Service with a Smile

He/They, just a little guy, older than I'd like (almost 30)

[hometoursandotherstuff]

[dragonpyre]

Ngl I totally forgot fandom discourse was a thing. I don’t care man, I have car payments

[rootbeerrex]

starting a collection

[clever-fandom-reference]

If I may submit:

[kisskisscantfallinlove]

[minart-was-taken]

I wonder what Rocky's search history looks like on his thinking machine

[big-girls-forever]

‘engineering projects’

‘engineering disaster’

‘Engineering failure’

‘engineering failure explained’

‘engineering failure explained audio’

‘engineering failure explained audio full explanation with puppet show’

‘engineering failure explained audio full explanation with *visual presentation*’

‘well there’s your problem podcast’

‘how to speed up video’

‘project hail mary schematics’

‘what is Hail Mary’

‘what is football’

‘Communism’

‘what is Christian’

‘what is Christianity’

‘can high g-force cause CTE?’

‘CTE signs’

‘history of trains’

‘Islam’

‘Is Mary Magdalene and Mary same person?’

‘Judaism’

‘biggest train’

‘coolest trains ever’

‘nuclear power’

‘which religions can alien join’

‘nuclear power how does it work’

‘nuclear reactor detailed diagram safe’

‘safest nuclear reactor designs minimum radiation’

‘nuclear meltdown’

‘criticality incident’

‘Nuclear bomb’

‘how many nuclear weapons on Earth’

‘how to stop being afraid of nuclear war’

‘mutually assured destruction’

‘Hiroshima bombing why?’

‘Hiroshima still city’

‘radiation sickness signs’

‘how to improve radiation sickness outcomes’

‘Radiotherapy improves outcomes’

‘Radiation treatment not in humans’

‘chemotherapy’

‘radiation shielding best’

‘solid xenon’

‘solid xenon papers’

‘solid argon’

‘why no solid xenon’

‘woman’

‘man and woman’

‘female male difference’

‘sexual dimorphism’

‘sex hormone’

‘transgender’

‘trans man’

‘trans woman’

‘lgbt’

‘lgbt why’

‘Homophobia why’

‘transphobia’

‘How to tell if friend is gay’

‘how to ask if friend is gay’

‘period’

‘period not punctuation’

‘menustration’

‘puberty’

‘pregnancy’

‘pregnancy hurt women why’

‘human head evolution’

‘whale song compilation’

‘human sleeping pattern’

‘dream’

‘Nightmare’

‘Why do dreams happen’

‘tastiest foods how to’

‘artificial protein synthesis’

‘protein folding’

‘NileRed cooking compilation all’

‘is human head limb’

‘How to win argument with friend’

‘famous philosopher says head is limb’

‘famous scientist proves head is actually fifth limb’

‘head fifth limb spiritual belief’

‘head is arm mouth is hand proof’

‘showing off my fifth limb: the head YouTube’

[istormortis]

Another apex, featuring Uth Duna! Just doing her face wasnt enough so added a bit more to fill out the charm c:

[ubikuitous]

Pictures from yeticon this year with my nargacuga set! Feat: a very talented pukei pukei armor cosplayer who i happened to run into!

[zedogica]

ok. i survived 25 years outside the international space station. who gives a shit

[biglawbear]

Technically most moss is outside the international space station

[davvvd]

[1000-life-hacks]

[wheelie-sick]

link

[ayronaught]

Transcript

Everyone's talking about Artemis II, the first humans to travel to the moon in 50 years

Historic, right? BUT nobody's talking about the Deaf people who made it possible.

In the late 1950's, NASA had a problem.

They needed to understand what weightlessness did to the human body but every test subject kept getting violently motion sick

NASA needed to figure out FAST during the space race!

So, they went to Gallaudet University. They recruited 11 Deaf people.

Because a number of Deaf people had lost their hearing to spinal meningitis as children which also damaged their vestibular system.

Their inner ears couldn't be overwhelmed. They were immune to motion sickness.

NASA put them in centrifuges. Put them on zero gravity flights. A room for 12 straight days.

(All caps) It rotated the entire time.

One experiment on a ferry in choppy Nova Scotia waters, the researchers got so seasick they had to cancel it. The Gallaudet Eleven? They were playing cards.

Their bodies gave NASA the data and research it needed to send humans into space.

No Gallaudet Eleven? No Mercury. No Apollo. No Artemis II.

They stood on the shoulders of 11 Deaf people most people have never heard of.

Now you know!

[headpainmigraine]

@ayronaught is a gem in the wasteland, thank you providing transcript! 💐

[downthetubes]

From the author of The Magic of Terry Pratchett, the Locus Award-winning first biography of Sir Terry, Marc Burrows new book, The Terry Pratchett Reader’s Guide, will get a launch at the upcoming Discworld Convention before its general release on 30th August, a guide that Itakes Pratchett seriously as a literary figure without taking the fun out of him.

First volume of The Terry Pratchett Reader’s Guide gets early launch at Discworld Convention

First volume of The Terry Pratchett Reader’s Guide gets early launch at Discworld Convention

[valky-uniguri]

Address us

[gendercensus]

The 2026 Gender Census is now open!

[ survey.gendercensus.com ]

The 13th annual international gender census, collecting information about the language we use to refer to ourselves and each other, is now open until 13th August 2026.

It’s short and easy, for most participants it takes 5 minutes or less.

After the survey is closed I’ll process the results and publish a spreadsheet of the data and a report summarising the main findings. Then anyone can use them for academic or business purposes, self-advocacy, tracking the popularity of language over time, and just feeling like we’re part of a huge and diverse community.

If you think you might have friends and followers who’d be interested, please do reblog this blog post, and share the survey URL by email or at AFK social groups or on other social networks. Every share is extremely helpful!

Survey URL: https://survey.gendercensus.com

The survey is open to anyone anywhere who speaks English and feels that the gender binary doesn’t fully describe their experience of themselves and their gender(s) or lack thereof.

Thank you so much!

[ Link to survey ]

[gendercensus]

The survey has been open for about 7.5 hours, and there have been about 2,500 responses so far. :)

I haven't sent out the mailing list email yet, but I'm about to get to that. That usually bumps things up significantly... 😰

In the mean time, please enjoy this public spreadsheet of incoming participation statistics!

[segamascott]

[setzeri]

It does have kind of a funny face.

[traumatizedbyeggsandwich]

Every photo of Johnny Cash and Bob Dylan together looks like a a respectable mafia boss father named Giovanni and his weird son who bites sometimes

[overateddumbass]

Yeahhhh, you're right

[human-pet-they]

They’re adding soulslike elements to Grindr

[spadefish]

[mcnostril]

Rabbit and ribbit.

[natequarter]

imagine if after 9/11 americans got into the habit of ritually blowing up an effigy of osama bin laden and did it for so long that eventually the effigies just became known as osamas and then osama became a way to say "man you look like you just got blown up, you look rough" and then it just became a way to generically refer to any person and now in the year 2607 it's standard to refer to any group of people as osamas and also, due to 9/11, every eleventh of september americans got together to set off fireworks and eat hot dogs in cold damp fields

because this is what happened in england with november 5