Like a Great Dane

A taco loving texpat trying to make the best of things. Biochemistry Grad student in the East Bay. lvl 27.

[queer-as-city-folk]

Reblog to open a rail line from your blog to the person you reblogged this from

[fearthefuzzybear]

our beautiful rail line... (so far)

[antisocial-possum-deactivated20]

I love this site

[the-thing-in-the-dark-deactivat]

like a quarter of the railway

[histrionicscribbler]

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[apolladay]

Saw that poll about long car rides and USAmericans and on behalf of them and also Canadians, Australians, Russians, and anyone else from a country you can't drive through in less than 24 hours...

*Answers can be driving OR as a passenger OR both (i.e. taking turns driving), whichever is easier for you. The point is, you're sitting in a car.

**Assume all times CAN include short rest stops / stretch-your-leg breaks but are otherwise "straight through" to your destination (i.e. no parking for sleep).

How long of a car ride can you tolerate (big country edition)?

Can't. At all. Cannot any car travel.

1 - 30 minutes

30 min - 1 hour

2 hours

3 hours

4 hours

5 or 6 hours

7 or 8 hours

8 - 12 hours

12+ hours

literally a professional driver (truck/taxi/etc)

nuance / bald / vanilla extract

Voting ended onOct 25, 2024

[redlipstickresurrected]

Léo Forest Leo Forest (b. 1985, based Paris, France) - Chat, 2023, Drawings: Pencil, Charcoal, Pastel on Paper

[audryt]

This is the most perfect depicition of a cat debate I've ever seen.

[beggars-opera]

Millennials who survived early 2000s internet animation, which of these quotes is most seared into your subconscious

Come to Kenya, we've got lions!

I like it when the red water comes out...

But I am Le Tired. Well, have a nap, ZEN FIRE ZE MISSILES

I can count all the way to schfifty-five!

Dee di dee da diddy do do, dee da diddy do

Badger badger badger badger MUSHROOM MUSHROOM

MY SPOON IS TOO BIG.

We're going to Candy Mountain, Charlie!

Fuzzy llama, funny llama, llama, llama, duck

PEANUT BUTTER JELLY WITH A BASEBALL BAT

Other (put in tags)

Results/I am Gen Z/Alpha and what is this gibberish

Voting ended onApr 25, 2024

[pitafish]

I'm gonna link to the animations in case y'all either don't remember or have never heard of some of these.

A quick note: these were made in the 2000s. Comedy is subjective, there's some strong examples of dark and/or "lolz teh random" humor in these. Maybe some cultural blindness, too. That said, enjoy a time capsule of stuff made before/during the birth of Youtube, now hosted on Youtube.

Kenya

Salad Fingers, episode 2

End of Ze World

Schfifty Five

The Hamster Dance

Badgers

"Rejected" by Don Hertzfeldt

Charlie the Unicorn

The Llama Song

Peanut Butter Jelly Time

[seagull-yuri]

[likeagreatdane]

Posting this here since I thrive on external validation and this is a surprise gift so I can't post it anywhere else.

[likeagreatdane]

Lab rant below

Our lab manager approaches all lab equipment by saying "well it works perfectly fine for me when I use it in this particular way" when any trainee suggests something needs to be replaced or serviced and gaaaahhhhh - if you have to use a bunch of tricks to get it to work it is not "perfectly fine"

[blackpearlblast]

[ID: drawings of a golem animated by a palestinian flag painted on its forehead. it is seen: holding out its arms protectively in front of a crowd of children, the children also hold each other supportively; catching an air strike missile from the air and throwing it away or crushing it in its fist; turning its back so that a child can warm her hands by the earth oven built into its back, food in a pot is cooking on the fire and a boy holds a cup of steaming tea to his face and enjoys the aroma; clearing away rubble so a man can help up his wife who was buried underneath, she is clutching a baby to her chest; stooping down to look at a kitten a young boy is holding up to show it; and dissolving small flakes of clay from its finger into a glass of water, purifying it. end ID]

@fairuzfan asked people to create and share art for the strike. i wrote an artist statement and then set about trying to draw what i envisioned. artist statement below.

