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we used to have normalized whump. remember what they took from you....

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great night on hockey twitter for caps fans

#hockey #xD I don't go here but these are objectively funny

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PresAux, during That Scene: Please just come out of the bathroom and talk with us. 🥺

Secunit: *comes out of the bathroom, has a hissy fit, starts a verbal slap fight with the menacing (at the time) transport that abducted them*

PresAux: 😬 Do you...do you maybe wanna go back in the bathroom for a minute?

#the murderbot diaries

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(for the purposes of this poll, there is no monkey's paw situation: the chore you pick stays the same level of difficulty/grossness/etc. as it normally is for you, and you only have to do it as often as you want to. the chores you don't pick are magically done for you exactly the way you'd want them to be, just with zero effort on your part.)

#oh dishes #absolutely the dishes #when you're doing dishes no one will interrupt you #they see the earbuds in #the concentration #the steam and water and all that goodness #nah I'll keep doing the dishes and wiping down the counter and putting away the dishes

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Alternates for the Loblaws boycott: Explore Altgrocery.ca, a crowdsourced platform facilitating the discovery of independent grocers, bakeries, country markets, international stores, and local farmers’ markets in Canada. Navigate through provinces or cities with our interactive map to find unique shopping destinations near you.

#I recommended a few places ^^;

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While I’m sitting here posting all the things I found this morning I’m reminded I wanted to say: if you’re looking for a New Year’s resolution that’s easy to stick to this year I have a great idea for you! Go make an iNaturalist account! It’s easy, it’s free, it’s on both desktop and an app! Just upload pictures, you can even upload it with your best guess as to what something is (you can even put something like “flower” or “mushroom” or “bird” if you really have no clue) and there’s usually some people in the community who go around and help you label it with a more specific identification. (And of course you can take a look at local observations and try to help others identify!)

While I always recommend going on more hikes and into your local natural ecosystems, I know this is also not always the easiest or most accessible thing for everyone. But the great thing is that it really doesn’t take much to start observing and learning about your local species! Take a picture of that bird in the parking lot, that plant growing out of the crack in the sidewalk, that worm on the ground, that mushroom on a small patch of grass, that spider in the backyard! The options are more endless than you think! And if you’re really struggling to take pictures yourself, just browse local areas in iNaturalist; take a look at what other people in your area are observing! It’s still a great way to learn about native plants, animals, insects, fungi, etc… You really don’t know how something you might find in your every day life might be something special and unique to the ecosystem around you, and even the most common species can become exciting to see when you know what it is.

Go forth and fill your 2024 with biodiversity!

#inaturalist

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saw some good trees yesterday

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Optimus Prime contemplating life by a babbling brook is now available on society 6 as a print and the original painting is available on etsy! A great repurposed print of a farmstead made infinitely better by 80’s robot warrior/statesmen.

#optimus prime #g1 #maccadam

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okay well ACTUALLY i will elaborate on my Whirl feelings. fandom tends to parse 'I want my hands back' as Whirl very specifically being upset he has claws, because they are assumed to be less functional, and broadly that he wants a body which is not empurata'd again. but as I said in this post, we know people who underwent empurata can get new hands and faces- perfectly good ones. tarn used to be damus and damus was a victim of it too, and they got the guy a whole new body! there's no way that with ratchet as autobot CMO, he would not be insistent that they make time and find resources for any empuratee who wants new hands or a new face at SOME point throughout the war. let alone now it's over.

but they would be new ones. the point is that when whirl says 'i want my hands back' he doesn't (just) literally mean 'i want hands again instead of claws', or even 'i want the original hands i was forged with back'. i would argue he means he wants to go back to the person he used to be before the shit he went through beat him into a new shape he hates. (because whirl reeeeally hates himself. we are literally introduced to him during a suicide attempt as his defining character moment, i mean…) but he can't, because that's not possible, and getting new hands won't magically make him the person he was when he was a watchmaker even if it'd make it easier to make watches again.

and that's why whirl doesn't get new hands or a new face! because it's scary to admit that doing so doesn't make him the person he once was again, and if he did it and was still the same damn person, it would be that ultimate proof that nothing he does will ever acheive this. it's safer to remain as he is in a body he hates than to change it and not actually have solved the underlying issue.

it's also why he rejects the offer of ratchet's hands in LL #25. at that point, he has been able to accept the person he now is and will always be going forward, so they no longer carry the same symbolism. sure, that means he could choose to take them without fear, but it also means he can reject them as not really necessary anymore, and i think it makes the most sense for whirl's arc that he chooses the latter, tbh.

(sidenote: especially worth noting we never actually see if whirl can't make watches with his claws. he can at least make clocks! i've seen people suggest you can interpret it as him actually being perfectly capable with his current frame and he doesn't want to admit it and learn a new way because *points at above*, and honestly, intentional reading or not, i fully buy this. i like to imagine post-canon, he's perfectly good at making them with his current hands, because now he's not so hung up on all that baggage that teaching himself the necessary new techniques is unbearable to consider like it was before. this also has the bonus of mitigating some of the comic's uhhh. confusing? messaging around forged/constructed stuff and disability, so i'll take it.)

#whirl #mtmte #maccadam #meta #oo what interesting ideas thank you op

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Saw this meme for Hannibal and thought of Murderbot…

#the murderbot diaries

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Im curious.

#Yes #When the father died in that netflix 'lost in space' #I don't care if he *spoiler* I completely lost respect and interest in the show after that point #It took me a good year before I picked it up again and found out what *spoiler* was in the next episode #This is the first (and so far) only time this has happened to me tho : p

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im kinda bored of this whole computers thing. i think tomorrow im gonna go outside and see if i find some kind of creature to look at

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you know there actually is a meaningful difference between 'men's' and 'women's' deodorant beyond the selection of scents. 'mens' plays better with pit hair and doesn't pill up in it and 'womens' tends to have a more powdery finish to help prevent chafing. so really the two genders are actually hairy and bald.

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Victor Nizovtsev

#art #ohh the colors and textures #a treat for the eyes

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Hey yall bc I've been keeping an eye on this the Itch.Io bundle for the PCRF is now live

they had an issue last week with itch.io so they had to postpone opening for a few days but for those who wanted to d/ona/te it's here!

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a wikipedia poem on software entropy

#poetry

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Pool.

#prowl #idw #maccadam