Whiskey Sours & Super Powers

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[kittennoir]

[mmleepmlorp]

This blog is my adult version of cutting pictures out of magazines and glueing them on to paper

[bigasscockroach]

[mayhw]

Ammy is not alone anymore! Have Shiranui in Mucha’s style!

[thulium]

[likitesplit]

Art Deco bookends featuring Medieval ladies reading. 1920

Max Le Verrier.

[andhumanslovedstories]

What do you think is the worst category of crossword clues?

“The opposite of SSE”

Three-letter airport code

An egregious little pun, perhaps?

Sports, general

Sports, specifically another fuckin baseball statistics term

Minor celebrity from 30 yrs ago with a lot of vowels in their name

Financial abbreviations and acronyms

Really clever clue but you didn’t get it so it sucks

Other (list in tags)

Voting ended onApr 18

[catasters]

[pmamtraveller]

French armor, c. 1575

[unpretty]

concept: gas station with those pneumatic tubes they have at banks so they can deliver your little treats straight to the pump without having to go inside. all of the drinks explode immediately upon opening from the force of going through the tubes but it's a small price to pay for convenience.

[theskatingarchive]

Adam Siao Him Fa (FRA)

2024 World Championship Free Skate (206.90)

[cassandraically]

So, I need y'all to understand the many levels on which this was an epic free skate. He'd had an appalling short program. Total bomb (for him). Under 80 points. For reference, 80 points is respectable, 90 points is terrific, and 100 points is next-level in elite men's short programs.

Nineteenth place going into the free skate. NINETEENTH of twenty-four. And he'd come in a favorite for gold!

So he goes out there and lays THIS down. And because he is who he is, he throws the backflip in at the end despite it being a competition-illegal element that will get him a deduction. Because what the hell, right? He's not even close to medal contention. (And it's a bit of a fuck-you to the International Skating Union, which racistly refused to legalize the move when French skater Surya Bonaly, who is Black, became the first to land it one-footed at the Olympics.)

Scores over 205 points with it, which for an elite men's free skate is next-level. EVEN WITH THE BACKFLIP DEDUCTION.

And ends up winning the frickin' bronze medal. From nineteenth to THIRD. Which, if you're not familiar with figure skating competitions, means that he skated early on (to the point that if you'd been watching live on US network TV you would not have seen his skate) and competitor after competitor after competitor simply couldn't catch up to his score, until the very final skaters in the final group.

First Worlds medal for a French man in, like, fifteen years.

And after this, the ISU rolled its eyes, said "Fine, be that way" in multiple languages, and legalized the backflip in competition.

ADAM SIAO HIM FA, gentlefolk.

[devonsawas]

Happy Rex Manning Day!

[ralfmaximus]

For those who celebrate

[eknippp]

Some of my favorite quotes from Artemis ii so far:

"Copy. Moon joy."

"I have two Microsoft Outlooks, and neither one of those are working."

"Houston, if you could give me about 20 new superlatives in the mission summary for tomorrow that will help out my vocabulary a little bit, that would be great. Thank you."

“If you’ve ever seen the top of the spotlight of the top of the Luxor at night in Vegas, this looks like what it wants to be when it grows up.”

"To all of you down there on Earth... we love you, from the moon."

"We just went sci fi."

"It is so great to see Earth again. To Asia, Africa, and Oceania: we are looking back at you. We hear you can look up and see the moon right now. We see you too."

"We will always choose Earth. We will always choose each other."

“It’s a bright spot on the moon, and we would like to call it Carroll.”

[tevruden]

People always wonder why we need to risk sending humans out to do this when we can just send a robot. I think this is a good explanation.

[binturong-of-the-day]

The binturong of royalty

[teaboot]

I’m not Christian, I don’t go to church anymore, and my pastor died, but when he was alive I’d sometimes go to his sermons and I remember one time he said “it feels good to hate, but we know that it isn’t allowed, so when we’re told that we’re allowed to hate someone we get so excited that we forget we’re supposed to love”, and if my humble atheist ass might borrow some church talk I’d like to perhaps submit that

[teaboot]

Anyhow sometimes on the day to day I feel disgust or revulsion and I have to ask myself “is this a danger to anyone at all or am I just looking for something I’m allowed to hate” and a solid 98/100 times it’s the latter so once again thank you pastor D

[teaboot]

Some more sweet bangers from Pastor D

Following the rules of the church are less important than following the attitudes Jesus exemplified [in a debate about if it would be okay to break traditional rules and give the leftover loaf of communion bread to a hungry and poor attendee]

Don’t get so caught up in observing ceremonies and following traditions that you forget why they started to begin with

The words you use aren’t as important as what you mean when you use them [new kid was somehow wildly confused about his name and started respectfully calling him Batman]

[afloweroutofstone]

This is the first time in my life when it's actually fair to criticize the President for gas prices. I've spent so many years explaining to people that Presidents have pretty limited influence over the price of oil and that they do not have a magical lower-gas-prices button on their desk, I almost forgot that the President does actually have a raise-gas-prices button on their desk called "start a war with Iran for no reason"

[chillyfeetsteak]

i gave the venus of willendorf a brewski

[verins-little-notebook]

venus of chillendorf