Properly Geeky

An Experiment

[omtai]

Im sorry I didn’t reply to your message for three weeks. I did not forget about it infact I thought about it regularly every day. It will happen again

[penny-anna]

anyway sound off. at what stage do ppl think Han figured out the Force was real. the boring answer is after seeing Obi-wan vanish but i think he could rationalise that away as his eyes playing tricks on him. what do we think.

[my-last-brain-cell-is-socrates]

Let me demonstrate my answer for you:

That's it. That's my answer. Endor.

Please just take a look at Han's face right after witnessing 3po float. The man just had his entire worldview blown to smithereens.

[whetstonefires]

that's so funny. that means he accepted Vader deflecting a blaster bolt with his hand as just something freaky government cyborgs can do, and stuck by Luke for multiple years as he tried to figure this Force stuff out, and just treated it like your friend getting really really into neopaganism to cope with a loss.

like yeah kid good job with the witching. i'm certain it will be more useful against your enemies than your sharpshooting. no i do not think your witchcraft is supplementing your aim but i'm not gonna argue about it.

[penny-anna]

yeah Luke was like 'I heard Ben Kenobi's voice in my head telling me how to blow up the Death Star :)' and Han was like 'kind of an unusual coping mechanism but I'm not gonna argue with him'

[davetheshady]

thanks to carbonite han not only misses learning about luke's training montage on dagobah, he's also half-blind during their whole escape on tatooine. luke's out there force-kicking henchmen with his gucci boots and doing flips and shit and han can't see a goddamn thing. now on endor luke's yeeting threepio with the power of his mind and han's just like 'the last time we hung out i had to stuff him in a tauntaun sleeping bag'.

[mspollutedstar-deactivated20190]

Parents be like that’s my emotional support eldest daughter

[tragicallybeautifultiger]

parents be like that’s the third parent in the family, my eldest daughter

[artpigeons]

parents be like that’s my parent, my eldest daughter

[illahmae]

I feel this on a very personal level.

[st-pam]

[tangleduplnblue]

PLEASE EMPLOYMENT JELLY

[justanotherspringday]

Not risking it all I want in my life is a job I actually like

[zairak]

Sure why not, I’ll try anything at this point

[rrassoul]

i have an interview tomorrow! 

[almostness]

Worth a try.

[hitarehayameblog]

Truly need 🙏

[illinicoise]

“But if you forget to reblog Madame Zeroni, you and your family will be cursed for always and eternity.”

[spn-fandom-breathing-heavily]

not even risking that shit

[codyslipring-deactivated2015060]

scrolled past this, re-evaluated my life, then SCROOOLLLED back up and hit the damn reblog button. 

[tumblgang]

She ain’t no games in real life so I take her serious all the time

Anyone with a name that starts with a “Z”, ends with an “i”, and isn’t some kind of Italian pasta, IS SERIOUS

I’m not climbing no mountain with a pig on my back, 🙅🏽🙅🏾🙅🏿 Negative.

[skuubasally]

Nope. I know better, have your reblog Madame Zeroni.

[luckytaters]

who the fuck is Madame Zeroni

[saudadesinfinitas-deactivated20]

Look at these stupid children who don’t know who Madame Zeroni is

[drayaintshit-deactivated2019030]

☝🏾😂

[callmedeku24]

Man lissen if you don’t know you better ask somebody AFTER you hit the reblog button

[emeraldmercury]

Idk who she is but I have an exam today so I’ll reblog her

[haiku-robot]

idk who she is but i have an exam today so i’ll reblog her

^Haiku^bot^0.4. Sometimes I do stupid things (but I have improved with syllables!). Beep-boop!

[jacobmick]

Because wise, I am.

[seymonecristina]

Oh fucks no she’s back lmao must reblog. I’m sorry guys

[blackgirlart]

2 million people aren’t wrong

[greypistachio]

let’s see who this is while Tumblr processes my repost

[zitasaurusrex]

Hey.

I'm serious when I say I think the sentiment that kindness requires "zero effort" is harmful.

The idea that kind is a thing you can be innately, without having to think or feel anything about it, leaves a gap in the fence where the other idea "if I have unkind thoughts or feelings, I am by nature a bad, unkind person" can slip through.

Listen. That's bullshit.

Being kind to other people means paying attention to the effect your words and actions have on others, caring about it, and trying to make those effects better. That's work.

If you have a nasty thought about another person that annoys you and you contain the impulse, hold your tongue, and let it go? That was effort.

If you took time out to really think about something you wanted to say and make sure it would have its intended result without causing accidental harm that you wouldn't have noticed if you went totally off the cuff? Wow, that took some work!

If you were tired and angry and full of hatred but you still did the dishes so your housemate has something to eat their breakfast off of in the morning, that wasn't easy.

I don't think there are magical "kind" people who never have a mean thought and are always selfless and pure. That would be exhausting and impossible.

I'm not a "nice person," I'm a nasty, bitter, angry, sad person who tries to have good leash manners, control my worst impulses, and not jump on strangers because they don't deserve that shit from me.

