keep the path.

[a-book-of-creatures]

SPINOSAURUS STOP BEING WEIRD CHALLENGE (IMPOSSIBLE)

Welcome Spinosaurus mirabilis aka some kind of giant unicorn heron lizard I guess

Science | AAAS

[jourke-rourke]

Leverage (2008) // Quinn moments [S01xE12, S04xE18]

[kaijutegu]

ok now that it's not illegal to post it here's nakajima and spinosaurus mirabilis

New 'scimitar-crested' Spinosaurus species discovered in the central Sahara

A paper published in Science describes the discovery of Spinosaurus mirabilis, a new spinosaurid species found in Niger. A 20-person team le

[ancient-string]

Anyone: *is watching Leverage for the first time*

Me: have you heard about watch order? Do you know the watch order? Hey. Hey. Are you aware that season one is out of order and requires a specific watching order. Hey. Hey. Hey. Have I told you about watch order yet?

[ancient-string]

May I present, the actual Leverage Season 1 intended viewing order:

The Nigerian Job (#101)

The Homecoming Job (#102)

The Wedding Job (#107)

The Snow Job (#109)

The Mile High Job (#108)

The Miracle Job (#104)

The Two-Horse Job (#103)

The Bank Shot Job (#105)

The Stork Job (#106)

The Juror #6 Job (#111)

The 12-Step Job (#110)

The First David Job (#112)

The Second David Job (#113)

[thalialunacy]

Woooo I just restarted watching S1 again and I REMEMBERED TO LOOK THIS UP IN TIME. Go team!

[thalialunacy]

OKAY SO. I am through S1 and holy cats did the intended order make a difference. For Parker's character arc, for Nate & Sophie's relationship arc, and for just the pacing of the whole god damn show. So I'm now shaking my old person fist at the sky for the offense.

[three-blogs-in-a-trenchcoat]

I love how Leverage went

Here's the cat burglar. She wears comfy clothes and has zero social skills. She has sex appeal but only if you're into a very specific type of woman, and crucially she has zero idea she has it. She probably doesn't know what an innuendo is.

Here's the hacker. He's a Black nerd, and also the most moral character of the bunch. He's a nerd but also not socially awkward; in fact, he's the second best at grifting, right after the person who's been doing it for decades.

Here's the muscle. In his heart of hearts, he is a chef. He is tough and manly but he uses that to look out for the working class and children and everyone else the system leaves behind. He's feared by politicians and he reminds his friend to tip the delivery person.

Here's the femme fatale. She's over forty years old, and she's the one seducing the mark. She's the heart of the team. Her calling is to be a director. She loves attending her own funeral.

Here's the mastermind. He's the only one who doesn't start out as a career criminal. He manipulates his own crew, kills two people after promising them he won't, and takes deals behind their back. He was in seminary school.

Also, here's their nemesis. He's Mark Sheppard.

[the-moody-angel]

Best show ever.

[sca-nerd]

[transtessbian]

[teathattast]

[basedhighsenberg]

[boomer-mythology-destroyer]

[bernard-jackson]

[mod2amaryllis]

i think it's fine to attribute some desire to biology, like wanting to have kids. like yeah I'm sure a lot of it is the living creature need to proliferate. it doesn't bug me. same as acknowledging that love is dopamine or whatever. a cynic saying love is just chemicals in our brains isn't a gotcha. like ok we as humans were so driven and fascinated by our capacity to love that we found the exact juice that produces that feeling and gave it a name. that's awesome, actually, i dig that, i love that. with my chemicals.

[mapsontheweb]

US state borders but they are based off rivers and mountains

[dessa-banks]

[supreme-leader-stoat]

@blinded-by-love

[medicinemane]

I think we should do this but leave Colorado alone so there’s just an extremely jarring rectangle in one part of this

[supreme-leader-stoat]

I like how you think.

[cannibalcaprine-deactivated2024]

[notajerusalemcricketd-deactivat]

enough. to the Box with you

[beaft]

do genuinely find it fascinating how indeed.com is like the biggest job-hunting website out there and yet manages to be profoundly useless in every possible way

[beaft]

i apply for a job. i never hear back.

i search for "entry level jobs". i am shown listings for things like "military intelligence officer", "senior veterinary surgeon", and "forklift engineer".

i search for "jobs in bookselling". i am told that there are 9 bookselling jobs in my area. when i read the listings, 8 of these 9 jobs are care assistant roles and the 9th is a pyramid scheme.

i search for "jobs within 5 miles of my location". i am shown jobs that are on the other side of the country.

i type in "proofreading". i am shown listings for "ai training".

i search "creative industry jobs". half the listings are for finance companies and the other half require a degree in data science.

i receive an email. "based on your profile, indeed thought you would be a great match for this opportunity!" the linked job requires a degree that i do not have and 5 years of experience in a field that i know nothing about. the email does not explain why this opportunity would be "a great match".

i receive an email. "based on your profile, indeed thought you would be a great match for this opportunity!" in the body of the email, it warns me that i will not be able to apply for the job it has sent me because i do not meet the criteria.

i apply for a job with a temp agency. i never hear back. 2 weeks later the agency website goes down and never comes back up again.

i apply for a job. 6 months later i get a stock email telling me my application has been unsuccessful.

i apply for a job. i never hear back.

[unclefather]

[superepicchan]

[vol-au-ventbaudelaire]

25 years of ads peeled away

[daggers-drawn]

A warning

[mardakaisson]

tomorrow

[saint-boss]

[not-all-the-prayers]

Leverage: a motherfuckin’ summary (insp)

[homunculus-argument]

Fantasy stories should have more "what do you mean you don't do X" things in compare and contrast of cultures. Like the differences between peoples aren't the stuff they show off as "These Are Our Culture :)" things, fucking everyone has food and music and folk tales, but the things they've always assumed that everyone has, and are baffled to discover that they don't.

The people who are always barefoot are baffled that humans don't have a wash basin at their front door where people can wash their feet before stepping inside?? Do they just walk in with their dirty feet? The fuck do you mean you take your shoes off?

Humans don't have small baby-sized spellbooks for toddlers who just learned to read, so they can safely learn to practice tiny cute and harmless, age-appropriate magic spells before progressing to more mature and demanding spells? What, do they just throw teenagers completely unprepared into the arcane - hold the fuck up, is that why human sorceror mortality is so fucking high?

Dwarves who have always wondered why the entrance to human residences is so fucking big, why do you need to take up such a large area for a door that's just there to lead downstairs to the underground halls? Are the timber walls really as thick as a human is tall? What for? And once one of them gets invited to a human house to stay and rest, nobody ever fucking believes her: That's not the entrance, that's the whole fucking house. 100% of the human house is aboveground, there is no tunnel to the underground levels. They might have a single storage room down there, but the aboveground section is so fucking big because that's the whole house.

This post was brought to you by: People who butter their bread and who had no idea that there are people who put mayonnaise on their bread, and people who put mayo on their bread and had no idea about people who put butter on their bread discovering that the other kind of people exist.