[yesterdaysprint]

The Waco Times-Herald, Texas, June 19, 1936

[uss-edsall]

Does anyone have this picture

But it’s a parody of Master and Commander’s opening title

I swear I have seen this before and I cannot for the life of me find it

[kesslersymbolic]

This image?

[uss-edsall]

YES

[eddardsharpe]

[bacony-cakes]

PNG'D! (i didn't know the font so this is taken directly from the image)

+ bonus italian navy vessel

[catgirl-kaiju]

[enbaluka-tokyo-drift]

[spider-artdump]

[letterful]

[theboredvoid]

@commodityproduction

[commodityproduction]

I'm afraid it's hopeless

[parkchanwoohoo]

[thatnordicguy]

[girlbr0thers]

Faux leather was the worst thing ever created

[girlbr0thers]

Lets take a material that can last decades with the right treatment and care and fucking replicate it with the most dogshit ugly flimsiest animal extinction microplastics smells bad unsexual rips in four days garbage disgusting saran wrap we can think of. Ostensibly for vegans.

[uhhhhmanda]

Just came home from a dinner party with the friendgroup at which several people kept saying "Ask Pedro" or "Pedro will know" and I was terrified that they were referring to an AI like Claude but no, thank fuck, they were referring to a cardboard cutout of Pedro Pascal that someone left upstairs and who has been designated a kind of patron saint status in the household.

[junestrings]

through pottery we domesticated rocks

[barmecidebiohazard]

Hate. Let me tell you how much I've come to hate golf since I began to live. There are roughly 2.25 million acres of land dedicated to golfing in the United States of America. If the word 'hate' was engraved on each blade of grass in those millions of acres, it would not equal one one-billionth of the hate I feel for golf courses at this micro-instant. For golf. Hate. Hate.

[memories-of-ancients]

Drinking horn with gilded copper mounts, Europe, 15th century

from The Hunt Museum, Limerick

[tarvek-sturmvoraus]

[localxenospores]

i was compelled

[beastoftheblackhole]

I was also compelled

[shutinthenutouse]

[thisisalovestry]

file -> phrases that are going to shift something in me forever

[insomniparty]

[dumbpupbarks]

sorry i barked when i saw your happy trail do you still want me

[dailyflicks]

THE RUNNING MAN (2025) dir. Edgar Wright

[grand-theft-carbohydrates]

emperors new groove parody where qin shi huang has been turned into an alligator and he ends up on a field trip with local sheriff liu bang. Send tweet.

[its-not-a-pen]

My hand slipped

[its-not-a-pen]

For the people who missed my previous post: this is the rare and incredibly endangered chinese alligator. they literally look Like That.

[its-not-a-pen]

[its-not-a-pen]

Just in case u all thought i was being facetious. No this also actually happened. Chinese history is just Like That.

[classic-of-yearning]

naturally First Emperor's New Groove is a work of serious historical fiction concerning important events!!!!!

[its-not-a-pen]

Tbh Qin Shi Huang being turned into a gator would be the least unbelievable fact of the Chu Han Contention.

“This magic potion turned the emperor into an alligator” -> “huh i guess magic potions do exist.”

Simple. Straightforward. Comprehensible. Least amount of cognitive leaps to take. Occam’s razor slices through so cleanly and neatly.

“Some random peasant becomes emperor eight years after QSH’s death, after winning a contentious (haha) civil war, and beating out some of the most celebrated military men in history. Despite being a crude, backstabbing scoundrel who pissed in people’s hats, he also managed to lay the groundwork for a moderate and (relatively) humanist Han dynasty, which lasted 400 years and became china’s first golden age. He stands as a paragon of benevolence (relative) to the draconian Qin rule*. His legacy is so enduring that into the modern day, chinese people still call themselves the Han people, and the language the Han language, while his predecessor QSH (who envisioned himself as the progenitor to an unending dynasty) only managed to create a dynasty that lasted 15 years, and has nothing but crumbling walls and unopened mausoleums that stand as a monument to human exploitation” <- it this was a work of fiction i’d decry it for being heavy handed and painfully unrealistic.

*its more complicated than that because the best historical sources about the qin were written by the han historians. undeclared conflict if interests and all that.

[avibeens]

so I maybe teared up a little