World of Mad possibility

Camille. 30's She/her. Sometime I blog in english, parfois en français. Mes principaux sujets/ principal subjects i blog about : Doctor Who( New,classics and EU), animals, pretty things and a bit of international things also cartoons sometime

[penny-anna]

what if on Taskmaster one of the contestants died in the middle of filming a task but after doing enough of the task for it to be deemed complete so since there was nothing in the rules to say you had to be alive throughout they allowed it. & then all the other contestants bombed so badly that the dead person won the task and in the studio Greg was there like 'wow you all managed to do worse than Christine and she was dead for most of it'

[penny-anna]

they don't sub in a replacement contestant for the studio shows so one of the chairs is just empty and sometimes when contestants are arguing their case on something they're like 'I think if Christine was still with us she'd take my side' and Greg would be like 'for fuck's sake stop bringing up Christine'

[the1920sinpictures]

1927 Kodak Petite Cameras. From Art Deco 1920, FB.

[hunny-and-haycorns]

Wow, apparently the bellows were also colored to match the housing, and they came with accessories like matching compacts.

[avatarofthewriting]

found what they look like with the bellows open!!

credit u/deepsky_wonders on reddit

[flipchild]

[vidibit]

What's your favourite ridiculous piece of 90s technology?

Thank you so much for the excellent question!! I've been meaning to answer this one for a while, so here goes.

My favourite ridiculous piece of 90s technology is PocketMail! It wasn't that ridiculous at the time, but it's definitely something that could have only existed in the late 1990s / early 2000s. I actually have a PocketMail device, an Oregon Scientific PM-32 that I found on the side of the road in a box full of broken landline telephones!

PocketMail devices were essentially very basic Personal Digital Assistants that allowed you to access your emails without having to use a computer with an internet connection! Here you can see the basic screen and buttons for composing, sending and receiving emails.

But remember, this thing doesn't have Wi-Fi - so how exactly can it access your emails? If you flip the device over, you'll see a strange little speaker thing that flips out...

That's an acoustic coupler! You had to hold the device up to the handset of a landline telephone! So if you had a PocketMail account (with a special email address ending in @pocketmail.com) and were away from your computer/office, you could simply dial the phone number for the PocketMail service on the nearest landline telephone, then hold the device up to the handset so that it can send and receive email data with the email server in the form of audio - and presto! You have just sent an angry last-minute email to your intern for neglecting to look after your Tamagotchi while you were on a business trip to sell Y2K survival kits.

But... what did it sound like? The phone service has long since been shut down after the rise of more capable and portable internet-connected devices, but if you press the little 'Mail' button on the top of the device, you can still hear the sounds of this poor, obsolete little thing trying to reach out and communicate in the only way it knows how to:

AUDIO WARNING: LOUD

Kind of creepy, isn't it?

[strawberry-seal77]

time loop with two people in it but one person refuses to acknowledge the loop and pretends to be looping with everyone else. meanwhile the other person is freaking out

[strawmanfallacy]

[strawmanfallacy]

[maltedmilkchocolate]

Wanna help support Trans folk in the UK and fight an incredibly discriminatory, transphobic bill? #TransRights #HumanRights Step 1) Sign the gov petition for legal protections for trans women & LGBTQ+ This petition has 10,000 signatures, so the government will respond to it. If this petition gets 100,000 signatures, it will be considered for debate in Parliament.

Petition: Review anti-discrimination laws to strengthen trans women & LGBTQ+ protections

Launch a review into strengthening legal protections and clearer enforcement against discrimination, harassment and exclusion of trans women

Step 2) Email your MP to protest the updated EHRC Code (5-15 mins, depending on template personalisation) Ask your MP to sign Early Day Motion 240 rejecting the EHRC Code Your MP doesn’t have to be an ally – just ask for a free vote and due process

EDM 240 / prayer motion is live. Your MP needs to sign it. Two taps via the coalition tool.

Step 3) Request in-person meeting with you MP at Trans Solidarity Alliance’s Mass Lobby at Parliament on Thursday 25th June, 11AM-4PM (5 minutes, using template)

Mass Lobby for Trans Equality

Last year we broke the record for an LGBT+ mass lobby of Parliament. Will you help us break it again? Join us on 25th June 2026 to demand be

If you're not a UK citizen, sadly you won't be able to sign these. But you can still help!! Reblog this information. Repost this information. Share it as far as you can to reach as many people as you can. You'll always have a follower who might need this information. So please share pass this forward!

[maudit]

[profeminist]

RIP Marjane Satrapi, author of the amazing graphic novels Persepolis about living during the fundamentalist revolution in Iran in the 70’s and 80’s. She also created the animated movie based on the graphic novels, which is where these gifs come from.

Gifset source

[missbliss12]

Reblogging in honor of Marjane Satrapi, one of THE great graphic novelists. Her comic Persepolis was a crucial text for shaping my belief that comics can deeply explore identity, culture, politics, and history.

[adamicecold3000]

[r0zeclawz]

one of these big new indie cartoons should release with an exclusive adopt of like the main character. pay up 10000 dollars to be the only one whos legally allowed to draw pomni. i feel like the resulting fandom drama would change the face of the internet it would be so cool

[xxvapejuicekittyxx]

yeah hi this is actually a horrible idea why would you want this

[r0zeclawz]

i like when bad things happen

[agendratum]

fuck i forgot to partake in handmade crafts and whimsy

[holdmyhannow]

the very next post on my dashboard was this one

[do-not-u-dare]

“On social media you only see people’s highs and not their lows so you get the impression that everybody else only experiences highs which can lower your self esteem” idk what social media you’re on but it isn’t like that for me

[darkandstormydolls]

I was talking to my mom about John Green today and I mentioned that “he’s still on tumblr” and she asked why that would be weird and I said that no one is on tumblr these days, “except him and I guess me”

So

I don’t know what all of you guys are doing here, because clearly this website is occupied only by me and John Green

[sizzlingsandwichperfection-blog]

just the two of us / we can make it if we try.

[spaceshipsandpurpledrank]

[allthebooksandcrannies]

My only previous experience with Ben McKenzie before this post was watching him play Jim Gordon in the show Gotham. I had no idea he'd made a documentary or co-wrote an investigative journalism book on the subject of cryptocurrency until I googled him after watching the video. Turns out he's been interested in the subject since his time working on his undergraduate economics degree.

Sharing to hopefully spread this information to anyone else who would be interested but had no idea his book or documentary existed

[some-stars]

more white men need to be pursuing the teen heartthrob to leftist investigative journalist career path

[3000s]

after 2 years working outdoors all day i finally got stung by an onion for the first time yesterday and i wasnt even doing anything there wasnt even a nest nearby

[3000s]

a wasp. i was looking at a onion just now sorry

[beemovieerotica]

remember when this was the craziest thing politicians ever said

[evilwizard]

this could work. we never tried it

[binturong-of-the-day]

The binturong of lounging