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“ummmmm ur bra strap is showing :/ ”
i thought this was me at first and i was really confused
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WE’RE MULTIPLYING
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I FINALLY FOUND IT
Found what?
This Legendary post
This post is a gem and you have to reblog it or else you lose it
Someone confirm that these are all different people.
it’s here it’s on my dash!!
seeing ancient tumblr posts in the flesh rather than in screenshots has the same energy as seeing an infamous relic in a museum for the first time
In fairness to King Kong, if I had a tiny adorable primate in my hand I would also be very resistant to someone taking it away from me.
We all assume it was romantic, but maybe when King Kong looked at her he was seeing this:
Something like this really happened a couple of years ago at the Mefou Primate Sanctuary in Cameroon, run by Ape Action Africa (AAA). A western lowland gorilla named Bobo befriended a bushbaby for a couple of hours before releasing it back into the forest.
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According to AAA’s Facebook post (where you can also find additional photos and video):
Our silverback gorilla Bobo made a surprising new friend this week – a wild bushbaby! Caregivers discovered him cradling the tiny primate during their morning checks, and were amazed to see him handling it with the utmost care – proving that gorillas really are the gentle giants of the forest. Bobo’s group-mates were desperately curious, particularly his favourite female Avishag, but he kept them all at a distance, making sure that no one disturbed his new friend. Bushbabies are usually nocturnal so it is very rare to see one, and even rarer to witness this kind of interaction. The little bushbaby was happy to play in Bobo’s arms, hopping off to explore the grass nearby, before returning to Bobo’s hand. When the game was over, Bobo walked purposefully off on two legs to deliver his friend safely back into the trees.
Incidentally, the western lowland gorilla (which has the best species name of all time: Gorilla gorilla gorilla) is the largest primate in Cameroon, and the bushbabies happen to be the smallest primates in Cameroon.
Baby shark todotutodutu. Baby shark!!!!
Large demonstration in Sana'a in Yemen against the war of the Saudi-led coalition that has caused one of the worst humanitarian crises of the century. After over 7 years of war, nearly 380,000 Yemenis have died and 23 million have suffered from hunger.
so the academy is reviewing whether or not to remove Will Smith’s award and here are some interesting tweets about that :)
"Why so many Ukrainians speak Russian though?"
Because Russia has been destroying the Ukrainian language and culture for over the last 350 years (long before putin). Check this new series made with Viktoriia Lemiakina out.
From Центр Досліджень Визвольного Руху (Liberation Movement Research Center)
It would be funny if nuclear waste warning messages become an attraction for future historical linguists.
I mean look at this thing:
A parallel text in 7 languages, with 4 different scripts between them! And pictograms! All designed to be preserved intact!
maybe nothing of value to you is here
That is legitimately a massive problem that the nuclear waste warning projects are aware of and trying desperately to counteract.
Like, every post about them on tumblr going “lmao let’s be real, if I saw this shit I would stop at nothing to explore it” is highlighting the central conceit of the yucca mountain project.
The project is VERY aware of humanity’s tendency to explore, and the people involved are tormented constantly by the fact that ANYTHING they do to indicate “this specific place is extremely deadly and there’s nothing valuable here, GO AWAY” is going to become a fucking MAGNET for treasure hunters, explorers, adventurers, mystery enthusiasts, conspiracy theorists…like, the MOMENT it’s discovered, people will flood that place.
That’s what makes the project so fascinatingly difficult! There’s so much they have to convey, but at the same time, they have to do so without making the site itself interesting in any way, and without making it significant. Many possible warnings don’t incorporate a message at all, focusing instead on simply making the site as ugly, inconvenient, and unimportant-looking as possible so that it’s just never disturbed because nobody is interested in getting close. (It’s why seemingly crazy ideas like the color-changing cat priesthood are actually more viable than the seemingly “practical” example above, which still depends on written warnings guaranteed to be extremely interesting to future humans AND depends on the idea that those future humans will be able to decipher any of our languages. The most viable ideas focus on exploiting superstition and the subconscious, rather than LITERALLY trying to communicate “This place is not a place of honor” etc in as many words. Those are general ideas to be gotten across, not a script.)
