No Alvin I don't think you can say that word, I know it's part of the original lyrics but Simon is right you're gonna make a lot of people uncomfortable

How very depressing that Neil Gaiman had trended not even a tiny bit for demonstrating what a fucking horrific person he is.

As a reminder, he's suing Caroline Wallner, one of his accusers, for breaking her NDA. Not for libel. He's saying she shouldn't have told anyone about it, not that she lied.

He doesn't need the money. He's risking the Streisand effect. He is punishing Caroline, he's trying to intimidate other victims who have signed NDAs to scare them into continued silence.

He is no friend to women, to the LGBTQIA+ community, to anyone quite frankly unless he thinks they are of value to him.

Share the story. Put it on Facebook and bluesky and whatever else you're on. Make it clear what a horrifying person he is. Tell your friends. He's paying Edendale a fortune to try and cover this up. Make this hard for him. Make it cost him money.

>‘this thing is too generic and tropey’

>look inside

>forefather of that genre

This was one of my introductions to military history. I was 14 and haven't ever really looked back. Big fan of star forts and Vauban.

Star forts like this were constructed after gunpowder became common in warfare! The elevated position plus the angled walls were designed to make it harder to just blow a hole in the wall with a big cannon, which is what happened to a lot of pre-gunpowder fortifications.

Easily starved when surrounded, soldiers inside eventually revolt from hunger and probable disease when you block their waste outlets, then it's just a waiting game with the occasional skirmish, maybe start fires periodically in blind spots to diminish morale, steer everyone elsewhere and decimiate stores of food and other needs, like our ancestors did this shit on a near regular basis, grenades still exist, traps are simple to set up, like the answer is usually a good combo of these with capable people, and in a slight derailing, like the billionaire bunkers, they'll still need air from the surface and no matter how many redundancies they're still too frugal to put enough in place to make shit invulnerable, nothing is impossible to lay siege to when the numbers are so vastly different between parties

Jasmine Vine, lead programmer of Hollow Knight & Silksong just transitioned!! I'm so happy for her!❤️🏳️‍⚧️

her bluesky header & icon are so cute too 🥰

nobody ever believes me when I list off all of the ways that humans are significantly less sexually dimorphic than people seem to believe and it drives me batshit insane. “you’re denying the biological reality of sex” well you’re sticking your fingers in your ears and saying lalalala every time anyone presents you with data that confirms that women and men aren’t really that different. and refusing to come to terms with the two-way relationship between the “biological” and “social” worlds. I think one of us is ignoring the biological sciences here and it isn’t me

Someone once told me my biology degree was fake because I said humans weren't sexual dimorphic.

A male human and a female human are roughly the same size and same coloration.

Meanwhile, male black widow spiders are brown and a tenth the size of females. Anglerfish females are a full foot long and have a bioluminescent protrusion on their heads; males are barely half an inch long with no bioluminescence or protrusions. Male elephant seals are ten times bigger than females and have massive snouts. Male orangutans have big jowls and neck sacs that look like goiters, while females look more like other apes. Peacocks have flashy coloration and a long tail that they can display. The females are brown and simple.

Humans aren't sexually dimorphic! You only know someone's gender because of cultural identifiers, like clothing or hair.

The big things for primate sexual dimorphism tend to be canine size and body size. Male primates in sexually dimorphic species tend to have HUGE canine teeth for better threat displays, and are bigger for similar reasons.

Lowland Gorilla males tend to be 2.38x on average the mass of Lowland Gorilla females. Humans? That ratio is something line 1.15.

Male gorilla canines tend to be about 2 inches long, easily twice the length of some of their other teeth. Male humans have canines the exact same length as human female canines and the exact same length as the rest of our teeth.

We are not particularly sexually dimorphic.

Dom Drop

when you have a cat you can experience sensations! some of them are soft. some of them are painful. many of them are wet

two Ghosts one Shell🤖 | Snegovski🐍

I didn't even know they had a category for that

Hollywood really could have that category

Zurg rants about Starbucks

Nope! Real moment that happened in the show, although in-context it wasn't about Starbucks directly.

I LOVE THIS MOMENT SO MUCH

GAY GAY HOMOSEXUAL GAY 🏳️‍🌈