Champion of Champions IV arrives on Monday 22nd December on Channel 4 and YouTube
AND a double New Year Treat will air back-to-back on Friday 2nd and Saturday 3rd January, featuring Big Zuu, Jill Scott, Sam Ryder, Susie Dent and Rose Ayling-Ellis, all vying for new year glory!
complex color commission for @geometrically-sound of a delightful little weasel guy. bonus signature close up under the cut >:)
To the queer community, at large.
My friend Abdu does what I do as a peer mutual aid advocate in more danger for much less stability.
He has treked from his home in Uganda, and fleed Kenya to South Sudan as a refugee among other queer survivors. The work he does for them invaluable and his patience and courage is immeasurable, truly.
Do you care about us? Or do you only care about us if we are white, cis passing or otherwise assimilated into western culture?
You have the opportunity to help someone in a foreign land, today, everyday. These refugees deserve this help and safett not because they are like us, but because they are human.
His campaign is below.
I find myself overwhelmed. Often paraphrasing and stealth reblogging causes I am unsure of how to speak on. Abdu calls ME friend and it ìs an honor to help his great, impossible work.
It may seem an entire camp of people need more than an individual can give but them they must be fortunate then that we are a community, a village, a collective of kin willing to help however we can!
Sudan is a nuts place atm, crazy dangerous for everyone, it is an insane privilege to hear from anyone like us currently there. Please keep them alive and such a privilege in tact. Every life saved and mouth fed is a divine blessing and the greatest work an individual can ensure!
A frustrating update is below. Do not look away.
Their plea is my own. On their behalf, I thank you!
crazy how the printer is the only piece of tech that acts up like that almost every day of its life. and we just accept it
i don't think i've ever met a printer that actually wanted to be a printer. i think most printers have dreams of being on the stage
I met a printer early in my IT career that did not want to be a printer. it sat in a school reprographics room, sullenly chewing any job it was fed - if it deigned to notice them at all.
then one day, a miracle occurred. an exhausted physics teacher, instead of punching in 12 for the number of copies she wanted of the 30-page booklet she had made for her A-level physics class, punched in 1200.
and that printer came to life. this print job was its moment, its magnum opus! it WOULD NOT be parted from it, no matter what we did, until we physically unplugged it from the wall, by which time it had printed almost 200 copies.
moral of the story: no printer wants to be a printer, unless you also do not want it to be a printer for a bit.
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Hard at work at the yaoi factory
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They fucking called fujOSHA on us
like, okay, consent does literally just mean agree. which is what enables this little rhetorical trick. because there's all this cultural emphasis on sexual consent, which is just expressed as consent, a lot of phrases whose intended meanings are "rape is bad" can be taken literally to mean "i should get to agree to everything that happens in my vicinity."
for an example, "i didn't agree to seeing you wear that shirt" is straightforwardly a fucking insane thing for someone to say, but people regularly make use of this trick to make the (functionally identical) statement "i didn't consent to seeing that"
Strongly recommend that people familiarize themselves with the white supremacist concept of "right to comfort" because of how scarily that concept aligns with this behavior
THIS is where the logic comes from that drives misogynistic control of what women wear, how fat people exist in public, how disabled people exist in public, miscontrues kink-related fashion as the same as sex itself, and prevents people breastfeeding their children in clean environments.
Its interesting what demographics are effected most negatively by this huh
sitting anti-kink posters down in front of a wrestling match and explaining kayfabe to them with the patience of a preschool teacher
You see that one? He's called the "heel." He looks mean and says a lot of scary things, but it's not real and he's actually very nice. When he says "I'm going to break you in half" you don't have to be scared because it's pretend. These two talked about this beforehand, and now they're playing pretend together. Can you think of any other situations that might be like this?
by all means. but also by all niceys
things that feel like a microaggression
they really said "dye is expensive this year"
i have this very funny teenage boy coworker who has decided his job is to clock in just to piss me off. but hes quite respectful about it despite the whole being a teenage boy thing. i had a night not that long ago where i was dealing with a bunch of bullshit as is + my knee was flaring up so i was cranky and in pain and he said something and i was like "dude im not in the mood". so he was like "oh. do you work tomorrow" and i was like "...... yeah???" and he was like "okay can i ragebait you tomorrow then" and i was just like "you know what. yeah sure" because i mean if youre going to be polite about it yknow
crazy how the printer is the only piece of tech that acts up like that almost every day of its life. and we just accept it
i don't think i've ever met a printer that actually wanted to be a printer. i think most printers have dreams of being on the stage
I think it'd be fun if one of these days when the evil overlord type is like "I Need A Queen. To Rule With" one of the little henchmen is just like "um 😳 if I may, sir, I would like to volunteer 👉👈" and overlord is just like. Okay sure you're cute aha
This is gay of course in case it wasn't clear. I do support henchwomen in their career choices but we're doing gay villains here
Or they could both be girls who knows. This trope is usually done with the Evil Man who proceeds to kidnap someone about it but we could have an overlady why not. Girlboss
Evil Overlady reading outdated Evil Overlord Instruction Manual from the Sexist Old Days: hmm, says here I need to acquire an Evil Queen to assist me in my Rule of Terror and General Administrative Duties. I must follow what the Manual says
Henchwoman who has been wearing increasingly risqué bustiers every passing day of her employment: umm. ma’am. 😳 I would like to apply for that position 👉👈
Evil Overlady: Excellent! This is why I hired you, because you are a Real Go-Getter
ALTand you don’t even get to nut :/
Hi! I wondered what your opinion is about the use of polygraphs?
They’re nonsense. Any time you get people saying “it’s an art not a science” means it’s horseshit. Any time “operators can disagree” means it’s horseshit.
Talking about percent accuracy: is a smokescreen: if you have a failure rate, someone is falling into the failures, and they are dealing with completely unfair circumstances.
And it detects stress, not lies! People are stressed when talking about horrendous crimes!
It essentially relies on people believing, falsely, that polygraphs do work. The more that people believe they work, the more stressed people will be when they’re lying while undergoing testing. If you know it doesn’t, odds are it won’t. I would be overwhelmingly irritated if I had to take one (by court order; no fucking way I would ever on my own, and none of you should ever) not scared on the crime questions.
To quote Wikipedia:
Despite claims that polygraph tests are between 80% and 90% accurate by advocates, the National Research Council has found no evidence of effectiveness. In particular, studies have indicated that the relevant–irrelevant questioning technique is not ideal, as many innocent subjects exert a heightened physiological reaction to the crime-relevant questions. The American Psychological Association states “Most psychologists agree that there is little evidence that polygraph tests can accurately detect lies.”
Everyone please stop believing these.
I'm not at all any kind of legal expert or professional. That said, I used to do a lot of writing on U.S. crime and court cases as a freelancer and I found that many many people suspected in/accused of murders volunteered to take polygraph tests because they thought it would prove their innocence. But polygraphs are rarely (if ever) conducted in good faith to rule out suspects. In many places, polygraph tests are rarely admissible in court, so they're not useful evidence for detectives. Why U.S. police really want you to submit to a polygraph test is as an opportunity to interrogate you when they have no legal grounds to hold you and you wouldn't have agreed to a standard interrogation.
Never volunteer any information to the police in order to prove your innocence. Never believe police are investigating you in good faith or that they'll give you the benefit of the doubt.
Always demand a lawyer. Do not say a single thing to the police without a lawyer but, "I won't talk to you without representation."
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ALTYeah, perhaps not even alluding to the possibility of talking to the police either way would be better!
