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Aspie, lesbian. 25. I mostly reblog things I think are pretty, that can be landscapes, fighter jets or horror art. And Berserk because...Berserk.Formerly simik13l, when I made this I couldn't think of a better url. Fixed it

[phana-banana]

I wish The Great Gatsby a very pleasant public domain.

[imposterogers]

not me thinking that since there were six infinity stones and six original avengers they were going to make that symbolism a plot point in endgame

[the-littlefangirl]

[cannibalchicken]

[homunculus-argument]

I know a whole lot of finns have already made posts about this (and with my notoriously shit memory, I may have already written one too), but too late, I can't be stopped: Finnish pronouns. I can't recall where I got any of this info, and if someone who knows better can verify whether I'm right or wrong, I welcome it.

The finnish language has the pronouns hän, which is she/he, and se, which is "it". In official written finnish, hän is the pronoun used of people and people alone, and se is of animals and inanimate objects. But this is where it gets funny. Written finnish is different from all dialects of spoken finnish - no spoken form of finnish naturally uses the pronoun hän in normal conversation. The entire human pronoun was introduced to the finnish language artificially, as the men who translated the bible to it felt it was ungodly to not at least have a distinct pronoun for beings with an immortal soul.

However, the attempts to introduce the new pronoun soon ended up somewhere along the lines of "ok fine, you can call each other whatever, but the king and God are Hän (and please show up to church sober)", so the whole pronoun more or less ended up as a linguistic equivalent of those fancy plates your grandparents have in a glass cabinet for Extremely Special Guests, and nobody is actually fancy enough to require such formality.

Regardless, this has stuck to spoken finnish, but mainly as a stylistic choice of sardonic people, sarcastically using "hän" of people they do not actually respect, heavily implying that this person has far too high opinion of themselves and their own importance.

Hän funnily enough also emerges when some people talk about their pets, though the sarcastic implication of "this person considers themselves more important than they truly are" is there - a bossy, spoiled tiny dog is hän the same way your snobbish and difficult great-aunt is.

There is probably a number of languages that have one or several pronouns that are defined by a person's status instead of gender, but finnish is the one language that has a formally neutral but informally reverential pronoun, that in spoken use is almost exclusively used sarcastically to communicate that this person actually is not respected.

[jenroses]

okay but that's glorious, especially when you consider how Finnish conjugates (I try not to, a Finnish friend tried to explain it to me once and after learning how to say Merry Christmas in Finnish I gave up.)

[a-folchart]

Even medieval monks complained about their jobs!

[rageprufrock]

There is no bitching like bitching in enormously expensive creations. 

[likefireinanaviary]

Oh, my hand.

[inventrix]

I have probably reblogged this before but WHO CARES

IT’S STILL HILARIOUS

[skittledog]

This is why I love people. Every time I think I hate everybody I should remember that people have been being PEOPLE for so long and it’s brilliant and I should embrace it all.

[thelibrarina]

Shoutout to the last dude, having an existential crisis in the middle of work. Relatable.

[gatheringbones]

“Let’s pretend, for a moment, that you are a 22-year-old college student in Kampala, Uganda. You’re sitting in class and discreetly scrolling through Facebook on your phone. You see that there has been another mass shooting in America, this time in a place called San Bernardino. You’ve never heard of it. You’ve never been to America. But you’ve certainly heard a lot about gun violence in the U.S. It seems like a new mass shooting happens every week. You wonder if you could go there and get stricter gun legislation passed. You’d be a hero to the American people, a problem-solver, a lifesaver. How hard could it be? Maybe there’s a fellowship for high-minded people like you to go to America after college and train as social entrepreneurs. You could start the nonprofit organization that ends mass shootings, maybe even win a humanitarian award by the time you are 30. Sound hopelessly naïve? Maybe even a little deluded? It is. And yet, it’s not much different from how too many Americans think about social change in the “Global South.” If you asked a 22-year-old American about gun control in this country, she would probably tell you that it’s a lot more complicated than taking some workshops on social entrepreneurship and starting a non-profit. She might tell her counterpart from Kampala about the intractable nature of our legislative branch, the long history of gun culture in this country and its passionate defenders, the complexity of mental illness and its treatment. She would perhaps mention the added complication of agitating for change as an outsider. But if you ask that same 22-year-old American about some of the most pressing problems in a place like Uganda — rural hunger or girl’s secondary education or homophobia — she might see them as solvable. Maybe even easily solvable. I’ve begun to think about this trend as the reductive seduction of other people’s problems. It’s not malicious. In many ways, it’s psychologically defensible; we don’t know what we don’t know. If you’re young, privileged, and interested in creating a life of meaning, of course you’d be attracted to solving problems that seem urgent and readily solvable. Of course you’d want to apply for prestigious fellowships that mark you as an ambitious altruist among your peers. Of course you’d want to fly on planes to exotic locations with, importantly, exotic problems. There is a whole “industry” set up to nurture these desires and delusions — most notably, the 1.5 million nonprofit organizations registered in the U.S., many of them focused on helping people abroad. In other words, the young American ego doesn’t appear in a vacuum. Its hubris is encouraged through job and internship opportunities, conferences galore, and cultural propaganda — encompassed so fully in the patronizing, dangerously simple phrase “save the world.””

