obsession has its uses

En / doughtier About: - might follow back, might not; follow and unfollow at will, and I'll do the same - late-20s, esl, gmt-positive, she/her - music blog - asks always open Tags of interest: - my writing, other, personal & to investigate - reference, resources, do it yourself, useful & links - eargasm - cute animals, warm and fuzzy feelings & for bad days - poetry, history & science - reblogged art: various arts | illustration | photography | comics | crafts | vids | fanart | - main/current fandoms (alphabetical): adventure time | animorphs | assassin's creed | avatar: lok | avatar: tla | babylon 5 | death gate cycle | fairytales | harry potter | homestuck | hunter x hunter | kemono no souja erin | kyoukai no kanata | mass effect | narnia | princess tutu | red vs blue | seirei no moribito | star trek (tos & ds9 & reboot) | supernatural | the twelve kingdoms | crossovers |

[o-kurwa]

[orcboxer]

my most controversial ship? heh...the Thomas W Lawson

[orcboxer]

motherfucker unlimited

[orcboxer]

you like that? I got more, how bout the SS Bessemer

This experimental piece o' shit, courtesy of Sir Henry Bessemer, had a stabilized cabin meant to combat seasickness. Unfortunately, due to the kinetic consequences of building a ship like that, it also combatted seaworthiness, and the instant this thing touched water it enthusiastically slammed itself into the pier with all the grace of a twelfth round boxer.

Not to be deterred, Bessemer repaired the ship, hired a veteran sea captain, slapped the stern and sent her out for a second go. The ship then proceeded to crash into the Same Fucking Pier even harder, demolishing it.

The SS Bessemer, her bloodlust satiated, retired from the cruise ship life and settled down in Swanley, where she became a billiard room, and then a lecture hall, and then rubble, due to an encounter with bombs.

This one's for the SS Bessemer. Rest in peace you wild bitch.

[todays-problematic-ship]

New problematic ship just dropped.

(To be fair there was nothing wrong with the Thomas W Lawson as such. But the Bessemer... nuts).

[thatstudyblrontea]

Today in things I wasn't expecting to see on the news

[somecunttookmyurl]

what addons do you use for firefox? i've just downloaded it to switch from chrome (derogatory)

firefox (affectionate)

UBlock Origin obviously. out-the-box works just fine but has a bunch of extra privacy/tracking/spam filters you can enable

Decentraleyes protects you against tracking through "free" curated content delivery and works alongside UBlock (or any of the other common adblocking addons)

I Don't Care About Cookies good for EU users where GDPR made it so every site ever in the universe asks you to accept cookies and privacy terms seventeen times a day. will just auto-accept for you. never see an annoying popup again! but only use in conjunction with...

Cookie Auto Delete does what it says on the tin. will automatically flush cookies, cache, and data when you close a tab. those cookies you just auto accepted? they're gone now. whitelist any sites you wanna stay logged in on and let the rest fucking perish

Don't Track Me Google removes that annoying link conversion when you copy google results. you know when it changes from "site.com" to "encrypted.google.com/randomnonsensefor200charactersblahblahblah"? yeah. this stops that happening. fuck off, google.

Don't Accept image/webp blocks sites from using the most useless file extension known to mankind so you can save as .jpg or .gif as god intended. fuck webp. seriously. what even is that.

Bypass Paywalls Clean exactly what you think it is

HTTPS Everywhere automatically adds ecrypted security to any site that supports https (you can do this manually by adding the s yourself to any url but... who can be fuckin bothere amirite? this does it for you)

New XKit ...duh

Google Search Filter allows you to remove domains from your searches forever. pinterest? gone. weheartit? nuked. also works on duckduckgo. never type "-pinterest" into a search again.

Simple Tab Groups allows you to group tabs together and shove them out of sight, which is nice if you're researching something and don't want 50 bajillion jstor tabs clogging up your normal browsing session

[crinoid]

One Tab is simple and great if you're tab hoarder!!

[dduane]

Re the .webp blocker/interferer: THANKYOUTHANKYOUTHANKYOUOHGOD. :)

[memewhore]

[sweaterkittensahoy]

The fucking legendary WAIT to fake bomb them to show them you knew the whole time. 

Legend.

[error-404-fuck-not-found]

i love that there was definitely an intelligence briefing where someone in charge heard that there was a fake airfield in progress and went, "...hey you know what would be funny?" and then everyone else agreed it was indeed SO funny that they would devote man-hours and a sizable log to making a fake bomb to drop on it while being only somewhat busy fighting a war, but never too busy for a funny craft project

[idhren]

while being only somewhat busy fighting a war, but never too busy for a funny craft project

[closebutnotquitewright]

[catchymemes]

[afronerdism]

Bitch

[missvanta-xoxo]

They sold their soul for that talent

[ahraeyah]

[artissijamm]

[maximumsunshine]

Let me get this straight because I’ve only seen memes and am piecing this together as i go, but i think i figured out what’s happening.

