did u know u can pet me and call me cute
you will experience the funny surprise I do!
did u know u can pet me and call me cute
you will experience the funny surprise I do!
it appears you pet me!
bites you bites you bites you bites you bites you bites you bites you bites you bites you bites you bites you bites you bites you bites you bites you bites you bites you bites you bites you bites you bites you bites you bites you bites you bites you bites you bites you bites you bites you bites you bites you bites you bites you bites you bites you bites you bites you bites you bites you bites you bites you bites you bites you bites you bites you bites you bites you bites you bites you bites you bites you bites you bites you bites you
what, if any, of your joints/bones pop or crack (other than your back)
fingers/toes
wrists/ankles
neck
knees
hips
elbows
collarbones
sternum
multiple (say in tags!)
are you guys ok???
i've experienced popping and cracking in all of the above so i wanna know how normal this is
I try to stay away from a lot of fandom discourse, but since I’ve been seeing this on my dash again and in tags, I feel the need to make a statement on this, particularly for any young fans who follow me that might get drawn into this mindset.
Stay away from purity culture. Warn your friends away from it too, if you see them starting to fall for it. It’s very easy to get drawn into it
Almost always, it starts with one of three roots, pedophilia, incest and/or abuse. Usually it’s pedophilia. Funnily enough, that’s also what congress usually uses to try to justify passing bills that undermine online privacy & security. Because it’s an easy, extreme target, and when people attempt to argue against it, it’s nice and easy to say “Oh so you like pedophilia” rather then actually engaging with their argument.
The logic goes like this, although there’s many forms of it.
This is the foundation of “anti” culture, and it’s important to be aware of it so you can catch this false equivocation. Fictional explorations of something, are not the same as the thing itself. Fictional explorations are fiction. The characters are not real people. There is no actual harm being done. Equating fake harm and real harm is a dangerous, slippery slope, which leads us to fundamentally flawed ideas of moral purity. It’s a form of controlling people & making them feel guilty for their very thoughts, rather than holding people accountable for their actions.
A very handy trick for when you encounter this sort of argument, is to replace whatever the selected purity term is with murder. After all, we can all agree that murder is bad, but at the same time, we understand that a murder in a book =/= a murder in real life.
Let’s see that argument again, shall we?
“Because murder is bad, all fictional explorations of it must be equally bad.”
“Anyone who creates content with a fictional exploration of murder is also bad.”
“Since people who create fictional explorations of murder are just as bad as the people who commit murder in real life, it’s okay to harm them.”
Hopefully, it’s now easy to see why the above argument is fundamentally flawed.
Keep your eye out for purity culture in your fandom spaces, and when you see it, refuse to engage with it. Warn your friends if you see them falling into the same traps, although try to be kind about it; this is a very easy thought pattern to fall into. I don’t recommend trying to argue/debate anti’s. The attention only feeds them. Block them instead. Don’t let people control or shame you for what you create or consume, and don’t control or shame others for what they create or consume.
Also, as a note, let me be clear about something. If you are uncomfortable with any of the above discussed things, or anything in general in fiction (ie, underage ships, murder, incest, abuse, penguins, needles, etc), that’s perfectly fine (it’s also called a squick, for those that haven’t heard that term before). Absolutely control your fandom experience by blocking people, filtering tags, unfollowing, etc. However, just because you are uncomfortable with something, does not give you the right to control other people. Other people have no right to control what content you create or consume, and you have no right to do that to them either.
Okay?
The excluded tags filter on Ao3 is such a fucking lifesaver. I love it so much.
Do I know what I want to read? No. Do I know what I DON'T want to read? Absolutely. God bless
Hey guys I just bought this cool cylinder from some guy in the flea market parking lot, not sure how it works but when you take the lid off it makes your camera all grainy, super cool!
Hey guys, I have an update, and there's a few lies going around in the notes so I figured I'd clear those up while I was here:
First of all, no, I did not "confirm it was was fake" on Twitter, I originally posted this video to a private but fairly big discord, someone there took it and put in on Twitter and later told everyone it was a joke because they were getting quite tweeted too much. That person is not me, I don't even have a Twitter
Second. Apparently this is something called cesium, it's super radioactive and that's why the container is so heavy and thick. I ended up having a really bad burn on my hand after I messed with it for a few more days, they ended up having to take some of the muscle off of it and a ways up my wrist to try and save my arm, this is what it looks like when I unwrap the bandages (I'm not going to show the hand because it looks WAY worse🤢 and I don't want to make yall puke)
Anyway, be careful what you buy from strange guys at flea markets! They might just be trying to kill you!
I don't know if this whole thing in the original post is real or not but i had the same initial reaction as @therealchickensoup in notes.
As an explanation of the mentioned incident:
Tl;dr version of the video - apparently, there have been these cases where empty capsules from old medical machines have been "misplaced" or outright just left behind like this in various places all around the world (usually in abandoned war zones or when there wasn't enough money to pay a specialized cleaning crew so the stuff just got abandoned and forgotten) and every now and then they get rediscovered by random people, causing death or serious life long consequences to hundreds of people before they are contained.
As for why it does that weird stuff on camera, it's most likely because of SEE - single event error - an effect radiation has on electronics where, if a particle hits a sensor (like camera's photo chip), RAM memory unit, or processing core with enough energy, it disrupts normal function of the device temporarily, in this case by creating that visual snow. Other example that comes to mind is this short video from Rosetta space craft landing at the surface of the comet. It's camera was created specifically to withstand the radiation of the open Space and yet it still filmed tons of "snow" aka heavy particles flying all over the place.
My theory about why the cilinder vid looks different from this is that unlike the comet with particles going every direction from all possible sources in the whole universe, hitting the camera mostly at an angle, the cilinder is the only source of the radiation around and instead of messing up with pixels in line as those nuclei fly through, they hit the thing sqare on and only ever disrupt a singular pixel at the time. But like tens of thousands of them every second by the look of it. Which is a lot.
So yeah, the original post seems legit (in which case RIP) but even if it wasn't, the message it conveys is a serious one. That cilinder is not an object of honor. It does not contain anything valued. Don't buy random unexpectedly heavy metallic items of unknown origin from strangers. If something suspicious like this seems to be glowing in dark or is warm to touch without an abvious reason or if it upsets your phone's camera or causes a discoloration of white paper when you set it on, GET AWAY FROM IT, DON'T MOVE IT, DON'T THROW IT TO SOME OTHER RANDOM PLACE, DEFINITELY DON'T SELL IT ON A FLEA MARKET, CALL 112 OR 911 OR FIREFIGHTERS AND TELL THEM THAT YOU HAVE A SUSPICION THAT YOU MAY BE IN A POSESSION OF SOME RADIOACTIVE MATERIAL AMD YOU NEED HELP ASAP, THEN CALL YOURSELF AN AMBULANCE AND TELL THEM THE SAME THING
Hopefully no one following me or reading this post has to ever do any of those things, but in case you do... I hope that i was clear about how dangerous this shit is.
News, everyone! It's been made into a video by the same guy who did the one on the Goiânia incident
Tl;dr It's fake, the original video was first posted on twitter by a rubber pony fetish account because op was bored. However, PLEASE watch the video in full, it's an entire rollercoaster