Steve McWeasel

[mrmcweasel]

the new Tumblr mobile update made it so all the posts have white backgrounds. why????

[whatevergreen]

They don't seem eager for a sip of contamination smoothie!

The UK government has just unbanned fracking while everyone's distracted by the royal circus

[kosmogrl]

[mrmcweasel]

bill murray is girls

[regexkind]

I've had it with guilt-free food. I want food that actively removes guilt. Indulgence food, not indulgent food. Eat a pizza and forget about your past remorse.

[drethelin]

the catholics have a cracker that does this 

[mrmcweasel]

I believe they call him the Pope

[brucesterling]

[joasakura]

What makes it additionally worst is the red banner says “German style”

[burnitalldowndarling]

…and isn’t that the flag of Spain?

[megpie71]

This is a triumph of globalism. 

[cursologist]

man ive always wanted to taste the english french toast in american flavor thats made in german style with the spanish flag on it thats made in china. such a local delicacy

[mrmcweasel]

is no one gonna talk about the pizza?

[montereybayaquarium]

While shark teeth tend to get a lot of attention, it’s the teeth on their skin that you should brush up on! Shark skin is covered in tiny, flat pointed scales that are called dermal denticles—which literally means skin teeth. If you look at a shark’s skin under a microscope, you’ll see that the scales are a series of overlapping teeth that result in a rough texture.

These pointed scales reduce drag on sharks as they swim, making them stealthy and fast as they cut through the water. This jagged texture also keeps fouling animals (like barnacles) from being able to settle on their bodies and slow them down, which is helpful when you’re a speedy top predator. 

TLDR: sharks are covered in tiny teeth and this makes them better swimmers. How’s that for a tantalizingly toothsome fact?

[mrmcweasel]

actually, they're smooth.

[deathishauntedbyhumans]

he’s a 10 but he can’t stop flipflopping btwn trauma-dumping and pointing a gun at you

[mrmcweasel]

I'm sorry, in what world is Jarod a 10?

[mrmcweasel]

I started playing Mass Effect last night, and they mentioned that a character suffers from migraines. Then today, I have a migraine. I don't know how to interpret this.

[mrmcweasel]

btw this was actually because I ate mold. I only put that together later.

[disbandandisperse]

We Should All Be More Afraid of Driving

Two terrifying car accidents taught me that, despite what we like to believe, we can’t control what happens on the road.

[disbandandisperse]

I really don't think we pay enough general attention to how wrong and unjust it is that we've set up most of this country so that if you don't own a car, your life will be extremely inconvenient- it will take you twice or three times as long to get places if there is a route at all.

And if you DO own a car, you have to shoulder the very heavy and very expensive burdens of car maintenance, repair, car payments, and car insurance. You shouldn't need to have to do all that, we need to make it much easier to live here and not own your own vehicle.

[mrmcweasel]

I was talking to my grandmother yesterday about this. She was saying that the subway that we had ridden on earlier had felt unsafe compared to driving. I found this chart that really puts in into perspective.

This omits walking, cycling, and motorcycles, which are all pretty dangerous. The thing is, they're only dangerous because of cars.

[inzaltsiknyam]

“how do walkable communities help disabled people” as if wheelchair users don’t need safe streets or autistic people don’t need well marked road crossings or people who CAN’T DRIVE, who are often disabled and poor, don’t use sidewalks and transit………………..

[inzaltsiknyam]

“oh yes my car centric city that kills hundreds of people annually is the height of accessibility because infrastructure for walking and rolling are ableist actually” 

[egirlbutternubs]

Screaming in pain covered in blood trying to put the fitted sheets on the bed

[mrmcweasel]

you know, Tumblr is a pretty apt name for this site. we really are just a bunch of different shit being shaken by some cannibalistic Pikachu man

[mrmcweasel]

you know, Tumblr is a pretty apt name for this site. we really are just a bunch of different shit being shaken by some cannibalistic Pikachu man

[bunjywunjy]

Any cursed biology fact about any specific species of wolves?

the north american red wolf is only slightly larger than a coyote and looks like a german shepard that’s wondering if it maybe left the oven on, but they are true wolves!

they’re also the rarest and most endangered canines in the world, with only about 35 adults left in the wild.

[mrmcweasel]

I've been to a sanctuary where they had some of these guys, they're pretty cool. Unfortunately their population has dropped to around 8 as of 2021.

[guerrillatech]

[mrmcweasel]

I knew we couldn't trust that fuckin' panda

[cop-disliker69]

That’s the other thing. Very few people charged with a crime are completely innocent of any crime, but a lot a lot a lot are definitely innocent of the crime they’re being charged of.

But “I’m guilty of theft and carrying a knife in my pocket, not armed robbery” is not something you can say to a jury or to a prosecutor and receive even the slightest grace.

“I, a small time drug dealer with no weapon, am guilty of briefly locking a drug buyer in the car with me (who had initially entered totally voluntarily) for 30 seconds while we argued angrily about the price of a dimebag of cocaine. I’m not guilty of robbery, premeditated kidnapping and ‘wrongful imprisonment’” is not a perfectly true story you’re allowed to tell anyone.

And we’re strongly pressured not to show any sympathy or fair-mindedness to these people because they were unashamed scofflaws who knowingly broke laws, and because they’ve probably (but not provably) committed a few other minor crimes. But I do! I do have sympathy for them! I don’t think it’s fair or reasonable for people who committed fifty-buck crimes to get five grand worth of punishment. And I don’t think it’s ever acceptable to nudge my uncertain estimation of someone in the direction of ‘guilty’ because there are stereotypes or demographics that indicate they’re statistically more likely than me or other comfortable relatively-privileged people to have committed other crimes.

For one just because in and of itself it’s disproportionate. But also because almost everyone has committed fifty-buck crimes in their life if you were to laser focus on every single moment of their life and interpret every thing they’ve ever done in the absolute least charitable light possible. Almost everyone has committed rudeness/roughness you could call assault & battery; or ‘forgotten’ to make payments for something in a way you could call financial fraud; or briefly possessed and given to friends just barely enough of a drug you could call it drug trafficking. Only an unlucky handful of people get caught for the trivial crimes we all commit, but they’re very often treated firstly as if they committed a much more serious offense, and secondly painted as if they were a habitual or career criminal rather than an incidental and possibly even unintentional one.

And the poorer you are, the browner you are, the less-prestigious-sounding your name and accent are, the poorer the area you come from—the worse the chances that your unintentional incidental actions will be treated with even the slightest bit of reasonableness, rather than purposely and cruelly interpreted in the absolute harshest possible light.

[weedplantar]

Personality test, is 80f/26c too hot for you?

[mrmcweasel]

it's 86°F for me right now. I'm gonna go with yes