Pat H

Anime and manga consumer | hobbyist photographer and artist

[Pat H @feuloup7]

@AmericanAir I’ve been delayed at O’Hare for almost 7 hours trying to get to Philadelphia. This is crazy!! Feels like we’re going to be here waiting for a pilot past the 5am flight tomorrow morning!

[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

NEW: America’s biggest berry empire doesn’t actually grow berries.

Driscoll’s is the middleman that controls the genetics, reaps the profits, and then shifts blame.

A whistleblower alleges the Canadian government repeatedly flagged their berries for exceeding pesticide limits.

[San Antonio Zoo 🦍 @SanAntonioZoo]

POV: you woke me up when I asked you to

[Brandon Sanderson @BrandSanderson]

After many months of work, I'm thrilled to announce the first draft of the Mistborn screenplay is DONE! Just in time to celebrate the book's original publication, twenty years ago this month. Do please remember that this is just an early step in a very long process, but I'm terribly excited by how it turned out!

[Eva Navratilova @EvaBalikova]

This is deeply emotional for us.🥹

Scarlet Deer Inn, our dark medieval folk tale with physical embroidery, is OUT NOW on Steam!

Thank you so much to everyone who has supported us on this journey.

Retweets are hugely appreciated! ❤️

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯 @japan_nobunaga]

In America I ordered a milkshake and the young man turned it upside down over my head.

I did not move. A samurai does not flinch, even when the ice cream is above him and gravity is the law.

Nothing fell.

The cup hung there, upside down, defying the sky, and the boy held it over me with the calm of a man who has done this ten thousand times and buried his fear long ago.

This is the Blizzard. This is Dairy Queen.

If it falls, they told me, you get it free.

I understood at once. This was not dessert. This was an ordeal.

The boy was not showing off. He was swearing an oath, with his own arm, that he had made the thing thick enough to hang against the earth, and he was betting the price of it on his honor.

The flip is not a trick.

It is a vow.

In my land a smith proved his blade by cutting.

Here a boy of seventeen proves his by turning it over a stranger's head and looking him in the eye while the whole line waits to see if he lied.

He did not lie.

He set it upright, handed it to me, and said "there you go, man," then turned to the next customer as if he had not just gambled his good name across a counter.

I tipped him everything in my pocket.

He tried to give it back. He said it was just a Blizzard.

I told him it was not just a Blizzard.

I could not explain the rest in English, and there was a line, and he was busy.

So I bowed instead.

He said, "You too, man."

That answered nothing I had said.

It answered everything I had felt.

[Pat H @feuloup7]

@Jazz_BerryJam Apparently they’re switching warehouses so the quality of shipments might be changing :/

[Jackie Singh @HackingButLegal]

Overheard: "It took four blocks and five years to go from kneeling on a black man's neck to shooting a white woman in the face"

[Pat H @feuloup7]

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[Zenless Zone Zero @ZZZ_EN]

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[positivity moon @arrtnem]

On paper it is gorgeous. Two toothbrushes in one cup. Tiny socks on the radiator. Someone whose face you know in the dark reaching for you at 3:12 and not leaving. A small person with your eyes and their laugh eating cereal too slowly before school. It sounds like the closest thing to safety we have ever invented.

But a lot of people did not grow up watching love look like that. They grew up watching marriage be a war that never declared itself out loud. 19:40 on a Tuesday, plates not quite slammed, voices just quiet enough for the neighbors not to hear. A father sleeping on the couch for three years. A mother doing the emotional admin for five people and getting a wilted bouquet once a year as a receipt. The child learns quickly that forever can be a threat as easily as it is a promise.

You say mini mes. A lot of people hear smaller witnesses. Witnesses to debt. To screaming in the car park. To one parent disappearing for six months and calling it adjusting. Some bodies carry the memory of being the kid who held the camera and took the Christmas photo where nobody spoke to each other for two days after. They do not crave that house. They crave never putting anyone through it.

