Look what I found in a ditch!

Call me Laz! | 20+ | I really enjoy Taxonomy and Etymology |

[o-ceti]

do non americans know that sometimes you’ll just see lifelike human testicles hanging off the back of peoples trucks

[prrb]

non american here! i wish i didnt learn english

[the-network-reblogs]

I’m sorry that’s COMMON??

[duality-the-chaos-god]

American here! I have never seen this

[chaoticandlucky]

I know it exists its called truck nuts or whatever but I've never seen it myself

[radiation-detector-official]

American here! I've seen a couple and if you have to give your twuck bottom surgery I will assume you do not have a strong grasp on your masculinity.

[artemis-dawn8]

American here! Respectfully, what the fuck.

[alexseanchai]

It's the car size reflecting dick size thing, but neither ironically nor sarcastically. I've never seen it north of the Mason-Dixon line, though I suspect sampling bias on account of, the sort of person who has truck nuts in Mississippi or Maryland also exists in Washington and Oregon. They're just on the dry side of the Cascades, where I've never been.

[brightlotusmoon]

In Maryland I've seen truck nuts of every kind on trucks covered in right wing bumper stickers and little American flags, trucks that have never been used for actual truck work. You know the owners would literally explode if you casually asked if their trucks are trans.

I live near a Tesla repair center and I have yet to see nuts on a Cybertruck. I'm waiting.

[naamahdarling]

I'm in the southern plains and yes, this is a thing and I see it a couple times a month. It's fucking stupid as hell. Neuter your goddamn F-150s, you don't want them breeding out of conttol.

[headspace-hotel]

im from kentucky. Truck nuts are real.

Which is unbelievable because conservatives always freaking out about kids being exposed to anything remotely related to sex or human bodies even when its vitally important sex education, but when a dude wants to put an actual squishy dangling ball sack on his truck THAT is okay for kids?

I mean. truck nuts are not going to do irreparable harm to children either. The children are just like "ewwwwwwwwwww" and understandably so

[lazarus-taxon]

They make low poly ones for cybertrucks and i assure to it it just as ridiculous as you think

[andmaybegayer]

Incredibly fucked that shrapnel is named after a guy. Henry Shrapnel, who invented anti-personnel artillery shells. A word that has linguistic roots if I've ever seen one.

[izutsumi-fan]

Hang on lemme go look that up because I don't believe you.

[izutsumi-fan]

What the hell

[izutsumi-fan]

smug ass little bullet bitch

[mr-deep-downer]

[xanaxfarts]

A redditor u/spottedgolfing shares the process of the penny floor they installed into their homes foyer.

[getwrenchd]

Re: the popular questions

[vaginadude]

Litany against anthropocentrism

[mosscrab]

[ID: A picture of an excerpt from the book A Natural History of the Future, which reads: "affirmation. 'I am large in a world of small species. I am multicellular in a world of single-celled species. I have bones in a world of boneless species. I am named in a world of nameless species. Most of what is knowable is not yet known.'" End ID.]

[tsunflowers]

she's 31

[strangeauthor]

she's 31

[paper-mario-wiki]

i love days that are dark out, even when it's sunny.

[paper-mario-wiki]

i was in a call with a girl who was high off an edible and she challenged me to make up an alien on the spot, so here's what i came up with.

[blackpyrefly]

today im thinking about the huge buff bread guy from kikis delivery service. highly underrated guy

[uzmashroom]

Genuinely just a good man. Wife adopts teenage witch that needs a place to stay in the city? Sure. Even though you got a kid on the way? That’s fine. Cat too? Love cats. 

[furrama]

My favorite moment with him is when he goes to get some prepped baking sheets and he does this fancy twirl with them in front of Jiji. Like, there’s no other people in the room, he does this to impress a cat.

I don’t think he ever says more than a whole word the entire movie, and I still love him more than most Disney princes based on this one moment alone.

[fujiwaradivebar]

And the part where he wanted to surprise Kiki by making that beautiful elaborate sign OUT OF BREAD to advertise her business and he was all anxious for her to get home and see it

But then when he sees her coming he gets all bashful and runs away 😭

[judas-jpg]

the most underrated thing about the ghibli movies is how deeply they are love stories to working people, to the small folk, to moments of love and kindness. its not just about magic, many movies are about magic and fairytales. Its not only about the people in the stories, but about stories in the people. And they are just loveable.

[tenebrobscuro]

The first simulated image of a black hole was calculated with an IBM 7040 computer using 1960 punch cards and hand-plotted by French astrophysicist Jean-Pierre Luminet in 1978.

