Used to be able to have fun on the internet now all the websites are after my identity like the devil is after my soul

Bruce Lee and Van Williams - The Green Hornet (1966)

Still true 14 years later. Also true for cool leather skirts as well btw

Texans block ICE detention center sale in Hutchins after property owner rejects offer

There’s something you may not realize about the vast majority of US municipalities. All of them have zoning regulations, and for the most part they’re super-hard to force to change. A residential zone sets rules and standards for single family (R-1) or variations of multi-family (R-2, R-3, etc) homes/apartments. Commercial means retail of some sort, where individual customers come to the location to buy something, like books or tires or groceries. Warehouses are usually “light industrial”, meaning used for business but not customer-facing. (Heavy industrial is where things actually get built.)

These are important for determining the infrastructure needed to support the population using that zone. A lot of municipalities limit homes to no more than X number of toilets, Y amount of electrical lines, and so on, because basically there’s a limit on what the local infrastructure can handle. No one wants that new 9-bath house to make the sewers back up into everyone else’s basements. Commercial might have a shower or two in the back for employees, maybe 3 or 4 toilets, but also triple the electricity need. Commercial also needs good infrastructure, but it’ll be in a different proportion to what’s needed for where people eat, sleep, and bathe.

Warehouses, not being occupied around the clock and rarely employing as many people as commercial, may have only one bathroom or two, no showers, definitely no hot water heater, and maybe only the barest minimum for heating/cooling. They simply do not have the infrastructure for even a 90,000 sqft home for a single family (R-1), let alone what would be needed for what amounts to a super-sized hotel. You just cannot take a non-residential zone, snap your fingers, and turn it into residential.

So while it’s important that people protest, I’m baffled as to why municipalities aren’t just canceling the sale on the ground of illegal use. You better believe municipalities have tons of precedent and established power to uphold their zoning regulations, so why wouldn’t that also apply here?

[guy confused about lesbian relationship voice]: okay … so which one only tells lies?

the spirit is willing but the flesh is experiencing technical difficulties

I guess this is what would happen if a werewolf bit a skeleton.

@drukhari

Spent the day with regirock. He’s a fantastic guy. Great sense of humor and also 200 physical defense

yes this is an exploration of guilt and culpability but it could also be a sex thing if you just give me a minute

Yes!

Get your knives ready everyone!

GO FERB GO!!!🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪

I wasn’t gonna talk about it but one of my parents died the other day and the weirdest part has been not talking about it, specifically because they sucked and I kind of don’t care and that’s not a very hashtag relateable thing to bring up around the office so I’m just walking around at work rn like “nah not much going on hbu”

As a “dark humour is my coping mechanism” person I would describe this feeling as “children’s birthday clown with a flashbang grenade” and I gotta say, the deeply fucked up power is intoxicating

Man with the power to end any conversation

Replied to a recent comment on a fic that I wrote years ago and then took the time to revisit previous comments and I say this with complete sincerity:

Leaving a comment on a fic provides compounding delight. Authors will love initially receiving a comment, will love later recalling this and that particular aspect of a comment, and they will love rereading comments and being reminded how readers enjoyed the work.

Comments are not a one-time act of kindness and consideration. They keep giving.

Thank you to those who take the time to give a nice word, describe an excited reaction, point out favorite parts, and generally let it be known that not only has the work been read but it had some effect. :)

in another life i would’ve loved doing art heists,. i wouldve been so good at it

does anyone want to do an art heist with me im nice

nobody:

tumblr when Ides of March:

behold! poolverine

just made a tier list

If I may add

AO3 should have an Annotation Mode where you can click to view all of the author’s commentary and thoughts about certain parts of the work. A little comment that says “I spent five hours researching vintage radio mechanics for this and didn’t even end up using it” or “this is an ancient Hebrew literary technique!” would make my day

brushing up on the calligraphy -_-

good news! all the ink stayed INSIDE the inkwell this time at least

WHO THE FUCK IS HUA CHENG???

edit: why does this have so many notes,,, all of my tumblr notifs is from just this post,,

I don’t know what is feeding this year’s bloodthirst to murder political leaders, it’s a mystery.

I’m gonna propose “I guess you haven’t read the silmarillion then :/” as a default response to anyone not understanding a reference to something obscure. even if it’s not remotely Tolkien related. I want to build up a perception that perhaps the sum total of human knowledge is contained in the silmarillion

This is the polar opposite of this:

sick visions of a world where people talk about utis with the same aggressively gendered language they use for menstruation

“i love it when it’s time for my uti, knowing that my mystical feminine body is nurturing millions of tiny lives makes me feel so connected to mother gaia”

“TRANS MEN!!! DON’T FEEL DYSPHORIC ABOUT YOUR UTI!!!! THOSE ARE THE FIRES OF VALHALLA BURNING IN YOUR CROTCH!!!! YEAST INFECTION? MORE LIKE BEAST INFECTION!!!”

“my favorite character is such a pathetic failure that he’s just like a woman to me, so i drew him writhing in pain from a uti. and he’s got cranberry juice with a silly straw!!”

4th Circuit Rules That States Can Compel Trans Adults To “Appreciate Their Sex” Via Care Bans

What’s worse, the precedent in this decision can be weaponized far beyond Medicaid. If it is not unconstitutional to “encourage citizens to appreciate their sex,” the implications extend to virtually every area of transgender life. Are gender marker bans on IDs legal because carrying correct documents could “discourage” transgender people from “appreciating their sex?” Are drag bans and bans on cross-gender clothing legal because the state has an interest in encouraging the appreciation of sex? Could a state compel transgender people into conversion therapy, reasoning that it is not discriminatory because it targets a medical diagnosis rather than transgender status—and that the goal is simply to “encourage them to appreciate their sex?” The implications are terrifying for transgender people, and the court’s language provides no limiting principle to prevent any of these outcomes.

The ruling also comes just weeks after Heritage Foundation president Kevin Roberts declared on the PBD podcast that adult care bans would be the organization’s next target. “There does seem to be a mounting body of evidence that suggests a correlation between that surgery at any age, mental health issues, and increasingly, although we’re running the numbers on this at Heritage, acts of violence,” Roberts said. When host Patrick Bet-David asked how to address it, Roberts responded: “You outlaw it.” When pressed on how, Roberts described a strategy of “radical incrementalism"—taking "a quarter of the enchilada” at a time until adult care is eliminated entirely. This court ruling hands Heritage exactly the legal framework it needs to execute that strategy.

The more you think about the implications that it is now an explicit government goal to compel people to “appreciate their sex” the worse it gets for everyone who isn’t a fascist.

imagine you have a movie with oscar isaac and john boyega and people fixate on adam driver instead. this actually happened

all of tumblr tomorrow, march 15th: