C'est lavie-ly

Vaughn X Simon. Don't know where I'm going anymore, but it's better than where I was.

[huebris808]

[huebris808]

the sequel

[teethfactory-blog]

how does this keep happening

[huebris808]

THANK YOU FOR CONVEYING THIS ONE I HATE THOSE

[sixpenceee]

These swimming pools with black tiles are my aesthetic. 

[gabriel-patches-titanfeather-de]

Make the black tiles out of that black material that absorbs all light and swim over the void.

[facts-i-just-made-up]

Fun fact about Vantablack- Because it absorbs all light, it heats up very fast. If exposed to direct sunlight, it takes in all the UV and heat and contains them, and can reach heats well over 212°F, the boiling point of water. So if you did coat the pool in that material, the water would boil as soon as the sun touched it, killing everyone swimming in it.

But that’s not all. The flash boiling of an entire pool of chlorinated water would release the chlorine as gas, which would kill everyone within a 200ft radius of the pool. And it doesn’t end there.

The release of chlorine gas combined with the heat of the black tiles would be more than sufficient to fuse the boiled hydrogen ions with the chlorine, creating an explosive reaction with the nitrogen in the air. So shortly after everyone in the pool boils and everyone around the pool dies of chlorine gas poisoning, the region would explode with the force of a small atomic bomb (8kt for a pool like those pictured above), leveling about 50 city blocks.

You’d think that would be bad enough, but get this-

Such chemical explosions expel gamma rays. Gamma rays ionize hematite, which is the mineral from which the black material mentioned is made. This creates Scopohyoscpnol, a compound known as “The Zombie Drug” because it essentially erases the brain and induces cannibalistic tendencies in its victim. It can be transmitted through saliva, infecting all who are bitten within hours.

So basically, if you did have Vantablack tiles in your pool, you would boil your friends, poison your neighbors, nuke your city, and condemn the globe to a zombie plague. But to be fair, it would look pretty cool.

[worldheritagepostorganization]

World Heritage Post

[nerdyqueerandjewish]

Why are straight people like this why did I have to see this

[unclefather]

Personally, I prefer a paper plate because it’s easier to digest and goes with most meals. The ceramic is too crunchy and I only have a few teeth left to chew it

[thebootydiaries]

im such a possessive person i just saw someone calling Karl Marx just “Karl” like they’re on a first name basis and i got jealous

[bumbleturkey]

LITERALLY POSSESSIVE OVER DADDY COMMUNISM! I THINK HE WOULD UH HAVE A FEW THINGS TO SAY ABOUT THIS!

[thebootydiaries]

u know what . i wish i had never posted this

[intergalactic-ashkenazi-deactiv]

can’t focus on a thing

gotta bounce The Leg

[whitepeopletwitter]

[kremlin]

my favorite part of flying home to texas is when the pilot yells YEEEEE HAWWWW WE’RE IN TEXAS NOW BOYS and fires his revolvers into the roof of the cockpit. 

[pizzanet-blog1]

whoever created chinese food is my hero

[panducky]

probably the chinese

[gothicprep]

no offense but I’ve never gotten over anything that’s happened to me in my life

[stinkyhat-deactivated20231213]

BBQ

blease be quiet

[jigglypuffsvevo]

me: tries my darndest

me: isn’t worth a darn

[catchymemes]

[injuries-in-dust]

I’m gonna guess that they aren’t normally allowed to sit on the furniture.

[onenicebugperday]

whats your favorite bee :o) just outta curiosity

BLUE BEE BLUE BEE

Cerulean carpenter bee, Xylocopa caerulea, photos by gancw1

[theangelswans]

[dynamite-with-a-laser-beammm]

*Gansey and Blue from The Raven Boys have entered the chat*

[normal-horoscopes]

You don’t actually believe lead can be turned to gold, right?

SEE HERES THE THING

IT CAN

ALCHEMISTS HAVE HADRON COLLIDERS NOW

[anarchocunt]

It has happened Anon

[screensavorstudios]

Hold up, you didn’t highlight that last part? The part about how Soviets ACCIDENTALLY Turned lead shielding into gold with an experimental nuclear reactor???

[xerohourcheese]

There is a ‘however’, however.

Due to the processes used, the resultant Gold is usually highly radioactive.

Or, if you prefer to use a more, arcane, vernacular, Cursed!

[normal-horoscopes]

YOURE JUST JEALOUS OF MY MICRON THIN LAYER OF FRESHLY TRANSMUTED GOLD

[cluegrrl]

It also cost more to power up the reactor long enough to make the gold than the gold is remotely worth.

[normal-horoscopes]

HEY THE TASK WAS “TRANSMUTE GOLD” NOBODY EVER SAID IT HAD TO BE COST EFFECTIVE

[dduane]

(chortle) Somebody remind me which SF writer, years and YEARS back, suggested that the reason possession of fairy gold was deadly was exactly for this reason…?

[littlepinkbeast]

Closest I know of isn’t fairy or transmuted gold, but Poul Anderson’s Three Hearts and Three Lions had the “curse” on plunderers of a sun-struck giant be the result of the carbon in the giant turning into radioactive silicon and irradiating anyone who went near enough to take the giant’s gold.

[jumpingjacktrash]

el dorado, labeled THIS IS NOT A PLACE OF HONOR

[sixpenceee]

Mushrooms releasing millions of microscopic spores into the wind to propagate 

Source

[tonyacout]

[itsfunnytome]

[nosdrinker]

the ol’ razzle dazzle

[blossomfully]

Sue Zhao