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Alisa U Zemlji Chuda
KIROKAZE
@theartofmadeline
wallacepolsom
RMH
"I'm Dorothy Gale from Kansas"
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Product Placement
Jules of Nature
he wasn't even looking at me and he found me
taylor price
Three Goblin Art
let's talk about Bridgerton tea, my ask is open
Claire Keane
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@insanity-apathy
Reading through the shining book and I find it interesting that for as big of an issue as Jack's drinking is made out to be, the decision that well and truly fucked up Jack and his family's lives happened when he was stone cold sober.
THE GOD OF DREAMS IS DEAD MOTHERFUCKERS.
THE LIGHT HAS BEEN EXTINGUISHED AND DARKNESS REIGNS ETERNAL. DEATH HAS TRIUMPHED AT LAST. THE QUEEN IS DEAD. LONG LIVE THE KING.
THAT OVERHYPED PIECE OF ROAD KILL IS NEXT
If I can beat Nightmare King Grimm, I can beat the roaring Knight. If I can beat Nightmare King Grimm, I can beat the roaring knight. If I can beat Nightmare King Grimm, I can beat the roaring knight.
70’s ad for Asbestos
Deer running from a flying squirrel as caught on a trail camera
everything about this picture is goddamn intense as fuck
THEY HIT THE FUCKING PENTAGON
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So thoroughly nuked that there isn’t even any record of their original blog url
The Forbidden Knowledge
not even any notes. I feel like I’ve stumbled upon a plot-advancing skeleton’s notebook
this is by far my favorite safety/warning sign btw. they really went off with this one
No cuz I fucking love this sign. It’s not an actual barrier so it’s not like some sort of challenge it simply says “fuck around and you will find out”
Ohohoho I LOVE “fuck around and find out” signs, especially the really dramatic and ominous (but true) ones
(Context for the last one: it’s a WWII era sign posted around the soldiers’ washroom mirror, warning them to never discuss military plans in places where civilians could hear them and report back to the enemy, e.g. in restaurants and pubs in the country. “Loose lips sink ships”.)
I also love these two, which I would place in the category of “You already fucked around, now you’re about to find out.”
Aerated water is fucking scary. It's water that has a fuckton of gas in it, which reduces the buoyancy to the point where you will immediately start to sink if you fall in.
ive been collecting these recently and wanted to add some of my favorites
one of the things I find interesting about seeing all these signs together
is how you start to realize that humans respond better to infomation than to instructions
like it was the gorge sign that really clicked this for me:
like the point is, everyone is running their own internal risk assessments when they choose their actions
and so in these situations warning signs need to get people to realize "ah. I should adjust my risk assessment"
I went to go look up the Grand Canyon warning signs for this post and:
The original 1990 PSAR (preventative search & rescue) sign "STOP heat kills" warning people that "under no circumstances should you attempt to hide from the rim to the [Colorado] river and back in one day!!"
It's since been updated with several versions now. (I'm excluding the one illustrating a guy vomiting. Gross.) They still mention death, but now the more common phrase is "bottom/down is OPTIONAL, getting back up/to the top is MANDATORY."
They REALLY softened this to "hiking to the river and back in one day is not recommended by the Grand canyon national park." Where before it was: "under no circumstances..."
INTERESTINGLY, I learned the following about why US national parks are soooo concerned with preventative measures which I sort of assumed but didn't know for sure:
Is a park obligated to provide search and rescue? In a 1992 landmark decision, the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in Johnson v. US Department of the Interior that search and rescue is a “discretionary function” of government that is protected under general rules of exception of the Federal Tort Claims Act at 28 U.S.C. § 2680(a). Mr. Johnson, described as an inexperienced mountain climber, fell to his death on Buck Mountain in Grand Teton National Park. His family subsequently sued the Department of Interior claiming the park failed to properly warn him of the dangers of climbing and failed to initiate a rescue attempt within reasonable time.
The 10th Circuit legally affirmed NPS testimony that “(1) the inherent dangers of mountain climbing are patently obvious; (2) both manpower and economic resources should be conserved … during emergency situations; (3) it would be impractical if not impossible to test competency, monitor equipment use, or ‘clear’ the mountain given limited available manpower and economic resources; and (4) many park visitors value backcountry climbing as one of the few experiences free from government regulation or interference.
The 10th Circuit Court of Appeals ruling further clarified a search-and-rescue team’s duty to respond, as follows: "No statute imposes a duty to rescue, nor are there regulations or formal Park Service policies which prescribe a specific course of conduct for search and rescue efforts. Instead, the decision if, when, or how is left to the discretion of the SAR team. Therefore, the rangers must act without reliance upon fixed or readily ascertainable standards when making a search and rescue decision in the field."
NPS preventative success
All those USNPS warnings are partly because there's no duty requiring attempting search and rescue efforts if your ass ends up in trouble inside a park. If the park rangers decide they don't have the resources, or it's too dangerous, or their initial attempts don't work, they have the right to halt efforts or not begin them. Park rangers are good people. When possible, they'll definitely try to rescue you or give you an assist!
But also park rangers are there to protect parks, not people.
An addition to the 'search-and-rescue is optional' note: there's a reason for that. Most national parks are very big, very empty, and very difficult to navigate.
In July of 1996, a family of German tourists went missing in Death Valley National Park. It took three months to find their abandoned van, which set off the initial search effort. This search lasted four days and included 45 people, 2 helicopters, and 8 horses. The operation cost around $80,000. Aside from the van, all they found was a single beer bottle that matched others found in the van itself.
It took nearly fifteen years to finally find their bones.
Fandom's gotten so weird outside of tumblr, you guys, I'm scared.
