but have they considered being less racist and less misogynistic than the source material as well . could be revolutionary
This seems like a GREAT plan!!
why is getting the into the shower the hardest thing in the world. and once ur in the shower itās fine but making the decision to take a shower and actually enacting it feels like youāre sisyphus with that damn rock
It's a conundrum, for sure š³