The impossible catch-22 of the nuclear waste warning projects is that they absolutely MUST communicate the level of danger and the importance of keeping your distance…while also being acutely aware that warnings on the walls of ancient burial sites about the horrible curses that would afflict anyone who disturbed them did jack-fuck all to dissuade archaeologists.
Anything we do to make the warning seem important will guarantee it’s disregarded, but if we fail to make the warning unmistakable enough, we’re responsible for whatever happens to the humans ten thousand years in the future who suffer from our mistakes.
The idea of a total cultural disconnect- the loss of knowledge and language and oral tradition and written history to this extent is nearly unimaginable to us as modern people, but we know that civilizations have been utterly lost before, leaving behind only vague memories as myth and a writing style that can’t be deciphered (Google Minoan Civilization and Linear A for an example of this.)
Humans LOVE to explore. We love mysteries. We love finding hidden civilizations of the ancient past. Any *anything*, even a single stone tablet with a few sentences on it will make a site IRRESISTIBLE to future people if they have lost all records of how to decipher our language.
The best bet for how to house deadly amounts of radiation so that it will never be disturbed is to bury it deep in the middle of fucking no where totally unmarked and hope no one ever puts anything interesting within 100 miles of it.
Hey, um, what the HECK is color-changing cat priesthood??????
One of the proposed solutions is to breed genetically modified cats that change color in the presence of significant ammounts of radiation, and then fabricate myths and fairytales about how your cat changing color is a signal of terrible danger, and then hope that these myths stick around in the collective consciousness through songs, poetry, paintings, oral tradition, etc.
Another solution proposed the creation of a priesthood similar to the Catholic Church tasked with preserving the knowledge about these nuclear containment sites for thousands of years.
Blows your mind everytime you read this
I mean Jesus fucking Christ this is not right
My friend told me the best example to explain the vast difference between a million and a billion
"A million seconds ago was last week. A billion seconds ago we were still dealing with the Soviet union."
This is why when we talk about “rich people” who aren’t paying taxes or who are wasting money, we’re not talking about the person who makes 1 or 2 grains of rice worth of money a year. We’re talking about the person who makes the giant fucking Costco sized pile of rice.
A journalist asked Tim Cook why iPhones are so expensive
“Well”, said Tim Cook, “that’s because the iPhone replaces a whole bunch of devices. A phone, a camera, a watch, a music player, a video player, a PDA, a voice recorder, a GPS navigator, a flashlight, a calculator, a portable gaming console, and many other things. Surely, a high price is worth paying to replace so many devices!”
“Then why are Androids so much cheaper?”, asked the journalist.
“Because,” said Tim Cook, “an Android replaces just one device. The iPhone.”
I was browsing in a liquor store when an employee asked me “Do you need help?”
I said, “Yes, but I’m here to get whiskey instead.”
A boob, vagina and asshole are debating who is the greatest of the three.
Boob: I produce milk for babies and I am attractive to the opposite sex.
Vagina: That’s nothing, I give birth to babies and can accommodate the opposite sex.
… … Why are you still scrolling down? It’s your turn to speak.
A priest and a nun…
A priest and a nun were out playing golf one day. They get to about hole 5 when the priest has a 10 ft putt for par. He lines up his putt but misses and yells out “Damnit! I missed!” The nun looks flabbergasted and says “Father, you know you shouldn’t be using foul language like that!” The priest says “I know I know, I’m sorry.. it won’t happen again.”
They get to hole 12 and this time the priest has a 5 ft putt for par.. he lines up his putt but again he misses and he yells out “Damnit! I missed!” And once again the nun let’s him have it… “Father, that’s twice now you’ve used foul language and you know you shouldn’t have…you know how it works.. 3 strikes and you’re out!” The priest again apologizes and says “I know I know, it won’t happen again!”
