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"I'm Dorothy Gale from Kansas"
PUT YOUR BEARD IN MY MOUTH
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YOU ARE THE REASON
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Not today Justin
2025 on Tumblr: Trends That Defined the Year
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burning text gif maker
heart locket gif maker
minecraft advancement maker
minecraft logo font text generator w/assorted textures and pride flags
windows error message maker (win1.0-win11)
FromSoftware image macro generator (elden ring Noun Verbed text)
image to 3d effect gif
vaporwave image generator
microsoft wordart maker (REALLY annoying to use on mobile)
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obligatory reblog of this after I forgot to bookmark them (again)
When I say editing software is getting dumber, this is what I mean.
In what world is "What dinnered?" more legible than "What happened to dinner?" I just... what?!
caine crash out scene but it's sage bc ofc
CAESAR IS STABBED AND STABBED AND STABBED AND STABBED AND STABBED AND STABBED AND STABBED AND STABBED AND STABBED AND STABBED AND STABBED AND STABBED AND STABBED AND STABBED AND STABBED AND STABBED AND STABBED AND STABBED AND STABBED AND STABBED AND STABBED AND STABBED AND STABBED
The Color Game. “Humans can’t reliably recall colors. This is a simple game to see how good (or bad) you are at it. We’ll show you five colors, then you’ll try and recreate them.” I scored 39/50 but got a perfect score on one color.
not terrible I suppose. for a warhammer painter who calls everything fulgrims pink or dryad bark I am bad at this
I’m damn proud of that last one. And annoyed by the 2nd one. With over 20 years of graphic design and costume design experience, I’d better be damn good at remember colors!
Damn i wonder how often Evil Sunz Scarlet gets used on my minis
Not too shabby, if I say so myself...
As we move into 2022, a message to all my followers and mutuals from Werner Herzog.
Bringing this back for 2024
HERE’S THE THING THOUGH
I used to work for a call center and I was doing a political survey and I called this number that was randomly generated for me and the way our system worked was voice-activated so when the other person said hello you’d get connected to them, so I just launch right into my “Harvard University and NPR blah blah blah” thing and then there’s this long pause and I think the person’s hung up even though I didn’t hear a click
And then I hear “you shouldn’t be able to call this number.”
So I apologize and go into the preset spiel about because we aren’t selling anything, etc. etc. and the answer I get is
“No, I know that. What I mean is that it should be impossible for you to call this number, and I need to know how you got it.”
I explain that it’s randomly generated and I’m very sorry for bothering him, and go to hang up. And before I can click terminate, I hear:
“Ma’am, this is a matter of national security.”
I accidentally called the director of the FBI.
My job got investigated because a computer randomly spit out a number to the Pentagon.
This is my new favourite story.
When I was in college I got a job working for a company that manages major air-travel data. It was a temp gig working their out of date system while they moved over to a new one, since my knowing MS Dos apparently made me qualified.
There was no MS Dos involved. Instead, there was a proprietary type-based OS and an actually-uses-transistors refrigerator-sized computer with switches I had to trip at certain times during the night as I watched the data flow from six pm to six AM on Fridays and weekends. If things got stuck, I reset the server.
The company handled everything from low-end data (hotel and car reservations) to flight plans and tower information. I was weighed every time I came in to make sure it was me. Areas of the building had retina scanners on doors.
During training. they took us through all the procedures. Including the procedures for the red phone. There was, literally, a red phone on the shelf above my desk. “This is a holdover from the cold war.” They said. “It isn’t going to come up, but here’s the deal. In case of nuclear war or other nation-wide disaster, the phone will ring. Pick up the phone, state your name and station, and await instructions. Do whatever you are told.”
So my third night there, it’s around 2am and there’s a ringing sound.
I look up, slowly. The Red phone is ringing.
So I reach out, I pick up the phone. I give my name and station number. And I hear every station head in the building do the exact same. One after another, voices giving names and numbers. Then silence for the space of two breaths. Silence broken by…
“Uh… Is Shantavia there?”
It turns out that every toll free, 1-900 or priority number has a corresponding local number that it routs to at its actual destination. Some poor teenage girl was trying to dial a friend of hers, mixed up the numbers, and got the atomic attack alert line for a major air-travel corporation’s command center in the mid-west United States.
There’s another pause, and the guys over in the main data room are cracking up. The overnight site head is saying “I think you have the wrong number, ma’am.” and I’m standing there having faced the specter of nuclear annihilation before I was old enough to legally drink.
The red phone never rang again while I was there, so the people doing my training were only slightly wrong in their estimation of how often the doomsday phone would ring.
Every time I try to find this story, I end up having to search google with a variety of terms that I’m sure have gotten me flagged by some watchlist, so I’m reblogging it again where I swear I’ve reblogged it before.
But none of these stories even come close to the best one of them all; a wrong number is how the NORAD Santa Tracker got started.
Seriously, this is legit.
