Mysterious Whisper

[memesandlaughs]

[owl-librarian]

#you just made it a higher stakes game of hide and seek

[heynoweverybodynow]

How to WIN at hide & seek

[eschultz72]

Hamilton track list (annotated)

for newbies trying to follow along without the liner notes

disc 1

1. “Alexander Hamilton” (3:56) = “what’s your name, man?” 2. “Aaron Burr, Sir” (2:36) = “SHOWTIME!” 3. “My Shot” (5:33) = “young, scrappy, and hungry” 4. “The Story of Tonight” (1:31) = “Raise a glass to freedom” 5. “The Schuyler Sisters” (3:06) = “Mind at work (WERK!)” 6. “Farmer Refuted” (1:52) = “Samuel Seabury” 7. “You’ll Be Back” (3:28) = “da da da da daaah, da da da da daaaaaah ya da” 8. “Right Hand Man” (5:21) = “Here comes the General” 9. “A Winter’s Ball” (1:09) = “reliable with the LADIES” 10. “Helpless” (4:09) = wedding ceremony 11. “Satisfied” (5:29) = worst wedding toast ever 12. “The Story of Tonight (Reprise)” (1:55) = best wedding toast ever 13. “Wait for It” (3:13) = “between the sinners and the saints” 14. “Stay Alive” (2:39) = “I’m a general! Whee!” 15. “Ten Duel Commandments” (1:46) = “1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9” 16. “Meet Me Inside” (1:23) = “don’t call me son” 17. “That Would Be Enough” (2:58) = “Look around, look around…” 18. “Guns and Ships” (2:07) = “LAFAYETTE” 19. “History Has Its Eyes On You” (1:37) = “who lives, who dies, who tells your story” 20. “Yorktown (The World Turned Upside Down)” (4:02) = “Immigrants: we get the job done!” 21. “What Comes Next?” (1:39) = “AWESOME! WOW!” 22. “Dear Theodosia” (3:04) = “Philip, you outshine the morning sun” 23. “Non-Stop” (6:25) = “THE OTHER 51”

disc 2

1. “What’d I Miss?” (3:56) = jazz piano break! 2. “Cabinet Battle #1” (3:35) = “I’ll show you where my shoe fits” 3. “Take a Break” (4:46) = “My name is Phillip, I am a poet” 4. “Say No to This” (4:02) = “ya made the wrong sucker a cuckold” 5. “The Room Where It Happens” (5:18) = “Two Virginians and an immigrant walk into a room” 6. “Schuyler Defeated” (1:03) = “Daddy’s gonna find out any minute” 7. “Cabinet Battle #2” (2:22) = “You must be out of your GODDAMN MIND” 8. “Washington On Your Side” (3:01) = “SOUTHERN MOTHERF**KING DEMOCRATIC REPUBLICANS” 9. “One Last Time” (4:56) = “teach them how to say goodbye” 10. “I Know Him” (1:37) = “JOHN ADAMS?” 11. “The Adams Administration” (0:54) = “CREOLE BASTARD” 12. “We Know” (2:22) = “ya best gwan run back where ya come from” 13. “Hurricane” (2:23) = “I couldn’t seem to die” 14. “The Reynolds Pamphlet” (2:08) = “never gon’ be President now” 15. “Burn” (3:45) = “I’m erasing myself from the narrative” 16. “Blow Us All Away” (2:53) = “Mr. George Eacker” 17. “Stay Alive (Reprise)” (1:51) = “Philip” :,-( 18. “It’s Quiet Uptown” (4:30) = “going through the unimaginable” 19. “The Election of 1800” (3:57) = “if you had to choose…” 20. “Your Obedient Servant” (2:30) = “A-dot-Ham, A-dot-Burr.” 21. “Best of Wives and Best of Women” (0:47) = “Come back to sleep!” 22. “The World Was Wide Enough” (5:02) = “I’ll see you on the other side” 23. “Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Tells Your Story” (3:37) = “THE ORPHANAGE”

[heynoweverybodynow]

Disc 1 track 12: “I will never understand you.”

Disc 2 track 6: “I’ve always considered you a friend.”

