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The Pale from Disco Elysium is one of the most terrifying cosmic horror concepts I've ever read honestly, I love it.

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bro LMFAOOOO

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I think Starscream burnt out his voice box searching for Skyfire / Jetfire.

We don't really know just how long he stayed on Earth looking for him, but knowing he had enough supplies to last both Skyfire / Jetfire (a notoriously larger bot) and Starscream quite a while in deep space, he could have searched years is not decades on Earth before needing to return.

That's a lot of screaming. That's a lot of determination that meant nothing in the end, and we know Starscream is the kind of person to keep persisting anyway. His voice wouldn't have been the same after that.

(I know TF1 has a different cannon reason, but we don't always get one.)

Edit: Changed my usage of the name "Skyfire" and put both. Apparently I'm "the only one who calls him that". (My friend started roasting me...........)

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uh oh! owner's being sued for worker abuse! get out the boop meter so everybody forgets

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I dont care who got elected in america but it has been truly horrendous to see the vitriol with which american vote blue liberals have turned against the victims of US imperialism as soon as that circus of an election got over. This isnt anything new btw ive seen so much of this behaviour in the lead up to this election, but it really is mind boggling to see just how many of you really think that you can partake in blaming your "progressive" candidate's failure on victims of literal genocide and still call yourselves "leftists".

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I just got described as an "ad hating commie" by someone because I said a minute of youtube ads is unpleasant. fully spent 5 minutes arguing and defending youtube ads. insane stuff

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please reblog the fundraisers you see on your dash. please. if you claim to care about palestine, NOW is the time to prove it. everyone said gaza will be worse off if trump wins - well, now he has. the least anyone can do now is reblog and share and DONATE to as many fundraisers as possible. especially if you're american. you want harm reduction? this is harm reduction. help gazan families.

you can't decide where to start?

gazafunds

mohammad, nawal, and baby roaa

yousef, khadija, and baby majd

ahmed, his family, and their cat soso

nairuz and hussein's spreadsheet | gazavetters' spreadsheet | the butterfly effect spreadsheet

fundraisers linked on my blog

esims

pick a name. any name. read their story. realize that what you feel now, they feel everyday, a thousandfold. donate whatever you can. at the very least, reblog if you can't.

there is no excuse not to.

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i love tree news

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im literally obsessed with my roommates family. they have this tiny ass puppy and you’re never gonna fucking guess what this thing is called

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It's so cool how current research into mycorrhizal networks talks about plants and fungi communicating, making decisions and engaging in "dialogue" because there is really no other way to describe it

They each have so many, like potentially hundreds, of different chemicals produced as signals to their symbionts

what really fucks me up though is the paper i read this morning talking about plants' decision making in balancing their immune response against pathogens vs. their need to form symbiosis with beneficial organisms. Basically plants have to distinguish between helpful symbionts and parasites and they have to actively initiate symbiosis with one while producing an immune response against the other. The paper was saying that this decision making process would have to be like a series of logic gates. excuse me are you saying that PLANT is COMPUTER.

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I wonder if anybody’s written a paper about the sociological/psychological implications of how during the Age of Colonization the colonizers liked to depict the world as a pair of big round things. I tried and I just can’t think of a polite academic way to phrase this: did they ever acknowledge how they liked to draw the world looking like boobs and/or booty cheeks

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The New York times has an article on the pogrom in Amsterdam and it is ....wildly ridiculous the lengths they will go go to avoid explicitly saying a pogrom where mobs of people attempted to run over and stab anyone they thought so much as looked Jewish wasn't antisemitic.

It's "linked to antisemitism" because it's antisemitic.

As a note: the article reports that some of the Israeli Maccabi team supporters were saying racist slogans, and other sources arrest to additional actions, like getting in a fight with a taxi driver and ripping down a Palestine flag. These racist actions must be condemned in the strongest terms.

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The actions of these individuals in no way justifies the violent racist mob as a response. There are videos, taken by people in the car, deliberately running over Jews. There are a huge number of stabbing and attempted stabbing reports. Some of these mob members ran around accosting anyone they thought looked Jewish, and violence would ensue if you could not prove you were sufficiently Dutch and/or Arab. The article goes into none of this.

This is irresponsible reporting from the New York Times to reduce it to "just" soccer hooliganism, when this was a race riot, with a spectacularly shitty headline.

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Hot take, but cis people have gender identities. They aren't the gender they identify as because of their genitalia or what their birth certificate says. They're only cis because they identify with a gender and it happens to match their government documentation. Cis men aren't men because they're "obviously" men for having a penis. They're men because they identify as men. It's the self-identification that dictates this, not any other factor, even for cis folks. And we should be framing it this way. A cis man identifies as a man and a cis woman identifies as a woman. There is no automatic or inherent gender.

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do you have a religion tierlist

"Religion Tierlist" seems like a good way to piss off just about anyone with any opinion at all.