18 Mushrooms

Please enjoy this random assortment of things I like.

[gnars-house]

I think we should make Puritan naming customs cool again, but like, updated to reflect Millenial values. So we can have names like Resistance Jones, Self-Care Williams, and I-Am-Not-Throwing-Away-My-Shot Anderson.

[deus-ex-aquila]

I-Will-Face-God-and-Walk-Backwards-Into-Hell Watson

Hydrate Mather

Healthcare-Is-A-Right-Not-A-Privilege Bradford

Body Positivity Watts

WTF-the-Fuck Preston

Cinnamon Roll Milton

Y'all-Need-Jesus Henderson

Snape-Was-Not-a-Hero Whitaker

Battery Life Wiggins

Reblog-If-You-Agree Bolton

@Horse_ebooks Humphrey

Renewable Moore

I-Came-Out-to-Have-a-Good-Time-and-I’m-Honestly-Feeling-So-Attacked-Right-Now Rutherford

Representation Hopkins

Organic Hurst

Money Cat Wallington

Fuck-It Wentworth

Impeachment Shepard

Don’t-Forget-To-Like-And-Subscribe Simpson

Consent Pimple

I-Bless-the-Rains-Down-in-Africa Woodford

Green Hoyle

Social Anxiety Travers

Kinkshame-Not Bailey

[babygoatsandfriends]

Baby goat and dog

[allthingslinguistic]

There’s an International Network of Language Museums! According to this announcement post, current members include: 

Academy of the Hebrew Language, Jerusalem, Israel Canadian Language Museum, Toronto, Canada Dr. Johnson’s House, London, England Esperanto Museum, Vienna, Austria Ivar Aasen Centre, Ørsta, Norway Initiative für ein Museum der Sprachen der Welt, Berlin, Germany Institute of the Lithuanian Language, Vilnius, Lithuania Mundolingua, Paris, France Museum of Vuk and Dositej, Belgrade, Serbia National Museum of Language, College Park, MD, USA The English Project, Winchester, England

The only one I’ve visited is the Canadian Language Museum - has anyone been to any of the others?

[dumblebe]

What! How did I not know this was a thing.

[afriendandboy]

make america again. just make it again. let’s start over completely. we had a good run but it’s time to hit the reset button and try again

[afriendandboy]

some thoughts for america 2.0:

national anthem is gasolina

no founding fathers whatsoever but maybe we give dwayne the rock johnson a mountain statue or two

let’s do way, way less genocide this time. im thinking definitely like 0% of the genocide from the last time, that seems good

maybe more holidays about dogs

[mapsontheweb]

Potential EU leaving names.

[postmodernmulticoloredcloak]

I can’t pick a favorite omg

[dixseptdixhuit]

I think my favourite is adiEU

[postmodernmulticoloredcloak]

Okay but Nicoseeya

Maltalavista

Berlout

Copenhatin’

Angeleave Merkel

Madriddance

Lat-me-out

[postmodernmulticoloredcloak]

No, I have realized my favorite is Nethermind.

[bold-sartorial-statement]

Quitaly is clearly the best.

[bakasara]

Swedone

[shavothehusky]

WITHDRAWSAW JSKNSKF

[nezzuko]

@alyaluthientinuviel @veebomb @palegaskarth HELLSINKHOLE

[ghostmapped]

Quitaly by far

[dumblebe]

AdiEU, omg.

[awwww-cute]

[disgustinganimals]

Ah yes thank you for this gift, Australian citizen. These are very trying times.

[marinarachael]

This is. so good.

[its-me-squaznik]

All the Phony People Where do they all come from? All the Phony People Where do they all belong?

Henry the intern Looks at the dog and the children and takes off his coat He is a goat.

Young secretary Secretly hoping that nobody working can see She’s made of bees.

All the Phony People Where do they all come from? All the Phony People Where do they all belong?

