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Liverpool and England goalkeeper Siobhan Chamberlain had some enthuastiac visitors at her house over the past few days.
Countries That Once Banned Women’s Football
There are many reasons why women’s football today is not at the quality and standard that it could or should be at. Many people think that women’s football has recently started increasing in popularity, but little do they know that it was banned in a lot of countries (for sexist and political reasons) at times in which it was flourishing (and in some cases it was even more popular than men’s football). The deliberate suppression of women’s football that occurred in the past still has lasting impacts on the game today, but it also makes the successes of female footballers that much more important and inspirational.
Here are some of the countries which banned women’s football:
Brazil - 1941-1981
England - 1921-1971
France - 1932 - 1975
Germany - 1955-1970
Scotland - 1921-1974
Spain - 1930s-1975
It’s easy to get overwhelmed with how much more work needs to be done to grow the women’s game, but sometimes we need to take a step back and realize how far we’ve come. Let this be an appreciation post to all the female footballers who endured (and are still enduring) discrimination for simply being female and playing a sport.
For most people they are athletes, for me, they are superheroes.
HERE’S THE THING THOUGH
I used to work for a call center and I was doing a political survey and I called this number that was randomly generated for me and the way our system worked was voice-activated so when the other person said hello you’d get connected to them, so I just launch right into my “Harvard University and NPR blah blah blah” thing and then there’s this long pause and I think the person’s hung up even though I didn’t hear a click
And then I hear “you shouldn’t be able to call this number.”
So I apologize and go into the preset spiel about because we aren’t selling anything, etc. etc. and the answer I get is
“No, I know that. What I mean is that it should be impossible for you to call this number, and I need to know how you got it.”
I explain that it’s randomly generated and I’m very sorry for bothering him, and go to hang up. And before I can click terminate, I hear:
“Ma’am, this is a matter of national security.”
I accidentally called the director of the FBI.
My job got investigated because a computer randomly spit out a number to the Pentagon.
This is my new favourite story.
When I was in college I got a job working for a company that manages major air-travel data. It was a temp gig working their out of date system while they moved over to a new one, since my knowing MS Dos apparently made me qualified.
There was no MS Dos involved. Instead, there was a proprietary type-based OS and an actually-uses-transistors refrigerator-sized computer with switches I had to trip at certain times during the night as I watched the data flow from six pm to six AM on Fridays and weekends. If things got stuck, I reset the server.
The company handled everything from low-end data (hotel and car reservations) to flight plans and tower information. I was weighed every time I came in to make sure it was me. Areas of the building had retina scanners on doors.
During training. they took us through all the procedures. Including the procedures for the red phone. There was, literally, a red phone on the shelf above my desk. “This is a holdover from the cold war.” They said. “It isn’t going to come up, but here’s the deal. In case of nuclear war or other nation-wide disaster, the phone will ring. Pick up the phone, state your name and station, and await instructions. Do whatever you are told.”
So my third night there, it’s around 2am and there’s a ringing sound.
I look up, slowly. The Red phone is ringing.
So I reach out, I pick up the phone. I give my name and station number. And I hear every station head in the building do the exact same. One after another, voices giving names and numbers. Then silence for the space of two breaths. Silence broken by…
“Uh… Is Shantavia there?”
It turns out that every toll free, 1-900 or priority number has a corresponding local number that it routs to at its actual destination. Some poor teenage girl was trying to dial a friend of hers, mixed up the numbers, and got the atomic attack alert line for a major air-travel corporation’s command center in the mid-west United States.
There’s another pause, and the guys over in the main data room are cracking up. The overnight site head is saying “I think you have the wrong number, ma’am.” and I’m standing there having faced the specter of nuclear annihilation before I was old enough to legally drink.
The red phone never rang again while I was there, so the people doing my training were only slightly wrong in their estimation of how often the doomsday phone would ring.
Every time I try to find this story, I end up having to search google with a variety of terms that I’m sure have gotten me flagged by some watchlist, so I’m reblogging it again where I swear I’ve reblogged it before.
But none of these stories even come close to the best one of them all; a wrong number is how the NORAD Santa Tracker got started.
Seriously, this is legit.
In December 1955, Sears decided to run a Santa hotline. Here’s the ad they posted.
Only problem is, they misprinted the number. And the number they printed? It went straight through to fucking NORAD. This was in the middle of the Cold War, when early warning radar was the only thing keeping nuclear annihilation at bay. NORAD was the front line.
And it wasn’t just any number at NORAD. Oh no no no.
Terri remembers her dad had two phones on his desk, including a red one. “Only a four-star general at the Pentagon and my dad had the number,” she says.
“This was the ‘50s, this was the Cold War, and he would have been the first one to know if there was an attack on the United States,” Rick says.
The red phone rang one day in December 1955, and Shoup answered it, Pam says. “And then there was a small voice that just asked, ‘Is this Santa Claus?’ ”
His children remember Shoup as straight-laced and disciplined, and he was annoyed and upset by the call and thought it was a joke — but then, Terri says, the little voice started crying.