Tumblr is advertising the tumblr app, on the tumblr app, using a photo of a guy in a Pikachu cosplay, because that’s what they think it will take to successfully sell this app, to people whom already use it?

But now the ball shaving ad is gone? Or is that one still in the mix?

[makoredeyes]

[makoredeyes]

It’s real and your timing was uncanny

[maximumsunshine]

Ok. Why is tumblr advertising tumblr on tumblr though? What happens when you click the ad?

[maximumsunshine]

*sigh*

I suppose shit like this is why tumblr gave us the option to turn ads back on. Hold on. I’ll be back after i experiment.

[maximumsunshine]

I’m getting plenty of ads. Real actual ads. Mattress firm. Burger King. Walmart. Actual ads. No weird Pikachu man. What is even going on here? Is he just a very infrequent ad? Is he a tumblr ploy by @staff to get those of us whom pay to be ads free to turn on ads so we can see him? Is he am actual facts ad for ads free tumblr and already being ads free means you don’t get the ads free tumblr ad? I have more questions, not fewer!

[makoredeyes]

I CLICKED THE LINK And

I’m

[desasterdan]

The weirdest part is, when you click on the ad from someone who reblogged it, it sends you to a blog with just the word ‘help’ on it

[maximumsunshine]

What?!? No. What??!

[jordisstigander]

THERE’S LORE????

[jordisstigander]

Okay, so I just spent five minutes scrolling furiously until I found the stupid Pikachu man ad so I could click on it. I was dreading the possibility that this was fake.

ALT

IT ISN’T

I had already clicked the ad. I decided to click the links.

The first link takes you to the trending page.

The second takes you to the underwater girlfriend page on best of reblogs.

The third is a trash panda on dank memes.

The fourth is the horse plinko tag.

I…can’t believe that this was here the whole time. How hard do you think is was for @staff to watch us complain and not say anything?

[maximumsunshine]

I pay tumblr 5$ a month and thus never ever have to see ads whether I’m on browser or app, unless i go in and turn them back on. So my means of learning about Pikachu man was from memes suddenly showing up on my dash one day. So I’ve sort of just been piecing this together as I go. I just think it’s so funny though that most of tumblr saw the ad and y'all are so well trained to never ever ever click on ads, that no one had apparently thought to click the ad to figure out what the heck Pikachu man was trying to sell. Which I’m so proud of y'all! But we sincerely almost let Pikachu man come and go without this bizarrely delightful discovery.

[madame-serpentine]

holy shit

[chaoticgouda]

I’m sorry milord, but the peasants are nailing erotic artwork of you and your court jester to the church doors again

[fieldbears]

and the ship name, squire? what is the ship name

[artemis-in-space]

“… Kinglebells, m'lord.”

[bngrc]

Teaching French to English Speakers:

French lesson: The word "sur" means "on" English speaker: Okay. French lesson: For example, 　The vase is [on] the table. 　The house is [on] the right. 　I read this book [on] his recommendation. 　Bring me the file [on] copyright licensing. English speaker: Right. Got it. "Sur" means "on."

.

Teaching French to Chinese speakers:

French lesson: The word "sur" means "on." Chinese speaker: Okay. French lesson: For example, 　The vase is [on] the table Chinese speaker: Right. Got it. "Sur" means "on." French lesson: The word "sur" also means "towards." Chinese speaker: Eh? French lesson: For example, 　The house is [towards] the right. Chinese speaker: Oh...kay. French lesson: The word "sur" also means "because of." Chinese speaker: What? H..how? What? French lesson: For example, 　I read this book [because of] his recommendation. Chinese speaker: Why does this one word mean all these things? Don't y'all have any other words? French lesson: The word "sur" also means "containing information pertaining to." Chinese speaker: Stop fucking around with me. French lesson: For example, 　Bring me the file [containing information pertaining to] copyright licensing. Chinese speaker: What the fuck is wrong with this language?

[lierdumoa]

Other Languages: Why is English grammar so fucked up?!?! English grammar: Because I'm French.

[bngrc]

[prokopetz]

You can always tell when an author is trying to "deconstruct" something that they think is stupid or boring or otherwise beneath them because they're unwilling or unable to develop the necessary understanding of the source material to properly rip into it and the end result invariably fucking sucks. You need to love a genre in order to truly do it violence.

[intriga-hounds]

sivi met his granddaughter tonight

he did not like it

[boxheadpaint]

not a single happy camper in this image

[voxvenati]

[iwilleatyourenglish]

i don’t usually bully my boyfriend on the internet but

[iwilleatyourenglish]

[iwilleatyourenglish]

yeah i was there

[iwilleatyourenglish]

he’s the jester everywhere he goes but i’m sorry, i just need to say that british people just say shag. that’s common. they are not trying to be like austin powers

[the-real-numbers-deactivated202]

this little freak keeps sneaking into my garden and rubbing himself all over my flowers??Hello?????