In December 1955, Sears decided to run a Santa hotline. Here’s the ad they posted.
Only problem is, they misprinted the number. And the number they printed? It went straight through to fucking NORAD. This was in the middle of the Cold War, when early warning radar was the only thing keeping nuclear annihilation at bay. NORAD was the front line.
And it wasn’t just any number at NORAD. Oh no no no.
Terri remembers her dad had two phones on his desk, including a red one. “Only a four-star general at the Pentagon and my dad had the number,” she says.
“This was the ‘50s, this was the Cold War, and he would have been the first one to know if there was an attack on the United States,” Rick says.
The red phone rang one day in December 1955, and Shoup answered it, Pam says. “And then there was a small voice that just asked, ‘Is this Santa Claus?’ ”
His children remember Shoup as straight-laced and disciplined, and he was annoyed and upset by the call and thought it was a joke — but then, Terri says, the little voice started crying.
“And Dad realized that it wasn’t a joke,” her sister says. “So he talked to him, ho-ho-ho’d and asked if he had been a good boy and, ‘May I talk to your mother?’ And the mother got on and said, ‘You haven’t seen the paper yet? There’s a phone number to call Santa. It’s in the Sears ad.’ Dad looked it up, and there it was, his red phone number. And they had children calling one after another, so he put a couple of airmen on the phones to act like Santa Claus.”
“It got to be a big joke at the command center. You know, ‘The old man’s really flipped his lid this time. We’re answering Santa calls,’ ” Terri says.
And then, it got better.
“The airmen had this big glass board with the United States on it and Canada, and when airplanes would come in they would track them,” Pam says.
“And Christmas Eve of 1955, when Dad walked in, there was a drawing of a sleigh with eight reindeer coming over the North Pole,” Rick says.
“Dad said, ‘What is that?’ They say, ‘Colonel, we’re sorry. We were just making a joke. Do you want us to take that down?’ Dad looked at it for a while, and next thing you know, Dad had called the radio station and had said, ‘This is the commander at the Combat Alert Center, and we have an unidentified flying object. Why, it looks like a sleigh.’ Well, the radio stations would call him like every hour and say, ‘Where’s Santa now?’ ” Terri says.
For real.
“And later in life he got letters from all over the world, people saying, ‘Thank you, Colonel,’ for having, you know, this sense of humor. And in his 90s, he would carry those letters around with him in a briefcase that had a lock on it like it was top-secret information,” she says. “You know, he was an important guy, but this is the thing he’s known for.”
“Yeah,” Rick [his son] says, “it’s probably the thing he was proudest of, too.”
So yeah. I think that might be the best wrong number of all time.
Source: http://www.npr.org/2014/12/19/371647099/norads-santa-tracker-began-with-a-typo-and-a-good-sport
No okay THAT is adorable and I’m queueing this for next December.
A lovely bundle of stories for christmas ‘eve :D
Our biggest project yet
The rest of the band doesn’t even know I have this tumblr account, so I sometimes use it to post things that are weighing on my mind. And as 2025 draws to a close and we begin a new era of the band, I have A LOT of thoughts that have been swirling around. Turning into storm clouds. Thoughts about the band, about the future, about fear, and about how none of us have any clue what we’re doing here. I hope to be able to share those with you at some point.
For now, I just want to say to anyone who happens to follow us here that I hope you’re not too tired of us. It feels like we went from one thing to another very quickly. I don’t know for sure what this new era is all about just yet, but I do know that what we’re working on right now is the biggest thing we’ve ever made. It’s something I’ve known we were going to make since January, and I can’t believe we’re actually making it.
I worry that you won’t like it. Or that it won’t come together in the right way. Or that after just five years of making music we’ve already become a nostalgia act. Something you’ll turn to only to remind yourself of how great 2022 was. If any of those things are true, I fear that we might be coming to the end of our journey.
To be honest, I’d give anything to go back to 2022 right about now, too. But I won’t let myself get sucked into that void. We have to keep moving forward. We have a kingdom to claim, and we'll need all of you to get there. I hope you're still with us.
Unite. Ascend. Conquer. ⚔️
I've got many words to say as I am a verbose and slightly pedantic individual on this matter (who might've also misread the situation, but i've already typed it all so you're gettin' it anyways) but a preface tl;dr: OGNA is not old in my eyes and is set-up to do many-a great things that I excitedly wait to see. You guys are awesome and I feel you can endure through any rough waters that may or may-not arise. Here's to the journey ahead, and hopes it will be as long as is desired!
Now then with that being said, cue the behemoth of text:
[edit from before posting but after writing, thing was so long-winded that it ended up needing to be turned into an image as it ended up exceeding tumblr's character count by like 200+... oops!]
the superpig cometh.
This meme was probably created by a non-hunter who has never seen what a high-caliber rifle round can do to even a very large animal. Unless this is some sort of Canadian humor and I just don’t get the joke.
you're not ready for what's coming.
