Roll Deep, Rise High

so much of the french revolution is just various people going "surely committing THIS act of violence/murder will end all the suffering and bloodshed and usher in peace!" followed by a summary of how everything immediately escalated and got even worse afterward. and somehow this website's takeaway is "clearly acts of violence and murder are the only way to end suffering and usher in peace!"

I don't know guys I think we might actually have to actually put in effort and not conflate working toward a better society with seeking personal catharsis.

Just one more mass purge bro just one more mass purge the utopia will totally work if we just indiscriminately kill a few thousand more random people just one more purge

“It's all well and good to say that you can't make an omelette without breaking eggs, but (ignoring for the moment that people are arguably owed more consideration than eggs) a large chunk of the 20th century was a sustained and furious festival of egg-crushing and egg-trampling that resulted in precisely zero omelettes.” — o-craven-canto, posted 2024/02/22

This extra bullshit long color of the sky post is legally acceptable justification for murder in over 100 countries

contemplating increasingly complex technological solutions for setting up a cat flap that will act as a one-way tully valve between 4am and 10am (letting tully out of my room but not back in, so she doesn't come stand on my face to wake me up at 6:30) but let zeezee move freely. i did stick an rfid tag on zeezee recently, so perhaps an rfid reader? the two cats are different colors so opencv blob detection might also not work too badly if i can illuminate them adequately. obviously i have enough projects already but i keep thinking abt this one every time tully wakes me up at stupid o'clock by sticking her cold wet nose in my eye socket or her paws down my neck.

my therapist makes fun of me (deservedly!!!) for always attempting to solve my problems by writing code and/or constructing a contraption about it but in my defense i'm a robotics engineer that's like my whole deal

kachow

oh hell yes that's exactly what i -- oh my god that cat flap is $600

It's not cheap but afaik it's the only one on the market that doesn't rely on a hub (can work offline), and has an API for hobbyists. I'm contemplating getting one similarly for a bedroom door!

I've accidentally made myself useful at work by the combination of:

So now all the physicists come to me with engineering questions and all the engineers come to me with physics questions. It's a really fun dynamic!! I simultaneously have a degree of authority/power and yet I am beholden to everyone who needs me. Selfless and selfish together, happy to serve and yet elevated by service. Honestly kind of thrilling! I'm very normal.

hr moneys saving libraries… literally nice

oh boy oh boy I sure hope it has opinions about american football

oh boy oh boy I sure hope it has opinions about american football

i love murderbot's constant habit of being like. what they just said was mean. not that it hurt my feelings because i don't have feelings i'm not a stupid human. but it was mean. they're mean and i hate them. but not because they're mean. just because they're stupid. but don't be mistaken. what they said was mean.

Once you learn about even the bare basics of traffic engineering you start noticing the problems everywhere. Especially in North America you go down the street in your everyday life and you’re like damn this place was designed to maximize human misery huh

You step into an average parking lot and you’re like damn you could fit a transit center, a housing development, and a whole other shopping center in here but they won’t do that because they hate fun

This six lane stroad with an unprotected sidewalk could easily be turned into a two lane with a protected bike path and a tram with some trees over the walking paths but they won’t do that because everybody around here hates fun

Imagine the surreal insanity of being Irina Petrova and just hanging out having a hobby that you're very intense about and then you notice something weird and then all at once your name is one of the most uttered in history, by total accident. In the movie universe they describe her as a "radio telescope enthusiast" she does not even do this professionally. And suddenly everything is Petrova line, Petrova frequency, Petrova wavelength, Petrovascope, Petrova Task Force, Petrova problem. And you're like man. I have a day job.

I think there's a great chance the existence mirrors/reflective surfaces silently fucks Rocky up.

Like, Grace is in the bathroom, shaving, the curtain pulled to the side and suddenly he stops and says "stop touching my stuff". Rocky, frozen, somewhere behind him, can't fathom how Grace sensed that. He was so quiet. The razor is so loud. Grace's still facing away from him. What the fuck.

Grace repairing some panel or other and asks for a tool. Without even turning around, he says "no, not that one, the one to its left". Rocky's like are you shitting me. I know for a fact your hearing is ass. You can only see in one direction and I'm not in it!! What?!

#i wonder if he'd be equally alarmed by shadows

@neonthebright oh my god you're onto something

ive been asked to comment on the recent news of petra parkers coming out as a woman. petra is a press worker at the daily bugle, a photographer, who i have had several 1-on-1 meetings with, and worked with in the past.

to be honest, this is not news to me! petra and i have been close for some time, and she confided this in me a while ago. im very happy for her, and i personally just hope the transition doesnt affect her god-like camera skills.

all this news has also called my own gender into question. id like to state for the record, that i am trans. i have been for years now. i will continue to be trans! no branding will change thats where i make my money

you make money?

due to not having a lawyer and being 15 when i signed the marketing deal with sony, not much!

Usually when the electrician goes 'hey.... there's something you should see' it's because someone set up shoddy wiring. This time it was because he pulled two snakes out of my wall

one of the best sentences I've read on Wikipedia

This is my first time drawing one of these in tutorial form, I hope you like it. Join along if you can. Let’s draw some real art today✨

You ever think about many peices of media have zero women and thats just perfectly normal but if a peice of media has an all female cast people get... like that? Women should be allowed to kill over this btw