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My main Tumblr-blog is mikusagi.tumblr.com I created this one because I sometimes feel the urge to reblog and comment posts but I don't want to spam my main blog. If you want to talk to me, feel free to either use the Ask (you can be anonymous) or e-mail me (Mikusagi @ gmail o com ). Or contact me somewhere else, my username is Mikusagi pretty much everywhere.

[draconym]

i would rather see the information for an event handwritten in sharpie on a paper towel than see another AI generated flyer

[aj-living-life]

Saving this post to show my boss who I told the AI flier makes us look lazy and ignorant, and offered to hand draw one. She still printed tons of ai fliers and I'm tempted to make a better one just because it annoys me so much.

[aj-living-life]

Fun update: event was canceled because literally nobody rsvp'd to the AI flier.

[trynot-moved]

MISS CONGENIALITY (2000) dir. Donald Petrie

[caminholonge]

Happy Light Jacket Day!

[lodxolconxbsseub]

I'm so glad I came here today!

[lodxolconxbsseub]

I think my name "sounds weird in English"

When I write a message in English (which is not my first language, nor do I live in a country where it is the official language) and sign with my name, I think it sounds weird EVEN THOUGH I'M PRONOUNCING IT THE SAME IN MY HEAD AS I WOULD WITH MY NORMAL LANGUAGE

it's just, my name is supposed to be pronounced after other kinds of words, and not to be combined with English.

Sincerely, [REDACTED]

[michaelnordeman]

Eurasian Red Squirrel/ekorre. Värmland, Sweden (January 11, 2025).

[thecollectibles]

Art by Lena Rivo

[flamingopudd]

Oh, wait I have Tumblir

Loved the scene, had to draw it

[lodxolconxbsseub]

I keep googling for The Sims 4 requirements but EA and all forum posts / blog posts says 25 GB free space on the hard drive still, when it takes almost 100 GB on mine and I only have one kit installed! For every update the game gets larger and larger, and I'm trying to figure out what kind of computer I need to have a few packs.

I have no CC and like 4 game files.

[thefishfiend]

These are large African Catfish. Reason there is large plastic sheet over them? Because they learnt to bump the tank and knock food into the water. Now, if they hear/smell food, they will pop their heads up like so.

[marinebiologyshitposts]

literally a kind of dogys

[lodxolconxbsseub]

This is the kind of thing that would haunt my nightmares as a child.

[notlikingbestgirl]

Out of Touch

[hustlerose]

Out of Touch Thursday

[arbyscurlyfries666-deactivated2]

OUT OF TOUCH THURSDAY

[snuv]

but im out of my head when you’re not around…

[morkitten]

[fandom]

Happy Out of Touch Thursday the 20th to all who celebrate!

[penny-anna]

I just want to say, if you've ever worked a low-level office job and thought 'wow this is piss-easy', that's not a sign that the work you were doing is objectively easier than other types of work, it's a sign that you were good at it.

by which I don't mean 'stop de-valuing office work' bcos that's not a real problem, no-one is doing that, I just feel like a lot of young people aren't aware that e.g. being able to type fast and accurately, open up a computer program you've never used before and figure it out unaided, are marketable skills, not things that 'everyone' knows how to do.

I've worked in 'easy' office jobs for 6 years now and believe me, some people are bad at them & do not find them easy.

[penny-anna]

@takethewatch YES! It's not 'dont devalue office work,' it's 'dont devalue your own skills!'

yes this!! thank u!

[amethystineprose]

In a job-hunting group I was in once, one woman talked about how, when the power had gone out, she and some other staff members carried all the vital paperwork and some chairs and tables down several flights of stairs to the sidewalk out front (where there was daylight to work by) and processed a bunch of clients’ needs, at least temporarily, and rescheduled appointments and stuff so that when the power came back up everything was still fairly organized and no clients were just turned away. And we all said “That’s the kind of thing you need to include in your resume.” And she said, “But anyone can do that; that’s not anything special.” And we’re all staring at her, going, “No, they can’t. Yes, it is.”

That thing you know you did/do really well? It’s probably special.

