I am extremely online but in like the Loser Way. if you try to make me use instagram or tiktok I fumble around with it like a grandma who has never seen a phone before. if you send me a tumblr screenshot however, I will tell you that not only have I already seen the original post but that I’m mutuals with OP
If you were wondering what I lost in the the big Moriarty Glitch Incident…. this.
Don’t worry I can make it again!
Aren’t you worried about the whole Geneva convention thing with the Red Cross on watson’s arm band?
Eeh.
The Red Cross symbol has been used since 1864 to denote in times of armed conflict that military nurses and doctors are protected under the Geneva Conventions.
Video game developers have got into trouble for using it to evoke the general concept of “health pack” or “medical kit” because those uses dilute the meaning of that symbol, and the Red Cross doesn’t want that.
I think that is very different to using it in a historical setting to denote that a character has actually been volunteering for the Red Cross as a military doctor.
I’m assuming the Red Cross had an issue with that sort of thing they would go after things like the BBC’s period drama ‘The Crimson Field’ and the other gazillion historical works of fiction set in WW1 that have nurses and doctors wearing historical uniforms before they come after a small indie game that will be lucky if it sells 100 copies.
We all know Gul Dukat is an irredeemable monster, and that’s why we love to hate him, but somehow I never give enough thought to the fact that he straight-up murdered a Cardassian politician’s wife and kidnapped his son, just in the off chance that he might need political leverage at some point in the indeterminate future. And everyone on DS9 knows it, but he just hangs around all the time anyway and they’re all like, “ugh, this fucking guy,” and they just roll their eyes and fix his ship for him. This is why DS9 is the best Star Trek.
It’s only because they can’t pitch him out of an airlock due to the Political Ramifications. But you know they sit around talking about how they could maybe, possibly figure out how to make it look like an accident.
Not all of them at once, mind you. This is definitely a regular topic of conversation between Kira and Dax when they are having girl’s nights, especially after that episode where Garak called Dukat out for having a crush on Kira.
Julian and Miles talk about it while playing darts, and occasionally get drive-by advice on why their ideas suck by Quark.
Odo is much too Law & Order to have these conversations, though when he happens to overhear a particularly viable plan he casually mentions a convenient hole in the terrible, unfixable Cardassian-made security system to relevant persons.
Sisko pretends these discussions do not happen and makes his Space Dad face whenever Dax tries to engage him in this fun game (It’s just a thought experiment, Benjamin!). A few times, maybe two or three, Dax has been able to get him just tipsy enough to stop being Space Dad and instead be Mentee Benjamin again. That’s when she realizes that he has not only thought out a good half dozen deeply intricate and highly possible scenarios, but that there are encrypted holosuite programs involved and an isolinear chip hidden in his quarters that is mysteriously almost full, yet the only file on it is a jazz album from the late 2200s.
In the end, Dukat falling into the chasm of the Pagh Wraiths was him getting off light.
my favorite part in attack of the clones is when obi-wan just fucks off to play space nancy drew on Clone Rain Planet with the alarming giraffe-necked aliens and swans in like “HELLO IT’S ME, the jedi who definitely… … was here before and probably, uh, spoke to you, and stuff” and theyre like “ah you are here for the order” and hes like “beg pardon” and theyre like “the order of millions of identical human men?” and hes like “RIGHT YES. ABSOLUTELY I AM HERE FOR THE ORDER OF MILLIONS OF IDENTICAL HUMAN MEN”
and then later when he SNEAKS INTO A CORNER TO FUCKING… facetime yoda… like “ok so we have these millions of identical human men who were apparently suspiciously ordered for us by someone???” and yodas fucking response is just “when countless sapient lemons life gives you…….. send those lemons into intergalactic battle you must”
and obi-wan’s like “shit man you’re so right"
There literally isn’t a frame of this scene where Obi-Wan doesn’t look confused as hell
why do they always show cranberries in thos big pits n its implied its wet and possibly swimmable. do cranberries really grow like that. wh
You’ve never heard of The Bog?