^^ the crux of the story arc

[linssweater]

[kaijuno]

I’m just super fucking bitter that once the flint water crisis got it’s 15 minutes of fame people stopped giving a shit. The water is still poisoned, people! Donations have plummeted and people have been forced back into drinking and bathing with the water! The medical effects of this are astounding, cases of legionnaires disease have skyrocketed, people are having seizures, people are having weird rashes break out over their body, people (including me!) are having their blood poisoned, and it’s not just lead! it’s coliform bacteria! it’s THMs! it’s all in the water and it gets into the bloodstream and breaks down blood vessels, causing bruising and petechiae and internal bleeding and no one gives a shit anymore and it’s only gotten worse like how many people are going to have to die until people realize this is still a problem

[contemporary-petroleuse-deactiv]

I would like to add that the people of Flint cannot sell their houses, because selling a house with leaded water is illegal. Additionally, households with children can’t stop paying for the water because living in a house without running water is cause for CPS to take their kids. Flint has been living this way for over two years. 

The people of Flint are trapped by the legal system. And it is only the most high profile case out many cities with a similar problem. 

Because the government has abandoned them, they are dependant on help from the outside. Donate here

[gyarados]

You’re welcome

[lady-gorthaur]

This is the most useful thing I’ve ever reblogged.

[danwasonfireonce]

i used to think when people said my cousin twice removed that their cousin must’ve did some fucked up shit to get kicked out of the family twice

[justanotherass]

sorry zelda, can’t fight, trippin balls 

[heynoweverybodynow]

Pretty sure at this point you’re dead though.

[ultraviolet-techno-ecology]

Concept - Your smartphone breaks. You can take it to any appropriately skilled person to have it fixed. It has been designed for easy disassembly and repair. The parts are available and standardized. You are not forced to buy a new one or spend extreme prices for a replacement part. Planned obsolescence doesn’t exist and things are designed to last a long time - to be upgradable and customizable without needing to invest in an entirely new unit every year. 

[1982brucespringsteen]

did you mean: communism

[ultraviolet-techno-ecology]

Yes, this is a communist blog. This was a communist post.  It was intended to inspire communist feelings. . 

[heynoweverybodynow]

Every adult human, living in a civilized nation and willing to show up and work an honest job with middling effort, should be able to afford a small apartment somewhere near their workplace, transportation to work, three meals a day, and an occasional outing to a restaurant and a movie. This is the baseline from which the ambitious should aspire, and the depths to which the failure should fall. Any nation that does not allow this is not a civilized nation.

[jackthebard]

Just remember. There is no such thing as a fake geek girl. There are only fake geek boys. Science fiction was invented by a woman.

[sourcedumal]

[shuttersmiley]

Specifically a teenage girl. You know, someone who would be a part of the demographic that some of these boys are violently rejecting.

[foxsan-deactivated20140515]

Isaac Asimov.

[sim0nbaz-deactivated20170205]

yo mary shelley wrote frankenstein in 1818 and isaac asimov was born in 1920 so you kinda get my point

[fancyeliza-deactivated20200804]

If you want to push it back even further Margaret Cavendish, the duchess of Newcastle (1623-1673) wrote The Blazing World in 1666, about a young woman who discovers a Utopian world that can only be accessed via the North Pole - oft credited as one of the first scifi novels

Women have always been at the forefront of literature, the first novel (what we would consider a novel in modern terms) was written by a woman (Lady Muraskai’s the Tale of Genji in the early 1000s) take your snide “Isaac Asimov” reblogs and stick it

even in terms of male scifi authors, asimov was predated by Jules Verne, HG Wells, George Orwell, you could have even cited Poe or Jonathan Swift has a case but Asimov?

PbbBFFTTBBBTBTTBBTBTTT so desperate to discredit the idea of Mary Shelly as the mother of modern science fiction you didn’t even do a frickin google search For Shame

[cryptovalid]

And if you want to go back even further, the first named, identified author in history was Enheduanna of Akkad, a Sumerian high priestess.

[gunthatshootsennui]

Kinda funny, considering this Isaac Asimov quote on the subject:

Mary Shelley was the first to make use of a new finding of science which she advanced further to a logical extreme, and it is that which makes Frankenstein the first true science fiction story.

[deathcomes4u]

Even Isaac Asimov ain’t having none of your shit, not even posthumously.

[velocigrey-deactivated20160825]

You know what else was invented by women? Masked vigilantes, the precursor to the modern superhero. Baroness Emma Orczy wrote The Scarlet Pimpernel in 1905. The character would later inspire better known masked vigilantes such as Zorro and Batman.