[rose-in-a-fisted-glove]

No job is an unskilled job.

Being good at an office job takes skills. Real skills. It's just that, especially if you're of a certain age, you learned some of these skills at school already.

Figuring out software, maintaining complex directories, customer service, balancing multiple tasks, interpreting policies, and so on are all skills.

And some people are Very Bad at these skills. There's a trainee right now at my office who might not make it through her training period because she doesn't have these skills.

[traegorn]

I find my job super easy. Every person I've ever tried to explain large parts of it to just glazes over when I explain certain processes that I can do in my sleep (and that's not a me being bad at explaining stuff -- one of the many things I'm responsible for is literally explaining THEIR processes to them, and I'm told I'm very good at that bit).

I've spent a lot of my career getting dragged in to meetings to fix problems that I thought had easy solutions... but, like, no one else saw the solution.

And I also know what my boss has to do, and I do not want his job.

Don't devalue things you think of as easy at work, because chances are they ain't.

[lucifer-is-a-bag-of-dicks]

when I first got my current admin job I explained to my boss that I need things written down, I need hardcopies of stuff because I have an awful memory and I find it easier to keep track of things by noting it all down, otherwise I just get confused and overwhelmed

and he told me 'I'm the opposite, I keep everything in my head, I've always had a good memory so I'm not good at writing stuff down which is a problem when I have to communicate things to other people, that's why I need you, you rely on doing things that way so you're better at it than I am, I can't do what you do'

sometimes your greatest weakness can be your greatest strength, you just need to find an environment where it can flourish, nobody would have guessed I could be a stellar administration officer keeping a whole small company organised based on how fucking abysmal I was at waiting tables

[lodxolconxbsseub]

I've had jobs I thought was easy, but then when I was supposed to introduce someone new, I realize they weren't. I remembered how much instructions and how much help I had gotten when I was new, and even though I provided much more of this, the new employees still made large mistakes. And I had to accept that, maybe I'm just skilled?

[lodxolconxbsseub]

Did they make romance more difficult in The Sims 4?

Since Lovestruck came out, did they alter the romance difficulty? I don't have Lovestruck. I'm playing 100 baby challenge and my matriarch had already managed to get 15 donors, when all of suddenly dating is hard again. I remember it being difficult on her first date, but now her charisma is maxed, almost everything is maxed, and she gets the bar to like 18 % and then she says something "wrong" and it goes down to like 2 %

[viralfrog]

[lodxolconxbsseub]

The staff helping to lift the child, aww. Such a weird thing to see though (and also why didn't the parent just lift the child and put it on the floor on the other side?).

But so nice to see that they just let the animal be!

[passionpeachy]

Idk if the company realizes it, but thank god they put Moomin back into the hands of a queer woman who can actually tell you what the moral of The Invisible Child is (and can probably make it even more painful)

[kuutamosonaatti]

Moomin 1.21 Snufkin Leaves Moominvalley

[swedishpod101]

Renting an Apartment in Sweden 🏠 PS: Learn Swedish with the best FREE online resources, just click here https://www.swedishpod101.com/?src=tumblr_infographic_appartment_1_100725

[lodxolconxbsseub]

When does anyone use "byrå" these days? Feels like something you'd read in Dennis the Menace, like "oh she worked at the byrå", not something you'd actually use in real life.

[rxttenfish]

honestly we should really remake that whole "you're doing multiple rows of teeth Extremely Noticeably Wrong" post that we made once and got deleted (it was technically a reblog of someone else's post and it must've been deleted). it's still happening and it's still so prominent every time it happens.

