It's rude. You're making someone take their time to read something you couldn't bother to write. You're telling them they were so unimportant you couldn't be bothered to actually take the time to say something yourself. And frankly, you're lying about it while you're at it.

You’re telling me Michael played: a werecat, a zombie, a biker bunny, a mech, Egyptian trickster, a ghost and a skeleton but never a vampire???

our lives matter more than your fucking nostalgia.

So for those who don't know, VG is a Chilean journalist who was one of MJ's biggest accusers. He'd lie abt all sorts of stuff, for example, but just to name a few:

Wrote a book called Michael Jackson Was My Lover: The Secret Diary Of Jordie Chandler in 1997-98. It contained false info and I'm pretty sure VG took the naked pics 🤮 and put em outta context

Fabricated some evidence at the 1998 lawsuit

Slandered MJ

And he still spread lies after his death.

He even had a part in Leaving Neverland

Simply put, he is a shameless piece of shit who will do anything for money and shock value. So, where is this "nonce" thing coming from? Well, if taking nude pics of poor little Jordan and other kids wasn't enough, the man also attended a friggin' NAMBLA meeting!

Should I just start calling these “anatomy studies” ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I feel like I don’t draw Heckyl enough. Take this as my apology for that :P

He did say some rather cruel things about Madonna too and I don't like the way he pretty much used and discarded both Lisa and Debie when they wouldn't give him kids.

I don't think he was all bad, some women he was close to seem to speak very highly of him, just wondering if this is another area in which he was more flawed than people first assumed

1 - Madonna sexually harrassed him. OF COURSE he had some harsh words for her. Anyone would. He was still respectful whenever they met in public, and while he did say she was jealous of his success, he DID acknowledge that being a woman in the industry had to be frustrating because "women don't cheer for other women and guys think they're too cool for that"

2 - Songs like Dirty Diana and Billie Jean are based on a particular kind of fan: groupies that stalk, harrass and lie about the stars they're obsessed with. Of course they don't come across as good people... but neither do the characters Michael is playing. I

t's heavily implied the narrator of Billie Jean is lying about the kid not being his, the ones in Dirty Diana and Dangerous cheat on their partners (the one in Dangerous flat out admits he LIKES the bullshit mindgames of this evil seductress), and the one in Blood On The Dance Floor was the one who used and discarded the girl that is now out for revenge ("Since you seduced her, how does it feel to know the woman is out to kill?") Michael didn't like groupies. He also didn't like stars that abused said groupies.

3 - He didn't use either of his wives. He got a bit pushy with Lisa to have kids at the end of their marriage, but that was because BEFORE the crisis in their relationship started they had been actively trying for a baby. He wasn't trying to force a woman who didn't want kids to become a mom, he was frustrated that there was a sudden halt to their plans to have a family together. Lisa Marie literally said that, in hindsight, she wishes she had appreciated his attempts of making an effort with the relationship, even if he didn't always go about it the right way.

As for Debbie Rowe, being his surrogate was literally her idea, and through the years she never mentioned having any regret or feeling used, quite the contrary, so lets not put words in her mouth or infantilize her. Michael supported her finantially and emotionally during the pregnancies, but actually being a united family was never in the plans, and they only got married because his mother insisted. Debbie was well aware that once Michael decided he had enough kids, or once she was no longer up for it, their "marriage" would end, and she always drew a very clear boundary with the media saying "They are HIS kids" and that she was Michael's FRIEND, and that if he and Lisa wanted to get back together, she'd gladly step aside.

For a guy born in 1958 and raised as a Jehova's Witness, Michael Jackson was REALLY progressive.

He didn't stop criticising how normalized it was for famous men to mistreat, and downright abuse, fans just because said fans dared to want to sleep with them - not even when his own brothers were on the list of guys he was talking shit about, and not even when his disgust for that kind of behavior led to people ridiculing him.

He was 1000% supportive of his mother when she filed for divorce from his dad after years of non-stop infidelity, and was disappointed when she backdown. And he might have had a lot of empathy for his brothers when they were going through relationship issues, but also constantly praise his sisters-in-law for trying to make it work - and several of the former partners of his brothers repeatedly said Michael was the only decent man in that family.

That kind empathy wasn't absent in his music either - "Little Susie" is about a little girl that dies due to being neglected by her family, "Do You Know Where Your Children Are?" tells the story of a girl that runs away from home do to being abused by her step-father and ends up falling victim to more predators (including those who are promising her fame, like in the song "Hollywood Tonight"), and "Slave To The Rhythm" is about a woman that is being overworked and underappreciated both by her boss and by her (dowrnight abusive) husband.

He also had close friendships with, and showed public support to, several women who were constantly done dirty by the media, were mistreated by famous (and powerful) men, and/or were at the center of controversies due to scandals regarding their love lives - Diana Ross, Elizabeth Taylor, Brooke Shields, Liza Minneli, Whitney Houston, Mariah Carey, Princess Diana, Britney Spears, and, of course, his own sister Janet.

