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"Maybe you're one of dropout's typical fans: a pansexual nerd with a tattoo of the drama masks and an anxiety disorder"
Hey! That's completely untrue! My tattoos are actually of a paper crane and playing card suits!
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What an unsurprising & completely expected turn of events that literally everyone saw coming 😮
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#spn#us politics#elon musk#nyt#donald trump#current events#breaking news#politics#us news#presidential election#2024 presidential election#anti trump#anti elon musk#trump#nytimes#election interference#us elections#election 2024#election#lock him up!#Twitter#destiel#donald j. trump#destiel meme#anti donald trump#kamala harris#vote blue#vote kamala#lock them up
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"You Missed the Point by Idolizing Them" Starter Pack
#filmedit#filmgifs#memes#moviegifs#dailyflicks#chewieblog#bblecher#fight club#userrobin#usergal#nessa007#userbrittany#userlera#useraurore#american psycho#dune#breaking bad#taxi driver#a clockwork orange#scarface#joker#true detective#new jack city#training day#the boys#paddington#gifs#movie#tv#kane52630
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I was going through old episodes and was going to gif this, but....it's just not the same without being able to hear Brennan yell, "TITTIES!" So, video.
#dropout#breaking news#no laugh newsroom#brennan lee mulligan#elaine carroll#sam reich#kellen schneider
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ok so in the span of like 5 hours:
- the south korean president declared martial law (the first time since s korea stopped being a military dictatorship in the 80s)
- claims his political opponents are insurgents working on behalf of north korea and communism
- declares that all political activity must cease (inc the national assembly/parliament), all media must be under the control of the military, and all protests/strikes are illegal
- the opposing political party immediately assembles at the national assembly in the middle of the night
- holds an emergency vote that goes thru 190-0 to declare the end to martial law (while barricading the entrances to prevent the military from entering and removing them)
- the president concedes an hour later
- civilian protesters in the streets are calling for the impeachment & arrest of the president
please feel free to add details/correct me
as of 2:40 EST Dec 3 2024
#international politics#politics#south korea#south korean politics#military coup#protests#government#govt#news#breaking news#10k
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Stayed gone but vox narrates his passive aggressive insecure ass scrolling text from the bottom of his broadcast 👊💥📺
#plus what definitely canonically happened when this very important breaking news interrupted tv#are we sure this guy is allowed to be an overlord#imagining the audience just trying to enjoy their shows and then BOOM TV MAN AND HIS GAY INSECURITIES#your pitch crush is showing#radiostatic#i fell for the fucking tv#vox#hazbin hotel fanart#hazbin hotel#hazbin art#hazbin alastor#hazbin vox#alastor#katie killjoy#my art
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Meet the seven new frog species we just named after iconic Star Trek captains!
Artwork by A. Petzold, CC BY-ND 4.0
At the right time of year along rushing streams in the humid rainforests that stretch the length of Madagascar's eastern and northern mountain ridges, otherworldly trills of piercing whistles can be heard.
Are they birds? Insects? Communicator beeps? Tricorder noises?
No, they're little treefrogs!
Boophis janewayae. Photo by M. Vences, CC BY-SA 4.0
Until recently, we thought all of the populations of these little brown frogs across the island were one widespread species, Boophis marojezensis, described in 1994. But genetics in the early 2000s and 2010s showed that there were several species here, not just one.
Now my colleagues and I have shown that they are in fact eight separate species, each with unique calls!
These whistling sounds reminded us so much of Star Trek sound effects that we decided to name the seven new species after Star Trek captains: Boophis kirki, B. picardi, B. janewayae, B. siskoi, B. pikei, B. archeri, and B. burnhamae.
Photos of all new species described by Vences et al. 2024. CC BY-SA 4.0
I subtly and not-so-subtly built some Star Trek references into the paper, but probably the best one is this one:
'Finding these frogs sometimes requires considerable trekking; pursuing strange new calls, to seek out new frogs in new forests; boldly going where no herpetologist has gone before.'
— Vences et al. 2024
There’s a real sense of scientific discovery and exploration here, which we think is in the spirit of Star Trek.
Of course, it doesn't hurt that there are at least two Trekkies amongst the authors (including yours truly). As fans of Star Trek, we are also just pleased to dedicate these new species to the characters who have inspired and entertained us over the decades.
