Still Wondering

21, French girl in Germany

[my-dailydreams]

[goth-queen]

Goddess of Depression by Victor Nazarenko

[tentacion2099]

Graffiti left on the tomb of Ramses V in Egypt by ancient greek tourists (when the tomb was only a few hundred years old). "I visited and did not like anything but the sarcophagus" and "I cannot read the hieroglyphs."

[mortalityplays]

Cool article about it if you're interested.

[lasrina]

The long, proud human history of replying to tweets and making them all about you

[a-book-of-creatures]

“I cannot understand the hieroglyphics”

“skill issue”

[herainsorcia]

[fox-bright]

That is DIABOLICAL museum design, A++, no notes

[indigobuntings]

I can't believe home depot literally produced a wildly successful science fiction musical and we all just pretend it didn't happen. on one hand yes it had a boring white guy main character but like.... home depot just... Made it? And it had shit ton of box office sales? and no one even talks about this. this is like avatar (2009) all over again

[indigobuntings]

OK so. After a lot of frantic googling I realized this was all a dream. home depot did not in fact produce a wildly successful science fiction musical. I was on allergy meds and took a nap and my brain simply prophesized this. slightly disappointed because I wanted to watch it.

[krchov]

(by @galwednesday)

[dailycatsblog]

[tecnobabushka]

Russian handwriting

[notcrazyiswear]

I’ll forever be amused at the Russian word “deprived” (лишили) in cursive, which looks like

[esoanem]

for people wondering how the hell that works

[shieldfoss]

I still don’t know how the hell that works.

[counterclockworkminds]

See, to me it looks a lot like ‘minimum’ in English cursive:

Ok not so bad right? But it gets worse…

Like… what even is this?

Can’t tell me that’s a word right? But it is! Sure you could dot the i’s, but would it really help?

source here: https://www.reddit.com/r/Handwriting/comments/1hgsc8/write_minimum_in_cursive_without_dotting_the_is/

[shieldfoss]

Yes. Yes it would.

[squareallworthy]

Wikipedia: Minim (palaeography)

[nid--hogg]

Why the fuck would language evolve in such a completely illogical way like this

[kyraneko]

fuck every last bit of this

[tuulikki]

Humans invented writing as a way of communicating information and it’s pretty great on the whole but we maybe did not adequately prepare for depreciation in legibility

[pudimdosubmundo]

@official-linguistics-post ?

[sztupy]

[tecnobabushka]

Wtf guys ten years

[alexseanchai]

Why the fuck would language evolve in such a completely illogical way like this

because a primary objective of cursive handwriting, from inception to the abandonment of dip pens, has always been to avoid getting inkblots on the page from lifting the pen when it doesn’t yet need refilled, which is also a problem familiar to the monks copying manuscripts in Gothic calligraphy

(that said, the mimi numinum writer is unambiguously fucking with us, same as the Buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo writer and the Lion-Eating Poet writer, and with much the same sort of point to make to readers; the mimi numinum writer won that argument eventually, which we know because J and V are now written differently from I and U, and because lowercase i and j now have dots on top)

something similar is probably what’s going on in these probably-Chinese-calligraphy scribbles, since the brush also needs dipped in ink every so often; no idea what Doctor Textable thinks they’re doing, though

[beardedmrbean]

if it works it works

[owa-tagoo-siam]

[cryptic-curation]

This sick bleach shirt I made. Something to showcase my undying love for prehistoric cave art.

Some of the bleach burned thru the shirt bc this was my first time bleaching anything ever, but it kinda adds to it.

