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Jules of Nature
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"I'm Dorothy Gale from Kansas"
Not today Justin
Monterey Bay Aquarium
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[lawyer voice] mothers and fuckers of the jury-
DO YOU KNOW HOW OFTEN I THINK ABOUT THIS POST??? IM IN LAW SCHOOL THIS POST IS GOING TO RUIN MY LIFE
reblog to ruin a law student’s life
oh hello you’ve returned to us
Hi. I’m a trial attorney now and every last one of you is a motherfucker.
thinking fondly of this meme I made for a coworker years and years ago
Old school readers from my livejournal days may recall that I have an ongoing grudge against Magnolia Bakery for crimes against midwesterners (long story involving the phrase "We didn't realize people in Chicago were so attached to menus") and I'm cackling like a supervillain this morning over their health inspection issues.
It's a saying in Chicago that high health inspection scores are a great way to tell who is paying bribes to health inspectors, but I'm still just a little gleeful.
...would you consider retelling the menu story for those of us who weren't around in the livejournal days? 🥺👉👈
✨🦄🐬🦖🌊 I JUST WANNA BE PART OF YOUR SYMPHONYYYYYYY✨🦄💖💕🐟🐬
A cat is a machine that turns proteins into violence.
#Helios was declawed by his former owners so he doesn't just slap things he dislikes like most cats#he really only feels confident in hissing at them#Especially because a lot of the thing he doesn't like are bugs and those are sharp sometimes :(#Selene has figured this out and now when she hears him hiss she sprints over the kill the fuck out of the bug#Helios has learned she will do this so he'll hiss at stuff louder and louder until she hears him#A nervous old man and his emotional support homicidal maniac tags by @gallusrostromegalus
I couldn't reblog without the tags because the context is hilarious
A Nervous Old Man (right) and his Emotional Support Violence Machine (Left)
Yes, he is more than twice her size. Yes, he is five times her age. Yes, he cries like a big baby until she kills Unacceptable Scary Things (earwigs) for him.
I couldn't get these two and their dynamic out of my head, @gallusrostromegalus I doodled them (guessed on their collars)
OH MY GOD MY CATS HAVE FANART
Alright I want to know something here:
the 🙃 emoji means (approximately)
silly!*
ugh!*
secret third thing you will explain in tags*
*if comfortable doing so, you may include your age range/generation in the tags for helpful demographic data
kindly reblog for bigger sample size, thanks!
Places where reality is a bit altered:
playgrounds at night
rest stops on highways
deep in the mountains
early in the morning wherever it’s just snowed
trails by the highway just out of earshot of traffic
schools during breaks
those little beaches right next to ferry docks
bowling alleys
unfamiliar mcdonalds on long roadtrips
your friends living room once everybody but you is asleep
laundromats at midnight
• any target • churches in texas • abandoned 7/11’s • your bedroom at 5 am • hospitals at midnight • warehouses that smell like dust • lighthouses with lights that don’t work anymore • empty parking lots • ponds and lakes in suburban neighborhoods • rooftops in the early morning • inside a dark cabinet
galeries in art museums that are empty except for you
the lighting section of home depot
stairwells
•hospital waiting rooms •airports from midnight to 7am • bathrooms in small concert venues
I just got the weirdest feeling I swear
OK LISTEN THERE ARE REASONS FOR THIS!!!
A lot of these places are called liminal spaces - which means they are throughways from one space to the next. Places like rest stops, stairwells, trains, parking lots, waiting rooms, airports feel weird when you’re in them because their existence is not about themselves, but the things before and after them. They have no definitive place outside of their relationship to the spaces you are coming from and going to. Reality feels altered here because we’re not really supposed to be in them for a long time for think about them as their own entities, and when we do they seem odd and out of place.
The other spaces feel weird because our brains are hard-wired for context - we like things to belong to a certain place and time and when we experience those things outside of the context our brains have developed for them, our brains are like NOPE SHIT THIS ISN’T RIGHT GET OUT ABORT ABORT. Schools not in session, empty museums, being awake when other people are asleep - all these things and spaces feel weird because our brain is like “I already have a context for this space and this is not it so it must be dangerous.” Our rational understanding can sometimes override that immediate “danger” impulse but we’re still left with a feeling of wariness and unease.
Listen I am very passionate about liminal spaces they are fascinating stuff or perhaps I am merely a nerd.
I, for one, appreciate your passion for liminal spaces and thank you for explaining it to the rest of us.
I get the playgrounds at night because I walk to one that’s near my house at night sometimes and hang out. I always feel like I’m being watched or followed, or rather something out of the ordinary is happening
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This was the best I could get... this is really hard actually
Fun fact: Arizona is the only place in the country where the state mine inspector is an elected position
Another fun fact: this is one of my favorite political ads of all time, straight out of 2014
I forgot vampire bats were a thing and thought they were referring to the folklore kind of vampire
the subtle advocation for kids to be playing in the abandoned copper mines is also not great
I did some fact checking on this and as far as I can tell catparazzi was making a false assumption. The ad is 100% about the bloodsucking undead. [chicago sun times]
You ever see something that you just know is gonna live in your head rent free forever
"The Lost Balance: Old English Etymology, the Werewolf, and Being Maidenless"
Let’s open the linguistic history books for a moment and look at how time completely dismantles the original architecture of our language.
