#it’s unfortunate really

[nemesis-is-my-middle-name]

that article going around abt firefox's new ad program is annoying bc it's phrased as though "mozilla has finally TURNED on its people and is SELLING YOU OUT for cold hard cash!!" when. that's not what's happening. it is specifically being implemented to discourage tracking behavior, and literally all the data they are giving to advertisers is aggregate and anonymized, which is like, the opposite of what that post wants you to worry about, lol

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Expertise can't help you here.

[sunbloomdew]

do you ever see a person and you are overcome with incredible fondness? and you just think "oh." but not in a romantic or sexual way you are just filled with warmth and it makes you happy, it just does. and you think "i'm so happy you exist. i'm happy you are somewhere out there in the world, doing your thing". it's love but also not entirely

like people are lovely and i feel it in my entire chest like a burning candle that smells like roses and a sunny day

[blanketforcas]

i think what saves me from a lot of discourse is that i'm simply Not Reading All That

[bbibbirose]

Why is season 2 literally a sitcom

[dvrtrblhr]

study of waldmuller's portrait of louise mayer, but featuring edelgard. it might look like i deviated a lot from the original, but actually the whole skin is pretty much based on it.

i wish i had more time to refine this... but i have so much to do today (and i got distracted by dmcl what's new)

[listen-to-the-inner-walrus]

so in an attempt to actually use positive thinking, anytime i fuck up and my brain reacts as if ive cause a minor apocalyptic event, i compare my fuck up to the 4 minute fuck up committed by the crew of the uss william d porter.

and only today, as i was having to explain what happened to my mom when i was explaining the whole comparison thing, did i realise that most people dont know about it and ive decided that needs to change because its objectively hilarious.

...which is a weird thing to say about an event that occured on a warship in 1943, specifically november 14th.

see the uss william d porter was a fletcher-class destroyer but you dont need to know what that means, just that she had guns that went bang bang and that she was escorting another ship, the uss iowa, to cairo.

while they were on their way there, they performed some gun trials like testing the anti-aircraft guns or the torpedos. and while they were running a torpedo drill, the crew of the porter managed to fire a live torpedo straight at the iowa which you know, in terms of a list of things to do while escorting a ship, shooting a torpedo at them is not on that list.

especially if the president of the united states is on board.

yeah so fdr was on board and the gun trials were actually his idea, and part of the trials was that they were conducted under radio silence.

and that means the crew of the porter couldnt just call the iowa to be like "move out the way, we accidentally shot a torpedo at you."

but they did have signal lamps and you know, the signalman on board was trained to signal this exact kind of message.

...and uh never mind, the signalman did manage to successfully tell the iowa that a torpedo was coming toward them but wasnt as successful when it came to the direction the torpedo was coming from.

not all hope is lost though because the signalman could still use the signal lamp to correct his previous mistake and-, never mind, he announced that the porter was reversing, which she wasnt.

yeah so at catastrophic mistake number 3, they broke radio silence to warn the iowa and she managed to turn out of the way just in time which meant no one got hurt. and even though the inquiry into the incident led to chief torpedoman (fantastic job title btw) lawton dawson being sentences to hard labour, fdr intervened and waved away his sentence, saying it was all an accident.

but yeah, so thats my new measure for "how much did i really fuck up?" and when i compared accidentally picking up a pencil case without a tag on it in wilko, turns out it was a very minor fuck-up. yes, the cashier had to ask another worker to grab a duplicate so they could scan the barcode, but i didnt nearly kill the president during wartime via accidental friendly fire

[wellship]

"Don't you ever shut up-!?"

[kat]

so paramount has added "heartthrob" shirts to the official star trek merch site. there are only a few options, and i would love to know how they decided which characters to feature. like what market research was conducted. who did they ask. i'm not saying they're wrong though bc here are the two deep space nine ones:

[darkmuffinstudios]

Completely forgot to post this a while back, my bad

Have a passive nightmare design that I made + Nightmare suddenly realizing he’s a single bachelor /lh

[mikaikaika]

Tubbo ending stream with saying "Also I'm not actually homophobic, I just make jokes and if you see someone saying I'm homophobic please correct them. I mean I have had two boyfriends before sooo........that kinda puts that to bed right...........cause they've put me to bed so you know anyways goodnight byeeee"

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[turtletoria]

one downside to digital mediums of art is that you cant see the tear stains (they just slide down the screen)

[tubbytarchia]

got an urge to design ponies oops

[tiniest-hands-in-all-the-land]

Me, a first time FFXIV player: I'm really interested in that Emet Selch guy; just based on design, i think he'll be my fave :D

Haurchefant: *hits me with a semi truck*

[egophiliac]

now that I can think semi-coherently again...whooooo's ready for Friday WEEHOO

[time-slink]

glasswing butterfly.. :)