NeonPerri

[starberry-cupcake]

Some gorgeous plus size gowns yesterday at the Tonys (Bonnie Milligan, Alex Newell, NaTasha Yvette Williams, Julia Lester) 

[kitsparrow]

Look, the new season of Queer Eye is in New Orleans. Leverage: Redemption is based in New Orleans. Where's my "the crew needs to pull a heist without being spotted in the background of a Queer Eye episode" fic?

(Convo w/ sister:

"Eliot's most recent persona gets nominated!"

"Hardison nominates Eliot as a prank?"

"Breanna nominates Eliot as a prank!"

"Harry nominates Eliot sincerely and everyone else goes along with it as a prank.")

[lacetulle]

Zuhair Murad | Fall/Winter 2021 Couture

[catchymemes]

If the women don't find you handsome, they should at least find you handy. (via)

[kevinbikes]

I desire the river bike.

[bramblepatch]

If we give you access to the waterways you'll be too powerful.

[queen-elizabeth-the-tirth]

@happysheepcollector this is for you!😃🐑

[zoesupreme]

this is absolutely fucking pathetic now every single fucking streaming service is gonna start doing this shit. all y'all had to do was not watch Netflix and let it flop for a few months and they would have given up

[infectedwithnyanites]

Y'all still actually watch netflix?

[arthropodrespecter]

i know it's easier to see a headline and get angry about it online than it is to look into the source, but if we all did a little digging, it's evident that this is misinformation. the source is a blog post from a tech startup that is advertising their data analysis services to other streaming companies. the spike in subscribers (which lasted for two days) occurred over a four day period, of which, only the 26th and 27th of may had above average signups, the previous two days were under 50k signups per day.

what their data (purposely) fails to show is the sharp decline in signups between the 27th of may and the first of june, the day that these features rolled out, because their chart cuts off before the password sharing crackdown even went into effect. their data also does not count the number of cancelled subscriptions, and does not distinguish between free trial sign ups and paid subscription sign ups.

they are trying to make netflix look good to advertise their services. this is marketing, not actual data analysis.

[lunaragent-deactivated20250531]

Now hanging at the Kurt Vonnegut memorial library in Indianapolis.

[accessible-tumbling]

[Image Description]

A black banner hanging from a patio wall on a red brick  building. The left side of the banner has the progressive pride flag on it, and the right side has an outline sketch of Kurt Vonnegut with the name of the museum superimposed. On the middle there is text that reads:

Live so that if your life were turned into a book, INDIANA would ban it.

[End ID]

[hyacinthsdiamonds]

Production houses: but if the writers stay on strike we can't guarantee the future safety of your favorite shows 🥺🥺😭😭

Viewers who 1, have already lost their favorite shows because they were cancelled in spite of good ratings and good reviews or 2, have stopped watching new content entirely until the entire series has aired and concluded as a result of so many good shows getting cancelled on cliffhangers and thus leaving said viewers unable to gain closure with those characters and with a hollow viewing experience, so they've begun a, watching older shows they know came to a planned conclusion or b, revisiting their old favorites and enjoying the nostalgia or c, reading new books or fanfic instead: YOU ALREADY CAN'T GUARANTEE THE FUTURE OF OUR SHOWS SO GET FUCKING WRECKED AND PAY WRITERS WHAT THEY DESERVE!

[dduane]

This. :/

[animentality]

I choose to incorporate this into my worldview.

[badjokesbyjeff]

A Möbius strip walks into a bar, sobbing. 

The bartender asks, “What’s wrong, buddy?” The Möbius strip replies, “Where do I even begin?”

[charlesoberonn]

There’re two sides to every story.

Except for this one.

[hollowboobtheory]

not enough people understand that disability benefits are basically what it would look like if you turned "if you're too sick for school you're too sick for video games" into an official public policy

[afeelgoodblog]

Imagine being buried alive and then seeing this little guy with a backpack suddenly arrive

[pea-gravel]

It gets better. The little backpack has a two-way radio.

So you’re trapped under rubble, and then a rat shows up. Flicks a switch on its little tumtum. And starts talking to you.