[sibyllance]

Apparently someone got their car stuck on the light rail tracks at Mt. Baker. For those unfamiliar this is 35 feet up in the air

[officialboredom]

First test flight of a flying car by Mazda partially a success

[tuulikki]

I feel like the Arizona license plate should take some place in our analysis of whatever in the goddam fuck we’re looking at here

[weirdstrangeandawful]

Much like Springfield before it, Seattle is one of the few major cities in the world with a monorail. That, combined with a more conventional light rail system, makes Seattle the rare U.S. city with two different types of train for public transportation. On Tuesday night, the rail system briefly had a third: a Mazda CX-5.

https://www.roadandtrack.com/news/a71483251/mazda-driver-seattle-pulls-into-elevated-train-station-on-tracks/

[nicky999doors]

[shattering-the-mirror]

I greatly enjoy this view I saw in an instagram post

[catchymemes]

[prismatic-bell]

.....okay, call me crazy.

But how possible would it be to train crows to do this in exchange for food? We know they can be trained, we know they understand transactions, and we know they can complete tasks.

That seems like at least in some places it could be desirable.

[smallercommand]

I remember reading (several years ago, mind) about corvids being trained to exchange cigarette butts for food/treats. Which lead to people being mugged for their cigarettes while they were smoking, since the corvids either couldn't tell the difference or didn't care that people were still using said cigarettes.

[triviallytrue]

people who don't follow chess I promise this post is really funny

[dorkichiban]

Karpov had cemented his position as the world's best player and world champion by the time Garry Kasparov arrived on the scene. In their first match, the World Chess Championship 1984 in Moscow, the first player to win six games would win the match. Karpov built a 4–0 lead after nine games. The next 17 games were drawn, setting a record for world title matches, and it took Karpov until game 27 to gain his fifth win. In game 31, Karpov had a winning position but failed to take advantage and settled for a draw. He lost the next game, after which 14 more draws ensued. Karpov held a solidly winning position in Game 41, but again blundered and had to settle for a draw. After Kasparov won games 47 and 48, FIDE President Florencio Campomanes unilaterally terminated the match, citing the players' health. Karpov is said to have lost 10 kg over the course of the match. The match had lasted an unprecedented five months, with five wins for Karpov, three for Kasparov, and 40 draws.

okay, yeah this is pretty funny

[tockthewatchdog]

Uploading this bc i need to delete it from my phone for space but i want to keep it somewhere because the punchline made me cry laughing when i was really high

[thischarmingand]

My neighbors left this outside last week but frankly I don’t have time to become the protagonist of a horror audio drama right now.

[oreramar]

Every time I'm forced by circumstance to hand-sew something, I remember a fairytale I once read. There are lead-up shenanigans as the humble protagonist helps small animals and meets the princess and all that, but in the climax, the princess rigs a contest for her hand by setting her own task: sew her a dress in a single night.

The noble suitors, who have never sewn a thing in their lives, sabotage themselves by their own ambitions: they choose difficult fabrics to work with and cut huge, elaborate patterns and select gems and pearls and beads to sew onto it, and snip such long bits of thread that they lose time detangling their stitches, and ultimately resort to pinning bits together as they run out of time, so that their offerings initially look beautiful and flashy, but when the princess tries them on they stick her with pin ends and fall apart as she moves.

The humble protagonist uses a very simple pattern without embellishments and sews using short lengths of thread (snipped off and threaded for him by little birds of course) which don't tangle and therefore save time. His dress is plain by contrast, but holds together and the princess is able to move freely in it, and so he wins the contest and her hand.

I particularly think about the bit about threading the needle with shorter lengths of thread, needing to tie off more often but avoiding tangles and thereby saving time.

I then ignore that piece of wisdom passed down through who knows how many years and proceed to cut the longest damn length of thread I can manage because I hate tying off beginning or ending knots and I will not subject myself to more of that even if it does mean more tangles along the way.

[whoviankendokaqueenbeewithbooks]

My granny told me: langes Fädchen, dummes Mädchen. That translates to: If you use a long thread, you are a dumb girl. I am a dumb girl.

[bisonwares]

Showing off the Arapaima I made! (Pattern also made by me)

This was the test of the new pattern and I love her. 🎏💕

[maureen2musings]

One of the craziest things I’ve ever photographed! Maui, Hawaii

ericrubens