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paperairplanemob · 9 days

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We are going to make this world a place worth living in. Each in our own ways. As Mr. Rogers said:

You always make each day a special day. You know how: By just your being you.

We are gonna be ok. We are going to thrive. We are going to make this world a place worth living in.

And then we’re gonna live in it.

“If you promise to stay alive just a little bit longer I promise that we are going to make this world a place worth living in by any means necessary. I ain’t giving up. I swear.”

Spotted in Clackamas, Oregon

#positivity #hopecore #why i love the internet

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paperairplanemob · 9 days

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my universes sphinx lore 🐈

#sphinxtaur #taur #furry #cattaur

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Hey OP is that a mechanical keyboard because I can give you Many Options on some replacement keycaps.

Also, respect.

what the fuck do you mean your keyboard doesnt have letters

We have no letters Kathleen!

#keyboard

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paperairplanemob · 9 days

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Reading a book about slavery in the middle-ages, and as the author sorts through different source materials from different eras, I am starting to understand why so many completely fantastical accounts of "faraway lands" went without as much as a shrug. The world is such a weird place that you can either refuse to believe any of it or just go "yeah that might as well happen" and carry on with your day.

There was this 10th century arab traveller who wrote into an account that the fine trade furs come from a land where the night only lasts one hour in the summer and the sun doesn't rise at all in the winter, people use dogs to travel, and where children have white hair. I don't think I'd believe something like that either if I didn't live here.

#the world is beautiful

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paperairplanemob · 10 days

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Why do we say that capitalism must be “dismantled”?

You’ll hear phrases like “Smash the state!” “Eat the rich!” and “Smash capitalism!”

And, yes, of course, but… :)

However relevant those sayings are, our work must be careful, highly organized and above all planned.

Because capitalism and all of its associated systems are not discrete, abstracted entities we can attack independently.

It is a structure, like a complicated machine with many thousands of working parts…

And right now it is connected to absolutely everything.

If we do this… [picks up huge hammer and smashes the machine]

Then a lot of vulnerable people will die.

The machine was built and improved and redesigned and patched over the course of generations. It is very good at its intended purpose, which is ultimately to generate profit.

Every human being alive today relies on the byproducts of the machine to survive, without exception.

The machine’s engineers want it to keep working like it does. In fact, they want to optimise it.

That will kill all remaining life on Earth.

So, we must destroy the machine, quickly and carefully

We must examine its deadly programs and mechanics and replace them with alternatives we built together.

The engineers don’t want us tampering with the machine.

However, we make it run…

So we can make it STOP. Together.

How will YOU help us to safely dismantle the machine?

iww.org

p.s. My computer is on its last legs. If you would like me to draw you a little cartoon and help me get a new computer, learn more at this post.

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paperairplanemob · 12 days

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I am never going to finish Smolblog at this rate.

Oh fuck I just realized that since Ghost is federating soon, and a lot of people moved their newsletters from substack to Ghost ... The means you will be able to get your newsletters as regular posts in Goblin 😍

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What you say?

So I have some unfortunate news for you, I just checked, and it turns out that all your base are belong to me. Sorry about that.

Hold on. Let me check.

...OH MY GOD SOMEONE SET US UP THE BOMB!

#all your base are belong to us

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paperairplanemob · 13 days

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Humans are unstoppable...Until they aren’t.

I’m not the most eloquent writer, but I’ve had this idea kicking around for a while and figured I’d put it out into the universe.

A lot of the basis for the “humans are space orcs” stuff is the idea that we’re pretty durable compared to many species, yeah? When it comes to physical trauma, we can bounce back from most things that don’t kill us outright, especially given the benefit of hypothetical space-age technology, and adrenaline is one heck of a drug when it comes to functioning under stress.

But that doesn’t make us unkillable, and even though we can survive debilitating injuries and not die from shock, it doesn’t mean it’s fun. Dying of shock sucks, but at least it’s probably quick.