—

“The Reductive Seduction of Other People’s Problems” by Courtney Martin

(via

dietcokebisexual

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Capitalism can’t save the world, but it can simulate the experience and sell it to you.

(via newwavenova)

[guerrillatech]

[cryptid-sighting]

People opening a box that needs a knife using their bare hands

[markv5]

10 приемчиков, как спасти Новый год от четвероногих хулиганов. Лайфхаки, которые стоит взять на заметку.

10 приемчиков, как спасти Новый год от четвероногих хулиганов.

Лайфхаки, которые стоит взять на заметку.

[usearki]

“10 tricks on how to save the New Year from four-legged hooligans.

Life hacks worth taking note of. “

[dduane]

(looks on in awe and delight) :)

[archiemcphee]

Seattle-based artist Carol Milne knits with glass, or rather, she creates wonderful glass sculptures that make it seem as though she’s either a superhuman glass knitter or in possession of enchanted knitting needles and very specialized gloves. The reality is actually much more complicated, but no less awesome. Milne invented her glass knitting technique back in 2006. It’s a process that involves knitting with wax instead of glass, followed by lost-wax casting, mold-making and kiln-casting.

First, a model of the sculpture is made from wax which is then encased by a refractory mold material that can withstand extremely high temperatures. Next, hot steam is used to melt the wax, leaving behind an empty cavity in the shape of the artwork. Pieces of room temperature glass are then placed inside the mold which is then heated to 1,400-1,600 degrees Fahrenheit depending on the type of glass. Afterward, the piece is slowly cooled over a period of several weeks, followed by a careful excavation process, where Milne delicately chips away like an archaeologist to reveal the final piece.

To check out more of Carol Milne’s extraordinary artwork visit the Glass Art Society, Milne’s Facebook page or her online gallery.

[via Colossal]

[whencartoonsruletheworld]

[whencartoonsruletheworld]

[ID: Screenshot of tumblr tags reading “please op i am desperate for the context.” End ID.]

Sure, here ya go:

Lord George Gordon Byron was an English poet in the early 1800s.

He wrote several narrative poems that influenced the gothic genre and was a HUGE fucking slut. HUGE. This bisexual mess slept with so many fucking people it was insane, no gender was safe. Unfortunately that “no one was safe” mentality did not work out well for him bc there were a LOT of rumors that he impregnated his half-sister.

His only child from a legitimate marriage was from his wife, Lady Anne Isabella Noel Byron, who straight-up left him after a year. You know how divorce was uncommon in the 1800s? His wife was just so fed up with him that she did not care and left when her daughter was five weeks old.

This daughter was named Ada and would become known as Ada Lovelace.

Byron signed the separation papers and then left the country to have sex elsewhere and would later die when Ada was eight.

During that time if a couple divorced, usually the Dad would get full custody, so just in case he tried anything Lady Byron made sure to play the devoted and overattentive mother.

Lady Byron was absolutely paranoid that her daughter would become an insane gothic mess like her dad so she decided the only thing to do would be to make sure she did not become a Poet™. So she heavily encouraged Ada’s interests in science and mathematics.

Around the 1830-40s, Ada met Charles Babbage through a mutual friend and he showed her his prototype for a mechanical calculator. She got absolutely obsessed with this machine and began helping him out with it to the point where her notes on it became more extensive than his.

She also added notes to a translation of a paper on this engine that is considered to be the first published algorithm.

These notes on the engine and translation became the basis for computer programming.

She’s considered The First Computer Programmer™

So, because Lord Byron was a little slut and his wife wanted their daughter to Not Be, we now have to deal with tumblr discourse. Thank you and goodnight.

