I'd Rather Be Sailing

Cas. mid-20s. they/it. living on unceded Aboriginal land in so-called australia. queer, aromantic, non-binary, trans, ADHD, autistic, and proud. will tag on request.

[layaart]

anticipating an exponential increase in murderbot misgendering so I drew something about it

[max-whathappen]

you know the playing favourites doesn't help Kimi either. Mercedes have never given him the chance to actually earn that title, and idk about you guys but if i were Kimi i would be fucking furious. like i would want to win cause i'm good, and not because someone pulled some strings or neglected their responsibility to their other pilot or sold the other teams capricious engines. i would want them to actually believe in me. clearly Merc believe in George's ability enough to ignore the issues on his car in order to handicap him, but they don't believe in Kimi if they have to attach a ball and chain to his teammate to let him win. that must sting something fierce

[psychic-waffles]

We're at the "JK Rowling is personally funding litigation to try and destroy AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL" stage of rabid UK terf brain.

Screenshot via Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net on bluesky

Tldr Amnesty International, global human rights organisation, published a report called 'A growing threat: the anti-rights movement in the UK'. In it is detailed, amongst others, a whole bunch of transphobic groups and organisations, including Beira's Place, JK Rowling's trans exclusionary sexual violence support service. JK Rowling threw a shit fit and got Amnesty to take the report down by threatening libel. This was obviously not enough, because you can't appease a fascist, so now she's going to bankroll a bunch of lawsuits anyway through the JK Rowling Women's Fund.*

You can read an archived version of the report here, please save it and share it.

*Not so friendly reminder there is no way to engage in the wizard books without enabling this shit.

[atrusovaartist]

acrylic, canvas 40*50 cm „birds of the Ebro River Valley“ 2024

[english-history-trip]

King Alfred the Great’s lost remains 'found under car park', TV show researchers say

The long-lost remains of King Alfred the Great have been found buried under a car park, investigators claim.

Alfred died in 899, and his bones were repeatedly moved. He was buried in Winchester Cathedral until 1110, when his remains were moved to Winchester's Hyde Abbey, where they were interred before the high altar between the bodies of his wife and son. The abbey was demolished after the dissolution of the monasteries in 1539, and the place was left in ruins. In 1866, during construction of a workhouse on the site, the English antiquarian John Mellor excavated the area, found what he thought were Alfred's bones and had them reburied at nearby St. Bartholemew’s Church. But in 2013, when archaeologists exhumed and carbon-dated the bones from St. Bartholomew’s churchyard, they proved to date from over 200 years after Alfred’s death - sparking Graham's interest and search. He said: "Whoever’s bones they were, they weren’t Alfred’s. So, I decided to discover what happened to them. "The quest has taken me 13 years.”

[lostinhistory]

shut up they did not find another goddamn king under another goddamn car park

[merc-stats]

Track Limits until Silverstone

There's been a lot of debate about track limits, especially in regard to Kimi Antonelli so I thought I would look into it with the help of formula-timer, which helpfully provides data on track limits.

In Summary: Kimi Antonelli (24) has the second most track limits of all the drivers after Silverstone, behind Lance Stroll (36).

Up until Silverstone Antonelli had the most track limits, then Stroll managed to get a whooping 21 track limits in one race, putting him firmly in the lead.

Now this begs the question - how did their teammates fare so far?

George Russell 4 vs 24 Kimi Antonelli Fernando Alonso 7 vs 36 Lance Stroll

All other team pairs are within 5 track limits of each other. (Table and chart follow below)

Considering how one race skewed the data so strongly, the next question I asked myself was: Who got the most track limits per race?

Australia: No one got more than 1 track limit

China: Lindblad (2)

Japan: No one got more than 1 track limit

Miami: Leclerc (4)

Canada: Antonelli & Piastri (4 each)

Monaco: Stroll (7)

Barcelona: Antonelli (6)

Austria: Antonelli (3)

Britain: Stroll (21)

Once more Stroll (2x) and Antonelli (3x) are the outliers. Here Antonelli overall even did worse than Stroll.

Bottom row: Sum of track limits, blue highlights most track limits per race

Colors are not helpful here but it does visualize how both Stroll and Antonelli are outliers.