[durnesque-esque]

Article here | Organization here

[unpretty]

#I love the hashtag women in STEM bc at first I thought they meant the rat 🙈 (via @sprotteswelt)

until you said that it never occurred to me that the woman in STEM was the scientist and not the rat. i was just like “hell yeah, this rat is a powerful woman pioneering lifesaving technologies as a rescue ranger”

[fourstarsandahamster]

why are we sleeping on this

[dduane]

Netflix Condemns WGA Strike For Putting Future Show Cancellations Behind Schedule

LOS ANGELES—Emphasizing the negative effects the recent union action would have on the company, Netflix officials condemned the Writers Guil

“The unnecessary demands of the WGA are completely ruining the process of having writers slave over a show for countless weeks only to have their work disappear completely from the streaming platform.”

😏

[nube-1-deactivated20210117]

[northofcorpis]

That fuckin smile at the end

[bettsplendens]

To the worried person in the comments: 

No, a hummingbird’s heart will not stop if it stops moving. You’re possibly thinking of Spoink, which is a Pokemon that supposedly powers its heart by bouncing, and as such can’t stop moving. Hummingbirds don’t sit often because they’re busy looking for food, but they can and do sit. The females sit on eggs in nests, after all, and they do have to sleep. 

[sindri42]

Fun fact: the leg muscles of a hummingbird are so stripped down to save on weight that they cannot walk. They can step sideways along a branch or other perch, but they cannot go forward without taking flight.

However they absolutely do stop moving. In fact, hummingbirds hibernate! Overnight. Instead of sleeping. Because if they tried to sleep like a normal animal their hyperactive metabolism would mean that they starve to death before breakfast.

Unrelated fun fact: the primary Aztec god of war would take on the form of a hummingbird, and the souls of the bravest warriors were said to turn into hummingbirds in order to join him after death, presumably because every hummingbird is approximately four grams of pure concentrated asskicking which fears no man nor beast and will gladly throw down with somebody seventeen thousand times their size if offended.

[ubercharge]

this is a really cool post and i love seeing such a small bird but reading “No, a hummingbird’s heart will not stop if it stops moving. You’re possibly thinking of Spoink” killed me 

[dduane]

DD, I wanted to thank you for the Hiccup Cure (and re-up the link for anyone who hasn't seen it recently -- https://www.dianeduane.com/outofambit/2017/04/25/the-hiccup-cure/ !) My roommate had been uncomfortably hiccuping for hours and I cured them in 30 seconds once they let me try. It really works every time!

You're so welcome!

When the resident at the NYH emergency room spelled it out for me, I was caught between two immediate reactions: (a) suspicion, because it sounded too easy, and (b) that feeling of inevitability that sometimes accompanies explanations that make immediate perfect sense. There was, of course, nothing to do but test it. So I did, again and again and again... and it just kept working.

Anyway, here's the link again for those who don't feel like cut 'n' pasting.

The hiccup cure – Out of Ambit

A former nurse discusses the only hiccup cure she knows that works FAST and for almost everybody. Your mileage may vary, but give it a shot.

[hello-delicious-tea]

Thank you for this! I remembered it when I was hiccuping badly while trying to read my toddler his morning dose of infinite books, and the sugar worked immediately. We can now resume Vehicles or (with any luck) nature poetry…

[dduane]

:) A pleasure to be of assistance.

[neonperri]

My own preferred hiccup cure is to casually ask the hiccuper, “Seen any white rabbits lately?” or something else completely off-the-wall weird. Their brain momentarily short-circuits, and the hiccups stop. It only works once, though, since it’s the surprise that does it.

[spaceshipsandpurpledrank]

Banger after banger after banger

[neonperri]

One of my favorite memories of Belfast is my mother COMPLETELY stonkering a waiter by asking for iced tea (what she and my dad ALWAYS get when eating out... in Texas). That poor waiter had no idea what this crazy American lady was talking about, Mom had no idea that iced tea is very NOT a thing in the UK, and it took five full minutes for everyone to agree that Mom would just have ice water.

[anya-chalotra]

#i’ll take the ambiguous but domestic ot3 happily ever after, thanks