So - Imagine a ship, adrift in space, slowly being drawn into a star or something. In order to save the ship, someone has to repair the hyper-quantum-relay-majig on the hull or in the engine or whatever. Bit of a problem though- there’s a ton of deadly, deadly radiation (Wrath of Khan style) or poisonous fumes or, I dunno, electrical current, between the crew and the repair. Like, enough to kill most species instantly, so the crew is just like, ‘welp, guess we’ll die then’. But then.

BUT THEN

They ask the human. Because everyone’s heard the stories - you’re basically unkillable, right? Could you survive long enough in there to fix it? And their human goes real quiet for a second, but still says ‘Yeah, I could fix it’. And the rest of the crew is like, ‘Whaaaaaa, it won’t kill you?’ and the human repeats “I can fix it” (which isn’t an answer, but no one catches that, not yet at least), so they send ‘em in. And the human fixes it, they come back, the ship flies to safety, and the crew is thrilled to survive. If the human is a little quiet, well, they’re entitled after pulling off a miracle. Everyone else is just excited to get to the nearest station’s bar to tell their very own human story, cuz, ‘those crazy humans, amiright?’.

The good mood keeps up until the human is late for their next shift. At first it’s just faint unease, but- but they earned a bit of a lie-in, right? No reason to begrudge them some extra rest, even if it is a little weird for them to oversleep. They’ll be fine. Humans are always fine.

(Right?)

(…Wrong.)

- What is… help. Help!-

- ake up! You have t-

- been days. You need sleep, you-

- nother transfusion. We could-

- out of sedatives!-

A week later, the crew finally reaches the station. They stumble into the bar, haggard and haunted. And over the next months and years a new rumor about humans starts to make its way through space. A rumor unlike any before.

‘Be careful with your humans’ it whispers. ‘Their strength is not always a blessing. Be sure they don’t do something they can’t come back from, because when a human dies… they die slowly.’

#humans are space orcs #sad #but the best of us

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paperairplanemob · 13 days

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you're going about your normal day when, suddenly, surprise! you've been pokémon mystery dungeon'd!

unfortunately, due to budget cuts, the pokémon assigning quiz has been canceled. instead, you must spin THE WHEEL, assigning you a random, unevolved, non-legendary and non-mythical pokémon. you must now go on some sort of world-saving adventure as this pokémon. good luck!

tell me in the tags what you rolled, and how you feel about it - for bonus points, you can spin the wheel again for (or just take your pick of) a pokémon to be your partner.

bonus rules:

you're not shiny unless the wheel tells you you're shiny

take your pick of regional forms and evolutions (for example, if you roll vulpix, it's up to you whether that means normal or alolan vulpix)

apply whatever logic you like with regards to gender

have fun and be yourself!

#hell yeah #lemme be whatever

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paperairplanemob · 15 days

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paperairplanemob · 18 days

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The wild thing about being obsessed with your own DnD campaign is that there's absolutely NO fandom content for it except the stuff that you make

Like, what do you mean only six other people in the entire world have heard of Dave the Ice Elemental whose job is Freezer at the Fantasy Starbucks?

#me but stories #only a few people know about Wonder the eldritch jumpscare

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paperairplanemob · 19 days

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Gee I wonder what movie I've been watching 💙❤️

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paperairplanemob · 20 days

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youtube

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paperairplanemob · 21 days

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i humbly offer: more kitsune... 🦊

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paperairplanemob · 22 days

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I wonder if it’s like one of those campaigns put on by the newspaper/billboard company that makes up a fake company and then after a month says “hey, this company doesn’t even exist look how good advertising can be for your business that does!”

Except the fake company is always something like “Pullham Family Dentistry” or bottled water called “Outhouse Springs” (complete with ads like “it’s #1 not #2”) and it’s like okay how is this supposed to help my actual business that is not a literal joke?

Anyway.

i changed mind i love ads now

#both of those were real campaigns #the dentist was the newspaper #outhouse springs was a billboard company #it was so popular they made it real #for a little while at least

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paperairplanemob · 23 days

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paperairplanemob · 23 days

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Reblog if you write fanfic and would be totally down with your followers coming into you askbox and talking to you about your fic

#and original fic too #fanfiction #writing

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