He worked with tons of talented women that have only said positive things about him through the decades, and remember the whole "men think they're above cheering for women" thing? HE sure as fuck wasn't above it as he'd just casually do things like publically fanboy over Björk.

Finally, he clearly didn't care about things like being the "provider" or the more successful person when he was in a relationship, hence him deliberately going for someone like Lisa Marie Presley, who was rich and famous from the moment she was born and wouldn't ever, ever need a damn thing from him. He also had no problem with women being lesbians or bi, something his very-much-not-straight daughter confirmed multiple times.

A Pokemon only counts for itself, not its evolution line.

A Pokemon with multiple forms (like Zygarde) will only be counted for the specified form. A Pokemon with multiple appearances (like Spinda, Vivillon, Sylvally, etc.) count for all their appearances.

and then she raised the bar again 

i mean, surya did not pioneer the backflip. she herself stated that her coach suggested that she start doing backflips on ice because of a skater named norbert schramm who was performing them in europe at the time. scott cramer pulled off 10,032 backflips over the course of his career, and he retired seven years before surya even began competing. surya is THE FIRST AND ONLY skater in history to perform a backflip and land on one skate in competition, but the most important part of it wasn’t the feat itself but WHY SHE DID IT. 

and ok, the first person to successfully do a backflip on ice was skippy baxter in an ice show in the 1940s. there has only been one legal backflip performed in actual competition by terry kubicka in 1976. immediately after he pulled it off, the isu banned the move from competitions. please note that yes, terry kubicka was a white male figure skater. and for context, surya was born in 1973. i sincerely doubt that the isu was banning the backflip because of a THREE-YEAR-OLD. 

the isu had very good non-racism related reasons for banning the backflip because well, figure skating is fucking hard. i think we frequently underestimate just how difficult it is because of how easy they make it look. i mean top figure skaters are still working on consistently landing quad jumps in competition. it’s so easy to flub a jump and get injured, and it’s super common for skaters to spend huge chunks of the off season not training because they’ve injured themselves.

SO DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA JUST HOW FUCKING DANGEROUS IT WOULD BE IF BACKFLIPS WERE ALLOWED IN COMPETITIVE SKATING???? if you mess this move up, you’re not just going to break an ankle or fuck up your muscles, you’d break your neck on the ice. you could FUCKING DIE. and this is by no means the first or last move to get banned by the isu for being too dangerous. (the one that comes to mind is the head banger death spiral because seriously what a name).

the reason why this is just so upsetting to me is because i feel like you guys are really simplifying surya’s narrative. yes, surya was a FUCKING BADASS. LIKE HER FIRST SEASON IN SENIOR COMPETITIONS, SHE LANDED A BACKFLIP DURING PRACTICE RIGHT IN FRONT OF MIDORI ITO, THE FAVORITE FOR THE 1992 OLYMPICS. IN THE SAME COMPETITION, SHE BECAME THE ONLY WOMAN TO EVER ATTEMPT A QUAD TOE LOOP IN COMPETITION, and the first time anyone had even successfully pulled that off was a mere three years earlier. 

and yes, surya had to deal with A LOT of racism. because of her skin color and her build and her athleticism and her style, she didn’t fit into the “ice princess”. they pegged her as a rebel, and they treated her as such. the judges were constantly nitpicking her skating style and criticizing her artistry because she wasn’t this light and graceful skater that they thought female figure skaters should be. (black ballerinas suffer from the same plight). she was constantly pushing the boundaries, but she consistently got lower scores than her white counterparts. and despite that, she was A THREE-TIME WORLD SILVER MEDALIST, A FIVE-TIME EUROPEAN CHAMPION, AND A NINE-TIME FRENCH NATIONAL CHAMPION.

in the 1994 world championships, surya’s final score tied for first place with yuka sato’s. it came down to a tiebreaker vote, and the judges picked yuka because she fit in better with the ice princess image. surya knew why she the judges didnt pick her. during the awards ceremony, she refused to step onto the medals podium and took off the silver medal. she was crying, and the crowd was booing at her.

the 1998 olympics was going to be surya’s last hurrah. she knew that the 97-98 season would be her last. when the judges gave her a low score on her short program for surprise surprise racist reasons, she knew that there was no way that she could win. 

so surya decided to make a point. 

she hadn’t planned to do this from the start because she knew that the move was illegal and doing it could get her disqualified, but after seeing her short program score, surya basically on the spot decided to replace the triple in her free skate with the backflip landing on one skate. she hadn’t been training for this move specifically, she just pulled it off right then and there on the olympic stage. and while the backflip was banned for being too dangerous, another reason for it to be banned was because the skater would land on both skates, and jumps are always landed with one skate.

surya pulling off this banned move was basically her last FUCK YOU to the judges because they’d been screwing her over since the start of her career. she was challenging them by making a previously illegal move technically legal. the judges didn’t disqualify her, but they didn’t accept the move as legal either, and they deducted points from her score, so surya placed 10th overall. BUT THAT DIDNT MATTER. when surya finished her program, she turned her back on the judges (a huge no-no because it is highly disrespectful) because she didn’t care about their opinion at this point. SHE’D MADE HISTORY. their decision wouldn’t change that.

