Do Not Trust The Socks

Also Hello! Here's my Ao3: https://archiveofourown.org/users/GoldenGlitzer

[cinemamind]

カイザーギドラ

[sioltach]

watching a video on brewing Mesopotamian beer and look at this orange man (his ass cannot guard the barley)

[loth-catgirl]

[minotaurfemme]

y'all ever think about how insane the sauropods were

[minotaurfemme]

this is a leg off of Argentinosaurusof them and its already the size of a two story house like LOOK at the size of these fuckers

the fact that any land animal ever got to be as large as this is insane. this shit is only beat by fucking whales, creatures that dont have to support their weight on legs

[headspace-hotel]

To be honest I don't understand how these things were able to, like, move or breathe or anything with how heavy they must have been

This thing would have been MUCH scarier than T. rex cause like look at it

[ospreyonthemoon]

Actually they were a lot lighter than you'd think for their size, they were FULL of air sacs specifically to make them lighter. They moved by having really, really straight legs so the weight was transferred straight down into the ground, and they walked on cushioned pads just like an elephant. Their lungs were sort of constantly cycling air around because otherwise it wouldn't be much good, and the whole point of having a really really long neck was specifically that they didn't need to move much!!!!

Like, they're incredibly unspecialised herbivores who just ate everything and let the gut handle it (hence why they had to get so big, just because they had to fit A LOT of gut in there) like their mouths were basically just Rakes.

This thing was built to sweep its head from high to low to near to far and rake in everything it could eat. By evolving a long neck it basically meant it was giving itself a huge range of motion to eat with but also being VERY energy-efficient because moving your legs takes a LOT more energy than just. Tilting your neck up and down, especially at that size. So this thing was basically built to be incredibly, INCREDIBLY energy efficient, light and weight-spreading for its size.

Blue whales sort of practice a similar feeding style, where because they're so Big and need so Much food, they just sort of went "ok im just going to take in AS MUCH food as possible as efficiently as possible" and the thing is. Using baleen takes 0 effort really other than opening and closing your mouth. Which is why whales can grow to be really big. See in the ocean weight matters less, so you can afford to just have a big mouth, but land animals have to do it differently.

Being Big isn't just a case of having lots of food available. It's about being as Efficiently able to eat it as possible. Hell, i mean elephants basically evolved the same thing, except they've just given themselves really long noses rather than necks. It means the elephant can stay in one spot while still reaching huge amounts.

Idk if you actually wanted answers, but, well, here they are.

[the-haiku-bot]

Idk if you

actually wanted answers,

but, well, here they are.

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

[bogleech]

Yeah imagine being in the middle of an endless field of delicious hot dogs so all you have to do is eat all the hot dogs in reach until you aren't hungry. Then when you're hungry again but no hot dogs are close enough anymore you scoot like twelve inches forward. Now there's at least an entire new row or two of hot dogs you can reach while you keep sitting. And you live like this, until maybe a big mean dog (with tiny forearms) tries to eat some of your body so you have to crush its skull with your superior strength.

They had a beautiful life. It isn't fair.

[wolfythewitch]

The saga continues

[wolfythewitch]

The saga continues

[goldenglitzer]

[wolfythewitch]

God there's something about the idea that Hector was wearing Achilles's old armor when he faced him to die. when Achilles saw Hector he saw a mirror of himself, and he knew exactly where to aim

[wolfythewitch]

My bad here are the tags

[jess-the-vampire]

philip wittebane is simultaneously the smartest and dumbest character in the owl house , he can build interdimensional portals, extend his lifespan, revive the dead, build apparently an artificial type of magic, do a number of things a man from the 1600s would not be expected to know how to do.

but he also is the same guy who despite having plans to destroy all witches, left out basically all the children from being included, decides to posses raine of all people while admitting raine has strong enough willpower to remove him, and also apparently thinks all the witches on this planet live on this one island (which EOTW proves for sure is not true) and so on and so forth.

how he gets as far as he does is anyone's guess, he has high intelligence and charisma but low wisdom.

[penguicorns-are-cool]

DO NOT DO THIS!!!

If a website has a paywall, like New York Times, DO NOT use the ctrl+A shortcut then the ctrl+c shortcut as fast as you can because then you may accidentally copy the entire article before the paywall comes up. And definitely don't do ctrl+v into the next google doc or whatever you open because then you will accidentally paste the entire article into a google doc or something!!!! I repeat DO NOT do this because it is piracy which is absolutely totally wrong!!!

