I managed to secure a pass to GDC for this year but I need help paying for a hotel & flight!

This would be the first major industry event I've had to opportunity to attend and it'd be a boon to my career!

I managed to secure a pass to GDC for this year but I need help paying for a hotel & flight!

This would be the first major industry event I've had to opportunity to attend and it'd be a boon to my career!

I managed to secure a pass to GDC for this year but I need help paying for a hotel & flight!

This would be the first major industry event I've had to opportunity to attend and it'd be a boon to my career!

I thoroughly believe men should be loved the way women are expected to be loved. Shampoo his hair for him in the shower and rinse it out for him. Pull him to your chest and play with his hair when he’s feeling sad or sleepy. Take him out to dinner and pay for his meal. Bring him little surprise gifts. Kiss his forehead and temple when you see him. Let him be the little spoon and hold onto him like he’s everything to you. Be obsessed with him, treat him with all the love you expect to be treated with.

WE DID IT BABYYYYYYY

YEAHHHHHHHH

ok seeing some people not sure what this means so to summarize it:

hypothetically speaking, if we could produce nuclear fusion on a commercial scale it would provide us with totally clean and practically unlimited energy. no radiation, no pollution, just energy. fusion is actually the process that powers the sun itself, so scientists have been attempting to recreate fusion for decades because it's essentially the 'holy grail' of clean energy sources.

up until now, while we've technically been able to recreate fusion, it has always taken more energy to actually make fusion occur compared to the energy the reaction puts out. but now we've finally had a reaction happen where it produced more energy than it cost. meaning that nuclear fusion is going to be seen as a fully viable and possible energy resource, so more funding will be put into it to try and improve the process. we're still decades away from potentially using it as an energy source, but this is a HUGE step towards unlimited energy with no environmental repercussions

here's an article on it!

thought this was neat

The fact that this has made it to twitter makes me upset, because as neat as professional hog groomer’s story is, the original mocked tweet wasn’t that. It was a very long and nuanced explanation of why other people might claim it was ableist, where the issues could be, and how there might or might not be consent violations as part of the issue. That original poster also said specifically that they didn’t necessarily agree the original act of bringing food over was ableist! They were just explaining the conversation and one side of it as a fellow disabled person!

And that’s why the original thread was so long (you can’t see that here but that was part of the mocking) because it was nuanced and being clear they didn’t necessarily agree and they knew if they weren’t super thorough they’d be misconstrued! And yet, they were misconstrued anyway, their argument boiled down to “look how long this person took to explain this ridiculous thing!”, and harassed to the point of having to go private!

thought this was neat

if on something like giving the option of a gift of food you are like “but what if i AM crossing a boundary/being rude” i’ll share an exchange between my therapist and myself i often think of:

me: “i just want to respect their boundaries”

therapist: “you can’t respect boundaries when they haven’t expressed them. those aren’t their boundaries, those are your assumptions.”

You ever think about how unified humanity is by just everyday experiences? Tudor peasants had hangnails, nobles in the Qin dynasty had favorite foods, workers in the 1700s liked seeing flowers growing in pavement cracks, a cook in medieval Iran teared up cutting onions, a mom in 1300 told her son not to get grass stains on his clothes, some girl in the past loved staying up late to see the sun rise.

there are scriptures all over the world painstakingly crafted hundreds of years ago with paw prints and spelling mistakes or drawings covering up mistakes. a bunch of teenage girls 2000 years ago gathered to walk around their hometown, getting fast food and laughing with their friends. two friends shared blankets before people lived in houses. a mother ran a fine comb through her child’s hair and told it to stop squirming sometime in the 1000s. there are covered up sewing mistakes in couture dresses from the 1800s, some poor roman burnt their food so well past recognition that they just buried the entire pot. there are broken dishes hidden in gardens of people no one even remembers anymore

children eleven thousand years ago enjoyed jumping around in puddles made from the footprints of a giant sloth. children loved muddy puddles so long ago there were still megafauna alive

There’s a record of an emperor of Japan in the 9th century talking about his cat - how pretty it is, and how it stalks birds and curls up in a circle and meows mournfully for company and escaped its collar. All completely normal ordinary cat things. And then it ends with him saying “it is superior to all other cats”. I am delighted to be united across 1200 years with this fellow cat owner with exactly the same feelings about his cat that I have about mine.