AnasAbdin
he wasn't even looking at me and he found me
Monterey Bay Aquarium
NASA
dirt enthusiast
Andulka
almost home
Peter Solarz
izzy's playlists!
Kiana Khansmith
Keni
Aqua Utopia｜海の底で記憶を紡ぐ
Xuebing Du
trying on a metaphor
will byers stan first human second
Sweet Seals For You, Always
Product Placement
sheepfilms
Mike Driver
let's talk about Bridgerton tea, my ask is open
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@3am-dumbassery
How is it that you can a music library of like 1,200+ absolute bangers but as soon as you put it on shuffle in a group setting it's like. anime opening you added in 2010. homestuck parody song. musical artist who was cancelled last year for kidnapping and eating children in his basement. Hamilton
i get so freaked out by like. pictures of really big rope
I’d like to say that’s normal but I’m a frayed knot
i’m so fucking annoyed at this, just for that you don’t get photos of the rope
i changed my mind, this is just too horrifying not to share
it’s called a Hawser and is the thick cable or rope used for towing/mooring a ship
in conclusion, i have nightmares beyond description
NO it would NOT be cool
well i fucken disagree
@scumrunner do you have any cursed facts about hawsers to share ?
As a fiber nerd, i am personally very enthusiastic about them….
Ohhohohoho DO I EVER. Meet the “snapback zone,” not an area with cool hats, but instead the unintuitive range at which a hawser can kill you if it breaks under tension.
What if we kissed in the snap-back zone? 😳 😳 😳
I don’t think you guys understand how much force this is, a tow rope used to move a 20 foot boat snaps under tension with enough force to dent metal, shatter glass and seriously injure anyone in its way. A Hawser on the other hand… Well I’ve seen a concrete pier with a chuck the size of a sedan ripped out of it by a line failure, and anecdotally, I’ve heard of a 2 ton heavy cargo forklift being skidded sideways, then knocked over. These lines snap with enough force to noticably dent the hull armor of navy ships.
This is a line designed to hold in place a moving object that can be easily in excess of 10000 tons. AND THEY CAN BREAK FROM THAT TENSION ALONE.
THESE THINGS ARE TERRIFYING RUBBER BANDS FROM HELL.
Nope Rope
NOPE ROPE
I’m once again reminded of its much smaller cousin, the haywire.
You’ve heard of the term, “Going haywire,” right? Ever spared a thought to why that term exists?
See, time was there was a prototype automatic hay-baler. But this was in that magic period juuust before we really got into standardized sizes. So calibration of the machine was handled manually - a mix of guessing and learning from the results of guessing. If you’ve read Raising Steam by Sir Terry Pratchett you know that many people don’t get to learn from the results of their own guesses, due to being dead.
A poorly calibrated hay-baler had the mechanical strength to smush the hay into a tight bundle, wrap the wire around it, and tie that wire off to maintain the bale’s form. But the pressure of the over-packed hay was a constant outward force. Each bale made by an over-tight baler was potential energy in physical form. We have a word for “potential energy in physical form” and that word is “bomb.”
So sometimes, a man would toss a hay bale and it would land with a twang and the man who’d been reaching down to pick it up where it landed was dead.
And that is what “haywire” means.
oh nice. i knew hay bales occasionally spontaneously combust, didn’t know they used to have an explosion factor too
I am learning multiple things today
Normally I’d expect wet plant matter to be less likely to go up in flames, but not hay bales! Those pesky bacteria really like to party in damp conditions. And by party I mean “create heat.”
awesome how you can just have ocs and they live in your brain forever and torment you
when I was in high school I had a literature teacher who had a policy of unlimited extra credit. All you had to do was read a book by a notable author (his discretion) and have a little chat with him after school to prove that you read it. No limits, no need for variety (one month I decided I really loved Kurt Vonnegut and just read everything of his I could get my hands on).
