An Absolute Mess

She/Her🏳️‍⚧️ Asexual? Who knows anymore

[hearkenfey]

Warlock supers

[fuck-customers]

[strikedenko]

[ID: "Cold weather reminder. Do NOT plug space heaters into power strips or extension cords. Plug space heaters directly into the wall outlet. Power strips are not designed to handle the high current flow required by a space heater and can overheat causing a fire."

A photo is attached of a power strip with an extremely charred end. Part of the power strip's wire is also charred. End ID]

[thequeeninyellowlace]

My husband, an electrician, told me I have to reblog this.

[becausegoodheroesdeservekidneys]

For clarification's sake, is this true everywhere? I ask because I know that different countries have different quality home electricity provision; American home electricity Ain't Great compared with most of Europe, for example. In Wales I have never heard of this being a Thing, but our electricity comes in 240V flavour, so possibly the higher current naturally avoids this issue?

[leonardslee]

My British husband (not an electrician but electrician-adjacent) says yes this is true in the UK as well - anything that uses a lot of power should be plugged directly into the wall rather than an extension lead

[becausegoodheroesdeservekidneys]

Good to know, thank you!

[meret118]

*gets up to replug space heater*

[lilaccatholic]

I got this while scrolling on instagram to try to convince me to join threads and I—

We did it. We finally saved her.

[reinanova]

[terror-billie]

[seraphtrevs]

STOP no more live-action remakes. We're going the other way now. Animated Casablanca. Animated The Godfather. Animated Oppenheimer. Animated Fight Club.

[edhelwen1]

Animated Goncharov.

[marlynnofmany]

Definitely that one.

[ifitistobeitisuptous]

unless, hear me out...

Muppet Goncharov

[marlynnofmany]

[sufficientlylargen]

Look at these idiots who haven't seen Gonzorov (1993).

[unquartdetour]

Reblogging entirely for Gonzorov.

[bumblebeebats]

Sometimes little pleasures in life are loadbearing. Whenever someone is like "If you'd just give up tea and coffee and sugar and--" im like I'll stop you right there. Because if you finish that sentence i am going to kill everyone in this building and then myself. If i have to face the horrors of the world without my little jar of caramel flavoured instant coffee i am going to go full American Psycho. Believe it or not, my main priority in life is not to have perfect teeth or be an Olympic athlete or look like a supermodel, but to actually enjoy living, because I spent far too long not doing that and it royally sucked. And boy, some people don't like hearing that. Particularly dentists

[amoraderat]

The line “sometimes the little pleasures in life are loadbearing” reverberated through my skull like a gong.

[naamahdarling]

Yeah apparently I am briefly not very likeable during these conversations with medical professionals. Respectful, but not very likeable.

[cipheramnesia]

My new method to avoid eye contact is a low cut top and a push-up bra.

[cipheramnesia]

That's right, this whole time I've been on HRT for the distracting and alluring cleavage which serves to alleviate so much otherwise awkward social interactions.

No more complex social small talk to navigate, just people trailing off while their eyeballs do the walking. This whole master plan was a stroke of genius.

[dietspam16]

this girl playing 4-d chess with the allistics

[cipheramnesia]

Actually it's just 38C but thanks.

[cipheramnesia]

Hold on, I might be stupid.

[vaspider]

No I think you're playing 38C chess.

[mother-of-platypus]

I literally just saw this post on my insta and now i see this in the flesh. Its like that scene where a wanted criminal walk into a place and stand right next to their wanted poster and im the poor employee looking at the poster and the person in confusion.

[cipheramnesia]

This post is on Instagram?

[mother-of-platypus]

Here's your wanted poster

[cipheramnesia]

Is that really what I look like?!

[11thfempachi]

idgaf if my parents are disappointed in me I'm not impressed by them either

[cadlart]

"Forgive me for this violence I am about to inflict"

[jakemorph]

I think it'd be funny to start replacing the phrase "on steroids" with "on estrogen". dude you gotta try this game it's like dark souls on estrogen

[muppet-sex]

Bloodborne

[iosonomer-blog]

[drtanner]

GO BABY GO

[parrhesiac]

I love this. I *love* this.

