Psyxe - Space Whale Aesop

I can’t stop watching this 😂

You call this archaeology?

on a scale of luke skywalker to jaime lannister how well would you deal with losing your right hand

I’m in South Africa and much as I want the vaccine I absolutely DO NOT object to the fact that the places where people are dying the most are going to be getting it first. Whether it’s “their” fault or not - I swear people will turn into one of those “don’t use my tax dollars for healthcare for people who may have smoked and drank and...” assholes the moment you wrap it in a woke-sounding veneer. 

beyond pisses me off that the US and england - two countries that did virtually nothing to stop the spread of covid on their own - are getting premier access to the vaccine just bc they have the $ and the desire to send all of us back to work asap no matter the human cost. meanwhile many countries in the so called third world that took covid seriously, locked down, and provided for their citizens without a second thought or complaint wont receive the vaccine until 2022 or beyond. totally fair and cool.

i know that “don’t harass people for being weird, they might be autistic!” is a fairly popular take on here. but as a Certified Autist, i’d like to add that harassing allistic and/or neurotypical people for being weird is also bad, and should not be done

and before you come in with “yeah, you never know who is and isn’t autistic, and you shouldn’t force people to out themselves!” i want to say two things: one, i agree. and two, even if you could magically avoid ever harassing a single autistic person, it still wouldn’t be okay to go after NTs for being weird. they’re people, janice. they’re allowed to be really invested in naruto

Demonstration Of Constant Velocity With A Moving Trampoline

If you read the big CHAZ/CHOP post I made in early June, most of this won’t be new to you.  But I wanted to share it.

I don’t agree with everything in the video, especially not the jumps to attribute malice to the SPD when mere incompetence is a plausible explanation.  The guy is clearly pushing a particular angle, and the timeline jumps quickly from one event that makes SPD look bad to another, almost implying that nothing except those events took place.

But the concrete facts he does report – those all happened.  And the tone of the video captures how I felt about them then, and still do.

(I want to draw particular attention to the June 20 shooting and the claim that the cops were met by a violent crowd.  The “body cam video” mentioned is not some obscure thing you have to look up a database – the SPD provided that footage in their official post about the incident, the same post that mentions a violent crowd.  Do they … just think you’re not going to watch the video???

All this stuff was like that.  Stuff that feels to me like a carrier wave for a fundamental message, reiterated again and again: I know I don’t have to make sense.  No one cares if I’m lying.  I have sovereignty and so I create reality.  I cannot be held responsible for my actions, because I am the one-who-holds-responsible.  Morality and law are things for you mortals, not me.)