random ramblings

Everything and Anything. Observations and Assumption. I like juxtaposition. Cis Pan LGBT+ Friendly, haters will be destroyed. she/her pronouns. Currently a piping hot mess.

[alanaisalive]

The other night husband and I were watching a documentary about the yeti where they were doing DNA analysis of samples of supposed yeti fur, and every one of them came back as bears.

Anyway, the next night we watched a thing about some pig man who is supposed to live in Vermont. People said it had claws and a pig nose but walked upright like a man. Now, I happen to know that sideshows used to shave bears and present them as pig men. So every piece of evidence they gave of this monster sounds to me like a bear with mange.

So now the running joke in our house is that everything is bears. Aliens? Bears. Loch Ness monster? Bear. Every cryptozoological mystery is just a very crafty bear.

Bears. They’re everywhere. Be wary. Anyone or anything could be a bear.

[iguanamouth]

oh shit

[throughshadow-to-the-edgeofnight]

[alanaisalive]

As the OP of this post, I’m going to threaten that if this gets to one million notes by the 10 year anniversary on 1 June 2026, one year from today, I will get a lower back tattoo of the loch ness bear monster.

[docd666]

Y'all know what to do Tumblr.

[ithinkthereforeiamaswell]

WE ONLY HAVE LIKE A SMIDGE OVER A M9NTH LEFT!!

[animentality]

[ithinkthereforeiamaswell]

Oh Tumblr I have missed you. 20 years is a hell of a gap though...

[girlrustcohle]

fuuuuck i just realized that the future idealized version of myself cant exist without current me being the catalyst for change and doing hard things. has anybody heard about this

[ithinkthereforeiamaswell]

Same. *sigh* same

[ithinkthereforeiamaswell]

Source: Business Tech

https://search.app/vUrpC

United States wants to open the floodgates for American companies to enter South Africa

The United States Ambassador to South Africa says a US–South Africa partnership could double the number of US companies and employees in Sou

Dear Gods&Goddesses please keep this fool out of my country!!

We are Just hanging on here.

[alanaisalive]

The other night husband and I were watching a documentary about the yeti where they were doing DNA analysis of samples of supposed yeti fur, and every one of them came back as bears.

Anyway, the next night we watched a thing about some pig man who is supposed to live in Vermont. People said it had claws and a pig nose but walked upright like a man. Now, I happen to know that sideshows used to shave bears and present them as pig men. So every piece of evidence they gave of this monster sounds to me like a bear with mange.

So now the running joke in our house is that everything is bears. Aliens? Bears. Loch Ness monster? Bear. Every cryptozoological mystery is just a very crafty bear.

Bears. They’re everywhere. Be wary. Anyone or anything could be a bear.

[iguanamouth]

oh shit

[throughshadow-to-the-edgeofnight]

[alanaisalive]

As the OP of this post, I’m going to threaten that if this gets to one million notes by the 10 year anniversary on 1 June 2026, one year from today, I will get a lower back tattoo of the loch ness bear monster.

[docd666]

Y'all know what to do Tumblr.

[ithinkthereforeiamaswell]

Yes we Do!

OP needs a new tat

[toruandmidori]

[ithinkthereforeiamaswell]

Yes. Thank you!

[macrolit]

“Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody doesn’t carry a book around for those inevitable dead spots in life.”

— Stephen King (b. 21 September 1947)

[muaddibbler]

The most impressive communal shitpost I’ve yet seen from a linguistics Facebook group

[strike-another-match]

my reading addon is waiting approval for firefox and chrome im so nervous. please approve my addon i think it could help at least one other person as much as it's helped me...

[strike-another-match]

day 2 of no addon approval. come on all it does is style <p> elements... the humble styler...

[strike-another-match]

ITS APPROVED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

it's an accessibility tool i made for myself because i needed it, which basically lets you focus on one sentence at a time as you read large blocks of texts (books, articles, etc.). it offers different highlight styles, some of which use gradients to help guide your eyes from the start of the sentence until the end. you can move forward and back pressing the buttons or using ALT + left and right arrow keys if you use it and you find it helpful please tell me about it so i can have the motivation to keep improving it. i love knowing people use my tools

https://addons.mozilla.org/es-ES/firefox/addon/sentence-stepper/

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/sentence-stepper/cfiappnihemjkaaepefjfofagcobikek

[wistoreal]

[ID. Two gifs of the accessibility tool in action. They highlight one sentence at a time for ease of readability.

The first gif shows the tool cycling down the paragraphs, from sentence to sentence, in a thick yellow highlight.

The second gif shows the different highlight styles such as; a thick yellow, a thinner yellow, no highlight at all, a gradient highlight, blocky tri-color highlight by line, and colored text by line. End ID.]