[str-ngeloop]

the romance of hand-plotting. this guy looked at the numbers and drew each of those dots manually, and the image emerged. we can only imagine how he felt

[regexkind]

I could strip the flesh from a cow in 30 seconds too just give me some 30% peroxide and some sulfuric acid. Piranhas are not special

[kwarrtz]

> tries to one up piranhas

> uses piranha solution

curious

[regexkind]

screaming and crying and throwing up because I just wanted to be a hater and I can't even do that right

[teaboot]

Okay this is extremely funny

[todaysbird]

it’s crazy how much diversity there can be in one species…these are all pictures of the same bird species (red-tailed hawk)

[todaysbird]

what they all have in common:

[misssquirrel]

The look of annoyance and utter disdain at the human exposing their wing pit.

[utah-mountain-drifter-deactivat]

Yes.

[weirdnaturalscience]

UNHAND ME FEATHERLESS BIPED

[ivy-michaels]

you know how you can go and watch a movie you watched a bunch as a kid and the version of a song in it is different? like they actually changed it since you were a kid? that isn't normal. we didn't do that until like, the last ten years. it's fucked up.

[ivy-michaels]

This is a post about how the Extra-Special-Super-Limited-Collector's-Wet-Dream versions of Neon Genesis Evangelion that cost $250 on ebay don't have "Fly Me to the Moon" in the credits even on the ADV dub.

[ivy-michaels]

i know I'm playing this off as me being pedantic but i really shouldn't.

Up til about the last 10 years it was widely understood that if you licensed a song to be used in a film or a video game or a television show that that song would be in that film or video game or television show in perpetuity.

Then, about a decade ago, things started changing. I don't know the exact point in time it changed, but the first time i became aware of it was around 2017 or '18 when some video game, i think it was Grand Theft Auto IV, got a big patch that did exactly one thing and that was remove a bunch of songs that had been in the game because the licensing expired.

And I remember being angered by that but going "oh well, that's video games, right?"

But then a couple years later when Netflix got the rights to Neon Genesis Evangelion and not only put out a new dub but took "Fly Me to the Moon" out of the show, even on the above ultra-fancy collector's Blu-ray set, which included the old dub.

And then recently i was watching From the Earth to the Moon, a HBO miniseries about the Apollo program that I've watched many many times in my life. It was one of my favorites as a kid, and i saw that it was on HBO Max. The thing that made me wanna watch was that it was remastered in 4K. Up til a couple years ago the only version available had been on DVD and I was, you know, really excited because I'm a bit of a cinephile (as you all may have gathered from my, uh, everything) and it's something I'm very familiar with.

Now as you might expect from a docudrama about the Apollo program, there's a lot of 50s, 60s, and early 70s music in it. Episode 5, "Spider", opens with a montage of space age art set to the theme song for Fireball XL-5.

So I'm watching this episode, which mind you, is one of my absolute favorites both as a space nerd and a machine fucker. (When you are done reading this post, please take the time to watch this clip that was formative to me as a robot girl.) So I'm on my nostalgia trip and i get yanked the fuck out because the song playing is not the right one.

It's still the theme song to Fireball XL-5, but its a cover, clearly recorded much later than the original, and it's really fucking jarring. Because the original is the exact sort of kitschy, early-60s space-age stuff that is being montaged in this opening scene.

And the really nutso thing is, I can't find anything about this anywhere. It's not that I'm crazy or that it isn't happening, its that it's just...gone. They do that now.

This is not normal.

It is not normal for companies (because this is 100% corporate pissing contests) to be able to retroactively change pieces of art because they don't want to lend their "intellectual property" to it anymore.

You should be angry about this. It's disgusting. And it was not normal until the last decade.

[ivy-michaels]

Reading the notes on this it’s apparently an even more prevalent thing than I realized????

[ashenmind]

growing up I always wanted to be poorly understood by science

[ashenmind]

glad people got the subtext on this one

[minutemanworld-blog]

In case you’ve ever been confused which is which.

TIL: the difference between a wharf, a pier, a jetty and a quay (reading about the history of the port of San Francisco on a Friday night).

— Deb Chachra (@debcha) April 9, 2016

[westlongitude]

Interesting.

[thecrankyprofessor]

I appreciate precision in vocabulary.

[ceescedasticity]

(I will note: These are technical precise definitions; if you go by dictionary definition there’s much more flexibility.)

[without-ado]

Northern Lights

l May 2024 l Andrew McCarthy l Logan Parham l Shane Ware l Joseph Alsousou l Neil Thomas l Greg Sheard l Sebastian Voltmer l TheSolarCan

[romanceyourdemons]

coworkers under 35 love me for my cowboy bebop jacket, coworkers over 35 love me for my cd player, management loves me for my mental illness-fueled punctuality. everyone feels vaguely wary of me for my overall poor impression of acting like a human