let's all unlearn shame together

My dad used to design kitchens at Lowe’s and one day he got a dude from one of the national labs looking to buy a countertop. Dad sent him home with a sample of a quartz-composite countertop to make sure the color will look good with his existing cabinets. The dude asks my dad what the composition of the countertop is and whether it’ll melt if he puts a pot on it (since it’s a composite and not pure stone) and Dad gives him some rough numbers and reassures him that it won’t melt if he puts a hot pan on the counter. The dude comes back with week later without the sample. The dude gives dad a detailed list of the countertops composition, to the nearest hundredth of a percentile, and the exact temperature it melts at, because he took it to his lab and melted it down. tldr, it’s not just firefighters.

Imagine giving someone a sample of the granite you use to make countertops and they come back a few days later just to tell you they fucking dematerialized it

Ok, but this is just, like, what people do if they have access to equipment. We just… put shit in it. Just to see. At this point, I’ll try and hit just about anything with an arc, just to see. I’ll sand and polish anything you’ll let me, if I’m bored enough. If I had a machine that could melt something down and tell me exactly what was in it? I’d be just waiting for parts of my world to become “trash” so I could de-materialize it and turn it into knowledge of what it was.

to be clear: the people organizing, funding, and directing the current fascist movement are motivated by material and ideological concerns beyond this, but for the average bandwagon chud who won't see any exploitative loot himself, the opportunity to take part in senseless cruelty that makes him feel powerful is the motivating reward

“Living weapon” covers a lot and all of it is hot

i should be allowed to forcibly vent steam like an overheating robot. why are we waiting around for sweat like some kind of homeostatic pile of ooze. i want to chug a cup of water blast it out of holes in my core and drop my temperature by ten degrees

ill settle for exhaling the steam in one great blast of course. im a reasonable woman

“Even a slightly increased possibility of summoning rain is still an ability to summon rain” is such a good point

The answer is absolute freedom. You can become a eunuch after having biological children, but time and space constrain and bind up all.

you motherfuckers gotta start writing out the names of these fucking shows. i can't take another post talking about the reveal that's so good in the new season of WINWTBVASGS

with that said, i will set an example for others to follow. did you all enjoy last night's new episode of What?? I Never Wanted To Be Virginia's Sexiest General Solicitor!!

Official Post of Virginia

As today is the 50th anniversary of the moon landing, it’s a great time to revisit Dinah from Devon’s memory of this historic event. And yes, still makes me laugh.

Today is the 54th anniversary of the moon landing, but Dinah’s diary entry is still absolutely magnificent.

57th anniversary of the moon landing and the best diary entry in the history of diary entries. Sit down Samuel Pepys, it’s over. UGH.