Gewürzküche

32, german, finally a Master of Science. flute, (contra) bassoon. Sometimes Guild Wars 2. AuDHD.

[teaboot]

I'm on my 15 minute break but I tried to list a bunch of my favourite off-brand love languages

List is incomplete

[funny-tik-toks]

[party-gilmore]

GLADYS

[rslashrats]

making up characters is so fun because you can be like “this is johnson he came from my mind” and all your friends will go “yippe!!! horray!!! we love johnson!!!”

[rslashrats]

very unfortunate but hilarious side effect of calling the example oc johnson in this post is now people are saying this in the tags

[juney-blues]

heartbreaking:

girl has sooooooo many ambitions and ideas for projects but can only get 1.5 basic tasks done per day

[melgillman]

Here’s the new 24 hour comic I drew this year!  This one is called THE KING’S FOREST.  cw: blood, violence

[rayj4ck]

How the fuck did you make that last panel say so many things without using any words at all that’s so fucking cool.

[warandpeas]

The Office

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[blanketforcas]

i think what saves me from a lot of discourse is that i'm simply Not Reading All That

[drtrinitysantos]

sdxfcgvzdxfcgvhzdxfcgvhbjnkmlcgvhbjnk science

[elvensaber]

Sometimes corporate speak is good.  For example, Space X calling their rocket explosion a “rapid unscheduled disassembly” is the funniest thing I’ve heard all week

[skyofblackstars]

while it is a very funny term it’s actually perfectly common rocketry terminology, it’s the technical term for “rocket sploded”

[foone]

another fun rocketry term is “lithobraking”. Like, one way spaceships lower their orbits is by skimming along the top of the atmosphere, letting the friction slow them down. This is called “Aerobraking”, because they’re using the atmosphere as a brake.

Lithobraking, therefore, is coined by analogy, with “litho-” being the greek root for “stone”. It’s how you slow your spaceship down… by crashing it into the fucking ground. 

So a crashed rocket “executed a lithobraking maneuver”.

There’s also “Engine rich exhaust”, which is what happens when your rocket engine starts breaking apart and bits of machinery are burning along with the fuel that’s supposed to be burning. 

A more technical term is “Negative periapsis”. Orbits have a periapsis and an apoapsis, the lowest and highest altitude they reach each orbit. A negative periapsis, therefore, is a negative altitude. Your rocket hit the ground. 

And related is the term “ablative X”. Ablative heat shielding is a type of heat dissipation where you have a layer of some material covering your spaceship, which heats up into a gas and blows away. So you lose bits of it as you go through the atmosphere. The joke version is when you refer to things as “ablative” when they’re not intended to be: ablative sensors, ablative wings, ablative space probe. that is, your spaceship lost parts it wasn’t supposed to lose while flying through the atmosphere. 

[headspace-hotel]

Yes! this bothered me when I saw people talking about it. “Rapid unscheduled disassembly” isn’t corporate speak its “scientists and engineers that build rockets” speak

[minmos]

r/stupiddovenests features so many mourning doves which is insane to me i didnt know they were so bad at this. always thought the bad nests was a feral pigeon thing

[minmos]

my lovely sweet beast. Why did you do that?

[6qubed]

birdbrained

[augustarambles]

Sometimes the rats in my brain come together and start yelling “YEARNING” and in trying to appease them I ask “FOR WHAT” but they are too small so all they can say is “YEARNING” which is a very big word for such a tiny creature, even collectively

[mandyseley]

I loved this visual so much I had to doodle it.

ratratratratrat

[colorfulcollectordragon-2f8ee55c]

@professionallydeadinside

[deadpsalmistsociety-deactivated]

hobbits were the peak of civilization in tolkien verse. jobs were Gardening, Stall At The Farmer’s Market, or Mailman. Shoes OFF, capris ON, 6 meals a day, high and fat as all shit. Names like Daddy Twofoot….why the fuck are we horny for elves

[english-history-trip]

[jofngve]

ya know, sometimes i think german stereotypes are an exaggeration, but then you’re sitting in the Sbahn next to a group of guys (16-20?) discussing their going-out-plans and just overhear:

“Okay Leute, wie machen wir das jetzt am effizientesten?”

[stahl-tier]

[tinktoks]

[phantomrose96]

#starts strong ends stronger

[catchymemes]

[mrmeriwether]

I love the generational gap between emoji usage. Anyone over 50 sees 🙃 and thinks "silly time! whee 🙃", whereas the rest of us immediately hear, verbatim, "they ask you how you are, and you just have to say that you're fine, when you're not really fine, but you just can't get into it because they would ne--"

[mangonetics]

Flying the flag upside down is a distress signal

[caesarsaladinn]

albatrosses will wipe the floor with any species of bird you choose to compare them to. they’re the Most, or at least Extremely, by almost every metric

[caesarsaladinn]

wingspan. lifespan. intricacy of mating dances. devotion to monogamy. investment in offspring. ability to circumnavigate the globe. literary symbolism that is flexible but not to the point of meaninglessness. eyeliner quality. I could go on

[aplpaca]

muppetness of said offspring