Imagine it yourself

23, she/they, pan

[church-of-lilith]

the gays were immortal and they STILL managed to bury them???

[oneheadtoanother]

[the-future-now-deactivated20170]

Watch: Carl Sagan schooled B.o.B. on his flat Earth theory more than 30 years ago

Follow @the-future-now

[micdotcom]

🐸☕️

[trashboat]

bipch erastosthenes schooled b.o.b. 2,230 years ago

[luckyladylily]

Ok so this is cool but I always wondered how they knew the shadows were different at the same instant. I mean it is not like they had phones. How did they sync up that instant. I feel like that would be interesting to know but no one ever says.

[when-it-rains-it-snows]

^^^Does anybody know this one? How, that far apart, the time at which the shadows were observed was synced up? I am genuinely curious, not a goddamn moron asking a gotcha question. High/Low tide? (I live in the middle of the country I do not know for the precise habits of tidal activity.) The appearance of a star (or planet) in the sky? Something as utterly mundane as sunrise?

[kerosenekate]

Well, first of all, it wasn’t actually pillars! Eratosthenes was told about a well in Syene that, in the summer solstice every year (June 21st) would be illuminated at the bottom entirely and without any cast shadows. This indicated that the sun was directly overhead. Going off that well known curiosity and an intelligent hunch, our dude Eratosthenes waited until high noon of the summer solstice to measure the angle of a shadow cast by a stick in Alexandria. (Sidenote: Eratosthenes was a librarian of the infamous Library of Alexandria.)

His next course of action was to hire bematists, surveyors of the time whose professional specialty was to measure distance by walking with equal length steps. They measured a distance between Alexandria and Syene of about 5000 stadia. (Guess where the word stadium comes from.) Once he had that measurement, Eratosthenes did his math-y thing, and there you have it.

[when-it-rains-it-snows]

ANSWER EVEN COOLER THAN I HOPED!!

[cellarspider]

Eratosthenes’ work was thorough enough that by the time he finished revising his calculations, he ended up only 66 km off of the actual polar circumference of the Earth, or an error margin of 0.16%. [wiki]

[headspace-hotel]

Now I want to know more about the bematists.

[letsbelonelytogetherr]

— Ocean Vuong, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous

[letsbelonelytogetherr]

“In Vietnamese, the word for missing someone and remembering them is the same: nhớ. Sometimes, when you ask me over the phone, Con nhớ mẹ không? / flinch, thinking you meant, Do you remember me?

— I miss you more than I remember you.”

[imagineityourself]

Where the worst part is I miss you so much that I try not to remember

[willgrahamscock]

crowley must have known that aziraphale was also in love with him, he tidied the bookshop, he was planning on taking him to the Ritz after his confession, he had their song queued in the car these are not acts of someone who wasn't sure what the outcome will be.

which makes it so much more painful that he still confessed his love for aziraphale with tears in his eyes and on the verge of a full blown panic attack, he left saying "don't bother" but he still waited by his car til the elevator doors closed. all because

[imagineityourself]

So, as you may already know, Russian Supreme court has banned 'international LGBT movement' as an 'extremist organisation'. I rarely post something, but let me share some news and tell you how the situation feels to me, a bisexual 22yo living in Russia.

Now, according to law, you will face up to 12 years of imprisonment if you somehow show that you're gay or support gay rights - even if you're wearing a 6-colour rainbow pin on your T-shirt. Even if you're holding hands.

Yesterday a TV channel in Saint's Petersburg was fined for showing a music video for a song by Sergey Lazarev (you may remember him as a Eurovision participant in 2016 and 2019) where two girls are showing affection. In the official statement, the vid was described as containing 'fragments showing interacting hands (caressing each other) belonging to two different people of the same sex, i.e. potentially perceived as a tactile, sensual interaction of individuals broadcasting their homosexual preferences'.

Here's the link to what is considered containing extremism in Russia btw.

I have a girlfriend, we've been together for 2 years now. We used to hold hands when outside sometimes - not in super public places, but you know, quiet spots in a park where you are unlikely to meet anyone. Physical touch is one of my main love languages, and having my gf touch my shoulder to reassure me or take my hand to show affection means so much to me. My heart actually skips a beat when she does that.

