Know Your Enemy
Basically anything that catches my attention
He’s protesting the construction of the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) in Mauna Kea! Say the name of the location and who’s trying to set up the TMT!
Jason Momoa says he can’t start shooting “Aquaman 2”… because he “got run over by a bulldozer” while protesting construction of a giant telescope on land considered sacred to native Hawaiians.
“Sorry Warner Bros we can’t shoot ‘Aquaman 2,‘” he wrote in an Instagram post. “Because Jason got run over by a bulldozer trying to stop the desecration of his native land THIS iS NOT HAPPENING. WE ARE NOT LETTING YOU DO THIS ANYMORE. Enough is enough. Go somewhere else.”
In a followup post, Momoa asked fans to support the protest movement, writing, “During this time, we are trying to unite both kānaka and Hawai’i born peoples alike to protect not only the mauna, but also our way of life and greatest natural resources in Hawaii as a whole.”
Momoa has spent several weeks protesting on the highest point on the state of Hawaii, Mauna Kea, in an effort to stop construction of the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT), a $1.4 billion scientific project underwritten by a group of universities in California and Canada as well as partners in China, India and Japan.
Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson also has been protesting the construction of the telescope last month, he made a surprise visit to the dormant volcano.
Here’s a petition ink.
Also, something people might not be aware of is that the telescope could easily be built on the canary islands. The (obviously racist bullshit) argument for building it on indigenous lands is that the highest point of Hawai’i is the perfect location for astronomy but in reality the telescope is supposed to produce images 12x sharper than the Hubble Space Telescope. It doesn’t even need to be on a gigantic mountain to get quality data, let alone a sacred one that doesn’t belong to us.
actually forgot to mention that there’s already 13 telescopes built on mauna kea and their sacred land has already been thoroughly desecrated by our space programs. Another telescope is just overkill at this point.
Also, the media makes it seem like the protestors won back in 2019 (which is when mamoa got hit by a truck), but in reality construction was halted to speak with protestors and find “common ground”, because they didn’t have safe/secure access to the site and wanted the protestors to fuck off. The conflict is absolutely still going on.
i don’t know why but i’m really amused by the winner of some ‘new kanji’ contest:
compare with the real kanji
座 (seat/gathering), but the two 人 (person) radicals have been moved from next to each other within the 土 (earth) radical to diagonally from each other, making this “social distance(d seating/gathering)”
This is hilarious, but to further the hilarity, I’d like to point to the fact that half of the “A rank” (runners up) for this contest also are related to 2020 epidemic jokes
First up we have:
Compare with 太
The original kanji means “to gain weight”. But it adds the コ “ko” and ロ “ro” katakana symbols at the top to represent the weight you gain while staying home due to the corona virus.
Then we have:
Compare with 会
The original kanjij means “meeting”, but the lower radical is changed to look more like a “Z” to represent Zoom meetings. Thus, the new kanji means “web meetings” or “zoom calls”
And of course another social distancing one:
Compare with 話
This means “to talk” or “chat”, but it’s changed simply to show the two radicals social distancing from one another as we should also while holding conversations nowadays.
At least we can have some fun language humor despite all of this!
If Eminem’s the rap god she’s the rap silent goddess
heres the thing about sign language as i know it, my step mom is a concert interpreter.
they need the set list and lyrics ahead of time. not just so they know whats being said, but because some things need to be retranslated. sign language has different sentence structure and also needs some word changes if things are similar or dont have hand signs.Some words we use in speech normally dont actually exist in sign. So instead of signing either something repetitive or spelling out a word without a sign, she would have to find one that fit to keep the song going and also keep the meaning behind the lyrics accurate.
this woman probably had to not only shuffle words but also alter them slightly so they would make sense to the people shes signing to. along with keeping on beat, on topic, and on fucking fire.
