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[deeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee]

Ok, so this is gonna be my pinned post now

Tagging system:

i've given up tagging everything by ddc now, though still will for some things. maybe.

some of my sometimes i'll tag a post with a dewey decimal code, im working on a way to search by ddc code

some things on tumblr don't fit into a library classification system created in 1873, so i've made some modifications of my own (please don't asssasinate me librarians)

Special DDC codes:

ddc:153.64 for memes (153.6 is communication)

ddc:006.688 for pirated software (006.68 is programs)

ddc:305.3 for transgender

[captainjonnitkessler]

"We're underpaid, overworked, constantly exploited, and there's literally NOTHING we can do about it!" Union organizers are doing something about it

"There's no way out of this capitalist hellscape, we need a VIOLENT REVOLUTION" Well. Before plunging the country into war I have another suggestion we could try

"We need to all start acting like Luigi and start taking down these oligarchs!" Okay, it's easy to talk a big game about how you're gonna start shooting billionaires when you know you'll never be held to your words, but can you talk a big game about unions. To your coworkers.

"We need to MAKE OLIGARCHS AFRAID AGAIN!" Oligarchs are not afraid of Americans starting a mass revolution. 90% of the country is WAY too comfortable to do that. You know what they are afraid of though?

"We need to burn down the entire system! Sure, some people might die, but that's a small sacrifice for others to make so that I can get better working conditions!" What if instead of trying to talk the people around you into a violent revolution that will end in mass casualties, you tried talking the people around you into forming a union. What if we just gave that a shot before the mass violence option.

[flygoing]

laptop overheating?? pour water on it to cool it down!

[chastittie]

i trusted you

[flygoing]

Do not trust people like me. I will take you to museums, and parks, and monuments, and kiss you in every beautiful place, so that you can never go back to them without tasting me like blood in your mouth. I will destroy you in the most beautiful way possible. And when I leave you will finally understand, why storms are named after people

[four-leafed-queer-gal-deactivat]

THE ORIGINAL?!?!?!?!?!

[yourstruly9489]

@hellsite-hall-of-fame

[whitepeopletwitter]

[earhartsease]

okay, and lastly Any Other Business? no? right, meeting adjourned, time for the cuddlepile

[football-in-tuxedos]

How many cuckchairs does a person need, jesus

[teaboot]

The Cuck Counsel will decide your fate

[tpwrtrmnky]

Useful note on portraying trans women: Shaving is a widely available method by which facial hair can be removed, which in many cultures is not only something people with facial hair can get away with, but actually broadly accepted.

For this reason, it's commonly done even by closeted trans women.

[tpwrtrmnky]

Literacy note: "Widely available", "commonly" and "in many cultures" are not statements that you disprove by providing counterexamples

[headspace-hotel]

fucks me up that by total coincidence the sun and moon's size difference is exactly matched to their difference in distance from us, thus making our beautiful total solar eclipses where you can see the silver threads of the sun's corona possible because the moon just covers the sun completely

The stars (literally) aligned just right for this experience to be possible. It's likely that aliens don't have this

[uncivilliberties]

The moon is also absolutely gargantuan by moon standards. It isn't the largest moon in the solar system, but it is BY FAR the largest in comparison with its planet. Ganymede is the largest satellite of Jupiter and the largest moon in the solar system. Its diameter is only about 3.8% of Jupiter's. Titan's radius is 4.4% of Saturn's. Callisto and Io are the next largest in the neighborhood, with 3.4% and 2.6% the diameter of Jupiter respectively.

Our moon is number 5. It is smaller in direct comparison to the above moons. The diameter of the moon is 3475 km. That is a full 27% of the diameter of the Earth. More than a quarter. That's ridiculous. It's unheard of. The universe is large enough that the word unique probably doesn't mean a lot, but this might be about as close as you get.

This has had a huge impact on our planet. Other things aliens might not have are significant tides. One of Mars's dumpy little potatoes wouldn't be able to move oceans the way our moon does.

Our moon has also stabilized our axis to a massive degree. Without her up there our axis would wobble all over the place and our climate would be far more chaotic. Aliens might not be quite so lucky.

I guess what I am really trying to say is that the moon is extremely cool. I like the moon.

[willowdove]

Just want to add that the reason we have such a large moon is because a whole planet crashed into proto-Earth. Theia (the planet) and Earth got so superheated by this collision that their component cores fused and the impact jettisoned a lot of material into space. That massive amount of jettisoned material became our moon. So Earth and the moon have very similar composition. This does not seem to be a common method of lunar formation.

[gandalfsbignaturals]

what if the answer to the fermi paradox is that life cant exist without a moon like luna

[habbadax]

I got a serious beef with the Fermi paradox. There is no Fermi paradox. There stopped being a Fermi paradox once the first radio telescopes went up, and we began to get a true sense of the sheer scale of the universe.

