11 of those comms are on ani.social, an anime-centric instance where it is totally legit to split “pictures of anime girls” into more specific comms. It’s not unhinged or spam at all, but if you don’t want to see anime, probably best to block ani.social tbh.

I for one like to see all the moe on top of my local feed and not pushed down to page 5 of global.

How important is it to your theory that “hour” is related to “house” in… ancient Assyrian language? Because they’re completely unrelated in English, “house” coming from Germanic hus and “hour” coming from French ore. If we look at ancient Greek, the two are hoora for “hour” and oikos for “house”. I think English post-vowel shift has to be the first language where those two even sound similar.

They already made an editor’s note, but in case they decide to take it down after all: https://archive.is/Kb78K

Who is anon quoting here? Because his text is green, but he’s clearly not greentexting.

The million-milliard system means a billion has double the zeroes compared to million, trillion has triple the zeroes, etc. In the English system, a quadrillion has 15 zeroes, so 4 times 3 plus 3? A quadrillion should have 4*6=24 zeroes.

Just watched it, can confirm that it’s reallyreally good.

I love coming-of-age movies and… what’s the genre called where the main is a bit of a fuckup who can’t really find their place in the world? Because my collection is filled with those.

So I liked our main floaters of course, but one character who isn’t as obviously “lost” is Allison. She’s just as insecure as Megan about her place in the world, but she solves it by clinging to her old friend group and aggressively asserting that her way is the normal way actually. That’s a side I hadn’t thought about before.

I don’t know if they are shopped or just imgen based on these hands, but they look very similar down to the light and dark patterns on the skin.

If the proportions match, I’m saying shop, but I’m still not quite ruling out imgen that tried to recreate this exact picture.

I agree, the text looks more like a drawing tablet/touchscreen handwriting than actual marker on cardboard to me. It doesn’t seem to be affected by the creases in the cardboard and the lines are much thicker for “Taylor” which doesn’t make sense if it’s all the same marker.

Most of these tiktoks don’t even add anything beyond the text or music, but the format makes it very easy (almost mandatory) for people to add their own head in there. I reaaaally don’t get the appeal, but I didn’t grow up in an era of the internet where putting your face everywhere was normalized.

I don’t get Americans’ obsession with putting religion into schools. Didn’t y’all flee Europe because of religious oppression? Isn’t religious freedom one of the pillars of USAmerican society? Surely some of the Christians must realize that if the state makes “Christianity” the state religion, sooner or later that becomes a specific variety of Christianity and it probably won’t be their specific variety. Or are there no actual Christians left and do they only care about the symbols of “Christianity” as stand-ins for the symbols of white supremacy? (Don’t tell me.)

My favorite part of not driving is the drinking. I’m lucky to live around a good train network and even luckier that the shop at the station has a fridge full of beer.

It’s the rare Golden Woodman, 1 in 10000 odds that you see him on the third night when you look at the security cam for animatronic storage.

How old is this picture? Or am I looking at the one retro game collection that doesn’t have a whole shrine built around it?

Pizzacake is upholding the legacy of 90s webcomics, when the key to success was having an internet connection and a consistent schedule. See: Penny Arcade, who are probably out there right now making three panels without a punchline.

No one has ever seen a prolific memer and thought they would be fun to hang out with. Unless you like it when someone constantly shoves their phone in your face to show you a meme.

Do you want to develop an app?

Why is bread bad for duck, but cooked rice good? Isn’t that basically the same thing? Bread is wheat, water, bit of salt. Cooked rice is rice, water, bit of salt. Or can’t ducks handle gluten?

No, it’s relevant actually. I called them protestant, but the OG Lutherans aren’t a branch of Catholicism, so why would Pentecostals be a branch of protestantism? Yeah, they’re still anti-pope, but they also found enough problems with the established protestants to split off and start something else.

I don’t know if there’s a term for the wave of new denominations in the last century, if it’s even a single wave at all. Revivalism? And is there a common theme in that wave that leads to cults? Or should we say that the cults are a wave in themselves, caused by some other shift in the zeitgeist? Because as much as I’d like to blame pentecostalism for cultish beliefs (and I think I could make that argument), it could also be a general secularization that strips communities to their cultish cores.

I’d put it with the tongs. If you’re just trying to grab a spatula without looking, you don’t want the dough scraper. Same logic for spoons, the scraper won’t do. So you put it with the weirdos in the bottom section.