chill

[orcarriagesthatwork]

I think about this cake every day

[tizzymcwizzy]

sorry for exposing your tags but this is hilarious

[microsuedemouse]

OP, I hope you don’t mind me making an addition:

When I turned 17, we ordered a cake at the grocery store for my party, as we’d done many times before. If you wanted something written on the cake you’d write it into a section of the order form. We requested, very simply, “Happy Birthday Courtney”. When we went to pick it up the day of the party, this is what we got.

The bakery employees had absolutely no explanation for this. The order form, attached to the box, very clearly did not contain any of those extra names. Whomever had done the writing was no longer in, so there was no one to ask how this had happened. The fact that the name ‘Juan’ is misspelled bewilders me to this day. (I’ve never seen ‘Miley’ without the E, either, but it’s believable that someone might spell it that way.) Did this cake slip in from an alternate universe where I’m one quarter of a set of Hispanic quadruplets? Dyslexic Hispanic quadruplets, maybe?

This cake became the focal point of my party. At least two of my friends regularly called me ‘Courtney Mily Jaun Pablo’ for years to come. My siblings and I still reference it sometimes, eleven years later. It is probably the funniest thing ever to occur at any birthday celebration of my life, and may well remain so for the rest of my days.

I love a botched cake.

[what-even-is-thiss]

One of the simple things you can do to make cities more pedestrian friendly is building shopping centers with parking behind or underneath the buildings so that the entrances to stores are on the front sidewalk.

Whenever I point this out to people that have only ever lived in suburban hell they feel very resistant to it. For some reason. Even though the amount of convenience for drivers would be almost exactly the same while the street would become a lot better for people who walk or take transit.

[what-even-is-thiss]

What annoys me is that people will be like “oh all our infrastructure is built for cars we can’t just tear it all down” and then you try to point out how new developments can do better and current infrastructure can be made slightly less terrible and their first instinct is still to resist it. Like I’m not even bringing up things that would make your current life any harder.

[cazort]

We just need to keep repeating these messages. People actually prefer the pedestrian-friendly style of development, they tend to like places more, that look like this. Show them pictures, take them places, talk about it. Get people talking about it.

People love areas like this:

They visit them and are like wow this is a cool place, and they want to go back. People don't feel the same about places like this:

They only go to them when they have a specific reason to go to a specific business.

[confusedguytoo]

  that’s still an entrance on a front sidewalk

[what-even-is-thiss]

If you have to walk through a parking lot from the main sidewalk to get there, no. No it’s not.

[holaaitsshann]

Panama Rainforest Diversity

[catchymemes]

[wessasaurus-rex]

The amount of detail in the background really makes this

[phantomomo]

Damn I didn’t even realize there where more memes on the hieroglyphs wall. This is an all new level of advanced memerie

[johanrapper]

OH MY GOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[guerrillatech]

[commanderboshtette]

what it says: village of tiny homes with security, showers, and 3 meals a day

what it actually is: temporary sheds with beds, sheds are the size of prison cells, the same or stricter rules as homeless shelters, a requirement to participate in the non-profit’s program including case management and employment training, security guards controlling the perimeter and “checking for contraband” (no drugs or alcohol use allowed, likely other restricted items.) they’re not meant to house anyone long-term, just long enough to move them elsewhere.

there are 5 bathrooms (5 showers, 5 sinks, 5 toilets) for 74+ people

oh, and it’s run by the org that does LAPD’s homeless sweeps and was built with funding that was meant to provide permanent housing

it’s lowkey an open air prison with a shiny coat of rainbow paint and a smiling ceo

[micro-usb-deactivated20230625]

[snaccula]

Somebody had to do this at some point

(original comic by florkofcows)

[memewhore]

[lizardsister]

all of us vaccinated people communicate directly to each other via brain chip technology and we all talk about how sexy we are

[shorthistorian]