[rxttenfish]

okay this has annoyed me enough that i'm making this full post again

so, basic physics.

if you are exerting force down onto an object, then it is spread out along the contacting surface area. this is how a knife or a sword works — you are putting force down onto a long, thin line, and thus, all that force is focused down onto that long, thin line. if you have something like, say, a bat or a club, then you are putting that force down along the rounder and wider edge of that object, making it a blunt force object, yeah?

the same applies if you have multiple edges. for instance, this is how a bed of nails works. sure, if you step on a single nail, then all of your weight is pushing down onto that point. but, if you lay on many nails, maybe even fairly close together, then each one takes your weight equally, and they don't have that same ability to puncture the skin. you're putting the same force down onto multiple points, but even though there's space between the surface of each point, that force is getting divided between all of them like it's all just one surface.

this is pretty bad if we're talking about weapons. for example, if you put too many nails into a spiked bat, then you may as well have basically added none. it might inflict some scrapes and surface wounds, but you won't do any more damage than the bat itself would do.

here's a pretty good video for a demonstration, and you can see how, by spreading out that force exerted, you can even restrict your own ability to pierce.

(behold, an image that looks like someone being injured, but, by definition, is someone showing how uninjured they are)

the same applies for teeth.

if you have multiple rows of teeth, and you exert force down onto them to bite, that force is being spread out and divided over every point of every tooth.

this is not a very good setup if, say, you are a macropredator trying to eat large prey. you require teeth that can shear into and cut flesh, even break bone, and adding additional rows means that you no longer have a cutting edge through which to push through flesh or bone, but instead, many objects forming one larger surface to push through flesh or bone together, something which requires exponentially more force for much worse results, and is likely to instead end up breaking your own teeth.

think about knives for a moment. the reason a knife is good at cutting is because that force is being exerted down onto a very thin edge, making it hard to resist. knives get dull when they lose this thin edge, and have to have the thinness of that edge restored in order to regain cutting ability.

adding multiple points is, effectively, intentionally dulling this edge. to add a point of comparison, seeing multiple tooth rows in designs intended to have high bite force or ability to cut through flesh, is a lot like seeing overdesigned anime swords. animals have one, shearing edge to their teeth for the same reason that, on the surface, all real swords tend to look the same (with similar vast differences in the details).

"but!" you may say, "sharks have multiple rows of teeth! and they bite hard!"

which is where i point to how white sharks' (and other, similar macropredatory sharks') dentition actually works.

this is the lower jaw of a white shark. you can see that they do have multiple rows of teeth — but only the frontmost row is actually being used. you might see doubles, like in the front, but they occur when the shark is actively in the process of replacing that tooth with another (the same reason that humans might appear to have a double tooth, when a baby tooth is being lost and the adult replacement is coming up underneath). the other rows are pressed flat towards the back of the mouth, like a switchblade, ready to spring up and replace that outermost tooth.

although these sharks might have multiple rows of teeth, only one row is actually being used at any given time.

you can also see how this functions in another known bone-crusher, the spotted hyena. the teeth are very thick and massive, but each individual tooth still comes up to a point after the previous tooth's point, forming a singular shearing edge, the carnassial, that pushes down on bone in a singular, cutting edge.

so, what good are multiple rows of teeth? why do animals have them?

well, one, because they can operate more like barbed wire.

caecilians are one group of animals with well-developed multiple rows of teeth, and this is because they are primarily insectivores. they are very good at gripping onto soft bodied prey, much like barbed wire or burrs catching onto exposed flesh, and shredding it. these teeth would not survive contact with plentiful resistance, so mostly, they don't.

this is also why other species of sharks, like sand tiger sharks (or ragged tooth sharks), do have multiple rows of teeth — they are much more useful for holding onto slippery prey, like fish or cephalopods, and shredding flesh. these teeth are much thinner, so that they can fit more into the mouth, and each one has a longer profile than the nearly square frame of a white shark's tooth. they might not be hunting marine mammals, but this is quite handy as a generalist in the ocean.

alternatively, if multiple teeth are spreading out that force anyways and working as blunt force weapons, then you could lean into it. you could make your teeth massive and thick, to sustain such forces, but flatten them, and turn them into a crushing battery like these stingrays, better for cracking apart hard-shelled animals like crustaceans and mollusks. in our metaphor, this might be closer to a nutcracker, or a hydraulic press. not very useful at cutting flesh, but good at getting through objects that no one else can.

so, yes. please consider this at least a little, before i start thinking your cool monster design has teeth that don't work.

[a-book-of-creatures]

Omg manticores are fish-eaters :o

[papayajuan2019]

name one thing. you can't.