orange sight: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42950059

p cool tbh

I like this place a lot :) It makes me smile.

Happy Lunar New Year to the dramanauts who celebrate it. 2025 is the Year of the Snake.

I made this for @NotX (definitely not @X, formerly chiobu) even though he never actually asked for it.

The following have sparks. Which one do you like best?

Update: Slightly more than a day later, 1 has 36 votes, 2 has 15 votes, and 3 has 21 votes. I will submit 1.

Yes, I realize that you wouldn't actually hold firecrackers like that. I copied the design from something on Google because I waited too long to start drawing this and couldn't come up with a better design that wasn't too similar to the previous ones. I started it around January 24.

^{The tiger is by @Dramarama. The others are by me.}

Without Firecrackers

The title is a reference to @TwoLargeSnakesMating, former rDrama codecel who left rDrama in early 2023

(Drawn with Inkscape, referenced )

Rusty and Brock are thriving

!animalposters !cats

https://skyview.social/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fbsky.app%2Fprofile%2Faoc.bsky.social%2Fpost%2F3lis4oh6jec2u

It’s ironic that the only NATO member to ever have invoked Article 5 (mutual defence) is America, after 9/11, yet it’s the first to say it won’t honour it for others.
I hope you Americans don’t ever need help again pic.twitter.com/KFPtxke7EU

— Grindell Matthews Fella🇺🇦🇬🇧 #NAFO (@MyDeathRay) February 13, 2025

'Some sources suggested that the reluctance to push ahead with broader [gender change] reform was down to a desire to protect relations with the United States.' So Trump succeeded where a multitude of British women, including lifelong leftists, failed. 1/4https://t.co/V4oUQbCvhg

— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) February 9, 2025

However, in spite of the puberty blockers ban, 'separate moves for a transgender-inclusive ban on “conversion therapy” are understood to be going ahead.' This means therapists will be banned from fully exploring why a child wants to transition. 2/4https://t.co/V4oUQbD36O

— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) February 9, 2025

We know that children who are neurodivergent, same-s*x attracted and those who've experienced sexual abuse are overrepresented at gender clinics. We also know, from multiple studies, that the vast majority of children grow out of gender dysphoria if allowed to go through puberty. 3/4

— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) February 10, 2025

Therapists and gay activists have begged Labour to realise that the affirmation-only model could cause serious, irreparable harm to minors, to no effect. I suppose we have to hope Trump says it soon. Then, maybe, they'll listen. 4/X

— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) February 10, 2025

https://old.reddit.com/r/Games/comments/1ifxghf/multiversus_players_who_bought_100_founders_pack/

https://old.reddit.com/r/PS5/comments/1ifajwr/multiversus_players_who_bought_100_founders_pack/

https://old.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/1iefpf0/multiversus_season_5_is_its_final_season_ending/

https://old.reddit.com/r/MultiVersusTheGame/comments/1iefjlw/future_of_multiversus/

https://old.reddit.com/r/MultiVersus/comments/1iego4p/im_happy_the_game_is_getting_shutdown/

https://old.reddit.com/r/Games/comments/1ieh2wo/multiversus_update_going_offline/

https://old.reddit.com/r/MultiVersusTheGame/comments/1ieg0pp/multiversus_was_a_scam/

https://old.reddit.com/r/MultiVersus/comments/1iefifg/season_5_is_the_final_season_confirmed_by_devs/

https://old.reddit.com/r/MultiVersus/comments/1iegmz7/did_i_just_get_scammed_got_founders_around_when/

https://old.reddit.com/r/GamingLeaksAndRumours/comments/1iew7s0/the_development_of_multiversus_was_problematic/

https://boards.4chan.org/v/thread/701735342/multiversus-shuts-down-for-good-this-time-may

https://boards.4chan.org/v/thread/701757840/multiversus-final-season

!g*mers !r-slurs @Optimus_Primal

I think we should commit genocide on Russia and China and Iran and North Korea with nuclear weapons.

I don't want regime change, I just don't want their government and citizens to be alive at all

!burgers

I completely forgot I signed up for assisted suicide 2 years ago and my appointment is tomorrow and they won’t let me cancel it pic.twitter.com/B5YvKFHWsD

— NEET (@NEETsongs) February 17, 2025

!alligatorfrickhouse !maids

These don't have to be explicitly political. Just something that can be applied to our politics. Unfortunately while the writing in Madoka Magica is top tier and the story makes me feel in ways that few other forms of media can, it does not do politics very well which is why I took my favorite quote from a series that is actually based around geopolitics.