[geekinlibrariansclothing]

Got that?

[bettieleetwo]

Stick that in your international pipe and smoke it

[la-knight]

I have literally been telling people this for over a year.

[athenadark]

the first extended prose piece - ie a novel, was not, as many male scholars will shout, Don Quixote (1605) but The Tale of Genji (1008) written by a woman

[thepsychicclam]

The first autobiography ever written in English is also attributed to a woman, The Book of Margery Kempe (1430s).

[ladynorbert]

The day may come when I find this post and do not reblog it, but it is not this day.

[fragments-of-sappho]

Women invented language while men were hunting. I mean…

[aiweirdness]

April Fool’s pranks written by neural network

On April 1, people play pranks on one another, and a well-designed hilarious-but-harmless prank is a true work of art. There are lists of pranks online for inspiration, but there are only so many of these, and what do you do if your target has already read the same lists?

I train algorithms called neural networks to write humor - usually inadvertent, as they try to name paint colors or invent pies or design candy heart messages. Once I tried to train a neural network to tell knock-knock jokes, to mixed success.

I wanted to find out if I could get a neural network to invent new April Fool’s pranks. I collected pranks from internet lists until I got tired of it - but because each list only had a few, I gave up after I had collected only 132 entries. This is a pitifully small dataset, especially for sentences. I set up a special-purpose neural net for this, with lots of smarts but a very short memory. As I hoped, it learned individual words and phrasing from the dataset, but rearranged them into new combinations.

The result: pranks that they will never expect, and will never understand.

Place a pair of pants and shoes in your ice dispenser.

Put marbles in the refrigerator.

A meat and mashed potato sundae makes for quite the hand soap dispenser.

Put a glow stick in a toilet paper into the toe of your kid’s shoes.

Conference call two people then, when, when your kid asks what it is, say “Dinner.”

Try using old clothes to pee.

Glue all the eggs in the hubcaps of someone’s computer.

Put marbles in the hand soap dispenser.

Put food coloring in the mailbox.

Take the door knob off your kid’s shoes.

Hide an alarm clock in someone’s keyboard who isn’t a very good typist.

Hide all of the entrance to your office building if it only has one entrance.

Putting googly eyes on someone’s computer mouse so that it won’t work.

If you rip up a toilet paper roll, then leave them a ransom note.

Serve up a glass of juice in the fridge!

Place a pair of pants and shoes in Easter egg foils.

Rearrange somebody while pretending to pee.

Fill in this form, and I’ll email you more rejected April Fool’s pranks that make even less sense.

[slow-riot-deactivated20200720]

Asking the tough questions

[slow-riot-deactivated20200720]

I revealed to my coworkers that I’m the one who took this picture and I am never going to hear the end of it

[heynoweverybodynow]

Yes.

[yoisthisracist]

This week is really highlighting how straight white men, as a community, really need to get their shit right.

[everythingstarstuff]

Matt Dangler

[katswenski]

[tastefullyoffensive]

by Kat Swenski

[bluefeatheredvelociraptor]

OMG XD

[smillingcartoonist]

Russia is a interesting place !!!

[katswenski]

[tastefullyoffensive]

by Kat Swenski

[hymnsofheresy]

when christian artists change the line in hallelujah from “maybe there’s a God above” to “I know that there’s a God above” >:c

[covington-shenanigans]

#idk why i’m so unreasonably angry#maybe cuz it’s my fav line

it’s also because Leonard COHEN (!) was Jewish and this is a quintessentially Jewish line, and changing it to that level of Annoying Certainty is stripping it of its Jewish meaning and imbuing it with that particularly American smug evangelical Christian attitude that makes me tired, so very tired

[hymnsofheresy]

THAT IS EXACTLY WHY

[hachama]

I don’t think I’ve heard any cover artist sing my favorite verses You say I took the name in vain I don’t even know the name But if I did, well really, what’s it to you? There’s a blaze of light In every word It doesn’t matter which you heard The holy or the broken Hallelujah I did my best, it wasn’t much I couldn’t feel, so I tried to touch I’ve told the truth, I didn’t come to fool you And even though It all went wrong I’ll stand before the Lord of Song With nothing on my tongue but Hallelujah

[hymnsofheresy]

um woah

[heynoweverybodynow]

My one tattoo consists of those last four lines.

[heynoweverybodynow]

The other day I helped plaster over an earthbag retaining wall with cob.