[toopunktofuck]

I’m a college student struggling with brain fog due to medical issues, I’m definitely going to try this out next time I’m working on one of my reading heavy courses :) a lot of my books are accessible via some website cloud thing on a browser because owning things isn’t real anymore. this looks like something that will really really help me.

[ithinkthereforeiamaswell]

3am thoughts from a while ago.

There is no magic switch for people to suddenly not be gay, or to be a different race, or to make a disability (mental or physical) vanish. There is however a magic switch for people to Not be Assholes about it. The switch is called Ignorance and you flip it with Education! Indifference / Compassion. Hatred / Tolerance.

[between-stars-and-waves]

[gnome-de-official]

That’s our boi

[cups-official]

[ithinkthereforeiamaswell]

Sometimes you just feel Good about the world again.

[soberscientistlife]

[what-even-is-thiss]

I went to a school district where it switched over to free lunch for everyone when I was in high school and before that I saw people go into lunch debt and have to take the cold lunch set aside for kids that couldn’t pay and it was always embarrassing for them. And technically those people’s families didn’t qualify for free lunch. But still their families couldn’t or wouldn’t pay for their lunch.

Once everyone got free lunch though there was no more embarrassment for anyone. And I started eating breakfast at school too because the breakfast my family gave me wasn’t always enough and I didn’t wanna be a bother by asking for more or asking for money to get breakfast at school. A lot more people started eating breakfast actually. Everyone got hot lunch. Everyone benefited. Poor families that couldn’t afford it, lower middle class families like mine who could put the spare money to use elsewhere, and anyone who just wanted extra breakfast and a hot lunch. It was an incredibly positive change for everyone.

Free school lunch makes life better for all students and also removes a layer of logistics that everyone needs to keep track of. The lunch line started going way faster because instead of waiting for people to add money to their lunch accounts we could just scan our lunch cards and move on.

[undeadentropy]

We have such a long way to go to unlearn capitalism, if there can be literally any debate in whether we should feed children. Literally what is the point of a society that can't even get that right? Why the fuck do we do anything?!

It's crazy that we need proof that doing basic good things is a good thing

[fthgurdy]

Re: the last post, the article mentions that some places use clams to test the toxicity of the water. It’s like that in Warsaw- we get our water from the river, and the main water pump has 8 clams that have triggers attached to their shells. If the water gets too toxic, they close, and the triggers shut off the city water supply automatically.  

The clams are just better at measuring the water quality than any man-made sensors.

Edit: check out this documentary trailer : https://vimeo.com/408820791

[zvaigzdelasas]

God Bless Our Troops

[looksmokin]

They hot glued a spring to a clam and gave it full control over the water supply

[sindri42]

No of course not, that would be ridiculous.

They hot glued springs to eight clams and gave them collective control over the water supply.

[strangetikigod]

No of course not, hot glue would kill the clams.

The used silicone adhesive to attach springs to eight clams and gave them collective control over the water supply.

[emily84]

[hthrrloooo]

[vaguely-problematic]

image description: 3 screenshotted tweets from qasim rashid, esq. @qasimrashid which read as follows:

"Security firms are being inundated with calls from CEOs fearing for their lives since the United Healthcare CEO was killed.

"68K people die annually due to lack of care & 500K suffer medical bankruptcy- & every one of them fears for their well being every second of every single day.

"According to The Lancet, America's for profit exploitative healthcare system causes 68,000 preventable deaths annually.

"That means since an assailant killed the UHC CEO, America's health insurance corps have killed ~400 Americans who should be alive today.

"Thats is 1 person every 7.5 minutes- perpetually. It's long past time we abolish exploitative healthcare and make healthcare a human right.

"The people who stepped over the dead body of the UH CEO, held the investor meeting despite his death, & re-listed his job just 48 hours after he was killed, want you to know that you citing the 68K preventable deaths due to lack of healthcare is being insensitive to his humanity." /end id

68,000 preventable DEATHS. annually.

[ithinkthereforeiamaswell]

It's shit like this! You wouldn't get me in the USA if you Gave me a million dollars and like a whole life, home, j9b, etc. Nope!

[cunked]

lol

[ithinkthereforeiamaswell]

Terry really was the Awesome.

[conan-doyles-carnations]

do u ever get emotional about the fact that tchaikovsky, a gay man, wrote his Romeo and Juliet overture for his brother and his brother’s gay lover bc I sure as hell do

[captainbertbeer]

It’s true!!!

[beemovieerotica]

AND HE WAS A SUB????

[cognitiveinequality]

Happy anniversary to this banger.