(surya performs the backflip at 3:28)

for fellow austins and the rest of texas

ATTN: ANYONE WITH NO HEATING OR POWER CURRENTLY 

I know it's cold, I have some tips for you, thanks to having been through this before, many times. 🧵 

Please RT the thread if you know anyone without power currently! 🖤

The second tweet reads: 

- Choose 1 room to inhabit  - Move all furniture to external walls - Move your mattress to the center of the 1 room - Block pets from leaving that room, put all needs in it - If your fridge is warming up, put all perishable items in a trash bag and place outside, form snow around

The third tweet reads:

- If you have plants, move them in the room with you - If you have a small space heater, move it in that room with you - Hang thick blankets or large towels in all the windows - If a sunny day arrives before power, open curtains when sun hits directly, then put back up

The fourth tweet reads:

- Wear multiple layers of clothing - If your pets are too cold, put socks on their feet and/or other clothing you have that fits them - Roll clothing or towels and block all door and window gaps - Throw all your dirty clothes on the floor, covering every space you can

The fifth tweet reads:

Your body heat will warm that room if you remain in ONLY that room. You want to use anything you can to add insulation between you, and the outside. Hence covering and blocking all floors, windows, and walls. Now isn't the time to have a clean house, it's the time to survive.

The sixth tweet reads:

Late addition thanks to a friend of mine: 

 If you have, or can get, bubble wrap, tape that to all windows, as it creates a kind of double insulation!

Any kind of cardboard or foamcore can be pressed into window wells or taped over. Put wadded up newspaper or bubble wrap between the pane and the foamcore. Duct or painter's tape can hold the cardboard or foamcore to the wall. Mound laundry and blankets around you. Make sure pets have a similarly squishy bed to curl up in. Pet carriers are great for huddling in, and it's good to have them out anyway in case you MUST relocate. Food and water go close enough they don't have to come all the way out, if they don't want to.

Remember that to insulate, air pockets are necessary. Don't pack clothes or newspaper loose, but don't squish all the air out either. Insulation is made with foam or blown fiber for a reason. Air pockets in a non conductive material trap the cold instead of passing it on.

It is honestly way less miserable stuck in a single, insulated room than free roaming a house that is cold.

If your area is expected to be hard hit, prepare some of this in advance.

Keep your phone charged BEFORE the power goes out! Put it back on the charger when it reaches 80%, I am not kidding.

And, final tip, if you go outside and get REAL cold, take your clothes OFF when you get back and put different ones on. Preferably ones the cats have been laying on, but even if they are cool, as long as they are warmer than the ones you have been in outside, you will warm up faster. Even swapping just outer layers is helpful.

No, no, and NO.

AO3 does not live in “the cloud” because that is other people’s computers, and other people’s computers are vulnerable to censorship.

AO3 is on its own computers. It does still have to be housed somewhere, and I suppose a determined enough hater could try to find that place and go after it, but it’s a lot harder than sending spurious complaints to Amazon or whomever going “BadWrong things are hosted on your cloud service!”

AO3 is not “in the cloud.” AO3 is stored on physical machines that the OTW owns.

Because AI.

To paraphrase a comment on a Gamers Nexus video, the reason computer parts are getting so expensive is that a huge amount of RAM and storage that have not been produced yet were purchased with non-existent money to put in gpus and computers that have also not yet been produced to put in data centers that have not yet been built, to be powered by infrastructure that may never appear, to satisfy demand that does not actually exist, to obtain profit that is mathematically impossible.

So that’s fun. But it means that already owning computers that actually do the thing is SO MUCH BETTER than hiring other people to build more capacity to buy more computers to do the thing.

How bad is the RAM crisis? The price of ddr3, which is like 10-15yo tech, is going up. The price of DDR5 is now stupid expensive, 4+ times as expensive as it was a few months ago.

Mostly because there’s only one company in the world that is capable of generating the kind of chips needed and everyone uses that company because the modern world is a very precarious house of cards held together by tissue and string and we have a 50 foot toddler playing Godzilla with international trade.

It’s 2026. Stop letting politicians of any party convince you that we cannot protect human rights. It’s a matter of leadership and courage. If they don’t have it, vote them out of office.

It's amazing how much can be accomplished when a decent person in a position of power refuses to go along with the game of billionaire make-believe that insists that needed change is "impossible."