They get to the last hole and the priest has a 3 foot putt for birdie. He lines up his putt but misses and he yells out again “Damnit! I missed!” The nun just starts laying into him… screaming at him about his language. As she’s doing this… the clouds get dark overhead and a storm forms right over the green and a bolt of lightning shoots down and strikes the nun dead and a loud thunderous voice from the heavens yells out…“Damnit! I missed!”
This is why I love the “Covid is faked” conspiracies. Like really?? You think the WHOLE WORLD is working together THAT EFFICIENTLY?? Even the countries that hate each other? Wow cheers for the optimism
Look up the manhattan project you dipshits
You mean the project where the only reason there was any secrecy was that none of the people had any part of the wide reaching project (Oppenheimer, Einstein, and all the others were pretty much kept way away from eachother) and was almost brought down as a secret in the group by one of the guys being an amateur safe cracker? That Manhattan Project?
The one where everybody near Los Alamos knew that something big was happening, because they were actively hiring during the War?
The one that had so many close calls to they’re working on some kind of bomb that by the time the war was over you had people involved blabbing, to the point the Rosenbergs happened?
THAT Manhattan Project?
The Manhattan project, the one that the editor of a science fiction magazine (I think it was Astounding) figured out was happening because all the physicists who subscribed suddenly changed their addresses to Los Alamos?
That Manhattan project?
We’re talking about the Manhattan project that Kodak had clearance to know about (and even got advanced warnings about tests) because they figured it out when radioactive fallout from the tests contaminated their x-ray film? That one?
And that was still just one government using the fullest extent of their power to try and keep just one secret in a time before cellular phone cameras or the internet. Imagine thinking multiple, rival governments agreed to fake a virus to fool just some of their citizens into staying home from work, while also agreeing to pay billions of dollars to compensate them for it.
Happy International Women’s Day to this twitter account and only this twitter account
I’m kind of glad to hear that everyone does this. Because it means it isn’t colonizer bullshit, it’s what everyone does. It’s just people discovering new things. Everyone goes:
“Oh hey these people have their own style of [language A’s word for thing. Say, what do you call it?”
“Oh it’s [language B’s word for thing].”
“Got it, it’s [language B’s word for thing] variety [language A’s word for thing]”
The human race just naturally moon moons itself
Bread Bread
“the-tea-from-where-tea-is-called-by-this-name” “the-bread-from-where-bread-is-called-by-this-name” how is that not a useful term?
This is seriously not colonizer bullshit, it’s just one of the common ways that loan words work.
linguistics side of tumblr please talk about how this is a type of reduplication
Andso, a finger on the monkey’s paw curled.
This isn’t a type of reduplication. Reduplication is a very specific linguistic phenomenon which refers to the duplication of phonemes, morphemes, words, or whole ass clauses, as a way to changing meaning, add or remove emphasis, or a whole bunch of other things. But it’s specifically about the repeatition of sound: ‘bread’ is reduplicated to ‘bread bread’ or ‘brebread’ or ‘breadad’ or what have you depending on your reduplication scheme; and not ‘naan bread.’
Naan Bread and such are an example of an entirely different linguistic phenomenon centering reduncency, except it isn’t the sound that’s redundent but the meaning assigned to the sound. It’s the broadest terms, naan bread is a tautology(linguistics); narrowing in on specifics, it’s Semantic Pleonasm, in which two words which convey similar information are paired together to give the best combination of information; Think “tuna fish” for a monolingual example of variety-category semantic Pleonasm. Then getting to specifics, we have Bilingual Tautological/‘Pleonastic’ Expressions, in which the combination of words are sourced from two differet languages. This is where we find ‘Naan Bread’ and everything else this post is talking about.
Lastly, related to this post but having nothing to do with bread are an incomplete lists of places whose name are Bilingual Pleonastic Expressions, and RAS Syndrome which is another type of Pleonasm that people tend to tie their boxers into knots over.
There are few things I love quite as much as the sheer number of River rivers in the world.
This means there’s a secret non-fish tuna and I’m intrigued