[thefingerfuckingfemalefury]

If someone doesn’t turn this into an audio post I will be so dissapointed O.O

[thefingerfuckingfemalefury]

Michael from HR

Typing a memo to people he knows are not real

He is a seal

Dog out of trenchcoat

Happily sharing the news of his raise on the phone

Chewing a bone

All the Phony People

Where Do they all come from

All the Phony People

Working with no thumbs

[drfitzmonster]

oh god i can’t stop laughing

[thefingerfuckingfemalefury]

Next time me and my sweetie go out for karaoke, we’re singing this version :D

It has been decided :D

[dumblebe]

@disgustinganimals

[allthingslinguistic]

𒀂𒁀𒀭𒁍  𐀂𐀄𐀅𐀆  𓀂𓅆𓋒𓍳

This is just a public service announcement to point out that, thanks to Unicode, you can* tweet, tumbl, and internet more generally in many cool ancient scripts. For example:

Cuneiform: 𒀀𒀁𒀂𒁀𒀭𒁍𒀪𒀫𒀼𒀺𒀸𒀹𒁇𒁑𒀖𒁄

Phoenician alphabet:  𐤀𐤁𐤂𐤃𐤄𐤅𐤆𐤇𐤈𐤉𐤐𐤑𐤒𐤓𐤔𐤕𐤖𐤗𐤘𐤙𐤊𐤋𐤌𐤍𐤎𐤏

Linear B: 𐀀𐀁𐀃𐀂𐀄𐀅𐀆𐀇𐀈𐀉𐀊𐀋𐀍𐀎𐀏𐀐𐀑𐀒𐀓𐀔

Linear A: 𐘀𐘁𐘂𐘅𐘇𐘳𐙁𐙡𐘿𐙎𐘣𐘖𐘶

Runic: ᚠᚡᚢᚣᚤᚥᚦᚧᚨᚩᚪᚫᚬᚭᚮᚯᚰᚱᚳ

Egyptian hieroglyphs: 𓀂𓀇𓀉𓀍𓀠𓁀𓁂𓀱𓁉𓀿𓀪𓁶𓂧𓂮𓂫𓃺𓃳𓄜𓄲𓄓𓅆𓅢𓅼𓆀𓆾𓈀𓉒𓉼𓊪𓋜𓋒𓍳𓎳

*Some of these may not work on all devices.

These aren’t image files, they’re real codepoints, just like letters and emoji. Most don’t come with keyboards though, so you may need to go to the insert symbol menu in a word document and then copy-paste from there. Alas, you can’t internet in Mayan hieroglyphs yet, because they’re still in the process of being added to Unicode. 

[dumblebe]

On my computer, this reads like brilliant satire:

[biologizeable]

What's the point of animals?

This is a tough question to answer, if only because it varies from animal to animal! I know it can be kind of hard to find the point of certain animals, so I hope this brief, handy guide will help. 

Let’s start with an easy one. The point of this animal is fairly obvious

Sometimes the point can be harder to find, but once you know what to look for, it’s easy

There’s more point to some animals than others, obviously:

And, of course, it is fairly easy to identify animals that have no point whatsoever

I hope this helped!

[wheremyscalesslither]

Very important

[ferrousfellow]

Jfc @dumblebe

[dumblebe]

Where is this magical store?????????

[allthingslinguistic]

CafePress takes down T-Shirt Calling Donald Trump a Cheeto-Faced Shitgibbon, Saying It Violates Frito-Lay’s Copyright.

Today in “linguists are not kidding when they say that your command of English enables you to understand sentences that have never occurred before in the entire history of the human species.”  (via allthingslinguistic)

I might actually use this in a talk in a couple weeks...

[mr-speebunkles-the-corgi]

Found a pot of corg at the end of the rainbow.

[becausebirds]

Eider ducks sound as though you’ve just told them a very interesting fact or juicy gossip.

[disgustinganimals]

prepare your ear holes

[dumblebe]

From now on I’m playing this on repeat whenever I practice a talk.

[itshistory]

A little girl holds a penguin’s flipper as they walk together around the London Zoo, 1937 [736 x 982]

Source: http://i.imgur.com/HMHNjAq.jpg

[just-shower-thoughts]

Todays date is 2^2/2^3/2^4. Tomorrow’s date will be 2^2/3^2/4^2.

[animal-factbook]

I just bought two loaves of Pomeranian bread from my local grocer. I gotta say I’m pretty happy with my purchase.

[allthingslinguistic]

Argentina’s new president choked on a fake moustache he was wearing as part of a Freddie Mercury costume at his most recent wedding.

Another entry in “linguists are not kidding when they say that your command of English enables you to understand sentences that have never occurred before in the entire history of the human species.” (via allthingslinguistic)