I am 𝚆𝚎𝚕𝚌𝚘𝚖𝚎

Hardcore mathematician, físico despistao, scientific adventurer.

[starpeace]

i love pitting classically trained magic users against self-taught magic users in sci-fi/fantasy but it shouldn’t be snobbish disdain for them it should be terror

[starpeace]

“WHO TAUGHT YOU LIGHTNING BEFORE BASIC TELEKINESIS. LOSING MY MIND WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU JUST DID IT. WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU CAST WITH YOUR BARE HANDS”

[elidyce]

WHAT DO YOU MEAN THAT YOU’VE ‘HACKED’ MANA DRAIN

WHAT DO YOU MEAN ‘DRINK SOME JUICE’

WHAT IS ‘LOW BLOOD SUGAR’

WHY IS THIS WORKING

I HATE YOU SO MUCH

[superjustaguyblog]

Okay but other direction can ALSO be a lot of fun

“What do you mean I don’t have to burn half my blood to create a fireball?”

“Why can you teleport more than once without vomiting? WTF is ‘quantum displacement awareness’???”

“You know HOW many spells? HOW? ... What do you mean ‘my spell book’?”

“Ooooh, you’re just summoning water portions from the Plane of Water... Lol I thought I HAD to combine hydrogen and oxygen molecules to generate water in small amounts. That’s so much easier then what I was doing!”

[anachronistic-cat]

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[worldheritagepostorganization]

World Heritage Post

[batsandboba]

“scientists don’t want you know” is a phrase that always cracks me up because if you actually meet a scientist they will be shaking and crying like an overstimulated chihuahua with the need to let you know

[kalianos]

[aeshnacyanea2000]

Of course, a quill pen potentially contained anything you wrote with it. He could understand that. But it did so in a clearly theoretical way, a safe way. Whereas these dull grey blocks looked threatening. He could understand why they worried people. Put us together in the right way, they seemed to say, and we can be anything you want. We could even be something you don’t want. We can spell anything. We can certainly spell trouble.

-- Terry Pratchett - The Truth

[beachf4gz]

stupid but giggled

[thewizzardwithin]

was researching some interesting medieval things on wikipedia as you do. all roads lead to terry pratchett.

[tessa-art]

My favorite Lord Vetinari quote.

Моя любимая цитата Лорда Витинари.

Full text (screenshot from Pinterest)

Полный текст (скриншот из Пинтереста)

[isuggestlandback]

If you ever wondered why they call tattoos and piercings "unprofessional" and "unsophisticated"

Source: Lainey Molnar

[aeshnacyanea2000]

There were such things as dwarf gods. Dwarfs were not a naturally religious species, but in a world where pit props could crack without warning and pockets of fire damp could suddenly explode they’d seen the need for gods as the sort of supernatural equivalent of a hard hat. Besides, when you hit your thumb with an eight-pound hammer it’s nice to be able to blaspheme. It takes a very special and strong-minded kind of atheist to jump up and down with their hand clasped under their other armpit and shout, ‘Oh, random-fluctuations-in-the-space-time-continuum!’ or ‘Aaargh, primitive-and-outmoded-concept on a crutch!’

-- Terry Pratchett - Men At Arms

[bob-belcher]

Reese Witherspoon as Elle Woods Legally Blonde (2001)  |  dir. Robert Luketic

[twig-the-escaped-cephalopod]

the character names is one of the funniest things in 20kluts to me and it has no reason to be.

like take conseil: in the english version you just think ok that’s his name but like. it’s a french word. okay cool a lot of names are words. however the book itself was originally french. they are canonically speaking french throughout the whole thing. like imagine aronnax musing to himself like “hm. i must get advice for this matter” and conseil showing up in the room out of nowhere like “master called?” and then half the time his advice is just “I dont know I don’t really have a stake in this. check out this interesting fish.” it’s like having a character named hope and having the other characters talk about needing to have hope (concept)while hope (character) is standing right next to them.

and then we have ned land. the man who wants to get the fuck out of the ocean and back on solid ground. and his last name is land.

captain nemo is also funny but that one was chosen by him and he has reasons for it so like… it’s not as funny as the others ngl

[nautilusgays]

Conseil is truly a character of all time 🙏✨💕

Genuinely Ned being called Land is just top tier.

[nitpickrider]

I wonder if Cletus ever appreciates that he's the villain who made Venom start to go hero. Bet that chaps his ass.

Amazing Spiderman 362

[krinsbez]

I don't think he has the intelligence or self-awarness to realize that, no. But yes, it probably would piss him off but good.

[nitpickrider]

He's measurably INCREASED the amount of good in the world

[thefingerfuckingfemalefury]

Venom: It's wrong to use our powers for senseless slaughter!

Carnage: You are obsessed with killing Spider-Man

Venom: That is SENSIBLE slaughter

Spider-Man: I'm regretting this team-up already -_-;

[lilithsaintcrow]

"This week I discovered the same pattern, executed by Google. Google Chrome is reaching into users' machines and writing a 4 GB on-device AI model file to disk without asking."

Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent. At a billion-device scale the climate costs are insane. — Th

Google Chrome is downloading a 4 GB Gemini Nano model onto users' machines without consent, with no opt-in, no opt-out short of enterprise t

[spockvarietyhour]

Google Chrome Secretly Downloads Huge Local AI Models

Google Chrome automatically installs local neural network components on user systems via default configurations. The browser downloads a 4GB

Procedures for disabling it

[bellart]

Discowing is a good suit !

Everything about the design is objectively good and flattering to a masculine physique. The colors work well together, the yellow strap emphasizes broad shoulders, the blue strap across the back emphasizes waist + glutes, the boots and gloves emphasizes calves + forearms. It’s designed to make the body look good ! Literally the only out of date thing about it is the collar but that’s only when the artist is drawing it stupid big, otherwise it’s not even noticeable.

Now everything is boring and shapeless

Love the blue striped but otherwise,, it’s pretty boring 😭 it does nothing, it’s not a flattering design

I say the same thing about the strong man shorts over the classic costumes. They were put there for a reason! It’s flattering, it makes muscles look bigger + waist thinner and breaks up all that solid color

And while I’m on the topic if I see anyone putting pants on this suit again I’m gonna scream

Look what they do to my boy!

[ithelpstodream]

[darkerskin-deactivated20170723]

Take this with you

[honeybrowns]

to all my white followers who stew in unnecessary guilt trying to come to terms with the privilege you have, watch this

[aeshnacyanea2000]

It was amazing how many people spent their whole lives in places where they never intended to stay.

-- Terry Pratchett - Hogfather

[sunlit-lycan]

Polyamory is great. I get to infodump to several people now