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Queer music is impossible to define because we are not a monolith and we all have our own tastes and styles but it sure is not harry styles and taylor swift


text post from 6 hours ago

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Allow me to elucidate, @a-sour-nectarine

When most people "roll their eyes", they flick their eyes directly upward, usually as far as they comfortably go, then resume looking normally.

When someone who learned the phrase before the behavior does it, they usually go in a circular (ish) motion. Since most eye movements are lines, it's usually pretty triangular: the key points are usually a diagonal up one way, then to the far other side, then to a diagonal low the first way. Thus, the eyes basically make a loop, so they "rolled".

I've found that when people who learned the up-down way first try the circular motion, they might risk motion sickness, so experiment carefully.

WHAT DO YOU MEAN MOST PEOPLE JUST LOOK UP

IS THIS WHY PEOPLE THINK I’M ROLLING MY EYES WHEN I THINK AND LOOK UPWARD


text post from 6 hours ago

Why do fantasy RPGs always equate becoming a demon and making deals with demons with being evil? What if I just like the aesthetic. Maybe my demon girl is good aligned. Maybe she's just in it for the sweet horns


text post from 8 hours ago

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this is one of the best album arts of all time imo

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i cant believe i never put this shit together. the whole thing is a reference to the louvin bros cover lol. holy shit


text post from 8 hours ago

They’re also shooting for 100% renewable plastic sources by 2030! All of the soft plant/leaf elements in sets right now and going forward are made out of bioplastic made from sugarcane, and they’re working on getting the regular hard plastic bricks out of that, too.

They’ve done it, actually! The full bricks are in the prototype stage now, and are expected to be 100% biodegradable without the need for a commercial compost facility. It’s very cool. Right now they’re testing the durability and playability of the bricks and seeing what needs to be revised/reworked on their final model.

So its that easy huh

Of course it is

Actually, this isn’t “easy” and is huge news. You see, Lego is absolutely meticulous about their quality control. Their standards for manufacturing are stupidly high, as are their safety requirements. You know that distinctive “click” when you pop two Lego bricks apart? They engineered that. That sound is so distinctive that it can be used to tell genuine Lego bricks from counterfeits and it’s a sound that would be based on shape and material.

Furthermore, one of the hard requirements for a Lego brick is that it must be compatible with any other Lego brick. If I buy a set today and pull a set from the 1980s? Those bricks would fit together perfectly. This requires a huge amount of precision engineering and controls on manufacturing quality. (I can’t remember the source, but I’ve at least heard that once the brick molds wear to a certain point, they’re pulled from the line and either melted down or turned into construction material for Lego HQ. Point being, no one is getting their hands on a worn Lego mold)

Recycled and non-petroleum plastics are different from other plastic. The chemistry is different. The timing and process to use them is different. This has been a reason why more companies haven’t moved to them, because there’s a drop in quality for material (so they claim).

What Lego just did is completely obliterate that argument. The corporation with some of the strictest quality control requirements for plastic just kicked the basic foundation of the “bad quality” argument out from under it, because if they feel confident enough to guarantee the same experience as using a brick from over 40 years ago, if they are confident enough that they can meet their own metrics at a huge industrial scale….

Nobody else has any excuse.


text post from 8 hours ago

People are gonna be real upset when they realize mental disabilities often manifest physical problems as well and vice versa and that by hating each other the only people that benefit are the people seeking to eradicate us both


text post from 8 hours ago

"Apollinaire Joachim Kyélem de Tambèla [pictured above] – the current PM in Burkina Faso – is a contemporary of Thomas Sankara, and worked alongside Sankara rebuilding the country in the 1980s. The fact that he was selected by the military government to be PM is telling of the nature of this movement. Tambèla is quoted as saying, “I have already said that Burkina Faso cannot be developed outside the line drawn by Thomas Sankara”. Among the first actions of Tambèla and the current Burkinabe government were lowering government salaries, restoring relations with DPRK, and expanding relations with the Islamic Republic of Iran."

Quote taken from an article on English Al Mayadeen

Very exciting direction for the country, honestly

Article also discusses the various insurgencies in the Sahel, the support for a union by grass-roots groups, and how France controls West Africa through the CFA franc and ECOWAS

I found a great article on Hood Communist that further details the prime ministers history, the government's commitment to Sankarist ideals, popular mobilization against the insurgency, and plans to create a larger African federation with Mali


text post from 8 hours ago

machines and robots should be allowed to be depicted as feral. like we need more robot dogs just absolutely foaming at the mouth ready to murder you. too much media portrays machines as cold, logical beings and while that’s still cool we need more absolute beasts