There is another layer no one likes talking about because it sounds too practical for a sacred topic. Mortgage rates that bite. Groceries that feel like a test. Friends burning out in two jobs and still wondering if they can afford a dentist, не те що дитину. Bodies that already wake tired. The idea of bringing in a small, breakable person is not just cute to them. It is a spreadsheet with red numbers and a nervous system that shakes.

And then there are the ones who were never told they were allowed to want something for themselves first. To them, choosing no partner and no kids for now is not selfishness. It is the first act of self parenting. It is finally learning to feed the part of them that was always the one doing the caretaking. They are not missing the desire. Sometimes they are surgically removing the compulsion put in them by a culture that treated women as wombs and men as wallets.

Some people hear spouse and feel warmth. Others hear spouse and feel a hand closing over their life. Some people look at a child and feel their chest widen. Others look at their own sleep schedule, their own untreated trauma, their own rage in traffic and think not yet, not like this. That is not nihilism. That is responsibility. The bravest thing some people will ever do is break the chain by not adding another link.

Marriage and children can be the most beautiful thing. They can also be the most efficient way to hide from yourself. It is easy to call it forever if you have never sat with your own loneliness without a witness. It is easy to say mini me if you have not yet met the parts of you that should not be replicated without serious editing. Many people want to arrive to that altar and that nursery with less unprocessed violence in their hands. That takes time. That looks from the outside like drifting.

If you are lucky enough to want it and still be soft when you picture it, hold that gently. Do not turn your hunger into a ruler you hit others with. The world has given plenty of reasons to be afraid of binding contracts and tiny hearts. Climate, war, courts, childhood bedrooms where love was conditional on performance. Not everyone has healed enough to gamble a child on their hope.

Ask people what they want under all the noise. Some will say a partner and kids. Some will say a room, a dog, three good friends and work that feels honest. Some will say I do not know yet, I was never given space to ask. The distance is not as far as it looks. Everyone is hunting the same thing under different packaging. A place where their nervous system can stop scanning the door. A hand that stays. A tomorrow that is not a threat.

You can stand in your dream of spouse and children without needing the whole planet to agree.

[KAMI @Okami13_]

Ben Starr speaks on video game layoffs after winning Best Supporting Performer for Expedition 33 at The Golden Joystick Awards.

"This industry is hard [...] the one thing that Sandfall do is respect the people who work for them [...] that is why this game is great."

[Zohran Kwame Mamdani @ZohranKMamdani]

A few days after the presidential election one year ago, we went to Fordham Road in the Bronx.

It was a little different last week.

[Accursed Farms @accursedfarms]

We have passed 90k signatures! If we can keep even a fraction of this momentum, I think we have it. However, if some signatures are found to be invalid, then they'll be removed later, so keep going even if it passes 100k as a safety margin!
https://t.co/q7pNzilBf7

[Running With Scissors @RWSstudios]

Remember these deadlines.
• If you're from the UK: July 14th
• If you're from the EU: July 31st
• If you're from elsewhere, spread the word

The industry changed for the worse due to normalization of bad practices. While you may not have a time machine to undo the previous bad practices, you can still make a change NOW to ensure your favorite games don't die to always-online services.

Spread the word, spread the hashtag and the website.
#StopKillingGames
https://t.co/s4DcCzdhBR

[Accursed Farms @accursedfarms]

We have passed 800k! This is suspenseful for me, since I've seen the momentum crash once before and I'm sure people know how interest can surge then fall off quickly online. I don't see this as a sure thing, but if we keep this up, we could make it!
https://t.co/EpnNTDR85U

[Accursed Farms @accursedfarms]

Today's the #StopKillingGames promotion day planned by the volunteers! I encourage people to make a post with that hashtag. I'm just following orders though, it's safe to label me as a boomer in regards to social media.

[Monica💚🍉Free Congo, Palestine & Sudan @BlakPantherBabe]

I’m so desperate for change that Im closely following a mayor’s race in a city that I don’t even live in just to catch a glimmer of hope.

[Zohran Kwame Mamdani @ZohranKMamdani]

Billionaires ke paas already sab kuchh hai. Ab, aapka time aageya.

Billionaires already have everything. Now, your time has come.

[Pat H @feuloup7]

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