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best-shower-thoughts

You can discharge all 3 states of matter from your asshole. (source)

parakeet

a bandaid to mend you and your blogs boo boos

thedoomtrout

Thank you…

parakeet

you’re welcome! give me your credit card number

thurstonwaffles

Hey Shrimp Gang! Have you seen Thurston‘s favorite toy?

catalystofthesoul

So this is just a PSA, y'all should never sign a contract until you read it. I’m talking in rl right now. I just got through reading my employee handbook/service contract and my bosses slipped in a lot of bullshit like telling me I can’t complain about my job on social media, demanding I work off the clock in the name of good service, expects me to show up on time during inclimate weather, and considered disability or religious accommodation a direct threat to the company.

These are all things I took issue with and brought to my employer for further discussion before signing the contract. Most of my coworkers signed without reading, treating it like an internet terms of service contract.

Tl;dr real life is serious shit, lawyers write contracts to protect your employer FROM YOU, read contracts before you sign them - fucking ARGUE about contracts before you sign them

lyrslair

Also important to note, and something my bf has repeated to me many times: a contract is a negotiation until it is signed, and YOU ARE ALLOWED TO AMEND IT. Tech companies often put some bs in there about “we own everything you make while you work for us” which broadly applied also means anything done on your own time. He always ALWAYS does write-in amendments with initial and date to state that they only own things done FOR the company, on company time, because there have been companies that enforced that bullshit when somebody had a personal side project the company decided they wanted to steal. There’s only one company that threw a fit at his attempts to amend it and he considered that a huge red flag and refused to sign, turned down the job.

Never. EVER. Sign shit without reading it. Also: if your prospective employer won’t let you take the thing home to read before you sign it and says you need to sign it then and there THAT IS A RED FLAG. The job I had that turned out to be abusive as shit was like that. Every other job I’ve been able to bring the contract home to my parents to have a more experienced set of eyes on it. It’s also common practice in some fields to have one’s attorney look over it before signing. So never let them tell you that you can’t look over it with someone else. That’s a fat load of shit. For “lower level” jobs they may not accept amendments to the contract but if they won’t even give you the proper time to read it over, they’re trying to pull some bullshit on you and you’re going to regret it if you sign. Even if there’s nothing bad in what you signed it’s an example of how they are going to treat you while you’re there. Take it to heart and run like fucking hell.

asryakino

Please also tell your coworkers. Inform others. Tell everyone. Please, for the lovee of everything TELL PEOPLE THEY ARE ALLOWED TO DO THESE THINGS.

Companies BANK on the fact you’re not going to read it. Then they slip in shit like ‘you can’t talk about your wages’ because they want you to keep quiet, so thy can pay that guy six bucks, and pay the guy over there fifteen and pay you eight. They want you to accept it all blindly. PLEASE DON’T STAY BLIND.

Yes, I’ve lost out on jobs because I wanted to read it and they didn’t want me to. Or they wanted m to resign and I said no to to the things they added that I pointed out were unfair and borderline illegal.

Read shit. Tell everyone else to read shit. BE INFORMED.

cricketcat9

Absolutely 100% good advice ☝🏼☝🏼☝🏼

Never ever ever sign shit without reading and re-reading it! Take it home, show it to someone more experienced, if you can, show it to a lawyer. A contract is supposed to work for both sides. A company in Toronto tried to make me sign a contract with clause that in event of me leaving the job I will not work in a similar position anywhere in Ontario. Yeah, right, not enforceable in court, dudes, you can’t prevent me from making a living. Read the shit and don’t let them intimidate you.

kingjaffejoffer

Executive chef at a top Thai restaurant tells Gordon Ramsay that his Pad Thai is trash [x]

minusthelove

Lmao “what do you want to know from me?” Fuck!

katjohnadams

So no one thinks that Gordon’s being “Put in his place” or something, this is from Gordon’s show where he specifically goes to places around the world to be schooled in how they do their cuisine and un-fuck the British (Imperialist but we can’t admit that on TV, but he does hint STRONGLY at it in some episodes) way of cooking “exotic” dishes by learning from the people who do it best.

That’s the world’s most successful chef putting himself in a position to learn from chefs around the world in world-class restaurants, grandmother’s houses, in a cramped make-shift kitchen on a rocking and speeding steam train, and more. He doesn’t shy away from learning from people who’ve never been in the remote vicinity of a culinary arts school or run a “professional” kitchen.