Space is big, empty, and loud. Sunspots can cause enough interference to affect global communications. We’re not even loud enough to talk over our own sun. On our own planet. We can barely communicate with Voyager, and we know exactly where it is and what its signal sounds like.

The Fermi paradox is like doubting the existence of Belfast, because you stood on a windy New York beach shouting towards it and didn’t get an answer.

[headspace-hotel]

[kactusnz]

i didn't realise we were drowned out by our own sun :(

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

She is screaming so loud

[same-pic-of-the-sun-everyday]

I scream so loud

[same-pic-of-the-earth-everyday]

It is comforting

[same-pic-of-the-sun-everyday]

<3

[same-pic-of-the-earth-everyday]

<3

[savedgame]

NEVER ASK YOIR PARENTS TO PICK YOU UP A BEER WHAT THE FUCK KS THISSSS

[savedgame]

Listen tails this is my smart beer I’m smarter when I’m drunk

[duchessvongooseberg]

tonight, we let the LKLDS🏛️IL talk

[ggghoulish]

posting this here cause I’m still not over it. people who write instructions I love you you’re so funny

[evilwizard]

we need to team up… to put together the WB4723 48-Inch Workbench With Power Outlets and Lights… it will take all of our power… and though you are my greatest foe, i can’t do it without you !

[zemikite]

Found out the Magnus institute is on Google maps.... Felt I had to share some of the gems I found in the reviews

Additional shout-out to everyone who mentioned Martin making tea for them:

[foone]

A fun thing about computer skills is that as you have more of them, the number of computer problems you have doesn't go down.

This is because as a beginner, you have troubles because you don't have much knowledge.

But then you learn a bunch more, and now you've got the skills to do a bunch of stuff, so you run into a lot of problems because you're doing so much stuff, and only an expert could figure them out.

But then one day you are an expert. You can reprogram everything and build new hardware! You understand all the various layers of tech!

And your problems are now legendary. You are trying things no one else has ever tried. You Google them and get zero results, or at best one forum post from 1997. You discover bugs in the silicon of obscure processors. You crash your compiler. Your software gets cited in academic papers because you accidently discovered a new mathematical proof while trying to remote control a vibrator. You can't use the wifi on your main laptop because you wrote your own uefi implementation and Intel has a bug in their firmware that they haven't fixed yet, no matter how much you email them. You post on mastodon about your technical issue and the most common replies are names of psychiatric medications. You have written your own OS but there arent many programs for it because no one else understands how they have to write apps as a small federation of coroutine-based microservices. You ask for help and get Pagliacci'd, constantly.

But this is the natural of computer skills: as you know more, your problems don't get easier, they just get weirder.

[sreegs]

you know you've made it when you're googling problems and ending up with 0-9 results

[manyblinkinglights]

#you don't actually have to be good to have these problems#you just have to be obsessed with a micro-issue that no one else cares about

[teratocybernetics]

[deviantplum]

In the interest of maintaining karmic balance, as the Catholics go into lent, I will be hitting full throttle on the hedonism. Gonna incorporate new and exciting vices for the next 40 days.

[hellenhighwater]

New and exciting Vices, you say???

[markovchaingang]

men and women are not opposites. men and women are not enemies. men and women are two parts of a broad coalition which fights against a mutual enemy: inkjet printers

[translatingpostsinfrench]

labandedelachaînedemarkov

les hommes et les femmes ne sont pas des opposés. les hommes et les femmes ne sont pas des ennemis. les hommes et les femmes sont deux parties d'une vaste coalition qui se bat contre un ennemi mutuel : les imprimantes jet d'encre

[roomhole]

[gallusrostromegalus]

I love this blog so much for basically being an enormous library of interior background references but MAN. There is something Vile and Poetic about that saying being painted on the wall of one of the bleakest-looking school hallways I've seen in a long time. It's like that poem about the stars being painted over in landlord white. Incredible.

[boltlightning]

I DONT CARE HOW MANY BEDS THERE WERE. WHAT IS YOUR BOOK ABOUT

[trekkiesagainstchastity]

(tearfully) w- working at the mattress store

[boltlightning]

i'm so fucking sorry. can you ever forgive me

[last-to-the-orgy]

Posted for the beauty and eloquence of this comment:

[chronophobica]

what they DONT tell you about clarinets is that you have to fucking build the damn thing every single time. "what instrument do you play" fucking legos man idk

[sexuallyfrustratedavocado]

SecUnit: “I don’t like that everyone treats me like a threat. It hurts my feelings that people always assume I’m dangerous and out to kill everyone.”

Also SecUnit: “My thirst for blood has not been quenched, GrayCris must pay. I will eliminate anyone who poses a threat to my humans.”