Shitpost Wonderland

Punk, traveller, tradesman, concert cryptid, gamer, nonbinary, queer, folk hero, fan boy, shitposter, chronically ill, ice hockey goalie, wizard, local menace

[doomedvoyages]

wow almost like everyone saw this coming and it was grossly irresponsible to get rid of the recommendation in the first place

[rainbowkittenism]

[silly-slacker-person]

[shetheyslain]

2024 predictions

- alex jones overdoses on his own supplements

- Kamala Harris attends the met gala in a dress that says coexist on it

- Biden falls over and breaks something

- the pope wears a new hat that causes a split in the church

- there are like 5 January 6th’s after the American election

-jefree star is arrested at one of those January 6th’s

- oli London runs for congress as a libertarian

- adult bluey fans create a bronystyle con

- Betty boop gritty reboot

-Florida attempts to secede from the union

[fasteronfire525]

Hi! I havent been active here in years, but i'm not dead and doing great. May come back some time.

[wadebae]

are we memeing this?

[kawuli]

Stones Have Been Popping Out of People Who Ride Roller Coasters

Using centripetal force to prevent a $4 billion healthcare cost

1. Doctor finds anecdotal evidence that people are passing kidney stones after riding on Big Thunder Mountain Railroad at Disney World

2. Doctor makes 3-D model of kidney, complete with stones and urine (his own), takes it on Big Thunder Mountain Railroad 60 times

3. “The stones passed 63.89 percent of the time while the kidneys were in the back of the car. When they were in the front, the passage rate was only 16.67 percent. That’s based on only 60 rides on a single coaster, and Wartinger guards his excitement in the journal article: ‘Preliminary study findings support the anecdotal evidence that a ride on a moderate-intensity roller coaster could benefit some patients with small kidney stones.’”

4. “Some rides are going to be more advantageous for some patients than other rides. So I wouldn’t say that the only ride that helps you pass stones is Big Thunder Mountain. That’s grossly inaccurate.”

5. “His advice for now: If you know you have a stone that’s smaller than five millimeters, riding a series of roller coasters could help you pass that stone before it gets to an obstructive size and either causes debilitating colic or requires a $10,000 procedure to try and break it up. And even once a stone is broken up using shock waves, tiny fragments and “dust” remain that need to be passed. The coaster could help with that, too.”

SCIENCE: IT WORKS

[kawuli]

Update: 

“In all, we used 174 kidney stones of varying shapes, sizes and weights to see if each model worked on the same ride and on two other roller coasters,” Wartinger said. “Big Thunder Mountain was the only one that worked. We tried Space Mountain and Aerosmith’s Rock ‘n’ Roller Coaster and both failed.”Wartinger went on to explain that these other rides are too fast and too violent with a G-force that pins the stone into the kidney and doesn’t allow it to pass.“The ideal coaster is rough and quick with some twists and turns, but no upside down or inverted movements,” he said.

MSU Today

[kawuli]

I just love this because it’s HILARIOUS and yet also a perfect archetypal example of The Scientific Method:

1. Hypothesis

2. Experiment

3. Results

4. Discussion 

5. Conclusions

6. GOTO 1 (the scientific method is iterative, don’t forget that part)

[kristoffbjorgman]

was this like… done in cooperation with disney management or did some  random scientist go through bag check with a 3d printed kidney and a bottle of piss and start looking for big thunder mountain fastpasses

[the-pie-initiative]

He asked first!

Of course, the researchers had to get permission from Disney World before bringing the model kidney onto the rides. “It was a little bit of luck,” Wartinger recalls. “We went to guest services, and we didn’t want them to wonder what was going on—two adult men riding the same ride again and again, carrying a backpack. We told them what our intent was, and it turned out that the manager that day was a guy who recently had a kidney stone. He called the ride manager and said, do whatever you can to help these guys, they’re trying to help people with kidney stones.”

[brucesterling]

*Meanwhile, on Twitter

[catchymemes]

[luvnaught]

this is the only food critic I’ll accept at my restaurant.

[flufflyspartan110]

@beastlysoul

[gallusrostromegalus]

Feeding your animals (safe) but new-to-them foods is botha great source of enrichment for the and endless hilarity for you.  I reccomend green beans because they’re unwieldly for them to eat so its an involved process.