You wouldn't believe the memes in the brain chip groupchat

[billyname]

is there an artist that you like the entirety of their discography

[billyname]

i love ppl tagging this with nirvana even tho i wont judge you that they only have like 4 releases 🙄 tagging w bands that have like 2 albums doesnt count!!!! weak

[serotoninsuggestion]

an author i love just tweeted about how “big joy and small joy are the same” and how she was just as content the other night eating chocolate and cuddling her dog as she was on her Big Trip to new york and honestly. i think that’s it. this morning i was listening to an audiobook while baking shortbread in my joggers and i realised i really didn’t care what Big Things happened in my future as long as i could keep baking and reading at the weekend and maybe that is the kind of bar we have to set to guard ourselves against disappointment. just appreciate and cherish the mundane stuff and see everything else as a bonus.

[serotoninsuggestion]

found it - she was replying to this thread that starts “unpopular opinion: i don’t think your life has to have a purpose, or you a grand ambition; i think it’s okay to just wander through life finding interesting things until you die” and i for one think that’s fucking brilliant

[alivehouse]

fun fact about me is that when i was a kid id write capital E’s with as many of those little horizontal lines as possible and id call them ladder E’s and adults fucking hated them

[alivehouse]

artistic rendition

[ceekari]

All capital letters should have a leveled-up form

So far I’ve got

ladder letters: A, E, F, H, T

humpback B’s and P’s get as many bumps as you think they need

circle O’s, you just keep spiraling in til you feel like you’ve made your point

tree letters branch into smaller versions of themselves ad nauseum: X, Y

spider Q’s, so many legs

Please add your own unsettling godtier capitals!

[catgirltoes]

New alphabet dropped!

[ceekari]

oh my god, it’s beautiful

(future handwritten notes are gonna be so wonderfully cursed now, thank you! :D )

[theshitpostcalligrapher]

well it’s going to take some getting used to, @ceekari (don’t mind the redacted letter between T and U)

But I think i’ve taken a real shine to it! 

[modmad]

recursive

[arkaine-spell]

So i may have done a thing in an insomnia fueled jaunt into insanity.

find an .otf of the font here

[idlnmclean]

This is how new alphabets get invented.

[internetbt]

[human-dumpster-fire]

[krispytm]

He redeemed himself

[thighetician]

The duality of Manguin

[a3battery]

got obsessed with the penguin drama

his girlfriend’s name is lulu and she doesnt deserve the naughty list for this. :C mac’s gone too far and dragged her down wish him. glad he redeemed himself

also look tux is such a bastard that taking him down = good behavior

[a3battery]

THEY KEEP REFERENCING THE PIER INCIDENT saldkjfah its like his defining moment

im just losing my mind with penguin receipts right now 

and he’s pepper’s bf from above, who got on the good list while they had to call out tux for being lazy sldkjfa

u deserve ur spot in the 2020 poll mr. tux. go call out to UR girlfriend to get her food and maybe u can have a redemption arc too. see how well its working out for mr mac

REDEEMED HIMSELF U EVIL POLLSTERS

(since this started out as me wanting to check up on whether or not the penguins were alive, they ARE and u can meet them virtually BY THE WAY)

[a3battery]

PEPPER IS MR MAC’S DAUGHTER??!??!

this entire family is problematic but lulu was framed and that’s my conclusion 

[the-most-slytherin-hufflepuff]

I’m so invested in the penguin drama

[queen-of-thunder]

[letmebegaytodd]

every single social interaction i've ever had has been complete guesswork

[letmebegaytodd]

every time i have a conversation i spend the next 30 minutes after grading myself

[eggpuffs]

i love santa clarita diet

[jaubaius]

Sounds like most Chihuahuas and I would bet a prior Chihuahua owner would take him.

[squish-this]

I didn’t think the picture could do him justice after that description but it absolutely does and I for one am delighted

[goodnight-irene]

[prettyandmean]

Cant wait till im in love like this