you’ve heard of mom friends now get ready for: Anti-mom friend. they suggest every single impulsive thought that runs thru their head like “hey what if you jumped in that pond in the middle of the night” to the group while the mom friend begs them to stop
The villagers who DIYed some of the fastest internet in the UK
Frustrated with snail-like internet speeds, the residents of Michaelston-y-Fedw banded together and dug 15 miles of trenches to lay their own superfast broadband cables. It used to take two days to download a film, now it takes minutes, and the villagers are offering their help to others interested in the project
“Figure out what a community needs to be prosperous, peaceful and sustainable in as long a term as you can wrap your head around, and start building whatever piece is most in reach before the absent state notices. Doing so just might create pockets of more effective, horizontal politics“ -On the Political Dimensions of Solarpunk - Andrew Dana Hudson
this guy has been messaging me MULTIPLE TIMES every day asking me to promo his (non palaeontology related) book after he THREATENED TO SUE ME and calls me names on twitter i absolutely cannot believe the utter nerve
me calling someone an asshole and then asking them to promote my book seconds later
If you’re not familiar with him he’s the guy who threatened to sue me because i made fun of him for thinking Velociraptor was a vulture-like soaring bird and that obscure mammals known only from teeth could fly based on absolutely no evidence whatsoever
he also got banned from wikimedia commons when, after his (wildly inaccurate) commissions were repeatedly taken down because he never properly got permission for them to be added, he threatened to sue wikimedia commons.
he then devoted his time to vandalising wikipedia pages with his headcanons about poorly-known fossil animals, often which are directly contradicted by the actual papers he cites.
anyway someone formally requested that he be banned from wikipedia, upon which he threatened to sue wikipedia. he was temporarily banned, at which point he got himself banned from the place where he tried to appeal his ban, after which point he somehow got himself banned from the place where you go to in order to try and appeal for access to his talk page.
he then figured out how to make a bunch of wikipedia sockpuppets (likely using computers at his university to evade his IP ban) to make the exact same edits as before without changing anything - he’s got a real sense of subtlety. when these are reverted on sight he cries sexism and homophobia or something like that
he’s somehow landed on the conclusion that this is all my fault, and so every day or so he @s me and the official wikipedia twitter saying that our end is near and his efforts are slowly wearing wikipedia down from the inside. i’ve been deleting and IP blocking his anons on sight for weeks but it just got too funny and i thought you should all know this story
DOXXING HIM
Guy’s threatened to sue me too for disqualifying him from a writing contest! And then when he asked my organization to promote his book, we turned him down due to all his bullshit, and then he raved and ranted about reporting us to GLAAD.
Apparently he’s sending this exact ask to literally everyone who likes or reblogs this post
literally cannot make this up. i have never heard about this until this post and IMMEDIATELY i get this lmaoooo
one of the v. important things the movies missed about ron is just like, how down to fight he was at all times. like not even duel just he was always ready to physically beat the shit out of people who insulted his family or friends and WOULD if no one stopped him.
there are so many points in the books where its just casually dropped in ‘and so Harry and/or Hermione had to physically restrain Ron’ usually from Malfoy but if Harry or Hermione weren’t paying attention it became ‘and so Ron punched Malfoy in the face’.
Like, Ron cursing Malfoy for calling Hermione Mudblood wasnt just a one off thing like every time he did that in the future when Ron was there it was like ‘ron had to be stopped from ending Malfoy’s life’ just thrown in there. Same for any other severe insults.
My absolute favorite instance of this is in the first book when they’re just watching a Quidditch game and Malfoy just starts bothering Ron and Hermione during it and is finally like ‘man its pretty funny how the Gryffindor quidditch team is recruited based on pity like y’know Potter has no parents, Weasley’s brothers have no money they should include Longbottom for having no brains” and Ron just flings himself at Malfoy and starts punching him and rolling around under the bleachers and Neville is like “uh shit i guess i better fight CRABBE AND GOYLE BOTH AT ONCE so they don’t go after him” (very underrated moment of courage from Neville he knew he had no chance but he just went for it honestly almost more impressive than confronting Voldemort in book 7)
and they’re just fighting for like twenty minutes and Hermione doesn’t even notice because she was so focused on tuning Malfoy out and watching the game and when its over she looks around like “where’d ron go” and then later its mentioned “Harry sees Ron and his face is covered in blood and he’s like “GOOD JOB WINNING THE GAME HARRY I GAVE MALFOY A BLACK EYE SO WE BOTH DID GREAT THINGS TONIGHT oh btw i have detention for a week and neville’s unconcious but they say he’ll be fine”.
Ron is ride or die and will fight u for $0 y’all
harry: and what if I wave my wand and nothing happens? ron: throw it away and punch him on the nose