I don't always succeed, but I'm trying. I'm trying and it's worth it.

[jimkerk]

the least realistic thing about star trek is that starfleet uniforms don’t have pockets and nobody complains about it

[crisisoninfintefandoms]

My instinct is to agree with this, but like, when I really think about it…

No money, no credit cards, identification is all vocal/fingerprints/retinal, so no wallet.

Again, doors are voice activated, or just unlocked by entering a code.  No keys.  

Communication devices are tiny and stick onto clothing starting in Next Gen.  TOS had bulkier communication that they carried around or kept in, like, packs and stuff, so the arguments for pockets is a little more valid, and if I remember correctly, those costumes did have pockets, tho I could be wrong about that.  But anything post TNG, the point is moot anyway.

Tricorders and phasers are really the only thing anyone’s carrying around, and that’s usually on away missions where they’d be bring their packs/holsters or just have them out.  I mean, who wants to stick a phaser in their pocket?  

So, yeah.  There’s not much little stuff people need to carry around everywhere.  And if they are preparing for a longer journey or want to bring bulkier things, well…just bring a bag.  It fits more anyway.    

[jimkerk]

what if i find a cool rock and want to take it home with me

[fair-itself]

Every time a member of the USS Enterprise has found a cool rock and taken it home, it has resulted in eleven deaths, six temporal displacements, the holodecks breaking again, and somebody getting turned into a lizard. Pockets are a privilege, not a right.

[thesadchicken]

[fair-itself]

I’ve gotten more notes on this comment than anything else I’ve ever posted, but this is the best addition to it I’ve ever seen. Thank you.

[shymagnolia]

so I got into grad school today with my shitty 2.8 gpa and the moral of the story is reblog those good luck posts for the love of god

[shymagnolia]

okay so i just got my dream job??? a week after applying to it?? and now i’m thinking….maybe this is the good luck post

[flagellant]

…..not even six hours later i got an offer of a well paying full time long-term job with free room and board in queens in nyc, allowing me independence and a way to escape an abusive situation and an unhealthy environment

likes charge reblogs cast, folks, this is the good luck post

[coffee-or-hot-cocoa]

i need all the help i can get for finals

[finnglas]

Hey so

the last time I reblogged this post right before I got a great job, in a permanent work-from-home position, with benefits, retirement, and a salary literally 3x what I was making before, doing something I really like. 

So you know. 

This might be the real one, y’all.

[whitepeopletwitter]

[sindri42]

So I looked this up and the whole story is wild.

Basically, market research for japanese bakeries determined that a) they sell more breads and pastries the more different varieties they have, and b) japanese bakery customers prefer items which are not wrapped, because individually wrapped things give the impression of being like, preserved or something instead of fresh and good I guess? So the obvious solution is to sell as many different kinds of unwrapped breads and pastries as you can.

But! In actual practice, that’s a nightmare. No packaging means no barcodes to scan, so the cashier needs to know all like 200 different (often very similar) items by heart and add them up manually, which means training new employees is a slow and painful process and customer service in general suffers badly. And having a person handle all those un-packaged foodstuffs to count them or examine them, in addition to being slow and clumsy, is unsanitary as fuck.

So one bakery chain owner approached this computer guy in 2007 asking for a system to automate the checkout process. It took five years and the company barely survived a financial crisis in the middle, but long story short they developed a highly specialized AI that will look at the pile of bread a customer picked out and automatically identify everything, tally it up, and charge them correctly, while the live cashier is free to make small talk or help people out or whatever. The whole process is simple, fast, sanitary, and pleasant for customers and employees alike, and to an outsider it looks like fucking magical bullshit.

But then in 2017 a doctor saw an ad for this bakery scanning system and it occurred to him that cells under a microscope don’t look all that different from weird loaves of bread. And it turns out that yeah, you can use almost all of the same code to analyze a tissue sample and pick out any potentially cancerous cells in it. Other people have started buying the same program for everything from analyzing the readout from big physics experiments to labeling charms and amulets for sale at shrines to detecting problems in the wiring on jet engines.

[gailcarriger]

I knew pastry would save the world one day.

[loversdreamersandyou]

[inthefallofasparrow]

Is the implication here that:

a) Kermit has worked with him so long, he should know Gonzo has no dignity

b) Gonzo has worked with Kermit this long, only because he has no dignity

c) Gonzo has no dignity as a result of how long he has worked with Kermit

[seascvm]

Why is this worded like an ACT/SAT question?