And here he’s showing a chef what he thinks of as Pad Thai and if you don’t think one of the most talented chefs on earth didn’t know he was specifically setting himself up to fail to make a point to his audience, then hopefully you do now! <3

brunhiddensmusings

the context- he wasnt saying ‘heres my world famous pad tai for you to sample, a recipe i hold more dear then my own mother’ its closer to ‘here, this is how i was taught to cook pad tai in liverpool by a man named charles, how far off am i?’

adventures-in-a-world-of-fiction

I also think the precise criticism is interesting. The other chef doesn’t say it’s bad. He definitely doesn’t say it’s trash. He doesn’t say it’s a bad meal. What he says is that it’s not pad thai. It’s been labelled as a specific thing and it doesn’t resemble that thing to someone from that culture.

feistiest

yo treasure planet was literally the best 2d disney film ever made like the setting? the colors? the flawless transition? the gorgeous world building? the three dimensional characters? a main character who’s never pressured to get into anything remotely close to romance? complex relationships? an antagonist who has layers to his character? the soundtrack? i could go the FUCK on,

feistiest

PLUS THIS SCENE?

feistiest

AND THIS????

sindri42

We’re all just suckers for lonely heroes accidentally acquiring a dad.

wadey-wilson

the reason why this movie is so underrated is that disney released it almost side by side with the harry potter movie.

treasure planet was a very, very expensive movie that used novel cgi mixed with 2d drawing, took a lot of work and money to create, the script itself was amazing to work with, the characters had arcs and depths, and the story as a whole was compelling and never off.

i don’t think anyone ever figured out why disney wanted it to flop, but the date of release was strictly suicidal for a movie. that’s why it never got the attention it deserved.

smooththegoofyshark

This is my favorite Disney movie like for real I watched it like 10000 times as a little kid and even more when I got older. I love it

roomba-with-knives-taped-to-it

If you guys want a full understanding of just how underrated this movie is here’s a video about all the cool shit that went into the movie

smooththegoofyshark

Yess I was trying to find this video!

gahdamnpunk

UNMUTE THIS 💀💀

llamagoddessofficial

I’m actually fucking dead. I just… I can’t stop watching this. That fucking triple take at the end gets me every time

josemoneyz

bob-belcher

The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993) dir. Henry Selick

relatablepoetryandquotes

“You have a place in my heart no one else ever could have.” - F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Ice Palace

sandypark1988

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queenwhiskey

What food group is honey what the fuck is this stuff

violetvappy-deactivated20220306

Apparently its categorized as raw meat by the FDA, which is cursed information if I’ve ever seen it.

queenwhiskey

WHAT

weaselsblaugh

I wonder if this is due to tax reasons (why tomatoes are taxonomically fruit, but legally vegetable) or religious reasons (why beavers are considered fish, for purposes of Lent).

dayst-ooc

“Beavers are considered fish, for purposes of Lent”

If I’m being honest here, I don’t know what to do with this information.

toffeecape

IIRC hippos are also catholically fish.

assassinationtipsforladies

You know what, if you can take down a hippo you deserve to eat it during lent

anarcho-vampirism

so I’m rereading bella’s transformation, and she mentions having had venom and morphine in her veins before (from when james bit her) and I was thinking it would be very interesting to consider if that venom had actually made a difference to her in the intervening years. like, sure the process was halted pretty quickly, but it’s not like a computer program that has to download and then it’ll install. the venom starts its work right away, and that work is not undone even if it is quickly halted. so maybe after twilight bella is slightly stronger, slightly better at hearing, smelling. it’s slight and she attributes it to “bouncing back” well from her injuries. it’s why, in breaking dawn, when pregnant bella has to drink blood, that it smells and tastes good to her, despite the fact that a couple of books ago blood made her faint. it’s the reason she and edward were able to have a baby at all, despite the supposed chromosomal discrepancy between humans and vampires. you could consider her a carrier, perhaps. it gave her this edge, these hints of vampire traits while still stuck with frail human body systems.

beatsofdarkheart

the consistency……. smeyer wishes!

twihardtrash

Honestly this could explain why she physically sees projections of Edward whenever she’d do something reckless in New Moon. Then after her transformation, this skill is heightened and her power is to project force fields and memories or thoughts.

demetris-left-shoe

Honestly I’m not a bio expert, but there must have to be some level of genetic compatibility of vampire venom with human blood in order for transformation to happen at all, so there is already some previous compatibility that exists.

Which means that theoretically, any human female should be able to have children with a male vampire (what with their wack body chemistry allowing them to be able to produce semen after being dead), but she should not be able to survive the ordeal or be able to carry the child to term. One of the reasons why Bella was able to do the above was presumably because of the lingering venom in her system.

