Fish in a jar

im 18+ :D currently deep deep in Tomarrymort hell (its surprisingly comfy in there)

[sanegreen]

it's just me and my very specific romantic scenarios against the whole world

[gayhoediaz]

the best fic you have ever read in your entire fucking stupid life: written by anonymous

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

finding that one fandom friend that GETS you and your blorbos the way no one else does is a privilege and it will literally change your life

[oneheadtoanother]

[tachyon-log]

(USAmerican trying to imagine a societal environment) Okay, so picture a highway,

[fishmech]

inability to correctly perceive 3d objects is in fact far more dangerous when someone is driving a car next to you then when they're like, sending emails to you.

[bunniope]

can we focus on the gnome for a second

[bunniope]

wait sorry i was not wearing my glasses. that is a cat

[ladyofspoons]

these are the people i have to share a highway with

[baked-fish]

I hate to say "some of you don't go outside," but fucking Christ, dude

[hunbunqueen]

Ouuhh I see the water it’s right there on the post,, I’m so thirsty ouyghhhhhw just one sip for me ooouuuuuu

[baked-fish]

Girl, what are you talking about? Are you feeling alright?

[beneaththegildedmoon]

Btw the heat *is* why we see water that's not really there, but mirages aren't exactly hallucinations so much as optical illusions:

It's just the changing density of the air refracting light weirdly, so it looks like there's a reflection of the sky on the ground, which our brains often interpret as a pool of water. It can also happen upwards instead of downwards, especially at sea, when the air is much colder near the surface and a warm front appears above it:

Which, btw, is one possible explanation for ghost ship sightings, so that's fun :)

[rainbowgod666]

Yeap. That's how the Effetto Fata Morgana gappens

[ausefulblogforputtingthingsin]

If you drive on a straight road in the summer you can see mirages pretty easily.

Here's Fata Morgana

[peachsodah]

Remember to Vote for Senshi!!

some cowboy butt for todays senshi :)

[okavara]

[ellipsus-writes]

A shiny new support center is materializing! 🛠️

With more than 600k writers now using Ellipsus (🙀), we’re streamlining support to make it easier to find answers, report problems, and get urgent issues to us a lot faster. In the new Ellipsus Help Center and Knowledge Base, you can search for answers directly from the in-app support widget, then submit a categorized support request when you still need help. Those categories help us identify very important issues like inaccessible work, deletion recovery, payment issues, bugs, etc. And: the support widget works on mobile now!! A few important notes while we make the switch:

If you’re seeing an “Ellipsus is outdated” notification, please fully close your Ellipsus tabs, clear the site data/cache for Ellipsus, and reopen your workspace. If you’re experiencing any lag or other loading issues, the refresh should help with that.

During the migration to the new system, some earlier messages might be lost, while others may be attached to old conversations we can no longer reply to. If you were waiting for support and still need help, please check the Knowledge Base first, then send us a new request through the support widget or the support ticket page in the Knowledge Base.

Starting today, all support requests should come through these forms rather than directly through our email inbox. This gives us the info and logs we need ASAP, and keeps requests from becoming scattered or lost (which helps us resolve issues faster!).

The new forms system will give us more up-front info, but support is still a collaborative process. We may need to ask you follow-up questions about your issue as we investigate. (Every device, browser, bug, sequence of events behaves differently.) Live chat will also remain available for urgent issues.

The new center is still under construction (insert a Geocities .gif circa 1999), but the articles/walkthroughs will continue improving over time. (That’s how you know humans be werkin’. 🫠)

[betofuuu]

Yugiboy

[throo]

Wh-what do you mean it’s from a birthday cake

[throo]

We could have been eating him

[escuerzoresucitado]

Pedestrian traffic lights

[sjorsdottir]

Ooooh, we have a bunch of really fancy pedestrian traffic lights in Germany! I need to share:

Starting off with the difference between formerly Eastern German traffic lights (upper images) and formerly Western German traffic lights (lower images):

The city of Erfurt had some additions, like an umbrella or a heart:

Same sex love in Marburg (upper image) and Frankfurt (lower image):

Traffic light lady in Bremen:

Karl Marx light in Trier:

Face of Friedrich Engels in Wuppertal:

Elvis in Friedberg (Hessen):

A sparrow (for the Golden Sparrow film awards) in Gera:

Winemaker in Bad Dürkenheim:

Mainzelmännchen (mascot of the public broadcasting service ZDF) in Mainz:

Otto Waalkes (German Comedian) in Emden:

Town musicians of Bremen in Bremen:

A miner in Pirmasens, Rheinland-Pfalz:

Bishop in Fulda:

Source: Saarbrücker Zeitung

Enjoy!

[translatingpoststogerman]

And we call these "Ampelmännchen" ("traffic lights little man").

[robot-roadtrip-rants]

omg that's amazing! I wanna visit Germany just to take pictures of all the cute traffic lights.

[flowersgardenlove]

Hyacinth Beautiful gorgeous pretty flowers

[transformativeworks]

The OTW is Recruiting for Open Doors Technical Volunteers, Tag Wrangling Volunteers, and Translation Translators

Do you know programming languages like SQL or Python and want to help rescue at-risk fan archives? Want to wrangle AO3 tags or translate them into English? Are you fluent in other languages? The OTW is recruiting: https://otw-news.org/2p94jnbf 

[transformativeworks]

Applications for Translators are still open, check out our volunteering page for more information: otw.org/volunteer!

[biancawilkson]

[walllkhht]

I came back!

[tarragonthedragon]

i just got the "see where your blood has gone!" email from giving blood but it glitched and just showed me my current location. which. theyre not wrong. that is where most of my blood is

[sycamorality]

did you know you can rename everything on your pc