[mycroftrh]

catholic guilt vs protestant belief in your own inherent superiority, fight

[mycroftrh]

wait no I just remembered a few hundred years of history I take this post back

[bananahomo]

[anarchocunt]

[lazywitchling]

POUR ONE OUT FOR THE GROCERY STORE EMPLOYEES THIS WEEK

[sosuperawesome]

Raide’s Art on Instagram / Tumblr / Patreon

[memeuplift]

[jaubaius]

A helping hand

[drtanner-dickery]

BABY OH MY GOODNESS

[cyberdramon]

CONTENT

[kaijuno]

I used to be a grader and an occasional substitute prof for an introductory astronomy lab. That means that the majority of the people in this lab are only taking it because it’s a requirement and about half of them think it’s an astrology class.

I was grading midterms and this one girl. She was so nice and I think she was a business major. Fuck. The question on the midterm was to draw a diagram of the solar system and this poor girl. This fucking girl had drawn a Mars-centric solar system. As in every planet and the sun were orbiting Mars. I now actually have a custom Cards Againsy Humanity card I got at a con that says “A Mars-centric solar system”

I had a boy argue with me that there was liquid water on the moon (this was around when they had found liquid water on Mars in ~2015) and he wouldn’t believe me that he likely meant Mars and not the moon. After I marked his answer to the relevant lab question wrong, he took it to the department head who had promptly laughed him out of the office.

And there was another boy who, during a lab in our observatory where we would look at certain things in the sky, asked where the sun was. At 10pm in November. After some questioning it was revealed that he thought the moon and the sun were the same thing.

[shesaysdisco]

My friend, whom I love dearly, found out that the moon orbits the earth as a 20-year-old in an upper-level political science class, and was utterly and completely flabbergasted. When questioned, her defense was that she doesn’t have anything to do with the moon, so why would she have needed to know?

[toniins]

i was once talking to a friend of mine about how at that point in time you could see mars, jupiter, and venus at the same time, which was pretty cool, and she said “where’s pluto? wait, it was destroyed” and that’s how i found out that my friend, who is in her third year of a medical degree, thought that pluto stopped being a planet because it was eaten by a black hole.

[copperbadge]

Sherlock Holmes not knowing the Earth orbits the sun startin' to look less unrealistic now huh.

[ryan-sometimes]

It would be so funny if autistic people started describing allistic experience the same pathologised way doctors describe autism

[ryan-sometimes]

Symptoms of being neurotypical:

You have immobile, frozen hands that do not fidget.

Your interests are shallow.

You read into phrases past their actual meanings.

You are unbothered by eye contact and enjoy staring into people’s eyeballs.

You do not notice patterns in numbers and objects even when they are logically connected.

You don’t mind doing things without planning them out first.

Instead of saying exactly what you think, you expect others to infer it based on subjective social rules.

[ryan-sometimes]

Don’t be discouraged if you’re neurotypical. If you work hard, you too can be decent at math and accomplish the same things autistic people can!

[blackwoolncrown]

Further symptoms of neurotypicality: - lacking in autotelia; seldom partakes in any activity without an external motivation. Prefers things that others prefer- avoids things not first approved of by social circle. -pro-authoritativeness; prefers taking orders to self-directed actions. low self-preservational drive against being influenced. will follow directions even if they are contradicting or unclear. - chromophobic; shows little or only selective affinity for color and secondary chromatic harmonies. -absent psychochemical regulation; does not self regulate strong emotions via body movements, tends to repress or overtly act them out at length instead. -reduced neotony; despite neotony being a primary characteristic of homosapiens, neurotypicals shed an uncharacteristically high amount of ‘childhood’ behaviors such as creativity, friendliness and affinity for play after adulthood and struggle to regain them, even when this negatively impacts their health. -sensory locking; synesthesia is low in neurotypicals, reducing their ability to perceive secondary sensory experiences- i.e. the ‘smell’ of a color, the 'texture’ of a sound, etc. Researchers believe this is due to lowered hemispheric coherence in the brain. -assumptive thinking; neurotypicals operate out of an assumption-based worldview, rarely asking questions or even understanding that information has been left out. Thus their relationships and worldview may suffer. -poor memory; due to the lack of secondary sensory information given by patterns, colors, or other synesthetic perception, neurotypicals fail to absorb information at 'high definition’, impairing their recall ability.