I’m not sure if I remember correctly, but it has been mentioned that the bite on her skin shimmers in the sun - that was the primary site of injection of the venom, so it would make sense. Also (again, not sure if I remember correctly), but didn’t the wolves say she smelled a little funny? That could also be because of the lingering venom in her system.

This also explains her growing pallor and the many jokes about her being half a vampire, because in a sense, wasn’t she genetically partially one?

rues-maroon-hoodie-deactivated2

Y'all are so clever and talented

scream-still-screaming

And it could possibly be why in later books (Eclipse) she doesn’t get woozy from her own blood?? Like when she cut her finger to spread it on the tree before the battle? (I could be misremembering)

jazzs-side-hoe

YOU ARE RIGHT AND YOU SHOULD SAY IT

demigodmerman

ok but this could also explain why Bella didn’t go through all the crazy mood swings and newborn behaviour when she first turned because her body had already been exposed to vampire venom witch might have heightened her repsosne to an influx, and then what with her having had Renesme that must have had an effect on her biology, because all that exposure to vampire dna might have helped her build up a tolerance

anarcho-vampirism

OH ok i really like that. so maybe the transition only appears to take a few days, but that’s only the violent, accelerated process of mainly physical changes, and further changes in the brain take longer, which is why newborns are so crazy. like bella wakes and describes having a “lot of extra space” in her mind and being able to have multiple trains of thought at once, thirst always being one of them. but the cullens warn her, while she’s still human, that the only thing she’ll be able to think about - for years even - is blood? and i think it’s because traces of james’ venom, though they weren’t enough to change her, still lingered and forced the minute changes in brain chemistry that normally happen after one becomes a vampire. so she had already expressed her newborn chaoticness and singlemindedness in new moon while she was human and learned to handle it.

twisci

Just to add, James’ bite not only shimmered but was always a few degrees colder than other parts of Bella’s skin and this really makes me believe the closest parts to the bite were transformed a bit.

anarcho-vampirism

that makes me think, maybe bella punching jacob would have gone different if she’d hit him with the hand james bit? her hand is vampire, you could maybe say

reader-writer-fucker

She coulda busted his jaw in i hate smeyer

shinyworld

Just so you know the situation in Chile has escalated so quickly in just two days that last night our clown of a President declared total curfew for the entire city. Something that hasn't been done since Pinochet's dictatorship, THIRTY years ago. The cocaine-snorting army got a free pass to do whatever they want and they're having the time of their lives playing war with unarmed civilians, they're beating the shit out of women, students, the elderly, they don't care.

Last night a parade of tanks, police cars and soldiers armed to the teeth pointing with rifles just passed in front of my fucking house. I fell asleep hearing gun shots. And I'm lucky this is a quiet middle class neighborhood. South side Santiago is a total mess. People who suffered under Pinochet's dictatorship (our parents and grandparents) are having panic attacks and PTSD flashbacks all over again.

The press doesn't do shit, only focusing on bootlicking politicians, metro stations and supermarkets burning (which has been proved the police did it themselves, there are videos) instead of reporting the hundreds of wounded civilians, some of them dead but of course there are no "official" statements by the government. They're even blocking their online websites so people outside the country can't watch the news. We're only relying on social media to know what's really happening.

They're trying to make the people get angry with their own class, the ones causing "vandalism" by supressing public services like the subway and bus system but it's not working anymore. Turns out people were not as stupid as they thought and it's just gonna get worse because they have nothing else to lose. Other cities are starting to protest. It's not gonna stop here and adding more soldiers it's the stupidest thing they can do.

cookie-dough98

I don't usually reblog things like this but the situation in my country is currently a huge mess and our president doesn't even care or know why all the protest started this is not just for the metro it's a lot more than that, it's the fact that live here it's impossible, everything it's overpriced, no one respects our rights, old people has to work until they die because the money of their retirement isn't enough to live, our educational system is trash, health care is expensive af, the fucking cops are under drugs attacking everyone (kids included), we had enough and we have to fight against the government who has been walking over us for years!! We just had enough.

Please don't believe what you see in the news, they are lying.

nakiimushi

Frozen - Let it go | Finno-Ugric Mix

Sorry, but I just love this

tropiyas

robustmyaft

WHY DOES THIS FIT SO WELL LIKE THEIR MOUTHS ARE SYNCING WITH THE SONG PERFECTLY AND THIS HASN’T EVEN BEEN EDITED THE FUCK

cyclicalkaouthia

Illuminati confirmed

eldritchscholar

So the other night during D&D, I had the sudden thoughts that:

1) Binary files are 1s and 0s

2) Knitting has knit stitches and purl stitches

You could represent binary data in knitting, as a pattern of knits and purls…

You can knit Doom.