Yesterday, we were taking a stroll in a park. She took my hand, and after a few seconds with a corner of my eye I noticed a man passing by watching us with a weird look. And my heart skipped a beat for another reason.

'He's gonna report to the police!!!' - it screamed. 'We're fucked!!!' - it screamed even louder. I let go my girlfriend's hand. We looked at each other, having the same thought.

It was scary.

We decided never to hold hands when outside again.

We are planning to move in this January. And it is so scary that people might notice. That there might be a neighbour that would rat you out. That you might forget changing pronouns from 'her' to 'he' while mentioning your partner - and spend years in jail.

Yesterday, there were raids of special police units on LGBTQ+ night clubs (that are not saying openly what they actually are ofc) under the pretense of 'illegal drug sale'. People were not let out without taking a photo of their passports.

Two of my queer friends were supposed to go there and ended up not going only because one of them didn't feel well. He was so lucky not to feel well.

Some might say that we should know better than to hold hands in parks and go to undercover gay clubs knowing we're living in Russia - that we could live without this provocation. That is not entirely false.

But the thing is, even two years ago, when I started dating my girlfriend and before the war in Ukraine, no one seemed to really care. I can't speak for the entire LGBTQ+ community, but I'd say if we were living quietly our undercover gay life, we were more ignored than actually oppressed. Even when the 'LGBT propaganda law' was passed, at least you could get away with a fine for showing a rainbow. Now you don't. We won't hold hands or go to gay parties, you win.

And that's scary.

I would love to know how to fight, but I'm just so tired.

[beardedmrbean]

[imagineityourself]

CRYING

[ineffableshitpost]

Nah because I saw this and I thought that is definitely a thing that Crowley would wear 100%

[imagineityourself]

Doctor: - What are your pronouns Meep?

Meep:

[imagineityourself]

Idk if someone has already done this

But while watching this scene

I couldn't stop thinking abt this scene from Madagascar

Considering Taika has two kids I refuse to think it's a pure coincidence thanks for coming to my Ted talk

[cottonspotten]

would you eat safe, ethically sourced* human meat?

yes

no

other(?) / see results

Voting ended onOct 29, 2023

*person has consented to being eaten; they’ve donated their body. they died without suffering. you can cook the meat. you will not get sick from the meat.

bonus: explain why!

[cottonspotten]

personal favourite responses thus far

the people who have no moral qualms with cannibalism but but voted no because theyre picky eaters or dont like trying new things

the multiple vegetarians who voted yes

the one (1) person who (rightfully) called out the phrase 'ethically sourced human meat' (when i typed that out i had to take a long look at the choices ive made throughout my life)

"ever since i got into pokemon vore i've had a huge fascination in cannibalism"

the anime blog who reblogged this post not 5 minutes after my anime fan friend told me that "anime fans LOVE cannibalism"

“if they are my enemy”

and most of all - those who are reblogging without any commentary at all. because having absolutely NO thoughts on cannibalism is more fascinating than any possible response

[imagineityourself]

Honestly yes just for cooking it pretending I'm NBC Hannibal

[camilleflyingrotten]

[huffylemon]

[distortiondragon]

reposting a favorite reddit moment of mine since god knows if ill ever see it again

[peoplesoup]

honestly i don't think hannibal needs a season 4. they're either alive and fucking in cuba or they're dead and fucking in hell. i can get both of these from fanfiction

[selfconfessedfangirl]

no tv show will ever be able to resolve a m/m/f love triangle as perfectly and as weirdly as Hannibal, in which the woman kisses one of the guys, sleeps with the other one, then decides "actually, never mind, you're both awful!" and marries a rich lesbian instead - and, while this is all going on, the guys develop a weird homoerotic obsession with each other culminating in them going off a cliff together. truly unhinged and unmatched

[highinfidelity]

the cutest human being to ever exist

[my-bread]

Absolutely insane that the archiving practices of the 1960s (or lack there of) led to the loss of nearly 100 episodes of doctor who. But what’s even crazier is since Doctor Who fans are just ‘like that’ there’s audio recordings of every missing episode because people just, recorded them at home.