“And Dad realized that it wasn’t a joke,” her sister says. “So he talked to him, ho-ho-ho’d and asked if he had been a good boy and, ‘May I talk to your mother?’ And the mother got on and said, ‘You haven’t seen the paper yet? There’s a phone number to call Santa. It’s in the Sears ad.’ Dad looked it up, and there it was, his red phone number. And they had children calling one after another, so he put a couple of airmen on the phones to act like Santa Claus.”
“It got to be a big joke at the command center. You know, ‘The old man’s really flipped his lid this time. We’re answering Santa calls,’ ” Terri says.
And then, it got better.
“The airmen had this big glass board with the United States on it and Canada, and when airplanes would come in they would track them,” Pam says.
“And Christmas Eve of 1955, when Dad walked in, there was a drawing of a sleigh with eight reindeer coming over the North Pole,” Rick says.
“Dad said, ‘What is that?’ They say, ‘Colonel, we’re sorry. We were just making a joke. Do you want us to take that down?’ Dad looked at it for a while, and next thing you know, Dad had called the radio station and had said, ‘This is the commander at the Combat Alert Center, and we have an unidentified flying object. Why, it looks like a sleigh.’ Well, the radio stations would call him like every hour and say, ‘Where’s Santa now?’ ” Terri says.
For real.
“And later in life he got letters from all over the world, people saying, ‘Thank you, Colonel,’ for having, you know, this sense of humor. And in his 90s, he would carry those letters around with him in a briefcase that had a lock on it like it was top-secret information,” she says. “You know, he was an important guy, but this is the thing he’s known for.”
“Yeah,” Rick [his son] says, “it’s probably the thing he was proudest of, too.”
So yeah. I think that might be the best wrong number of all time.
Source: http://www.npr.org/2014/12/19/371647099/norads-santa-tracker-began-with-a-typo-and-a-good-sport
OH MY GOD I LOVE THIS.
I’ve seen the first post a bunch of times, but never the story of How The Santa Tracker Started.
You can’t understand just how much I love this
This is so wholesome
It just got better and better.
I received a spam call in an elevator, meaning that the emergency phone in the elevator meant for riders to call OUT for help received a call from a telemarketer. No one else in the elevator knew what to do as we listened to the schpiel the person was giving. Once they paused, I said the only thing I could say:
“Ma’am. This is an elevator.”
random facts that live in my head rent free and help me sleep better at night
the 2015 women’s world cup had a higher top speed than the 2010 and 2018 men’s world cups (Krieger 34.7 km/h vs. Hernandez 32.15 km/h and Ronaldo/Rebic 34 km/h)
the 2019 uswnt home kit is the best selling jersey (men’s or women’s) ever on nike.com within a single season
the 1999 women’s world cup final had an attendance of 90,185 while the 2018 men’s world cup final had a live audience of 78,011
Christiane Endler had the most sponsors (11) of any player in France 2019 and surpassed players like Lionel Messi (6), Luis Suarez (6), and James Rodriguez (5) in Russia 2018
there are currently seven women (Sinclair, Wambach, Hamm, Lilly, Prinz, Lloyd, and Fleeting) who have more international goals than Ali Daei who is the top international male scorer
Kristine Lilly is the all-time highest international capped player with 354 caps while Christine Sinclair is currently the most capped active player with 296 caps
Formiga is the oldest goal scorer in champions league history (male or female) at 41 years old
male footballers stay down for 30 more seconds on average after a foul compared to female footballers
Zeudi&Helena
Guys….GET ON THAT SHIP ASAP🔥❤️🏳️🌈
It’s on the italian Big Brother called „Grande Fratello“. The girls are Zeudi (23-the dark hair one) and Helena (34-the curly hair one). They are starting a beautiful relationship and there is a lot of queer drama already ;-). You can watch a lot of clips on X and tiktok. Also you can watch the show live, when you live in italy. They shared a few kisses already and they are super sweet to each other :-)! Zeudi unfortunately is nominated, so we need to vote for her not to leave the show next monday :-(.
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You actually do need noble lineage to rightfully rule, but since lineage doesn’t dilute, and given the historic sexual tendencies of people in power wrt their servants, eventually noble lineage spread wide enough that everyone had it and that’s why democracy happened.
nice *adds to list of theories that irritate everybody*
Im gonna shill for Marie Kondo again but this is why I find her books (yes, books, the TV show is fun but ultimately misses a lot of the core ideas) so good.
A lot of home org advice fully misses this aspect. Kondo not only acknowledges it, but leans into it. And ultimately this helps motivste me to keep my space tidy - it's really hard to me to keep on the nebulous goal of self-care, but much easier to get up and put things away if I envision my salt and pepper grinders as like, retail workers who are now standing in an empty shop (my dining table) and just wanna go home (the spice rack where they live).
Normie tidying process: that heater should be put away for summer! I mean, I'm not gonna need it
Me: well it's just chilling and also I can't be arsed.
Kondo: that heater has done a good job keeping you warm over winter and now it should get to go have a rest in the cupboard
Me: !! Sabbatical for my heater!! Thank you for your service sir and have a very nice break!