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EVERYONE SHUT THE FUCK UP SCIENTISTS AT THE SCHMIDT OCEAN INSTITUTE HAVE FOOTAGE OF A LIVE COLOSSAL SQUID FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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chicken jockey being the last possible 4chan post is fucking hilarious but there's so many amounts of comedic irony to it.

it's like a tyrant dying from falling over a medium sized brick wall. humiliating end.

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if you are a settler living in the us, but especially washington, minnesota, new mexico, montana, california, arizona, alaska, utah, nebraska, south dakota, or oklahoma and you arent at least aware of your states mmip crisis you need to get on that immediately. those states have the highest rates of missing and murdered indigenous people in the US. if you have not familiarized yourself with what groups are doing work for that you need to fix that asap honestly. donate either your time or resources to your local mmip groups that organize boots on the ground searches, rallies, go to government offices and advocate for the missing. at least learn about how things like pipelines and other destructive industries increase the number of missing native women and children. learn the true causes and statistics behind it. share missing persons posters, do anything. most of the people i see actually advocate for mmip are almost exclusively black and native people, we need more support from people not directly affected by the mmip crisis. the least you can do is share posters online and learn the facts about it.

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morrowind is objectively the funniest elder scrolls game because you start off the main quest and theyre immediately like "okay go talk to this guy he's the spymaster of the blades in the area and is real important" and youre like okay cool and then you turn up at the guy's house and you essentially just walk into his shitty apartment where he's hanging around shirtless taking huge bong rips in-between sending you to do batshit quests and also insisting that you get a job

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new stimtoy idea: 80s-90s anime sci-fi cockpit

Put me in one of these bad boys and I will be entertained for hours

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For the record, I maintain that even in the ilClan era the Battlemech cockpit is like a late 80s-90s anime cockpit with all the analog switches and bulky contraptions. Its simply canon

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Its an.... Unconventional approach but i guess I'll give it a try

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please let me out

sorry i have a boyfriend

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In a rare double own-goal the Young Nationals (the youth wing of a conservative party) posted this in their own Facebook comment section today

Naturally they have been getting completely roasted for it in the comments, leading the page to clarify they were actually referencing another blunder.

Problem is, it was a blunder by another Nationals MP that had largely gone unnoticed, so they've just dunked on their own brand twice.

The comments on both are, of course full of references to one of the great AusPol comment blunders of all time, making it possibly a rare three-for-one stuff up.

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oon a chocolate rhubarb brownie recipe

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I don't mean this as a judgment but whenever I see people saying like,

"People used to do XYZ on the internet! No one does that anymore! It simply doesn't exist! The Internet is different now and we just have to live with it!"

I really do stop and think about how... I just did that last week, or I just came from a website that does that; or how the Internet as a whole hasn't actually changed.

You might be wondering why I don't tell them this information, and that's a valid thought to have. The problem with it is that so many times they don't actually want what they call the "old Internet" back. They want some fantasy of what they think the Internet used to be like, and when you tell them it's still around and they're able to be a part of it; they recognize that requires them to leave the centralized web.

The thing is, people enjoy the comfort and convenience of the centralized web. I can't fault them for that, it's designed that way; that's the whole point. However they so often dislike the culture and restrictions that come with the centralized web. This too is an entirely fair feeling to have.

I've had folks ask me how to find forums, can they just Google it? Only to explain that not really, they could but it's not very likely to reveal any good forums that way. They hear that the best way to find forums is to find website hubs and then look for webmasters who make sites related to the topics they're interested in, they hear about webrings and they hear about how you have to actually go out and search the web for the things you want to find. Suddenly they don't like the Internet, they want to go back to it all being a simple button click away. They want it to be a community on Tumblr (even though they hate those) they want it to be a hashtag on Twitter (even though they refuse to use that site anymore). They want all the convenience of the centralized web, and they refuse to acknowledge that just isn't how the indie net/old web actually works.

I've found forums where you had to apply to use them, wait a few days for the lax moderation team to look over your account application and let you in; and then you could properly access and post to the website.

At first I thought that was scummy, but then I remembered how the old web actually works. All it takes is one person who thinks your site is "cringe" and it all burns. At the very least the moderation team would have to put in some good effort to do damage control and fix the problem, especially if there was no other security measure.

Turns out that forum is really chill and pretty much accepted me no problem, even when all I could say was that I found their forum and wanted in.

The old net still exists, the old Internet culture still exists; the problem isn't that we've somehow moved on and evolved away from it all; it's that you're still primarily or exclusively using centralized web apps and sites that evolved a content culture and I it requires real effort to look for alternatives which you've never been taught to do.

However whenever I try to tell people that they become unhappy with the answer not being easy or simple. I can't just link you to a million websites for your specific interests and yet I assure you there are multiple out there run by webmasters who would be over the moon to welcome you into the community.

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You might be suffering the consequences of long term abuse if:

you feel uncomfortable taking credit for things you did

you feel uncomfortable being praised or complimented, and you feel like sudden expectation or blackmail are coming up afterwards, you need to find intentions behind praise

someone getting mad at you is absolutely terrifying and you’ll do anything to avoid it

you don’t ever feel it’s safe to stand up for yourself, you can predict that even if you did that, ultimately you’d only be punished and hurt even worse, and you can’t risk it

you always analyze every situation with „am I bothering these people? Is my presence a burden to everyone?“ even when you’re with friends or at a place where you were invited

you don’t feel like a part of anything, not your family or your peer group, you worry everyone is going to figure out that you’re out of line trying to pretend to be a part of their group and reject you

you worry that you have no value to anyone and you feel like you need to deserve to be a part of society

you feel inexplicably ashamed of yourself, there are so many situations you can’t talk about, or even think about without feeling overwhelming shame

you keep feeling everything bad that happens is your fault, even for things that aren’t related to you directly, you feel responsible and like you should have done something to prevent it

you feel like everything would be better if only you didn’t exist

you struggled with suicidal thoughts before (or still struggle with them)

you feel like anyone who hurts you is justified in doing so and you deserve to be hurt

you’re terrified of being punished for anything you do, and don’t do, to the point where you paralyze and can’t do things you’re supposed to do at times, because you can’t tell if it’s going to end up in you suffering punishment

you don’t feel comfortable being touched or cuddled, you feel like it makes you weak if you desire it

you don’t feel okay showing big emotions in front of anyone, you feel your feelings in secret, or not at all

nobody knows just in how much pain you are. You don’t show it.

you can tell that even if you did talk to someone about your problems, you’d be accused of exaggerating, asking for attention, faking it, or being weak for not controlling your emotions better

you feel like the dream of a good life, where you’re loved and happy and cherished, is something completely unrealistic and it feels silly to even imagine it, it’s out of reach for you

If it’s only a few you can relate to, they can be caused by outside factors, but if you relate to almost all of these, it’s likely you’ve been living in a situation that is unbearable for human being without severely affecting their personality and mental health. Abuse can cause all of this, and these are not little things, this is lowered quality of life.

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Apparently this guy was at his mother in law’s house and they were all going through photo albums and he sees he photobombed his wife 11 years before they even met. I fucking love this.

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So I might be playing through DS1, 2, 3, and Elden Ring again...

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This is so fucking funny