Today I saw a show creator express that they were sad that people draw less torture art of a certain character (their favorite) since it was revealed said character is suicidal, and a solid percentage of comments were pearlclutching about how "disturbing" it is that the creator "wants to see suicidal people suffer".
Guys. That's not a real suicidal person, that's a cartoon rabbit. They made him up inside their brain and they like to see art of him suffering because they like to see him put in situations. Calm the fuck down.
*doom music starts to play* I actually kindof like scheduling these kinds of appointments now...
but seriously Fellas, don't forget to schedule a pap smear every couple of years just in case. If you still have a cervix you can still get cervical cancer. ilu
this has been a psa
i've had this as an idea since 2017 btw
damn, tumblr says my art is ass and trans people is eye strain so no blaze for me :\
it'd be a shame if this...
blazed the old fashion way...
Person in my gas station talking to someone on the phone: ...We're in Ohio...
Me, knowing we're in Utah: ????
Thank you for the map for context. It makes this 1,000 times funnier and intriguing.
hey guys please don't spread misinformation ohio isn't real
...I never realized that...And it makes the "How you do, Fellow kids" even funnier...
Teachers have tried this and are amazed when their classes don’t go feral like in the book. It’s almost as if the book was supposed to be satire and not a treaty on the nature of humanity.
there’s a timeskip
THERE’S A TIMESKIP
THERE’S A TIMESKIP
THERE’S A TIMESKIP
after losing control of the signal fire there’s a FUCKING TIMESKIP and when the next chapter starts everyone’s hair is several inches longer and their clothes have rotted to shreds and they’re still just kind of chilling!!!!
IT TAKES THE TERRIBLE IMPERIALISM MIND-POISONED EXCESSIVELY BRITISH BOYS IN THE ACTUAL BOOK SEVERAL MONTHS TO COMMIT A SINGLE ACT OF INTENTIONAL VIOLENCE, EVEN THE ONE (1) CHILD WRITTEN AS AN ACTUAL SOCIOPATH
AND then when they DO turn on each other it is because
THERE’S AN UNSPECIFIED WORLD WAR HAPPENING
AND A PILOT’S CORPSE CRASH LANDS ON THE ISLAND POST-DOGFIGHT AND THE CHILDREN MISTAKE THE PARACHUTE FOR A MONSTER AND SPIRAL INTO PARANOIA
BECAUSE CHILDREN INHERIT THE LEGACY AND TRAUMA OF VIOLENCE FROM THE ADULTS WAGING WAR AROUND THEM
HURR DURR IN THE REAL WORLD IT WOULD NEVER HAPPEN LIKE IN LORD OF THE FLIES -
IT DIDN’T HAPPEN THAT WAY IN LORD OF THE FLIES EITHER YOU JUST HAVEN’T READ IT SINCE HIGH SCHOOL IF EVER AND DON’T REMEMBER WHAT ACTUALLY HAPPENED IN THE GODDAMN BOOK
#tbf the dude wrote it to be a dick
yes. yes he did. i’m also gonna direct you to the real life ‘lord of the flies’ which occured in the 1960s, when six tongan schoolboys got stranded on a desert island for over a year before being rescued by an australian fisherman (who, it should be noted, later took on all six as crewmembers because the reason they were out in the first place was because they wanted to see the world, and named his ship the Ata after the island they were stranded on). nobody died. the only injuries that occurred were accidental, and when one of the boys broke his leg falling down a cliff, the others braced it and looked after him so well that it healed perfectly. if they argued, then they would literally go to opposite sides of the island until they’d cooled off. after leaving the island, they remained friends for the rest of their lives. here’s a photo of them as adults, with their rescuer (who is third from the left) and other members of his crew.
i read about this in rutger bregman’s human kind, a book i cannot recommend highly enough, but if you don’t want to go and read a whole book about the inherent goodness of humanity (which again, you really should) then the relevant excerpt can be found here.
> sees nihilistic depiction of human nature
> looks inside
> hope :)
@kitchenaidmixer02
I have been in the white palace for all of five minutes and I'm already to the point of frustration where I'm killing the king's retainers for sport and not for the soul.
No, no, and NO.
AO3 does not live in “the cloud” because that is other people’s computers, and other people’s computers are vulnerable to censorship.
AO3 is on its own computers. It does still have to be housed somewhere, and I suppose a determined enough hater could try to find that place and go after it, but it’s a lot harder than sending spurious complaints to Amazon or whomever going “BadWrong things are hosted on your cloud service!”
Owning the servers is a core tenet of OTW/AO3.
Warming up a new database server….
When people involved with AO3 talk about “the cost of servers” they don’t mean “the cost to pay Amazon for space on their servers.” They mean, like, the cost to physically own them, and eventually replace them with new ones. And the operating costs to run them.
AO3 is not “in the cloud.” AO3 is stored on physical machines that the OTW owns.
While this is not a solution that can work for everyone who wants to deal with controversial content, it is why AO3ple sneer at alt-righters who complain about getting thrown off hosting platforms.
I Want Us to Own the Goddamned Servers
Because I want us to own the goddamned servers, ok? Because I want a place where we can’t be TOSed and where no one can turn the lights off or try to dictate to us what kind of stories we can tell each other.
AO3 is what a website looks like when you seize the means of production.
we should globally ban the introduction of more powerful computer hardware for 10-20 years, not as an AI safety thing (though we could frame it as that), but to force programmers to optimize their shit better
I reblogged this like 9 times kinda jokingly, but software should be able to run on older and less powerful hardware, and consume less power on newer hardware. Like, this is a real problem imo
I completely agree with this but I do need you to understand that the image above is 32 times the size of the lunar mission’s memory