[sigynpenniman]

My absolute favorite Alexander Siddig story - and oh boy I have a lot of favorites - is that one day he noticed everyone on the DS9 set was suddenly asking him these weird very carefully phrased gentle questions like hey buddy, how you doing? you feeling alright? Can we get you anything? you know you can always come to us for help if you need it and he was like wtf why is everyone being weird and it turned out that he had been showing up to set late and generally looking tired and the whole crew thought he had gotten into hard drugs but in reality what he was doing was staying up till 4 AM every night playing Ultima Online

[sigynpenniman]

@keanu-reeves IM GLAD YOU ASKED

when he gets goin he basically tells stories constantly but it is somewhat sobering because a solid percentage of them are just about casual racism he has experienced and often seems amazingly unbothered by

anyway let’s see

- a fan approached him at a con and very very nervously thrust a magazine into his hands…with a photo of James Callis. He tried to explain to them repeatedly that he was not James Callis but they were so nervous they were basically not responsive so he finally signed the photo “Alexander Siddig is not James Callis” and gave it back and they thanked him and walked away

- He was sent to the UK from Sudan on a plane alone (running from political unrest in the country) when he was maybe 3 years old and the only thing his family sent with him was a suitcase full of mangoes because he loved them and they were hard to get in the UK (this would have been the late 60s)

- He desperately wanted to be an elf in Lord Of The Rings and they offered him a different part (I forget which one) and he was like ???? okay but I would like to be an elf and they told him flatly that they only wanted white people for the elves and he very rightly turned down all involvement in the production in response

- Not only did he spend all of the 90s playing video games he very much still plays them and now and, hilariously, is always the group healer which is something to unpack if you wanted to

- He took his kid to Disneyland and the person in the Mickey Mouse costume broke protocol to say “OH MY GOD IT’S DR BASHIR”

- The first review he ever got for being in a play spelled his name horribly wrong

- there are so so many more but after a year of hearing them it’s all a soup in my head PEOPLE WHO’VE BEEN LISTENING TO HIM ON ZOOM AND REMEMBER PLEASE ADD YOUR FAVORITES

[sigynpenniman]

Also since this post is doing numbers now I want to make sure everyone knows because I think almost everyone following me already is part of this but this is getting outside my standard circle: Alexander Siddig is an Angel. The reason I know all this stuff is that he has spent the last year+ essentially donating what is now hundreds of hours of his time talking to his fans on Zoom. He listens to everyone’s stories, comforts people, reassures people, offers advice (of varying quality, but we love him anyway), listens intently to every single infodump, answers pretty much any question asked of him, has gotten very into trans and nuerodivergent rights, remembers people, checks up on people, and is generally so incredibly gentle and sweet and kind to absolutely everyone and as of right now is still doing this when he has time despite no longer being in quarantine and currently filming on the other side of the world. If you are new to this fandom or otherwise don’t know a lot about Sid or his zoom outreach I am delighted to let you know that every bit of kindness and gentleness and generally nice vibes you get off of Julian is just Sid being Sid and he is every bit that and better in real life

[tzaddi]

Source for OG story:https://www.reddit.com/r/startrek/comments/ghngtr/ds9_siddig_el_fadil_indeph_interview_with_cirroc/

Sid city social club, zoom links posted (publicly!) 5 mins before YOU SHOULD GO YOU SHOULD ALL GO: https://www.sidcity.net/sid-city-social-club-2/

Meetings are happening at 9pm EST for the next two Tuesdays. Full calendar: https://teamup.com/ksue2xefdf7hui5f6w

[memeuplift]

[justalurkr]

Bestie Goals

I kinda wanna be this friend

[flightsofwonder]

being an adult is just saying to yourself “this is the weekend i’ll clean my [x]” and then proceeding to not do that because it’s the weekend and you deserve to relax, goddamnit

[flightsofwonder]

why does this have 85K notes

[randomslasher]

because we reblogged it instead of cleaning our [x]

[fullmetalfisting]

My boyfriend has to go to the ren fair for work but i can come and he wanted to do a matching costume. He was like “I want to be Frodo” and I was like “oh cool I can be Shelob” which was, apparently, not the couples costume he was thinking of

[fullmetalfisting]

I was like “babe she has the most screen time of any woman in Return of the King” and my boyfriend was like “that cannot be true,” looked it up, and said “i can’t believe that’s true”

[moreglitter]

finally a strong female character who doesn't shave her legs

[moss-wizard]

What a year this week has been.

[we-dont-matteratall]

It’s Monday.

[jacuwi]

It sure as hell is.

[actualaster]

The earlier in the day Monday you reblog the funnier this gets

[adhighdefinition]

no one ever talks about the part of adhd where everyone in your class has got their group of friends and you’re just there, mindlessly tagging along with anyone who is willing to put up with you for a few minutes. either you’re too loud or too quiet. if you’re lucky, it won’t affect you much. you’re a loner, so what? but then the moments come around where you find yourself yearning to be like the others. you’re not depressed, why would you be? you’re a child who just happens to be a little different. sure, you’re usually the last choice when it comes to groups and you’re rarely, if ever, invited to birthday parties but… it’s alright. everything is fine. or is it?

[adhighdefinition]

for the people questioning whether this really is part of adhd or not

[skipinouterspace]

…..

[daemonmatthias]

Ok, I knew I frequently didn’t have friends in elementary school because I was “the weird kid”, and I had connected that “weirdness” to my undiagnosed ADHD, but you’re telling me that this is an actual thing that other ADHD kids go through?? It wasn’t just me??

[upstartcrow42]

This explains so much about my younger self.