[james-silvercat]

Real, male bees don’t go after flowers they stay home, that freak is a herself

[the-real-numbers-deactivated202]

googling ‘bee genders’ as I dictate this post

[lierdumoa]

The more you google bee reproductive biology the more absurd it is that we’re applying the words male and female to them. Their actual genders are worker, drone and queen. The queen is capable of both asexual and sexual reproduction. Bees born of unfertilized eggs become drones that are capable of fertilizing eggs. Bees born of fertilized eggs become workers, but can also potentially become a queen depending on how they are fed during the larval stage.

Use whatever the fuck pronouns you want to describe bees because they’re all equally incorrect projections of human worldview onto an insect species. Bees don’t experience mammalian sexual dimorphism in a biological sense nor do they experience human gender dimorphism in a sociopolitical sense.

[lastoneout]

diversity win, the freak sneaking into your garden and rubbing themselves all over your flowers does not fit into a human biological or sociopolitical framework of sex and gender!

[tdwhisperer]

Non-beenary

[herbwicc]

Lol heads up if you try to make a candle with food coloring, the food coloring will just sink to the bottom of the glass, and when the flame eventually reaches the bottom all the food coloring will catch fire and become one giant tall flame that you cannot possibly blow out and the glass will start to crack and then you’ll throw your tea on it in a panic and then the extremely hot food coloring will boil and sizzle horribly and then the glass will shatter. Please take my word on this lmfao

[dragonfire-elite]

What did you do op?

[herbwicc]

a Mistake

[cinnabarmint]

So! Science side of witchblr here!

For starters candle wax is mostly synthetic paraffin, which is an oily substance that doesn’t play well with water or alcohol based substances, such as food coloring. They basically repel each other. In this case, food coloring is much heavier by volume (it’s more dense) than paraffin, be it alcohol based or glycerin based. So it will sink to the bottom and remain there no matter what you do or how you try to coax it into mixing, that will just not happen.

As what happens when the flame reaches the bottom of the glass. I’m guessing you used gel food dye, glycerin based. Since alcohol food die would have burned fast and blue, almost invisible, and wouldn’t have created a sustained fire (unless you used a tonne of dye). Glycerol is actually a type of alcohol, a very, very flammable type of alcohol. So now you have glycerin blobs burning at the bottom of the glass, a giant tall flame because that fire is trying to reach out for oxygen that is limited inside the glass, and a glass full of hot air and the aforementioned fire. There was no way you could have blown it out because there was also no way your breath could have been cold enough to neutralize all the heat being generated, or strong enough to dissipate the energy of the fire (that’s how blowing out a candle works). Obviously the glass starts cracking, because everyday glass is not made to withstand the 150ªC at which glycerin burns. Then you throw your tea in in a panic. Which extinguishes the fire fast and dirty and makes everything boil (and sizzle horribly, because all the system just went from 150ªC to maybe 40ªC in 0.5 seconds and the leftover energy has to scape in a heck ton of tiny bubbles that will burst almost immediately, thus the sound).

Curiously, the glass shattered because a part of it was cooled too fast. The part where the tea accumulated contracted too quickly for the rest of the glass to follow suit, so the atoms separated, and the glass broke. But by the time that happened the system was already innocuous, temperature-wise.

What would have been the best home-made solution? Suffocating the fire by putting a plate on top of the glass, cutting the oxygen source. This would have extinguished the fire in a couple of minutes.

Why did throwing the tea in worked? Because what was burning was the Food Dye and not the Paraffin. Since the food die is water soluble it somewhat mixed with the tea and decreased its temperature dramatically and rapidly, thus boiling. You are still very, very, lucky that the steam didn’t burn your hand.

Very very very important bit: Had the Paraffin been burning, throwing in the tea would have caused an explosion that would have thrown burning bits of paraffin to the surrounding area, and you (The slow mo guys in YouTube have an awesome video on what happens when you try to extinguish an oil fire with water). Never try to put out an oil based fire with water, if that happens your best bet is suffocating the fire, or using a powder extinguisher.

I think that’s all.

@herbwicc please let me know if I assumed something wildly inaccurate.

@the-wiccans-glossary please reblog this version, I’m going to delete the other one.

[prescription-cactus]

eleventh plague. emails. 

[whentobuytraintickets]

Pharoah, I hope this email finds you letting my people go

[prescription-cactus]

as per my last plague,

[doughtier]

twelfth plague: texts.

pharoah, this is moses. I think my previous plagues got sent to your spam folder since we never got a response. could you please fish them out of there and reply?