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EACH ADDITION TO THIS POST MAKES MY BLOOD RUN COLD
This is a cranberry bog (unflooded) it’s how cranberries grow. Once they’re ripe, the blog is flooded and the cranberries harvested.
Basically by using big floaty things to round them all up and then scooping them out of the water.
thank u. i hate it a little less but the horrible little man in my head is still screaming “BOG BODY BOG BODY BOG BODY”, but i appreciate the education,
oh here is a fun lil perspective on cranberry harvesting i never heard about anywhere else. the guy who owns the restaurant right down the road from the farm, who fries our chickens sometimes, is from Boston, with the strongest Boston accent ever, and in a former life before he started slinging reasonably priced barbeque and occasional organic chicken, he was a cranberry farmer.
His farm was on the leading edge of kinda using organic/sustainable pest control methods, and one of the things that they did to keep insect damage down was that they encouraged wolf spiders to live in the cranberry field, to eat the bugs.
This was all fine and good until they flooded the bog. Now, you don’t just like flood the bog and then go around it in a boat or whatever. No, you use hip waders to get in there and put the big floaty things where they go and get all the berries and such.
Well when you’re in the bog in hip waders, that makes you the tallest thing. Wolf spiders can swim a bit, but they don’t like it, so they’re, quite understandably, looking to climb out of the water onto a tall thing.
So yeah the first interview question he always asked potential cranberry bog harvester hires was “are you cool with spiders?”
“You’d be amazed,” he said to us, shaking his head a little, “how many guys would just straight lie. Like, you think I’m asking you that question to be cute? Nah man you’re gonna have like a hundred wolf spiders trying to climb your eyebrows, you gotta be chill, those wolf spiders are fellow employees. You really gotta be chill with spiders if you’re gonna work a cranberry harvest.”
happy international workers day to the cranberry bog spiders
I want any cranberry farmers reading this to know, really truly know, that “are you cool with spiders” is not a specific enough question for this situation.
Official Post of Massachusetts
Ope! I couldn’t help but notice that someone tried to claim this post for the US’s 2nd leading producer of cranberries…
But Massachusetts produces less than half the annual yield of number 1. Wisconsin’s the leading producer of cranberries in the world, don’tcha know!
Official Post of Wiscosin, you betcha!
Wisconsin’s cranberry farms are all uniform factory farmed garbage. Massachusetts bogs work with the landscape and always have. More is not better! Your bogs have no soul and aren’t haunted like ours are
I know you have all probably seen the esims for gaza posts circulating. Some of you have probably looked at them and thought maybe you should help out, but have weighed up the daunting process of signing up for something you’re unfamiliar with vs. the gut-wrenching scale of the things people are going through on the ground right now, and you’ve put it off or questioned whether it will make enough of a difference vs. some other future kind of activism you could put that $6+ towards. I’m not calling you out or scolding you, it is natural to feel conflicted and ambivalent about the multiple calls for aid that you are seeing on social media.
but consider this: what would you do if you suddenly had to leave your home? how would you cope? how would you begin to plan where to go next, or figure out what to do to take care of yourself? most likely you would reach reflexively for your phone.
telecoms access is not a petty luxury in 2024. a loaded esim means the ability to call family members and find out where they are and whether they’re safe, and whether they need anything you can provide for them. it means access to maps and regular updates on the situation unfolding around you. it means you can look up whether it’s safe to drink rain water, or how to tie a type of knot you’ve never had to think about before, or how to treat an injury without medical supplies. it means the ability to tell people outside the situation what you are seeing, what you are feeling, what you are thinking. it is an absolutely crucial resource. and it starts at $6 for 7 days.
many many people have observed that internet access is changing the way the world understands genocide. internet access is life or death, and it is shaping modern history in front of you. and it starts at $6 for 7 days.
please, please visit gazaesims.com and spend 5 minutes and $6 to change the way this plays out for everyone.
this is a really critical material thing you can do for people right now, as palestinians including doctors, journalists, teachers and parents are in the midst of the longest telecoms blackout to date. phone and internet access in a humanitarian crisis is lifesaving.
