People Not Seeing Lottienat Is So Funny To Me When Lottie Canonically Spends Her Whole Life Desperately

every province has an identity except Manitoba I think

like actually what goes on there. I can’t think of a single thing.

kinda crazy they made a thing with 100% queer characters in Russia

Morrowind: Dream on Red Mountain - major characters

Portal Theatre, 2023

featuring Seraphim (Voryn Dagoth), Iria (Azura), Ekaterina Agafonova (Almalexia), Denis Lavrentiev (Nerevar), Maxim Rakovsky (Vivec), Danila Polyakov (Sotha Sil)

my tumblr glitched horribly and I posted the same thing like fifty times what the fuck

America has always wanted to be Rome. Now they’re finally succeeding, though perhaps not in the way the founders wanted…

Why am I able to find so many parallels between the modern USA and the fall of the Roman Republic 😭😭😭

nevermind, I just noticed that your profile says “donbass will be free”. you’re not worth dignifying with my time.

rt is propaganda because it funded by russian government but bbc, australian broadcasting corporation, npr, korean broadcasting system, svt, television new zealand, radio canada, npo and france 24 totally objective source of informative news despite also being state funded. great work today everyone hit the showers

literally move over oblivion remaster, THIS is the most important TES release of the year

If you were looking for a reason to get back into Morrowind: Tamriel Rebuilt's latest expansion, Grasping Fortune, has released!

my favourite part about this is how perfectly the Vestiges’ responses are written.

> tangentially connected question

> goodbye

this is how the entire game is.

wtf i love elder scrolls online

you know that farmed fish are like… not from the ocean, right? this is like saying that the billions of chickens we’ve got are a part of the environment.

you can’t have it both ways. either the problem is overfishing or the problem is industrial farming. not both.

Silicon Valley's Fish Killing Machine

There's a tech company called "Shinkei Systems" that created an "AI powered fish killing machine" (they're using an automated machine to do ike jime, a traditional Japanese slaughter technique where a fish is killed instantly via a knife to the brain). Here's a picture of their machine:

Isn't that metal box such a great way for a living creature to die? Shinkei systems claims this automated death machine is "more humane" than error prone humans, who of course, sometimes miss the mark when severing a fish's brain from its spinal cord.

If the idea of automated animal slaughter doesn't freak you out enough, take a look at their promotional material where they promise to "eliminate 85% of the workforce" wherever their machine is used.

And just to wrap this story up in a bow, the founder is a guy named Saif Khawaja who retweets a lot about "DNA based IQ testing" and other race-science nonsense:

So yeah....a tech company run by a race obsessed skull-measurer decided the most pressing issue facing the world was not enough cheap sushi-grade salmon. The solution, of course, isn't to allow the ocean's depleted fisheries to regain their natural levels by reducing commercial fishing, it's to make a robot that can kill fish in a fancy Japanese way so people who eat industrialy farmed animals can feel less bad about it. And why not put a bunch of fishermen out of work while you're at it? The solution to our ever alienated world is clearly removing any human contact in the food supply and ceding that role to a machine. Clearly, the faster we can kill animals the better; perhaps we can kill them quickly before any concerns about the rapid destruction of the earth's aquatic ecosystems arise out of our collective haunted consciousness.

i was watching the yes minster episode “The Skeleton in the Closet” today and had a random thought.

at about 10 minutes in, Sir Humphrey and Jim are walking through, like, a foyer? there’s big double doors behind them. and as they walk past, a woman comes through the doors and walks offstage the way they entered. they don’t interact with or even acknowledge her, and almost no viewer will even notice her presence. believe me when I say that her presence adds NOTHING to the episode.

but for some reason I started fixating on her (probably because she was kind of pretty and I’m very gay). who was she? why was she there? how did she get on the show? her cameo was so inconsequential that I can’t imagine she even got paid. did she just happen to walk through the shot and they left it in? or was she actually hired to be on screen for four seconds?

this post isn’t leading to any spectacular conclusion, it’s just a random thought. maybe I’ll write a fic about her character.

he wouldn’t be called “Umaril the Unfeathered” unless everyone else *was* feathered, now would he?…

I kind of wish the Ayleids weren't just elves that used feathers a lot culturally, it would be badass if they were actually feathered. Cyrodiil probably had an ancient race of birdfolk right, and I like the idea that rather than them dying out to the Khajiit early on or simply vanishing, they instead had some interbreeding with the first Ayleids. Elves with feathers, talons, and all that shit would be rad as fuck.