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Hiya, I'm Ash. he/they. This is mostly random trash. Please enjoy. - Icon by @lizardmon - Header by @arraydia

[just-a-nowhere-giirl]

A series of greatest hits from possibly one of my favorite parody accounts on anything ever.

[valtsv]

I love your "they ring the same bells for weddings and funerals" tag bc I work as a bell-ringer at one of the few churches in my city where you still have to ring the bell manually. and we do ring the same bell whether it's a wedding or a funeral! but ☝️ we also ring it if the local sports team wins at sports (the secret third thing that is neither a wedding nor a funeral)

the three universal human experiences: love, death, and sports

[short-for-melancholy]

[wheelie-sick]

link

[ayronaught]

Transcript

Everyone's talking about Artemis II, the first humans to travel to the moon in 50 years

Historic, right? BUT nobody's talking about the Deaf people who made it possible.

In the late 1950's, NASA had a problem.

They needed to understand what weightlessness did to the human body but every test subject kept getting violently motion sick

NASA needed to figure out FAST during the space race!

So, they went to Gallaudet University. They recruited 11 Deaf people.

Because a number of Deaf people had lost their hearing to spinal meningitis as children which also damaged their vestibular system.

Their inner ears couldn't be overwhelmed. They were immune to motion sickness.

NASA put them in centrifuges. Put them on zero gravity flights. A room for 12 straight days.

(All caps) It rotated the entire time.

One experiment on a ferry in choppy Nova Scotia waters, the researchers got so seasick they had to cancel it. The Gallaudet Eleven? They were playing cards.

Their bodies gave NASA the data and research it needed to send humans into space.

No Gallaudet Eleven? No Mercury. No Apollo. No Artemis II.

They stood on the shoulders of 11 Deaf people most people have never heard of.

Now you know!

[headpainmigraine]

@ayronaught is a gem in the wasteland, thank you providing transcript! 💐

[daforged]

i do like when someone gets introduced to data and their first response is “haha wow this is the coolest day of my life”

[daforged]

less cool when said someone almost dies horribly 5 minutes later but you can’t have everything

[strawberry-crocodile]

also while we're here lancer is an autistic fat kid who, before susie, everyone hated, and i think thats very very deliberate. lancer is explicitly based on porky from mother, who is himself based on the "unlikeable fat boy with rich but implicitly abusive father" trope that peaked in american movies in the 80s and 90s. idk, i think its just really sweet of toby to look at this trope, a reflection of real children who are for real ostracized and abused, and go "but what if someone liked him and he had the freedom and friends to be a silly little guy"

[nerdpiggy]

i completely understand & agree with the backlash against students using chatgpt to get degrees but some of you are out here saying "getting a degree in xyz means pulling multiple consecutive all-nighters and writing essays through debilitating migraines and having severe back pain from constantly studying at your desk and chugging energy drinks until you get a kidney stone and waking up wishing you were dead every day, and that's just part of the natural process of learning!!!" and like. umm. i don't think that any of us should have had to endure that either. like maybe the solution for stopping students from using anti-learning software depends on college institutions making the process of learning actually sustainable on the human body & mind rather than a grueling health-destroying soul-crushing endeavor

[dbzyuri]

[wastefulreverie]

writing fanfiction is wild because sometimes you wonder if you character can tread water with their hands and feet tied for a one-off joke and learn that some guy for like 50 years made a technique called drownproofing a graduation requirement for georgia tech from 1936 to 1988 where you indefinitely keep your lung capacity as full as possible to float without much physical exertion

Once they had mastered the Drownproofing technique, students learned to stay afloat with their wrists and ankles bound, swim 50 yards (46 m) underwater, and retrieve diving rings from the bottom of the pool using their teeth.

what the fuck

[shencomix]

[a-wizard]

What do you mean you can’t find a job? Have you looked on Indeed? What about Linkedin? You should try Upwork. How about Rise? Have you tried Jobera? Take a look on Dribbble. You GOTTA be on Jooble, dude. Get on Jooble. Jooble has it for you.

[jackabbot]

[wiigiwaamcore]

Wait I have a real version of this

THOSE ARE ALL REAL WEBSITES

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[bundibird]

If i had the money, I would start a business called Box of Rocks. And it would be all electrical appliances that are, as it says on the company logo, as dumb as a box of Rocks.

No wifi or bluetooth connections. No touch screens. No predictive behaviours. No account log in. No fancy bullshit nonsense.

A fridge that does nothing but keep your food cool. A washing machine that washes clothes, the fucking end. And actually on the washing machine note: they would all have optional two-tap ports, so you CAN use the machine to heat the water if you need to, but you dont HAVE to, if youre in a home that has a massive hot water tank or whatever. AND, it would have fast cycles. None of this two hour minimum bullshit. Fuck outta here with that nonsense. 20 minute half-sized fast loads, 45 minute full sized regular loads, and a two hour option for those of you who like things slow or wanna give your towels an extra good long wash or whatever.

Anyway moving on. Dumb clothes dryers that just dry things, at a manually set array of temperatures, not an auto-temp chosen by the machine based on the detected type of fabric or size of the load. Dumb toasters. But QUALITY. None of this "its just fifteen bucks but it will last five minutes" shit. Dumb TVs. With various different ports, while we're at it. You want a security camera, but want full control of who accesses the recordings? Done. Dumb elevators, that go up and down at the press of a button and have no complex bullshit that takes out the whole lift whenever it experiences an internet outage.

DUMB CARS. WITH NO TOUCH SCREENS OR TRACKING TECH OR OTHER BULLSHIT.

GIVE ME MY APPLIANCES AS DUMB AS A BOX OF ROCKS. I DONT WANT THEM MAKING DECISIONS FOR ME. I DON'T WANT THEM "HELPING" ME. I DONT WANT TWO THIRDS OF THE BULLSHIT THATS IN THEM THESE DAYS.

I tried to buy a washing machine recently. They were ALL SOME DEGREE OF FUCKING "SMART." And yeah you can simply opt to not set it up, which is what i ended up doing, but it still prompts me even now to "complete set up?" AND it pushed the overall price of washing machines up because even though I dont plan to USE any of their STUPID smart tech, it was still included in the model! So it costs more! Because its "smart"!

Well i dont WANT IT TO BE SMART. I WANT IT TO BE DUMB. I WANT MANUALLY CHOSEN SETTINGS. I WANT BUTTONS AND KNOBS. I WANT IT TO BE INERT WHEN NOT IN USE. I WANT IT STUPID BUT FUNCTIONAL. THIS CANNOT BE A NICHE MARKET. GIVE ME STUPID APPLIANCES.

[chillyfeetsteak]

from this article, which is well worth the read, if only for the fun of seeing zuck get dunked on

[magnoliamyrrh]

the year is 2035. the new beauty standard is for women to cut their ears off, as ears are a masculine trait which make the face look too big and hearing isnt necessary as it doesnt align with being demure. evil feminists say perhaps this is unnecessary and ears are natural. women are agressively proclaiming they are cutting their ears off due to sensory issues

[plasticterrarium]

[patronsaintofweepingmothers]

2009

[doyoulovethewayzeylily]

[dragongirlsnout]

2000-2002 Saturn SL1