In a way this quote truly encapsulates the condition of our current political system, and in a way it mirrors the shinobi world quite well. For example we don't get to choose our sides. People act like we get a choice but there just are not many options. For example like the shinobi, we are given a village, a country. And that country can be segmented down into clans, families, and many other forms of allegiances. All of these are decided entirely by the nature of our own birth, rather than our own choices.

We are guided only by the necessity to make the most prudent choice. We are expected to be part of the group and sacrifice our entire being for its benefit. Like the shinobi each one of us is little more than a tool to be discarded when we are no longer useful. Is that not the way things should be?

Anyways, I'm excited to see your favorite anime quotes that can be applied to political systems! If anyone finds away to do this with the Madoka Magica series please let me know! I have been trying to find a way for years but it just doesn't seem to fit.

!anime

Was on hinge (mistake #1) talking to a guy who was a massive Ariana Grande stan (mistake #2). He mentioned her and how much he loved her music, and I mentioned something about liking her music (lie) but I'm worried about how she looks right now. Immediately this man went off about (exact words) how "problematic" it is for me, "as a man", to "gossip about women's bodies". I'm not trying to gossip, I'm genuinely concerned. She's bone. It's horrifying to see, especially in the face of younger girls/gay men [lets be real] who may end up thinking there isn't a thing wrong with being that skinny, and any comment of genuine concern is "gossip". Even worse, this didn't seem like the opinion of some one off arianapilled r-slur, but a pretty popular opinion online to just ...not mention how she looks in any context. I'm genuinely worried. She looks incredibly sick.

https://old.reddit.com/r/redscarepod/comments/1itnjqz/ariana_grande_looks_like_absolute_shit_and/

Link to Reddit Post

In the dead of winter, on a day with -27°C wind chill, in FiveFinger shoes (my toes are still cold), on icy trails, in a state that hates anything other than cars, on a dead ebike (25kg), and with no additional planning than "I should bring a rope today," I was able to transport a full 4'x8' sheet of plywood from the hardware store to my home for model railroading without any issues at all. If I could do it under these conditions, then anybody could do it under nearly any conditions.

AstroG4 had a problem: He loves trains, but he just doesn't have quite enough wood. Now a normal person would look at the weather, then hop in their GMC Yukon XL Denali and run over fifty children on their way to pick up plywood.

AstroG4's too eco-conscience for that. Instead, he strapped on his goddarn FiveFingers shoes with the individual toes, mounted his glorified Huffy, and braved the subzero temperatures on a non-functioning eBike to prove to the rest of us that you CAN, in fact, transport one full sheet of plywood on a walmart-tier Trek bicycle.

You may be asking yourself "how is that a full 4x8 sheet when it's clearly cut into 4x2 sections?"

Three splices, actually, but perfectly sound logic. I could grind a piece of plywood into sawdust, dump it into a backpack, carry it onto a plane, then reglue it back into a 4x8 sheet and claim I was able to carry-on a sheet of plywood.

But honestly, that's not the reason I'm posting this. Much like the /r/malelivingspaces threads that Carp would post (please do more, they're fun), I want everyone to look at his model trainery.

The more you look, the more you see.

• Pieces extending beyond necessary length

• Jigsawed paths for curved tracks

• Everything is made of scrap remnants you'd normally toss or burn

• Drywall screws everywhere

• Scrap pieces used as spliceblocks, seemingly using tie-wire to hold them to the main track curve

• Thin tinmetal braces held on by a single screw, no washer, in no way actually bracing the legs

• The table-thing in the foreground (lower right corner) has a short leg, being extended with a single carriage bolt

• Handwriting looks like a fat neurodivergent, using the cheapest tan masking tape he could find.

• A single laser-cut cupholder, clearly not his own work

I'm still baffled by how he can be so terrible at woodworking on the right half of the picture, but appears to have functional drawer slides and flush-mounted buttons on the left half.

And since this is Reddit, you guessed it: he's nonbinary and posts in femboymemes link

thanks and godbless !friendsofxirabolt

https://www.reddit.com/r/boxoffice/s/twZojbLKcj

#Pokemon
두꺼운 지방 잠만보 생방송에서 그려보았습니다 pic.twitter.com/ph9QXxw9q8

— 감토리 (@gamtoryy) February 10, 2025

3 buses exploded in Israel tonight and undetonated bombs were found on another 2 buses.

According to initial reports, they were supposed to explode tomorrow at 9am but instead exploded tonight at 9pm when the buses were empty and not in use pic.twitter.com/iX9h0WLfXB

— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) February 20, 2025

!jidf

!codecels it's 1000 lines of copy/paste slop that would get an intern bullied