[bobbycaputo]

Dropping Ice Down a 90m Borehole in Antarctica Makes a Very Unexpected Sound

[duran-duran-less-official]

clatter clatter clatterclatterclatterclatterclatter [cartoon gunshot].

[cptwaddle]

HEAVY FOREBODING HEARTBEAT

[thelaughingrat]

[helianthus-hellion]

staff: female-presenting nipples are banned

me: posts a pic with my tiddies out saying “please don’t misgender my nipples”

[hotboyproblems]

Anyone else only in their 20s but feel like they are running out of time to get their life together??

[threehoursfromtroy]

Don’t. I felt this way too, in my twenties, but you know what? I began transitioning at 30. I went back to grad school at 32. I’m living my best life, and while I’m a little behind the curve compared to some of my classmates on some things, I’m also so far ahead of them on others. You need follow nobody’s schedule but your own. Life is hard and the world isn’t doing any of us favors. Be kind to yourself, and remember that you still have plenty of time. The only difference between starting now and 5 or 10 years earlier is now you have more experience.

[happilynever-deactivated2019031]

I needed to hear this so badly

[stream]

[wilwheaton]

and not a single person was harmed by my posting this.

[theintrovertnation]

[wilwheaton]

Step 1.1-1.infinity: pratice every possible bad outcome in your head until you are paralyzed by anxiety and doubt.

[wilwheaton]

I just want to belabor this point for a moment.

These images are not explicit. These pictures show two adults, engaging in consensual kissing. That’s it. It isn’t violent, it isn’t pornographic. It’s literally just two adult humans sharing a kiss.

It’s ludicrous and insulting that – especially in 2018 – this is flagged, either by some sort of badly-designed algorithm, or by shitty homophobic people.

And to just restate something that I reblogged a little bit ago:

the reality is that for a lot of the LGTBQ+ community, particularly younger members still discovering themselves and members in extremely homophobic environments where most media sites were banned (but Tumblr wasn’t even considered important enough to be), this was a bastion of information and self-expression.

I am so lucky. I am so massively lucky and privileged. I’m rich, I’m white, I’m a CIS male in a heterosexual relationship. I can look just about anywhere in the world and see myself represented in art and media. My experience has been normalized to the exclusion and oppression of people who don’t share that experience.

That. Must. Change.

I can only imagine what it must feel like to fight every second of ever day just to exist in a world that is filled with people who share my demographic (but not my values) using their wealth and power and privilege to attack you, simply for being who you are, for existing. I can only imagine how terrible and suffocating and exhausting that must be. 

According to marginalized and vulnerable people, this change in policy will directly hurt them, and that’s indefensible. 

The ridiculousness of this policy change can be simply illustrated by the image here being flagged. Why was it flagged? Because homophobia is rampant and too many people who should stand up against it are cowards who don’t want to risk their own wealth and privilege in the service of people who can’t defend themselves.

I applaud and admire and respect the hell out of everyone in the LGBTQ community here who have formed networks and friendships and relationships and support structures for each other. You have worked so hard to create and maintain a safe space for each other, and I’m embarrassed, appalled, and furious that people who look like me are making your lives – hell, your very existence – so hard. 

I’m just one person, and maybe it won’t matter or make a difference, but I stand with you, not just on this website, but in our entire universe. I see you. I love you. I value you. 

[marikazemus34]

[carbonoid]

[micdotcom]

Watch: Terry Crews has some brilliant points about feminism — including an apt parallel to Civil Rights.

[ixnay-on-the-oddk]

Tumblr has been a real wild ride for me, man. Even through the many times over the years that I figured my blog could get deleted, it still feels really weird to imagine actually losing this blog and all the years of experiences I’ve shared on here.

The part of me that’s exhausted of fighting is about ready to simply let go and try to move on, but there’s a bigger part that can’t fully accept that all of the best parts of what Tumblr used to be for me and so many others are just…over, forever, ya know? They were over, in my opinion, long before this particular lazy management decision, but to know that it’s final (for me) is a bit rough.

Oh wellsies, guys. As much as I’ve been a snarky, dramatic asshole on this website, I have also really enjoyed much of my time here sharing my life & work with you, getting to know some of you as true friends (love ya, Joey!), and learning about myself & others in ways I don’t feel I’d have been as challenged to do elsewhere. It’s been really fucking great, because so many of you are really fucking great, and I’m going to be forever at least a little pissy that Tumblr & awful people just absolutely destroyed this place lol.