Not only does the child have the rhythm and their part down precisely, but also, they are clearly doing the very-small-child thing of reserving exactly nothing.

Children have to learn not to use all of the force they're capable of, adults mostly never use all of the force they are capable of, but here someone has given this child exactly the opportunity to use all of the force their body can produce, and do it musically.

The glee of that all-out effort in a context where clearly the people around them approve and appreciate their contribution? Amazing.

[froginakettle]

young kids in music class on drum days are something incredible to watch. beat the shit out of something and make a big sound under the resounding approval of the teacher? best. day. ever.

[bisexualbaker]

Tips for baking with arthritis and other hand-related chronic pain

With some changes to techniques, a careful selection of kitchen tools, and tips from fellow bakers, the joy of baking can live on.

I luckily haven't had to deal with much chronic pain or hand pain yet, especially with regards to baking (crochet is another story). That said, these look like some pretty solid tips! There's also some in the comments section.

[bisexualbaker]

As this link nears five hundred notes, I'm just... very quietly touched at how many people are sharing it. Whether they need it themselves (or think they will someday), or know someone else who might need it, the fact that all of them are sharing the sentiment of "I want the people who love doing this thing to be able to keep doing the thing that they love" is... yeah. It makes me happy.

[gallade-x-treme]

TELL IT HOW IT IS GIRL 👏

[foone]

tech people are always talking about this as the "bus factor": ie, how many people need to get hit by a bus to totally fuck your organization.

A bus factor of 1 is very, very bad. you are one sick person or a sudden retirement/firing away from not functioning.

A bus factor of 2 is clearly an improvement, but what if those two people go on a business trip and the car/plane/whatever crashes?

but yeah, the idea is that you should try to structure your organizations so this doesn't happen: you've got multiple people with overlapping expertise so that even if a very determined bus is taking down your employees in an orgy of violence, you'll have enough time to hire & re-train people to fill their now-absent positions.

[vacuously-true]

Hey bro would you do me a platonic solid

[galois-groupie]

Sorry, best I can do is a great icosahedron.

[vacuously-true]

Bro. That’s. That’s a platonic solid, bro.

[ghastmaskzombie]

does this look platonic to you?

[vacuously-true]

Nah, that shape fucks.

[theinfiknight]

Find me any other website with interactions like these

[wizened-beanie-baby-moved]

"everybody hates me" factoid actually just a statistical error. The average person doesn't hate you, especially not your friends. You, a person who sits in your room experiencing self loathing every day, are an outlier adn should not have been counted.

[fluffylandshark]

[coelii]

This is sweet but I really thought it was going to end with someone named “Haters Horge” who spends every second in a cave halfway across the world just loathing you for no reason and they were the statistical outlier

[vacuously-true]

Don't be your own Haters Horge

[rurinnfane]

The post about angel wings not needing to be purely white to be beautiful reminded me of a picture I LOVE

This pigeon is an angel

[valtsv]

the phrase "moon's haunted" rewired my brain the moment it entered my vocabulary never in my life have i encountered a phrase more infectious or fun to use

[valtsv]

coworker: [after turning on the lights in the warehouse and noticing half of them are flickering or won't turn on at all] hey james what's up with the lights

me: oh idk i guess the light's haunted

coworker: what?

me, shrugging: light's haunted

[later that day]

another coworker: hey, what's up with the lights?

coworker i was with earlier: light's haunted

other coworker: what???

coworker, without changing expression or missing a beat: light's haunted

[valtsv]

thanks to advancements in modern science and education i know how a lot of things work and can explain if asked, but sometimes it's just more fun to apply the exact same logic to the situation as a 14th century alchemist

[ltwilliammowett]

The beautiful French frigate L'Hermione from 1780, sailing in line astern behind a modern French Aquitaine class frigate Provence, 2015

[a-book-of-creatures]

Ships with height differences and age gaps