On a personal note, this marks a milestone for me, as it means I have now described over 100 frog species! I am very pleased that the 100th is Captain Janeway's Bright-eyed Frog, Boophis janewayae (if you count them in order of appearance in the paper)—she is probably my favourite captain, and I really love Star Trek: Voyager.
You can read more about the discovery of these new species on my website! You can also read the Open Access paper published in Vertebrate Zoology here.
#news#breaking news#Star Trek#new species#science#animals#WAKE UP BABE NEW FROGS JUST DROPPED#Boophis#Boophis janewayae#Boophis burnhamae#Boophis siskoi#Boophis pikei#Boophis archeri#Boophis kirki#Boophis picardi#in which nerds bring their nerdiness to work#Engage#WERE YOU WATCHING THIS SPACE?#THE FINAL FRONTIER?#DID YOU GET THE REFERENCE‽#Every time I have used that tag it has made me giddy with glee#you thought I was just goofin'#but I was FORESHADOWING#There's frogs in that nebula
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The US government is suing Adobe for allegedly hiding expensive fees and making it difficult to cancel a subscription. In the complaint filed on Monday, the Department of Justice claims Adobe “has harmed consumers by enrolling them in its default, most lucrative subscription plan without clearly disclosing important plan terms.” The lawsuit alleges Adobe “hides” the terms of its annual, paid monthly plan in the “fine print and behind optional textboxes and hyperlinks.” In doing so, the company fails to properly disclose the early termination fee incurred upon cancellation “that can amount to hundreds of dollars,” the complaint says.
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FNAF Monty and TADC Gummigoo are so alike!
#myart#chloesimagination#comic#fnaf#tadc#montgomery gator#fnaf monty#gummigoo#security breach#digital circus#fnaf ruin#tadc spoilers#fnaf ruin spoilers#fnaf fanart#tadc fanart#the amazing digital circus#five nights at freddy's#SILLY gators can not catch a break 😭#begging on my knees to stopping exploding the sillies 🐊🐊#I’m sorry to both Monty fans and gummigoo fans for this#I JUST HAD to make the comparison#they actually have a lot in common actually conceptually#like both technically being just code#and also probably not ‘dead’ and can return but it’ll be a new ver of them#these poor gators rip to both 😔
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THE BREAKFAST CLUB (1985)
+ IMDb trivia | in/sp.
#the breakfast club#thebreakfastclubedit#filmedit#80sedit#my edit#dailyflicks#userangelic#usermaguire#userallisyn#usersugar#useraurore#nessa007#userrlaura#userclara#usermandie#userchess#userlaro#userchristineb#userbeckett#usereri#userkayleigh#usersavana#userpunk#usersnat#tuserdana#No idea who to tag so feel free to ignore if I tagged you and this isn't your thang!#Me this morning: Sure I'll download a 2 GB movie to make a gifset!#Also my PS crashed halfway through making this... Breaking news: PS cannot handle a 2 GB file! Who knew?!
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someone in the tags of my last post pointed out that ford wouldnt know what the no fly list is because he wouldnt know about 9/11 so i immediately rushed to draw this as fast as i could
#who do you think had to break the news to him#gravity falls#ford pines#stan pines#mabel pines#dipper pines#fanart#my art
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People who try to analyze what happened on Tumblr on November 5th, 2020, often really overstate how much it was actually “about” Supernatural. As someone who has never been in the supernatural fandom ever but dID join in on the hysterical destielposting—it was really more about the stress of the pandemic and the 2020 presidential election.
The two biggest Youtubers I’ve seen try to dissect “what happened that November 5th” in video essays both weren’t American—- and I think that explains why they both tried to explain the hysteria primarily via analyzing the Supernatural fandom/the original show, rather than through the lens of the election. And while those videos are cool, valid, informational, and make lots of really well-considered interesting points— I can tell you that me and almost all my mutuals had literally no knowledge or interest in the fact that “oh supernatural had made nods at the ship in the past but the creators were adamant that I wouldn’t be canon” or etc etc etc etc. the first time I learned about any of that context was way later, watching videos where people claimed that fandom history context (that I did not know anything about) was the actual reason for the hysteria.
But the reality is that people latched on to the Destiel stuff because it was a piece of big useless inane zero-stakes fandom news in a time when we were desperately waiting for serious high stakes election news. We were latching onto a “positive “ piece of inane stupid fandom news in a time of great stress, with all the desperation of a drowning man who latches onto whatever piece of wood will keep him afloat.