Yes, I was tearing through books constantly, and talking to this teacher at least weekly. Because even though I always loved reading as a kid, literature was always a very weak subject for me in terms of a teaching-to-standardized-test school setting (I just do awful on "what color were the curtains" type multiple choice questions. Those details don't stick in my memory THEY JUST DON'T). But that didn't matter for this class. I could just read my way out of any bad test score. I have always had fond memories of how I "fudged" my way through that class and "abused' the extra credit policy.
I was thinking about it again today, and only just now realized that he absolutely tricked me into being well-read, while my teenage self thought I was totally getting away with something. THAT MOTHERFUCKER. I hope he's doing well.
i may have my father's worst traits but i am more ethical & virtuous with them than him
Sometimes i think about the letters Lucy wrote her mom in early canon. I wonder if she told her mom about her first real friend and his stupid blue cat
I think about natsu finding that letter too
Story concept:
There's a series of mysterious, otherwise unconnected deaths happening across the country, where the only things that the deceased have in common are that they had at least one enemy who would want them actually-for-real-fucking-dead, but who invariably always had a solid alibi of where they were during the time of death, and almost every time there's an eyewitness who insists that they saw a large black horse, with no reins, harness nor saddle, walking loose by itself somewhere in the area, walking away from the location the death occurred. Even in places where a horse would be an extremely unlikely sight, like at 3 am in the middle of a city without a stable anywhere nearby.
The black stallion becomes known as an ill omen, a messenger of mysterious deaths of generally somewhat-signifcant people, all unlikely but ambiguously accidental. People have ambivalent feelings towards it, some consider it simply a dark and evil, terrifying thing, while some point out that none of these black horse incidents have happened to "innocent people"; It's always been someone involved in some kind of shady business.
In truth, the deaths are all connected, and they are, indeed, murders. Or to be more exact, they are assassinations. There's a very skilled and sought-after hitman who knows how to make every killing look like an accident (or enough like an accident for plausible deniability, nobody can prove that it was a murder). He is also a shapeshifter, who only knows how to take two forms: Human and horse.
its surreal to me learning that in some places u dont need coins or tokens to unlock shopping carts. probably more convinient like that tbf but i think i'd miss the novelty of seeing all the little tokens people in my family keep on their keyrings. theres a charm to it ya know.
I hate it when you’re reading smut and you can’t figure out what position they’re in.
sometimes it just ends up being something like
ITS BACK
Y’ALL NEED JESUS
Please stop reblogging this post
This post made my water break
In honor of my daughter’s first birthday next week, I’m sharing the post that made me laugh so hard that it broke my water.
WHAT
God, I love this accursed website.
Hey internet, the girl that was born from this post is 4 years old today (July 2 2021) also, the gif still makes me laugh. Happy Birthday, Marceline!!
Happy July 2nd, 2024, guess Marceline is 7 now
Happy July 2nd, 2025; she’s 8 now (5am for me)
Happy Birthday to my Marceline, 8 years ago today (July 2, 2025) she came into this world five days before her due date to see wtf was so funny 🤣 this post, like many other things, are on a long list of topics to discuss when she’s older lol
Happy 9th Birthday Little Marceline!!! (July 2 2026)
It’s July 2 2026 internet, help me wish a Happy Birthday to my brilliant and beautiful 9 year old, Marceline! I’ve shown her (most of) the comments and she says “thank u internet 😁😁”
that is the most beautiful airfryer i have ever seen
found it! bruno smart air fryer in mint green BZK-KZ02TW-GR
Theirs a horse in the pingles
Joy and whimsy detected! This horse in the pingles is joyful and whimsical!
i finally found the best youtube comment
Baby sphinx trying to be like mama and waylaying travelers, but all its riddles are completely non-sensical like the ones a 1st grader would tell
had a dream i walked up to a food stall and they tried to sell me 3 takoyaki for $130 and i was so mad that i woke myself up before completing the transaction. idiot lost their customer to the waking world lol. charge less next time.
my naruto wouldn't like any pants i gave him so i gave him a tennis skirt as a joke
he loved it