All of this data is to be taken with a grain of salt, there haven't been all that many races and I have only considered the races - if FP sessions and Quali would be included the picture would be a bit different. Still considering only one other driver even has above 10 track limits (Norris 11) both of them should probably work on that.

posting on this new blog, because while I don't want this to leave tumblr, if it does I would rather it not be tied to my usual url

[merc-stats]

Sprint addition

No it didn't @lockedinabookstore , so below a look at that, but it just affirms the picture from before. Stroll gets up to 43 track limits and Antonelli up to 32.

When only looking at the Sprints Antonelli (8) is slightly worse than Stroll (7).

It only underlines the difference in comparison to the teammates too, less extreme because there are fewer sprints and fewer laps but it's a repetition of the previous pattern

George Russell 2 vs 8 Kimi Antonelli Fernando Alonso 3 vs 7 Lance Stroll

Most track limits per sprint:

China: No one got more than 1 track limit (only VER got 1)

Miami: Antonelli (5)

Canada: Antonelli (3)

Silverstone: Stroll (3)

Here Antonelli is once more the one who got the most track limits in several races and once more Stroll really had a horrible time in Silverstone.

Data for only the sprints:

Bottom row: Sum of track limits, blue highlights most track limits per race

Aggregated Races and Sprints

Bottom row: Sum of track limits, blue highlights most track limits per race - it really also underlines how much worse these two drivers are compared to all others. Only three other drivers have more than ten track limits over the season so far and Antonelli has 21+ while Stroll has 32+ more.

Here their outlier status becomes even clearer, it also shows that for notable part of the season so far Antonelli had more track limits than Stroll. After the sprint in Silverstone Antonelli had 25 vs Stroll's 22. The 21 from Silverstone almost doubled his track limits over the season.

[stahsm]

Overlock Stitch by @clothes_reetzy

[thatisuseful]

Damn, that's useful

[fluidstatick]

Finally a hand sewing tutorial on a hemline that isn't just the ladder stitch! the ladder stitch disappears when you tighten it, but it's not meant for hemlines because it breaks really easily! The overlock stitch is more stable, so it holds much longer, and it won't pucker or warp the fabric!

[watsdaughter]

tags by @gallusrostromegalus

[teaboot]

OH HELL THE FUCK YES

[enba-and-luka]

[dnferrari]

BRITISH GP 2026 | Old Men on a Sunday Promenade

[binchickenisland]

hey don't cry ok? sophie molineux shane warne impersonation on lord's balcony. ok?

[deadbeatmaker]

every 4th of july I think about the american tourist who was like oh thank god you’re open I wasn’t sure if you’d be open today and I was like why wouldn’t we be and he said because of the holiday. in norway.

[cemetery-vampire]

People mistake aggression for ambition and it ends up being the only thing they look for in someone they want to deem a WDC material. That's why they undermine George and consider him not to be of the right character for a world champion which is ridiculous but it's really just as simple as that.

[saintcedes]

Sorry this is actually killing me 😭

[dailycatsblog]

[professorcalculusstanaccount]

A short comic about Tintin and Chang doing resistance work in Nazi-occupied Belgium, and having discussions about identiy. I wanted to see if I could draw a six page comic in a day (which is why it's a little rough lol)

Dutch resistance members attempted to destroy the Amsrerdam registry office in order to help hide people who would have been targeted by the Nazis.

The explosives used here are pencil detonators, a timed explosive developed by the British to be used by resistance members across Europe. You crush the glass vial of acid inside the copper tube to start a chemical reaction. The acid erodes the wire holding the trigger back - no clocks or electricity needed!

[3liza]

do you live in seattle (the american city)?

yes

no

Voting ended onJul 10

please reblog to get this poll out of my bubble, i want reach

[3liza]

so ive been meaning to do this poll for a while because my hypothesis is that seattle is the most Tumblr city, likely in the entire world. tumblr has a huge american majority userbase obviously, but just for comparison going forward, only 0.22% of the american population lives in seattle. as of this reblog, this poll is showing 4% of respondents are seattleites. given, this isnt scientific at all, because my blog just has a lot of seattle connections and seattle followers, but it's still an impressive bias

[elvneedleworks]

NEW PATTERN ALERT!

The Plush Chain Mace crochet pattern is out now on Ravelry and Etsy!