[soberscientistlife]

[clickbeetle]

i love seeing cardinals and bluejays together i’m always like “hehe.. evil siblings”

[clickbeetle]

this is what i’m all about babyyyyy

[brydeswhale]

They’re not even related. Jays are a type of corvid, like crows and magpies, and Cardinals are a grosbeak.

[watcherscrown]

well you see, they are both birds and they both have fun hats. hope this helps

[stephaniematurin]

This Is How You Win The Tumblr Post

[throughwinterfields]

Garðar Ólafs  

[bunnyfood]

[catchymemes]

[only-cat-memes]

Your daily dose of cat memes

[the-most-beautiful-duwang]

do not separate them…..

[overlyactivepingpongball]

Starter Pokémon in Ohio

[computationalcalculator]

I’ve been trying to find this post again for ages

[crazy-brazilian]

[supreme-leader-stoat]

You good bro?

[tuftee]

ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding

[shounenchild]

Funniest character creation of all time goes to when the first co-creator of Kim Possible said "Kim Possible. She can do anything." out loud in an elevator and the second one immediately replied with "Ron Stoppable. He can't."

[shounenchild]

Disney paired up two of their most successful content developers and ordered them to craft a story that would be interesting to an ambitiously diverse age group

and the result was these two guys turning around and inventing girlboss x malewife in 2002

[myothertardisisonthemun]

I sent a letter today - something I haven’t done for years

It’s full of plastic bread clips

It’s for Science

[myothertardisisonthemun]

At the risk of loosing some mystery, I think I should add some context:

There’s this website-I mean, scientific organization called the Holotypic Occlupanid Reasurch Group.

They are a group of abiologists who study and classify Bread clips.

I found a species that has not yet been described:

Yay for citizen science 👍

[numberlover1729]

wtf?

[myothertardisisonthemun]

Update:

[meckamecha]

Apparently HORG is widely appreciated by pediatricians since knowing exactly what kind of Occlupanid a child may have swallowed makes removing it safely much easier

[the-real-numbers-deactivated202]

IIRC this is actually part of the reason HORG was started. A man swallowed a breadclip and the clip closed around part of his tissue linings (in his intestines I think?). The specific shape and flexibility of the clip were significant determining factors in the removal process, as some bread clips have spikes and prongs that would have made extraction more complicated. They started the taxonomy so they could work out extraction techniques for each type.

[wyndryga]

are you fucking kidding me occlu like oculus or close and panid like bread. its a fancy word for breadcloser

[glupbleepo]

happy very specific archive thursday, everyone

[quonunc]

The number of people going "but now I want to protect the children and I'm tired of reading fiction where the children and teens have to do everything and the adults are useless!!" honey i am dragging you out of the YA section. There is an entire floor of the library dedicated to adult fiction. I think you should try it, you might like it.

Seriously though then stop!! Picking up!! Children's and YA books! Nobody is forcing you! You can go read a nice adults book about child soldiers being rescued by responsible adults and feel good about yourself!

And on that topic, if they're "child soldiers" then it's adult fiction. Child soldiers are not child soldiers in children's fiction. They're just the normal protagonists.

[edgar-allan-possum]

People on this website are like "adult fiction is all about men cheating on their wives" and no! It is not! Pick up a fantasy or sci-fi novel or a spy thriller or something!

[the-garbage-void-deactivated202]

Everytime I see a "Why don't stories with child protagonists talk about The Trauma :(" posts I lose a year from my lifespan.

Children's stories are gonna have children as heroes for the same reason why musicals have singing and dancing in them. If you don't understand why that is or don't enjoy that, than that's a sign you need to find a different story to read. There are stories with grown adults as The Chosen One. Please read one of those instead of complaining when children's literature is escapism for children.

[legend5rings]

Via @supreme-leader-stoat

[googledocsdyke]

remember when you were 10 and you would hang out with your friends in order to Look At The Computer together like you went to their house and experienced the information superhighway together. and then leave

[mostlybats-partiallyrats]

How fucking old are you people?

[googledocsdyke]

normal amount

[kunou78]

You see, there used to be a time (not all that long ago) when being offline was the default. And going online was the rare and wonderful thing that we (briefly) enjoyed.

It even came with happy modem noises.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

They weren't happy noises.

[mistakenot4892]

They were polite and reasonable noises! The sound of protocol being followed! Negotiation and compromise!

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

The box would scream

[serbian-tomo-azumanga]

[paeonia-green]

Gone.

[kcrossvine-art]

in me hole beep beep

[catgirl-catboy]

No, kids should not have unsupervised acess to the internet.   Yes, I got that and it was the best thing that ever happened to me.    Its a paradox.

[fiovske]

[lets-steal-an-archive]

This may seem like an exaggeration, the idea that one can learn how to properly think like a criminal by learning how crime stories work. On a personal note, let me tell a story from the Leverage writer’s room.

Apollo Robbins (http://www.istealstuff.com/) runs a crew of professional thieves who consult for law enforcement. He was also our criminal consultant on Leverage. Every few weeks he would visit the writer’s room to advise on the scripts and keep us up to date about new cons and the latest in criminal technology.

One day during the third season he sat in with the writers while we broke a story. We posted the details of a real-life white collar criminal up on the room’s whiteboard, using him as the basis for our Mark. We looked at his weaknesses, how he moved his money, what his hobbies were. Once we were happy with that element of the story we added a Vault to the mix, one that used an interesting new alarm technology we’d researched. We then spent about an hour figuring out how to circumvent that alarm. We even sketched out a map of the imaginary building so we could keep track of our Crew’s movements during the Job.

“Well, I’m done here,” Apollo muttered. Noting our confusion, he pointed at the board and index cards cluttering the wall. “This is exactly how real Crews plan these things. This writer’s room is now a fully functioning criminal gang. You could be thieves.”

Of course writing television pays better than crime (usually), with far less chance of being arrested (usually), so we all managed to resist the temptation. But aside from the day a US Attorney asked us to change a plot because we’d created a scam that was a little too foolproof, or when a Homeland Security Agent admitted they were spooked by a security hole we’d exploited in our season finale, it was certainly one of the proudest moments I had on the show.

Source: "CrimeWorld" by John Rogers in Fate Worlds Volume Two: Worlds in Shadow. Evil Hat Productions, 2013: 20.

[nothinglikeweplanned]

[elegyforadream]