ya know what, this year sucked so much in so many ways. it was painful, unfair, cruel and difficult, to say the least. the new year won’t magically erase all of the problems and issues we’ve faced in 2020 but i genuinely hope you and your loved ones are able to catch a break. i hope 2021, in whatever ways possible, is kinder to you. i hope healing comes fast and i hope all the heaviness put upon you starts to lessen
I was walking through the toy aisle at Target when I found this thing and had a VIOLENT AND IMMEDIATE FLASHBACK to when JP first came out and they had a bunch of REALLY COOL T Rex toys that I would have sold one of my scrawny small-child limbs for but my mother wouldn’t get me one because they were “too violent and also ate people” :(
hnn I WANT IT SO BAD
on closer inspection, it makes a lot of really obnoxious noises and is also Too Expensive. BUT FEAR NOT I found this slightly smaller dude wedged in the back!
IT HAS BITE ACTION, AND THAT’S THE ONLY THING THAT MATTERS
now we enter the testing phase
yup. looks good.
Extreme Chompin T-Rex says IT’S NEVER TOO LATE TO FOLLOW YOUR DREAMS
Can we take a moment to appreciate that we can use this as a rosetta stone to say “EXTREME CHOMPIN’ “ in four languages?
OH SHIT YOU’RE RIGHT, let me check the garbage to see if it’s still there! hopefully I didn’t destroy it in my excitement
*roar sound effect*
IMPORTANT UPDATE:
update update: I re-sized her collar and found a bag of toy bones at the craft store. I haven’t put this much effort into a non-school thing since my last job search, help
(secret bonus: the other side of her tag)
There’s more!
I love.
I saw that people are reblogging the thread again, so I thought I’d give you all an update on how Wexter is doing!
(just fine)
Wexter And The Case Of Her Continuing Marvelously Naughty Garden Adventures
OP and Wexter can break all my toes and I would still send a thank you card
Wexter says SHE WOULD NEVER DO SUCH A THING (but she might chew your ankles a little bit maybe)
so it’s come to my attention that at some point this weekend Wexter blew past 100,000 notes, and I for one think that’s very cash money of her.
we’re coming to you LIVE More than two hundred thousand notes later from HALLOWEEN 2020, where WEXTER continues to be absolutely DINO-RIFFIC!
… at least for as long as it takes to chew the costume off.
it chrismas
merr chrismas
This is something I never knew I needed for Christmas but I got it anyway
The important question is not, COULD gandalf kick dumbledore’s ass, but WOULD he. Answers below.
The votes are in: Gandalf COULD, WOULD and SHOULD kick dumbledore’s ass.
OP where does Merlin fit into this equation
Merlin COULD kick Dumbledore’s ass and Gandalf COULD kick Merlin’s ass. Gandalf however WOULD and SHOULD NOT kick Merlin’s ass bcos Merlin is a sweetheart and they’d be buds.
Merlin SHOULD kick Dumbledore’s ass but WOULD NOT bcos as stated above he is a sweetheart.
#Merlin and gandalf… Boyfriends…. #WAIT. #VICIOUS!#Derek jacobi is an excellent merlin
you are SO right
Iabsolutelyhadtoo
These are the best wizarding boyfriends.
if someone you know draws mouths like this watch out because at any moment they may post erotica of a nonhuman character humanized into a skinny white cisman in a top hat and monocle
everyone saying ‘this is weirdly specific’ definitely was not on tumblr in like 2011-2013, which i mean i guess i cant fault them for
JJ Abrams has admitted… that he sets up mysteries in his movies without planning an answer and with no intention of actually ever answering the mysteries…. why does anyone let this man make movies? I think the Star Wars sequels really brought out the worst of this style of his. Like he set up all these mysteries, like Rey’s parents, who the fuck these Supreme Leader Snonk is, Finn’s connection with the force, with no plan ahead of time of what the answer to this stuff is. I felt like the last movie especially was affected by his “style” of pulling things out of his ass.
This is just called being bad at your job. His “narrative trick” is not planning shit ahead of time. This is embarrassing.
must be damn easy to buy presents for this guy