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This song has single-handedly taken over my life and it’s only been like a week

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Progress flag at ikea

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For the record, I would never knowingly use or share AI generated art in anything I post, so if you ever catch me doing so, it was an accident, and I'd like you to let me know so I can delete it.

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“I have all these OCs! But no story…”

bruh

make a fighting game

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@ gaurav

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every moment of every day i am thinking about this tiktok

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Guys I am MAD.

Just found this in a Guardian article about Lewis.

"[Lewis] had in the past cited Nelson Mandela, Martin Luther King and his own father as his role models, and Bob Marley, Nas and Marvin Gaye among his favourite musicians. (One doubts that Niki Lauda or James Hunt would ever have come up with a similar list.)"

FUCKING FIRSTLY

With thanks to @cazzyf1 for her research into Niki:

Niki Lauda's favourite song was Fast Car by Tracy Chapman - a black woman. He was also a big fan of Bob Marley and Aretha Franklin, and is on record as liking at least one Rihanna song. Niki's list of favourite musicians absolutely included, and probably as a majority, black artists.

So a list of Niki's favourite artists would be pretty similar to Lewis's, actually, with at least one artist appearing on both of their lists.

James Hunt's taste in music isn't as widely known (he just didn't live long enough to leave behind as many detailed interviews and throwaway comments as Niki, sadly). But the guy CAMPAIGNED AGAINST APARTHEID. He criticised it live on air in commentary, while his producers instructed him to stop talking and he kept going. He tried to prevent his commentary being broadcast in apartheid South Africa and he donated his fee for those races to black-led activist causes when he wasn't successful. From another Guardian piece:

“During the South African apartheid years, I organised and chaired a discreet meeting in central London for wealthy individuals and foundations wanting to support black-led groups working for change there. The meeting had just started when the doorbell rang. A vaguely familiar-looking chap apologised for being late and asked if he could park his bike in the hall. It took me a while but eventually the penny dropped. Hunt was by then commentating on grand prix racing, alongside Murray Walker. He didn’t want his commentaries broadcast in South Africa, and when they were, he channelled his fees towards groups struggling for change there."

James wouldn't have listed MLK and Mandela as role models? Really? He was actively campaigning, fundraising and raising awareness about Mandela's cause.

(Interestingly, Tokyo Sexswale reported that Mandela loved Murray Walker and James's commentary and used to listen to them in jail on Robben Island, even though most of the other prisoners weren't bothered. Mandela outvoted them).

This kind of lazy dichotomy about Cool Drivers Then and Woke Drivers Now really annoys me. It creates a false binary with is deeply grounded in racism and in othering Lewis. It suggests there are two kinds of drivers: old (white), tough (by the standards of whiteness), cool (according to white culture), hard living drivers who didn't care about namby-pamby things like safety and social justice. Men who opened beer bottles with their anal sphincters and had sex with sports cars and women at the same time somehow. It is implied that modern drivers (for which read Lewis) are PR machines, soft, fragile, SJWs who care about social issues at the expense of their racing.

But life is not that simple, and the BS discourse does everyone a disservice. Niki liked black musicians, James campaigned for the abolition of apartheid, both openly supported female racers (James was Lella Lombardi's teammate for a while). Both were extremely vocal about safety. Suggesting that Lewis's activism (and Seb's, although that's treated as more of a laughable eccentricity because whiteness) has come from nowhere and is the antithesis of F1 ignores reality, sows discord and underscores the absolutely false Bernie Ecclestone school of thought which bleats "but Lewis isn't like us!" and implies that as a result, Lewis is a fish out of water who doesn't belong.

When actually, there are plenty of historic white drivers who would be honoured to be mentioned alongside Lewis, never mind the other way around.

Just because he's better, doesn't mean he's alone.

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COMMUNITY 1.12: Comparative Religion

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not the twitter migrants putting "reblog heavy" in their bios on here... like yeah. that's what we do here

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My laptop seemed to have deleted a map with some of my drawings, and I had no backup of them yet since they were all from this week. I have dug through my entire laptop already and it's not even in the hidden files, and despite being in my file history on my drawing program, I can no longer find a trace of it anywhere. What the fuck man :,)

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Interviewer: Are there any things which you do which are terrible personal that perhaps we don't know about?

Graham: What wanking you mean or something like that?

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Literal definition of spyware:

Also From Microsoft’s own FAQ: "Note that Recall does not perform content moderation. It will not hide information such as passwords or financial account numbers. 🤡

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Dutch Miku after her shift at the Appie

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"Hey, Soul Sister" with every first beat removed

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you jeff the killed it out there dude well done