raccooncomic

210. Podcast

kiophen

solo jazz suicune

kiophen

there are a lot of people reblogging this again and tagging it with "wow.. this kind of looks like that one cup" again. you guys would not believe what "solo jazz" means

rainbow-femme

“To protect their copyright, streaming sites do not allow for screenshotting of any kind.”

Hey remember VHS where you bought a box to plug into your tv and you could legally record whatever was playing and then own it for free forever

angelofthemornings-deactivated2

I cannot emphasize enough that you not only COULD, it was ENCOURAGED. Blank video tapes for recording whatever you wanted were available everywhere and it was hard to miss the record button on the machines. They also deliberately designed stuff like VHS players that you could tell when to start recording things - as a kid I'd tell the player to record the cartoon channel beginning at 6 or 7 and then sleep in and watch the tape later - and then they would tell you how to do it in the owner's manual, this was no secret. You were SUPPOSED TO record shows you wanted to keep or that you wouldn't be home for to watch later.

dukeofankh

The essential piece of information missing here is that the people who made the VHS machines and the people who made the TV channels were, and I cannot stress this enough, different people.

Like, of course Disney didn't used to want you to record their stuff for free and watch it forever. When VHS home recording came out, the companies that invented it were...sued! Of course they were!

It's just that the TV companies lost the lawsuit. It was deemed that once the signal got to your house legally you could do whatever the hell you wanted with it as long as it was for personal noncommercial use. It would have probably gone differently if the TV companies had the ability to detect whether you were recording them and then shut the signal off.

Like, I am 100 percent on the side of "you should be able to keep and own stuff permanently, I just also think there's a limit to how much breathless mythmaking about the halcyon days of the early nineties I can handle before it starts drifting into low-key misinformation.

nudityandnerdery

I want you to remember:

The fascists hate you too and they just will pretend otherwise until after they've killed the rest of us, before they turn on you.

nudityandnerdery

Thanks to whoever tried, but I knew they'd never allow it.

library-graffiti

Let's do it the old fashioned way. Spread it far and wide.

victusinveritas

Reminder: you can't be the whole wall against stopping fascism by yourself. Nobody can. But you damn sure can be a brick.

nudityandnerdery

There's a lot of good comments and tags in the notes, but this one is very important, I feel like it deserves some emphasis.

Part of how authoritarianism works is telling you that you can't stop it. And you can't stop it by yourself. But it wants to stop the train of thought there and let you fall into despair.

You need to remember the next part: you don't have to stop it by yourself.

You're not alone. Take care of your community and let your community take care of you. Supporting each other is so vital.

ayeforscotland

As we see a barrage of evil executive orders come in, they are not immediately enforceable and will takes months or years to implement.

That’s still not great, but don’t let these pile up to the point of hopelessness. Take a breath, and look community leaders who will fight it every step of the way.

everentropy

Reminder that when Trump was in office before a LOT of his orders got overturned or held up in lower courts for long enough that they became irrelevant. It also does not mean they WILL be enforced. Stand with your community where you can. The fight is not over. Do not obey in advance.

ayeforscotland

Last sentence above is the most important. Tyranny requires people to shut up and fall in line. Do not obey in advance.

dimetrodone

Been reading about various weird species (for character reasons) lately, and there’s a lot of species of invertebrate or plants that are dioecious/ have separate male and female organisms that you would never expect.

dimetrodone

The vast majority of echinoderms (starfish, sea urchins, sea cucumbers etc) .

Half of snails and slugs, which feels weird cause the vast majority of terrestrial species don’t.

Mistletoe, holly, willow, kiwis, spinach, cannabis etc.

Quaking aspens (Pando is apparently male)

Portuguese man-o-wars??? They are colonial organisms with zooids that are used soley for reproduction but but an “individual” colony is either male or female

Box Jellyfish, who I recently found out don’t fertilize externally like most other cnidarians but instead the male inseminates the female and is also ovoviviparoous and gives live birth (to very tiny larva but still not what I expected..)

dimetrodone

I feel the opposite way reading about hamlet fish

bogleech

Walking up to just any type of couple like hey so which one of you is the horny ass pansexual genderfluid fish that likes when people watch and which one of you is the other identical horny ass pansexual genderfluid fish that also likes when people watch

assassin1513

✨The Beauty of Jupiter ✨

teathattast

thefurriestofchows

oh,

oh this is absolutely beautiful

wakingfromthewater

I saw some James Webb Telescope scientists give a talk and one of them said this was her favorite image because she had waited and worked 25 years to see this.

gsirvitor