"I now pronounce you man... and wifman."
It sounds like a terrible pun—and it is—but it is also a historically accurate representation of how our ancestors spoke a millennium ago.
In the days of Old English, the root word mann did not possess a male gender assignment. It was entirely, completely neutral. It simply meant "human being" or "person." Because mann wrapped itself around the entire species, the language required specific prefixes to denote biological sex.
If you wanted to specify an adult female human, you added the prefix wīf (which originally just meant female, independent of marriage). This gave you wīfmann.
If you wanted to specify an adult male human, you added the prefix wer (cognate to the Latin vir). This gave you werman.
But human speech is governed by the law of least effort. Over centuries of rapid, everyday conversation, the harsh consonants of wīfmann naturally began to soften. The phonetic drift shifted the word from wīfmann to wimman, which the Middle English period eventually baked into the modern word "woman."
The masculine counterpart, however, suffered a completely different linguistic fate. The prefix wer dropped out of the daily lexicon entirely, leaving the historically neutral mann to be lazily adopted as the default word for males.
In fact, the ancient word wer only managed to survive the passage of time by hiding in the shadows of our folklore. It lives exclusively within the name of one of humanity's oldest legendary monsters: the werewolf. When you break it down etymologically, a werewolf is not a "wolf that turns into a man." It is, quite literally, a "man-wolf."
I am fully aware that dropping this much linguistic nerddom alongside a barrage of unrepentant puns has likely scared off a significant portion of the crowd. But to those of you who stuck it out to the end of the page, you have my genuine appreciation. As a dad, stepping into the realm of mandatory, terrible humor is a sacred duty.
I am just profoundly grateful for the lady who runs this tavern alongside me. Because without her, I would find myself completely out of luck, out of options, and—much like our favorite greatsword-wielding Ranni loyalist, Blaidd the Half-Wolf—entirely Maidenless.
Keep drawing the thread, traveler.
...Join star fleet they said...It'll be an adventure they said...
This is a spot from an italian estate agency (we are governed by the right-wing party)
The woman says "Ridiculous..."
If you want to spread it elsewhere, here's the official link
[Video Description: An ad with piano music over it all, showing an elderly woman in her home, knitting, when two younger men walk by her window, which catches her attention. She stares out her window at them as they kiss each other while walking, the old lady staring in disbelief. Cut to the old woman approaching a residence with a broom in hand, staring up at the second floor window where a small rainbow Pride flag is hanging. The old woman stares up at it and mutters "Ridiculo", before getting up on a ladder with her broom to remove the flag. Focus on the flag fluttering to the ground as church bells chime. The scene then cuts to the couple from before, approaching their home with grocery bags in hand before one stops and stares at the second floor, stopping his partner who then drops the groceries as he too stares up. It's then revealed that the small pride flag had been replaced with a gigantic, hand-knit pride flag. It then cuts back to the old woman's home, where a tin of rainbow-colored yarn sits on her table. The hands of the old woman are holding and fondly touching an old black and white photo of two young smiling women, leaning against each other. Cut to the old woman's face as she stares out with a look of happy pride on her face. At the end of the video, the name "Idealista" appears on screen, followed by "buon pride" along with a rainbow. End VD.]
One correction:
The old lady is not in her home. She is at work. She's meant to be what in Italian is called "la portinaia", aka a cross between a doorwoman and cleaner of a residential building. She's in her small "office" space, at the entrance of the building, from where she can survey the coming and goings of the inhabitants. It's a job that has mostly disappeared, but is culturally very clear to us as having the connotation of "potentially gossipy, one-million-percent judgmental woman who sees everything that goes on in the apartment complex, knows everyone and their secrets, and has Strong Opinions™️".
In this case, thankfully, the Strong Opinion™️ is that those two men are ridiculous with their teeny tiny flag for ants.
i think we need copyright reform. currently most works are protected by copyright for the life of the author plus 70 years. here are my two proposals.
18 years. this is enough time for the work to grow to adulthood and begin to care for itself
life of the author + zero years. i like this one because it encourages you to kill people
#hm... i like 18 years because if you abandon a series at some point people can start publishing the sequels. forces you to keep going #and/or inspires a fun Don Quixote situation. however. counterpoint to my own argument: #Disney could adapt your work against your will during your lifetime. [nihilisticlinguistics]
Counterpoint counterpoint: They already can and do, because they have a gazillion dollars with which to hire lawyers and the people who they've probably-but-unprovable-in-court ripped off do not. There are lots of alleged examples.
I cannot understand why anyone would want to fuck a Pokémon when the Pokémon world is canonically bountiful with hot empty-nest moms whose husbands are absent or nonexistent
Is this a trick question or something?
The guy who directed the first few seasons of the anime felt that pokeworld society put extra pressure on men to go on pokemon adventures to prove themselves but he also felt that the majority of them die out there and it's just like an accepted fact of life. These are all widows.
No that was one of his way more normal ideas. His worldbuilding vision used to be way more famous in the fandom back in the day, especially how he had wanted the series to end:
Frankly we were robbed