However, after crunching some more numbers:

The compressed Doom installer binary is 2.93 MB. Assuming you are using sock weight yarn, with 7 stitches per inch, results in knitted doom being…

3322 square feet

Factoring it out…302 people, each knitting a relatively reasonable 11 square feet, could knit Doom.

benegesserwitch

Hi fun fact!!

The idea of a “binary code” was originally developed in the textile industry in pretty much this exact form. Remember punch cards? Probably not! They were a precursor to the floppy disc, and were used to store information in the same sort of binary code that we still use:

Here’s Mary Jackson (c.late 1950s) at a computer. If you look closely in the yellow box, you’ll see a stack of blank punch cards that she will use to store her calculations.

This is what a card might look like once punched. Note that the written numbers on the card are for human reference, and not understood by the computer.

But what does it have to do with textiles? Almost exactly what OP suggested. Now even though machine knitting is old as balls, I feel that there are few people outside of the industry or craft communities who have ever seen a knitting machine.

Here’s a flatbed knitting machine (as opposed to a round or tube machine), which honestly looks pretty damn similar to the ones that were first invented in the sixteenth century, and here’s a nice little diagram explaining how it works:

But what if you don’t just want a plain stocking stitch sweater? What if you want a multi-color design, or lace, or the like? You can quite easily add in another color and integrate it into your design, but for, say, a consistent intarsia (two-color repeating pattern), human error is too likely. Plus, it takes too long for a knitter in an industrial setting. This is where the binary comes in!

Here’s an intarsia swatch I made in my knitwear class last year. As you can see, the front of the swatch is the inverse of the back. When knitting this, I put a punch card in the reader,

and as you can see, the holes (or 0′s) told the machine not to knit the ground color (1′s) and the machine was set up in such a way that the second color would come through when the first color was told not to knit.

tl;dr the textiles industry is more important than people give it credit for, and I would suggest using a machine if you were going to try to knit almost 3 megabytes of information.

darkersolstice

@we-are-threadmage

systlin

Someone port Doom to a blanket

rolypolywardrobe

I really love tumblr for this 🙌

isnerdy-deactivated20190101

It goes beyond this. Every computer out there has memory. The kind of memory you might call RAM. The earliest kind of memory was magnetic core memory. It looked like this:

Wires going through magnets. This is how all of the important early digital computers stored information temporarily. Each magnetic core could store a single bit - a 0 or a 1. Here’s a picture of a variation of this, called rope core memory, from one NASA’s Apollo guidance computers:

You may think this looks incredibly handmade, and that’s because it is. But these are also extreme close-ups. Here’s the scale of the individual cores:

The only people who had the skills necessary to thread all of these cores precisely enough were textile and garment workers. Little old ladies would literally thread the wires by hand.

And thanks to them, we were able to land on the moon. This is also why memory in early computers was so expensive. It had to be hand-crafted, and took a lot of time.

dollsahoy

(little old ladies sewed the space suits, too)

butts-for-days

Fun fact: one nickname for it was LOL Memory, for “little old lady memory.”

costumersupportdept

I mean let’s also touch on the Jacquard Loom, if you want to get all Textiles In Sciencey. It was officially created in 1801 or 1804 depending on who you ask (although you can see it in proto-form as early as 1725) and used a literal chain of punch cards to tell the loom which warps to raise on hooks before passing the weft through. It replaced the “weaver yelling at Draw Boy” technique, in which the weaver would call to the kid manning the heddles “raise these and these, lower these!” and hope that he got it right.

With a Jacquard loom instead of painstakingly picking up every little thread by hand to weave in a pattern, which is what folks used to do for brocades in Ye Olde Times, this basically automated that. Essentially all you have to do to weave here is advance the punch cards and throw the shuttle. SO EASY.

ALSO, it’s not just “little old ladies sewed the first spacesuits,” it’s “the women from the Playtex Corp were the only ones who could sew within the tolerances needed.” Yes, THAT Playtex Corp, the one who makes bras. Bra-makers sent us to the moon.

And the cool thing with them was that they did it all WITHOUT PINS, WITHOUT SEAM RIPPING and in ONE TRY. You couldn’t use pins or re-sew seams because the spacesuits had to be airtight, so any additional holes in them were NO GOOD. They were also sewing to some STUPID tight tolerances-in our costume shop if you’re within an eighth of an inch of being on the line, you’re usually good. The Playtex ladies were working on tolerances of 1/32nd of an inch. 1/32nd. AND IN 21 LAYERS OF FABRIC.

The women who made the spacesuits were BADASSES. (and yes, I’ve tried to get Space-X to hire me more than once. They don’t seem interested these days)