This golem is a protector that I wish I could gift to the children and adults in Gaza. The flag on its forehead is to show that love for the Palestinian people is an animating force for people fighting for a free Palestine all over the world, especially for those in Palestine who are trying to free themselves and their people. Love is the motivation for the call for a free Palestine, not hatred like people try to claim. It is very strong and fast and can catch air strikes out of midair and crush them to dust or throw them back in the direction they came from. It can lift all the rubble of a collapsed building very quickly so nobody can get trapped underneath. It has an earth oven in its back with an ever-burning flame that people can use to warm themselves and cook food and heat water to use to bathe themselves or make tea. Pieces of its clay can be crumbled up and mixed into water to make even the most brackish and unclean water pure and safe to drink.

The golem is always a bit of a tragic figure so I don't imagine it staying around forever once Palestine is free and it is no longer needed. I think it would use its great strength to help rebuild the destroyed houses, churches, schools, universities, hospitals, and mosques and then dive into the Jordan river and dissolve. It would clean the river of all pollution and make the water splash up over all the newly replanted fruit trees, causing them to grow big and strong. Its love for Palestine and its people can be tasted in the fruit they grow for generations.

I choose a specifically Jewish icon of protection because of how it feels to witness such horrors done in the supposed name of Judaism and the Jewish people. For many anti-zionist Jews, we feel like we are acting directly within the teachings of our stories and communities by opposing this genocide. It is difficult to understand how the very people and institutions who taught us these values now fight against them so fiercely. While obviously I would still oppose Israel were I not Jewish, the way I oppose Israel is directly informed by my Jewishness. I hope that someday, somehow, Judaism can bring as much joy and support to the Palestinian people as it has brought grief and destruction. That Jewish symbols used in the name of love and justice will bear more significance than the ones used in shows of hatred. Knowing the depth of the harm caused, I do not know if this is possible. But this artwork and everything I have dedicated myself to these past few months and continue to dedicate myself to in the future is born from this hope. I love you. Thank you for being on this planet with me. From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free! And it will be beautiful.

[likeagreatdane]

My therapist: It's really awesome that your grad school work is so fulfilling and you're so passionate about it - so many people question if they're doing the right thing in grad school....

Me: *is very grateful I love the science I do*

Also Me: *internally freaks out that science is meaningless while the world burns*

Also also me: Yeah, it's so great! (*Aaaaaahhhhhhhh*)

[likeagreatdane]

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhh.

[likeagreatdane]

Can we please stop lighting TV shows like I am able to watch them in a movie theater!!!

We have 3 southern facing windows and one western facing window and unfortunately the only wall the makes sense to put the TV against is the eastern one. I cannot watch anything but like sports (which yay women's soccer) on weekend afternoons.

[likeagreatdane]

I know I'm no longer in my early 20s because I planned and took a 3 hrs nap before getting up instead of staying up all night for USA v Sweden...

[likeagreatdane]

This evening the problem roommate started the dishwasher without asking anyone else this evening about 30 minutes before peak energy hours end. When we asked her and were like, hey we should really wait till 9 to start the dishwasher to save money on electricity, all she said was "well ot really needed to be run"

Like yes, it did, but like it can wait 30 minutes.

[likeagreatdane]

Roommate: *working on thesis in common space*

Me: *puts on sports on very low volume in common space*

Me: Is this going to distract you?

Roommate: Nope!

Worked great 10/10 situation

VS

Me: *working on thesis in common space*

Roommate: *puts on intense action movie on full volume*

Roommate: This is okay, right?

Me: Sure...

Terrible 0/10 situation

[themakeupbrush]

Lizzo at the 2022 Met Gala

[likeagreatdane]

Can't decide what's worse:

A) the social class that is invited to/attend the Met Gala being so out of touch with their place in the world that they miss the entire point of Gilded Glamour. Either flaunt the excessive wealth you have or at least pull style elements from the referenced era.

B) having the theme be Gilded Glamour at a time where the ruling class has had a massive explosion of wealth at the expensive of the working class. Like do they not see how ridiculous it is to have such a flashy and risky event in the midst of a devastating pandemic and having the theme reflect an era that was also just terrible for those not in power?