Athenaeum Is A Cool Word

I’m 19, I will understand 60% of your references, and I am *always* right behind you<3

[gin-juice-tonic]

one off gag from my notes

[foxgirl87]

[veryberryskye]

yeah i like to give my blessing to the most pathetic looking weak little knight at the tournament. she can’t even look me in the eye when i give her my flower and she stutters out that she’ll do her best or something of the like. i think its funny when she has to cry and beg my forgiveness and i get to say “such a shame, i suppose my hand in marriage will have to go to someone else…” and then i get to hear her whimper like a dog. ive done this like 6 times alrea-

did she just win.

[the-stew-goblin]

I shall prepare a stew for the wedding! Extra salt!

[veryberryskye]

wait wait wait stew goblin wait

[peachdelta]

get ready for the wedding

[venom-princess-deactivated20250]

[uvb76fan]

This is literally how you actually improve ADHD symptoms btw

[tlirsgender]

It's called hard sci-fi because it's not as easy

[tlirsgender]

I thought it'd be fun if I made aliens that respirate CO² into O² like plants but I started thinking about how I'm not actually sure how exactly those chemical processes work and now I'm on the wikipedia page for nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate

[tlirsgender]

I feel like the media literacy ogre for biochemistry

[textsfromstarfleet]

X

[tyrannosaurus-rex]

star trek explores these strange seemingly inconsequential extremes because it wants you to consider the possibility that your concept of ethics doesnt and could never possibly account for every scenario. It wants you to consider the ethical ramifications of just wiping out the little nanites taking over your ships computer even though eventually this will kill you all becuase

-What if they’re alive?

-What if they’re sentient?

-What if they don’t realize they’re hurting us?

-What if what hurts us is what they need to live?

-What if we can communicate with them?

Star Trek takes the situation of, “these computer bugs are eating our ship and in an hour we’ll all be dead and we COULD just wipe them out utterly but…what if they’re like us?” because the ramifications effect what risks we ourselves are willing to take in the name of pacifism and understanding. it says that even the smallest most immenently dangerous creature deserves as much of a chance to live peacefully as we can possibly give it through understanding.

without examining ourselves this way, through these made up seemingly inane situations, we will never be able to understand ourselves and what we’re truly capable of, what levels of understanding can be achieved. without the ability to place ourselves in a difficult situation and reach beyond our first instinct of fight or flight and self-preservation, we will never be evolve as a global community

[justabrowncoatedwench]

preserving creekfiend’s tags because GOLD

#star trek does this because its the space talmud actually

[owlbelly]

this is unequivocally true. the rabbi at my childhood temple made it a point to bring a Star Trek scenario into every single d'var, and there was always something relevant!

[m-aremagnum]

[jewishdragon]

Hold on i need to ask my friend Claudia, who is a college student and edits wikipedia something real quick...

THIS IS MY FRIEND CLAUDIA

[blizzarddoesstuff]

Teto got that dog in her or something,

[byjove]

he ‘accidentally’ ate tree bark and discovered aspirin

[moniquill]

[chaimeanstea]

this christmas is a great time to get nogged up 👍

[voidsentprinces]

[dolphinsjukebox]

Every Wednesday I walk a river walk trail from my work to rowing, and there’s this sculpture on the trail:

Pokemon Go affectionately refers to it as “The Hollow Man”, and it’s kind of cool on it’s own. Except, when I normally walk the trail, it’s after work, at night:

This thing is SEVEN FEET TALL and the actual title of the sculpture is “The Unkillable Human.”

IT’S TERRIFYING.

[voidbat]

it became so beautiful to me after learning the actual name of it.

[existentialterror]

“This would be deleted off the SCP wiki in a day for being too cliche” is my favorite kind of real thing.

[sometiktoksarevalid]

[baddywronglegs]

Same energy, but with a better soundtrack

[nuclearnymph]

[animenightcrew]

[theawkwardvirgin]

Ok I tried this and it was a HUGE hit!

Main recommendations: Season the dough AND season the filling. Also, make smaller loafs, about the size of a spatula head, for easy flipping!

Here’s how they look! Recipe below (doubled bc I have a big family).

Loaded Potato Loafs

Poke holes in and boil 6 large potatoes until soft

Peel potatoes (do this after boiling to retain nutrients and get the texture needed for the dough)

Mash into a smooth puree

Add 4 tablespoons of melted butter

Add 10 tablespoons of flour

Add a bit of pepper and a good amount of garlic salt

Mix until it forms a soft dough

Lay out plastic wrap and grease with a little oil

Place 1/8 of the dough into the plastic wrap and flatten it into a round shape

Add shredded cheese, shredded chicken, bacon bits, more garlic salt, chives, and Italian seasoning.

Grab the plastic wrap and use it to fold each edge of the dough over, starting with parallel ends. Make sure the dough is sealed all over and doesn’t break. It should be about the size of a spatula head for easy flipping.

Airfry two at a time. Fry one side at 450 degrees for 7 minutes

Flip with spatula and airfry other side for another 7 minutes

ALLOW TO COOL BEFORE EATING

[rattle-my-stars]

🥔 picture perfect babey🥔

Couple of notes:

Season the shit outta this thang

Like it’s actually fucking crazy that neither cook in the video mentions seasoning 🤨

Don’t overstuff with fillings if you’re frying in oil bc it might lose structural integrity and fall apart on the flip

I filled mine with just cheese and hot dog bits (it’s what was immediately available and I’m lazy) and topped it with some ketchup + mustard to go with the hot dog theme

It was bomb as fuck chef kiss 😚👌💋

I’ll definitely be making again and trying new fillings; this recipe is pretty much endlessly customizable

[galileosballs]

So, if you're not in a techbro-adjacent world you might not know this, but a lot of gamer bros have finally started rebelling against AI. Because they were all waiting for Black Friday sales to get new PC parts, but AI companies are buying up all the PC parts, so they all logged in on Black Friday looking for deals and found everything three times as expensive as it was a few months ago. And I mean everything. It's not just GPUs this time like it was with the crypto miners, it's RAM and SSDs and even fucking HDDs.

You tell a gamer bro he can't get a 1TB SSD for less than 200 smackeroos and he'll be against anything you tell him is to blame.

[wordfather]

this is inexplicably my favorite tiktok ever it brings me to tears every time why did he do thatttt

[wordfather]

me when i fucking GET you

[wordfather]