Numi’s Polymath Corner

I like pondering life, the universe, and nerdy things Weird stuff abounds below tumblr confuses me, am I doing this right Bottom Text

[catchymemes]

[that-catholic-shinobi]

This is the funniest thing i’ve heard my entire life 😭

[xxleondraxx]

Truth xD

[burntcopper]

This is literally me as a kid.  Dad used to have the responsibility of giving out the well reports that came in on the friday night to anyone who phoned for the rest of the weekend.  The problem was, on saturday mornings, he was doing the food shopping, so I was given a list of approved callers and he’d leave the well report figures by the phone.

Theoretically I was just supposed to list off the numbers.  Except. Very early I started parsing the figures and give my own analysis.  Apparently engineers and geophysicists got a bit freaked out by a ten year old going ‘It’s not that good, the flow’s really slow compared to last week, and there’s gas pockets really screwing up the flow in the east pipe judging by the pressure report.’

Dad still got that yelled at him at conferences: ‘This is the fucker who used child labour to do well analysis!’

‘Was it wrong?’

‘That’s the not the point!’

[greater-than-the-sword]

We found him- the 20 year old with 10 years experience

[numilani]

@datschaos this feels like something we both could relate to lol

[pocketss]

smile, dog!

[6vcr]

art reveal 🤏

[luna-azzurra]

Identity-based Dialogue Prompts <3

[70sscifiart]

RIP Robert Tinney (November 22, 1947 – February 1, 2026), the artist famous for his playful covers for Byte magazine, a computer hobbist magazine that ushered in the microcomputing age from the mid-70s through the 90s. I'm honored to have included some of his work in my own art collection.

[opendirectories]

[commodorez]

[numilani]

I hate how accurate this is, but now I’m gonna send this to the next person who asks me how a computer works

[incomingalbatross]

I think "net zero information post" is an underrated part of the tumblr lexicon

Sometimes you DO see someone making confident and articulate and apparently well-backed assertions on the internet, only to see the next person in the chain refuting them just as well. Either the first thing was completely false, or it turns out that you, as a layman, have no way of detecting which person is right, so you learned nothing!

And that should make us all more cautious of the confident and articulate and apparently well-backed claims we see floating around this place without counterarguments attached. Maybe there are people out there who could shoot that argument full of holes. Maybe someone HAS and it just doesn't happen to be in this particular reblog chain. Can we determine otherwise from this post? If so, how? If not, what else could we look up to form an opinion on the post's topic - or is it even worth the effort to HAVE an opinion on this particular thing at all? Are we comfortable remaining undecided?

In summary. Net zero information posts are a boon in their own way.

[preserving-tiktok]

[numilani]

I’m not a plant person but now I’m curious: why do plant do that? Is the plant sick or is growing petals in places that are gonna die and choke up like that normal? That seems maladaptive, but also I eat spicy peppers and one could argue that’s maladaptive so I’m not one to judge

[seshrat]

so the cah pride pack has options for buying it “with glitter" and “without glitter” and knowing cards against humanity they just tip like 3 tablespoons of fucking glitter into the pack of cards and send it out

[seshrat]

this is absolutely what they’ve done

[uristmcdorf]

I did it to myself so you don’t have to

send help

[seshrat]

thank you for your sacrifice

[totally-cis-offical]

I love cards against humanity

[numilani]

@datschaos this is exactly the sort of evil chaos you would bring to the suggestions meeting >:)

[internet-sentences]

[bingly-eyes]

ITS FUCKING REAL???

[bingly-eyes]

The Bongcloud Counter-Gambit: Hotbox Variation

[mias-back-from-the-dead]

god the comments section is creasing me

[numilani]

@datschaos

[just-a-little-dead-inside]

[pagerunner-j]

Somebody please give the WSDOT social media folks a raise.

[dduane]

Heads up if you're a sewing hobbyist...

Buy those patterns you've been thinking about while you still can.

Parent Company of the Big 4 Sewing Pattern Brands Sold to a Liquidator - Craft Industry Alliance

The legacy sewing pattern brands Simplicity, Butterick, McCalls, and Vogue, commonly referred to as the Big 4, have been sold to a liquidato

[schadenfreudessa]

[numilani]

@datschaos

[stealingpotatoes]

i hauve a cold

[stealingpotatoes]

[stealingpotatoes]

[stealingpotatoes]

happy anniversary to the funniest i have ever been in my life and happy one year of Lady Normalgirl and Her Eunuch!

[hilariouslarry]

[babsvibes]

[datschaos]

Let's start the year off with a Bob sighting

[numilani]

Time to send Bob on his way. Have fun, Bob!

[foolcrum57]

found this pic on facebook marketplace thats unintentionally up my alley

[greater-than-the-sword]

Begging libs to understand that Islam is what they think Christianity is

[azzy-the-christian-furry-deacti]

Christianity is the safe target. They can bash Christianity until the end of time because it’s a “white religion”. But they can’t criticize Islam because “that’s racist” (see this countless times despite Islam not being a race) and “Islamophobic”.

The fact that you’re substantially less likely to die criticizing Christianity than you are while criticizing Islam contributes.

[sunder-the-gold]

Christianity is also the safe target in two other ways:

1) it is lower effort; their professors made sure to teach what to criticize about Christianity’s history and doctrines, while teaching them nothing of Islam.

2) Christians are scripturally forbidden from responding with violence to criticism and mockery, to the point that many Christians believe they are forbidden from defending themselves from physical harm. But Islam celebrates cutting off the heads of those who mock or criticize Islam.

[tlaquetzqui]

Ironically Christianity wouldn’t be a “white religion” (as these people [mis]understand race), if Muslims had not invaded, subjugated, and murdered or forcibly converted the eighty percent of the Christian world that was in North Africa or Western and Central Asia.

Also the Spanish would have been a lot more chill if they hadn’t come to the New World fresh off 800 years of genocidal occupation by Muslims.