Centering Black environmental thought and indigenous medicine ways is to recognize that food deserts are not naturally occurring but designed to displace people from resources for profit. Food deserts are in fact food apartheids.
Oh boy! I wonder who was president during that per—
Kinda horrified at all the people talking about using scratched up non-stick pans and not realising that Teflon and other coatings are so very carcinogenic. PFAS (carcinogenic forever chemicals) build up in your body like lead or mercury.
^ Don't fucking use this ^
I need young people and the older ones too apparently, to invest in at least one good thick based stainless steel pan. It's better for cooking and it won't give you cancer.
Stainless steel pan? You can scrub that shit with a steel scourer... If stuff won't come off? You can soak it in a laundry active oxygen cleaner for an hour or two and it will come right off, then rinse with clean water and you're golden. You want to whisk your eggs in the pan? Literally no downside, but in a non-stick pan you get CANCER flakes.
Stainless steel is easy to clean and anything cast iron does stainless cookware with a thick base can do too, you can even stick it in the oven.
Nothing specifically wrong with cast iron, in fact it's amazing... But I made this post for people who don't have the time, energy, or inclination to overcome the learning curve to care for cast iron.
People don't like stainless because their food sticks. But I have a lot of experience with various cookware materials & The Most Life Changing knowledge I've gained is to pre-heat your stainless steel or cast iron pan. Stainless steel has very small grooves in it that expand when they heat up. If there's oil or food in those grooves before they're done expanding, the food/oil gets stuck in those grooves as they close. That IS why your food sticks. That IS why you have that oil-puddle-shaped burn stain. (Barkeeper's Friend or Ajax can get that stuff out btw, read the instructions.) This is also why frozen food put into a hot pan always sticks. You also probably have the heat turned up too high.
Set your dial to medium or medium high or whatever (medium low for eggs, low if you're using gas). Wait for it to heat up. Set a timer if you need. You'll need to do some trial & error to find out how fast your stove heats up your pan. You'll get it figured out. NOW you put in your oil, slide it around & up the sides. NOW you are ready to cook. Your eggs will stick far less. It's easier to clean. You can use any utensil. Even a cheap stainless steel pan will last YEARS longer than your nicest non-stick.
To test if it's done heating, drop a couple drops of water in the pan.
You want the water to skate around the pan. If it boils or sits there, give it a couple minutes until, when you move the pan, the drop rolls like a marble for a couple seconds, that's when it's hot enough.
Also try to use at least a tablespoon of oil/butter. I know the diet industry teaches us to use as little oil as possible, but it really makes a huge difference in your cooking flavour and texture and your sticking experience.
14 days until MAPMAKER: The Complete Expedition! 🌲🧡🗺️
On October 7th, our deluxe album MAPMAKER: The Complete Expedition is yours! Featuring 6 new songs, and instrumental versions of every tune. We hope it will provide a thrilling and satisfying finale to the MAPMAKER era!
In the lead-up to the album's release, we'll be sharing a new lyric from the album every day. Stay tuned for pre-order links, visualizers, and more coming soon.
Today's lyric is
“All I wanted were worlds of adventure, all for my very own”
MAPMAKER: The Complete Expedition out October 7th! We hope these songs will soundtrack your journeys for years to come...🧡
and this is how undertale lives on.
happy 10th anniversary.
the shaker
If you're thinking about moving on from Spotify, I can't recommend enough getting into modern MP3 players (more properly called digital audio players, or DAPs, since they play more filetypes than just MP3) and building your own music library.
There's been a massive amount of innovation in the lower end of DAPs, and you can get a lot for under $100. Here are the main ones I recommend:
Snowsky Echo Mini - This is the most affordable one, at only $65 CAD (I think it's even less in the US) and the one that I ended up buying. Designed to look like a cassette player. The main drawback is that the interface is slightly unintuitive and it doesn't have a touch screen, but I've been delighted with mine.
Hiby R1 - This goes for $85 USD, and is the most widely recommended of the bunch for its good UI and wide range of utilities. Has a touchscreen and buttons.
Tempotec V1 - Similar to the Hiby R1, although the specific features are slightly different. Also has a touchscreen and buttons.
Innioasis R1 (honourable mention) - Designed to look nearly identical to an iPod Classic, including a fully functional clickwheel The sound quality on this is notably worse than the other DAPs I listed above, and the Bluetooth is widely reported to be unreliable, but I have to include it for people who desperately want an iPod again (and don't want to shell out $300+ for a modernized Classic) and because it has an extremely active modding scene.
You will need to buy a microSD card to upgrade the storage of most of these, although these days you can get 250GB for under $20.
I thought this bit of Toby Fox’s newsletter was funny, so I made a stupid bad doodle of it
@insanelyadd ask and ye shall receive, apparently.
What are your thoughts on Togore Dreemur?
That sure is a little guy!