[charlignon]

Also do NOT append "12ft.io/" before a URL ! Typing an URL like this https://12ft.io/<URL> will redirect to a site that would break the display of the page by removing the paywall !

[cinoclexity]

Honestly it's kind of prohibited to mash CTRL+P before some paywall windows can load in to get a PDF of the article. Really shouldn't be done tbh very dangerous🤷🏿‍♂️ ❌️

[genericpuff]

[max1461]

wake up babe new IE language dropped

New Indo-European language discovered during excavation in Turkey

An excavation in Turkey has brought to light an unknown Indo-European language. Professor Daniel Schwemer, an expert for the ancient Near Ea

Yoooooo????

[elancholia]

Seems to be most closely related to Luwian, but specialists can't read it yet. It survived because the Hittites wanted to record religious rites in the original language. Thank you, Hittites.

[max1461]

Thank you, Hittites.

[wolfythewitch]

enkidu

[whitepeopletwitter]

[knight-of-ashes]

listen, as a government regulator, please for the love of god call your city code enforcement on your landlords more often. we often have our hands tied and cannot enforce the law on code and permit violations until a citizen files a formal complaint. use the services available! PLEASE!

[wolfythewitch]

We just found out Brutus is younger than Caesar this is so funny

[goldenglitzer]

Fun fact! Caesar had a longstanding affair with Brutus' mom, Servilia.

Allegedly, this affair was revealed when Cato the Younger, Servilla's half-bro and Brutus' uncle, was grilling Caesar over his potential involvement in the Catline Conspiracy.

In the middle of the argument, Caesar recieved a letter, and Cato, having thought it to be confirmation of Ceasar's guilt, read aloud to the entire senate a VERY risque description of Caesar's affair with his half-sister.

Historians have yet to determine whether or not "he banged my mom" was a motivating factor in the Ides of March.

[wolfythewitch]

Doodle based on that one twitter art meme

[ode-on-a-grecian-butt]

I really like this idea

[lucy8675309]

OK Tumblr Geriatric Ward, let’s talk about your posture-

there are things you should be doing now to prevent yourself from starting to look like 🥀

Why does it matter? Future you would like to avoid the pain, limited motion, and fall risk that goes along with worsening posture.

What’s the focus?

1. Keep the flexibility in your spine

2. Stretch the muscles in the front

3. Strengthen the muscle in the back

Here are some simple things you can do daily while sitting and when you get up to go into the bathroom or the kitchen

Keep the flexibility by doing these repeated movements: 10 repetitions several times a day

The goal is to give yourself a double or triple chin. Keep your nose pointing forward, don’t let it tip up or down

Thoracic extension- use a chair with a seat back that comes up to the level of your shoulder blades. Try to bend back over the top of the chair without arching away from the seat back and without extending your neck. If the pressure from the top of the chair is uncomfortable you can place a towel there

Stretch the muscles in the front by using a door frame. This one will feel good afterwards

If this isn’t enough of a stretch you can do one side at a time. If you have the right arm up step forward with the right foot and turn slightly to the left. Then do it on the other side.

Strengthen the muscles in the back by squeezing your shoulder blades together for a count of 10 and then repeating 10 times. You can do this several times a day Hint: Don’t lift your shoulder blades up

There are lots more exercises for strengthening your back muscles but this is a good starting point and easy to do. I like doing it while driving

Tips:

Do the best you can

If it hurts stop

Envision future you saying thank you each time you do one of the exercises

[brightlotusmoon]

NOTE: I can do most of these with the cerebral palsy. In fact, a lot of these little exercises are automatically part of my physical therapy. My problem is I already have hyperlordosis, spine arthritis, and cervicogenic headache. These have helped me at least try to have a posture.

[becausegoodheroesdeservekidneys]

I CANNOT STRESS ENOUGH HOW GOOD THIS ADVICE IS

[rosalarian]

"Envision future you saying thank you each time you do one of the exercises" is probably THE BEST piece of advice for my brain.

[flaroh]

Hector's Farewell 👪🏼💔⚔️

Andromache and Astyanax watch Hector leave from the battlements of Troy, not knowing they will never see him alive again... Thank you to my patrons for the subject suggestion 🧡 Patrons in August will be receiving digital downloads, wallpapers, and a print of this illustration, as well as a Trojan Horse sticker  🧡 Patreon.com/flaroh

[thoughtportal]

typesetting in google drive