The core of the hysteria was that Americans (who make up a huge chunk of tumblr’s userbase) were currently glued to their laptops watching the live presidential election vote counts come in. These vote counts were taking an extended amount of time due to the pandemic causing high numbers of mail-in ballots, resulting in a constant state of Election Day Stress for multiple days straight.
This was also during the height of the Pandemic. People had predicted Trump’s presidency would be bad; no one had predicted it would be this apocalyptically bad. No one had predicted pandemics and lockdowns and hospitals overflowing with bodybags. remember Trump spreading Covid lies and conspiracies?? There were so many Qanon conspiracies about democrats being Satanic child traffickers who had to be put to death, and coup threats were mounting from the right wing side. It seemed like this election was a choice between ‘centrist democrat’ and “apocalyptic right wing conspiracy theory authoritarianism,” in the midst of pandemic conditions that people feared would never ever improve— and it seemed like a close election.
Another major point was that Trump voters were more likely to be antimaskers/Covid deniers, while Biden voters were more likely to take the pandemic seriously— so Biden voters were more likely to send in mail-in ballots instead of risking the in-person voting crowds, which meant their ballots would take much longer to count. And so, in many state electoral vote counts, it would initially seem like Trump was very far in the lead— only for Biden to slooooowly build up an agonizingly small lead as the mail in ballots came in, and then defeat Trump at the very end.
So you’re just watching these news sites giving live election updates, refreshing the page every 2 minutes to see if you’re going to live under a spineless centrist democrat or a literal Qanon Dictatorship. And then you go on tumblr to distract yourself, and there’s more election posting, and more agonizing over the votes, and more stress and despair—-
And then it’s been days and we’re right at the crucial tipping point where it’s anyone’s game and the next few hours will determine whether Trump will win, so you need to keep your eye on the vote count, because the next hours will determine the future of the pandemic and your country and your plans for your entire life—
And then stupid Destiel becomes canon! And it becomes canon in the silliest way possible!
If Destiel had become canon at any other time, it would have been a big goofy tumblr celebration? But we wouldn’t have gotten the insane explosion of hysterical interaction.
The entire core of it was the contrast between the inane meaningless stupidity of fandom news vs the actual stressful election news you wanted to hear! It really is best conveyed in that meme where Castiel says “I love you” and Dean indifferently responds with a piece of important election news.
It’s about the contrast between the low-stakes inanity of fandom and the massive life-destroying stakes of a terrifying election. There really was no reason it had be Supernatural specifically, except that Supernatural was a thing everyone knew basic things about from dashboard osmosis— it could’ve been any other equally huge silly fandom ship news about a ship everyone *knew of* but might not necessarily be invested in (ex. Stucky becoming canon, Johnlock becoming canon, Kirk/Spock becoming more canon somehow, etc etc etc.)
I think it’s true that people who weren’t paying agonizingly close attention to the American election news got swept up in it, and that non American Supernatural fans also were extremely excited for purely fandom reasons — but the entire reason it blew up to an unprecedented degree was because of that core of stressed out terrified Americans glued to their computers watching election results and suddenly receiving stupid fandom news instead, and deciding to just hysterically parodically hyper-celebrate this absurd useless zero-stakes news.
I think it was also all elevated by the fact that, as I said before, this happened at the crucial “tipping point” of the election where the next few hours would determine the winner. The fact that Biden began to slowly develop a lead in the hours after made it feel, hysterically, as if the hours after Destiel became canon was somehow the turning point where he began to win; so celebrating Destiel felt like celebrating that slow turn towards victory.
The tl,dr is that it’s so important to Remember the Fifth of November …..in preparation the inevitable hysteria that will happen in the presidential election on November 5th of next year. XD. Personally I’m rooting for Johnlock or Frodo/Sam to somehow become canon in the eleventh hour right before the democrats win
#November 5th#november 5 2020#the fifth of november#just a random ramble#November 5th 2020 is such an important day to me#it really is a holiday#but it does confuse me when I see people analyzing it primarily as a supernatural thing#instead of a ‘hysteria over an election reaches a breaking point when inane zero stakes fandom news comes out and we all latch onto it’thing#but yeah!!#this is my personal essay out of love for the holiday
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"The Tech Guild is asking readers to honor the digital picket line and not play popular NYT Games such as Wordle and Connections as well as not use the NYT Cooking app."
#destiel#new york times#wordle#connections#nyt#union#unionization#strike#castiel#dean winchester#breaking news
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