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[garden-of-lily]

please.

@garden-of-lily

Lilyyyyy

Can we go down to the black lake real quick? I found some cool rocks there and I wanna show you

[despazito]

[mearchy]

my favorite genre of fictional character is like "i am terrifying to almost everyone, i'm very good at killing, i can endure anything, i've become exceptionally good at playing into my reputation, and if you try to give me positive social interaction i will react with confusion and cower in a corner like an abused animal. and i may try to shoot you. but there is also a chance i may imprint on you like a feral dog receiving its first loving touch! good luck."

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

it's healthy for academics to have professional feuds. enrichment activity

[krussyblogs]

Gravity Falls lore is actually so crazy because we can assume that around when Stan was trying to chew his way out of the trunk of a car, Ford was in the midst of the most gut-wrenching, one-sided, cringe-fail situationship known to man.

[ryan-sometimes]

[holographings]

they got me. they fucking got me. jayvik nation hello

[bonesandthebees]

one of the most infuriating things about becoming an adult is when you realize that it actually is 10x easier to solve problems by making a phone call vs literally any other communication method

[veradragonjedi]

Actually, @is-the-post-reliable (not cos I don't trust OP, but cos I plan on telling people this stuff as soon as its proven)

I slept in and just woke up, so here's what I've been able to figure out while sipping coffee:

Twitter has officially rebranded to X just a day or two after the move was announced.

The official branding is that a tweet is now called "an X", for which there are too many jokes to make.

The official account is still @twitter because someone else owns @X and they didn't reclaim the username first.

The logo is 𝕏 which is the Unicode character Unicode U+1D54F so the logo cannot be copyrighted and it is highly likely that it cannot be protected as a trademark.

Outside the visual logo, the trademark for the use of the name "X" in social media is held by Meta/Facebook, while the trademark for "X" in finance/commerce is owned by Microsoft.

The rebranding has been stopped in Japan as the term "X Japan" is trademarked by the band X JAPAN.

Elon had workers taking down the "Twitter" name from the side of the building. He did not have any permits to do this. The building owner called the cops who stopped the crew midway through so the sign just says "er".

He still plans to call his streaming and media hosting branch of the company as "Xvideo". Nobody tell him.

This man wants you to give him control over all of your financial information.

[elbiotipo]

👀

[golswia]

supple-MENTAL am I right-

I love how fast Jon spiraled between seasons

[bob-artist]

Join me in Chicago where the pigeons have their own mini fire pit.

[rainbowgod666]

Which makes me (an italian) just... annoyed

All those thinks about them taking metals and all I got was "they are better at recycling raw resources than actual companies"

Adam Something has an ENTIRE ASS VIDEO about them

Literally i cannot come up with any reason for them being hated which honestly speaks VOLUMES about how the Roma (called "rom" here in italy) suffer for NO REASON (even Hitlers entire idiocy can be """explained""" with him being a racist child who really hated this one teacher that just so happened to be jewish HMM I WONDER HOW THAT WENT.)

Yeah were better in termini of racism but its not like europeans arent racist. After all, the current americans DID come from europe, and the first thing they did was SLEDGEHAMMERING THE NATIVES BECAUSE GOOD FUCKING GRIEF THEY WOULD HAVE LOST SO MANY TESTS OF CHARACHTER.

Like. My people have no issues joking about nationalites and whatever (we have stereotypes for cities and soccer teams ffs) but here i am, wondering who is the idiot that keeps stuffing immigrants into Lampedusa because there is NO WAY its more complex than "let those who wanna stay in italy stay in italy and allow anyone else to keep traveling" like this is the kind of things that make my lines of questioning go from "child that doesnt know any better" to "guy that is THIS CLOSE from shooting your banana off" and all because most of these things stop making sense when you realize Its Not That Complex At All (like, say, THE ENTIRETY OF THE GAZA GENOCIDE)

And i despise it.

Some of y’all really think racism in America looks like this:

When it really looks like this

[batri-jopa]

world_of_engineering_75 on Instagram

[freefallintothevoid]

Dick Grayson's unmatched success as a child vigilante makes a lot more sense when you remember the Court of Owls was a thing and that Dick was meant to be the next Grey Son.

There is no way that someone at Haly's Circus wasn't there keeping an eye on him while he grew up. A future weapon needs to be trained and monitored after all, and a circus, a place where weird skills are completely normal, is actually a great place to secretly train a child.

You know, just some knife tricks that translated really well into actual fighting. How to get out of restraints and pick locks while under a time limit. Death defying acrobatic stunts that coincidentally do wonders for parkouring. That sort of thing. Nothing that seems out of place for a boy growing up around circus performers to learn, but would literally any where else.

I mean, while I fully believe that most kids would want to kill the man responsible for their parents deaths, Dick was weirdly prepared to go through it. He tracked down Zucco with way more ease than any normal child should have too. He became the first child vigilante, for goodness sake. The first Robin! He only started getting formal training after he basically forced Bruce into it!

Bruce himself has no idea that this kind of competency in a child is unusual, considering he was much too blinded by the similarities between his and Dick's tragic orphanhoods.

Alfred is in a similar boat because he’s desensitized to weird children after he somehow managed to successfully raise Bruce 'The Batman' Wayne, so he doesn't clock the hyper-competency as abnormal either.

By the time the other batkids start popping up (Jason 'The Audacity' Todd, borderline-street rat with no fear) (Tim 'the greatest stalker in Gotham history' Drake, child genius, also bullied his way into becoming Robin) (Barbara 'raised by the only uncorrupt cop in gotham' Gordon) (Stephanie 'daddy issues and spite' Brown) (Duke 'Pretends he's the normal one and people believe him' Thomas) it's too late.

It would also explain how Dick got along so well with Damian out of all of them. Similar childhood with different approaches and all that. On some subconscious level, Dick recognises and resonates with the murderous ten year old assassin with strong familial ties to a secret elite assassin organization.

It isn't until after the whole Court of Owls and Grey Son reveal that suddenly Dick realises a whole lot of things about his childhood that suddenly make a lot more sense.