youngblood

[grootpoepjeplasjehoofd]

[thetrekkiehasthephonebox]

direct action

[dankmemeuniversity]

[hometoursandotherstuff]

What’s encrypting your internet surfing? An algorithm created by a supercomputer? Well, if the site you’re visiting is encrypted by the cyber security firm Cloudflare, your activity may be protected by a wall of lava lamps.

Cloudflare covers websites for Uber, OKCupid, & FitBit, for instance. The wall of  lamps in the San Francisco headquarters generates a random code. Over 100  lamps, in a variety of colors, and their patterns deter hackers from accessing data.  

As the lava lamps bubble and swirl, a video camera on the ceiling monitors their unpredictable changes and connects the footage to a computer, which converts the randomness into a virtually unhackable code.

Codes created by machines have relatively predictable patterns, so it’s possible for hackers to guess their algorithms, posing a security risk. Lava lamps, add to the equation the sheer randomness of the physical world, making it nearly impossible for hackers to break through.

You might think that this would be kept secret, but it’s not. Simply go in and ask to see the lava lamp display. By allowing people to affect the video footage, human movement, static, and changes in lighting from the windows work together to make the random code even harder to predict.

So, by standing in front of the display, you add an additional variable to the code, making it even harder to hack. Isn’t that interesting? 

via atlasobscura.com

[dressesandyarn]

What the fuck.

[buttify-blog]

i kinda wanna rebel against society but i also kinda wanna take a nap

[fightcapitalism]

everything gets so much better after you realize that idleness is strongly discouraged by capitalism, so you can now do both at the same time

[pumpkinskull]

this was the most affirming thing i’ve read in my life

[shock]

what the numbers could mean on football players’ backs:

their age

how many people they’ve killed

how good they are at football 

[shock]

[nogloryinlove]

from poems to fall in love with illustrated by chris riddell (click to enlarge)

[arandomthot]

[cleverbrute]

This has happened to me with more than one lover, where she would want to cover up her body or be naked only in the dark. They seemed surprised that I really wanted to see them in their full glory, including a round belly or stretch marks or a flat chest or a C-section scar or whatever.

My honest words in those situations: “I want to see all of you … I want to touch all of you … You look beautiful.”

For me, this seems natural: it’s your lover, and you ought to adore them. But in each of those moments of self-consciousness I learned something, I hope, about the psychological scars we carry from a lifetime of internalizing others’ judgments to the point that we judge ourselves most harshly of all. And women get it the *worst*, especially when it comes to body image, because of deeply fucked-up standards in our society.

Touch your lover. Inhale her. Help her to be more comfortable in her skin. Give her so much adoration that she can’t help but unwind some of the tensions and fears she’s been carrying inside for ages. Whether you’re with her one time or ten thousand, make damn sure that she knows what it is to be worshiped.

[michellepsychologist]

Fuck this is beautiful..,

[aaitwo-deactivated20250816]

the impulse to just make weird noises for no reason is something i have to ignore like 24/7

[brnsknsol11]

Thought it was just me

[chaoticgood-enby]

microwave: mmmmmm

me and my friends, in perfect unison, loudly: mmmmmmmmmmmmm

[sixpenceee]

“I caught it on camera.” Posted by u/Eleodan.

[definitelyrelatable]

I have to admit this gave me chills at 2am.

[commodorecliche]

haha um

[lumpyjuice]

[everythingfox]

Another owner gets adopted

[valtsv]

hozier songs are like *blows kiss to the forest* that’s for my baby *throws molotov cocktail at car* AND THAT’S FOR THE REVOLUTION

[archaeologicalnews]

2 Infants Were Buried Wearing Helmets Made from Kids' Skulls. And Archaeologists Are Puzzled

Two infants were buried some 2,100 years ago wearing “helmets” made from the skulls of other children, archaeologists have discovered.

The remains of the two infants were found with nine other burials at a site called Salango, on the coast of central Ecuador. The archaeologists who excavated the burials between 2014 and 2016 recently published the details of their findings in the journal Latin American Antiquity.

The team says this is the only known case in which children’s skulls were used as helmets for infants being buried. The scientists don’t know what killed the infants and children.

The helmets were placed tightly over the infants’ heads, the archaeologists found. It’s likely that the older children’s skulls still had flesh on them when they were turned into helmets, because without flesh, the helmets likely would not have held together, the archaeologists noted.

One infant’s “face looked through and out of the cranial vault” — the space in the skull that holds the brain — the archaeologists wrote. Read more.

[manticoreimaginary]

[halloweennut]

What the fuck

[historicaltimes]

“Crazy Dion” Diamond at one of his sit-ins as a teenager in Arlington, VA. June 10, 1960

via reddit

[kaylapocalypse-deactivated20201]

All of those people around him are demons

[chemicallywrit]

hey guys! here’s some fun things i learned from this article about Dion Diamond:

he did these sit-ins by himself. like idk about you, but i always thought of sit-ins as organized by groups, what kind of bravery does it take, man

he didn’t tell anyone about it, like he was no glory-seeker about this. his parents didn’t even know until reporters started calling them up like “hey, did you know your son is in jail?

when someone called the cops he’d skedaddle out the back door although he was sent to prison multiple times

the last time he got arrested was in Baton Rouge, and the cops were so sick of him that they told inmates they’d put in a good word for anyone who gave Diamond a hard time. (the inmates didn’t take the bait.)

he’s still alive!

hark, a hero of our times!

[profeminist]

[profeminist]

[siniov]

bi pride never ends 

[stablesky]

He's doing his best